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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
That Is My Plaster.

From the Danbury News
He called Sunday night, as had been
his custom for several weeks. After
they got together alone in the parlor
ne plucked up courage to the proper
point and proposed to her. telling her
of the days when every thought was
of her, and only her. Then he said
s'Dearest, will you be mine -
And she said:
81 WILL
Then he caught her in his arms.
and pressed her dropping face close to
his yearning breast.
Tighter still he drew his arms around
her.
''My darling" he started to whisper.
bending his face close to hers, when her
head flew up so suddenly as to catch
him under the chin with sufficient
force to almost aaputate his tongue.
"Oh !" he gasped.
''Phew!'' she calculated, '.why, how
you smell -
''Smeli - he repeated, while his
smarting tongue forced the tears to.
his eyes.
Eyes, she replied, bending her
face again to his breast and shifting
expe"tantly. ooh my it is awful -
she added, as she drew back her head.
He dropped his own nose into the
infected neighbOrhood, took sniff.
and then as his face lightened up, he.
cheerfully explained:
''Oh, that is my plaster. Iput it on
for a cold.''
''Oh J" said she, in a tone of relief.
And again she dropped her head on
his yearning breast, only little higher
up, and little more to one side. while
he ran out his tongue and tenderly
caressed the wound with his hand
kerchief.
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The Employment OF Time.

The foundation of all economy Is 3
wise disposition of time. Let that be
acquired and true economy in every.
thing else will infallibly and speedily
follow; and the most difficult step
toward acquiring it is real and wise
economy Of time. Economy has, in
fact, got very bad character with the
great majority of people because it is
confounded with stinginess though,
in fact, they are so far from being
connected that stinginess is very
deadly enemy to real economy, while
liberality and generosity must be con-
fined to words and wishes where econ
omy is not served.
Still some persons imagine that if
they play the niggard with every cent
and every article of which they can
once obtain possession they are good
economists. A more wretched and
complete mistake cannot be made.
Economy is the right employment of
money and means, not the boarding
or burying of them. To save is very
laudable and desirable, but it is no
saving to lay up certain pieces of coin
while we shiver for the want of fuel
or faint for want Of the food which
those pieces of coin would purchase;
to do so is to save the coin, indeed,
but it is to save it at the expense of
that health and that duration of life
which no amount Of money can pur-
chase or compensate for.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
Suffering for The Truth.

Oh, the artless prattle Of an innocent
childhood How the sweet music Of
their hearts and voices Gains the wild
yearnings of the sorrow crowned years
of maturity At happy home in
Burlington, the other evening, where
the family was gathered around the
tea-table entertaining unexpected
guests, the fond mother said to the
youngest darling, "Weedie. darling,
be careful you mustn't spill the ber-
ries on the tablecloth.' ''Taint table.
CLOTH" promptly RESPONDED darling,
Lifts a sheet. And late at night.
when the company had gone away,
and that sweet child was standing
with its head nearly where it's feet
ought to be, catching with its tear
blinded eyes occasional glimpses of a
fleeting slipper that huttered in the
air in eccentric gyrations, one could
see how early in the stormy years of
this brief life one may begin to suffer
for the truth.
An old man Of eighty-five got lost in
a tunnel of the Metropolitan railway
in London the other day. He was
found by pointsman in the middle of
the tunnel in the evening, wet to the
skin from being saturated with the
water from the tunnel walls. On get
ting out of train at Kings Cross
Station he had taken the wrong d.
rection. AS he wandered along, find
ing there were trains running back
ward and forward, he became bewil-
dered, but for safety crouched close to
the wall of the tunnel, and frequently
had the greatest difficulty in escaping,
as he felt many of the trains touch
him as they went past. Feeling, how
ever, that his end was certain he
prayed and sang to allay his fears. At
the intervals when there was no train
coming he CROPPED his way along, until
he saw a man with lantern and has
tened toward him.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
Going Into Winter Quarters,

