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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
A Tame Partridge.

Natural history sets the partridge
down as one of the most difficult fowls
to domesticate. A year ago last Sep
TENDER, William Elmer captured a
young partridge on his fathers farm
near Dexter and put it in the cage at their
store in this city. At first the bird was
very wild and uneasy in its new home,
but it gradually became more tame and
would eat out of PERSONS hand.
And, although the cage door was left
open, it would never attempt to go
away. Early in the spring Mr.. Elmer
moved to his farm, taking with him
the bird, and after keeping her there
for some time, set her at liberty, Tho
bird disappeared and nothing was seen
of it for over week. Then the bird
returned, and was frequently seen
about the premises. just before NOV
ing to this city again, about two months
ago, Mr.. Elmer saw the bird in tree
near the house, and on his walking up to
the tree, the bird began hopping about
in the branches, and finally came within
reach, and was again captured and
placed in her old cage in this city:
She has a partner now in the shape of
a male partridge, and the two will be
pleased to see all who will call upon
them in their comfortable quarters on
Court street. Mr.. Elmer has quite a
reputation as bird tanner, and but a
few months ago had a "bald eagle"
Gagged. The eagle was set at liberty on
the farm recently, and is seen daily
about there and lives in the woods
near the Watertoscm (N. W
Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
MIRAGE.

The sunshine moves on wild and leas,
The daisies fieck the grass,
The locust plumes are full of bees,
That dust me as they pass.
And idly lying in the shade,
Watching the webs so fine and thin,
see beyond them all the sea-
And on the sea my ship comes in!
The shining waves move on before,
The light strikes slanting on the sails,
And filed with gold she seems to be.
There is no sound; all silently
With wings full spread she speeds
along,
But to my eyes my heart in song
Responds, "My ship comes imp
How many weary days and years
Catching hope that proved but shy,
Waiting with patience, but some tears,
I've looked to see my ship come nigh.
fancied what her freight might be,
What store of good to fill content,
How all the friends well tried by me
Should profit by her measurement.
And now she comes! I'll turn my
head,
Lest bees and sunshine daze my brain,
And fancies born Of wishes fed
May change, as clouds to summer
rain.
"What is it, dear? Dost see yon ship,
That's coming toward us on the sea!
Why turn so white! IT'S ours, my
heart,
The ship that comes for you and me-"
Dear God, he sees it not! He looks
Askance. Perhaps it is not true!
A shadow glances overhead;
/ gaze again-a line of blue
Lights the pale sky; a passing cloud
Alone floats over it; I stretch my
arms, and cry,
With sharp, rebellious voice, aloud,
my shiphas gone has passed me by"
Yet, when the winter days are here,
The cold with icy winds and snow,
When boughs are fastened far and near
With glittering icicles that glow,
That mirage of the summer sea,
Which faded in a vision dim,
The fire repeats in flame to me,
Andmy fair ship comes in!
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.

Mr.. David Claypool, formerly Sergeant
alarms ofthe New Jersey Senate, and now
Notary Public Mt Cetlarvillc, Cumberland
Co., N. j., makes the following startling
statement: "My father, mother, and three
sisters all died with consumption, and my
lungs were so weak raised blood. Nobody
thought l could live. My work (ship-
smithing was very straining on me with my
weak constitution, and was rapidly going
to the grave. While in this condition l
commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters,
and it saved my life. Because it was so
difficult to get it in this little place, and l
had improved so much, stopped taking it
for time, and the result is that have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and must have a
dozen bottles ut once. Use this commll-
nication rs you please, and if any one wants
to be convinced of its truth, let them write
me and will make affidavit to it, for ]
owe my life to Mishler's Herb Bitters.''
The secret of the almost invariable relief
and cure Of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rh~a, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when Mishler's Herb
Bitters is used, is that it contains simple,
harmless, and yet powerful ingredients,
that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver,
and through them strengthens and invigor-
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in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; a standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed by physicians and drug
gists. These are four strong points in favor
of Misi.,er's Herb Bitters. Mishler's Herb
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price $1O 90
per large bottle. bottles for $500.
Ask your druggist for MIsHLER's HERB BrrrERs
he does not keep it. do not take anything else but
send postal card to M1suLER HERB Buffers Co.
s25 Commerce Street. Philadelphia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
Why w. Phillips Spoke Briefly.


