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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-22
Drinking Water.

DIR. HALL is opposed to the immoder-
ate drinking OF water. He says:
The longer one puts off drinking water
in the morning, especially in the sum-
mer, the less he will require during the
day; if much is drank during the fore
noon the thirst often increases, and q
very unpleasant fullness is observed, in
addition to a metallic taste in the mouth.
The less man drinks the better for
him, beyond moderate amount. The
more water a man drinks the more
strength he has to expend in getting rid
of it, for all the fluid taken into the sys-
tenn must be carried out; and as there is
but little nourishment in water, tea,
coffee, beer and the like, more strength
is expended in carrying them out of the
system than they impartto it. The more
man drinks the more he must perspire,
either by lungs or through the skin; the
more he perspires the more carbon is
taken from the system; but this carbon
is necessary for nutrition, hence the less
man is nourished the less strength he
has.
Drinking water largely diminishes the
strength in two ways, and yet many are
under the impression that the more water
swallowed the more thoroughly is the
system washed out" Thus, the less we
drink at meals, the better for US. If the
amount were limited to single cup Of
hot tea or hot milk and water at each
meal, an Unreasonable good would re-
suit to all. Many persons have fallen
into the practice of drinking several
glasses of cold water, or several cups of
hot tea or coffee, at meals, out of mere
habit; all such will be greatly benefited
by breaking it up at once; it may be
very well to drink little at each meal,
and, perhaps, it will be found that in all
cases it is much better to take single
cup of hot tea at each meal than glass
Of cold water, however pure.
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HOW 7 LOST MY HEART.

To tell you just how lost it,
Oh! that We're difficult task;
How the thing got away on that autumn day
never stopped to ask.
Perhaps twas glance that did 1t,
A soft carcss to my hair,
A close, warm grasp, or gentle clasp
That captured it then and there
You see, there are things you can govern,
But hearts have a way of their own;
Like birds they fly, and you can't tell why
You only miss them when gone.
And why don't tell the story,
If the reason you really must learn,
Is. though life grew bright with rosy light
Yet l won no heart in return.
Somebody's eyes were gentle and kind,
And his voice was soft and low;
But the heart wanted was given away
Ever so long ago.
And so, while I solace lonely life
With a cat and a cup of tea,
Somebody's arm is round his wife,
And her baby is on his knee.
And the loss l met with results in this,
That mine is lonely part:
You can't for your life make loving wife
OF woman without a heart.
Another head rests on the manly breast
That l wanted to shelter me;
Some other fair face has won my place,
So no mus wife I'll be.
But compensation's law of life,
Aud though trials the gods will send,
I've no one to scold when his beefsteak's cold
And no small stockings to mend.
So the love that is lost never regret,
When think what troubles might be:
When dinner is late I smile at Fate,
And nobody storms at me.
-Harper's Bazar.
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How the Spider Builds.

Having first decided upon the general
location of her net, the spider probably
takes position head downward on the
"leeward" side of a small twig or
branch, or upon it's top, and then, turn
ing her abdomen outward, expresses
from her spinners drop of gum, which
instantly dries SO as to form fine end
of silken thread. This is taken by the
wind (and careful experiments have
proved that q current Of wind is abso-
lutely necessary to the extension of the
line) and wafteda outward, waving from
side to side, and usually tending upward
from its extreme lightness, until at last it
touches some other branch at q greater
or less distance from the first. When
this stoppage is perceived by the spider
she turns about and pulls In the slack
line until she is sure the other end is
fast. IF it yields, she tries again and
again (until successful. If it holds, she
attaches her end firmly by pressing her
spinners. upon the wood, go as to include
the line The first and most important
step in the construction Of allgeometri-
cal nets mas how been taken, and the spi-
der can smeet with no serious difficulty in
completing her task.-ProC. Wilder, IN
Popular Science Monthly.
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should think. have friends in this neigh
hOrh0od

should think. have friends in this neigh
borhood."
"In the land came from, friend, the
rank is not the guineas stamp. But I'll
seek elsewhere"
"Stay moment; I'll inquire"
Jerry, carefully closing the door be-
hind him, sat down on the stairs and en-
joyed mute chuckle, fearfully apoplec-
tic in character. On the landing he re-
peated it, with much movement of the
legs. Then he entered his dodgers par
lor.
