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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
American Architecture,

lcTOm ILo ot. Louis hepuDLCauJ
The insurance companies are proba-
bly, right in charging the alarming loss
by fire mainly to faulty construction
of large buildings. Within the last
twenty years there has been an enor-
nous concentration of wealth, mer
chandise and costly architecture in
American cities, and there has not
been a proportionate advance in
methods of building and of guarding
the increased values from destruction.
Fire departments and water supplies
have been extensively improved-have
gone forward more rapidly, perhaps,
than the increase of material wealth.
but the element Of danger from fire has
increased nevertheless. For purposes
of show and effect buildings of the
highest value are now made with glass
fronts and immense interior rooms,
supported on slender columns with few
fire walls as partitions, and the differ
ent floors communicating by broad
stairways and elevator shafts always
open. TO show how little extra care
has been taken to compensate for
these increased elements of risk, the
Inland Architect states that it is the ex-
ception rather than therule that cities
keep any substantial records of build-
ing improvements. The city of Cleve-
land, for instance, has no record to
show the character, value or purpose
of the buildings annually erected with
in it's limits. OF course this implies
lax building law or none at all. In
many cities the only record or super
vision is half voluntary service per-
formed by the mayor or fire depart
ments, and, in general, even when
there are practical laws to regulate
the matter, people are allowed to
build much as they please. This is
largely due to a natural desire to i'm
pose no restrictions that will tend to
retard the progress of building i'm
prOvements. New structures springing
up all over a townare looked on as an
evidence of thrift and prosperity. As
much business can be done in a f1imsy
shell, with a tight roof overhead, as
in q more substantial structure. It is
beginning to be apparent, however,
that a change must bemade, and that
prosperity, to be real, must rest on
something more tangible than an in
surance policy. Excellence in archi-
lecture is one of the first things ma
ton reduced from savagery begins to
attain. The ancient Persians, Egyp-
tians, Carthagenians, Greeks, Romans
and Moors all ILLUSTRATED this fact, and
the history of later times seems to
leave it doubtful if the age of greatest
enlightenment will leave as enduring
and creditable monuments. nOtWith-
standing the immense improvements
in tools and appliances of builders
craft. 1t is understood that an asso-
citation of architects is to be formed
in this state next month, and consid-
ering the field that awaits them it is
to be hoped their efforts will not be
confined to fixing scale of prices for
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
KANSAS JUSTICE.
Rapid and Sure-Dragged in tho Str
HANGED and Riddlod.

Rapid and Sure-Dragged in tho Street,
Hanged and Riddlod.
Geo. Mack, who murdered Richard
Parker, his employer, a saloon.keeper,
at Great Bend, Kas., on the morning
of the Oath, was captured in Kansas
City and returned there on the night
of the 3Oth When the train reached
Great Bend at 10 o'clock, Mack was
taken from the officers by a mob of
men in waiting, who tied rope about
the miscreant's neck, dragged him
through the streets, and then hanged
him to q tree and riddled his body
with bullets.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
What Made Him Weep.

From the New York Mail and Express.J
Apropos of one of the portraits in
the Academy of Music the following
story circulates: A Hungarian peas
ant went to a Munich painter and
asked him to paint the portrait of his
mother.
"Certainly," said the painter; "send
her to me-"
"But she is dead ; if she was alive l
wouldn't want her portrait.''
"Well, have you any picture other ?"
"No; if / had l wouldn't want one. -
"Well, my friend, describe her to me ;
what sort of eyes, hair, etc."
He secured that, and appealing to
his artist friends who had some Hun
garian studies, he painted q head.
Secreting his friends about the room
he sent for the peasant. The man
came, looked at the picture, his eyes
filled with tears, he put up his hand to
wipe them away.
"Poor fellow" said the artist, pat
ting him on the back. ut is q good
likeness, then, it affects you 90 much: u
"No," said the man. Poor moth.
er, to think she has been only dead
six months, and looks ike that"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance
A SPRING POEM.

