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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
The Kitchen Garden.

In the interest of good living and good
health we again offer few words upon
the importance of more attention to the
kitchen garden. Vegetable food during
summer is the diet demanded BY the ap-
petite, and is essential to perfect health
and comfort, and should be provided for
as carefully as the grains, fruits, stock and
other products of the farm. loo often,
however, the farmer leaves the care and
keeping of the garden to his already over
tasked wife, on the plea that he has not
the time to attend to it. The consequence
is that only a small space of ground is
planted, but few varieties OF seeds are
sown, and the scanty cultivation that the
women folks or the little boys are able to
give them, make but slim display of the
commonest vegetables for the table during
the summer months.
There is no good reason why the table
of every farmer should not be abundantly
supplied with all the most desirable vege-
tables and fruits; but the farmer or the
large boys or the hired man should do the
work, and it should be done mainly with
pillow and cultivator. The common plan
of cultivating vegetables with the spade
and hoe, in beds in small square inclos.
ure, ought to be discarded by all good
farmers. Most vegetables and small
fruits can be grown successfully, and with
less than tenth of the labor usually be-
slowed upon them, by planting or setting
them out in large rows and blowing them,
as with corn and potatoes. Peas, beans,
cabbages, squashcs, melons, onions, bcets
and many other vegetables are susceptible
of this method Of cultivation, with the
best results. If the ground has been prop.
erly tended previously, but little hoeing
will be required, and the work of raising
an abundant supply of vegetables for the
family is reduced to half an hours plow-
ing a week.-IndianG Farmer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
An Accommodating Second husband.

A savings bank Cashier Of this city is
the unconscious hero of very good joke,
which, by the way, he relates himself. He
is now a happy husband. Only few
months ago he was the engaged" Of a
fascinating widow (his present wife, who
is we'll known in literary circles, and an
attendant of the Sorosis reunions. Dur
ing the engagement, an event occurred
which made it necessary for the widow to
change the investment of some of her
funds. Naturally, she sought the advice
OF her intended husband. He has now,
and always had, horror of seeming to
marry woman for money, and frankly
said TO her on this occasion that, as they
were shortly to be married, and he had
sufficient property for both, she had bet
ter expend her funds in any way that
might please her. She disclaimed any
desire to spend it, and, not to be outdone
in frankness, told him that the money had
been left to her by her first husband, and
she did not care to expend it foolishly.
At last a happy thought occurred to the
Cashier, and he mentioned it to the wild
ow. As the money came from her first
husband, why not expend it in erecting a
handsome monument to his memory. She
eagerly adopted the suggestion, and to-
gether they began to plan how it should
be done. The next day several marble
workers were req uested to send in designs
for monument. The funniest part of
the story is that the Cashier actually
wrote the epitaph, praising the virtues of
the deceased, and it is now almost finished
in marble-worker's on Thirty-second
street. The intention was to have the
monument completed before the mar
riage, but unforeseen delays prevented.
The Cashier has taken entire charge Of
the work, and doubtless the wife loves
him all the more for his disinteredness.-
N. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune. A..
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
symptoms of Catarrh.

Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the
nasal passages, discharge falling into the
throat, sometimes profuse, watcrv, acrid,
thick and tenacious mucous, purulcnt, mu-
co-purulcnt, bloody, putrid, offensive, etc.
In others, a dryncss, dry, watery, weak, or
intiamed eyes, ringing in cars, deafness,
hawking and coughing to clear the throat,
alterations, scabs from ulcers, voice altered,
nasal twang, offensive breath, impaired smell
and taste, dizziness, mental depression,
tickling cough, etc: Only few of the above
symptoms are likely TO be present in any
case at one time.
When applied with DR.. Piercc's Nasal
Douche, and accompanied with DR.. Picrce's
Golden Medical Discovery as constitutional
treatment, Dr.. sage's Catarrh Remedy pro.
duces perfect cures Of the worst cases OF
Catarrh and Ozena of many years. standing.
This thorough course of medication consti.
tutcs the only scientific, rational, safe, and
successful manner of treating this odious
disease that has ever been offered to the af.
ficted.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
and then banked over with earth to pre

