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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04

YOU | shan't ask but four things Of you
II you call any Of them absurd or impossi-
BILE, won't believe in you, and I'LL never
put myself in your hands,
"All right" said Colonel Montgomery.
"Test me all you please''
"Wcll there. There's something for
You to do now" exclaimed Judith, indicat-
ing the carcass of a calf which lay un-
buried not far from the road "People are
always saying what a nuisance such
thing is and yet they leave it lying there
to faint the world. Get spade and bury
it," r.
The Colonel came near remarking that
it was hot day for such employment;
that they might ruin the parade; that he
was not the owner Of the calf, and that the
surrounding atmosphere was not fit for
lady to linger in. Silently, however, he
tied up his horses in the shade, and handed
Judith out to a secluded seat upon log.
Then he went to the nearest farmhouse
and borrowed a spade. He chose a spot
near the calf and excavated with vigor
which soiled both boots and hands. Occa-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04
Giving Up a Career.

'1'm goin' to be soldier, ma, when
! grow up" said Bobby, as he crawled
into bed, land fight in wars and bat
Ties"
.'All right, Bobby; now go to Sleep"
In the morning she shook him for the
fourth time and said: :r'|
Bobby, you must get up; the idea of
soldier lying abed at this hour!'
swell, ma, " said Bobby, sleepily,
"pve changed my mind about being a
soldier Y. San. ~. -. r..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04
EXERCISE FOR WOMEN.
Nothing SO Conducive to Health and Grace
as Outdoor Athletics.

Nothing SO Conducive to Health and Grace
as Outdoor Athletics.
Why is it, that ladies, as rule, are
SO averse to outdoor exercise? It is
time that any prejudices against it,
such as the thought that it is unlady-
like, were put aside, and a common
sense, practical view taken. Nothing
is SO conducive to health and grace
and beauty as outdoor athletics. OF
course some Judgment must be exer-
cised in regard to athletics as well as
to every thing else. Undue develop
ment and over exercise must be guard
ed against. But if care be taken, al
most unlimited good will result. Boat
ing is one thing in which ladies can ex-
eel, and a person without experience
has no idea how much thorough enjoy
ment may be derived from it.
A few simple rules should be care
fully followed. In rowing, the heels
should be placed together, the oars
grasped firmly from above, and the
handles drawn nearly together ready
for the stroke. Then the knees should
be bent little, the arms extended to
their full length, the lungs expanded,
and the oars pulled with steady, even
stroke, care being taken to keep the
back fat. The beginner should not
row far nor fast, at first, and should
only take short, easy strokes, until by
practice, she can take longer ones
without difficulty. She should never
row so violently as to cause any great
increase in breathing. There is no
more delightful experience than being
able to glide quietly along on some in
land lake, perhaps gathering water
lilies or watching the fish in the water
beneath.
But" you say, show about those
who are not so fortunate as to live near
a body of water?" For these there are
tennis and croquet, and horseback rid
ing and walking. American women
do not do enough of the latter. There
is nothing more invigorating and
healthful than a tramp of mile or two
before breakfast of a bright morning,
with shoulders back and head up, and
light loose dress with blouse waist
and short skirts. Our English cousins
do just this sort Of thing, and are often
able to walk ten and even twenty miles
at a stretch. It is her vigorous out
door exercise that makes the average
Englishwoman the strong, healthy,
graceful woman that she u.s.,
Our women are beginning to wake
up to this, and before many years
elapse, will be as rugged and sturdy as
their fathers, and brothers, and sons.
-Fag77s, Field and St0ck7aan.
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THERE WAS TEARING OF ROsEBUsHEs.
make you an object lesson for the girls,
that button would never depart from me-"
"Can't we make such an arrangement2n
suggested the Colonel.
eff you've come to that cross-mark made
with thumb-nail at the end of the lesson
you may give me back the book,' said
Judith.
"Just one more question. You aren't an
orphan?"
'Of course am, and you knew it. And
on that account the president doesn't feel
responsible to anybody about me. So you
Can stand and amuse yourself with me just
as much as you please, and can give you
pert answers, and my mother won't be
told''
''Gcod morning, ladies'" said the Col
onel, lifting his hat gravely and kindly,
and crunchlng back among the rosebushes
Now you have done it!' exclaimed Mol
lie Close, with the asperity of sharp
featured blonde. "You've made me sneak
out and I'll tell you what think of YOU, ),
4'Do," said Judith, the flush around her
eyes becoming emphatic. 81 saw YOUR
nose tilt up and knew you were busy get
ting something ready"
You act horribly, Judy Capell You've
talked through window and broken
study-hour, but that's nothing. You've
futed. never stoOp to that"
For good reasons:
"pm engaged, and have some respect
for myself" -
g / shouldn't have much for myself if I'd
quailed as you did before that blessed
buffalo. You're coward.''
II hope may remain a coward, then.'
You can't help it. Cowardice is con-
stitutional in sorawny dyspeptics."
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THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

