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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Protection to stacks.

An immense loss in the aggregate
is sustained each year from injury to
hay from imperfect stacking, or from
failure to provide needed cover or pro-
lection to stacks. First, few words
on the subject of stacking. The great
point in building stack is to keep tho
middle so full that when the stack is
settled the inclination will be from the
center to the outside, and from the out
side to the center. In such case,
though the stack may be we'll topped
out, the water in a long continued
beating rain falling upon the outside
will penetrate the body Of the stack.
the stacker's place should always be
as near the center of the stack as may
be, and care should be taken not to
tramp the outsides as they are built
up. In such case the middle will be
built up the solidest, and though bear
ing the greatest weight will settle the
least.
There is little trouble in stacking
prairie hay, either upland or slough,
so that it will keep. The difficulty
increases, when we come to timothy,
and still more so with clover, which
latter can never be made safe from
injury except by protection of some
kind. Where stacking hay on the farm
is a permanent business, to be contin-
ued from year to year, it is doubtless
economy to build rooted hay-sheds,
using telegraph-poles set in the ground
for posts and board roof, boarding
the gables and sides down four to six
feet below the caves, and leaving the
rest open. But where timothy or clo-
yer is stacked in the open ground, how
ever experienced a stacker may be
employed, it is safer to top out with
straw or slough hay, letting such COW
ering come we'll down over the shout
der of the stack. Canvas covers.
though valuable to protect stacks Of
hay or grain while building, and for
use in threshing, and for many other
purposes on the farm, are too expen-
sive to be used permanently as stack
covers and exposed to the effects of the
weather. They are valuable and every
farm should have reasonable supply
of them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Hogs In Past ure.

Hogs do better without rings when
running at large in pastures. This
fact is, healthy hogs on good pasture.
with plenty of grass, don't root much;
but when hogs get "off their feed,'
and their digestive organs are out of
order, they begin to root-that is, they
do the best they can to secure change
of food to bring them back to healthy
state. In the corn, hog and cattle
countries of the prairie States. when a
bunch Of hogs begin to root, it is re-
garded as one of the first symptoms Of
coming cholera, and frequently a sale
is made of, them as quick as possible.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
First Herd of Cattle.

The first herd of cattle known on the
continent of America were brought by
Columbus on his second voyage. From
these, and from other small herds
brought by later Spanish navigators,
the wild cattle of South America de-
scended. In 1853, the Portuguese took
cattle and hogs to New Foundlaud and
Nova Scotia. The Canadian cattle were
introduced in 1908. In 1920 Virginia had
500 head of cattle. The most stringent
laws were passed prohibiting the killing
of any domestic animal. In New Eng
land. cattle were introduced in 1924.
1t is said that for time price was reg
ulated by color, red calf being cheap
er than black one because it was
more likely to be mistaken by the
wolves for deer and killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Tic NIaatodonli Of Books

"Just outside OF London they are at
work on the biggest book in the world, :"
said New York publisher who has
recently returned from trip to Eng
land: ut will be more than four times
as large as Webster's Dictionary, and
will contain somethinglike 5000 pages.
II is to be the ideal dictionary of the
English languages, and will supersede
Ill per existing authorities. 1t has long
been realized byseholars that the Eng
ish language is deficient in this respect.
The French have two dictionaries, that
Of N. Litre and Of the Academy, that
are far superiorsto our own. The Wor-
terbuch of the German brothers
Grimms is still more exhaustive and
authoritative. Even the Portuguese die
tionary,sby Vieira,d decidedly surpasses
anything in English. But the British
Pathological Society propose to fill this
yawning gap in our reference books.
They hold thatSa dictionary should be
ansinventory of language and that its
doors should besopento all words, good
bad and Indifferent This new work
will not be confined tosdefnitions and
references. The life history of each
wordwill be fully given, with quota:
ton from some standard writer, show
ing its shades Of meaning and the va
riationsjn it's Usage from one genera
ton to another: The work was orig
inally started in 1859, but the death Of
! editors. financial emharrassments and
changes in the plans have interrupted
its progress. It is now hoped that the
book may be pushed to its completion
without necessary delay. The amount
of research and reading yet to be ac-
complished is'yery great, and there are
on hand some 5000, 600 or 1900, 900
slips which require patent classification.
Tho next centpry will probably open
before the dictionary can be placedin
complete form upon the library shelves.
But the advance sheets, devoted to the
frstsletters of the alphabet, which have
already been issued, have met with the
! mostfavorable comment from scholars,
and give promise that the English Ian
guage,is to have at last autobiography
worthy of its.iterature.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

