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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
Fowls Must have Green Stuff.


It must not be forgotten that our poul-
try need some sort of green food at all
seasons of the year.
In winter we can give them cabbages
or chopped turnips and onions from
time to time; short, late-dried hay Tor
rowen) is very good for change; corn
stalk leaves, chopped fine, they will eat
with a relish.
In early spring-time, when the ground
first softens from the frost, pasture-sods
thrown into their pens will be ravenouslv
eaten by them and as soon as the new
grass starts( unless they can have free &C.
cess to the fields or lawn they should be
supplied with this excellent asucculent
daily. For the young chickens nothing
Is so beneficial and so grateful as a run
upon the newly-grown grass; and next to
this indulgence they should have an am
pie supply of cut or pulled grass every
day.
But of course while Jack Frost bears
away ''this sort of truck" is out of the
question. Some careful poultry-keep-
ers sprout oats in boxes of earth, and al.
low choice birds to pluck the tende,
blades. The common Swedish turnir
and the carrot ale excellent for winter
green poultry feed, and probably the
most available and cheapest vegetables
that can be procured. If the fowls dc
not ''tackle kindly" to them when offered
IN raw state, cook and mash, and miz
with bran and meal.-Amer5cun Poul
tSY Yard.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
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MARBLES.
Z CHARLES NOBLE G1EooR.


When long the drifts unshrunk have hold
The borders Of the way,
And winters rule has half dispelled
The annual hope Of May;
When meier robin on the bough
From rufous breast has poured
His cheerful whistle, and the pillow
In dusty shed lies stored;
When gaudy almanacs, belied,
For ktndltng fires are torn;
When rule and season SEEM o'ertried.
And time itself foresWorn-
There comes q morn, sweet-breathed and still.
When all our world Grows kind.
And DER the south horizon-htll
voice steals underlined,
That talks Of clover.blo and bees,
And tufts Of tasseled grass
OF birds that chorus mid the trees,
And lakes Ike glimmer.glass.
Yet fear and doubt might hold their sway.
And chide the hearts that sing:
For bud, nor bird, nor moth aetray
Stands prophet yet for spring.
But. earliest moved by subtle wine
OF summer yet to be
Some rugged DO first gives the sign,
>And proves the best Chalaee,
His marbles with their merry click
Salute the passer-by;
The eye grows bright, the pulses quick
Blues vapor to the sky.
Youth joins in fact, in fancy Age,
The happy lad at play.
Till moved alike, blithe thoughts engage
The fair head and the gray.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

The printing world of London is much
disturbed by the discovery of a new pro-
cess which enables any number of copies
to be taken Of any book, even the oldest,
without setting line Of type. A COM
pound has been discovered which may be
spread upon page, without in the
slightest way injuring the paper, and
which refuses to rest upon ink. 1t can
be easily removed to q stone, and there
becomes the matrix for stereotype, or
can be used for printing from at once.
Practical printers are experimenting to
see whether they cannot save the cost of
resetting old editions, and. if certain
practical difficulties are removed, there
will be change not only in the repro
duction Of fac SMILES of old books, but
in the production of new ones. It will
be no longer necessary to keep type
standing, as proof will be as good as q
stereotype plate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
Faithful,

Solomon sends the sluggard TO the ant
to receive an object-lesson in Industry.
If dogs had not been outlawed among
the Jews, he might have sent an unreli.
able boy to dog to learn lesson in
faithfulness:
A Newfoundland dog kept guard over
a bag of flour left by his drunken owner
in Paramount Park, Philadelphia, dur
ing the recent cold weather, until he
was chilled into insensibility.
Policemen tried to coax or drive her
away, but to no purpose; and no one
could get near the bag. After the faith
full animal had succumbed to the frost,
he was carried into guard house, and
there carefully tended and Reconstructed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

