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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-06
Treat Your Animals Kindly

Some men are so indifferently con-
stituted that they do not really know
how to treat the domestic animals
under his control. If the team gets
stalled they think that the. only way to
get out of the rut or mire is to take a
recess OF two or three minutes of hard
swearing, after which a cudgel is pro-
cured, and the oaths are interspersed
with whacks on the back of the door
brutes who have been given more
than they can do. \ cow is being
MIXED and she has sore teats. She
endures the process of milking from
rude and careless hands until the ting
ling pain causes her to lift her foot
perhaps kick-and in some cases to
upset the milk. \ few or several
kicks with a heavy boot, and some
times accompanied with pounding.
eases the mind Of the mixer, and he
goes to work again milking the fright.
ened animal, bit does not, naturally,
get the quantity Of milk from her he
should. Going to the house in bad
humor over the loss of his milk, he
does not see the faithful watch dog at
the door and nearly stuulbles over
him. A vigorous kick with his boot
seems TO relieve the mans anger
materially, as he mutters, s.Now.
there you got it - and passes into the
house. The poultry gets into the gar
den through gate which he himself
so carelessly left open. With an ex-
clamation of anger, he picks up few
sticks and few good-siZed stones. and
sallies into the garden to drive out the
intruders. A few well-directed Shots
clear the garden of the fowls, with
the exception of few he manned.
And so it goes with all the stock; yet
John wonders why all the stock run
away from him or cover in fear when
he is around, and cannot think how it
is that the poultry will come on a hop,
skip and jump to eat out of his little
brother Willie's hand whenever he
calls them, as will all the other stock.
John says ''The animals shall mind
me- and uses force unworthy of the
brutes he tries to bring under his COM
plete subsection, forgetting that kind,
ness, though it binds with silken cords.
is far more powerful and durable than
can ever be the obedience produced
through fear of punishment. Being
an ardent lover of pets, SO thorough.
ly detest cruelty to animals that will
not consider that I have written in
vain if it will but lessen even a 1.-THE
OF the cruelty SO often practiced and
SO little noticed.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-06

of the weeded % bushels difference
in favor of wedding of Is bushels to
the acre.
It is very difficult to find illustra-
tions of the benefit of wedding on all
our crops, but that the grain is large, is
matter of everyday experience; and
that there is loss, a great loss, which
comes from little carelessness in
using the hoe. both horse and hand,
effectually. everyone knows to his sor-
row.
We might speak of the vast growth
OF purslain which we often see in neg
lected gardens and elsewhere, and we
might show the loss through the di-
rect usurping of the chemical elements
needed by our crops. Yet this would
tell but portion of the story, and is
unnecessary. We believe in planting
large areas, and in taking good care Of
the crops; but if you must neglect
your crops, why then the loss may in
some cases be measured by the size OF
the field. 1t is not only necessary that
our fields should be fortified, but also
that they must be cared for, in order
to carry forward the most successful
farming.
We cut the above from an Iowa pa
per, and will only add that the article
will apply to this State as we'll as to
Iowa, or any other State. It is no.
torious fact that our farmers are be-
ing overrun with weeds Of almost every
varlety.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Salt tor Cabbage.
A New Jersey gardener finds salt
very useful in the development of cab
bage, especially in places far from the
coast. lie finds the heads more solid,
more crisp and Of better favor when
salt is used. His mode of application
is as follows: A few days after set
ting out the plants and when they are
damp. either after rain or when the
dew is on, he takes small dish of fine
salt and walking among the rows
sprinkles little pinch Of salt on the
center OF each plant. When the leaves
begin to grow he repeats the sailing,
and when the center Of the leaves be-
gin to form the head, he applies salt
again, scattering it over the leaves.
After this he goes through the rows
occasionally, and if he finds plants
that do not head we'll or appear dis
eased, he sprinkles salt on them freely.
This will save all such plants. A quart
OF salt is sufficient for 500 plants in a
season, although more can be used
with safety.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-06
French Mode of Selecting Horses.

