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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-15
Be Independent.

There is nothing in this world that in
sures success so completely as does per
feet independence. People who are al
ways waiting for help may wait long
time as a general thing; little assistance,
little accommodation, a little influ
cnce, is not to be had for asking, but
there is always something one can do for
himself. Do it, whatever 1t is, and do it
with . will. One thing leads to anoth-
er.
If you area girl, don't sit still and hope
rich man will marry you, while your
old father tolls for your daily bread.
Make dresses, or go into q store, or-if
you know how to be a good scrvant--in-
to some ones kitchen. Good, honest
pluck and sensible independence are a
dover III themselves, and there arc men
who know it.
Ifyour means place you beyond SUCH
need, be independent in another way.
Learn how to help yourself, and take
care Of yourself as much as possible.
ilatilcr be one who does things for others
! than be one who must have things done
for you or suffer Two hands, two feet,
sight and streng g;h-these ought to ena-
ble you to dispense with help while you
! arc young and healthy.
like men who can defy adverse cir
cumstances, and could earn a living in
| any quarter Of the world in which they
were dropped down; who can roll UP
their sleeves and set to work at almost
anything that offers, and who can even
sew on their own buttons and make them
selves Il cup Of tea when deprived Of the
help Of womankind.
! like women who are not annihilatcd
! when the girl goes off i'll a huff; who
could preside at the White House or scrub
the kitchen floor, if either unpleasant et-
fort were necessary; who are not afraid
TO travel few miles alone, and who can
split kindling wood and u2cork a bottle
with the scissors, if nothing better is at
hand; and vino, moreover, il plunged
into the depths Of poverty, would fight
their own way cat Gift, asking help oi no
man.
Independence makes no woman less
/ loving. The most helpful wolncn are
Condest and truest, I think; and as for u
man, never trust him in any capacity if
he has not the true spirit Of indepcnd-
sweetness may be hoped Tor.
In the battle OF lie there is but one
way to succeed yht it out for yourself
Give the helping hand when you may.
Take it if i'll some sore straight it is offer
ed freely but never ask for it, never wait
for it.; be Independent as far as may be,
you would honor yourself, or be honor
cd by others, or be happy.
MAEY KYLE DALLAS.
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Touch not, Taste not Handle not.
HOLMES CITY, MINI, March Is, 1875


r, tic Editor cy' the Tcion:
j Had time permitted me I should have
answered Victoria Vincent as soon as her
article, Temperance vs.. Tetotalism, "
appeared, and now perhaps SO many who
are ablcr have written in answer, my ar
ticle may appear needless; still, cannot
refrain from having "my fling at hcr;'
and speaking word, too, in the cause of
total abstinence.
According to her own statement, "1f an
| American drinks he is generally a drunk
ard" believe, as people, we have
about as many intelligent men as any
other nation, and if this is to be the re-
suit, would it not be better to touch not
tas' e not, handle ?'
Although pure liquor is not without its
virtues as Il medicine, when used strictly
as such, the ''imbibing," Of witch Vic
toria speaks, is very different thing.
1t is this very custom OF treating, which
is the ruin of thousands who perhaps 9th
crwise would not become drunkards, or
even moderate drinkers if we may use the
term
All drinkers were once moderate drink
ers: It is rare that a man becomes a
drunkard in day--that is, confirmed,
habitual drunkard. lie is generally de-
ceivcd by the idea that he is a moderate
drinker, even when he is far ON the road
to ruin, and seldom awakens from his de-
lusion until it istoo late.
lfthere could be such thing as a
''man imbibing judiciously," which /
doubt. why should this man, who can
govern his appetite so we'll, not be unset
fish enough to make so small self:deni-
| al forthc sake Of his many weaker broth
rcn who are sure to fall? Would not the
merchant, WHO knew that the poison lie
sold would be used to dcstry life, be cul
psblc?
The vcndcr of liquor not only destroys
life if not always SO suddenly, just as
surely, as the dcadliest poison; and not
only life, but all that is sweetest and pur-
| est in the family and the home.
How can Il woman lift her voice in be.
half of the ficnd which has wrecked many
a home; sending many wife to a pre-
mature grave, Or booming her to worse
than widowhood, and many a halfclad
child to fate worse than orphanage? o.
the dcsolatc hcart-brcak Of the mother,
who wcaps bitter tears over the wreck of
a once manly boy, now, alas-a sot! All
''T6uch not, taste not, handle not" shall
be my motto, and no wrecked and ruined
soul shall point to me and say: ut was
your hand that wrought this ruin!"
MARY
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nerve more tightly strung; a pulse more
lightly quickcned; and the boasted self.
control is lost. A difference so slight it
can: hardly be computed; and yet upon it
hangs the destiny Of millions. 1t may
be, my reader, that you are of the few who
can put aside the cup with its contents
only tasted; but the odds arc fearfully
against you in such a trial. DO not make
it. The risk is too great. Do not take it.
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How TO Cur Your NAILs.-The cause
of nails, either on the fingers or toes, grow
ing into the flesh is that the nails are cut
toward the flesh instead of from it. To
pare the nail, cut from the corner to the
center Of it; and if any ingrowth has al
ready begun cut the center of the nail
little hollow. BY this means nature hast. :
ems to fill the vacant space, and the
growth is Immediately directed from tho
flesh, and in short time the nail will as
sumo much better form, growing from,
instead of into the flesh. The nursery
man in pruning trees always cuts outward.
never inward otherwise he would make:
q shapeless, Improbable tree.
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Tom Marshau's description ola
Druukard.

