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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
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THE HOLY LAND.
The Exploration Of Palrstfnc.

The Exploration Of Palestine.
The Damascus correspondent of the
Levant Herald gives an account of tic
work done by Lieut.. Condor, r. E..
and his party, who are engaged in car
rying out the objects of the Palestine
Exploration Fund. "They Lave not, "ht
says, :'been digging up Moabite stones
or other sensational objects, but have
done some good solid work. OF the
5000 square miIas to nc surveyed, !, 500
are now completed, or three-elevenths
OF the whole area. The following arc
few OF their recent discoveries: /.
Site of an unknown Jewish town. g
Identification (probably) Of Ebatana
3. Three groups of finely finished
tombs, superior to the tombs of the
Kings at Jerusalem. 4. Five fourth
century converts hitherto unknown,
with walls still standing. 5. Foul
other converts in less perfect state
of preservation. The following place:
have also been recently visited and
surveyed. Athlit has been carefully
surveyed and drawings made Of it,
buildings for the first time. Casarea
has been carefully explored, plans
made of all its buildings, and it's aque.
duct traced an examined for six miles.
The temple has also been identified.
Jimmath Serab, the birth place oil
Joshua, has been identified at Tibney.
Plans have been made of Josbua's
tomb, which was shown in the DAYS
of Jerome. Modin has been mapped
and plans made for the tombs of the
Maccabees. Full details of all RUNS
are NJ ted on the spot, such as the size
of stones, character of mortar, and the
architecture receives special attention,
careful measurement being ALWAYS
made. In this exhaustive manner all
the ruins in the country are treated,
and already 500 towns have been sc
noted.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
Tea Culture i'm Florida,

1t may not lie generally known, but
the fact IS none the less patent, that
the genuine tea.plant is growing pro-
fusely all over the suburbs of the city,
and presents quite thriving appear
ance wherever it is found. We are
informed by prominent mechanic OF
this city, and m old resident ut that,
that he uses no other tea in his family.
He plucks ard dries what he requires
for his own use and says it is equal to
any black tea offered for sale ut the
grocery stores. II some shrewd New
Eng!ander were only here he would
soon make regular business of pre-
pairing u tea crop, and he would make
money by the operation. The leaves
can be dried in the shade, and will
curl of themselves naturally in the pro
cess of drying. The crop would cos,
nothing but the trouble Of plucking it.
and a wagon.load could be picked in {
hour without half trying. Ii some O.
that kind Of people who are always
grnmbling about having nothing to d.
would try the experiment OF preparin:
this tea for market, we think the,
would find it to be IL lucrative business
and one, too, TINT they would pnrsu
with avidity rs soon as they found no,
readily they could dispose Of all the!
had MISUNDERSTANDING IN
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
THE FIRELESS LOCOMOTIVE.
A New Motive Power for Street Ra II

New Motive Power for Street Rs II.
roads.
We clip the following from an
accOrnt of trial trip of q new loco
motive for street railroads, published
in the Chicago Tribune of August "a:
In front of the cars was the motive
power, contained in a small, compact
and neat locomotive, manipulate BY
an engineer. This was the fireless
locomotive. 1t consisted of boiler
eight feet long by three feet in diam
eter, and the usual machinery on q
small scale. There was no fuel, nc
fire, no fireman. The steam was sup
piled for the round trip of six miles
before starting. At the depot was 6
supply boiler, sixteen feet by three
feet, in which steam was generated
until 200 pounds pressure was
indicated by the steam gauge at
tachcd. The locomotive boiler wal
three-fourtbs full of cold water. In
stead of boiling this by means of 6
fire, and raising the pressure to re-
CURED height, the heat was introduced
from the supply boiler through an iron
tube. The iron tube was connected
with tube in the locomotive boiler,
the latter running under the water
along the bottom of the boiler and
letting out the super heated steam as il
was freed from the supply boiler into
the locomotive boiler. This steam,
rising through the cold water, pcrmeat.
ed it, and quickly raised its tempera.
ture to ITO degrees. With this supply
of steam the locomotive started, draw.
ing heavy four-horse Car over the
three miles, to Thirty-fifth street, in
ten minutes. The amount of steam
consumed was 80 pounds, the locomo.
tive starting back with 80 pounds re.
naming. When the starting point was
reached there was 81 pounds of steam
in the boiler, the pressure being re.
duced only 80 pounds in the return
trip, which was down grade. 1t must
be borne in mind that there was large
car, heavily laden, making eighteen
miles an hour. The experiment proved
conclusively that, as substitute for
dummy engines, the 'fireless locomo-
tive is, beyond question, a success.
There is no fire or fireman required;
very little steam escapes, and the loco
motive, not being one-half the size of
the clumsy dummy engine, does not
brighten horses and endanger the pub.
lie Safetv."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11