There is scarcely any time during
the seasons when dairy stock requires
more special care and attention than
now, as the herds go into winter
quarters. 1t is the habit of a large
majority of dairy farmers in New York,
as we'll as in some other States, to
keep up the milking through Deem
Der. OF course some of the animals
will cease to yield milk during Novem-
Der. and very poor cows, perhaps, earli-
er. But the best cows, for the most
part, will not go completely dry until
the first of January.
AS cold weather approaches, cows in
milk ought not to be left exposed to
storms. They are very sensitive to
cold at this season Of the year, and if
left exposed to rains and to storms of
sleet and snow, they not unfrequent-
ly contract disease, which, with the
drain of milk, reduces flesh and seri.
ously impairs their usefulness another
season. We have seen animals in
good health utterly ruined by days
exposure to cold and drenching rains.
On the approach of storms, the cattle
should be Immediately housed, and
care should be taken that the animals
on the outer edge of the stable should
be kept from cold drafts of winds.
Another point of very great import
ance at this season is generous feeding.
1t is the custom with some to use up
all the the coarse and inferior fodder
at the commencement of cold weather.
This is a great mistake, as the best
food should be given when the ami
mails first go into winter quarters.
After they have been dried Of their
milk and later in the season, the poor
er food should be used, and as ami
mails, like persons, enjoy variety in
their diet, the coarse and less nutri.
tious fodder can, by judicious feeding
from time to time, he used up to the
best advanetagd. But if the mows
have been topped off with late ends of
meadows and with the poorest fodder
grown on the farm, then it may be
necessary to feed the first. In such
cases the animals should have an adj
ditional ration of ground grain-bran
or ship-stuffs to make up the deficiency
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13

Finally he discovered that his patient
was in the habit of reading in bed and
for that reason candles were kent
burning all night in her room. These
candles, of a dazzling whiteness. Lad
been strongly impregnated with arsen-
&c during their bleaching process, and
the arsenic becoming volatilized by
the combustion, poisoned the air of
her bedroom.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
FARM AND GRANGE
Do Horses Reason.

Here is a good story about a horse,
which Is told in the Boston Journal.
and we presume many of our readers
could tell as good one if they would
only take the time to write it out for
publication. Such notes on animal in.
stinct or reasoning powers are always
interesting to old and young:
It would be difficult to convince
some people that horses and dogs are
possessed of reasoning powers, and as
difficult to convince others, who fond
ly love these animals, that they are
unable to reason from cause to effect.
A story comes to US, well vouched for,
which will at least interest the reader,
if not convince him that horses are
possessed of more of the human at
tributes than many people are wont to
credit them with.
Among the many horses owned by
the Highland street railroad company,
is one which used to give the hostler's
q deal of trouble by slipping his hal
ter and roaming at will about the
stable. The halter was, on each occa-
sion, buckled on as tightly as possible,
but to no purpose, for the horse would
invariably be found half al hour at.
forwards making dignified tour OF
the stable. This became monotonous
to the hostler, and he determined to
ascertain the modus operandi by which
his equine friend secured his liberty.
Again the halter was tightly buckled
on, and, taking seat where he could
watch his troublesome charge, he
awaited developments. Pretty soon a
horse which stood beside the trouble
some one was observed to poke his
head into his neighbours stall, and
catching the end of the halter strap
between his teeth, he pulled at it.
His first, second and third attempts to
unloose the buckle were unavailing,
but with a perseverance remarkable
even in a man, the horse returned to
his work repeatedly, and finally out
dropped the buckle-tongue, the throat
strap fell, and the horse of inquisitive
mind was soon stalking about the
stable again. A change of location
was of course a necessity.
A large, homely, piebald geldlng,
owned by this company, used to mani.
fest strange regard for d white mare
he formerly worked beside. In the
stable he was hitched with a rope
halter, and until chain was substi-
tuted, he used to gnaw off his halter,
march deliberately to the stall occu-
pied Ivy his mate, and squeeze himself
into the stall, which was only large
enough to accommodate one horse CON-
fortably, and Il great deal of effort was
required to separate the equines after
they had become wedged in SO closely.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
What Befell 4 Wife-Beater in the Dusk Of
Eventide.

