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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18


she cal s No. % Rose Terrace . soonl
g possible, and arrange moro fully q %
any future stories shs would 30 willing
to write 2" *$ze.... go ..s ~.
Would she' All, would shs not most
gladlyf <s s. r.. =
20 Rose Terrace; abe must not forget
the number.
How kind that editor vas, and she
had always thought editors such terrible
creaturesl She laughed-just her clear,
old-time laugh-and hastened out to
buy buy some necessary thing: that even
Miss Browning, ir," announced. the
servant, opening the library door.
Uncle Tom, sitting in front of the blaz-
ing fire, did not move.
The servant went out, closing the
door, and Dora stood kind of ahyly,
wondering why the gentleman did not
notice her.
If You please. Mr.. Cartwell." she
began at last, her sweet voice sounding
like note of music in the big room.
Then with IN abruptness that startled
her, Mr.. Oartwell" arose and confronted
her, his face full in the strong light
from the western window.
@Dora!" he said.
She gave little frightened cry, then
stood staring at him with wistful brown
eyes.
"Dora," he repeated, gently, crossing
the room to her side, @don't you re-
member Tom?"
BE held out his hands, and she, very
white and trembling, laid her own within
them.
AFTER all these years." he said, Il
have found you at last!"
But, Mr.. Cartwell?" Dora faltered.
"Where is he2 I came to see about
About your stories ?" he said. Eyes;
I received the one you sent. You may
write all you please, Dot, at any price
you like, il you'll but come as my little
wifel Will you?"
While she, not understanding then
although she did afterward-answered
very low and softly, though her brown
eyes were full of old-time mirth:
Eyes, Tom"
And outside, beneath the window,
the silvery sleigh bells rang out their
song of youth and love and music:
@Tinkle. ting. tinkle-ting, tinkle- tin
kle-tinkle. = [Godey's Lsdy's Book.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
The MilliOn.DOllar TELESCOPE.

In Harper's Magazine for February
Simon NewcOmb has an interesting
article on the great telescope, the largest
in the world, which Alvan CLARK & Sons
are making for the Lick observatory. |
He states that some one interested in |
this work went to the shop of Mesrs.
Clark & Sons with view of learning
whether it was really possible to make
a million-dollar telescope. Suppose
we make 'em telescope charge 'em q
million dollars for then they'd have q
milion-dollar telescope" was the sem
tentious but conclusive reply. The
labor already expended upon this great
instrument and the time yet to be occu.
pied in it's construction are elements
which indicate very clearly that its cost
could not but be immense. The contract
was made in 1880, and it was not till
1884 that the object glass was success
fully moulded. The objective of the
telescope is to have thirty.six inches
clear aperture. The difficulty at the
outset was in the casting of the crown
glass, which was entrusted to Fell of
Paris. When the founder has succeeded
in casting his lump Of glass, weighing
several hundred pounds, the clay pot in
which it is contained is broken away.
The outside portions of the glass itself,
being impregnated with the clay and
other impurities, have to be cut away.
This is most tedious process. If any
ordinary cutting-tool were used, the
glass would be apt to fly to pieces. 1t
has to be sawed by wire working in
sand and water. The process of cutting
away the outside is one, therefore, in
volving weeks if not months of labor.
When it is done, the mass must be
pressed into the shape of disk, like a
very thin grindstone, and in order to
do this the lump must first be heated
nearly to the melting point, so as to
become plastic. But when Fell began
to heat his large mass it few to pieces.
In successive attempts he took more and
more time for the heating, but broke
dozen or more pieces before he at last
succeeded. In February, 1884, he
reported that a glass. was actually
moulded without having been broken,
and would soon be ready for shipment.
The mechanism for the direction of the
great tube, 60 feet long, in it's work of
searching the heavens, is yet to be con-
structed and from Mr.. Newcomb's article
it appears that the plans for it are not
wholly complete, nor is the perfection
of the object-glass yet assured. After
these matters are decided it will still
take two years to finish the telescope.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
Tired Of Being Depressed.