In the spring the busy housewife gets herself an.
other broom.
In the spring the weary husband bounces round
from room to room.
Round and round he vainly wanders, lookingfor
vacant spot
Where there is no dust pan shining and the scrub.
bing brush Is not;
Looking vainly for his breakfast, with a very
hungry sigh,
Till at last he seeks the pantry for piece
clammy pie;
Longing for the happy morning when the esavory
odors steal
Upward from the gen'rous kitchen, promising q
good square meal Boston Budget.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
The Mirror

is no hatterer. Would you
make it tell a sweeter tale?
Magnolia Balm is the charm
er that almost cheats the
looking-glass.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
0RMANZO ALLEN,
TNHOs. PHILLIPS, N. D.,

TTNHOs. PHILLIPS, N. D.,
HOA0OPA THO PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Has permanently located in Austin. Calls in
city or country promptly atten to at all hours
once and rooms In Schleudcr's block first door
north Of Mower County Bank. A5-Electric baths
given at the Office.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
Louis Rfel, Canada Rebel.

Louis Klel IS g. native OF MANITOBA,
having been born thereforty- -one years
ago, under the old Hudson Bay regime.
He is of French ancestry, but has some
Indian blood in his veins. He is well
educated, bold and insinuating in his
manners, and just the man to lead the
half-breeds. When the Hudson's Bay
Company sold the greater part of their
lands to the Canadian Government in
1869, Riel commanded the half-breed
insVrrection against the new authori-
ties, and held Fort Garry, near Win
nipeg, for twelve months. He estab-
lished a provisionalgovernment, seized
all the property at the fort, and he
and his associates in the movement
became possessed OF hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of property.
A number of loyal civilians attemped
to resist Riel, but they we're put down,
and one Thomas Scott was shot.
When Col. Wolseley-now Gen. Lord
Wolseley-and the Canadian militia
to the number of about l, 900 appeared
in front of Fort Garry, Riel fed, and
the provisional Government was dis
solved. At that time some conces-
sions were made to the half-breeds OF
Manitoba, each of them getting 24O
acres of land. This satisfied the half
breeds of that province. The present
outbreak is owing to the fact that
the half-breeds of the remaining por-
ton of the Northwest were not SIM
ilarly treated. What Riel now wants
is to get for the other half-breeds what
the insurrection of 1869 got for the
people of Fort Garry.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
Ess1t.. ESS LGkES
. Obj & CONKLIN,
DIR. p. B. PEEK

Has opened an office In Mrs. Wrghts house, first
north Of the Davidson House. on enst side OF
street, where he Is prepared to do all kinds OF
wolk IN dentistry, and sollcits share of public
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06

HOAEOPA THO Ply ra7cIJN AND SURGEOS
special attention given TO the diseases Of women
ana cEildren. Office and residence opposite Con-
gregatioHal Church, corner st. Paul and Mil
Streets, Austin Mower County, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
The Confederate Constitution.

A gentleman of this city remarked
to Union representative yesterday
that the gift of Mrs. Vanderbilt to
Vanderbilt University of photolith-
ograph of the Constitution for the
Provisional Government of the Con-
federate States of America" should be
followed by a gift of the original doc
ument-say to the Tennessee Histori-
cal Society "This document" he
said, "is for sale, and some one of our
Southern societies should fall heir to
it. It is valuable as being the organic
law of the now defunct Confederacy.
"Who has the original?"
"Mrs. w. F. de Fontaine, now of
New York City, who has had it in her
possession ever since the fall of the
Confederacy. At that time her hus-
band, Felix Gregory de Fontaine, a
well-known journalist and war CORE
spondent, was the editor and publish
er of paper in Columbia, S. c. After
the evacuation of Richmond a train
load of boxes, containing public docu-
ments, etc., was shipped to Columbia.
De Fontaine needed paper on which to
print his journal, but where to get it
was a puzzling problem. George A.
Trenholm happened to be in Columbia
at the time, and to him the journalist
explained the situation. Go down,
said Trenholm, 'and help yourself to
some of the Confederate boxes, in
which something may turn up that
will answer your purpose De Fon-
taine acted upon this, and one of the
boxes contained the Confederate con-
stitution. Mrs. De Fontaine laid
claim to this relic, and has sacredly
protected it ever since. In 1882" re-
marked the reporters informant, II
went abroad and was commissioned
to negotiate it's sale to the British
Museum. As the custodian of such
papers was absent from England at
the time my mission failed. The
price asked was $40, 1000, but l believe
half that sum would secure it now."
"Have you seen the fac simile re-
referred to in the Union?"
zone of the first copies was sent to
me, and it tells a mournful story. OF
the forty-nine signers over one-half
have Joined the silent army, and of
the living only one, John H. Reagan
OF Texas, is in public life"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06

~ M. CAMERON,
ATTORNEY At LAW
And Real Estate Agent. Collections made and
taY maid
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06

nR. C. s. BEAULIEU.
once over sleepers Drug Store Brownsville,
Minnesota.
sS-Preaching at Christian Chapel every Sun
day morning and evening.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
Wooden Bulwarks.

