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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-07
VOLUME vi.
Abroad.

Abroad.
NANCY aud Bclfort were evacuated by til,
German troops, who burned all the goods
which could not be carried away. The inhab-
itants Of both cities remained in their hou>cs
while the Germans were leaving.
CARLlsrs set fro to the town Of Scnillc,
Spain. petroleum being freely uscd:.
REPUBLICANS in England are holding meet
ings 70 protest against tho increase Of annuity
to the Duke OF Edngburgh.
The Pope received number Of newly non,-
mated bishops on Monday. In his address he
urged them 10 defend zealous'y the rights OF
the Church. Referring to tho conflict at the
ecclesiastical authorities in Brazil with Free
Masonry, he said Free Masons were liable to
recommendation the same as the members OF
other secret societies, notwithstanding tho
charitable. objects Of their organization.
: T1E insurrection In Seville, Spain, has been
suppressed. Don Carlos has entefcd Biscay.
4 body ot, seven hundred insurgents from
Carthagena surprised the garrison ct Onihu-
Il, III ~ Pssdsi ek AAcspts, o.rtsesd that
eSxniead arc now nlsrs6iih alon the City Of
A.>ss . s:5,55ssFs5. s. s. $3.50
4slf now definitely anaounced that tho
treaty d peace between Russia and Khiva has
been signed. The Khivans agree to ply IN
indemnity o. 2.0oo, 900 .ronbles. about u, sO0,-
900 Of American money, and the Russian
troops viii continue to occupy the country
until this sum is paid but the Car promises
to preserve the independence Of the Khanate.
A feature Of tho treaty that has not been pre-
viously announced Is the taking OF strip OF
land from the conquered nation to bestow on
Bokhara, in return for services rendered to
the invading army.
WEATHER throughout England is favorable
to crops. Thermometer IS.
AT Vittoria, Spain, there are 1000 Republic
can troops in a complete state Of demoraliza-
ton and disorganization. Several Of the
municipal officers have been murdered by
soldiers.
TIE Republican troops at Ciranein, Spain,
surrendered to the Carlists on condition that
their lives be spared. In spite Of tho terms OF
surrender, the Carlists shot a number Of them
alter they had delivered up their arms.
Az account Of the naval insurrect:on at
Carthageua says tho vessels captured by tho
Carlists include Some Of the finest in the
Spanish navy.
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The Law OF Death.
NY JOHN HAY.


! Tho song of kilvary. Tho faircst sho
In all the land Of Savatthi.
She had one child, as sweet and gay
And dear to her a. tho light Of day."
She was so'yOunX, and he SO fur,
The samc bright eyes and the same dal k hair
10 see them by tho blossomy way,
They seemed two children at thoir play.
There came death dart iron, the sky,
K,lvany saw her darling die.
The gllmmering shade his eyes invades.
Out OF his check tho red bloom fades:
His warm heart tcels the ICY chill.
The round limbs shudder and are still.
And yet Kilvany held him fast
Long after life's last pulse was past.
as ii hor kisses could restore
Tho smile gone out fOrevermore.
But when she saw her child was dead
She scattered ashes OH her head, .-...
And seized the small CORPSE. pale and sNeat
And rushing wildly through tho street,
She sobbin9 foil at Buddha's feet.
:. Master !, all hclpfnli help ME povl
Hero at thy feet humbly bow:
H. a*X o1 @e5c5' paa a. help Pc nowl"
md lsscd tho dead child Ger and o'er., !.
And suddenly upon the" air 49,.
There fell the answer to her prayer: >
Bring me tonight Lotus tied -
With thread from Z house whore none hat
died."
She roso, and laughed viii, thankful Joy,
Sure that the god would save tho boy.
She found Lotus by the stream;
Shc pluckcd it from its MONDAY dream,
And then from door to door she Jared,
To ask what house by death was spared.
Her heart grew cold to sco the eyes
OF all dilate with slow surprise:
" Kilvany, thou hast lost thy head:
Nothing can help child that's dead.
There stands not by tho Ganees' side
house where none hath ever died"
Thus through the long and weary day,
From every door she bore away
Within her heart, and on her arm,
heavier load, deeper harm.
