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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
PiTH AND POINT.

~ r u. :
The mill streams that turn the
clappers Of the world arise in solitary
places. Helps. .... ls3= s 81 +!
Some build rather upon the
abusing OF others, and putting tricks
upon them, than upon soundness Of
their own proceedings. Lord Bacon.
The creed Of narrow man-H n
friend changes his mind he is traitor
If a stranger does not think as you do
he is q fool.:-N. O. Picayune.
Only he who uses knowledge has a
permanent hold on knowledge. The
heart that gives out love unsparingly
is the heart that has most love yet to
give. ~ f5ss"f
The bright genus is ready to be so
forward as often betrays him into great
errors, in judgment without continual
bride on the tongue.-Dr. /. Watts.
Worry not about the possible
troubles of the future; for if they come,
you are but anticipating and adding to
their weight; and if they do not come,
your worry is useless. ~
There is nothing SO bad but man
may lay hold of something about it
that will afford master of excuse; nor
nothing SO excellent but man may
fasten upon something belonging to it
whereby to reduce it.--IILlotson. {,
Whose can restrain his dis position
~ hi lon nd nd
himself down to fallen brother, will
soon find way to better feelings
within. Pity and patience are the
two keys which unlock the human
heart.
"A man who dwel!s on failure with
discomfort condemns himself of little
ness We can not be masters of our
selves till our sovereignty has been
challenged and proved. The salutary
shock comes on this side and that,
and the courageous sufferer is taught
the wealth of his resources.
Sympathy is both the forerunner
and the follower of knowledge, in the
study of any character which is wort h
being acquainted with. Unless we
are in sympathy with such a character,
we can never understand it; and only
as We understand it can we have full
ness of sympathy with it.
MANY people know how to do this
and that, but they lack the capacity
for doing. They are listless, INDECENT,
slow; or to call them by better name,
they are lazy. If this can not be over
come in them, they will make no prog
ress. United Presbyterian.
Gain comes through outlay; Civ
ing promotes growth. Loss comes
through boarding; holding brings de-
cay. The law is the same, so far, in
the realm of spirit and matter. Hand,
head and heart must be taxed in order
to live. He who would have must
spend. He who would hold must yield.
The more one does, the greater his
power-Uf doing.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
THE COUNTRY EDITORS BABY.

Twas " bouncing baby bay. S
Yes, indeedl q
And he thought that nothing moro
Flo could need-
That the musio<of his life had gro WI beautiful
and sweet sa SO
And each melody was rounded OIL complete.
And she papers, every one +
Gave . pun, z
That, In point OF sauciness,
Was'enough - ~ IS
To havo made the boldest typo OF m editor
turn red. ....
Just to read tho naughty things that they had
said.
Said the 6iggleiord Report "s.yss
e&%% OF to-day: ##
'Our brother OF the press,
ay,@ss Paul De Fay, as259E-
Has new department., now. for his paper
jolly JOY! 8: " %
FOR no sings and rocks bouncing baby-ooy."
And the Bloomngton G,'set.e
Had to say
That the enterpnsing scribe,
p. De Fay,
From the sercnading cats has novel, glad
In the music Of ten.pound boy, at night.
And the Cnroaicse. .sun- Times,
Three-in-one,
Told dear Puur' his leisure hours
Were undone-
That his tarih columns. now, and his editorial
pie
Would be double-lcaded with u lullaby
30 the editor scrap
Book did make
OF the clippings from the press
He did take,
And no laid it safe away for the junior Paul to
be.
'NOh, he has his fathers fine,
And he'll make q writer, too,'
OFT he said,
"Fer he has printers touch and All editors
That will make mighty fellow some tine day.
In the wee, sma' Silly hours,
Tired down,
Walked weary weary man.
With a frown,
Till the hours crawled by Us days and the DAYS
filled up with fears
Seemed to stretch away to centuries OF years.
Then he lifted up his voice
And he wcpt,
To recall the ceaseless trot
He had kept
"Wlth this scribe in embryo" he deplored
my woe begins.
And the only comfort Isle isn't twins!''
-Nurgd'ee Aadrews oldham in " T. World.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
HOME AND FARzA.

