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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
Queer Doinga OF q Hen.


A hen who had a good memory had
some ducks eggs put under her
which she sat on and Matched she
was very proud of her brood, and
accordingly took them out into the
yard. In the yard was pond which
the young ducks Immediately ran to-,
and in they went. She was in great
fright, and flew from the shore to an
island there was in the middle of the
pond necessarily, and ran round and
round, calling them, but in vain. Al
ter a time they came out of the pond,
and she brought them up quite safely.
Again she was set on ducks eggs, and
again they went into the pond and put
her in a terrible fright. These she
reared as before. After this she was
set upon hens eggs and she Matched
them all. Then she took the chickens
into the yard, expecting them to 60 in
to the pond as the ducklings had, but
they would not 60 near it. So she
she called them and flew backward and
forward from the island; and when
they would not 90 in she actually took
each one and tipped it over into the
water! Thus she drowned all her
brood-a very queer thing for hen to
do
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
A Baltimore Ghost.

There was great excitement in
Donohue's court some time ago,
which extended around and through
several adjoining blocks. Heinrich
Deitmyer committed suicide in the back
back yard of No. Donohue's court
by cutting his throat from
ear to ear. He was buried by
the city. His brother Charles would
not allow his body to be brought into
the house. Heinrick's ghost came
back Wednesday to tantalize his
brother and nearly scared him to death.
Mrs. Lizzie Dresher, who occupies the
lower floor of the house No. Z
Donohue's court, under the Deitemyer
family, related the following story to an
American reporter yesterday afternoon:
IL was washing in the back yard all
day, I had hung my clothes out to dry
and about o'clock, when l went out
to take them in, Charles Deitmyer
called me and said: Mrs. Dresher,
you see that piece of wood; l have been
trying to chop that piece of wood, but
it goes up and down, up and down,
and every time I think I try to hit it, it
is on the other side of the yard and |
can't catch it, Mrs Dresher said
the man looked wild and she advised
him to 20 into the house. He would
not 90. but kept on throwing his axe
around widely at imaginary sticks of
wood. Finally he dropped the axe and
opened the door of the clubhouse in the
yard. Then he gave an unearthly
scream. Mrs. Dresher ran towards
him, and as she got near him Deit-
meyer fell back, knocking her over and
exclaiming: Il have seen my brother!'
Mrs. Dresher, as soon as she recovered
from the shock, ran to the front door
and called Officer Costello. The officer
went in and found Deitemyer in pros
trate condition, with drops of pers-
peration big as grains of corn rolling
down his face. He said when he opened
the door of the clubhouse he saw his
brother Heinrich sitting there with his
throat cut, and that Heinrich got up
and grappled him by the throat and
swore he would kill him for having his
body buried in Potter's field. Officer
Costello said that when Charles .Deit-
meyer regained consciousness his hair
was standing out straight from every
part of his head. and that he said he
would swear that he had seen his
brothers ghost.
An American reporter visited the
scene yesterday afternoon and found
the whole place bottom side up.
Women were frightened, men were
scared, and while there were not many
who believe in ghosts, yet there was a
tremor among the whole of them that
they could not shake of: Charles Deit-
meyer, with his sister, was out yester-
day looking for another house, and he
said he would not stay in the house
another night if he had to sleep on
the ground
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
The Gulf COaSt0f Florida
TaTpon Springs and Seville,

