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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-24
VOLUME vi.
Theresa Tr"tt'> Dream.


Theresa Trott is forty-tivc,
Still unmarried, and ctallvr,
And plain as the years can make her.
| She long has waited. and hoped and prayed
and now is fatrd t" fr atra'i
That no man over Will take her.
Once, o'ci hcr shoulder white and fair,
Had fallen her trcsses Of dark brown iair-
The pride Of her former lovers;
Its hue has faded, and now instead
IL many and many silver thread
In the little tuft on the back Of her head,
Her whto cap cunninSly covers
With her slippor.d feet on the fender. thcro,
And her elbows resting upon her char,
She gazcs into the fire;
With fingers open ami wrists turned in,
Forming prop for her tootl'lcss cin,
Ssc thinks Of pleasures that might have DCCn
AS she watches the sparks expire.
Fair are tho faces that come and go
In the rosy cmbors that CLEAN and glow,
And memories sweet and tender
Flare in the flames. and leap and play,
Flicker aud fade, as they Die :lwat,
Leaving uothing but asheA gray
Won shcrotd eafth 4,ys ms fa&aer. 60
And, gazing into the cheerful blake,
Theresa thinks OF her by-Sone days,
Aud memories without number
Aud, soon beginning to nod and doze, .
Her sOmnOlent senses court repOsc,
And she sinks into slumber.
In = beautiful dream, again she secs
The slender figure oESolomon Peasc,.,
Her happy and thoughtful lover.
Home from the conference meeting they go
The moonlight CLEANS upon the crisp snow
Aid the stars look down with il tender glow, ,
That beam in the skies above hsu.
She sces:a home, ws:.rs tho freight falls
With cheerful glow ON the kitchen walls,
And her very heart r.joiccs
AS her eyes behold, in II corner there,
A nlat'ly torn i'll his easy chair:
And she hears the sound OF u noisy pair
Of flauShinS children = voices.
Then ali Of her ficctin. fancics seem
Fading away from her joyous dream,
And her dreaming fabrics falling.
Solomon Peasc is old and gray;
The dream Of her Sirlhool las passed away,
! And, think as she will, aud hope as sho may,
The past is beyond recalling.
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Emerson and the LOWcll's.
A Boston letter to the New York
Evening Post saws:

A Boston letter to the New York
Evening Post says:
Some time ago writer in one of the
foremost Of: our critical ] :,:':als said
that the American novel has not yet
been written, and that three writer's
only have appeared who have shown
the slightest ability to produce it:
Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowe, Oliver
Wendell Holmes and Robert A. L. s.
Lowell, the author Of "Thc New Priest
OF Conception Bay" The last of the
three, MIR. Lowell, has now abandoned
all else to enter upon the work of
literature, and it is not unlikely that
he may before long give ,ls what the
writer mentioned asserts he can give,
though he is a man who slrinks from
publicity and does not believe so
thoroughly in himself as others do. He
is brother of james Russell Lowell,
is clergyman, and has long been an
academy teacher. He now undertakes
literary work only ut the earnest
and persistent sollticitatious of
his friends who know his genius. His
first work will bo book for boys on
school day life, sort of Tom Brown at
Rugby book; but his publishers ex-
pect novel from him that they may
issue in the tall, or long before the
winter is out. Tho first book will be
out early in the autumn. James Rus
sell Lowell il expected to return from
Europe with full notebooks, and some
thing fresh and profitable from his pen
may come to his thousands Of readers
not many months hence. 1t rcfreshes
our writer's wonderfully to go abroad.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has come back
a new mar in appearance. His face is
fuller aud rud<licr than it has appeared
FOR many day, and his wonderfully
bright, almost roRuish smiio lights it
mp more frequently than before. He,
too. is promising u new literary work
by which the readers Of the best liter:e
ture will profit,
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S1.ctarian StcalfastMeSs. .

One of the most beautiful specimens
Of sectarian steadfastless of which VIC
have read for u long time, is reported
from the little town OF Hyannis, Mass.
There is in that town Univcrsalist
and IL Baptist Church. The former
was lately struck by lightning and set
on fire, and the only bell OH which an
alarm could be r,lng was that of the
Eaptist sanctuary near by. bnt the
sturdy "ld sexton of that faith refused
t." give up the key Of the church, dc
cl:,riny that he was {" moi going to in
tertere with the will OF God"
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Death.