- - To-
A small, soft brush should bo used
Tor cleaning celery aud potatoes. 1t
is no trouble tn keep one especially for
this purpose, ind it will save hands
and time.
Green Tomato Preserves: Slice or
chop the fruit, and simmer for a Long
time, with ginger root or lemon to
favor. Add seven pounds of sugar to
nine Of fruit, and cook for at least halt
an hour longer. Great care must be
taken to avoid burning.
I'm preparing for the winter COM
fort of the chicken family it will be
we'll for the farmers and others to bear
in mind that eggs will be worth ajhigh
price during the holidays, and that the
fall pullets will lay them il they are
housed warmly and fed we'll. .
TO avoid shrinkage in washing ALL
wool goods, dissolve sufficient guam
tity of soap in warm water, adding
little sal-soda to soften it. Wash,
wiring and then rinse in clean, warm
water, using no cold or very hot
water, after which shake we'll and dry
quickly. Do not rub on soap or use a
washboard. Avoid all patent washing
powders or liquids. .-
"A good way to prepare eggs for
breakfast is to make a baked omelette.
Take six eggs, three even spoonfals OF
-four, a little salt, and beat them well
fnrrofhnw. 10 - &, %In
lighter it will be; then add one pint of
hot milk and keep on beating. Have
a hot dish with some melted butter the
size of an egg, and put into the oven.
Bake twenty minutes, and eat when it
comes from the oven, for it will fall
soon.
The value of crop of millet is far
greater than is generally supposed or
believed. AS forage for all kinds OF
stock it comes next to corn. It is pre-
ferred before any other kind of hay by
the horses, and is all eaten without
waste. But this crop must be cut early
and cured quickly, and grown thickly.
too, to be worth this. When ripe and
overcured it is not worth any more
than straw.
"A Western shepherd says that the
impression that we must save the best
feed until spring is erroneous. Give
the sheep the best care and grain in
the fall, when he is making his coat
for winter; and then when the cold
weather comes on, he has fat on his
ribs and clothing on his back to keep
him warm without that extra atten-
ton that would be necessary under the
other treatment.
There is no special skill needed to
grow small fruit successfully. For
raspberries. blackberries, currants and
gooseberries there should be a small
piece Of land set apart, but the straw
berries may be grown in the truck
patch. One requisite for success sful
strawberry growing is good variety;
| and it is difficult to advise in this mat
ter, as what does we'll in one locality
| often fails in another. It is sound ad-
vice, however, to say, do not buy high
| priced novelties,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
SIGHTS IN FINLAND,
Where Women and Girls Act as Postboy.
and Even the Hogs Are Clean.

Where Women and Girls Act as Postboys
and Even the Hogs Are Clean.
Our postboys invariably carry three
or four rings of bread and some hay in
the cart to feed their horses at the end
of their stage before going back. At
some of the stations We found no men
at home. The women would bring out
the cart, send a lad to the field Cor go
themselves) for the horse, and hitch
it up, and twice women were our post
boys, but generally we had bright
little fellows from ten to.twelve years
old, and a few times little girls. The
weather was showery while We were
posting, and we thus lost considerable
time. l employed it in ,speering
about and writing. Travel in Fin
land is ridiculously cheap in the in
terror. A horse and cart, holding us
two and our light baggage, cost sixteen
pennies 4 verst, or a little under five
cents a mile. A run of ten miles
would take about an hour and a
half. 1t really did us g3pd to see the
real pleasure we afforded when We
gave our little post-boys and girls a
hallmark, or ten cents, at tAo end of
their stage. At the farm-houses or
post-stations where we spent nights-we
would have good beds, a supper on
bacon and raw fish, rye bread, and
Swedish hard bread (delicious), and as
delightful milk, cream, butter and
clabber"as one ever ate: and in addi-
ton to these very good coffee and
sometimes eggs for breakfast. And
the whole for two of us cost from sew
enty cents to one dollar. The travel
ers' rooms at the post-houses were de-
lightfully clean-one or two with strips
of carpet, others strewn with sweet fir
twigs. ..
Then, too, the little tow-headed chill
drea1 were so good-natured aad two or
three pet hogs invariably grunted un-
der our windows with q sort of squeal
for a crust. The hogs, by the way,
were always clean and really not bad
pets. We had always beautifully curled
tailed sort of dogs to keep us company.
One stayed with us forty-eight miles.
He had the most independentlydouble
curled tail ever saw. I think he rec
ognized us as free-born Americans,
and wished to 60 home with us. He
was evidently well-known at the differ
emit stations.
will here state that Finnish has no
affinity, am told, with any European
language, or perhaps any Asiatic. It
has no propositions. For them a
suffix is added. For example, sign
board has on it, ''Uluum 5O.'' This
means: TO Ulu 80 versts." While
''Ulusta" means ''froln Ulu." To
show the difficulty of acquiring the
language, a Finnish lady said to me
that she learned Russian quite correct
ely in q year, while a Russian friend, q
better linguist than she, was two years
in learning Finnish as we'll. And vet
Russian Is considered very dimoult
language to master. - Carter e. Harri
son. IN Chicago Nail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
THREE AWFUL BOYS.
What ''the Little Blue Eye at the
Knot-8ble" Accomplished.

