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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Covered Runs.

No one who has once used covered
run for fowls, will be apt to do without
it. Any sort of a roof will do, SO it is
in sheltered spot. Let roof project
ing from six to ten feet be built along
the wall or fence and run the entire
length of the yard. You have no idea
how the chickens will use it and ap-
preciate it in wet and stormy weather.
It should be SO built, as to be exposed
to the sun and sheltered from the cold
winds. It is a good idea to have it
foored, and this covered to the depth
of several inches with sand or dry
ashes. In stormy weather, this makes
splendid place to put the coop con-
tanning old hens and little chicks. Even
in dry weather it will be noticed that
when not feeding, the fowls consider
the covered run as popular resort for
sun baths, dust baths, and quiet refec-
ton.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
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. InasoL1D
GOLD WATCH CASE, aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
large proportion of the metal is needed
only to stihen and hold the engraved por-
lions 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 Cas-, a.oE - MARX
which saves the WASTE of need q q
less gold, and INCREASES the soL1D1rY and
STRENGTH of the case, and at the same time
reduces the cost ONE HALF.
Send cent stamp to Keystone Watch Case Fsetore' Pha
delphia Pa handsome Illustrated
James Boss and Key.tone Watch Cases are made.
Ito be continuedJ
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
In the Cornheld,

. n
They go, in the April morning,
The father and son, afleld,
Ana, blowing the greensward under,
Prepare for the harvest's yield.
The father Is thoughtful, sober,
The son is blithe and gay;
And thus the hours fly swiftly
Of this gladstone, hopeful day.
They 60 again in the Maytime
And tickle the earth with q hoe"
They drop the tiny kernels
OF corn into the ground below.
The father tells his stories
OF the primitive olden time,
And the son, mayhap, is dreaming
VI the odors Of rose and thyme.
Anon corn blades are springing
Out of the earth's dark mold;
Unto the air and sunshine -..-
Their leaves they now unfold.
The slender blades grow stronger
Under the dew and sun,
And the hew grows clearer, deeper,
Of the green stocks every one.
There's rustic OF leaves in the cornfeld,
As the August breeze goes by,
Mid the stalks are the children playing,
And they look to the bending sky;
They ask whence came the voices
OF the winds in their mild, sweet mood,
And wonder If it's from heaven,
fit is the whisper of God.
The field becomes forest
= Ofstalks. and tassels, and grain,
When skies have grown more sober,
And falls September rain.
Then the reapers with their sickles
Garner the ripened ears,
Symbols of Hfe's ripe harvest,
For the granary Of the years.
Detroit Free Press
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
small anil Youna, Beet Best.


Fashions, habits and tastes are gener-
ally the result, to agreater or leas ex-
tent, of caprice on the part of some
body. But the most capricious gener.
ally yield in time to circumstances, if
not to their own better Judgment. The
time when very large and very fat beef
-ox beef was in most popular de-
mand has gone by, although there are
many who from sheer force of habit
still prefer it. But the demand for
well.marbled. juicy, tender meat, such
as is produced by thrifty young ami
mails OF from one and quarter to two
and half years old, of COM
pact form, finely and closely
built throughout, is fast super
seding it. And so it should, for, from
every economical consideration, it is
much to be preferred. Circumstances
ubtedly Justify, and will probably
continue to justify for many years yet,
the feeding Of strictly beef-producing
animals to a much greater age than two
years, but every pound Of beef PRO
duced after about that age is made at q
very considerable loss a. compared
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
A FADED LEAF.
BY g. W. CRAFTS.

Wandering in the wood one day
IN autumn's golden light so sweet
Ihere fell from its dark bough away
A yellow leaf down at my feet.
And thought as it fell heard
sigh escape from out Its breast,
1Ke the note Of weary bird
AS 1t settles into its nest.
And STOPPING tenderly took
The expiring leaf in my hand,
And 1t seemed to give me look
such as could well understand.
So said: 20 leaf will you tell
The history of your past life,
All the way down until you fell
A knight in the battle of life''
And its story it sweetly told
vi us birth IN the early spring,
How 1t passed from its fringe of gold
Like child of a rich old king.
And how 1t grew SO broad and green
And was found by the gentle breeze
And basked in mornings silver sheen
And was taught by the grand old trees.
And how summer came with its heat,
And the tempest with blaze and roar,
ana how the storms did beat and beat
Until 1t was weary and sore.
ana now little bird did build
Its nest just where the leaf ould see
Laid Its blue eggs and piping filled
The woods with sweetest melody.
And once beneath Its bough there strayed
loving para noble youth
nd by his side a star-eyed maid
One soul were they and that was truth.
But what they said it could not tell,
And would not with its dying breath,
Only this: "Full soon wedding bell
VIII peal of love that knows no DEATH"
And then it said: "My work is done;
No more for me the birds will sing,
No more for me will shine the sun,
FOR W1thered leaves there comes no spring
"NOw lay me down and let me sleep
With the dead grass upon the mold;
Ger me the autumn rains will weep
And winds will sigh in winter cold"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Wanted to Send q Telegram.
from the Albany Argus.l

