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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R'Y
vHAc9vAMTEp win TIVE BIOGRAPHY oF THs COUNTRY

- TO AA6oAt SOBuu0~eubBS 1eu~ ~
Lts main line runs {19% to S?1l
Geneseo. Moline. Rock Island. Davenport. West
Liberty, Iowa City, Marengo, Brooklyn .Grlnnell.
Des Moines (the capital of Iowa.. Stuart Allan
TIC and Ayoes with branches from HHrssu
tine. Washington. Fairfield Eld0n, Be!knap,
Centreville. Princeton. Trenton. Gallatin. Came
ron, Leavenworth, AtchiSOn, and Kansas City;
Washington tosigourney Qskalooss; and K Ro9
tonsport Independent, Efdon. Ottumwa, Eddy
willie, Oskaloosa. Pella, Monroe. and Des Moines;
Mt. Zion to KeosauQua; Newton to Monroe; Des
Griswold and Audubon; and Avoca to Harlan
and Carson. This Is positively the only Rail
road, which owns. and operates a through line
from Chicago into the State OF kansas.
man Palace Cars attached, are run each way daily
between CHICAGO and PEORIA, KANSAS CITY.
C0UNCIL BLUFFS, 1BAvENWORTH and ATCHl-
Rock Island Short Line"
The "Great Rock Island" is magnifcentty
equipped. Its road bed is simply perfect, and its
What will please you most will be the pleasure
of enjoying your meals, while passing over the
beautiful prairies of Illinois and Iowa, in one OF
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
Through Express Trains You get an entire
meal as good as is served in any frst-class hotel
for Seventy-five cents.
Approaching the fact that a majority Of the
people prefer separate apartments for different
Of this line warranting it). we are pleased to an
nounce that this Company runs Pullman Palace
COUNCIL BLUFFS, KANSAS CITY, A
all IN afRs tRG%f
For Information not obtainable at
II, r.. GA BILE,
Vice President and General Manager.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

tic medicine that can be employed: cleans
ing the stomach and bowels, and even the
Blood. In small doses of one pill day,
they stimulate the digestive organs and
promote vigorous health.
AYERS PILLS have been known for
more than a quarter of a century, and have
obtained a worldwide reputation for their
virtues. They correct diseased action in
the several assimilative organs of the
body, and are so composed that olStri'c-
tons within their range can rarely with
stand or evade them. Not only do they
cure the everyday complaints Of every
body, but also formidable and dangerous.
diseases that have bafl|cd the best OF
human skill. While they produce power
tul effects, they are, at the same time, the
safest and best physic for children. b.
their aperient action they grippe much les
than the common purgatives, and never
give pain when the bowels are not inilam.,l.
They reach the vital fountains oftlc boni
and strengthen the system by freeing i;
from the elements of weakness.
Adapted to all ages and conditions ii
all climates, containing neither ca|on
nor any delcterious drug, these pills, MA
be taken with safety by anybody. INV;
sugar-coating preserves them ever tir:l
and makes them pleasant to take; viii
being purely vegetable, no harm can ari
from their use in any quantity.
PREPARED Er
DR.. J. c. AVER 4 CO., Lowell, Mas:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

THE New York Nesvs thus alludes to
a patent cider-mill: "a young lady ct
o western temperance meeting said:
Brethren and sisters, cider is necess-
ity to me, and I must have it. If it is
decided that we are not to drink cider, I
shall eat apples and get some young man
to squeeze me, for can't live without
the juice of the apple.'''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

&c every farmer to prepare to raise
more grass and less small grain. Let
the horses, cattle, sheep and swine help
to do the harvesting. They can do it
cheaper than reapers, mowers, hired
men and other expensive assistants.
Sow more clover seed, and let it enrich
the soil that is thin and exhausted by
continual cultivation of wheat, oats,
barley and corn. Glover will not only
enrich the soil but it will check the ell
croachment of pestiferous weeds.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