auu tucA Utsuh0u OVC1 WILL cur VI u pre-
vent freezing. u
- Cisterns can be made very cheap in this
manner, and distributed about among the
various farm buildings, where they will
be more convenient than ons very large
one, placed near the barn or dwelling
house. We have found cisterns of mod.
crate size, say Of thirty to forty barrels ca
pacity, so distributed, not only very con-
veDient receptacles of water, but less lia-
BILE to get out of order than those of a
larger size. Then, in case a leak does &C.
cur in one, the supply of rain water is not
entirely cut off, as it might be if we had
but a single very large one. Water kept
in cisterns under ground will be cool and
sweet when that in q stagnant pool ex-
posed to the sun is warm and unwhole.
some for either man or beast.
When water in ponds becomes filthy in
summer, its condition can be much i'm
proved, in fact rendered innocuous, by
filtering. This can be readily done by
filling box with finely washed and
broken pieces of charcoal, placed upon a
layer of coarse sand or gravel. The filter
should be placed above the watering
trough, and the water either pumped or
dipped up from the pond and passed
through the filter. This would not re-
quire any great amount of labor, and
might prevent the loss of many animals
from disease engendered by impure water.
This is subject worthy of careful con-
sideration at this time, for it will soon be
too late to remedy evils which may follow
inattention, to such matters at this season.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
Thrice Rejected and Finally Accepted.

:
The fashionables are having their fill of
gossip at present concerning couple re-
Gently married in very high style-brill!;
that sort Of thing, you Know. Their
names have been duly paraded in the
fashionable intelligence of the Home
Journal and other papers, but the romance
of the match has escaped publication. It
seems the parties, as the phrase goes, are
not children; at least, no spring chickens.
They have been intimate many years.
The gentleman first proposed marriage
five years ago, and the honor was declined
by the young lady. The lover would not
take nay for On answer but obtained
pei4ission 10 Sonlinue hfa IiAits as~ 4
trie9d.s Jnst 6ne year from the of
his rejected suit he renewed the offer, and
again 1t was declaffed with thanks This
time he tooksH more seriously, aud
iueR YOU'D 1sf, Sas. L S,lea a:
concluded to take European tour the
same year. In six months the former
lovers met in Paris, the suit was renewed,
but with the same result AEhfnds re-
turned to this country, and the lady re-
lated the story lin confidence, of course
TO her female friends. This was last Octo-
Der. The, gentleman. not at.alk discour.
aged, pressed Mss offer once more, and
this time was accepted, and to-day the
couple are somewhere in the West
on their bridal tour. They both be-
long to old and wealthy families, and the
perseverance Of the admiring husband
furnishes many q topic of aristocratic
gossip. no less than bis Vffe's singular con.
duct in thrice rejecting and finally marry
Ing him.-N. T. Cor. Uhieaao Tribune
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with the needle and pencil. The ladies
of Brazil have contributed embroidered
cushions and artificial flowers. The col.
lection OF paintings and statuary would
fill small gallery, and this section will
be still more interesting when Miss Hos
mer's group OF statuary arrives, early in
June. Carpet weaving and ribbon man.
ufacture are carried on in the building,
and the Ne,o Century, a woman's newspa-
per, is edited and the type for each
issue is set before the eyes of lockers
on, but the press work is done else
where. The display of wax.dowers,
and of all those delicate articles
for household ornamentation which only
women of leisure can produce, is varied
and complete. If the articles which fill
the building are suggestive of decorative
rather than useful arts, it is the mans
fault. The cage is not the best field for
endeavOr, and this exhibition Of what
women have done is potent reminder of
what they are capable Of doing with the
door open for free endeavor. They are
proud of this collective display, and no
lady visitor thinks Of leaving the grounds
without inspecting it. The women's pa
viliOn, however, is net the sole place
where women's work is visible. In the
machinery building hundred or more
are employed in weaving, making envel-
opes, watches and thread, in operating
sewing machines, and in sundry other
pursuits. In the Government building,
where the regulation army musket and
cartridge are being made, almost all the
work is done by women. The TURKS, the
Egyptians, the Japanese, the Herzegovina
ians, the Cubans, and several other for
eign nations are now carrying On cam
paigns armed with guns made by Ameri-
can women. The strictest tenets of the
sex would not perhaps iEdorse employ
ment which 40 directly leads to bloodshed,
but it pays, and the women are after the
labor and the legitimate dollar as well as
the men.-Cor. Chicago Inter. Ocean.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
To ALL, particularly invalids, spring Is

