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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
Reality W.. Romance.

A serious blow has been inflicted on
the stock in trade of the novelist. From
he days of Perseus and Andromeda,
through Scott, down to the latest three
volume novel, the touching picture of
a pair of lovers caught by the rising
tide at the foot of inaccessible cliffs has
been situation full of sentiment and
pathos. But the situation was repeated
at Ramsgate last week in a way which
will forever damn it in the eyes of the
man or woman of sentiment. A lady
and gentleman, strangers to the place,
were so interested in each other that
they failed to observe the rising tide
until they we're knee-deep in water,
when. happily, they were seen from
Ramsgate pier, and boat was put off
and rescued them, in spite of consider
able danger from the strong wind blow
ing; in fact, steam-tug had to be sent
to rescue the rescuers, when the whole
party were safely landed on Ramsgate
pier. But instead of the warm greet
ings of their friends they were received
with ''a great deal of CHAIR as they
walked down the pier, followed by
crowd of spectators. The situation, in
fact, is thrashed out, and only the chat
remains,-Lonao,z Truth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
There Shall Be No Alps.

When Napoleon talked of invading
Italy one of his officers said: "But,
sire, remember the Alps To an
ordinary man these would have seemed
simply insurmountable, but Napoleon
responded eagerly: "There shall be no
Alps" So the famous Simplon pass
was made. Disease, like mountain,
stands in the way of fame, fortune and
honor to many who by DR.. Pierce's
''Golden Medical Discovery" might be
healed and so the mountain would dis
appear. 1t is specific for all blood,
chronic lung and liver diseases, such as
consumption (Which is scrofula of the
lungs), pimples, blotches, eruptions.
tumors, swellings, fever-sores and
kindred complaints.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
SnaPPy People.

We know people so genial that their
face is always full of sunshine and there
is no night there. When they have
trouble, we can scarcely tell whether
they are crying or laughing: The wave
Of tears dashing against bank of
smiles. But we meet others who are
explosive and gunpowdery under slight
provocation. There is such thing (who
would have thought it?) as a snappy
editor. When you enter his editorial
rooms he does not look up for long
while. You stand with your hat in
hand, thinking what luxury it would
be to be asked to sit down. While you
are meditating the best way of attract
ing his attention, he suddenly looks
over his shoulder and spits out, "What
is it?" There is flash in the eye, and
a venom in the tone that make you feel
yourself villain, though previously
you had supposed yourself honest. Be-
fore you get throu gh telling him what
You want, he is at another editorial.
and he finally puts you off by telling
you he cannot attend to you now. You
back out with apologies for inter-
ruption. but inwardly resolving that
YOU will never risk your life again in
an editorial sanctum. There is such a
thing as snappy railroad conductor.
When he announces the name of de-
pot he bites off the first letter and the
last syllable. 1t is at your peril you
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
A Nation Ruined BY a Spider.

It is said that when spiders are seen
crawling more abundantly and con-
spicuously than usual upon the indoor
walls of houses, rain may shortly be ex-
pected; but the following anecdote in
Inmates that some of their habits are
the equally certain indication of frost
being at hand.
Towards the end of the last century,
Quarter-master Disjonval, seeking to
beguile the tedium of his prison hours
at Utrecht, had studied attentively the
habits of the spider, and eight years of
Imprisonment had given him leisure to
be we'll versed in its ways.
In December of 1894. the French
army, on whose success his restoration
to liberty depended, was in Holland,
and victory seemed certain if the frost,
which then ragged with unprecedented
severity, continued. The Dutch envoy
had failed to negotiate a peace, and
Holland was in despair, when the frost
suddenly broke.
The Dutch were now exulting, and
the French generals prepared to retreat;
but the spider warned Disjonval that
the thaw would be of short duration,
and he knew that his weather monitor
never deceived hin. He contrived &C.
cordingly to communicate with the
French general. who duly estimated
his character, and at once relied upon
his assurance that within few days
the water would again be passable by
troops.
The retreat was delayed. Within
twelve days the frost had returned, and
the French army triumphed. Disjonval
was Immediately liberated, the spider
having brought down ruin on his Dutch
oppressors.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07