cortcgc left tho Cosmopolitan-the coffin
on rough bier, and General ilardinge
following, as chief mourner- for the Gen.
cral feelingly declared that no ono more
than himself regretted the gcntleman's
misfortune.
II The District Attorney began to think he
had mistaken his profession. Previous ia
the funeral, and while drinking ut tho bar
with the General, he had confided to that
gentleman that the ministry might have
been u more congenial field. He also
made q secret resolve to brush IN on the
sacr aments. We may write it to tn.
credit of the District Attorney that he
made no pretence Of following the burial
service over the body of poor One-cyed
Jim. lie spoke knowingly Of the increased
uncertainty Of life and the many accidents
incident peculiarly to this new Western
civilization. "The gentleman who has
been tho unwilling cause Of this unfor-
tunate fellow-citizen's deccase," said the
District Attorney, looking soherly around
among the solemn crowd, and indicating
the Gen eral, who stood at the head Of the
grave, hat in hand, with woe-begone ex-
preston, "must, while regretting the
necessity, thank God that no lower law
than that universal enc Of self-preservation
has" At that instant, to the astonish-
meht of every one, tho General threw up
his hat with shout of Joy and jumped
into the grave. In second he stood up
with bis head just above the surface, and
called aloud to the amazed crowd,
as he exhibited a half-ounce nugget
Gentlemen, give notice that take up
this claim for sixty yards, two hundred
feet cash side, with all its dips, spurs, &C.,
according to tho laws OF the mining district
Of brandy Flat
The body of poor One-eyed Jim was not
buried that day, nor the next, nor the next,
for I'LL Brandy Flat was wild with tearing
up the ground of the new diggings and
taking out the chunks of gold that have
made the fiat famous. Then the dis
agreeable duty was done by the District
Attorney and MIR. Finnegan at night, in
ground that they made sure was not
auriferous.
That marriage Of Finnegan's was
lucky speculation for me-" Mr.. Brown
says, when talking of '4G, for, besides
getting seven hundred dollars from the
bridegroom for my services, l had
quarrel with the rascally General. He
wasn't 50 quick with me as he had been
with poor Jim, SO had the satisfaction of
burying him beside that poor fellow two
days after, and then jumped bis claim and
and made my fcrtune."-Arthur MeEwen,
in Oakland Home Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
The New Face... Hon. Samuel Dexter on
the Fifty.Cent Pieces.

AHV NCV EuVCsssuOHs Nluuufl DtAlCr On
the Flfty.Cent Pieces.
The new fifty-cent pieces bear the
likeness of the Hon. Samuel Dexter,
and the following sketch by a cor.
respondent Of the Portland, Maine,
Advertiser, will be read with interest
by all who hope to get any of the
stamps. He says: H'The new frac
tional fifty cent piece bears the like
ness of this gentleman, rs Secretary of
the Treasury in 1901. Probably his
history is but little know to this gen.
Grafton. but some familiar with the
events of the slate war" of 1912, rec
ollect him as candidate for Governor
of our state of Massachusetts
in 1914. Mr.. Dexter was born
in Boston in 1861, graduated With
the highest honors of Harvard College,
and after attempting practice without
much success IN four country towns,
settled down at home, in Boston. He
soon gained reputation for sound
and reliable lawyer and was repeatedly
chosen to the Legislature. He was
elected United States Senator in 1898,
and while Senator was appointed by
john Adams, Secretary of War and in
the same year Secretary of the Treas
ury. Foreign missions were offered to
him several times and refused. On
the accession of Mr.. Jefferson he with
drew from public life and returned to
his profession, where he occu-
pied very high position.
He belonged to the Federal
party, opposed the embargo and wrote
strong articles against it's constitution
atty. But he could not go with lis
party in opposing the government in
the war with England. Consequently
he was nominated by the Republican
party $50 called at that time) as their
candidate for Governor in the spring
of 1914, in opposition to John Brooks,
who was the new federal candidate to
succeed Governor Strong. Although
he publicly declared his adherence to
his party i'll general principles, and
friends, yet he lacked 2, 900 votes of an
election. He died IN 1916, while away
from home, aged IS. should not write
this sketch did it not recall the fierce
political contest and the fiery ordeal
to which Mr.. Dexter was subjected. I
was old enough to read the newspapers,
such as the Columbian Sentinel and
Portland Gazette, to listen to the dis
Gus sions in county stores and witness
the sport at town meetings. Mr.. Dex-
ter was the subject Of excessive cal
umny and vituperation, and 1 can
hardly realize that the benignant por
trait on the currency represents the
man who was pictured to my childish
visions as the incarnation of all hypoc-
risy and wickedness. The active pol
iticians of those days have all passed
away-none so bad as represented by
their opponents, and I believe none
more honest, patriotic and upright
than Samuel Dexter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
Which Shalt 1t BE.

