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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
Trees Girdled by Rabbits.

A correspondent in Missouri writes
that some years ago neighbor of his
had forty apple-trees girdled one win
ter by rabbits. The trees was three
years from planting. ale Immediate
ly took narrow boards, four or fire
inches wide, and long enough to go
above the reach of the rabbits, sharp
ened one end, and drove them into the
ground so as to form a square box
around the tree. He tied the box to.
gether with strong cord and then
filled it with fresh soil and pressed it
in firmly. The next spring the trees
budded and grew as well as any trees
in the orchard land have done well ever
since. He took the boxes away the
second spring and found that new
bark had grown over the entire girdled
part.-When trees are only partially
girdled. the plan described is good
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

fat Adf.1inddii.~44l fftonEoli, chief,
who spoke little broken Arabic, an
n0unced to melthat he had been sent
by Kaba Rega to kill me that they
had awaited my coming for days au-
ding that cit is useless for you to re-
sist the fishes will eat you. at sun
down. With shouts Of defiance they
renewed their war song, amid horrid
din of drums and horns, their hideous
faces illuminated with savage glee at
the prospect of blood and murder.
Add Ell Rahman, no longer able to
restrain his excitement, threw up his
rifle to shoot. When, throwing off the
horror of our position that seemed to
paralyze further effort, I cried, eff
you shoot, I'll kill you,'' his arm fell
Immediately in obedience. Raising nv
elephant-gun several times only to re-
ceive the insulting jeers of the defiant
Mtongoli chief, planted finally in his
breast an explosive ball that, busting
there, seemed to let out his ife-blood.
All at once, and dripping in gore, he
fell over on his comrades, and in doing
so, capslzed them all in the stream.
Resting our guns upon the barricade of
cases, our firing was quick and accu-
rate. Crowdihg together, or capsized
in one struggling mass in the deep riv-
or, that here was almost 1000 yards
wide, but few of their spears could
reach us, while they became an easy
target to our shots, that tore into their
boats, or bursting in their naked bod.
les, carried CONSERVATION and terror,
where only a moment before hellish
desire for massacre animated them in
their iendish glee. Unperceived by
me, and protected by a detached island
of papyrus that aoated by, q savage
had endeavored to close with us. NY
servant Adam, who saw his deadly
lance raised close to my head, as en-
veloped in smoke was directing my
fire elsewhere, seized one of the re.
volvers placed for close action. and fir
ing I received the shot in my face, and
fell senseless and bleeding behind the
case that had served me as a rest and
barrier. Although an ugly wound, I
soon gained consciousness, and in the
course of two hours the greater part
Of the savages had reached the shore,
folio wing us until shutdown. We
learned afterwards, through kaba Re-
ga himself, who sent straws to denote
the number of his loss, that eighty
four had been either drowned or killed
including two of his greatest sheiks.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

In time of great political excitement
when Johnnie's Republican father Of
ten spoke against the politics of his
little cousin Bennie's Democratic
father, the former was one night in
doubt about the propriety of praying
for the latter, but at last he deter
mined to keep his little friend in his
prayer, and closed by saying, ssand
bless Cousin Bonnie. if his father is a
Democratic
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
Top Dressing Grass.

Prof. Beal, of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, gives the following re-
suits of top dressing land, performed
some years ago at that college. Such
experiments are worth repeating, and
will doubtless give varying amounts
of increases. with soils, seasons and
other influences. Soil sandy loan, not
in a high state Of cultivation, nor very
strong land:
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

Farm and Garden.
Necessity Of Green Food. to Fowls.


The last requisite in the shape of
dietis 9 regular supply Of : greengfood.
Here, again, fowls kept on grass will
need no attention; but for birds
pennediup, the daily provision of it is
an absolute necessity, though most be-
ginners are ignorant of it. We well
remember, in our own early expe-
rience. how our fowls died, we could
not at first tell why and one fine buff
Cochin cock, whose only fault was a
strong.vulture hook, was, in particu.
lar, greatly regretted. All expe-
rienced friend let us into the secret :;
and after that we had no difficulty in
keeping fowls, even where it is often
said they cannot be kept in health
viz, in yard paved with large flag
stones. The best substitute for nat
urai grass is a large fresh turf thrown
in daily to each four or five hens and
even in towns it is often possible to
procure this, by giving children few
pence every week to keep up regular
supply. Where turf is not allowed to
be taken, grass may be cut or pulled !;
but in this case must be cut into green
chaff, with shears or shaff-machine.
The latter plan is how we actually
managed for years in yard only 81 by
IS feet, divided into six pens paying
some child few pence to bring fresh
cut grass daily, cutting it up and mix
ing it with their soft meat.-EX.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
A Vicious System and its Results.

