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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

To M"Ao ctder.vins8arR Rapidly.
~. B. w." writes that be has
several casks of cider which he cannot
make into vinegar fast enough, and he
asks how he can hasten the process.
As there are probably many others just
now in his predicament, We describe
and illustrate q plan which has been
found to hasten the production of vim.
egar from cider. 1t is to elevate tho
barrels upon frame sufficiently high
above ground to admit of kee being
placed under the faucet, with
q frame Of laths made in the
shape Of q funnel placed in Il.
The frame is filed with beech or
birch shavings, and stream of cider
is allowed to run out Of tho faucet into
it md amongst the shavinks. Here il
is separated into q great many small
streams and very thin sheets, and a
large surface is thereby exposed to the
air, and the process Of souring is very
much fastened. A further Fastening
is caused by putting into the barrels q
piece OF brown paper covered with
brewers yeast, and by proceeding
IN this manner vinegar can
be made in warm weather
in q few days. A faucet should be put
into tho keg about the middle, and as
the keg becomes filed the cider should
be drawn off and returned into the
barrel. As q matter of course this re-
quires attention, but child il able to
manage il, and If the key is replaced
by tub or half-barrel, attention il
only required twice day. The bung.
holes of the casks should be open, and
should be covered with a piece OF
gauze or mosquito-net to keep out flies
and moths.-American 1Qrioultu.
rQlisk,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

Dr. j. Walkers California Vim.
egar Eitters arc a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from tho ma
two herbs found on the lower ranges OF
The Sierra Nevada mountains Of Califor-
mia, tho medicinal properties of which
arc extracted thorefrom without tho use
If Alcohol. Tho question is almost
daily asked. "What is tho cause of the
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR BIT
rERsT Our answer is, that they remove
the cause Of disease, and tho patient re-
covers his health. They arc tho great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and Invigorator
of tho system. Never before in TIC
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
arc q gentle Purgativo rs well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
tho Liver aud Visceral Organs, il Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKER's
VINEGAR BlrrERs arc Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter-I rritant, Sudorifc, Altera
tive. and Anti Bilious.
II. II. MCDONALD Il CO..
Druggists and Gen. Al ts., San Francisco, California
ind Col. Of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Tim Der Prospects.

There is an alarming prospect for orr
Northern forests. Having visited the
centers OF our lumber trade. we find
that seventeen years will complete The
destruction of our pineries. Soon after
our pine is gone, our hard wood forests
(Which now supply our manufacturer.
out agricultural enterprises and oar
works, will also be destroyed.
thirty years will, inevitably, see the
East denuded Of timber, while groves
large enough for building and mann.
!acturlng purposes, will adorn the West.
II properly tended. trees will grow TO
a good size in thirty years. There is a
great difference between a natural and
an artificial foreet. Before ua. m We
write, is section of Scotch pine. tl,;r.
teen years old, and thirteen inches
through, and the tree was thirtv-f five
1eet high. Go into artificial forests
ana you will find that trees often make
diameter Of one inch a year. md a
helght OF two feet: and We have known
white pines to grow ven three or f"r
feet III year. The soft woods
sometimes show yearly circle OF m
inch in thickness, giving q diameter Of
two inches year. We must plant both
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Measuring Lightning.

The length of flash of lightning is
generally greatly under-estimated. The
longest known was measured by NJ. F.
Petit, at Toulouse. This flash was ten
and half miles long. Arago once
measureda series, which averaged from
seven to eight miles in length. The
longest interval ever remarked between
a flash and the report was seveuty-two
seconds, which would correspond with
u district of fourteen miles. Direct re-.
searches have shown that storm is
seldom heard ut a greater distance than
from seven to ten miles, white the av-
erage are barely heard over four or five
miles off. This fuct is the more Gu
rious as cannon may be distinctly
heard double or treble that distance.
and il special cases much further.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
A BEAUTIFUL WoMAN.-The percept-