Before we parted my angel in drab
told me with some enthusiasm story
of abolition days in which brave Wen
dell Phillips figured. A little Pennsyl-
vania hamlet had been thrown into
commotion by the arrival of slave hum
tiers from the South one day when the
abolition agitation was at its height.
The obnoxious fugitive slave law gave
them protection. Wendell Phillips was
to speak in that town that night. The
:'fanatics'' and the claw and order''
people were all stirred up. Some I'M
easy spirits predicted trouble. A trial
before the local Justice was to come off
in the evening at the same hour of the
Phillips meeting. That trial was to
determine whether black woman and
black man, claiming to be husband
and wife, should be delivered up, with
their three children, to the Legree
creatures, who, armed with abundant
legal processes, were bent on taking
them to Georgia cotton fields, whence,
it was alleged, they had run away.
When Wendell Phillips came upon the
platform that night his hall was not
filled; many of his sympathizers were
with the rest of the town down at the
Justices court. The orator had been
told of the excitement in town; those
storm of indignant eloquence fitted to
this local text. They were disappointed.
He spoke scarce five minutes, and when
he retired it was abruptly. The court
ly, polished Bostonian was become
almost rude in his conduct. The trial
in the Justices court was long. Aboli-
tionists were inclined to dispute the
Southern claim inch by inch. A mes
sage delivered to the Judge in the
middle of the trial stayed proceedings
for a. minute or two that the officer
might step into an anteroom to see a
caller. In this anteroom were locked
up the five human beings whose fate
was in the balance. When the Judge
returned to the bench he seemed unusu-
ally stern; he reprimanded every man
who spoke in the fugitives' behalf,
talked energetically of upholding the
law, the country's safeguard, and in
language that admitted of no misunder-
standing announced again and again
that his decision would deliver up the
negroes again to servitude. He seem
ed strangely intent on argument,
unnecessarily combative, and for no
reason so much as his volubility the
trial stretched out to the edge of mid
night. Then when adjournment came,
the Justice with some ado handed over
an order to the gentleman from the
South to remove the property. But
that back room was empty; the birds
had flown. And the people who had
arranged to entertain Wendell Phillips
that night waited up till morning broke,
all in vain. No Wendell Phillips came;
he had disappeared as mysteriously as
had the negroes of that anteroom.
There were folks who put two and two
together; there were folks who didn't
wonder when at the next election the
Abolition vote went solid for the rebel
Justice. His stcrness, his Southern
sympathy and long-winded oratory
had been a sham; he had followed In
structions from Wendell Phillips, and
given the father and mother and chill
dren time to push on many mile
toward freedom further North.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
MOles as ArcheOlOgfsts.

The remains of the ancient British
habitations on the downs on both sides
of Dunstable are fairly we'll known to
archnologists. I have often wished to
expose the floor of one or more of these
circles, as the task could be accom-
plished with spade in an hour or two.
It is, however, far better that the re-
mains should be left alone, as it is not
likely that anything would be found
beyond a few flakes and the other
simple forms, such as are abundant in
the cultivated fields close to the huts.
In passing some of the circles on the
east side of Dunstable, in the railway
about ten days ago, I noticed that the
remains were covered with whitish soil
instead of the normal green of the
short pasturage belonging to the downs.
Thinking that some persons had been
digging at these antiquities, took an
early opportunity of going to the spot.
On reaching the circles / found they
had been undermined in every direction
by large number of moles. A great
deal of the material from the actual
floors had been brought to the surface,
and on examining this chalk rubble,
for such it was, had no difficulty in
securing two or three handfuls of flint
flakes. Mingled with them were very
few stones, which had been Redeemed
and cracked by fire. No trace of
burnt wood, ashes or bone could be
seen.
1t is always we'll to examine the
earth brought out of holes by rabbits,
moles, foxes, rats and other animals,
in places where prehistoric relics exist
on pasture land. / have secured con-
siderable number of my antiquities
from such places. Last year l told a
young niece of mine to keep a watch
on such places as the spot where the
five large tumuli are placed on Duns-
| table Downs, and where l had on
previous occasions found flint flakes in
he heaps made by moles, etc. 1t was
not long before my niece lighted on
two pieces belonging to the back part
of a human skull. They had been
scratched out of the base of the north
ernmost tumulus by some animal.
Fortunately the two pieces fitted to
gether they are evidently of great an
tiquity, and probably represent part of
the person who was buried in the tu-
mulus, quite possibly one of the old
clippers of Neolithic implements
Worthingto,a G. Smith, in Nature.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
Throw Away Trusses.

