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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
The Garden.

In the garden there will he plenty to
do during June. Sweet potatoes, toma-
toes and peppers should be transplantcd
at once. Eggplant is better not trans
planted until the weather has become
thoroughly settled and warm.
In transplanting, do not wait for rain ;
but, just at evening, do your planting,
pressing the soil firmly about the roots,
leaving a depression that will hold a
pint of water Water Immediately, and,
when it has settled away, draw the dry
earth over all, and they will do we'll
enough. Elephants are the only excep-
ton to this rule. These require to be
shaded until they become established, if
the weather is hot.
In transplanting tomatoes, if the plants
are large and spindling, as they generally
are unless they have been given special
culture in the beds, do not try to get
them to stand straight. Plant the roots
at the proper depth, and then lay the
stem in a shallow mark, covering all
with earth except the top. Thus it will
take root along the stem, and make more
stocky and better plants than if planted
in the ordinary manner.
Keep the garden mellow and free of
weeds, if you expect to get returns. 1t
is especially necessary that the earth be
mellow and friable if the weather con-
tinucs dry, since mellow earth not only
retains it's moisture more perfectly than
more compact surface, but it also takes
up microscopic mixture or vapor of the
air, and this ability IS increased in pro-
portion to it's porosity and GOODNESS.
1t is impossible to have succulent vege.
tables without plenty of moisture; and,
without succulence, vegetables are of
but little account.-CAicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
land on the stifle Joint. which causes the

hand on the stife joint, which causes the
leg to lie out straight. Shear clear
around to the breech, or the place shorn
when working on the belly taggings, and
60 clear around past the tail, so that were
the sheep standing on its feet everything
on the left side, including one to
three inches on the right side from the
spine, from head to tail, and including
the whole tail, shall be shorn. Now,
taking the left hind leg Uhe one that is
around with it's spine directly toward
goes under him, for his left hip bone,
which is shorn and bare, now comes in
contact with the boards, causing him to
lie uneasily. Now return with the shears
to the head or neck and go down the
right ride, taking in the two legs and
right-hand side of the brisket and belly.
You may now finish up, trimming off
any tags that may have escaped, includ-
ing that wool off the legs below the knee
and hook joints.
1t will be seen by this description that
the wool all throug h the operation will
hang down and have tendency to fall
apart. This is counteracted in greater
measure if the sheep be shorn on the
floor than on bench, for though the
same manner of opening up and shear
ing is pursued, still, as the shearer goes
down each side, the sheep lies on the
opposite side, and the distance from that
point of the fleece whence the wool is
hanging to that point OH the floor where
it is resting is not so great as where the
sheep sits on its rump.-N. 7. Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
If WE HAD BUT Il DAY..

We should fill the hours with the sweetest
things,
If We had but day.
We should drink alone at the purcst springs
In our upward way,
We should love with a life-timc's love in an
hour,
If our hours were few!
We should rest, not for dreams, but for
frcshcr powers
To DC and to do.
We should bind our weary and wanton will
To the clearcst light,
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly
hills
If they lay in sight,
We should tramplc the pride and the discon-
Beneath our feet,
We should take whatever good God sent
With trust complete!
We should waste no moments in weak regret
If the day were but one;
If what we remember and what VIC forget
Went out with the sun.
We should be from our clamorOus selves set
free
To work or to pray,
And to be what our Father would have us bc,
If we had but day.
Mary Lone Dickinson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
A Sheep Never Dies In Debt.

One great advantage sheep have over
stock is they never die Of the con-
tagious diseases which they contract.
They get the scab or footrot or somc-
thing else, and if unchecked it gets them
in bad condition, and would ultimately
perhaps kill them. But the very worst
contagious diseases to which sheep are
subject give the owner ample time to
treat the affected animals, and the dis
eases are generally of a character which
yield rapidly to treatment. But man
may have lot of hogs and feed them
hundreds of bushels of corn daily, and
about the time the bottoms of his cribs
are neared and he is thinking of selling,
some disease breaks out among them
no one knows what it is of what to do
for it-one animal after another, follow
ing in rapid succession, is affected, and
the greater portion die. I have known
farmers to be well-nigh ruined by the
appearanc of a contagious disease of
this character. Sheep are happily OK.
cmpt from such rapid and fearful NOR
tally. Besides, when sheep dies-and
they do die sometimes-its pelt is suff-
cient to pay for its keeping from the last
shearing to it's death. 1t makes no diff
ference when it dies, or what kills IT,
the sheep never dies in debt.--N. Y.
Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
The Way to Shear Sheep.

