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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07
Waiting for the Ship.

About an hours ride from the Plaza
there is = high bluff with the ocean break
ing uninterTupledlys along its rocky beach.
There are several c,ttages on the sands,
which look as if they might have been
recently cast up by heavy sea. The cul
tivated patch behind each tenement is
fenced in by bainboos, broken spars and
drftwood. With its few green cabbages
and turnip tops, each garden looks like
an aquarium with the water turned off
In fact you would not be surprised to
meet norman digging among the pota
toes, or mermaid milking sea cow
hard by.
Near this place formerly arose great
semaphoric telegraph with its gaunt arms
tossed up against the horizon. II has
been replaced by an observatory, connected
with an electric nerve to the heart of the
great commercial city. From this point
the in coming ships are signaled, and
again checked off at the City Exchange
And while we are here looking for the ex-
pectcd steamer, let me tell you story:
Not long ago, a simple. hard working
mechanic had amassed sufficient, by dill
gent labor in the mines, to send home for
his wife and two children. lie arrived in
San Francisco month before the ship
was due, for he was Western man, and
had made the overland journey, and knew
little OF ships, or seas, or gales. He pro-
cured work in the city, but as the time ap.
preached he would 60 to the shipping of:
flee regularly every day The month
passed, but the ship came not, then
month and week, two weeks, three
weeks, two months, and then year.
The rough, patient face, with soft lines
Ovcrlying its hard features, which had be.
come daily apparition ut the shipping
agents, then disappeared 1t turned up
one afternoon at the observatory, as the
setting sun relieved the operator from his
duties. There was something So child
like and simple in the few questions asked
by this stranger, touching his business,
that the operator spent some time to cx.
plain. When the mystery of signals aud
tclcgraphs was unfolded, the stranger had
on" more question to ask. "IIow long
might q vessel bc absent before they would
give up expecting hery" The operator
couldn't TN it would depend on Circum
stances Would it be ycar9 Yes it might
be a year; and vessels have been given up
for lost after two years, and have come
home. The stranger put his rough hand
on the operators, thanked him for his
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True Taste More Effective than Money!

