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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

WATERPRooFs, cloakings, suitings
and trimmings, at Solner's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

TAYLOR & BALL will sell you the choic-
e.. winter apples-$250 per barrel.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

LADrEs' and children's wool sacques,
At Hall & Wesl's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

DA1AGER BRoTHERs sell maple syrup
genuine; buy some, and try some.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

PURE ground Java and Mocha coffee,
nj McRRIDE'S
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

You will end the 8 OF. scarlet blanket
flannel, at HALL & WEsT's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

COVENANT meeting next Saturday,
O'Clock, at the Baptist church.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

Rooxs to rent. Enquire Of James
Truesdell.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

WOODEN yarns and flannels, our assert
ment il full. HALL & WEST.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

THOMPSON has hard and soft coal, when
there is any to be had.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

Do NOT stay away from Thurston's
Gallery because it is = cloudy day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01
CITY AND VICINITY.
The "Transc ript" Desua

InO ''IrAnecrt pt' Boon:
No hair oil, no stockings, pressed tin
pans, boot-i*cks, or boot backing, in
our's-no: wool mats or corn peppers
but straight, legitimate business is our
motto, wi,hou: lotteries or prize envelopes
Every subscriber served alike. 8" from
this date, until the first of January, all
old subscribers who pay up alrearages
and one year in advance, will have their
accounts discounted IS cents, and be pre-
sented With a copy Of "Kendxll's Treatise
on the Horse" worth Is cents total
reduction Of so cents. Or, in other WORDS
we will furnish the TRANSCRIPT TO all
advance. paying subscribers IRON this
time until January LIST, for 1915. and give
q premium of Dr.. Kendall book besides.
This is clean g.ve-away Of 50 cents t.
every one who will take advantage ut the
opportunity during the next six weeks.
1t is equivalent to furnishing the paper
at 81 so. Come in, friends, and pay up,
while the offer holds good. The TRANS
cRlPT SHALL continue to be as it has been,
and as it IS acknowledged TO be, the best
local paper in this county; and by the
way, it is printed both s,des on power
press If that is any sdvsntage); has, We
believe, the beat advertising and jobbing
patronage Of any paper in the county,
and has as large, if not the largest, coun.
~ circulation Of any paper published in
the county; in TACT, the paper speaks for
itself, 10 It's hundreds Of readers every
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01
FIRE!

In consequence of the total
loss by fire of our store build
ing, and a large part of our
stock, we need every dollar due
us. Parties indebted to us will
greatly oblige us by PROMPT
and NEEDED payment.
Respectfully,
FERNALD & K1A1BALL.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

SELP- Raising Buckwheat Flour to Or.
rive this week at TAYLOR i BALLS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

ALMONDS, Brazils, Filberts, English
WalInuts, at MCBRlDE's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

CHOICE New Orleans molasses, at
Nathaniel
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

"A man in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
recently stole saw mill, 30 the courts de-
clare-and two Austin men went over to
Albert Lea week ago Saturday and from
the papers We should say they came near
stealing Freedom county jail. The Al.
bert Leaitss are dreadful easy scared.
The mother OF E. D. and Carlos
Fentou, Of this city. died At her home 10
jamestown, n. T., about two weeks ago.
She will DO remembered BY many who
had the pleasure Of meeting her when
on visit to her children In Austin few
yesrs ago. She was seventy five years Of
age.
The Ladies' Relief Society Of Aus.
tin is neither dead nor yet asleep--but
wide awake aud ready to ds-should
there be worthy calls. They have held
no neetinEs this fall, not learning Of any
cases Of particular need. How 10 it,
frieads1 Are there any among - who
are cold and hungry, who need assistance
-Religious fervor gets . little chilled
We notice these cold Sunday morn ings, a.
the congregations bear 10 witness. It no,
only takes grace but CONS iderable pluck
to leave the pleasant sitting broom with it,
bright coal dre, unless. unless you are 4
lady-aud can cit on the front seat with
that love Of \ bonnet on.
OK Wednesday, Nov. Gath, 1880, the
Young Peoples Bible Class l teach took
me by surprise, they bringing with them
an excellent easy chair TO present their
teacher. Atterward they spent the even
ing, 'Enst. pleasantly with Us. And ]
assure l shall endeavOr 10 take great com
tort In the gin, and more than that, re
member the spirit that produced it.
AL1REp CREssEy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