The purchasers of horses for the
French army always endeavor to OBJ
tain first look at the animal when he
is tranquil and in the stable noting if
the animal supports itself equally well
on all it's legs, and, if one seems to
yield, specially examining it; atten-
ton is then directed to the largeness
of the pupil of the eye, which ought
to be more dilated when in the stable.
than when exposed to light. After the
animal has been led out of the stable.
the eye ought to be again examined to
observe if the pupil has been contract
ed; if not, the sight is feeble others.
to test the power of vision, feign to
strike the forehead with the hand. If
the hollow over the eyes be profound
and the temple gray, old age is to be
concluded; wounds about the temple
suggests attacks of staggers, and, when
the end of the nose presents circular
scars, it may be concluded the horse
has been twitched with cord to en-
sure his quietness while being shod or
having had to submit to some painful
operation.
European horticulturists have lately
eOoOPcSu q A4OAC VI I11dh1lS IOS6 Gull
tings root with more certainty, by
bending the shoots, and inserting both
ends into the ground, leaving a single
bud uncovered, at the middle and on
the surface of the ground. The cut
tings are about ten inches long and are
bent over stick laid fiat on the ground.
holes being dug on each side of the
stick for the reception Of the end of
shoot. The roots form only at the low
er end of the shoot, bat the other end
being buried, prevents evaporating and
drying up.
1t has been recently entertained nv
Lehman that the same plant demands
a change of plant food in the course of
it's growth. The Indian corn did best
with ammonia salts the first Al DAYS
after that nitrates had the greater ef-
feet. So with tobacco. Buckwheat
fed best upon nitrates throughout. It
was found that lupine gets its nitrogen
from the atmosphere.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13
NUMBER " :. a3Z.s:

Beef la M0de:-Procure a iuicyy; and
tender round, or part. of round. 81
fresh beef, according to size Of family.
Cut an onion in two, and with. each
half rub the beef thoroughly on both
sides, afterrem0ving the marrow.bone;
make a stuffing Of bread-crumbs, a lit:
tie melted butter, salt and pepper, q
pinch or two of thyme, sweet majotum,
and summer savory pulverized and
mixed together, a small half teaspoons.
ful of ground cloves, and two or three
tablep poonfuls of>water, just enough to
moisten but not to pack the bread:
crumbs. Have ready some strips of
good, solid salt pork, about half an
inch thick; score the beef by plunging
knife clear through, and cutting both
ways; score as thickly as possible, and
fill the places alternately with strip
of the pork and the bread-crumbs.
Reserve three or four tablespoonfuls
of the bread-crumbs for the gravy.
Next, bind the beef into round shape,
by passing twine cord several times
around and tying tightly, taking up
and fastening with a skewer any loose
or irregular point; spread slices of pork
over the top, and place the beef upon
a wire rack that will sit upon a drip.
ping-pan, and allow the juice of the
meat to fall through; put about half
pint of water into the pan, and place
all in the oven; have boiling about six
onions, and with the water baste the
beef very frequently, letting the water
run down into the pan. When done,
place the gravy pan upon the range;
add more water from the onions, if
much gravy be desired,) the reserved
crumbs, another pinch or two of the
mixed herbs, ditto ground cloves,
about two tablespoonfuls of vinegar,
and Drowned flour enough to impart a
rich brown color; blend all we'll to-
gether, boil u minute or two, and serve
with the meat. A few spoonfuls pour
ed over the meat when served is an
improvement. Serve boiled onions
|either in dish by themselves, or up.
on the meat-dish. The marrow from
the bone, chopped fine and added to
the stuffing enriches it.
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way until the recitation was oyer. Ad-
vancing to the front of the platform
President McCosh saidthat hesdesired
silence to speak, 81 am very sorry
you have been so disorderly this after
noon. [ [Heel'tapping.] Some Of you
have good intentions, but others have
not. 'Hear. A good young student
said to me some time ago, :.There is a
kind Of religious atmosphere that is
likely to be- offensive s[:Aha, and
applause.] Yoiir conduct is discredit-
able to your parents, to the college, and
the faculty bang; Ebang],-and your.
selves. The students on either side of
the platform must keep their seats.
Those in the front may co.
The students held in durance, under
cover of the tumultuous departure of
their more fortunate but scarcely less
guilty classmates, exploded torpedoes
wildly. The students at the door
threw it wide open, and shouted,
'.three cheers for JIMMY and then
they rushed, with clatter and cheers,
down the stairs. There they cheered
again and again.
President McCosh permitted the stu
dents that he had kept in the lecture
room to go to their dormitories in Sec
tions, but they cheered him derisively
all the way.
One of the students said: The per-
formance was not half so good as it
used to be. Two weeks ago Jimmy had
to divide the freshmen into two divis-
ions for instruction in the bible. One
he instructed from 10 until II and the
other from II until IL o'clock. We
were first.rate class until the faculty
sat OIL us During the examinations,
two weeks ago, as we were coming out
of chapel, we concluded to 'cut' jim
my's tiresome old bible talk that day.
Fifteen fellows, however, went to hear
him. The faculty gave every one that
was away nine disorderly, three alb
sence. and three bad recitation marks.
Then they sent letters to our homes.
We got fearful letters from home we
got one in my pocket now). We don't
respect Jimmy because he doesn't act
squarely
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on his way'to New Haven to visit a
sister he had inota seen in all these
years. He said that he returned after
the war, rebuilt the mill, was success
t9l t9l, and now had secured 2 compe-
tence that enabled him; once more
to to visit bis friends in the North.
stevens gave him an accurate. account
OF the destruction of his mill, the first
ne had ever obtained, and the two
sat up and conversed the entire night,
while the sleeping car conductor won
dered why they didn't return to, occu-
py their berths. The next morning
they parted at Hartford; and though
their first meeting had been as enc.
mics, they bid : each other good-by
with many regrets, such as the best of
friends only know.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13
Honest on the Sly.