Dropping into the chair placed ready
for him by the fire, rubbing his knees,
his face one beaming smile, he cried:
"Does anyone believe in man? I don'tl
Does anyone believe in Australian gold
diggerss I don't! Does anyone believe
in lovers keeping their vowss Lor' bless
you, I don't-not syllable" Then,
turning abruptly to the astonished
women, he proceeded: "Look here I'll
give you a riddle. Suppose certain
Australian should come to England !;
suppose he should come to me; suppos-
ing he should come into this room, how
would certain party behave? Would
she laugh? Would she faint?"
ooh, mother" cried Glare, starting
up, II know what he means. It is Gil
bert!'
my dear, reflect" interrupted the
widow, restraining her.
"Yes, she's rightw exclaimed Jerry,
with a caper. "It's Gilbert-Gilbert!"
Flying to the door, almost precipitat-
ing himself over the balustrade, he shout
ed: "You Australian, come up! You
nugget of fidelity, come here!"
There was the bang of door, firm,
rapid tread on the stairs, and the beard.
ed stranger shot past Jerry into the
room.
"Clare!-my poor, poor Clare!" he
"Gilbertw she calculated, rushing into
his arm.
The cobbler, after another caper, dis
creetly retired to his shop, and let off his
superhuman excitement by charge at
the boys in the street.
Gilbert Fernside, rich Australian
cattle-owncr, proved indeed nugget of
fidelity. There was grand wedding, to
which Jerry was asked, but he answered
he was far too wise man to make him
self uncomfortable. Indeed, he sent the
bride pretty gold bracelet as his we'd
ding. gift-a present afectionately treas
ured by Clare.
Years after the young wife, in her
home at the antipodes, received the fol-
lowing characteristic letter:
My DEAR-While writing this I'm going
off. When you get it, I shall have left. So
this is to say good.by. Bless you! l am a
kinless old man, and, you know, miser; but
I'm not going to give my money to you.
What would FL 900 be to your Australian
digger? A drop in the ocean. Besides, you
can do without it. No; it's going to the hos
pital for children, to which have long been
an unknown subscriber. Good-by! Bless
you-bless you all! Your old friend.
JERRY, CoBBLER AND M1sER.
That letter, too, was treasured; and in
the heart of the bright, cheerful home, in
the wealthy land, Jerry, the Miser," was
ever held in cheerful memory.
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sprouted half an inch, stated the condi-
lions, and added: IF could always
so put In either wheat or rye in the fall
that 1t would lie dormant during the win
ter crop will of course be assured from
heaving and consequent winter-killing."
Inc nelghoor was convinced at once.
Inc farmer then asked him If he had
not noticed that ears of corn tramped or
plowed Into the ground in the fall would
winter all right and come up promptly
IN t9e spring, and even stand frost.
/ have often wondered at i. but never
learned the lesson now taught me"
"Well," said the farmer, "there are
more crops lost by heglecting to sow and
plant in season than from any other one
cause. Some people plant or sow in a
certain stage of the moon others, again.
by certain of the old almanac signs, or
upon certain fixed days. But sensible
men plant and SOW when the sign il
right, without reference to the almanac
that is, when the condition of the soil is
right. have always practiced sowing
wheat on fall-plowing, and before the
frost had left the ground if possible. I
get earlier ripening, as rule, and early
ripened grain is generally good. Aweek
in the ripening of grain VIII save it from
many unfavorable contingencies operat-
ing against good yield, or 70 which a
maturing crop is subject. All CIR cereal
grains originally required to be sovn in
autumn to mature crop. BY sowing
so late in autumn that the s>ed
did not terminate until spring they haze
been gradually changed into spring va,
rieties, and thus have become ANNALS.
If all farmers were thinking men, or in
quirers into the reasons why, as you and
are, it would not he many years until
the whole system Of cultivation would be
changed for the better"
~ guess you are right, Meadowman,"
assented the nearer. II am glad for
what I've learned, and especially for
that idea of asking the reason why."-
From "Fdsm and Garden" in Chicago
Tribune.
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HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A little camphene dropped between
the neck and stopper of q glass bottle
win render the stopper easily removed if
jammed fast.