Death. - =:
Out OF the shadows Ofssadness, -
Into the sunshine OF gladDess,
Into the land Of the blest
Out OF the land Of the 1reary,
Out OF the world of the weary,
Into the rapture Of rest.
Out of to-day's sin and sorrow,
Into the blissfui Tomorrow,
Jnto dav without gloom
Out Of a land filed with signing
Land Of the dead and the dying
Into land without tomb.
Out OF a life OF commotion,
Tempest swept oft as a ; ocean,
Dark with the waves drifting DER,
Into land calm and quiet,
Never a storm cOmcth nigh it
Never a wreck on the shore.
Out of land in whose powers
Perish and fade all the flowers
Olt Of the land Of decay
Into the Eden where fairc>t
OF flowers, and sweetest and raIcst,
Never shall withcr away.
Out of the world of the wailins,
Thronscd with anguish and ai.inS,
Out If the world of the sad;
Into the world that rejoiccs-
World Of bright visions and Voices
Into the world OF the glad.
Out of life ever lornful,
Out Of the land ever mourntul,
Where in bleak exile We roam;
Into joyiand above US,
Where there's Father to love US
Into sour home, sweet home.".
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A Wonderful French Inyt ntion in Tele.
graphing.

am sorry We are not represented in
telegraphic apparatus, as we have sew
eral things in America that would be
worth seeing. The French telexraphic
department is the best in the Exlibi-
tion, aud some of the inventions are
exceedingly interesting. There is a
machine that prints an photographic
dispatch, not chemically, like the other
autOgraphic instruments, but ON white
paper with printers ink. It. cannot be
described in writing, and so I will not
attempt to say how it is. made, except
that there is synchronous action of two
rollers; ono may be in New York and
the other in San Francisco, or in any
other: two places connected by: a
telegraph: wire. A written mes
sage, q sheet of music, the portrait
Of = burglar. anything that can
be drawn with q pcn,-not with pen
Gil may be te1egraphcl from one end
of the worll to the. other, and: repro
duced wit printers ink on white
paper like that whereon the patron of
the Mail reads this letter. Then they
have machine by which four opera
tors can work over. single wire at
once in one direction, just as one op.
orator does with us, and by putting on
four operators the other way, you can
make the capacity of one wire equal te
that of eight by the old system. We
are now using in America system by
which a wire may be operated both
ways simultaneously. The French
machine is exactly four times ahead
of us. TREY have, also, an
electromagnetic. that works over
= hundred miles of wire, and they
have a machine that will tell within
half yard or SO exactly where a pneu-
matte tube has become obstructed.
Suppose you have u tube between New
York and Harlem, and wad of paper,
Il rat: or something of that sort, gets
into it, you don't know exactly where
to look for the obstruction. aud it is q
serious matter to 60 and dig up from
one end until you find it, possibly not
Il hundred yards from the other. This
machine tells You just where to go,
though it will not tell yo,, whether it
is Il rat or wad of paper that stops
the tube.-NCtO York Mail.
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A Bathing Boys Peril.

The New Orleans Times tells sim
gular story of the danger incurred by a
boy who was attacked by q huge gar
fish while bathing with some compan.
ions in the Old Basin Canal near that
city. 1t is rs follows:
"They had been in the water but a
few minutes when one of the boys, a
lad about elevenyears old, was attack ed
by very large gar-fish and came very
near losing his life, first from drown
ing, and then from the effusion of
blood, resulting from the wound ill.,
tlictcd by the teeth of the gar.
The fish is described by tho lad as
having been large indeed, and, Judging
from tho boldness Of the attack and
the power manifested in the struggle,
there can be no doubt but that it must
have been all the boy described it to
bc. The first lntimation he had of the
presence of the fish was seeing it dash
ut him. In IN instant it caught him
by the arm, and twice he was dragged
underneath the water. Each time as
he came to the surface he called to his
companions to save him. The lacerated
arm blcd freely and the water for a
considerable distance around the
scene of the struggle was crimsoned.
Horritied ut the sight, and alarmed
almost to stnpefaction, it was some
moments before any of the boys could
make up their minds to go to his
rescue. At last an elder brother
of the lad went to his relief,
and We are informed that it was
with no little difficulty that ht
succeeded in wrestling him from the
jaws Of the fish. The fish had bitten
him on the left arm near the wrist, aud
the blood continued to flow with such
force and rapidity that it was feared
he would bleed to death before assist
ance could be had. An old lady, how.
ever, happened to be passing at thai
instant, and to stanch the flow OF bloc,
she tore strips from her dress, and will
them bound up the bleeding arm. Th'
question has been raised whether or no
it was an alligator, aud not IL gar-tisl
that attacked the boy. The lad asserts i
was gar, but recently alligators o
considerable size have been seen in tin
Old Canal, near the place where thcs
boys were fislIing."
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TIE SHAH or PERSIA.
Some Hart Stories about Ills Him u n.
ncrs and Filthy Habits.