The Old Cabinet In scribncrs.
Twas talking the other day with 4
man Of high charcter and position, but
of 4 nature gentle and unassuming,
rather than sturdy or trenchant. He
was telling me, with great ardor, the
best news that a man can commune
cate with regard to his children name.
ly, that he was sure that his boys,
who had grown old enough for the
test, had proved themselves thorough
ly honest. He didnot use the term in
any common place or quibbling sense
it had full and vital meaning. The
talk turned upon this matter of honesty
and it's extraordinary scarcity 1t has
been impressed upon my mind by the
circumstance that since our casual
meeting was startled one morning by
the announcement in the newspapers
of his death. l remember that my
friend told me that in his younger days
long before he became u clergyman
of the Episcopal Church-he was en-
gagged in mercantile business in
another city. 1t was his place to at.
tend to the paying of certain charges or
duties upon 5OOdS, ana IL was
necessary for him to correct mistakes
that had been made in the interest of
the firm. This he did as incident to
his office, but he told me that he knew
at the time that if; his honesty had
been discovered by the reputable house
which employed him, he would have
lost his place, cannot say that his
own conscientiousness should have
carried him further and made him
face the issue with his employers
because I do not know all the circum'
Stances But the story is valuable, as
illustrating a certain tone which Is
felt by young persons employed IN
many houses that show an unspotted
! record to the world.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13

