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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

A STORY of genuine romance in real
life comes from Marysville, Ohio. A
promising young man of the place, son
OF one OF its most esteemed merchants,
was engaged to be soon married to a
beautiful young lady, who, a few DAYS
before the day set for the wedding, was
taken sick and died. Her bereayed low
er was inconsolable, and resolved to put
an end to mis- life. He first wrote this
letter to his parents: "What have to
live for? often think of drinking to
drown my troubles, but that would not
be showing respect to the one 80 dearly
loved. Rather than to become drunk.
ard, will end it all by dose of prussic
acid. My last wish is that I be buried
next to Dora, and that two monuments
be erected over our graves, to cost not
less than $780," Then proceeding to
tho ro,m of bis late betrothed, be threw
himself upon her death-bed, swallowed
the drug and breathed his last. He was
buried beside her in the cemetery, and a
monument will be erected according to
his wish.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

while others who want to 20 to heaven
state that no whale could gulp down q
street car without losing some of his
teeth. The trouble is that no newspaper
man ever finds time to go off on cruise
alter whales, and therefore the public
can secure no reliable figures and statis-
tics"
4" How old do whales live to beY'
You have got us now. We never
saw the same whale over three or four
times, or whether they died of grief over
that fact, or swan away to make new
acquaintance, we could never find out.
When a man tells you that a whale lives
to be seven, seventy or seven hundred
years old, ask him to submit the proofs ="
Where are whales mostly found?"
In the water. They never come to
land until tired of life and ready for d
Change"
How fast can they swim?"
"That is another disputed point. A
Nantucket captain says he saw one speed
ing at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
while New Bedford captain saw one
going at the rate of mile a minute.
Horace Greeley could have settled the
dispute in his Recollections of a Busy
Life but he seems to have avoided
doing SO. However, if you are ever
chased by Il whale, it will he prudent for
you to make a hundred miles an hour if
you can"
" DO whales prefer shelled corn to corn
on the cobs?''
NO. No well-re gulated whale would
be i'll the least put out after swallowing a
wagon load of cobs."
DO whales fight with each other?'
g. Not often. If whale comes fool
ing around, clustering what he can do
and putting on airs, lie is generally
rolled in the mud to take the conceit out
OF him, but, as rule, the whale prefers
to rest his nose OH coral reef and give
himself up to planning the social eleva
ton Of the walrus and the squid."
Is it cruel to harpoon whale?"
1t is. There should he a law oblig
ing the whalers to catch their victim,
with a noosed rope, and then Supply
them with chloroform. Continue to be
good boy, and to be glad that you arr
not whale. "-Detr0U Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
4 Curious Advertisement.

An English householder who has suf-
fered much from the grasping propensi-
ties of his landlord, being DESTROYS of
fulfilling to the letter the terms of his
tenancy, inserts the following advertise
ment in the newspapers: "Wanted i'm
mediately, to enable me to leave the
house which I have for these last i've
years inhabited, in the same plight and
condition in which l found it, 500 live
rats. for which I will gladly pay the
sum of five pounds sterling; and as I
cannot leave the farm attached thereto
in the same order in which l got it with
out at least five millions of DICKENS, do
hereby promise the same sum for said
number of DICKENS. n. B.-The rats
must be full grown and no cripples,"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

CAPTAIN .BoYroN; according to the
foreign papers, is still progressing "swim
mingly." At recent exhibition of b !
powers in the canal at Versailles, France.
ne swan with his paddle few strokes.
then laid it aside and used only his
arms. Then, with his body half ina
mersed, and with the French and United
States flags displayed, he commenced the
formation of raft. Two large beams.
on which he adjusted two planks, suf.
feed for the purpose; the latter he COW
cred with the debris of wrecked vessel.
He next set free several carrier pigeons
and made signals of distress; he caught
some fish for his food, lit his cooking
stove and cooked his meal, dined, and
then placed himself at his ease, lit his
cigar and read his journal. After writ
ing his log he put it in bottle, corked
it up tightly, and intrusted it to tho
waves. He next hoisted his sail, and
caused some amusement by chasing the
waterfowl. Finally he fired some rock
cts as night signals.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
THE MARKET
Chicago.

