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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-28
He Went Fishing.

SEVERAL fthe Clevelanders who went to
Kelley's Island, by the way Of Sandusky,
last week, after black bass, reached home
night before last. Que of them, Brown,
rushed into his house, and, in his Joy at
meeting Mrs. Brown and all the little
Br0wnses, attempted to clutch them all to
his bosom in one wild embrace.
"Go away!'' yelled Mrs. Brown.
"But my dear"
II amt your dear! I never saw you.
My Leonidas never had that ugly red all
over his face, and never smelt like . beer
garden policer' a..
The baby began to yell, the oldest girl
started. into the back yard after the dog,
and the hired girl tainted dead away in the
pantry. {. ST.. .a..s.. :
i am Brown; I swear it! Listen, Mary
Ann. Your upper teeth are false; your
switch cost two dollars and q half; you de-
molish cloves for the benefit Of your
breath; you keep . bottle Of brandy in
your wash-stand. Hear me for my cause.
What ssFxnger could have learned all this!
What man.
"Me lovel me Lowell IT'S he'll IT'S
theew And she collapsed into his arms,
and thus prevented the gathering neigh
bors from learning any further particulars
about the internal economy of the house
of Brown. sF.s
"And now" says Brown. /" am fully
determined to brain the first man who
says black bass, and especially when the
sun is hot enough to turn one into Hot
tentot or Fiji Islander in twenty-four
hours. VleQelend Herald.
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A Clergyman's Joke.

A CLERGYMAN, q widower, residing in
one of our Vermont rural towns, recently
created q first-class sensation in his house.
hold, which consisted of several grown.
up daughters. The reverend gentleman
was absent from home for q number Of
days, visiting in an adjoining town. The
daughters received letter from their ia
Their which stated that he had married q
widow with six sprigntly children" and
he might be expected home at q certain
time. The effect of that news was q great
shock to the happy family. The girls,
noted for their meekness and amiable
temperaments, seemed another set of be-
ings; there was weeping and wailing and
tearing of hair, and all manner of
naughty things said. The tidy home was
neglected, and when the day of arrival
came the house was anything but invit-
ing. At last the Rev. Mr.. - came, but
he was alone. He greeted his daughters
As usual, and a. he viewed the neglected
parlors there was . merry twinkle in his
eye. The daughters were nervous and
evidently anxious. At last the eldest
mustered courage, and asked,
"Where is motherr' :.
sin Heaven" says the good man.
But where Is the widow with six chill
dren. whom you wrote you had mar
ried :"
"Why, married her to another man,
my dears."
It is said to have been amusing to see
those seven girls set things to rights
6seasson wy Courier.
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Gliding.

WE do not mean gliding in the sehse
the painter and upholsterer would give it.
We refer to that certain quality of speech
which, for want of a better term, we have
named gliding, because it ornaments
plainness, covers and cOnceals dcficien-
cics, and lends new aspect to familiar
things.
A person addicted to gliding, said to us
once speaking of a very sallow girl who
only looked we'll by gas-light), ooh, she
is u night beauty, you know, and of course
is most charming in the evening"" Was
not the phrase delicately suggestive of
lOveliness not always seen?
To one of these gilders, an old farm
house, with no specially attractive fea-
lures, became 1.-THE dear old family man
sion, needing no ornament to enhance its
associations" Another was wont to speak
of some remarkably noisy children as
" overlooking with health and happiness, !"
and to excuse their most annoying pranks
on the ground of "their sunshiny spirits, !"
and the healthful way in which they
stirred up the older peoplev'
Perhaps the most remarkable instance
of gliding occurred in the case of young
widow of our acquaintance. She had
married plain, grave, elderly man,
much her senior, Major in the regular
army. After his death she neuer spoke of
him except as My angel Major" and
it was often hard to repress a smile when
she would preface sone very common
place remark of her husbands, with,
my angel Major used to say" etc., etc.
There is much to be said for and against
this habit of gliding ones common speech.
If the bounds of truth are preserved there
can be no objection to graceful and
agreeable method of stating facts and re-
lating incidents, but if the gliding falsi-
fies, it is only another form of lying,
after all.
Lovers, especially, are fond of gliding
their opinions of each other. What a
pity that the gliding too often rubs off
after marriage, aud is not renewed!
Beforehand, a strong will is only ''firm-
ness" and in the mans case, strength. !"
Why should it ever become plainly visi.
BILE as obstinacy" in after dayse
A little more gliding, dear married
friends, would be often safe and wise
process for you, especially if it covered
those little angles and hard, sharp corners
to be found in every household Ohris-
tiGn Intelligencer.
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Religious.
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