PEOPLE DRINK AND LOOK DEPRESSED
Colonel Watrous of the Milwaukee
Sunday Telegraph took some of it. /
saw him afterward. He looked depress-
ed, and told me that he had been de-
ceived. Several Kankanna people had
told him that this was living water. He
had discovered otherwise. He hated to
place his confidence in people and then
find it misplaced.
A favorite style of Kankanua revenge
is to drink quart of this water. and
then, on meeting an enemy, to breathe
on him and wither him. One breath
produces syncope and blind staggers.
Two breaths induce coma and metallic
casket for one.
Minnehaha is not mineral water. 1t
is just plain water, giving itself aw ay
day after day like q fresh young man
in society. If you want pure water,
you get it at the spring near the foot
of the fall, and if you want It. favored
with something that will leave blazed
road the whole length of your, alimen.
tary canal, yougo 10th v"blind pig
few roads away from the falls.
The blind pig draws many people to-
ward the falls through sympathy. To.
be blind must indeed be a. sad plight.
Let us pause and reflect on this PROPOSE
ton. ~ .~,
BY good fortune I have had q
chance to watch the rum prt blem in
all its phases this summer. Beginning
in Maine, where the, most afngenious
method ofwhipping the devil around
the. stump are adopted, then going
through northern Iowa and tasting the
exhil arating pop. and; at last paying
Ten cents to see the blind pig at Mime
haha, f7eel like one who has wrestled
with the temperance problem in a prac-
teal way. and I have about decided
that a hi gh license is abont the only
way to make, the sale Of whlskey
odious.* Prohibition is too abrupt in its
methods. and one generation can hard
~ wipe out the appetite Tor liquor that
has been planted and fostered for fifty
proceeding generations. <-~
For fear that . few of my lady read
ers do not know what the Minnehaha
blind pig lookf like. and that they may
be curious about it, will just say that
| it is q method ofevading che law, and
consists of a dumb waiter, wherein. i
you pay ten cents yop get . glass OF
stimulant without the annoyance OF
conversation. Many ladies who visit
the falls, and who have heard incident
ally about the blind pig, express de.
| sire to see the poor little thing. but
their husbands generally sPersuade
them to refrain $40 -
! Minnehaha is beautiful waterfall.
1t ia not SO fr;ghtfnlly large and grand
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

she thinks, will be much liked. ..She
is q sensible. sweet girl. . thoroughly
American woman = There is not the
slightest foundation for the rumors that
have been set afloat. more by misera-
Die insinuations than outspoken words.
that Mrs. Cleveland has treated her
slster-in-law with something like cool
ness and that it was given her to un-
derstand that her presence would not
be expected at the White House after
the wedding. Miss Cleveland has the
goodsense to leave the newly married
couple alone for the present, but in
tends to spend most of her time next
winter with her brother at the White
House.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Irving at Oxford.

