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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
Whom God hath Joined.
ny THE LATE PUEBA CARY.

Fair youth, too timid to lift your eyes
TO the maiden with downcast look,
As you n'ingle tho gold and brown Of your
curis
Together over the book
A huttering hope that you dare not name
Her trembling bosom heaves,
And your heart is filled when your finger:
moet,
As you softly turn the leaves.
Perchance you two will walk alone
Next year Mt some sweet days close,
And your voice will fall to tender tone
As you likcn her check to a rose;
And than her face will flush and glow
With a hopeful happy red,
Out-blushing all the flowers that erow
Anea, in the garden bed.
If you plead for hope, she may bashfuI drop
Tier head on your shoulder low.
And you will be lovers and sweethearts then,
As youths and maidens 60;
Lovers and sweethearts, dreaming dreams,
And seeing visions that please,
With never thought that life is made
OF grateful realities!
That tho cords of love must be strong as
0eath
If they hold and keep q heart;
Not daisy chains, that snap in the breeze,
Or break with their weight apart!
For tho pretty colors Of youths sweet morn
Fade out from the MONDAY sky;
And b1ashing loves in the roses born,
Alas! with roses die!
But the f1ith that when our morn is past,
Ten&ar apd true survives.
IL the fatth we need to lean upon
In tho crisis OF .oNr Rixes;
The love that shines in the eyes grown dim,
In tho voice that trembling speaks,
And sees the roses that years ago
Withcred and dio6 in our checks!
That sheds its hallow round us still
Of soft immortal light,
When we change youths golden coronal
For q crown of silver white
love for sickness and for hesltt,
For rapture and for tears,
That will live for US, and bear with us
Through all our mortal years.
And such there is; there are lovers here.
On the brink Of the grave that stands,
Who shall cross to the hills beyond, and
walk
Forever hand in hand.
Pray, youth and maid, that your fate be
theirs
Who are joined no moro to part;
For death comes not to the living soul,
Nor age to the loving heart.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
orr friends who ho);cvo

Somehow our friends who believe in
Spiritualism forget that the chief beau
ty of our Christianity consists in max.
ing this life preparation for the next
in looking forward TO the unseen
This subordinating the spiritual and d.
vine to mere material things, is de-
graduation to the soul. How can We
feel about world which sends down
its angelic Inhabitants to clatter tam
bourines and write illegible scrawls in
darkened room ? Our life, indeed, is
two-told but, in the nature Of things
the real ends where the unseen begins
The implicit faith which We have bao
from childhood IN a better life loses al
that beauties and glorifes it, by this
miagling of the gross with the rare and
6nc. We strike out the beautiful an.
titl,escs between temporal and spiritua
things, between mortality and religion.
between the world and God.
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BRAIN WoRK.-Hard study docs no

BRAIN WoRK.-Hard study does not
of itself shorten life, but does of itself
tend to increase the longevity Of man.
When hard students die carly, it will
be found that in some way they had
fallen into the habit Of violating some
of the laws of nature, or began study
with some inherited in6rnity. The
pursuit Of truth is 7lcasurable ; it is ex-
alting, and promotes serenity. OF all
men natural philosophers average the
longest lives. The great, the govern
ing reason is, in addition to the aboyc,
that their attention is drawn away from
tho indulgence Of animal arpetites ;
their qualifications arc not in that d.
rcction, hence they are neither gour.
r,,ul~. 1runkare!e. nor l;ccntious. Sir
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12

PUTTING INJURIES OUT AT INTER
EST -Mawworm, in "The Hypocrit,"
is very solicitous that people should
maltreat and denounce him. He
cloves to be prosecuted" he says.
Society abounds with such fellows
wretehes who court kicks and contume-
ly, partly for the sake of making direct
capital out of their degradation, and
partly because tlcy hope Providence
will avenge them hundred fold. A
creature Of this stamp says to himself,
II am meek, l am forbearing, lick
the dust into which I am trampled.
Heaven of course takes note of NY
ignominy, and gives ME credit for it.
Simple hearted people symputhize with
me and account me a pattern Christian.
As to my prosecutors, can well afford
to grovel at their feet now, inasnuch
as my bliss hereafter, will be height
ened and perfect by the spectacle of
their punishment, seen from a celestial
stand point" We have no doube.
whatever, that there are individuals
whose real or faacied wrongs are in
this way source Of much satisfaction
to them as benefits and blessings are to
beings of a nobler nature.
The man who can not only bear the
lights and indignitics Of his fellow men
without rcscnting them, but can pray
from his heart for those who despite
fully use him, is hero Of heroes. He
has conquered himself, and is fit for the
eompanionship oftbe saints triumphant
9ut such gall-less tumility, and genu.
Inc piety, are very rare. Nine tenths
Of those who take the bntfets Of their
prosecutors without striking back, conl-
fort themselves with the belief that the
revenge they forego is only postponed,
and that vengeance will be taken for
their wrongs on grand scale in the
world to come. The pacific conduct of
such persons will not, We take it, excuse
the motives that underlie their con-
strained forbearance.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
A Cure for 1nebriety.

