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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
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The fagots tlazc,l, tho cal.lron's smoke
Up through tho green wood curlctl;
Bring honey from tho hollow oak,
Bring milky SAP. " tho brewers spoke,
- ~ tbaSARahsoa at IT, world.
ANA brcwcd d tlcv wcll or brcwcd they H.
Tho priests thrust In their rods,
: First tasted, and then drank their I'LL,
And shouted with one voice and will,
"Behold tho drink Of gods!'
They drank. aud 10 in heart and brain
A new, glad life began
Tho grey Of hair grow young again,
The SICK man laughed away his lmiu,
The cripple lesped and ran.
"Drink, Mortals, what tho gods have sent.
Forget your long annoy"
so sang the priests. From tent to tent
The 8Oma's sacred madness wont,
A storm Of drunken joy.
Then knew each rapt, ,i1ebriate
!:NANined md glorious birth,
Eonred upwSel, With strange Joy clntc,
Beat, with ilaxed head, Varnnas gate,
And, sobered, sank to earth.
The land with soma's praises rang;
On Gihon's banks OF shade
It's hymns the uusky maidcns sang:
1n joy Or iitp or'n6ltal IayE r,
All men tp SonsA pIa9GQs- a. g.,
Tho morning twilight Of tho race
Sends down these matin psalms;
And still with wondering eyes We trace
The simple prayers to Soma's grace,
That Vcdic verse ombalms.
"a. ID. esa,d,ver'd, ..rly year,
Each aftaR aRe hos slriven
by music, incense, vigils drear,
And trance, to bring the skies more near,
; :, Or lift men upto haven't :
Some fever Of tho blood and brain,
Some self cxalting spell,
The scourger's keen delight Of pain,
The Dcrvish dance. the Orphic strain.
- Tho wild-haired Bacchant's yell 49,
The deserts hair-Rrown hermit sunk
p. The sanef brute below:
The naked Santon, hashish- drunk,
The cloiseer madness Of the monk,
The fskir's tOrt,re-show J.: -.
And yet the past comes round again,
And new doth old fulfill;
In sensual transports wild ID vain.
We brew in many . Christian fame
The heather Soma still!
Dear Lord and Father Of mankind.
Forgive our foolish ways!
Reclothe 20 in our rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard
Beside tho Syrian Sea
The gracious calling of the Lord.
Lot US, like them, without word,
j., Rise MP and fellow thee.
o Sabbath rest by Gslilee!
o calm Of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with theo
Tho silence Of eternity
Interpreted by lovr|
With that deep hush subduine all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper Of thy call,
As noiseless let thy blessing fall
Az fail thy mama down.
Ip9pshI ID, ae.; ef 4aian.1k + !.
I'M ali um strisihes oea6e - ''''@
Take from our souls the strain and stress.
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty Of thy peace. r:S
- Breathe through the heats Of our / desire
Tay coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire:
Speak through the eerthquako. wind and q
~. q stm, snsI voce a CAIN = ;: ~
-[Atiaut,c Monthly
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04

AT Virginia City, Nevada, this spring,
an enterprising boy of nine years. dura.
tion, took his little brother to paint
shop and decorated him in Sioux style,
after which he exhibited the child as q
captured son of Spotted Tail, at the
rate of twenty-five cents a visitor.
When the excitement was at it's height
the parent of the little savage arrived,
paid the quarter of dollar, but mo-
ment later, after satisfying her curiosity,
she was seen leading home the cxhibi-
tor and the exhibited. A private re-
ception was given them, in whi,h the
domestic slipper took \ prominent
part.
The young ladies are teaching. the
Japanese girls how to edo their hair -
rough. In Japan, the smoother and
sicker the female head of hair, the
more beautiful it becomes in the eyes
Of society. TO achieve smoothness and
sickness, tho women use prodigious
quantity OF black pomade. The hail
is made into bow or loops at the back,
and is drawn smoothly over bands OF
black silk, plentifully bespread with
crease, nl, thus st,t1enetl, is fastened
un in the approved style.
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Some Famous Ships.

