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Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
California Lands,

Albert d. Richardson, in his inter-
esting series of letters recently pub
ished in the New York Tribune, gives
the following good idea of real estate
affairs OH the Golden Shore:
"Wild lands in remote counties can
still be bought for one and $2 per
acre; nearer markets, they COM
mand from S. to $40. Ranches there
are no farms i'm California-every
thing is a ranch) half mile outside
the city of Sacramento and three
miles from the river, sell for one
hundred per acre. In one of the best
districts, ten or fifteen miles south of
San Francisco, ID. o. Mills has an es.
tate Of 4000acres.' Though 1t Is notdis-
tinctlvely dairy farm, he keeps 400
milch cows. A railway track, for
taking his produce to market; runs
into his barn. The large highly inn
proved ranches in that region are
held at from two hundred and fifty to
three hundred dollars per acre,
Farming I'm Califoria has been won
derfully lucrative. Hundreds Of
thousands of acres are rated ut figures
which would frighten an Eastern
man, but upon which wool.growing
alone has returned a clear profit OF
three per cent. month for several
years. The same Is measurably true
ofother agricultural interests. Small
farms are growing i'm favor, but the
old Spanish system has left many
large land holders. To belittle i'm
mense tracts is a general affectation
an outcropping of local humor. The
Californian invites an Eastern visit
itor; Come down to San Matco and
spend week with me- Have you
a rancho there? Yes, a little place.
What do you call a little place p
well twenty thousand es,-or
thirty or forty thousand, as the case
may be. Everybody seems to have
little place.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
saturday Night.

Saturday night makes people HUI
man-writes some weary laborer of
the mart. 1t sets human hearts to
beat softly, as they used to do before
the world turned them into war
drums and Jared them to pieces
with tattoes. The ledger closes with
a clash, the iron-doored vaults come
to with o bang, up so the shutters
with a will, clink goes the key in the
lock. Its Saturday night, and home
ward, no! The door that has been
ajar all week gently closes behind
him, the world Is all shut out. Shut
in rather. Here are his treasures
after all, and not in the vault, and
not in the book--save the record in
the old family Bible-and no. i'm the
bank. May be you are a bachelor
frosty and forty. Then, poor fellow,
Saturday night is nothing to you,
just as you are nothing to anybody.
Get a wife, blue-eyed or black-eyed /;
but above all true eyed. Get a little
home--no matter how little---a sofa,
just to hold two or two and q half,
and then get the two, or two and q
half in it, of Saturday night, and
then read this paragraph by the
light of your wife's eyes, and thank
God and take courage.-Brick Pome-
ron.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
Selecting seed Corn,

The Prairie Farmer. says:
Alta late meeting of Kentucky
Farmers Club, DIR. Speer detailed
bis experience with corn. He had
for years instructed his men to Sc elect
up to a standard sample he gave
them, and then himself select the
best from the pile. The result was
that his neighbors, seeing his extra
yield, came to him for seed, and the
distiller paid him an extra price 70,
his corn, because IL made more
whisky"
We have several times called the
attention Of our readers to the inn.
portance of selecting the most per.
feet ears of corn for seed, and the ex-
perience of this DIR. Speer is just in
accordance with the views we have
expressed. BY making regularly a
careful selection, his corn has at
tained a marked superiority over
that of his neighbors. This seems to
us but a matter of course--just what
the laws Of nature must produce.
Like begets like. The better the
seed the better the product, and II
from the best crop the best specimens
are selected for seed again the tend.
ency must be to n still better crop.
If our farmers will carefully select
the earliest and best ears from stalks
that produce two ears each, We are
confident they will find profitin IT.
as this DIR. Speer found. Now Is an
excellent time to select seed, If 1t has
not been done before. - Exchange.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01

