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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-15

We are soon going to have an enter.
tainment by the Austin Dramatic Club
They are preparing and will soon have
ready for presentation The Boys OF 49,"
THE man who works w. T. wilkins
Spring Valley farm, gave the wheat up
and was going to lose it all, when Mr..
Wilkins, with his usual energy. put men
and teams ut it and was we'll repaid.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-15

ONE night last week hungry news
boy took off his boots, and raising the
window of the Railway House advanced
on the table and begun on biscuits. An
employee Of the house found him thus
engaged and took him in. At his exami-
nation before Justice Griffith the next
morning, Mr.. Sherwin declined to pre-
fer charges, and the youths tears worked
on the chicken-hearted court, and they
let him down easy. He SAID he was hun.
cry, and the court. no doubt from know
ing how it was himself, wiped his eyes
and sent him off. Blessed are the merci-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-15

REV. MIR. WRIGHT has returned and
will resume his pastoral duties in the
Congregational church.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-15

LAST Thursday night most enjoy able
time was had at the lawn social at the
Rectcry of Christ Church, A good crowd
was present and everybody seemed hap
py; they who could enjoy as we'll the
pleasures of sense. as the flow of soul,
were not forgotten, and cake and lemon.
ade crumbled and flowed in abundance
and there were several baskets OF frag-
ments which were left over. The band
boys came out, and considering the alb.
scnce of some members Of the brazen
circle, made good music, aud earned the
thanks Of the party.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-15

The Western Rurdl says that tomatoes
picked when just ripe, and with d por-
ton of the stems retained, and at once
covered with a brine composed of tea.
cup of salt dissolved in a gallon of water,
can be kept nearly all the year without
noticeable loss Of freshness Of taste. Then
we want our friends to try it, so that
when we accept your oft repeated pressing
invitations, we may be sure of having
something to eat
We love the blushing tomatoes,
We think their favor good,
We love them in our hand to squoze
And suck their seedy blood.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
A True Story.

The following story is true in
every detail: A nilliner of respect
ability married dissipated tailor,
who abused, neglected and aban.
doned her. Several years having
passed without a clue to his where
ab0uts, her friends advised divorce
and her acceptance OF an advan-
tageous offer of marriage. The
woman persistanuy declined every
offer, nnd when she had accumu-
lated . sufficient sum started of in
the direction her husband was sup.
posed To have taken when he left
her. At Halifax, n. s., she received
slight clue, and took the steamer
to Portland, Me. Thence she fol.
lowed his track to this city, when
she ceased for many months to lnear
of him. Finally sue found that he
was working in Albany, tor which
place she Immediately started. She
was about week too late; he had
been discharged for drunkenness.
Spending her days at lucrative work
and her evenings at detective'ser.
vice, the unwearying wife at length
discovered that he was employed
BY q large firm in Chicago. She
wrote there and was answered that
her husband had gone away, nobody
knew where. Not satisfied with
this, she travelled to Chicago and
ransacked every concern Interested
in the tailoring there, until she met
a fellow country man, who said that
her husband, when last heard nom,
was In Omaha city. She wrote
there, got no answer, and went on.
There She heard that he Mad certain.
y Nit for San FrNncisCo, wAere no
had obtained . fine place 10 cutter
in . largo frm. SAe Of course went
thithsr, ooly 10 be told that her
bssband had bean several days
away fon his work, and was drink.
ing hAsa. He bad not been even at
bis boarding house. This led hee
to whit the station houses, and. ~
one, of them she sscertainod that
her husbapd was IL Jail for tn days..
He was released aud prevailed 9ton
to return home AFTER six yeAzS Hb.
sence. All this occurred G(thteen
years ago, and to day the prodigal
husband Of yore n . strick temper.
ance man, in independent oifouah.
stances, q model husband and faith
ier, srd . respected citizen,
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
the SILENT MELODY.