A reader Of the Journal appeals,
doubtless in all sincerity, to us in this
manner:
"Will yau have the kindness to rec
ommend good and safe remedy for
curing drunkenness 2"
A simple catalogue answer will not
apply in this case. Here and there is
a professed reformer who recommends
medical specifics; another, that some
kind of alcoholic liquor be put into
every kind of food and eaten by the
vietim until he becomes so disguised
and sick Of it that he will crave no more;
still another, who advises that the pa
tient be sent to % asylam Tor; inebriates
and confined therein, and treated until
all ankering for "ire-water" shall have
ceased; and another would have the
victim "tapcr off, by taking a small
horn, ard after each dram cutting away
with knife a portion Of the horn, so
that it will hold less and less, until the
entire horn shall be finally cut away,
and with the determination to drink.
These methods are compromises.
They may suit some natrue that may
not be reached or affected in a more d.
rect or manly way. But, seriously,
does one realize that lie Is a drunk:ard?
Has he not enough manlincss to see the
difference between a manly man and
poor weak slave? Is be willing to be
classed with the latter Can he trust
himself no more? What! a human
wreck! and all through one small
leak And that leak the appetite !?
Sound and strong in every other part,
but weak-almost to rottenncss here?
A plank damaged by the shi p's striking
a rock or from defect which existed
undiscovered from the start, must be
taken out, and a new one fitted ill., It
can safely be done by good workman.
we Observation-Disclosures ship;
heavc her on her sides, or put her into
a dry dock for repairs. 1t will be
found that the most satisfactory course
in such cases. after repairing damages
Fbe best VIC can, is to keep clear of the
rocks and quicksand in future. Yield
TO no temptations. Taste not, touch
lH*> han'}|c Peg 'hat Which i"a n cn.'ny
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
The Ecw Governor of Tennessee,

John G. Brown, the governor elect
of Tennessee, arrived at Nashville a
few days ago, from his home in Pulaski,
where he was recently confined with a
protraotea sickness. The Nashville
Banner says he will take q decisive
and emphatic attitude towards the
''iawless reprobatcs who are bringing
reproach upon the State by their in
famous atrocities" aud that in his Ell
forts to Suppress them he will be back
ed by the moral support and sympathy
of almost the entire community. On
the subject of national politics, the
Bo"acr imputes to him the following
views:
''Let us raise ourselves, he suggests,
above the passions and prejndices of
the hour, and dare be just and gencr-
Jus, regardless of temptations prompt
ing contrary course. We can not
we must not-bc unmindful If the
great changes that have impressed
themselves upon our history. Let us
accept the situation, and not seek to
alter circumstances which have passed
beyond our control.
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$765-O00
4" Cas" 0ifts, to be Distributed by the 1Ne~ Yovl
Cash Prize Co.
EVERY GIFT DRAWS A PRIZE.

IN Casn Giit., to be Distributed BY the X<v Yerl
Ccsh Prize Co.
EVERY GIFT DRAWS A PRIZE.
5 e&'h Gift'. $4,000 50 Cash Gifts, sl,ees
~ 10000 zoo So
20 5000 $50 6" los
SO Rosewood pianos, each $500 t. 500
IS nelodevus, IS to 100
800 sewing machines, IS to us
500 gold watches, 65 Ia 500
Cash prizes, TO-, valued at 81 600. o0e
A chance to draw any of tho above prizes
for 25c. Tickets describing prizes arc sealed
in envelopes and we'll mixed. On receipt Of
25c. sealed licked is drawn without choice
end sent by mail t. any address. The prise
naned upon it will bo delivered to tho ticket
holder on payment of One Dollar Prixss are
immediately sent to any address by express Or
return mail.
You know what your prize Is before you pay
Ear it, Any Prize. exchanged for another oj ii.
ssaae vatue. No Blanks. Our patrons o..
depend on fair dealing.
REFERExcEs:-The following lately drew
Valuable Prizes Ind kindly permit us to pub.
fish them:-Andrcw J. Burns, Chicago, $lo,-
900; Miss Clara Walker, Baltimore, Piano.
$500; Jas. NJ. Matthews, Detroit, $4,000 jobs
r. Anderson, Savannah, $4,000; James Sim
mons, Boston, $4,000.
Press OrINIoN:-''The firm il reliable."--
Weekly Tribrne, Dec. %. "Deserve their suo.
cess."-N. y, Herald, Jan. l. "Just and
Honorable" Ne,os Dec. 9.
Send for circular. Liberal inducements to
Agents. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Every
package of 200 Sealed Envelopes contains
One Cash Prize. Seven tickets for 81.
II for 81, SO for IS; 200 for SIS. Aldrsss
H. NJ. RUGGLEs, 1 Co..
Msnagsrt.
PIP BROADWAY, NY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12

