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Mower County transcript., 1891-09-30
THE HARVEST FESTIVAL.

HAh LC4 1GS44tAo.
Minneapolis outdid herself at the Har-
vest Festival last Wednesday, ard she is
somewhat noted for the energy and out
lay with which she takes hold OF expns:-
tions, conventions, professions, etc |.
took the procession three hours and d
quarter TO pass given point. IL outdit!
the Willard reception. 1t was a fitting
and proper thing 10 hold a festival at the
centre of agricultural interests in the
northwest to celebrate the abundant crop
with which we have been blessed. The
croaking plea that we should hush our
rejoicing lest 1t should lower the price of
grain, and the insinuation that Minneap-
oils inaugurated the celebration for that
purpose, is absurd. The price of grain
will be Fixed by the wants Of Europe and
its ability to pay, and no, bv our abun
dance 1t is evident that they will re-
,uulre all our surplus and more too. They
will buy what they can raise money to
purchase Minneapolis no doubt had an
advertising purpose III her rejoicing, and
il was perfectly legitimate that she
should receive compensation for her out
lay in making known her wares and mer
chandjsu We have no patience with the
Jealous comments We meet in som"
Of our exchanges.
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a New Use for Telephones.

The telephone is about to have a new
application. namely, that of foretelling
storms, A new discovery has been made
as to one Of the properties of this means
of transmitting sound. By placing two
iron bars at seven or eight meters dis
tance from each other, and then putting
them in communication on one side by a
copper wire covered with rubber. and on
the other side with telephone, storm
can. it is said, be predic:ed at least twelve
hours ahead through adead sound heard
in the receiver. -.--.
According as the storm advances the
sound resembles the beating of hailstones
against the windows. Every flash of
lightning, and. of course, every clap Of
thunder that accompanies the storm pro-
duces shock similar to that of stone
cast between the diaphragm and the in
strument.- Cincinnati Commercial Ga
Zette < :
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Dr.. Burchard was born in New England
in 1912. His parents moved to Oneida
county, in the state of New York
Young Burchard was of delicate consti-
tuition but with remarkable mental vigor
When he was II years of age he emigrated
to Kentucky in the hope Of finding re
stored health among the mountains.
While supporting himself by teaching he
prepared for and entered Center College.
He wys still at Danville. KY. when the
cholera scourge swept over the country.
1t was particularly virulent III that part
Of Kentucky. Al! through the reign Of
the disease Young Burchard went from
house to house nursing the sick, adn,ia
lsteriny medicine and speaking words Of
religious comfort in the ears Of The dying,
His reputation extended far and wide
aud in almost every town in Kentucky
he addressed vast audiences on the sub
jects Of temperance, religion and human
rights. He was ordained a minister Of
the Presbyterian church, and after some
months he accepted Il Call to the Houston
street church in New York city. THIS
church afterward moved to West
Thirteenth street. After laboring nearly
forty years DR.. Burchard retired and Was
made president OF the Rutgers Female
College in New York. On October 80,
1884, at convention of ministers at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, to help
Blaine's canvass, the Rev. Dr.. Burchard
delivered the address Of welcome, IN the
course of which he said; I'VE are Re-
pnblicans and don't propose TO leave our
party and identify ourselves with the
party whose antecedents have BEEN
Rum. Romanism and Rebellion ,"
These last words are said to have defeated
Blaine.
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SENATOR GOVERNOR HILL seems 10
Aave captured the late New York Demo
cratic convention. Not a Cleveland man
was permitted To occupy even the hum
blcst place on the ticket Not word
was spoken in the platform approving
or even recognizing his existence On
the contrary, everv candidate Is Hill
man. The platform rings with approval
of his conduc, of state affairs and echoes
his opinions on national issues. 1t is
full of Hill, but Cleveland is mot in il. "
A canvass of the delegates showed four
TO one IN favor of Hill.
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COMMISSIONER Of Pensions Raum. re-
plying To a recent letter says the pension
office is now adjusting an average of
10000 claims per month and tha, Il haye
set the office the task OF issuing $4,000
certificates the present fiscal year, which
viii he an increase of 100. 900 certificates
over the work of the last fiscal year. and
me work OF tllal year showed an increase
of nearly 100. 900 certificates over any
previous year. How does that tally
with Democratic stories of Intentional
delay in the pension office?
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marked Improvements upon the las, good