Bring me my broken harp" he said;
I'VE both are wrecks-but as ye will
Though all its ringing tones have fed,
Their echoes linger round il still;
1t had some golden strings, l know,
But that was long-how long.-ago.
~ can not see it's furnished gold,
can not hear it's vanished tone,
Scarce can my trembling fingers hold
The pillared frame 30 long their own;
We both are wrccks-a while ago
II had some silver strings, know,
"Bnt on them Time too long has played
The solemn strain that knows no change,
Aud where of old my fingers strayed
The chords they hnd are new and strange;
Yes! iron strings-I know-I know
We both are wrecks Of long ago.
1--WE both are wyeeks-a shattered pair
Strange to ourselves in Time disguise . :.
What say re to the lovesick air
That brought the tears from Marian e yesf
Ay! trust me-under breasts of snow
Hearts could be melted long ago!
"Or will We hear the storm songs crash
That from his dreams the soldier woke
And badc him face the lightning fash
When battles cloud in thunder broke'.
Wrecks nought but wrecks!-the time
was when
We two were worth Thousand men,"
And 40 the broken harp they bring
With plying smiles that none could
blame;
Alas! there's not single string
OF all that filled the furnished frame
But see! like children overjoyed,
His fingers rambling through the void!
~ clasp thee! Az. mine ancient Tyre. q.
Nay. guide my wandering fingers There.
They love Ia daily with the wirc
As Isaac played with Esau's hair.
Hush. We shall hear the famous tune
That Marian called The Breath Of June"
Aud so they softly gather round:
Rapt in his tuneful trance he seems:
His fingers move but not a sound!
A silence like the song Of dreauis....
There. yc have heard the air." he cries,
THAT brought the tears from Marian's eyes!
All, smile not Mt his fond conceit,
Nor deem his fancy wrought i'll vain;
To him the unreal sounds are sweet
No discord mars the silent strain
Scored on hfe's latest, starlit page
The voiceicss melody of age.
Sweet are'thc lips of all that sing,
When Natures music breathcs unsought
But never yet could voice or string
So truly shape our tenderest thought
As when by lifr's decaying fire
Our fingers weep the stringless Tyre!
10. W. Holmes, in Sept. Atlantic.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
Beef, Pork and Mutton.

I GIVE NOTICE NOW, THAT FROM
l this date until hrtAesuUtee, will have
meat at tie market house in Homer, every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Ny meat will he of the best quality, nicely
dressed and rs cheap as can be sold - this
market Will open regularly three tisnss
. week with the beginning Of the season.
THOMAS u. KINDER.
MsS = fs1e Js:-
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
Charity.

The noble manner in which the
people of all sections of the country
have responded TO the calls of char
ity in the present dreadful visitation
of disease, is worthy of the highest
commentator. From all sections
of the country come offers Of assist.
ance in the way of money, atten-
dance of physicians and nurses, and
all the other means that suggest
themselves to the humane and the
charitable. Each section seems to
vie with the other in the good work.
1t makes no difference with these
good people that they have recently
contended with the South in arms
or on the angry arena OF politics,
and that hates and dislikes were for
the time engendered on both sides.
1t seems to be sufficient for them
that the Southern people are suffer
ing aud that they have the means
OF alternating that suffering. Hence
their money is poured out TO US, and
every flash that comes over the
wires brings US their sympathy and
their coincidence. SO, when the
cities of Chicago and Boston were
desolated by the raging fire, did OuI
own people, forgetfHl of past ami
mosities, give of their scanty meaRt
to lessen the sufierings Of the vic
tins of the devouring element.
Such things as these tend to give
US a higher opinion of human ma
ture. We learn that men, after all
sometimes worship other diyinitie'
than MammOn; that there is some
thing else in this world besides eel
fishness and uncharitableness. b,
the timely assistance Of these beau
tiful charities untold sufieripgs bav
been alleviated. With the dread de
stroyer invading the novels Of tn
poor and helpless, who daily liv
nom hand to mouth, but for thi
charity the mortality would b
frightful. 1t ia certainly horribl
enough as it is.-Shrercrort Stand
ard.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
Deed on the Field of Honor. >
[From the New York Tribune.