From the Detroit Free Press.
James Robbins, Of National avenue
has been missing for three days, but
there is no anxiety around his house to
learn his fate. His wife knows what
caused him to disappear land she is will
ing to let him get good ready to come
back. Robbins married lone widow
about four months ago, and they had
not been welded two weeks when he
gave her beating. She overlooked
it then, thinking he would tone down,
but in a week more he blackened her
eyes. In brief, Robinson turned out a
brute of husband, and the ex.widow
had the sympathy of all the neighbors.
She is said to be meek and humble in
spirit, and Robbins had no excuse for
his brutality. Four or five days ago
he knocked her down and started off
up town, and the wife crawled over to
a butchers to see about having Robbins
arrested. The butcher, who weighs
100 pounds and has fist like a maui,
knew a better way than going for the
police, and he unfOlded plan.
When Robbins reached home that
evening the house was dark. aud the
butcher, dressed in woman's clothes,
and with his jaws tied up, sat in the
rocking chair.
"Why i'll blazes amt supper-ready %
howled Robbins as he stood in the
door.
The butcher groaned.
"Grunting around again, are you g
shouted Robbins. *"What's the matter
now?''
The butcher groaned again,
"YOu feel too heightened to answer
me. do you!' growled the wife.beater.
swell, we'll see about that. Just take
this, will you!''
He struck out, but the disguised
butcher caught his wrist, sprang up,
aud there was fun in the cottage, He
choked Robbins almost to death, tied
him up in hard knots and united him,
drew him around by the heels and
hair, aud finally picked him up and
tossed him over the fence into the
mud. The wife.beatter had kept up a
steady yelling from the first attack,
| and as he rose from the mud and sped
down the street he seemed to think
that Sitting Bulls whole fighting force
| were after him. At IL O'Clock that
| night he entered a Michigan avenue
saloon and told story about six men
robbing him, and half an hour later,
as he was prowling around shed to
find place to sleep, a policeman heard
him saying:
''Nose smashed, eyes bunged up,
sore throat, bruised all over, and aw-
full sleepy! What deceiving person
widow woman is g.
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in nutriment in the poor fodder. 1t
is very bad policy to allow nildh COWS
to lose flesh. at the commencement OF
winter. AS matter Of economy in
feeding, it is better to keep the ami
mails in a good, thrifty condition at
this season, because thin cow requires
more food than when she is in flesh,
and if she is stinted and kept thin
during the winter, she will be of but
little account for milk the following
season. If fodder is scarce and it is
necessary to economist with short
rations, let the time be put off until
late in the winter or in spring.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13

The English post offices forwarded
in 1874 no fewer than 967, 200, 900 let
tiers, 100000 postal cards, and $780,
OCO, 900 book packets, mostly at half
penny and penny rates.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13

Oatmeal Griddle GLADSTONE pint
oatmeal mush, one pint of flour, two
eggs, piece Of butter size of an egg,
one and a half pints of sour milk or
buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda.
Beat we'll and add the soda dissolved
in little boiling water just before
frying.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
Half Sweet ana Half Sour Apples.

Half Sweet ana Half Sour Apples.
The 'ehalf sweet and half sour ape
ple' is again heard from. This tim.
it does not come in quite so question
able a shape as heretofore. I almost
saw this great wonder. It had OILY
just been eaten when I called to bee
it.. The following from the Syracuse
Standard gives a full description of
show the thing was done - i
Several years ago, Mr.. George Wiki
inson, of Lee, Oneida county, tried
novel experiment on one of his young
apple trees. Taking the graft, he
quartered it and abstracted two quar-
tiers, supplying the vacant places with
gratis from another tree of q different
species. For instance, taking green
ing graft he cut away half Of it, sup
plying the deficiency with gratis from
the Tallman sweet, and awaited the
result in ripe fruit. Ordinarily one
or the other graft comes out first in
the process of development but in this
instance, the result has been the pro-
duction of an apple showing the dis
tinct qualities of both species and in
distinct parts of the ripe fruit. We
were shown by Mr.. Perry, of the firm
of Perry and Robinson, couple Of
these apples. The exterior appearance
was peculiar, in that the two quarters
presented a "a rosy checked appear
ance, indicating the Tallman sweet
graft, while the other two quarters
were green, the result of the ''green-
ing'' half of the graft. The interior
appearance did not indicate the differ
ent characteristics in such a marked
degree. But the taste of the two
kinds of apples was preserved. The
experiment was a novel one and the
result ditto.
Test of Brine.--A common test of
the quantity of salt necessary to add
to water In making brine for picking
meat, is to contiue to add salt till an
egg will swim in it. This, however, is
an imperfect test Of the strength of
the brine, since All egg will float in a
saturated solution of salt and water,
and will also float, if to the same sat-
urated solution bulk of pure water
equal to twice it's own bulk be added.
According ito Gay-Lussac, seven
ounces and a half of salt are necessary
to saturate an imperial pint Of waite &.
This is important, since the efficacy O
brine in preserving meat depends YER
much upon getting a solution of sail
at the exact point of saturation.
Oatmeal Griddle GLADSTONE pint
oatmeal mush, one pint of flour, two
eggs, piece Of butter size of an egg,
one and a half pints of sour milk or
buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda.
Beat we'll and add the soda dissolved
in a little boiling water just before
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-12-20
FoR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
To the Churches of East Hanover Presbytery.