'kvtooU I0o 6aoS GAtbN VIZ
fieeptng Car. for sleeping purposes. an5i patnc:
great feature Of our Palace Cars is ShlOKI NJ
SALOON where you can enjoy your Havana"
az nGaes in iron Bridges span the Mississippi
and Missouri RI vers at all points crossed by ths~
line. and transfers are avoided at Council Bluff
Kansas City. LeavenWorth and Atchson. con
The principal r. r. connections Of
this great Through Line are as follows:
Al At Ch5cAao with all diverging lines Tor the
At At ESe5e%oqp, with the LIS. & MS. andP..
At WASHINGTON HEIGHTS with r. c. d st.
AtLA SALE. with Ill. Cent: R. R.:
W.: " i d Mid.: and and +. P. & ". Rds.
At Rock ISLAND with 'Milwaukee and ROCK
Island Short Line" and Rock Isl'd g. PEG: Rds:
At DAVENPORT, with the Davenport DIVISION
AtWEsT Liberty. with the B. c. Z. 4 MR..
At GRINNELL with Central Iowa r. +.
At At co.. H BLuFFs, with Union Pacific R;R:
At OMAHA. with Is. g. Mo: f. RI IN Ne e D;
At COLUMBUS JUNCTION. with B. +: &NRR
At OTTUMwA. with Central Iowa Il. r.; W.,
St. rae a wt e. f 81 ape Fao
Louis & Pac:, and St. L, Keo; N; W. r. Rds.
At CAMERON, with r. st. J. R.. r.
% ~ A1 Rn ToPekRa kS Santa fe
At LEAvENwoRTH, with Union Pac anc Kan
At KAssxs CITY, with all lines for the West
d thfSSSh a sS f IhXvEN H 7
Great Rock Island Route,'' are sold by
our home office, address,
E. ST. JOHN,
CHICAGO, ILL
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE.TREE
BIZ WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

Come, let us plant the apple-tree,.
Cleave tho tough greensward with the spade:
Wide let its hollow bed be made;
There gently lay the roots, and there
Sift the dark mold with kindly care,
And press it DER them tenderly;
AS round the sleeping infants feet
We softly fold the cradle-sheet,
So plant we the apple-tree.
What plant we in this apple tree?
Buds, which the breath Of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;
Boughs. where the thrush, with crimson breast
Shail haunt and sing and hide her nest;
We plant upon the sunny lea
A shadow for the noontide hour,
A shelter from the summer shower,
When We plant the apple tree.
What plant we in this apple-tree?
Sweets for hundred dowery springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he po,lrs
Its fragrance through the open doors;
A world Of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girls silent room,
For the glad infant sprigs of boom,
We plant with the apple-tree.
What plant we in this apple-tree?
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
And redden in the August noon,
And drop, when gentle airs come by,
That fan the blue September sky;
While children come, with cries of glee,
And seek them where the fragrant grass
Betrays their bed to those who pass,
At the foot Of the apple-tree.
And when, above this apple-tree,
The winter stars are glittering bright,
And winds go bowling through the night,
Girls whose young eyes o'erhOw with mirth
Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth,
And guests in prouder homes shall see,
Heaped with the grape Of Cintra's vine,
And golden orange Of the lime,
The fruit Of the Rpple.tree.
The fruitage of this apple-tree,
Winds and our flag and stripe and star
Shall bear to coasts that lie afar,
Where men shall wonder at the view,
And ask in what fair groves they grew;
And sojourners beyond the sea
Shall think Of childhood's careless day,
And long, long hours Of summer play
In the shade of the apple-tree.
Each year shall give this applc-tree
broader flush of roseate bloom,
deeper maize of verdurous gloom,
And loosen. when the frost-clouds lower,
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower.
The years shall come and pass, but we
Shall hear no longer, where we lie,
The summer songs, the autlmn's sigh,
In the bough Of the apple-tree.
And time shall waste this apple-tree.
oh, when its aged branches throw
Thin shadows on the ground below,
Shall fraud and force and iron will
Cypress the weak and helpless still?
What shall the tasks Of mercy be,
Amid the tolls, the strifcs and tears
OF those who live when length of years
Is wasting this little apple-trec?
"Who planted this old apple-tree?"
The children of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall Say;
And, gazing on it's NOISY stem,
The gray-haired man shall answer them:
"a poet Of the land was he,
Born in the rude but good old times;
'Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes
On planting the apple-tree."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

'AS DAoOoS
Are the most cf-
fective and congo
NAL puryativcever
discovered. They
are mild, but eff
fectual in their
operation, moving
the bowels surely
and without pain.
Although gentle
in their operation,
they are still the
most thorough and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

ITALIAN women are said to be at work
in mems clothes on the railroad near
Phoenicia, Ulster county, New York.
They work in company with the men,
and are to all appearances as able-bodied.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Or. J. C. AVER 4 CO., Lowell, Mas:

Practical and Analytical; s>',.rui.,~
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVFHN'V;'i'''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Ayers Cathartic Pills.

tcr. all the purposes of Family Physic.
f9r c@rn Foul
Headache, Erysipelas, Rheumatism,
Eruptlons and Skin Diseases, Bill
iousness, Dropsy, TumOrs, Worms,
Neuralgia, as a Dinner Pill,
for Purifying the Blood,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
DRAMATIC NOTES.

