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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07
PITH AND POINT.

Every man can rule a shreE save
he that hath her.
-Hardening OF the heart is very apt
to end in softening Of the brain
Beecher.
Some men who can get fortune
OF deal in stocks can't get hen
out of truck patch. Washington
Critic.
-Politeness is like an air cushion:
there may be nothing in it, but it eases
our jolts wonderfully.-Sigourney.
Every duty which is hidden to wait,
returns with seven fresh duties at his
back.-Charles Kingsley.
There ought to be law whereby
you could put some people under bonds
to keep away from you.-Atchison
Globe
If you want man to think you
are smart yon have only to make him
think he is smart. Re-
publican.
Quite naturally it is the man OF
seasoned intellect and ripe experience
who does not seem fresh.-Bingham-
ton Republican.
False evidence takes up some
truth; and great calumny can often
be made by no great change of words.
-Bengel.
People who are in a hurry to 60 to
law are frequently in twice as much of
a hurry to get away from it--Mer-
chant Traveller.
OF all the gifts that nature can
give Us, the faculty of remaining ST.
lent, Or of answering apropos, is per-
haps the most useful.-Mme. Campan.
A great man is happiest when he
can sit down and write his memoirs
and forget all the mean things he
knows about himself Boston Tran
script
1t is well for philosophical medita-
tons to include the fact that in all Or
ganic- existence the largest amount Of
wind produces the heaviest swells-
Baltimore American.
Nothing Is so great an instance CT
ill-manners as fattery. If you datter
all the company you please none; it
you fatter only one OR two you affront
the rest--Swifc
1t is a great piece of folly for a
man to be always ready to meet trouble
half way. If he would put all the
journey on trouble he might never
meet it -Scranton Truth.
The avaricious man is like the bar
rem, sandy ground Of the desert, which
sucks in all the rain and dews with
greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs
or plants for the benefit of others
Zeno
What is truth for one may not be
the truth for another. You don't know
what you may do. You may put
straw across a trickIe which will turn
a river another way.-Mrs. Whitney.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07
BY THE BALLOON ROUTE.
How Swindling Aeronaut Snapped His
Fingers at His Creditors.

40" S"lndilng Aeronaut snapped HIS
Fingers at His Creditors.
Some time ago Adolph Viewer be-
gan advertising himself in Vienna as
Senior Jabw. 1.-The great South Ameri-
can aeronaut." He put notices in all
the dailies and on all the bill-boards
that on June ? he would ascend to
some fabulous height in balloon
and drop back to earth under para
chute About week before the date
OF the proposed ascension Senior Jabw.
alias Viewer, began to live estraordi-
narily high. He bought great quanti-
ties OF jewelry, laces and silks for his
wife, and wines and cigars galore for
himself. He ate at the best hotels and
ordered clothes of the most fashion
able tailors. He paid for nothing.
however. He told the jeweler and the
tailor and the dress-maker and the
liquor dealer that he would settle ac-
counts with them Immediately after
the balloon ascension, from which he
expected to realize much money. With
the credulity characteristic of CONT
mental German tradesmen, they be-
lieved him. They sold him all he
wanted on credit and tried to sell him
more.
On June Senior Jabw invited the
city officials of Vienna to observe his
final rehearsal before the exhibition.
In the presence of the mayor and the
city council be and Sonora Jabw, alias
Frau Viewer, and the parachute, as
cended in balloon, as high as a hun
dred-foot rope, made fast to tree and
the balloon car, would allow. After
bobbing aboat over the official heads
OF Vienna for couple OF r1inutes
Seuor Jabw cut the rope that held him
to Austrian soil, and blew away. That
is the last that Vienna and its city
council and its tradcsmen have seen of
Senior Jabw.
Warrants were sworn out by his
creditors for his arrest on the after
noon of his departure. Telegraphic
instructions to detain him were sent
out by the Viennese police to the po-
lice of all other Austrian cities. The
chief of the detectives in St. Peelten
replied that the balloon had already
passed the city. From Linz came
similar report Dispatches from north
eastern towns announced eventually
that the fugitive balloon was over the
Bavarian boundary, where Austrian
policemen and Austrian warrants were
powerless.
The bills of the credulous Viennese
tranesmen against Jabw-Wever were a
dead loss to their holders The aero
naut and his wife had Struggled out of
Vienna all their belongings several
days before their flight The officers,
who went to their apartments to attach
the articles they had never paid for,
found there only bare floors and bare
walls. N. Y. Sun.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07
ROSS FROM THE RANKS.