= CHICAGO, October 5.-l;00 P.sx.-Wheat
Weak and lower; 82A@825sc for seller
October; ;. 84Hc bid for seller November;
851<c for seller December. Corn-Lower at
341Sc for seller October; 34Ac for seller No.
vember; 34Ac bid for seller December.
Oats-Shade lower at 18H@18%c for seller
October; ,93@19Ac for seller November;
20h@2096c for seller December. Pork
OTIS for seller November; $7.8O@7.82H for
seller December. Lard-Lower at $6.15@
6.17H for seller October; $6.17H for seller
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

OURAY, chief of the Utes in Colorado,
is an exceptional Indian. Although re-
tanning the leadership or his wild tribes,
he lives very much after the manner of
civilized whites. He has an extensive
farm, on which he raises good cattle.
The buildings are large and the residence
we'll furnished. He rides in one of the
best carriages that could be purchased, q
present from Governor McCook, which
with a stylish team and a Mexican
driver, makes conspicuous turnout.
The farm operations and business enter
prises of Ouray have been very success
full
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER, Publishers
CURRENT TOPICS.

DO LEWIS, after three years in Cali
fornia, took part in a discussion of the
Chinese question in Boston, and claimed
that the Chinese are physically, morally
and mentally superior to any other peo-
MI,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

FIVE hundred and thirty-one firms of
nearly all nations have contributed
toward the international paper exhibit
ton at Berlin opened last month. Pa
per Of every description, and machinery
for making it, are exhibited.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

AUSTRALIA has carried of the highest
diploma for wheat ut the Paris exhibit
ton. She gained prize for each Of sew
en- samples of wheat and flour. Adelaide
wheat gained the gold medal at the Lon
don exhibition of 1851.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

AN American offers to keep the Eng
lish Channel quiet every day in the year
for 100000 per year. His plan is to
oil it, but French and English are
agreed that seasickness is nuisance sen
from Heaven and should not be inter-
fered with.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

RETURNS received at the agricultural
department, from twelve of the largest
tobacco-growing states, indicate that
there is considerable falling Oft in tobac
co crops, As compared with last year.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
AUTUMN.
by II. W. LOEGFELLCv.

Thou contest, Autumn, beralded by rain
With BANNERS, by great gales ins ssant tanned,
brighter than brightest ks Of Samarcand,
And stately oxen harnessed to thy vain.
Thou standest, like imperial CharemagRe,
Upon the bridge Of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedicti0ns o'er the land,
BLESSING the farms throughout all thy vast de-
Thy shield is ii efea harvest moon suspended
- long beneath the heavens o'erhanging caves;
Thy steps are by the farmers pra yers atteuden:
Like flames upon an altar shine the sheaves;
Ard, following thee, in thy ovation! splendid
Thine almoner, the wind, scate,s the golden
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

The once celebrated steamship Great
Eastern is to be employed in a new
manner-as a cattle transport between
England and Texas, making regular
trips between London and Galveston.
she will carry, it is said, 1900 head Of
cattle, and 1900 head of sheep, and will
thus 60 far toward feeding the British
metropolis. Notwithstanding her first
failure, she seems to be destined to be a
sort of connecting link between the
mother country and her Republican
daughter. She could not be better en-
gagged than in the cattle trade, which
promises to increase steadily.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

"'MUsHRooN towns" are generally
supposed to be confined to comparatively
young countries like our own, but the
London Builder applies the term to cer-
tain portions of London's own suburbs
which have sprung up and spread widely
within few months time. One of
these new suburban settlements which
includes about twelve roads and streets
and about 800 houses, the greater por-
ton of them occupied, was laid out
about year ago, and the first brick laid
in September, 1877, and from present
appearances it gives promise ere many
more months elapse to house popula-
ton of nearly 1000 inhabitants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

JUDGE DILLON renders the important
decision in the United States court, at
st Louis, that money received by q
bank after its failure does not belong
among its assets, but is trust fund for
the benefit of the one making the de-
post, and should be paid him in full.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