just opened to travel by railway aud steamboat.
PICTURESQUE portion of Florida. Highland crys-
tai lakes teeming with fish; grand natural wood
ed parks, where deer, wild turkey and other
game abound. Winged game in great variety
on land and water.
The Tarpon Springs Hotel is one Of the best
furnished and appointed houses south OF Jack
sonville, and in all respects will be kept In first
class style. The prices per day will be $500
and $3.50. Special rates will be made by tho
Fernald House are well and comfortably kept at
price per day OF $l.5O to $500, with special
rates by the month or season. Camp life at
Tarpon Springs and Seville costs about 81. 90 per
week.
These lands being below the killing frost lines
on the Gulf coast Of fernando and IIillsboro
counties, with direct steam transportation to all
points of the U. s., make them especially valus-
BILE for the production OF vegetables for ship
mont, from December until May, to Northern
markets, when the highest prices are obtained.
Tomatoes ranged the past winter from Sc to -
per crate OF three pecks, and other vegetables
equally profitable. Tobacco. rice. sugar cane,
all vegetables, the cereals and grass produce
largely.
1t requires but six to eight weeks from plant
ing to market tomatoes and other vegetables.
We have cheaper lands back from the Gulf coast,
and still cheaper lands in the various counties
north Of the Goth parallel, where winter vegeta-
bes cannot be grown successfully, and where
the orange and other fruits occasionally are
pnched by the frost, but the people who have
examined our GULF COAST HIGHLANDS, consider
them preferable from every point OF view.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
The TRANQUIL PASSENGER.

A woman hailed a Broadway car at
Thirty -fourth street and stood still un-
til the car came to full stop. 1t was
in the morning, it was crowded car,
and behind time. The woman had a
large, trustful and tranquil face. She
stood on the gutter and yelled, "Con-
ductor, do you pass Grace Church?'
Yes, we do said the conductor;
"are you going this week?''
"Well,' said the woman peacefully,
II think will 90 now
"Well, I would not be too sudden
about it, said the conductor as she
walked toward the car; sit might
cause rush of blood to the head.''
There were seventeen men by actual
count on the platform, and most of
them were obliged to step out on the
sidewalk SO as to give the large and
leisurely woman chance to get into
the car. Meanwhile loud and angry
chorus rose from the blockaded cars in
the rear. She stepped on a mans toes
with such frequency and effect that
the man gave her seat to save his
corns, and after another man had
raised and subsequently lowered the
window for her, she had time to keep
the conductor waiting an extraordi-
nary length of time while she explored
her pockets for five cents. Presently
the conductor put his head into the
door and yelled "Grace Churchill He
rang the bell and the car came to
full stop. The woman rose slowly and
went carefully to the rear of the car.
Here she pushed her way, facing north,
to the platform, placed both her hands
on the rail, gazed pleasantly through
her glasses, and said:
"Well, that is what | call very
pretty church. I have often heard
tcll-''
"Oh, have you?' said the conductor,
in cold and Boston-like voice. per
haps you would like to stand here and
look at it little while longer.''
NO." said the impervious woman
pleasantly. II only wanted to see it.
Tell me when you come to Blocker
street, will you, please?''
The conductor rang his bell, the sew
enteen men hung on in various ways,
and the ample one returned to her seat.
A small man had taken it. She tapped
him on the shoulder with her fan; he
rose without a word, and she sank
down in his place. Again the conduc-
tor put his head in the door, and this
time he yelled with mighty force,
CHECKER street," With face that
was the picture of pleasant anticipa-
ton, the stout passenger wendell her
way to the rear platform again, and
gazed benignly about
(Which IS the bank?' she asked,
slowly.
"There"' yelled the conductor,
pointing with his right hand.
is that the bank that was robbed?''
1T is.''
lit is quite large bank, isn't it?'
The conductor said in a hollow and
passionate voice that it was. Then he
recovered himself, removed his hat
politely, and SAID:
Madam, will you be kind enough to
take the car after this, please? We
don't 60 any further. No checks are
needed, as we transfer the passengers
here every day. With an agreeable
smile the stout lady stepped to the
ground, and turned toward the follow
ing car. The conductor rang the bell
briskly, the seventeen men jumped for
their places on the rear platform, and
the car escaped down Broadway.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