The terrible news from the infect.
ed districts comes to US with ono
glimpse of chcerfulness aud hope
the conduct of noble men, both
white and black, who have gone to
nurse the sick. We want our read
ers to stop just for one moment aud
look at this matter. These nurses,
who have gone out Of the pure mir
of their own homes to the plague
stricken towns, to handle and ten
derby care for dead and dying men
who are utter strangers to them,
need higher courage than any sol.
dier marching into the thick OF bat.
tie. They gain nothing, neither pay
nor glory. Their victories are not
watched by a proud country for
whose honor they gave their lives.
If they die, no weeping nation will
year by year hang laurels on their
graves. The Howard nurse is only
mentioned in the papers as Zone of
twenty five arriving on such date,
or tone Of twenty who are dead.
His name nobody knows. If he
falls, his friends only learn of it be-
cause Ire fails to return. There 10
no burst Of battle cry or martial
music to cheer his. soul in his last
struggle with death; in the future
there is to be no roll.call of a victo.
rious army, with proud answer to
his name, "Dead upon the field of
honor He gives his life for some
poor plague-stricken wretch, proba.
bly, of less value to the world than
himself, in the poisoned air of a SOL
.itary chamber, where there is none
but God to know. He 10 buried
hastily in nameless grave, with
shuddering and fear, and quick.limc
is thrown. upon bis body. This sac.
rifice he makes ont of pure love to
God and humanity, this sacrifice is
now making, not by one man, but
By every one of the hundreds of nur-
ses sent out by the Howard AssOci.
alton. Every one of them carries
his life in his hand rs he goes.
These men, too, be it remembered,
are SOuthernerS-the people whom
we regarded az our enemies not long
ago, and whom we are apt still to
regard as impracticable, idle and
Quarrelsome. 1t isworth our while
to consider this thing. The news
papers lately have contained more
than the usual amount of crime and
nastiness. Neither foreign politics
nor our domestic records have been
calculated to raise our belief in the
nobility of human nature or to sug-
gest fresh watch. words Of cheer to
the world. II is something to know
that In our country, among the peo-
pie Of the very State which we have
believed given over to corruption
and fraud, noble deed is done with
a modesty aud silence which makes
it all the more noble.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18

Professional aud business cards, of ten
line, or less in length, sl5 per annam; for
.,x months, $40; for three months, 81
Rn.ines, Advertisements of greater length
will be inserted Mt above rates.
LEGAL advertisements will be charged at
I,r,l rates, where fixed by law; otherwise
nj special rates rs published above.
.. Special notices 20 cents per line
Funeral notices of less than ten lines,
AMI marriage aud religious notices inserted
gratis.
Job.work executed in the ncatest style,
and at reasonable prices.
August -, 1877.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18

body has got to fall into line some
time. For while all sorts of peo-
pie will pat an independent on the
back and say, 'aGo it, my lsrkey-
bully for you;" but before long they
will begin to thing over what
good, fat think he's got, and then
human nature, which you know is
"a mean as the devil, will crop out,
and the next time they'll drop him
so easy he won't know it. On the
whole, the aspirin man had better
60 along smuthly with his party or
his church or his copartners, as the
case may be.
General Black says he to me, says
he:
"Bill, as you are going to farmin',
let me give you piece of advice:
Don't 90 of on new lines, but watch
your Majors, and do purity much as
they do"
Well, he didn't mean if the Majors
went barefooted in the summer time
and slept in a shirt and washed
their feet in n skillet, and their dar.
tiers worked in the field and dipped
snuff, we must do 30 too, by no
means. But he meant to say that
the kind of farmin' that is sustained
by the majority Of farmers was
nifty apt to be the best.
Jesse with gettin' offis-the best
way is the old way. It may be,
however, that Providence does
raise up a man as an instrument to
reform society, but the instrument
is very likely to think he is Goin' it
all on his own hook; and he'll keep
on reformin' till the millennium if
the people will let him. l think
it would be well enough for him to
report progress some time, and
maybe the good Lord would let his
servant depart in peace. But you
let Teller git a taste of Washing
ton, and it does look impossible to
ever to get him away from there.
81 will stand fer election OF
course he will; but it does seem to
ME that if had held a rotaten offs
right straight along for forty years
/ would hunt the shade of Liberty
Hall and quit. Why, there's forty
men in that district been patiently
waitin' twenty years for his chance,
and he's now propOsin' to outlive
'em all aud himself, too. S'pOse be
does want to die in harness, what's
that to Berry HOuck' There's sun
other gentlemen worthy and vel
qualified, who would take the gear
kindly, aud work in 'em, too. But
if l had q horse that wore out hi.
breechin' holdin' back up hill, and
hadent pulled nary pound in seven
teen years, he wouldn't die in IN,
harness, shore. lie mout hunt an
other wagin. Eve no idee of toady
ing a man who toadies everybody
and everything | don't like, from
General Grant down to patent med
icine; and there's a heap of folks
my way of thinkin'. Every time
think about it | hear myself ex
ciaimin', thine out--nextn
Yours, BILL ARP.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
Bill Arp-What He Thinks of Bind
in0 the Sheavss.