A New YORK interviewer who has
recently visited a lecture bureau in that
city, ascertains that there are in the
United States about 10000 persons who
consider themselves competent to enter
tain an audience by lecturing, singing
or reading. The bureau takes 500 from
each person who seeks its aid, simply
agreeing to place his name1n the SUBJ
ject of his lecture before the various
lyceums and literary societies. Lee
turers of established reputation, how
ever, make different arrangements. Rev.
Dr. Storrs will lecture this winter at $500
night; Mrs. Scott Siddons will read at
from 5000 to $3.50; Theodore Tilton at
from 1925 to $3.50; Dr.. Chaplin at from
$l25 to $3.50; James T. Fields, 800 and
expenses, and Eli Perkins, the humor.
ist, at from $50 to $75.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

Qua export trade to Australia since
the Centennial has doubled.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

IRIS wicked world. Even the Gulf
Stream has gone astray.-Harttord Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

November; $500 for seller December; SIS. Is
for cash; 45Xc for seller November. Bar.
ley-At $l.O6 for seller November. Whisky
AT $l09. Hogs-Receipts II, 900 head
dull, weak and lower; light ut $3.2OD3 80;
heavy mixed packing at $31O@3.3O; heavy
shipping at $3.30@3.60; Philadelphias at
$375@39O. Cattle-Quiet; receipts 1900
head
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

one of gang who had just burglarized the
dry goods store of E. F. Jeffray.
AN incendiary OF Pensacola, Fla, on the
night of the Sd, burned the block extending
from Carr & Jolly's saloon to Kahn's cloth
ing store. Loss $50, 900; insurance $25, 900.
The Gregory House, Lake Mahepac, N.
Y, was totally burned on the Sd inst. loss
$l00, 600; insurance, $4,000.
AT Foreman Station, Mich, on the Sd
inst. saw-mill boiler exploded, killing
James Foreman and wounding four other
persons seriously. The building was totally
destroyed.
A LARGE gang of counterfeiters have
been arrested in the mountains of Ken.
lucky.
A FIRE at Palestine, Texas, on the I'd
inst, destroyed six business blocks and
caused loss of about $4,000.
AT the state fair at Indianapolis high
wind carried a balloon against a tree, pre-.
cipitating the aeronaut-H Harry Gilbert-to
the earth, distance of eighty feet. He was
badly bruised and cut up.
F. S. MILLER, convicted of grave robbery
at Cleveland, was fined 500 and costs of
prosecution, and sentenced to four months
in the work house.
Young Colder, cashier of the Providence
grocers and producers bank was locked up
on the LIST. The defalcation will reach
from $780, 900 to 100000.
>s1HoN, the Italian ragspscker, Who. killed
q boy'named MoCue . Ew months since,
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by Judge
Rogers, at Chicago, to IA years in the peni.
Tertiary.
The ferry boat Union was burned ut
Newburg, N. Y, on the 1st Loss $1OO,O0O.
AT Easton, No., on the LIST, business
block and the court house were DESTROYED
by fire.
FRANCIS DAILY, while returning in
buggy from Coaticooke, Canada, on the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
Now York.
Foroigu.

LONDON, October 2-!2:3O p. M.-I.iv.
erpool wheat market opens quiet. Floating
cargoes steady. On passage fair inquiry.
Fair average quality No. 2 Chicago wheat,
for shipment, &C., 3ss 9d@S9s. Good car
goes mixed American corn, Of coast, 23s 3D.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

night OF the 2Sth. was waylaid and knocked
senseless by two men, who then made a
moose of the lines and tied him by the neck
to the buggy, starting the horses on. When
found he was quite dead. Two men named
Bowen and Webster have been arrested.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

TIE cooks in Boston have struck fryer
wages.-Grc}h &. Their interests were
probably at steak.-Boston Post That
is we'll UNDERSTANDABLE mmerciaf Eu!-
letin. The business, in fact, being over
done and good situations rare.-4drer-
f;eer
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-07-18
sNEERS.

