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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24

It was dreadful thing to do in such
q public place, but Pandora Piper felt
that she was going to faint the room
grew black.
She held out her hand for the glass
OF water. Most of it was split upon the
front breadth of her new black silk, but
that which passed her lips revived her.
Then sweet soft sense that there was
no more trouble for her in this world
crept into her heart and she smiled up
at him.
1T was in my mind the first day I
came" he said. IL Lad seen you often
through the window when you gave
lessons to that little girl at Bells. I
used to watch you with my opera glass.
I felt sure that you were just the woman
for me and every lesson you gave me
proved it. I shall learn everything
from goodness as we'll as spelling.
Oh, say 'Yesp I want you'll want YOU"
She said eyes,"
Mrs. Grimm was sitting up for her,
pale with wrath when she returned; but
Pandora took her by both hands, and
said:
"You won't turn me out until after
my wedding day, will you dear? You'll
let me pe married here. It's next week.
Mr.. st. Leger won't wait. You see, we
| will have to go to England and live on
the estate. And, after all, a poor little
teacher needs no great preparation"
Servants and diamonds and coun-
try house and city house, and every
thing heart can wish" Mrs. Grimm says,
in telling the story. "a real great lady
now. It's like romance"
And Pandora, happy with her good,
simple husband in her new surround
ings, often thinks so herself.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
THE GOOD TIME NOW.
b. HATT1E-J. RAY.

We often hear the words expressed,
Ofgood times yet to be
SOMEWHERE within the future years;
A good time we all shall see.
for each must find some happiness,
somewhere along this mortal life,
Fer our race is wholly run.
A good time surely waits for all,
mat Is what some prophet says;
But think you not we oft forget
That the best time Is today?
We cannot see what clouds may rise
To obscure to-morrow's sky;
We'd best improve the present hour,
Than to wait the by and by.
The present is as bright perhaps,
AS the future ere will be;
The earth is just as green and fair,
And as beautiful the sea;
Our tide of life runs Just as smooth,
And our hopes are quite as high.
AS they will be in future days,
In The talked of by and by.
No need to wait for future bliss
Which some prophet, sage, or seer
Has wisely told is iust at hand,
Close within the coming year
But strives at once for that good time
That is said Is drawing nigh,
For surely 'twould be better now
Than to wait the by and by.
As bright hope will dawn to-day
AS will bless the coming years,
Then why should we rely upon
The said oracle Of seers?
IT'S better far to gain the prize
By our own true, earnest will
Than to wait for time to do the work,
The bright future 10 fulfill.
This world is not a thing of shame,
Without laws that govern we'll;
For all the voices of the air
Of a mighty Godhead tell;
Who rules with laws by nature made,
Holds majestic. Cody sway:
Who never waits for coming time,
But improves the fair to-day.
Then do not wait for future bliss
And remain in shadows drear,
And think. perhaps, some coming time
Will surround your life with cheer;
But grasp the present good that flies,
Some bright joys shall thee endow,
Whate'er the future has in store,
Hold We fast the good time now.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
Continued from last 1oeek.)
How Watch Cases are Mdde.

1t is fact not generally known that the
James Boss Gold Watch Gases really con-
tain more pure gold than many "solid'
gold cases The demand for these watch
cases has led to the manufacture of very
poor grade Of solid gold watch cases
low in quality, and deficient in quantity.
These cases are made from 4s to 10 karats,
and 5 or 6 karat case is often sold for u
or IA karats. It is NOT economy to buy
watch case SO poor in quality that it will
soon lose its color, or one SO soft that it will
lose its shape and fail to shut tight, thus
letting in dust and damaging the works, or
one so thin that slight blow will break
the crystal, and perhaps the movement.
1t IS economy to buy James Boss: Gold
Watch Case, in which NONE of these things
ever occur. This watch case is not an expert
naent-it has been made nearly thirty gears.
HAzLEroN, PA, Oct. a, 1889.
sold two James Boss Gold Watch Cases thirty
good condition yet. One Of them is carried by .
carpenter, MI. L. W. Drake Of Hazleton, and only
shows the wear in one or two places; the other by
MI. Bowman, OF Cunningham, Pa; and can pro.
duce one OF both Of these cases at any time.
SYLvEsTER ENGLE, Jssoslsr.
Send cent stamp Keystons Watch Case Fsetorss Phs
1spha Pa, for hsndsoe illustrated Pamphlet shoWins m
james Bees and Keystsns Watch Cases made.
l1V be C0Htjntedl
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME
Why Girls will Wed.
nv IIILIERApp


