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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
TOO OLD FOR KISSES.

Ny uncle Philip. hale old man,
Has children by the dozen:
Tom. Ned and Jack. and Kate and Ann
How many call me cousin!
Good boys and girls. the best was Bess;
| bore her on my shoulder
a little bud of loneliness
That never should grow Older.
Her eyes had such Il pleading way.
They seemed to say. " Don strike me-.
Then. growing bold, another day.
~ mean to make You Ike me-
| liked my cousin. carly. late.
Who liked not little misses:
She used ~ meet me at the gate,
just old enough for kisses.
This was. think. three years ago
Before went to college:
learned one thing ,hcre-how to row.
healthy sort of knowledge.
y" hen was p.ucked 1--WE won the race).
And all was ut an end there.
thought of Uncle Philips place,
And every country friend there.
MY cousin met me At the gate:
She looked five, ten years Older
tall Young woman. STILL sedate,
With manners coycr. colder.
She gave her hand with stately pride,
why. what Il greeting this is.
You used to kiss ME. She replied,
IL am too old for kisses"
loved. l love my cousin BcsS:
She's always in my mind now;
\ full blown bud of lovcliness-
The rose of womankind now.
She must have suitor>: old and young
Must bow their heads before her;
Vows must be made and songs BE- sung
BY many mad aiorer!
But must win her: she must give
To me her youth and beauty:
And Ito love her while live
Will be my happy duty:
For she will love me soon or lac.
And be my bliss of blisscs--
Will come 10 meet me at the gate.
Nor be too old Tor kisses.
r.. II. Stodddrd.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
Railway Mortality.

Railway servants lead lite full OF
risk The number of this class of per-
sons wounded and killed each year is
appalling-so appalling that the railway
companies manifest the utmost anxiety
to keep the statistics bearing on the sub
jcct from the public. In England the
railway companies are required by stat
ute to furnish annually return of the
railway accidents attended with loss of
life or personal injury. The companies,
it would seem from report sent to the
London Times by Mr.. NJ. T. Bass, have
made returns as required, but most mac.
curate ones. The companies are subject
ed to fine for any error In their sta
tistics, and SO numerous shSve these
errors been that the aggregate of fines
has reached the immense figure of 81,
OOO,O Thus the Lancashire & York.
shire Company reported that thirty-nine
of their servants were killed and seventy.
three injured in 1872. The fact is, that
fifty-four were killed and 1867 injured.
So at least Mr.. Bass report says. On all
the railways in England there were re-
turned killed during the same year 632,
and injured 1895. Mr.. Phillips, agent OF
Mr.. Bass, argues that the number
of killed was 1850, and of injured
27,34O. This last year the acct
dents ON English railways have been
even more numerous than in 1872. II is
estimated that during the last year l, 300
railway servants were killed on English
railways, and $1,000 injured. The mum
Der of injured, according to the returns
was only III, an error of %, 829! Eight
railway companies have made erroneous
returns for last year. The number of killed
returned by the Lancashire & Yorkshire
Railway Company, for instance, was only
thirty-nine. The real number it seem.
was 1877. Seine of these non. officia
statistics are only inferential. There is
however, every reason to believe tina
they are much more reliable than those
furnished. by the railway companies
themselves.
1t seems probable that legal proceed
ings against the defaulting companies
will be Instituted by the British Board O
Trade. 1t is to be hoped that, in the in
terest of the security of life and limb
such proceedings will be begun. Tn,
prosecution of the companies which
have failed to send in accurate return
of the number of their servants killet
and wounded will have a tendency t,
make them more respectful of human
life. Hence its advisability.-Chicag
Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
About Storing Potatoes in the Cellar.

There seems to he various opinions as
to which is the better system of manage
mcnt with potatocs-whether to keep
them in the cellar when dug early or to
store them in some OIt-building until
cold weather and then take the crop to
the cellar. As some cellars are exceed
ingly damp and even wet and muddy,
while others are dry and airy, one must
know the condition of the cellar before
he will be competent to judge as to the
probability of potatoes keeping satisfac-
torily when dug early. Circumstances
and conditions will alter cases materially.
A writer in the NeU England Farmer,
Boston, says that by many cul,ivators of
this crop it is thought that potatoes will
not keep we'll in the cellar if dug early.
This is mistake, provided they are
ripe. We have raised early potatoes for
several years past for main crop be-
cause they could be harvested early and
the ground sOwn to grass in season to
get we'll established before winter. We
have dug the whole crop in August, and
found no trouble about keeping them
we'll in the cellar. One year, finding
they were being seriously injured by the
grub Of the dor beetle, we dug them
while the vines were green and the
tubers little under ripe, and they KEEP.
as sound and bright as any potatoes we
ever harvested. If there is any rot
among them they had better lie in the
ground till the rotten ones can be dis
tinguished from those which arc sound
Rotten potatoes should never be carried
into the cellar at any time of year. Bet
ter let them decay in the field, where
they will be worth as much for q fertil.
izer as they are for feeding to cattle.
stored THEM in an airy and dry basement
of the workshop, covering them with
boards and canvas to exclude the light.
But the air and light injured them ma
terially. Light is ruinous to potatoes.
AS they grow in the dark, they must be
kept in the dark, and be shielded from
currents of air.-Neac York Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22