By gates Of gold and ivory,
BY waited huts Of poverty,
The same refrain heard poor kllvany,
TIE hcing are te,o-the dead are many.
Tho evening came, 80 still and feet,
And overlook her hurrying foot,
And, hcartsick, by the sacred fame
She fell, and prayed the god again.
She sobbed and beat her bursting breast;
ALL thou has Knocked me- Mighticst!
Lo have wandered far and wide
There stands no house where none hath
died."
And Buddha answered. in Z tone
Soft as flute at twilight blown.
But grand as heaven and strong - death
To him who hears with ears Of faith
sCbild, thou art answered! Murmur not
Bow, and accept the common lot"
Kilvany heard with reverence meet,
Aud laid her child at Buddhs's feet.
-Scri6ner's for August.
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BY PAUL II. HAYNE,

BY PAUL H. HAYNE.
Outlines, in this cold worldand blind,
Brief cIimpses dawn Of what might be
If thought and feeling, flowing free,
Urged heart to heart and mind TO mud;
If, scorning dull conventioD's law
And deaf to wiies of bsser, things,
Our spirits rOsc and piulDcd their wings
For realms Of love and realms OF ave..
The weary path, the beaten rouDd-
Wherein our souls are bowed 70 dusey
Would vanish iR- celestial trust,
And discord change to golden sound.
Such the fair mood which round a. shed,
Ogentlc friend on yesl4fnieht,
A radiance which outsbone the light
or all the solemn stars o'erhead.
We touched on themes men rSft,v brook,
Though gr4,dsanllfk esh 3r0R age to age
And glanced 1T many a mystic page
OF Gods and Natures mighty book;
Till, in your deapayass rsised shove,
] saw yearning passion rise, = .
Az If beyond the motrnful ekieH>
They sought the answering eyes Of ]oyes,
.-I"depende,t.
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THERE is fresh revival of the gold
mining interest in Lisbon, Me-, and a
Philadelphia company now ut work
there are reported getting a yield OF
1895 per ton, aifor.ling profit of $50
per ton.
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COLORADO TERRITORY is big enough
to make thrice! states Us large ~
Massachusetts,
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Nix. BAILEY, Of the Danbury News,
says the females he saw on the plains,
looked like an eastern woman who had
large family, small wages, some debt,
aud cold on her lungs.
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mahogany arms of my late enemy's
own brother, ana his toes almost touch

mahogany arms of my late enemy's
own brother, ana his toes almost touch
ing mine on the fender!
l looked Mt the arrival, and the ar
rival looked ut me. I bowed to him,
and received a courteous bend in re.
turn.
"Wet night" said /.
"Wet night" said he.
"And cold," said I.
"And cold" said he.
mice fire." said I.
"Nioe fire, said he.
He seemed to try to give his words
my exact intonation.
He was hooking me!
"Damn tit" said !. and laughed.
damn it Z" said he, and laughed
laughed SO much like mo that I could
not distinguish any difference, either
in quantity or quality he was right to
a singc Ha!
took another pull at my teddy, and
so did he smoked my pipe serenely,
and made very deliberate survey Of
my friend. He BECAME immediately
engaged in the same interesting occu-
patton with me. He was q man about
my own age, and evinced his taste by
adopting style OF costume closely re-
sembling my own. I noticed particu-
~ that his feet were encased in French
cloth boots, with narrow tips of patent
leather at the toes, like mine; in fact,
felt tempted to offer him considerable
odds that I could name the maker and
number of the lasts upon which they
were made. His face. too, seemed to
be very near like my face; there
was the noble brow, the partial
~ bald pate, the expressive
mouth, the magnificent teeth, the
chiselled nose-the-no, not the elo.
quent dark eyes-the same sort of eyes
though, differing only from mine in one
little particular feature. His eyes had
a red ring round each, caused perhaps
by cold or grief; nor could he boast Of
a rosy fresh complexion such Ms mine:
his was most decidedly cholerio-blue
IS indigo. I concluded at once that he
travelled for some dry-salter, and had
been fidgetiug with his samples-per-
haps had received parcel of blue stuff
in bulk to save carriage, which he had
been weighing out and packing with
his own hands into the required
quantities for his various customers in
the district. Then, having done his
work, it was not unreasonable to sup
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Tho morning after my arrival at the
" Red Dragon" found myself in bed,
strapped down. The people of the i'm,
told me that had been mad the night
before. and had fought battle royal
with every article of furniture in tho
room. l knew better, of course; but
l kept my own counsel. 1 could have
told them that I had conquered not
only DE Tremcns himself, but also his
awful Co.-H. Puts Margarine.
