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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
He Surprised the Doctor.

81 don't feel Well, DOCTOR" exclaimed
the tall man, who looked little pale.
81 think something's gone wrong with
my innards or my head"
~ guess its only the spring fever, ="
smiled the doctor. 81 don't think there
much out Of the way with you. Where do
You feel badly? ?"
"In my stomick," replied the tall
man, somewhat treasured by the doctors
manner. "And I'm pretty nervous.
Have been ever since come east"
"Where do you belong?" asked the
doctor, examining the patients tongue.
81 come from Montana" said the tall
man.
500 you smoke?'
II was powerful smoker, but they
told me.to quit, so knocked offa month
ago."
Drink?"
81 think that's where the trouble is.
1 was we'll onto that habit, but the doc
tor told ma I'd got to give it up and I've
"Couldn't you give it up all at once?'
asked the doctor, gravely.
"They told me I'd better not. Said
it might kill me, go. I've Teen tapering
off, and think I'm taperiug too fast.
If drank more it would be better for
me-"
"How much do you drink now ?"
Yesterday had quart of vitrio],
and to-day I've slowed about pint Of
prussia acid. Perhaps I ought to take
more!'
"Great heavens. man, what do you take
that for?" demanded the almost petri6ed
doctor.
"Why, you see, I'm tapering offfrom
Mountain wbiskey, and them was the
lightest could find. What do you ex-
pect man to take, poison p
And when be went away he wasn't
half as nervous as the doctor he lett be-
hind him. -.
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A Western Grips Way.

I heard little story recently, says q
New York letter, from the short history
of a young woman from Colorado who
is here studying music. She went to
one of the best teachers here and told
him she wished to study with him, and
asked his terms. -
"Five dollars an hour" was the an.
swer. ...+. ~. ~,
am competent to teach all English
branches. Are there any members of
your family for whom you would like a
teacher? p :1S.z .s=zsIf. lt.. s@s5ase !. -
. Yes; have q daughter II years old
who speaks four languages, but can not
speak English. You may have her for q
pupil. What are your terms 2"
g Five dollars an hour, was the unex-
pected reply. l.... . WITH: s..s5.
!" But, my young lady, I can get the
best English teacher for much less than
that. =, as. 5E,. .z .<s.
8 Notwithstanding that, !" said the
young LADY, firmly, my terms are IS
an hour. e us 81,
At last it began to dawn upon this Ital-
ian professor that there was something
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
IS THE GREAT CONNECTING /

10 L IL Il UISEAl CONN1CAAHNU 4!AAsAH
Bluffs. passing through Joliet, Ottawa, La Sale.
Geneseo. Moline. Rock Island, DaVenport, West
Liberty, Iowa City. Marengo, Brooklyn, Grinnell,
Des Moincs tthe capital OF Iowa. stuart, Atiam,
Junction to Peoria; Wilton junction to Musca-
tine. Washington, Fairfield, Eldon, Belknap,
Centreville, Princeton. Trenton, Gallatln, came
Washington to sigourney, Oskaloosa, and Knox
vile; kcokuk to Pennington, BonaParte, BEN
tonsport, Independent Eldon, Ottumwa, Eddy
VILE Oskuloosa, Pella, Monroe, and Des MONIES;
Winterset; Atlantic to Lewis and AudubSn; a1d
Railroad which owns, and operates through
line from Chicago into the State Of kansas.
man Palace Cars attached. are run each way daily
between CHICAGO and PEORIA, KANSAS CITY
COUNCIL BLUFFS, LEAvENWORTH and ATCH1'
son. Through cars are also run between Milwan;
kee and Kansas City, via the "Mll"auKee ano
Rock Island Short Line"
The "Great Rock Island" is magnifcentiy
equipped. Its road bed is simply perfect, and It's
Wha IT viii please you most will be the pleasure
of enjoying your meals while passing over tne
beautiful praires of Illinois and Iowa. in one 81
magnificent Dining Cars that accompany ; on
meal as good as is served in any frst-class hotel
for seventy five cents.
Approaching the fact that majority o. ene
PURPOSES land the immense passenger business
of this line warranting it). we are pleased 70 an
nounce that this Company runs PULLMAN 26tdc
Sleeping Cars for sleeping purposes. ana fdtdc
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are 7
all Ticket Agents In the United States
For Information not obtatnable AT
Gen'l Superintendent.
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about this law of compensation which he