a drunkard is the hardest thing in the
world for a philosopher to classify. You
can't tell to what genus he belongs-he
amt man-you can't make a man Of
him-hc has not the form, or feature or
feeling of mani speak after ample op-
portunity of feeling-he has neither the
face nor the form Of man; he no longer
holds up his face as a man, he can't walk
like man; Intcmperancc has fuddled
his brain, bleared his eyes, deafencd his
cars, swellcd his body, dwindlcd his legs,
and destroyed his title to be ciassed
among men. But these are the evils.
We might forgive internperance if it did
10 more than mar our beauty, dilaDidatc
our fortunes, waste our health and destroy
cur lives Man must die, and if death
were the mere dissolution Of this body Of
ours it would not be q matter Of great
moment if the period were prccipitated
Tor a few months or years. But what is
man: What does he mean when he
speaks Of himself? Is itthis trail, perish.
ing clay? No; no. It is divina particu-
la brcathcd into this clay by Deity him.
SELF and given to man only of all that
live on eartli-the reason that enables
him to examine and prove the heart
that loves; that makes capable Of paren.
tai affection and all those finer sensibiii-
ties that adorl human nature and distiA-
yuiSh it in the creation OF God. This is
the principle that makes man; this it is
that is eternal. And hence VIC see the ma
turc of that evil which works the ruin Of
this immortal principle. Alcohol is the
only poison that an1ihilatcs the man
GIVE him arsenic, and, although his
physical constitution cannot resist its cf-
fec!s, yet while life fingers he is still Il
mamie loves his wife, his children, his
! country; and when he dies he dies game,
game, game. But this poison achieves
what no other can: it destroys human
nature; it turns The heart Of man against
weakness and helpessncss, and makes
him hate those who hang upon him icr
support. You may make IL man a rohbcr
OF Il murderer, steep him in vice and
misery, but when he comes to his own
hcarthstonc he is still man and loves
his wife and little ones, who cling to him
in his ruin There is q principle in u
man--call it the chivalry Of manhood
that makes the weakness of woman her
strength and defense; nothing destroys
,':%t principle in man but alcohol; moth
ing else raises The arm Of man against
her who trusts him for protection and
love: nothing else destroys that fine and
universal ligamcnt that prcyades the
whole animal racc-parcntal tic-diseasc
and poverty and crime and death may
press q wretch to the earth, and his infant
Child will cling to him more fondly the
deeper he sinks. Nothing but intempcr-
ancc destroys this tic and obliterates every
trace of the great original from which he
is formed.
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WASHING BY HORSE EPOwER.-A Farm
cr's Daughter" writing. to the Country
Gentleman, says Of particular washing
machine What we like best about it, is
that in summer, when our washings are
very large we can attach it to our little
churn power, and have horse to do all
the severe labor of the washing-a wiring
er being combined, and operated with the
some handle or belt that moves the wash
ing machine. When tho washing is light
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-15
Fancy's Masquerade
Wandering sunny meadows o'er,s
Ca:ne n pretty child to mo,
And a golden bow lie bore.