Many imagine they must relinquish al
hope of gratifying their tastes, or the In
herent love of the beautiful, if they do
not rank among the rich. This is an en-
tirely false idea There are houses upon
which thousands of dollars have been ex-
pended that would be quite intolerable to
people of real refinement as permanent
residence. The whole arrangement and
furniture are so stiff and formal-so heavy
and oppressive with superAuous ornament,
that simple curiosity to see what strange
vayaries can enter into the heads OF the
rich, and in what absurd manner they
study to spend their abundant wealth,
would seem to be the only motive which
could tempt sensible person to enter.
. On the other hand, we find small modest
cottages, which bear unmistakable evi-
dence of necessity for close economy, that
have more of real comfort and convenience
about them than those splendid mansions;
and, at the same time, they are gems, bear
ing in every part the stamp of true elegance
and refinement. They are SO beautified
by the genuine taste and ingenuity Of the
occupants, that it is real pleasure to pass
from one room to another or sit quietly
and enjoy the sweet enchantment-yet
money had little to do toward securing
such attractions. 1t is the fitness of things
the harmonious blending OF shape and
color, the adoption of the furniture to the
wants of each apartment, that make the
whole combination SO peculiarly de-
lightful. And yet, how and from
what was all this tasteful furnishing
constructed? If some of those persons
hung with the costly dsmask, and their
furniture carved and upholstered by the
most skil]ful and fashionable workmen,
should by chance find themselves in one of
these pleasant homes, they could not help
being captivated by the spirit of the place,
in the absence of style and fashion. The
elegant, airy, graceful parlors, the rest, tho
peace and comfort which pervade the
whole atmosphere, would be to them new
experience, and what would be their as
tonishment to learn with how little ex-
pense all this, which they acknowledge to
be so refreshing, has been secured.
No matter if the purse is not very heavy,
young people, with good health and fair
share of taste and ingenuity, have great
pleasure in store for themselves when they
undertake to furnish and beautify house,
which is to be their first joint home.
There are 80 many small conveniences, 80
manv little contrivances that q carpenter
never thinks of, because he has never had
a weman's work to do, and therefore can
not see how important these little things
are A woman knows just where an hours
work, well considered and planned, can be
employed to manufacture some convenient
thing, that will save much time and
strength, and which, however cheaply
and roughly made, she can, in few spare
moments, transform into an object OF real
beauty.-Mrs IT. ~ Beecher.
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of the water, but out of temper, and be-
gan to peck and fight each other. Their
wings made fearful Tapping in the
water, and Zip thought hosodeAt to have
a part in the fight. The old ganders kept
saving .,,f |.
"Wade in! Wade inr
And Zip did wade in, as far as his feet
would touch the bottom, and then he
swan out to them, and snapped first at
one, and then at the other, which ever
came the handiest. The ganders had the
best of it, as they were used to the water.
Poor lips head was Otter under the
waves, and Tim was in panic for fear
mis- "dod" would be "dwowned." He
spied a wide board upon the bank, and he
jumped on it and pushed it out from the
shore. AS it happened, the board f1oated
straight to the dog and geese. Mr.. Big
Goose and Mr.. Ole Gander SWAN of,
each his own way, and Zip crawled upon
the board with Tiny Tim, and away they
went both together.
Tim took offhis shoes and stockings so
as to let his feet hang over into the water.
Zip got up presently, 10 shake the drops
off his shaggy coat, and shook Tins shoes
and stockings off the board. Tim made
grab for them, missed them, and soused
into the lake! He scrambled back upon
the board, very wet, and his shoes and
stockings gone!
After while he grew tired and hungry
and thought he would go home,-but
when he looked toward home, he saw he
was great way from shore, and he could
never get back alone. He did what most
all little children do, who are In trouble
he cried as loud as he could. 1t was his
voiceless, inarticulate cry for help. 1t did
not fall unheeded, nor die away in mock
ing, empty echoes. Poor boy What If
no one had been near His crying was
heard by Mr. Ben. Church and his son
Whitman, who were out in q sail-boet
fishing. They came to the rescue OF
Tim. took him off his board and carried
him safely ashore. Then Mr. Church sent
his son Whitman to take Tim safely home,
while he went back on the lake to take
up the nets.
Whitman had picked up q long legged
bird which he found struggling In tho
water, and he told Tiny Tim if he would
straighten out his face and not cry any
more, he would give it to MIN.
think Tiny Tim had good reason to
cry. He had lost his shoes, stockings, and
his hat, and was wet as q rat.
Ills poor mamma was too glad to SEQ
him back alive to scold him. She had to
undress him and give him bath.
While she was taking off his clothes
she felt squirming somewhere. and
! shook them, when out dropped tho
snake: -
She screamed, and sprang for the broom
to kill it, while Tiny Tim danced round
and round, crying:
"Dat's my snate! OATS my snate! I'm
But he spoke too late, for his mamma
had killed the snake. And she folded the
little fellow in her loving arms, thinking
what a great wonder it was that the snake
had not injured her little boy. She did
not know how near he had come to being
drowned, for Whitman did not terrify her
by telling her they had found Tim on
board, out on the lake. long way from
the Shore Young FOLts' Rural.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07
SGme Artistic Blununrs,

Tintorctto, an Italian printer, in a
picture of the children of Israel gathering
mamma, has taken the precaution to arm
them with the modern invention Of guns
Cigoli painted the aged Simeon at the cir
cumcision Of the infant Savior; and, as
aged men in these days wear spectacle
the artist has shown his sagacity by plac-
ing them on Simeon's nose. In a picture
by Verrio of Christ healing the sick, the
lockers on ace represented standing with
perlWlgs on their heads. To match, or
rather TO exceed this ludicrous repre- <enta-
ti"n, Durer has painted the expulsion OF
Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
by an angel in dress fashionably trimmed
with flounces. The same painter, in his
scene of Peter denying Christ, represents
a Roman soldier very comfortably smoking
a pipe OF tobacco. A Dutch painter in a
picture of the wise men worshipping the
Holy Child, has drawn one of them in a
large white surplus and in boots and spurs,
and he is in the act of presenting to- the
Child model of a Dutch man of: war. In
Dutch picture Of Abraham Offering Of
terlng up his son, instead of the patriarch s
stretching forth his hand and taking the
knife" rs the Scriptures inform us, he is
represented as using more etfectual and
modern instrument; he is holding to
lsaac's head Wunderbuss Berlin repre-
sents in picture the Virgin and Child
listening to a violin; and in another pic
turc he has drawn King David playing the
harp at the marriage of Christ with St
Catherine. A French artist has drawn
with true French taste tho Lords Supper,
with the table ornamentcd with tumblcrs
filled with cigar lighters; and, as if to
crown the list f these absurd and Iu.li-
cr"us anachronisms, the Garden of Eden
has been drawn with Adam and Eve in all
their primcval simplicity and virtue, while
near them, in full costume, is seen hunter
With gun, shooting ducks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07
THE Babe.
BY HUGH MILLER.