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*4O,UUO FIRE IN Faint and oil warehouse
occurred at Toledo on Tuesday.
MORRIS ROCHELLE drank pint OF whisky al
Antwerp, Ohio, and died.
FURTHER a'lvices from Louisiana. Mo-. nav
tho cholera has abatcd, but some thirty per.
SONS have died with it since it first broke ont.
including some Of the most prominent citizens.
IN Prairicvile and Troy, No., tho scourge
rage" 1carf"lly, the towns being dcpopulatetl
ny inc disease or the people fleeing from their
II mes. Out Of o:'c family OF nine persons in
the former place, all Of whom were well Last
FRIDAY, only two remain to bury the dead.
The disease also prcvails in other towns ncar
by.
DEATHS in Chicago, last week. 1.123- nm in.
crease OF lO7 over the prcccc ing week.
Two young men named Fnzhugh were
1owned Monday, while swimming. at Ant.
wrrE', Ohio.
Two brothers named Conovcrs were drowned
at Long Branch on Saturday.
BENZ. RATHBtN, whose forgerics in New
York State made linn 80 notorious 80 year!
ago, died in New York city, on Monday, agct
cighty.two.
''- 'uAu|'i A1uUV lJ&1Ctl UCDC Vi GuC DlbCE
OF Columbia, including those Of the late cor
"rat'"ns, amounts to So, 33C,891.
CHOLERA death. ut Cincinnati, Monday
three. The disease is spreading through til,
interior IF Indiana,
MCMAHON, OF Rutland, won tho interna
t'"hai wrestling match with Copeland. of Can
'la, on Tuesday.
NORWEGIAN named OsnloE,l was run owe
hy IL train near Madison, Wis.,, and killed
While sI"pingon a railroad track in an intoxi
cited Ontlitiur,.
A COLLISION between two passenger train
on the Niagara Falls brauct, Of the Erie Rail
road and the Buffalo, New York aud Phila,e]
pima Railroad, Tuesday evening, at Clint,
street crossing, about two miles out OF suffa
10. caused the fatal ininry Of Mr.. Doolcy. G
E.imira, and Mrs. Pierce OF Buffalo, while To-
or twelve others we're more or less severed
hurt
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-09-03
NO. II.

fingers being loosely interlaeed-
"Humbugr is intimated by extending
the right hand upon the back and ex-
tended fingers Of the left, while the
thumbs are wagged-sarcastically no
doubt-upon either side. If you
wish to allude to what is called
'courting," you interlace the fingers
so that their tips are toward you, and
the tips of your bent thumbs about
an inch apart; then wag the thumbs
slightly, as if the happy pair were
.nodding aud chattering in a cozy tete.
a.tete, and you viii be struck with the
aptness Of the representation
One day, happening to inquire
whether it We're possible toexpress in
sign language the grammatical modif-
cations of mode, tense, etc, Profess
or Cook did me the favor to summon
a very intelligent pupil in the collie
giate department, named Jones, to
give Illustrations. He immediately
represented various forms Of a given
verb, in each instance raining the
mode, tense, person and number with
great precision. am sorry that /
cannot recollect how to make, for in
stance, the third person singular, plu-
perfect subjunctive, Of the verb to
tCrtte, in sign language but | was
glad to learn that upon a pinch the
thing can be done In point of fact,
however, I presume it is not always
done Some of these grammatical
accidents msy very well be left for
the imagination to supply
After having exhibited the signs
representing rarious animals and 9TH
er objects, the young man gave us
some specimens of pantomine, in
which he excels. To see how he
would succeed with something entire
ly new, the teacher related to the
class the welI-known anecdote of
Henry Clay's adventure with the
goat. All eyes were intentIv fixed
upon the rapidly moving fingers as
they spelled word after word and
no sooner was the story finished than
Jones began to dramatize it in the
most amusing fashion that can be i'm
agined. We saw the great Senator
taking his constitutional in the
streets Of Washington, the little rag
amuffins maliciously teasing the long
bearded goat. the benevolent interfer-
ence of Mr.. Clay in behalf of the I'M
happy animal, the ungratefuI attack
of the goat upon his deliverer, the |
glee of the rascally little spectators, |
and finally the ignominious retreat of |
the great statesman when he was
forced to ''let go and run like blazes."