ted to eat breakfast with her. nv lady
was graci0usly willing, and Lord Rich
ard was quite excited By the permission.
He changed his morning gown and era
vat several times, quite regardless of
Simmons peculiar face, and, with many
misgivings as to his appearance. sat
down opposite the lovely little lady in
pale blue satin and cashmere and white
lace.
It was charming breakfast. and dur
ing it the infatuated husband could not
help saying great many sweet and fiat
tering things. Kate parted them yerv
prettily- ''It is well, :" she said, stthat
no one hears us. If we were not mar.
ried they would think we were making
love.
s'And if we are married, Kate, WHY
not make love now, dear? We had no
opportunity before we were married."
''Ah, Richard, in fashionable life we
should make ourselves ridiculous. Ev-
cry one says our behavior is irreproacha-
BILE. I should have dearly liked it when
only q shy, awkward country girl but
now, my lord, we would be laughed at.
''Then, Kate, let us be laughed at T
oA~oS s'AAA AoA!S5AA1S5 AVA 4V--Ay lug AOI 1Us
If time should run back and fetch the
age of gold, why not love? Let us 90
back four whole years and q half. Will
you Kate-dearest and sweetest Kate?''
'sWe should have to run away TO the
country, Richard, and, now I think of
it, have not been to Esher since we
were married, love-"
When such conversation as this was
prolonged for five hours, it was little
wondered that my lords valet and my
lady's maid received orders to pack va
Uses and trunks, or that next day Esther
Hall was in happy tumult of prepare
ton.
Love comes better late than never.
and Lady Kate always told herself that
she never could have been so happy in
those sweet old gardens with her lover
as with her husband. Probably they
were both as perfectly satisfied as it is
possible for human love to be; for great
~ to the amusement of the fashionable
world, they not only spent the whole
summer alone in their country home, but
actually, when they came back to Lon
don, had the courage to appear in the
very height of the season in the same
box at the orera.
REALLY, Kate" said Miss Selma, 81
never was so astonished. The gentle
man on your left" !
els always at my right now, dear. He
will never be in the opposition again."
Chow delightful I"
'tFOr us? Oh. YES. CHARMING" !
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

Is THAs4kEAT CONNECTING LINK
Its main line runs from Chicago to Council
a on th RosR .aed m
Liberty. Iowa City. Marengo. Brooklyn, Grtnnell,
Des Mones (the capital Of Iowa.. Stuart, Allan
tic, aid Avooa; with branches from Bureau
sns Tned
Centrevile Princeton. Trenton, Gallatin, Came
ron. Leavenworth. Atchison. and Kansas City;
Washington to Sigourney. Oskaloosa. and Knox
tonspert, indspendent Eldon ottSnWs, Eddy
vile, oskaloosa, Pella, Monroe, and Des Moines:
Newton to Monroe; Des Moines to lndianola and
Winterset; Atlantic to Lewis and AUDUBON; and
Railroad, which owns, and operatea . through
line from Chicago into the State Of Kansas.
Through Express Passenger Trains with Pull
between CHlcAao and PEoR1A. KANSAS CITY,
COUNCIL BLUFFS. LEAvENwoRTH and ATcHI-
SON Through cars are also run between Mtlwau:
re. asa Kn ssoSt Gty via the and
:'he Great Rock Island" is maeniacently
equipped. Its road bed is simply perfect, and its
track is laid with steel rails
OF enjoying your meals, while passing over the
beautiful praries OF Illinois and Iowa, In one of
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
Through Express Trains: You get an entire
forseventy tive cents.
Approaching the fact that majority OF the
people prefer separate apartments tor different
purposes (and the immense passenger business
of this line warranting it, We are pleased t. Az
nounce that this Company runs Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars for sleeping purposes. and Palacs
PULLM :, R g,AI GAGS ! are n
Tickets via this Line, known M the
all Ticket Agents In the United states
For information not obtalnable At ~
A. kIMBALL,
6en1 Superintendent
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
Household Hints.