tETOtu 10uu6tf1A AmeE1C8sJ
When people get to disputing wheth-
or times are hard or not, it would seem
reasonable to suppose that times cannot
be extremely bad. The year opens
with tho optimists and pessimists hard
ut it, each side armed with arguments
of . cogent nature, but the optimists
are likely to win in the long run, as the
American people, now SO, 000, 900 strong,
in the richest country on earth, must
sooner or later grow tired of being de-
pressed. By this time the bad symptoms
are we'll known, and il is natural that
the signs of healthy growth and de-
velopment should receive attention. It
appears, that in spite of shutting down,
half time, slack trade and the like, the
number of operatives out of work In less
than $4,000. This cannot be regarded
- abnormal In the depth OF winter, out
of population of 50. DOC, 900, and - the
percentage in New England Il only Z
per cent, while in Minnesota it reaches
only 40 per cent, it is evident that manu-
facturers are not by any means in their
last gasp, but arc holding their own
with drmness. A recent canvass of
trade all over the land shows, too, that
stocks are unusually light, and inquiries
for spring delivery are numerous.
Things do not long remain at the point
where men starve because bread IL 30
cheap, and where they cannot clothe
Themselves and poaseas comfortable
homes because garments and furniture
cost 10 little.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

source II this country. We should be|
entirely free from il il it were not for
the poor of other lands who SEEK our
shores Though the increased comforts.
and improved habits OF life of the present
day have done much to rob typhus fever
of it powers, yet it would still find many
quarters in all our larger cities where it
might run riot. Fortunately the tide
of immigrants turns chiefly to two or
three of our seaboard cities, and the
sanitary authorities of these places
manage usually to check the spread of
smallpox, typhus fever and similar dis
eases when they chance to be imported.
Cases Of typhus frequently arrive at the
port of New York. but an outbreak in
the city is quite rare and is almost al
WAYS soon STAMPED out,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

Mr.. J. Tom ScorT, of Greensboro,
Ga, hae gun which was once the prop
erty of the Duke of Gloucester, and
was carried through the American revo-
luton. It was picked up after the sur
render of CORVALLIS at Yorktown in
1888, and has been preserved as an in
relic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

ON provincial singer said 70 another:
my daughter has Inherited my voice"
~Ohi" said the other with . most inno-
cent air, shat is the explanation then.
I have always wondered where It Wa"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
fARl GARDEN AND HONE.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.

HHsdand loqsttuv:
"It's the strangest thing that ever knew,
And the most provoking. 'twixt me and You,
P9ovld sHS nd stesa9 ena ns
With all her folks with funds salted down,
And q fine house a. any In town,
70 be nmenting cause one child In ten
Amt quite 10 good a he might have been.
Its pretty good showing, seems to me,
That only tenth of the lot should be
little Oh color, and that's what SOY
TO their mother twenty times day.
But can't make her see 1t In that light,
And she listens and waits night after night
Fiat %oss botS oee cb Sd
''fhe ought to live for the others, you know,
And let the tOrmenting vagabond 20
And follow his way and take the pain,-
But turn him out and she calls him again
This makes hardness between her and me,
And the worst Of it Is, the children agree
That I'm in the right You'd pity her then,
Such times think I'm the meanest Of men.
"1've argued and sco,ded and coa1ed without
Her answer 10 always-'My boy has one friend
AZ long az live; and your charge is untrue
That my heart holds not equal love for you
Needs me the most, aud you Ii dnd It's the way
OF Ill mothers to hold close to the one
Who hurts her the most. So loves work is
done
"Now what can say to such words a. those!
I'm not convinced, as the history shows,
But often wonder which one IL light,
As hear her light step night after night,
Here aud there, to the window and door.
Al she waits with heart that II heavy and
sore.
wish the boy dead. while she gives her life
To save him from sin. There's husband and
WIFE"
Ars. 3. II. Ames, IN Youths Companion.
To BE Waterod Before Fed.
Bearing in mind that the stomach of a
horse is small in proportion to the size
OF his frame, he requires feeding often,
and, though three times = day is sufi-
cient, four times is better. Unlike
human beings, horses should drink be-
fore they eat, because, owing to the con-
formation of the horse, water does not
remain in the stomach, but passes
through it into large intestine called
the csoum. If a horse be fed first, the
water passing through the stomach
would be likely to carry with it par.
ticles of food, and thus bring about
colo. Whatever groom may say, lei
horse drink just as much as he likes
If be be watered four times q day he
will never take very much, or too much
to be good for him. A horse, it must
be remembered, is fed on dry food, and
this, with the strong work done by 8
hunter, always produces feverishness
which a suficiency of water tends to
alay.-[ London Field.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