Came n pretty child to mo,
And a golden bow he boro,
While as blithe rs any bee
Rang his voice across the lea,
"Follow, follow, follow mel"
"Who, then, art thou my dear child?
Sure I've seen that shining bow;
But that laughter, sweet ind wild,
Sounds not like the voice I know,
That is ever sweet and low"
Follow, fellow, where I go!'
II am Love, thy lord and king:
See you not my arrows bere1
Hark! their barbed .pointlets ring
Ia my quiver crystal clear,
Come, if !.ovo to thee be dear,
Follow, follow, all that here!"
"sweet my child, know thee now;
Thou art Fancy, fair and free!
Thou mayst mask that sunny brow,
But thy rainbow wings I see.
Vain thy masking, Gear to me;
Well I know trus love from thee!
He hath eyes As fair as thine,
But they wear softer sheen,
And sadness half divine
Wells the sweetness Of his mcin;
Yes, who e'er his faith hath seen
Knoweth it from thine, weea.
All the voices Of the earth
Call him excellent and great.
But grief, hsnd in hand with mirth,
Still doth on b footsteps wait.
An1 the shadowy wing Of fate
Darker DER his royal state!
On his left hand and his right
Pain and pleasure ever g.;
And before his eyes the sight
OF the anguish aud the wee
That his dearest ones may know
Mdketh still bis laughter low:
Vain thy pretty masquerade,
Fancy feet! or 1--we alone
Can those constant hearts be stayed
That have enco bis secrets known;
When thy taci!c wings E=ye flown,
His sway hath bat stronger grown!'
-44Nantic.
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Tied to his mothers Apron-Strings.

ooh, he'is good fellow enough, but
he's tied to his mothers apron-string"
We heard the remark the other day
spoken in Il contemptuous tone by a
Young blood with a cigar between his
lips, lnsy cane in his kid.glovcd
hand, a fifty dollar coat on his back, in
the pocket Of which, doubtless, there
| were plenty Of "dunners" from his tailor,
boct-malzer and wasi,crwoman.
This same young man is in the habit Of
| calling his mother the old woman,' and
his father the ''governor" and his cstima-
ble un married sister the ''old gal;' and
the young man Of whom he spoke was
one who had just come into town to re-
side, accompanied by his mother, to
whom he was devoted and affcctionatc
son.
Tiled to his mothers apron-strings,
eh?
Well, what does that expression gcncr-
ally mean when applied to a young man?
Why, it means just about this-that the
young man Of whom shallow Drained
fops and Anticipated sports speak thus
disparagingly is one who docs not smoke,
chew, drink, nor swear-cne who has not
forgotten that God once gave for all time
a command which reads: "Honor thy
father and thy mother, that thy days may
be long in the land pit means that he
! IS one whom virtuous men will respect,
whom refined society will welcome to its
ranks, whom good women and pure girls
will receive into their homes with pleas
urc, and whom his wife, when he gets
one, will respect and love next to her
Creator.
1t is quite too much the custom nova
days to sncer at parental authority and to
disregard the advice and admonition Of
our elders. Old age is no longer revor.
cnced; it is ridiculcd instead.
1t is quite the fashion for young men
to speak slightingly to the mothers who
bore them and nursed them through the
troublesome. tiresome season of boyhood.
1t is the fashion 10 disregard the advice
Of tie mother, to cut loose from her in
fluence, to go it alone" after the man.
ner Of other reckless young men, and it
is quite as much the fashion for these
same independent youth to bring up iii
the prison or on the gaIlows as anywhere
else. And, young ladies, our word for it,
the man who Hl-trcats his mother will
never transform himself into IN affection
ate and agreeable 1T is
impossible!
There is an old provcrb to the effect
that the boy who is kind to the cat and
his mother will he good to his wife, and
we have observed that the saying is found.
ed in truth.
The young man who is disrespectful to
his mother and who does not seek to
make her declining yearshappy will tyr
annie over his wife (unless, perchance,
he shall marry a woman who has the
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truslful submission, Of cheerful .nope'

trustful submission, Of cheerful hope1
Loving and patient toward her we learn
unconsciously to prefer each other 70
bring forward only tire sunny side oflife.
and bear its shadows with serenity.
"Poor little baby Belief But she has .
mission, and is unconciously making %
all filter for the heavenly mansions, from
which, for our ;sakes, she is permitted to
remain little while away. Angel work
is baby Belle doing, till the angels take
her home.-L1ttle Corporal se*-s~@z'
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G. /. HENDERSON & CO.,