Isaac Newton had always to be remind.
ed that his dinner was waiting the call
to eat is often a most unwelcome one TO
literary men; they consider eating a
secondary matter; they literally eat to
live, and the process OF dining is often
gone through with as task. Many
hard students have become miserable
dyspeptics, and have died while yet il
their prime; but the tormcnting dis
ease was brought on by over eating, by
eating too fast, or by returning to their
studi~s too soon after hearty or a
hasty meal, thus drawing to the brain
the nervous energy which ought to
have been expended on the stomach in
aiding it to prepare the food for nour.
ishing the system, and, not being so
prepared, it ''lays heavy" feels like a
load, or induces other discomforts which
increases in intensity aud duration, un-
til life becomes burden and failure.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
Indian Summer.

That short, delicious season between
the trosts of October and the ice of late
November is feature peculiar to the
climate OF our couatry north of the
thirth: ninth parallel, and especially in
New England and the region around
the great lakes. 1t was noticed by the
early settlers i'll New England, in let,
tefs written to their friends at home.
They Were charmed by the strange,
gorgeous beauty Of the American for
ests, when the trees seemed shroudcd
in trailing banners dyed in the glories
of Iris, that ushered in that delight
some season Of warm, balmy air, which
seemed to bless all nature with a sooth-
ing dreaminess and rcpose after the
labor ofproducing and garnering earth
treasures had ceased. It is a season
when the storms of the autumnal
equinox are over; and sometimes two
or three weeks of uninterrupted fine
weather give quiet delight before the
bitter cold and the rough blasts of
winter come on.
This is the season which the Indians
in the middle regions of the contisen
looked forward to with pleasure, for
during its continuance they gathered
in their winter store of fully ripened
maize (Which we call Indian corn) and
their chief supply Of flesh for use in
the dreary months Of deep SHOWS.
Then the lakes, small and great, arc
placid. Sometimes for days not a
wavelet appears npon their bosoms, and
navigation over long distances in bark
canoes was and is perfectly safe.
The savage regarded this season as
a gift Of one of thcr most houorcd DEL
ties-the southwest wind personi6ed-
to whose sunny and fruitful land these
more northcrly tribes believed their
souls would 60 after death. This Was
the Indians real harvest-time, and for
that reason the early settlers called it
the Indian summer.
So runs a legend of the Naraganset
From Kontontowt's bright savannas,
Through which yellow streams are flowing,
Whence the southwest winds comes laden
With the scent Of April blossoms,
CaRo tho crow, as black as midnight
With grain of corn in one ear
And bean born in the other
Tor the two VIC pas;c cnc. co -tash),
And With wisdom quickly taught us
How 70 plant the seeds, and gather
Harvest from them in the autumn,
After frosts had slain the Aowers-
Golden-rod and sparkling aster,
In that most delicious season,
Warm, and bright, and all suspicious
For tho fisherman and hunter,
All our winters stare is garpered;
Ills our beauteous Autumn Sumner.
Decay is slow combustion. With
this fact in hand, philosophers have
piausab'y accounted for the warmth Of
the Indian Summer time on the borders
Of winter by assuming that the heat
then evolved in the process of the de-
cay of the frosts leaves and other vege-
tation is produced by that decay.
In Europe corresponding recur-
rence of summer weather in late au-
tumn is styled St. Martins Sammer,
from Martinmas, or St. Martins Day
which falls on the 18th of November,
and which is marked by the eating OF
roast goose in England, while in France
- !. - 70
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12

