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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06
Correspo,,dence Of the Transcrtpt.

Correspondence Of the Transcript.
The LANSING FARMERS CLUB
met at the Bero school house, March 1st,
1879, President Samuel Harter in the
chair.
As your reporter was not present (at
least bodily you will please excuse my
attempting to give more than a mere
skeleton statement OF their dotngs.
Mrs. E. II. Wells was chosen Secretary
pro tenn.
Mrs. Harcor Lyons read an essay on
''System in Housekeeping"
Mrs. H. H. Kent, editress, then gave
us the first number of the Club Gazette
a paper published enthusiastically, de.
voted to science, general literature and
amusement, sustained by members of the
Club. As I have been favored with a
copy that ( perused with pleasure and
now think of with pride, wish to offer
nv congratulations to our editress aad
the Club upon the success attending this
last enterprise, and to express the hope
and belief that this part Of our exercises
will be as pleasant and profitable as any.
Look to your laurels, Mr.. Transcript.
Then took q recess for refreshment and
chat, after which the following resolution
was discussed: Resoloed, That wealth
exerts greater influence than culture
(meaning cultivated intellects). Mr.. Jonas
Haney sustaining the affirmative, and
Messrs. Mcbride ard Harter negative.
The Club appear to have endorsed the
affirmative of the proposition by vote of
two to one. More's the pity. They evi.
IDENTIFY got the cart before the horse, the
machine before the intelligence that in.
vents manufactures and operates the
machine. e. ...,.: "a. a..
Exercises for next week ut Ramsey: "
Essay by Mr.. Harter, subject Of his
own selection. Il: :ss..... r. z'..>,. -.
Essay by ]. Haney, on Bees. ~.
Essay by MrsJ. Haney, on manufacture
ofbutter. =
Mrs. VIM. Litchaeld, selection.
Discussion Of the following !. .....,5. f....
Resolved, That society will IS tsneft-
ed BY giving women the right to vote.
Leading disputants- Affirmative Nj.
Harter, negative Mr.. Mathieson.
Nn. NcBfide appointed one Of execu-
live committee
Mira. 81. il. Kent chosen President for
next msesine.
MIS. Daniel Bero, chosen vice Presi.
dent fornsxt meeting Yours Truly,
SECRETARY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06

FREEBoRN county has candidate Tor
State Treasurer in Charles kittelson, who
has Lcen, for something like dozen
years more or less, County Treasurer OF
that county. If experience AS an office
holder would be reason for advancement,
he is entitled TO the position by sll
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06

At the burial of Ashburton Webster
recently at Marshfield, Mass, the lid of
the casket containing the remains Of his
grandfather, the great statesman, Daniel
Webster, was opened, and his face, the
body having been embalned, was per-
fectly recognizable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06
OUR MOTHER.

lin memory Of MRS. LucRE11A N. sx1rH
no died January 9Th, 1921
The dear old home is silent,
That once was full Of glee,
And funeral shadows inger
Where sunlight used to be.
The brightest link is broken,
That bound US to the spot,
And memories the sweetest,
With sadder ones are fraught.
As wild storm comes in summer,
At close Of peaceful day,
So broke the tide of sorrow,
Upon our quiet way.
There came no sign or message
To herald coming i'll,
But swift, and sure. and silent,
Deaths fatal arrow fell.
1t robbed our home of mother,
And mothers love and care,
And left pail of sadness,
TO hang forever there.
It stilled the heart, whose throbbing
Was ever warm and true,
Whose deeds Of sweet affection,
For us were ever new.
The patient hands are folded,
The weary feet at rest,
And anxious care and trouble
No longer fills her breast.
But, oh, for us remaineth,
The bitterness of tears;
The loneliness and sorrow,
TO shadow coming years.
But while our hearts are mourning,
And time goes slowly on,
And we are missing sadly
The loved one that is gone,
One thought shall cheer US ever,
1t is that she is free,
And anchored safe in harb0r,
Beyond nfe's troubled sea.
No spot of earth 80 sacred
That death will not invade,
And underneath the grasses,
Our dearest hopes are laid.
But, oh, how sweet the vision,
OF home beyond the skies,
Where there shall be no parting,
And pleasure never dies.
Kasson, MINI. LOUIE.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06

