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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
The Inyalid-A Pom plotnrA.

Eco her pallid countonanco, but 4 short time
ago tho picture of ruddy health, tho envy of
tho school and tho pride of the household. She
was always welcomed by her schoolmates, for
cheorfulnoss into thor ranks. biligent, pune
tual and exemplary, obedient and graceful At
home, sllo won tho hearts of all. But, alas.
we arc sorrowed. Those rosy checks and
rutldy lilW are bIanched by Consumption
The voice once 10 enchanting in laugh and song
oough. Let US approach hor couch gently and
take hcr hand. DO not shudder because Of
tho feeble and passionIess grasp. Tho hand
once 20 hearty and plump il olnaciatod and
shows bony outlines, while tho cords and tor
tnon' veins a are plainly mapped upon the sur
carrying yigor to the whole system, and i'm
parting life beauty, vivacity, health and
strength, il delicate 10 tho touch. The feeble
heart cannot prol,el the thin, scanty blood
with force. Must We lose lior while yet III her
teens! Companions and friends gather around
with words of cheer and consolation, and de-
psrt with moistenod eyes and silent steps.
Must NO loso l,or1 No! there IL relief! We
can stay this destroyer of our Happiness and
not suffer the loss of so bright a gon. Some
thing more il required now than dietary and
hygionic observance, for nature calls for aid
and she shall have it. Take this pleasant
medicine: 1t il invigorating. How it allays
tho irritable cough, improves the appetite aid
digestion, and sends = healthy Jingle through
the frame The e., 6lSod j. enriched nervous
new impulse. SEQ her face brighten by do
grees; the color is returning, her voice is get
ting clearer, aud pleasant words arc spoken.
The strength fafters yet, but is gaining Let
us take hor out in the warm sunshine In Z short
time she will be able to go without our aid, =
cheerful girl. This delightful medicine must
be dod.blessed. 1t is restoring health to our
loved one. She il emerging from her sickness
sweeter and nobler than before, and DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Dis ,overy must have
tho credit. It has raised her.
s. r. EaLAR, druggist, of West Union, o.,
says that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
CRY has effected . wonderful cure Of Consump-
ton in In his neighborhood. Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
A Simple Method of Making Ozone.

A new and remarkable use for lucifer
matches has been discovered by O Mr..
Beer. Knowing the efficiency
of moistened phosphorus as q
generator of ozone, Mr.. Beer set out,
one day, to procure quantity of that
substance to use in sweetening the mir
of II room whose musty smell had suql
cessfully resisted the power of ordinary
disinfectants. Failing to find anyphos-
phorus at the drug stores in his neigh
borhood, it occurred to Mr.. Beer that
possibly lucifer matches might furnish
the needed element in condition suit
ed to his purpose. He tried them, Dip
plug them into warm water for few
moments, then suspending them in the
obnoxious room. Their effect was sal
utary, and thereafter, by continuing
their use, he was able to enjoy "the
blessing of pure and refreshing mir, ;"
Notwithstanding the room was in the
basement of an old cellarless house on
made land, tho mir of which was further
tainted by a quantity of mouldy books
and papers. The supply of the purify
ing agents can be easily regulated Sy
increasing or diminishing the number
OF acClVc maCcncS. In tho room above
mentioned, six bundles of matches were
kept activc-some near the ceiling.
others near tho foor-by daily water
ing. In another instance single
bunch is mentioned us having snfliccd
for quickly purifying tho air Of a room
in which several adults and children
we're lying sick, but in this case the air
was famed against the matches while
they were carried about the room, thus
hcightcning their activity. How long
Il match retains it's ozonizing power Mr..
Beer docs not sav.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
Bushes at Pleasure,