Milk for breakfast, when used in the
form of bread and milk, should never be
boiled bat steamed; that is, the lug of
milk should be stood in q saucepan of
boiling water for two or three minutes
until hot-Ecehange.
How to Select Mutton.-You may be
sure that mutton is good when the flesh
is rather black and the fat white; If the
fat breaks easily, it is young. The wether
know if a leg Of mutton cor comes S from wa a
wether If there is large and hard piece
of fat on on0side at the larger and upper
end; if from eve, that part is merely a
kind of skin with a little fat on 1.-THE
Housekeeper.
Treatment of Gorged Horses.-A
correspondent of the New England
Farmer gives the following method of
treatment for animals who may have
gorged themselves with grain: keep
the animals from water. Put quart Of
| wood ashes into a pail of lukewarm
water, stir it up and let the horse drink
one or two quarts of this alkali water at
intervals of one or two hours, and in this
way the horse always does well, and
after a days treatment water and feed as
| usual"
How to Grind Wheat for Feed.-A
writer in the Formers Union gives the
following instructions: It should be al
ways ground and fed dry, or scalded
with hot water. For horse feed it should
be cracked as fine as possible without
Touring; for cattle it needs to be much
| finer, and for hogs finer still. We think
an iron mill is preferable to burr-stone
mill, for the kernel can be cut better in
an iron mill without Touring. We have
run a horse-pow er feed-mill for the past
four years, and done much custom work
for our neighbors, and have taken par
ticular pains to have the different grades
of grinding tested by our customers, and
nine-tenths of them agree with us. We
have tested it with our own stock, and
are we'll satisfied with the result.
Yield of One-Fourth Acre.-In my
estimate of the proper size for a garden
suited to the wants of family of medl-
UNI size named forty rods, or the fourth
of an acre, as likely to prove sufficient.
If garden spot of such a size be fifty
laid cut it will produce from one and =
half square rods fifty quarts of strawber-
ries; from one rod, thirty-two quarts of
raspberries; from one rod, forty quarts
of blackberries; from two rods, 100
pounds of grapes; from two rods, two
bushels of currants; the value of which
fruit we may reasonably set down at
$2425; or the strawberries and raspber-
ries at twelve and half cents per
quart; the blackberries at ten cents per
quart; grapes at six cents per pound, and
the currants at two dollars per bushel;
prices which are less than the majority
of consumers have to pay.-Cor. Country
Gentleman.
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Keep Ahead Of Work.

THE rigid winter has 80 far overstepped
its natural bounds that the slush and
mud of early spring-time will scarcely
have to be endured this season, for the
Frost King will probably yield his scep-
ter at once to the Flower Queen. Sum-
mer almost begins when winter leaves
of. It therefore behooves farmers not
to sit idly waiting for the new opening;
but to be up and doing so that they may
keep ahead of the work that may rush
upon them.
One of the important duties lies in secur-
ing and having ready good supply of the
very best varieties of seeds for the cereal
and vegetable crops. 1t is too apt to be
the case that this matter is neglected,
even after good resolutions have been
made, and when seed.time comes the
hurry of work compels the using of such
varieties as are on the premises and
which have been grown there for sue
cessive years and deteriorated greatly,
as all vegetables and grains will under
such management; therefore there are
thousands of acres titled thoroughly
every year that produce but half what
would be yielded were better class of
seeds planted.
Another important matter to attend to
is the fitting up of the farm implements
and machinery. To stop the team day
to have a pillow or harrow repaired after
these implements are brought out for
use is a damage to any farmer amount
ing to ten if not a hundred times the
amount required to put them in good
condition before the cropping season
opens. And 50 this rule may apply to
all the seasons through; wagons, hay
racks, moving machines, etc.
Farm fences should be looked to now
bailt up and repaired so as to make
them secure protection to the sumner
crops. Here good resolutions are often
broken again, to the greatest disadvan-
tage of the husbandman. The fences
that surround the titled field are known
to be insecure, and it is determined to
fix them up before the crops become
tempting to the domestic animals bu
b.ing behindhand little all through
the season they are neglected until the
farmer is awakened out of his lethargy
by finding his crops destroyed and his
stock injured.