Railroad Magnates " no Started as Brake
men. Operators or Rod-Men.
Among the officers Of nearly every
railroad in the country are to be found
men who have risen from the very low
est round. =. u. Tucker, who is
division superintendent Oh the Erie
under Murphy, started IN as track
laborer, and his first promotion was TO
the position of rod-man in the engineer
corps. John n. Abbott, of the Western
States Passenger Association, used to
be freight clerk on the Erie. c. ".
Bradley. general superintendent Of the
West Shore, used TO be a brakeman
and conductor on the same road. Gen
eral Superintendent Bancroft of the
Denver 4 Rio Grande learned the Morse
alphabet in one Of the small stations
or the Erie. and counted himself lucky
when he obtained a position as tele-
graph operator ON the West Shore.
President Caldwell of the Nickel-Plate
was once a clerk on the Penn sylvania
+. h. Hahn, general manager of the
New York elevated roads, began his
career in his seventeenth year as a
machinist's apprentice On the Philades-
phia 4 Reading road at Potts vile.
The officers of the great PennsvI
vanla system. from the president
down, have all come up from the bot
tom. President Roberts entered the
service Of the road in 1852 as rod man
in the engineer corps Later he had
charge Of the construction of SINAI;
branch lines, and finally was made as
sistant to the president il 1862. He
has been president Of the road for
eight years A. J. Cassatt. formerly
vice-president of the company, also be-
gan as rodman. Second Vice-Presi-
dent Thomson used 10 be a machinist
in the shops at Altoona He invented
the block-signal interlocking switch.
General Manager Pugh commenced as
brakeman, and General PASSENGER
Agent Carpenter was once messenger
boy in the Philadelphia Office of the
company. General Agent Geer used
to be receiving clerk in the freight de-
partment.
James McCrea, general manager OF
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burgb, like President Roberts. began
as rod-man at $40 month. He now
draws a salary of $4,000 a year, and
is still under forty. Robert Pitcairn,
superintendent of the Pittsburgh d.
vision OF the Pennsylvania and gen
eral agent for the company, was once
mes senger boy in the old Atlantic &
Ohio telegraph Office in Pittsburgh.
Among the other messengers en-
ployed at that time was Arson Stager,
afterward general superintendent of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany; w. @. Hugart, now president
OF the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail-
road Company; Andrew Carnegie, who
a few years later laid the foundations
of his wonderfully successful career as
private secretary to Colonel Tom Scott.
and David McCargo, now general
superintendent of the Allegheny VAL
ley railroad. philadelphia News.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07

OIp uOuoe lOOheu very dark 10
Mr.. Cadwallader as he walked up the
avenue of trees leading to it. He ran g
the bells several times before a head
protruded from an upper window and
female voice called: who's there?''
is this Mrs. Widgeon's house?r he
asked.
"Yes-what do you want?
''ls the lady at home?''
"Mrs. Widgeon is dead"
"Ah! / beg pardon. Is-ah, Mrs.
Brown imp
mo. sir; she don't live here"
lis Mrs. Cadwallader here?"
"Who?''
Mrs. Cadwallader.
Il don't know her,
Mr.. Cadwallader was silent for a
moment He was at loss what to
say. The window closed with a bang.
''Humph! that's cool Well, I've
done ali can. Henrietta will have to
get home now the best way she CAM
He passed down the walk.
Il wonder if ought to wait for her. -
he said aloud. "Pshaw, no! Tn 90
back to the station and inquire if she
had been seen. If can't find Out anv
thing here, I'll go back to Philadel-
phia.''
'.Hiram!" a voice called softly.
..Eh-what's that?''
A lady stepped out from the dark
ness; her face was concealed by a
heavy vail
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07