In the first place, procure pair of
shears that will retain sharp edge after
the blades are put in proper order. No
man can shear at all satisfactorily with
poor shears. After they are ground true
on the edges let them be sharpened on a
fine-gritted oil-stone The cutting edges
of the blades should be ground bevcling,
neither too little nor too much. Let the
bevel be about one-third as much as the
bevel on the cutting edge of plane
iron. In opening up the neck or shear
ing the belly, when it becomes necessary
to open the wool, let the shears be worked
in gradually, cutting the wool of an even
plane close to the skin until they are in
and underneath the wool as far as they
will go; then raise them, tearing the
fleece open. Thus commence at the
point of the shoulder, working up toward
the head. This prevents cutting the
staple along the neck and makes a better
job. Each stroke of the shears should
be clear and complete, and made close to
the body. If a hiscut be made let it go
at that; for if you do leave half inch of
wool at that spot you get it next shear
ing, and il cut now it will be too short to
be Of any use to the manufacturer, and
will only injure IN his estimation the
parcel of wool in which it is discovered.
In shearing on the floor a man has bet
ter control of his sheep. If shearing on
a bench, catch the sheep by the left hind
leg, back it toward the bench and roll it
over thereon; set it up on its butt, and
then, as you stand with your left foot on
the bench, lay the sleeps neck across
your left knee, with his right side against
your body.
Now take the two fore legs under your
| left arm and begin about the center Of the
belly and open the fleece fore and aft.
Shear what would be the left side Of the
belly if the sheep were on his feet, also
| the left side of the brisket. Now cut off
all tags from the inside of the hind legs
with pair of old shears and shear the
breech as far as you can reach in this
position. Return to the point of the
shoulder, going up under the wool with
the shears as above described to the butt
of the car; now shear around, taking off
the fleece as an entirety and including
the foretop clear around the neck. You
will proceed thus down the left side,
taking the left foreleg by the way and
shearing as far around the sheep as prac-
ticable while holding it in the position
described, which will he two or three
inches past the spine. On reaching the
hind leg, say about the stife, you will
then insert the shears at the inside of the
hooks (wool below that point is common
ly tags) and shear around that leg back
to where you left off on the stife joint
Should the sheep persist in kicking at
! this stage place the palm Of your lett
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
The Merry Month of May.

The following is from the London
Punch:
Mr.. Punch, remembering the many
changes in the weather that marked the
course of last week, begs to offer the fol
lowing suggestions as likely to be useful
during the present month: Fashions for
May: In the morning, the highest gauze
dresses for ladies, and the thinnest tweed
suits for men. Thermometer IS deg. in
the shade. In the afternoon, furs and the
thickest cloaks for ladies, listers worn
over great coats for the men. Thermom-
etcr S deg. in the sun. In the evening,
waterproof wraps and umbrellas for both
sexes. Rain, hail, thunder, lightning
and snow. Thermometer uncertain
Amusements for May: Mondays and
Fridays. garden parties, games of cro-
quet, flower-shows and lawn tunis.
Tuesdays, skating on the Serpentine.
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
floating down Regent street, Picca-
dilly and Pail Mall in golas. Refresh
ments for May: Meats-Curried meats,
poultry and game. 1ces--Strawber-
ries and artichokcs and apricots.
Drinks-Mulled clarct, iced sherbct,
spiced ale, cider and brandy and
(boiling) water. The theaters for May ::
Covent Garden, opera three nights a
week; grand Christmas pantomime on
the off nights. Drury Lane, opera, Sig
nor Salvini, skating on wheels and prom
enade concerts. Lyccum, "a Midsum-
mcr Nights Dream" Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays, and during the
rest of the week "A Winters Tale. !"
Further hints for May: Taking Walk
People leaving their houses during
this trying season of the year should be
careful to avoid sunstroke or freezing
To cure the first, apply ice; to prevent
the last, cover over the part attacked by
frost with snow. On hot days wear felt
helmets, as in India; on cold days, fur
caps, as in Siberia. The Gardcn-On
cold days it will be as well to cover over
even the hardest plants with straw, CO.
coanut mating, etc. When the glass
begins to rise orchids and other cxotics
may be safely exposed to the sultry
breezes of the summers night. Yacht
ing-Persons disliking sudden change
of temperature can scarcely do better
than to take cruise, the course Of
which should be bounded on the north
by Greenland and the Arctic Zone, and
on the south by the west coast of Africa.
Motto for the month of May-"Oh, what
time we arc having"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
Curing Hens Of the Propensity to Sit.

