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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
THE EASE OF HABIT,

Expcctness in Any Line of Work the Re-
suit of Long Experience.
A recent visitor to the mills where
the bank-note paper is made for the
use of the Government described the
skill and swiftness with which the
sheets are counted.
II saw one girl whose motions re-
sembled those of machine in their
accuracy and lightning-like rapidity.
Ny eyes could not follow the monot-
onous, flashing movement of her
fingers; yet so delicate and unerring
was her touch that every Imperfect
sheet was instantly detected and drop
ped" The narrator says that he dis
covered in this girl an old school-mate,
''whose fingers two years ago we're as
clumsy as my own"
The Government employs women in
the Treasury Department in separating
the charred fragments and cinders OF
:bank-notes accidentally destroyed by
fire, SO that their denominations and
numbers may be discovered. A visitor
watched one of these experts float a
mass apparently of black SCOT on water,
and divide it with a fine, light touch
until it took shape and meaning to he1
keen glance.
my eyes," she said, in answer tc
his expression of samazement, ''are nc
sharper than your own. The skill lies
only in habit
Schoolboys, in their cropping efforts
to plan and forecast their future, are
apt to compare themselves, unframed
and crude as they are, with men long
skilled in their trade and profession,
and to grow hopeless with the
contrast. The student of book.
keeping despairs as he watches
the accountant reckon a line of figures
with swift, upward glance, and the
tyro with the pen loses courage as he
sees the old editor dash off a column
of forcible argument in vivid English,
the words coming unsummoned when
needed. How can they compete with
such ability as this?
They forget that these men began
with steps as unhesitating and unable
as their own. They make no allow.
ance for the stanch, unfailing ally,
ease of habit, which comes to every
patient worker.
Call things" says the old proverb,
!''come to him who works and waits"
but nothing comes more surely or
more helpfully than expert1,ess in his
work and keen satisfaction in doing it
thoroughly.-Youth's Companion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
FRAGMENTS OF SOAP.

How Economical Housekeepers Can Utilize
Them to Advantage.
Gather together all the pieces of
white soap that you may have, CASTLE
and any others that are known to be
good. Cut them into small pieces and
dissolve in boiling water in the pro-
portion of tea-cup of water to half a
cup of scraps. AS soon as the scraps
have melted and while the water is
still hot stir in ground out-meal to
make stif-batter. Grease some old
cups and pour enough of this mixture
in for a small cake and set it aside to
harden and dry. You have now a very
nice soap that is excellent for daily use
in the nursery; or the mixture may be
made just a little thinner and kept in
lineup to be brought out as soft,
white soap at the children's baths.
For the boys and girls tri-daiiy hand
scrubbing stir the batter very stiff with
oatmeal bran or wheat middlings and
mould into fiat cakes. These have a
roughness that is necessary to remove
ink stains, pitch and the many 6efiling
substances with which every healthy
boy and girl seems to come in contact.
For fancy hand soap, melt ill to-
gether the pieces of any colored toilet
soaps, provided, of course, that they
are good, and do not contain injurious
materials; stir in few drops of per.
fumery and a very little Indian meal.
Pour this into shallow dishes (fancy-
shaped if you wish), and when partly
cold stamp on a pattern. and mold the
corners of the cakes round, or cut into
shapes with a cake-cutter.
The scraps of yellow soap may be
put into the soap-shaker-a wire re-
ceptacle for holding soap that is to be
shaken in the dishwater; but for those
who have no such implement this is a
way of disposing of them: Dissolve
the pieces as before, using less hot
water, and when the mixture has
partly cooled stir in quantity Gas
much as it will take nicely) of scour-
ing sand or bath brick scraped fine;
pour into wooden box AMI stir often
until cold. This is excellent for scour-
ing tins and cleaning implanted shelves
and floors, but will, of course, remove
the paint from woodwork. Yellow
soap may, like the white, be simply
dissolved and left to stiffen a little to
be used as soft sonp.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
PITH AND sPolNT.

