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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
EDUCATION.
How to Sat isfy tho Ever-Growin: Demand
for Hard Facts.

How to Sat isfy tho Ever-Growins Demand
for Hard Facts.
While we have mover insisted that
work-benches will be introduced into
every district school in our land, we
do insist, and have insisted for years,
on the introduction of sense-exercises
and sensible expressions of sense-ex-
erclses in every school, high and low,
rich and poor. W. are living in an
age Of realism. Theories are at a dis
count. Hard facts are in demand.
The education that touches the life
that is, is highly valued. In this ma
terial age of our we must not lose
sight of the spiritual, but we must also
not lose sight of the fact that the
spiritual of the present largely comes
through the material, and that
by the material the true
spiritual life of an. individual
becomes practical, earnest and useful.
We believe in God, but we also believe
in man. We believe in the Kingdom
of God, but we believe also that to the
kingdom of mar He has committed the
care of this lower world. Here in the
midst of things we fight the battle of
life, and it is by means of things that
we handle, see, feel, taste and smell;
and so become lifted above the ma
teriality Of the world, into higher,
spiritual, earnest, practical, common
sense religion. The great heart of the
world throbs in unison with the work.
ing men in it. The time for lazy, dig
nitied do-nothings has passed away,
and the time of active. earnest labor
ers in the shops, on the farms, among
the mountains, and in the rooms where
the thinking is done, has fully come.
We are going to say, over and over
again many more times, life is real.
Let US make it so in all our schools
School Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
THE CARPET MOTH

Several Methods of Attacking and De-
stroying This Household Pest.
Where carpets are used and only
taken up once a year at ''house-clean-
ing," the conditions are very favora-
BILE for the carpet bugs increase, par
ticularly where the h~ouse-cleaning is
hurriedly done. When a house has
once become infested, nothing but the
most energetic measures will COM
pletely rid it of the pest, and in COM
plete radiance is the only hope, as in
a year a very few individuals will SO
increase as to do great damage. At
house-cleaning time then, as many
rooms should be barred at once as pos
sible, and the house-keeper should go
carefully over the rooms. removing
all dust, and with a hand-atomizer
charged with benzine should puff
the liquid into all the floor
cracks and under the base
boards until every crevice has been
reached. The carpets themselves,
after thorough beating, should be
lightly sprayed with the same SUBJ
stance, which will quickly evaporate,
leaving no odor after a short time.
The inflammability of benzine should
be remembered, however, and no light
should be brought lear it. This done,
before relaying the carpets, it will be
we'll to pour into the cracks q mcder-
ately thick mixture of plaster of Paris
and water, which soon sets and fills
them with a solid substance into which
the insects will not enter. Then lay
around the borders of the room a
width of tarred rooing-paper, and
afterward relay the carpets. This
thorough treatment should answer
in the very worst cases, and in a
house so cleaned the insect will prob
ably not regain a foothold during tho
ensuing year. Cloth-covered furniture
which may have also become infested
should be steamed or also treated with
benzine, and chests or drawers in which
infested clothing has been stored should
be thoroughly sprayed.
Another method of treatment con-
sists in laying a damp cloth Gan old
towel or a folded sheet will do) smooth
" over the suspected part Of the car
pet, and ironing it with a hot iron.
The steam thus generated will pass
through the carpet and kill all the in
sects Immediately beneath. If not too
laborious, an entire room could be
treated to advantage in this way
Good Housekeeping.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
LAST OF HARI-KARl.
IN Unexpected Incident Which Will Prob
ably Change the MikndO's Methods,

"A Unexpected Incident Which Will Prob
ably Change the MtkndO's Methods,
Tho ancient Japanese custom Of
Hari-Kari, Or Happy Dispatch, has re-
ceiyed its death-blow. For centuries
it has been usual for any exalted Jap
anese dignitary who may have NOR
tally offended his sovereign to receive
a polite official intimation to the effect
that his suicide will be pleasing to the
authorities; and until recently it has
been the unvarying practice for the Of
fender to acquiesce resignedly, and,
after summoning his relatives around
him, to formally d%isembowel himself
in their presence. If the culprit hap
pened to be of exceptionally high rank,
the sovereign would, as a mark of
honor, send him a jeweled sword with
which to operate upon himself. But
all these things are now of the past.
Not long ago the Mikado was griev-
iously hurt by the words and conduct
of a high court official. The man was
an old and very valued servant of the
CROWN, but his crime was unpardona-
BILE. Next day, therefore, an officer
brought him the fatal sword, a mag
niticent weapon, with a blade inlaid
with gold and a handle incrusted with
diamonds, together with a sympathetic
intimation that his early death would
be regarded as a benefit to the empire
in general and to the MikadO in mar.
ticular. The culprit received the
sword with all proper respect, but as
o o us the emissary had departed the
willy JapaDese-in whose mind Euro
pean habits of thought had evidently
taken firm root-walked down to the
quay, went on board a small steamer
that was bound for Havre, and upon
reaching Paris incontinently sold his
sword of honor for &C., 000. W. never
met with a better illustration of the
eminently practical nature of the Jap
anese character. It is exceedingly un-
likely that the Mikado will ever again
trust n of his subjects to execute
himself. Still less will His Majesty be
inclined to favor exalted criminals
with jeweled swords of honor. The
office OF Il lord high executioner will
probably be called into requisition in
stead, and wicked mobiles will, for the
future, be saved the trouble and
anxiety of having to be their own
butchers .-London Globe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
Gladstone on Washington.