According to the Colnische Zeitung,
the armory of feminine weapons has
been increased by the invention of ar
ti6cial bushes. Signs, glances, and
gestures have always been completely
under the control of the least accom-
plished practitioner in the art of ad-
vantageusly expressing the emotions.
Even tears do not altogether refuse to
be simulated. Shakespeare tells us
that "hard-natured villainy is not
without such rheums;" the "cunning
waters of the eyes" are proverbial as
the last resource of the sex, which is by
nature too emotional to he even
accused of hypocrisy. Bushes have,
however, hitherto been beyond the
reach of art. The dc6utante at her
first ball knows it painfully enough
when she finds it impossible to repress
them, and the faded beauty of q certain
age knows it too, when she fails to
give the fit reception to the compi-
ment, inspired perhaps more by
memory of the past than the impress
sion of the moment. The great inven-
ton which, we are told, is due to an
American, and has been imported into
Germany, conceals itself in the hat of
her who adopts it, and we suppose it
may easily be adapted to the chignon.
Let us hope that in England it will
meet with no favor, and that in the
general skepticism which attaches to
all things, we may at least cling to the
hope that bushes are genuine, because
Involuntary. We suppose the new
hlnsh nrodrcer nrofeaaes IN ror,roaa %
we'll as create bushes, but do not let
English ladies take to mechanical
means of regulating their emotions, on
the doubtful plea that it is necessary to
not produce, but to hide, bushes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
Effect Of Beef Tea.

In an article in one of the popular
London journals, DR.. Kimmerich as
cribes the effect of beef tea not to it's
aromatic and combustible ingredients,
but to the potash salts which it con-
tains, and concerning which it is we'll
known that if given in larger doses an
injurious effect is exercised on the or
ganism F.; nevertheless, potash salts are
an element of all articles of food,
forming not only the chief ingredients
of the salts of every sort of flesh, in
Guiding that of fish, but likewise OF all
other food. In medical practice, says
DR.. Kimmerich, ether, camphor, and
musks are eminently invigorating and
refreshing remedies, and compared to
these beef tea occupies, of course, a
subordinate position; if, however, it
be necessary to preserve an exhausted
body from protracted illness, then
there is no other remedy in the whole
rich storehouse of medicine which can
afford such assistance for regenerating
the diseased organism, as repeated
doses of beef tea.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
Gardening on Shares.

A good story, md oil the better in
being true, is told of one of our citi-
zcns who let a piece of ground to a
man on shares. The man would hire
the lot, but the owner, doubtful of get
ting any money of the tenant, proposed
to let it upon tho promise of receiving
half the products. Occasionally dur
ing the summer he passed the spot and
was pleased with the cultivation it was
receiving, and with it's goodly show of
vegetables. Harvest time came-an,l
passed, and he heard nothing from his
tenant, till, in response to hint, the
latter sent to him watermelon and
three shrivelel cucumbers. Indignant
at this shabby treatment, he called
upon the man and asked him what he
meant. ''Why, you see, SQUIRE" re-
piled the tenant, "the pesky boys stole
I'LL of your half but the melon and the
eucumbers. Aleu- Bedford Mercury.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
The Art Of Dinner Giving.

ga dinner party" says writer, "is
a crucial test of ones breeding and
savior taire. Persons may conduct
themselves with self-possession and
ease upon every other occasion, and
mortify themselves by the commission
of gaucheries at the dinner table; and
it is place where any solecism in Ell.
quette is very conspicuously noticed.
The position Of hostess is particularly
trying to a novice, as tho enjoyment OF
her guests is dependent almost entirely
upon her foresight and tact, and these
qualities are called into requisition from
the very moment she decides upon Civ
ing dinner party. Great discretion
and care should be exercised in the So
lection of her guests, in order that
those who are brought together may be,
as much rs possible, Of congenial minds.
The menu of her dinner may include
the most expensive dishes, and these
may be served in an exquisitely fault
less manner but if the conversation
should prove spiritless and dull and
her guests should not appear at their
ease, the hostess cannot fatter herself
that her entertainment is success"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
Tobacco Smoke Good for the Teeth

Tobacco Smoke Good for the Teeth.
tits only fair on tobacco to point out
that it is gradually clearing itself from
many of the serious charges brought
against it. It has been frequently and
Persistently alleged that among other
i'll effects (beside death and madness)
produced by tobacco is destruction OF
the teeth. This, it appears, is entirely
. mistake. Instead of tobacco causing
the teeth to decay, it is the very best
thing in the world for them, and those
who wish to preserve theirteet should
immediately take to smoking, if they
have not already INDUCED in the habit.
At lecture on teeth, laughing gas, and
electricity, as connected with the dental
surgery, delivered last month in Lon
don by Mr.. Thomas Brown, the lecturer
observed that it was popularity consid-
cred that the practice of smoking
deteriorated the teeth. "There could, :"
he added, "be no greater fallacy. II
was true that it sometimes discolored
the teeth, but it did not cause decay ];
on the contrary, it prevented decay on
account of the disinfectant properties
of tobacco SMOKE" This leaves the
British Anti Tobacco Association and
other kindred bodies in O very disagree
able position, for it destroys all conf
dence in the awful predictions they are
in the habit of uttering as to the fate of
smokers. If tobacco does not injure
the teeth, but is in fact good for them,
perhaps it does not shorten life, but is
favorable to longevity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
The Saloon Keepers Soliloquy,

