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The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15
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sthte 1FHuAe-futfOHs OF Nus
bandry.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY
BssroI- X, L., July 4, 1880.
To SYMMEs HAY Car CO.
GENrLrMRN The hay caps ordered of you
early in the season have been used until
as trial in reference to practcability in reference
to wind, and now after repeated trials here in an
exposed locality, in every instance find them intact
las 1t were but having just returned from my hay
field where they have stood out in thirty six hours
storm finding the hay in almost perfect con.
dition, and on removing caps, the aroma OF hay
hne am fully convinced oi their adaptability un
der all circumstances. Even went far to
make large cock OF hay, containing not less than
ago pounds-one Of your caps giving it sufficient
protection that moisture entered it no more than it
would have done inside OF a well made stack.
No more cloth caps Tor me 10 pin down and hut-
tering in the wind at the best more less getting
OIL Double my previous order at once. for il had
had them in the storm Just past through they would
have paid at least one half for themselves When
these caps become known, believe you will sell
thousands where you now sell hundreds.
Respectfully Yours,
NATHANIEL r. REYNOLDS,
H1unpSy toUuf nm, Farm
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

SoIoN. Me-, Jut.y 80, 1850.
SyMMEs Hay Car CO.
Enclosed find dit. to pay
for Hay Caps. We like them well. If anyone
wants Hay Cap, they the best thing out. They
will not blow oil and are quickly put on.
Yours Truly,
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

SkownEGAN, ArRiL IS, 1870.
FIRKRirH MAN'F'o Co:
| have hesitation in
recommending Hay Caps as a profitable invest
ment for the farmer.
My experience in pressing and selling hay is
that farmers should take advantage of every means
always calls Tor the best quality at fair profit I'll
no more) for the raiser and dealer while the poorer
grades pay one. Taken every way as / have
observed their use, should recommend the Pulp
Caps AS much cheaper and more desirable than
cloth.
Yours Truly.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15
MISCELLANY.


"See, lowly at thy feet lie.' sings a poet
We have no doubt he does. Men usually DE-
when it comes to that point.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

FROM LEVI l.. Lucas, FOR TWELVE YEARS MEM
htR or riik STATE BOARD or AGRICULTURE
= ii. GOODWIN, ESQ, Dear Sir:
used the Pulp Hay
caps last year and satisfied that il was tht
best outlay made for the year. They cost tribe
more Than the cloth caps but the better protection
thcy give tn The hay and the convenience in hand
ing them more than eflset the difference in cost
The utility OF hay caps is hardly considered by the
average iumer They dnn't e.aiis. thai. ,l,.,,i
Tor themselves every time 1t becomes necessary &c
use thtm, TO protect the hay from welt, in tn,
"iter hard rain. The farmer who has iul sup
ply OF hay caps can prosecute the business of har
Ncstine nay with very much more confidence thar
the one who has no caps and hcstates about NOW
ing o'day Tor fear of rain tomorrow.
l.. l.. LUCAS
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

ST. ALBANs, MAR. s, 1890.
Mn. S, II. GOODWIN, Dear Sir
The Symmes Hay
Caps bought of you last season like very much.
Very easy to handle, and | think they are better
than cloth and will last very much longer. As to
their blowing off they did rot trouble me but a
little.
Truly Yours
N. u. TURNER.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

NATHANIEL +. REYNOLDS,
Manager Mount W0oe Farm.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
MExlCO'S CATHEDRAL.
The Enormous Riches Of an Ancient Pla
of Worship.

The Enormous Riches of an Ancient Place
of Worship.
The interior of the grand cathedral in
the City of Mexico IS, even at the pres
emit day, after having been successfully
plundered, most magnificent. 1t con-
tains five naves, six affairs and fourteen
chapels, which contain the bones OF some
of the Viceroys and departed great men
of Mexico. The ''Glory Of the Capola,"
Virgin and revered saints were painted
by celebrated artists. A balustrade
surrounds the choir of metal so rich
that an offer to replace it with one Of
equal weight in solid silver was refused.
This weighs twenty-six tons, and came
from China in the old days of Spanish
dominion, when the richly-freighted
galleons of Spain sent their cargoea
overland from Acaputo to Vera Crus on
the way to the mother country.
The high altar was formerly the rich
est in the world, and yet retains much
of its original glory. It contained can
dlesticks of gold so heavy that single
one was more than man could lift,
chalices. oruets and pyxes of gold in.
crusted with precious metal, studded
with emeralds, amethysts, rubies and
sapphires. a ........
The statue Of the assumption (now
missing) was of gold. ornamented with
diamonds, and is said to have cost 81,
100000. There was . golden lamp
valued ct $40, 600, which it cost at one
time 81, 900 to clean, but, according to-
French writer-and the joke is his-the
liberal troops cleaned it for nothing, and
it has not been seen slnce.--N 7.
journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
This schedule tells its own story of a

