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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
Pioneer DAYS.

An ancient dane who settled in lndi-
ana sixty years ago-she it now ninety
four years old-recently gave cores
Don dent OF the Cincinnati Enquirer a
few "reminiscences of early lite on the
frontier She said: ave bad no win
dows to our house, and the door was
made of a blanket which was hung over
the doorway. We had large fireplace
made of sticks, in which fire was always
kept burning. My babe was then three
months old.
"All we had to keep house with was a
small provision chest, bell-metal ,ea-
kettle, sugar-bowl, pewter plates, and
some cups and saucers.
"When we moved into our cabin we
had no beds, and nv son, then 1our years
old, had the whooping. cough, I felt that
it would be dangerous to place him on
the puncheon floor, so I had my husband
make hammock by suspending quilt
from the rafters by BEDFORD.
1--WE made table out of walnut slab,
and then three stools, and our house.
keeping outfit was complete.
".Well, as told you, my husband
started to mill and expected to be absent
week. had brother living in Vim
cennes who had sent us word that he
would pay US visit, and was expecting
him.
"rhe second night after my husband
left I heard some hallooing down in the
bottoms, and felt certain that it was
my brother who had lost his way in the
darkness. I Immediately answered the
crv and w "a prOm nt1u roonop1o1 RI on1
continued to approach. I set candle on
a stump in the yard, and leaving my
little boy sitting in the door, advanced
toward the wood, calling to the approach
ing person to come to the light.
"You cannot imagine my fright at
hearing the yell between me and the
house, and on looking around iscovered
a large panther pass between the light
and my boy. / gave a scream and picked
up the candle, and dashed into the house
and lowered the quilt. I can't tell you
how long that light was, or the Mi hts
which followed until the return of my
husband.
II had to bake my bread at a neigh
bor's, and usually went over at night,
but never dared to 60 unless carried a
frebrand in my hand. Many time I've
seen the flashing eyes of panther, but
they never dared attack me on account
of the fire.
"When the neighbors went visiting in
those days.. they took their teams and
guns and stayed week, the men hunt
ing, and the women quilting and helping
each otner at their domestic duties.
allow did make butter2 Oh, easy
enough! Iput the milk in a gallon jug
and shook it until it was churned. The
trouble sometimes was in getting the
butter out of the jug.
II have frequently gone to mill alone
when had to swim the horses across the
river, the boat not being large enough to
carry them. I have often seen the wom-
en- walk five miles On visit and carry a
babe. They would set the child straddle
of one of :heir hips, and putting their
arm around it, could carry large child
with ease. The men in those days wore
bucksin trousers and went barefooted in
summer, while the children seldom had
shoes at ALL :"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
A ~Cullurd Sarmon.

Belubbed fellow trabblet in holding for
doesn't quote no special verso for what has
De sarmon will be berry short, and dis here
am de tex: *>'.' D.. '-''
Dat halfway: doin's amt no count for dis
world or de mex.
Dis world dat we's a:libbin in is like = cotton
Whar ebbry cullard gemman has got his line
to hoe; r,C1, al
An ebbry time lazy Niger stops to take q
nap, -;
De grass keeps on s-g.own'. to smudder up
his crap.
When Moses led de Jews across the waters oh
de sea, =.
Dey had to keep a-goin' jest as fa.' a. fas'
could be.
Do you s'pose dat dey could ebber have sue.
An reached de promised land at last, II dey
had stopped to fish?
My friends, dar was garden once ,whar Alden
Wild no one round to bodder dem, no nelghbor
An ebbry day was Christmas, an dey got DER
An e6Sryt'ing belonged to dem e1cep' an
You all know bout de story-how de snake
come swooping round,
A stump tail, rusty moccasin, a'crawlin' on
the groun'-
How Eve an Alden eat their fruit, an went
an hid DER face,
Till the angel oberseer he come an drove 'em
off de place.
tempted for to shirk,
Rnt had rone ahont dair rardenin' an landed
to their work;
Dey wouldn't hab been a-loafin' whar dey had
no biAness to,
And de dehbel'd nebber had chance to tell
'em what to do.
No halfway doin's, bruddren. It'll ne5ber do.
Isay!
Go at your task and finish it, an denis de time
For even il the crapi is good do rain'll spoil do
bolls.
Unless you keep a-pickin' in de garden OBJ
your souls.
Keep a-plowin', and holn', and a-scrapin' oh
de rows,
And when de ginnin's ober you can pay up
what you owes.
is hot,
De sherif's gwine to Lobby on ebbryt ing you's
got.
Whatebber tbs you's dribin' at, oe sure and
drive it through,
And don't let muffin stop you, but do what
you's gwine to do;
For when you see niger foolin', den as sho's
you're born,
You's gwine to see him comm out de small
end oh de horn.
Tanks you for de 'tention you hab glib dis
afternoon,
Sister Williams will 'blige us by De raisin' OBJ
q tune;
I see dat Brudder Johnson's bout to pass
round de hat,
And dent let us hab no halfway .doin's when
it comes to dat
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
have Women 9 Monopoly of Weak
Nerves2 -.