1t IS quite as natural for hen to sit as
1t is to eat or to lay eggs Hence, after a
hen has produced an indefinite number
of eggs, sometimes few and sometimes
many, she will cease to lay and her sys-
tenn will assume proper preparation to
pass the period of Incubation without
impalring her health. When hen is in
"laying habit" it would be ruinous to
her health to remain inactive on the nest
for twenty.One successive days--the
period of incubation. Some hens are so
slightly inclined to incubate that the
propensity may be cured simply by driv-
ing them few times from the nest,
while others, even when they have pro-
duced only half a sitting of eggs, will
stick to their nests with pugnacious
desperation. If it is not desirable that a
hen be permitted to incubatc, she must
be treated philosophically and under
standingly. When the desire to incubate
comes on the laying habit disappears
My own practice is to put such hens
as are inclined to incubate in a large
cage in the hennery, where they can see
other fowls outside of their prison, and
give them generous supply of soft food
and water. After they have been re-
leased one or two days they will COM
mence Immediately to feed up" and to
bring the system again to all egg. produc-
ing habit.
A great many sensible people who do
not understand the correct way to man.
age hens at this natural period take
them into a dark apartment and shut
them up in a barrel or turn corn bas-
ket over them. Others order a hen to
be ducked nine times in water to cure
the propensity to sit Others still hold a
hens head in pail of water while one
is counting fifty. Others will tic piece
of red flannel to hen. Numerous other
stupid remedies are adopted, all of which
are unphilosophical and Intellectual. But
when secured in a cage, as suggested, if
fed generously with soft food, hen will
soon commence laying another sitting of
eggs. When I have valuable hen or
turkey whose eggs arc desired for rear
ing stock of that particular bird she is
kept laying. AS soon as she has pro-
duced a brood Of eggs and desires to sit
she is put in cage for day or two and
her eggs are placed beneath another
fowl. BY this system of management a
turkey will often lay three or four Sit
tings of eggs in one scason.-4iyricoka, IN
N. Y. Herald
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
The Last Station.