G. /. HENDERSON & co.
Bank, Passage, & Foreign Ex-
change Business,
IF ROY, MINI.
Tickets 70 a:.d from all parts # Europe Ivy
he Anchor, Guian, and all other lines, sold
at lc y rates.
Responsible parties can obtain Tickets on
Credit, at liberal rates, until after next har-
vest, if desired.
Money loaned on Real Estate or Collateral
Securities.
Leroy. Minn.. Feb. 18th. 1874.
DORR l. WOLD,
Druggists & Pharmacu+ists.
AND DEALERS IN
Stationery,
Shccl and
Blank Booits,
FANCY ARTICLES
Main St., Austin, MINI.
v7.n39
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HAS JUST OPENED NEW CLOTHING
House ON Mil street, whore lie will keep
everything NEEDED in It t3enIcmaa's wardrobe.
II. will make the manufacture Of clothing
Il Special Feature OF his business. Having
had mn years experience he feels confident
that he can please all who favor him with
t;:"'r patronage. 3att
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The Selections were made by Mr.. Dunkle
man in tho Eastern market, and ho is sure Of
giving satisfaction to his Old Customers, and
all new ones who may favor him with call.
SUITS made to order, in the latest style
and by the most expert Tailors.
Store in Old Headquarters Building, corner
Main end Bridge Streets, Austin, MINI.
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TERMS: $500 per Annum.
COUNTY, MINNESOTA THURSDAY APRIL Is, 1876 NUMBER 2

grit" to teach him his place in the be-
ginning), and she had better be an old
maid to the end of life and bind shoes
for a living. So, thcre!-Kate Thorn, in
New York Weekly.
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first National Eanl: oi Austin
;u :,e*:cr to Harlan ". Page, Eanher.)
{.iy t.R, W.SFAW NiHI5N -. PACE.
President i:A>i.ie'.
G. +. 1I:;,NM iT!f asst. Cas'!'r
E;EctTHS
O:'vH* ". SHAW, g. f. SKINNER,
L. \. !:ol;!.<. +. @. WHEELER,
(rresi:lcEI E:t;,3a! UA.aAS ". PAGE
Lifr ln> rn Pi,il'A.
E.>lcsi: i.X,:.. !, 90 a'; TRAITS" OF Great Rri-
ain snl all principal .vntiucntal Cities, 70
sale sans to s:t.
C.,i!cH:inns will rersive prompt attention..
:,-ents fo: CurHr.i Lime .! Ste;.,nS hips ai:s
Tickets <yI:i rt sts:C<-St currency rates 10
;,a from :il Railway S'n!:"nS IN ..';ra.e e.
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A {iS!iN AND RAMSEY STAGE
~ LINE.
Stages leave Austin daily. making close
connection with Passenger Trains over the
outhern Minnesota Railroad.
Fare, 80 Cents.
1l-m3 S, HCTCHINS, Proprietor.
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nrAXF|ELD & SUTHERLAND
ASA AUSTIN, MINNESOTA, do a General
Cummis issinn business and solicit Cons;gn-
mrnts. They have erected II ware house and
have one Of the hest of Cellars.
! RcfercnccS:-First rational Bank, Mower
| Countv Bank, Sherman Page, Ju9ge of Dist.
Court. Richardson l. Mayhem, and So!ner 4
Morgan. all Of Austin, MIN. 42yl
The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
Grant Applies Screws.
From the \. Y. World.

rToiA tH6 NJ j. W orlu.
1t Is significant symptom Of the de-
cay into which the Republican party
is falling that not single public man
holding office under the Administra-
ton or voting in Congress with the
Administration ON questions of general
policy excepting, We believe, Mr..
Willard, of Vermont, has yet ventured
to speak out those sentiments of honest
indignation at the violation of all the
principles of the public law of free
country, just perpetrated in Louisiana,
which independent Republicans in
private life are everywhere expressing.
Ii anybody asks for an explanation Of
this phenomenon it is ready to his
hand in the simple fact that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Mr., Bristow,
yesterday withdrew the government
printing from Mr.. Bryant'p paper, the
ksen.ag Post, which has. .fearlessly den
ounced the outIages in Louisiana, and
gave 1t TO the Co0ameTc9al 1d0eTfsssy,
which thoroughly approves" all that
Grant has done, may do, or dreams of
doing. 1t is mo funeral of ours'' we
know, and as Democrats we ought
perhaps to rejoice at the divorce every
day growing wider and deeper, be-
tween the office holders OF the Republi.
can party and the private respectable
ty OF the country. But as Americans
1t Is not pleasant for US to he forced to
see the rapid approach of day when
the only party organized in opposition
to that constitutional democrac (which
already rules the greatest States both
of the North and of the South will
consist of what our fathers used to
stigmatize as pensioners and place.
men, There was time when il was
possible for man to be an honest
man, and gentleman, to have will
OF his own and to express it in his own
way, and yet to be member OF the
Republican party. 1t is no fault of the
Democracy that this time is visibly and
swiftly coming to an end. .
The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
For the Ga.ette, y, Ell.
BRiDaErowN. Caroline Co., Md.