I'm order to carve ont fortune.
: .ie must be sharp.-Epoch.
There is nothing like facts for sus-
tanning an argument. %s. i
Were every body to sweep before
his own house, every street would be
clean.
"A wit,and fool in company are
like a. crab and an oyster; the one
watches till"the other opens his mouth,
that he may catch him up.
The heart of the ungrateful is like
the desert, which absorbs the rain but
produces nothing.
People who have seen two lovers
say goodbye never have any trouble
afterward in believing in eternity
Somerrille Journal. .. -
There ere some folks in this world
who spend their whole lives hunting
after Righteousness, and can't find any
time to practice it..
We find plenty of people who don't
average well; they know too much for
one man, and not Quite enough for two.
-Macha90n Fg$711er. ...t
-Ingenioqz thing, this English
language. When you hear a citizen
say: ''Oh, he's q good man." you can't
tell whether he is talking of pugilist
or of deacon.-Pvck.
"A college youth, who is interested
in young woman named Elizabeth,
says that his studies are purely Ella
MISUNDERSTANDING 1rareler.
1t takes many people long time
to learn that the omnipresent influences
of supply and demand are never re-
pealed and never go out of fashion,.
TEXAS Sytings.
-Positiveness is most absurd
foible; if you are in the right it lessons
your triumph; if in the wrong it adds
shame to your defeat.-Ste1me.
The cultivation of grasshoppers
may become profitable industry in
the neighborhood of St. Paul, since it
has been decided to pay a dollar
bushel for them.
Nothing makes a miser feel his
impoverished condition so much as to
travel a little, and thus discover that
there is much of the earth he can
never hope to possess.
The fruits of the earth do not
more obviously require labor and cul-
tivation to prepare them for our use
and subsistence, than our faculties de-
mand instruction and regulation in
order to qualify us to become upright
and valuable members of society, USE
full to others, Or happy in ourselves
BdrrOar.
There are two ways by which I
can make four thousand dollars" re-
fected a gem of the Emeral Isle;
''eyther save two hundred dollars year
for twinty years, Or twinty dollars a
year for two hundred years. Now
which shall do?'' If he was like the
average improvident mortal he would
put the latter plan in practice.-West-
e17l POCnl0n
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
sMYRNA's FIG MARKET. j
How the Toothsomo Fruit Il Prepared for
Shipment.

: :
How the Toothsomo Fruit Is Prepared for
Shipment.
The fig market at Smyrna has an
appearance scarcely in accord with
the Importance Of its transactions or
the area over which its goods are ulti-
mately distributed. Two narrow, dir
ty streets, lined with shanties, are de-
voted to the staple industry of the
place. t is with figs us other. highly
priced articles of food, the less we
know OF the earlier stage of them the
greater our comfort in their consump+
ton. The sacks are laid out in the
open street, and block up the whole
thoroughfare but for q narrow passage
through which the eamels thread their
way. Passengers have to- scramble
along as best they can. The sacks are
heaped up two or three STRATA high.
1t is arduous work clambering over
them. The goat-hair bags make a
slippery surface, but if You fall, at
least you are not hurt. These sacks,
when they are of the full size, weigh
about two kintals (says $50 pounds)
apiece, and two of them form q camel
load. 1t is curious that you never see
more and never see less than the two
sacks. Some kind of prescription fixes
the burden, quite without regard to the
capacity of the bearer. Some of the
camels are sturdy beasts, that could
easily bear more than five hundred
pounds on their backs, while others
are weak and weary; the load is al
ways the same. Into these two streets
at market time come the Greek mer-
chants, who are the middlemen in the
fig trade. Indeed, there are many
middlemen, and several series of profits
are realized before the article reaches
the consumer. AS q rule, the Greeks
sell to the packers, who in turn sell to
the shippers; though sometimes the
shippers buy and pack for themselves.
The packing is, perhaps, the most
characteristic stage in the whole proc
ess. First, there is the resorting, and
this duty is trusted to women,
Turks and Christian working to-
gether in perfect peace. The sorting
done, the fruit is carried to the pullers
and the packers. The pulling is not
pleasant to think of. The mentor it
needs the strength of male fingers-sit
in long rows on each side of tenn
porary table made of two boards on
trestles. They sit ON stools; squatting
on the ground has quite gone out now
in the towns. Beside each packer
stands pile of empty boxes, and near
every two or three is. placed large
fat basket full of sorted fruit, and be-
side the basket a can of Salt and water.
The man chooses the fig he intend to
pull, and then, dipping his hand in the
salt water, fattens it between his
fingers, at the same time splitting it
near the stalk. He then places it in
the box. Long practice gives great
perfection in the art of pulling and
packing. You see the fruit distributed
in rows so neatly that a knife ight be
dropped between them without cutting
any of the fruit. Nearly I'LL the figs
packed for export are ''pulled." The
saltwater brings out the sugar, which,
in about three months, comes to the
surface, when the fruit is In the best
condition for eating.-N Y. CONNER
cS0Z ADVERTISER
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
Cure for rheumatism.