ncrs and Filthy Habits.
A London letter to the New York
Tribune, concerning the Shah's visit
to that metropolis, contains the fol-
lowing:
81 never was SO ashamed of myself
as l was to-day" confessed an agree
able M. =. For two hours I stood
on a ginger beer barrel in order to see
the Shah. Sec him I did. He looks
like crafty Parsee merchant. and
fine fools we are making of ourselves. :"
Bother the Shah, :" exclaimed one dig
nified looker-on, why I thought lie
was gilded all over; and the brute has
no manners" "No manners, and
very bad TASTE" remarked another.
{" But he is improving. At St. Peters,
burg his sportive attendants amused
themselves by cutting the flowers out
of the palace carpets, and the heads
out Of portraits hanging on the walls.
Their master patronized the Gar, and
told him to go on ia his present course.
He. the King Of Kings, approved"
"Ah, but the banquet at Berlin must
have been screaming fun," chimed in
the Baronet. ''The Shah eats with his
fingers, and whenever he disliked any
dish he took the food out of hrs mouth
and threw it under the table. Picture
the d,smay Of those about him. Here,
too, he first drank champagne, and be-
came screwed, whereupon Lord Russell
turned to the French ambassador, say
ng: 1T appears that the Shah is fond
OF French wine.' 'Ccst Lcien not.
urct, instantly replied the ambassador,
dams lM a,eit t0us les Chats so,xt
g,is.'' (This is the neatest double
pun I ever heard, and undoubtedly
originated with Lord Russell, who is
one of the witticst of Englishmen en-. }
"The Shah approved of Kaiser Will
liam, but dislikel the Empress, and, on
taking leave of her husband, expressed
great surprise that she should be
allowed to exist. Il advise you to get
rid of that old Augusta were the
Shah's last words at Berlin" "Our
King" interposed q noted Belgian,
twas excessively nervous about enter:
tanning the Persian horde. Obliged to
put beds in some of the palace draw
ing rooms. he feared the destruction
Of valuable paintings and furniture,
but beyond dirt did not realize his ex-
pectations. The King of Kings spat
on the audience at the opera, but
otherwise behaved we'll enough. His
followers had mania for driving. In
Persia they always ride. Once in
carriage they would refuse to get out,
insisting upon being driven from morn
ing until night, in consequence of
which the royal horses are almost
dead.
These charming stories gave me
quite an appetite for the Shah. had
already been drawn to him by his
cleverness in disposing of mourning.
When the news reached him at Berlin
of the death of his mother, he, King
of Kings, sent home the three Shah
esses and decreed that the royal grief
shonld be postponed until his return
to Persia, which fact reminds me of
the Yankee woman who, upon being
told at dinner of ker husbands death,
exclaimed, "just wait until I've done
eating, and Ill show you some tall
crying" They say that the three
Shahesses are to have their heads
chopped off because of unveiling their
faces in public.
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A Serpent il, the Clouds.
A DaDer published ut BOnham. ~,

A paper published at Bonham, Tex,
says that few days ago, and /. short
distance from that place, IL man "saw
something resembling an enormous
serpent floating in a cloud that was
passing over his farm. Several parties
nf men and boys. ut work in the fields,
observed the same thing, and were
seriously frightened. 1t seemed to be
as largo and long rs telegraph pole.
was OF yellow striped color, and
seemed to llout along without any effort.
They could see it coil itself up, turn
over, and thrust forward it's huge head
us if striking ut something" 1t is u
pity that lager beer or some other mild
liquid could not be substituted for the
beverage now in use at that place.
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NUMBER 16.
A DETROlTEE ABROAD.
How They Used Him Out West.