" THEREFORE, whoever heareth these saying
Mine, and doeth them, / will iken him unit,
wise man, which built his house upon a rock
nd the rain descended, and the foods came
nd the winds blew, and beat upon that house
nd it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
On Jesus sayings, like rock,
Who doeth them shall stand;
There's nothing else can bear the shock
There's nothing else but sand.
Twas those with moral qualities
That Jesus said were blest;
There is no substitute for these
To give the conscience rest.
You theorist, how oft you fall
Your house can't stand the shock;
Take down your sand foundatiOn-wall,
And build upon this rock.
On Jesus sayings take your stand
There's room enough for all;
And, when you cease to build on sand,
Then you will cease to tall.
Trust not a dogma nor rite;
A party's shibboleth
Can't take the place of doing right,
Or save soul from death.
His sayings have no policy
To make you great or grand;
If you obey, they guarantee
Your character shall stand.
20 taste and see the Lord is good
A leavcn to the soul
That thirsts and hungen for the food
To make him right and whole.
o listen to His words to-day;
Come now and build upon
This rock that storms can't wash away,
Made by the Perfect One.
Let every knee bow down to Him
Whose sayings are the Fount;
The Truth all need to know is in
The Sermon ON the Mount.
Chicago Tribune.
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Bravery Of the MOntenegrlns.

THE passionate personal devotion of the
subject to his Sovereign, as unquestioning
as the most cOnsummate military disci-
pline, trait inconsistent with great pros
perity and individual development. or,
perhaps, with the character of modern
Sovereigns, is here found in full force,
and, perhaps, only here
Every Montenegrin knows his Prince,
and accepts him as arbiter Of life and
death. Sole fountain of honor, sole judge
IF deeds or obligations, he is the standard
of all comparisons, and what he does not
know has for the Montenegrin no exist
ence. The soldier, when he wants to exalt
the courage of some one, says: " Almost
as brave as the Gospodar;" or, if a thing
is very recondite: "That no one knows
but the Gospodar." When you add to
this supreme devotion the military courage
carefully stimulated SO many generations,
and the military discipline and system the
whole people live in, there is little reason
to wonder at the reckless courage shown
in their wars with the Turk.
At the battle of Rogami the Turks, with
ten battalions, supported by seventeen
pieces of artillery, had succeeded in Car.
rying by surprise the hill which was the
key of the position, and which was, at the
first attack. only held by fifty men. Bozo
Petrovitch, who commanded the whole
district, arriving on the battlefield, found
the position to strongly held that he de-
SPARED of driving the Turks out, and,
calling Martinovics, commander of the
Cettinje battalion, said to him, II must
retreat; we can't hold the position" The
battalion commander said, simply, "Give
me the order, ard in fifteen minutes will
be in the position or dead" "Go," said
Bozo, and, yataghan in hand, the living
bolt shot against the ten battaliOns of
Turks and drove them from the hill, and
held it until two other battalions came up
right and left, and drove the Turks in
panic across the river.
There were few houses in Cettinje where
bereavement did not fall that day. But
the total force of the Montenegrins en-
gagged was four battalions and one gun,
against ten battalions in the attacking
column, two more Of supports within
musketry range, and seventeen guns. The
difference was made up by the yataghans
and the absolute indifference to death of
the mountaineers. Under the eye and
commands of the Prince himself there is
no enterprise, even involving total destruc-
ton, that they would hesitate at.-LOndon
Times Correspondence.
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Feed The Calves.