Boston is to have new fountain in
the Back Bay Park to commemorate the
discovery of America by the Norsemen
who crossed the Atlantic 500 years be-
fore Columbus.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

The total value of property in Arize-
ma Territory, as taken from the assess
ment rolls of the several counties of Ar
izona for 1884, is $31, 600, 600.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

Y0.ING. All experience the wonderful
beneficial effects Of
v ,..no "D Ayers Sarsaparilla.
"' 49, Children with Sore Eyes, Sore
hHkU. Earn, or any Scroful0us OF sypE-
little faint, may be made healthy and strong
BY it, use.
Sold BY all Druggists; 81, SIX bottles for g.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

A3rFOr notices in reference TO Special EAcUr.
sions, changes of time, and other items Of utter
est In connection with the (HlCAGO. MiLwA' NEE
& ST. PAUL RAILWAY please refer 70 the local
columns Of this paper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
A Dude DecOY.
From the Philadelphia News. !

lrIOul tuo 1uuduclpuld NcW6.J
"Do you see that young dude walking
up the street with those four swell com
panions? Well, that gent is one of the
trickiest of the many who live by their
sharp wits. Keep an eye on him." said
q reserve officer on Chestnut Street
yesterday. The fashionable group at
once became the object ofaattention.
This action was followed by general
and very liberal almsgiving by the
tailor-made men. Coins were showered
into the beggar's ragged hat, and the
conclusion naturally drawn would be
that the party had just returned from a
church revival where ''charity" was the
subject of the sermon.
While walking up Chestnut Street,
the tricky dandy little in advance, the
bon-ton crowd suddenly stopped before
q poor, decrepit, blind beggar. Dude
No. l entered into an animated CONVEX
sation with his companions.
"Oh, no; charitable motives have
very little to do with the proceeding"
remarked the peace guardian.
"That's the last act of q clever trick
of the dude. You see, it's done in this
way" continued the officer: "The
fashionable young man and that blind
beggar, strange as it may seem, are con-
federates. The beggar stations himself
on principal thoroughfare, receiving
whatever extra aims he can get, while
the dude HES off to a neighboring hotel
or billiard-room. he plays several
games of pool or billiards with the
young bloods there assembled, is very
companionable, invites them to drink
and finally proposes to patronize some
other saloon in the vicinity.
"The beggar is stationed between
these two places. The young fellows
innocently comply. The gang walks up
the street past the blind beggar, who at
this moment walls sadly. The sharper
dude is suddenly conscious-stricke
turns back, throws dollar or two into
the mans hat and jocularly invites his
comrades to do the same. AS arule they
comply. Then in a bantering way the
dude offers to bet IS that he will con-
tribute the most, the stake of the van
pushed to be given to the beggar. A
weak point in the average young fash
ionable is struck, the bet is accepted,
the sharp dude contributes $40 or more,
the bloods have their pride of birth
aroused and cover that sum. At length
limit is reached, the contributions stop
and the four unsuccessful men, the
dude probably among the number, for
felt s. apiece to the beggar or continue
to contribute.
"The young bloods are heeced with
out knowing it and console themselves
with the idea that they have done come
thing very charitable. It is needless to
say that there is grand divide be-
tween the two sharpers. You see, that
crowd has just been roped in, and the
worst of it is we can prove nothing
against either Of the operators. There's
big money in it, I tell you," concluded
the stalwart preserver of the public
peace.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
A Dog That TOlled The Bell.