The Yaqui Indians long since used
tactics in war that were unknown to
civilized troops. In a former uprising
they were attacked by Gen. Pesquerias,
who was much amused 10 see the saw
ages use blankets as shield against
the soldiers bullets. Holding up a
blanket at both ends, so that the edge
just touched the ground, the Indian
riticmen marched boldly towards him
behind this apparently fiimsy protec-
ton. The Mexican General was soon
alarmed, however, to find that his bull
lets did not stop the strange advance,
and the moving fort of blankets soon
came so close to him and poured in
such a deadly fire that he was fain to
fiy the field in confusion and with great
loss. The Yaquis had become acquain-
ted with the simple fact that, while q
bullet will pass through twenty blank
cts strained over frame or laid against
firm surface, it will not penetrate a
single one if moistened and hung up SC
us to swing clear of the ground. The
bullets which Gen. Pesqueras imagined
were passing through the Indian blank
cts and thinning the ranks of the saw
ages were all falling harmlcssly on tn,
outside OF the woolen bulwarks.-Sdh
| Francisco Cal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
The Modern Dinner.

There is a good deal in the newspa-
pers nowadays about elaborate dinners,
and from the description printed of the
flowers and the glass, the china and the
upholstery that furnish the banquet
boards it might be judged that the
feasts of Lucullus and the famous feS-
tivals of the ancients had no such
splendors as are in the modern dining
rooms of Philadelphia and Washing
ton.
Social entertainment is fine art. A
dinner may be made the occasion for a
display of the highest refinement. In
the arrangement of the table. the
choice of the menu, and the selection
of wines there is opportunity to ever
else great taste, intellectual accomplish
ments, and a nice artistic sense. When
the aim is to minister solely to the sem
sual appetite and to crafty barbaric
desire for display, the dinner becomes
only an affair for the upholsterer, the
florist, and the caterer; the long purse
and the most vulgar taste will perhaps
give the biggest and best dinner. loo
many of the modern dinners are SIM
ply affairs of this land. The host pays
for them and that is all there is of him
about them; he might as well bestow
upon each guest the cost of his or her
share of it and let them spend it to
their liking.
For instance, bright table talk Is
wanting. 1t is being overshadowed by
the other features of 1.-THE feed. !" Tho
conversation runs solely TO the excel
lence of the viands and the age of the
wines. They are not regarded as
| simply incidental to the feast of reason
/ and flow of soul. The costliness of the
affair suppresses every sort of enthusi'
| asm but that of admiration for the
| wealth and liberality of Cr9sus.
The reaction will only come wher
the sumptuousueSs and elaboration O
the present fashionable dinners giyt
way to palmer forms.
! A young man sat down to dinner the
other day with gentleman wortl
| $1,000, 900. who had been in public life
for half a century, who had counseleC
with presidents and dined with kings
! They had beefsteak, boiled potatoes
milk and pie The next day he was in
yited TO dine with Solomon Shoddy
who in his rise from the position O
sculliOn TO one of opulence had Learned
nothing. There were thirteen course
and nine kinds of wine, the best tina
money couI>t Dny.
And yet the little dinner was the best
even for a guest who knew not dyspep
STA and had no dread Of Indigestion.
Lancaster iHtriiigeRcer.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
A Story CT Winthrop.