tFr0m the Albany Argue.1
A well dressed woman called at the
telegraph Office in the Saratoga Rail-
road Station, on Wednesday afternoon,
and inquired for blank, envelope, pen
and ink. Operator La Perche civilly
responded, and placed them at her
command. She busted herself for sew
eral minutes inditing her message, and
then placed it in the envelope, and,
sealing it, she handed it to the operator.
He told her if it was to be sent in the
envelope it would require stamp, and
che responded it was to go by tele.
graph. Mr.. La Perche then told her it
would be necessary for the envelope to
be opened. "No, you won't read my
message" she replied, and seized the
missive and departed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
A Prose Poem.

From the Merchant Traveler.]
Softly the moon shed it's silvery light
upon the evening sir.
The difference between the moon and
a goose is, that the goose sheds feathers.
This is less romantic, but good goose
feathers are worth 70 cents q pound.
more or less.
They stood beneath the silent stars,
Arthur and Evangeline; not the goose
and the moon. She in the glory of
young womanhood, and he in $50 suit
of clothes.
It is astonishing what trust tailors
put in manhood.
"Oh, Arthur" she said, "Iet us flee
from this place; from the wrath of an
angry father and the torturing taunts
of amercenary mother"
At this season she should have said,
'slet us mosquito from this place, etc."
but a young woman in love can't tell q
fee from mosquito, and we must not
censure too severely.
"Ah, Evangeline, would that it were
possible
'But it is possible, Arthur. We can
fly beyond the sea, the deep blue sea,
which lies between us and happiness,
and beneath the sunny skies of Italy in
the dolce far niente of that lotus land
We may build about lis beautiful palace
whose foundation shall be love, and
whose superstructure shall be the per-
lection OF earthly bliss"
The girl had spent all her chewing
gum money on 10-cent novels, and all
her time in playing Pauline in an anna
tour dramatic club.
'Ah, darling, the picture you paint is
too lovely for realization" he walled,
OF course he knew she painted. ANY
fellow can tell that when he gets close
toa gill.
"Why, love? Oh, Arthur, why?"
because, dearest" he agonized clear
down to the knees of his pants, Il
haven't money enough to buy tickets
across the briny, and tho walking on
that road calls for gum shoes, which I
am also unable to put up collaterals for
during the present depressed condition
of trade"
"Be tradel" she shrieked, and they
parted forever.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Wintering Potatoes.

As to the best method of pitting pota-
toes for winter keeping D. @. Harrison
in the Farming World says: Potatoes
should be left above surface of ground
for day or two after being dug. Pro-
tect at night from frost. Then olga pit
from four to four and a half feet deep
and fill with potatoes to within about
two feet of the top. Then lay sticks
and boards across the pit, cover with
hay and then with layer of'earth, after
which throw on load or two of manure.
I have had great success with my pc a.
toes protected in this way.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Household HiNts.

WOOD may acquire an oak, walnut, or
cherry tree color by staining it with or
binary tincture of iodine diluted with
spirit until the exact shade is obtained.
White shellac must be added to the TO-
dine solution if the stain is to be made
permanent, or the wood after the stain
is applied may be French polished. The
iodine may be laid on with rag or a
brush.
CUCUMBER soup is very easily made.
All the ingredients required are one
quart of stock, the yolks of two eggs, a
teacupful of cream, and small lump of
butter. Put the butter into saucepan,
and after slicing large cucumber very
thin and scattering salt over it, put the
slices into the saucepan and brown them
slightly. Then pour the stock over
them. Mix the eggs with the cream
just before serving.
TOMATO sauce which will keep we'll is
made of one dozen perfectly ripe toma-
toes, two teaspoonfnls of the best pow
dered ginger, one head of garlic chopped
very fine, two tablespoonful of vinegar,
one dessertspoonful OF cayenne pepper,
and one of salt. Put the tomatoes into
stone jar and let them stand in a hot
oven until they are tender. When cold
remove the skins and mix the above
named ingredients with the pulp and
juice in the jar. Then put it away in
bottles and seal tightly. This sauce is
said to keep we'll for years. The toma-
toes should be in the oven for several
hours, and become thoroughly cooked.
To free canaries and other cage birds
from the insects which infest them, the
following method is recommended by
one who has successfully practiced it for
years. Every night just at dusk the
cage or aviary is covered with white
cloth. During the night the parasites
will crawl from off the birds on to the
cloth, where they may be seen running
about when the cloth is removed at day
break. The insects may be killed by
putting the cloth into boiling water. A
repetition of the process will soon clear
away the pests without injuring the
birds. Insect powders will no donbt
kill parasites but the birds as we'll.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Curing Beans.