The Lake City Leader presents the
name of Hon. William Window, from
Minnesota, as its candidate for President
of the United States. We second the
motion. We can support him heartily,
and without proviso, and prefer him to
Grant or any other man.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06
THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 6, 1879.
THERE are Il, 900 Masonic lodges and
5,OOO,OO Masons In the world.
A NEW flower found in the forests Of
Sumatra is thirty-thrce inches in diane
THE Legislature adjourns Tomorrow
sine die, aud the next Legislature will not
come together until 1881.
Our navy is made up Of two thousand
officers, and seven,y-fve hundred men.
Almost four men to one officer.
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA:

Mrs. GEN. MCCLELLAN is in Washing
ton, visiting friends. Mrs. Mcclellan is
beautiful lady, and almost rs able a
politician as the wife of Gen. Logan.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-06
CUSTOM TAIloR.

Retail, First Floor; Wholesale, Second Floor
Manufacturing, Third Floor. s.rg z. &c.,.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

How sweetly fall those simple weras
Upon the human hear,
When friends long bound by stroneess siSo
Are doomed by fate to part.
You sadly press the hand OF those
Who thus in love caress you,
And soul responsive beats to soul,
In breathing out God bless you
aGod bless you'll all long months sso
] heard the mournful phrsse,
When one whom In childhoed loved
Went from my dreamy gaze.
Now binding tears flow thick anu Iaso-
/ mourn my long-lost treasure
While echoes of the heart bring back
The farewell prayer, "God bless YOU
The mother sending forth her boy
To scenes untried and new
Lisps not studied, stately speech,
Nor murmurs out "Adieu-"
She sadly says, between her sOSs,
Whenever misfortunes press you,
Come to thy mother, boy, come back
Then sadly signs, "God bless you
"a God bless you.'' More of expressed love
Than volumes without number
Reveal we thus our trust In Him
Whose cyelids never slumber.
] ask in parting no long speech,
Drawled out In studied measure,
! only ask the dear old words,
So sweet, SO sad, "God bless you.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

| Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer
1t is curious commercial fact that
whereas year ago no American honey
in the comb was imported to England,
not less than half million pounds will
be sent in the next twelve months.
The trouble was honey could not be
sent strained or canned. American
honey is by far the best in the world
as regards flavor and purity of appear
ance. knowing that, a New York firm
hired Mr.. Hodge, a well-known honey
expert, to try to introduce it in Eng
land; over the water went Hodge, with
a big lot of the sweet stuff in the comb.
1t required skill to pack it and to load
and unload, but it arrived all right, not
cell being burst. The English deal
ers in honey gave him the cold shout
der. They had the editors of the
British Bee Journal to give him a
raking down, and they, themselves,
added all the mean things they could
say.
Mr.. Hodge made little Roadway. He
was about to give it up for bad job,
when brilliant thought struck him.
He must get the honey on the Queens
table. How was he TO do this? While
picking his teeth after dinner and ru-
minating ON the subject his eye alighted
on pickle-jar. 1t bore the name of
a man who had been high steward in
Windsor Castle. "He's my man."
said Mr.. Hodge to himself, and away
he went for the pickle man. Did he
rush up to him and blurt out, ~ want
to put American honey on the Queens
tablet" Not bit of it. He began
to talk pickles with the man-asked
Thousand questions about how they
were made, ate score or more of them,
and ended by proposing that the pickle
man furnish pickles to the American
house that he represented.
The pickle man was delighted. The
New York man gave him an order.
They had bottle of wine together,
and the American said: "Now / have
helped you, you must help me. Can't
you put American honey on the Queens
tablet" "Of course / can," was the
reply, and in no time the arrangements
were made. A case of honey was given
to the pickle man, and another was sent
to.the high steward, and in a short
time some of it was before the royal
family. The Young folks liked it SO
well that Victoria gave orders that it
be kept in the castle.
That was enough. American honey
was from that moment in demand, and
Mr.. Hodge has just sent orders for the
shipment of 100000 pounds of this
years crop. The British Bee Journal
Topped over to the other side and was
loud in praising the American article.
Every fashionable table must have
American honey.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06
"Not lii hi Were My Boy
A SUFFICIENT ANSWER.