Philadelphia Mint for redemption, but
the requirements of the redemption de-
partment are enough to discourage any
business man. To send pennies to the
mint they must first be sorted and
wrapped in packages of five dollars each.
Coin of each separate mintage must be
put together. 1t will not do to mix the
old-fashioned coppers with bright or
bronze-colored nickels, nor can two or
a three cent piece be mixed with the
pennies. If they are packed in this way
they are not even counted at the mint,
but are shipped back to the sender with
out delay or notice of any kind. The law
also prescribes that the coins shall be
packed in iron bound boxes, and shipped
at the sender's expense. As coins are
heavy, the cost of transportation is con-
siderable. The officials count the money
at their leisure, and sometimes the sender
does not hear from his consignment in
nearly year. He thus loses the use of
his money for that length of time. This
combination of vexatious details pre-
vents those who have an accumulation
of coin from sending it to the mint, and
it seems as though the officials at Phila-
delphia intended that they should not be
troubled with it.
Every day man rides to the news
paper and other offices in buggy. and
buys the coin which has been taken in
from the newsboys and the customers.
For the pennies and two-cent pieces he
pays ninety-seven cents hundred, and
for the three and five cent nickels he
gives ninety-nine cents for a dollars
worth. The sellers are glad to dispose
of the coins at this discount. The man
then rides to about the only tradesmen in
the city who desire quantity of pennies
the pawnbrokers-and to them he sells
the coins at par, taking their notes for
three months in payment.
The pawnbrokers who have shops
among the poorer classes say that they
need small denominations Of fractional
currency or coin, as many of their loans
do not exceed ten or fifteen cents. Many
poor persons pawn their articles of wear
ing apparel or trinkets only when driven
to do so by the want of single meal of
food, and such are not particular as to
the denomination of the money they re-
ceive. The pawnbrokers give their notes
without interest, thereby gaining the use
of the money for three months.-Nec
York Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
A One Cent Business.

There is man in this city who is
amassing handsome fortune by buying
and selling pennies, two and three-cent
pieces, and five-cent nickels. In many of
the newspaper offices, news depots, ferry
offices, retail houses where cheap goods
are sold, bakeries and other places, the
accumulation of small coin very, soften
becomes SO large as to be cumbersome.
1t cannot be disposed of, for coin is so
plenty that customers object to taking it
in change in any great quantity, and in
business houses where it is needed the
regular sources Of supply are always
ample. The coin might be sent to the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22

The lay of the land-Egg-plan
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22

w HEN WHITING To ADVERTISERS
W p!ense say rOn SEW the advertisement
In thfa psIpiF
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22

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will be interested to know that H. = Bryants Chicago
Business College is the largest institution of the kind
in America. Three months tuition with all the al.
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Chicago an institution fer in advance Of any business
this purpose is being rapidly accomplished The terms
are put low rate being based upon large ,atron-
mInnn of study which will be sent apNlicatOn
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22

SWEET PICKLEs.-Four quarts of mel
ons, or fruit; three pints of good cider
vinegar; three pounds of sugar; one-half
tablespoonful of cloves; one tablespoon
full of cinnamon. Tie the spices up in a
cloth and boil for nine mornings, and
pour over the pickles each time.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16
!Mskt Earn.
SWEET POTATOES.