"Saml of Posen," at Haverly's Theatre and
Tho Professor" at the Madison Square Theatre
now have the local theatrical field to themselves
Bunnells Museum, at the corner of Broadway and
Ninth-st. is now a favQrte place of resort and is
well attended. Tho Gypsy Queon who L" tells
fortunes is a conspicuous attraction of this place
The marriage of Mr.. Robert Goldbcck. the pianist.
to Miss Elizabeth Haenschen is announced as hav-
ing occurred at st. Louis Juno % Mr. Gold
DECKS iirst wife, il will be remembered was Anne
Mary Freeman, the artist, long since dead.
Wallack's Theatre was closed last night and the
record and glory of the old house is now a thing of
the past. Wallacks new theatre will be ready in
the autumn and q fresh chapter in its history will
then be opened. The career of The World in
tins city came TO quiet end on Saturday night but
it will now be carried into other cities.
Among the many candidates for public favor who
come next season from the provincial stage Miss
Joan Goodrich is highly commended by those who
have seen her young actress of talent and per-
sOnal beauty. She has been engaged as leading lady
in of the chief theatrical combinations made for
the new season, and it is expected that she will
make her mark.
1t is made known that model theatre, after
tho pattern of the Theatre Francois in Paris. is
about to be formed in Berlin. The chief of the
adventure is Adolph EArronge, and his partners in
the undertaking are q number of eminent artists,
including Ludwig Barnay, Friedrich Haase, Seg-
wart Niemann, Ernst Possart. Klara Ziegler He'd
wig Raabe aud others. The company takes Its
stand upon the principles of the Theatre Francois
each Of the actors Is coproDrietor Of the ground
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03

passed from Lincoln to johnson without O.
tremor. The land was drown in grief, but
there was no dismay anywhere. No one feared
for the life of the Republic because one man in
1T had been fOully murdered; and in all the
passionate sorrow and wild excitement Of that
dark day it was never said and never thought
that the crime, dreadful as it was, menaced the
safety of our institutions.
The same scene is being enacted now. The
President lies sorely wounded, perhaps dying,
by the bullet of an assassin, and the quiet of the
Sabbath is unbrOken by civil cOmmOtiOn any
where. There is great and universal grief,
deep and heartfelt sympathy with his afflicted
family, intense interest in the latest tidings of
his condition; but no popular tumult- Only
among the stock gamblers who take fright at
shadows and drop prices when Senators resign,
has there been any feeling resembling panic.
The American people believe not only in the
security OF their Government, but in the justice
OF the trial by jury. They know that the life of
the Government does not depend upon that of
any individual, and they will calmly leave the
miserable wretch who fred the shot to the usual
course of the law. 1t is to this supreme con-
fidencc of the people in their own safety and
their own power that we are to ascribe tho
majestic quiet with which this dreadful event
has been received. AS General Garfield himself
said when Lincoln was murdered, "Gcd reigns,
and the Government in Washington still lives"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03

which has been bought by LAronge for the nav.
Theatre, and also of the existing WilheimsfsJt
Theatre, and as such will share alike in the nosshi
gains or losses of the adventure which is to hear
the generic name of % Deutsches TheatreD Tbe
management, commercial and dramatic. win he
carried out upon the cooperative principle.
Mr.. Johns. Clarke the celebrated comedian. sa;,aa
for England aboard the Adriatic. He has returned
somewhat sooner than he at first intended in order
tofulfl Encouragement at the Haymarket in London.
under very favorable terms offered by Mr. and Mrs.
s. Is. Bancroft, who. hereafter, will have entire con-
troll of that theatre. Mr. Clarke will come back 70
America in August and next season will make a
professional tour of the United States under the d.
rection of Mr.. Horace Wall. This tour is TO beci,
at the Walnut, Philadelphia, on September IL. ~
Ciarke possesses delightful dry humor. is an ac-
comphshed dramatic artist and man of fine intel
lect and sensitive feelings and his Influence upon
the stage and society has always been beneficial.
his reentranceupon the American stage-from which
he has been too long absent-will be q source Of
great and genuine pleasure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03

