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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-24
Speak, Reverently.

When Prince Bismarck, the great
German statesman, was lad, his father
once overheard him speaking of the
emperor as ''Fritz.' He reproved him
for the familiarity, and added, Learn
to speak reyerently of his majesty, and
you will grow accustomed to think of
him with veneration.'
The words made deep impression on
the boy which was never effaced. Even
in his old age he lowers his voice and
assumes a respectful tone whenever he
speaks of his sovereign. If message
is brought to him from the palace,
either verbal or written, he always
stands to receive it.
What a lesson is the custom of this
great statesman to boys who speak so
lightly, if not profanely, the name of
the King of kings!
The fault is not confined to them.
The growing irrcvercnce of the age is
very marked. The words of God are
banded about in the daily prints as
lightly as if they were the words of the
court-jester. Some fine-spun piece of
political sarcasm, parodying some scene
in Scripture, is often found in morn
ing paper, and is laughed over by
thousands. The travesty will ever
after be associated with the sacred
words, especially in the minds of the
young. A fullpagc picture in our best
illustrated newspaper one morning
represented St. Peter as seated in
great armchair before the gate of
heaven, with keys hanging by his side,
busily reading the daily paper, and
deciding not to admit certain parties.
1t was only one of many similar
pictures. 1t is not enough that
Christian parents should seek to hide
their smiles over such caricatures, or
should mildly deprecatc the irrever-
ence. They should set their faces like
a flint against them. Such course
would be felt, as in the case of Prince
Bismarck.
1t is very easy to lower our standard
of reverence for anything. We have
only to speak of it habitnal]y in a light
way. There is nothing like it to take
the life out of the most precious texts of
Scripture. We may repent of such sin
with bitter weeping, but those words
can never be to us again what they were
before. We may have cut down a
bridge we shall some day vainly long
to cross.
A gentleman of keen wit used
often to point his remarks with some
apt quotation from the Bible. A friend
who greatly admired him was present
in his last hours, and asked with deep
sympathy what was the future outlook.
Every gloomy, indeed, was his re-
spouse.
Surprised and deeply panied he has
tened to quote some precious promises
suited to the solemn hour.
Il have spoiled them all for myself
was his answer. "There is not one but
is associated with some jest
His light went out in darkness,
though his name was on the church
roll. What lesson is here for all who
are willing to be taught by it! Lay it
to heart.NThe Life Boat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-24
MAN AND THE ASCIDIAN.

The Ancestor remote of man,
Says Darwin, els tn Ascidian,''
A scanty sort of water beast
That ninety million years at least
Before Gorillas came to be,
Went swimming up and down the sea.
Their ancestors the pious praise,
And like to initiate their ways:
How, then, does our first parent live!
What lesson has his life to gives
tn Ascidian tadpole, young and gay,
Doth life with one bright eye survey,
HIS consciousness has easy play,
He's sensitive to grief and pain,
has tail, and spine and bears brain,
And everything that fits the state
OF creatures we call vertebrate
But age comes on; with sudden shock
He sticks his head against rock!
His tail drops off, his eyes drop in,
His brain absorbed into his skin:
He does not move, nor feel, nor know
The tidal waters ebb and flow,
But still abldes, unstirred, alone,
A sucker sticking to stone.
And we, his children, truly we
In youth are, like the Tadpole, free,
And where we would we blithely 20,
Have brains and hearts, and feel and know
Then Age comes on To habit we
Athx ourselves and are not free;
TIL Ascidian's rooted to a rock,
And we are bond slaves of the clock;
Our rocks are medicines, letters, law;
From these our heads we cannot draw;
Our loves drop off, our hearts dropin,
And daily thicker grows our skin.
Alb, scarce we live, we scarcely know
The wide worlds moving ebb and flow;
The changing currents ring and rock.
Thus at the ending of his span,
Blind, deaf, and indolent, does man
Revert to the Ascidian.
ANDREW LANG.
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NECESSITY.