This schedule tells its own story of a
royal spree extending over period of
three years. The Indebtedness at the
Girard House was for board, liquors,
etc. While at this hotel he occupied
suit Of rooms on the parlor floor, and
usually had from one to three kindred
sports with him, whose board and ex-
penses he paid for the sake of their
company. The amount of his unpaid
bill at the Girard House, nearly $40, 600,
Is an indication that he and his COM
panions lived tolerably high. How
much money he paid to the Girard
House is not known, but it is thought
to have been as much as he left unpaid.
1t is curious fact that the old played
out Steele farm has been revived and is
making another man rich. This man is
John w. Waits, of Oil City, who bought
the old place few years ago for 81, 600.
He has since been offered $50, 900 for it.
Waits was street gamin about Rouse
vile when Johnny Steele was cutting
his wide swath there, and frequently
held the young oil princes team while
the latter went into saloon to get a
drink.-Oil City pa Letter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
A FREQUENT FAILING.
Statesmen, PHufessOrs and Others VIII,
MisspeD Simple Words.

Statesmen. Professors and Others Who
MisspeH Simple Words.
y clever yourg Harvard instructor
was once heard tc say: Il really never
dare correct stu Tents misspelling till
| have looked into the dictionary"
Just as l." answered clever woman
quickly, never dare use feeble lest I
spell it fe-e-ble!'' The lady was under
the impression that the word should be
spelled '.feable. i" A great and uni
versal contempt is felt for the person
who misspells. But some of the wisest
men and the best have had the misfort-
une of being unable to always marshal
their letters correctly. A Cambridge
provision dealer tells of receiving an
order for salt ''mackrel" from Harvard
professor.
A bill made out by one of the leading
pedagogues of neighboring city con-
cluded with ''ballance due" Those
who know will tell that the sermons of
distinguished clergymen sent up for
printing frequently abound in errors OF
this kind. Cobbett, in his grammar,
loved to give instances of bad spelling
and ungrammatical language in Kings
speeches. The father of his country
had his own system of spelling, and his
wife had another and very different one.
A brilliant actress, whom We all ad-
mire, invariably spells Tuesday Teus-
day. Napoleon was not a correct speller,
and the Iron Duke slipped often. The
misfortune is often an inherited one,
and whole families unto their remotest
branches and twigs will show the same
weakness.
''What!" says Major Pendennis,
''would you marry woman who spels
affection with one f? Why not a woman
as we'll as man? If correct spelling
were necessary to the marriage state she
might ask how many of our Presidents
would be doomed to celibacy. General
Taylor and Andrew johnson would
scarcely have read their title clear to
husbandhood. "-Cambridge Tribune.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
MINNESOTA. ST TE NEWS
A THUNDERBoLT.
u causes Great Disturbance Ut DR.,
Emary'A Residence.

Causes y Great Disturbance 1t Dr.
Emary's Residence. No. 81 IT,
During q storm the other morning
Dr.. and Mrs. G. w. Emery had pecul.
lar experience at their home in Min.
neapolis. One flash of lightning was
seen by the residents in that vicinity, but
that was not seen by the doctor or Mrs.
Emery. In place OF it they were
startled by crash which the doctor
says sounded like the report of a cam
non. He thought ut first 1t was a gun.
and when he got his voice, which for.
sock him temporarily, he asked Mrs.
Emery II she were shot. The lady
pointed to the telephone, butsa second
later went into swoon. ltwas learned
later that the lightning had run in on
the wire and completely shattered the
telephone. 1t burnt tho wire complete
~ and scattered the thread covering all
around the room. Mrs. Emery received
q severe shock, as did the doctor, but a
little son who was in the room at the
time got of with bad scare.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
TRIMMING OFF EARS.