s.s.ka. oseUA q SMITH.
Inc women are coming, are coming to mo!
where shall go-shall turn the key?
Shall 60 to the cellar among tho TASKS.
And stare at the barrels and cnptv c.sts,
Ase blazes, how dark! I'm afraid to 40 in!
ne Aget OF my Pipe may kintile the gin.
-Four barrels Of liquor, and gins number three;
o'twhat shall I do Z they arc coming to SEQ!
III 60 In the cellar and keep out Of sight
HOW am troubled for not doing right!
wish in my soul my conscience was clear,
! Know v ould quit selling liquor and beer.
lHlisttn moment and hear what thcy say;
Since many are coming, hope they won't stay,
For condemnation ON guilt IL pronounced,
By angels and men forever denounced.
They ask for the man who owns tho saloon,
Surely Wis they are aiming to ruin;
They know have dealt in the liquor for years,
And gathered the dimes without any fears.
I have become rich, and laid up tho l'clf,
by running souls and running self:
Now am down in tho darkness and gloom
For bringing humanity down to tho tomb.
Hark! They arc singing hymn at the door,
My goodness! never will sell any moro!
But turn temptation from every mans sight,
And aid In the cause that leads to the right.
Ill turn these liquors nil out in the street,
And join with the friends Of temperance meet,
For who can Withstand their prayerf,l appeal,
Which God in his mercy to them has revealed
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
The Spanish STYLE.

It is related that two girls in the
Royal tobacco factory, at Madrid, re-
Gently killed each other in q hand-to-
hand contest. The mode adopted by
the combatants was as romantic as it
was barbarous. The antagonists, who
were both about twenty years old, and
remarkably handsome, repaired, one
Sunday morning, accompanied by GER
tain of their comrades, to a village some
four or five miles distant, where they
breakfasted sumptuously at different
tables. The repast ended, they closed
the window curtains, stripped them
selves to the waist, and requested their
friends to leave the room, then at a
given signal, they attacked each other
with their navajas, and slashed and
thrust, until both fell to the floor NOR
tally wounded When q few minutes
had elapsed, their friends reentered the
room. Estefania, one Of the combat
ants, had received ten wounds, from
which she bled to death in about half
an hour. Casilda, vher antagonist, died
somewhat sooner from CHASTITY wound
in the neck.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
IT WAS AN ANCIENT Custom of the
Sn0rkana in order 70 incnlcako o,nonn

IT WAS AN ANCIENT CUsT0M of the
Spartans, in order to inculcate among
their youth an adherence of intemper-
ance andits kindred vices, to make their
slaves drunk with wine in the public
market-places, SO that tho rising gene
ration, upon whom would some day de-
volve the honor and safety of the Lace
demonian Republic, might see before
them all the CHASTITY details of the
drunkard's disgrace, his loss of reason,
and of physical strength. Twere well,
perhaps, to-day, could some of our
young men contemplate q similar in
structive lesson drawn from the life,
showing them, by sharply drawn con-
trast, the advantages andtrue loneliness
of abstinence and virtue.
For such as appreciate these, VINE
GAR BlrrERs is the beverage best
adapted, it being purely a vegetable
draught, devoid of alcohol or mineral
p0isons, and possessing all the virtues,
but none of the damning curses of the
different poisons which year by year
are sweeping away thousands Of dollars
and ives.-Com.
The Times says DR.. Walpole has lost
his beautiful chestnut mare. She died sud.
denly in harness, it is supposed from bots o,
pin worms. II che Doctor had used Sheridan.
Cavalry Condition Posoders, no would, nc
doubt, have had his mare to-day-they are
death ON worms.
CHAPPED hands are very common
with those who have their hands much in water.
A few drops Of Johnson's Anodyne Lininsea'
rubbed over the hands two or three times 4
day, will keep them soft and white. Fisher.
men, sailors, and others will do we'll to remem.
Der tlis.-Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
An Aeronautlc Experimont.