Some years ago the late Horace
Mann, the eminent American educator,
delivered an address at the opening Of
some reformatory institution for boys,
during which lie remarked that if one
boy were saved from ruin it would pay
for all the cost and care of establishing
such an institution as that. After the
exercises had closed, in private CONVEX
sation a gentleman rallied Mr.. Mann
upon his statement, and said to him
"Did you not color thata little when
You said that all expense aud labor
would be repaid if it only saved one
boy?"
"Not if it were my boy" was the
solemn and convincing answer.
Ali there is a wonderful yalue about
Tiny boy Other boys may be rude
and rough; other boys may seem to
require more pains and labor than they
viii ever repay; or other boys may be
left to drift nncared for to their ruin.
which is SO near at hand--but amy
boy 1T is worth the toll of life
time and the lavish wealth of a world
around to save him from temporal and
eternal ruin. We would 90 the world
ronnd to save him from peril, and would
bless every hand that was stretched ont
to give him help and Welcome. And
yet every poor wandering, outcast,
homeless man, is one whom some fond
mother ca.lod "my boy" Every lost
woman. snnlken in the depths of sin,
was somebody's daughter in the days
of her childish innocence. To-day
somebody's son is hungry outcast,
pressed to the very verge Of crime and
sin. To-day somebody's daughter is d
weary. helpless wanderer, driven by ne
cessity into the paths that lead to death.
Shall we shrink from labor, shall we
hesitate at cost, when the work before
us is the salvation Of q sonla
Not If it is tiny boy" not If we
have the love of Him who gave His
life to save the lost.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

A correspondent of a Victoria paper
writes:
"Should any of yenr family be at
tackled with dipthesia, do not be alarm
ed, as it is usually speedily cured with
out doctor.
When it was raging in England a
few years ago, accompanied DIR. Field
on his round, to witness the so-called
wonderful cures he performed, while
the patients of Others dropped off on
all sides. The remedy, to be so rapid,
must be simple. All he took with him
was powdered sulphur and a quill, and
with these he cured every patient,
without exception. He put a teaspoon
full of -four Of birthstone into wine
glass of water and mixed it with his
finger, instead of spoon, as the sui
phur does not readily amalgamate with
water. When the sulphur was well
mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in
ten minutes the patient was out Of
danger. Birthstone kills every species
Of fungus in a man, beast and plant in
a few minutes. Instead of splitting out
tho gargle, he recommended the swal-
lowing of it. In extreme cases, to
which he had been called just in the
nick of time, when the fungus was too
nearly closing to allow the gargling, he
blew the sulphur through quill into
the throat, and after the fungus had
shrunk sufficiently to allow 1t, then
came the gargling.
IF the patient cannot gargle, take a
live coal. put iton a shovel and sprinkle
spoonful or two of the -four Of brim-
stone omit. Let the sufferer inhale it,
holding the head immediately over it,
and the fungus viii die. If plentifully
used the whole room may be filed, al
most to suffocation, and the patient
will be able to walk about in It, inhal-
ing the fumes, with the doors and win
dows closed. The mode Of fumigating
. room with sulphur has often cured
the most violent attacks of cold in the
head, chest, etc, and is also recon-
mended in cases of consumption and
asthma
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

A printer sat in his office chair, his
boots were patched and his coat thread
bare, and his face looked weary and
worn with care. While sadly thinking
of business debt, old Morpheus slowly
round him crept, and before he knew
it he soundly slept, and sleeping he
dreamed that he was dead, and from
trouble and toll his spirit fed, and that
not even cowbell tolld for the peace
able rest of the cowhide sole. AS he
wandered along among the shades, that
smoke and scorch in lower Hadcs, he
shortly observed an iron door that
creakingly swung on hinges ajar, but
the entrance was closed with red hot
bar, and Satan himself stood peering
out, and waiting for travellers there
about, and thus to the passing printer
spoke:
"Come in, my dear; it shall cost
you nothing and never you fear. This
is the place where / cook the ones
who never pay the subscription sums,
for though in life they may escape,
they will find when they're dead, it is
too late. ! will show You the place
where melt them thin, with red-hot
chains and scraps of tin, and also where
i comb their heads with broken glass
and melted lead, and if of refreshments
they only think, there's boiling water
for them to drink, the red-hot grind
stone to grind his nose, and red-bot
rings to wear on his toes, and if they
mention they don't like fire, I'll sew
up their mouths with red-hot wire, and
then, dear sir, You will see them sqnirm,
while j roll them over and let them
burn"
With these last words the printer
awoke, and thought it all practical
joke, but still oft times so real did it
seem, that he cannot believe it was all
a dream, and often he thinks with q
chuckle and grin, of the fate of those
who save their tin and never pay the
printer.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

