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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.


The best fattening material for chick
ems is said to be Indian meal and milk.
-Biborate of soda dissolved in water,
used as lotion, will remove prickly heat.
/ Scratches in horses may be cured by
using a wash twice day Of teaspoon
fnl Of powdered blue vitriol dissolved in
half pint of water. Keep the feet clean.
-Erchange.
Potato Sautees.-These are even more
agreeable with meat than fried potatoes.
Cold boiled potatoes are sliced up and
tossed up in tin saucepan with butter,
mixed with little chopped parsley, till
they are lightly Drowned. Pure goose or
other dripping is; by many cooks, pre-
ferred to butter for this purpose.
Potatoes Soutfiees.-These delicious
blistered potatoes are prepared as follows:
The potatoes, if small, are simply cut in
halves; if large, cut into two or three more
slices; these are fried in the usual way,
but are taken out before they are quite
done, and set aside to get cold; when
wanted they are fried second time, but
only until they are of light golden color,
not brown.
-Puree OF Potatoes.-This differs from
mashed potatoes only in the employment
of more milk and butter, and in the whole
being carefully reduced to a perfectly
smooth, thick, cream-like mixture. Where
economy is great object, and where rich
dishes are not desired, the following Is an
admirable mode ofmashing potatoes: Boil
them till thoroughly done, having added
handful of salt to the water, then dry
them we'll, and with two forks placed
back to back beat the whole up till no
Jumps are left. If done rapidly, potatoes
thus cooked are extremely light and di.
gestible.
Taking timothy hay as the standard
of comparison it requires 100 pounds of
it to supply certain amount Of nourish-
ment. It is estimated by careful expert
ment that the same amount of nourish-
ment can be obtained by using the follow
ing quantities of other food: Clover hay,
ninety-five pounds; rye straw, 355pounds;
oat straw, 22O pounds; potatoes, 1875
pounds; carrots, 2SO pounds; beets, 346
pounds; ruta- bagas, 262 pounds; wheat,
forty three pounds; peas, forty-four
pounds; beans, forty-six pounds; rye, for
ty.nine pounds; barley, fifty-one pounds;
corn, fifty-six pounds; oats, fifty-nine
pounds; buckwheat, sixty-four pounds,
and oil-cake sixty-four pounds.-Rural
New Yorker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
Vegetable Eccentricities.

No doubt many readers have found in
their rambles through old, neglected gar
dens, in places where the gardeners hoe
or rake has not disturbed the surface, clus
ters of small, cup-shaped bodies, of the
size of an army percussion-cap filed with
small fastened balls, making the whole
bear a very strong resemblance to birds
nest, though of diminutive size. Because
of their shape they have received the name
sof birds-nest fungus. In the young state
the upper portion of the cup is filled with
thick liquid, held in place by thin
covering atthe top, which in time passes
away, EXPOSING She .eggsp within or
allowing them to have the nest - as they
sometimes do, and hang suspended upon
the outside by long, slender thread at
tached to one of the two fattened sides.
These egg-like bodies are not simple
spores, as their shape might suggest; but
in which are contained mill
ions of the reproductive bodies Of the
plant Certainly, if there is spark OF
love for the curious and obscure, the
pleasure-seeker will stop as he passes
along and admire these little wonders at
bis feet.
Everyone hos ssen the Aouse''iea IN
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
Wheat After Potatoes.

Where potatoes are grown extensively it
has become a common and very good
practice to have few acres of early pota-
toes ready to clear off and SOW to wheat
This can readily be done with early rose,
and sometimes with early-planted later
varieties. It is best, however, not to try
to get out large field of potatoes in time
for wheat, as the labor is so great that it
is apt to delay wheat sowing till late in
the season. Wherever ground can be
fitted for sowing by the 25th of September
a potato crop makes an excellent prepare
ton for wheat. The ground is in the best
possible mechanical condition from pre-
vious cultivation, and if the soil is rich
enough good crop is apt to result
With the complete pulverization of the
soil, as hoeing, cultivating and digging,
little after preparation is necessary to fit it
for wheat The old-fashioned way, both
on corn and potato ground, was to light
ly cultivate, and sometimes only to drag
the surface, sowing the wheat broadcast
and covering with the drag. This was
reckoned slipshod and lazy practice, and
therefore abandoned, but we remember
very we'll that some extra large
crops were grown in this way, and it
is quite certain that the deeper cultivation
which has become fashionable has not
been so generally successful. Wherein is
the advantage of blowing potato ground
for wheat? If properly cultivated during
the summer there will be few or no weeds
in potatoes at digging time, and light
cultivation, or even dragging to level the
surface, is all that is needed-much better,
we suspect, than deeper blowing, which
turns the finely pulverized surface soil to
the bottom of the furrow.
On land not deficient in potash there is
always a good clover catch with wheat
after potatoes. If the clover fails on potato
ground the probability. is that potash is
wanting, and hardwood ashes should be
sown. 1t these cannot be obtained the
German potash salts are good substitute,
and may be profitably used on such land.
-Rural Neao Yorker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
&ed,rupd &azfttt.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,
REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA
IN THE CITY.

