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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
The Fatefnl Hour.

Medical experience proves. that, in
chronic diseases, the greater number of
deaths occur just before dawn: This
is eminently true of brain diseases and
of all those related cases where death
results from an exhaustion of the vital
power, through overwork, excessive ex.
citement, or nervous prostration. It is
ut the hour of o'clock in the morning
that the lite-force is at its lowest ebb,
and succumbs most readily to the as
sault of epilepsy, or paralysis or of
the fatal lethargy that some in those
vivldly beautiful picture dreams, for
which medical science has yet found
no name, and of which it has taken no
sufficient cognizance. Nine-tenths of
those who die i'll this way expire in
their sleep. In many such cases, if a
friend were at hand to waken the Sleep
er when the attack comes on, or if he
were to be awakened by some accident
al noise, he might, by the use of a
few few simple I'M precautions, TONS prolone
for the shock which proves fatal to the
man wrapped iu deep sleep, when the
system is passive and relaxed, would
be victoriously repelled were it armed
with I'LL its waking energies. Men who
do brain-work, and who are on the
shady side of 40, should be on their
guard against this insidi ,us enemy
They should beware of five o'clock a.
M, for it is per1lous hour. Do you
find yourself unable to sleep, when you
retire for the night, exhausted with
your days work. Do you, in vain,
turn from one side to the other Does
your brain persist in working when you
would fain have it rest; Do old saws,
and scraps of rhyme, repeat themselves
in your memory with wearisome itera-
tion, def, ing your utmost efforts to ST.
lence them 2 Then, I say to you, be-
ware! You will be sure to sleep at
last. 1t is only question of time );
for, soon or late, Nature will assert her
rights.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
VOLUME Nv.
Dreanllana Graves.


Dreamland lies close to every soul.
lts doors Will Ope ut lightcst words,
And thoughts fly In and out like birds,
And build their nests on every knoll.
Each flying thought will rear its brood,
Each dreamy hope will build its nest,
And cover with its plumy breast
Sweet singers who our sight elude.
But, oh, the graves in dreamland found
The buried plans, the hopes 80 chilled:
The soaled-up tombs with fond loves filed;
The turf heaped up ON grconest mound!
Some dream graves shine with soft swartl bright
True love still watches O'cr its dead;
Spring roses blossom at tho head,
And rainbow sunsets drop them light.
Some dig their graves, and proud and chill
From youths dear dreams turn with . sneer
You never from them know how dear
We're the soft hopes that Time doth kill.
There tender mourners wander long,
And gIieve for what they never had:
There glide the ghoets Of heroes glad,
Their noiselcss chants the poets song.
There hide the books that ne'cr were writ,
There, buried in the dreamlsnd mold.
Rust eats the marble statue cold,
That never sculptoe's tools shall At.
There little graves Of childish hope
!, Lie close to great sarcopha8i;
Where giant plans must buried lie,
And neither more In dreanaland Rrope.
Thus dreamland 10 20 full Of graves,
You scarce can lind . spot t. place
footstcp, or your paths deface
Some hailowed turf that memory Graves,
Oh, cemetery Of dead dreams,
The vastest graveyard earth can show;
Your boundaries NO man can know
TIL heavens revealing glory streams.
We then shall reap what now We SOW;
No longer wEape In silence dumb.
Your resurrection then shall come
With Eastcr mornings golden glow.
IN. Y. Evening Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
Steam PlouShing.
From the N. 7. Evening Post.

