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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-23

cessful. Admitting this to be 80. we
should select sandy or very porous land
Is the field on which to try this mode
of culture; while On . tenacious, clay
ey soil, or q stiff, loamy one, that re-
quires much working to keep it in .
friable condition, / should continue the
old system of blowing out, pu,verizing
the soil, and killing up. for the follow
ing reason: Where such soils are fiat
cultured, they will become compact by
the rains and by the atmosphere, SO
that they become impermeable to the
influence of rain and air-two valuable
elements of growth-consequently the
size Of the potato is diminished, and its
quality impaired, by its being deprived
Of two essentials of healthy growth.
Ireland, with soil moistened by the
saline breezes of the sea, is famous for
potato-growing; and her stalwart sons
who come to America n uniformly
successful in its culture here, and often
raise fine crops of potatoes under most
unfavOrabie circumstances. What their
practice may be IA other localities, l
am not informed; but here, where they
form q numerous class, their uniform
practice is to hill largely, or if they
plant in drills, to bring the earth into
ridges along the growing crop, and
their crops are large.
Just when to form the hill is an inn
portant consideration in securing a
crop, and is better done after a rain
than when the ground is very dry; for
by hoeing in moisture, a supply is Sc
cured to counterfeit the effect of dry
weather.-Cor. Country Gentleman. {.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-23
vEGET1NE
Purifes the Blood, Renovates and
lnyigorates the Whole System.
ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alternative, Tonic, Solvent,
and Diuretic.

VEGETINE is made exclusively from the Juices Of
carefullytalected barks, roots, and herbs. and so
strongly concentrated that 1t will effectually eradicate
from the system every faint OF Scrofula. ScrOfu-
Ions 1funnOr. Tn1aOrs, Cancer. Cancer0us
Fatntuess at the stomach. and all diseases that
arise from impure food. Sciatica. Infiammatory
and Chronic rheumatism, Neuralgia .GOuf,
and Spinal Complaints. can only be effectually
cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptiye Diseases Of the
skin. Pustules. PimpIes. BlOtchcs. BOfls,
letter. ~Scnldhead, and ling Orm, vEGErNi
has never failed to effect a permanent cure.
For Pains i'm the Back. Kidne Com
plants. DrOpsy. Female Leu.
cOrrh0ca. arising from internal liberation, and utter.
Inc diseases and General Debility, vEGETINE acts
directly upon the causes OF these complaints. It invig.
crates and strengthens the whole system, acts upon tho
~secTetive organs, allays inflammation, cures liberation,
and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh. D~y:pepsia. Habitual Cos
FalpttatiOn of h Heart, Head
ache. Piles eryOusn and General Pros.
tratt0n OF the Nervous system, no medicine
has ever given such perfect satisfaction as the vEGE-
TINE 1t purines the blood, cleanses all Of the organs,
tenn. .tr
The remarkable cures effected by vEGErrSB have In.
duced many physicians and apofhecarfes whom va
know to prescribe and use 1t In their own families.
In fact, vKGETNE is the best remedy yet discovered
PURIFIED vet placed before the public.
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Sunshine or CIoud-Which :

1T should never be forgotten that the
preachers tome is contagious. The key
which he strikes in his sermon is almost
sure to be the keynote Of the congrega-
ton. He is vastly more than an in
structor of the intellect; he has q mes
sage to the heart, and hence what he
says impresses itself on the whole being
of his hearers. We should not be sur
prised, therefore, to find the people
giving out sunshine or cloud, light or
darkness, hope or encouragement, just
as they receive these from the pulpit.
In view of this fact, the color of SEN
timent reflected in the preaching be-
comes a very serious matter. If the
sermon is somber in tone, the feeling
in the congregation will be the same; if
the tone of the preaching is cheerful,
the hearers are sure to rejoice in the
happy spirit of the sermon. Bright
ness begets brightness, as love begets
love, or hate begets hate. "Whatso-
ever a man soweth that shall he also
reap"
And now, if this is true, is it not
strange that so many preachers come
D6lOTt buclI pcOplc III 1uC SpiIIt VI buC
storm-cloud rather than the spirit of the
sunshinep They try to drive where
it is only possible to lead; they aim to
compel, when the only way to success
is to affectionately inUite. They should
remember the fable of the north wind
and the sun. The travellers cloak was
not taken off by buster and blowing,
but by the warmth of the genial sun
shine.
Scolding preachers cannot make
their ministry a success, for the reason
that sheir method is unphilosophical.
In trying to cure one evil they beget
another that is worse than the first.
They may break some bad habits by
continually making ugly faces at them,
but If the congregation should after
ward wear the impress of these faces,
then the benefit in one case is more
than overbalanced by the evil done in
the other.
While it may be proper for the
preacher sometimes to warn and re-
buke, he should never do this in a man
ner which shows the least resentment
or want of affection for those who are
addressed. Let the general spirit Of
his preaching be characterized by love,
Joy and peace, and his congregation
will scarcely fail to reflect these graces
in their walk and conversational Chris
Tim, Standard
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Why Cows Hold Up Their Milk.