-
One would suppose SO, to read all that
male authors have to say Of the prone.
ness on the part of women to indulge in
Mysteries and other inopportune demon.
suatons when threatened with sudden
death, and Of the strength and calmness
which men display in the face Of danger
yet, judging from three occurrences
which took place during Thanksgiving
week, men with unreliable nerves are by
no means scarce, and it is possible for 8
woman to exercise GOODNESS and courage
in soul-rying times: =
First, there was the case of the Pom.
merania. It acclaimed by the survivors
that the officers Except the captain) and
crew OF the steamship became utterly de.
moralized, and, owing to lack of disci-
pine, and absolute brutality on the part
OF those in charge Of the vessel, many
passengers were lost who could have been
saved, had anything like order been pre-
served. Again, the store of Rogers &
Orr, dry goods merchants in New York,
was burned on the eve Of Nov. ~. One
OF the firm, while the FIRE was in progress,
was so overcome that friends were COM
PEELED to send him home in a carriage,
and within an hour another one of the
firm succumbed to fright and anxiety,
and he also was taken to his home. At
no time was there the least danger of any
lives being sacrificed, and the only horror
which confronted these gentlemen was
seeing their property (which was nearly
covered by insurance) destroyed. So
mnch FIR tho. COLI pooooeo,or &C. -,
Now for an exhibition of the timidity
and nervousness of woman.
Hardly were the opening exercises at
Public School No. 80 (New York; con-
cluded. on the morning of the 9th ulr.,
when the janitor discovered tho telling
around the steam boiler was on fire He
notified the principal, Miss FaLvey, who
Immediately gave the signal for dismis-
sal, and the children joyfully prepared to
leave the building, thinking that their
earlv release was due to the following
day being Thanksgiving. The principal
staid calmly at her post and watched the
happy children troop by. When about
two-thirds had passed out, the alarm of
fire was given and the little ones who
were still in the building became panic
stricken. Miss Falvy closed the doors,
Gained the children as best she could.
and by her admirable management sue
ceeded in getting all of the children out
of the school house unhurt. Here was a
woman threatened with q fearful death,
who neither deserted her charge, as did
the sailors of the Pommerania, nor al
lowed fright to deprive her of her senses,
as was the case with the dry-goods mer-
chants.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
Decorating Their Dead Foes.

The respect paid to courage by the
warlike tribes of the Anglo Indian border
is strikingly illustrated by an episode
Of Napier's famous campaign in Scinde.
A detachment be d been sent against one
Of the brayest Of the native tribes, almost
every warrior of which bore the proof of
his valor in the green thread tied around
his wrist, q badge more, priced, by the
"hill men" than the Cross of the Legion
of Honor by a French soldier. In, the
course OF the skirmishing that ensued,
an English sergeant and eleven of his
men, mistaking the orders giver them,
advanced up narrow gully, where they
suddenly found themselves confronted
by more than 100 of the enemy. The
gallant handful charged without mo-
ment's hesitation, and were slain to a man,
after killing nearly thirty of their op.
ponents. When the last Englishman had
fallen, tie old chief of the tribe, one
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
1T is Nothing, as You See."