French avocat who had accompanied
him, took his leave. z
In Is hours he was in London. The
business had developed into a romance,
and Peter Whitney was as eager as
boy. "
''Then you do not think the place will
suit me, said Mr.. Barnstone, after
talking the matter over. cit is dull,
quiet, not near the sea. No; I will lei
it to some young couple who want to
live and love alone. They may have
it for a song. It's no use to me, and
only farmhouse after allr'
''May-I-have the-refusal sir?"
asked Peter timidly.
.You, Whitney, you? are you going
to be a Benedict, after all? Well, I am
surprised. My good sir, certainly.
You are faithful good fellow. Take
it as a wedding present. It will cost
ME little, remember, and may do you
good, he added hastily. ''No thanks
please"
miss Mallais wants to see you, SIR
said lad at this juncture.
''Let her come up,'' said Mr.. Barn
stone: ''My charming French client,'
he added; you shall see her. She is
connected with this very house-my
tenant. All! here she is.''
As he finished speaking, Mademois-
ellie Pulcherie entered with little wo-
man, whom she called una tante.'
She at once greeted Peter w Whitney, and
in broken English and more voluable
French, explained to Mr.. Barnstone and
her aunt alternately, how she had be-
come acquainted with the ''monsieur."
"Then you actually directed mad
emoiselle here?" said Mr.. BarnstQne.
IF you had known, you might have
saved yourself the journey. Have you
any news of your nephew, Madame?''
"Alas! no; he was in Africa in the
144th of the line. He will come and
find it desolate-our home. We must
return, monsieur to Dieppe. You have
been an angel to us, indeed.''
mot bit, madame, only doing my
duty, in this instance positive pleas
ure. Have you-pardon NEAL neces-
saries for your journey?''
"Madame need take no Journey to
see her nephew" said Peter in French.
"How, monsieur? Is it possible he
is-he is dead?''
mo, madame; alive, well, and in
London. He returned with me; 1 will
take you to him. met him near the
old home yonder.''
Then Peter, in his plain but sympa-
thetic way, told his story, and the
ladies' eyes filled with tears of Joy and
happiness.
&C.," said Mr.. Barnstone, wiping
his spectacles. Run away, good peo-
pie; am busy
So they went and found Antoine, as
had been promised, and after a while
the three returned to Dieppe. The fol-
lowing month, plain, good Peter Whit
ney again crossed the Channel, and
spent three weeks in France near his
new friends. Lo and behold! the year
after the old farmhouse is again in
habited; not by Antoine, who had gone
away on promotion to commission
an officer; not by the kind aunt, for
she lay in the village churchyard; but
by I'M. and Madame Veetnee,'' as they
are now called, who have come for
''their honeymoon
So Peter Whitney, the "old bache-
lor,'' met his fate-a charming wife
and some fortune-in Pulcherie Malais
all, as some think, ''by the merest
accident, but you and know better.
|-CasseU's Family Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
DEAR LITTLE SCHOOL
MA'AM. 5s. +:

With her funny little glasses you'd have
thought her very wise -
If it wasn't for the laughter that was peep
ing from her eyes: IS =:
Just the queerest and the dearest little
school-ma'am ever known.
Whose way Of teaching boys and girls was
certainly her own.
81 give my brightest pupil in a pleasant
tone she said,
is head,
And, to spare the tender feelings Of the dull
lest boy, l put
All the Others in circle, so you can't tell
which is foot.
whenever any pupil in his lessons doesn't
encourage his endeavors with penny
And since this slight upon the rest might
too severely fall,
take the box Of kisses and I hand 'em
round to all.
'I've asked them what they'd like to be a
dozen times or more,
And each, find, intends when grown to
keep candy store.
So, thinking that they orght to have some
knowledge of their trade,
I've put little stove in, just to show them
how it's made.
Enthusiastic! Bless you, it is wonderful
to see
How interested in such things little child
can be:
And from their tempting taffy and their
luscious lollipops
I'm sure they'll do me credit when they
come to open shops"
And with a nod that plainly showed how
free she was from doubt,
She deftly smoothed the wrinkles of her
snowy apron out
Just the queerest and the dearest little
school-ma'ame ever known,
Whose way of teaching boys and girls was
really all her own!
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
True HorOism,