The Boston Advertiser, in recountine
the history of the Great Republic, which
was built at Donald McKay's shipyard
in Boston says !: ''Here have been built
more fast clipper.ships than in my
other shipyard in the world. Here was
launched !. the Lightning, tho fastest
ship ever known. She made the trip
from Melbourne to Liverpool in sixty
eight days, time that has never been
equalled; by a sailing ship. The Blaines
and Champion of the Seas were sister
ships, and at the time of the great Sc
poy multiny sailed from Portsmouth,
England with troops on the
same day, and after one
hundred and thirty-eight days en-
tered Bombay on the same evening and
at 'he same hour. Here originated
that famous series, the Sovereign of the
Seas, Empress of the Seas. Champion
of the Seas, and Glory of the Seas. MIR.
Mckay has built one hundred and fifty
ships; in the years 1856 and 1856 within
fourteen months, fourteen were launch
ed from his yard. These were the
palmy days of this nowneglecved branch
of American industry, when our yards
were the glory of the nation and the
envy of the world. The last ship
launched by Mr.. Mckay was the Glory
of the Seas, in 1869. She is of two
thousand one hundred tons and the
largest ship sailing under the American
flag. Since then the yard has been silent
and deserted.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
A TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Sun,

After q three days hunt he returned
to the cam p, and the boy, who saw that
his father had no provisions with him,
at once made up his mind that he or
the old man had to die. Without
waiting to discuss the question with
his parent he sent rifle bullet through
his heart, and before the, blood had
time to cool he was assuaging his ter.
rible hunger with pieces Of his fathers
flesh. He remained iii the camp as
long as the provision lasted, and then
made his way to the shanty, where he
related in a mixture Of broken French
and Indian the, facts which we have
given above. The men could not be-
ieve the horrible tale until the young
Indian had confessed it to the priest,
who resided at station several miles
down the river.
t He also confessed: that ON one other
occasion his sister, year younger than
himself, had been killed and eaten two
years previous, when they had not had
any game for several days.
THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF A FAMILY.
:: An Indian, with an un.,ronou1 ceable
name, who camps by himself near the
head of the Obitteebee lake, is known
and spoken of as the only surviving
member of family of cannibals, and
he is Stunned and feared by other
members Of the tribe.
HOW THE cANN1DA1s LIVE.
The Obitteebee Indians are described
as being tall and stontly built, with a
very forbidding cast Of countenance.
the squaws being positively repulsive
I'M their appearance. They are lazy
and filthy in their habits, make no at
tempt at tilling the soil, and 1--we en-
tirely by hunting and trapping. They
sometimes engage as axemen in the
shanties, but seldom remain long, as
they will not will not work constantly,
and it is as hard to feed one of them rs
it is to keep six white men. The
squaws md children are clothed with a
sort of blanket which they make from
hare skins, cut into strips, plated and
stitched together in the required shape.
Their dwellings, in winter are COMPOSED
of poles, which are stacked in the form
of q tent, and covered with birch bark
and moss, a fire being built inside in
OAC NOAOlC, AAO1A "AASA U1c SlAOk0 lllUS
it's escape through hole in the top of
the wiswam. AS long MS game is rlen-
tiful, the Indians remain in the same
camp; but if a moose is killed ut any
considerable distance, the camp is
moved to that vicinity, and the owners
remain there as long rs they can find
enough to eat.
The above is the substance of what
Mr.. Wright has heard from his men
and from Hudson's Bay fur traders who
have been dealing with this extraor.
dinary tribe of Indians, and rs incred.
ible as the statement appears to be, ht
says there are dozens Of shanty men nj
the headwaters of the Ottawa who arc
willing to testify to the truth of it. I'll.
exploratory survey of tho route of the
proposed Canada Pacific Railroad viii
pass through the section OF countr,
occupied by the Obittcebcs, and il
another year, or probably in few
months, something more will lie know,
of the manners aud customs of tl.e..
extraordinary Indians.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04

BURNT lovc-letters" is tho lmtest
fashionable TINT.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
CANNIlsAI.ISM IN CANADA.

rhc Oh1ttec',:e H.. 1n'ian: Eating their
Hunger, Sacrifices her <;htlIrcm-I II
Turn, tho Mother Eaten Nv her Uus-
bssn nd aM nd SOn-Yle Oltt MIN Nh i,,v
Food iOr the BOYS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
TUESDAY, March 26.-HOUsE.-No
business Of importance wa transacted in the House.
WEDNEsDAY, March 27.-SENArE.-.