about this law of compensation which he
had not considered.
''You are right" he exclaimed, 81 am
first class teacher of music. Your GER
tifcates and recommendations show that
you are an experienced teacher of
English. Your hour is worth as much as
mine: We will give lesson for lesson"
And so they have for months, he being
quite satisfied with the compensation he
receives. By the way, this young
woman's story is a sad one, and yet she
is brilliant example of what a woman
may accomplish if she sets about her
work with energy and firm determine
ton to succeed. She has solid foun-
dation in thorough English education.
She is working fifteen hours a. day now
to perfect herself in music and Italian.
She rises at in the morning, reads Ital-
IAN three hours, not consecutively OF
course, practices instrumental music
three hours, and teaches English the re-
naming six hours. She has supported
herself entirely since she was IA years
old.
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CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. R.

BETWEEN THE EAST & THE WEST!
Dining Cars for eating purposes only. One othe5
great feature of our Palace Cars is SMOKING
SALOON where you can enjoy your daVana"
M a Iron Bridges span the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers at all points crossed py TINS
ne and transfers are avoided at Couhci bl onH
nections being made in Union Depots ~,
T T6[ o{ &EEAT THROUGH LINE AXE AS
At CHicAGo: with all divergine lines for the
AZ AZ ENeEEWoop. with the L. S. Il Ms and F.
RI " W& &x n Mas HEIGHTS with p. c. St.
ALA SALE. with III. Cent. RI.
~ r. MAJ with and j. F. F " kds - T.
Island Short Line" and Rock Isld PEG: Rds.
AT DAyEHP9RT; with the Davenport DIVISION
" At WEST Liberty. with theB, C.. r, + N. R. R.
At GRINNELL, with Central Iowa r..
At DIES Mo1NEs with D. n , 4 :; p p r. x:
AtCoLuMBUs j U Notion, with 3. &C. 4; y n RR.
At QrIuMwA "a w'fh Genfra Rd iowa H. H. w.
At KEoKUK, with Toll, Peo War; E Hdc ST.
Louis 4 Pac. and St: l., Keo; = NV. Il. hds.
At CAMERON with H: St. j. r. 4. u,
Atch i Neb. and Cen. Br: U. P. r.: Rds.
| At I.EAvENwoRrH, with Kan. Pac' and han'
All AT KANSAS "A. CITY, with all lines for the West
| and Southwest.
ATCHis6N, and LEAVENWOKTH:
IS Great Rock Island Route" are SOLO oy
ar home ticket office, address,,
II. ST. JOHN.
Genl TIKI. and fass, t:5i AZ; ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
Fashion NOleS.

GOLD braid is popular trimming.
BLACK silk stockings and long black
silk Jersey gloves will again be worn
with toilets OF white.
IMPORTED matinecs of pale daffodil
yellow are deliberately embroidered in
clusters of strawberries and foliage.
The new plated zephyrs, cool and
bright, will be favor.te material for
cAilaren's dresses for seaside wear.
YELLOW in lawn tennis costumes in q
leading color, and is highly effective
combined with moss green OF Egyptian
red.
PRETTY tea aprons are made Of Orien-
tai ret, with ruftles of Oriental lace over
strawberry sulah, and also Of ticelle lace
over pale blue satin.
SOME of the "simple and elegant "
tailor made costumes cost 1925 each,
ard "drt ssy" French morning robes
can be had for the same modest price,
the latter beng marvellous creations ct
finest cashmere or marveilleux, the en-
tire fronts being mass Of silk embroi-
derry, waves of lace, and flowing ends of
satin ribbon.
| EVENING dresses are made with an
amplitude almost recalling the days OF
crinoline.. Happily, the failness estab-
lshed by French decree is confined
wholly to the back, the front and sides
falling straight enough. Some OF the
newest white skirts to be worn next the
dress have sin gle embroidered hounce
Ding all the way around the foot of the
skirt, but in the back they are aounced
near,y to the waist, each ,uffl, being
starched very stiff when laundrled.
Dancing dresses, of which softly
hanging merveilleux silk forms com.
pouent part, ars sometimes arranged
with a graceful d1apery OF the silk cross
ing the bodice diagonally, from shoulder
to waist, and then forming panier,
while at tho other side a tighter material.
like tulle or gauze broche, is draped
panier.wise over the surah. Often a
garland Of field flowers borders the edge
of the tulle panier. It is not easy to de.
scribe this new aud pretty style, which
is remarkably effective.
SLEEVES for full dress are still exceed
ingly short, and gloves very long. Skirts
remain short enough in front to display
the embroidered stockings as well as the
sandal. Boots are seldom worn in the
evening, and undressed kid is the favor
tie material for slippers, most of which,
have painted designs on the toes and &C.
casionally along the sides as we'll. A
pretty foot looks prettier with fiat dec.
Grafton on the slipper than with rosettes,
buckles or any other trimming that in
terferes with the delicate contour of the
foot.
Co1oRED lace is much used for the
trimmings of garden-party toilets. 1t is
made in gray, olive, terra7cotta, copper,
strawberry, dark green, and, in fact,
nearly every shade. This trimming
looks best when put on rather full, and
at it's poorest advantage when turned up
from beneath an edge and laid fat, as
occasionally is seen on the basque of q
bodice. Basques more popular for these
dresses are sharply pointed in froat, cut
away on the hips, and made square al
the back, where they are. heavily
trimmed with ribbon and lace in order
to give the bupched-out effect, now sc
indispensable. just below the waist.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES,
The Ideal Wife.