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is
a trying season. Indications of sickness should
at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may be
caused by allowing the bowels to become consti-
pated and the system to remain in a disordersd
condition until the disorder has time to develop
itself. An ounce Of prevention is wortha pound
Of cure, is an old and truthful saying. Therefore,
we advise all who troubled with the complaints
now very prevalent-headache, indigestion, disor-
dered liver. want Of appetite, nausea, feverish
skin-to take, without delay, Schenck's Mandrake
Pills. We know Of no remedy 20 harmless and
decisive in its action. It at once strikes n he
root Of the disease and produces healthy tone to
the system. People never need suffer from any
disease arising from disordered condition Of the
liver If they would take this excellent medicine
when they feel the first indications of the malady
Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three four boxes Of these pills with
them. They have an almost instantaneous effect.
They will relieve the patient of headache in one
two hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver Of
surrounding bile, and will efectually prevent .
bilious attack. They are sold by all druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

l
! TO Make Hominy-put some concen-
trated lye in kettle and dissolve, take
| five ears of white corn, shell, put into
the lye and boil one hour, or until the
skins will wash off; then wash four or
five times, or until free from hulls and
the taste Of I've, then put it into kettle
OF fresh water and boil all day. When
wanted for use, put in T. skillet and fry
with lard.
Lemon Pie.-Make very short crust
and roll rather thick. For every pie take
the grated rind and juice of one lemon,
one teacupful Of sugar, and the yelk Of
one egg; one cupful of sweet milk or
with little milk; bake about an hour
beat the white to froth; add two table,
spoonfuls of sugar and pour over the top ;
bake slightly.
Soup Dumplings.-A subscriber asks
for q recipe for soup dumplings that
would not get heavy. Here is one. Take
one pint of water, one-half cup of butter
and little salt; let it boil, stir in flour
enough to make stiff dough: bake it
well, then beat it up with four eggs and q
little cinnamon, cut it in with spoon in
small Jumps as it rises; boil one minute.
-Housekaeper.
TO make good molasses candy take
two pounds white coffee sugar, one quart
molasses sirup, three tablespoonful of
vinegar; put in q small piece of butter.
You can tell when it is boiled enough by
dipping your finger into a cup of cold
water, then into the candy, quickly back
into the water, and if that which sticks to
your finger is hard and snaps, the candy
is done, and should be poured upon a
creased marble or tin pan; add little
essence of lemon, then pull it till it be-
comes white.
FLOWERS enhance the value of farm
by adding to its beauty; for however
much men may ridicule the idea, it is no
less fact that the large majority of man.
kind are Influenced more or less by beauty
in their business transactions. If man
is about to buy farm, he will pass by the
place where the house is implanted, with
no nice fence enclosing the grounds and
weeds and rubbish occupying the front
yard, to where the house shows evidence
of taste, the grounds clean and free from
weeds, with vines twining about the
doors and windows, and the yard bright
ened by shrubbery and flowers, although
he may know that the former place will
produce more and better crops than the
latter Indiana Farmer.
Were the good qualities of inexpen-
sive home. made hard soap more generally
known, no family would be willing to be
without it. 1t is valuable for washing
white clothes, rendering them very clean
and white; it is also excellent for fannels
and calicoes, never fading but Frightening
the colors; it is good likewise for the
hands, removing all roughness and caus-
ing them to become soft and smooth.
six pounds each Of sal soda and lard,
three pounds OF stone lime and four gal
Ions OF soft water. Dissolve the lime and
sal soda in the water by boiling, stirring,
settling and pouring off, then return it to
the kettle, using brass or copper, and add
Ethe lard and boil until it becomes soap,
then pour it into tub and when cold cut
it into bars and let it dry.-Household.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
Origin and Source of Petroleum.