"I want paper that has long
stories In 1t, said young lady; and
she added, I don't want a paper for
anything else" Poor girl much to
be pitied; and pitiful appearance
she will make Though life at the
present rate. She wants nothing
serious, no acquaintance with the
history of her times, nothing but
newspaper novels!
Empty heads they must be that
can find room every week for some
ten columns of sham story. Yet
these are the heads for which the
eastern press tolls and groans, throw
Ing off by the ten thousands Its
sheets of shallow, insipid, and dis
gusting fiction; and for this an
amount of money is paid which a
sound home lierature utterly fails to
command. Fathers and mothers buy
this vile trash for their sons and
daughters, and SO minister to their
ignorance and destitution of all good
taste and fitness for life's duties.
Doubtless the weekly or periodical
press does more than any other one
instrumentalIty to decide the opin-
ions, habits of thought, and general
character Of the age. A family will
very soon Legin to show sympathy
with its weekly paper, and parents
and children will soon begin assimi-
lating 10 IL In sentiment and feeling;
and as families are, so Is the commu-
nifty at large. Blind and stupid.
therefore, yea, worse, are those rho
tolerate in their houses a class Of
papers which are made up of the
writings Of silly, ignorant scribblers,
who would be Eat the foOtu i'm the
town schools of morals. Such are
teachers OF half the generation. And
such Is the false philosophy OF pat
ronizing trashy papers from the East,
yea Police Gdzstts and Days Dohegs,
while pleading poverty to sustain the
most sterling home Journals.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01

Mr.. Baird, a student in the Iowa
State Agricultural College, read the
following paper, descriptive of one of
Iowa's greatest as well as coolest Gu.
riosities, before the Natural History
Society of that Institution on last
Saturday evening: "One of the nat
ural curiosities of Winnesheik coun-
ty is an Ice Cave. 1t is situated on
the opposite side of the Upper Iowa
river from the town of Decorah.-
The river is swift running stream
OF clear water with clear bottom, aud
Is about Is rods In width. You climb
the bluff, about so feet; the top
of 1t is covered with large rocks upon
which are growing cedars of various
sizes and ages. With candle In your
hard and overcoat on your arm, you
enter the cave, which at first de-
scends somewhat abruptly, and re-
quires some skill to keep upon your
feet. The descent continues Is to 20
feet, you then come to a level floor
covered with gravel and dampened
with water from the limestone rocks
above"
AS you come up the the bluff you
are almost suffocated with the heat ;
now you are reminded of winter, and
begin to feel the Importance of warm
clothing. Proceeding thirty or forty
feet further you come to division in
the cave, through which you must
creep on all tours. You then come
to the larger room, which Is from ten
to fifteen feet i'm width, sixty feet
long and thirty or forty feet high
At the top of the cavern there Is a
hole through which the light is faint
iy glimering, lighting dimly the cold
aud gloomy apartment. If you ex-
anime the sides of the room you find
iclcles of various sizes and shapes,
and water slowly dripping from them.
The bottom of the room is covered
with gravel; 1t looks as though
1t might be used as habitation
for man, fit could be warmed, but it
Is entirely destitute Of occupants with
the exception of here and there a SOL
itary toad, waiting for the much des-
ired fy.-State Register.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
Clean Youl. Wheat.

Many of our farmers who bring
wheat TO market, just as 1t comes
from the threshing machine, are a
good deal surprised sometimes when
they do not receive the highest mar
ket price for 1t. Many, 1t is true, are
willing to submit to a reduced price
rather than take the trouble to clean
their wheat properly. Those who
purchase their uncleaned wheat
make an additional profit of from
three to five cents per bushel by run
nirg IL only once through a tanning
machine. The farmer receives only
that which is paid for third quality
or rejected wheat, but the purchaser,
by cleaning it, receives the prices
paid for No. l wheat. If The farmer
t0iH give away such large percent
age of his hard earnings, rather than
clean his wheat, as il should be
cleaned, there is not much hope of a
reformation in that quarter; but
when IL Is done through ignorance of
the loss sustained, the man, who
does it is to be pitied, and something
should he done to enlighten him.
The man who reads an agricultural
paper regularly will not do it if he
can help it, but how is he to be
reached when he does not read that
or any other kind of papers ?"-
Homestead.
There Is another side to the above
story. That it ought to pay the farm
er to prepare his wheat In. the best
manner for for market we do not
question, but that 1t does pay him is
certainly not always true. The
above goes upon the assumption that
there Is no loss of weight in the
cleaning. 1t is not very dirty wheat
that will not clean out three to five
cents worth per bushel. We have
seen something of wheat buying,
and judging from what we have seen
We very much doubt whether farm
er Is not the gamer by taking his
wheat to our local markets rs It
comes from the thresher. We have
often seen such wheat sell within
two to three cents bushel of the
price offered for the same quality
that had been cleaned with the great
est care. We know that the loss of
weight in cleaning was much more
than this, besides all the trouble of
doing it. We have seen farmers so
indignant Mt the slight difference
made between their nicely cleaned
wheat and the dirty lots of others
that they promised the next they
brought i'm they would salt with dirt
by the wayside. Farmers will clean
their wheat when it is made an OBJ
ject for them to do so, but while buy
ers are willing to pay for dirt most
farmers will furnish Ii to them. We
think there is no such discrimina-
ton made I'm favor of clean wheat by
our buyers as the interests of both
buyers and farmers demand. IL
ought to be for the interest of every
farmer to bring all his products to
market i'm the best possible condl-
tion.-IotCd City Republican
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01

