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"Attempting Too Much.''

The most common fault with farm
ers, as rule, is attempting too much.
We have been there ourselves, and we
well know how true it is, for scarcely Il
year passes over our heads but what we
could truthfully say, in the fall, that we
had during the year laid out too many
things, and that other and necessary
ones suffered more or less from our do
ing so. In the spring lot of work is
mapped out, in most cases much more
than can be properly carried through
during the growing season, for the
farmer, having had a comparative rest
during the winter, comes forth in
spring with renewed energies and over
rates his powers. Planting the various
crops is but small part of the work,
comparatively speaking. A large lot of
corn is put in, several acres of potatoes
are planted, field of sweet corn is
planted; then come the beans, pease and
other truck" especially large planta-
ti0ns of cabbage, sweet potatoes and
tomatoes. Before the last things are
planted, those first set out require cult
walton, and the area requiring imme-
date cultivation rapidly increases. A
wet spell of several days or a week may
set in, and then, as soon as the soil is in
condition, the cultivators must be set
going lively to keep the weeds and grass
down and keep the soil mellowed up.
Then there is the hOeing to be done.
which takes hands to do it as we'll as
considerable time. During this time,
too, the fruit trees and vines must have
attention-must be plowed and cult
waited, while haying soon follows to
make the farmer still more busy.
Three or four men can plant many
more things than the same number can
properly attend to during the season;
especially is this so with garden vege-
tables raised for market, for not only
have they to be cultivated, but they
have to be gathered when fit for mar
ket, making it an unceasing round of
labor. There are but few cultivators
of the soil who do not attempt more
than they can successfully complete,
though there are some who invariably
carry the thing greatly to excess, and
put about thrice the amount of crops
in the ground that they can or do prop
erly cultivate, the result being weedy.
neglected place, doing no credit to its
possessor and returning but meager
profits, if any, for the labor bestowed.
One acre well taken care of will return
much more profit than two or three
acres but poorly cultivated, for the lat
ter, in many cases, returns no profit at
all, beside being an eye-sore to all who
see it, and very naturally conveying the
impression that the owner is a sh;ftless,
lazy person, and not fit to be styled a
farmer.
Our attention to this subject, of at
tempting too much, was called by See
ing an article on it from the pen Of one
of the contributors to this paper, and
as it is such a widespread, general
fault, we could not refrain from again
calling attention to it through the col
umns Of this paper.-Practical Farmer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27

Recently, in these columns, reference was
made to kidpath's History Of the United States,
for schools. Those who have examined 1t, crit
ica2ly, pronounce It an incompatible textbook
Tor the young, and accord It grade Of superb
ority which NO author Of similar work has
attained. It is most cordially recommended
to the attention Of everybody interested in the
cause OF education. JONES BRoTH1Rs q Co.,
Cincinnati, eye the publAhers
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After dinner Sir Harry asked for the
red-morocco case, and insisted on ROss
sa's wearing the earrings, necklace.
tiara, brooch and bracelets of costly
pearls and emeralds.
"They are," he said, lat once q
wedding present and New Years
Gift. "-English Magazine.
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Queer will Of New York Physician.