marked Improvement upon the las,, good
as that Was. .ss
Secretary Foster has made a compro-
mise with the lawyers representing the
importers who under a recent decision
Of the courts were entitled TO rebate on
all of certain class of hat trimmings
imported for some years. It's thought
that tie sum To be paid under the com
promise will he somewhere IN The neigh
borh oot' of $S.OO0.O0O. whereas, If the
parties had stuck out for all that they
could have been awarded by the courts.
the amour, would have heen largely in
excess of $2O, 800 600. besides the costs of
defending the numerous suits. The com.
promise is regrrded as an economical one.
The president is almost ready to an
nounce numbdr of important appoint
ments, and it will not ne surprising if
some Of them are made before this letter
is put in type.
Republicans who have allowed them
selves to be led astray by the idea that
Southern democrats who have Joined
the Farmers Alliance would combine in
forming a na;ional third party. the prln-
cipa' object nf which wouI,i be to right
thaDeal and fancicd wrongs of The ayri-
cultural and laboring classes. may find
food for thought in the folio wing posi-
tive language used by Senator Ransom
of North Carolina. STATE in which Col.
Polk, president OF the National Farmers
Alliance says The Alliance is ready to go
into The :hird party movement. Senator
Ransom says: There is no third party
in North Carolina, and there will not he.
The Alliance 18th the exception of a few
demoyogues in,tnL only upon improving
their own pr!>ona Iur'unts. IS >.,l:,.iy
Democratic aud will remain so.
The American Congress of Physicians
and Surgeons and lie American Pnmo-
logical Society have held Iargelv'at;ended
meetings here This week.
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A Singular Coincidence.

Quite singular coincidence occurred
q few days since. Some ten years ago.
while at work in New Jersey mine
shaft. George Smith fell and found him,
self confined in well 125 feet from the
surface of the ground. He was finally
rescued from his uncomfortable position
by a rope which was thrown him.
While relating the circumstance the
other day to his room mate, he was not
a little surprised to learn that his res
cuer Of ten years ago was none other
than his present companion. Beverly
(Mass.) Times.
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W asningtOn Letter.
(FrOm our regular Correspondent


Washington, Sept. 25. 1891.
The President has, it is understood
here, decided that NJ. NJ Estee, Of Cali
fornia, shall enter his Cabinet when the
reorganization made necessary by the
retirement Of Secretary Proctor and the
expected retirement of Attorney General
Miller. takes place. Il IS as yet uncer-
tain whether Mr.. Esiee will become At
torney General or Secretary of the 1nte-
rior, as Secretary Noble will probably be
given the privilege of exchanging his
present portfolio for that of Attorney
General If he wishes to do Sc, and it is
believed that he does. Mr.. Estee would
probably have gone into the Cabinet
when it was first organized, but he de-
clined serving in any place except that
of Attorney General or Secretary Of the
Interior, and both of these places had
been rendered to and accepted by the
present incumbents before the President
was made acquainted with Mr.. Estec's
wishes
Secretary Foster will 90 to Ohio about
the first of October for the purpose of
taking the stump for Mckinley. His
speeches will, in the main, he upon finan-
cial topics, although he will not slight
state affairs, upon which few men in
Ohio are so we'll posted The Secretary
takes special pleasure in recalling the
doleful predictions which the Democrats
have made of the coming crash in the
treasury ever since be became its head,
and of the ease with which the treasury
has passed every predicted crisis, not
only without default or deficit, but with
cash to spare. All these things he will
tell the Ohio voters in his own inimi1a-
BILE style. He will also show them with
indlsputable figures that the present
Democratic predictions of future bank
ruptcy are as wild and baseless as were
all of those which have gone before. .
Postmaster General Wanamaker, ever
alive to increasing the efficiency of the
postal service, had the Division Superin-
GcuOcutS VI tAAC halfway Mdli @OCIVICc O1
the entire country here this week, in
order that they might confer and give
each other the benefit of their individual
experience in improving the service.
The improvement of the mail service has
been continuous from the time it came
oack into the hands of the Republicans,
somewhat crippled on account of the in
efficiency of a large number of the en-
ployes appointed by the Cleveland ad-
ministration. but the Improvement dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80 last,
as shown by the official reports, was
something marvellous, and reflects great
credit upon every body connected with
the service in any capacity. The rail-
way mail clerks distributed $500, ,OOO, 900
pieces of mall matter, which was 75O, ,OOO,-
coo more pieces than were distributed
the previous year. and only one error to
each 4,193 pieces handled we're made.
against one error for each 2,799 pieces
the previous year. and the number Of
complaints have been fewer than ever
before, while the complimentary Letters
from business houses have never been so
numerous The Superintendents say
that the present fiscal year will show q
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Dow GIVE Up.