Sou AO1o, oou1O Ouo ucbo OScu play ing a
practical joke on us. 1t will not help
matters for US to stand at bay at one
another on the highway OF this re-
spectacle village. I am going to
catch the next train back to Philadel-
phia~ l advise you to come with me. y
Mrs. Cadwallader felt that if she
did not comply he would walk off and
leave her standing there. which would
be most undignifed situation for her.
Il will accompany you, sir, for the
sake OF appearances. she said, "but
forbid you to speak to me-
Mr. Cadwallader obeyed her to the
letter. He lit a cigar, and Henrietta
walked by his side in dignifed silence.
Arrived at the station he INQUIRED
when the next train left for Phila-
delphia.
lin three-quarters of an hour, sir, :"
replied his friend of the lantern. did
you find the wilder, sir, or ma'amP"
Without replying to the question the
husband and wife entered the waiting
room. 1t was empty. How could MIR.
Cadwallader stand three Quarters of an
hour alone in the room with that
sphinx-like figure, who, be felt, was
regarding him with reproachful eyes
from behind her vail? If he only had
a newspaper. Stay, there was Gym
thia's letter. which he had put in his
pocket. thinking he might read it on
the train. He could consume fifteen
minutes over that. He moved over to
the other side of the room under q
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16
The RutIand Festival.

The great event. unsteady, of Yer
mont last week, was this festival. Well
may the Herald exultingly say:
eff, after an experience of five sue.
cessive years, there had been anything
lacking to prove that Rutland was and
is favorable center for a music festival
on grand scale, all doubt may be cast
to the winds now, for the unriyaled sue
cess OF the festival that has just closed
proves conclusively that public interest
and popular taste have been improving
under the influence of these excellent
entertainments, and that even in the
country towns of Vermont there are
hosts of people who are fully qualified
TO appreciate and enjoy the classical
music that once was thought too fine
for any but the people Of the large cities
"The home talent that comprised the
excellent chorus deserves recognition in
this connection also, for no matter how
great the reputation of the leading solo
lists, the effect Of their greatest efforts
might often have been spoiled by an in
efficient, weak or poorly-drilled chorus.
Such wss not the case, however. for il
was universally conceded that the work
of the chorus at this festival was super
ior to that of any previous effort, and
that the careful selection OF singers,
rather than preponderance Of numbers.
had had good result.
"Rutland and the whole state is to be
congratulated on the continued and
growing success of the festivals, as il
gives assurance of their continuance.
Ia ,,arn,anant institutions tba,, hc,,r,r
schools of art, the refining and elevating
influence of which it is impossible to es.
innate. To Rutland it means the edu.
cation of her music loving citizens, the
broadening of her influence in the state
and the extension Of an already wide
spread reputation for musical culture.
There are things which all good citizenf
! will delight 10 see."
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16

The scribe, as in duty bound, went
down to Arlington, Tuesday, to help
elect a county supervisor of schools. It
didn't amount much, the Rutland coun-
ty method having been employed. and
more or less members of the Board
pledged before their election. They were
Joined to their idol and 1t was impossI-
BILE to break the adhesion. David Crock
ct, in attempting To "grin down" knot
from tree said he only succeeded in
starting the bark, but his success was
better than the scribe's. The result was
well enough but the method-well, it
was brand new eyeopener.-RJOrmer
Correspondent. The author of this is
not far to seek, but of course is entitled
to bis candid opinion the same as other
people. But, seriously, does not tie
Legislature of this State, whose prece-
dent the aforesaid correspondent would
follow, lower itself when it deliberately
and term after term selects the State
officers from its own ranks They first
provide an office or there is vOcancy
in one already, and then proceed to fill
it with one Of their own number. This
our County Board Of Education refused
to do. The State Superintendent was
the leader Of the opposition to this new
law, and yet the Solons elected him to
carry it into effect, Does the gentleman
wish to be classed in the same category
as this reasoning would lead to We
think not.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16