somewhere in the world must be
She that I have prayed to see.
She that Love assiRne to me.
Somewhere Love, her lord and king
Over her is scattering
Fragrance from her purple wing.
BY the brink Of summer streams
I have dreamed delicious dreams:
What will, my sweet one SCENE.
In the sheen of autumn skies
have pictured sunny eyes
Till the thought too quickly dies.
When the winter fire burns low,
Lovely faces come and 20
As the dying ashes glow,
IT'S her voice hear 80 oft
In the music low and soft
That the western breezes watt.
Tell her, Love, that years fly fast,
Bid her come to me at last,
Ere her golden days are past.
Shall we ever, ever meet?
Shall find in thee, my sweet
Visions true and life complete?
Whisper low to Love apart,
Whisper, darling, where thou art,
Perfect wife and noble heart.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
American Chtvalrv.

There was recently lady who got in
to Broadway omnibus. She was not
very young, and not very good-looking,
and not very we'll dressed. When she
opened the portemonnaie to pay her fare,
she found nothing less than a 81 bill.
Now, it IS not easy to stand in a swing
ing omnibus waiting till the driver has
time to pick out the change and poke it
down through the little hole which is
particularly announcement for both driver
and passenger to reaco. On account of
this inconvenience, gentlemen who ride
in New York cmnlbuses are usually
careful to relieve the ladies Of the duty
OF haodlng up fares and bills to change.
1t was young clerk who rose TO take
this la3y's bill. He was an insignificant
looking young man. His clothes were
common. His manners had none OF the
suavity Of polite society. He did in a
matter of-fact, unintere sted way the kind
ness which necessitated particular long
time of standing and swaying about
while waiting for the change. When he
bad attended to everything, and given
The lady what money remained in his
hands, she bowed aud said:
am sorry it has been so very much
trouble
sob, that's all right" said the clerk.
"Thats what we gentlemen are for"
bis accent was grating to the ear. He
dill not raise his hat to acknowledge the
lady's bow. He was not at all interested
in her. He did what was for her com.
fort simply because, according to his
notions, "that is what we gentlemen are
for"
It is men like this who make for
American women the happy position
for which they are so grateful. In every
society theie is courtesy from elegant
gentlemen to elegant ladies. There is
plenty of bowling and complimenting all
over the world, and gentle manners are
right welcome to women; soft voices
please them, end it is good to see q
man with his hat in his hand. But
when ordinary unpublished men give
thought to make life easier for unattract-
i've women, then we have something tina;
is finer and better. A French woman
lately repe ated the remark that the Dec.
laration OF Independence destroyed good
manners. It may be. Perhaps only
the Idle man and the "dude' know
how to behave. But for practical kind.
ness and unselfshness, the American
man Of business is not SO bad, eurely "
From the Boston Courier.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
-
REST =
BY FATHER RYAN,