A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. percent
i've faculty Of women is usually keener
than the same chronological organ in
men. Woman knows that beauty father
than genius is worshipped by the stern
er sex. A man may talk with his lips
of the latter to his lady love, but the
keenness Of the woman knows that he
is thinking of the former in his heart.
All women have an innate desire to
please their beauz. They are fond of
admiration, hence one of their loppines
is to be beautiful. The grand secret Of
female beauty is health-the secret of
health is the power to eat, digest and
assimllate proper quantity of whole
some food. Take VINEGAR BrrrERs.
It will cleanse the stomach, tone the
vital organs, give perfect digestion,
purify the blood, clear up the COM
plexion and produce state of mental
and physical electricity which gives
symmetry of form, bright eyes, white
skin, glossy hair and q genuine type of
female loneliness which no cosmetic
can compare Witl.-(;Om.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA.
AND
FAMILY LININfENT

Is tho best remedy In tho world for the following
,ox,paints, viz: Cramps In tho Limbs aud Stomach,
Pain in the Stomach, Bowels Side. Rheumatism In
Il. it, fsrms ilious Collie, Neuralgia, Cholera, Dys
entery, Colds, Flesh Wounds, Burns, Sore Throat,
Spinal Complaints, Sprains and Bruises. Chills and
Fever. For Internal and External use.
1ts operation 10 not only to relieve tho patient. but
entirely removes the Of the complaint It pen
tratss and psrvades the whole system. restoring
blood.
THE HoUsEHoLD PANAoEA IL PURELY VraErAB1,
aud All Healing.
Prepared By CURTIS 4 BROWN,
No. ais Fulton Street, New Yo:k.
For sale by all Druggists
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

AFTER church, one Sunday, a little
girl living in NeWburyport inquired
OF her mother who the siggerbug-
gers were She was informed that
there were no such creatures, but per-
sisted that there must be, rs the minis.
te' had prayed especially for them that
day. It happened that the reverend
man had some popularity of pronun-
citation, aud, after considerable inves-
tlgatiou as to what the child had mis-
taken for the "siggerbuggers," it was
discovered that the intended subjects
Tor prayer were "the sick among u.s."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
American Manufacturers nc Vienna.
The Wa11-known Mason D. Ham1in Or,

gan Company have received hunOrs at Vienna.
At the Exposition they were awarded the high
est medal for the best Instruments OF this class
in the world, and the Industrial Society Of
Austria has awarded them its Grand Modal
aud Diploma Ut Honor for the extraordinary
exccilence Of their productions. This distinc-
ton has never been conferred on moro than
hve Americans. No other American manufac.
turer OF cabinet or parlor organs has ever sue
cceded in obtaining any award in competition
with European makers. This is tho second
t'mo the Mason h Hamlin Organ Company
have come out ahead in such comparisons. as
they took the first medal in Paris in 1867.
Tins company can now produce OH an average
one Cabinet Organ cv",y fifteen minutes OF
working time. or about 10000 per annum.-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Blllings and Beos.

The Bundle Bee is one of na&nre,.
secrets. They probably have destiny
tew I'LL, and are probably necessary. II
a fellow knew how. They are born
about haying time, and are different
from any other bugs I know uy-thev
are the biggest when just born. T5ey
1 Ensemble some men in this respect.
Ihelr principal business is making
tew SELL Boys often rob them nv q
whole summers work, but there ia one
thing about the humble bee that tho
boys always watch dreadful close and
that ls their helm. 1 had rather MT
have all the humble bee honey there is
between here aud the city Of Jerusalem
IMAM to have bee hit me with his
;r reiln when he comes round sudden.
vessels the helm minds the humble
bee. :: "Ao
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
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agricultural topics regularly department.
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cattle makes 10 which particular
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Oatmeal in Drink.

It is suggested by the Medical Jour-
"a| Of Edinburgh that oatmeal stirred
up in cold water, at the rate of two
tea.spoonfuls of meal to half pint of
water, would be very healthful and
grateful drink in the harvest field. In
England, ut recent blowing match,
the only drink furnished was water
with oatmeal stirred into it, and it was
sound mighty refreshing" We gave
corn-meal in water to our horses for q
drink with great advantage. Why
should We not treat ourselves to tho
same healthful luxury3
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Facts I'm Railroad Continuation.

