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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME,
"Out to Old Aunt Mary's."
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va BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Wasn't it pleasant, o brother mine,
In those old days Of the lost sunshine
OF yonth-When the Saturdays chores were
And the Sundays wood" in the kitchen, too,
Out to old Aunt Mary's?
It all comes back SO clear to-day:
Though am as bald as you are gray
Out by the barn lot and down the lane
We patter along in the dust again,
AS light as the tips of the drops of the rain
Out to old Aunt Mary's.
We cross the pasture, and through the wood
Where the old gray snag of the poplar stood,
Where the hammering redheads hoped away,
And lOlled and circled as we went by
Out to old Aunt Marys.
And then In the dust of the road again; II
And the teams we met and the cOuntrymen;
And the long highway with the sunshine spread
AS thick as butter on country bread,
And our cares behind and our hearts ahead
Out to old Aunt Mary's.
+ see her now in the open door
Where the little gourds grew up the sides and DER
Wasn't it good for a boy to see? s.
And wasn't it good for boy to be ri
Out to old Aunt Marys
And oh, my brother, so far away,
This is to tell you she waits to-day
To welcome us. Aunt Mary fell
Asleep this morning, whispering, "Tell
The boys to comev' And all is well
Out to old Aunt Mary's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
Winter Calves.

Buy thoroughbred bull, and raise
calves from your best COWS, says New
York dairyman. There are times in
the year when milk is plenty; then raise
calves. A winter calf is better than a
summer one, because it is old enough
to turn at grass when spring comes. His
method of raising calves is to give q or
three quarts of milk, and one quart of
water to each calf, twice day, until
four weeks old. Then reduce the milk,
and increase the water gradually, until
they are two months old, and they are
weaned, and never know it. eIn the
give them wheat bran and
middlings, equal parts, increasing with
the grain as the milk is deceased. Hay
is also given.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
One Way Out Of a Tight Place.

@One day." says Edmund Yates in his
sRecollections, !" "a Queens birthday, on
which I had holiday from my office,
we Yates and Dickens) had spent to-
gether at Gadshin. The family was
absent, and the house was in charge of the
gardener, whose wife cooked us steak
and Dickens had taken care to bring
the cellar-key with him. We rambled
about during the afternoon, and at
night we went to the Rochester theater.
I forgot the play-indeed, I recolleot
nothing but the presence Of mind Of q
large man in green baize tunic and q
pair Of bull boots, who, to Dickens Joy,
evidently did not know word Of his
part. He strobe into the middle Of the
stage without nttering syllable, looked
fercely around, then said in stentorian
tones: & will r-r-re-tur-r-n anonv and
walked quietly off to read up his part
at the wings"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
AYERS PILLS.

A large proportion of the diseases which
cause human suffering result from derange-
ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver
AYERS CATHARTIC PILLS act directly upoI4
these organs, and are especially designed to
cure the diseases caused by their derange,
ment, including Constipation, Indiges-
ton, Dyspepsia, Headache, Dysentery,
and a host of other ailments, for all of
which they are q safe, sure, prompt, and
pleasant remedy. Tho extensive use of these
PILLS by eminent physicians in regular prac-
tice, shows Enthusiastically the estimation in
which they are held by the medical profess
sion.
These PILLS are compounded Of vegetable
substances only, and are absolutely free from
calomel or any other injurious Ingredient.
A Sufferer from Headache writes:
"AYER's PILLS are invaluable to me, and
are my constant companion. have been
severe sufferer from Headache, and your
PILLS are the only thing could look to
for relief. One dose will quickly move my
are the most effective and the easiest physic
l have ever found. 1t is a pleasure to me to
speak in their praise, and always do SO
W L. PAGE, Of ". L. Page & Bro.''
Franklin ST., Richmond, Va, June 8, 1882.
less instances as recommended by you, and
have never known them to fail to accomplish
the desired result. We constantly keep them
on hand at our home, and prize them as
pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine.
FOR DYSPEPSIA they are invaluable.
r. HAYES"
Mexia, Texas, June II, 1882.
The REV. FRANCIS B. HARLowE, writing
from Atlanta, Ca, says: "For some years
past l have been subject to constipation,
from which, in spite of the use of med-
cines of various kinds, 1 suffered increasing
Inconvenience, until some months ago I
began taking AYERS PILLS. They have
entirely corrected the costive habit, and
have vastly improved my general health.''
AYERS CATHART1c PILLS correct irregu-
larities of the bowels, stimulate the appe-
tite and digestion, and by their prompt and
thorough action give tone and vigor to the
whole physical economy.
PREPARED By
Dr.J.c.Ayer& Co., Lowell, Mass.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24