"A ,;.,, man, WIN Ind no children. pro pose.
D., lis ,,,r "ciohior' who had seven. to talk
Nv" =" IF Them md promised. if the parent
w"m at s"'' t""'. ~ and tnc,r six ch;iirc
l" n.aM. W., 81. n..,
co"''o' '"o'o AoA '''.'1
Which shai, it. beP Which shall it be-?
,n"lrl Mt :Iohn.. John looked nj me.
AMI When fomn,l that must sneak.
Nv vnicc seemed strangely low and weak.
:: ;r.iI ~, av,in what RoEcrt said :,
And then r. listening. bent nv head.
'@ s. mia j. his Otter.
twill eivo
r ';v ,' r,"r" rom, mt vonr savrn ''
n o., ch;,I tonne fnr sve "a o;ven':'
looked at JOINS old carments worn:
7 thnm,,it 81 -, ,hst ia had horne
~ n"xcrtx and w"rk' ana care
Whicl, 7 thcm"h w;iIir.C comid not share.
I thonrht of seven vonng moutirs to iced
~ s.vrn liitla cf;il,lrrn,s nocd-
>: ''">' '>'' ~ '"'S' =
"Comc. John. "soidL
"Wc,, choose Among ,hrm M thev lie
AsIecn" 81 walkinr hand in hand.
Dear John and I SURVEYED onr baud:
E,rst 70 the cradlc lirHtlv steamed
Wfo,c lillian The iaiv sicnt
Soisly the father STONED to law
Wien 'Ircam "r wh;sncr MADE h"r si;r
And hnskiIv II" said J" Not Icri"
"' ~. ""'"''' ~ '""' A''' "'
We STORED beside the truudlc bed.
A ANYWAY vI TIE ,he s:h"yish fscos there"
In sirrn 90 beautiful and fair:
saw m I,mie's ronph. red check
ta"r ,,nIr;oJ Ero IAN conl,I small
:. ~ I'' !. h.,, To- y sad + "'~
.n1 r;.."', lin ~. 70 hnrr;"i Nv
n by. ASST" ':".;o,,t R,h'';".s ",'aaI 90:
ct"M !, paa a., a,oo'' Ioro s,,a:,r;,",. +r,co
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
American Expenses in Travelling.

NAsssSA a~~Aa AAPSuSCC
Tho Arcadian remarks that in American
influence upon foreign prices, we have a,
substantial grievance which rankles not
unnaturally. and this season it is taking
moro offensive proportions than ever. The
travelling American may be said to lavish
his capital where the Englishman is econ
om,zing his expense. tits very much the
fashion Of the American at home to live
from hand to mouth. and to spend success
sive fortunes almost as fast az he makes
them. The American comes over for his
European tour. He sets aside liberal
sum for his expenses, and, as we have said
before, he does not care how soon he is
back at his work. lie has no great reason
to check the extravaganza of his family,
and he has every inducement to enjoy
every comfort which money can procure
him while his travels last. lie bids for
the bert rooms in the hotel; there is
naturallya shArp competition in the height
of the season; landlords learn that thew
may charge very much what they please,
and as we know, it is much moro easy to
send tariff up than to get it lowe red
again. lis finds himself in countries
where it is the practice to drink wine ut
dinner, and where there IRE no bars
where you can liquor up from breakfast to
bed time. lie changes his habits easily
enough, and gets curious i'll costly vintages.
When one item habitually figures heavily
in your bills, it may be taken Az an axiom
that all the others have IL tendency tn
swell in proportion and when the total
Of the bills is large, it is a mere bagatelle
to be over-generous to the servants. Be-
sides nouveaur riches who are cast away
in crowd with plenty of money burning
in their pockets, naturally assert their
superiority for tho time by casting their
small change recklessly about them.
Guides and porters get utterly corrupted
and demoralized by the thunder showers Of
dollars that fall in the hot season. If
landlords do not respect these liberal
patrons Of theirs, it is ooly "human natur''
that they shoLld make slight account Of
Of less sretentious guests who are COM
PEELED to be frugal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
That Inevitable lsvy.