A well-knOwn habitue of the city hall
who recalls the memory of W ashingtOn
with more than latter day reverence
said TO 4 Post reporter yesterday: Il
have just been reading that incOmpara-
BILE Grafton of Hon. Robert c. VIM
throp. was well acquainted with the
grand old man, and on one occasion L
heard him relate one of his Washington
experiences. when speaker of the
house, he said, Il sent my son to Fort
ress Monroe to make arrangements
for the entertainment OF 4 party of dis
tingUShed gentlemen. My son intro
duced himself to the proprietor of the
leading hotel there, and proceeded to
state the object of his visit. He men,
toned the names of several of the dis
tinguished party, but the hotel-keeper
knew them not. ''Why. my father,
who sent me here. is Hon. Robert c.
Winthrop. speaker of the house of
representatives. Il don't know him -
replied tile austere hotel man. Il can't
make arrangements for the enterta H.
menL of party of men 1 don't know.
| must have gilt-edged references. Its
funny | don't know some OF them. The
names you mention can't be very
prominent?" Nv son was dismayed,
and As he was about to go away he
said to the hotel man: ..Well, sir,
probably you know W aShington Irving;
he is one of the party 20. yes; .,
yes" said the hotel man; ''Irving is a
capital fellow; he's all right: he keeps
the Irving house in New York. All
right. sir; all right; I'll do the best |
can for YOU" This illustrates the
idea that the name or identity of but
few men stand out so prominently that
no similarity of name is liable to turn
the attention from the one sole figure
under contemplation, rs was so etfec-
lively brought to mind in Winthrops
Grafton. ''-DetrOH Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
Painting the Town Red.

VIM. HeoThcTan writes thus to the
n. J. !Su,t: Not long a"o~vaa printed
a letter asserting that the phrase,
painting the town red. i of cum-
paratively recent ami ci<atlanl!c ORR
gin. ! believe it i he parapllrasc OF
an expression that frequently occHr. in
old Irish nalladi'V. in looking over q
collection al uid irish war songs aud
ballads descriptive OF the sanguinary
conflicts between the Irish chieftains
and the Anglo-NnTnan invaders OF Ire
land. | have frequently found phrases
closely akin to that OF painting the
town red. For instance. when the
Irish kerus under William actreoghe-
gan. Lord of kcnH Fcacha. in the
County OF WeStmeath, overt hreW the
English at the battle of Ardnochrr, A
ID. 1928. shaving $500 of The latter. the
bardic chrOnicler tells us that the mid
night skies were Redeemed with ''tOr-
rents of ilame from the highlands east
and west in honor of the victory.
The towns and hamletS, too, wherein
the kindred of the victOrs dwelt, blaZed.
or were painted red with bonfires.
and the Inhabitants thereof naturally
gave loose reign to their mirthful pro-
pensities. The fires upon the highlands
were the primitive mode of telegraph
ing to distant kinsfolk and sympathi-
zers the glad tidings and the exuberant
eAultation that followed.
In describing the effect of the battle
of Oulart Hill, which was the first be-
tween the Irish insurgents and the
English army in the great Wexford Re-
bellion of 1898 in Ireland, in which the
patriots came OFF victorious, the local
balladiSt saws:
The hills and skies were painted red .
That night with beacon fires,
For WCNfOrd'S sons had well avenged
Their SaXOn-slaughtered sires.
/ could cite a score OF other quota
tions showing that an expression al
most exactly similar to that of ''paint-
ing the town red'' was a favorite one
with the old Irish bards when depict
ing the exciting scenes that followed
military triumph on the part of their
cOunirymen.
1t Is. then. unreasonable to infer that
the phrase painting the town red
or induiging i'll the wild antics OF un-
licensed hilarity, had its origin in the
way | allude to?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
The NeighborIy st. Louisians.

The other afternoon a gentleman on
returning to his home in North 1t.
Louis found that his family were out
calling and that the two servant grls
with the kitchen door barricaded were
in a great state OF trepidation. They
said that a drunken man had runT the
hell and when they opened the door,
had staggered up the stairs and entered
the hist bedroom. from which his Snores
could even then be heard issuing with
appalling sonorousiess. The gentle
man waited Ia hear NO more, bnt
bounding up the stairs pounced upon
the intruder, whose breath was per,
tuning the rich tapestry aud carpets OF
the elegantly furnished room lie was
surprised to see in the sleeper we'll
dressed man, and his curiosity eAclted
him to discover the mans identity De-
fore putting him out After consider
able shaking and punching the stranger
was sufficiently aroused to grunt out
his name, which proved that he was
prominent merchant, whose nne resi-
deucs sdorns a street in the western
portion OF the city.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
Campaign Liars.