He had been sick at ono of the hotels
for three or four weeks and the boys on
the road had dropped in daily to see how
he got along and to learn if they could
render him any kindness. The brake
man was good fellow, and one and all
encouraged him in the hope that he
would pull through. The doctor didn't
regard the case as dangerous, but the
other day the patient began sinking, and
it was seen that he could not live the
night out. A dozen of his friends sat in
the room when night came, but his mind
wandered and he did not recognize
them.
1t was near one of the dcpots and,
after the great trucks and noisy drays
had ceased rolling by, the bells and the
short, sharp whistles of the yard engines
sounded painfully loud. The patient
had been very quiet for half an hour,
when he suddenly Enclosed his eyes and
| shouted:
"Kal-a-ma-zoow
One of the men brushed the hair back
from the cold forehead, and the brake
man closed his eyes and was quiet for a
time. Then the wind whirled around the
depot and banged the blinds on the win
dow of the room, and he lifted his hand
and cried out:
jackson! Passengers going north by
the Saginaw Road change cars!'
| The men understood. The brakeman
thought he was coming east on the
| Michigan Central. The effort seemed to
have greatly exhausted him, for he lay
| like one dead for the next five minutes,
and a watcher felt for his pulse to see
if life had gone out. A tug going down
the river sounded her whistle loud and
long, and the dying brakemen opened his
eyes and called out:
Sam Arbor!'
He had been over the road thousand
times, but had made his last trip. Death
was drawing a spectral train over the
old track, and he was brakeman, engineer
and conductor.
One of the yard engines uttered a
shrill whistle of warning, as if the glare
of the headlights had shown to the en-
gineer some stranger in peril, and the
brakeman called out:
"Yp-slanty-change cars here for the
Eel River Roadv'
He's coming in FAST" whispered one
! of the men. ~"
"And the end of the rum will be the
end of his lifcw said a second. = -
The dampness of death began to col
lect on the patients forehead, and there
was that CHASTITY look on the face which
death always brings. The slamming OF
a door down the hall startled him again,
and he moved his head and family
/ called: =4,..-,s
"Grand Trunk Junction-passengers
going east by the Grand Trunk change
carsp ....s.s-
He was SO quiet after that that all the
men gathered around the bed, believing
that he was dead. His eyes closed, and
the brakeman lifted his hand, moved his
head, and whispered: sSi go
"De-"
| Not detroit" but Death! He died
with the half-uttered whisper on his lips
And the headlight on deaths engine
shone full in his face and covered it
| with such pallor as naught but death
! can bring Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

To LEAD ALL COMPETITORS is the aim Of
the proprietors of the Wilson shuttle sewing
machine. It is founded on the very best
principles known to sewing machine science,
and improvements, in advance of all other
scwing-machines, are being adopted con-
stantly. The Wilson is rapidly gaining the
preference of all parties that are acquainted
with sewing machines, and it has already
taken the front rank among the tirst-class
machines of this country; and its price,
owing to its being manufactured where labor
and material are much cheaper than in East
ern cities, is fifteen dollars less than all
other first-class machines. Machines will be
delivered at any railroad station in this
county, free of transportation charges, if
ordered through the company's branch
house, 1877 State street, Chicago. They send
an elegant catalogue and chrome circular
free on application. The company want a
few more good agents.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

Unfortunately the Anderson School
of Natural History, at Penikese Island,
will have to remain closed this summer,
Notwithstanding its success for the past
two seasons, SO far as the purposes for
which it was established are concerned.
The original endowment is insufficient to
keep it going, and efforts to obtain such
a financial basis as is needed have not
been successful. An attempt to make it
in part self-supporting so reduced the
list of applicants as to discourage the OK
pertinent. The teachers, who are anx-
ious to avail themselves of the facilities
for study at Penikese, cannot afford to
contribute to the support of the school,
and the professors cannot be expected to
give up their summers to it without re-
Enumeration. Consequently the school
will not be opened this season, and
doubtless before it can be permanently
successful it will have to be literally
endowed in some way.-Boston Globe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

1T is a fact which cannot be doubted that
ever since Geo. P. Rowcl & Co., the New
York advertising agents, commenced bust
ness in the advertising ag cncy line they have
continued to systematic and the business to
expand, until at the present time every news
paper knows the firm as well as it does its
own Office, and the lcviathans of advertising
literature look upon their facilities for expc-
diting and economizing work as the sheet
Democrat
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

DR.. WALKER tried various extracts
from herbs and roots, without benefit. He
noticed, however, that Alcohol, that banc
of the human race, was used in their prep
aration, and he determined to exclude the
poison entirely from his own practice, so
that the sin Of making men drunkards,
while pretending to cure them, should
never lie at his door. The Almighty
blessed his experiments, and in the VINE
GAR BITTERs he has produced a pure,
notwithstanding agent which banishes dis
ease in every form, reinvigorates the sys-
tenn, and restores strength to the fecblest
sufferer There is no part of life's citadel
where the enemy can make a lodgmcnt
that the VINEGAR BTTrERs will not find
him, and put him to the rout. Impurity
Of blood is the parent of disease; the liver,
the stomach, the lungs, the nerves, every
vital organ is affected primarily from this
cause, and in this direction the VINEGAR
BITrEEs acts with magical influence. 81
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