Mrs. REBEccA M. LEVY, sister of
the late Judah P. Benjamin, died
in New Orleans few days ago.
She WAS the first person elected by
Gen. Butler in New Orleans. She re-
fused to take the oath of allegiance and
was turned out of her fine house on St..
Charles Avenue to become visitor
among friends within the rebel lines.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
How Watch Cases are Made.

Most persons have an ambition to carry
a gold watch case, and yet few people know
how a watch case is made, or the vast diff
ference in Inequality of them. Ina SOLID
GOLD WATCH CASE, aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
large proportion of the metal is needed
only to stiffen and hold the engraved por-
tons in place, and supply strength. The
surplus is not only needless, but undesira-
BILE, because gold is soft metal and cannot
furnish the stiffness, strength and elasticity
necessary to make the case permanently
strong and close-ftting. The perfect watch
case must combine gold with some metal
that will supply that in which the gold is
deficient. This has been accomplished by
the James Boss Gold Watch Case, 0,pr - msx
which savesthe WASTE Of need q u
less gold, and INCREASES the soL1D1TY and
STRENGTH of the case, and at the same time
reduces the cost ONE HALF.
send cent stamp Keystone Watch Case Factories Phs-
Selpha Ia handsome Illustrated Pamphlet hsw
lanes Bo..' and Key.tone Watch Cases made.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24

lead the animals to trough Of water,
warmed BY the rays of summer sums, or
frozen in the winter. A more wastefnl
way can scarcely he conceived, short Of
turning the stock into the fields Of tand-
ing grass and grain.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
Saving Feed.

IF one tenth of the crop of grain and
hay that will be fed, during the present
winter, could be saved there would be
practically an enormous addition to the
natural wealth with which this country
is overlooking. It seems as though the
saving might be effected, and thus con-
siderable be done to avert the evils of
depression in the markets for farm
products. The frse means to adopt for
saving hay and grain, is to provide snug
and comfortable quarters for farm stock
of all kinds; for fully tenth of all the
food given to animals in the way COM
mon, in the West especially, is wasted.
Part of it is tramped underfoot,
frequently sinking into the mud, and of
the rest, cattle will eat none, unless
actually starved into doing SO. A very
considerable part of the food given to
animals for which no shelter is provided,
goes to sustain animal heat.
Every animal is an animated
furnace, consuming a. certain part
of the fuel in keeping up the
temperature of it's body. Every one
knows that q furnace placed out Of
doors requires greater quantity of fuel
to keep itself warm, than in closed
room.
Another patent influence for econo-
my of fodder and grain, is good breed
ing. Well-bred beeves, and we'll bred
COWS will give a much greater return,
in flesh and milk, for = given quantity
of food, than the scrub can give. The
results of good breeding show them
selves all along the line, from birth to
maturity. The Berkshire, the Poland
China, or other well bred pig; the Cots
void, the Oxford, the Shropshire, or
other improved races of sheep; the
Herefords, the Short horn, or other es-
tablshed breeds, all make affair appear
ance, larger growth, and better prof
It than the scrub can make from q like
quantity Of food.
Much is to be learned, by the mass of
farmers in this country, about the rel
alive cost and value of the several
kinds Of food. The general method Of
management is to throw dry fodder Of
some kind to the stock, to chuck downa
few ears Of corn, and once in . while to
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
The 'fGreat Eastern' of the Ancients.
IEroIn 1tTha Sea ~

