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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-06
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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-06
VOL. III.-NUMBER lll7.
WEATHER FORECASTS.

WAsuTNcToS. ID. C.. November 3. 49,
- FOR Virginia. faiel no decided
'" chanao in temperatures westerly
winds
fot North Carolina, fair; followed
ny rain IN western po. tlon; cooler,
tNoep' sn'onary temperature near tho
coasC noftncriy winds
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
POOR UNCLE JIM.
Hls sudden Death Gave His Nephew
~ Mlulltv Close Shave. =

3EzEa4E y.@5E@t' sEE# - ---- 9#S# Ea&s45E4 -| Es-sEE
Hls Sudden Doath Gavo His Nephew :
Mighty Close shave.
was on the porch Of the village
tavern when q tow-headed boy Of fifteen
came riding up on an old roam mare to
spread the news that his uncle Jim was
dead--killed by u falling tree. 1t up
ponrcd that the uncle had many friends
and relatives in the village, and it
wasn't long before a score Of them
gathered about the boy and piled him
with questions. He was rather bash
~!"l' but he gavo u pretty straight &C
count and furnished oil particulars.
The crowd was still asking questions
when a man about sixty years old. lame
and bent and bald -headed, pushed his
way in and called out:
Every body stand back! I was JUS
tice OF the peace for fourteen years, and
| shall take charge OF this circumstance
mysolf. Now, boy, your name is Tom,
hahn it"
Yes. sir"
Mother used to be Sarah Good.
huep"
Yes. SIR"
Nov, l want the truth, the whole
truth. and nothing but the truth. II
you lie. will send you to prison, under
the provisions Of the laws made and
purvided. Is Jim Thompson dead?"
Eyes. sir"
Ibid u tree fall on him?"
YES. sir"
Beech or maple?"
''Beech."
dead when you found him."
YES, sir"
BE keerful, boy! You are the same
Us on your oath. Vas he stone dead?'
YES. SIR"
been dead three hours?'
"Yes, SIR"
"Now, then, l want this crowd to
pay particular attention to my next
question. The case may go to the Su-
preme Court for all we know, and l
want every M OF you to remember my
exact language. Now, boy, look me
straight in the eye and answer me
without hesitation. Don't We look to
the right Tor left, and don't imagine l
can't see right through you. Now, sir,
did your uncle Jim look material when
ye found him, or didn't he? Quick!
Don't stop to think up a lie!
"Y-yes" gasped the boy.
IAN right-that settles it. am
perfectly satisfied with the examina-
ton, and the prisoner is discharged on
his showing. He'd better take this as
u great moral warning. Looked
mighty bad for him at one time there. "
N. Y. Sun.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
Isl

Intentional Imperfections Introduced In
to the Process of Their Manufacture.
But the glass-worker has only begun
his work when he has the molten
metal simmering in his crucibles. 1t
must undergo many subsequent manip-
ulations before it is available for the
purpose of art. Some of these, from a
technical point of view, some retro
gressional. It has been found that the
rich color effects in glass of the middle
ages are Largely due to the imperfec-
tons in the material. Its lack of no.
mogeneousness, its unequal thickness
and uneven surfaces contribute largely
to its beauty. The modern product is
too uniform to be brilliant; it trans
mits the light with too great regulari-
ty. Intentional i~mperfections are,
therefore, introduced into the process;
and the products, in consequence, are
much more satisfactory to the artist.
This work of individualizing the prod
uct has now been so far systematized
that several special brands of art
glass are recognized in the markets.
The so-called antique glass in both
white and colors, is made precisely
like the ordinary sheet window glass,
except that the surface of the glass is
made full of minute b~low-holes, which
produce almost an aventurine effect,
and add greatly to it's brilliancy. In
the cathedral glass the surface is rem
dered wavy and uneven, so that the
transmission of light shall be CORE
spondingly irregular. In the flash
glass ordinary sheets are covered with
a thin plating of colored glass, a
process which permits a very delicate
color tone, and materially decreases
the expense, where a costly glass,
such as ruby, is needed to give the
color. But in mosaic work it is now
generally preferred that the glass shall
not be at all Transparent, since the
effect is much richer. The most of
the glass IS therefore cast, the process
being a repetition in miniature of the
casting of rough plate.-Prof. G.
81. Henderson, in Popular Science
Monthly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
SOME SHARK STORIES,
They Are Good, But to y Man Up a Trce
They Look Improbable.