Bills wsre introduced to incorporate the National
Union soldiers' and sailors' Orphans Industrial
Trimming School, and confirming entries by actual
settlers on railway grants where the same have been
allowed through mistake Of government officers
Btlls prohibiting the enlistment of minors in the
military service Of the United States without the
consent Of parents or guardians, and requiring ali
were reported back from committee without amend.
ment: The st. Croix and Bayfield, Railroad bill was
called up and, after some discussion, the House
amendments were rejected-aye6 16, nays IS. Mr..
Casser!y offered IN amendment providing that set.
tiers along the limo OF the rosd shall be entitled at
their option, either to receive back from tho United
States the money paid On or for their lands or to
receive eighty acres in addition to the amount now
held BY them. Without action upon the amendment
the bill went over, and the House bill to repeal the
outy on tee and cohee came up This measure was
dehafad until 4diouFnrnenf 49,
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PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS-.

MONDAY, March 25.-SENATE.-A bill
for the relief Of certain officers in the navy was
passed. A blu was introduced to construct and aid
In rebuilding levees on the Missssippl River, and
Incorporating tho mississippi River Ievee and Tclc-
graph Company with . capital Of ton millions, to
construct levees and line Of telegraph from Cape
Of tho river, free from taxation, and with land
grant OF wentyve sections per mile along the line
% SAID leveea Tho bill for the sale Of the marine
bills to the entry and clearance Of
and of bonded cars passing from state to anot-
or through foreign contiguous territory to establish
Paul Minn., = port Of entry for the enlargement Of
the st. Msrys Falls canal appropriating 10000 to
deepen the st. Clair fats canal to IL feet The bill
countries In Asia, taken up but pending its con-
sideratlon tho Senate went into executive session
and soon After adjourned.
MONDAY, March 25.-HousE.-Under
the call Of the states for bills, considerable number
Of bills were introduced and referred. The bill to
enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors.
their widows and their children to secure home
stead on public lands: Agreed to without yeas and
sal statue Of the Late Admiral Farrsgut in FarraRut
square. in the city Of Washington, at cost not ex-
ceeding $4,000 was reported from committee and
passed. Adjourned,
TUESDAY, March 26.-SENATE.-Mr.
Robertson introduced bin to secure uniformity in
tho guago Of the railroads in the United States The
House bill making tea and coffee free was taken up
and discussed. Amendments including salt and coal
were offered and rejected. Mr.. Morton then offered
- an amendment to the the pending House bill
the whole Of The tariff bill reported from tho Senate
FINANCE COMMITTEES excepting the provisions Of tea
free list in the Senate bill ~ substitute for Mr..
a. Mort9as s1oendment, which was sdopted-yeas 81.
Of the Finance Committees bin reducing the duties
ten per cent on textile fabrics and manufactures Of
ron steel earthenware glassware, leather and India
rubber. Agreed ta-yeas 81, nays17. Several other
adjourned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04

h'lls' ty76vo miles east of Viralia, crash
occurred as II the motntaiinas' we're rent asun.
dei. The earthquake evidently proceeded on
from that point, radiating with decreased force
throughout their entire length. It was the
strongest along the base Of the Sierras.: Slight
damage was done at Visalia none whatever
elsewhere.
Abroad.
The vicinity of Tein Tsin, China is flooded.
Many of the Inhabitants are diving OF starva-
ton daily.
HE University of Cambridge has made
donation to Chicago of valuable series of
books published by the Pitt press or Univer
sty printing Office.
ADv1cEs from San Domingo announce that
President Baez has again lost the town Of IN
Vanela. 1t IL reported that he was defeated 1t
san Juan ny Cabral, who was unable to ad-
vance for want Of money and ammunition.
The Opinion Rationale states that a literary
convention between tho United States and
franco has been concluded by Washburne
american Minister, and Count De Remuset
french Foreign Minister, and it now awaits
ratification.
GEN. BHowSIow, in command Of detach-
lnent Of tho Looshai expedition. telegraphs OF
tIc 18th Instant: ''All Southern Homlopgt
and fifteen chiefs have submitted, and man,
t"ptivcs have been released. Twenty village,
"cro destroyed. Our task is accomplished.
rnE Emperor William completed his 75tl
,car on Friday. There was 10 formal cour
reception of the day, but the Emperor receive,
'.ftn number Of PERSONS who prcsentc,
'h"u congratulations. The city was decor ate,
',l:;s nc day, and in the evening brilliant
a '"NhiSroSDEST Of the Pail Mall Gazett
'''''S the Proceedings in the suit of til
o''l'cd States against Ar1non, the sl,ipbuiIde
Vi Eo'deanx. to recover damages for depreda
tl'''9 committed by The ram ;,toncwali Jacl:
~, whi':i' es.cape'i from Hr,dcaux. The cas
having been dcrh'e'l il, favor of tho ,lefenda,
H.! the :ril'','.il nf Zunor, WaHl,burne Ilq
,'s," carried an appeal to tho court OF Cas.a
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NUMBER 50.
A MONSTER RELIC.