h1hT oas, ring out We merry bells,
. And let the deep cannon roar,
Each patriotic bosom swells,
The glorious Fourth is here once more.
When night descends, what joys are his:
The kissing rocket cleaves the skies;
Hark, hear the Roman candle tlzz,
Behold the red and blue light rise.
NOW, whizz! z.z-zip! bang! torpedoes crash
And split the fretted eur OF night;
F1re-crackers Jump, toy pistols flash,
Mid ordinations OF delight.
t.
Now blaze the barrels sneared with tar,
Slow matches pass from hand to hand
And salve and sticking plaster are
At druggists stores in gre at demand.
Boston Courier.
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PlTH AND POINT.

You fight fire with fire, but power
ty with industry.
Hear one man before you answer;
hear several before you decide.
Every young person who contem-
plates matrimony should do so with
pay-rent-al solicitude. - Washington
Critic.
The young man with a slender.
salary should choose for his bride
young woman of small waste. ~
The best characters have a mix
ture OF infirmities, and the worst have
some redeeming virtues.
An educated man is one who
possesses the largest capabilities of
taking care of himself
The man who never made a mis-
take in his life is deaf, dumb, blind
and still unmarried.-jSunanserv
Journal.
The flower called bachelor's-but-
ton is SO called because it is always
coming off and never gets sewed on
N. O. Pic0yu,ae.
SO long as thou art ignorant, be
not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is
the greatest of all infirmities; and
when justified, the chiefest of all
follies.
Motives are better than actions.
Men drift into crime. OF evil they do
more than they contemplate, and of
good they contemplate more than they
do.
bachelor philosophers have OBJ
served that the first baby generally
gets about ninety-fve per cent. of the
parental discipline that is devoted to
the whole family OF children.-JournuI
Of Education.
O-Congressman's Wife (suspiciously)
Henry, what does sscoopng the
pile mean?" Congressman Gnnocent-
ly)-':Really, my dear, I can't say. It's
something / never did in all my ex-
perience. Washington Critic.
The innocence of childhood con-
sists not in rectitude of inclination, but
in incapacity' for the commission of
evil. The vivacity of children is al
ways charming, because it is always
sincere. A grave child is a rose with
out fragrance.
Love is the most easy and agree
able, and gratitude the most humili-
ating affection of the mind; we never
reflect on the man we love without ex-
ulting in our choice, while he who has
bound us to him by benefits alone, rises
to our ideas as person to whom we
have in some measure forfeited our
Observation-Disclosures.
1T is one of the problems of life
how to preserve the earlier spirit of
trust and hope amid the knowledge
and wisdom born Of mature experience.
And it is because this problem is too
hard for many that they begin in mid
die life to degenerate in character
Fialayson.
We say a thousand good things and
get no credit for it, but a word that is
displeasing brings us all kinds of re-
proaches. People do not learn how to
set one thing over against another and
thus strike an honest balance; they
must see all as in agreement with their
beliefs and preposessions.- United Pres
byteriaza.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04