The small brown cottage adjoining
Miss Lydia Blake's premises in the
rear had been rented after an extended
vacancy, and three awful boys and
their mother were coming to live in it!
Oh dear! oh dear! What was to be-
done? They would steal her best fall
pippins, and strangle the cat,- and
throw stones at the windows, and pull
up her choicest flowers by the roots
in short, complete the whole, hideous
list of small boy devices, to worry and
annoy defenseless maiden ladies'.
Hitherto Miss Lydia had been very
fortunate in her neighbors, or
rather in her lack of them. The
old, square brick house. where she had
been born and brought up, stood a
short distance from the town. the only
dwelling in the immediate vicinity be-
ing the little brown cottage, formerly
occupied by o working man and his
wife-quiet people. who went away to
the cotton mills early in the morning,
returning at shutdown to their frugal
evening meal and well-earned rest.
And now she was to be tormented by
e pack OF harum-scarum boys, who
would cut up all sorts of troublesome
1nonkey-shines, and make her life a
burden. Something must be done
about it.
So a carpenter was summoned, and
the low, dividing fence replaced by
solid boards, six feet in height, and
with a row of pointed pickets along the
top, to catch in the clothing of would
be thieves and discourage second
visit And then, with war in her heart,
she resigned herself to meet the in
evitable.
One morning, about two weeks after
this, she was at work in her back gar
den. shaded by its gnarled old apple
tree, and bright with autumn BIOS
SONS. If there was tender spot in
Miss Lydia's heart, it was for her flow
ers; and we'll she might be proud of
them. No garden for miles around
could boast such mammoth carnations.
such late roses, or such varieties of
geraniums. 1t was here her lonely
heart found companionship and relaxa-
ton. ..~-
She was STOPPING to tie up the great,
ragged, red chrysanthemums, whose
heads were SO heavy, that they had
fallen over on to the gravel walk,
when her attention was arrested by d
slight noise in front of her, and a mo-
ment later, large knot came fying
out of its hole in the high board fence,
clearing the air al inch in front of her
aristocratic nose.
Whats that?'' she cried, in a start
led tone.
Its only me- replied childish
voice, as a little blue eye and part of
q little white check appeared in the
knothole.
You go right away. you wicked
good-for-nothing boy, Or else I'll call a
policeman exclaimed Miss Lydia, re-
sorting to the usual defense of unpro-
tected females.
II didn't mean to hit you,'' said the
child. Il only wanted to look at the
flowers. They smelled all the way
right through the fence, and anted
to see what they looked like. Ny!
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07

The clerk of Warren County, N.
T., pays bounty of fifty cents on every
dead snake brought in.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07

was happily married. From that time
Miss Lydia was changed creature;
for in her heart she had truly loved
blithe, impulsive Jerry Howell, and
too late bitterly repented her hasty
words.
She buried herself vigorously in her
uncongenial work of country school
teaching, until called home by the ad-
vancing: age of her parents, who finally
passed away, leaving her with mod
est income and the old brick house.
Almost all her young friends had
married or scattered. and those who
remained were repeled by her GOODNESS
and reticence; so she was left almost
entirely to herself, and it was little
wonder that her, life became narrowed
and sunless.
And now Jerry Howell was dead. and
the sweet-faced, fair-haired little wom-
an in black, with the two manly lads
and the delicate little cripple, were his
wife and children. And they had com Q
to live under the very shadow of her
roof. She had always heard that truth
was stranger than fiction; but now she
had living proof of it.
The next day the little blue eye was
missing, and the next, and the next.
At last Miss Lydia grew uneasy, in
spite of herself. She actually went out
of her way, on an errand to the mar
ket, in order to pass the house. And
there was old DR.. Maxwell's gig tied
up to the post.
Mrs. Howell opened the door for him
just at that moment, and seeing the
tall figure lingering at the gate, came
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07