OF course it was ten times funnier in /
pantomine than in words.-From
Ten Days with the Deaf and Dumb, =
by MARY BARRETT, in Harper's /
WdgGziue for September.
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The rennsylyania Germans.

Professor Shalor thus speaks Of
those estimable people: ''The great
barns, with their little steeples, quaint
weather-cocks, and gay colOrs, show
that the farmers heart is in the
work; for men only decorate the
things they love, unless it is to follow
q new fashion. Very often we see
that it has been the life-work of some
simple mind to build the barn; and
his pride in the result is shown by his
name carved or painted thereon. In
Massachusetts and New York, the
farm buildings do not usually repre-
sent half the money that is put into
the house what goes there is spent
grudgingly. But our good Pennsyl-
vania Germans seem TO build their
barns first, lavish their money upon
them, and then take what is left and
build rather humble home, so placed
that they may gloat over their gar
ner all their lives. just now their
barns were full to their ridgepoles
with grain from which comes the
cloud of dust and whirring sound of
the threshing-machine, or, oftener,
the rythmical monotony of the beat
ing. fails, Clumsy wagons, rising at
either end, like PROV and poop of
old Dutch ships, go numbering down
TO the towns with their loads of grain.
In this thickly-peopled land where
every acre has jealous owner, we
had to journey dozen miles in
search of camp ground. Atlength
we got into a wood, where we hoped
to pass a quiet Sabbath. We were
far from the main road, but, though
we slipped in after dark, seemingly
unseen, every one within five miles
seemed to know Of our presence be-
fore morning. By dawn, the woods
were thick with people, and all day
long we lived as publicly as cham
piOn in prize-ring. They stared
hungrily at Us at meal times, pried
into our wagons, endeayOred to get
into our tents and became perfectly
in every wav Few of
them seemed able or willing to speak
English, and when addressed in Ger
man, answered slowly and shyly.
Their heavy faces showed a staring
which the most energetic
could not change for
another look | finally asked the
least unintelligent man if he was not
ashamed of himself and his country
men. He answered, in effect, there
rarely happened anything new in
their district, so they must make the
most of present opportunities" and
started on. They were sturdy look
ing creatures. with nothing of the
lankness which belongs TO Americans
generally; heavy, long faces, unintel-
lectual but kindly, showing no trace
Of vice The women were as robust
as the men, and showed the strong
tendency to look like them SO COM
mon among the lower classes of Eu-
rope. They are, for all the world,
like any thrOng of Rhineland Ger
mans Their language, although
with q share of Americanism, is APP
only the dialect which one
hears, with innumerable variations,
all along the Rhine, from Suabia to
Holland.
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ate that he had it printed on satin for
distribution among his friends at a
distance. WAS this 50 ?" to which he
replied: 4 believe this to have been
true the people of the South generally
approved my speech, because they be-
lieved that | had been defending in it
their own local interests and honor
Gen. Jackson admired it because he
thought that | had successfully yindi-
Gated the Democratic cause, to the
support Of which his own life had
been devoted. But YOU know that in
a few months thereafter, when our
notification experiment had developed
It's gigantic proportions, and after the
memorable contest had occurred in
the Senate between Mr.. Calhoun and
my ancient antagonist, Mr. Webster,
Gen. Jackson became so great an
admirer of the Senator from Massa-
chusctts that he thought seriously of
making him Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court Of the United States
upon the decease Of the venerable
Marshall, BE assured, Sir he con-
tingcd. 4 never for one moment
have thought OF comparing that
speech of mine, made in direct assail-
ment of Mr. Webster and the Federal
Party of old, and the defense Of which
| had thought proper to challenge
him, to his great and unequaled
speech in reply thereto Thought it is
certain that for day or two it seemed
by many that had come off victor in
the contest.
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The Sign Language.