From the Detroit Free Press.
A man who was formerly in business
on Michigan avenue, went West about
three months ago, having no fear that
he should strike pleasant town and
grow up with it, and having no fear
that lie could not pull through any sort
OF society, from heather Chinee to =
Colorado minister. He returned to
Detroit the other day, looking as if he
had been cutting brush all summer,
and he relates some rather queer ex.
pe1ieDces which he had out West.
Society was peaceable enough
until he was beyond Omaha, when
people began to call him q liar
at every possible opportunity, and
some of them went so far as to draw
knives on him for trying to get elbow
room at the depot dinner tables. He
fell in with o former deacon of an Ohio
church. who advised him to purchase u
revolver and to commence practice,
which advice was followed. He stop
ped off at Cheyenne and began inquir-
ing for work. One man asked him if
he had ever "yanked lager" another
wanted him to take care of q suit of
gambling rooms, and another offered
to teach him the latest trick in ''stock-
ing" cards. Not accepting any of
these offers he was wandering about
after dark, when a strange gentleman,
who seemed to he afflicted with insan-
ity, caught him by the throat, backed
him against wall, and was going
through him when help arrived. The
Detroiter concluded to go on to Denver
where he was charged e for riding
forty rods in an omnibus. When he
refused to pay he was arrested and
fined $50, the justice adding that
strangers couldn't come there and bully
that town. Walking around town to
look for employment he hired out to
drive mule, and thought 500 per
month big pay until he found that he
was to drive eight span of mules at
once and furnish his own provisions,
with coffee at 20 cents per pound and
flour at $35 per barrel. When he came
to break his contract the owner of the
mules called him few choice names
and drew revolver to shoot him. but
the Detroiter saved his head by a race
around the town.
Reaching Los Angeles County, Cali
fornia, he paid five dollars for nights
lodging in a Gro ~ded hotel, ard when
he awoke he found that some one had
robbed him of all his. money. He
raised an alarm, and the other guests
called him an imposter, and the land
lord pretended to recognize him as an
old thief and highway robber. He was
kicked out and when it was found that
he had no money he was arrested and
jailed as a vagrant, remaining in the
Jug until his friends sent him money
He didn't buy any corner lots out
West, didn't take stock in mines, and
le declares that a man who doesn't
know how to carve with bowie knife
has no business further West than
Omaha.
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Reported Conspiracy to Rob The Shah Of
his Diamonds.

| A London correspondent publishes
story of a conspiracy to rob the Shah
of Persia of his jewels. The party con.
sisted of three remarkable men, Grim.
inals of the first water, yet who were
totally unknown to the London police,
and, indeed, though often arrested, had
never been convicted of any felony.
They were Cal Algernon, Bigner Haw-
klns, the leader of the party, and or.
ganizer of the conspiracy, Serafna (his
other name unknown), q Jew diamond
broker of Marseilles, but formerly of
Salonica, and Baron Narsis Mieradtch
Dadian, formerly money lender of
Aleppo, but lately of London and
Paris, an Eutachian Armenian, and
said to be connected with the eminent
Oglon Dadian family, which 80 long
has managed the finances of the Sub
lime Porte. The fourth and last actor
in the conspiracy was Toby Spring, a
tirst-class burglar and safc blower.
Toby Spring was left in London,
while the. others went to Moscow, and
managed to get Narsis attached in
some capacity to the Shah's suit.
Hawkins then hastened to London,
rented handsomely furnished room;
also rented a house in the .neighbor-
hood of Portman Square, hired q
retinue of hunkies, and gave himself
out for. an American who had
come to spend q few weeks in
the great*city, and especially to give
recreation to his daughter, just finish
ing her education at a fashionable pen
sion on the Loire. It had been de-
signed to commit the robbery while
the Shah was surrounded by: his reti-
nue. and guards, iu Buckingham Palace,
but this idea was given up for safer
one, Of inducing: the Shah to the
Nestle House, and while there to get
possession of his jewels.
According to the story an appoint
ment was made for the Shah to visit
Hawkins at his house, his so.calIed
daughter being the attraction. When
Narsis was made aware of this success,
he got intoxicated, smoking opium to
great excess, and was seen i'll that con-
dition ON the street. A detective fol
lowed, that the Persian might not come
to harm, md saw him go to Hawkins
Office, and knock for admittance, and
that the door was opened by
Toby Spring, whom he re-
cognized. Thinking that Narsis
had fallen among thieves, the detective
got assistance, and forced his way INTO
the house. Toby was secured, and
also Scrafina. Hawkins made his es-
cape, but Narsis, in his fright aud de-
! lirium, made straight for the river, and
WIS drowned. Serafina made \ partial
confession, and surrendered a quantity
OF burglars tools, and the plot was
disclosed. The heaviest burden Of the
cheat fell on the poor man, Hadji
Dschellalleddin, who has been perma-
nently disgraced, and wus sent home to
Persia BY the next steamer of the
Pe,linsular and Oriental liae.
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II HAVE IL fresh cnlI,' said Il gentle
man to his acquaintance. why dO
you have IL fresh ouo2 Why don't you
have it cured Z"
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The weight may be summed up as
for the BENDER Family ils
Paris. ="