The use OF Ayers Sarsaparilia- One bottle
may not cure right orr complaint OF
years; persist until cure is enected. AS q
general rule, improvement follows shortly
after beginning the use of this medicine.
With many people, the effect is Immediately
noticeable; but some constitutions are less
susceptible to medicinal influences than
others, and the curative process may, there
lore, IN such cases, be less prompt. Perse-
verance in using this remedy is sure of its
reward at last. Sooner or later, the most
stubborn blood diseases Weld to
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world to have allowed the invention Of
another man to be used in the con-
structlon OF the bridge without paying
him for it. and that if Du Bois' patents
were infringed upon it was by accident
and because the bridge engineers did not
know that that style Of Golfer dam had
been patented ed.-Brooklyn Eagle
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CAMPBELL AND MCKINLEY will have a
catch as catch can" political encounter
ut Ada. Hardin county, Ohio. on Oct 8.
Everything points to a Mckinley victory
next November. There were such mon.
strous hes ;old las. fall in regard to
effects that would follow the Mckinley
tariff that the reaction will be propor-
tiOnately strong
Mower County transcript., 1891-09-30

THE Attorney General Of the state OF
Washington has given an opinion that it
is unconstitutional to read the Bible in
the schVoIs of that state. They nave
since been shaken with An earthquake.
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Narrow and Broad Gaupes.

How many people remember the fa-
nous ''battle Of the gauges?" The vic
tory of what was once known as the
narrow gauge" but is now the stand
ard or national gauge, since narrower
ones are not unknown, is so absolute that
this is the last year of the existence OF
Brunel's measurement for the Great
Western Railway company's permanent
way. For many years on that line the
broad gauge has been disappearing, and,
as announced in our report of the COM
pany's half yearly meeting, the change
is to be complete by the Goth of May
next. The disappearing gauge, origi-
nally adopted on the Great Western
railway on Brunels plans. is feet 4
The common gauge, now roughly
called the 4-foot way, is really #. 81 in.
That is the difference between the rails,
the fractional measurement being, we
believe, explained by the fact that origi-
nally the width Of the rails together
made up an additional 81 inches, and
gave wheel track of exactly 5 feet to
suit the earlier locomotives and trains
The heads of rails are now much broader
varying on the different lines from 24 to
e inches, or together from 5 to 81
inches.-London News.
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Ayers
Sarsaparilla

For several years, in the spring months,
used to be troubled with a drowsy, tired
1eellng, and dull pain in the small Of my
pack, so bad, at times, as to prevent my
being able to walk the least sudden motion
causing me severe distress. Frequently
boils and rashes would break out on various
parts OF the body. By the advice of friends
and my family physician began the use of
Ayers Sarsaparilla and continued it till the
poison in my blood was thoroughly eradica-
ted."-L.W. English, Montgomery City, Mo.
MY system was all run down; my skin
rough and OF yellowish hue. Itried various
remedies, and while some of them gave ME
temporary relief none OF them did any per-
manent good. At last began to take
Ayers Sarsaparilla, continuing it exclusive
ly for considerable time, and am pleased
to say that it cOmDletely
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A suit Agalnst tne BrookIy n bridge.