At first it was held by many that petro.
leum was result of distillation from the
bituminous Goals which were found in its
vicinity, and this belief was strengthened
by the fact that some of the very bftumin.
Gus Goals, such as camel and Boghead
coal, afforded large quantities of similar
oils on being distilled; but, although this
is very probably the source of small
amount of oil, yet the larger part of it is
now believed to derive its origin from
rocks lying below the coal measures, since
the oil bearing rocks are mostly older than
the carboniterous formations.
Some investigators have ascribed a
vegetable origin to petroleum, but most
authorities agree in attributing it to ami
NAL as we'll as vegetable agencies. Shales
are the most common oil-bearing rocks,
and in their formation the organic mate
rails would be finely divided and protect
ed from oxidation. The oil-bearing shales
commonly show few vegetable remains,
and Dana observes that the absence OF
distinct fossil animal and vegetable re-
mains points to an abundance OF delicate
water.plants or infusorial or microscopic
vegetable life as the source of the organic
material contained in them. Limestones,
Ou Iuc Juliet uauu, are frequently lull Oh
animal fossil remains, showing an animal
origin for the oil in them, although it is
by no means agreed that the petroleum in
certain limestones was derived from Or
ganic remains in the limes,ones and not
from other strata below them. In what.
ever shape the finely divided material was
originally present, it would be finely iif.
fused through the mud, and projected
from atmospheric agencies, and subse.
quently the hydrocarbons would be
formed from them, probably at but a
slight elevation of temperature, produced
by the same agencies which have caused
elevations in the temperature of the in
terror of the earth's crust at various
points.
Dana has further pointed out how petro.
leum might be formed by the reactions Of
the organic vegetable remains alone, the
abst action of some carbon and oxygen,
as carbonic acid, accounting for the for.
nation of the lighter oils; while tie es.
cape of some marsh. gas from less confined
material would account for the heavier
oils.-Prcf: CornsoalI, in Popular Science
MOnthLv.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
Let Manure be Covered With Soil.

By series of experiments made some
years ago in England it was shown that
barnyard manure benefited crops most the
first season, when covered about two
inches deep with soil. This result ap-
pears reasonable, but the question is, how
can farmers place their manure in the
ground at this depth. 1t is not practical
Bile in any case, but they can approximate
to it in some cases. When manure is
plowed under in the ordinary way some
of it is covered too deep to benefit the
crop the same season, and it is made avail
Some farmers pillow their land, then
but much of it is left upon the surface and
is partially lost, and the ammonia that
goes off in the atmosphere is the virtue of
the manure itself. 1t is strange that we
should find intelligent farmers, at this late
day in agricultural progress, VINO deny
that barnyard manure can be injured by
exposure to the air and sun. Yet they do
exist! A few years ago farmer in Cen
trail New York wrote several articles for
publication, in which he attempted to
prove that when manure lies upon the sur
face of the land and dries up its fertility
Is Stlll III ~, COuCcuIdteu Ill tuc Suall
crusts that remain!
Farmers, let Inc caution you against
the folly of carting your manure upon
your fields and spreading it for week or
longer before you pillow it under. If this
be done in the spring, with warm sun
and high, drying winds, a large portion
oft, or rather Of the fertility, will pass of
in the atmosphere. Don't be deceived in
this manner while your olfactory nerves
bear pungent evidence of the truth of
what say. You cannot afford to work
your farms on this wasting principle.
Manure is money, and if one should see
you scattering greenbacks" over the
field on some windy day the evidence of
your insanity would be but little more
tangible than when you spread your ma
nure and leave it to evaporate in the sun
and ~ the winds.-Rusticus, in N. 7.
Herald,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
Shattered Constitutions II ebuils.