Ny feet are wearied and nv hands are tired
My soul oppressed;
And with desire have long desired
Rest-only rest.
IT'S hard to toll, when toll is almost vain,
In barren ways;
TITS hard to sow and never garner grain
In harvest days.
The burden of my days is hard to bear,
But Gcd knows best:
And have prayed, but vain has been my prayer
For rest-sWeet rest.
IT'S hard to plant in spring, and never reap
The autumn yield.
IT'S hard to till, and when tits TILED to weep
Der fruitless field.
And 20 cry. q weak and human cry,
So heart-oppressed;
And so sigh, weak and human sigh,
For rest--for rest,
My way has wound across the desert years,
And cares infest
My path: and through the flowing of hot tears
pine for rest.
Twas always SO; when sill child I laid
On mothers breast
My wcaried little head; cen then prayed
As now for rest.
And am restless still; twill soon be DER;
For down the west
Lifes sun is setting, and I see the shore
Where s..all rys:.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
AND CONNECTIONS.

ALBERT LEA ROUTE,
and IT. immediate connections Through Trains dsily
Prom 81. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS TO CHICAGO,
without change, connecting with al linea~s
EAsTsaRd B0y1HE1SL ~
Tho only liae running Through Can between e. =.
MINNEAPOLIS and DEs NOlHES I0wa.
Through Trains between sJs4gsG5a ,.a3
MINNEAPOLIS AND 81. LOUIS,
connecting IN Union Depot for al Points South and
n. r. and St p: Duluth Railroads. from and. to ali
points North and Northwest 5zfl. Z
YPuLInAN PAIACH GLIRP1Ns
CARS on IN night 1faana Through T1ckes and bag.
gage checked % destination For time tables rate Of
b. -. BOYD,
qMl TIT. . Rass. As't, AiAnsapelis.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

WHY is poverty like million OF dol.
lars? It is arouud come (a r,uz, d sum
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

THE driver Of o hose team at Harris
burg, Pa, was fined q few days ago 70
fast driving il going to 8 fire,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
How SOme Women Dress.


Several Washington ladies have taken
advantage of the fashions and devised
styles which they consider are best
suited to them, says Washington cor
respondent. In some instances thek G
styles are original with themselves.
Mrs. Don Cameron, at german given
this spring, at which occasion the palm
Of belieship was accorded her, wore a
becoming toilet of white, trimmed with
snowbails, and had on neither gloves nor
bracelets. The waist of her dress was
made with very short sleeves snd cut
low in the ne OK. Mrs. Francis Hodg-
son Burnett, the novelist, has adopted
the so-called aesthetic style of dress. At
recent entertainment in Washington
she wore white China silk, Powered in
a very large pattern, with d gathered
waist, which was very short and very
low in the neck and without sleeves,
and a long, straight, full, trained
skirt, gathered to the belt
at the waist. She calls These waists
"agoos," that being the first word an
infant usually utters, and the style of
waist beng generally known as "baby
waists" She frequently wears sun.
flowers with her evening dresses. On
the other had, Mrs. Vinnie Ream
Hoxie, at the same party, wore CLASH
cal style OF dress resembling that of the
goddess Minerva, especially in the ar
rangement of the hair and ornaments
used on the head. Another Washing
ton lady, who also has taste for an
original style of. dress, has driven her
dressmaker half crazy by telling her, in
regard to one of her costumes: CHOW,
remember, that is the dress in which
you are to make me look like statue. {"
The poor modiste said afterward that
she was tormented day and night with
the endeavor to devise such garment.
For how can I make her look like a
statue" she plaintively exclaimed, "in
any dress in which she can walk, even
in ball-room?' This latter lady was
at Saratoga last summer, during the
Egyptian war. and often wore in the
evening ornaments and style of dress
suggestive of Cleopatra.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
A Woman Of Means

The Charleston News says story is
circulating among hotel men that during
the past winter lady from Boston, &C.
companied by three servants, engaged
three rooms at one Of the hotels in Jack
sonville. The proprietor assigned her
three of the best rooms on the parlor
floor. Upon arrival she was shown the
rooms, but taid they did not suit her.
Being told that they were the best rooms
the city afforded, she ordered carriage,
went out TO the stores, and spent about
$500in fitting up the rooms with rugs,
curtains, and brio a-brac. She occupied
them just one week, and then left all her
purchases behind her and went to the
Magnolia hotel, on the St. Johns River,
where she paid $500 week board for
herself and suite. She returned north
on a special car, which must have cost
not less than $500. This is rather m
apocryphal yarn.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
Fashionable DANES of 1882.