BY LILLE BARR.
She rose at the early daybreak,
With sick and aching head
And she satd-this cross little woman -
II wonder why gills will wed?
They wouldn,t, I'm sure, II they reckoned =
The things that wife must bear:
The never-done work ola household.
The never-done mother care.
''six dozen pieces to wash to-day,
And the children must 70 to school,
And every one knows on Washing DAYS
Baby Is cross as o rule;
And Bridget Is new to the work yet,
Ioh, . DEAF, how my head do acheD
And all of the beds to make'' -
But a soon as breakfast was ready,
Father came In from the yard;
He kissed the sick little mother,
"Was sure that her work was hard"
He said to the noisy boys: "Be still!
Your mother is not we'll to-day"
And when he bade her ''good-by,''
He "could kiss the pain away"
And the coffee or kiss-which was it?
Healed like magical charm;
The spirit of diligent gladness
The father worked hard at the plow1ng,
The mother forgot her pain,
Bridget did we'll with her washing,
There wasn't drop of rain.
The baking and cleaning were over
When the boys came home from school;
Baby forgot it was washing day,
And pleasantly broke his rule;
And at night the house was clean and bright
There was not a thing amiss,
"'Tis only wife," the father thought,
"Would do as much for kiss"
And the wife. sitting down in the freight,
The baby asleep at her side,
Her husband chatting. and watching her
With a husbands loving pride, ze-.~.
Thought much of her full and pleasant home,
Of her children asleep in bed;
And said with sweet, contented laugh,
mo wonder that girls will we'd"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
Hints for the Housewife.

A PRACTICAL housekeeper recon-
mends oiling kitchen floors with boiled
inseed oil, to be applied boiling hot
with large paint brush, and in few
moments rubbed il and off with wooden
cloths. Grease spots do not show.
PUT your clothes in warm water over
night; in the morning wiring them from
this into boiler containing strong hot
suds, to which is added salsoda the size
of a hickory nut. Boil them one-half
hour, dip them into cold water, rnb
them out, rinse in clear, cold water,
then in water slightly blued, and you
will be surprised to see how easily your
washing is done.
MATING will last for years if it is
given thin coat of varnish when it is
first put down, and if the varnish is re.
newed about every six months. The
varnish preserves it, and besides gives
it quite handsome look. Mating is
growing in popularity as a floor cover
ing, and the patterns are much prettiel
than they used to be, and there is
greater variety among them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
Put Yourself in the Horses Place.

VI 1OuES0l1 III Ck0 1OC60 , 1dCGs
1T is worry and not work that kills. y
Let every owner of a horse think, when
he brings his team to the stable at
night, how much vital force has been
expended in work and how much in
worry, and then strike balance. And
Let him consider himself to be put in
the horses place, SO that he may better
know how it is himself. And thus:
A man goes out to work in the morn
ing, after having all night fought flies
of the most pestilent kind, breathed
hot, foul air, reeked in the sweat and
dust of the previous days work, eaten
a breakfast in haste, without any suf-
fcient cleansing of his skin, and with
boots and clothing ill-ftting and gall
ing the tenderest spots upon his person.
He is then, from the tilthiness of his
body, exposed all day to the venomous
attacks Of flies, which he fights with
hands and feet, but which, from the
exigencies of his work, he can. only
drive off for the slightest moment, after
which cloud of them settle upon his
face and exposed parts and sting him
severely.
He works on from hour to hour in the
broiiing sun without water to moisten
his mouth or to quench his raging
thirst until midday, when he PUSHES
home, swallows drink of dirty water
and hastily eats dinner in the foulest
smelling and worst ventilated part oil
his premises.
The afternoon is like the forenoon
and after this has been occupied in the
same way the man, all foul with gathered
dust and sweat. eats his evening meal
as he dined, and lies down to rest, (?)
if he can, on filthy floor, in an apart
ment that is hot, close, and swarming
with flies, which he vainly fights as he
catches al odd wink or so of sleep.
And SO, de novo, from day to day he
fights it out on this line all summer.
Then how much of the resulting wear
and tear is due to the worry and how
little of it to the work?
Something like this is the weary con-
dition Of the average farm horse. No note
is taken of the cruel lashing, the injudi-
cious feeding and watering, the torment
of check-reins, the hindrances of blind
ers,. the bad treatment of the feet by the
blacksmith, and other mistakes which
produce actual disease, nor of the truly
horrible nostrums and poisonous stuff
which are made use of as remedies" fol
these complaints.
Thinking Of these things who can
wonder that the average farm horse
whose useful life is naturally from IS tc
80 years, gets into a hole in a cor
ner OF the. farm and is consumed by
prowling dogs in less than half his
allotted term Of ife?- New York
Tribune.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
Funeral of a ssMidget."'