AAO" pe1AAVs 0aAu 0AAo AIoAAG Sutu4uH dS
we'll. s'7.
Then the tall fence came completely
down. and the sunshine had full play.
On the evening Of the young couples
arrival, Miss Lydia and Mrs. Howell
sat late over their open fire. Tom had
just left them to take the last train for
the city, where he now had an office OF
his own, and was looked upon as a
promising young lawyer.
The tall clock licked monotonously
on the high mantle-shelf; and. at
peace with all the world, the tabby cat
slept purring on the hearth-rug. Out
side, the evening breeze sent the
boughs of the climbing rose-bush tap
ping against the curtained windows.
Mrs. Howell crossed over to a low
stool near Miss Lydia's chair, and laid
her hand upon her knee, while she
looked up into her withered face with
trimming eyes. Dear friend,'' she
said, chow good you have been to us,
and how much we owe to your never
failing kindness!"
"You owe me-" replied Miss Lydia,
softly, mot half as much as owe you;
for what comfort and happiness
would have missed, had it not been for
the little blue eye at the knot-hole. ~
Woma,s's Magazine:
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-14
"The War is Over. "

Semi-occasionally we hear the
spasmodic squeak ''the war ended in
1865" But you will notice that the
magnanimous individual who makes
use of this expression never addresses
it to the dearly beloved who wore the
gray and fought to destroy the
Union. The Confederates are to
be permitted to rant and rave about
the ''lost cause" laud Jeff Davis, and
denounce the loyal men Of the country
with impunity; they are to be per-
mitted to teach treason to the young
people of the South, and SOW the
seeds Of disunion and rebellion. But,
mark you, the man who wore the
blue must never refer to the late
Overwhelming" Of the Southern
statesmen. As showing to what
extent the Southern people have
ceased all reference to the war, we
subjoin this synopsis of the speech of
Gen. Bradley 7. Johnson, delivered
in Baltimore on the 9th of the present
month:
II expect to live to see the time
when the cause Of the Confederates
will be looked upon as that Of true
constitutional liberty the world over.
When the records shall be truly
written and understood of men the
world will learn that our fight was
for local self-government-the same
battle that Gladstone is fighting for
the Irish to-day-which is making a
new chapter in the history Of the
world. Is any feeling more wide
spread to-day than respect for Robt.
E. Lee? At any time in the past one
hundred years were there greater
veneration and love for any man than
for Stonewall jackson? Does any
story stir the English race deeper
than the death Of Ashby, who fell,
leading charge, twenty-six years ago
to-day? How does the world measure
the exploits of the dashing Jeb
Stuart? The story of such devotion
to cause, of high courage and
manliness in fight, has touched the
heart of ali this world, and this feeling
will grow stronger and more uni
versal as time goes on. Never was
the South making greater strides in
material progress than now. She is
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-14
The Remarkable Cures.

Which have been effected by Hoods
Sarsaparilla are sufficient proof that
this medicine does possess peculiar
curative power. In the severest cases
of scrofula or salt rheum, when other
preparations had been powerless, the
use of Hoods SarsapariIla has brought
about the happiest results. The case
Of Miss Sarah c. Whittier, of Lowell,
Mass, who suffered terribly from
scrofulous sores; that of Charles A.
Roberts, of East Wilson, N Y, who
had thirteen assesses on his face and
neck; that Of Willie Duff, of Walpole,
Mass, who had hip disease and
scrofula so bad that physicians said he
could not recover, are a few of the
many instances in which wonderful
cures were effected by this medicine.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-14
100 Doses One Dollar
The Black Hole of Calcutta.