Facts I'm Railroad Construction,
At the suggestion of Hon. W. C..
Flagg, give few facts upon railroad
construction.
Enough may now be known of mil
roads to prove that they are the safest.
quickest, andcan be made the oheapest
mode of transportation known in either
ancient or modern times. The Cleve-
land and Columbus, in Ohio ia esti-
mated by Harbaugh land Childs. q
celebrated engineer), to cost S1a. 324
per mile; tho Columbus and Piqus at
S1O,515; the Dayton and Western.
$l0, 766; the Greenville and Miami at
$lO,274. Between 1859 and 1894 a
road bed was prepared complete for the
superstruotion from Greenyille IN
Dsrke county, to Van Wert oonntv'
Ohio, Assistance of IS miles. At a.
average cost of $1,97O per mile. The
layton and Western and the Green
vile and Miami were constructed at
about the figures above stated.
Tho undersigned was the chief enri.
nssr OF the three last lines named. and
knows whereof he speaks. These fact.
show conolusively that cheap freiohts
Dy railroad are within the EASY reach of
the farmers of the West.
Should any references be reouirad
they are at ready command.
~, PMNEHAs PouRoY.
Winchester, Randolph Co., Ind.
P: S.-That this mighty upheavel Of
public opinion in railroad mattera ia To
me NO surprise, allow me here to state
q little fact now quite unknown. n
1851 plumber occurred on q railroad
IN Ohio, which called out from the
aggrieved parties series of pamphlets.
and the manuscript OF No. s Of the
scenes IS In my possession, and in Il
occurs the following passage:
These frauds not only Cypress the
stockholders, but are
raging . relentless war upon all thu
labor Of the West, and if these vaasals
are permitted to 60 unwhipped of iua
tee, the day is not distant when thew
VII! augment into the most heartless
and INSCRIPTIONS band of money
that ever cursed the face Of
civilization. "-R. r., in Prairie Far.
Dser.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Memory Bells.
By GARNET b. 1REENAl

Memory bells arc ringiug-ringing--
4 In tho distance, far away
10 you hear them singing-singinR
VIII You tell mo what they say2
20 You hear their silver Ginning 81
Do you hear their mellow rhyming2
20 you hear the dear, sweet story
" your childhood's far-off glory2
70 they take You back to years
Cio1ded by no haunting fears
- they speak OF sunny hours
een your way was strewn with flowers,
UAen rainbow arched your sky,
And when Faith stood smiling by?
They arc tolling-tolling slowly:
Hear tho echoes die aWay,.-
Tender, Lowry, sad, and molly
Will you toll mo what they say2
Do thoy tell Of manhOods dreaming
Do they tell OF bright eyes b'..ming2
Do they tell OF fond words spoken
DO they tell Of young hearts brOkenQ
20 they tell OF hopes you chcrlshod3
Do thny toll how faith has pcrished?
Do th0y tell how, night and day,
Cruel Fate has tracked her prey3
% they tell OF proud hopes blasted,
And OF LIES sweet treasures wasted?
Memory Bells arc pealing-p ealing-
Ger the ruins by tho way
i1 M,?I the minds dim chamber stealing;
=, Will you tell me what they sayf
Has your heart lost all its lghtness
Has your life lost all its brightness
Has your day-star set in gloom
10 you hear the voice OF Doom
niocking everv gr0an that bursts
From ths aching heart that thirsts
For the love it nc'er may share.
And the joys it ns'cr may wear,
For tho light by clouds O'ercast,
FOR the gleries OF tho past2
Memory Bells, Momory Bells, so'Ay'oer ~
Through 9o!a,; years OF long silence. I hear You
Soothing to rest with tho notes you arc wing.
ing,
oh, Memory Bells, shall tell what you sayl
Over each step Of the desolate track
over temptation. and Yielding. aud sin;
Over the hurry, and whirl, and din
VI Ito that was dark aud kneel once
moro
Al my mothers knee as knelt of yore.
While she tells mo the story, sweet and brief,
VI the Man OF Sorrow, acquainted with
And l hear the lips that have long been clay
pray for her boy 30 she prayed that day.
IN Memory Bells, with your weird, strange
power,
You have brought back my mother 10 ne this
And brought what you boarded with faithful,
Her fervent love and her earnest prayer.
You have stilled in my bosom the tempest
wild,
And made nue. sgain 'as little child"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Sign Ut Death.