Discovery ol the Skeleton OF . HIaato4lon
Ia Nearly Perfect State-Tvventy-Eve
Feet Long and FOarteen Feet High.
fisville, N. T., Correspondence N. Y. Times..
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honor unparalleled IN the life Of any
public man." Journals of different
politics take different views of his
speech, but all take occasion TO
speak in commendatory terms of
the remarkable ability of the man.
The Saturday Review says the peo-
pie "may have naturally wished to
show their sympathy with q public
man who has never been tame or
commonplace, whose audacity is
unrivalled, aud who can always
speak so as to give his hearers lit
tie to think over and much to re-
mem ber. Mr.. DisraelI unites two
very opposite characteristics which
are very rarely Joined. He is, on
the one hand, man standing alone,
isolated; keeping by sheer forco of
intellect his hold on a party that
long distrusted him; with no back
ing of fortune or relation to sup
port him; master of invective, a
lover of keen personal debate. On
the other hand he has tho sense of
dignity which Englishmen like to
see in their statesmen. He loves
solemnities he keeps the House of
Commons up to its higher level he
can be reserved and reticent when
prudence commands; he thoroughly
understands the conduct of an OPP
position. In whatever light the
matter is looked at it may BIO fairly
said that Mr.. Disraeli has earned
the honors now Vouchsafed to him !;
and those who SEQ nothing in his
political philosophy to cnlighten
them, or in his present opinions to
serve them as a guide to the future,
may cheerfuIlY acknowledge that,
if the lancashire populace choose to
be enthusiastic about him, it had at
least as good grounds for its enthus-
iasm as ordinarily justify the ex-
element of the hour.
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READY,

care you ready 2" is the anxious
cry of the husband as he urges his
wife to speed when they are both on
the point of setting out on q rail-
way trip, and she is staying to have
another glance at the looking-glass,
or looking for her gloves or altering
her bonnet or shawl. In some little
trifie of this kind, which forethonght
would have arranged, she isfretting
away the moments until the hus-
bands patience and the last minutes
of the time are nearly gone. There
is a sharp bit of wrangling as they
race off to the station. "You are
never ready you are always late,
is charged on his part. "You are
SO impatient; you know how I am
driven" on hers. 1t may be, Il
often is the case, that the train is
lost by such triiling delays, or is
only just caught, and the good tenn
per of both is lost in the process OF
catching it, and instead of setting
out on their days enjoyment in o
pleasant spirit, they are both heated
and ruffled and worried, disposed
to be annoyed at any little contrary
incident that may arise, and though
the entire plan of the day is not
changed, the serene pleasure that
they had hoped for is lost, and they
find WEAKNESS and vexation of spiri,
instead-all for want of being
ready.
care You ready 2" says the mother
to her child, who ia going to school.
aW hat keeps you SOP Look at the
clock; you will be late"
"Yes, I'm ready, but l can't find
my book"
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Ivy.