"A suit Against the Brooklyn Bridge.
In short time the most important
damage suit that has ever been brought
against the Brooklyn bridge will be
tried. It is for 81 ,ce9, 900. and will in
volve some nice points of law. A
Franco-American inventor named Du
Bois is bringing the suit He claims
that in sinking the caissons of the bridge
certain patents belonging to him were
infringed upon, and that without the use
of his inventions the bridge could not
have been successfully built. So inn
portant does District Attorney Clarke
consider the case, and of such grave
moment to the interests Of the two cit
les, that at his request the services of a
we'll known patent lawyer have been
secured as counsel, and he has al
ready received from the bridge 81 900 as
a retaining fee.
There is an interesting story told of
Bridge Secretary Henry Beam in con-
nection with the sinking of these cais-
sons. He says that it was at first in
tended by the bridge engineers to sink a
regular Golfer dam, and on this place the
big piles that support the bridge struc-
ture, but that William G. Kingsley op-
posed this plan, giving as his reasons fo1
SO doing that no ordinary Golfer dam
would hold in the fierce currents Of the
East river. Then it was that the sink.
ing Of the caissons was decided upon.
In other words, they used Golfer dam,
not in the regular fashion, but upside
|. down. And now the wooden box rest.
on bed Of rock forty feet below the
bottom Of the river.
Nj. Beam says that Mr.. Kingsley
would have been the last man il The
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strengthening Cast Iron.

Some Of the most prominent iron
founders are introducing new and sim
pie practice in order to secure stronger
castings, the method in question consist
ing in placing thin sheets Of wrought
iron in the center Of the mold previous
to the operation Of casting. This method
was first resorted to, it appears, in the
casting OF thin plates for the ovens of
cooking stoves, it being found that a
sheet Of thin iron in the center Of quar-
ter inch oven plate rendered it practi-
cally unbeatable by fire.
This result has led to the process be-
ing now applied to the casting Of large
iron pipes, core Of sheet iron imparting
additional strength and lessening the
liability to any fracture. AS an evil
dence of the additional strength capable
Of being impaired by this means, it Is
stated that plate Of iron one-fourth of
an inch thick, cast with perforated
sheet of 27-wire gauge wrought iron In
the center, possessed six times the
strength of similar cast plate with no
core. The quarter inch plate had the
strength Of plate one inch thick.-New
York Sun
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Contagious Disease.

Individual resistance to contagipn is
none the less remarkable. A physician
or nurse will be brought into the most
intimate contact with case of contagi-
GUS disease without contracting It, while
the same patient may communicated to
person passing him in the street, in, the
early stages Of his trouble, before it.has
developed sufficiently to cause any
alarm. We have known of q most'ma-
lignant attack of diphtheria commune
Gated to druggist by person calling
at the store before his disease had fully
developed itself; and q lady suffering
from the mumps succeeded in commune
eating them to a sympathizing neighbor
WHO stopped for moment at the door
to inquire after her health, while other
members of the family residing in the
same house remained unaffected. -Popu-
lar Science News.
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Now and then a small door may be
seen high up in the piers that divide the
nave from the chancel. This is the door
that once gave access from the winding
stair within the pier to the footway ON
the top Of the screen with which most
churches were once provided. When
screens were found inconvenient and
were removed, these doors were left.
Ross church, Herefordshire, has mo-
ticeable example; Hinckley church, Lei
cestershire, has another. Gentlenlan's
Magazine.
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A One sided bargain.

The champion horse trade of the vicin-
ity took place recently. A well known
Lee jockey secured q snowy colt, and
HE'D himself to the Dale to see the boys.
When he came back he was driving a
6ne black horse, leading good bay,
while there followed behind a pair Of
oxen, a COW, an old SOW and eight pigs.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
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How It Feels to Have u Bug In Ones Ear.
"a bug in his ear" is a figure very ex-
tensively used In common conversation.
But, reader, did you ever have bug in
your ear In fact? II not, you have no
idea how it feels. B. r., Tomlinson, who
experienced the sensation, says he never
suffered such torture in his life. The
bug crawled into his ear while he was
lying In bed asleep, between II and IL
o'clock one night. 1t was only COM
mon candlebug or fly, but the degree Of
torture one Of them can infict while in
the ear is beyond the scope of the imagi-
nation. Mr.. Tomlinson said that when
he awoke he dreamed that railway
train had jumped the track, struck him
in the ear and was blowing its way
through his head. The train kept going,
but it seemed that it would never get
through.
Occasionally it would stop and then
start again with renewed force. Then
again the train seemed to be at stand
still, but the wheels would be turning
with lightning rapidity. The train
would move off gradually with a grating
noise, and wonld not stop till the whistle
blew for the next station or it ran off the
track or collided with another train,
which frequently occurred. Mr.. Tom
hnson stood the torture till daylight,
when he sent for doctor, who succeeded
in fishing out the bug, which In the
meantime had died. Mr.. Tomlinson
said that if the bug had remained in his
ear an hour longer he would have been
raving maniac. Mexico (Mo.) Intelh-
Qancar.
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WHAT WILL TIME cvEf