1t was in 1866. Bismarck-then Count
Bismarck-was returning from the palace
where he had been to see the king. While
passing through the large street of Berlin
called Inter den Linden, and quite near
the place where Hoedel and Nobiling
have sir ce attempted the life of Emperor
William, he suddenly heard shot fred
close behind him. He turned sharply
round and saw young man who, with
smoking revolver, was aiming at him.
He strobe at once up to the man and
seized the arm. that held the revolver,
while with the other hand he seized the
throat of the would-be murderer, who,
however, had had, time to pass his weapon;
on to his left hand, and now fired three;
shots in quick succession. Bismarck felt
himself hurt in the shoulder and in one
of his ribs; but he held his furious assail-
ant fast till some soldiers came I'M and
took hold of him. Then. Bismarck
walked home at a brisk pace and reached
his own house long before anybody there
could know what had happened. .Isoia-I
The countess had some friends with
her when her husband entered the draH
ing room. He greeted all in q, friendly
| manner, and begged to be: excused for q
| few minutes, as he had some urgent bust
ness te attend to. He then walked into
the next room where his desk stood, and
wrote to inform the king of the accident.
Having attended to this duty, he returned
to the drawing room and made one little
standing joke, ignoring his own un-
punctuality, and saying to his wife j:
| ssWell!, are we to have dinner to-day2
You always keep me waiting. )" He sat
uo~-a.4i Partook; hesrtilyssof the dishes
set before him, and it was only when the
dinner was over that he walked up to the
countess, kissed her on the forehead,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

of the most renowned warriors of North
ern India, turned to his men, and said :
How say ye. my sons2 were these Fer
inghees (Europeans} brave men," "The
bravest We have ever met" answered the
mountaineers with one voice, "Theu, !"
cried the old man, taking the precious
thread from his own wrist and fastening
it to that of the dead sergeant, "bind the
green thread upon them all, and not
around one wrist only, but around both.
Unbelievers though they may be-, there
are no Drawer souls in heaven; and it
may be that when God sees how we have
decorated them He will grudge such
heroes to Shaitaum (satan) and give them
place beside His throne"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
IL ] LIBERAL Stranger.

A red-nosed stranger shuff1ed into a
aloon yesterday evening where crowd
of loungers were discussing the political
situation, and waiting for successful
candidate to drop in and "say something"
Making low obeisance to the man be-
hind the bar, the stranger turned to the
oungers and said:., vie, =
"Glal you're on deck, gents; was afraid
I would be obliged to drink ale, and if
there is any thing despise it is to play a
game of SOLITAIRE at a public drinking
fountain. Come up and join me-" ar.
The boys rallied to the call, and half-a-
dozen glasses were filled and emptied
with my regards, strangers
I'm the words of the Latin poet" said
the strange man, whirling his empty
glass across the counter, "'FSz Tim up
again."
The order was obeyed, and the bever-
age drank to the health of the genial
stranger. 80 -
"What's the penaltya' he asked, wip-
ing his lips on the back OF his hand.
Dollar forty"
"Only a dollar-fortyl'' ne exclaimed;
las sure as my name is Goosie- it's worth
twice that, if it's worth a cent. Why, nv
dear SIR" he continued, unearthing a
greasy pocket book, awe travelled from
Maine to Californy, from Camden to Kali
amazoo, and dog my cats if ever heard
tell of.such cheap entertainment"
I'VE try to do the fair thing by our
customers, !" said the bar keeper, vislbly
touched by the compliment y 80, :.
II have slaked my thirst at the Fifth
Avnue, at the Palace Club. at the South
ern, at Days, at the Brunswick, at the
Continental, and I can truthfully assert
that never before have my lips touched
juice OF the corn that could hold candle
to that with which you have just RECALLED
u.s. Dollar-forty, indeed!" -. .
81 won't have any Il but the best" SAID
the bar map, blushing slightly. .
"As I go up and, down through llfe,'
continued the stranger with enthusiasm, II
will take it q pleasure to call every mans
attention to the fact that ut your place
and will note the street and number as
go out-that at your place, sir, sign Of
Ganbrinus sitting on 8 beer key, is dis
pensed q balm in Gilead at ten cents 3
glass. that can be had nowhere else on
the fOotstool for less than twenty -ive.n;
II will be much obliged to you"
Don't mention it. I will 20 miles GU,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
Wonders of the Prairie Mirage.