his country. Charles Payson, until now Third
Assistant Secretary Of State, is made Charge
at Copenhagen. and Mr.. Walker Blaine is
chosen to fill his place at the State Depart
ment. Both are excellent appointments. Mr.
Payson is a gentleman of thorough diplomatic
education and fully qualified for his new post
Mr. Blaine is an accomplished and promising
young man, who has been selected for
his morris, and not for his relation
ships. The Washington dispatches show
that this appointment was the Presidents
own suggestion. The selection of the Rev.
Henry Highland Garrett, of this city, as Min
lister to Liberia is an admirable one. Mr.. Gar
nett stands at the head of his race in this
country for intelligence and character, and his
appointment as Minister to the black Republic
Is appropriate on many grounds. number
OF consular appointments were also made, in
GLIDING changes in the Consulates- General at
Berlin, Frankfort and Calcutta
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
4 BLOW At EPUBLJC1yrSM

The bullet OF the assassin who lurked in the
Washington railway station to take the lifo of
President Garfield shattered the simple re-
publican manner of life which the custom of
nearly century ha prescribed for the Chief Mag
istrate of the United States. Our Presidents have
been the first citizens of the Notwithstanding
moro. With measure of power in their
hands far greater than is welded by the ruler
of any limited monarchy in Europe, they have
never surrounded themselves with the forms
and safeguards of courts. The White House
has been business office open to every
body. Its occupant has always been moro
accessible than the heads of great commercial
establishments. When the passions of the war
were at fever heat, Mr.. Lincoln used to have q
small guard of cavalry when he rode ont to his
summer residence ut the Soldiers Home, but at
no other time in our history has it been thought
needful for President to have any special
protection against violence when inside or out
side the White House. Presidents have driven
about Washington like otherpcoplc and travelled
over the country as unguarded aud uncOn-
strained as any private citizen.
All this, we fear, must come to an end
now. The assassination Of Mr. Lincoln
was regarded as the outcome of the rage
of the beaten rebellion. When the war
was fully closed, and its fierce anger
died away under the softcning influences of
peace, no one thought there could be any pcr-
sonal danger attaching to the Executive Office
Strangers went every day to the Presi-
dents room to prefer their requests, or
stopped him in the street to shake
his hand. He came in contact with mutitudcs
of unknown people, any one of whom
could have shot him had he chosen
We were proud of the freedom and
| simplicity of our Presidents way of
living. Now General Garfield is stricken
down by two cruel wounds from murdcrous
weapon, in time of profound peace, when
there is nothing to stir the passions of men
save pitiful contest over few Offices in single
State. HcncefOrth, alas the President must be
the slave of his Office, the prisoner of forms and
restrictions, for he will have reason to fear an as
sassin in every crowd that presses about him
and in every stranger who seeks to approach
him. Who can blame him if he throws aside
all the traditional ease, familiarity and ac-
feasibility which have lightencd the la
bors of the place in times past, and
hedges himself in with cercmonials soldiers
and official restrictions Will not the coun-
try insist that he should do soq A Presidents
life is the most valuable life in all the land,
for it touches the interests of every citizen It ia
far too precious to be left open to assault by
any conspirator or mailman who wishes to cut
it short
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
LIFE INSURANCE AND OVErDOsyyc