The 'sGreat Eastern" of the Ancients.
From "The Sea."I
The most prodigious vessel on the
records of the ancients was built by or
der of Hero, the second tyrant of Syr-
acuse, under the superintendent of
Archimedes, about 230 years before
Christ, the description of which would
fill a small volume. Athenaus has left
a description of&tbis vast floating fabric.
There was, he says, as much timber en-
ployed in her as would have served for
the construction of fifty galleys. It had
all the varieties of apartments and con-
venience necessary to palace as
banqueting rooms, baths, library,
temple of Venus, gardens, fsh-ponds
mills, and spacious gymnasium. The
inlaying of the floors of the middle
apartment represented in various col
ors the story Of Homer's Iiiad; there
were everywhere the most beautiful
carvings, and every establishment and
ornament that art could furnish were
bestowed on the ceilings; windows, and
every part. The inside of the building
was inlaid with cypress wood, the stat
ues we're of ivory, and the floor was
studded with precious stones.
The vessel had twenty benches of
oars, and was encompassed by an iron
rampant or battery it had also eight tow
ers, with walls and bulwarks, which
were furnished with machinessof war,
one of which was capable of throwing
stone of 800 pounds weight, or dart
of twelve cubics long. to the distance of
half mile. To launch her, Archimedes
invented screw of great power. She
had four wooden and eight iron an
chors; her mainmast, composed of a
single tree, was procured, after much
trouble, from distant inland mountains.
Hero, finding that he had no harbors
in Sicily capable of containing her, and
learning that there was a famine in
Egypt, sent her, loaded with corn to
Alexandria. She bore an inscription of
which the following is part: "Hiero, the
son of Hierocles, the Dorian, who Yields
the scepter of Sicily, sends this vessel,
bearing in her the fruits of the earth.
Do thou, O Neptune, preserve in safety
this ship over the blue waves"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
Farmers the Most Independent.

The whole country is complaining of
an over-stock, not only of grain but of
manufactured articles. A financial
speaker recently stated that there is q
three years supply Of iron. and Of sever
al other products. This is bosh; there
is not half q years supply of any manu-
featured articles. But there is an ex-
cess Of many things, because the pro-
duction is constantly going on, nearly
up to the customary rates, though not
quite.
The thought, however, we would inn
press here is, the comparative independ-
ence of farmers as class. Take an il,
lustration. In the manufacturing towns
if through a surplus, and low prices and
few buyers, the machinery is suspended,
both employers and employees must
suffer, it not starve. But in Kansas, for
example, owing to the general surplus,
corn is hard to part with at 10 cents q
bushel. Well, suppose nobody will take
the corn. Some of it can be eaten !;
some of it will produce fat pork to
grease it down." and some of it will
make very good fuel to cook the corn
bread and the pork, and to keep off the
frost. The families that have corn on
hand can draw themselves with their
own shells, SO to speak, keep fed, keep
warm, wear out the old { clothes,
and wait for better times. A few, deep
~ in debt to hard creditors, will pos
sibly lose their homes; but not many.
In such times creditors are not likely to
sieze upon property they cannot dis
pose of, whether grain or land; and. as
rule, they are wise enough to give the
debtors chance to pay in full in the
future, rather than to exterminate the
golden egg laying biped, feathered or
unfeathered.
Aside from those pressed with enor-
nous debts, farmers are in these times
the most independent classin the realm.
All over the country they can hold on
to their wheat and corn, or be TURF ing the
latter into hog products that will keep.
The purchase Of hoped for new articles
of dress, of ornament, of luxury, of
comfort, can be put off this year, and
another if need be. Coarse WOODEN
goods to keep out the cold are relatively
nearly as cheap as grain. A small stock
of these for the winter, and some coal
when it is cheaper than corn for fuel,
will carry the family through the winter,
and the soil will yield food, at least, for
next year.
Now is good time for farmers to
feel, to assert, and to show their indie.
pendence; to live within their means,
within themselves. This course pur-
sued while, and there will be suppiants
at their doors Offering gold for thei1
boarded food.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24

Mem :: With their own home-g grown
supplies to meet the necessities Of nat
ure to sustain and maintain physical
strength and vigor, and with the weekly
visit of the home paper to supply mental
food and to bring reports of what's going
on in the outside world, aud tell them
when it will do to let down the draw
bridges, our agricultural readers may
comfortably and composedly go into
winter quarters, and let the world wag
on awhile.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
8UUVV IS CUFIECG map
ALBERT LEA ROUTE,

RI0ENI LIZA NVO -
md its immediate connections. Through Trains dali"
7:can ST, PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS TO CHICAGO.
without change, connecting with all lines
EAST. and SOUTHEAST.
The only line running Through Cars between
:. MINNEAPOLIS and DES MONIES, iowa. =.
Through Trains between
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. LOUIS,
,nncc:ins in Union Depot for all Points South ar.i
,;lilwest Close connections made with ST. p N. & 81
y. and St. P. & Duluth Railroads. from and to al
,irts North and Northwest.
ssENEM PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING
q, etc. call upon nearest Tckct Agent, or address
s. T.. EDYD.
GcaH Tit. & Pess. Ag't, Minneapolis.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24