When I first read in detail the Life
of Washington" I vas profoundly i'm
pressed with the moral elevation and
greatness of his character, and I found
myself at a loss to name, among the
statesmen of any age or country, many,
or possibly any, who could be- his
rival. In saying this, l mean no dis.
arrangement to the class of politicians,
the men of my own craft and cloth,
whom, in my own land and my own ex-
Eerience, l have found no less wanting
than other men of love and of admira.
ton. l name among those who seem
TO me to come near even to him. But
I will shut out the last half century
from the comparison. I will then say
that if, among all the pedestafs sup
piled by history. for public char
acters of extraordinary nobility and
purity, ! saw one higher than all the
rest, and if I were required at a mo-
ment's notice to name the fittest oocu-
pant for it, I think my choice, at any
time during the last forty-tive years,
would have lighted, and it would now
light, upon Washington, From Glad
stones Letter to G. w. Smalley,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
HER ENGAGEMENT RING,
First tho I3ashful Finncee Tries to Hid,
1t, But She Soon Grows Bold.

First tho Bashful Finncee Tries to Hide
1t, But She Soon Grows Bold.
Did you ver have a chance to OBJ
serve, u~nobserved, a young woman's
conduct toward her newly-acquired en-
gagement ring? 1t see ms so strange
upon her hand that she e~n not refrain
examining il a dozen times an hour,
always, however, on the Wy. On the
first night she sits up IN hour later
than usual to admire it boldly in the
secluaion Of her W apartment. A
frequent kiss is administered to the
shining band and it's g%littering gem,
and during the night she dreams that
it has fallen into a stream, and awakes,
clutching the finger to assure herself
that the precious pledge is still secure.
Then, on the following day, she
wears it only in secret, taking care to
transfer it to her pocket at table and
when in tho company of init
mates, but place her among strangers
or among casual acquaintances who
can not be inquisitive, and how brave
ly will she fiaunt the token before
their eyes as n who should say:
Il may not be the lovliest creature
in the world, but you will observe that
7 get there all. the same"
Gradually it assumes it's place in
her daily life, and her hlushes grow
less violent with each succeeding sx-
PLANTATION of it's insignifcance and each
extravagant description Of its doror's
attributes. But before it Huallv be-
comes a part of herself, as it were, she
must, of course, leave it a dozen times
at least upon the washstaEd, ard suf-
fer in consequence Of a dozen violent
attacks Of palpatation of the heart UNI
til i IS recovered.-W ashipgson Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
WHAT WINS,

The world has full many a hero:
Go read what those heroes have done,
And you'll lind TIA: though oft they were
baGled
They kept up their Ccar2ge, and won.
They never lost courage ~ failure,
Giving up, us the weak. Scs-Sted will,
But said: W will try and e..ep trying,
And conquer all obstacles sj::.s."
And this they have done, the wct'a over,
Their tasks were accomplished = last
by often-repeated endeAvor.
The young onk may bend to the i:ar<
But 1t springs to its place when it parycs.
And grows to new strength every day
And in time It stands firm in the tempest
Whose wrath whirls the tall pine away.
Defeat makes q MAJ more persistent
II the right kind of courage is his;
He determines to conquer, and does it,
And this is what heroism is.
Strive on with q patient endeavor;
The steadfast OF purpose will win.
Defeat comes to-day, but tomorrow
May usher the grand triumph in.
-Eben E. ReXford, in Wide-A wake.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
Happy Homes.

Hers's q health TO the viyes and tue mothers
Who Stir our no useh olds to-day;
Who are glad when they brighten for others
NAV their eyes keep the light of the gladness.
Their heArts hold Che fullEess ofbiss
That bantshes shad Ows and Sadness
And what need we ask more than this7
But-how can this happiness be Kept:
What shall protect those we love,Ithose
who make a Heaven Of the Home, Iron the
ravages of disease that Is often worse than
death,-that is, in fact, a lingering death:
The question is easily answered: DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription-the standard remedy
for all of those peculiar diseases to which
women are SUBJECTS what must be relied
on to preserve the health of wives and moth.
them. Il is a blessing to women and there
fore a National blessing, because it gives
health to those about whom the happiness OF
home c~enters, and the strength Of a Nation
is in its happy homes. 1885,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
CURRENT SUPERSTlTlONS.