urSeu Cne IaCCef SCfOnSly TO DdnlSh his
step-mother from Copenhagen, and to
beg the Queens pardon for having I'm.
justly suspected her.
The King did both. Juliana had to
leave the capital, and the harmony pre-
vailing between the King and his wife
became greater tl.;ln ever. lie showed
his gratitude towards Struensee by
comforting the dignity of. Count upon
him and by appointing him reader to
the Queen.
Henceforth Struensec and Caroline
Matildc were a great deal together.
That they became warmly attached to
each other admits of no doubt; but
there is no evidence whatever that
there was anything improper in their
relations.
But Struensce' and Matilde's enemies
insidiously circulated this report; and
when the King, in ITO, became insane,
they asserted that Strucnsee had inten-
tionally poisoned him in order to be
better able to crafty his guilty pas
sion, and to attain his ambitious objects.
Caroline Matilde, having become Re-
gent OF the kingdom, appointed
COUNT sTRuENsEE PRIME MINISTER
He endeavored to introduce numer-
GUS reforms in the administration of
the State. Most of them were decid-
edly enlightened, but he pursued an
arbitrary and even dispotic course in
trying to carry them into execution.
This greatly increased the number of
his enemies, a conspiracy was organic
ed against him, and on the 10Th Of JAN
uary, l772, he was dragged from his
bed by a band of young noblemen hired
for that purpose by the Queen.dowager
and HOlck. At the same time Queen
Caroline Matilde was placed under az
rest.
Struensee was taken before militay
commission composed exclusively of
his enemies, and charged with being
the paramour of the Queen, and with
having striven to become King of Den
mark.
To the imprisoned Queen assurances
were made that Struensee had con-
fessed his guilty relations with her,
and that she could only save his head
by stating in writing that he had been
her lover. Then they would be al
lowed to depart unllarmed from Co.
penhagen.
A paper drawn up to that effect was
laid before the unfortunate Queen.
She was seated in front of large
mirror as she examined the portentous
document.
Holding pen in her hand, she said
to Holck, who was standing behind her:
'Will Struensee's life surely be
spared if I sign this paper?
''Assuredly, your Majesty said
Holck.
She raised her pen, but at the same
moment she looked into the mirror,
reflected in which she beheld the face
of Holck lighted up with
A SMILE OF D1ABOI1CAL TRIUMPH.
This frightened her so that she
tainted away. Holck seized her hand
and made the unconscious Queen sign
the paper.
When she reawoke to consciousness
she found herself in the cabin of a
Danish man-of-war bound for Lubbock.
On the following day Struensee was
publicly beheaded. Juliana and
Holck did not survive their triumph
long. The former died Il month later
of smallpox, and few days afterward
Holck was mysteriously assassinated
at RoskOer.
The unfortunate Queen lived thence
forth in strict retirement at Celle, in
Hanover, where she died in ITS.
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CHOICE SELECTIONS.
Ny Love.

A cold grave lies between my love and for
aye and aye;
took white rose from her breast and kissed
her lips one day,
One dark, sad day, and she was lost forever
then to me,
Though weary years should stretch out end
less as Eternity.
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TO-MOrrOW.

Tomorrow! what can tomorrow bring but
woe?
Tomorrow will come and tomorrow will 90.
And the heart will live,
And the heart would give
AL that to-mOrrow's tomorrow holds to
know
II all the coming to- morrow will bring but woe
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13

Il hope,' said a serious-looking gen.
tleman, recently, ''that the angel who
ferries the souls across the Jordan has
more than one boat in his service"
His hearers looked upon him with such
evident astonishment that he very
quickly added: II hope so, be-
cause it would be so very unpleasant
for any of the Plymouth brethern to
cross over at the same time with DR..
Storrs and Mr.. Buddington.'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13

i" "'Taint no use in you cryin''," said
a heartless mainden to her prostratc
lover; II wouldn't marry you if you
were the last man on earth.'' 'Well,
Mary he replied, breathing through
his nose with great difficulty, *'you'u
lend me your pocket handkerchief,
won't YOU -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13
World-Weary,

Another dreary day
Has faded into still more dreary night,
And kneeling low, pray
4nat mor'ngs checker'd golden rays Of light
~, May tremulous1y fall
Through boughs of casement-roses, reach
their red
Warmf ngers through them all.
To touch my sleepish face, and find it dead.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13

A young lady dressed in much false
hair was warbling at the piano and
when her mother summoned her to as
sist in some household duties, her rosy
lips opened poutingly and she snap
ped out, go, do it yourself - And
then she went on singing ''Kind words
will never die''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13
A Mystery of Perfume.