The farmer who keeps ahead of his
work can always take advantage of
whatever circumstances he may be
placed in; he can use less muscular and
more brain force than his neighbor
who is always working at disadyan-
tage by following instead of leading.
Wherever is found snug, cosy, rural
home with everything indicating wealth
and prosperity will also be found man
ager who never allows his work to get
the advantage of him, and wherever the
opposite of this is found there is never
mistake made in asserting that there
lives man who is always behind time
in the performance of his agricultural
labors.
The lesson is written plainly all over
the face of the country, and in the ex-
perience ofevery husbandman, but is not
fully appreciated, and we call attention
to it earnestly at this time because the
peculiarly Of the season makes it of
double importance just now.-lndsana
Farmer.
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Enemies OF the Apple.Tree.

The apple-tree numbers among its enc
mics not less than seventy-five different
species of insects. Of these, the blight
insect (Eriosoma pyrs) and the young of
the cicada prey on its roots. The for
mer is near ally of the PhylorerG that
does such great harm to the vine. The
roots of tree infested with it should be
dipped in soap. suds, and, when replant-
ed, q shovel of ashes should lie mixed
with the dirt. The young of the cicada
commonly called locust-lives sixteen
wears in the ground, and, though usually
sucking the sap from the roots of the oak,
it sometimes attacks the apple-tree, and,
during this long period, proves serious
drain on the tree.
The trunk of the apple-tree is subject
to attacks from number of beetles that
bore into the bark and wood. Among
these pests the most prominent is the
common spple-tree-borer (Saperda cam
dida). This may be kept down by cut
ting out the worms, or by pouring hot
water into their holes, in the autumn; or
by applying soap to the trunk, or sur
rounding it with tarred papers in the
spring. Two Buprustid borers, the
CarysobothTis fensorat0 and the @. Harrieu,
are also conspicuous foes, and are to be
treated in the same way as the Saperda.
Other boring beetles infesting the apple
tree are the white-lined PsenOcerus;; the
cylindrical bark-borer, or 1onaic1s MALI;
the apple-twig borer, or Anaphicer.ss be.
candatus; the prickly leptostylus (Lepto-
stylus acullerus), and the apple leiopus.
Next to the borers the most destruct-
i've enemy of the apple tree is the scab-
insect (Mut;laspis pomor,tm, Bouche). The
best remedy for this evil is to scrape the
bark of the tree in autumn and again IN
June, when it should be washed in whale
oil soap.
The leaves Of the apple tree are liable
to the ravages of the American tent-cat-
erpillar (Clisioconapa Amertea,aa), the can
ker-worm (Anisoptoryr vernata), the apple
sphinx (Sphinr gordius(, the swallow-tail
butterfly (Papilio tuerius), the apple nola
(N0la Ma1ona), the bud worm, the palmer
worm, the twin spotted-leaf miner, the
apple-aphis, etc.
The coddling- moth attacks the fruit,
laying its eggs in the calyx Of the bios
SONS, just as the petals are falling. The
worm matches in few days and burrows
into the core. In three weeks it is full
sized and the apple it feeds upon withers
prematurely and drops to the ground.
The worm then leaves it and creeps I'M
der the bark of the tree. where 1t weaves
cocoon. A few days after q moth ap-
pears to reproduce crop of caterpillars
before winter, and thus the round of life
of the coddling-moth is sustained from
year to year, and the crop of apples is
seriously diminished, or entirely cut off,
by its mischievous depredations-Ch;.
ca9o Tribune. MI.
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Longevity.

TIE London Times of March has the
following: cite inability of the aged
of both sexes to withstand the effects of
the present inclement weather is show
ing daily in the obituary of the Times,
but particularly so yesterday, the I'd inst,
when the deaths Of thirty persons were
recorded whose ages ranged from sew
enty to ninety-nine years. There were
just half score of ladies whose united
ages amounted to S75 years, giving an
average of eighty.seven years and exact
ly six months to each. The following
were their respective ages, viz: Eighty,
eighty-two, two at eighty-five, eighty
seven, three at elghty-nine, ninety, and
ninety nine years. There are also half a
score Of septuagenarians whose ages
ranged from seventy to seventy-nine.