Information Obtained from Old Women
In Countries Near and Far. II
The funeral procession must not
o a river.
The last name a dying person calls is
the next to follow.
A dish-cloth hung IN a door-knob is
q sign of death in q family.
The corpse must not pass twice over
any part of the same road.
10 dance on the ground indicates
disaster or death within a year.
Whoever works on a sick PERSONS
dress he or she will die within a year.
If a hoe be carried through a house
some one will die before the year is
out.
If thirteen sit at q table the one who
rises first will not live through the
year.
The person on whom the eyes of q
dying person last rest will be the first
to die.
Whoever counts the carriages at a
passing funeral will die within the
year.
To break a looking-glass is a sign of
death in the family before the year
closes.
If three persons look at the same
time into q mirror one will die within
the year.
The clock should be stopped at the
time of death, as its running will bring
i'll luck.
If n dies, and no rigor mortis en-
sues, it indicates a speedy second death
in the family.
If hearse is drawn by two white
horses death in the neighborhood will
occur in a month.
1t is unlucky in a funeral for those
present to repass the house where death
has occurred.
II rain falls on a new-made grave
there will be another death in the fam
lily within the year.
If the grave is left open over Sunday
another death will occur before the
Sunday following.
10 keep the corpse in the house over
Sunday will bring death in the family
before the year is out.
1t is unlucky to pass through a
funeral, either between the carriages
or the files of mourners on foot.
If rain falls into an open grave an.
other burial in the cemetery will occur
within three days.
At a funeral entering a church before
the mourners means death to some of
the entering party.
10 put or a bonnet or hat of one in
mourning is the sign that you will wear
one before the year is out.
If any II comes to a funeral after
the procession starts another death will
occur in the same house.
In Switzerland, if a grave is left open
over Sunday, it is said that within four
weeks n of the village will die.
If, during sickness, a pair of shears
be dropped in such a ann that the
point sticks into the floor, it indicates
the death of the sick person.
When a woman who has been sew
ing puts her thimble on the table as
she sits down to eat, it is a sign that
she will be left a widow if she marries.
A common saying in England is:
"Happy is the corpse the rain falls
on" This belief exists also in the
United States. Thus it is said that if
rain falls at the time of the funeral it
is a sign that the dead has gone to
Heaven.-Chicago Mail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

telligent, r worse than any wild AMI
NAL when in one of their sudden fits q,
ungovernable rage. The amount a
killing they take is incredible. Heavy
rifles that kick tremendously often
have little effect in stopping their wild
charges, and in II instance, in India,
even a tield-piece, fired repeatedly.
failed for a considerable time to put an
end to the career of a mad ELEPHANT
Chambers Journal. i,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

UNITED STATES MINISTER STRAUSS has in-
duced the Sultan of Turkey to allow the ex-
plorers sent out by the University of Penn
sylvania to excavate in the ruins Of ancient
Babylon for w years. This favor has been
vainly sought by representatives Of Euro
pean powers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
Dishonored Drafts,

When the stomach dishonors the drafts
made upon it by the rest of the system, it is
very low. Toned with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, it soon begins to pay out vigor in
the shape of pure, rich blood, containing
the elements of muscle, bone and brain.
AS a sequence Of h new vigor afforded the
stomach, the bowels perform their func-
tons regularly, and the liver works like
clock work. Malaria has no effect upon q
system thus reinforced.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

wort was hung in the windows to act as q.
charm against "storms, thunder and evil
Spirits" The "devilfuge' was the ex-
p%ressivc name the plant enjoyed among
some folk.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

The offensive nab,t Of splitting tobacco
Juice has received recognition as an illegal
offense by. q grand jury Of Philadelphia.
That body has found true bills against one
splitting on the front doorsteps Of several
houses in the northern part Of the city.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

A CHICK or q partridge runs around look
ing for its meat as soon as it has shaken
Itself loose from its living prison, but an
oWlet does not for a month or more know
which foot to put out first.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Bestfruit, grain, grass, stock country
Oregon immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

FRESHNESS and purity are impaired to the
complexion by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

"A Wisconsin woman describes her
runaway husband rs ian ordinary
looking man, troubled with q short
breath and 9 long mustache.nn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

A NUMBER of ladies in Boston are leading
3 crusade against the practice of docking y
horses tails.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

You can't help liking then, they are so very
small and their action is SO perfect. One pilla
dose. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

To BREAK q lcoking-glass is a sign OF
death in the family before the year closes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

DIR. Pierce's Pellets, or Anti bilious Gran
ules in walls, 25cents; one adose. Druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
ABOUT ELEPHANTS.
Interesting and Amusing Anecdotes
OF the Huge Beasts.