The mirages of the plains are of won
drous beauty, writes a correspondent.
In the autumn, when all the atmospheric
conditions are perfect, strange transfer
nations take place upon the prairie ocean.
It Is the morning OF such day. Along
the eastern horizon narrow belt of silver
light appears. As it grows broader the
silver gray of it's lower line changes to
gold. Fleecy clouds above the belt take
on a yellow red. The grayish shadows
of the dawn lift slowly from the earth
and imperceptibly float skyward. Just
before the red disk of the sun peers above
the horizon line weird islands appear in
the s1y-islands clothed with trees and
waving grasses, and held together by
threads of yellow, green and azure. The
earth stands inverted in the sky. The
wooded bluffs and timber islands of the
prairie turn bottom upward in the
glaucous ether above, with their feet
knee-deep in water. The groundwork of
this illusion is a grayish semi.opaque
mist, but the smallest object on the plain
is imned against it with marvellous fdel-
ity. Objects far beyond the range of
vision over the prairie are brought into
plain view by this ETHEREAL mirror. I
have seen a little village thirty miles
away, over the plains standing in the sky,
every feature traced with the minuteness
of line engraving. I could distinguish
the dogs wandering through the streets,
the cows standing idly about the yards,
and the opening and closing of door in
the cabins. 1 have seen dog sledges,
whose trains were out of sight below the
horizon, trail through the heavens in tor.
turous course; long lines of cart trains
swaying to and fro over the sand dunes
Of the sky. In all these cases the ground
does not appear; only the objects growing
upon or passing over it. Everything has
the appearance of growing or standing in
water. The feet Of animals, the roots of
trees, the foundations of houses are all
lost in an aqueous mist. "..
The ordinary features of the mirage
the simple drawing of distant objects
near the spectator-are of common, and
in many places, of everyday occurrence
at some see sons of the year. A few rods
way on every side light line of gray
ish mist, exactly resem bling that rising
from lake or stream in early spring, sp-
pears, and upon its surface is imned the
whole landscape, changing constantly,
hike the colors Of kaleidoscope, as the
traveller advances. The illusion Continues
but few minutes, however. The gold
fades from tho deecy clouds overhead AZ
the yellow light descends upon the plain
chasing the receding shade before it. The
sun rises, and the dissolving views of the
mirage fades slowly away.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

of my way to call travellers attention
to the fact that beneath your counter is
black bottle with q corn-cob stopper,
which contains the Identical nectar that
Jupiter 81 psse In, addition to this full
page, advertisement embellished with
original cuts, would gladly hand you
the paltry dollar and forty cents."-and
he ;unclasped the pocket-book and helped
himself to chew of fine cut therefrom-
shut the fact Is, sir, the failure Of the
Bank of the City of Glasgow has left me
without cent in the world; ta-ta-come
and see US often land he was gone. i
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

Canned 6shballs are now being put up by .
Massachusetts firm, which employs $50 men,
besides sixty tinsmiths, Extra fine oodfsh,
the best of Nova Scotia potatoes and gilt-edged
New York bnttenAre rnpltoyed, and a rousing
business is done, constantly increasing orders
coming in from all parts of the world, even
from China il 2, and Turkey. 9szas I'd; : p" q Z
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

wished her in the old German way.
"9esegnets Aahlzeit!" (may your meal be
blessed y and then added. sYou. see I
am quite well" She looked up at him:
"Well, 3 be continued, g You must not be
anxious, my child. Somebody has fred
at me; but 1t is nothing, al you see.n-
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

The CHANNELS for the exit OF impurities
from the system must be kept unobstructed
or deplorable consequences will follow. DR.
Morris VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS, by restoring
the Bowels to an active condition, act as q
cleanser Of all the bodily fluids. Moreover
gans vigorous, rouse the liver, and purify the
hillary secretion. AS a cathartic they are in
1nitely to be preferred to dangerous blue pill.
Sold by Druggists,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
y
SUFFERING for q Lilo Time.