The Iowa State Board of Health, in
its April bulletin, concludes that few
who have heard of the sBlack Hole
of Calcutta" know the terrible facts
that have rendered the place famous
and made it the synonym of all that
is to be dreaded from foul air and ov-
ercrowding.
At eight o'clock on the evening of
June 20, 1856, one hundred and for
ty-six prisoners, officers and men,
black and white, and of different ma
tionalities, were thrust into a room
eighteen feet square-with two win
dows on one of the four sides heavily
barred with iron-giving to each in
mate forty cubic feet of space. In
ten hours one hundred and twenty
three were found dead-only twenty
| three being alive!
Another instance is where, in 1742,
the High Constable of Westminster,
London, committed twenty-eight per-
sons to prison, where they were thrust
by the keeper into hole six feet
square and five feet ten inches high
the windows being close shut. In
very short time four of the inmates
were suffocated!
These facts show the poisonous eff
fects of the human breath-or of re-
spired air. Prof. Brown-Sequard has
recently made some experiments that
are not only highly interesting, but
show why the expired air of man and
animals is so deadly. From the con-
densed vapor of the expired air he
produced liquid SO poisonous that
when injected beneath the skin of
rabbits it produced almost instant
death. This poison he found to be
not microbe, but an alkaloid. His
conclusions are that the expired air of
all animals contains poison more fa-
tai than carbonic acid.
1t is well for the people to under
stand these facts. They cry aloud for
better ventilation and purer air-for
less crowding in home and church and
hall and school room.
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JACKSON. OHIO. THURSDAY, JUNE IA, 1888.

make human life admirable. A life
worthy of emulation by every young
man. Sorrowfully we gaze upon the
silent mound by the river side, no
longer annoyed by conjecture as to
the occupant, for we stand gazing
through the smoke of battle to a spot
about which the fire of battle seems
to concentrate and form a halo fitting
for the crown of hero, and read by
the hallowed light-not Unknown"
but the name of the brave boy, the
good citizen, the kind parent, the low
ing husband, the fearless Soldier
"Frank Smith, SD Ohio p
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''The prospects are that Jackson
County will have another hanging
match before long. Four hanging
matches and six life men for the Pen,
all inside space Of 5 years. will dc
right well for highly moral Re-
publican county like Jackson. -
Wa0erly Watchman.
Dear friend and brother, that's the
way we keep it Republican and moral.
Every mothers son hung in this
county was a Democrat, and the one
now awaiting his doom is, we believe
firm in the Bourbon faith. Aid us
with your prayers, Jones.
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cry tiller of the soil, gain no advan
tage from excessive tax laws, but the
price of nearly everything they buy is
increased by the favoritism of an un-
equal system Of tax legislation. All
unnecessary taxation. It is repug-
nant to the creed Of Democracy, that
by such taxation the cost of the nee
essaries of life should be unjustifably
increased to all our people. Judged
by Democratic principles, the inter-
ests of the people are betrayed when
by unnecessary taxation, trusts and
combinations are permitted to exist,
which, while enriching the few that
combine, rob the body of our citizens
by depriving them Of the benefits of
natural competition. Every Demo-
cratic rule Of governmental action is
violated when, through unnecessary
taxation, vast sum of money, far be-
yond the needs Of an economical ad-
ministration, is drawn from the peo-
pie and the channels Of trade and ac-
cumulated as demoralizing surplus
in the National Treasury.
The money now lying idle in the
Federal Treasury resulting from su-
perfuous taxation amounts to more
than $125,00O,00O, and the surplus
collected is reaching the sum of more
than $60,00O,000 annually. Debauch-
ed by the immense temptation the
the remedy of the Republican party
is to meet and exhaust by extravagant
appropriations and expenses, whether
constitutional or not, the accumula-
ton of extravagant taxation. The
Democratic policy is to enforce fru-
gality in public expenses and abolish
unnecessary taxation.
Our established domestic industries
and enterprises should not and need
not be endangered by the reduction
and correction Of the burdens of tax
alton. On the contrary, fair and
careful revision Of our tax laws, with
due allowance for the difference be-
tween the wages Of American and
foreign labor, must promote and en-
courage every branch of such indus
tries and enterprises, by giving them
assurance Of an extended market and
steady and continuous operations In
the interests Of American labor, which
should in no event be neglected, the
revision Of our tax law contemplated
by the Democratic party should pro-
mote the advantage Of such labor by
cheapening the cost Of necessaries of
life in the home of every workingman,
and at the same time securing to him
steady and renumerative employment.
Upon this question of tariff reform so
closely concerning every phase Of our
National life, and upon every question
involved in the problem Of good Gov
ernment, the Democratic party sub
mits it's principles and professions to
the intelligent sufrages Of the Amer
lean people.