It is a rather singular fact that all
attempts at steam culture in this coun-
try have so far proved to be failures.
In this respect, progressive though we
are as nation in other matters wo
have been left behind by manv Enro-
pean countries. Yet in the cultivation
OF large tracts of land steam plouehine
is undoubtedly more efficient, as we'll
rs more economical than the present
system. Our English cousins fully an.
preciate this. There are in England
several different establishments en-.
ploylng over twelve hundred men each
ID the manufacture of steam ploughs.
Ihe plan found to work the
best in Great Britain is to have
organized companies, who hire out
their steam machines and do the work
by contract, and, it is SAID, that more
than five hundred steam plouQhs are
thus held for hire. The success of
the experiment is proved by its work.
1ngs on tract OF five hundred acres
near London: So poor was this land
deemed that it would not bring q rent
OF three dollars per acre, but after be-
ing ploughed by steam it brought q
clear profit of $18. 900 on grain crops.
Scotland also finds no difficulty in max
ing steam ploughing "pay." In Ger
many the same mechanical force meets
with general approval, while further in
the East the Pacha of Egypt employs
four hundred of these ploughs.
Two difficulties seem to have at
tended all efforts to make steam plough.
ing success in this countrv-the
nature OF the machines themselves and
the lack of any organization to put
them IN operation. As to the first diff
ficulty, the machines have been too
cumbersome and too expensive. The
plan OF stationary engines drawing the
ploughs by means of cables had a fair
trial, but for many reasons abandoned
as lmpracticable on u large scale, and
too complicated for small farms. Then
an engine drawing a dozen ploughs was
exhibited, but met with no favor, as the
cost OF one such machine was very great
and dlsproportionate to the results
attained. OF course steam ploughinp
is most needed on the prairies of onr
western states, where the soil is level
and fertile, and here is where the
second difficulty occurs, in the necessity
for some regularly organized company
to introduce the engines. Take new
colony for insta* &c. If its members
combine one OF these machines can
easily be purchased, and will do more
work in a single day than all the men
together. Tus the laborers would
have time to perfect the other details
incident to the establishment aud per-
manent location of settlement. Some
such system will doubtless soon take
the place of the independent work of
each labOrer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
A Sad Case.

One of the severest sufferers by the
Chicago fire was Lorenz Brentano, who
was absent in Europe when the calam-
itous visitation was made. He lost all
he had IN the world. and was reduced
from afluence to poverty in a night.
Lacking the nerve to return to his
country, he decided to make Leipsic
his home, where he endeavored to gain
alivelihood by writing magazine &C.
counts of the famous criminal trials in
the United States. It would seem that
he has met with but poor success, and
at last accounts was living in destitute
circumstances at Zurich, Switzerland.
At one time Mr.. B1entano was princi-
pal proprietor of the Illinois Staatz.
Zf,itnnp
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

AN English paper contains the follow
ing sarcastic advertisement: "Want.
cd, n general servant, in small family
where man is kept. The house work
and cooking all done by the members
Of the family. The gentleman of the
house rises early, but prepares break
fast himself. All the Washing Is put
out, and the kitchen provided with
every comfort and luxury. Cold meat
and '.as', studiously avoided. Wages
no objection to q competent party.
ketreshmthts and photographs tx-
changed"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

PorTED MEArs.-It sometimes happens
from some unforeseen circumstances,
that large quantities Of cooked meats,
prepared for a party which did not
come of, perhaps, remain on hand,
which are inevitable lost. Such should
be potted. Cut the meat from the bone,
and chop fine, and season high with
salt and pepper, cloves and cinnamon.
Moisten with VINEGAR, wine, brandy.
cider, and Worcestershire sauce, or
melted butter, according t.: the kind of
meat, or to suit your own taste. Then
pack it tight into stone jar, and cover
over the top with about a quarter Of an
inch of melted butter. 1t will keep
months, and always afford a ready and
excellent dish for the tea table.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
Up and Down.

Only Wreokh u Sa9ino aspoto -
Up through the valley creeping,
Glimmeeing grey the mountain way,
Low on the lake side sleeping.
Its whttened gleam summer dream
6eemsd from the ivied gable,
Where, pooping through sprays vet with dew
OutIoodn9, Ioitered Mabel,
That sweet Old task, to guess, to ask
When, how, from vhitbar coming,
That unknown He, that King to be,
stopped not for engines hunnmins.
The while the mist, low STOPPING, kissed
The hamlet peaceful sleeping,
T0Fo IT. grey plume on orchard bloom,
To leave the pink buds weeping.
Thus Ill unknown, up to his throne
Fair Habel's King drew nearer,
While through the pane she Watched the tram,
From dimness growing clearer.
Nor guessed the fate its living freight
Linked with her love-tream dawning;
80, cropping blind, we live to ind
We stand by doorwsys yawning.
drifting wreath Of smoky breath,
Down through the valley creeping,
0limmering grey along the way
Where shadows dim lie sleeping.
Gone Is the gleam Of sunny dream,
Wearily watcheth Mabel;
While tears like rain fall on the pane
That lights the tvied gable.
Querying now, with aching brow,
Whether it were not better
To fail TO lind, sinee oath may bind,
And kings own other fetter.
Family and far, smoke drift and car
With hills and clouds sre blended;
Empey beside the valley wide
The summer dream f. ended.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

sleep; but his voice rcassured me,
though he said he had heard nothing,
and I rose hastily.
"Quick, to the dispcnsary !" He
followed me in amazcment to the little
room in the rest Of the house where
Fenton Atwick had kept supply of
medicines, which he often distributed,
gratis, to the hands of factory 6ve
miles down the river. I hastily pushed
the door open, and beheld Miss At
wood standing at desk.
As I sprang forward she fell, face
downward, on the floor. We lifted her
to sofa, but she was dead.
A phial of prussic acid was open on
the desk.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
A DOUBTFUL STORY.
Steam NAVIGATION.