The Peoria Review says: "in y
vigorous chase after rats, Friday after
noon, boy on Jefferson street broke
down shelf in the cellar and immolat
ed six jars of preserves. He gazed on
, on the ruins without II sigh, caugh,
and killed the rat, laid it among the
debris, and, danbing lis faithful dogs
nose and legs with the fruit, sent him
p-stairs, while the boy hid in til,
coal-shel. He heard feminine shricks
of dismay, he heard the wrathful oh.
jurgations Of his sire, he heard the
nnsuspecting dog, led into the back
yard and shot, and, spreading fortI,
his hands, said soelmnly. |Anothc,
victim of circumstantial evidence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11

EIGHTEEN mon were buried Sunday and
twelve Monday, OH that section of til" rxtcn'
zion Of tho railroad near IVES, Point, Nv. All
these deaths serc from cholera. We hear
that it ~ ISstng among the hands all along
that portion Of the road. Some eight I" ten
deaths from cholera were reported about six
miles northwest from Elizabeth, Ky, week
or 80 since.
A FRlau, Su1 accident occurred few miles
west Of Gallon, Ohio, on the A. and G. W. Il.
r., on Friday night. A train coming in from
tho west ran into Il farmers wagon, contain.
ing himself wife and tw" daughters, killing
the children outright, and severely ipjuriDS
tho father and moth L. We learn that the
latter has since died. The wagon was reduced
to fragments, and one OF the horses killed.
A FIRE ut Patoka. Ohio, on Sunday, destroy.
ell bingham Il Bro. y distllrry, the hondcd
warehouse. and other buildings. Total loss
sc, 900. There were $50 hogs burned to death.
Three thousand bushels Of corn and thirty or
forty barrels OF whisky were destroyed.
The Wyandottc Enterprise says that there
is now living in Trenton, Mich, a carpenter
named J. N. McPhec, who lived in Chicago at
the time Of the great fire. His place Of bust
ness was threatened, and he left his house to
save some Of his stock, if possible. On his
return, after. witnessing the destruction of his
business property, he found his dwelling in
ruins, and his family missing. Every inquiry
failed to discover them, and to this day he has
heard nothing Of his wife and children.
In fight on tho Lima anu Orya Railroad
between CHILEAN and Peruvian laborcrs, many
of the latter were killed.
A DECREE Of Emp Or William bcstows tho
names Of distinguished German generals on
the forts at Strasburg, Metz, and other places
captured from France.
VIENNA is now free from cholera.
The mixed American and Spanish COM
mission. which was established under the
convention of February, 1871. Tor the settle
mcnt OF claims OF citizens of the United States
for injuries in Cuba from Spanish authorit les,
has extended the time for fling claims and
memorials three months, or until the lst of
Novon,hor
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
Surface Hardening Of Cast Iron.

The wearing of cast-iron surfaces
exposed to sliding friction can he al
most wholly prevented by tcmpcring
the surface with mixture Of Il Lii,
pints Of water, 30a pounds Of sui pi,uric
acid, and 1908 grains of nitric ncid.
The article should he heated to Il
cherry red, and protected from the
oxi.lizing effects Of currents of air by I,
shect-iron box. The process is cs-
pccially adapted to the behring's of
the axles, which, while much
cheaper than those Of the usual alloy,
will, when regularly fabricated, last AZ
long, even when there is great rapi.lity
of motion.
REV. Trrus CoAN, the venerable Sand
wich islands missionary, whose wife
died last fail, is soon to marry Miss
Lydia Bingham, of the girls boarding
school ut Honolulu.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
Frost Work.