Mr.. EDITUR: The harvest is
over. Great expectations have
not been realized. Farmin' is a
great deal like tishin'; every time
you start out You can just see your.
self catchin' 'em. but after tryin'
every hole in the creek you go home
sorrowfully, with fisherman's luck.
But We are not cOmplainin' by no
rneans tor we've got wheat enuf for
biskit every day and lightbread on
Sunday, and few bushels to spare
for them angels that's cum along
nnawares sum of these days.
We finished cuttin' the oat crop
this mornin', and what with them
and the clover already housed, the
cattle are safe for another year. |
immagine they look sassy and
thankful; hut, as for me, Mr.. Editur,
| am a used up individual. Durin'
harvest / have had to be a binder,
and if you don't know what that is,
ask Harris. The ends of these fin.
gers which are now inscribin' this
epistle are in a bad fix. STARTLED
and stuck up with bull nettles and
briars, they are as sore as a school
boys bile. There were sum varia.
tion to my business, such as catch
in young rabbits, and tindin' part
ridge nests and pickin' dewberries;
but the romance wore of the first
day, and, by the end Of the next,
my wife says l was as humble man
as any woman could desire. It's a
nifty purity thing to write about and
make up oades and poems. The
golden grain, the manly reapers,
the struttin' sheaves, the song OF
the harvesters, aud purity Miss
Ruth coquettin' around the fields OF
old man Boaz, and show jokin' did
they drive their team afeld,' is all
sweet aud niee to Q man -up Q tre6
with all umbrel; but if them poets
had to tie wheat half day in 2
June sun their sentimentality would
hence forth seek another subjek.
l tried swingin' the cradle awhile
but somehow or somehow else
could't exactly get the lick. L
wasent the kind Of a cradle fvt
been used to, and I'm too old dol
to learQ tricks now. The swing o
the reafer's cradle is very pecu
liar motion-very regular in its ir
regularity, and goes for the weed
and bushes and briars and the whoa
all the same. Somehow or other !
reminds me of an independent caI
dia8te . side wipip' aroupd to. &c
, ofns in a twtstiffed way. Wen,
like independence, and that's why
like farniu'-nobody to look TO fG
a living bat Providence. I like I
see a man independent IN opinion
and in action to-, md II be sscl
, seeds it shows that there ia gsn !
him; but it wost do to run tbs
schedule too long or too far in pol
!, tics or religion. Bonaparte an
Beecher tried it, and if they ooaldn
keep it up nobody can't. Ever.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
Terms Of Advertising:

One sonare, of one inch in space or less,
ira, insertion, 81 Nv; each additional inser-
ton 80 cents.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18

The good wife should resemble
three things, which three things she
should not be like. First, she should
be like q snail. always Ia her own
house; but she should not be
like Q snail, to carry every thieg
on her back. Second, she should
resemble an echo, to speak when
spoken to; but she should not be
like an echo, always to have the last
word. Third, she should resemble q
town-c clock in keeping a good time
aud regularity, but she should not
be like. a town. clock, TO speak %
loud that all the town may hear.-
GermdntorR Ress.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18

You can always detect the genu,
inc granger candidate by the Bills
ters on his horny palm, caused by
hard work shaking hands with the
voters.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18

Two twin brothers are said to be
% much alike that they frequently
borrow money from each other with
out knowing it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-23