From the Chicago Tribune.
All merchants who have bought
goods in this market are aware that in
almost every line of trade there are
various discounts allowed upon price,
lists, according to amount purchased,
time of payment, kind of goods. etc.,
etc. In many branches of trade are
combinations among manufacturers to
fix discounts SO that they will be uni
form, but there is scarcely shadow
of doubt that there is wholesale sys-
tenn of cheating in these discounts
which places the dishonest upon a bet
ter footing with purchasers than the
honest. This is done in various ways.
Recently a manufacturer was asked by
the Supply Agent of certain railroad
to make bid for particular article
of hardware. He gave his price,
which was the lowest allowed by the
terms of compact between all the man.
ufacturers of the article required. He
was told that another merchant could
sell it at a less price. and, on investi.
eating the matter, found that it was
true, though the bills were made out
at regular rates. The trick was to
give credit s'by error so much, and
thus reduce the price. Again, in an
other case, a dry.goods firm was de-
tected in paying cash commission to
a buyer after selling the goods at an
apparently low-down price. The man.
ufacturers who enter into combina-
tions often find that somebody is cheat
ing, and cheating is always traced to
the discount system.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

Rome Sentinel: A good Roman ma
tron was delighted on Sunday because
her husband looked so serious during
the sermon, but his convictions turned
ed out to be nothing but symptoms of
cholera morbus, she was obliged to
forego the pleasure of reading tracts
to him, and to content herself with
building a fire and making a mustard
poultice.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

again ana TT lin 60 tflf Ee fslfs down
a second time; let him get up imme.
diately and hitch him up, and you will
probably never have any more trouble
with him."
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

Chow is it. then, my friend, that,
while you say that no one is so dead a
shot as yourself, you never bag any
thinge" ssSimply because when 60
out shooting Inever pull the trigger. :"
'sAh And why?" '''Why, it would be
sheer butchery. French paper.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
Balky Horses.

The Kentucky Home journal gives
the following directions for. breaking
up the baking of viciously stubborn
horse: ssPut on your harness and hitch
him to anything you desire, either sim
gle or double, as you feel disposed,
and give him the commanding word to
go ahead. If he goes, you have moth
ing to do or say but let him go on and
do your work; but if he refuses to 60,
take him out Immediately, take all the
harness off except the bride, and take
small rope the size of plough line,
and tie one end to the bit on the right
hand side, and pull it through the ring
of the left under the chop, pull his
head around to his left side, and slip
the rope under his tail like a crupper
and make it fast, keeping his head
tolerably close to his side. Now all IS
ready, so let HIM 60 and take good
long whip and make him go, talking
kindly to him all the time. He will
travel like dog after his tail, for he
can travel no other way, but after
a while he will fall down, when you
will Immediately let loose the rope and
let him get up; now talk kindly to
him and caress him. Your work is
now half done. for you have only to
tie the rope othe other side of the
bit, and pull his head around the other
way, and make it fast like crupper,
the same as before, and start him off
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01