THE young calves of to-day are to he
beeves Of three years hence. Shall they
be three or six hundred weight oeef? And
shall they weigh 100 or 800 pounds
Now is the time to determine the matter
A large number of them will have to be
fed on skim milk, and if they are in
tended to be kept growing it will be with
other kinds of food. And this additional
food is cheap. Dat or barley meal is the
best. Cook it in clean water, and when
cold, mix a small portion at first, when
the calves are ten days old, with the milk,
and increase it as they grow older and de-
mand more. Feed three times day.
With this treatment, if they are in good
pasture, they will grow as rapidly as If
running with their mothers. Do not feed
SO that when they are done they are raw
enous for more, but give them as much
as they want-and give it to them at reg
ular stated periods three times per day.
Flaxseed boiled to a jelly, and little
once day put in their food, is very bene-
fetal. Any farmer can have this raised
on his own farm, but if he depends on
oil-cake meal it will be neglected. If
they are in pasture, have shed for them
to 90 under in rain or cold wind.
We insist, hOwaver, on calves having
pure milk, warm from the udder, for the
first ten days. 1t is best for the calves
that it he MIXED and fed to them. But
it is better for the cows to have the calves
suck for ten days. One IF the worst back.
sets in calves is to let them run with their
mothers all summer, and then wean them
in the fall on dry hay or unground
grain. Without special care at this period
they fall off in flesh, until they are not as
good as the calves fed carefully on skim
milk and meal.
1t has got to be that time of day in
stock-raising that a good farmer is
ashamed to see about his premises poor,
lean, starved calves. Such things give
the lie to his professions of good farm
ing or indwelling Christianity. Itmight
have been done when they did not know
any better. In those days it was con-
tended that to raise calves and colts with
hard fare the first winter made them
hardy and healthy. But that senseless
theory is exploded. High feeding is be-
coming more and more popular as the
question is investigated and expert.
mented. And this is especially the case
with all meat.producing animals. Early
maturity by careful keeping is the lesson
of wisdom in case of hogs and cattle.
And in order to do this, special care must
be taken of the calves and pigs.-I0sca
State Register.
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done with any of the better class of hand
cultlvators, and they will 60 on well
enough until the time comes for thinning
ana wedding the rows. Much of this may
be done with a narrow hoe, by striking
across the row, leaving the plants in
punches to be singled by hand; SO that
one thorough wedding will usually suf-
nee, the balance of the labor being easily
accomplished by hand cultivators and the
hand hoe.
This brings us to the importance of
keeping the surface of the soil in a thor.
Oughly friablc state. If no garden cult.
vatOr is owned, common, bright ten
inch garden rake will be found an excel
lent implement, and very little practice
will enable the operator to use it effectual-
~ by series OF backward and forward
movements, working close to the rows,
and thoroughly pulverizing the ground.
For ten.inch rake the rows should be
fourteen inches wide. If the rows are
not more than foot wide, an eight-inc
rake will be proper. If the soil has been
rendered friable at first. this cultivation
once week will keep the surface all
right and the plants in a growing con-
dition.
This fine surface cultivation is really
uAO SCCtCt W SuCtCSS LII karuenl0S. All
good farmers will know that it is the best
means OF successful cultivation in all of
what are called the hoed crops of the
farm. That it is so in garden culture
must be plain to every intelligent man,
since the seed of most garden crops arc
minute, and the plants themselves are,
for considerable time after terminating,
delicate. The first requisite to success in
gardening is, of course, a thoroughly rich
soil the next is drainage; the third is
such surface culture as shall keep the
plants growing as fast as possible. These
are, in fact, three great points for success
tul cultivation with any crop, but espe-
cially so with those of the garden. Unless
the soil is right, this cultivation cannot
be accomplished. The crops upon an
acre of garden represent so considerable
value when matured, that it will pay to
take special pains to give the growing
crops the best of care. The whole matter
may be summed up thus: A warm, we'll
drained spot; thorough blowing; careful
pulverization good seed; straight rows
and careful surface cultivation. These
kept constantly in mind, the kitchen gar
den will be found to he the most paying
portion of the farm.-Prairte Farmer.
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"Oh, Mr.. Harrington, }" cried Elsie, II
have been such foolish girl! she is not
Miss Seabright. / am Miss Seabright. l
1t was q ridiculous stratagem of
mine. I hated the idea of betr0thal to
stranger, and I desired that you should
take the initiative in breaking off the
match. But, believe me, had no knowl-
edge of your infirmities, which could be
only subject for sympathy to me; and I
beg you to forgive me for placing that
coarse woman in position In which she
could insult you. Prove it by remaining
with me until I can Offer you some re-
treatment after your long Journey"
The young man bowed, looked at her y
moment, and then replied frankly:
Madam, l quite appreciate your mo-
tives and entirely forgive you. I am
pleased to accept your invitation
1t was the custom in well-arranged
houses at that day to send guests to their
rooms for awhile before dinner.
Accordingly Miss Seabright ordered q
servant to show Mr.. Harrington to an
apartment on the upper floor, and retired
TO her own room to dress for dinner.
Ten minutes after her entrance into this
apartment, this servant brought her large
bundle and small note-a bundle several
feet long, and note few inLh.c .,saare.
She opened the note first and read these
words:
MY DEAR MISS SEABRIaHT: also have a con-
fession to make. also, before met you, had
resolved that you should be the one to decline
the conditions Of our fathers wills, intending
afterward to give you back your share of the
property. Consequent II set about devising
scheme; and, reading ydny sch0ol-day letters, IL
Orf.urfpfi that n
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Reliable Evidence.
M. Il. B. SrEyHNs:

0R. II. H. STBvHNe:
Dear Sir-l will most cheerfully odd my testimony
to the great number You have already received in
favor Of your great and good medicine vEGR-
TINE, for do not think enough can be said in its
peaiee, for was troubled over 20 years with that
dreadful disease, Catarrh and had such bad cough
ing spells that it would seem g though l could
never breathe any more, and vEGETIN has cured
mo: and do feel to thank God all the time that
there is 60 good medicine q VEGETINE, and
aleO think It one Of the best medicines for coughs
and weak einking feelings at the stomach, and ad-
Wise everybody to take the VEGETINE, for can
assure them It 10 one Of the best medicines that
ever WAS MRS. L. GORE,
Corner Magazine and Walnut streets,
Cambridge, Mass.
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by whole family, has wonderful infiu-
ence on shaping the social life and giving
tone to the social affections. This influ-
encc is felt all through the circle, from
the gray hair to the infant lisp. 1t is a
perpetual beneGiction upon the develop
ment of body, mind and soul. In its
progress and results it is often like the
formation of the dew-drop. You look and
listen of q night to see the process by
which the dew-drop comes to its form
and fullness. But you look and listen in
vain.-ZiOn's AduOcute,
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

IT Is recommended to sow few radish.
es in each hill of melons and cucumbers
as the bugs prefer the radishes to melons
and will not destroy the latter.-Io,oa Stat
Register.
POTATO PUFFs.-Two cups of cold
mashed potatoes; stir into this two table.
spoonfuls of melted butter, beaten to q
cream; two well beaten eggs, one cup Of
cream or milk. Pour this into deep dish
and bake In quick oven.
Mr.. 8. Wilcox, at the Illinois Dairy.
mans Association, makes this statement:
Swimming the milk for butter and then
working the blue remains into stuff called
cheese, is fraud, and is most certainly
running the standard of our product"
To Cook PRUNEs.-Put one pound
prunes into stew-pan, with four ounces
OF white sugar, q small stick of cinnamon,
and three cloves; cover with water, let
boil gently for three quarters Of IN hour,
or until the fruit is quite soft. let them
cool.
GOOD WHOLESOME PUDrINa.-Put a
quart of milk on the stove to scald beat up
three eggs, three tablespOonfuls of sugar,
three of cornmeal, aud little salt. If it
needs wettiug more, add little cold milk.
When the milk nearly boils, pour in the
mixture, and stir till it boils. Then set it
in the oven and bake about an hour. Eat
with butter and little more sugar ii you
wish.
CRAZY BIsCUIT.-Three pints of milk,
five teaspOOnfuls of yeast, one teaspoon
full of salt, boil the milk, and then
cool, stir in flour, making it little
thicker than pancake batter; add the salt,
and when lukewarm, put in the yeast. In
the morning. add one egg, half cupful
sugar, one teaspoopful saleratus, mix and
let stand to rise; when light, make into
biscuits; let rise again, and bake in me.
dunn oven.
"EvERTON TAFFY."-In q shallow
vessel, melt together one pound of brown
sugar, and one quarter pound of butter.
Stir together for fifteen minutes, or until
the mixture becomes brittle when dropped
in cold water. Lemon or vanilla flavor.
ing should be added before the cooking is
complete. Butter fiat plate, pour the
taffy on it to cool. When partly cold,
mark in squares with knife; it can then
be easily broken.
lukewarm water, letting it stand two OF
tuIcc AOuISs Acc IL run ulOOu, SIKH anu
small fibers, and wipe dry. Stuff or fill it
with dressing containing minced onions,
parsley and celery, and seasoned highly.
Put the heart in baking pan, fasten
several thin slices of pork on it with
skewers. These you can fashion yourself
from bit of pine. Put a little water and
a small lump of butter in the bake pan,
and sprinkle salt and pepper over the
heart. Set in quick oven, haste often
and turn two or three times. When done
remove to dish and take off the pork
Put the pan on the stove, and when the
gravy boils stir in teaspoonful of flour.
When this is smoothly mixed add q lump
of butter and little hot water, if there is
not enough of the gravy; boil up in it a
tablespoonful of minced pickle, season to
taste, and pour over the heart.
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Keeping the Garden Clean.