A Father Sacrifices his Sons life to
save Passenger Train--Re ena arIxa-
BILE Instance of Devotion TO Duty.

A most notable and wonderful in.
stance of devotion to duty was shown
by the bridge man on the Newark &
New Jersey railroad yesterday-in.
deed, devotion that seems unnatu-
raj, for the man in question sacrificed
his child's life to save the lives of
others.
Jam es Decker, the man in ques-
ton, Is employed to open and close
the drawbridge on the Passaic river.
Yesterday morning, Decker. as usual
was employed upon the bridge, ac-
companied by his son, a lad of ten
years. Some vessels requiring to go
up the stream, the bridge was opened
by Decker and the boats permitted to
pass through. There was not much
time to spare in closing the bridge, a
train being due there in few min
utes. Slowly the bridge turned on
its table, and when within a few
yards of its proper position Decker
heard the shrill whistle of the loco
motive on its way to the Jersey de-
pot. At almost the same moment he
heard cry for help coming from be-
meath the bridge, aud looking down
into the water he observed, with hor-
ror, that his son had fallen into the
river and was struggling for life.
He could easily have jumped down
into the water and saved his boy. but
the train was coming OH at rapid
pace and the bridge was still open,
and to save his son was to insure the
destruction of the train.
Parental love is strong, and 1t was
strong In Decker; the first impulse
of the father was to leave the train to
itsfate and save the boy, but the de-
votion to duty overcame parental
affection, and he instantly determin-
ed to save the train by closing the
bridge.
The draw was arranged with all the
speed possible, and then Decker
rushed to the assistance of bis child,
but 1t was too late, for the boy had
sunk to be seen no more alive. He
obtained assistance, and i'm few
minutes recovered the body of the
poor little one. Great indeed was
the fathers grief, although he did
not regret the decision that ended his
sons life. This is an event almost
Without parallel, and seems quite
as improbable as are many of the
scenes described i'm the yellow cover
ed literature of the day. There are
few Deckers in the world. His ac-
tion was so thoroughly unselfish, so
noble, as to appear not only improb-
able but unnatural.-Ncao York Star,
lIh.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01


No young lady can be too well In.
structed I'm anything which will af-
feet the comfort Of family. What
ever her position in society, she needs
a practical knowledge of household
duties. She may be placed in such
circumstances that it will not be
necessary for her to perform much
domestic labor; but on this account
she needs no less knowledge than If
she were obliged to preside personally
over the cooking stove and pantry.
Indeed, have often thought that 1t
Is more difficult to direct others, aud
requires more experience, than to do
the same work with our own hands.
Mothers are frequently so nice and
particular that they do not like to
give up any part Of their care to
their children. This Is great Mis-
take In their management, for they
are often burdened with labor, and
need relief. Children should be early
taught to make themselves useful
TO assist their parents I'm every way
In their power, and to consider ii q
privilege to do so.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
The Water. Wheel A gain
A Challenge from LefleI xSFa