KIND WoRDs.-Kind words rrcost
but little. Any one but a confirmed
cynic ought to be able to dispense them
at pleasure. They make nobody the
poorer. Like the widows cruise, the
stock need not be exhausted even by
constant using-yea, better :thaa the
widows cruise, the stock increases the
more it is drawn from the fountain.
n kind heart which is the true source
of kind words, is perennial stream.
No winters cold can freeze it; no sum-
mer's drought can dry it up. Through
all seasons it pours out its life giving
food, making glad and green whatever
it touches, eurgl;ng and eddying round
with inward joy because Of: its Offices
of love. One would think that kind
words, diffusing gladncss as they do,
through the hearts of both donors and
receivers, would be the common cur
rency in life's intercourse. Even the
employer, who has hundreds at his beck
and call, might afford to lay aside his
ORIENTAL majesty, sufficient to speak to
his underlngs word Of recognition;
journeymen and apprentices would not
render themselves mcnials and AFFECTS
by putting off their reserved rights and
attitude, so as to speak to their employ
er with Difference and respect; clerks and
statesmen need not consider DUN solem.
nifty or waspish rudeness essential to
their calling; and, last, but not least,
their high mightiness, steamboat and
hotel clerks, aud railroad conductors,
might perhaps occasionly, without too
much condescension, afford to give CIV
il answer. We are a great people in
this country, certainly. Everybody
is SO impressed with a consciousness OF
his inherent dignity, that he tears to
compromise it by tho exercise of conf
mon Courtesy
"A littlo word in kindness spoken,
A motion or a tear,
Has often healed a heart that's broken,
And made 4 friend Sincere"
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How General Clanton was Kill
ed Mt knOxvillc-A Clear Case
of Murder.

NOW UcncTdA O18nCOn was Kill
ed Mt knOxvillc-A Clear Case
Of Murder.
A gentleman just arrived at WASH
ington from Knoxville, Tennessee, who
witnessed the killing Of General Clan
ton, of Alabama, says the impression
prevails among all who witnessed the
deed that it was deliberate murder.
General Clanton was a: the depot with
a party of gentlemen, waiting % take
the train for Chattanooga. Among the
party was r. F3rt, one of the oppo-
sing counsel to the Alabama and Chat
tanooga Railroad case, who invited
General Clanton to take a drink. He
accepted the invitation, and they both
started for saloon near. They we're
met by young Nelson. Mr. Fort intro.
duced General Clanton to Nelson, in
viting the latter to accompany them.
Mr.. Nelson proposed going to private
place, where he knew they could get
good liquor, but General 4'lanton OBJ
jcctcd, saying he had only a few nliu-
usCH w ONVCA IAC Gidlu. CNCloOll IT.
marked: "You are not afraid are you?"
-"No. SIR" Nelson said: swell, |
think you are; and, moreover, I think
you are a coward" Clanton said: "If
you think so, just step out into the
street, measure off ten PAGES and test il"
Instead Of doing so, Nelson stepped into
a store, and seized double barrel shot
gun, advanced into the street, enscon~
ced himself behind post, and fred
one barrel at Cantoa, which missed.
He fred the second, which took effect,
twenty buckshot lodging in the right
breast of Clanton killing him Instantly
Nelson immediately mounted his horse
and escaped. Only eight minutes
elapsed between the time of the intro
duction Of Nelson to Clarton and the
killing Of the latter Nclssn subse-
qucntly gave himself up, and is n ow out
on bail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
Minnesota stock Going TO Ore.

St. Louis Republicans Report Of the Fair.
The excellent jud gment Of the
awarding committee is shown by the
sale, on the ground, Of G.. l.. HUT,
Alderney bull. Olive, which took tho
first premium in his class, for $1,000
and Of W. S. Kings short norm bull
calf, Governor General, (Which also
carried off the blue ri5bon), for 81 300
Both these animals were sold to Reed
4 Watson. of Portland, Oregon, who
also purchased from Col. King his short
horn heifer calf. llillhurst Rose, that
took the first premium at the lllinoi
State Fair, paying for her cool thous<
and.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
To the Producers of MINI esota Grain
Vegetables and Fruits.