O1I0s "0 -uoH0 hAOWt4 UI0cS 10 % 6tSVSe&
by binding them round with cotton
cloth and then smearing the, cloth with
tar, and by surround ing with a plaster
of cow-dung and loan bound on with a
cloth. The object is to exclude the
the air. The chances Of recovery are
increased if the trees are severely
pruned early in the spring.
Preserving Fruit and Flowers with Paraf
fine.
Parahine is an article of commerce
obtained by the distillation of petro-
leum. In form it resembles sperma-
ceti, land is a tasteless, inordorous, waxy
matter, fusible at ITO degrees and
nearly transparent when applied to
many substances. DR.. Plesse has re-
commended preserving fruits and flow
ers by simply dipping them into paraf
fine and withdrawing them quickly,
when thin coat of the parafine in
stantly sets, and closes all the pores of
the article thus treated. In order to
be: successful, the flowers should be
freshly gathered, perfectly dry and
free from dew or moisture. The par
affine should not be hotter than just
sufficient to liquify it and the flowers
should be dipped into it separately,
holding them by the stalks, and NOV
ing them about in order to get rid of
bubbles or air which are likely to get
imprisoned within the coroll@. Those
plants or flowers which ale not requir-
ed to be preserved, should be removed
with scissors previous to dipping them
in the paraffine. Fruit should be Dip
ped in as it is held by the stem.
Area of Farms.-According to the
census twelve of the States of the
Union have farms that average less
than 125 acres in extent. In some of
the States the average runs up as high
as 500 acres. These twelve States are
Maine, average 90 acres New Hamp.
shier, 122; Massachusetts, 1903; Rhode
Island, 81; Connecticut, %; New York,
lob New Jersey, 90 Pennsylvania,
l03; Indiana, 1l2; Ohio, Ill J.; Michi-
grn, l0l; Wisconsin, ia. While the
total value of the farms in the United
States is put down at $0,262, 1908. 1861,
the value in the above small-f arm
States foots up SIS, 407 5S7, 178, or near
ly three-ifths of the total land this too
while the area Of these States is less
than one.tenth of the area of the whole
country. This proves the superiority
of the small-farm system so far as Pc
cuniary results are involved.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
Hints About Work.

Hard work is the only remedy for
hard times. By hard work we do not
mean necessarily back-breaking, mus
cle-straihing labor. A man might
work very hard digging garden that
could just as well be plowed; or he
might work hard breaking the Jumps
of manure on the land by hand that
could just as well be broken to pieces
with harrow. We mean by hard
work, effective work. We mean labor
that tells.
Hard work is doing what your reason
and your better judgment tell you
ought to be done, and doing it prompt-
~, at the right time, whether you feel
like it or not.
Laying Plans and writing down what
you intend to do and how to do it, is
often the hardest kind of work for a
farmer.
It is no use laying plans unless you
carry them out. Read over what you
have written down. Make up your
mind what ought to be done first, and
then go at it and stick to it until it is
done.
The best hired men are the Cheap
est. This is true whether you board
your men or let them board them
selves; but it is especially true in the
former case. Better give good man
1925 month and board than poor
man SIS and board. It is worth $40 a
month to board man. One will cost
you $$35 month and the other 1928,
while good, skillful, reliable, expe-
rienced farm hand will accomplish
twice the work Of the stupid. careless
man who cares nothing for your inter.
est and thinks about nothing but his
money and his dinner.
Give the Boys Work, and take pains
to teach them. It is to this source,
that we must look for our best farm
men.
Furnish the Boys Good Tools. Do
not work them too hard. Do not i'm
pose upon them, and thus disgust them
with farming. A boys sense Of just
ice is very keen. Do not let the farm
men order the boys about, and make
them run errands, and do all the disa-
greeab'e things.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
MARK TWAIN.
A Visit to His House in Hartford-His Sing.
-' ILL., ular Behavior.