A general in the English army, the
army having halted for the night,
having lost his baggage, lay down tired
and sick without any blanket. An Off
Ger came up and said, "Why you have
no blanket. Ill go and get you blank
ct. He departed for few moments
and then came back and covered the
general up with a very warm blanket.
the general said, "Whose blanket is
this?' The officer replied, Il got it
from private soldier in the Scotch
regiment, Ralf Mcdonald" ''Now''
said the general, ''You take this blank
ct right back to the soldier. He can
no more do without it than 1 can do
without it. Never bring to me the
blanket of a private soldier" How
many men like that general would it
take to warm the world up? The vast
majority of US are anxious to get more
blanket whether anybody else is blank
eted or not.
Recently an engineer in the South
west, on locomotive, saw a train CON-
ing with which he must collide. He
resolved to stand at his post and slow
up the train uutil the last minute, for
there were passengers behind. The
enginere said to the fireman, "Jump!
one man is enough on this engine!
jump!' The fireman jumped and was
saved. The crash came. The engineer
died at his post. How many men like
that engineer would it take to warm
this cold world up? A vessel struck
on rocky island. The passen gers and
the crew were without food and a
sailor had shell fish under
his coat. He was saving it
for his last morsel. He heard little
child cry to her mother, "Oh, mother,
l am so hungry; give me something to
eat-I am so hungry!' The sailor took
the shelltish from under his coat and
said, Here, take that How many
men like that sailor would it take to
warm the cold world up? Xerxes flee
ing from his enemy got on board boat.
A great many Persians leaped into the
same boat and the boat was sinking.
Some one said: care you not willing
to make sacrifice for your king?"
and the majority of those who were in
the boat leaped overheard and drowned
to save their king. How many men
like that would it take to warm up this
cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into
the horrors of Newgate Prison, and she
turned the imprecation and the OBJ
scenity and the filth into prayers and
repentance and reformed life. The
Sisters of Charity, in 1868, on Northern
and Southern battle-felds, came to the
boys in blue and gray while they were
bleeding to death. The black bonnets
with the sides pinned back and the
white bandage on the brow, may not
have answered all the demands of ele-
giant taste, but you could not persuade
that soldier dying thousand miles
from home that it was anything but an
angel that looked him in the face. Oh,
with CHEEKY look, with helpful word,
with kind action, try to make the world
warm!
"Count that day lost whose low descending
Views from Thy hand no generous action
done.'
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ask him the name Of the. next place.
While you are deciding in which of
your eight pockets you put your ticket,
he gapes upon you devouringly as
much as to say: II have you now; you
for it, ehP" If you venture to tell HIM
that the car is very cold, he will
freeze you still worse with a wondering
stare. If you ask aim why there is
no water on the train, he will throw
over you the wet blanket of curt re-
ply, and that is water enough. He is
snappy to the old lady who is too long
in getting off and the old gentleman
who is too long getting on; snappy
about where you set your feet, snappy
about where you set your valise. Be-
fore many miles all the passengers feel
the contagion from having been bitten
by such snappy disposition, and so
they get snappy too. You have noticed
furthermore the snappy merchant.
After you have asked a certain kind of
goods he hats before showing them, as
much as to say: ''Do you really want
to buy? or are you among those who
do nothing but 60 a-shopping, and are
you going to take up my time for no.
thing?' He talks over the counter in
exasperating monosylables. When you
point out defect in the fabric. he asks:
''Do you expect to find anything per-
feet under the sun?' While you are
meditating, whether or not you had bet
ter take the goods, he says: ''You
need not have it, if you don't wan'tit."
| AS YOU quietly suggest that Won saw
something little cheaper at the next
store, he howls at you: go there and
get it!'' AS you go out he slams the
door after you, and you 60 down the
street with irritations all over you Just
because you came in contact with a
snappy merchant. Suavity is an art
that we all need to cultivate. It pays
to be gentleman or lady. Porcupines
are fit for nothing but museums. Most
of us need to have a smoothing-iron run
over our. temples. Many people get
up red heat at moments notice and
do not always cool off SO quickly. Some
are like hot journals on the railway
cars-a little friction, and 10! they are
on fire, and it takes ice and salt and
waste and time to get things running
smoothly; and then there is no saying
when they will be on fire again. If we
had more of the spirit of Him concern
ing whom it is said, "Grace is poured
into Thy lips,' we would all cease
being snappy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
The Career of a New AuthOress.