The question might be here suggest
ell, Was not the late DIR. Martyr Paine
slightly '.cracked at least on the
matter of will-making? Whoever heard
before this, of will bound in Turkey
morocco, forming a book fifteen inches
square, and ornamented with elaborate
pictures embossed on the cover? Many
were the comments when this volume
was presented before the authorities,
and its notes and index, the latter four
pages long, were examined. The pro-
visions of this will are also very odd
There is the founding of scholarships
at Harvard to bear the name, not of
Robert T. Paine, but of Robert Troup
Paine, this specification being made in
order to prevent installing the name
for that of Robert Treat Paine. The
prize essays mentioned are to bear the
full title of "Robert Troup Paine
scholarships and portrait of this
6 Robert with his name in full in gilt
letters is to be placed in Harvard IL
brary. The will is not only provided
with an index, but is divided into five
articles which are subdivided into Sec
tions. The volume being bound in mo-
rocco with gilt edges presents the APP
pearancc Of an enormous album or
splendid scrap-book. The true inter-
probation, however, Of this instrument
is found in that supreme devotion
which DR.. Paine expressed toward the
memory of gifted but unfortunate
son, who committed suicide while i.
student at Harvard, nearly thirty years
ago. No reason could be given for
such deed, done by one who had all
that wealth could provide. The mourn
ing father immediately had splendid
volume published as memorial of his
son, containing his essay and an ele-
giant portrait, and this he semitic every
college in America, at a cost of not less
than $1,000. He then had blank book
made in the same style in binding and
gilt, in which he drew up this will as
an additional memorial. He always
ascribed the fatal act to insanity, OF
which the family had faint. No
doubt there was enough in the father
to work out this memorial; indeed the
jealousy which he shows lest another
Paine should get the credit of the
scholarship is in itself slight indica-
TOM. 7. Letter to Troy Times.
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The daily Open-Letter, of San Fran
cisco, takes the ground that all China
men ought to be killed, and its lead
ing article of Nov. IA begins: To
where are we drifting and from
whence?''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27
Camel's.Hair Shawls.

One of the most popular, if not the
most popular, of ladies' wraps is the
camel s-hair shawl. These shawls are
made Of the wool of the Thibet goat,
which is native of the mountains
and valleys of Tartary. From the
mountain goats come the coarser wool,
while the fleeces from all the animals
are sent to Cashmere, where they are
bleached, cleaned, spun and dyed.
After the yarn has been carefully sort
ed it is given to the weavers, who are
furnished with the designs to be fol-
lowed, and these designs have been
changed but very little during the
lapse of ages. The labor upon a sim
gle shawl is very great, as sometimes a
shop full of operatives is busy upon it
for an entire year, and although the
District of Cashmere can produce 3d.
600 shawls in a year, the yield from
its looms falls far short of that num-
Der. There seems to be no exclusive
market for their sale, and the conse-
quence is that merchants trading in
Calcutta or Bombay find them con-
stantly accommodating on their hands,
and it often happens that an American
commission house will receive an in
voice of these shawls, which they en-
deavor to dispose of to dry-goods deal
ers. Large consignments are sent to
London, where they are annually sold
at auction, and where agents from all
parts of the world come to buy. As
the purchases are all based upon pri-
vate opinions, the estimates made vary
widely, and the agents often ruin the
houses for which they act.
In spite of the panic, there has been
steady increase in the demand fol
Cashmere shawls. They are being
sold, however, for less than their cost
and this is due to the fact that there
has been q gradual accumulation o.
them. Leading firms are selling cam
el's-hair shawls to-day at a price which
if the cost of transportation and i'm
portati0n were removed, would hard
~, if traced back SO far, allow mar
gin of SIS for what may have been thu
work of several people for months
Shawls that many years ago wOul(
have cost the importer $3.50 are nov
being sold for $50 over the counter
Consequently, where one shawl q da,
was considered good show, half /
dozen q day during the busy season ar
what firms dealing in them now at
tempt to sell at retail. In conse
quence of the present Improbable ma
ture of the business the Cashmere man
ufacturers have almost ceased maxim,
shawls, and at the coming Decembe
sale in London higher prices are looke'
for. America at present ranks as tn
country importing the largest humble
of shawls, and Boston has the credit o
disposing of more proportionately thai
any city in the world. Chicago Tribune
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1t is saidpthat the reason assigned
by the venerable Archbishop French, of
Dublin, for never permitting stereotype
plates to be made of his little books on
the English language, is, that he may
have the opportunity of revising each
edition before it goes to press, in order
to keep the books abreast of the philolo
gy of the day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27
Mars Moons