g. G. Treat, of West Granville, Mass,
writes of A1LCoCK's Porous PLAsTERs:
For rhnAmatism, neuralgia, pain in the
side or bacR, coughs, colds, bruises and any
local weakness, they truly possess w|:nder-
full curative qualities. I have recommend
ed them to my neighbors with the happi-
est results, many of whom but for ALL
COCKS PLAsrERs would be in q crippled
condition at home. In every instance where
they have been faithfully and properly ap-
piled the result has been wonderfully sat
isfactory.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

Some one says that brunettes get
husbands quicker than blondes. This
does not coincide with the general
opinion that ight-haired women have
the best chances in the matrimonial
market.-Boston Gazette.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
HOME AND FARM.

Graham Pudding: Two cups Of
graham flour, one cup Of molasseu one
cup of sweet milk, one cup Of chopped
raisins, two, teaspoonfuls of
Steam three hours.
A farmers daughter who is satis-
led with a reasonable share of the
sunshine of life and is willing patiently
and cheerfully to face the inevitable
shadows of this world is a jewel be.
yond price.
Imperial Drinks: The juice of one
lemon, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, one tablespoonful of honey, one
pint OF boiling water. Add more honey
IT it is preferred sweeter. Cover and
serve cold. Il
-Odors in, the, stable, Indicate the
air therein is impure. Use of absorb
ents is very important in summer.
Once a week. the. stable should be
sprinkled with q solution made of one
pound of copperas in two gallons of
soft water.
"A novel means of destroying cater
pillars. and other animated pests of
trees and shrubbery is the juice of the
leaves and stems of tomato plants,
Boil the leaves, and stems of the tomato
until the juice has been extracted and
pour this upon the afflicted shrubs and
trees.
Beans are good feed for the COW.
fhe bean meal is probably the best
form. But if the beans are boiled until
soft they may be- fed with profit.
Waste beans on the farm, or damaged
stock that can sometimes. be- bought
cheap, should always be fed. Beans
are rich in protein or heterogeneous mat
ter.
-Huckleberry Cake: One cupful of
sugar, a piece of butter the size of an
egg; beat together until light; then
add two eggs and beat again; two
thirds cup of milk, two cups of flour in
which have been sifted one-half tea
spoonful of cream tartar and one tea
spoonful of saleratus.::
Dried Pea Soup: Soak a quart O!
split peas over night. The next morn
ing add four quarts of water and cook
till tender (about three hours). An
hour before the soup is done add one
pound of salt pork that has been boiled
separately an hour, add, according to
taste, onion, carrot, turnip, celery,
herbs, pepper, etc.
Mutton is more easily digested
than beef, and hence, according to a
statement put forth by the American
Public Health Association, should be
preferred by dyspeptics. It is not,
however, as nutritious as beef. Lamb
is not nearly so nutritious as mutton,
which, when of prime quality and
properly cooked, is preferred by cpl
cures.
Those farmers who have or can
cheaply collect large quantities of
waste vegetable material, can make
the job pay pretty we'll, if they will
have patience to perfect themselves in
the art, and manage the process with
no unnecessary expenditure of labor.
Where there is an excess of coarse
material, the addition of five or six
bushels of unleached ashes to a cord
will greatly aid it's reduction to fine
conditiOn.-N. Y. Examiner.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
A Formidable Kicker.

Charles-The seventeen-year locust
now devastating the West has one hun.
dred and twenty times the kicking
power of man.
Clara-Is that so, CharlesP
Yes, / read it in scientific work "
"Well, Charlie, amt you glad pa
isn't seventeen-year locust?" TEXAS
sJtings. ,o.. : s.. = 49,. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
A GnOd FOunG1afiO,N.

The foundation of health may be deeply
laid, if the constipated, the bilious, the de-
bilitated will but infuse conjoint vigor and
regularity into the system with Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. For a third of a century
it has fulfilled it's mission of furnishing
strength to the feeble and health to the
sick. Chllls and fever, rheumatism, nerv-
Gus and kidney troubles succumb to it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

You can't always judge Of the quality Of
q city's inhabitants by the ''sample men,
itsends over the country. Pittsburgh CAro,,-
tcle.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

A THING that is lightly passed over is tho
fence surrounding watermelon patch
Puck.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

FREE! A 3-foot French Glass, oval
front, Nickel or Cherry Cigar Case. MER"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

WHY is wise man like pint Because
he has got good head, and comes to q
point.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it CSC.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15

Mov1Sa in the highest circles tho bal
, 1888-07-13
After the Flood.