VANILLA TARTLETs: Pound five ounces
Of Jordan almonds and the same auan-
tity OF sugar in mortar, add one sunce
of powdered sugar and some vanilla su-
gar. Whip up with the white of six
eggs, add the almonds and sugar; line
your tartlet-pans with some light paste
and fill with the whipped egg, bake in a
slow oven, glaze with some white sugar,
and serve either hot or cold,
ORANGE Compete. the oranges.
prick them with fork in several places.
and soak in cold water. Put them in a
preserving pan, with boiling water and
some shavings of orange peel; boil for
ten minutes, change the water and boil
again until quite tender. Plunge them
into cold water. put sufficient refined
syrup into the preserving pan to cover
the oranges, which drain we'll and boil
in the syrup without the peel, until
quite thick. Take from the fire, pour
the syrup and oranges into deep dish;
cut the fruit into quarters when cold;
place in dish with the shavings in the
center and pour the syrup over them.
Sort G1NGRRBREAD.-Two and half
cups of Hour, one cup of molasses, ore
half cup of brown sugar, three-fourths
OF cup OF loppered milk, one teaspoon
full of soda sifted three times with the
flour, one teaspoonful of ground ginger,
one-half teaspoonfui of cinnamon. one
tablespoonful of butter. Mix sugar,
butter, molasses and spice together;
set in oven or other warm place until
luke warm, then beat hard five min
utes, until the contents of the bowl are
light and foamy; put in milk and soda;
beat two minutes longer, and bake in
patty pans, muffin-tins, or in two large
''cards." This gingerbread is best when
warm, although it will keep fresh for q
day or two. Eat as dessert with
cheese and chocolate.
CHICKEN F1bnETs, SAUrE. -Fletten
the tillets by pounding them lightly with
the vegetable masher. Season with pep
per and salt, and dredge we'll with flour,
Put In the frying pan one tablespoonful
OF butter for each fllet, and when hot
put the fillets in and cook rather slowly
twenty minutes. Brown on both sides.
Take up, and keep hot while making
the sauce. If there are six fillets. add
two tablespo onfuls of butter to that re-
mhlnl08 III Inc try1ng-pan, and when
melted stir in one tablespoonful of -four.
Stir until it begins to brown slightly;
then slowly add one and half cupfuls
of cold milk, stirring all the while. Let
this boil one minute. Season with salt,
pepper, and if you like little mustard.
Fill the center of q hot dish with green
peas or mashed potatoes, against which
rest the fillets; and pour the sauce
around. Serve very hot.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
Special Virtues of Celerv

special Virtues of Celery.
In celery there must be some special
virtue, if we only knew what it is.
Nothing is made in vain, and the pow
erful smell and extraordinary taste of
celery are limitations from nature that
1t has some special mission. MIR. Ward
OF Perrlston Towers, Ross, writes that
rheumatism becomes impossible if cell
cry is freely used as an article of diet.
Unfortunately he says cooked celery.
for it is the article in the raw state
to which we are all accustomed,
"Cut the celery he says, stinto inch
dice. Boil in water, until soft. No
water must be poured away unless drank
by the invalid. Then take new milk.
very slightly thicken it with flour. and
flavor 1t with nutmeg; warm with the
celery IN the sauce pan; serve with dia-
monds of toasted bread around the dish.
and eat with potatoes" s'Permit me to
say" he adds, 'tthat cold or damp never
Prodnce.rheumatism, but simply develop
it. The acid blood is the primary cause
and the sustaining power of the evil.
While the blood is alkaline there can be
no rheumatism, and equally no govt.
Let me fearlessly say that rheumatism
is impossible on sucn diet, and vet
our medical men allowed rheumatism
to kill over 5000 human beings in 1876
every case as unnecessary as dirty
face"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
Rather Personal.

(From the Philadelphia CALI
Little Nell -'.You like my sister.
don't your" .'
Young Pilkins- "Ya-as, I-aw-like
her vewy much ..t
Little Nell You want to marry her,
don't ycu?"
Young Pikins- ssWell, WEAKLY, my
little deah, that is vewy personal
question. ;.5$s
Little Nell ''When you get married
you will need all the room in your
house, won't your"
Young Plkins st WEAKLY don't nm
derstand you. ;" $
Little Nell-..Why, you know you
only occupy part Of it now. !"
Young Pilkins-'.O Only part2"
Little Nell Yes; pa said your upper
{ tory was for rent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
Private Lives of Public Men.

CHarper's Easy Chair.]
The remOnstrance against public com.
ment upon Tennyson's acceptance or re-
fusal of a peerage as gross imper-
tlnence opens the whole question of the
proper limits to be observed in the dis
cussion and description of the private
character and lives of famous contem-
poraries while still living. The Easy
Chair once heard Mr.. Parton severely
censured by one of the most celebrated
of American authors for alluding, in his
article upon Mr.. Webster, to the fact
that the great statesman sometimes
drank too much vine. The argument
was that the public interest in Webster
was based wholly upon his great intel
lectual powers and his public services.
and that it was most impertinent to
speak of his personal habits. We might
as we'll be told, he said, how often Mr..
Webster changed his linens or washed
his hands. Indeed, there would be no
end to this kind of story. he insisted,
should it be tolerated by respectable
writer's.
The protest was not unnatural-not AZ
justified by Mr.. Parton's papers. which
wasan admirable portraiture of Mr. Web
ster-but in an age when interviewing
has developed to taste for mere per-
sonal details and scandal to which un.
scrupulous journalism does not hest
tate to pander. But it forgot the uni
versal and instructive interests which
attaches to the personality of eminent
men. It is this which leads the pilgrim
to Stratford, and looks with interest up
on the Grave If Rem Johnson or tho
glass of Burns, or Dante's stone, or the
fountain of Vaucluse or Abbotsford, or
Sunnyside. It is surely this detailed,
familiar, pursuing picture of doings
and sayings, the habits and prejudices
and faults of DR.. johnson, which makes
the charm of the famous and immortal
biography written by a man of very
limited mental comprehension, and
whose most signal quality was bis mi
croscopic observation ofpersonal details.
Gould we spare Boswell's johnson?
Should we spare Cromwell's wen or Alex
ander's crooked neck?
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