No one yet has been able to analyZe
or demonstrate the essential action of
perfume. Gas can be weighed, but
not scents. The smallest known crea-
tures-the very monads of life-can be
caught by microscope lens and made
to deliver up the secrets Of their Or
ganizations, but what it is that ema-
mates from the pouch of the musk
deer that fills whole space for years
and years with it's penetrating odor-
al OdOr that an illimitable number of
extraneous substances can carry on
without diminishing it's size and
weight-and what it is that the warm
summer air brings to us from the
flowers, no man has yet been able to
determine. So fine, so subtle, so i'm
ponderable, it has eluded both our
most delicate weights and measures
and our strongest senses. If we come
to the essence of each odor, we should
have made an enormous stride forward
both in hygiene and in chemistry, and
none would profit more than the med
ical profession if it could be as conclu-
sively demonstrated that such an odor
proceeded from such and such cause.
as we already know of sulphur, sui
phurate hydrogen, ammonia, and the
like.
To Make Wedding Cake.-One pound
of butter, one pound of sugar, nine
eggs, one pound of -four, three pounds
of clan currants, two pounds Of stoned
raisins, one-half teacup of wine or
brandy, from one-half to three-quar-
ters pound of citron, one grated nut
meg, some mace and citron. Rub the
butter and sugar together; when light,
add first the yolk and then the whites
Of the eggs-the yolks and whites Of
the eggs to be beaten scparately-then
put in nearly all your flour, keeping
out just enough to dust your raisins
and cement them; cut your citron in
such slices as you like, and put in as
you put the cake in the pan; after
mixing the fruit in the cake grease a
four.quart pan carefully, line it with
clean straw paper, little grease (but-
teri on the paper; put your cake in and
bake, in not too quick an oven, for it
burns easily. After it is baked take
it out Of the pan, paper and all, and
let it cool. The next day, to keep it
fresh and moist, put it back in the pan,
or ina tin cake-box, and keep it tight
ly covered.
The squaw of the Sioux chieftain,
Sitting Bull, has arrived at Cheyenne
riouei ,t in rod raiment. and decked
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13

The squaw of the Sioux chieftain,
Sitting Bull, has arrived at Cheyenne
rugged ut in red raiment, and decked
with theirs and furbeloWs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13
Perkins Meadow.
From the Burlington Hawk. Eye,

From the Burlington Hawk.Eye
Yesterday afternoon about o clock,
the residents of South Hill, in the
vicinity of Perkins meadow, were
amazed almost beyond expression at a
most singular and inexplicable event.
At the time the sky was comparatively
clear, and but few people were out of
doors. Suddenly little daughter. of
Rufus Rosenbaum, who owns the
South Hill butter factory, came run
ming into the house, crying out that it
was raining bread. Her father sternly
reproved her for using such exagger-
alton, but she insisted that she told
only the truth, and he dropped his
hammer on the anvil, and ran out.
Amazement sealed his lips when he
saw the ground already thickly GOV.
cred with bits of white wheat bread
about three inches long and two wide,
while it was still falling quite rapidly,
but almost as softly as snow, while the
people were out gathering it up and
examining it. Mr.. Rosenbaum found,
to his still greater surprise that the
bread was palatable, and actually but
tered with an excellent article of oleo-
margarine. The Perkins meadow
people, overwhelmed with astonish
ment, after gathering small sample
lots of the bread to show their neigh
bors, started off to drive their friends
wild with envy. But as they reached
Webb street they we're surprised to
find that the shower extended even
that far, and the bread that fell there
was buttered on both sides, and had
the top crust cut off.
AS they came on down Summer
|street they passed through a severe
shower of sugar crackers and warm
mullins. But when they reached
Barnes street the scene beggared de.
scription. For in that favored locali-
ty the atmosphere was full of Boston
brown bread and hot raised biscuit,
while farther down, on Angular street,
it was raining corn-bread and late buck
wheat cakes. 1t was unfortunate,
however, that before the Barnes street
people could get out to enjoy this
shower of modern mama, heavy
storm of knives and forks came bat
tling down, which drove the people
hastily into their homes. This storm
was of short duration, and within fif-
teen minutes after it ceased, there was
not crumb of bread or knife or fork
to be seen on the ground, the geese,
which grow in that neighborhood at
the rate of one hundred and forty-four
to the square foot, having devoured
Everything.
AS a postscript to the above, we
would state that Mr.. Rosenbaum has
just called at the Office with the in.
formation that Theodore Daniels, who
was digging a we'll for Mr.. Throckmor-
ton, had just struck \ ru. ming vein of
sweet milk. and they are going to send
the well to the centennial.
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Iowa high-school girls have decided
to graduate in calico dresses. i.