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02

cnCcrJalucu Ill Ills OOutllc1u uOluC. Oul
good-morning having been said to
them, Hal begged me not to fix my
opinion of CaPpoli yet, as [ had only
seen one side of him that morning, and
that not the best one.
Evidently Cappoli considered me
''quality'' for the next day. as was
sitting on the broad piazza in front of
the office, smoking my dinner cigar, he
came limping up to me, and lifting his
hat, with his grotesque bow, asked per-
mission to sit beside me, which request
was eagerly granted, for really
wished to study him. He was easily
led into an animated description of his
travels, and gave minute accounts OF
various operations which noted ply
sicians had performed on his side, such
as cutting the cords of his foot, trying
to stretch the limb, etc., which he in
sisted had greatly improved him. From
personal experiences he launched out
into history and general literature, and
astonished me with his range of under
stood branches. His legal lore, which he
had obtained orally from his father aud
brothers, surpassed that possessed by
many an admitted sprig. / asked him
where he was educated, to which he
proudly replied: ''My mother and
travel we're my first teachers, after
them my father and brothers, and
lastly my own desire for knowledge
those were my only college," We had
visited about an hour and a half when
Hal came strolling up and joined us,
introducing the subject of art, at which
Cappoli's eyes bri ghtened, and he
talked rapidly and most Interestingly
for a few moments and then his SEN
fences became incoherent, his eyes
dulled, the right one dropped, the right
corner of his mouth fell, and with 8
sudden Excuse me, gentleman he
hobbled quickly away.
'sWhat was the trouble, Hal?7
asked.
ssHe often has those attacks after be
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02

should be subjected to the doubtful
treatment of an asylum
AS he uttered the last sentence wild
glare flashed in his eyes and his fist
clenched in manner which made me
wonder that he had not done the fear
full deed. However, the look was only
momeptary, the glitter passed away
| and he continued:
1.-The shock of the terrible separation
over, finally grew to feel with one OF
| nv favorite poets that whatever is, is
right and that much sweetness could
come to me in life from striving to so
far as possible fill her place to father
and also in sometimes giving to others
| a cup of cold water in Christ's name.
That is all. That is all. That's
all,' and the weary head dropped to
one side, the eyes grew blank and
CLASSY, the right side of the face drew
down, water ran copiously from the
eve and corner of the mouth and the
body sat stiff and corpse-like:
Silently stole away fromthe exalted
soul which was chained in cell whose
door was barred with paralysis and
cross-barred with insanity.
Cappoli was not out of their room
for several days after that, but when
he did appear he was as calm as when
l first met him, and We had severa
delightful and prolonged interviews
without any aggravated appearance
of either malady.
One Saturday night when the grand
weekly ball-which was always held il
the diniDg-room-was in progress,
being rather late spectator, wa:
endeavoring to push my way through
the crowd of lookers-on in the door
way to procure seat in the ballroom
when my attention was attracted BY
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02

When Baby was sick, we gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
Docs Salt kin Trtchinse.