lfTOm the 81. toul U2y.I
II shall never forget" said the book
keeper reminiscently, as he buttoned
his coat and shook himself into place
for lunch, ~that old New England vii
lage where stood gray, moss grown,
stone church, and by it's side little
weather stained cottage. A lonely old
man, the sexton, lived there. He had
outlived the hopes and friends Of bis
youth, and was utterly alone but for
the companionship of noble dog. It
was familiar sight to see him hobbling
back and forth from the cottage, always
accompanied by his faithful companion.
The old man could often be heard NUT
tering fragments of talk as he went his
slow, unsteady way, as if in CONVERSE
ton with his dumb friend, who never
left his side but gazed with q look of
human intelligence in his masters face
at the least sound of his voice. At the
village the sexton would exchange q
quiet word with friend, and making
little purchases for himself and his dog
set out for the cottage, his basket upon
his arm. But even here the dog would
relieve his care, and gently, but firmly
take the basket in his mouth, trot on
before with an air of Joyous satisfao-
ton. He seemed to take a peculiar
pleasure in the ringing Of the bel
of the church, and was all
ways with the old master when he sum-
moned the people to holy service. Once
when the:ben rope broke he climbed the
stairs of the old bell tower with the sex
ton and repeatedly watched him ring
the bell from the loft. But one day the
old sexton was seized with his last ill.,
ness, and in spite of the anxious solicit
tations of the dog could not ring the bell
the following Sunday. and soon after
passed quietly away, his hand resting on
the head OF the poor follower whose
mourning was uncomfortable. The dog
was visibly affected by the tolling Of
the bell. From the grave the faithful
creature had to be taken by force, and
would return there Immediately on be-
ing released. One day he was observed
to 20 to the church and soon after was
seen in the belfry, where his master had
for time rung the Sabbath chimes.
Here he appears to have reached the
bell with his paws, and to have swung
it, for it tolled out single mournful
note as of sorrow and despair. Imme-
diately after the dog was seen to look
down from the tower into the church
yard, where his master lay buried.
Then with a low, mournful whine,
reaching slowly forward, he leaped out
into the air and fell ifeless mass on
the mound. As sure as man ever die he
died of grief. feeling with unerring in
stinct that life without affection is worse
than DEATH"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
A Nero Sa1gestiOn.

There is whole sermon in the state
ment thataKansas farmer recently hauled
to town q load of 1900 pounds of corn
which he sold for 50. On the corn rested
q pail of twelve pounds of butter, for
which he also received So. The corn
may be accepted as being equal to the
average yield of an acre of land, and
was the return secured for many an hour
of toll by horses and men, in blowing,
narrowing, planting, cultivating, mar
vesting and marketing, extending over
period of certainly not less than three
months. The land was less fertile after
the removal of the crop than it was be-
fore-not percepibly, perhaps, but not
the less certainly so. The butter was
the representative of two weeks prod
uct of good COW. She would consume
in the course of the year the products
of three acres of grass, or its equivalent,
and in that time should, and if fairly
good COW would, yield an average of one
pound of butter per day for 270 days
of the year. At tie rate of IS cents per
pound she would bring in the sum of
$67.5O, and would in addition have
dropped calf worth something, espe-
cially in the West where calves are
thought to be worth saving. Much
more than that, the COW will have pro-
duced quantity of skinned milk and
butternilk that will be worth something
as food for those families and those pigs
that have not yet lost their taste for sim
pie, healthful food. She will also have
added something to instead of having
lessened the fertility of the land. It
may be objected that the COW will re-
quire labor in milking, and that it takes
work to make butter; but while this is,
to the shame OF the inventors, true, it
should not be forgotten that the farmers
wife can be compelled to milk and make
the butter, unless she happens to be one
of that class who will refuse to give
their menfolk chance to toast their
their toes in comfort while the women
do the work of the sweet and fresh
dairymaid.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
Young Msn-1ood Thu,