1t seems to be but yesterday since the
learned DR.. Lardner plainly demopstra-
ted-for there was no other word to
apply to his clear and convincing logic
the impossibility of steam navigation
of the Atlantic. But. alas for the tal-
lacy of human Judgment, since not
long after, one bright summer day, there
came gliding into onr waters a trim
built bark. with gracefully moulded
hull and taper spars, regardless of winds
and tides, messenger from the far
shore of the AtIantic, showing that
logic was as nought, and that the great
problem of ocean steam navigation had
had been solved virtuously. Now every
maritime port of Europe sends forth
myriads of swift-winged steamers. ami
iiatring time and distance, while people
wonder with what now marvel science
intends to surprise us: she has taught
ls to traverse the sea like y bird, and yet
desire outstrips fultiment
Mosr men give advice hy the h,c!.r:
but take it by the grain.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
Freaks Of the Japanesc Embassy

washington Correspondence Of the New York Jour-
nal Of Commerce.
It is hard to tell who is Ambassador
and who ls servant, Japanese dignity
being a peculiar species of that article,
and not the kind of dignity that we en-
courage. Besides, the "Japs" so much
resemble each other that you can hard
ly tell which is which. Saturday hap
pened to be in the Arlington when Mr..
Sheckles, the clerk, received an order
for sick functionary's meal. He had
marked more than twenty fancy dishes,
that is, rich things that a sick Yankee
will studiously avoid. And he told the
waiter to be sure and bring him plenty
Of hard boiled eggs and ice cream.
The other night, about IL O'Clock, three
or four of them got together in room,
and ordered hard boiled eggs and ice
cream for supper. Sheckles says they
will never get around the world if they
live in other countries as they live here.
They do not seem to eat much, but they
live on the most outlandlsh" food.
They seem to think that all the ho-
tells are under one management, if we
may Judge from their movements. Yes
terday lot of them went into the Eb-
bitt House, took breakfast, and walked
off without paying or making any ex-
planation: When they first came they
were nearly all quartered at the Airing.
ton. Some went to other hotels. Now
they are scattered all over the city,
some in hotels, others in boarding.
houses. But the principal officers of
the embassy all stay at the Arlington.
Yesterday was standing at the Office
Of the Arlington when an angular-face
Jap came up, with baggage on his arm,
and said to the clerk, "Me goin' away.
Ne won't be here no more"
"Where are you going2" said the
clerk.
"Me goin' to Ebbitt House,"
will you give up your room?"
"No; me and two other fellows
goin' free other fellows come from
Ebbitt House take our place"
So they 60, to the Imperial, Metro
politan, Welcker's, Wormely's, and all
over. The hotel keepers like it. They
can make from $40 to 500 average a
day out of each Jap, from Iwakura to
Hokepoke, and it will be found that
the Government will have such bills to
pay for the same Japs for the same
time at two or three different hotels. If
any one happens to twit them about
their curious antics, they say, "Me
don't care; me got plenty money and
me goln' spend It.
Some of them smoke opium almost
continuously. The chambermaids at
the hotels think :" it's funny smellin'
tobacco they smoke" They have a
bag full of ivory pieces and board on
which they play game that seems to
be very amusing to them. The other
evening party got together in room
and commenced playing the game. At
intel walls, when player seemed to be
checkmated, they laughed boisterously,
and went through all sorts of perform
ances, such as turning hand-sprines
and standing on their heads.
As l remarked above, it. is hard to
tell, from their appearance, who are
Ambassadors, and who are followers
and servants. These eccentric freaks
are probably the diversions of the lat
ter in all cases.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
Died Of q Broken Heart,