Two artless souls met te-day- = X
pair OF homespun lovers;& s%
AS ligntsome and as carelesa they =
AS aught the sunshine covers.
Stray moths that float the summer through
Had wingless seemed beside them,
Who, wholly glad, found naught to do
With what might yet betide them. =
Along the busy street they stept,
Their arms close intertwisted; -
And Of the crowd no record kept =.
While one to other listed.
I could not hear word they said,
Yet quick, returning glances -
Between them spoke of spirits wed
Like those in old sromances. 80
The sachel swinging on his arm,
His garmsiSs eaaintly attsd, = ~r-.et
Her old-time dress, yet girlish charm,
All held me while they fitted.
l saw they would not barter one
OF others valued kisses
For any riches under sun
That make up meaner blisses. 800
And then thought how Heaven comes dowr
To bless the simple hearted
Who have no care for fashions frown
Nor fear but to be parted.
And thought, too, if the world but guessed
The half of what it loses
BY sighting love, 'twould stand confessed
In shame of what it chooses.
Yet nothing rocked the happy pair
Of such lesson needed
BY folk o'erlooked, while passing there
Themselves as little needed.
All uuconcerned they dreamed not why
scanned their tell tale faces, =
And pitied silent ones 60 by
To cold, heart-lonely places.
These laughed and talked, delighting each,
Aud slept as on the heather;
Supremely blest one goal to reach,
Linked arm in arm together.
Nary B. Dodge, IN Christian Union.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
Treatment of Fruit-Trees.

A writer in the Farmers Home Journal
writes as follows on the management of
fruit trees from planting till the age for
bearing fruit:
NY grating was commenced on stock,
but on grating fifty changed to root and
found this the best for both apples and
pears. After q thorough cultivation for
one year I transplanted to their perma-
nent place, a high, dry plat of ground
with stiff clay subsoil; cultivated the
first year in potatoes and melons. When
l set out a tree of any kind 1 trim off all
the limbs ana top it right where want it
to head. The second year sowed wheat
and gave each tree a wheel-barrow load
of well-rotted COW manure. The third
year l sowed oats and clover; cut the
clover for ten feet around each tree and
mulched them with the green clover to
the depth of two feet in the fall plowed
the clover under each time, blowing the
rows in single lands, throwing the dirt to
the trees; by that mode now have
mound around each tree and drain in the
center. The fifth year / planted it in po-
tatoes and melons. The sixth year l
planted corn in the center of the rows,
cultivating both ways. The seventh, back
to oats; the eighth back to potatoes and
gardening; ninth, back to corn; tenth,
back to oats; eleventh, in clover without
any other crop this summer, and SOW to
rye next, and turn this under in May of
the next year. This was for apples and
pears; cherries, peaches and plums and
other fruit treat differently, not forget
ting to trim and shape the trees all the
time.
Young beginners are quite apt to leave
too much growth at the start, and which
will have to come out at time that will
be great drawback to the trees. have
trimmed at all times of the year, and find
February and March the best. I go over
twice year and take out all superfluous
growth, and there need be but little prun-
ing the next year. Budding, or grating,
is simple operation, and can be per-
formed by anyone who will try. And
then, when your trees come into bearing,
you will not be disappointed, as many can
attest. After your orchard comes into
bearing you should use stable-manure only
about every six years; used oftener it will
produce too much growth of wood, to the
detriment of fruit.
In planting peaches, plums, apricots
and nectarines, if you will sod the trees
for one foot around the trunk, with blue
grass, and not let it spread any further,
you will not be troubled with worms, and
then keep up thorough cultivation of the
ground. e
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
The Inevitable Baby.