Nae shoon to hide her tiny taos;
Nae stockings on her feet;
Her supple ank es as white as snaw
Of early blossoms sweet.
INr simple dress of sprinkled pink,
Her double. dimpled chin;
H'.r puckercd lip and baumy mou',
With nae ane tooth between.
Her cen eae like her mither's cen,
Twa gentle, liquid things;
Her face is like AL angels face
We'er glad she has nae wings!
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07
"trouble and went away. Still the ship

"trouble. and went away. Still the ship
came not. Stately clippers swept into the
gate, and merchantmen went by with col
ors flying, and tho welcoming gun Of the
steamer often reyerberated among the
hills. Then the patient face, with the old
resigned expression, but brighter, wist
ful look in the eye, was regularly met on
the decks of the steamer as she disem-
barked her living fre;ghts. He may have
had dimly defined hope that the missing
ones might yet come this way, as only an
other road over that strange, unknown ex-
panse. But he talked with ship.cap,ains
and sailors. and even this last hope seemed
to fail When the care worn face and
bright eyes were presented again at the
observatory, the operator, busily engaged,
could not spare time to answer foolish in
terrogatories, so he went away But, as
night fell, h. was seen sitting on the rocks
with his face turned seaward, and was
seated there all that night
When he became hopelessly insane, for
that was what the physicians said made
his eyes 80 bright and wistful, he was
cared for by fellow craftsman who had
seen his troubles. He was allowed to in
dulge his fancy of going out to watch for
the ship, in which she land the children"
were, at night when no one else was
watching. He had made up his mind that
the ship would come in at night. This,
and the idea that he would relieve the op-
orator, who would be tired with watching
all day, seemed to please him. So he
went out and relieved the operator every
night.
For two years the ships came and went.
He was there to see the outward bound
clipper, and greet her on her return. He
was known only by few who frequeated
the place. When he was missed at last
from his accustomed spot, day or two
elapsed before any alarm was felt. One
Sunday, party of pleasure-seekers clam
bering over the rocks were attracted by
the barking Of dog that had run before
them. When they came up they found
plainly-dressed man lying there dead
There were few papers in his pocket
chiefly slips cut from different Journals
of old marine memoranda-and his face
was turned toward the distant sea.-Bre'
Harte.
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Poetry.
CALEB AND RUTH.

UNCLE CALEB and Ruth, his wife,
Caring little for outside weather,
Fifty years Of their welded life
Spent in this tiny house together.
Messy the roof ard gray the wall,
Narrow tho window, low the door;
But loves own sunlight hallowed II all,
From rnftcrcd ceiling to sanded floor.
Silent o-,lay; hut silver sweet
Voices Of children Ing ago,
Ko.ptuy liIue with their restless feet,
Followed the mother to ana tru
Scattered afar from East to Nrs'.
Seeking their fOr,unc' far AZ" '
No one stays in the nu'n heS ;.,s b;d,
Where such hcautifll n'cm"f'os "'''''
,.,r,,c ,,u,,,, for tho the dcsolite pain
',f H., wind in !i!r pine tree tops,
f,ripr nau.ht Tor the gricving rain
That 81 sadly over lhcm drops.
Needing as little the sunhcam's kiss,
Falling sweet from tho summer sky,
In a narrower house than this
Caleb and Ruth together lo.
Up where tho many mansions wait,
Il there, | wonder, a cottage eulnll-
Not too stately ils peNrly gate,
Not too shining Its golden wall
Where these two may in peace ahide'
Heaven were none if these must part
Caleb away from her gentle side,
Ruth Afar from his faithful Heart!
Hand in hand from morning to night
Travelled these two the long earth day;
Surely they walk t',rou.h tho Relt Of light,
Hand i'll hand On the shining way.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07

"A suit has been instituted at Jackson
Vile, ILL.,, for the recovery of diamond
said to be worth $3.50 GOO, the heirloom Of
a family for the past century.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07

in the artrsjnn well being sunk in the
city park. San Diego, CAL, at depth of
scventy-tivc feet the workmen struck bed
OF clay embt dded in which were petrfied
Whal"b"ncs; at depth of fifty feet, pctri.
fed clam shells were found in abundance.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07

The $4,000 Chinese in San Francisco
own S74,0oo in real es;ntc, and 81 ,s8S, 900
in personal property.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07

Fish have great tenacity Of life. 1t is
bcliev, that carp has attained an age Of
$50 years, and the pike a still greater age
pike WAS caught in a lake in South Ger
many, in 1897, on which was found ring
bearing this inscription: Il ain the fish
which was first Of all put into this lake by
the hands of the Governor of the Universe,
Frederic II, the 5th of October, 1880" 1t
weighed $50 pounds, and was - feet long.
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