The Buffalo Commercial has the fol-
lowing account of man who died of q
broken heart, caused by . successful
attempt to blackmail:
"a few months ago man died in 4
little town on the Canada side, who in
early life was one of the most promising
clergymen in the city of New York.
He died q broken-hearted man, ana the
victim to merciless attempt to black
mail which had been tried upon him
soon after his entrance upon parochial
duties. He was summoned one day to
perform Christian clergyman's Offices
in house where he had had no pre-
vious acquaintance. The story told by
the parties who summoned him was q
very plausible one, and he went with
out hesitation into the trap prepared
for him. As soon as he arrived at the
sick chamber he was confronted by two
men, who maintained that he had visit
ed the house with impure motives, and
threatened to expose him unless be p i'd
acertain sum of shush.money.' Theman
in his bewilderment took precisely the
wrong course. He felt that he could
better submit to pecuniary extorti0n
than to allow his name to be used in
connection with q disgraceful affair, no
matter how innocent he might have
been of the charges brought against
him. He, therefore, paid the sum de-
manded. From that hour he was q
doomed man. At regular intervals his
persecutors called for more money. If
he refused to pay, they held the old
threat over him, and it was now d6ubly
strong from the fact that he had paid
once to keep the matter a secret. His
life became torture to him. He re-
signed his parish in the metropolis,
and tried to be concealed in q more
humble parish in another part of the
country but go where he would, the
relent less blackmailers were on his
track. Finally he told to his friends
the terrible secret of his life. This
thwarted his prosecutors, to be sure,
but their wretched victim was already
a ruined man, as We have said he died
a few months ago in quiet out-of-the-
way Canadian town."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
CmriOns If True.
The Tomah Journal tells the follow.

The Tomah Journal tells the follow
ing story:
"A gentleman living near this place
tells OF one OF his neighbors having a
yearling of the bovine genus that has
been siling since last summer, getting
very poor and scrawny, and the owner
had about concluded it would die he.
fore spring WIS over. A few DAYS since.
the gentleman fed his cattle salt, when
the SICK yearling, appearing to be very
salt hungry, took a mouthful of salt,
and Immediately thereafter commenced
to choke and cough, and after severe
fit of cong hing elected from its throat
Il live rattic-snake with one rattle. The
year'ing is now doing incls."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

TIE machine for working the SULPHUR
miues in Louisiana has arrived, and
"''rratin"s will now he pushed rapidly
forward
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

APPRECIATION hides three times as
many virtues as charity does sin.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

OUH acts make Or mar us VIC me-
the children of our own deeds.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

Mosr men give advice hy the huc!.r:
but take it by the grain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-09-13

Nearly I'LL the property stolen from the cstai-
lishmcnt Of Postmaster schorn. referred to in
another place, has been recovered. 1t was
found Secrcied in the woods near town. Su,-
plcOn rests on one W two parties, but no AZ
rests had been made up to Wednesday night.
The thieves WHO robbed Tom Caldwcll's store
last Spring were discoy and some of them
apprcl,nded. convicted and sent to the pcni-
Tertiary. Two others charged with house
breaking, are now In Jail -onr Of whom Was
convicted ut the last tcrn Of the Circuit Court.
but his lawyers appealed To the Supreme Court.
We notice that in some portions Of the country
the Courts are not bothered with such cases.
One morning last week. the bodies OF three
white. thieves were. fund hanging TO the trees
on the public square at Florence, Alabama.
We don't believe all the roberts in this place
and ncighborhpod are committed by negroes
white parties are no doubt connected with some
of them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-09-13
Cane Creek Academy.

This popular School will begin it. Fourth
year septembtr I'd, 1872. President Bruuner
has secured full supply Of competent teach
crs of experience. Tho Boarding House will
be in care of that genial gentleman Rev. u.
Payne. The growing Library will be opened
in the new room just fitted up for the purpose,
giving access to the magnificent books 600
voumcs) gwen by Mr.. Wetmore since the
close of the last session. Perhaps a better
location for u high school can no where be
found. Terms more favorable than are known
to exist elsewhere.
Coghll (P. o.. August 80, lS7a-3t
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! CHIPS, ana THINGS.