These winter nights, against my wiu,l,,,. :,.uc
Nature with magic pencil draws designs
OF ferns and blossoms and fine spray If n;r.s
Oak Leaf and acorn, and fantastic vim :,
Which ehc will make when s:1lnr.,r COZ.
again,
Weird arabcsqucs in silver, fiat and cold
Like curious ,hlnt sc ctcl.ines. BY ane ,,,
Walking my lea1y garden as of old,
These fantasies shall charm my eye
Ia azure, damask, emerald, and gold.
September ANdntic
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
The Century Newspapers or the World.

The following list includes all the
newspapers in the world known to he
one hundred land uver) years old. The
oldest paper III this country is the
Portsmouth IN. Fl. GnZctte, whose first
issue appeared October ~, 1756:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
A Novel Strike.

The visitors ut Builtb, a Welsh wa
tering place, finding that tradespeople
of the town were advancing the price
of some of the Injuries and necessaries
of life, determined to make a stand
against it. Accordingly several gen.
tlcmen with large families, number
of maiden ladies, and few indignant
bachelors, put their heads together to
remedy what they thought crying
sin. They we're determined that al.
though they did not deny the shop
keepers of Builth fair profit on what
they bought from them, they would
not allow them to get rich at their ex-
pense. Accordingly an open-air meet.
ing of the visitors was agreed upon,
and on August 9th upward OF four
hundred assembled on the Groe (the
public recreation ground of Builth. A
gentleman was voted to the chair, and
began the business Of the meeting by
inviting those present to state their
grievances. Numbers of excited visi-
tors Immediately began to tell how
exorbitant were the prices they had to
pny to this shopkeeper and to that
hotel keeper. The chairman, however
willing he was to listen to the griev-
ances, could not do so for some little
time. Order being ut length obtained,
one visitor after another was heard ard
it was finally unanimously resolved
that unless the shopkeepers lowered
the prices of butter nearly 80 per cent,
and brought ham down to what the
public paid for il in Cardiff, they (the
visitors) would totally abstain from
their use. a committee was formed
to wait upon the tradesmen, and the
meeting was adjourned.
A LITTLE boy being instructed i'll
morals by his grandmother, the old
lady told him that all such terms as
"by goll, "by jingo,"' Ivy thunder, y
&c were only little oaths, and but lit
tie better than other profanitics. ln
fact, she could tell profane oath by
the prefix "by." All such were oaths.
i" Well, then, grandmother" said the
hopeful, els Ivy telegraph, which l sec
in the newspapers, swearing !" ''No,'
SAID the old lady, that is only ly'
ing
France propose: to recognize the
Car|i>'s ~ bellis rents. Why not
ilcavc" knows they arc beliigeren'
enough,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11

ONE establishment Mt Nassau, Bahia
ma Islands, has about 5000, 900 invest
cd, and employs six hundred hands IN
canning pineappses. This season they
purchased one million pineappies, and
packed one million and ten Thousand
cans. The pineappl,s cost them from
eighteen to forty cents per dozen IN
gold, and the canned fruit is sold here
for about ~ 50.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
WhOODing Cough.

A writer in the Medical Journal,
London, states that in cases of whoop-
ing cough in the last stage-that IL,
after the third wcek-he has had one
ounce of the strongest liquid ammonia
put into gallon of water IN an open
pan, and the steam made up by means
of IL half a brick made rcd-hot,
throughout, and put into the boiling
water containing the ammonia, the pan
being placed in the middle of the room,
into which the patients were brought
as the ammonia steam was passing of.
This method, he says, was used in the
evening, just before bed time, and it
proved SO etficacious in preventing the
spasmodlc attack, and after three or
four days terminating the malady, as
! to establish, beyond doubt, the great
value OF this mode of inlaling ammo.
MIA rs therapeutic agent in tranuu,l-
izing the nervous system in the whoop-
ing cough.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11

FRANCE propose: to recognize the
Car'is's ~ hcllis rents. Why not ?
ilcavc" knows they arc beliigercnt
enough,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11

A STAMP you can't buy--rhe stamp
of q gentleman.