STOOL, and growing her cheek again st the
wlndoW-frame projected her lesson
through the college shrubbery.
At once there was tearing Of rose
bushes and mans bearded face at the
window. Mollie ran screaming to the other
end of the room, and Judith recoiled until
she lost her balance on the cricket
"Let me help you up.'' he said, extend
Ing good humored hand.
"Oh, its Colone. Montgomery" said Ju-
dith. II can help myself, thanks; but
now you've got me mark for talking in
study hours"
I'm go to the president and take it on
myself"
The cottage was an additional dormitory
stones throw from the main building
The Colonel's carriage stood at the gate.
Mollie Close sat back in the room cycling
him with displeasure. But Judith kept
her cricket and audaciously saw her refec
ton in the Colonel's eyes. She was small,
hair brown and curly, supple and cat-like
IN motion or rcpose, and with an air OF
evenly-balanced daring and incredulity.
"You played exceedingly well at the
concert last night" said the Colonel.
Eyes; my life depends on doing we'll.
You better 60 away and let me get my les.
son now. And be sure to say good morn
ing You didn't say good morning when
you poked your head into the window"
Good-morning, ladies.'' The Colonel
took OF his hat and kept it in his hand.
'Pardon my abrupt ways.''
'Moliie and call you the wild buffalo, -
observed Judith, gazing sincerely upon his
light whiskers. You look so shaggy and
tramp around on the fower-bcta sou
II think you're polite, Miss Capell -
burst from Mollie's indignant lips.
There, I've made you speak, and you'll
get mark, too,' said Judith, in satisfied
tone. <-..i
"Well, if I'm a wild buffalo," said the
Colonel, smiling, "you must lasso and dis
patch me.''
II have dispatched you, but you don't
CO."
"Let me hear you say your lesson.''
She placed the book in his hand
T"Didn't the president tell me when he
introduced me that you were Kentuck-
ian!"
"That question is not in my rhetoric"
''But it's in my mind The name of
Capell, you know" suggested the Colonel
"I'm Southern mysclf'
"Are your exclaimed Judith. 30, why
did ever call you a buffaloH'
" Probably because you like to laugh,''
said the Colonel. indulgently: You'd turn
any thing to r.dicule. Even me'
he drew forth a brass button on rib
ben which she wore around her neck.
That's a medal for the girl who can
make the most fun. I've carried it week,
and II you were only about where could
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04
he ExCAvArED WITH A v1aoR.

CONFIRMED BACHELoR-"H ow time does
fly, Miss Seaside! Why, it was ten years
ago that you refused me on this spot. -
Miss Seaside-(who wishes she hadn,t)-
$50 long as that! was young and foolish
then, Mr.. Smith," Confirmed Bachelor
"But we are both older and wiser now.n-
Harvard LampO0n.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04

"A New Haven man has invented 4
college cane-hollow, and containing
the small flag or college colors re-
quired in various athletic sports, which
touch of the spring will give to the
breeze when needed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04
1.-THE WILD BUFFALO,"
How It Was Tanned and Caught.
A Fourth Of July Romance.
Written for This Paper,

OLLIE CLOSE and
Judith Capell were
studying by the open
cottage window. It
was the last study.
hour in the morning
and they were rivals
in rhetoric, 50 each
worked silently at
the task of memo
rizing and adapting,
giving the other only
an occasional and
preoccupied glance.
Mollie swung herself
in the single rock
ing chair of their
sitting-room; but Ju-
dith hl160led on g.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04

> WHY it fell!-"Well, the Thermometer
has fallen,' remarked Mrs Fangle. stSun-
struck, probably" replied her husband
IHl-Bits. .ss..s .--4 y s.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-03
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

MADAME PATTI wants to sell her castle in
Wales, but bidders are scarce.
MERIDIAN, MISS, after having tried prohibi-
tion for two years, has gone ''wet" again by a
majority Of 800 out Of 5000 votes.
GENERAL SHERMAN has notified his friend,
General George II. Sharpe of Kingston, that
he will visit the Catskills this month.
"Was the baby bruised at all when 1t fell
into the cistern ''
"Not the slightest. 1t was soft water, you
know" Judge
THE TELEPHONE DIsEAsEn has been dis
covered by Professor Wilborstadt of Berlin.
The use of the instrument produces disorder
in the vibratory chambers of the ear, gen
orally in the left ear.
SIT is so warm,n the maiden sighs,
"Don't ask my help, mamma, pray"
Then from the house she swiftly flies,
And plays lawn tennis half the day.
Merchant Traveller.
THE Inland Architsct Of Chicago publishes
the plan of 2S-story building, which will be
| $50 feet In height, and will occupy plot OF
ground so feet square. ii will contain 72s
| rooms fitted for Office purposes, aud will have
| IL elevators.
Mr.. MAURICE SCHMIDT, wealthy resident
Of the Pacific slope, now in New York, says
that the bottom has fallen out of the Calitor-
mia land boom, and the Spectators are now
| paying exorbitant rates OF interest TO carry
them through.
The REPUBLICAN, National Committee Is
made up of-lawyers, 10; editors, 81 manufac,
| turers, 5: miners, 8; merchants, 3; retired mer
chants, 2; planters, 2; oflice-holders, q hotel
| proprietors, 9; contractor, j; banker, l. real
estate dealer, l, and stock-raiser, l.
The EXACT TENOR OF General Phil. Sheri-
dams remarks anent the tons Of patent
medicines that are being sent TO him from all
over the land is not reported. II is known
/ however, that Sheridan Is master of very
vigorous English. Boston Herald.
SAYS GALENA SPECIAL TO the New Yorl
Mail and Express; "Iieutenant Henry w
schaefer, Z. S. NJ, 10 undergo court-martia
for falling TO report 10 the Swatara, was ap
pointed a cadet by President Grant In 1896
and was at the time a compositor In the oflic,
Of the Galena Gazette"
The Conqre9atiOhdlia this week says: 9TH
wife OF President OF the United States at
Congregational prayer-meetlng may be rar
occurrence nevertheless Mrs. Cleveland wal
at this service last Sabbath evening, ut the
chapel In Marion having attended the Episco
pal Church In the morning. We wish thl
number might be multiplied by those VIII
find II welcome and profitable TO worship Goo
twice day on Sunday in the public assem-
| bly,n
The Washington critic., 1888-08-03
"Ho, FOR SUNDERLAND %