In answer to an inquiry as to the best
way to cure and harvest beans the New
York Times says: Two rows are pulled
and laid in one, with the roots all the
same way. If the weather is dry they
remain until dry enough to thresh, when
they may be taken in and threshed with
fails o. a machine; but in this case the
upper teeth of the machine in the con-
cave should be taken out to prevent
breaking the beans. If the weather is
wet the beans should be put up in
stacks, with the beans inside and the
roots outside, and protected with straw
until fully dry. Rain is apt to discolor
the beans and spoil them for sale, as the
stains reduce the value considerably.
No animal will eat our common beans
whole, but when they are ground with
corn the mixture makes the very best
animal food possible. Coarsely ground,
the mixture of corn and beans is exceed
ing]y nutritious for horses.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Keep the Best.

The New York Tribune says that one
capital error-because waste of capital
on the FARMS to keep poor horses and
COWS. A $50. isnot worth one-fourth
as much as one that is worth 800. It
will eat as much and cost as much for
harness, and will neither do as much
work nor live SO long. A $20-cow, that
makes three pounds of butter in week,
costs as much for everything, labor and
utensils included, as one worth 800
that makes ten pounds week. Another
error is to work poor land. Many a
man has broken his back and lost his
heart on a poor farm which he has SUI
fered to run down by bad management.
He has spread his labor and capital over
100 acres, when by combining himself to
twenty-five or thirty, he might have be-
come happy and rich. The way to re-
pair such q capital error is to begin with
one field and get that in good condition,
and let the rest lie, and so go on through
the farm. One rich field will then make
it easy to enrich another or two; and
while the beginning is slow it is down
hill work, and as the end is nearly
reached progress is fast and easy.
The worst of all capital errors is for the
farmer to neglect his own improvement
and education. A man who has $780,
600 in q farm and stock, may easily
have twice as much in himself and make
his work pay 10 per cent. on his value.
He is the greater part of his capital and
it is the greatest Of all errors to misuse
himself.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
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 upoh
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 safe, sure, prompt, and
pleasant remedy. The 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:
LAYERS PILLS are invaluable to me, and
are my constant companion. have been
a severe sufferer from Headache, and your
for relief. One dose will quickly move my
bowels and free my head from pain. They
are the most effective and the easiest physic
have ever found. 1t is a pleasure to me to
speak in their praise, and l always do SO
when occasion offers.
W. L. PAGE, of W. l.. Page g. Bro"
Franklin ST., Richmond, VA, June 3, 1882.
II have used AYERS PILLS i'll number
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 a
pleasant safe, and reliable family medicine.
FOR DYSPEPSIA they are Invaluable.
j. r. HAYES"
Mexia, Texas, June II, 1882.
The Rev. FRANCIS B. HARLowE, writing
from Atlanta, Ga, says: "For some years
past have been subject to constipation,
from which, in spite of the use of medi-
cines Of various kinds suffered increasing
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, 1884-10-29
THE MOST axnerianoad oinaratta 3

The most experienced cigarette roll
or in the world is the Cuban. While
the American is devoting his whole at
tention to making the cigarette, the ma
tive Cuban will roll one faultlessly with
his left hand while he gesticulates with
hjs right,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
Feeding Sheep.