The Messenger makes good point in
the following item Memorial Day-is
to be consecrated to the memory of the
dead soldier patriots of the nation. 1t is
not decoration" day, or occasion for
Adornment, further than the observance
OF the beautiful custom of placing spring
flowers upon the graves of the fallen,
With the lapse Of time and the frequent
return of these occasions there is to be
noticed an increasing disposition to in
trouuce amusements, prominent among
those being base ball. Nothing could
have been further from the intentions
OF those who instituted the day than
this disposition to be made of it. The
occasion is not Fourth of July with its
noise and clamor, but of order and quiet.
The Grand Army and old soldiers, to
when as principals the day has been
conceded from the first, have made re-
quest that the amusements on that &C.
casion be dispensed with, as entirely in
consistent with Its purpose.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16

james B. Smith, local editor of the
Springfield Republican, was shot and
killed Monday morning by his brother
in-law who mistook him for a burglar.
In the absence of MIR. Smiths father-in-
law, w. F. Sturtevant, who is at the
Raugely lakes on a fishing trip, Mr..
Smith and his wife and infant daughter
were spending few days in Mr.. Smiths
old home. Early this morning burglars
entered Mr.. Sturtevants house and
young Sturtevant was aroused from a
sound sleep by the servants. He looked
out of the window and saw a man in
the yard and selling gun went into the
hall. In the meantime Mr.. Smith had
stepped out of the room into the hall.
Young Sturtevant, not knowing that his
brother-in-law was in the house, at once
fired and Smith fell death at the side of
his wife. Smith had slept in his own
house until last night on account of his
late hours. He was off duty last night.
Smith was the son of Herman Smith,
graduated at Harvard in 1884 and had
bee employed on the Republican ever
since. He was member of Trinity
Church and young man of high char
act ar. His brother in-law is a young
man of 90, and is overwhelmed by the
terrible tragedy.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16
south Shansbury,

DR.. Woodruff and wife, in compan,
with George Bruce and wife, ATTENDED
the Musical Festival at Rutland last Fri
day. Mrs. j. visited friends in Dandy
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Clearwater oil
Hoosick Falls, were in town Sunday tc
see her aunt, Mrs. Lewis; also a niece
OF Mrs. l., from North Adams.
Mr.. John Wentworth has been spend.
ing a few days in town with his brother
Charles, and sister, Mrs. N. Hawkins.
Willie Moon accompanied bis mother
on visit, instead of Robbie, as stated
in last weeks BANNER.
Mrs. - Lewis Of Rutland was in
town few days, the early part of the
week.
The Workers will meet with Mrs. Her
man Niles on Friday afternoon of this
week.
Mrs. Sharpe of Bennington is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Hitchcock, for few
days.
Mrs. L. w. Cole visited friends in Ar.
lington and Manchester, last week.
Miss lockwood Of Bennington visited
Mrs. Hitchcock this week.
DR., Jennings was in town on Monday
calling on DR.. Woodruff.
Mrs. Lewis is still very low with nc
hope Of her recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole of Ashburham, are
home on a visit.
c. S. Madison spent Sabbath out OIL
town
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16
THE VERMONT MILITIA.