RooNs to rent, over Taylor q Balls
store. r. O. HALL.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

LADIES, don't fail u 60 to Hall & West's
for your dry goods and tr,mminRs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

so pieces dress goods at
KING & F1sH's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

NEw perfumes, At
CLEANER + PooLHn's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

CHICAGO Dsied Beef, very fne, At
TAYLOR & BALLS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

EVERY day At Sprsgue's grocery store
10 opening day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

House FLAxNELs, just received, by
KING + FISH.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

NEw sugar cured Hams, at
TAYLOR + BALLS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

GLOVES and Mitts, 1T bottom prices.
KING i FISK.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

CASH buys groceries cheap at Sprague's
Cash Store.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
DEATH OF SUMMER.
BY poBxRr r. DorY.

me summer is dying with it's beauty and bloom,
A1o the frosts of the autumn bring on deep gloom,
ana 1.-THE hill and down in the vale W.
ZONES swiftly to me the whir Of the quail.
An: summer is dead and autumn Is here,
And the hoar frost Melts on the hillside seret
Inc summer Is dead and the leaves look brown,
ana s0mberness comes as the leaves fall down.
d ct spring, in sweet May, dreamed me dream
~ youth full Of promise on earth, it did seem,
But he, Like the SUMMER, lost beauty and bloom,
And sought the cold shades Of dampening
gloom!
ana thought OF this then, he's youth In his prime
Put yet he may die, like the gay summer time;
ana my dream came to pass, as the sun went down
ne died, like the summer, In the quaint old town.
An summer is dead and my friend Ia gone:
Death grapp,es the living at midnight and dawn /
Gray skies and cool breezes" bring sadness to all,
Eoc We know that the summer is clothed in its pail
Ohl autumn will die, like the summer just past
And the winter win come in the days that are last
All spring came and the summer Is dead,
And autumn to winter win soon be wed.
Masure plays, like men, o dead march on earth,
Mnen all things are dying, and not at their birth,
MAa II Dreathes It's deep symphonies as only 1t can,
I ae. tune OF DEAD, dead Is the fosoertng pon
All pensiye and moody are we when 1t dies,
Ills killed BY chill from the gray, somber skies.
BENTON. Ill
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
~
Cellars.

Experiments prove that the air in q
cellar rises and circulates through the
mousse, and that, too, not only by means
Of the frequently opened doors, but
even when every door is kept shut and
the keyholes are stopped. It is simply
impossible to keep dwelling free from
contaminated cellar air.
4et how many sources of oontamina-
ton are found in cellars /! Rotting wood
the entire floor often being pervaded
~ decay vegetables stored there for
the winter and their refuse left the year
round musty barrels OF vinegar or CT
der leaky gas fixtures; badly-construct-
ed furnaces, from which escape various
nO1lous gases water-closets, foul at the
best, and often fou1er through defects !:
detective sink and sewer drains, not in
frequently saturating the soil beneath
the floor with filth.
made land, and the gases of the de-
cayed matter with which the soil is more
or less filed pour directly into them,
Just as the water Of the soil finds its way
into the well.
This latter point is more important
than most think, for the air ciroulates
freely through the soil, even when froz-
en- Persons have been repeatedly pois-
oned and killed by gas which had tray
eled for distance-in one case, TWEEN
ty feet-through the soil, and had pene-
trated into the cellar, and thence into
the rooms above.
As the ground water rises or falls, the
air follows it. Barometric influences
changes in the pressure of the atmos-
phere force itdown further, or lift it.
out of the earth. Changes Of tempera-
ture similarly affect it, and particularly
does the warmth of house establish an
upward current from the cellar to the
rooms above, and from the soil into the.
cellar. Hence
l. Keep everything out of the cellar
Likely to vitiate its air.
2. Get the best constructed furnaces
3. Have the gas meter and fixtures
frequently examined.
4. Let the drains be of the best nate
rial and construction, and he ever in
sight suspended from the ceiling in
stead Of being buried under the floor.
5. Have the floor and sides made as.
impervious as possible.
6. Let the cellar be constantly and
thoroughly ventilated with sun-purifed
air.
z. If vitiating sources must remain,
use the best disinfectants not mere de-
odorizers. - Youths Copapa,saon.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
About Carving.