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
Typhus Fever.
From fha PrGvideAce Jnnrnal.1

The present outbreak of typhus fever
in New York reminds US of what we owe
to sanitary organization. Until very
recent times this was one of the most
virulent and devastating diseases known.
Ii is extremely contagious and spreads
with great severity wherever large num-
bers are crowded together. Hence it has
been called ship fever, jail fever, camp
fever, etc. Doctors and nurses are among
it's frequent victims. Armies have al
ways especially suffered from it, typhus
fever often destroying far more than
death in battle. In the early part of
this century large armies sometimes
lost half their men in the course of q
few months. While it is an eminently
contagious disease, and is caused wholly
in this way, yet many other elements
may combine 20 increase its severity
and contagious power. Overcrowding,
bad ventilation, exposure and privation
play such an important part, that the
disease has often been ascribed to them
alone. Thus it was very prevalent in
Ireland during the great famine, and
WAS frequently brought to The United
States in the crowded emigrant ship of
those days. In fact, that il jts only
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
A Model Farm.

"A 0OO01 E8Tms
A writer gives the following as his
method of managing his 1OO.acre farm
My farm contains about 100 acres of
farming land, most Of which
is limestone soil the balance
sandy loan. I have it fenced
in four equal tracts, nearly as
possible. For convenience, at the cor
ner where they all join, have q good
well, arranged to furnish stock water
for each field. I manage to keep fifty
acres in cultivation, fifty in clover,
each year as follows: Twenty-Five in
corn, twenty-five in wheat. When the
corn is cut off I seed this field to wheat
and the following spring to clover. I
aim to take q crop Of corn, then q crop
OF wheat, then back to clover in two
years, and find this as long ~ clover
should stand to be profitable. By this
method I manage to keep the land in a
high state of cultivation without the
use of commercial fertilizers.
II raise stock enough to eat up
all the surplus corn, hay, etc. I stack
the straw and feed around tho stack.
Towards spring I throw it down, 60 the
stock can tramp it down. In this con.
dition it rots much faster and is ready
to haul out sooner. This MANURE /
spread in the poorest places when
have leisure. and it is good hauling. By
doing this keep nearly everything on
the farm except the surplus wheat,
which I market az soon az threahed,
while it is in the sacks. This saves g
large per cent. on shrinkage, besides
extra handling, and you have the use
of your money. Any field I have will
bring . good crop. I always have olo-
yer sod to put in corn that has lain two
years, and it takes no longer and is not
90 much expense to farm good land a.
it is poor land. The psy is surer, be-
sides the satisfaction of seeing your
crops in . thriving condition and prom
ising good reward" Western Rural.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-07-08

THE RICHMOND CITY HALL.-Sunday's
Dispatch gives an illustration Of the new
City Hall which Richmond is to have upon
the square opposite the capitol grounds and
bounded by Broad, Eleventh, Capitol and
Tenth streets-and an exceedingly pretty
square it is. The building will be 20S by
SO feet. On all four sides there will be
about 20 feet of space between 1T and the
sidewalks for grass plat. From the
ground to the base of the dome will be
about G6 feet. From the ground to the
apex of the dome about 154 feet, and from
the ground to the apex of the towers 'front.'
ing on Capitol street is 152 feet
The plan adopted is by Messrs. Waite &
Cutter, Architects of Boston, and known
as the first premium plan. 1888, 900, will
cover the cost of the buildings. The city
provided the means some years since, and
soon the beautiful edifice will commence
to rise.
A building which shall indeed be City
Hall, is large design. To give accomo-
dation to all the departments Of the City
government, requires large space. In
grandeur and convenience it will be worthy
of Richmond and afford the citizens of the
State the same degree of pleasure in view
ing her progress as that INDUCED by her
own people who have furnished this evil
dence of their taste and wise provision for
the future.