From the first to the last of this
month, and as late as the Goth of June,
sweet potato slips may be planted in
moist weather, or after rain-from
the 10th to the 18th of this month is,
perhaps, the best time. The light soils
are best suited to them. They are
planted in hills, conical in shape, and
eighteen inches high, or on ridges, two
feet apart, the ridges being three feet
apart, the hill two by three feet. Il
the land be not fertile, put stable ma
nure, fork full where the hill is to be,
and make the hill over it. If to be
planted on the ridge plan, open a shall
low furrow and put in the manure as
usual with the Irish potato, then back
two deep burrows over the manure,
level the top with a rake or make a
hard pat with the hoe every two feet on
top of the ridge, and plant slip which
has attained a growth of five or six
inches. In planting bury the slip to
the first leaf. In ten days pare down
the sides of the ridges or hills, loosen
the soil about the plants and pillow or
shovel out the middles of the rows
Keep all clean from grass. As the
vines run, now and then, with stick
turn them up, to prevent their taking
root, for each joint will soon put out
rootlet and grow into mass of
stringy potatoes, unfit for use, if not
prevented by this means. As soon as
they nearly cover the hill, turn the
vines on top of the ridges or hills, pillow
deep and well, with mould board next
to the ridges or hills; then with the hoe
give them good billing, and turn back
the vines. In week, run the cultiva-
tor down the middle of the rows, and
the work is done, except eccaionally
loosening the vines on the sides of the
ridges or hills to prevent roofing
They will soon cover the whole ground
and the few weeds which spring up
can be hand-pulled. 1t is crop that
is as easily grown as the Irish potato,
more quickly and easily gathered, sells
higher in market, pays better every
way. Yields well, ordinarily from two
hundred and fifty to four hundred bush
els of marketable potatoes, leaving as
many more, too small for use, yet more
valuable than half the amount of bush
els of corn, for preparing hogs for the
killing pen. They seem to make hog
grow and fatten at the same time. We
consider them far more profitable than
the Irish. They can be kept sound
nearly all Winter under proper course
of treatment, which is similar to the
keeping of Irish potatoes in stoops.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16

ton and they were in almost constant
perplexity and fear, who We're also
etfectually cured by moderate daily
use of blanched celery as salad at
meal time. l have known others cured
of palpitation of the heart. Every.
body engaged in labor weakening to
the nerves should use celery daily in
season, and onions in its stead when
not in season."
DR.. c. w. Benson, of Baltimore, has
also discovered that the extract of Gel.
cry and Chamemile, combined in a
certain proportion, not only cures nerv.
BUSINESS, but headache, either bilious,
dyspeptic, nervous or sick headache
There is no question as to its efficacy
in relieving nervous complaints in their
various forms DIR. Hall uses it success
fully in kidney affections, and certainly
no pleasanter remedy can be found in
the whole Pharmacopia of Medical
Science.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16
CELERY.

This delicious and valuable plant can
be planted, and ought to be, from now
until first of August. But May is a
good time for the early crop and July
for the late crop. 1t can be raised with
not much trouble, unless the season be
very dry and much watering is requir-
ed. Dig trenches four feet apart, one
foot deep, and spade wide, the bottom
of the trench dig up and cover an inch
or two with well-rotted stable manure,
or barn yard manure sprinkle with
salt and chop it and intermix well with
the soil in the bottom of the trench,
= and let it remain week before setting
the plants. After rain, draw your
plants, trim the roots and broken and
decayed leaves, cut the tops off nearly
half the length of the stem and plant
in trenches six inches between the
plants, water freely, cover the trenches
with bushes for few days from the
sun /; water every evening until they
start to grow. Keep the earth loose
of the trenches as the plants grow,
taking care not to fill in as high as the
top of the crown of the plant. Never
let it suffer for moisture. Sometimes
use liquid manure in the trenches, not
Oh the plants, the same also with water
made brackish with salt. 1t is a plant
native to sea coasts An acre in good
celery is worth usually $1,000
This plant should be grown by every
body more extensively, because every
body likes it and it sells high, and it is
very valuable for its medical curative
qualities. Those who habitually use it,
fully appreciate its virtues, one of
whom, who is reliable, thus speaks of
its great value as recuperator of
health:
~ have known many men, and women
too, who from various causes had be-
come 80 much affected by nervousness
that when they stretched out their
hands they shook like aspen leaves on
windy days, and by moderate daily
use of the blanched footstalks of celery
as salad they became as strong and
steady in limb as other people have
known others so nervous that the least
annoyance put them in state of agita-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16
Port Deposit Branch Railroad,

TRAINS KUN AS FOLLUWS:
Leave Port Deposit $50, $50 and IL 90 Ax and ZOO
and 6l5 Pm.
Leave Perryville, 80, 900 and 1l.25 AN, and 4.2a
and 100 Pm.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16
WATERMELONS.