They are Affectionate. Fond of Delicaciea
and Enjoy a Joke; But Their Anger
is Something Troublesome
Celebrated elephants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

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on them. The fight went on for three
days and nights, during which time he
had not q bite to eat-for he was too
angry ven to take any of the hay
around him--and not a drop of water"
At length, despajring of saving him,
the shot-guns we're exchanged for
heavy rifles, and several big bullets at
close range finally put an end to him.
The first live elephant seen in Lon
don was IT. the reign of Henry ILL.,,
and the citizens closed their shops and
donned their holiday attire in its hon
or. King James !. had a private men,
agerie in St. james PARK in which
was kept the elephant presented to him
by the King of Spain. It cost some
hundreds a year to keep this
animal, besides ''the wyne he
must drink from April to
September, a gallon the daye." An
other celebrity was the huge elephant
'Chunee, whose tragic end during q
strange attack of mental %sberration
kept all London in q Torment for sew
eral days. II we recollect Alright, a
show-elephant in London was the
mother of the first elephant born in
captivity. A large elephant, weigh
ing heavier than Jumbo, though not SO
tall, was recently on view in Liver
pool, where there was quite q L on
his photographs.
Elephants, being 50 powerful and in
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-01

Florida sent us last season 800, 600 oil
her 200, 900 boxes of oranges. That
was only "A small part Of our supply, the
rest of which came from Cuba and the
Mediterranean ports. Foreign fruits of
all sorts pay duty, either specific or adj
valorcm. Lemons are nearly all import
ed. Messina and Palermo are the min
ports of shipment. Malaga grapes mc
sold by the barrel and worth $il5, duty
paid. The same Spanish city is supposed
to send out most Of our raisins, though
the name is stretched wider than charity
even. Currants come from The Greek
archipelago. They are really a species oil
grape, which is allowed to get dead ripe
on the vine, then is laid thick upon n
yard Of beaten earth and sundried TO the
shape in which we see them. Some pine
apples are grown in Florida, but much
larger part Of them comes from The West
Indies. They are supposed to be in sea-
son the year round, though the bulk OF
| them comes 10 the winter markets here
The California fruit trade is growing
all the time. With every year il about
trcblcs in volume. Refrigerator cars
alone make it possible. They bring us
oranges, lemons, pears, peaches, apricois,
plums, grapes, all wonderfully big and
beautiful if somewhat lacking in flavor.
Freight charges run from three 10 four
hundred dollars the car, and Inc trip is
made in seven to eight days. Besides all
this, New York handled last season
above 10000, 900 pounds Of domestic
dried and eyaporatcd fruit, the value OF
which is roughly put at some 81, 900, 000.
In addition there were canned fruits,
preserves and jcllics whose amount and
value would stagger even calculating
machine to attempt 20 compute. What
the fruit trade, as a whole amounts 10,
seems to be some Of those things no fell
low can find out" That it runs well up
INTO .hc millions is certainly one of those
that nobody can deny. Conservative
traders say that it has doubled at least in
each five years since the war.-Mcv iorh
Tribune,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-01

One thing that never luils to interest
NIL who see il, when il is found on the
mountain heights Of the Sicrrns is the
snow plant, known To botanists ms the
Sarccdcs sanguinra, meaning bloo,rl
flesh, says the american Gn,,i,R No
llcsh or blood could be so cXquisiicly
beautiful; imagine II rosy and snow
tinted crowned hyacinili, from EIGHT Ia
twenty inches in height, every minntur,
bell wound about 10y n rosy aud frosted
silver ribbon, all topped by huge head
oi asparagus in honr FROST and silver. Tho
frosted lapila is very marked on every
scpnl and bracI. Though the whole
translucent spike is flushed with rose
and carmnc, tho petals ARE the deepest
and most brilliantly -colorcd parts Of the
flower, which is five parted, and each
open one showing slightly the stanrns
and pistils
There have been scrn specimens
hearing eighty perfect flowers and II
pseudo bulb twenty-five inches in circ,m
ference, brittle almost us spun glass,
and, although solid ns II pineapple when
first dug up, dried away To The size Of
The stem. All attempts nj cultivation have
thu" far failed, The bulhs refusing to stand
trnnsp'aniing and The seeds Ia sprout. II
was once said that they would not sur
vivc below the level of the summer snow
line, but they have been since seen almost
covering the ground far below. The
snow banks seem, however, 10 protect
them from the winds sweeping among
the mountains, aud they make their early
growth and development beneath the
driven snow, and when the approach Of
summer leaves the surface Of The ground
exposed ii is covered in II few days with
The red crowna OF the snow plants.