I.
Your attention is respectfully called to the fol-
owing facts;
l. By order of Presbytery all collections for Sus.
tentation and Evangelistic Work, must be sent to
Petersburg instead of Baltimore. Presbytery now
manages its own Domestic Missionary work, indie
pendently of the Assemby's Committee 1t has
consolidated the causes of Sustentation and Evan
gelistic work, and denominates the one cause Do
nestle Missions furthermore orders two annual
collections for Domestic Missions, one in January,
and the other in September.
2. On the first Sabbath in January, or as soon
after as convenient, it is expected that each of our
churches will take up collection for Domestic
Missions 1t is earnestly desired that not one of
our churches should fail to obey this injunction Of
Presbytery. Let our ministers and elders see that
this cause is properly presented to the people, and
an opportunity is afforded them to make contr.
button to it.
3. The Committee have estimated that to do the
work which demands immediate attention, So, 500
will be required for the year 1877. Oar plan on
which this estimate is made, proposes no special
enlargement of the work, but only the more
thorough working of the field now occupied.
One dollar per member for the year, or half
dollar at each collection will raise this amount.
5. Please forward your contributions promptly to
"Mr. c. R, Bishop, Treasurer Executive Commit
tee Domestic Missions, Petersburg. Va" Do not
send them to the chairman of the Committee.
G. L. PETRIE,
Chairman Executive Com Dom. Missions
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-12-20

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF OINTMENT.-The
generous anointings which the Philadelphia
Presbyterian has recently invited and re-
ceived at our hands, have evidently done it
good. As something would be expected I'M
der the plight in which tao Central left it, it
has enleavored to try to make an effort in
something, but has filled. The utmost
it could get out was that we had, in the ar
;icle Of December 9th, run down into party
politics, when all our readers know-and
which the Presbyterian would certainly
know, So meas non 7ppa tuisset that the
entire strain of our remarks was exactly the
other way. q on the whole the PreSbyte-
rian looks quite subiued, as becomes it. And
We have iittie piece of information that
may ss we'll be communicated just here,
which is this, namely: that we keep on hand
some of that sane Butler ointment, "bottled
up, to Soothe and quel any return of such
erupti7e complaints as those by which the
Presbyterian is occasionally afflicted. That
Butler ointment is better than bears oil
strikes through the skin more thoroughly.
Our patient will no doubt take to it naturally
and strongly. AT any rate, our practice
will be, IS heretofore, without any charge
whatever.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-12-20
but A STEP."