At every resort this summer, from the
crowded mountain hotel to the tent on the
beach, whatever else was wanting, there
was always to be found the inevitable
baby, with its retainers, the mother in the
chief place Of servitude. It was not by
any means, as she supposed, regarded by
the rest of the boarders as boon, some
thing dropped from heavenly places.
There were growing and swearing enough
in the other rooms when it shrieked all
night with collie, and the interest of the
old bachelors in its teething or pink toes
was not half so fervent as she fondly imag-
ined. Yet they, with everybody else,
crowded about her when she came out on
the porch with it in the morning. She
was homely little woman, and the baby
little else than a long sweep of muslin
drapery, with a round bald head atop;
but there was something in her face as
she looked at it which drew every passer-
by nearer and warmed his heart, just as q
message from his own home would have
done, or a glimpse of the great mountains,
or sudden stirring song. 1t was the old
picture of the mother and child, of which
artists never tire, and which did so much
to humanize the world for many centuries.
No matter who this young mother may
be, whether Laura in silk or Dolly the
washerwoman, it is the love in her insig-
nificant face which makes it rich and rare
for us-the love and absolute faith in her
child. Every woman gives to her sickly,
dull baby the royal title which Germany
found for her master thinker-he is tho
only one. Into whatever wrecks life may
fall for her in the future, he is certain-a
rock to build upon, no sandy foundation.
We all knew her year or two ago, and
laughed at her, perhaps. She was Portia
then, wooed by Bassanio or John, listen
ing to Collins story of love over the barn.
yard gate. We laughed at her; but there
was pathetic break in our laughter, after
ala remembrance that something which
was very real and enrolling to this girl
and her lover had once been ennobling
and real to US, and was now but fantas-
tic, silly dream. Like "all mankind, -
we loved lover for the sake of what we
ourselves had lost; we TESTED with the
girl, perhaps, but tenderly. Since she
was baby she never had seemed to need
care so much, to be so worthy of rever-
ence. We knew that her lover was no
Bassanio or Colin; but very ordinary,
dull young fellow, and not at all the ideal
paragon before whom she abased herself
and worshiped, and we knew that some
day she would be forced to look at him
through our eyes.-Kebecca Uarding Dauss,
in N. Y. Independent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
Buying Butter.

When Detroit woman finds that the
butter-dish needs replenishing she starts
for a grocery with the firm determination
to die on the spot rather than be swindled.
She knows just how the trade" manip-
ulates old butter to make new Of il, and
how scraped carrots { are used to give
chalky butter theyellow tint which we all
love to see. She is on her guard from the
moment she enters the store.
"Any buttere'' she asks.
"Yes' m," is the answer.
"Any good butter?'
"Yes'm.'
cts really good butter, is it,"
"Best in market. How much will you
have"' - ---. go 49, t,-,~
He hands her the cheese-knife, removes
the wet cloth from the top of a jar, and she
lifts the knife, poises it for "dig," and
then lowers it and takes long snuff at
the butter.
"Oh, I'll warrant it," says the grocer
She steps back, plunges in the knife,
and carefully hauls piece Of butter to-
ward her mouth, smells of it, winks wise
ly, and then carefully puts her tongue
against it. After two or three repetitions
she nibbles at the chunk, lets an atom dis
solve III neT mOutu, dnO Willie ENG II NtSI-
ing the grocer says:
II bought that butter from an old Gus
toner, and can recommend it.''
sThat's been worked over!' she saw
agsiy replies. ,.
"Never madam! That's new butter,
not out of the churn a week."
"Tastes to me as if there was lard in
it."
"Heavens! madam, but I warrant it
pure"
"1s the butterlnilk- all out, do you
tllink?'' - -,-~ - =. -
"Think? Why, look for yourself"
cit isn't that suet butter, is ~
"Not any! No, madam, this ispure,
fresh butter"
"You warrant it do you ~
"Of course do"
"And it's all like this piece"'
"All like that"
"No old butter under the crust?"
mot an ounce"
"Dear, wish l knew if it really was
good butter"
"Why, madam, it's the best jar of but
ter in Detroit. How much will you
have?
Lets see. You warrant this butter?"
"Ido."
cts perfectly fresh and sweet?"
"Sweet as the bloom of roses"
"Well, if knew twas good I'd take
two pounds, but i'm probably turn out
bad, and so | guess pound will do."-
Uetr0st Free Press. =, --~ s-.ss~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
'even thouglstn e6Vrs of6thers- in the
-sdirectf6n had 1affed tlionsdnd