Luclczia Borgia was tcuder-hearted
and solicitous tor those she loved, and
the Marchioness Of Briuvilliers was
very beautiful and was generous to her
friends, and SO botl, had some partially
rc1ceming traits in their characters US
assass,ns by the bowl. But the four
women of the Bender family of Kan.
sns, the pecresscs Of the italian and
the French woman in kind and atrocity
"i crime, possess no modifying graces,
for they are as wholly ugly III person
as they are ficndish is disposition.
They are, however, ''smart " withal,
for one or more of them have succeed
ell in getting to France-orare believed
to have succeeded in getting there.
The rcr,lsive wretch known as Katie
Bender has American aud French dc.
trctivcS now on her tracks in Paris.
These detectives expect to identify he1
hy her ugliness in general, and by hel
red hair and smattcring Of French in
particular.
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UTAH has several thousand tons of
wheat left over from last year, and is
new sending it to San FranciSt:o by rail
for sale. The railroad companies must
have carried it ut very low rates to
make tho s,les ut all protitable.
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so that it can be thrown out if required
The car will be covered with duck. of
which fifty yards will be needed. At
tached to the side of the car will be q
light iron windlass, from which the
boat and trail rope can be raised and
lowered as may be desired. From a
pully attached to the concentrating
rings a heavy MANILA rope will fall
down through car and thence to a
sling, attached to which will be the
life.boat.. This boat will be of the
most approved and careful construc-
tion. 1t will have water-tight COM
pertments, sliding keel, and will be so
made that it will be self-righting. The
boat will he provided with a complete
outfit of oars and sails, and to it will
be lashed instruments, guns, lines. etc.
and provisions for thirty days, all in
water-tight cases.. -,
The trial rope, by which the seronaut
can maintain any desired altitude
without rcsorting to ballast, will be of
MANILA rope, II inch thick and 1000
feet long.
The car will be fully provided with
Instruments, provisions, etc., inde-
pendently of the boat. It will be so
constructed that it can be taken apart
piece meal and disposed of as ballast.
It will carry about 1000 pounds Of bal.
last, which will consist of bags of sand,
each carefully. weighed and marked.
Among the instruments to be carried
III the car there will be n gaIvanic bat.
terry, with an alarm, two ,barometers,
two cbronometer watches, a compound
thermometer, wet and dry bulb
thermometer, hygrometcr, comp poner,
quadrant, chart, parachutes with fire
balls attached, and so arranged as to
explode when striking the water, SO as
to indicate the direction traversed:
marine glasses, two vacuum tubes, a
lime stove, etc. A number of carrier
pigeons will be taken along, and dis
patched at intervals on the route, with
intelligence of the progress of the ex-
pedition.'
The smaller balloon will he 40 feet
in height and "a feet in diameter, and
will be made from 408 yards of ''Man-
[ chester Mills" Its network will con-
sumo twenty pounds Of 40 thread cot
ton cord and six pounds of italian
hemp. It will be attached to the con-
centrating wings of the large balloon,
and will be used as may he required to
test the upper currents or assist in
feeding the large balloon.
The balloons will be coated with /,
varnish made Of boiled linseed oil,
beeswax aud benzine, and Of these in
gradients 1000 gallons will he used.
The capacity OF the great balloon
will be GOO, 600 cubic feet Of gas, but it
will be inflated with but 100000 cubic
feet, which, Mt tho height Of one. mile
and three. quarters, will expand suffi.
GENTLY to fiji the balloon. The lifting
power Of illuminating gas is about IS
pounds to the 1000 feet, SO that the
balloon will have lifting capacity of
11,6O0 pounds. The pressure will be
Il pounds to the square inch.
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Loud DERBY, in a recent letter, is
very severe ON Englishmen for their

sr,,srlcss cxtravagnnce III foreign travel.
But his l"r.!sl,ip adds that American
tourists are cvcn more ridiculous than
the English.