Persons afflicted with rheumatism often
suffer for . life time, their fortunes being al
most without remission. The joints and mus
cles of such unfortuuates are in most cases
shockingly contortcd and drawn out of shape
To afford them even temporary relief, the
ordinary remedies often prove utterly useless
Hostetter's Stomach ,Bitters, on the other
hand, isavouched by persons who have used
it, to be genuine source of relief. It keeps
Of the body, and removes from It impurities
which, in the opinion of all rational patholo.
gists, originae this agonlzing complaint and
its kindred malady the .gout. Besides this
the Bitters remedy disorders Of the stomach
liver and nerves, prevent and eradicate inter.
militant and remittant fevers, promote appe.
tite and sleep, and are highly recommended
by physicians as desirable medicinal stimu.
liant and tonic
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

q. Baldwin, of Monroe City, Ind, W: itee
under date OF Dec. Sd, 1877, THAT his wife used
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with won.
derful results. It effected her entire cure
after several physicians had failed. The
many similar letters positively affirming that
the Favorite Prescription had cured the dis
eases and Weaknesses peculiar to women, in.
duced DIR. Pierce to sell it under guarantee
Ladies need no longer submit to useless and
and painful local treatment, as the Favorite
Prescription is a safe, sure, and speedy cure.
Hundreds who had been bed-ridden for years
have been restored to perfect health BY its
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
CHEW
The elebrated
"Matchless
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.

TOBACCO.
TAG PfoN TER TOBACCO COMPAY,
New York. Boston and Cica 60.
For upwards of thirty years Mrs WINS
LOWS SOOTHING SYRUP has been used
for children with never-failing success. It
corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
| collie, regulates the bowls, cures dysentcry
and diarrhea, whether arising from teethine
or other causes. An old and welr-tried rem
edy. IS cts. bottle.
Catarrh is the forerunper of consumption
consumption means death. Juniper Tar Ci
garett,s are the only common sense, pleasant.
certain cure for ,Catarrh, Asthma, Colds and
Hoarseness. Price Is cents; sold by all drug
gists. Mailed on receipt of price by Liebig
Chemical Co., 2 Barclay st., New York. .
Neglected Coughs and CuIds.-Few are
aware of the Importance of checking Cough
or Common Cold," in it's first stage; that
which in the beginning would yield to
"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs," if neglected,
often works upon the Lungs.
Hyou are satisfied to have a poor organ, or
run the risk of having poor one, take any
organ that is offered you. But, if you desire
to be sure of having the very best. insist on
having a Mason & Hamlin, and do not be
persuaded to take any other.
Chew JacksOn's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-02
----E~N~-
SENATORIAL,

By common consent the Republicans
of Dunn and Pierce counties seem to
conceded to their Eau Claire brethren
the privilege of presenting to the
forthcoming Senatorial convention for
its endorsement candidate for State
Senator. The Eau Claire Republicans
however, have got themselves into a
family quarrel and elected two sets of
delegates to the Senatorial Convention
and unless a compromise of some ma
ture is agreed upon, the delegates
from Dunn and Pierce will doubtless
be called upon to decide which of the
delegations from Eau Claire shall be
admitted to seats in the Convention.
The delegation that is refused admis-
sion will doubtless be greatly offended
and we very much regret that the Re-
publicans of that county are to carry
tn cir local disputes into district con-
ventlon for adjustment. We trust
that the Pierce county delegation will
weigh carefully the facts in the case
and then vote to admit that delegation
from Eau Claire which in its candid
Judgment it believes to be entitled to
admission, without any reference
whatever to real or fancied personal
grievances. What is termed the
"Griffin delegation" seems to have the
best case though the anti-Grifiin folks
NAV present very PLAUSIBLE one.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-02
ILLUSTRATIONS OF PROGRESS, No.
8, GYMNASTICS.

That there are studies not on the
third grade list that should be, cannot
be denied, without claiming absolute
perfection for the legislators who
made the list some years ago. We
have not urged the introduction of
gymnastics with the zeal that we have
felt in speaking of drawing. We
could say much in favor of daily gym
nastic exercises in every school, but
until drawing, physiology and botany
are well introduced, we shall make
gymnastics secondary, because other
things are more vital. We really
hope every teacher will spend from
five to ten minutes daily in the phys
zeal education of his pupils. The fol-
lowing is the list of those who have
done so, Give them credit for being
ahead of the battle line of radical pro-
gress. We copy from term reports:
Ada McGray, Ella Teal, Anna Car
penter, Louie Burr. Mime Horstad,
Addie Everett, Nellie Bancroft, Liz
zie ]. Curtiss, Emma Watkins.