from ire LOnOOn Ieleerapn.]
Some extraordinary scenes were wit
messed at Birmingham yesterday, in
connection with the funeral of O
midget" After the death the mother
was anxious to dispose of the body to a
Snowman, but in order to defeat this OBJ
ject the deputy coroner, Mr.. Weeks, Or
dered the corpse to be under police sur
veillance until after the funeral. The
coffin was 134 inches long, inches wide,
and A inches deep, and bore the follow
ing inscriptions; "Lillie Evans, the
midget, died August IS, 1884, aged 6
weeks and days." Crowds of persons
surrounded the house since the inquest
on Thursday, to get sight of the body
or the coffin, which have been on exhi-
bition, and drawn greater number of
visitors than when the midget was in
the hands of the Snowman.
EARLY in the afternoon yesterday a
mourning coach drove up to the house
to convey the remains to the Birming-
ham Cemetery, distance of two miles.
For nearly half an hour the funeral cor
tege could not be got away owing to
the presence Of the mob, which filled
the street and the adjoining thorough.
fares. The mother CT tire infant, who
was censnred by the DEF uty coroner for
performing to death her child" was
b,ssed and yelled at, and would prob
ably have, been ]yncbed but for the eff
cient s'ff of police VIII, kept guard and
preventt d any serious disturbance,
though all slong the route the aspect of
the crowi WAS threatening. Upon the
arrival at the cemetery, the undertaken,
Mr. Edwards, took the coffin in his hand
to the church. amid the uncomfortable
laughter of tue assembled crowd, not
even excepting the number who we're
present in the sad position of mourners.
Assertions were made that the corpse
had been distracted for embalming and
exhibition purposes. but the body was
actually buried, the coroner's chief
officer being present, and the undertake,
opening the lid of the coffin just before
the funeral took place to see that there
had been no kidnapping"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
or, better, to a prevention of the dis.

OF, bet ter, to prevention OF the dis
order.
Enough has been learned, however.
to give one certain preventive Of such
losses as cattle-owners have suffered
every year when cattle from the low
lands along the Gulf coast have been
driven north, and that preventive is to
keep the Gulf cattle on the roads, fields
and ranges where unacclimated cattle
may afterward travel or Craze. II
people will by cattle in the stock
yards during the warm months they
must bear the losses that will probably
come if those cattle are kept more than
two weeks after exposure to infection
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
CHICAGO,
M!LWAyKEE
AND ST: PAUL.

Il owns and operates over 1900 miles Of road in
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota; and as ts main lines, branches and connsc-
lions reach aIl the great busIness centres OF the
description Of Short Line, and Best Route between
chicago, Nilw aukee. st. Paul and
<;ssicaas<s M5swR .sEiee, Portage. la
ag+.A>c ssEs6 ~ sssNna.
a;ssic:a2S. Wiss z:tsaee. efteHsitfc.
t;nEreienEs sxa.G E:asc:tt2Ee>
aC:s::se.t', ssa:.s ssasSes, E1au Claire sasast
a,s,,c1::.,. Miiwankee, wausas ana
ssersiii.
AEi.auu. ssisnaukee, Beaver Dam.
sns:o du 2Iac sis1d a1sb ksssas
Chicago. NsilxrsuKee. NFauB esasa and
.scyM0mOMOc.
Chicago. NEiiWaukee, Madison ana
s'r1irle du Cssien.
Chicsagn. milwaukee,. cSSatossna,
Haazskaso ana FsTibauIt.
Chicago, helois. Janesvi'ie and Na'n-
Chicago, EIein, Rockford and Du-
Chicago. Clinlqs, Rock Island. Cedar
fkaps,ss aud sssna.
Cs,sc.,.o, s::.astass, sssux City, Sioux
c,,ica. :e mi ss,i.v.suase, A,ser. Lea and
SOsstbern rainsaesota Points
Chicago, Nli'vauHee, Mason City,
Mitchell and Chant ersaln.
Rock Island, Dubuque, St. Paul and
Rllnne apoiis.
Davenport, Calmnr, st. Paul and
minneapolis.
milwaukee,, Racine, Bel0it, FreepOrt
and ROCK Island.
Mitchell, WOl>ey, ashton and Abcr.
(Jim River Valley Lina.)
Pullman SCeepeT8 an& the Ffaeest
Dining Cars tn the eUOTld sre run on the
main lines Of the CHICA& 60, MELWAU u.
X EE e ~. PAUL RAxLW.sF, and
every attention is paid to passengers by courteous
employees Of the Company.
3. 8. Merrill, 4. v. n. Carpenter,
Genl Manages. 9enl Pass. gent,
j. T. Clark, Geo. n. heafford,
Gen1 SupA Asst Gent Pass ARt
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24