Gaunt faced and hungry eyed she waits,
This sombre warder Of our fates,
Forever sleepless while we sleep,
And silent while we watch and weep.
Sometimes, beguiled by smiling skies,
And wooing winds we shut our eyes,
Forgetting for little space
That tiresome, unforgetting face.
Or, stirred as stirs the sap in spring,
By natures force, we laugh and sing,
Or run to pass that waiting shape,
With flying footsteps of escape.
But where we run she leads the way,
She goes before us night and day,
No flying footsteps can escape
By any path, that somber shape.
Always she waits with whip and spur,
To urge US on if we demur;
With bitter breath we call her foe.
AS driven thus we rise and 20.
The roads we follow wind and twist,
Our eyes grow blind with binding mist,
Blown down to us as we ascend
The upland nights that near the end.
And at the end-:!Where is the foe?
Where hideth she!" we cry-and 10,
Through breaking mist, and angels face,
Looks out upon US from herplace!
Nora PERRY.
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A Japanese House In New York.

A New FORK dealer in japanese goods
has fitted into the back of his store a
real Japanese house in miniature.
Only two rooms, however, are repre-
sented, corresponding to our reception
room and parlor, but thesc..are complete
and exact in detail. The material for
the framework is of japanese cedar
bamboo;a strong, transparent paper
forms the little square panes for the
windows, glass being only used by the
lower classes. The mouldings of the
rooms are of a very artistic and beauti-
full pattern, and the ceilings are bamboo,
braided in beautiful designs and colored
in different shades of brown. The
floors are especially curious, being
made very elastic, a sort of split bam-
boo or straw forming padding under
meath the squares of mating, which
are finished separately with a neat
binding. The rooms in a Japanese
house are designated by the number of
pieces of mating required for each, as
the seven, six or five matted room.
The rcception-room is furnished with a
ideboard with a rounded front, placed
in one corner, on which are richl y orna-
mentcd tea caddies, huge teapot, and
oil the accessories of a hospitable cup
of tea, which they offer to all callers;
and very elaborate lacquer and bronze
table near by holds decorative jardin-
iere. A little sliding door of paper,
gayly painted with Japanese flowers,
separates this room from the inner one
or parlor. This is the ''fve matted
room,' and has on the floor very
curiously wrought artistic bronze
incense burner, and on one side of it is
the box holding the materials for burn
ing the incense. A lacquer reading
desk stands near. on which is book, a
scroll and pair of exquisite candle
sticks. Handsome raw silk rugs, which
serve for chairs, are laid on the floor.
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-24
Confusion in the WORKSHOP.

Yes, sad to relate, there is confusion
in the clerical workshops. Tools
designed to work together in harmony
were, instead, grumbling and fault
finding, if not, indeed, actually set by
the ears.
Bishop Blacksmith smote his fore
head in despair, as he looked on his
diocese, and heard the angry clatter of
discussion concerning the great
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-24
Variety of Grain Food.

The most successful farmers, says the
Ploughman, feed their stock on vari-
ETY. of food. Experience has proved
that herd of cattle fe1 on but one
kind of fodder, though it may be the
best that grows, will not keep as
healthy or do as we'll rs if fed on sever
all kinds. While the principal food may
be composed of that fodder which can
be grown on the farm to the best advan-
tage, change to some other fodder not
as easily grown is very often desirable.
Among the fodder crops that can be
easily grown on most of farms may be
named oats. While this fodder may
not be quite as good for mich cows,
as barley fodder, it makes a change
that is agreeable as we'll as
beneficial to the COWS, providing
the crop is properly grown and
cured. The great mistake that
people make in raising oat fodder
is in not sowing seed enough; four
bushels to the acre is not too much.
The straw is then fine and can be easily
cured so that the hay will be perfectly
sweet, and will be eagerly sought for by
both horses and cattle; but if only two
bushels be sOwn to the acre the straw
will be so coarse that it is difficult if
not impossible to properly dry it 50 it
will not be smoky when fed out; when
in this condition it is not desirable
food for any animal.
Farmers who have tried to grow oat
fodder in this way have become dis
couraged, and abandoned it as fodder
crop; but those farmers who have sown
seed enough to make the straw fine,
cut it at the proper time, and cured it
well, have found it a valuable fodder
crop. On good land very large crop
can be grown, much more than barley
or rye, and quite as much as of Hun
garian. The only drawback to the oat
crop is its liability to rust: occasionally
we have a season like last year, when
the rust will strike it before it is fully
grown; but it is not much more liable
to rust than timothy grass, unless it is
permitted to stand until the grain is
fully matured. When it is found that
it is beginning to rust it is best to cut it,
although it is but just commencing to
blossom; but when there is no appear
| ance of rust it should be permitted to
stand until the kernel is nearly grown.
To those who understand just how to
grow it. and how to cure it, the oat
crop is one that will give as good re-
turns as almost any crop grown on the
farm; but it is not best for the farmer to
depend wholly on this for fodder crop,
but to let it come in to make up vari-
ETY.. Corn. rye, barley and Hungarian
are all good and should be considered.
Manuring Trees and Vines.
1t is supposed by some that when
any invigorator is to be applied to
trees or vines, it cannot be used too
n1ont;fn11v on1 thnv oocor,1;n r1v n,nlch
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CrouD. Mother's Tribute.