the mill girls, well as they knew to
guide loom-to those who conld sew
creditably, but lacked the courage to
do it in their own cherries rooms.
Miss Freeman proved herself a treas
ure. She neither condescended to the
human creatures about her nor held her
self above their level, but recognized a
common sisterhood and was everywhere
in minute and helping everybody. Mrs.
Lloyd was much like her, bithe and
busy, with a contagious laugh. Miss
Slowcome. with the best of motives.
succeeded in arousing the animositv of
some of the class. They resented her
diamond earrings and her pince-nez;
her way of saying, ':Why, don't you
know how to do that?' and "Oh. that
is not right at al,'' phrases which they
caught up and repeated to each other
before her face and in her manner; and
she heard herself spoken of as .'Stihfy
Slowcome,' tears of modification
sprang to her eyes, she sought Mrs.
Christian, begging to be excused from
further attendance, and the mending
school knew her no more.
The stocking members were seated by
themselves, and Mrs. Christian applied
to her aids to conduct the darning,
but in vain. Their skillful fingers
knew all stitches save that, and both
ladies took their first lesson in the lost
art of darning stockings from Mrs.
Christian in the mending school.
The third evening showed no de-
crease of interest; the fourth and fifth
were still better attended, as the first
corners spread the history of the move
ment; and it may as well be said here
that although there were fluctuations
in the degree of interest attending the
meetings during the winter, there were
never less pupils than on the first eve
ming, and frequently the number was
doubled.
Among the mill girls was one who
had learned dress-making, and Mrs.
Christian, who had hand like Katy
Scudder's, that "never saw the thing it
could not do inaugurated a dress
making class. From the mending
school sprang a cooking school, taught
gratultously by skilled instructors, and
more than one mill girl exchanged the
whir and rattle of machinery in the
great factory for the song of a tea
kettle in quiet kitchen.
When the dark days of ''the strike'
came, newcomers found their way to
the hall, and although Mrs. Christian
had at first steadfastly set her face
against giving anything but friendly
labor in the school, she holding that
frequent and unwise gifts promote
pauperism and beggary, she now found
herself gradually yielding her position
for time, helping to distribute needed
articles among the destitute, and be-
coming the almoner of others bounty.
People in the city found out the quiet
work which was going on, and flocked
in to advise, criticise, and suggest
some few to 60 to work and help.
But ''thc strike'' passed away, so did
the winter, and Mrs. Christian re-
turned to her own home in another
city. The novel work which she had
instituted did not die; it lived and
flourished, and many home had its
comfort enhanced and income increased
by the skill acquired at Mrs. Christian 8
mending school.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
"Nip't in tho Bud!"

Sad to say, many a good thing at
tains to nothing more than fair be-
ginning. On the other hand it is a
matter for congratulation that the
growth of some evil things may be also
promptly frustrated. A large proper
ton of the cases OF the most wide
spread and fatal of diseases-consump-
ton nave their inception in nasal
catarrh. DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
is pleasant, soothing and efectual:
Try it. 1t has cured thousands. All
druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
A NIENDING SCHOOL.

awe belong, in truth, to mighty
and most splendid procession, building
cities and founding empires on the
way, but remaining forever the same
joyful and unwearied pilgrims toward
that unknown end which we believe to
be the perfection of manhood and wo-
manhood. Time for tears, indeed, we
have, and inextinguishable pity for the
weak and the waste of human kind
l do not observe remarked Mrs.
Christian, THAT this author has an in
extinguishablc desire to help the weak
and the waste, to wipe his eyes and set
to work for them. am tired of this
eloquent bewailing. want something
DONE"
LESS talk and more cider,' sug-
gested her brother. "Do not read any
more; you are getting hoarse."
"And also irritated," she admitted,
and rising, put aside her book, then
went to the invalid, laid sofa quilt
across his feet, and lightly kissed his
forehead. "While am visiting you,
Cyril she said, II want to be doing
something besides living in this great
house and being waited upon like a
princess
"Pining for paupers? What branch
of beneticence do you especially long
for now?'
"Well, l know you will laughter
day as l came through the avenue,
walked before rue two mill girls. One
had her bonnet-strings pinned, not
sewed on, and the other had long rip
in her sleeve. have thought of them
and their associates ever since; it is all
they can do to earn their clothes with
out trying to make or mend them-they
scarcely know how to do either. At first
l thought I should like to visit them
and do their weekly mending, but that
would be false kindness; far better lead
them to form habits of neatness. Did
you ever hear of mending school?'
No"
Nor I. But why shouldn't one be
as useful and successful as cooking
school. or drawing school, or school
for languages?'
"Give it up. But I hope you don't
intend to invite the Great Unwashed
here?"
mo, Cyril she answered gently,
not explaining, but knowing we'll that
the class she wished to reach would
| not visit her brother elegant home as
objects of charity. Il have thought Of
hiring a room in one of the poorer
quarters of the city, and inviting as
many as will to spend the evening with
me there. You do not need me, as you
retire so early, and I promise you will
! not be less faithful in my services day
| times
"You're good fellow. Helen,' said
the young man, land suppose 1 ough,
not to object if you ache to be doing
everybody's business besides your own.
But I'll see your room and go you one
better. own a building about block
from here, and in it small hall; two
or three nights in the week it is let fol
dances and one thing and another, but
the other evenings YOU may have il
rent Free
| ''Oh, Cyril!' how kind" she an.
swered. gratefully. l will make you
first assistant of the darning class as q
reward, and both laughed heartily.
The next day an advertisement ap
peared in daily paper worded thus:
Wanted, one hundred working-girl:
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Nervous Dibilitated Men