A Visit to His House in Hartford-His Sing.
ular Behavior.
The New York Sun, has the follow
ing extract from private letter to a
gentleman in New York city:
HARTFORD, Oct. Is. I called yester-
day upon our old friend Clemens, bet
ter known to the public? as Mark Twain,
for the purpose of ascertaining the
truth of certain stories which have
reached me of late regarding the pres
ent condition of his fine mind.
Clemens lives in surprising house
Pennington avenue, in the outskirts of
the city. The resources of taste and
wealth have been lavished upon this
residence, and the result is struc-
ture intellectually midway between
medieval church and a modern game
of baseball. Herein Mark lives the
elegant life Of a man of leisure, cut
ting coupons, smoking long and strong
pipes from morning to night, and
drinking lager beer, which he buys by
the key, and often.
Twas shown into the library, the ap-
pointments Of which are characteristic
of the owners originality. The tints
are all neutral and the furniture of the
homeliest and plainest description. On
the study-table TODD a plaster bust of
John Calvin, on whose face somebody
had linked a goatee and festooned NOUS
taches. The charm of the room is in
the immense open fireplace, where
generous logs were burning upon old
fashioned brass an;lirons. The man.
tlepiece is of heavy blackjack, pur-
chased by Mr.. Clemens in England.
Over the fireplace is brass plate, on
which the following inscription is en-
graved in old English text.
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Corn Fritters.-Take half a dozen
ears of sweet corn, CRATE it from the
cob as fine as possiable > three we'll
beaten eggs; tablespoonful and a
half of -four season with pepper and
salt melt equal portions Of lard and
butter in a frying pan; when boiling
hot, drop in the mixture, spoonful at
a time. Fry brown, and send to the
table hot.
Fresh Fritters.-Take the remains
Of any cold fish remove all the bones !;
add bread crumbs and mashed potato
in equal quantities. Mix half a tea
cupful of cream with two well-beaten
eggs, pinch of salt and pepper; beat
all together cut into small cakes and
fry in boiling lard. Serve hot.
"A worthy missionary clergyman from
the North found his colored brethren
and sisters quite forgetful of the NOR
al law, and began to give them a series
OF practical dlscourses against lying
and stealing. The congregation stood
it for Sunday or two, and then they
revolted, one Of the 'Deacons being
their spokesman, and addressing their
preacher thus !: eve like you berry
much, and want to make it comforta.
BILE for you but de fac is you see, we
don't like dis prechin' about lynn an
rtealin'-we mus hab our Sundays
offs 'ligion.'' 30. -. =
The Christian Leader IN. W in
speaking of Merchants Gargling Oil,
says: "Mr. Hodge is a gentleman of
liberal tastes and excellent Judgment,
and the Gargling Oil Company, under
his thoroughly judicious direction, has
become one Of the strongest and sound
est concerns that grace the CONNER.
cial annals of our State. Other medi.
cinal specialties, in addition to the
Gargling Oil, are beginning to claim
the Company's attention, and of their
great success we have as little doubt
as we have of their intrinsic merit
When a hOte1.pnest kicko6 q xuaitor
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When hotel.guest kicked waiter
who served him wrong, the proprietor
said he served him right.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
"a HANDSOME MAN is THE ORNAMENT OF:
HIS OWN HOUSE," ::