A little song for bedtime, when robed in gowns
Of white,
All sleepy little children set sails across the
night
For that pleasant, pleasant country where pretty
dream flowers blow
TWixt the sunset and the SUNRISE
"FOr the Slumber Islands, how
When the little ones get drowsy and heavy lids
To hide blue eyes and black eyes, gray eyes and
A thousand boats for Dreamand are waiting in
row, -
And the ferrymen are calling
FOR the slumber Islands, ho"
When the sleepy little children hll the boats
And 20 sailing OF TO Dreamland, and the dip,
ping OF the oar
dren only know. .
When they answer TO the boatman's
"For the Slumber Islands, hoW
Oh take kiss my darlings. ere you sail away
In the boat Of dreams that's waiting TO bear
YOU DER the sea-;
Take a kias and give one, and then away you &c
A-sailing into Dreamland-
''For the Slumber Islands, ho'"
-[Eben Rexford In the ~, Nicholas.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-03
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Colonel Sam. G. Reid has left on n visit to
Ontario, Canada, to meet his friend Sir Will
liam Rowland, ex-Lieutenant.Governo
eral OF Canada.
w. IL. Arnold ofiwashiugton registered at
the Herald bureau in P.>-,s ys,terday.
Registered at the New SEA sotels last even
ing: Chief Justice Fuller, . ~ fifth Avenue;
man Ford, at the Westmiudtr log, ossman
Wilkins, at the st. Jan ~ sol &c ,nte G..
Quesada, the Argentin, iis'iter - the
Clarendon.
Mrs Rhees, wife OF Professor Rhees OF the
Smithsonian Institution, and son, are guests
of Captain NJ. b. Rowe at Brompton, near
Fredericksburg, Va.
been visiting her brother, Captain j. 7. De-
Alley of Fredericksburg, has left for West
moreland County, Va, where she will spend
several weeks with relatives and friends be-
fore returning home.
Mr.. j. B. T. Tupper has returned from a
fishing trip on the coast Of Maine. Mrs. Tup-
per, who accompanied him, will not return
until later In the season.
Miss Mamie Harrison OF II street, is spend
ing month with friends at Narragansett Pier
Mr. VIII Mays OF the banking house Of
William Mays & Co., has returned from two
weeks rest at Capon.
The Chilian Minister, transferred TO Europe,
sails on the 18th instant. Don Brazerol and
daughter Of Anacostia sailed for Europe from
Baltimore the other day,
Mr.. Harry Duncanson has returned from a
pleasure trip OF three weeks, going West as far
as Niagara and North to Boston.
Miss Belle Hunt Of f street, and Miss Bright
well are summering in Berryville, Va.
| Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the At
| torney-General, has returned from Rock Enon.
Aud nv
poets to sail for Europe the latter part Of this
month.
Mr.. William Wood Of the Geological Survey
| has returned from tour through the Virginia
| mountains. He took a telescope along to see
| the recent eclipse Of the moon and saw IL with
party Of friends from Eagle Rock near Ca
| pom.
Mr.. VIII Murray Of the Boston House is
| spending his vacation at Bay Ridge.
Mr.. Charles L. Kincaid of the Louisville
| Times has returned from his home near Dan
| vile, KY, where he was called ten days ago
by the death of his father, Captain William
Garnett Kincaid.
Miss May Duncanson Of G street, left to-day
for summer outing along the Jersey coast.
Mr.. Uric T. Mengert, agent of the branch
office of the Adams Express Company on +
street, has returned from Piney Point fully
satisfied that Mr., Wash. b. Williams under
stands how to ''keep hotel"
Miss Kate Dean Owen of street has re-
turned from an extended visit to her friends
at the North.
Miss Nina Hemstreet OF Brooklyn is visiting
her aunt, Miss Elizabeth Hemstreet of Wyom-
ing avenue.
Mrs. c. +. Owen and Miss Jessie Lewis
Owen of Jessamine Terrace, II street, left by
the b. and o. tram this morning for the water.
ing resorts In the beautiful valley Of Virginia
They will not return until fall.
Judge Il. L. b. Clarke, chairman of the
Board OF Appeals, U. s. Patent Office, accom-
panied by Mrs. Clarke and his younger son
left yesterday for Deer Isle, Me-, where he ex,
poets to spend the summer.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-03
Edmunds W.. Butler.