When at last the work of carving is
done, the delicate and difficult duty Of
helping begins. There can be no
peace cf mind for the man who helps his
family and his occasional guest to any
food, except soup or oysters, both Of
which can be accurately and fairly di-
vided. In the case of chicken he can
never give satisfaction. There is no rule
in this matter, beyond giving the chicken
legs to the boys, which can be followed.
To ask people what part of the chicken
they prefer is simply madness. Either
everybody tells the truth. and de-
mands the best cut. in which case all but
one will be exasperated by falling to
have their wish graGfed, or everybody
will reply, s'Any part" Ut makes no
difference, !" or words to the same men
dacious and aggravating effect. Of
course, when the man who says JIG
makes no difference" is helped to any
thing but the breast, he becomes an
enemy Of the carver for life, and nothing
can disabuse him Of the impression that
he has been wantonly insulted. It is far
better to boldly help people without
making any pretense of consulting their
wishes. They will then regard the
carver as rude and careless host but
they will acquit him Of any intention to
press open insults on his guests. Per-
haps the most difficult person to deal
with is the lady who says she 6 prefers
Leg" In the presence Of this trying
person the carver is almost certain to
make mistake. The chances are that
she abhors chicken legs, and expresses
for the sake Of politeness an alleged
preference which she confidently expects
to be disregarded To help such one
to leg is to abuse her confidence and
earn her undying hatred. On the other
hand, If she is one of those rare women
who really have an abnormal fondness
for legs, she feels herself outraged if
legs are withheld from her, and decides
that the carver is selfish brute, who
has not sufficient decency to respect
.lady's wishes. We shall never know how
many happy homes have been broken
up, how many friends estranged, and
how much miscellaneous misery has
been suffered merely because the duty
of carving has been placed in the hands
of the fathers Of American families.
AeaU York Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Triplet Maxin,s.

Three things to do-think, live and
act.
Three things to govern-your temper,
tongue and conduct.
Three things to cherish virtue, good
ness and wisdom.
Three things to love courage, gentle
ness and affection.
Three things to contend for-honor.
country and friends.
Three things to hate cruelty, AFRO
gance and ingratitude.
Three things to teach truth, industry
and contentment.
Three things to admire intellect, dig
nifty and gracefulness.
Three things to like cordiality, good
ness and cheerfulness.
Three things to delight in-beauty,
hankness and freedom.
Three things to avoid dleness, To-
quacity and fippant jesting.
Three things to wish for-health,
friends and q contented spirit.
Three things to cultivate good books,
good friends and good humor.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
u GRIEF.
'xrrrn N. HoIron

- - LIE NE AO1SxOCs
IL seems 10 me but yesterday,
since parting from our childhood's homo,
Where We had dreamed our sweetest dreams,
NOT ever thought from 1t to roam.
Then there was only four OF us,
and each sobriquet had won.
was Tat, and Sis, and Pud, and Bub,
Ihey called us in the years sgone.
At the dear haunts We loved 30 vel,
TO bid them farewell, evermore,
Each bird-note seemed parting knell,
Each echo from some unknown shore.
Up to the 8. old house, on the hin,
Through orchard 10 our favorits tree,
Down to the " big rocks BY tho run,
Where chirping birds called out :. Pee vee.'
Each spot had reality
Which wen might put romance to shame;
Combined they formed royal realm,
More real than half that bears the name.
Tho grapevine swing, moss covered Iogs,
And flowers that bloomed for M alone
And we muet bid them all farewell.
Thts lite world we called our own.
Was ever sorrow worse than this
Unspoken words of poignant grief,
From hearts which reasoned not Of life,
Nor dreamed it was at best but brief.
Since then, for each and al Of ua.
Eternal farewells have been said,
But hope binds up the broken heart,
And whispers, Sleeping Is our dead"
Our homes are far apart to day,
And children playing round my door
Recall to me the helpless griefs
We suffered In the days Of gore.
Our childhood names are laid away,
And, with the ebb of human tide,
We're surely drifting out to sea;
& But home Is on the other side
A home where farewells meier are known,
And where we ever shall abide.
FANDoH, III.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Drawing-ROOm Drinking.