| had not spent many days in the
institution before | awoke to the fact
that the sign language is an exceed
ingly curious and attractive matter
to study. Though had elsewhere
witnessed some Sigh: exhibitions of
its hantomimic storytelling, and had
even been taught few of its terms
If | may call them so--it was rath-
er startling to discover here a COM
plete language, adequate to all sorts
of ideas, with which words have
nothing to do. 1t is no more Eng
lish than it is Chinese. Its signs rep
resent objects, actions, qualities, and
whatever else words express; but
they do not represent words MANY
people fancy it to be merely short
hand way of talking, signs being in
terspersed here and there just to save
the trouble of spelling out all the
words. Doubtless it does save trou-
ble; but that is not the main thing
Signs can make their way where
words can not They go before words;
they prepare the way for them; they
rouse the unconscious soul; they
bring candles into its dungeon; it be-
stirs itself at last. and cries for the
light of day. When words begin to
be admitted, signs introduce them;
and not until the expanding intellect
has grown beyond its childhood does
the sign language at length withdraw
from the scene, and give place to the
language of words.
At the table | used TO notice the
lively conversation carried on by the
mute teachers between themselves
Some of them scarcely needed inter-
preting, since the expression of the
face supplied key. The grand prin-
ciple of signs being resemblance, they
are not very difficult to comprehend
when they refer to visible objects and
acts, or to simple emotions. Beyond
this the uninitiated are apt to find
themselves in the dark, unless there
is somebody to interpret. For exam
pie, the sign for Quaker is by twirl-
ing the thumbs about each other, the
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-09-03

4 correspondent Of the Courier
Journal thus describes the Texas
COW boys, to whom he looks for val
liant soldiers in the event 0f what
he says the border men went. viz.
a war with Mexico: "The cow
boys Of Texas are a peculiar breed
They are as distinct in their habits
and characteristics from the remain
der Of even the Texan population as
il they belonged TO another race. The
Lipan and the Comanche are not
more unlike the civilized white man
than is this nomadie herdsman to the
Texan who dwells in the city or
cultiyates-the plains. The Texan
rangers who gallOped after Hays and
Mccullough were wild and daring
men. and life Of adventure stamped
them with strange peculiarities. Bat
the ranger" had not been bred TO
this occupatiOn-he took il up from
choice. Many Of them were edueat-
ed, even cultivated men. Henry
Mccullough, Lane, Ford and Bay
lOr are the best surviving types of
this ciass-perfectly brave and es-
sentiaily adventurous, but much like
other men in the main But the
volunteer cayalrymen is no more
like the Kabyle or the Tartar than
are the rangers identical with these
men who sleep, eat and live on horse
back, never leaving their punches"
Of cattle except to chase the Mexican
or Indian marauder, and know and
care for nothing but the vocation.
Nor IS cattle hcrding an easy life.
Think Of driving wild, fierce brutes
from the Rio Grande TO Kansas, COM
PEELED TO watch them day and night
If they stampede, as they often do,
the COW boy must ride after or before
them, and the dangerous race is most
frequently made during dark nights
through drenching storms, over yawn-
ing barFancas and in the midst of
tangled thickets that fearfully test
the strength Of the leather tenders on
MS arms and the cOwskin Ieggings
which protect his lower limbs
These men already possess Organi-
zation, after a fashion, in their dis
tinctive traits and occupation and
their esprit de corps Nor would it
be difficult for an officer who under
stood them to teach them discipline
enough for practical purposes. Like
other Texans, they are, with Oeca-
sional exceptions Of course, temper
ate. 4 good deal Of stuff has been.
written about Texan intemperance
as well as Texan lawlessness. Less
liquor is drank in Texas than in JEFF
fers0n county. or in one northern vii
lage The climate disinclines one to
drink, a., somehow. it seems to make
men rcticent Ten thousand Of their
incipient soldiers roam over Wester
Texas. all sons Of frontiersmen
and Injured from infancy to hardship
and danger. \ little instruction in
the drill and duties Of the camp, a
few lessons in subordination, an
they would become invincible in the
service to which they are adapted
4 cavalry commander with such
troops might safely attempt anything,
for he would have corps rapid as
the horseman of Kaled, resistless as
the hOrders of Genghis. ."-ErehGnge.