In the use of wholesome invigorant lies
the only hope of rebuilding shattered con:
stitution. Hostettcr's Stomach Bittcrs arc
not only an eminently wholesome tonic, but
they rectify with most satisfactory prompt.
tude arrangements of the stomach, liver and
bowels which are incompatible with return
of health and strength. When the system is
enfecbled by disease, by the wear and tear
of business life, by continuous mental
anxiety, by the exhaustion consequent upon
late hours and fast living, by ovcr-work and
by scdentary habits, the Bittcrs are the most
reliable medicinal gent for imparting per.
manent vigor to the dcbilitatcd frame. The
new stock of vitality which they infuse into
broken down physique, and the orderl; ac-
ton which they establish among the organs
of digestion, secretion and evacuation,
moreover, constitute its best safeguard
against malarial disease.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-01
Making and Saving Money.

There are two ways of getting rich
one is to make money by specializing, and
the other by saving little constantly from
whatever amount a person earns. The
first is the quicker method, provided one
is successful; the chances, however, with
even the most shrewd spectators, are only
about one in hundred, and then not more
than one in a thousand hold on to their
gains, or any considerable portion Of
them, through life.
In all Of our larger cities there are many
rich SPECTATORS; but if we could only
know tie names of the thousands who
have utterly failed to make dollar in the
same fields, the number of successful ones
would appear ridiculously small. But the
saving class far Outnumber the speculat-
ing among those who are called rich or in
comfortable circumstances both in city
and country; besides, we can always count
upon them as the solid and reliable DOR
tion of any community. ''.
This being an indisputable fact, our
young men and women who aspire to
moderate wealth and respectability, should
aim to save something from every week,
month or years earnings, no matter how
small from necessity the sum may be.
The smallest sum put out at interest or
safely invested in business Immediately
commences to earn something for the
possessor, adding just SO much to his or
her interest. ., .....:, .,.,.:4f
There is another advantage of having
something ahead; it is credit among
your fellow laborers or associates to near
ly or quite the full amount of the &C
cumulated capital, in case such accom-
mOdatiOns are desired 49,. ..p
We will not pretend to say at what point
savings should commence; but they who
cannot save something out of dollar or
two dollars per day will seldom do so
from ten to twenty.
The habit of saving must be formed
with that of earning, else it will 9. ldom
be practiced later in life. Nine.tenths of
the men who have accumulated compe-
tency for themselves and their families
owe their success to saving money, and
not to what is generally termed making
money by speculation. - Rural Neao
+ 0TkET. Is -5t 81 VI FIFE. g. .-s5
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TRUANT MADGE.

The shadows lie sleeping on aeld and hills. a
The cows came home IN hour ago; 80
The bees arc hived, aud the nests are still
Where can the child be lingering SO!
Oh, wherscan the little lsggard stays
. S0ewiN of foot AZ she ever has been
1t is not so far by the meadow way,
To the lane where the blackberry vines begin
Her mother stands in the doorway there,
Shading her eyes from the setting sum- - =
And up and 1ewn, with an anxious air,
Looks FOR a trace of the truantpnc.
Has shs wandered On where the swamp flowers
blow
In the darkling wood and lost her way?
Has she Slipped in the treacherous bog below
That hides under mosses green and gay!
Nay, timorous mother spare your fears!
Your little maiden is safe the while.
NOmarsh-tird screams in her startled cars;
No forest maZes her feet beguile.
She is only standing amid the rye, =
There at the end of the clover. plain,
And pulling \ daisy star, to try
Whether her love loves back again:
. And WIN bendscver tite bars beside
Two heads are better than one, forsooth!-
Leaning and looking, eager-eyei,
70 see If the daisy tells the truth,
-Adh lxtndm Osgood, in Scrtbner for June.