= Novsl Opsratt0n Reosutly Performed
In > Phiiadolphis Hospital
Two photographs have been hung in
the Jefferson Medical College. They
are portraits without faces. They show
the back OF one mans head. The hair
and the conformation prove that the two
pictures represent the same individual,
and yet there is . striking difference,
for in one case the ears are normal,
while In the other they stand ont dis
figuringly from the sides of the head.
The students Of this orthodox old col.
lege are having fun over these photo
graphs, and one Of their whims is to de-
eide by vote who among themselves is
the owner Of the unrevealed face. The
explanation of the divergent ears is that
they grew donkey-fashion, but by sur
gerry they have been reduced to the pro-
portions of human comeliness. The
Photographic lens was permitted to
take a rear view of the ears before their
reduction and again after they had been
shortened, but it was not deemed con-
siderate to portray the face of the man,
and thus subject him to q possibly dis
agreeable publicity.
The improvement in that pair of ears
Is regarded as novelty in surgery, and
that is why the photographs, before and
after. are placed in the college. Mod
ern surgery has not hesitated to cut
new nose out of the cheek, to loop up
dropping eyelid, or engraft the skin of
one person upon another, but it has not
until now given mans ears q setback.
To DR.. William w. Keen, of Jefferson
College. came brother physician to re-
pair job that had been badly done by
natures 'prentice-hand, so to speak.
The young man, for he was only nine
teen, was all ears; that is to say, his
ears were not only sbnormally large,
but they they tapped in painfully alb
surd manner. The surgeon proceeded
to lay bare the cartilage by removing
the skin from the posterior surface of
the auricle, and then exc;sed a long,
narrow piece of the cartilage-V-shaped
In cross sections, as if he had run .
miniature pillow over the ridge on the
back of the ear. Great care was taken
not to cut clear through and thus cause
scar on the anterior surface. The
edges of the cartilage were then drawn
together by catrgut stitches, in addition
to those in the skin. This was done
while the young man was etherized. He
went to sleep with long ears, and he
awoke with short ears-very sorry ones,
and so intricately fastened into position
that for some nights he had to sleep fat
on his back. But when the wound had
healed and the plasters were removed
he found himself possessed of symmetric-
al and fair-sized ears-Philadelph ia
Letter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
UNLUCkY IN LOVE.

broker Csttell Wont to Ruin After His
Sweetheart Broke Her Promise.
1t is almost certain that the recent
flight OF Broker Z. j. Cattell, OF st. Paul,
was due to an unfortunate love affair,
which drove him to desperation. He was
engaged to wealthy belle residing near
Central Park, but the day for the we'd
ding had never been set, as Cattelps
convivial habits were a perpetual bar.
Finally. as he proved that he had no
control over his passion for drink. the
lady broke the engagement From that
time Cattell plunged into dissipatio
and speculation and won't rapidly to
ruin. His shortage was figured any
where from $50, 900 to $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
General McClelian's Widow.

Mrs. George B. Mcclellan, who is
about to take fine house in London
for the season, has had . checkered
existence. Since her husbands death
the widow has sought in Europe some
compensation for that political glory
which was 50 often almost within grasp
at Washington. On the other side Of
the Atlantic Mrs. Mcclellan has been
showered with social attentions, and
during the coming season in London,
whore American women Of culture who
bear an honored name are not too COM
mon, the widow of Little Mac" will not
be neglected. -India Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
THE MEN WERE SHORT.

Couple Of Prisoners Mako q Decidedly
Serious Miscalculstion.
A certain South Carolina sheriff in
sisted that stop with him day or two
and have visit. The jail-yard was
cool, nice place, with shade-tree in it,
and under this tree was slung ham,
mock for the benefit of the sheriff when
he felt like taking nap. was lying
In 1t about mid-afternoon, smoking and
swinging, when heard peculiar noise
below me. Turning partly over so that
could see the earth, l saw it give
way, and next moment the head Of
man appeared above the surface. He
crawled quickly out and second ap-
peared, and then caught on. They
wore prisoners in the Jail, and had tun-
neled from the corridor, about thirty
feet away, to this spot
"Well," l queried as the one who was
on his feet looked around him in q dis
gusted way and then down at me.
"Drat my eyes, but we've dun gone
and dun it," he growled.
"What?"
Snow, you see, Joe," he answered,
addressing his companion, who had only
his head above the surface, ''you 'un is
q blamed fule! You 'un hggered that we
was outside the wall, and we've dun
fell short by ten feet"
II dun reckoned l was k'rect," said
the other.
Eyes, you dun reckoned, and fell off
the mewl! Purity, hain't it! Four
weeks a-diggin' and cum up ten feet
short! We'uns had better wriggle back
and sell our selves fur dog meat!"
And he entered the hole and crawled
back to the Jail, and when the sheriff
came and I told him what had hap
pened he crowded:
'Durn their ornery skins, but If they
like work 50 we'll I'll give it to 'eml I'll
make each one of them saw half cord
OF wood q day from now on to New
Years. "-Detroit Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
The News Briefly Chron,o,od.