When the telegraph announced the discov-
cry by Prof. Hall that our neighboring planet
had two satellites, and the dispatch was read
next morning at ten thousand American break
fast tables, what think you was the effect upon
the hearerss Some colloquy similar to the fol
lowing was sure to occur: Mars has two
moons, hey? Pass me the milk, Kitty. Strange,
isn't it, that astronomers never saw them be-
fore. Another chop, please. 1 wonder what
they'll discover next! These corn cakes are
excellent. What's the latest from Europea"
We have become so accustomed to startling
discoveries and announcements, that we take
them as matter of course. Even truth must
appear in flaming colors to make herself seen:
The virtues of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets have
been tested in ten thousand households, whose
inmates will tell you that they consider the
discovery and introduction of these remedies
of far greater importance to the world than
the moons of Mars.
SHIP1AN, Ill, June IS, 1916.
DR.. r. v. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. ".
Dear Sir-Last fall our daughter-aged IS
was fast sinking with consumption. Different
physicians had pronounced her case incurable.
/ obtained one-half dozen bottles of your
Golden Medical Discovery. She commenced
improving at once, and is now as hardy as a
pine-knot. Yours respectfully,
REV. ISAAC N. AUGUSTINE.
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''Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great In.
te,nal Medicine, will positively cure any case OF
rheumatism ON the face of the earth. Price 81 a
bottle Sold by all Druggists. Send for circular
to Helphenstine 4 Bentley, Warrington, D. O.
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TIE "Pou11R1 WORLD" Hartford, Conn.,. b
the leadingmagazine Of its class, $1.25ayear IL
superb CHRoNos mailed for only 75c. additional.
All fowl breeders should have it. Subscribe now
for 1873. tits best and cheapest. 1Oc. sample No.
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Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.
Don't fail to procure Mrs. WMsIOw's SooTH-
Ma SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. L relieves the child from pain, cures wind
colo, regulates the bowels and, by giving relied
and health 70 the child gives rest to tho mOthee.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27
The Celebrated vienna Rolls.

Among the numerous articles DOOLEY's
YEAST POWDER is used for, are the celebrated
Vienna rolls, which are SO delicious, palatable
and healthy. If you have not the recipe send
three-cent stamp to DOOLEY u BROTHER, New
York, and you will get it, together with many
other valuable cooking receipts, by return mail
WE have q larger sale for Hatch's Universal
Cough Syrup than for any other medicine of
the kind. We have for sale all the old stand
ard remedies. None are In such demand
FLINT & DAYTON, Friendship, N. 7.
Sold by J. Block d Co, Chicago. III.
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door was followed by q gentle "Come
in.": A cry, q woman's cry, cry Of
Joy from her Utmost heart, followed. A
word, glance, kiss of love explained
the misunderstanding that had all but
broken poor Roses heart. How rapid
ly hearts can mend with such rivets as
Harry had to offer! While he folded
her in his arms, and called her his love,
his bride, his wife, she wept on his
shoulder, and murmured:
dearest, how / do love you-how I
will try to make you happye'
A very shrill and angry cry issued
from Mrs. Pomfret's room, where Mr..
Pomfret had undeceived her. She was
furious.
"That pale, homeless, dowdy pauper
to be Lady Pomfret, and take prece-
dence of herr It couldn't shouldn't
bev'
Mr.. Pomfret told her it must be. She
took refuge in hysterics-so did Miss
Domvile; but they both recovered in
time for dinner. It was getting late
and they were hungry. Savory odors
saluted their nostrils. These odors di-
verted their thoughts from romance to
reality.
Mr.. Pomfret went up to the school
room to bring the lovers down to din
ner. Mrs. Pomfret and Miss Domvile
received Sir Harry rather coldly and
stifiy, but he was thinking only Of love
and Rose, and did not notice their
frigidity and hauteur. Wellington and
Nelson bitterly repented
"For," said the former to the latter,
she is safe to peach, and then we shall
] get no tips from uncle"
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England, but not only thought it best to as
certain what the climate and mode of life
here were, but to pay of my old Oxford and
London debts, and secure some little capital,
no fault with the climate, and l like the place,
and, a l said before, dear old Culpcpper has
made me rich. l am compelled to give grand
dinners here; "but what's a table richly
spread without q woman ut its heads" can
bear my solitude no longer; SO, II all goes
ut Southampton, after six weeks at sea. Some
months ago sent over some fine pearls and
emeralds to be set by CARAT. They are to be
. vedding-pre for my bride-elect. CARAT
is to Get them, and send them to your Office on
New Years Eve. Take charge Of them TIL I
arrive. have no time to say q word, except
love to al. Your very affectionate brother,
HARRY POMFRET.
The cold, weak tea remained un-
tasted-so did the dry toast. The
frugal fire went out, and still Rose Moss
sat cold and sick at heart, weeping
silently. At half-past twelve the sound
of carriage wheels and q laundering
knock at the door announced the return
of the playgoers.
REESE caught up the letter which had
fallen at her feet, hurried into her bed
room, locked the door, and threw her
self on her hard, curtainless bed.
Presently the nursery-maid tapped al
the door.
"Please, miss, missus says will you
give the children their supper, and
plat and curl their hairs, as Sir Harry
is coming tomorrow, and they must be
done, though they are ever SO cross and
sleepy"
Tell your Mistress" said Ross
Moss, "that I have bad headache
and feel too i'll 10 get up.'
Ann grumbled as she went, saying Il
herself: "Well, if ever! no, / never
such airs, and she's only q guv' ness. >
She soon returned.
"Please, miss, missus says if you'll
just plat and curl the young ladies
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04