While was reading this legend our
friend came in. He is as tall and as
,, sad-eyed as ever. The unequal dispo-
sition of flesh upon his face, which is
pulpy in places, and lean in others,
tells of the struggle for supremacy that
is going on between his tissues be-
tween the fat-producing beer and the
fat-destroying tobacco. The tobacco
appears to be getting the better Of the
beer.
| Clemens came in, wearing 3 long
dressing-gown of sombre hue, and at
ter glancing furtively around the room,
| advanced and took my hand. Hush -
he said. ''You must go instantly. We
are observed. Do you not hear their
deris;ve laughter? Fly, my friend, fly
at once!
''They are not laughing at us, - re-
piled, humoring his strange fancy.
''They are laughing over your books
! your jokes.
| 'sNow look here, pard,' he said, lay
ing his sinewy hand upon my shoulder
and dragging me toward the door.
ssThat was a million. ten million years
ago. know the humorous laugh, and
I know the political laugh. Escape
without delay. If they capture us
here together they will make you pres
ident and me inspector Of elections for
this ward.''
I tried to soothe him, but in vain.
s'There was time, ages and ages
now gone BY" he continued, gazing
abstractedly into the fire, ttwhen it
was my ambition to be inspector Of
elections for this ward. worked for
it; I pulled wires for it 4: prevaricat-
ed, aye, falsehooded, to compass it.
They promised to make me inspector
of elections if l would preside at po-
litical meeting in Hartford-a town on
the Connecticut river-and make a
funny speech. Ha! hear their fend-
ish laughter still. It has rung in my
ears these centuries. They gave the
place to another man. I staked my
soul and lost it. You come here to jeer
at me, to scott But am a desperate
man. See here!''
He seized the tongs and with one
powerful blow scattered Johg Calvin
into thousand fragments, Then he
turned on me. Seeing that it was use
less to reason with him in his present
frame of mind, fled.
Clemens had done many things late
ly which give his friends natural
alarm. Last week he hoisted Il little
flag of black Grape on each of the nu-
merous lightning-rods which adorn his
mansion. Last Sunday he walked
slowly up the aisle of the Rev. Mr..
Twichell's church, stood a moment be-
fore the desk, and then turned and
fed, uttering piercing shrieks. Yes
terday he attended match game of
the California Polo players, who are
exhibiting at the trotting park, insist
ing on mounting an almost unmanage-
able mustang, known as the s'bucking
horse,'' and rode wildly up and down
Asylum street shouting, 'Woe! woe
unto Israel - His actions are espec.
tally queer at or near the full of the
moon.
Rome Sentinel: A good Roman ma
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Victoria, and made numerous presents
to the ''White Prince as the Colonel
was called, and the party took their de-
parture. Shortly after leaving their
hosts they encountered band of hos
tile savages sent by Kaba Rega to in
tercept and massacre the explorers.
The story of the battle that ensued is
best told in the Colonel own words
The morning of the 18th of August
dawned. and grateful sun, though
fiery hot, awOke us from a fatigued
slumber. Hastily swallowing the rel
les of our repast of the night before,
we embarked ourselves in our two
boats, the openings of which we had
stopped with weeds and rags. At 10
O'Clock we left the shore, and about
midday attempted to gain the opposite
shore from which Mcooli were plainly
to be seen. Shots were fired in the
air in order to announce our arrival,
as agreed upon. There was no reply.
Evidently Selim had not arrived. At
the same moment, to my horror and
surprise, I: espied, hid in the thick
mass of papyrus that lines the shore,
the sinister faces of armed men, whose
well-filled boats we're bristling with
lances, who now, with wild yells and
the beating of the Nogarrah, or war
dance, deployed into the stream. 1t
meant war. A hurried word of eau
ton and command to every man caused
the boats to drift down with the cur
rent, and tied quickly together to give
steadiness and security. The iron
cases, ten in number, were quickly
placed in barricade, and our Fortunate
ly good stock of cartridges arranged in
convenient place for action. The two
Snyders of my men and my Reilly ele-
plant, with explosive shell, and three
revolvers, though splendid arms,
seemed yet but idle weapons against
at least 500 savages, who, confident,
now advanced to the attack in at
tempting to surround me: These were
the men of Kaba Rega, King of Unyo-
TO, the same who in June Of 1872. at.
tackled and defeated Sir Samuel Baker
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-11
The Kansas State journal a,o.,

The Kansas State Journal drawn a Les.
son in favor OF more practical teaching
10 our schools and colleges from the
manner in which thieves are educated
The college Of thieves" Il says, docs
not turn out graduates with their head.
full OF learning and no sense. The sr,;.
Gle IL has for sale Is thieves. sbarn
thieves. and IL supplies the market with
satisfactory article" Not 30 sucoe,..
full. thinks the Journal. are our semin.
aries OF learning. They do not turn
ont forty-year old men at twenty. a, /.
rishtfully demanded. whya Bec.u.s
the graduate is only competen. to DER.
form the last trick learned TO read Lavv
or Thucydid,s, calculste an eclipse. etc.
The essentials to successful life are 90
nearly forgo,ten-buried by the super.
incumbent mass-that il Is distasteful
painful and many times impossible to
recover them. and consequently the
graduate is failure. He is unfortunate,
hasa screw loose somewhere, 10 q fool.
according to the critic. According 10
the thinking men. the college which
graduated him should reorRanize or die. I"
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the audience il they desired TO have him
for President that each man hold up his
right hand. Not q hand was raised.
Brigham Young then told the audience
that he was Smiths successor. and IL
elected would carry out bis ideas. He
was unanimously elected. Mr.. Rigdon
again returned to Pittsburg. and tried to
establish a church. Not succeeding be
removed to the Genesee Valley, New
York, and there remained up to the
time OF his death. . period Of about
thirty years. After abandoning bis re-
liRious ventures. be devoted himself to
the study Of geology, and supported
himself. in . great measure by lecturing
upon that science. He Is said to have
been much respected in bis community.