fno NoWS Braeny ChrOntC1od.
The directors have decided to hold the
Winona fair and Interstate exposition
August IA to 80 inclusive.
A. D. Ellsworth, owner of the Min.
nesota City Touring mills died recently
at Winona.
r. A. Davis, of Faribault, has been
appointed deputy inspector of the Min
nesota G A. r. Department.
A small cyclone few feet wide tore
up the fields at Belle Prairie recently.
A large number of entries have been
made for the colt stake races to be
trotted at the Southern Minnesota fair
at Rochester next fall.
Colonel Hans Mattson, Secretary OF
State, is writing his ''Recollections" for
publication. The book will be pub
lished in Swedish.
A janitor in the Minneapolis schools
recently got the bounce for kissing the
girl pupils.
Mamie Lovely, aged about IA years,
and Lille Maine, her cousin, aged about
6 years, lost their lives by drowning
the other day in Minneapolis.
State Dairy Commissioner Ives recent
~ expressed his determination to take
tops against those producers who feed
malt to their cattle.
A st. Paul lumberman estimates that
fully IT'S, 600, 900 feet of logs will be
hung up in the drives unless there are
cop,ous rains at an early day. The
shortage is beginning to be felt al.
ready. ~. III. .,.~,.., 1885,.
At Minneapolis recently jury in the
libel suit Of the actors Lottu and Will.
Jams against Fanny Davenport an
nounced that it could not agree. 1t
stood six for verdict varying from
5000 to 81, 900, and six for one cent OF
nothing. .
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04

Gerhard Thaden, one Of the three
principals in the celebrated real-estate
forgery case, in St. Paul, was sentenced
recently to the penitentiary for ten
years. Particle, sentenced last March,
received eight years and five months. J.
b. Tall, the third of the trio, would
probably be sentenced soon. All three
were tried and convicted and their cases
appealed to the Supreme Court but the
judgments wore affirmed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
Dragged aud Robbed.

James Elliott, a wealthy contractor
and builder of the largest ore dock on
Lake Superior, left St. Pau! the other
evening in company with friend whose
name was withheld by officers. At sup.
per in the dining-car this friend drugged
Elliott. robbed HIM If several hundred
dollars and a gold watch, and made his
escape. Elliott was picked up while
wandering around on the streets Of
Ashland, Wis.,, in q half-demented con.
dition. His condition was critical.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
COAl.olL JOHNNY. &
nav Facts About the Man who epeu
Fully 100000 n Year. 81

NOW Facts About the Man who Spent
Fully olO0,OO0 Yesr.
Inc visitor to the oil regions asks
nrst about Coal-Oil Johnny and next
about d. Rockefeller. sc
Inc statement is often published that
Coal-Oil Johnny has died, or that he has
regained his squandered fortune There
IA as much truth in one as in the other.
he Is still alive at the age Of about fifty
years. and his address is Ashland, Saun-
ders County, Neb., where he has lived
Tor tho past twelve years. He is at
present employed as station agent at
Ashland. He has not recovered his
fortune, or any part Of 1t, but makes
comfortable living, and has spparent-
~ forgotten the princely daJs of his
youth.
Coal-Oil Johnny was about three
years running through with his fortune.
1t was at Housewife where johnny be-
gan to throw away his money, but that
town, although one of the red-hot oil
towns. was soon too small for him.
Erie, Buffalo and Pittsburgh knew him
next but 1t was at Philadelphia that he
distinguished himself most. How much
money he squandered in three years is
matter OF conjecture, even in the oil
country. There is, however, q wide
Misrepresentation as to the amount. His
fortune did not reach into the millions
rs has so often been stated. The best
judgment here places it at not above
100000. lie was tho adopted son of
Widow McClintock, and at her death
her oil farm and its accumulated earn
ings passed to him. Perhaps 500, 600
was turned over to Johnny on the set
ting OF the estate, and his share of
tho product of the farm after that
time Is supposed to have been
about 100000. He therefore squan-
dered about 100000 a year for the
three years the money lasted. At the
end OF this time the old bonanza farm
had ceased to yield and his money was
spent.
His career as spendthrift came to an
end on Thursday, February Is, 1868.
when he filed voluntary petition
In bankruptcy in the United States
District Court at Pittsburgh. His in
debtedness at the time was thus sched-
uled:
II. w. Kanga, Girard House, Philadel.
phia 80. .:......... Observation-Disclosures
WIN: e: Galbraith. attorney at-law,
J. =. Galdweil 4 Co., Philadelphia, jew: 1'''''
eIers...: :. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. b,so5
John u. Jones. harness ................ 1880
W. g. Horn, cigars. ....... .......... IS
E: IL. Conklin, Philadelphia, liquors. 2,O.4
Phelan Collender. billiard tables. 500
Unknown creditors, oil palnting...... 2,OOD
FOR haeS....... .......................... 800
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
ClogRod by q Corpso,