Miss Florence Warden, the suddenly
famous author of ''The House on the
Marsh" is plain young woman with
clear eyes and a rather strong face.
She says of her own career: 'After
being stubborn and intractable child
under nurses and governesses at home
I was sent, with my sister, to school
at Brighton, where she passed bril-
liant career as the idlest, wittiest, and
most daring girl in the house; while I
sneaked through mean existance as
steady, industrious girl-not clever,
but very conceited. At this time 1
used to write poems at night, three or
four lines at a time, before the gas was
put out. After this we went to school
in France and founded great reputa-
ton at private theatricals. This was
my first experience as playwright and
manager. l left school just in time to
learn that through my fathers losses
on the stock exchange | should have to
earn my own living. became a gov
Vi ASoo AOA I" oAOAU ClA4V AAu III hCu
very hard to qualify myself, not only
for teaching, but for novel-writing.
At last, as I could get nobody to read
my manuscripts. and as the lady whose
five children was teaching said it was
"a pity should waste my time on such
thrash, dropped the thrash and the
teaching together and went on the
stage with my sister, against every
body's wishes. For three years we had
horrible and dreary struggle with
debt, with ill-health, with difficulties of
all kinds. Then, on the verge of an
illness from which I was not expected
to recover, l wrote, in two months,
The House on the Marsh, which, hap
PLY for me, hit the taste of the general
public. Since then I have written
other stories, and have made my first
serious attempt at writing for the
STAGE
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
TRICKS ON THE TRACKS.
Dangers From Which Engineers Save the
Public and Themselves.
The Railway Review.

Dangers From Which Engineers Save the
Public and Themselves.
The Railway Review.
One who is accustomed to railway
travelling can scarcely realize how
much he is dependent for safety upon
the engineer. Added to the response
bility of their station, engineers are
also in constant danger of accidents
caused by the tricks of jealous rivals.
This rivalry, it is said, sometimes
prompts to the doing of utterly mean
tricks. A Nickel Plate engineer after
his very first trip was laid off because
he had ''cut OUT all the bearings of
his engine. He was re-instated, how
ever, after he proved that some rival
had filled his oiling can aoith emery.
Another new engineer was suspended
or burning out the hues of his boiler.
Through grief at the loss of his position
rival confessed that he had put oil IN
the tank so that it foamed and showed
water at the top gauge, when in reality
there was scarcely quart in the
boiler!
These intense jealousies, together
with the terrible anxiety incident to
their work, has a terribly straining
effect on the nerve, and statistics tell
us that, though Locomotive Engineers
may look strong and vigorous, they
are not all a hearty class. Ex-Chief
Engineer A. S. Hampton, Indianapolis,
Ind, DIV. 143) was one of those ap-
parently heart y men, but he says
1.-The anxiety, strain and jolting came,
near finishing me-" His sufferings
localized in catarrh of the bladder, but
he used Warmers safe cure faithfully
for twenty weeks and now exclaims
II am a we'll man." T. S. Ingraham,
of Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant Chief
engineer, and other prominent men,
bers are also emphatic in its praise.
The Locomotive Engineers Brother
hood has $4,000 members and 240
divisions. Its headquarters is in
Cleveland, Ohio, where Chief Engineer
Arthur for twenty years has exercised
almost dlctatorial sway. 1t was or
gained in August, 1868, oy the en-
ployees of the Michigan Central. 1t
has given nearly two million dollars to
the widows and orphans of deceased
members.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
Let Out With q Lancet.