\ financial crisis /, nprrchcn'lcd in England
Hon. Julius strong, member of Congress from
Connecticut, died on the 1th instant,
Lot, Nn'f \ 90. bankers, London have fail
ed, liabilities saOOmO.
| lienvy froStS destroyed portion Of the corr
crop IN Maine m,twcc
There lt been a further advance in Engllsl
coal.
Gen, Dix has finally accepted the Rndicn
nomination for Governor Of New York.
One may live as II conquer0r,a king. or a mag
i,trHte, but he must die rs man.
Mrs D. Wnddcll aged ~ year, died at Knox
willie last saturday. .-.
Gen. Thnycr, the Oldest graduate Of We,
Point, died last week.
The village Of Scrnall, switzerland, was de
stroyc1 by lire on the nlsht Of the 9TH instant
A. j. RickS Of the knoxville Chronicle, Ia,
gone TO Ohio to campaign for Grant ana Wilson
Knoxville Is again moving on the subject q
immigration, Call spirits from the Vastly deep
The Baptist Church in Moth Carolina claim
100000 commitments III that state
In the late Ohio railway massacre 10 were
killrdand 10 wounded.
II i'a complaint against some youn" mini,
tiers that while their bodic, are IN the pulpt'
Their hearts are IN the pcw,. -s ..
Lightning went into foundry ut Mu>catinc
Iowa, and melted up lot Of pitchlorhs Into
corkscrcws.
Iti common thing in Wisconsin iorwo
TO ride astrdr. They may he seen thu, mount
ed in Ill the large towns,
James Lyon of Virginia, hcper,nonent prcsi
for Grant. Pure Democracy that.
Maj. Baker had harp fight with the In
dams on the Yellowstone last week, and defeat
ed them. +t.
a convict in California, having served hi,
'mr |, engaged in hunting and shooting the
Intelligent jury that convicted him.
Even tht Oflicehodcrs are dcSrrtin. Grant
and going over 10 Greeley in Western New
York.
Mrs.. Sarah Howe Morris, NJ. D., has opened
IN asylum in Brooklyn 10: the cure Of drunk
cnncS>.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have
been fined $1,000 in Trenton, for blocking II
street. ...
The more rocklas> Of the Radical papers StIll
claim that North Carolina went for Grant AT
the recent election. Cheeky.
The young people who were seen feeding
each other. doyc-fa>hion, over II gutepoNt, tn,
other evening, had better be a little more eau.
tiou, in the futurc.'
At the recent Convention held in Shchyvillc
Gen. John NJ. Bright was nominated by accla-
nation us candidate for Congress in the It'll
district T. t.
a letter from Ptt>burg gives list Of between
800 and 100 n ImcS of the old Republicans OF
Allegheny county who have come out for Gree.
ley and Brown. f
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-09-13
Good Anpointn,cut.

G. W. Charlton. Secretary of the Eastern
Division Fair, has appointed w. G.. Horton
Agent for the sale of 'Seasoli rickcts' to :hc
Fair at Knoxville, Tenn, which opens on the
lith day of October, 1872. Mr.. Charlton could
not have made more judiciou> appointment.
We advise all our citizens to call ON Mr.. llor-
ION and buy IL "Season Ticket only 1900.
which will admit the holder to the Fair for
six days-whlc the number on il may draw
one of the valuable Premiums offered by the
Society.
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PM Wv HO;,r.l I'm.

am just in receipt Of q good supply Of all
kinds Of Merchandise; will sell best prints
ut l2'4 cents. best Coffee at 30 cents, and every
thing else III proportion. Bring along your
Dried Fruit and Produce generally and en-
change them for the cheapest goods in town."
(2t.) . A. Il. BLANKENsHIp.
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For County REPRESENTATIVE.

,.,,,,aa sI,InN Al ntCrrss ~ a.. al III
district, rs u candidate h. represent MrMinn
county in the lower branch Of the next gen.
cri Assembly Of Tennessee, Election in No.
Iembcr.
Nix. SAM. i. WINS Dear SIR If Won can
place my name IN your This weeks nulnbcru, 4
candidate Tor County Representative for the
next session Of the Legislature, | would like
You to no 50, Respectfully Yours. Sc,
Sept 10, ISL TuO~, 4. CAS-.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-09-13

+. WAYNE Brown dioJ, in Athens, on tho
morning Of the 18th instant. ... .rr
Go 10 j. IL Rneti'sw all your Butter,
Egg aud Dried Fruit.
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For Lnint RenrnEnntntiun

We are authorized md requested to nm
nouncc the name of =. Y. BELL. Of Hhr,, rs
candidate for Joint Representative IN the
District composed Of the counric, Of James,
Rhcn, Mrisy and Cumberland in the nest
General Assembly Of Tennessee.
We are authorized md requested TO an
nouncr col. WM. &. PEAK. nj Mrg,, ~ u
candidate for john Representative for the di,.
triGt composed Of the co,nlic, ofCunhcrani,
james, Rlrl and McigS IN the nest Ioei~la.
turc. Election first Tuesday in November y