Who can tell how long ago it was
that the agricultural, political and re-
ligious press began to advise women
to 90 into the poultry business? This
advice comes in bum hes, like aspara-
gus. For a long time there will be
none in the market, and then some edit
or will break out in rhaspOdies over u
lone widow who has kept seven hens
through a hard winter on a pint of
corn, sold SSlj worth of eggs, paid of
a mortgage on her little cottage, and
sent her eldest boy through college.
This story will have the run OF the
press for season, and be printed from
Dan to BeerSheba, and from Maine to
California. Then some other venera-
bic liar, ruSting away in an oil politi-
cal year, will reel off one or two arti-
cles about the pleasure of keeping hens
and the enormous profit. We do not
deny that money can be made out of
poultry, but it requires the strongest
mental balance. and the most vigorous
constitution to stand it, and it is bus
ines peculiarly untitled for women.
Who has rot seen a woman trying to
chase hen out of the ilower-bed or
garden, and who can deny that all wO-
manly grace, all loyeliness and all
sweetness of temper disappears in the
struggle. And how terrible are the
passions aroused in the war of words
when the poultry breaks into the
sanctity of the neighbor's yard, and
the neighbor comes TO the back fence
to hurl forth his Indignation in gusts
of rugged eloIuence. Strong men have
grown gray in an instant on seeing a
Thoroughbred hen come flying over tho
fence followed by string of broken
! bricks and old tomato cans and pro-
family longer than her pedigree, and
realizing the terrible ordeal to be. gone
through when the enraged neighbor
got his second wind. and came over
the fence himself. Oh, no, the poultry
! business is no business for 4 woman.
| Still. about once in three months the
press breaks out in 4 chorus of praise
| of this nefarious and soul-destrOying
| traffic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
How Fahrenheit Got His Zero.

Fahrenheit was a mathematician and
knew that Il circle was divided into $50
degrees. He found that steam and ice
were the most natural fixed points in
temperature. al opposite poles. He
therefore naturally divided the distance
on his glass tube between ice and steam
into the number al degrees in the diam
eter OF 4 circle. which is $50. He want
ell an instrument which could be cheap
" made and which would measure
above steam and below ice, so far as
would be used in everyday life. He
found that artificial cold could he pro-
duced which would cause the mercury
10 fall Just thirty-two OF the spaces he
had marked off ON his. glass between
ice and steam. and he there. senstblyor
not. placed his zero Orpoint from which
he could count. Hence ice or freezing
is thirtv-two degrees above. and steam
or boiling water is the diameter of his
circle or lSO degrees above ice, or PIP
! degrees above zero--Ohio state Jour
Hul
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
The Same Old Fool Joke.

A young lady of Olneyyillc had been
sitting in chair and arose 10 get
something, and rs she attempted to re-
gain her seat q young friend quickly
Withdrew the chair. and allowed her TO
sink heavily 10 Ih,. tionr. Tn. n,.xI day
she was taken i'll, and il physician was
summoned. and for twu months he has
been app, ing bandages. plasters, etc. 4,
Ia save the Young lady. who is Is Years
OF age from permanent curvature OF the
spine. As il Was her body became
bent, aid gave her friends great alarm.
1t will be live years before all danger
OF spinal disease Will be removed. The
fall caused the end OF the spine to be
driven upward and to one side. .-PTOVi-
dsucs journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
A Pair or Brown f.y es.

hat is the hope with which you are shining.
tiad tTown eyes i'll love .wIth the light
shining as stars shine our OT the night,
hlndled with glory 1Or oIIr diVningE
nat OF Worship are you anshrinins--
NiS1ohe vi what unknown delight:
" hat i The hope " ith which ou are shining,
Glad LIoHn eyes in love with the itshrt
outh and hope IN your look combining
All! be 9lad or them, Z r:i Tonight
Giad Ia y"Ith-tine, OF youth delight!
Lei ne wonder, weary with pin,ns,
" hat Is The hope with which you are shininSF
Louise Chandler Mouton, in The inje pGn>
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09

They We're gliding over the glare sur
face OF the ice together. making grace
full sweeps with the giittering blades oi
their CLUBS" "lll dare YOU to make
the fancy figures on ice that will. -
said Reginald. I'm quite sure. Regy.
my boy, that yon could beat me haod-
somely at that" replied Algrrnon.
The fancy figures l make on the ice
generally depend on the particular
plaid pattern there is on my trousers. "
And he Immediately illustrated. Hart
SaxO Rask
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09

1t is said that not one OF the Nander-
bilts is trading in Wall street now. but
when they were all speculating the
commissions they paid to brokers are
said 1t to h have aggregated close on to
u. .0eo. 600 year. xU