We talk about tho pIainpess of cur
grandmothers' dress. Let us look at our
grandmothers in New York city in the
year 1882, summer months, as Fanny
Kemble saw them: "Came home up
Broadway, which is long street of tol.
cradle width full of shops; in short, the
American Oxford road, where all the
people go to exhibit themselves and ex-
anime others. The women were all
gayly dressed with pretension to French
style aud mole than English exaggera-
ton of it. They all appear to me to
walk with a French shuttle, which, as
their pavements are fat, can only ac-
count for by their wearing shoes made
in the French fashion, which ate enough
in themselves to make waddler of the
best walker that ever set foot to the
earth. These democrats are as title sick
as bankers wife in England. A my
lord or my lady is just as precious in the
eyes of these Jewelers.. The women here
ripen very early and decay proportion
ally soop. They marry very young, and
that is another reason why age comes
prematurely upon them. They are for
the most part short and slight, with re
markably pretty feet and ankles; but
there's too much peIerine and petticoat
and dc yuoi of every sort to guess any,
thing more"
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The shoulders OF our bellies look as
though lifted by a chronic ehrug. lam
trustworthy informed that this effect is
produced by padding, and that the art
full creatures have simply changed their
spots Of falsity, in order TO produce that
1.-THE, lank length which fashion justnow
prescribes for their bodies. Certain
corset devices, too, give an Appearance
of no corsets at all. The aim Of all this
is to make the young lady seem to be in
a state of unlaced naturalness.
Success is achieved about one
time in hundred. Tho use of
what I believe scaled the Newport scarf
is more generally attended by satisfac-
tory results. Aheavy, soft fringed, and
brocadca strip OF stuff, three to five
yards long, is wrapped around the
figures in ways that are in the main
picturesque. The hips may be wouad
with it or the shoulders draped, or the
breast crossed, or the head hooded.
This is one of the few articles of fash
ionabIe adornment that the eyes Ct AL
artist can rest en- with approval, and as
for the impressionable amateur observer,
tie sight of a pretty girl artistically
decorated with Newport scarf, is apt to
bring on an attack OF heart disease and
PROSTATE Linn before her right there GU
the parlor foor.-Neau York Letter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-06
How to Plant Indian Corn.


The question as to what particular
method of planting corn, SO far as re-
lates to the arrangement of stalks, is
best, has long been discussed and there
is to-day quite as wide difference of
opinion as there was twenty years ago,
While some believe in planting in hills
others believe it best to plant in rows,
and while some believe in planting the
hills two and one-half feet apart with
three OF four stalks in hill others be-
lieve it best to plant four feet apart each
way, with five stalks in hill; others
who plant in rows differ as to the dis
lance the rows should be from each 9TH
er, varying from three and one-half feet
to five or six feet. Each claim to have
the best way. a.f
In deciding the best method it is well
to keep in view the fact that the best
way is that which will produce the corn
the cheapest. Because more corn can
be grown by any particular arrange
ment of stalks, it by no means follows
that it is best. Some years since a
great variety of ways was tried to test
the question as to what arrangement
would produce the most corn to the
acre; the result was that where single
kernels were planted one foot apart
each way there was the most corn; but
the additional laborwas more than the
value of the increased product. When
planted in hills at equal distances each
way, it very much reduces the labor of
CIVILIZATIONS; if the right system be
adopted very little hand work is needed
to keep the field perfectly clean. After
many experiments the following has
been adopted as the best method by one
who hires all the labor, and grows corn
at less than fifty cents per bushel. AS
soon as the corn is up SO it can be seen
in rows, a small .horse-plow is run
through the field turning the earth from
the corn on each side of every row; in
this condition the corn should stand ten
| days, when the field should be plowed
the other way turning from the corn as
before, thus leaving each hill of corn
standing on small square hill where it
receives the heat of the sun at a season
when most needed Nothing mere is
done to the field until near the first of
July, when, if the weather be hot, the
corn Will have got heat enough; as soon
as this is evident cultivator should be
run through the rows both ways, and
the ground made level; thus all of the
soil will be stirred except what is in the
hill. All of the hand work necessary is
to pull the weeds out of the hills. By
this method corn can not only be grown
with very little labor but larger crop
| can be grown than by the ordinary
methods of cultivation.
Careful experiments indicate that
twenty-five hills to the rod and four to
| five stalks in q hill is about right
Massachusetts, Ploughnaa1a.