sum Of eiRhty.fve thousand doliafs, Or 20 much
thereof % may be necessary, OF the amount ap-
prOpriated In section ono Ut this act, be and the
same lie hereby set apart for the exclusive uss OF
the House OF Representatives, and the balance,
thirty thousand dollars, or 30 much thereon o.
may be necessary, be and the same is hereby set
apart for the exclusive use OF the Senate, and
that each house Of the General Assembly shall
have the exclusive right to dispose OF the CON-
tingent fund belonging thereto.
SEC. 8. Be IL further enacted, etc., That the
chairman Of the Committee ON Auditing and
Supervising the Accounts OF the Senate, and the
penses Of the House, are authorized and required
TO issue certificates directed TO the Auditor OF
Public Accounts, showing the amount due under
this act. to the members, officers, employees and
contingent creditors Of their respective houses,
which certificates shall be approved and counter
signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker
OF the House Of Representatives, each for their
respective houses.
Auditor Of Public Accounts be and he 10 hereby
required to issue his warrants on the oertficates
so approved by the President OF the Senate and
Speaker OF the House respectively, issued in &C.
cordance with the provisions OF the THU q section
Of this act, and the Treasurer Of the State lie
hereby authorized and required to receive the
warrants 30 issued for payment OF oil taxes and
licenses due the general fund o. the State, col
lectible in the year eighteen hundred and seven
tv-seven; provided, that the unexpended balance
in the treasury Of the appropriation made for the
regular session of the General Assembly, and By
this aot. shall be subject 10 the warrant OF the
Governor for any purpose necessary to secure
the esta blishment and defense Of the legal gov
eminent OF the State. The warrants 10 drawn to
DO receivable for general fund taxes and licenses,
al above provided.
BEc. s. Be IL further enacted, etc., That this
act shall take effect from and after ITS passage,
and that all laws and parts of laws in oonfict
with this act are hereby repealed. s
(Higned) LOUIS BUSH,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
(Signed) LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the Senate.
Approved April 2, 1877.
(signed) FRANCIS r. NICHOLS,
Governor OF the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
Wilt A. STRONG,
Secretary OF State.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04

nison, Of the parish Of Orleans, FOR services
rendered 90 shorthand reporter to special com.
mittses Of the House Of Representatives Of the
State Of Louisians Of the year eighteen hundred
and seventy-six, to Investigate the charges
against Judge jacob Hawking, and to investigate
The affairs Of the Louisiana Hvee Company.
BEo, 2. Be % further enacted, etc., That the
Auditor Of Public Accounts warrant ON the
Treasurer Of the State OF Louisiana In favor OF
said Otto NJ Tennison for the amount 80 appro-
priated; prouided, that the sum named shalt be
paid out OF the revenues OF the year in which the
services were rendered.
SEC. 3. Be IL further enacted, etc., That this
act take effect from and after its passage.
(Bigned) LOUIS BUSH.
Speaker of the House OF Representatives.
(Signed) LOUIS A. WfITZ,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the Senate.
Approved April 8, 1877.
(Signedl FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS,
Governor OF the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy:
WILL A. STRONG,
Secretary Of State.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04