indianapolis News.l

James Fl. Rice, of the State at large,
has recently been in st. Louis. While
there he stepped into the postoffice to
buy five three-cent stamps, laying down
haif-dollar therefor, and licking the
stamps while waiting for his change.
To him the postofficc clerk said:
"Can't take that half dollar; it's got
a hole In it,"
AAll right" said Rice, stake it out
of this quarter
IA bystander here asked the clerk
why be wouldn't take the money with
holes in it. The clerk explained that
in settling with the government the
silver was weighed, and the Office would
lose money by short weight. Here be
laid down Two nickels a. change for
Rice. One Of them had hole In it.
Rice glared at him.
That nickel has hole in il, sir,
and 4 shall thank you to give me an
other. 4 lost over $500, 900 last year
BY taking mutilated nickels."
= Wh--wh--what's your name?'
1James III. Rice, purchasing agent
of the United States government.
Postoffice address, Mt. Vernon, Posey
comfy, Ind, said Jim, pocketing the
two sound nickels and moving off with
great dignity.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

8 4 n ATE

Washington, December 1. - The
senate was called to order by vice
president Wheeler at II o'clock and
prayer offered by the chaplain. Sena-
tors Anthony and Bayard were ap-
pointed committee to Join similar
committee on the part of the house to
wait upon the president and inform
him that both houses of congress were
organized and ready to receive any
communication he might choose 10
make. Pending the absence of the
committee business was suspended.
At 1870, committee on presidents
message not having reported, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Thurman a recess of three
quarters of an hour was taken.
The senate reconveued at 2 p. NJ.
Mr.. Burnside gave notice that he
would tomorrow ask leave to call mp
Joint resolutions offered by him last
session with regard to the proposed
Inter Oceanic canal.
Vice-president laid before the senate
the annual report of the secretary of
the treasury, which was ordered
printed.
Just before 2 o'clock the presidents
message was received and read by the
clerk.
AT its conclusion, Mr.. Ferry rose to
announce the death of his colleague,
Hon. Zachariah Chandler, and moved
that the senate, as a mark of respect
to the latter's memory, adjourned,
which was agreed to and the senate
adjourned at 3:l5 P. M.
HoUNE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
AT precisely - o'clock the speaker
called the house to order, and after
PRAYER by the chaplain, roll was called
and showed an attendance of 232
there being fifty-six absen-
tees.
The newly-elected members from
California, Iowa and New York have
qualified, taking the iron-clad oath,
and the house took a recess to enable
the committee to waite upon the presi-
dent and inform him that the house is
ready to receive any communication
from him.
The leaders of the house of repre-
sentatives intend peculiar adjourn
ment of that body Immediately after
reading of tile presidents message,
without proceeding to the usual Mon
day call of states for instructions, or
any opportunity for offering
Of motion to suspend the rules, etc.
1t is also understood that the house
win transact no business this after
noon after receiving the presidents
At 1:50 the presidents message was
received and read by the clerk. 1t was
listened to at first with attention, but
after time members fell into cenver-
sation, and the reading was concluded
without any manifestations of appro-
sal or disapprcvaE on either side of the
house.
On motion of Mr.. Wood, of Kew
I ork, the message and accompanying
document were referred to committee
IF the whole, and ordered printed.
The house then adjourned.
4>
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06
SIxrEEr YEARs SrLEscE.-A

SIxTEEF YEARs SILEscE.--A ST.
Louis correspondents of the Cincinnati
KpauiFer tells the sad story sof an aged
couple in that city who have not spoken
10 each other in sixteen years. though
living together and sharing the ssme
table. Her refusal to sign . deed was
che canss Of the husband anger. Their
.oally means Of communication has been
q daughter, who married few weeks
age, and has since died in congcstive
chill. Even this catastrophe has mot
nnsesled the lips Of the obdurafe couple,
and they eontinae their lives Of solitude.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

A great writer says @some peonl.
are born Christians" but there |, u
occasion for worrying over the matter
They generally outgrow it.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

Look out for the giri who throws
her sole into pair Of slippers for the
person.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06
.R. HOE & 90. fhassS f9S.