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it seemed as If he would die from strangu-
iation. One of the family suggested the use
of AYERS CHERRY PECTONAL, n bottle Of
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little patient was breathing easily. The doc.
tor said that the CHERRY PICTORIAL had
saved my darling's life. Can you wonder at
our gratitude? Sincerely yours,
Mrs. EMMA GEDNEY."
150 West 12Sth St., New York, May 16, 1882.
~ have used AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL
III my family for several years, and do not
hesitate to pronounce 1t the most etfectual
tried. a. j. CRANE.'
Lake Crystal. Nlinn., March 10, 1882.
"Isuirercd for eight years from Bronchitis,
and after trying many remedies with no suc-
cess, was cured by the use of AYERS CHER
Ny PICTORIAL. JOSEPH WALDEN"
Byhalia, Miss, April 5, 1852.
~ cannot say enough in praise Of AYERS
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but for its use should long since have died
Palestisse, Texas, April %, iss2.
No case Of an affection of the throat or
lungs exists which cannot be greatly relieved
by the use Of AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL,
and 1t will alecays cure when the disease Is
not already beyond the control of medicine.
o PREPARED ny o
Dr.J.C.Ayer& Co. }, Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-24
AYERS
Cherry Pectoral.

No other complaints are so insidious in their
attack as those affecting the throat and lungs:
none so trillcd with by the majority of suffer-
ers. The ordinary cough or cold, resulting
perhaps from thrilling or unconscious OK
posure, is often but tho beginning Of fatal
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"A Terrible Cough Cured.
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TORAL, which relieved my lungs, induced
sleep, and afforded me tho rest necessary
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continued use Of tho PICTORIAL n perma-
nent cure was effected. l am now C2 years
old, hale and hearty, and am satisfied your
CHERRY PICTORIAL saved me.
HORACE FAIRBROTuER."
Rockingham, VT, July 10, 1882.
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Manuring Trees and Vines.

1t is supposed by some that when
any invigorator is to be applied to
trees or vines, it cannot be used too
plentifully, and they accordingly mulch
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