BRiDaETowN. Caroline Co., Md.
In leaving Willow Grove. on the 1ith
INST, the first thing that attracted our
attention was the slippery roads which
were SO slippery as to render it very diff
hcult for our beast to keep his feet. We
noticed that the district school house
one mile west of Willow Grove. known
II. "Cooper's School House," was vacated
and the reason for such we were inform
ell wis due to the raging of the scarlet
fever among the children. We noticed
the erection Of II two-storv dwelling
honsc of Nehemiah Cnbee's, facing the
property OF our late sheriff, Peter L.
Cooper, which has nearly reached IL state
OF completion. From thence on to Hen
derson Station we heard and saw but
little TO attract our attention. save now
ana then the clear ringing Of the wood
man axe that came floating mp from the
ley swamps Arriving ut Henderson we
found affairs in IL very lively condition,
'uld many sitting around the stove dis
eussing home affairs. as is generally the
case Ill our country villages this season
OF the year.
The citizens of Henderson We're favor
cd with lecture on the 1lth inst, by
IL. IL. cooper. accompanied with illustra-
ted views. The house was filed to over
howins, and all in attendance appeared
to be perfectly delighted with the enter
tainment.
We have noticed several odd looking
teams, AS we think, in Caroline; or at
least such teams as we ara not in the
habit OF seeing "a home, which consist of
q lone OK harnessed to the cart. But
still we think it to be a very safe, and sure
mode OF TRANSFORMATION and VIA donit
know but what wa can recommend such
to our farmers in Delaware.
Yours, Pes HOMO.
The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
severe Sentence for seurrility,

New YORK, Jan. 13.-In the case of
Moses Cham berlain, an old and veal
they citizens, convicted in the United
States Circuit Court of sending four
teen scurrilous postal cards through
the mail, Judge Renedict to-day sen
tcnced him to pay a fine of $5, 900 with
out Imprisonment on the llrst count
IN the indictment, and suspended sen
tence on the other thirteen counts. The
extreme penalty, ii imposed, would
have been ten years and IS, 900 fine on
each count
The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
Iiae National BANKS.

THE ELECTIONS or DIRECTORS IN VARIOUS
PARTS OF THE STATE.
Tuesday afternoon Directors were
elected in the National Banks of this
State, az follows:
NATIONAL BANK OF NEWARK.
President-Joel Thompson. ,,r.
Directors III. Ray, Harry War.
rem. 5. NJ. Curtis. John Pilling, John W.
Evans, VIM. McClclland
DELAWARE CITY NATIONAL HANK.
President-Georga Maxwell.
Vice President-Wm D. Clark.
Dlrectors-Wm. Reybold, Barney Rey-
bold, Arthur Colburn. Clement Reeves,
Henry Cleaver.
NEWPORT NATIONAL BANh.
President-F'ranklin Q. Finn.
Diroctors-William r. Finn, William
q. Phillips, David Lyman, David East.
burn. James Cranston, Jacob Ruben
came.
NEW CASTLE COUNTY Rational BANK OF
ODESSA.
PRESIDENT, ,harles Tatman.
Directors-Chas. Beasten, Jno. APPLE
ton, VIM. Polk, John G. Corbit, s. r.
Shallcross, III. N. Willis, Henry Davis.
Sam'l Pennington. sPea
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, MTpDLETowN. N.
Directors--Bsnjamin Gibbs, Henry
Clayton. B. It. Biggs, J. N. Reynolds,
James Culbertson, M. E. Walker, Joseph
Biggs, Z. C. Fenimope, j. b, Cazier
gHE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DOVER.
President-Dr Jump.
Directors-N. b. Smithers, Wilson l..
Cannon, John W Cullen. A. b. Richard
son, Manlove Hayes, John T. Jakes.
Frisby B. Clark, Thomas W. Wilson, Dr..
jump s E45E Assisfts'T
Within 10 Years the number Of
Mainc's conVicts has decreased one.
fourth,
The daily gazette., 1875-01-14

W hole Tickets, $50. Halves, So. Tenth, or
each coupon, 81. Eleven Whole Tickets S5Os
For Tickets, or information, address
THos. L. BkAMLETTE, Agent and Mana rer.
Louisville, ky.,. or THos. II. HAYS / Co., COS
broadway, n. 7.
The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
l24SS 1889

The Speaker Of the Senate proclaimed
That John P. Cochran having received
l22s votes majority over Jump. was de-
clared duly elected Governor of Dela.
ware Tor four years from Jan. 10, 1875.