What will Time give for what we lose,
Youths rapturous hope,
The far outlook from which to choose
The wide, glad scope?
What will Time give2 A little praise,
A little blame,
An added gift of ehangeful days.
Perhaps a name.
What will 1Sme give2 A narrow place.
A lonely spot,
Remembrance for a little space,
And then-forgot.
Ada Iddings Gallo In Chicago Inter Ocean.
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In one part of the Mongol country
passed over by Mr.. Rockhill in his jour
ney to Thibet he found that boots were
the only things the people would receive
in exchange for horses, food, etc., and
he congratulated himself that he had
carried along two dozen pairs, with
cloth tops and queer upturned toes.
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naautifuI shelr Money.

The most beautiful shell money In the
world is made of the abalone Of our
western coasts. When polished the
abalone shows lovely green, purple and
iridescent colors, and the Indians from
California to Alaska value it highly, as
do the manufacturers of pearl buttons.
Philadelphia Press.
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The money of Chilli at present is pc
culiar. 1t consists Of small tags Of
pasteboard, on which man writes the
value for which he Is willing to redeem
it, putting his name on the back. 1t
then begins to circulate, until 1t finally
gets back to the source from which IL
emanated. Boston Traveller.
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It is suggested that the cat knows by
happy experience what the clap Of lux
ury" means when she steals into the
pantry and ticks the cream of the milk.
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Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk s27.
9S7 m, 1.35, 5.32 and $50 m. Sunday $50 D M
For Phiilipsburg and Easton only 6.32 m week
days.
Leave Frenchtown $50 1908 a m, 2O7, 9. 5S D m.
weekdays. For Philipsburg and Easton only
706 p.
Arrive Phillipsburg 1856 and 10. 40 M. $50 G "a
744 and $50 p m. sunday, s. 80. d M
Leave Phnlipsburg 7.26, 1856 and TO- 40 m. ESQ
63S and 9.3J m. sunday $50 m.
Arrive Belyidere $780, 1904 and LII a m. 3.24.
100 and 957 IN. Sunday, 957 pm
Arrive Manunka Chunk 500, 1910, Ills M
$3.50, 1907 and 1908 m. Sunday 1908 IN.
Additional trains leave Belvidere for Manunka
Chunk 6.45, $40 a. M, and 2.25 p. m. Sunday AS
m. Returning, leave Manunka Chunk for Belvf.
dere IL. 10 m, ITO, 1908 Sunday, 10 05 D. m.
Freight or mixed trains leaving ManInka
Chunk ut sos a. m, Belyidere Git a. M Martin
Creek at 645 m. arriving at Lehigh Junction at
7O5 a. m, will carry passengers and make stops al
Tag stations north OF PhiIlipsburg. Trains ieav.
Ing Manunka Chunk at 8.25 a m, and 43O o m
will carry passengers to Belyidere.
Connecticut is made at Manunka Chung with
Delaware, Lackawanna a. Western Railroad: lie.
high junction with Lehigh Valley Lehigh & SuH
qnehanna M orris Essex and New Jersey Contra
Railroads. AtLambertyille with Pennington Rail-
road AtTrenton with trains to and from New
York, Camden, dc.
Forfurther information see timetables, which
can be obtained at the ticket Offices
caAs. e. PUGH, J.R. WOOD,
General Manager. General PASSENGER Aaent
F. W JACKSON.
GeD'lsupt. U. r. R. of N. j. Div.
WILSON BROWN, Supt. Belvidere Div
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Becomes Luxuriant

and beautiful. All who have once tried
Ayers Hair Vigor, want no other dressing.
Galbraith s. Starks, Druggists, Sharon
Grove, KY, write: 1--WE believe Ayers
Hair Vigor to be the best preparation of the
kind in the market, and sell more of 1t than
of all others. No drug store is complete
without supply Of it,"
81 have used Ayers Hair yigor with
great benefit and know several other per-
sons, between 40 and 80 years of age, who
have experienced similar good results from
the use of this preparation. 1t restores gray
hair to its original color, promotes new
growth, gives lustre to the hair, and cleanses
the scalp of dandruff." - Bernardo Oc}oa,
Madrid Spain.