PITTsBURG, July l2.-To-day the
waters that have been sweeping the val
ley of the Monongahela and the valleys
of its tributaries for the last sixty hours
are again falling into their natural chan
nels. Thew leave in their track scenes of
desolation and ruin hat never had their
counterpart in the same localities. From
Pittsburg to the mountain Businesses of
Randolph county, w. Va, towns have
been ravaged, manufactures inundated,
boats sunk and houses and lumber hoated
off. Fields with their wheat in shock and
growing crops are devastated, families
driven to the hills for shelter, and in
many instances the accumulations OF years
of toll and self denial has been lost in an
hour. The losses entailed by the flood
will not, it is ascertained to-day, be short
of s., 900, 900, a large portion of which
falls with crushing effect upon the PEG.
pie of the thriving counties of Mononga-
hela, Marion, Taylor, Harrison, Lewis,
Barbour, Upshur and Randolph in West
Virginia.
In Pennsylvania the losses are in the
counties Of Allegheny, Washington, West
Moreland, Fayette and Green. The heav-
lest beir G in Allegheny, Washington and
Fayette. These losses fall most heavily
Upon the owners of coal property, railroad
companies and farmers. Notwithstand-
ing the suddenness of the coming of the
water and the area of destruction, the
losses of flats, barges and small river
craft has been comparatively small, and
nearly all boat owners are ~congratulating
themselves on their good fortune. In
Pittsburg proper, much loss has fallen
upon the owners Of shanty boats and boat
houses, but these are for the most part
insignificant. The owners of mill prop
erty will lose largely, and have to undergo
no end of uneasiness on account of the
invasion of the mills by the water putting
fires and rusting and almost running
the valuable machinery. Little lumber or
other movable property has been carried
away from this city, but from points
above millions of feet of valuable timber
and lumber have come down, and has
been carried off into the Ohio, a total loss
to the owners.
There was no rain in any part of the
flooded district yesterday and by this
evening the traces of the food will have
generally removed. At 10 O'Clock there
was seventeen feet of water in the river
and falling. The drift had all passed out
and the river had lost its turbulence. Coal
men were busily preparing their coal fleets
for shipment and by tomorrow all crafts
will have departed for Western and South
ern ports. The shipment will aggregate
10, 900, 900 tons.
, 1888-07-13
Stocks ana Cattle Markets,

NEW YORK, July l2.-The stock mar
ket early developed a re%actionary tenden.
cy, and while the dealings were f%everish
and unsettled throughout the day, the re-
port of the days operations is to leave
the majority of the list f~ractionally lower
than last evening. Burlington & Quincy
spurted up % per cent on the announce
ment of the resignation of General Man.
ager Stone, which was interpreted by the
street to mean also a change in the ag-
g~ressive policy of the company, and
though the story was aiterward authori-
tatively denied muJh of the Improvement
was retained
Governments dull and firm. Money
lC9l3 per cent. Mining shares dull.
Congratulated steady. Lake, SI6.S
Petroleum opened weak at 82g and
declined to 500 before noon. Buying by
the Standard oil brokers then started an
advance, which carried the price to 835,
when a sharp reaction occurred and the
market closed steady at S3h.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6's, ll9; American Express,
1914: Canada Pacific. SGT; Canada
Southern, 50a; Central Pacific, 323; Bur
hngton, 1928; Delaware, Lackawanna,
1914; Denver & Rio Grande, ISL; Eric,
PSI; Lake Shore, 90; Louisville &
Nashville, 57!; Michigan Central, 8OE;
Missouri Pacific, TAI; Kansas & Texas,
1873; New York Central, 1861; Northern
Pacific, 24g; preferred, sos; Northwest
ern, 1913; Oregon Improvement, 90;
Navigation, 90; Transcontinental. 25g;
Pacific Mail, 81; Reading, COZ; Rock
Island, l043; Milwaukee K St. Paul,
673; Texas Pacific, 22f; Union Pacific,
$50; United States Express 10; Fargo,
1877; Western Union, 7Sb.
CHICAGO, July IL. -Cattle-Receipts
10000, including 3,4OO Texas and
Western cattle; market active and 10
cents higher for desirable grades; choice
to extra beeves SIS. S5(4 c. 80; common to
good 81. 00@5. 80; stockers and feeders,
81. 50(93.90; Texas steers, 50. 25(03. 80;
Western rangers, SO. S5(94.OO.
Sheep-Receipts, $500; market brisk
at SOLO cents advance; natives, inferior
to fancy. So. 1905. 90; Western, S3.4O@
3.75; Texans, 1000 rs,
, 1888-07-13
Cleared Out.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. July l2.-There is
great excitement prevailing at Marion,
the county seat of Crittenden county.
Arkansas county has been under negro
rule since 1870, and nearly every officer
Of the county is colored. Several days
ago warnings were sent through the mails
to several prominent citizens TO leave the
county. These notices were sent, it is
thought, at the instigation of d. w.
Lewis and David Ferguson, judge and
clerk of the county court, both of whom
are colored, and both being under indict-
nent for drunkenness and neglect of
duty.
This morning 100 armed white men
proceeded to clear the town of all the
r~ingleaders. Lewis fed last night. Fer
guson resigned to-day and was given until
tomorrow to settle up and arrange his
books. The colored assessor, together
with several colored deputy clerks, were
escorted to the. Grain, given tickets and
warned n to return. The whites stood
guard all last night fearing an attack, as
the negroes in Crittendon county outnum-
Der the whites seven to one.
, 1888-07-13
PERSONAL POINTS.
Mercer is in Nebraska.