It has been whispered for some time
past that there was an alarming increase
in the use Of strong drinks among the
educated women of Great Britain. People
disbeieved these reports, but facts have
proven them to be correct. Labouchere
came out the other day with long ar
ticle on 6 Drawing Room Drinking in
which he describes garden party, where
the lady Of the house was, if not help
lessly, at all events, in q Giroae- G1rofia
condition. The use Of choral leads to
much intemperance among the ladies Of
our own land.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Pecuniary Independence.

g$s ~ - Ut1AA Y SI06t U&38l 8DOu6 OUT NOuk-
ca, intellectual, moral and social indie
Pendence all the world has heard us
talk about them. We do not enjoy them
as fully, perhaps, as we think. How
much Independence of thought has the
journalist, for instance, who must bid
for an audience, the author whose first
thought must be never to displease q
reader, the orator who must repeat the
stock notions Of his hearers, the. pro-
lessor who has to recocile evolution with
theology how much liberty Of action
has the voter who depends upon q Gov
eminent salary, or who is in. politi-
clans employ? One cannot very serii-
ously blame these people, to whom IN
dependence often means starvation.
What / want to set in clear light is this :
that Independence in Life and thought
depends, more than we like to believe.
upon pecuniary independence it Is not
TO be had BY Wishing merely. Indi-
ylduals there are. and always will be,
who will suffer for their moral or intel
lectual Independence but the commune
ties will be what circumstances make
them. This, again. I want to set IN
clear Light: that, we are, as q COM
munity, deficient, in spite Of all our ma
tional wealth, and unnecessarily deficient,
IN the best part of independence the
power to enjoy our lives. In this re-
spect we are behind our friends in
France, with their 2, 600, 900 Of people
living upon their incomes.
These 1000, 900 Of people are not, for
the most part, either idle, or frivolous,
or wealthy people. Many of them live
IN the cities, but more of them are quiet
people. living on their modest proper
ties IN the country, and enjoying their
competence in a rational way enjoying
friendships, social pleasures, family az
fections, and all the kindly observances
OF home life in q way that we have little
idea of-in way that the tourist in
Paris sees nothing of. We have much
TO learn from the French, and among
the things that we have to learn are
some that may surprise us. One of
these things is the comfort, the unity,
and the permanence of French homes.
The French home and family, their hap
plness, their unity, their permanence,
these have been developed by the COM
bined industry, thrift, and domestic SEN
tlment OF the most intelligent people in
Europe, and especially by its great mid
die class. We have the significant tes-
timony of Prince Bismarck tsthat the
French nation has social solidity such
as no other nation Of Europe enjoys. /"
And Mr.. Matthew Arnold, from whose
Mixed Essays" quote, adds: ssThis
can only come from the broad basis Of
well-being, and of cause for satisfaction
with Life, which in France, more than in
other countries, exists" IF we had
100000 Of people, or 1000, 900, who
were enjoying . competence, earned OF
inherited, can it be doubted that we
should be happier people, and a bet
ter one, than we are? France and the
United States have this important feat
ure IN common-in each country nearly
one-half Of the people live directly BY
agriculture but our country homes and
families have not attained the comfort
or the permanence Of theirs.-T N
Coas. IN Hagper's Margarine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
BITS OF INFORMATION.