THE large amounts of rain throughout
the West this spring has had the effect Of
retarding work in the garden, except on
those sandy spots here and there, where,
from the pOrosity of the earth and absO.
lutte drainage, the soil may be worked al.
most Immediately after the heaviest rains.
This naturally calls attention to the i'm.
portance of drainage, as one of the great
necessities of gardening.
The want of drainage is the great need
of large areas in the West, for all except
the more ordinary farm crops. The need
of drainage was severely felt last year and
this spring over large areas, for any and
all crops, and hence the interest mani.
tested now by all intelligent farmers in
drainage, both surface and thorough, OF
tile draining.
The farmers garien-we mean the
garden spots of those who make the at
tempt to have garden, where is grown
in good variety the culinary vegetables in
ordinary use in cities-is too generally
neglected. As q rule, few ca6bages, a
patch of potatoes and q generally abor-
tive attempt at the cultivation IF some
radishes, lettuce and onions, usually re-
suit in disappointment, simply from the
failure of q little work at the proper time
to keep the land clean; and this, from the
presence of other work at the season when
the garden most needs attention. These.
however, are not gardens in any sense of
the word. They are too often mere patch
of land as near the house as may be. and
usually left without even an attempt at
surface drainage; and, as a consequence,
it is pl0wed too wet, aud is in so lumpy a
condition that the finer seeds germinate
with difficulty, and when they do come
they are so choked with weeds that the
farmer will not undertake the cleaning,
and the women folks, who as q rule ap.
preciate the importance of the kitchen
garden themselves, give up the job atlast
in despair. Yet a good garden may be
had at light cost almost anywhere, by
attending to few simple directions.
OF these, the most important Is provid-
ing for carrying off surplus water, either
by surface or underground drains. These
we have spoken OF repeatedly, and the
subject need not further be referred to
here.
All stiff soils-and our ordinary prairie
soils will warrant this appellation SO far as
gardening ID concerned-sho be
plOwed In the fall, rough, and be allowed
to winter in that condition. In the sprinr.
after being rendered smooth and firm. the
soil should be planted, without repiow-
ing, for ell early crops. Thus you may
start in advance of the weeds, and If the
rows of vegetables are accurately lined,
the principal labor Of cleaning may be
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For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

MRssRs. D. W. HATCH & Co.: We have
been selling your Universal Cough Syrup
about eight years, and find it gives the best
satisfaction Of any preparation for coughs
and colds that we have ever sold, and from
the time of its first introduction in this mar
ket we have sold much larger quantities of
it than any other similar preparation.
Yours truly,
SAWYER & LYON, Hornellsville, N. Y.
Sold by Van Setback, Stevenson & Reid,
Chicago, Ill.
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The Bible in the Family.

THEold family Bible! What memories
cluster around it! What immortal and
blessed fruits flow from it! Oh, that every
family, or household, in the land were
made to feel its sanctifyine influence.
The daily prayerful reading of the Bible
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Please Rear II I'm MIND

That If your grocer does not have, and will
not get, DooLEY's YEAST POWDER for you,
you can send 20 cents for quarter, IS cents
for half, or 60 cents for one pound can, direct
to DooLEY u BROTHER, New York, and you
will receive it by return of mail. Always use
it for the delicious Vienna rolls.