same sdirectibn had 1affed a tho1sdnd
times.
The last will and testament Of the father
left all his estate to his wife, the mother,
to be held for her use during life, and to
pass to the son, provided he appeared
inside of ten Years 6Ner her deatlf tGclaim
the possessions II Alexanders did not
appear in the allotted time all was to re-
vert to St. Pauls Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum and designated charitable institu-
lions and purposes. The estate is worth
800, 900, and consists Of suburban and
city property, bonds, etc: On Saturday
last the heir to all, the long-absent son,
Alexander, arrived in our city and sought
out the friends of his boyhood. Need we
attempt to portray the feelings of the now
sAbdued and settlsd-spsa as heopee more
us at the3old freside and reAectsson the
history of his life, of the persons and
things that were, but are not now, of the
.mig4G changes wrought out in the past
eventful twenty years - sHshu'gA- Gazette.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

THERE are now eighty three regularly:
published periodicals in Maine, a gain of
eighteen in the past five years, the Port
land Transcript, literary paper, leading
the list with q circulation Of ~, 735, the
Lewiston Weakly Jorre0l, coming second,
with l2,sas, while the leading agricultural
paper is the Maine. FORMER, II ,0OO, and
the leading daily, the Portland Press,
2, b0O.l The aggregate circulation of all
the weekly papers is 134,957.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

The other evening, when Harper's
train was approaching 1ockland, it part
ed in the middle and the bell-rope snapped
off like thread, the end of it striking an
old lady from Jasper on her bonnet and
setting her nerves to play. "What on
earth's the mattcr?" she exclaimed. ooh,
the trains broke in two," replied a gen
tleman who sat in the next seat. ugh!
1 should say So" the old lady said, look
ing at the broken bellcorl. "Did they
s'posa such nasty, tritling little string
like that would hold the train togcther!''
-DnufOn Democrat
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
"a E .:,l.I:zz

New HASlNspaee9 are now DENYING
that Ana Farley al MwsHaven, who had
her scalp torn off two years ago, and re-
placed by pieces of skin taken from several
other persons, enjoys q! fine head of hair.
Theysay that though thescalp is restored,
hetassa b siaaoee of'hais as Z billiard
ball,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

Il DURING q recent thunder storm, as a
young lady living in st. John, n. B, was
seated at her sewing-machine, the instru-
ment was struck by lightning, i and both
the operators arms were partly paralyzeds
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
The value of Conversational CHI

The value of Congregational church
property in Maine in 1873 of the PAL
churches is 81, 1877 1886; of this sum $780,
600 is the estimated value of sixty five
parsonages. The church edifices are val
ued at 81 ,213, 730. Ninety-four mission
aries were employed by this denomina-
ton in that State during the past year
under commission from the Maine Mis-
sionary Society. Thirty have labored
during the entire year and others from
one month to ten.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

Two Minneapolis girls walked from
Minneapolis to St. Paul, a distance OF
eleven and Il half miles, in two hours and
o half.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

"A bird with one wing shorter than the
other-like a bad chimney-is apt to have
defective flew.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

To become peace-makers-Play at
football in a crockery- shop.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

IMPORTANT TO CONSERVATIVES. gem
tleman having been fortunate to cure his son
OF consumption in its worst stages after being given
up to die by the most celebrated physicians desires to
make known the (Which proves successful in ev-
cry CASEY to those afflicted with asthma. bronchitis,
throat and lungs, and will send the recipe, free of
CHARGE to all who desire it. If they will their
address to DANIEL ADEE, 81 Liberty St., New York.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
THINKING Men