Inexperienced persons often fail in the
matter of properly feeding sheep. It
will not do as in the case uf hogs to
throw in a lot of corn daily, letting the
animals eat what they will. It is. in
fact, not the amount or kind of feed,
but the way of feeding it, that tells for
profit. If could give one rule for the
inexperienced it would be, "Never feed
sheep too much" Unless you can Judge
closely it is better after each feeding to
have them seem hungry rather than
cloyed, but feed regularly morning
noon and night. A sheep will gain in
flesh if it can have somewhat near the
amount it will consume. What is more
important to the farmer, a sheep thus
fed is getting into condition for heavier
feeding.
The poorer flock of sheep is the
greater care and skill are needed in
bringing them up. Too often thin flesh
is sign not of insufficient food, but i'm
paired digestion. OF all ruminants the
sheep is most apt to suffer from poor
digestion, and most needs careful, regu-
lar feeding. The alienation of feeding
with scarcity is most injurious, whether
it be at nearly the same time or not.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29

A LITTLE colored piper recently piped
to members of the New York stock ex-
change to the tune of $45 that the bro
kers had given him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
All Thieves Together.
fEron tho Nam Xor1, cfa.1

tFrOm Lne new YORK Star.J
A Wall Street friend of mine, who
has just returned from the West, told
me good story yesterday. Said he:
II went on to the Yellowstone with
party, and we had queer adventure.
There were in the crowd two brokers',
bank cashier, railroad man., and
couple of Englishmen. In a lonely spot
we we're suddenly held up by four
mounted road-agents, who, with car
bines leveled at our heads shouted to
us to put up our hands, Our party was
pretty badly shaken up, I tell you. We
we're ordered to step out while one of
their men ransacked the coach. sLouk
here, men, said one of the Englishmen,
you don't want anything of us. We
are travelling with just money enough
to pay our expenses. This gentlemen
here is the cashier of the-bank; but
he doesn't carry the bank funds With
him, you know
'The fellows looked at him q mo-
ment; then one of them asked of our
companion: Are you really a bank
cashier?' 'Yes,' said he, rather family.
'Then,' said the leader of the gang
then, boys, we're off this hunt. Them
gentlemen kin go. We recognize pro-
fessional when we see him, and we take
off our hats to bank cashier because
he's the boss in our line OF business.
You can have your wallets, gentlemen,
and we hope you'll have safe journey
"And by - sir, would you believe
it, the rascals actually handed back our
things intact, lifted their hats to the
cashier, and dashed off like the mis-
chief. We were rather scary about
travelling in his company after that, but
the poor fellow assured us upon his
soul that he had never robbed q bank in
his life, and he attributed it all to the
fact that few rascally cashiers had
made the banking business disreputa-
BILE for q person of refined instincts"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
A Quaker Belle.

philadelphia Letter to Chicago Tribune.l
ut is very funny to see the tenacity
with which certain society young men
of Quaker descent cling to some of the
distinctive marks Of the religion oftheir
childhood. There is charming little
Quakeress, the life and the flower
of the small dancing class, whose life is
proof in point. She is dainty bru-
nette, with dancing black eyes and per-
feet carriage. Her dear old dad, who
was a member of one of the chief
Quaker meetings, died and left her
more than 100000 that he had accu~
mulated in the dry goods trade. She
was petted and spoiled, and all sorts of
concessions in the way of dress made
to her. She was taught painting and
music, too, and her devoted old papa
was almost fred out of meeting for hav-
ing a piano for her in his house, She
loved him quite as tenderly as he loved
her, and when he parted from her
for all time her grief was unaffected and
touching. However, she had lost all
taste for the life of routine and self-re-
straint imposed upon the disciples of
Fox. She had gone in strongly for the
beautiful and elegant in social inter-
course, and her muni6cent income per-
mits her to crafty all her tastes. She
wore twenty-eight different toilets last
season, and she laneuishly said day be-
fore yesterday that she was about i'm
porting twelve new ones for the coming
winter. She did not disclose what is
nevertheless fact-that most of the
twenty eight old costumes, after having
been once or twice worn, were made in
to nice frocks for the poor children of a
Sunday school in which she takes an in
terest.. Although she has apparently
given up the society of Friends inev cry
thing substantial, she yet insists on us
ing the plain language. There is a
current suspicion that the roguish little
beauty is quite conscious of the fact that
she adds to her charm by the use of her
quaint 'thees' and 'thys.' Fancy be-
witching little creature saying: rs thee
my partner for the lancers?' or Il have
so many names down on my dancing
card that I don't know when thy time
will come, Friend JONES'"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-29
RUP URE

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shf 81 se ST
Missouri. Dr. smythes books containing likenesses
of persons before and after mailed for l0c. Per
sons treated start home same day. Address
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