Anybody can soil the reputation of an in
dividual, however chaste, by uttering a sus-
.picion that his enemies will believe, and
friends never hear of. A puff of wind cai1
take a million of the seeds of the thistle and
Go the work of mischief which the husband
man must labor long to undo, the particles
being too fine to be seen and too light to be
stopped. Such are the seeds of SANDER, so
easily sown, SO difficult to be gathered UP,
and yet so pernicious in their fruits. The
slanderer knows that many winds will catch
up the plague, and become poisoned by its
insinuations, without even seeking an anti
dote. No reputation, can refnte Il sheer, nor
any human skill preatone for the misery
they 'infict. Envy is one of the basest Of
passions it s'the essence OF devilisn. BY
it Satan lost his seat in heaven; and by it
men and women have, through the long cen
turtles, sinned and suffered in endless ways.
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JUDGE NOT"

Let us not be too anxious to judge or to
c~riticise others. If we see the truth and are
able to help others to see it, they will be
Judged by that; sooner or later they will
Judge themselves by it; and no judgment
pronounced by others is of any value till we
see it's truth ourselves. Even tile judgments
of the Almighty would not help us till we
were convinced of their justice. Most per-
sonal judgments and criticisms are apt to
seem harsh, unfair, unjust and unkind to the
person criticised. They always seem so if
there is no love mixed with them, and so
they do him no good. This is why we ought
always to try to see the good as well as the
evil in the person we feel called on to judge,
and to speak the truth in love.
There is a sense in which we can never
Judge our fellow-creatures at all. We may
Judge their actions, if we are sure of them /;
we may judge the motives, it we can fairly
infer the motives; we may judge their char
acters and say such a person is truthful,
such another is untrurhful such q man is
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-07-18
OF CITIES.

A very general impression is. that tho
quietest, most refined, and lady-like girls'm
the Union are to be found in Philadelphia
the. Quaker City.
The smartest, most stylish, the best
dressed, and the : gayest, in New York.
Gotham.
The most Selt-sufficient and intellectual,
in Beston-Modern Athens.
The sweetest and prettiest, in Baltimore
Monumental City.
The most prudish, old-maidish, and era
ziest on army officers, in .Cincinnati-tbs
Queen City.
The most Frenchy, the most languishing,
the longest hair, and the most striking
dresses, in New Orleans-the Crescent
City.
The most diplomatic and scheming, In
Washlngton-City Of Magnificent Distances.
The worst tlirts, the most atrocious man
deceivers and heart-breakers, in Chicago
the Garden City.
The widest and most daring, in Detroit
City of Straits.
THE most dashing. and the fastest, in st.
Louis-the Citysof Mounds.
The gaudiest dresses. and the coolest Co
quotes, in Louisville-the Falls City.
The most coquettise eyes and the lowell
est brunettes, in Nashville-the City Of
Rocks.
The dullest, in Quinoy-the Model City.
The poorest and most anxious to get
married, in Salem-tne City of Peace.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-07-18

good-natured, such another is iH-tempered.
But below actions, words, motives, charac-
ter, is the man himself the personal soul,
which is only known to God. What that
soul is worth in Gods eyes we can never
say. How much it has struggled, how much
resisted how it has longed and prayed for
light and has not found it; how it has been
misled and oppressed by evil circumstances,
what secret capacities and value in the sight
of God it may have we can never know here.
If we bore this in mind in all our Judgments
they would not be less honest and manly,
but they would.b be loving, generous, hope
full. We might find fault with a man, but
we would not hate him. The more we saw
OF his evil the more pity we should feel for
him, the more desire we should have to help
him. Then, in II judgments, ''mercy and
truth would meet together, Righteousness
and peace would kiss each other"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-07-18
HON CIRCLE {.
%pEAU7YFUL THINGS.