Henry Irving, the greatest actor of
this time appreciated the honor of being
called upon to deliver a lecture before
the University of Oxford, at London.
distinguishing mark of appreciation
which has rarely been bestowed upon
a member of his profession. After a
brief prelude Mr.. Irving discussed the
stage-life of Burbage, Betterton. Gar
rick and Edmund Kean, as the four
greatest champions of nature in the
cOntra-distinction to artiticiality. A
very brief extract from what he was
pleased to say of Kean is most pertinent
and enjoyable.
"Kean exercised over his.audiences a
fascination which has probably never
been exercised by any other actor.
Garrick was no doubt his superior in
parts of high comedy. He was more
polished, more vivacious. his manner
was m ore distinguished, his versatility
more striking. In such parts as Corr
olanus or Rolla, John Kemble excel!ed
him, but in Shylock,, in Richard, in
Iago, above all in Othello, it may be
doubted whether Kean ever had an
having seen Kean oneself, from the
p,any criticisms extant, written by the
most intellectual men: and from the
accounts given by those who saw him
in his PRIME. he was to my mind, be it
said without any disparagement. to
other great actors, the greatest genius
our sage has ever seen. Unequal he
may have been, perhaps often so; but
there were moments in his acting which
were, without exaggerauion, moments
of inspiration. Coleridge is reported
to have said that to see Kean act was
like reading Shakespeare by flashes of
lightning. This often-quoted sentence
embodies, perhaps, the main features
of Kean's greatness as an actor, for
when he was impersonating the heroes
of our poet he revealed their nature by
instant flashes oflight so searching the
every minute feature, which by the or
binary light of day was hardly visible,
stood bright and clear before you.
The effect of such acting was, indeed.
that of lighting. 1t appalled,. The
the timid hid their eyes; fashionable
society .shrank from such heart-pierc-
ing regulations of human passion, per-
sons who had schooled themselves to
control their emotion till they had
scarcely any emotion lett to control
were repealed rather than attracted by
Keau's relentless anatomy of all the
strongest feelings of our nature. IT.
Sir Giles Overreach, a character al
most devoid of poetry, Kean's acting
displayed with such powerful, relent-
less truth the depths of cruel, avari-
cious man baftied in all his vilest
schemes, but the effect he produced was
absolutely awful. AS no bird but the
eagle can look without blinking on the
sun, so none but those who in the sac
red privacy of their imaginations had
stood face to face with the highest
storms of human passion could under
stand such performance. Byron,
who had been almost forced into a
quarrel with Kean by the actors dis
regard of the ordinary courtesies of
society, could not restrain himself, but
rushed behind the scenes and grasped
the hand of the man to whom he felt
he owed so wonderful a revelation"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

VISITING THE MINNEHAHA BLIND PIG.
man who nails his signs on the trees
around there, and choke him to death
near The falls on a pleasant day, a
large audience would attend with
much pleasure. believe that the fence
board advertiser is not only as a rule,
wicked, but he also lacks common
sense. Whoever bought a. liver pad
or 3 corset because he read about it on
high board fence? No one. Who
ever purchased a certain kind of pill or
poultice because the name of that pill
or poultice was nailed ON a tree to dis
figure beautiful landscape? do not
believe that any sane human being
ever did so. If every one feels as I do
about it. people would rather starve to
death for pills and freeze to death in
perfect wilderness of liver pads than
buy of the man who daubs the fair
face of nature with the names of his
alleged goods.
l saw a sqnaw who seemed to be-
long in the picture of the poetic little
waterfall. l did not learn her name.
1t was one of these long, corduroy
Sioux names, that hang together with
hyphens like a lot of sausage. The
salaried humorist of the party said he
never saw sausage name bcfore.
Translated into our tongueit meant
Observation-Disclosures prairie biz
neutrality-suspicious. he-huekleberry- on
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NYE.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
MIR. Dunder loses Jake Again.