| We find the following communica
.ion from Jas. Leffel & Co, of Spring
field, Ohio, patentees of the Douhl,
American Turbine Water Wheel, In
the Buitotin: ....
SPRINGFIELD. o., Aug. 10, $50.
WIN. ToMAN, Esq, .....
Ed. BUCHANAN Co. BULLETIN
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa In your Is.
sue of the 2Sd ult. we notice about
two and q half columns of your valu.
able paper taken up In giving an ac-
count Of wonderful test of water
wheels made in your city last month,
and that Ar. S. Shertcood, a practi-
cal millwright, made all the neces-
sary arrangements for said test; and
that others having wheels there had
been invited to make test. SO far
as this being the fact az to ourselves,
below we refer you to his letters
ordering said wheel o. us to run a
grindstoue, and not until after we
had shipped the the wheel just be-
fore the test, did he intimate to Ills
that the wheel was going to be used
to make a test with it. We frequent
ly have advice of such things going
on, but pay no attention to them,
We notice that Mr.. Sherwood had
ten men TO sign a paper that his APP
paratus was proper one for testing
wheels, but not one to sign as to
what each wheel did. Now as we
are satisfied that he did not give our
wheel fair chance, we will give him
all the advantage of his experience
in said test with our wheel, and
make him or his friends this offer
through your paper: That is we
will put up $1,000 to pay him Cor his
wheel II he beats us, and Mr.. Sher-
wood to put up 1000 to pay us for
our wheel If we beat his, the test to
be made on full and half gates; ST.
600 of said money to be given to
some benevolent institution in Inde-
pendence. Said test to be made OH
neutral ground, at some suitable
place between Springfield, Ohio, and
Independence, Iowa, or at Lowell,
Mass, where we understand they
are prepared for making tests. We
would further mention that our lule
is not to reorganize any test with our
wheel, unless one Of our firm Is there
in person, nor do we pretend TO at
tend to those calls unless there is
prospect of remuneration.
A. l., Finch of this city Is agent
for Lefiel Il Co, and any one wish
to accept the above challenge eau
call upon him.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
The Door. Which is Opeu-
cd by Death.

AT the recent services Of the wife
of Rev. DIR. Bellows, of New York.
the Rev. Robert Colyer, of, Chi
cago, stood by the coffin, aud, almost
childlike simplicity, gave Inference
to the following beautiful words:
I'VE stand here by this body deep
~ impressed with the nobility and
beauty which has left its tabernacle.
May | make vocal to you the exam
pie and noble pattern she has left
you? No words that can be said by
those dear and near, can touch the
heart "a do the remembrance of her
life. The silent lesson that rests
within our souls Is worth more than
any / can present. The blessedness
which God sends OH such an occasion
as this Is sweeter than when the
babe is born, or when the daughter
goes forth bride. / sometimes
think that IL faith should leave US,
death would surely leave no hope.
We carry our beloved 70 the grave
and listen to the whisper that comes
across the silence, saying, Il am the
resurrection, ard the way, The life
to come seems all clear to me. These
things are the shadow of the sui
stance which is approaching. This
Is but the assurance of the blessed
ness that Is to come, never to fade or
pass away. When / feel best, | am
certain that death Is only a door
opening into n better life. know
well that my four children who went
out of my home will all come back
to me again. | shall see them and
they will recognize their father.
Dear friends, you who suffer most to-
day, take this assurance TO your
homes. There will be times when
this dear sister will almost reveal
herself tpyou. In the sweet twilight
OF the evening, In the scented wreath
OF morning, she will come and talk
with each of you. When the chill
dren comfort their bereaved father
they will find that their mother IL
near them. This home is not deso-
late. Our sorrows will not be i'm
possible to bear il we know how to
understand the lesson God IL teach-
Ing. The homes of this city will
ever be bright with the noble exam
pie of this beloved sister, and thank
God for this revelation and assurance
that all Is well, and will be well for
ever"
Nearly every person in the room
was moved to tears.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
Two Meals a DAY.

III any man or women of f0rty-five
or over, not engaged In hard natural
labor, especially the studious, seden-
tary and In doors livers, would take
but two meals day for one month,
the second not being later than three
In the afternoon, and absolutely
nothing afterwards, except IL might
be In some cases an orange, or lemon,
or cup of warm drink, such as tea,
broma, sugar water, or ice cream,
there would be such a change for the
for the better in the way of sound
sleep, feeling on waking of having
rested, an appetite for breakfas "a
buoyance' of disposition during the
day, with geniality of temper ard
manner that few, except the animal
and the glutton, would be willing to
go back to flesh pots of Egypt.
Ben Wade," as he was frequently
called, one of the political lions OF
the west, has taken but two meals \
'"S ior twenty years, ana IL all sed-
entary persons, those who are In
door greater part of their time.
would after the age of forty.five OBJ
serve the same inflexible rule, there
can be no doubt other things being
equal, that longer years OF happy
exemption from the ordinary ills of
life would be the result, The reason
Is that the stomach would have time
to rest, for recuperation. and would
thus be able to perform its part more
thoroughly, making purer blood,
giving better sleep, and securing
good appetite for breakfast. Let any
man try IL for ten days, taking the
second meal seven hours after the
first and abandon the practice II he
| can.--Hdtps Journal of Health.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01