Din e. C. WEsrs NERVE AND BRAIN Treat
xEN1 guaranteed specific for hysteMEIa, ! Dzz
Headache, Nervous Pr ostration caused by the use
o. alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness, Mental Ye-
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Premature Old Age, BARONESS, Loss Of power
in either sex. Involuntary Losses and spermatt-
orrhoea caused byoyer-exerti9n Of the BRAIN sem
one months treatment. $1OO box, or six boxes
FOR $780, sent by mail prepaidon receipt of price
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To- cure any case. With each order received bynss
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re.
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure. Guarantees issued onlyby
JOHN G.. WEST e. CO.,
B62 w. MADISON ST, CHICAGO, sLlS.,
Sole Props Vests Liver Pills.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
Wooden-ShOes Good for Men.


If the merits of wooden shoes were
better known, they would be much
more universally used, especially on the
farm.
At first glance those having used
them would think they were clumsy,
hard on the feet, and very cold in win
ter, but after fair trial, your readers
would be well pleased with them. At
least, that has been my experience. I
can-highly recommend them to all farm
ers and dairy men. They are most val
liable and do excellent service along in
the winter and spring, when the ground
is continually freezing and thawing and
it is muddy most of the time. It is then
that they are far superior to leather
boots and shoes for the leather will
soak up water and make the feet wet,
and the boots will be hard to get on and
of, while wooden shoes keep the feet
dry and warm even in the coolest
weather. When the chores are done, it
is a simple matter to step out of the
shoes and into pair of slippers. 1t
seemed strange to me when I
first saw them, that they could
be used at all in the win
ter, for the back part of the shoes was
open, as they all are, and I thought this
would let the cold air in all around the
foot; but by using them short time I
was delighted with the way they kept
my feet warm and comfortable.
OF course we all know that wood is O
very poor conductor of heat and cold,
and for this reason wooden shoes are
much warmer than leather ones. had
an idea, however, at first, that the heel
would almost freeze in cold weather;
but two pairs of socks kept them warm
during the coolest weather we have had.
It would be good plan to take pair
of old boots and cut off the feet and
then tack the tops around the opening
on pair of wooden shoes, as this
would keep the ankle warmer and
more comfortable.
Besides this, they are very economi.
cal, being much cheaper, and lasting
longer than leather boots and shoes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24

suddenly did what hero would.
To think was to act. It is said that
pebble will turn an avalanche. A
sportsman knows that breeze will de-
feet bullet. Near by was the trunk
of an old pine tree. He sprung to it
like lightning, and pried it forward
with his rifle. At the last wrench the
stock broke off short, and he rejoiced
with the same monstrous incongruity
that he had his pistol still. Loose
stones lay about, and these he piled
against the log to form a sort of bull
wark. His strength was supernatural.
His feet flew. The drops of sweat fell
from his forehead into the snow. The
barricade was still to weak, and the
avalanche was coming! Already thin,
CLASSY sheets of ice, like the tongues of
the waves on the ocean beach that come
below the breakers, shot around his
ankles. A branching, grinding sound
was in the air, as though the universe
was rended at its foundations. He
darted to and fro like a shadow. He
wove the stumps and branches with the
debris he carried in his arms. Still it
was coming -comingl His time for
fight was drawing short. One more
stone, leap and he is safel He never
made it. The snow was already upon
him. An arm of it snot out and
wrapped him around waist high. He
writhed in it and chung to the barricade
with q strong mans desperate hold on
life, but the avalanche rushed down in
all the resistless might Of 10, 600 tons Of
snow. It tore his bleeding fingers
from the tree; it curled waye-ike above
his head, and whirled him far out into
its churning midst. He threw up his
arms once, as swimmer who sinks to
rise no more, and his dying shrek was
g nAught in the pitiless roar that
echoed up TO heavenl
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16

DLACKING CASES! BLACKING CASEsH
ID We have just received nice lot Of Backing
Cases, which we are selling very cheap. Just the
thing for nice Christmas present for gentc-
mon MCLEAN Sc UHLER,
5ec3 76 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16