EDWIN p. DOYLE, minor, by his next
friend, recently brought suit against the
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for NAL
practice, claiming 100000 for the loss of
his sight, which, it was claimed, was
caused by the physician in charge opcr-
ating upon his eyes, affected with a local
inflammation, with instruments infected
with avirulent disease, which caused the
patient to lose his sight. The decision
of the court was in favor Of the defend
ant.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

be allowed to run day without Johnsom's
Anodync Linin,ent. In case of a sudden ac-
cident an immediate use of it may save
weeks of suffering, and perhaps limb, or
even life
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

THERE are several kinds of worms which
trouble horses; the pin-worms (pointed at
both cnds) are the most common and most
dangerous. Sheridam's Caualry Condition
Iv"Hcrs will in few days eject the worms,
and the horse will begin to thrive.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
ALEXANDER Ferguson, a deaf NUT

Alexander Ferguson, a deaf mute,
of Dundee, Scotland, has, by his skill as
swimmer and personal bravery, saved
forty-seven persons from drowning IN
the rivers of Great Britain and ireland.
He commenced his noble work when but
ten years of age. He is to try his skill
as a swimmer against johnson, the En-
glish champion, In q race across the En-
g]ish Channel, from Dover to Calais, this
summer,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

WILHoFT's Tonic "A SAFE, SURE AND
SCIENTIFIC CugE!-The unprecedented sale
of this world-renowncd medicine proves in
contcstibly that no remedy has superseded
the use of this reliable Tonic. No spleen has
been found so hard as not to yield to its soft
ching influence, and no liver so hypcrtro-
phcd as not to give up its long-rctaincd bill
ious sccrctions, and no Chill or Fever has
yet refused to fall into line. WHEELoCK,
FINLAY Il Co., Proprictors, New Orleans.
FoK SALE BY ALI. DRUGGISTS
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PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar eXccls all
others in purity, strength and flavor. Try it.
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Org saods-salt fls4Fas and CRACKERS
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Not Detroit" but Death! He died
with the half-uttered whisper on his lips.
And the headlight on deaths engine
shone full in his face and covered it
with such pallor as naught but death
can bring Detroit Free Prsss.
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nibal Islands,"
"Then why reflect so long"
"To gain time"
"To waste it, I should say"
$50 be it. I'll refuse him tomorrow,
and trust to luck"
"Never put off till tomorrow what
can be done to-day"
Later:
81 feel so wicked! I shall not refuse
the Squire, and shall not marry him.
He was found in his library chair stiff
and cold last night. Aunt Hidden says
no doubt he has left me something hand.
some, and if he hasn't, it's justice upon
ME! / shall never accept an iota. 1t be-
longs to his poor nephew, and would be
only legalized highway robbery"
| "You have the nephcw's prospects
very much at heart; he ought to feel
aattered."
| Later still:
"Liz and Aunt Hidden went to Squire
Cables funeral. / had a nervous head.
ache, and SO escaped. Liz came home
raving over the 'Squire's grandnephew
the only mourner-she had eyes for little
else. But how foolish I am! What dc
you care about Squire Cables nephew?'
perhaps care more than I'd like tt
own, alas"
"Ah, sits the wind in that quarter;
They sent for me to be present at the
reading of the will. / didn't CO."
You might have seen the grand
nephew" -
a wouldn't have gone to see the Grand
Lama. But I saw him at church, and
thought it wouldn't lie go difficult to fall
in love with him as with the Squire
upon my word-now don't laugh-thougf
he isn't my beau ideal"
"Let those laugh who win"
Miss Liz was wondering if the 'Squire's
nephew would settle down in the ole
place or go sky-larking over the world
and if Parson Longmeter would bring
him to call, or how she should contrivt
to make his acquaintance, and whether
green or blue became her complexion
best, like the foolish milkmaid in til,
story; while Aunt Hidden's mouth wa
watering on account of the old china ant
silver ware at Gable Hall, "thst might q