Two French mronauts have recently
made nm interesting experiment in
Wrial navigation. Tho balloon Etoilc
I'olaire" was sent up to ascertain if the
respiration of highly oxygcnized air
would mitigate the suffocating effects
Of high levels and thus enable the mro.
naut to venture beyond attitudes already
reached. This experiment was sug'
gested by tho French PHYSICIST do Fon'
1elle, and was made by tho bnllooniste
sivel and Croco-Spinelli, in IN airshir
constructed for tho purpose. The last
named pronaut, when lie had reached q
height of sixteen thousand four hun
dred feet, was nearly suffocated but
upon using the oxygenizcd-air rcspira
tor, ho soon recovered. The temper
atllres encountered, even at this com
paratively moderate level, were very
low. At twenty-four thousand six hun
drcd feet elevation the spectrescopie
observations showed mono OF tho lines
which indicate tho presence of aqueous
vapor, and the solar rays were nearly
invisible. When not using the respira'
tor the skies appeared to the observers
quito dark, but when freely rcspirine
VAAO AySC1l1ZGel ab11 St1lu WIG U4u0 COlOG VI
the heavens were restored.
In ascending tho summit Of one Of
the Andean peaks Humboldt was over
come by thewrial tenuity at q little over
sixteen thousand feet; but in the Thib.
etan Himalayas the German brothers
Schlagintweit slept all night nineteen
thousand two hundred feet above the
sea, and afterward scaled the peak Of
the Ibi Gamin, three thousand feet
higher. The effect Of height is felt on
most men at sixteen thousand feet OF
less, but varies with their physical con-
dition and with the circumstances of
altitude to which they have been accus-
toned. hthe recent experiment, while
the pulse at the ground was beating
eighty-six minute, at sixteen thousand
feet tho number of beats rose to one
hundred and forty but on bringing
the oxygenized-air respirator into req
uisition the number fell to one hundred
and twenty. This fact would show that
those who will venture their lives on
the problematic and perilous air voyage
would do well to supply their balloons
with an apparatus for generating pure
oxygen, to be respired If necessary.
NJ. de Fonvielle's experiment has dem.
onstrated nothing further. Mr.. Clash.
er, the English balloonist, it is claimed,
went ten thousand feet higher than the
recent voyagers, and did not need oxy.
genized mir, or experience any very se.
rious suffocation till nearly thirty-two
thousand feet above the sea. The re-
suits of late ballooning afford, there
fore, little or no encouragement to it.
votaries, and the perils 60 far have
heavily overborne any benefits, present
or prospective, which science can rear
from these Iearian ventures.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
French Method With q Universal All.
mcnt.

A French medical journal reports the
cure of the most refractory corns by
the morning md evening application,
with brush, Of " drop OF u solution OF
tho pcrclllori.lc of iron. It states that
after =" fortnight's continued applica-
ton, without pain, n patient who had
suffered martyrdom for nearly forty
years from most painful corn on the
inner side of each little toe, was en-
tircly relieved pressure was no longer
painful, and the cure seemed to bc r;,l-
ical: Other and similar cases IRE re-
ported as equally successful under this
treatment, ''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
A Tree that Kceps a Standing Army.