You are allowed a free trial of thirty days
of the use of DR.. Dyes celebrated ,Voltaic
Belt with Electric Suspensory Appliances,
Nervous Debility, loss of Vitality and Man
hood, and all kindred troubles Also, for
many other diseases. Complete restoration
to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed
No risk is incurred. Illustrated pamphlet
with full information, terms, etc, mailed
free by addressing Voltaic Belt Co., Mar
SHALL Mich
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

FOUR LIVES.
GARNET Il. FREEMAN.


We sat in theIght Of the dying day
Harold, Johnnie, Allie and L.
Watching the sunset flush, then fade
From over the earth and sky
Watching the bars of purple and gold
Grow deeper, than pale, then die
Hnrold was tall, and dark, and proud;
His cheek was bronzed by the Indian sun;
And on his bosom there cleaned a STAR
The jeweled badge that his sword had
wOrn,-
For be- was soldier, and this was a prize
From the hand of his king for service
John was soldier too, but he fought
Under banner of spOtless white;
The leader he followed, the Prince Of
His sword was the Word Of the Living
His arrnor faith that was strong and
bright
Allie was something-1 do not know what
A fairy-baby-wom
A pleading child that crept into your
A naughty tyrant as ever was seen;
And we all three loved her. and loved her
we'll
But John loved her best Of all, ween.
l was deformed; had never walked
A helpless thing from my natal hour.
My pen was my fortune. No broad estate
Or title had I to give me power;
had only poets priceless gift
Only poets glorious dover.
I told you we loved her, and Harold sued
first,
Kneeling to offer his knightly name,
His grand old castle beside the Rhine,
His unsullied honor, his hard-earned fame,
His heart that was pure as mans could
All that pride could ask or that love
could claim.
But Allie said mo" and Harold went out
With look of pain in his fierce dark eye,
Like that of an eagle wounded, and scars
Away TO- to its eyre on the s' ciifts to die;
When legions grew white at his battle
cry.
John asked her next, and she answered the
And he blessed her, and kissed her, and
turned away;
But we saw him no more till he stood on
the deck
OF boat that lay rocked like bird on
| the bay.
Now tropical vines tangle over his grave,
| And ocean-waves moan round his clay.
| | would not speak. What was I that should
! dare
To rush where the angels had feared to
tread?
I only looked down on my palsied limbs,
And bitterly wished in my heart l was
| dead.
almost cursed God that He gave me form
No woman could love, or wed.
Then Allie came in, in her quiet way,
| And knelt with her arms crossed over my
knee,
While smoothed the mass of her golden
And said, "She can never be aught to
So we sat there in silence, and both looked
| out
At the troubled waves of the storm
| tossed sea.
Them do not know how, but she caught
| my hand,
And twas covered with kisses again and
again.
Passionate kisses,--while broken words
Burst from her lips as from one in pain,
And tears rolled over her crimson cheeks,
Like the short-llved torrents of April rain.
I could scarcely believe when understood
What it really was that the action meant,
| arms,
Where she sobbed like the storm when it's
strength is spent;
While | said with reverent awe in the
| words,
"What have I done that this blessing is
| sentY'
That was years ago. Now Allie is dead;
She lies on the hill where the white cross
| stands;
And Harold and John rest far away,
With an ocean between them, in foreign
| lands;
And Pm waiting, impatient, the welcome
day,
When over the river We'll all join hands.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