Who desire % understand EDWARD KELLOGG'S
=" Me,o Monetary system.r may receive circular,
application to the Undersigned Persons desiring to
ac viii reseys E es 9S
Money Question. By the author of the plan of INTER
C6NvERTIBLE BONDS AND MONEY. Sixth edition.
S4 pages. In paper cover, G.QO; IN cloth $50 post
paid. Address HENRY CAREY BAIRD Coz.
AO6 Walnut street. Philadelphia, Pa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14

, "A Pawlet (Vt) doctor who had been
paying attention to an aged spinster Of
that isat town recently transferred his ale
aroused the other that she used to station
herself under the widows window dur
ing the Doctors calls, whereupon the wild
ow waylaid her one night and, when she
ancient sgss; he result VS. TX . iswsai9, III
which the spinster recovered damages.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-03
Why C. r. Edwards, OF Portsmouth,
Shot His Brother.
From the Norfolk Landmark,

IFrOIu Tue NOTlOlk IanOUurks Zu
It appears that Thomas Edwards bad been
10 the habit Of creating disturbances In the
family, and they became SO intoIerable that
C. 2. Edwards ordered him to keep
away. Yesterday be left q note at home for
Thomas Edwards, in which be warned him
TO keep away or be would kill him. This
note incensed Thomas Edwards very much.
he told bis mother that he intended to get a
pistol, kill bis brother, set the dwelling on
fire, and then kill himself. This frightened
Mrs. Edwards, and she at once informed
Charles 2. Edwards of his brothers threat
About O'Clock Thomas Edwards went
into the store, pulled out the note, and told
him he would Kill him, at the same time put.
ting his hand TO his pocket as if 10 draw his
pistol. G. P. Edwards being behind the
counter without possibility oi.escape, caught
up pistol from the desk and shot him. He
then caught the brother and led him to the
door, when he thought the brother again
attempted to draw his pistol, when be again
shot him. Thomas Edwards was then taken
10 j. IT. Baird's store, and G.. p. Edwards
Immediately surrendered himself to Mayor
Watts, who committed him for examination
this morning.
Thomas Edwards stated that be had no
idea Of shooting bis brother, having no pistol
on his person, and only went into the store
to abuse bis brother for sending him the in
sultng note. G. 2. Edwards was undoubt-
edly under the im preston that he was acting
in Self.Qelence.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-03

STAaP-TAx.-The Commissioner of Intern
al Revenue has reversed The decision of
April II last concerning tue stamp tax upon
drafts, bills, checks or orders drawn in the
United States upon bank, banker or trust
company in foreign country, and decides
that they, although perhaps not vouchers
while In this country, appear to him to be
clearly taxable under the terms of the statute.
They are drafts, checks or orders drawn
upon bank, banker or trust company, and
there IS nothing in the law limiting to this
country line locality OF the bank, etc., upon
which the paper is drawn. Collectors are
REQUIRED TO notify the banks, bankers and
trust companies III their several districts of
this change OF ruling, and will require the
Dayment of the stamr lax on the instruments
referred to from and after this date.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-03

PosTAL.-New post.ofices are established
at Red Plains, Franklin county, Va, on the
route from Rocky Mountain to Big Lick,
with james r. Richardson as postmaster; at
lions Mills, Lee county, on the route from
Jonesville TO Turkey Cove, with William s.
Hurs. as postmaster; at Stattordsyille, Giles
county, Va, on the route from Dublin to
Peryisburg, with John r. Deck as postmas-
ter; at Little Wolf Creek, Summers county,
W. Va, on the route from Forest Hill to
Hinton, with E. L. Dunn as postmaster ana
at Mouth Shant Creek, Boone county, w.
Va. with W. l.. Van Horn as postmaster.
George Anderson is appointed postmaster at
HawEen's Mills, Russell county, Va, uice
George W. johnson, resigned.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-03

A NOVEL CIVIL RIGHTS SUlT.-A suit was
entered yesterday against one Henry Smith,
who keeps a lodgng-houSe on Fifteenth
street. by white man for Jecting him from
bis house on account OF his color, contrary
to the fifteenth amendment of the Consti'u.
ton of the United States. The facts IN the
case are these A room had been rented to
the white gentleman in the absence OF the
landlord by bis mother, who upon bis return
closed the doors upon him with the frank
ayowal that be would accommodate no
white person. Justice John 2. Sampson is.
sued warrant last evening for the arrest OF
the landlord Washington Republican.