A sewer on Grand avenue in West Du.
luth was clogged up and the other day a
man was sent down to clean it out. He dis
covered the body of a male child tightly
jammed into the mouth of the sewer.
The body was entirely nude. There was
no clew to the parents.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
LATEST NEWS.
An Incendiary Fire.

MmDLEsBoRoUGH, KY, May 3l.-At
II o'clock this morning an incendiary
started fire on Cumberland avenue,
and in a few minutes raging fire was
destroying everything before it. The
buildings being mostly frame, tho flames
spread rapidly, and in two hours four
entire squares, containing the finest
buildings in the city, were completely
burned out. The loss will amount to
fully $500, 200, covered by about 1925, 900
of insurance. Several citizens were
badly burned, but none were fatally
hurt. Two thousand people are home
less and had all their effects burned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
CRAZED By TROUBLE.

james 0ulck's Awful Fate Drives His
Wife Hopelossly Insane.
Recently James Quick, miner in No.
9 pit at Tanner, attempted to cross
under the cage road at tho bottom of
the shaft, when the cage suddenly de-
seconded, crushing him to a pulp. He
was Immediately brought to the sur
face, but life was extinct. A messen-
ger was dispatched to apprise the young
wife Of his fate, with the result that she
went violently insane and has remained
so since, refusing food and drink and
continually raving. Doctors the other
day pronounced her case hopeless, ow-
ing to her delicate condition. Quick
and his wife arrived from England
three weeks ago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
New Enterprise for Duluth.

The American Linseed Oil Company
at a'recent meeting decided to locate its
new factory in Duluth. The company
says Duluth is the natural entrepot for
the flax fields OF the Dakotas, Iowa and
Nebraska, and they will purchase their
raw material from these four States.
They will erect mill having capaci-
ty Of nearly 200 barrels day and en-
ploying sixty men. The plant will cost
over $3.50, 900, and the mill will manu-
facture oil, linseed-meal and coke and
concomitant products.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
Ono Thousand Sheep Killed Outright.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, May 31.-One
of the most disastrous wreck known to
the Atlantic & Pacific occurred on that
road yesterday evening two miles west
of it's junction with the Santa Fe rail-
road. A train of double-decked cars
loaded with some 5000 fine Merino NUT
ton sheep, on the way from California
to the Chicago market, was wrecked by
t two %srs Ge St and %us
sheep killed outright.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04
Virgins Predicts Earthquakes.

OAlAVAs OAC', MAY Oh IOA. Wig
gins says that Italy may be shaken to
its very center by earthquakes the pres
ent summer. The earthquake in Arme-
mia three days ago was caused by the
same force that shook up Queen Char
lotte's island. The planets were in
nearly the same position in A. D. 79,
when Pompeii was overwhelmed by
ashes and lava from Vesuvius.
The northern part of Sophia was
wrecked by hurricane on the LIST inst.
The loss of life is considerable. Among
the Soldiers the killed and wounded
number eleven. The loss among the
Inhabitants has not yet been ascer-
tanned. The damage to the palace
amounts to $500, 900.
The inventor of the railroad turn
table, Francis G. Lowehorp, of Trenton,
N. j., died May 81. He was eighty-one
years old and was q civil engineer of
note. g. --.- 49,. a..
Hon. HIRAM SERVER, for thirty years
Q prominent merchant Of Northtield,
Mimi, and trustee Of Carleton College,
died on the 1st Of paralysis.
g.. JOSEPH CH1vIALKowsK1, indicted for
murder at Warren, MIMI, plead guilty
May 81, and was sentenced to imprison-
ment. for life. ..= ~ : r,.-ssz..s, j
O. G. Brown, 9 millionaire banker Of
Marinette, Wis, committed suicide on
the lst inst, by shooting himself.