Some time ago the Academy of
Sciences in Paris offered q prize of
-, 100 for some simple and positive
sign OF death, which any non profess
slonal person could understand and
apply. Such test, suggested in Vir-
elbows Archiv, is considered very
satisfactory by the British medical
press. It consists in tying a string
firmly round the finger Of the supposed
corpse; if the blood circulates in the
least-in which event death has not
taken place-the whole finger will
swell and turn blueish-red. It is
conceivable such a test would be very
useful in cases of drowning and as
phyxia. 1t may be Legitimate to cite
a case which occurred not long ago at
Brussels. A drunken man fell into q
canal, and remained so long immersed
that very little hope was entertained of
his recovery. He was to all appearance
a corpse. DR.. Joux, physician to the
police, to whom application is made in
such cases, did not share tho convic.
tions of the bystanders, and, having
used the most energetic means OF
restoration for three hours. ended by
applying hot iron to the patient, who
instantly moved slightly. The former
measures were reverted to, and the
supposed corpse stood up in less than
half an hour, branded, indeed, but
none the worse for the accident.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

~ welIkneWn BUsINI0S MEN In ever Stato. Vho
Will Toll Ee1 tnst e Dc sscs e y5oH,se: The
y large page Family Story Paper fuli Of Choice
Gso.trtbutteos from fninsnt writer, .Thrillins
eveEy family wants: Only 81 4 YEA1, and besati.
~ ~ Chrome free. We wilt send teial THIE1
Cur ssbssription in every County, On salary II ~.
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
The Best Pathflnders.
IA ~vn

do my young Americans know who
are the best pathfinders on the Ameri-
can continent, the great ori0inal path-
hnders OF the West : I'll tell You. They
are the butfaloes. Yes, sir, it is true.
Hear what q correspondent of St, Mich
olas writes with the quill of q dear
gray.goose friend of mine:
AS the fr0sts of winter DESTROY their
pastures in the north, 80 the heats of
summer parch those in the south, and
the bui1aloes must, each spring and
autumn, take long journeys in search
OF fresh feeding grounds. The large
SIZE and weight of these somewhat
clumsy explorers make it rather diff
cult tor them to cross the noun.
talns, SO they seek out for
themselves tho most practicable
routes, and hunters and emi0rants have
found that a "buffalo track " offers
the surest md safest path for men and
horses. The best passes in the Cum
ber!and and Rocky Mountains, and the
regions OF the Yellowstone, and the
Colorado, have been discovered by
following the trail of these sagacious
animals. I know this is so, for the
great traveller, Humboldt, once wrote ?:
" In this way the humble buffalo has
filled a most important part in facili-
tatlng geographical discovery in noun
famous regions otherwise as trackless
as the Arctic wastes, or the sands OF
Sahara"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

VIZ see by the Chicago papers that
Proctor Il GAMBLE have reduced the prica al
their long established and popular brand Nor.
TIED GERMAN SOAP its present price and su-
nerior quality makes it the cheapest az well az
tho best soap for commentator.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

CHAPpED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ring worm, salt-rheun and other Gu.
tancous, affections, cured, and the skin made
soft and smooth, by using the JUNIPER lar
Soar, made by CAswEL1., HAZARD Il Co., New
York Be certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap,
made by us, rs there are many limitations
made with common tar which arc worthless.
Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

A GOOD and useful Christmas present
to gentleman or boy, will be a carton
OF Elmwood or Warwick collars, con-
tanning 100 collars. Any furnishing
store can supply them.--.Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

SPAIN exports wines, brandies, iron,
fresh and dried fruits, quicksilver, sui
pnur, salt, cork, saffron, anchovies,
silks and woolens,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Tho Moat Nutritious Food.