DIR L. G. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT
ENT guaran;teed spS ;fa for MysteEla, Ds
Headache, Nervous Pr ostration caused by the use
= alcohol or tobacco. Wakefu!ness. Mental De-
:anity and leading to misery, decay and death,
'Senature Old Age BARONESS, Loss of power
/ either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
base or over-indulgence. Each box contains
mo months treatment. s1GO box, Or six boxes
orS500. sent by mail prepaidon receipt of price
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by1s
sor six boxes; accompanied with sa.Ca, We viii
fu:.d the money if the treatment does 2cteHc1l
acuEe. Guarantees iasnet! ;".fy
JOHN 6. WEST s. CO.,
2o2 W. f:sG.eIii ST., CHICAGO, Hiss
zoe Props Vests Liver Pills.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24

FLORENCE MARRYAT wears her hair
cut short around the ears, after fashion
which is coming popular in London.
Any style is preferable to the bangs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
Fall Flowing.

remarkable difference between land
plowed in August and the first part of
September and that plowed in the
spring, both pieces being sowed to oats
the same day
We think it is the observation of most
farmers that, other things being equal,
fall blowing insures much surer crop
than spring. There are other advant-
ages; the opportunity to pillow deeper
and allow the frost to fit the soil for
crops, the covering of weeds before the
seed ripens; the better condition of
horses for work, and the advantage of
having ground ready for the spring OPP
erations.
In case of sod, it is specially advan-
tageous to have the ground fan-plowed.
For these, and other reasons it is special
~ desirable to have as large a breadth
of ground plowed as possible-the ear
ier it is plowed the better. We have
fine crop in Iowa this year. It is time
to prepare for a bountiful crop next
year. Iowa Homestead.
Curious Facts About silk-Worms.
A writer in Land and Water says the
ideas of the ancients upon the subject
of the origin of silk were rather vague,
some supposing it to be the entrails of
spider, which fattened for years upon
paste, at length burst, bringing forth
its silken treasure; others that it was
spun by hideous horned grub in hard
nests of clay-ideas which were not
dispelled till the sixth century, when
the first silk-worm reached CONSTANT
nople, introduced and cultivated, like
many other benefits, by the wandering
monks. From thence they were soon
imported into Italy, which for long
period remained the headquarters Of
the European silk trade, until Henry
~. of France, seeing that the mulberry
trees were as plentiful in his southern
provinces as in Italy, introduced silk
worm culture with great success. Kirk
by mentions the following interesting
extract from the Courier de Lyon"
1910, as showing the extraordinary
quantity of silk annually consumed at
that period: Raw silk annually con-
sumed there, 100000 ofkilogrammes,
equal to 2,205,714 lbs. English, on
which the waste in manufacturing is
five per cent. As four cocoons produce
one graine (grain) of silk, 100000
900 of cocoons are annually con.
sumed, making the number of cater
pillars reared (ncluding the average
allowance for caterpillars dying, bad
cocoons. and those kept for egges), 4
292, 100000. The length of the silk Of
one cocoon averages 500 metres Q,526
feet English), SO that the length of the
total quantity of silk spun at Lyons il
100000, 100000 Tor six and hall
trillions) of English feet, equal to four
teen times the mean radius of the
moons orbit, or 52,505 times the
equatorial circumference of the earth
or 100000 times the circumference O.
the mOon.n
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
Rearing Calves.