Governor Dillingham; Issues an Order
Complimentary to the National Guard.
The Vermont National Guard have
been congratulated by Governor Dilling-
ham for the part taken by them IN the
Washington centennial celebration III
the following general orders
STATE OF VERMONT,
ADJuTA>T & INSPECTOR Generals OFFICE.
BURLINGTON Vt, May -, 1859. J
General Order No. S.
The Governor and COMMUNICATIVE thief hereby
expresses his satisfaction and congratulates each
officer and soldier of the National Guard upon the
splendid behavior and showing of the troops dur
ing the centennial of the Inauguration of Presi
dent Washington in New York City. The deter
mined manner in ,, hich the National Guard took
hold OF the details of this celebration showed con-
clusivey from the start that Vermont would be
well represented. No appropriation had been
made for this expedition, two days drill was or
dered, and the fact that the officers and men
gave not only their pay and rations but raised
money in addition thereto, thereby guaranteeing
large amount Of the funds necessary to defray
the expenses, and at the same time placed them
selves under severe military Discipline in attend.
ing company drills from two to four nights
week, will be remembered in the history OF this
State as an act Of self denial and patriotism on
the part Of its National Guardsmen. Tht com
panies of the National Guard leaving their homes
on the morning of April 20, assembling at Brattlp.
horO, W., and on the same afternoon passing rap
idly by special trains to New London, Conn. and
thence by transport TO New York City, arriving
early on the morning Of the Goth forming line
and moving TO the place Of rendezvous about
II 20 a. m OF the same day, remaining in a side
street until about o'clock that afternoon and
then marching through Broadway and Fifth ave
nue. in line OF company columns, with the pine
sprg in their hats, amidst continuous cheers and
plaudits Of the assembled multitude and passing
the President of the United States in review, with
the steadiness Of veterans, was an occasion that
will never be forgotten by the Green Mountain
Boys" Your discipline, gentlemanly behavior
and soldierly bearing during the campaign and
military precision while under arms was the talk
OF thousancs, and you have returned TO your
homes, proud OF the honor Of representing Yer
mont. and receiving the ecomums of praise from
the citizens whose State you represented in SO
creditabe manner.
:, By command of His Excellency William =. Dll-
hngham, Governor and Commander.in-ChCf,
THEODORE S, PECK,
Adiutgnt and INSPECTOR General
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16
POwnal.

Fred Pratt having freed and shot g
coon near his home, was proceeding &c
skin it when his knife slipped and he re.
ceived deep wound several inches long
IN the fleshy part of the forearm, the
muscles turning out from the same
Having GOODNESS to judge of the injury
he sent to the house for needle and
thread with which he proceeded to sew
up The wound with several stitches, as
neatly az any doctor could, and thereby
saved ten dollar fee in his own pocke'.
Since the finishing touches upon the
M-thodist Church by the slater and
painter. it begins to show the improve
ment and distinctness of the property OF
the society, we feel certain to warrant
no village OF equal ability in this section
of country, can suTp1ss it. Ii is a great
advance upon quarter Of century
ago.
To say that the favorite with us is
"Comical Brown" is a chestnut, and the
large gathering on Wednesday greeted
him as enthusiastically and enjoyed his
ever fresh "komikalities" a. hugely as
as in any of his welcome visits to us.
David Myers was warmly remembered
by friends upon his birthday this week.
and can enj y the mice presents" he re-
ceived as gratefully as any of Uncle
Sans large and increasing family will
in their positions.
Miss Mary Parker is in Boston and
vicinity during the succeeding week.
She will attend the large missionary
gathering at that place on Tuesday.
e. T. Parker is en- route for Kansas
and other places in the West
William Proud and family moved to
Greylock, Mass, on Monday.
Pliny Blanchard is quite i'll.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-16

New Workers. are doing a very fine
thing in trying to perpetuate in stone
the very fine little triumphal arch at the
entrance TO Fifth Avenue, as a memorial
Of their centennial celebration. The
arch is of wood; they will make it stone
at a cost of about 800, 900. Americans
have used the arch but seldom as form
Of memorial structure aud its proposed
use now in New York is appropriate and
commendable. The New York Sun of
the 18th, inst, says of this THE
Washington Memorial Arch, that is now
very sure of being erected here, will not
be one of the first-class works of art in
the world, but it will be the finest thing
of the kind on this side of the Atlantic
Ocean. The popular subscriptions to
the fund in its behalf are still coming In
finely"