Upon this subject q writer in the
Philadelphia Star says:
I submit the following article on
food, hoping it may do little good to
the poor class in these pinching times {:
Oatmeal contains 81 per cent. of nutri-
tive matter F.; wheat, 85} per cent, po-
tatoes, % per cent; the best flesh
meat, Is per cent. 1t may DO seen by
the above that one pound of oatmeal
contains nearly four times as much nu-
triton as one pound of beef. We pay
for beef per pound fifteen, twenty and
twenty five cents for one pound Of oat-
meal we pay five cents.
Nearly half the people of Ireland
and Scotland live ON oatmeal and po-
tatoes; they do not taste flesh meat
once month. Tho writer of this
article has not eaten flesh for q year {:
he finds himself better physically rs
we'll as mentally. His dinner for ono
day consists of one cents worth of oaten
meal or cracked wheat made in tho
form of mush. He does not do this
for economy but for health.
l would like to say few words be-
fore I close this article on wheat.
Wheat contains of the carbonates, or
heat and fat producers, si1ty.two por
cent; of the phosphates, the class that
supplies the bones, the brain and the
nerves. and gives vital power, both
mental and muscular, two and half
per cent; of the nitrates, the class that
supplies the waste of muscle, twenty
one per cent.
If wheat were eaten in ita natural
condition, without boiling, it would
supply all the needed elements in the
human body; but in the process of
boiling nearly the whole of the phos.
pilates and nitrates are removed; so
that bread made of superfine flour will
sustain life only few weeks.
The best way to get good wheat
meal is to buy OF any mill in our city
half bushel of whole wheat, thirty
pounds. Either get the miller to grind
it for you, or take it home and grind it
in your coffee mills.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

WINTER is now fairly upon MS, and
the teams arc Fastening to tho lumber woods
in various parts OF the country. Our advice
to every man who goes to the woods, be no
captain. cook, teamster, or any other man, is
to take along a good stock of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Llnimem and Idrson's Purgatiue Pills.
Many months Of labor tin the aggrsgatc) NAV
be saved by this precaution.
BAD enough to look and feel bad yourself :
but no excuse for having your horse look and
fcel badly, when fer small sum YOU can buy
She,idans Cduatry Condition Powders, which
given in grain two or three times . week. will
mako him look and feel well.-Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

A NEGLECTED Couon, Cold, OR SORE
Throat, which might b. checked by a simple
remedy, tc Bro,cn's Bronchial 7T0ches."
II allowed to progress may terminate serious.
y,-COm
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
BRONCHIAL TROOHES
THIRTY YEARS. EXPERIENCE or AN
OLD NURSE.

MRS. WINDOWS SOOTHING SYRUP II THE PRE-
sCRIPTION one Of the best Female Physicians and
N rses In the United States, and has been used for
thirty with nevsrfaline safety and saeesss By
millions Of mothers and children. from tho feeble In.
FAINT Of Week old to the adult. It correcs acdty
Of tho stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates tho
bowels and gives res health and comfort to mother
and child. We believe It to be the Best and surest
Remedy In the World In oil casa of OY6ENTERY
and DlARRHRA IN CHILDREN, whether It
ariscs from Testhin9 or from any other cause. Fuu
directions for using viii accompany each eostlo.
Mono Genuine uuless tho fac sinnilo of CURTIS
PERKINS 10 on the outside wrapper.
SOLD BIZ ALL MEDICINE DEALERs
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BEST oTS41 EVER MADE.
THE CINCINNATI
weekly ENQUIRER
Beautiful Chrome Premium for IS. 90.

Asltnk 2 BlessInE:, A. beautiful picture in 10
ooloFss 1esO inches. 6sus st retail for $50.
H0u1ehOld Pets A handsome picture In II COL.
o.s 2117 inches Soils for 9s retail Either one
81 the above and the WB8KLY ENQU1R1 for ono year
Desoto Discovering the Mississippi
splendid picture in q colors size l9x16h inchss
scls retau Tor olho0. Ths scturs and the WEKKLY
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04

AN oyster leads placid life until he
gets into stew,