Mr.. G. A. Won LINGEN the German
Consul at Baltimore, will sail for Bremen
Saturday, on leave of absence.
REV. J. l.. KIRRpArmcK, d. D., professor
Of moral philosophy at Washington and
Lee University, died yesterday at LeXing-
ton, Va.
j. j. AsToR, JR., Clarence A.. Seward
and Madame Materna were among the
passengers who left New York yesterday
for Bremen.
Mr.. FRANK A. BURR of the Philadel-
phia Times is engaged upon work re.
viewing the military and civil career Of
General Grant.
Mr., JOHN MCCULLoUGH was in Phila-
delphia yesterday, apparently quite him.
self again, and expressed his intention of
returning to New York to-day.
GOVERNOR HARRISON of Connecticut
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts,, and
Eugene Schuyler of Washington were
made Doctors Of Laws, at Yale College,
yesterday.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR left New York
last night for Montreal, whence after a
brief sojourn, he will go down on the Res
tigouche to indulge in season of salmon
fishing.
Mr.. w. w. FLANAGAN, cashier of the
Peoples National Bank of Charlottesville,
Va. has heen elected cashier of the new
Commercial National Bank of New York,
of which Mr.. Orson Adams of Howard
County, Md, is the president.
The DEGREE of LID. was yesterday
conferred upon General W. S. Hancock
nv ST. Johns College FOrdham Secre-
tary Lamar was to have addressed the
graduates, but telegraphed his regrets
that he could not be present, adding: 81
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expected to speak on this theme; 'Knowl-
edge is the truth, and education is the
cause of knowledge, and of moral and re-
ligious truth
No RIeHr-MfNDEp small boy would care
to live in Washington, He will be denied
the right of suffrage when he grows up,
and, Furthermore, three of his kind were
yesterday fined 50 each for climbing 4
tree i'm order TO look over the fence at Buff
falo Bits show. Is it any wonder that so
many boys flee to the wild West for free
dom?- Baltimore American.
THE REV. SAMUEL DAVID FERGUSON, q
colored man, was consecrated in Grace
Church, New York. yesterday as fourth
missionary bishop of Cape Palmas, West
Africa. The ceremony was performed by
the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Church, Bishop Lee of Delaware assisted
by Bishops Stevens of Pennsylvania and
Littleiohn of Long Island. One of the
presbyters was the Rev. DR.. Crummell, q
colored man, pastor Of ST. Luke's Church,
Washington.
Miss SALIE MARIE, daughter of Camille
Marie, was married in New York yester-
day to Frank Key Pendleton, son of the
new Minister to Germany. The wedding
took place in Zion Church, Madison ave-
nue. and Thirty-eighth street, the Rev. DIR.
Tiffany, rector, performing the ceremony.
The bride a beautiful young woman, who
made her debut two seasons ago, wore n
dress of white satin covered with deep
founces ofpoint lace. After the ceremony
there was a large reception at the house of
the brides uncle, Peter Marie.
Now TO the beach or mountains, there TO
reyel
In summer Joys, his vigor to restore,
The weary pastor takes his way. The devil
Keeps at his business just as before.
- Boston Courier.
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25
THE NAVY IN DANGER.

Several of the steamers which run to
Annapolis from Baltimore with excursions
have the privilege Of landing at the Gov
ernment wharf, inside the Naval Academy
grounds. There are naval cadets also in
side these grounds. There are always
ladies on the.excursion boats, and as they
are from Baltimore, it goes without saying
that among them are many pretty and
sprightly maidens. As the boats make
the Annapolis landing about the time
in the evening that the cadets are Off duty,
it has frequently occurred that the spruce
young sailors and the pretty young ladies
have taken advantage of the opportunity
to cultivate each others acquaintance
and they have not infrequently been seen
meandering in couples along the sinuous
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25
DOESN'T WANT TO GO.

The case of Horatio G.. Burchard, Di-
rector of the Mint, is said to be peculiar
one. He was some time since requested to
resign, but seems disinclined to crafty the
wishes of Secretary Manning in this be-
half, on the alleged ground that he was
appointed under special statute, which
provides that there shall be no removal of
the incumbent except upon charges sus,
tanned by the Senate or, as the statute
reads, on charges communicated to the
Senate"
No charges having been preferred
against Mr.. Burchard, and such statute
existing, n question may arise as to
whether the desire Of Mr. Manning to have
the direction of the Mint in the hands of
some person more acceptable to himself
would be deemed Of sufficient weight to
Justify the Senate in approving Mr..
Burchard's removal and confirming a
new appointment.
1t is probable that if the Secretary of the
Treasury, as stated, is dissatisfied" with
the present Director, he has reasons for
his dissatisfaction, and yet 1t might be
troublesome to formulate them in such
shape as to satisfy Senators who are dis
posed to make captious war on the Ad-
ministration.
Mr.. Burchard, whose term does not eX-
pire until 1882 is naturally willing to hold
ON, If there is statute to hold on to. II
is probably more q matter of preference
than principle; but considered from the
standpoint of good taste, we cannot well
understand how any Government official
can be willing to stay in place where he
is not wanted by his superiors. Neither
can there be the efficiency of administra
ton which is desirable in the several de
partments where there is not entire har
mony between chief and subordinate
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25