"After your boy Jake again?" quer
led the Sergeant as Mr.. Dunder entered
the Woodbridge Street Station yester
day.
Eyes, l vhas after Shake. He
slipped oudt yesterday, und 1 like tc
find him.
"Made you some new trouble, ] sup
pose?'
II tell you how it vhas Iput in a
telephone few days ago, und eafery
time der bell rings my wife likes tc
run und answer. Yesterday morning
Shake goes out for a leedle while, and
pooty soon der telephone rings. My
wife runs oafer and yells hello! und
som epody says:
"'Vhas dot Mrs. Dunder?''
"'It vhas.'
"'Vhell, Mrs. Dunder, how vhas you
pleased nit all dose things?''
"'What things"
'"'Dot new bonnet, und wraps, und
silk stockings dot Mr., Dunder buys at
my store two days ago und take homo
toyou.' 49,.
II vhas behind by bar when Mrs.
Dunder drops dot telephone und comes
oafer to me und says:
81 haf discovered all about it! You
vhas buying some clothes for some
womans?'
y. "'Who says dot?"
Somebody in der telephone.
''1 Will kill dot persos. pefore nightE
II goes NIT der telephone und pounds
on der pox und rings der bell, und calls
hello! nit all my might, and somebody
asks:
"'Vhell who you vhant?'
.. 4 vhant dot person who vhas lying
to Mrs. Dunder!'
-, come off,
"Und nopody answers me any more
Mrs. Dunder scolds und cries. und l
vhas SO madt dot shut oop my saloon.
After a while dot telephone rings wer-
~ silently. Und I. listen und hears
Shake say to somepody: -.
Say Bill, yop drop down und see if
der olet folks hat tumbled to dot rack
ct. Dot vhas big shoke on der gof-
ernor.'
Nov sergeant, 1 like to find Shake.
He vhas a shmart boy, und he vhas all
right, but I like him to come home, l
,vhas aDxeous to haf some interviews
NIT him. It vhas VERY cool place
down cellar for some interviews. If
you see him you can say dot laugh all
oafer NIT his shoke on me. Afterwards,
when you see him, you can ask If he
laughs all oafer NIT my shoke on him.
He vhas shust leedle too, flies, und
now, lin his young days, vhas der time
to correct bis. habits. ''-Detroet Free
Pree. .;-.z...,se, :i}H, -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Recipe for Custard.

Boil the rind of one orange until it is
tender; pound it tiue in mortar and
add to it one tablespoonful Of brandy,
the juice of two oranges, half . pound
of sugar, the yolks of four eggs and the
whites of three; beat well for ten
minutes and then add one pint of milk.
Set the mixture on the fire and stir in
one direction until it is set. Turn into
custard cups or glass dishes and serve
cnld ''' g.. u 81. - ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

milk one teaspoonfnl Of celery salt
two teaspoofuls Of salt. one even tea
spoonful Of white pepper; melt two
tablespo onfuls Of butter and mix with
it one tablespoonful of -four, stir into
boiling soup and boil FIVE minutes. It
is enriched by placing two we'll beaten
eggs in the turreen before pouring in
the soup. .:-....
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Summarized

On the fresh pastures of June the live
stock should all be doing well. Work
horses need substantial fare, and the
less grass the better. Take care that
the cows or sheep do not break through
into rank clover, for they win eat
enough N An hour sometimes to give
them bloat Or hoove. q malady often
quickly fatal. Keep the pigs in the
orchard if possible. They grow well on
the clover, pick up: the blasted fruit
for the grlbs it contains, and stir the
soil around the trees: u.s.. -. :: >
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Sensible Rose.

Miss Cleveland assures q friend that
her only reason for leaving the White
House now is because she thinks the
new mistress of that mansion should be
under no restraint whatever. No
training !. beforehand, she says, fits .
woman for tho place, and its duties
she must learn afterwards, and to suc-
coed must shape her own course and
rely ON herself. Her brothers. wife,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
An Id0AlLtfe.

mo city lie for me,',' said a Yer
mont. .farmer.%-. :..Gimme the country
an abeout hundred acres.o' land an
I'm satisfied. IL -
Have to get up pretty early in the
morning, eha''
''zotvery; 8 O'Clock in summer, an
1 in winter. $1,000.
''We ell, what do you do eveninPs?''
''D'ye meah arter it gifts too dark ter
"OAA' - -
eyes, - @a.R~-
'B'gosh, I go er bed" -. ~ :"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

THE MAN WHO DID FEE THE WAITER.
The mineral water. of Wisconsin
ranks high as a beverage. Many per
sons are using it during the entire
summer in the place of rum. =
The water Of Waukesha does not ap-
pear to taste of any mineral, although
an analysis shows the presence of sew.
eral kinds of groceries in solution.
The water at Palmyra Springs also
tastes like any other pure water. but al
Kankanna, on the Fox river, they have
a style of mineral water which is differ
ent. Almost as soon as you taste II
you discover that it is extremely differ.
emf
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Gambling Women.