limits Of ths corporation q the town Of 81 Mar-
tinsville, ia the parish of st. Martin, be extended
20 % to read ~ follows: That MI that trsct, OF
portion OF land, situated In the parish OF st.
Martin, on the east and west side OF Bayou
Teohe, and comprebended in the following linn
ITO, to-wit On the east side, commencing 1t the
upper line Of the property Of Hadley, thence
down the said bayou until the upper line
OF Mrs. Camille Orso, with the depth
OF ten srpents from said bayou and on the west
side OF said bayou. commencing at the upper line
OF the property of Felix Olivier, thence down the
said bayou until the property known as the
Boarding School for Young Ladies inclusively, 20
as to include all the land between the before
mentioned boundaries, fronting on said bayou,
and extending fifteen arpents back from the
same, shall continue to be designated and known
by the name OF the town Of st. Martinsville.
HEc. Q. BE d. further enacted, etc., That this act
shall take effect from aud after it's passage.
CSigned) LOUIS BUSH,
speaker OF the House OF Representatives,
(6igned) LOUIS A. Wilt,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the Senste
Approved April 8, 1877
(Signed) FRANCIS r. NICHOLS,
Governor OF the State OF Louisiana
A true copy:
WILL A. BTRoNe,
Secretary of State
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AN ACT

No. 40. AN ACT
TO amend and re-enact section six hundred and
sixty-eight OF the Revised Statutes oil
eighteen hundred and seventy.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted BY The Senate and
House of Representatives Of the State Of Louisiana
in General Assembly convened, That section six
hundred and sixty-eight OF the Revised Statutes
OF eighteen hundred and seventy be amended and
rs.enacted so as to read as follows: "A Coroner,
outside OF the parish of Orleans, shall receive for
every inquest held five dollars, for every burial
performed at his expense twelve dollars; and for
all other fees, including the swearing and ,alify
ing OF jury, the administering Of oaths, the re-
turning of the process verbal, and the summoning
Of witnesses, Ave dollars"
(Slgned) LOUIS BUSH,
speaker OF the House of REPRESENTATIVES.
(signed) LOUIS A. WILT,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the Senate.
Approved April 8. 1877.
(Signed) FRANCIS T. NICHOLS,
Governor Of the State of l. Juisiana.
true copy:
WILL A. STRONG,
Secretary OF State.
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AN ACT
Secretary Of State.

No. As. AN ACT
To confirm the charter Of the Doreheat and Red
River Plank Road Company.
6EcTIoN /. Be IL enacted by he Senate and
House Of Representatives Of tie State of LouisS-
ana IN General Assembly conUened, That the
charter Of the Doroheat and Red River PLANK
lsoad Company by public act passed before Geo.
". Morrow, Recorder OF the parish of Webster.
ON the fourth day of November, 1874, be, end The
same is hereby confirmed, except that the said
company shall have the right TO run, construct
and maintain plank road from the west bank Of
Dorcheat Bayou, instead Of the east bank there
o., 80 provided in said charter, to the east bank
OF Red River.
SEQ. 2. BE it further enacted, etc., That this
act shall 10 no manner authorize the said COM
pany to interfere with or obstruct the dirt road
between Minden and Shreveport. That when
ever the said plank road shall CROSS said dirt
road, the said company are required to make good
and adequate crossiogs.
(Signed) LOUIS BUSH,
speaker Of the House OF Representatives.
(Bigned) LOUIS A.. Witt.
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the Senate.
Approved April .. 1877.
(Signed) FRANCIS +. NICHOLAS
Governor OF the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy:
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary OF State.