4lcy <Aic "OOO, l9uC TO u Man I'D Il YrCo
hi Look Improbable.
Last night, in a company of con-
genial spirits, the conversation turned
on sharks, those scavengers of the sea.
Their %voracity, staying qualities, and
ability to swallow any thing and every
thing that came their way was dis
cussed at some length. A young man
who had v been to sea said he had
read stories of monster m%an-eating
sharks following ships for weeks, &C
companied by an aching void which
able seamen alone could fill with any
degree of satisfaction-to the shark.
He had also read of a sailor who was
on deck one day grinding his knife.
with a boy turning the stone, whenEho
ship gave a sudden lurch. the whole
outfit went overheard and was swal-
lowed by a shark. The sailor and his
boy kept at work, sharpened the knife
to a razor edge, cut their way out Of
the shark and were picked up by q
boat lowered from the ship.
The man of-war's man said that
story was a little too improbable, but
that he could tell one himself within
the bounds of reason. when our
ship was in Honolulu" he said. Il
was ashore one day in the launch, a
small steamboat used for conveying
officers and sailors to and from the
ship. We were lying at the dock and
when the engineer attempted to start
his engine on the return trip she re-
fused to work. Thinking, perhaps, that
a rope or something had foulcd the
propeller, the engineer looked over the
stern and found that a monster shark
had swallowed the wheel, and though
we prodded the cuss with a boat-h hook
it refused to disgorge the cast-iron DEL
icacy. We then slowed the boat
around, and heading for the ship, a
mile distant, we managed by jabbing
the fish with boat-hooks, to make it
furnish motive power, and thus got
under way. The coxswain stood at the
tiller and steered for the ship, but Just
as we got alongside the vessel tho
shark gave a sudden lurch, broke the
propeller short off at the bearing, ana
got away with it. -Chicago Herald,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
Summer in the Country.

"Where shall we go for the summer,
Henry? Have you thought any thing
about it?" =
mo, not yet How would you like
to go into the country, again?"
"Well, perhaps that would do"
'Ill tell you what; let's stay at
home. Leave the screens out of the
doors and windows so as to have plenty
Of mosquitoes, get a poor cook and an
impairment waitress, make the beds
up as hard as a board, get a spawned
old horse and a carry-all with stiff
springs, and we can have all the adj
vantages Of country Life without going
put Of town."-Chicago Herald.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
HOME AND FARM.

fGrtE aa--~ 43
"A light harrow run over the corr
ground three or four times, the first
three weeks after planting, means q
heavy corn crop.
Cold boiled rice, a~lternated with
tomatoes, well-buttered and seasoned,
bread crumbled on the top, and baked
one hour. makes agood vegetable dish.
The quickest way to fatten IN old
cow is to conflne her in a small yard
qnd give her all the ground grain and
hay she q cat. She should be gotten
in condition in rs short a time as pos.
si5!o.
The writer of an essay on blowing
says the common practice of running
the pillow the same depth every year is
apt to make a hard path by packing
the soil where the share scrapes
over it..
Don't study stock feeding so hard
that you will neglect to make proper
provisions for the feeding of your fam
lily. See that you have q good garden
that will allow you to vary the diet of
pork and potatoes. -Wostern Plow-
man.
Sheep should never be allowed to
pasture on land which has been top.
dressed with manure, nor to Craze on
land which is liable to be ~overtowed,
or which contains stagnant pools, ON
account of the danger of the sheep be-
coming infected with parasitical life.
Cold roast or boiled meat cut up
in dice, highly seasoned and m%oistened
with its own gravy or rich stock, and
covered with u layer of cold-boiled
rice, buttered on the top, and baked
an hour, makes an economical and
convenient dish.
While it is desirable to commence
work as soon as possible in the spring,
there is nothing gained in attempting
to work the soil until it is sufficiently
dried out to work readily into a good
filth, and sufficiently dry and warm to
induce a good termination of the seed
and a vigorous start to germ of the
plants.
C-Dressed Spinach: Wash spinach
and put in a pot without water. When
tender, squeeze dry. Put a teacup OF
cream in a saucepan with Il table.
spoonful of butter rolled in flour, lei
heat. Chop n hard-boiled egg in
small pieces and put in, pour over the
spinach and garnish with slices OF
hard-boiled egg.-Far1m and Fireside.
-Millet and Hungarian grass are
very similar in appearance, but the
millet grows higher and affords but
one cutting, while the Hungarian grass
can be cut every five weeks if the soil
is rich. They are summer crops, and
are not usually sown until May. The
hay from millet and Hungarian grass
is highly relished by all classes Of
stock, and the yield is usually heavy.
The ground should be we'll MANFRED,
narrowed fine and ten quarts of seed
per acre sown, or even more ii a thick
growth is desired.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
Early Americans.