OHoooLATB, the flour of the cocoanut,
was first introduced into England from
Mexico in the year 1920, and soon after
became o fayorite beverage in the Lon
don coffee houses.
The first piece Of artillery was invent
ed by q German soon after the invention
OF gunpowder, and artillery was first used
by the Moors ct Algesiras, in Spain,
over 500 years ago.
LIE most ancient manuscripts are
written without accents, stops, or separ-
alton between the words, nor was it un-
tll after the ninth century that copyists
began to leave spaces between words.
TIE Japanese make very curious and
handsome kind Of copper by casting
it under water, the metal being highly
heated and the water also being hot. The
result is beautiful rose-colored tint,
which is not affected by exposure to the
atmosphere.
SANDAL wood Is the wood of tree
which grows In Ceylon and on the coast
Of Coromandel. When the tree becomes
old the harder central wood acquires a
yellow color and great fragrance; while
the exterior wood remains white and pos
sesses no fragrance. 1t is yellow wood
only that is used in manufacturing
boxes, etc.
ARTEh1sA married her own brother,
Mausolus, King Of Caria, 377 B. G. At
his death she drank, in liquor, his ashes,
after his body had been burned, and
erected to his memory monument, one
Of the seven wonders of the world,
termed Mausoleum. She invited all the
literary men Of her age and offered re-
ward to him who composed the, best
verses upon her husband. The prize
was adjudged to Theopompus. The
statue Of Mausolus is among the antiqui-
ties brought from Halicarnassus in 1857,
and placed in the British Museum.
JOHN o. GRoAT's House was an ancient
house, situated on Duncan's Bay Head,
the most northerly point in Great Brit
ain. It derived its name from John of
Groat and his brothers, who came from
Holland in 1889. The house was Of an
octagon shape, being one room, with
eight windows and eight doors, to admit
eight members of the family, the heads
of different branches Of it, to prevent
their quarrels for precedence at table,
which on one occasion nearly proved
fatal. Each came in by this contriv-
ance at his own door, and sat at an octa-
gon table, at which, Of course, there was
no chief place or head.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Dover and No Dover.

After the Franco Prussian war. law
was passed in France forbidding any
officer in the army to marry woman
unless she had . dot, or dover, which
was to be settled upon her and her chill
dren, and which would yield an income
Of at least $3.50 per annum. The Law
also rules that she must be CONNIE u
fnsxt, that is, of respectable birth and
virtuous conduct. This law was sup-
gested by the largo number of officers
wives, widowed in the war, and left
without either money or education to
provide for their children.
Americans condemn, justly, the mer-
cenary marriages common in France,
and universal rule that girl is I'M.
manageable without dot. The poor
est peasants daughter knows that she
must haveher little sum laid by, before
she can wed, and her plenishing Of bed
ding, linen, ETC., with which to begin
her humble housekeeping.
Marriage, says the American. should
be wholly matter of feeling. He holds
man unworthy of good woman's love
who is not willing to take her for herself
alone, without a penny Of dover.
This IS very generous and magnan-
imous for the husband, but is it the best
way for the girl, or the girls father to
look at the matter The French father.
knowing shat his daughters dover must
be furnished, as well as money for his
sons start in life, is forced to practice
and teach his children thrift.
] There is no nation as habitually econ
omical as the French. The French
girls dot is largely the result Of her own
saving, and the habits and prudence
thus taught her are solid capital. bet
ter than money, with which to begin
married life. -
Very much the same custom was OBJ
served by our forefathers. Seventy
years ago, no girl was considered ready
for marriage who had not an $ outfit -
chests Of table and bed linen, and under
clothing, sewed and often spun and
woven by her own hand.
How is It with us now? Our girls. as
rule, grow up like flowers. No hint is
given to them that money, or nything
more gross than love, is necessary for
married life. Their doting parents ac-
custom them to luxurious or idle habits.
to elegant dress, to dainty fare !; furnish
them with an expensive trousseau, and,
as they live to the full extent Of their
incomes, have not penny of dover to
give them, to insure them or their chill
dren against misfortune.
There IS certainly much to be said on
the French side Of this question.
Youths COMPANION.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
Contented with His Lot.

a Sunday -school teacher said to little
Johnny
s You must never envy those little
children who are rich and wear fine
clothes.
$ don't, not the first dog goned bit.
ss3 s Why don't you envy them, Johnny?'
- Because they have to wear clean
clothes, and they can't wade about in
the mud, and they have to say please to
everybody, whoope !" Galvestop Nesre