EDITOR Critic | cannot understand why
there is such a controversy about the drop
ping of five teachers In the second division.
unless II is true, asa gentleman told me last
night that the trustees of the other divisions
never have dropped a teacher from the rolls
for any cause except death or marriage. | did
not credit this statement, for it seemed
simply preposterous. | think there are over
500 teachers. Are they all competentg II
seems to me that the best way TO keep teach
er up to the mark, the most efficient means of
causing her to be faithful to her duty is TO
have this annual denomination of all teachers.
If teacher Is to be retained anyhow,
no matter what her record, why have
the denomination? A friend of mine
was obliged to take his son from the public
school and put him with private teacher, 50
steadily did he fall behind In his studies; and
another friend withdrew his two sons for the
same reason. They have never gone to the
public schools since. These are only two out of,
/ doubt not, hundreds of similar cases. When
q trustee is trying to improve the schools In his
district there ought to be general rejoicing in
stead of ridiculous accusations of personal
hostility. trustee should be brave enough
to do his duty in spite of all things. | heartily
commend General Birney for his course. If
the other trustees would go and do likewise
our schools would be thousand times better
for It,. Il. STREET.
WASHINGTON, June %,
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Co-EDucATIoN has evidently proved fail
ure at Delaware College, which is situated at
Wilmington. The board Of trustees yes
terday afternoon decided to abolish that
system, and announces that the girls will
have to 20.
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25

THE following comprehensive and some
what surprising announcement appears in
the columns Of our evening contemporary.
There is evidently something loose about
it, either as to the grammar or the facts:
The picture of ex-President Arthur, by lie
Clear, now at the White House, is TO be re-
turned to his widow. He died shortly before
its completion, and 1t was touched up by
Andrews,
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COMPLAINT is made that some of the
sewer.traps along the Avenue and below
are at times extremely offensive and
necessarily preIudicial to the public
health. Cannot the authorities devise
some means by which these unwhole-
some eXhalations can be prevented?
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25

DIR. MURPHY of the Columbia Hospital
who has just been put through the ordeal
of another investigation, comes out, as
usual, right side up and fresh as daisy.
The resident physician evidently has a
fast hold upon the confidence of the
directors, and takes an investigation with
as much composure and satisfaction as he
would the luxury of Turkish bath.
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SENATOR VEST is involved in another
newspaper Misrepresentation which poses
him in the attitude of hostile to the Adj
ministration in general and to Postmaster
Villas in particular. He says it is all
willful and malicious lie, and that he is on
the best Of terms with both. We can
hardly blame the Missouri statesman for
sending the correspondent to sheol in the
hottest imaginable haste.
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25

THE Mexican editors are having a recep-
ton III st. Louis to-day, and between the
bad English and worse Spanish that is
changing mouths, an extensive area of in
coherency prevails.
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25

THE Commercial Travellers will hold
their annual convention in Buffalo, COM
mencing to-day, and the Common Coun-
Gil of that city have passed a resolution
rendering them the freedom of the city.
This action is in the nature of super
fluffy. The Commercial Travellers generally
help themselves to all the freedom that is
living around
The Washington critic., 1885-06-25

IT IS to be hoped that the arrival of
School Superintendent Powell will cast
oil upon the troubled waters
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THE further extracts that are given from
General Gordon's diary vividly and
forcibly show the ruggedness, straight
forwardness and doggedness of the writer s
character. He handles words as he
handled the sword. His disgust at the
hilly-shally policy of the Gov
eminent, which had sent him on
his perilous way to Khartoum and
then abandoned him, is told without re-
serve in his short and graphic way of
binding sentences together. His idea of
how Wolseley's expedition should have
been conducted are at utter variance with
the methods which that general employed,
and which made his expedition failure.
He believed in the honesty of the British
nation, but not in its official honesty. 81
must say" he blurts out, 81 hate our di-
plomatists.'