Simplicity in their mode of living was tho
marked characteristic Of the early settlers
of America.
Every thing which pertained to them WAS
plain and unostentatious.
The food which they ate was frugally
served and of the substantial kind.
Their clothing was home-spun and the
moccasins which covered their feet were a
home product, being made from the hide of
animals and ornamented with beads after
the Indian fashion.
Their homes were simplicity itself, con-
sisting Of roughly hewn logs and homo made
shingies-the whole constituting the old
Log-Cabin home of frontier life.
Yet those were model homes.
The wives and mothers were we'll versed
in the art Of all that pertained to house.
wifery.
Conspicuous in the early home was the
striking figure of the old grandmother.
Not only was she the adviser in social at
fairs but she was the medical adviser and
prescriber for the sick. Often were her
hands engaged in the preparation of some
healing potion or remedy for the relief of
those in ill-health. Fully versed in all the
bountiful supplies contained in the grand
store-house of Nature, she wisely knew how
to utilize the curative properties contained
in certain roots and herbs and accordingly
she transformed them into certain remedial
agents, which have made the old Log Cabin
famous for all time to come.
Conscious of the great value of some OF
those old time home cures a successful eft.
fort has been made to re-discover the lost
secret of their preparation, and, coupled
with all the improvement which human in.
genuity and progress suggests, they are
now widely known under the name OF War.
ner's Log Cabin Remedies, the most promi.
nent being Log Cabin s~arsaparilla aud Log
Cabin ce.lgh and consumption cure.
The suffering public has been quick to
recognize and appreciate their true value
AID the manufacturers are daily in receipt
OF much praise for the re-discovery and re-
vival Of these old time remedies against
sickness and disease.
To the old Log Cabin home, however, Is
justly due the praise for all the good which
may, thereby, be effected.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
TREATMENT OF HOGS,
How to Build II Good ana Comfortable
House for orke:

How to Build Il Good ana Comfortable
House for Porkecs.
1t is "a feet s inches long, l65 feet
wide; is built so the front end forms
the yard fence running north from the
house, the east side of house forming
west side of lano fence: lane running
square up to yard fence. The house
is weather-boarded with dropped
Notwithstanding and painted. has
nice windows and good panel door in
front. Next to yard in front or south
end is a room cut off, II feet 8
inches by 16@ feet. to cook feed in and
to keep feed in. The next pen north,
24xl0! feet, is used to feed in. Flat
bottomcd troughs + placed around
the walls for slop feed. This room
is tloored with two-inch oak plank
ing. In center on the floor we
feed the corn, and let the hogs
in at the east side from the
lane. just north OF the house is a
gate across the lane to keep the hogs
from the house, if you choose. Over
this part of the house joists running
long ways of the house - feet long,
bottom edge 6 inches above head, with
cleats nailed on lower edge for gambril
stick to lay on, north end of joists to
lay on partition, south end hung with
a large bolt going through between
lower joists 2x1O inches, and up be-
tween two running the other a
When we butcher, the floor may be-.
washed up clean and nice. Our gam
bril- sticks are cut SO as to fit between
joists with q notch on top side. so as
to hold ham string. Then we have no
pole in the way in quitting; have a box
to stand on so as to be high enough;
have a big turner hay pulley and rope
to pull up hogs with one hand. The
north pen same way about feeding; it
is l6x16a, trough around to feed slop
from.
We have cooked about $50 bushels
of potatoes, meal and bran with them,
then lots OF pumpkins, cabbage leaves,
potato-peelings. and, in fact, every
thing we could get hold of, and fat
toned As hogs. I have 1873 head of
stock hogs. The furnace walls u
from fue, which is far enough from
east wall to leave a good passage-way
to west wall. / have left about 4 feet
| of a hole on the west end of furnace to
get down in to make fire, sides being
filled up to top of furnace with gravel,
forming cook-room floor. In bad
weather We can cook as we'll as in good
weather; have two gas-lamps; can cook
or feed as we'll at night as day. Any
one, I think, who will build such q
house and use it right will be we'll paid
and well satisfied. f*t
Hope some IL will try this plan. as
| no one a afford to cook in cold and
rain or hot sun, nor to carry meal from
barn or some other place, water from
somewhere else, and STOP across the
road or barn lot, or edge of pasture.
BY this plan 81, 900, 900 could be '
] ina year in Indiana. Indiana Farmer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
VEN OF INTEGRITY.
Ihe Kind of a Reputation which Helps
One Over Many Hard Places.

w. .,-t +[. Er. - E4E@E s%5 EE ~. 81"
Ihe Kind Of q Reputation Which Helps
One Over MANY Hard Places.
"Why is it hat it is the good men
who go wrongw asks an exchange.
This question is of much of the same
stamp as one that was formerly cur
rent: why is it that ministers sons
are so often scapegracesP" The latter
mas been shown to be grossly unfair in
It's implication that minister's sons
are, as a whole, unworthy of their IA
theirs and of their training. The re-
verse is the case. There are eXcep-
tons, but these are rare in comparison
with the number of sons of ministers
who are useful and honored citizens,
many of them pursuing the noble call
ing of their fathers.
So when W. are asked: 'Why is it
that it is the good men who go wrongp"
the answer is that the inquiry is mis-
leading. Men who are reputed to be
good do go wrong in many cases, but
these + few in comparison to the
number of reputed good men
who do not go wrong. It is
no surprise when it is learned
that a man who does not bear a good
name has done something dishonest or
unworthy, because in this case the OK
pected happens, and there is not a Ego
ing wrong" but a further pursuit of it.
The good nan by repute-and the bet
ter he is reputed to be the mor sur
prise and shock if he does not bear out
his reputation-is the one who is trust
ed, and when we hear of M who has
proved faithless, it shows that his rep
utation was not deserved, or that his
moral fiber has not been tested. The
nan who is upright and honest-hon-
est with himself as we'll as toward
others-does not 80 far wrong in his
dealings.
a reputation for integrity is one
which no nan can afford to be with
out. But she reputation is not the
main thing. This is to deserve it. 1t
is Won by right doing, and is kept in
the same way. Once established it is
the best letter of credit a young mar
a have. Without it he can not hope
to succeed.
In most cases men of strict integrity
have had it impressed upon them in
their youth that honesty can not be
disposed with. Too great stress can
not be laid upon this truth by all who
have dealings with the young. Temp
tations to be dishonest should be as far
as possible removed from the path of
those whose characters are not fully
formed, and those who are older and
wiser should by friendly counsel aid in
firmly fixing right ideas in the youth
full minds.
Parental iaxity is to blame if a
young woman begins work with a
vague notions of what honesty mean
Too many parents sadly neglect their
duties in this particular. They do not
oversee their children as they should
Or hold them to a strict accountability,
but faults are CLOSED over or are not
seen. Parents should not be harsh
and exacting. but they should train up
children in the very way they should
go. The honest boy is father to the
honest man.-Detroit Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
E"t 49, ~"
A Iadv1s naner pivaa h follov;

"A lady's paper gives the following
recipe for getting rid of the smell of
fresh paint in a bed chamber or liv-
ing-room: Slice a few onions, and put
them in the middle of the room. After
that it will be desirable to get rid Of
the smell OF the onions. This can
easily be done by putting on another
coat of paint.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