a SAMPLE Of black pepper analysed
by New York chemist was found to
consist entirely OF authorizations, with
out an iota Of pepper in it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
~ + "a "a EfR The of the term
y &aA ARB "Short Line" in connec-
- S3SH n ton with the corporate
" ~&& name of a great road, con-
aK 4 IN yeys an idea Of just what is
REHs required by the travelling
HHAS pub &c Short Line, Qnick
N&Hu Time ard the best of
SD0 u ~ commodatons-all of which
are fnrnished nv the great RaiIw ~ in America.
CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE,
AND ST: PAUL Al j.:

II owns and operates over 4, GEO miles Of road in
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota; and it's main lines, branches and connac-
lions reach sJl the great business centres of the
Northwest and Far West, it naturally answers the
description OF Short Line, and Eott Route between
Chicago. Milw aukee, ST. Paul and
Chicago, MiIM aNhea. Portage, La
CKes~%S aad "a sDnna.
CtsRcas0, MilW auxee. OxtOnvilie.
aberdeen aDS1 EtBendate.
Chicaxo. Misssaukec, Eau Claire and
Saltwater
Chicago. Miiwa"kee, wau>s" and
Chicago, Milwaukee, Beaver Dam,
FGnd du Lac and asst,k"sn-
Chicago. mil Vaukee. WaNH esha AMI
Chicago. milwaukee,, Madison and
4rairie du CHEN.
Chicago. Milvaukee. OWatOnna,
MaukalO ana Faribauit.
Chicago. BelOit, Janesviiie and Min
Chicago, Eiain, Rockford and Du.
Chicago. Clin!9s, Rock Island. Cedar
chiea aeo.'I . ssq mo;n m Council, Bluff.
Chicago, canton, Sioux City, Sioux
EAils and YAnktOn.
Chicago, Milwaukee, Albert Lea and
Southern N1tnnesOta Points.
Chicago, milwaukee,, Mason City,
ROCK ' isians. 1abaq1e, ST. Paul and
minneapolis
Davenport, Calmar, St. Paul and
minneapolis.
milwaukee,, Racine, Beloit, Freep0Ht
and AOck Island.
MITCHELL, VOl&eY, Ashton and Aber.
deens
Jim River Valley Iine.)
Pullman S(eepe,'s an& the FIsaest
Dining Cars in The sUOTl6 are run on the
main lines Of the CHICA 60, MILWAU.
k EE e ~. PAUL Railway, and
every attention is paid to passengers by courteous
employees Of the Company.
3. 3. Merrill. A. v. II. Carpenter,
Gent Manager. GenI Pass. gent.
J. I. Clark, e Geo. n. reafford,
Gen1 Supt. Asst Gen1 Pass Agt
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND g. PACIFIC R. r,

BETWEEN THE EAST 4 THE WEST!
for sP,
at ali hours Of the day.
Magnificent Iron Bridges span the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers at all points crossed by this
ard f1 are ayss az
neetiens being made in Union Depots. -.
T T1i o &EEAT THheua1 LINE 4RS As
AZ AZ cHiSSxso with all aiversine lines for the
At ENaLEwoop, with the L. 8. Ems, and p,
At WxsHiNaToN HE1aH1s. with r.. G. 81.
Al Ia SALE. with III. Cent.
XMtr ~ IT, MAJ With snd i; Raj Ii D. 1'@
"" At ROCK o isI1ap. With "*ai9S.ukse + Rock
Island Short Line" and Rock 1sra 4 Pso. Rds.
= a DA . With the Davenport Division
At WEST LIBERTY, with theB c. R.& Mr. r.
At GR1NNELL, With Central Iowa R;R:
At DEs MONIES, with D: n. & F. 3; r:
At OMAHA, with B. ( No. r. Z. r. in NebJ
AtCOLVMBUS JUNCTION, with B. C. r. h N. r.
At OTT1kwA, with Central Iowa r. Il. W..
st. l. rsS e. 1tth Te pss War. wa. st.
AZ C1xERoN. with Il: St. j: T. i.
Ates Nes md T en- g. T:f K ds Santa F';
, Al LE4yENwoRrH. with Kan. Fac, aad Kan.
AZ K1ys1s CITY, with all li,es for the West
TCHIs6N, and LEAVENW0KTM.
Great Rock Island Routs,'' are sold By
II home ticket eAce, address,
asn1 Tiki. and PassxE AZ, =,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.