a Ir00 Jn0C ACCpS q St2nUlnS ARMY .
Among the varied means of defense
developed by plants in their ceaseless
struggle for existence, says tho Scion
tific American, there is, perhaps, mono
moro wonderful or effective than
TINT of species of acacia which
abounds Oh tho dry snvannas of Central
America. 1t is called tho bulls horn
thorn, from the strong curved thorns,
like bulls horns, sot in pairs all over
tho trunk and branches. These, no
doubt, help to protect tho tree from tho
attacks Of browsing cattle; but it has
moro dangerous enemies in the leaf
cutting ants and other insects. Against
these tho treo maintains u numerous
standing army, for which it provides
snug houses stored with food, nectar to
drink, and abundance of luscious fruit
or dessert. When first developed, the
thorns aresoft and filed with swedish
pulp, much relished by small species
of springing ants, never found except
on these trees. Making hole near tho
point of one of each pair of horns, these
ants eat out of the interior, then bur-
row through the thin partition of tho
base into the other thorn, and treat it
in the same manner. The hollow shelle
thus formed make admirable dwellings,
none Of which are left uatenanted, as
any ono may discover by disturbing
the plant, when the little warriors
swarm out in force and attack the ag-
gressor with jaws and stings. The
leaves of the plant are two winged, and
at the base of each pair of leaflets, on
the mid rib, is gland which, when the
leaf is young, secretes a honey-like
liquid, OF which the ants are very fond.
This insures their constant presence on
the young leaves, and their most Jealous
service in driving off other insects. A
still more wonderful provision of solid
food is made for similar purpose. At
the end of each of the small divisions
Of the compound leafet there grows a
small fruit-ike body, which under the
microscope looks like q golden pear.
When the leaf first unfolds, the little
pears are not quite ripe, and the ants
are continually employed going from
one to the other to see how they come
on. As the fruit-like bodies-which
appear to have no other use than as
ant food-do not all ripen ct once, the
ants are kept about the young plants
for considerable time. When an mt
finds one sufficiently advanced it bites
the point of attachment, then bending
down the prize breaks it off and bears
it to the nest. These ants, species of
l2seu6lomyrn,G, are found, as already
noticed, only on these trees; and that
the trees really keep them as a body
guard seems evident from the fact that,
when planted in localities where their
little protectors do not exist, they are
speedily defoliated by leaf-cutters.
which let them severely alone on the
savannas while their honey glands and
golden pears offer no attractions to the
ants of the forest. Apparently both
acacias and 1,seudo,ny;nau have been
mutually modified in the course of
time, until they are now quite depend
ent on each other for support and pro-
lection.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
White Coal.

Notwithstanding the antiquity of
many proverbs dating back to the pre-
historic times and their reception as
fgurakive axioms day by day, they be-
come exploded through deeper investi-
cation or fuller knowledge. GAS black
as coal" is not so venerable as some
of this current coin of the intellect, but
that, too, must go the way of many
others. Our antipodes, that fragment
of the most ancient of existing CONT
nents, that land of paradoxes which
would not allow the poor school-boy
his pet phrase of rarG 0vis in tcyris,
nigroQue sinailli0sa egg,ao, but must
fain to turn out a black swan, make
animals with birds beaks (ornith0r'-
hyec/s"s 2oaradorus), and put the
stones of cherries outside of the fruit,
has just revealed new mineral
white coal-which is fibrous, burns
with light fame and no smoke. Nor
is the material rare; large districts are
covered with it, and it lies on or near
the surface. The coal is species of
Ignite, and the color is most likely due
to the absence of bitumen. What a
boon this coal would be near London,
not only on the score of making our
fogs less dense, but for the sake Of our
public NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Iron Moga-
zine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
THIRTY YEARS. EXPERIENCE or An
OLD NURSE.

MRS. WINDOWS sooTn1xo syrup II TIE pa1
scRlPTIoN Of ono Of tho best emale Physicians and
Nurses in tho United Statcs, and has been used
thirty years with neverfatltng safety and success
by millions Of mothers and children, from the fee-
bic infant Of one week old to the adult It corrects
atcdtty Of tho stomach relieves wind cholic regu.
lates the bowels, and gives rest, health and com
fort 70 mother and child. We believe It TO be tho
Best and surest Remedy In tho World In all cases
OF DYsBNTERY and DIARRH9A IN CHILDREN,
whether 1t arises from Teethtng or from any other
cause. FUN directions for using will accompany
each bottle. None genuine unless tho fac simile
CURTIS PERKINS IL on tho outside wrapper.
GOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALHRs
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-14
Large Yield Of Corn.

The Nebraska State Board of Agricul-
ture last year offered premium of $50
for the best yield of corn in that state
in 1873, which was awarded to Mr.. NJ.
N: Nelson, of Cass county, upon the
following showing:
The crop was raised ON thirty-fiv
acres of ground, first prairie broken in
1871, and the cost of cultivation was as
follows.
Flowing, LIS per aero. .443.75
Cultivating, per acre, $50. $500
Harvesting, $1.25 per acre. .4S.75
Total cost, $4.75 per acre. .$166.25
These thirty five acres yielded three
thousand two hundred and two and one
half bushels-being ninety-one and one
half bushels per acre. The variety was
the !" Mahogany" and its weight aver
aged sixty-three pounds to the bushel.
The above statement was supported
by affidavit as required by the Board.