ERs or PRINTING PRESSES AND as.ssys.
ING MACHINERY or EVERY pEs s's<x
71oN. ALSO, CAST STEEL 81 Vs, o' 81 8.
e ,'ssA ~, n n ~ aec1i. s7a, 90.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

A family of emigFaats were fon,s
occupying tomb in cesHefery n ,,,s
PFovideuee, r. L, that had -been IL.
open. When discovered they had bsa
possession week and were ns;nr .aa
coffin shelves to put their dishes 3 On ~
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

How NUTMRas GRow.-Nutmegs
grow on little trees which look like
little pear trees, and are generally over
twenty feet high. The flowers are
very much like the lily of the valley.
They are pale and very fragrant. The
nutmeg is seed of the fruit, and mace
is the thin covering over the seed. The
fruit is about as large as a peach.
When ripe it breaks open and shows
the little nut inside. The trees grow
on the islands Of Asia and in tropical
America. They bear fruit for seventy
or eighty years, having ripe fruit upon
them at all seasons. A fine tree in ia
maica has over four thousand nutmegs
on it yearly. The Dutch used to have
all this nutmeg trade, as they owned
the Banda Islands, and conquered all
the other traders and destroyed the
trees. To keep the price up, they once
burned three piles of nutmegs, each of
which was as large as a church. Nature
did not sympathize with such mean
ness. The nutmeg pigeon, found in
all the Indian islands, did for the world
whatithe Dutch had determined should
not be done-carried those nuts, which
are their food, into all the surrounding
countries, and trees grew again, and
the world had the benefit. Il Boston
journal of Commerce.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06

How Ear is it to Cub Cre.l :,
asked q traveller of Dutch -ro,na.
"Only s1oost little ways.n sT rs@ !.
four. six, eight or ten miles : ..ss,n,,a =
tiently asked the stranger. aYas = !
drinks it isl sereneIy replied the M !
moved gate keeper ~
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06
ADANESON'S
Botanic Balsam.
Price, 3D. Gents
TESTFmOyIAs.


4 From Ites. DR.. Qalimbs.
AUGUSTA, ME-, Jan. 5, 1873.
" Adams0n's Botanic Cough
IBalsam Inns been used In our
family for more thanthree yean,
land we can recommend Il NJ d
superior remedy for coughs and
lc0id.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06
COFJasTE 40 YEARS.

From Aier. hiRc0Sd, ~ teafs 1eH
Gafherxr on, Ke,ssebec Hradgs.
I have been troubled With
very bad cough for 40 yearl, sna
after trying almost every medi-
lcine In the market, / Ut last a.
SPARED Of ever getting rid Of my
cough, which at times was very
severe, especially after catching
IA slight cold, and ] could find no
relief until, upon the advice q :
friend, Ipurchased one bottle q
|" Adamson's Botanic Cough ~
lsam,'' which, to mr. surprise,
afforded me instant RELIEF ana
NOW / would not part VILE Wv
medicine upon any terms, ana
Jam very happy to add fhis tessl- y.
Emony to the many hapdreds seu
have received, as ] eOnsiderba
lmOst valuable remedy.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-06


WINTHROP, Me-, Feb. 10, ls7a
| Mr.. FRANK w. krNsEAs--
Dear Sir /: ] have been very much
afflicted with Asthma for7 years;
1.-The most of this time Ii has been
VERY difficult for me to walk up
one flight Of stairs, or lie down
with any degree Of comfort /;
have tried every remedy ] could
hear of utAmuch, II any,
Improvement, until ] found
|" Adamson's Botanic Cough Bal,
SAM the effect Of which hes
been truly wonderful. lam able
to get q good nights rest andio
ATTEND to my business, and 10
run up and down stairs ~ befefs
the Asthma came on me.