,.,utiful faces are those tna1 wear
!, bs natters little if dark OF fair
Iraa1e.souled honesty printed there
,.;al eyes are those that show
sbeS" rrstal panes where earth-hress glow
4like thauehts that III below.
..;s,, Inns are those whose words
! ssn from,the heart like songs Of nlf'S'
vat whose. utterance prudence s'fus'
..;f,, hands are those thatoo
~. that is earnest, brave n true'
No. NV moment the long day through.
,,,t,ful feet are those thatRo
,:ad,v ministries to and fro
narn lowlicst ways; flood wills 1t So
,tifn, shoulders are those that bear
~ se1ess burdens of homely care
uy;,h ratient grace and daily prayer
+;fn, lives are those that bless
a;1aot rivers of happiness,
whose hidden fountain but few may Suess'
lneautiful twilight, at set OF sum-
.~pesutiful goal, with race well rum
no.,.;fn, rest. with work we'll done.
~psautiful grave, where grasses creep,
where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deeI
oror worn out hands-oh, beautiful sleep!
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soRTHWICK, TEA TRADER,
CHINA.

"A long stretch of velvet lawn, bathed In
;c;ous golden sunshine. Four people
Eshine a game of lawn-tennis, and as
nv looking on with a kind of lazy inter-
On either hand shady strawberries, bor-
kpd with brilliant flower-beds !; at the end
Ithe lawn a little brook in the distance
long sweep of the Cotswolds.
Fifteen" counts Captain Hall, triumph
as a vicious stroke Of Gerald Sorth-
ck's racket drive the ball beyond bounds.
&rald has played badly throughout, al
DIST in silence, with a grave face and COM
sssed lips. 1t does matter, for his part
Y, Maud Conway, has exchanged with
Sptain Hall enough merry badinage for a
Men people. The young man is nettled
Nv at an ignominous defeat.
III could wish you victor in a better con-
Sted fight, Captain Hail."
BIT is my highest ambition, Miss Con
nv" There vas nothing in the words,
" the meaning, tone, and a low bow gave
Rm point. Maud bit her lips, and Gerald
Ekew down the racket, his face a little
&rner than before. She turned to him, an
agry glitter in the violet eyes:
Your play has been sWretched, MIR.
<Fthwick; it was worse. For the
lure we dissolve partnership"
ssrCan we? Can we, .Maud?" He speaks
eaningly now, and it seems strange her
Ilne can come with such tender infection
aam so hard and firm a mouth.
n Maud to my friends, sir Miss Con-
1y' to YOU"
8Re leaves her, and saunters into the
fubbery, following q little winding path
It'll it reaches the brook. Then, he throws
&nselt at full length upon the soft moss,
a thinks bitter things of the girl who has
fooled him. Half an hour later there is a
Astle among the boughs, and he sees her
the act of retreating.
II am sorry | disturbed your slumbers,
!. sorthwick. [ thought you were gone"
You disturb my life, Maud, waking and
efering. Come here"
ne spoke with such command, she in
!anctively obeyed, but her whole soul rose
Il REBELLION It was q move! experience to
~ spoiled and petted beauty.
#ne pointed to a low, rustic seat, and she
|ROk 1t. AS though to measure strength.
Ivy look into each others taces-his pale
%'erlnlned; hers passionate, resentful,
&''en Gerald turns his head away, lest res.
@uaol should tail. His tone is low, but
IN VI nerce, suppressed energy:
ioQiave not played with my love fol
%Oh'lls, Maud, without learning what it is
.0ues between me and all other chance
a happiness"
ne panses a few seconds, wherein she
ssAs a wild flower, and picks it to pieces
wv ald pensiye she looks now, and un
D0u'edly thoughtful; but his eyes are or
Pc distant hills.
l1om time to time, when l would hav,
N you sllenced me, and / thought i
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GOLDEN SHEAVES.
Contentmeut true is using right
The means we have to bless,
While living in expectant sight
OF greater happiness

III LIVING III CAp CCGlul SlSAt
OF greater happiness.
Dare to do right; fear to do wrong.
-Injure not another's reputation or bue-
mess.
BE severe to yourself, and iEidulgent to
others; you thus avoid all resentment.
There are two things about which we
should never worry: Things we can help
and things we cannot help.
Love is the golden thread that runs
through the whole Gospel. Gods love 70
us, ours to Him and one to another.
Look out Tor the man who makes liberia,
use of the personal pronoun Il" in converse
ton, for the chances are that he is n liar.
The wise man makes equity and justice
the basis of all his conduct; the right forms
the rule of his behavior Difference and mod
esty mark his exterior, sincerity and fidelity
serve him for accomplishment.