10 EUROPE IN Four DAYs-A French
engineer, NJ. Sebillot, proposes to shorten
the time between this continent aud Europe
to four days His idea is to adapt TO ocean
navigation, on a more acute and longer scale,
the idea which models the North river
steamers and the ferry boats ofthe East rv-
er. 1t is that Of having virtually two hulis,
q lower and an upper, the lower ana the
centre to he deep, long, narrow, and at the
bows very sharp, reducing the angle forward
by the line Of the bows where they cut the
water with the line Of the vessels motion
from / TO Is degrees as now, TO even three
degrees. The lower hull will thus preserve
q width from stem to stern of only third
the width of the upper hull, and the latter
will either be out Of water, or, when the YES
sci IS deeply laden. will barely rest upon
the water. He estimates that vessel Of
y 600 tons as compared with the newest
fast steamers, with 10000 horse. power, 200
feet immersed crcss-section and running
twenty knots per hour In calm water, would
show a speed of 30 knots and probably 80
knots. Ii fellows that such a vessel could
cross the ocean, in calm water, from New
SorI, to Eura;.n. in about four days. This
!. i,v no means IN sNtravayant suppostlon,
as the tincness Of the lines is out OF compai-
;son with the usual lines in fast steamers,aud
Can m be compared only with those of some
fine race boats renowned for their speed,
aud bnilt either shallow and wide or mar
row row and deep, the new type paraking Of
both these principles and carrying them I"
the utmost. It is possible experence u'si'i
show that the shape Of the prov will caus@
such y vessel TO be much less Influences ny
rough weather than the ordinary shane.
| The travelling public would gladly
welcome The day when N. Sebillct's ne"
rapid transit idea shall become fact
| Hartford Posi-.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16

TEpaGE's GLUE! LIE PAGES GLUE!-A
| 1 fresh supply Of this Celebrated Glue just re-
ceivcd. 1t is pronounced THE BEST by all who
have used it. % cents per bottle with brush
and tin cover. MCLEAN & UHLER
mhi SU hlhg street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16
HsRD:y.iKE IND CUTLERY.

IhMES F. CARLIN & SONS.
4
NO 63 KING STREETS
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA,
Wholesale aud Retail Dealers iii
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
iildcrs' Hardware. Locks, Hinges, Scr""~
Do0rBolt Latcbes, &C., Saddlcry, Hardwar,.
Bride Bits, Buckles, Rings Hames, &C., &r.,
Whcclwrights Hardware, Axles Rims, Hui+,
Spol,cs. Sawed Fellows, Tire Iron, &C., fock",
Table Carving, and Butcher Knives, &c, Gun,
pistols, ST. A full and complete stock OF Er-t-
c..s goods away in store and sold at lowest t::*ii
rrircs augl::
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16
AUCTION SALES.
By R. T. Lucas & Co., Auctioneers.

4 uCTION SALE-On SATURDAY MORN
~ NE. May 18th, 1854. commencing at ten
o'clock. will he sold the ENTIRE STOCK and
FIXTURES of the auction house of L. d. Harri-
sold without reserve for cash. Don't fail to come.
my14-3t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16
By R. T. Lucas & Co., Auctioneers.

laTE HEREIN DETERMINE 70 CLOSE OUT
W orr immense stock OF CrOckcry, Tin anh
Willow Ware. Furniture, Stoves. Cases. Desks,
Tables and Notions Of every description. for the
purpcsr oC Il change III our firm and business.
We vii! allow discount of is per cent to
purchasers lor 15 days at private sale, and after
that ut auction from day to day until the entire
stock is closed ont.
Gcmrn.b Der the place TIL OLD CITY HOTEL.
corner Of ROYAL and Cameron streets, Alexandria,
Va All persons having CLANS against the firm
will present them for settlement, and all persons
indebted to us will please settle Mt once or We
will be compelled to place the bills in tho hands
of q collector.
ap12-tr RT LUCAS & co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16

nAsKETS, BASKETS! BASKETS.-W have
u lust received the incest line of Covered Splnt
Baskets ever offered in this city. They are Gurz-
Bile, and nicely finished and we can furnish them
in six sizes Call and examine. .ax s~
my7 MCLEAN & UHLER, SO King st.