EDIToR News The northwest
corner of Lyon. county, although
thinIy settled, believes in schools
and soheol-houses." School district
No. 8, situated between Elm and
Chicken creeks, has > number one
school-house, and school from
six to nine months each year. They
employ good teachers and the re-
suit is they have good schools. The
only thing that has retarded their
progress has been the. want of school
books. Last summer the teacher
complained to the district board
that she could not make the pro-
gress she ought to as n teacher. in
advancing the scholars in their
studies, with their present system
of books. AS a general thing par
ents are too dilitory in supplying
their children with books. The
clerk of the district board request
ed the teacher to make out a list of
such books as the scholars needed.
She did SO, and the clerk took the
list and purchased the books. Then
came the buzzing sound, "the dis
trict will never pay S44 for books"
Time passed on. The annual school,
meeting rolled around and the clerk
is reelected, and No. is one of
those progressive districts believing
children have right to all the
school books they can study, when
the district is able to- foot the bill.
School in district No. 10, east
of ,Logchain, is taught this summer
Dy, Miss Mary Hathaway, a number
enc teacher. They have an addition,
by immigration, Of eleven scholars,
this spring. n o: 10 keeps puce with
her heighbors:- They levied a tax
of one and one-fourth per cent. al
their last annual meeting. a A, full
treasury isiwhat makes the school
60, No, 10 has progressive board
of. edueation. ge,r.,, '' - - ..... i.
.1-Sckool district No. 52,seast o.
No. 49, "a new district, has just com
plcted school house. and is hsvins
its HFst, term of school taught by
MisslAddie Miller. II iss Miller wa
one of those Normal students whG
wSs burnt ont last fall, at Emporia
She lie teacher Of grit, and is bount
d to make her msrk.hga y.b7B W.
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i FRUIT TREES NEAR HARTFORD.
uARrroRn. MAY 9Th. 1872.

HARTFORD may 0IiIJ 4St<s .
EDITOR Of THE NEWS: Premit
me to Inform your hreaders some
thing Of what we are, doing in this
part of Lyon county preparatory
to fruit raising Esot "a 9aD' LA
.'a We have sold from the Hartford
Nursery tho trees for-se yeral large
orchards as follows: -..ra
7 Mr.. OSTeolc over one thousand
apple trees. He, has also put out this
spring about the Same humber OF
peach trees. - 20 q atsciEa-
Morrow, Msskimen over one
Thousand apple trees, He has peach
and other fruit. sdu9 adi b5iq ss5'.
Robert MahaHey planted five hnn;
bred aPpie-tfees this spring, and
takes as many more next year He
has two hundred bearing apple trees
besides, ia eft -Hasi.d8u
Glib. Holt, Esq, planted over one
thousand apple trees, and had soms
hundreds of peach and apple trees
sci. out previously.
John Mahaffey took i've hundred
trees, this spring, and viii complete
his orchard in another. He is on 4
homestead. -rs4
Vim. Simpson planted from oul
nursery over five hundred and sixty
apple trees, filling all the ground hC
had ready for orchard. This is an.
other homestead started right. ae
Rev. NJ. Fenimore planted fiY,
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hundred, and will add as many mex
year. Mr.. Fenimore has a valua
BILE farm adjoining Hartford.
E. r. Appleby, Esq, took q couple
hundred this spring, and has his ar
Engagements made for making his
orchard full thousand next year
E. B. Smith, James Blue, Mr.. AL
len, Mr.. Diss, Mr.. Hoover, @. Cool.
ey, Mr.. Sharp, Mr.. c. Griffith, Mr.
Riley, Mr.. Norbury, Mr.. Cooper
Mr.. Ketchum and others have plant
ed from fifty 10 two or three hund,
red each. -
There are several large peach or
chards that are bearing in the vicin.
itY, and q few vineyards.
have a bearing vineyard of over
one thousand vines, and have COM
menced planting an orchard by set
ting out seVenty-Gve varieties OF
apple. The vineyard is to be in
creased by several acres, and the
orchard by several thousand trees.
Like friend Morgan, of Fruitland,
we show, our faith in Kansas as q
fruit-growing State by our. works.
The orchards referred to in this
paper, arc within six miles of Hart
ford, and there is promise of sever
al more such orchards in this vicin-
ity next year.
If a man is benefactor who
makes two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before, we
claim something for having doubled
the number of fruit trees in this
part of Lyon county.
-, A. d. CHAMBERS.