It was not an old man, feeble and tctter, :.
ing, but youag David, in the vigor and
beauty of young manhood who said, " there
is but step between me and death. How
true is it always of David and Jonathan, and
of angry Saul, and of all men! As we look
each other in the face to-day, We have new
reason to-day, "Truly as the Lord liVeth,
&C., there is but step, &c.
"Bm a STEP" as though always be-
fore US in the path of life, the open grave,
which for time, by some unseen power is
removed a step before us. We raise our feet
and know not bat that We shall descend into
the grave before US. There is God above
who knows the end from the beginning, aDd IN
whose great plan there is to each Of Us an
"appointed end" But the when, the where,
the how of that end is told to no man. The
vea of the future hangs close, so Uery close BE-
fore or eyes, dark, impenetrable to any human
eye. The wisdom of man may seesomething OF
tie future of the community and Of the ma
tiou-and that only with many contln-
gencies-but human wisdom can see absO-
lutely nothing of the future of individual life
A thousand contingencies aud threateDings
attend our steps, aud hover around US day
and night.
Last week Brooklyn theatre was crowded
with happy throng, of every condition of
life, with lives full of blessing and the future
of schemes end hopes. At moment OF In
tense erjoyment, with no thought of death,
then the flames burst forth overhead sud
denly, and quickly wrapt the building in
their fiery embrace, and nearly 300 souls,
With but a step" passed from life to death.
The father and son went hand in hand The
husband and wife lay side by side. TIE
faithful nurse with blackened and shriVeled
arms embraced the children entrusted to
their care. Who of US so strong, 20 prOvi-
dent, so young, who so full Of cares, so en-.
crossed in duties, so necessary to others,
that tits not true, "Thereis but a step between
him aud death" We live and we love. We
walk and We work We lie down to sleep
with death so near We would feel bis breath
were he mortal map. We are as sentinels
on some outpost picket and trumpet of foes
onslaught may startle US to arms. Or We
are a. soldiers that elsep around camp fires
and drums long R Il may call US with a
shudder out of our slumber. We are busy
weaving fabric of our lives, in our chosen
patterns, bu. they are not Gods patterns.
And 10 the midst of our color aud our Aowers,
the loom mag stop and all our weaving be
done. The click of our lives swings its
restless pendulum add measures eff the time,
but there is no dial to that clock, and no
hands slowly moving tell us the approach Of
che dread hour, but amidst The regular pull
sa,ions, suddenly the bell strikes ou and
clear, and life is done.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-12-20
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.

Congress. The committees of investigation ap-
pointed by the two houses are at work in South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Governor Wells,
of Louisiana, declines to answer questions as to the
reasons why the Returning Board rejected any
votes for Presidential Electors Burns, the agent
OF the Telegraph Company refuses to give up, ex-
cept on compassion, the messages OF the ofice.-
Further orders from Congress may change his pur-
pose. In Congress long debates have arisen, grow.
ing out OF the returns from these States and from
Oregon The most promising solution of the
trouble, is from the fact that both Houses have
agreed to refer the whole matter TO joint commit
tee and II they can agree on plan, it will almost
certainly be adopted by Congress.
In South Carolina there are two parties claiming
to be Governor and two claiming to be the Legsla-
ture. SO matters stand for the present awaiting
fast coming events
Castle Garden, n Y, which was DESTROYED By fire
several months ago, has been rebuilt and is much
improved as depot for emigrants. 1t will now
accommodate from two to three thousand persons.
Appointment of Church Trustees Judge Nc
Laughln has appointed the following church trus-
tees in Augusta Loeb Willow Presbyterian church
at Churchville, James L. Hiser, l. Waddell, f.
+. Sterett, John II. Wilson and Christian Bear.
Prof A. Lyon, Jr., of Oxford, Miss, has &C.
l.
in Highland, Kansas.
1t is announced that TeDnyson's pew poem is
historical drama, entitled Harold. James r. o.
good & Co., Boston, will issue it simultaneously
with its publication in England
The third volume of St Nicholas (Scribuer & co.,
is out, including the numbers from November,
1875, to October, 1876 inclusive. 1t makes the
cheapest and most attractive new juvenile in the
market. Nowhere else can the youngsters be given
80 many good stories, sketches. poems, puzzles,
end pictures for four dollars The binding, in red,
gold, and black, is picture in ITSELF
The West Virginia University at Morgantown
has Sc students Of whom 81 are in the preparatory
departments. This institution was originally known
as an AGRICULTURAL College," but when it was
adopted by the State and its sphere enlarged it re.
,eived the present title. Liberal appropriations
we're made by the last Legislature for the compile.
ion Of the new building, which contains fine pub,
ic hall.