BRUNSWICK, HIE.
y: d X. Dining Rooms, w. Il. Field,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-23

TN hank RUPTCY.-Distric Court of the
l. United states, District of Maine. In the matter
of John III. Gaubert, Bankrupt.
THIS TO give notice that petition has been pre-.
scented to the Court, this twenty-seventh day OF
March by John H. Gaubert of Portland, Bankrupt,
praying that he may be decreed to have a full dis
charge from all his debts, provable under the Bank
rupt Act. and upon reading said Petition,
1t is ordered by the Court that hearing be had
upon the same, the Third day of June, A. ID. 1875
before the Court in Portland, in said District at 10
O'Clock A. M, and that the second meeting of The
creditors of said Bankrupt. he held before j D. Fes
senoen, Register on the eleventh day of May, 1875
at 10 o'clock A. and the third meeting of the
same the First day OF June 1878, at 10 O'Clock A.
NJ, and that notice thereof be published in
the Portland Advertiser and the Portland Press,
newspapers printed in said District, once week for
three successive weeks, and once in the weekly Ad
vetiser and Press the last publication to be Thirty
days at least before the day of hearing and that all
creditors who have proved their debts and other per-
sons in interest," may appear at said time and place,
and show cause, if any they have why the prayer Of
said Petition should not be granted.
VIM. p. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court. tor said District.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-23
IN BANKRUPTCY.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Court of

TN ANKRUPTCY.-Distric Court of the
Il United States, District of Maine. In the matter
of Epps G. III. Bracket Bankrupt.
This is to give notice that petition has been pre-
sented the Court, this twenty-ifth day of March,
by Epps G. III. Bracket of Portland, Bankrupt,
praying that he may be decreed to have full dis
charge from all his debts, provabe under the Bank
rupt Act, and upon reading said Petition,
1t is ordered by the Court that a hearing be had
upon the same. on the Third dav of June, A. ID.
1873. before the Court in Portland in said District,
at 10 o'clock A. M, and that the second meeting OF
the creditors of said Bankrupt be held before James
ID. Fessenden, Register, on the Eleventh day OF
May, 1878, at O'Clock A. NJ, and the third meeting
of the same on the First day of June, 1873, at 9
O'Clock A. NJ, and that notice thereof be published
in the Portland Advertiser and the Portland Press,
three Successive weeks, and once in the weekly Ad-
yertiser and Press the last publication to be thirty
creditors who have proved their debts and other
persons in interest, NAV appear at said time and
place, and show cause. if any they have why the
prayer of said Petition should not be granted
WM. P. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court, for said District.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-23
Seed Potatoes.

A writer In the London Garden, upon the
eupJect OF seed potatoes, very properly objects
10 Keeping seed in pits or other warm, moist
situations, since it induces sprout growth. He
advocates broad, open shelves, placed some
what closely one above the other which ad-
init OF a large quantity OF seed potatoes being
stored 10 any air-sized shed, and if plenty OF
air be gwen when the weather permits, the
tubers Will remain firm and almost dormant
until planting time. And adds: 1t is an un-
doubted fact that seed tuber, if kept dry and
in an airy place, will never throw a Shoot
above an inch or so in length, and with it a
few partly developed roots. 1t is only when
kept secluded from light and air or where
there is moisture, that this growth is made.
In relation to manure and cultivation the
correspondent says: Raw manure should nev-
er be applied to land intended for the growth
of potatoes, but the deeper the soil is worked
the better. Let all redundant moisture get
freely away from the roots, and rather induce
medlum-sized haulm than coarse, succu-
lent one. The comparative freedom from
disease tnat has in years past characterized
ctrtaln klnds arises from the fact that the
haulm Is OF a firm, hbrous nature: a I'd if such
KINDS be grown IN soil of but moderate quail
lty, one free from raw manure a sound crop
may be almost assured. For first early kind
intended for early market or home copsump-
ton. good soil, with liberal dressing Of ma
nare, may answer as the crop is generally
thus forced and lifted for immediate consump.
ton; but for all main crops manure should be
avoided.
Seed planted on dry ground should be COW
cred tolerably deep, and those on wet ground
should have but light covering.