What becomes of ones life insurance if he
dies OF an overdose of medicine The Court
of Appeals has just decided the question favor
ably to policy holders. Obviously "A company
is justified in refusing to pay where the insured
person has Wilfuily destroyed his life it ought
not to be in the power of embarrassed and de-
spairng men, mcditatng the leap in the dark
to dciIaud the companies by taking ont a
policy, paying a premium or two, and thus
establishing claim for fund to benefit their
families Accordingly, life policies have for
many years usually contained conditions de-
cIaring the insurance void if the insured shall
"conmit suicide" or shall "die by his own
hand" Most courts have held that these express
sions are equivalent, and that either requires q
voluntary, intentional act OF sclf-dcstruction
by Il person who knows what he is doing. They
do not call it |" dying by ones own hand ~ for
person accidentally or gnorantly or even when
insane, to do something, although with his own
hands, 10y which his life is terminated. After
this was decided, some companies in order to
make the condition more favorable to them
selves, added such words ~ voluntary or in
voluntary" Mr.. Penfold was insured by such
a policy 1t said that if he should die by his
own hand or act. voluntary or otherwise the
company should not be liable. He became sick ::
sent for a physician the physician prescribed
medicine iH quantity which he supposed was
Judclous, but which, as the result proved, was
an overdose; Mr. PcnfOld took it in good faith.
believing it would benefit him but he died
from its effects. The company refused to pay
the policy; for they said, he took the drug
by his own hand, and that whether he did SO
voluntarily or not was unimpOrtant.
The decision is in favor of the right of the
family to receive the money. The Court said
that the meaning of all these clauses is to pro
tect the companies against fraudulent acts
against acts done with some intention to DESTROY
lfe 1t is not n fair Interpretation of the clause
To extend 1T to case Of u purely accidental
death occurring from poison taken through 10
norance or mistake, merely because the Derson's
"Own hand may have been the innocent in.
strumcnt.
Views equally just have been taken in some
what similar cases during the winter There
was III the Supreme Court an instance in which
the policy insured the person who had obtained
1t against all accidental injuries, but said that
he was not to be considered insured against anv
death from poison. The man took poisonous
dose by sheer mistake, of which he died. The
Court said that 10y the common sense meaning of
the policy this was death from accident; what
was meant by excepting death from poison was
poison taken knowingly. In an Illinois case
the insured man was taken with violent collie,
and applied to druggist for some remedy.
The druggist advised small doses OF laudanum
gave hun dose. which nc took in the store.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
Il PL URIBUS UNUM.

Onr younger readers may just now like to ponder
the famous National motto. From many, one" is
the literal translation. But what is the full mean
inc' by most persons it is taken in the sense of
Zone composed of many" zone made up from
many" Tho Union il government formed
combining many blossoms; as a cable is formed by
twisting many strands. And this il corroborated by
the fact that more than hundred years ago. and
for perhaps half century before we were Il Nation
Ptaribas Unum T. Piuiibus Una was used as a
motto of wcll-kuown English magazines A maya
z;ne was novel form of publication IN those days;
and the sense of the motto evidently was: Here
IL new sort Of book formed by combining many
articles; written by union of many writrs.,.D
From the iitle-page of popular magazine this
thought might easily have its way into the
minds of the c"Oni5is. and have rpcned there nj
the season when n National motto was desired.
Mr.. IL. &. Adams close student of legal an
tlditios, suggests the meaning cone out of man.:
rs men call a shiiful housckccpcr one of a thou-
sand" Ours is the Nation ours the Government of
oar preference, out of all which the round world
bears. lie has found, as far back az Virgil the
phrase, " color est pluribus unus." Horace and
Jnvcnal put questions like this What is the benefit
OF extracting only one thorn out of many p
pirlous unay Assuming that our Rcvolu-
tonary fathers searched Tie classics for tho
motto, they may have chosen tho phrase in
TINS sense. There Is some confederation of this
view in the fact that tho legends Unum T. Pltribus
and T. Piuribus Unam are found on copper coins
struck by some of the States before the DAYS of the
Constitution and National coinage. 1t is not easy
to see why single State should adopt the phrase in
the sense OF one composed of many. 1t was first
used on National coins in 1896, 1897 and 1893 Yet
Haydn says 1T was adopted as a National motto in
1882 But this year, enjoying National prosperity
under Union which steadily gains strength and
cohesion, our people can rejoice in the motto read
ing 1t in either sense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
THE BEARING OF THE PEOPLE.

1t has often been said that the noseless
transfer of power over fifty millions of people
which takes place in our country in every
fourth year is "a most striking and most con.
vincing proof of the strength ard endurance of
republican institutions. 1t may prove that the
time has come now to say that the quiet spirit
of wabiding acceptance with which the
American people receive the swift and sudden
transfer of power involved in the unexpected
death of President is far more remarkable
than that exhibited at the Inauguration of a
President. Happily there have been few such
tests to the conference Of our Government
When Lincoln fell by the hand of an assassin
the country was still practically in state of
war. The North and South were still bleeding
from their wounds, and the bitterness of civil
strife was at its highest. But the Presidency