The widest sensation was caused at
South Hadley, Mass, the other day, by
the report of suicide at Mount
Holyoke Ladies' Seminary, in that
place. Although the teachers and
directors of the seminary have done
everything IN their power to keep the
matter from the papers, these facts
have come to light: On Wednesday at
II o'clock a. m. DIR. Adelaide Richard
son, teacher of phi ysics at the seminary
and one of the most popular and learned
of the lady ply sicians in this countr =,
was found dead in her bed. An inv es-
tigation was at once begun. Me dical
Examiner Sherwin conducted the case.
Dr. Richardson has been rlembcr
of the faculty for several years and has
devoted her life to study and ard work.
For something over year he head has
troubled her so that this Summer she
has been under treatment Mt tho New
England Hospital at Bos,t The fact
that she was receiving aid was known
to but few of her friends. About a
week ago she return ed to her duties at
Mount Holyoke Sen linary and appeared
in her usual health, attending to her
classes and appes ring in more than her
usual good spirl' After taking tea
Tuesday night she was present at the
devotional ex' ,rciscs and social gather
ing later. She then retired to her room.
1t has been the doctors custom to be
in the roo II where medicines are kept
Mt about 9 o'clock every weekday
morning to attend to any of the young
ladies who might need medical service.
Wednesday morning she did not
appear. An hour. two hours passed,
when one of the teachers, finding DR..
Richardson door bolted from the in
side, and no response to her calls,
forced the door from it's hinges. The
suicide was found on the outside of the
bed, dressed, but with small stream
of blood flowing from . wound in the
right side of the neck. She had been
dead several hours. 1t appears that
she had arranged everything as she
wished, and had then placed her case
of surgical instruments in reach. With
of the arteries Of the neck, probably
immediately producing death. Word
was at once sent to the dead woman's
relatives at Wollaston, Mass, they
taking charge of 1.-THE remains. DR.
Richardson was a graduate of the
Ann Arbor Medical College, Al years
of age, unmarried, and everywhere
loved and respected, not only for her
deep learning, but for her
Christian character and happy dis
position. The affair cast deep gloom
over the school and village.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07

was our friend. He helped us; he as
sisted my father-my poor father
lent him money on security. Then mon
pere, he died, and my mother already
had passed to heaven. My sister and
my aunt remained. Young NJ. Des-
moulins assisted US, for he pretended to
love Pulcherie, monsieur; and I, like a
fool, went away and left her. His at
tentions aroused the fears of my aunt
and sister. They wrote to me. l was
in the South; would not come. Then
they found the wretch. Desmoulins
had claim on them; he broke up their
home. Oh, monsieur, l wish I had
diedr'
Peter Whitney noticed that the young
man felt very hard against Desmoulins,
and feared he would proceed to
violence, so he said
"Never mind; I can explain all. NJ.
Bernardin is dead. Julius Barnardin
was the partner in my patrons Office.
I have come to claim the property. I
will manage NJ. Desmoulins. Leave
him to me-"
A sudden inspiration had seized the
middle-aged bachelor lawyer. He had
already romance; he would find Des-
mouths and Pulcherie, and then.
So he pursuaded the young soldier to
return with him, and assume his civilian
attire; to quit the army if he liked at
forwards, but first to come to England
and find Pulcherie and the kind aunt.
After much parley, this was all agreed
to.
Next day the lawyer called on NJ.
Desmoulins; found him bully and a
roue; quelled him by stern threat of ex-
posture in the tribunal. and in the vii
lage, where he was hated. Finally, he
succeeded in getting from him quit
lance of all claims, and with the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07

Mistress-''I wish you to do some
sweeping to-day" Maid-''To-mor-
row is my day off, mum, and | never
lets myself get tired the day before; be-
cause then can't take no enjoyment
when I gets out, num- ooh, well. do
it the day after tomorrow, then. =
1.-The day after bein' out am alters
tired, num-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her CAS-
TORIA. n.
When she was Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA. EN-
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA. r 3s - g