This is the season of the year when
Lucy and John come in ruefully from
the back piazza, and try to explain to
an unsympathizing audience how it is
that Lucy's fragile ITO pounds has
broken down the hammock that her
pas solid 1s5 pounds swung safely in
all the afternoon.-SomerriIe journal
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

The lrishman had a correct apprecia-
ton of the fitness of things, who, being
asked by the judge, when he applied for
q license to sell whiskey, if he was of
good moral character, replied: ''Faith,
yer honor, don't see the necessity of
Il good moral character to sell whiskcy!'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

Nervous Debility, in either
sex, however induced, speedily, thor
oughly and permanently cured. Ad-
dress, with 10 cents in stamps for reply
and book of particulars, Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
SEVILLE

is we'll located, nine miles north OF Tarpon
Springs, on the Gulf Of Mexico, having . water
front on the ocean. The land adjoining and in the
rear is high and rolling, having an elevation OF
one-half miles. A vessel ia owned and used ex-
preesly for the trade Of this settlement. Ar
rangements are being made for the erection OF a
hotel in Ocean Park, wharvcs md other va
rious improve merits in Seville. The new steam
CT finished 10 Pittsburg, Pa, September Is, 1885,
by the Gulf Steamship Co., expressly for the limo
q few miles south and north from Tarpon
Springs, will connect with boats at Tarpon
Springs for all points.
The soil varies from sandy loan to humus.
muck and mari, and is Of durable fertility, as
will be seen from the large size Of the trees and
the rank growth Of grass in the timber.
Water soft, pure and abundant
Gov. Blo1ham says that Florida has DOUBLED
its resources in POUR YEARS.
$4,000 ssn'y in 1 T";ss Located 'ss pass
1874 600 tourists and W. w1 %a,1 nos sas
the past winter, and invested in the state
IS, OO0, 0cO in four months.
Great Inducements in desirable town lots and
i've and ten acre plate; also any size tract up to
10000 acres, adapted to colonization; &c MILES
NEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT.
Several charming town rites and thousands Of
acres of desirable land adjoining.
R4S OpeClal Inducements 10 men OF means
and tact, to organize colonies.
k00 000 Acres we'll watercd stock lands,
OVV,VVV low.
10000 acres best sugar lands in America.
10 acres in Florida productions yield more net
cash than 100 acres in the north, sown in grain
Free transportation by our rebate lasd tickets.
Offices, Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Fla;
Philadelphia, New York and other points.
We are the exclusive agents and managers, not
only in Florida, but everywhere, Of the Gulf
Coast Reserve, the Lake Butler Villa Co., the
Cootie Land and improvement Co.; also agents
for the Florida Land and improvement Co., and
Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal aud Okeechobee
Land Co. The stock Of the latter company 10
one Of the best and most secure Investments in
America-secured by broad acres. Information
regarding this stock furnished on application.
Send for map and new prospectus; also state
exactly what You want, and whether you can in
fuence capital or emigration.
Address:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28
GENERAL GRANTS
Opinion of Florida after q Visit
over the State.

Extract from the Philadelphia Ledger.]
ut is capable Of supplying all the oranges.
lemons, pineapples, and other semi-tropical
fruits used in the United States; 800, 900 Of
sugar now imported; material for rope, bagging,
coarse mating, etc. The deposits of fertilizer
under it and above it are sufficient for many gen.
erations. 1t only wants people and enterprise,
both of which it is rapidly obtaining. Florida
to-day affords the best opening in the arorld for
young Of small means and great industry.
shall probably have more to cay on this subject
when get home. Very truly yours.
U. 8. GRANT,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

''He who has the least sense is the
least sensible of it, says John Plough
man. Anoth of his recent utterances
is, "Fricnds who love your table are
unstable"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-28

When Baby was sick, we gave her CAS-
TORIA.
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA
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