A French savant, M. Colin, some time
ago declared that the sailing of meat
was sure and certain method of de-
structionlto these parasites. This, how
ever, was different to the opinions often
expressed by German investigators,
and also to the fact that several cases
of trichinosis, believed to have resulted
from the eating of American hams that
had long been sailed, had been report
ed. Among other chemists, Schmitt,
Chatim Girard, and Pabst, and De Ben
ecke and Libon, may be mentioned as
observers who had found the trichinm
still living in meats that had been salt
ed for several months. The exper-
iments of M. Colin led to others by NJ.
Fourment, the results of which have
just been published as report to the
French Academy. These experiments
show conclusive1y that the saltlng of
meats cannot be regarded as a safe
guard against trichinosis. NJ. Four
ment took piece of meat on the 10Th
of April, 1881, from some American
sailed meats examined at the Havre
docks and found infested. This meat
was placed in flask and inbedded in
fine salt. Itwas then Theoretically seal
ed and not opened till the 1st of April,
1882. By this time the meat had under
gone a years sailing carried to the
highest degree, and if we add the time
that must have elapsed since it was
first put in salt in America (Which could
not be put at less than three months)
the meat may be said to have been in
salt for at least fifteen months. The
meat was then cut up into small pieces,
and these were placed in water, which
was frequently changed to remove the
salt, and remained for several hours in
a temperature of II deg. Fahrenheit.
On the 4th, 5th, and 9th of April this
was fed to mouse, which died on the
9TH, after presenting symptoms of
diarrhea. The intestine was evidently
inflamed, and contained scxually devel-
oped trichina. A second and a third
mouse were fed with more of the meat,
and with exactly similar results in each
case. Several other experiments were
made. M. Fourment says that all show
that the trichine were then certainly
alive and capable of reproduction after
fifteen months of sailing; and it is con-
sequently manifest that sailing does
not surely and rapidly destroy these
parasites. They may die in sailed
meats as well as in any other situation,
and thus explain the negative exper-
iments published by distinguished OBJ
servers; but they may also live a con-
siderable time without our being able
to determine the length of the period
after which death necessarily follows
latent life.
But, although sailing is thus an I'M
certain remedy, there need be no dang
CT whatever from trichinosis if only the
meat be properly cooked. In no single
case-and there have been numerous
experiments madc-has heat failed to
entirely destroy these parasites. Ford,
in Sweden, and Krabbe, in Germany,
have both proved that temperature of
l29 deg. Fahrenheit has been shown by
many experiments to kill instantane-
ously. Only those who neglect the
precaution of thorough cooking-abso-
lutely necessary in the case of all pig
meat and sausages-need be under any
fear of these parasites.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
AYERS
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02
British Breeding.

DElClSn Dr0eu1nSs
The other day a young and very
pretty woman, with eyes of the kind
supposed to be able to melt the typical
ice, was on the point of stepping into
an omnibus where only one seat was
left. A well-dressed, well-got-up man
of about 80 pushed her rudely aside as
he sprang up the steps and took the
vacant place. At another time, on
coming out of the theater, while the
people were waiting just inside the
door for their carriages or cabs. man
lighted a cigar and blew the smoke into
the face of lady standing there with
a friend. She made gesture of re-
pugnance, when the man said, Seen
tlemen may smoke here.'' "You may
smoke here, but you cannot be gen
tlemen if you do said the lady-one
of these not easily put down.
The annoyances to which young
women travelling alone are subjected is
again by no means proof that our
politeness is instrinsic. If a lady meets
an ordinary young Englishman who
does not know her, she meets some one
who does not hold her worthy of polite
ness, and who does not go out of his
way to show her any. If she be pretty
he stares at her, perhaps smiles, perhaps
speaks; If she be of no personal at
Effectiveness, and only her womanhood
as her claim, he leaves her emphatically
to herself. Whatever she may be about
to do-to pass through doorway,
carriage, or an omnibus, or lift, he
pushes past her, though no one is hur-
ried for time, and lets her follow meek
ly after. The elder men are more court
eous. They retain still a certain flavor
of the stately old times when manners
were part of gentleman's education,
and politeness was one of the points Of
distinction between a courtier and a
boor.-The London Queen.
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