Rearing Calves.
The following suggestions on the
proper methods of treating the young
calf the Prairie Farmer condenses from
the late address by DR.. Aiken, chemist
of the Highland and Agricultural So
ciety of Scotland. Great care should
be taken to keep their food as near as
possible in its quality to the nourish-
ment obtained before birth. A calf
should not be taken off it's mothers
milk before ten days; and if after that,
they should make it's food half skim
milk, then as it's proper nourishment
will be so much lowered, the fat
squeezed out of linseed cake will be
found useful in enriching the diet.
Oatmeal porridge or barley meal por-
ridge does very well after the calf is a
few weeks old. He traced on the black
board the process of assimilation of food
in the stomach of a COW or an OK and a
calf. The paunch of the former was
shown to be much larger than that of
the latter; for the calf received it's
nourishment ready made in the shape
of milk or liquid flesh direct into its
stomach, without the necessity of the
paunch, while there were various proc
esses to be performed before the cows
food was fit for direct assimilation. A
pint of food at time was sufficient for
a calf for the purpose of coagulation.
The pint, or even less, should be given
four times day. The milk which the
calf gets from it's mother is perfectly
pure, and if there should afterward
when feeding the calf, be want OF
cleanliness, then dyspepsia will be
caused in it's stomach and breed mis-
chief. The skin of a calf should b.
kept nice and clean, and the stalls where
it is should be we'll ventilated, but no.
cold. Where all these conditions are
not attended to the calf may not h.
able to pull through. The best results
are attainable by keeping as nearly as
possible to the arrangements of nature.
Spanish Fever.
Says the Nebraska Farmer: "The de-
alterations of our great veterinarians
have brought forth some wonderful
things, among which is, they tell us,
that sound, healthy Texas cattle will
infect country with Texas fever so
that native stock will become contain
mated, and yet the onative stock will
not give the disease to other animals.
All this may be true, but it is certainly
contrary to all laws of nature" The
above is the opinion, and in fact almost
the literal words, of certain livestock
journals. It is untrue in that it says
that veterinarians tell us that sound,
healthy Texas cattle will infect country
with Texas fever" What they do say
is that seemingly sound cattle from
the Gulf country will do this; but that
the cattle of those regions, having no
apparent diseas :, not infrequently show
the characteristics of the disease that
is SO fatal to unacclimated animals. Il
must be admitted that of the cause O,
causes of the malady little is known
and it follows that Investigations s',onl,:
be continued until enough stall be
known about it to guide to q remedy
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
"HERE,n shrieked the city editor

"HERE," shrieked the city editor,
"what do you mean KY this paragraph:
The Common Council is the recipient
of many complimentary remarks from
citizens generally, just at present?'
Don't you know that the Council has
taken recess for month 2" CHATS
what Tn trying to get at, " responded
the general local specialist, without a
blush. - Buffalo Express.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-04
The Jury, And Not The Law,

When Berner, the wretch whose
crimes led to the scenes that common.
ced in Cincinnati week ago tonight,
was first put on trial lie proposed to
plead guilty to murder in the second
degree. There was no question about
his guilt; he had murdered his employ
er for money and confessed the deed to
several persons. His lawyers ted him |
he was In tight box, and the plea of |
guilty in the second degree was the
sole desperate hope of saving him from
the gallows. The prosecution refused
to accept the plea and the case went to
trial. The state produced a pile of tes-
timony, establishing his guilt beyond
doubt, but the jury brought in ver-
dict OF manslaughter. The public in
dignation rose in its might; the mass
meeting of Indignation was called
and the riots followed. In the meet
ing and subsequent rloiing there was
no condemnation of anything or any
body save the jury. The state had
done It's whole duty. Confident of its
ability to hang Berner. it refused TO
accept his mitigated plea; there was
no suborned testimony in his behalf,
no lenient charge from the bench. The
presiding judge told the jury their YER
; dict was disgraceful. The law and its
method, save las to one important
/, point, were adequate; that point was
4 the jury. We have plenty of law in
u this country, but fearless, intelligent
n and incorruptible jury in the sine qua
!, non To render law tflectual. Is ii any
4. wonder, remembering the Currle YER
diet in Texas, the Sykes case in New
c Orleans and hundreds OF similar cases
g throughout the country, that the pub
b lie mind has come to regard the jury
II system as very much OF n fraud and
II failure? The Curie and Sykes cases
70 We're even worse than the Berner yer
+ dict, for in the latter the jury did Civ,
the cuiprit twenty years Imprisonment
- the others we have named went SEQ
=, free, The Cincinnati riot Is purel,
and simply n warning to juries, an,
:, not condemnation of alleged defect
. i've law, for as long rs we have the jur,
-, system outrageous yerdicts are liable Il
- occur. And who proposes To abolish
- jurless What we need is system o
~ selecting juiies that shall guard agains
~ ignorance and corruption. Who doe
- not know that the great preliminar
4, bagtle in . criminal case is the seleC
os lion of . jury? Let the law provide
:, mode that viii put it out Of the powe
"a OF an INSCRIPTIONS attorney to .'ge
- hist jury all right