A lady who spends the society sea-
son in New York nearly every year
recently said to a representative of
the Free Press that while she abhorred
gambling she often found herself ir-
resistibly swept into the maelstrom
and backed her opinions with money
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07
Couture

COluUf0
Boston Record: There is no use
denying it; new grief has been
added to the formidable sum total oil
human woe by the style of female hair.
dressing that has suddenly come into
vogue-that indescribable, intangible,
illimitablc sort of roll at the back OF
the head which, starting with a wild
torrent of short and scattered hair at
the level OF the collar. is presently
concentrated into a ridgepole that goes
soaring towards the top of the head
until, at the point of junction with the
bonnet, it reaches very considerable
degree of altitude above the sea-level
of the head, still maintaining its ridge
pole character. Is is perfectly ex-
asperating way of dressing the hair
without suggestion OF grace or beau.
ty; but on the contrary with large
number of suggestions of ungraceful-
ness and q generally hideous effect.
This is the way the style came about,
as related to the historian by his friend
Sacharissa:
at started in England, where GER
tain ladies. in pursuit of some idea still
dowdier than any dowdy thing that
their natural instincts had before in
spired, hit upon it as q happy inspira.
ton Some society women imported
it upon theirsheads; whereupon some
other society women took it up;
whereupon the crowd of women who
want to make other. people believe on
the street that they are society women,
and who are perfectly willing to make
rights of themselves in order't con-
yey that blissfu1 impression, adopted it,
making it still dowdier than it. was in
the beginning, as they usually do in
their mistaken zeal to be as English
and as society as possible. And from
them it passed on down to the waiting
maids, and lower STILL And there's
one consolation about it,, now that it
has got there, the society women will
be looking around for something else
to adopt in its place, and ii there was
anything new sufficiently doWdy TO
seem real English they would I'M
doubtedly fly to it as happy refuge.
But there isn't just yet: Wait until
they begin to come back from Europe
in the fall. Anyway, they can't bring
anything more horrid than this, and
any change Is likely to be an improve
ment, - :: = ,s.ss@ q
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Potato Som.

Wash and pare six potatoes and cook
until soft. then drain off the water and
mash them; add 2 quart OF boiling
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

IS readily as the most reckless devotee
Of chance in New 7 ork.
The first time l was caught by the
craze, she said, was upon seeing the
wife of one of New York's most cell
ebrated theatrical managers who
moves. in upper sweildom win pot of
$50 on one hand at poker at Madison
avenue party. She has given herself
up wholly to the passion, and I do
believe that she would prefer a night
at poker to years communion with
with angels. ''--Detroat Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

EvFor notices in reference to Special Eek.
cursions, change of time, and other items OF
Interest in connection with the CHICAGO, MIL
wAUKEE s. ST.. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to
the local columns Of this paper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07

ALBERT LEA ROUTE,

ALBERT LEA ROUTE,
and its Immediate connections. Through Trains daily
Prom ST, PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS 10 CHICAGO,
without change, c, meeting with all lines = Il
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The onty line running Through Cars between
MINNEAPOLIS and Dss EohSEs, iowa.
Through rains between H. .s$ w x,!s<.
ka,NHss. oulls- AID ST. LOUIS,
connecting IN Union 'Hr stl m dG'S So
y r and st. r. & Dulrth Rs roads, nom anu 70 -
points North and Nostl,-west e,,,xx
CRRa on al nieht Trstsrs ;Thr ensh E1sA anu Dse
s~encfEcked to dcstn1S 1nr tinie fspiss ~ u
y ets Ssll upon hs.tese Iackst Asents@
s ~ : 4s.s''.--.~s 1876 Sc Il. BOND.
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