The Song of the Flatiron.
sing the song Of the natiron,
Inc natir0n heavy and hot.
me Nihtltst brave Of the lsundry.
Who for others' rights cares not : lot.
f01, wiener to smash, smutch or manp1e.
Io rumMe, rend, roughen, or rip
l o g 81 laws, In the Chinaman's claws
Or the Irish girls iron-lke Rrip.
Over surfaces soft, starched. or sodden.
press, plow, and pound In my power:
Frantic cries in hall, bedroom. and bondoir
Are my deep-rooted, delicate dover
o1 1. m.atlous, leap to my psstime;
- csesSes ana kinks am king.
Ana OF folds that criss-cross I'm the boss
A. my song sell. complacent sing.
The curling tongs clink with arrangement
Inc aut1ng iron wrinkles with Spite
AZ Wasnboard and Wringer their victims
Prepare Tor my fiendish delight:
Ana hiss "a so0rch cuffs and collars
smoke as the wristbands fray ...-
ana laugh At to drop as the shirt.buttons DOB
And the plaits pucker under my plsy.
In embroidery and old lace reyel.
Fine needlework di 70 at my touch. I'll
And, with nae ut my est, not garment
Need wait for Tim IS sundering clutch. ,r
ana still my brave song Of the datiron
sing with q jovial lip
As tramp, twitch and twist in the Canaman,a fe+
Or the brawny Hibernian grip.
Nathan D. Urner, IN Ne,o York Sun.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

MRS. ADELAIDE A. O1AFF1N has writ
ten paper on Henry Georges book,
Progress and Poverty" approving it's
treatment of the wage question.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

Why Husband Drew Forth His Wallet.
from the Somervine Journal
Il haven't seen your pet dog for
several days." said Sonerville husband
to his wife.
"No," she replied; the fact is, I have
given him away"
Why, you needn't have done that.
I had no particular objection to him.
'Oh, I know that; but I thought it
was not right for me to have pet dog
about the house when I have such e
good, kind husband to lavish my affec.
ton upon"
The husband sank into a chair, with
q deep sigh.
'@How much do you want, Mary?" he
asked, as he drew his wallet from his
pocket; sit can't be sealskin saoque.
for the winter is nearly over:.''
s'No, she said, sit is not q sealskin
sacque; but I would really like q new
silk for spring. -SjsS
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Hunting Runaway Freight Cars.

lE1OAAA GAo nlCnAOuUS V8sS oAGOu.J
A "Car-Accountants' Convention is
to be held in Richmond in May. A
'car-accountant, let it be known, is a
person employed by large railway COM
panies to hunt up lost cars but what
IA to be gained by holding q. con-
ventlon OF car-accountants is not clear,
As it is known, however, that different
Kinds OF cars possess different character
istics, it may be that convention of the
shrewdest and most experienced car-ac-
countants is necessary in order to agree
upon some uniform system of car-hunt-
ing. For instance, blue box-cars are
the most vicious and cratic of the entire
car family, and have the reputation of
straying off longer distances and to the
most out-of-the-way places. The blue
box-car is the one most frequently stolen
by one road from another, and when
painted in different color is said to be
the most difficult to identify. The COM
mon, dark brown car, in use on most
Virginia roads, has better reputation,
bnt even these have been known to get
away to Texas or Canada. The most
docile of all the car family, perhaps, is
that having a dirty, brick-dust color;
and it is owing to their good nature and
domestic habits, no doubt, that they are
so often converted into roadside shan
ties for railroad laborers and brindle cur
dogs. Time, however, will tell what the
car-accOuntants will do in convention
and as to our speculations as to their in
tentions, we ma.l be, after all, consider
ably off the track.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist.
now travelling in this country, says that most
Of the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here
are worthless trash. He says that Sherfdan's
Condition Powders are absolutely pure and
immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will Id
tul to pint food. Sold everywhere, OF sent b,