The amendment to the Sundry Civil bill ap-
propriating $277,692 for the Butler property
on Capitol Hill was severely antagonized by
Senator Edmunds and rejected, although the
valuation put upon 1t was appraised by Messrs
Thomas j. Fisher, Thomas b. Entwistle and
w. IL. Clagett, men of large experience and
unquestioned integrity: But Mr.. Edmunds,
somehow or other, couldn't see 1t In that light
Said tho Senator: at is proposed that the
United States Treasury shall pay $277 ,692 for
about IL, 900 square feet of ground with good
stone building on it, which Iithink II is, II 1t is
stone one. | say, with great respect to
everybody else, that it is five times more than
1t is worth. q 1t is impossible that any
$4,000 square feet of land, If it was covered
with gold dust, was going to say, could be
worth any $277,000."
Senator Allison, who offered the amend
ment found it impossible to change Mr.. Ed
munds' extraordinary opinion, although there
is no particular difficulty in putting $277, 200
house on a 12,00O-foot lot, and the Senate
finally concluded not TO adopt the proposition,
much to General Butler's chagrin.
The Washington critic., 1888-08-03
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 8, 1888.
THE LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE.

There is considerable unnecessary
anxiety among the politicians because
of President Cleveland's delay in issu-
ing his letter of acceptance of the re-
nomination given him at st. Louis. 1t
should be remembered that his letter Of
acceptance in 1884 did not make its APP
pearance until August Is of that year.
Following that precedent he has over a
fortnight yet in which to mature and
formulate the position he occupies in
the forthcoming campaign.
We are not aware, however, that it
is matter of vast importance one way
or the other. Mr.. Cleveland announced
six months in advance the issues, or
rather the issue, on which in his opin-
ion the Democratic party should take
its position; the National Democratic
Convention accepted his message of De-
cember, 1887, in the spirit in which il
was written and accepted it for all it was
worth, scarcely veRturing outside Of the
limits therein set, 1t follows, of course,
that whatever Mr.. Cleveland now has
to say will be in the same line and as
narrowly circumscribed. The issue has
already been promulgated by the Presi'
dent and sanctioned by his party. We
do not see that it can now be modified
without similar joint action.
1t has been suggested that he is wait
ing on the Senate, but it Is as we'll un'
derstood to-day as it will ever be veri
fed by the fact that the Senate is
Numerically opposed to the plan of
revenue reform embodied in the Mills
bill, and that is all there is essential to
know about it. Mr.. Cleveland will GER
tainly not wait till the 1st of October tc
find out what particular shape the Sen
ate's bill is going to take. 1t cannot
change in any respect the shape of the
House bill.
So that we live in patient expectation
confident that the letter will be an
nounced before the leaves begin to fal
and in ample time to meet all party re
quirements.
In the case Of Mr.. Harrison the con
ditions are substantially the same. AL
though he had made no previous an
nouncement of his views the Republi
can National Convention spoke for it
candidates in no uncertain tones, anC
they cannot unsay what was then said
Mr.. Harrison has since reiterated time
and again the leading principles of tn
platform on which he was placed, anC
subscribed to them emphatically ant
unequivocally.
The attitude of Mr.. Harrison witt
reference to the tariff is identical will
that of the party which honored himwi
the Presidential candidacy, and when
ever his letter of acceptance may b.
written it will neither add to nor tax
from the fixed and unalterable doctrin
to which he is pledged.
Both letters will be out soon enough
They will be communications of politi
cal interest and subjected to more @
less partisan criticism. But their bear
ing upon canuass which might as we
proceed without another word fror
either of the distinguished STANDARD
bearers will not be of material weigh