1t is we'll known that, to great ex.
tent an idea prevails in Eastern States
Ito which we look for large share
of our capital and immigration) among
those who have not visited us, that ow-
ing to our high latitude and cold win
tiers, minnesota is fourth or fifth agri-
cultural State, instead of one of the
first, as she really is. To bring our
Eastern friends and our agricultural
productions "lace to face" would do
much to dispel this general misappre-
hension and promote appreciation of
the capabilities of our soil and climate.
We cannot bring them to our fairs
to undeceive them, and it is sugges-
ted that much might be done toward
accomplishing the object by making a
collection OF the gerry best specimens of
grain. corn, vegetables and fruits, and
putting them on exhibition at the
American Institute in New York, estab-
fishing there the department Of Min
nesota )" and at the close of the Insti-
tute fair, in November, removing the
collection to the rooms in that city oc-
cupied by the Commissioners Of Immi-
grafton for Minnesota, and continue
the exhibition so long as the result
should prove satisfactory.
For the purpose of inaugurating the
experiment, We solicit the cont. ibution
Of such articles as our Minnesota far
mers and gardeners may sec fit to do
nate for that purpose.
The finest specimens of the kind
those which will compare favo,ably
with the production of the same kind,
raised anywhere-~will alone justify the
trouble and expense of transportation.
A card, giving the name of the pro-
ducer or the contributor, his postotfice
address and the county where raised,
should be attached to each article Or
lot furnished. or such information given
the subscriber.
Articles on exhibition at the State
fair may be left in the care Of the Presi-
dent or the Secretary Of the Association
on the grounds, or ut the State Capitol.
Other contributions may be sent to me
by express, at the expense of the State
Board of Emigration, by whom they
will be forwarded to New York.
HORACE AUSTIN,
Chairman Board.
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Chairman Board.
September %, 1871.

to Anerica-Ilis Reception i'm
the Bay.
From New York Herald, Oct. 4.
After travelling to the utmost ends Of
the earth, visiting almost every cline,
and seeing the varied aspects Of nations
of all creeds and tongues, with their
governors and administrations, Hon.
VIM. H. Seward has returned once
more to the bosom of his friends. Not
all the fetes and feasting Of tho nabohs
in Iuaia, Of wining and dining by priyy
councillors aud governor generals in
his honor, and the grand and gaudy
displays gotten up by various eastern
nationalities for his amusements while
he remained among them, could equal
for heartiness or genuine feeling, the
reception given him by the friends who
met him in New York bay yesterday
It was doubtless highly CRAFTY ing to a
statesman who had made the renown
Mr.. Seward acquired for diplomacy and
general government prior to his depar-
ture, to be received with pomp and
splendor by people to whom he was
known only by name but he seemed
yesterday as though he thought but
little of all the lavish elegance and the
aattery of the Eastern courts, when he
was grasping like can honest man" and
as well as he could, the hands Of his
New York friends.
AS the Cunard steamer Java arrived
about twenty hours earlier than was
expected, the preparations to meet the
honored statesman were not completed,
and consequently the demonstration was
not so loud Us it mig ht have been
still the greetings were many, long and
sincere.
As the Fletcher was coming on to
New York the revenue steamer North
sner met her, having board Deputy
Collector Terwilliger and great num-
Der of friends who had been detailed by
Collector Murphy to meet Mr.. Seward
on his arrival in the bay. The latter
steamer ran alongside the Fletcher aud
energetic handshaking commenced, and
continued until the veteran statesman's
hands must have been somewhat too
strongly exercised, especially as he has
not perfect control Of these members at
present. 1t was pleasant to behold his
face, lit up with smiles, more lively and
expressive than many young man just
attained to majority; Indeed, he ap.
peared to be in excellent health, and
full Of life and fun. At the Cunard
dock, Jersey City, Frederick and Will
Liam Seward, his two sons, with Mr..
E. D. Morgan, from Cayusa, MIR. J.
Carpenter, of Auburn, and cx.Surveyor
Wakeman were taken on board.
DR.. Carnochan placed the quarantine
service steamer at the disposal Of his
nephew, Mr.. Clearance A. Seward; and
some friends who ran down the bay
and met the ocean steamer off the low
er quarantine. Here they boarded the
vessel, amid loud and prolonged cheer
ing from the passengers, and, after the
most hearty expressions Of welcome
which one man can bestow upon anoth-
or. Mr.. Seward, tho Misses Rislcy and
their servants left the Java, and pro-
ceoded to New York, the passengers
again giving him a round of '>throe
times three"
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Hon. Cyrus ALDRICu was buric

Hon. CYRUS ALDRICIl was buried
on the 9Th inst. at Minneapolis. His
prominent services us member of Goa
gress, aud his eminent qualities as Z
private citizen, have cndcarcd him to the
people Of the State. Ills loss will lie
widely f"''. and deeply r"'r>ttH'}.