Their united ages amounted to $50 years,
giving an average of exactly seventy-five
years to each. The same obituary re-
corded the deaths of another half-score
of gentlemen whose united ages amount
ed to 761 years, giving an average of
more than seventy-six years to each;
the youngest was seventy and the Oldest
eighty-four years of age. The British
Medical Journal states that at the last
Prussian census there were found to he
living IN Berlin lS,20l persons VINO were
born before the end of the last century.
Among them, three men and six women
were ninety-one years old; four men and
nine women, ninety-two years; one man
and five women, ninety three years; ten
persons were ninety-four years of age:
four women were ninety-six years old;
two men and two women, ninety seven;
one man, ninety-eight; one woman,
ninety nine, and another woman, 101.
Of the persons between ninety and 100
years Of age, five were unmarried, five
married, ffty-seven widowed and one
divorced. A widow named Najelsky died
on the 10th of February, at Kamionken,
near Lotion, at the age of 1903. She is
said to have been extraordinarily active
in her hundredth year. A man died a
fortnight ago at the age of 1O5, at Hor-
zitz, in Bohemia"
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HERBAL1sTIc REMED1Es.-1n former
days, if member of the household be-
came indisposed, the family head, under
instructions from the gray.h aired dame,
went to the forest or the field to gather
herbs or berries, from which were quick
ly made invigorating extracts, which ere
many days brought the patient safely
around, and saw the family gathering
once more without missing member.
How is it now? The slightest indisposi-
ton brings the family physician" with
his handsome carriage. He feels the
pulse, examines the tongue, looks very
grave, writes a few lines of hieroglyphics,
charges big fee, and leaves, only to re-
turn the next day and find his patient
mercurialized sufficiently to be really
sick. A week or two of attendance tel.
"wealthy physicians" Compare the
physique of the present age with the past
and the story is complete. Reader, dis
card chemicals and try herbs. If you are
ill, try the great herbalistic remedy, DR..
]. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs. 30
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Since the Yale faculty have become
experts in the dete ction Of all sorts of
underhand communications between the
students in the class and examination
rooms, the students have resorted to the
deaf and dumb alphabet. It is now pro-
posed by the faculty to require all stu.
dents to wear mittens at the Rotations
and examinations.
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THE practice Of Offering dictionary
az prize to the best speller in the
matches new in vogue reveals the fact,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, that the
person always gets the dictionary who
has the least need of it.
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ELECTRICITY IS L1FE.-An nervous disor-
ders, chronic diseases of the chest. head, liver,
stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains,
nervous and general debility, ETC.. quickly
tro Belts and Bands. Valuable book free, by
Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
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GET the best The best Elastic Truss Is
Pomeroy's, IA Broadway, N. Y. Write for it.
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THEODORE THOMAS, Of Thomas Or
chestra, than whom there is NO higher
musical authority in the world, says
there are no other cabinet or parlor or
gans equal to those made by the Mason
& Hamlin Organ Co., and that musicians
agree with him in this opinion,
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The public are hereby assured, through the
columns of this paper, that Parsons Pargatiue
Pills contain no Injurious principle, but that
they may be administered to children and the
most weak and shattered constitutions, In
small doses, with great certainty Of success.
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GLEN FLORA SPRINGS are located at Wau.
kegan, Ill. Cures Dyspepsia, Bright's Dis
ease and Kidney Complaints. Circulars free.
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A HINT TO THE WORKING MANA man
with family, however poor he may be, owes
it to his wife to save her health and strength
in every way possible. He has NO right to al
low the mother of his children to wear her
life out toiling with her needle to clothe her
family. His duty is to buy the Wilson shut
tie sewing machine, the best machine for
family sewing and manufacturing purposes
ever invented, and he can buy the Wilson
machine upon terms which enable him to
pay for it in small monthly installments, that
he can spare out of his wages without feeling
the drain. He will get, thereby, a machine
capable Of doing every variety Of family work
in the most beautiful manner; machine that
even child can operate, and which will
prove permanent family blessing. Machines
will be delivered at any railroad station In
this county, free of transportation charges, If
ordered through the company's branch house
at 1917 State street, Chicago. They send an
elegant catalogue and chrome circular free
on application. This company want few
more agents,