The bag or udder is divided into four
parts, entirely distinct from each other,
except as they are held together by
~membraneous ligaments. The milk in
each is held in continent tubes, which,
like the roots of a tree, are all concen-
trated into one just above the teat, the
milk entering that funnel-shaped organ
by a single channel. just at the upper
end of the teat the walls of this channel
are contracted and the contraction is
surrounded by a band of muscular
fibers. The will of the COW can operate
on this band, contracting or expanding
it at pleasure, making it operate like a
valve. At the junction of each smaller
tube with a larger n is a similar con-
traction and band, also under the con-
troll of the will. Ordinarily these bands
are contracted Gas in the neck of the
bladder) so that the milk has to crowd
its way through them to get from the
smaller into the larger tubes. This is
an admirable arrangement for sustain
ing the weight of the milk equally in
all parts of the udder and preventing it
from pressing heavily upon the teats.
When the udder is full, if the milk is
drawn out of the teats, relieving the
pressure in them it requires a vigorous
effort of the will of the COW to prevent
the pressure above from crowding the
milk down to fill the vacancy. If the
udder is only partly filled she can hold
the milk back more easily, and the less
there is in it the more easily can she
the tension of the muscular
bands necessary to prevent entirely the
milk from flowing through them.
When the mixer first takes hold of the
teats and begins to milk the excitement
the cow to contract the bands so
hrmly as to hold back the milk perfect
ly for a time. But presently this vigor-
GUS contraction will begin to slacken
and the milk will pour through, and if
is quiet she will relax the bands
fully, when the milk settles down upon
the teats, and if quickly drawn it can
all be MIXED out to the very last drop.
But this perfect relaxation will only
last for a short time. If the milk is not
soon extracted she will begin to tighten
up the muscular bands again, and the
last part will be held back and perma-
nently retained when the mixer prob
ably thinks he has got it all, because it
stops coming. A COW should, there
fore, be MIXED quickly as well as
A calf will draw milkin three
minutes, and q mixer should come as
near that time as possible. If the time
Of milking is much prolonged she will
become impatient, and be sure not to
give down. perfectly. The quietest
and quickest mixer gets the most and
best milk, because he gets all the
q strippings.'' which are the richest
part.-N Y. Herald.
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rho Ar Of Trele.si.g LIE.

Peonle generally desire long life and good
health. Sickness and premature deAtn are ~
most always due to violations OF tne avs tIas
govern our physical being, ana OF which me
masses are ignorant II men knew better
they would do better; but how can they avoid
an evil that they know not OIL While enoIss
are made through the public shoots 10 give
each child q sO-called common Englisn educa-
ton, vet the children are permitted 10 grow
up and enter upon the responsive 1u'.sr "
active life, profoundly ignorant OF the struc-
ture OF their own bodies, and the a OF pny-
steal being upon which their health and ives
depend. They are sent to school ana crammeu
with arithmetic, grammar, and geography, "a
teachers who, in.nany instances, have never
studied physiology and hygiene They are
tsnght TO locate the mountains and traee the
rivers of foreign countries, but are never
taught to locate the vital organs and GLANDS OF
their own bodies, or trace the veins. arteries
and nerves, in their various ramlncatons.
They are instructed In the fow OF the tides,
and the course Of the ocean currents, ana tne
philosophy of winds and storms; put tney
have NO correct conception OF the relative et-
fects upon their health of breathing pure OF
impure air, nor has their attention ever Deen
called to the importance OF keeping sne,f
bodies clean and healthy by regular bathing.
The criminality of such neglect IN tsacning
becomes apparent when we consider that the
masses. ignorantly violating the Oh
health, bring upon themselves sickness, sune5-
ing and death, that m1gnt otnefMlee = y
ed. In this condition of things we welcome
into being any work that is calculated to Inn
part to the masses a knowledge OF the struc-
ture of their own bodies, the laws OF health,
and the importance of observing those laws;
We find DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medlcai
Adviser to be Just such a v work. 1t II, physio-
logical and pathological, and the ms1or, part
OF il should be converted into a textbook for
the use of common schools. Its careful STUDY
will enable the healthy to preserve their neailn,
and the sickly to regain health. Every parent
should read It, and as their children become OF
proper age instruct them in the a~ll-important
truths it contains. We're this done, much
suffering and premature death would pe pre-.
vented. and many a youth saved from a life OF
shame and licentiousness. The book contains
nearly one thousand pages, is profusely Illus
trated with colored plates and wood-engray-
ings, and can be had by addressing \. v.
Pierce, NJ. d., Worlds Dispensary and lnva-
lids Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Price, Postpaid,
SI.5O.-United Brethren did Journal.
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A Boys Description Of the Bee.