"THE days of miracles are past" That
may be, and yet some of the most wonderful
things ever Witnessed by the human family
have occurred within the last decade. Not
the least of those wonders is the success
which the agents of B. F. johnson & Co.,
Richmond, Va, are meeting. Write them
for particulars. They will show you how to
work wonders.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
A Sure Douverance

Not in~stantaneously, it is true, but in a
short space Of time, persons Of a bilious
habit are saved from the tortures which a
~dlsordered liyeri is capable of inflicting, by
Hostetter's Stomach bitters, an anti-blIious
medicine and aperient of the first rank.
The pains in the right side and through the
right shoulder blade, the sick headache,
nausea constipation and saffron hue Of the
skin, m entirely removed by this estimate
restorative Of tone to the organs of secre-
ton and digestion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
e n Wonder

that DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
outsells al other blood and liver medicines,
since 1t possesses such superior curative
properties as to warrant its manufacturers
In supplying it to the people las they are
doing, through druggists) under conditions
viz: that 1t must either benefit or cure the
patient, or the money paid for it will be
promptly returned. It cures all diseases
arising from deranged liver, or from impure
blood, as blliousness, silver complaint all
skin and scalp diseases, salt-rheum, letter,
scrofulous sores and swellings, fever-sores,
hip-joint disease and kindred ailments.
$500 Reward for ar incurable case Of
chronic Nasal Catarrh offered by the manu-
tacturers OF Dr.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
50 cents, by druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

IF you are doubtful as to the use of Dob
bins Electric Soap, and cannot accept the
experience of millions who use 1t, after the
24years it has been on the market, one t,ial
will convince you. Ask your grocer for 1t.
Take,no imitation. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

W1rE-"John, do you deliver your lecture,
Great Pessimist-'No, nv dear; / am Great
ly afraid ! have caught o slight cold, and I
don't intend to risk my life by venturing
out of doors at all this eyeninp,h
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

Oregon, tho 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, 1889-05-29

A WOMAN in Baltimore bled to death from
a cut on the leg, caused by the breaking of
a Whisky-bottle that she habitually carried
In her stocking.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

HARD water is wasteful of soap. because It
contains lime salts, which form an insoluble
compound with the soap, thus rendering .
part of it useless.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

ALWAYS avoid harsh purgative pills. They
first make you sick and then leave you con-
stipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate
the bowels and make you we'll. Dose, one pill.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

For twenty-five cents you can get Carter's
Little Liver Pills-the best liver regulatorin
the world. Don't forget this. One pill adose.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. lsaat
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

LADIES can permanently beautify their
complexion with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

"PR1soNEH, the evidence shows that you
brutally assaulted tho complainant. Have
you any thing to offer in extenuationa"
Prisoner-'No, sir; my lawyer took all the
money I had.n
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

for Carpenters, Cabinet, Pattern, PiaHo
and Wagon Makers, Nilwrights, 8hip
ss s::;;:::: . $Si sS:;:;; s:; s'. a!: ss; SIS;
Cutter, Aasons. Bricklayers, Plasterers, D!aughtsmen. Draw.
1Ing insssruInsnts, etc, etc. Scroll Saws, Woods and Designs,
cas a.lo.n. / h. r. sai Tool. never setos. liln..rs.sda: Our
describes The largest variety. Of Tools. An examination Of it,
conssnts VIII convince you Of its correctness. II contains up
o. receipt Of Aosnts for postssge. |. DEsCHAUEh, :.
SA Blue Island AvA, Chicago, u
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

PEOPLE who have to listen to violin prac-
tlcing nearly always bring up in the
asylum.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

THERE is a secret satisfaction about be-
ing anonymous that is far sweeter than
fame to the writer of scandals.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

WHAT a man is pleased to call clean
profit is oftentimes the proceeds of a dirty
bargain.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

7 young woman who boldly states that
she likes to be Rugged should be immedi-
ately repressed. sz
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

THERE are many blessings attached to
poverty. But they are fearfuuy disguised:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

The earliest onions grow from sets; the
longest keeping onions grow from seed.