A. 5. Mercer is in Nebraska.
M. Wasserman is at Salt Lake.
Maj. h. Glafcke is at Laramie City.
Thomas Carroll is in from Horse creek.
IL. Altman is on a business trip in Col
orado.
G. =. Organ went north yesterday and
returned last evening.
j. p. Julien is expected back from the
north to-day or tomorrow.
j. p. Gilland OF Egbert and w. w.
Grant of Denver are at the Cheyenne
house.
Rev. Merritt, the presiding elder of the
North Colorado Nj. f. conference, is ex-
pected in Cheyenne to day.
Philip Dater and wife departed for New
London, Conn, last evening. Mr.. Dater
has been in Door health for some time
and it is hoped that the sea breezes and
climate will be beneficial to him.
Geo. G. Gill, secretary of the Chemical
Paper company, and f. P. Bagg, treas
urer of the Parsons Paper company of
Holyoke, Mass, the former a brother of
Dan Gill, are in the city and will remain a
few days.
Lieut. McNutt and wife, formerly Miss
Helen Patterson, with their two little
BOYS, arrived in the city from Fort Nc
Dowell, Ariz. last evening. The leu
tenant will return in two or three days,
but Mrs. McNutt, who is a sister of Mrs.
j. X. Jeffrey, will remain here during the
summer.
, 1888-07-13
KILLED IN A WRECK:
Terrible Accident on the Vir-
ginia Midland Railroad.
A Whole Train Falls Through
a Trestle.
Eight Persons Killed and Sew
eral Fatally Injured.
Through a Trestle.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July ia terri
BILE accident occurred on the Virginia
Midland railroad early this morning. The
through southern train that lett here at
ll:25 last night went through a trestle
between Orange Court House and Bar
louisville, a distance of fifteen feet, kill
ing five outright and wounding twenty
i've. The trestle was known to be weak
and the railroad company was engaged
filling 1t in. The traiI was moving at a
speed OF six miles an hour crossing the
trestle under regular orders. The engine
had passed safely over most of the trestle
wheE- the smoker, the mail, baggage and
express cars went down with a great
crash, dragging down the engine and ten
der and two passenger coaches. The en-
CINE went down pilot end foremost, thus
communicating no fire to the wreck. All
the lights were ~extinguished by the fall.
Among the killed are o. G. Cox of
Alexandria. of the engineering depart
ment OF the Piedmont air line; II. T..
Wilmington, postal clerk, and f. c..
Brightwell. postal clerk. The badly in
iured include w. d. Parrot, w. J. O.
West and j. L. Walthall. postal clerks;
Potter Field, express agent, and u. O..
Jennings. of Lynchburg and Capt. T. G.
Taylor, passengers.
General Manager Randolph has re-
ceived further details of the accident. In
addition to the list of killed three more
unknown persons were found dead in
clearing away the debris.