J. Y. K. Wells, near Milford, Del,
has the reputation of raising immense
crops of melons of splendid size and
superb quality. The editors of the
Peninsular News" thinking it would
prove acceptable to their readers, have
taken the trouble to learn Mr.. Wells
method of culture, and presents them
as follows:
His patch contained nearly five
acres, and last Winter it was an old
sedge field, worn out land that had
been uncultivated for several years,
and abandoned to sedge and persimmon
bushes. 1t was a sandy loan SOIL
He cut the bushes out of it and plowed
the sedge under about six inches deep
early in April. With the rake-harrov
it was then thoroughly pulverized and
afterward laid out in squares civ hv
eight feet. At the crossinrs. Of +bs
rows he scooped out the earth with a
hoe and put in !:.rge stov elful of we'll.
rotted lanyard msnure. This was
Covered with the hoe and just before
planting the seed handful of Pacific
Ocean Guano was worked into the sur
face soil over each hill. The seed were
planted about the first of May and
when they were well up, strong and
vigorous, he removed all but one plant
in each hill. This was allowed to
grow under good cultivation with the
Doe and harrow, until the vine began
han
prevented from setting but two melons
by pinching off the blossoms, and the
vines themselves were pruned by pinch
ing in the terminal end When these
two melons had attained size of six
or eight inches in diameter, one or two
more were allowed to set, and all other
blossoms remorsely removed until these
last ones We're we'll advanced toward
maturity. After the first two were
ready for market and the second two
had attained the diameter of six to
eight inches, another one or two were
allowed to set, and in this manner the
vines were kept in bearing all the sea
son, but at no time was any vine allow.
ed to carry more than four melons, and
in some instances but one or two. BY
this treatment the productive vitality o.
the vines was all directed to producing
large sized melons. This is the only
method by which the enormous melons
of twenty to forty pounds can be pro
duced. If the vines are allowed to sci
all the fruit they will, the size cannot
be great; but if each is allowed only tc
bear one or two melons it will have
vitality sufficient to carry them to al
enormous size. The variety grown by
Mr.. Wells are the GIPsEYs."
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DR., RAILWAYS
Observation-Disclosures

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Liver Bowels Kidneys, Bladder. Nervous Diseases
Headachc Constipation, Costiveness Indigestion, Dys
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bowels piles, and all arrangements of tho Internal
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ous feW doses Of RAILWAYS PILLS will free the sys-
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ORPHANS, COURT.

The STATED MEETINGS of the Orphans Court Of
Cecil county will be held on the SECOND TUESDAY
in every month. Executors, Adm Illustrators and Guar
dams, wanting their account. stated. will please bring
in the vouchers a few days before Court.
REUBEN D. LAMAR,
Nov 80, lSN-y Re1stss.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16

REMEDY FOR THE CUT-WoRM IN
Corn FIELDs-As before our next
number, says the Practical Farmer
some of our subscribers may have to
plant their corn, we give them the rem
edy which here has always proved
effective for the cut-worm, viz: table
spoonful of salt on the hill AFTER it is
planted, but BEFORE it is up.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16

prominent breeds. They demand, nat
urally, the very best care and treat
ment, to fully develop their real worth
but they abundantly pay for such trou-
bic, while, if indifferently treated, or
treated like the majority of our hardest
hogs, would give corresponding results,
which results l need hardly say, would
be anything but flattering to the breed
err or raiser.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-16

HARDWARE, STOVES, &c.
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RAILROAD

CARS LEAVE ELKTO!
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-23
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

Elijah Gliding. of Warsaw. Ind, is charged
with poisoning his wife and three children by
mixing arsenic with their God. Their recov-
cry is doubtful.
&C. L. Mckee. a leading business man Of
Indianapolis. was assaulted hy foot-pads on
one Of the principal streets Of that city about
s o'clock one evening las. week, and robbed
of his watch and pocketbook. He wss il
company with two ladies. and though they
screamed loudly. no police officer was within
mailing distance.
Phelps, the New York treasury official.
who was recently convicted Of embezzlement,
has again been found guilty on the charge Of
forgery. Another indictment IL pending.
A man named Prewett has been arrested
al FaIrbury. Neb.. for the murder OF i. o.
Whitaker. The murder was committed for 4
watch and SIG0 III greenbscks.
-Four notorious desperRdoes named Ted
Burns, Arthur El.ie. Kelly. the couuterieiter.
and Miller. the murderer, succeeded in break
ing ont of the Oshkosh Wis jail recently,
and are still at large.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-23
EIRES AND CASrALTTES

The Variety Opera House and several ad-
joining building IN Baltimore were burned on
the 18Th inst. Loss SfO0, 900.
Thirty buildings, comprising nearly the
entire business part Of the village of Ovid,
y. Y. We're burned on the 18th inst. The loss
lis $50, goo.
The boiler IN the planning mill of VIM.
Peabody, of Saybrook. H., exploded last
week, and the engineer, John Hepburne, was
so badly injured he will probably die. Three
others were severely scalded.
The Excelsior Salt Mill at Syracuse, n.
Y. wss destroyed by fire last week. Loss,
$50. 080.
"A woman named Mack was killed at
Wyandotte. Kan, last week, her daughter
entering her bedroom and thinking to awaken
her by swapping at her the cap of Il gun which
she did not know was loaded.
The British ships kIngsbrldge and Canda-
har coIlided in the British channel recently,
and eleven of the crew Of the former were
lost.
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THE MiRhET'S.
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