Ephraim Carpenter, farmer liv.
ing near Sigourney, committed sui
eide last week on account Of a fear
that his crops would be destroyed
by the rain. The NeWs says: On
the morning Of his death he arose
from bed about o'clock, and after
putting on bis clothes went to the
door and finding that 1t had rafned
heavily during the night. He then
returned, complaining that his ont
crop would be all lost, and then lay
down across the foot of the bed
where heremained a short time W hen
he again arose and passed out
through shed room to the out side
door. 1t is supposed that as he pass.
ed out he took the pistol from the
clock shelf unobserved by his wife,
and seating himself on the doorst.p
Immediately fired, the ball entering
the right temple and lodged behind
the left eye."
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
CyERMAN aROS.

IRON FOUNDERS AND GENERAL MA
Il chinists Cedar Falls, Iowa. Steam Engines
and Mill Gearing made and repaired: Window and
Door Caps and Store Fronts made to order Iron
Planning done to order in the neatest style Orders
Respectfully Solicited. Cash paid for old Cast
IRON and Brass. 02g
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01


DID ANY OF THEM GEL Away
A good story is told Of late WE'LL
known New York politician aud
railroad manager. During his alb
sence from home his wife gave birth
TO twins. He was telegraphcd par
ticulars and immediately fastened
home. Knowing when he might be
expected, the nurse borrowed third
baby of about the same age, and
placed II in the crib with the twins.
Immediately on sreaching home, our
friend hastened to his wife's cham
ber. aud after he gave congratula-
tions to her, asked to be shown the
baby. Tie nurse, who had frequent
ly served on similar occasions i'm his
family, raised the covering and ex-
hibited to him the three babies.
Opening his eyes with surprise, and
thoroughly taken aback by the
view, he turned TO his wife and ex-
claimed: Coed Lord. mother; did
amy OF them get away 20
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01

HkAANER. HOUSE, CARRIAGE AND
~ Sign Painter has taken r. Wild's place nj
Jedar Falls. and will give entire satisfaction 10 Mi
Mho entrnst him with work In his line of business
,hop over fosdick's wagon shop. Paper hanging
neatly done on short notice
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01

A little girl was rebuked by her
mother for her fondness for killing
flies. The little one had acquired
great dexterity in this employment,
and was SO much occupied In 1t that
the parent found she was growing
into state Of cruelty. Calling the
child to her one day, sho said In
sad tone, Mary, dear. don't you
know that God loves the little flies ?"
Mary seemed to hctr the words as
though they suggested great many
new ideas. She stood by her moth
er's side for some time In thoughtful
sadness, and ut length walked up to
the window where bewildered fly
was humming and buzzing about OH
the pane. She watched IL lovingly
for some time, and tlien, almost loo
full OF grief to speak plainly, she be-
gan to utter caressing words. "Doz
ee fie know that bod loves 90? Does
90 love Dod?" Here she extended
her hand fondly toward the insect as
If to stroke away the terror that she
felt she had INSPIRED. Does 90 want
to see bod ?-well," In tone of in
tense love and pity, at the same time
putting her finger on the fly and
softly crushing Ii against the glass,
well, 90 shall.''
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
e. BAK e r.

WILL ATTEND TO HOUSE PAINTING
w Granng and Paper Hanging. Can produce
good WORK. Residence on corner 5h and CIay ST.
Cedar Falls Iowa %
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
n. C. DAVIES.

a dence. Corner of Twelfth and Main-streets
Cedar Falls, Iowa. Prompt attention given to ali
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-01
Miss A. McNAIIY

hEALEfS IN MILLINERY & FANCY
- Goods. Keeps constantly hand a com
pletc assortment of choice Millinery New goods
received every week. Opposite Townsend &
knapp's Bank, Cedar Falls, iowa.