One day Billy, witch had been a read
in that poetry about the bee, and the
ant, and sech things, KEEP a sayin it
over til we oil got sick of hearin it, so
one time wen he come in the dron
room and bust out with
How duth the little bizzy bee!
my father he said, William, that inseck
has past a tolably quiet mite, and is a
doin as wei as GUIDE be expedited, it is
very good of your master to send you
to inquire SO often, but it is a nuisance
oil the same, SO lam about to isshue this
bulletin, witch will save you any fur
Their trubble. Wen he said that my
father pict up a paper waite and made
like he was a goin to fling it, but Billy
he improved the shinin our by dashing
thru the dore into the passidge.
l hate bees COS sOme foxes witch
writes is oil ways a crackin' 'em up,
like they was the NOSE industirus, and
ordly, and ~peasable, and clever things
in oil this worl, and little boys and girls
OF to be like 'em. But wot If little bows
and girls wude sting like they doesp
The bunny witch is luke out of bee
hives is sweet, but frute cake is the
STUFF for me. Bees wax, witch my moth
er uses wen she sose the baby's frox, is
nothing but just bunny comb, but not
like you comb your head with.
The way the bees makes wax is this
way. A bee goes to q flour and roles
in it, and the dust sticks to his legs and
makes him feel uncomfitable. and wen
he cant stan it no longer, he
goes back to the hive, and wen
he gifts in there the hol porter bee SAYS
boots! Then the boots bee comes. and
brushes the dust off the bee witch rolled
in the flours legs, but don't sweep it
up, and SO many a goin in and out it
gifts tramped into mud witch is wax.
But how they bores the six corner holes
in it, les they do it with a six corner
oggur, and were they gifts the bunny to
put 'em, is wot beats me!
Maybe you have hear about a bee
line. Wen q bee gifts his legs loded,
like tOle you, and wants a brush up,
it fise roun and roun, Citing high up
per and high upper, oil the time, till it
sees witch way the hive is, and then it
has wasted so much time it has got to
iii nifty strate to git home fore dark,
and that is a bee line. If it didden't
think itself SO onederful clever it wude
start of to random and inquire the way.
and git home lots quicker and not 20
far to go, but bees is bees. Only I
don't like 'em to be throde up to me as
if they knode it oil, and me and Billy
vas a fool.
Las summer orr dog Towser was q
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-23
TilIage for Corn.

We think the question of deep or
shallow blowing is pretty definitely set
tied, so far 8 our ordinary prairie soils
are concerned, in favor of shallow
blowing. That is: six inches may be
taken as the maximum depth at which
to pillow for the best results in raising
corn. The best time, however, for
blowing is one wherein many farmers
make a mistake. Very often the land
is plowed too wet. When this is the
case, no amount of surface labor will
bring the soil to good condition. IN
nine cases out of ten when the land is
fall plowed, and the surface thorough
ly stirred in the spring, when drv, and
planted without replowing, a better
crop of corn will be realized than if the
crop be planted on fresh plowed land,
if the blowing be done while the land
is wet. This is especially true if trash
or manur has been plowed under in
the fall.
1t is a mistake to suppose that a soil
should lie very soft to reach the best
results in tillage; on the other hand it
should be moderately compact, if at the
same time it be in a p~ulverable state.
Thus all that is necessary is to work
the surface into a good state of filth,
and there is little danger but a good
crop of corn will result if only the plow-
ing of the crop be conscientiously ac-
complished.
When, however, cOrn is planted on
fall blowing, we have found it an excel
lent plan at the first cultivation to use
narrow ~bull-tongue shares on the culti-
vat0r, next the corn, setting them so
they will move the earth to the full
depth of the blowing, These throw no
earth laterally, but open the soil so the
young roots of corn have mellow earth
to work in. 1t also tends to aerate the
soil, thus fixing the gases that are al
ways being decomposed in a soil open
to the air. When the corn is thus
plowed both ways, these narrow teeth
may be moved to the outside of the
cultivator and the broader ones used
next the corn. Thus the whole soil is
kept mellow to the full depth of the
blowing.
The object of cultivation is, first, to
destroy weeds, second, to keep the sur
face of the soil mellow. If this mellow
surface, or, rather, a surface of finely
pulverized soil, be maintained through
the growing season, the roots are kept
in a state. of constant activity, the
leaves are of a deep green, and the
crop is kept growing right along. If,
on the other hand, the surface becomes
crusted or sodden from being water
soaked. the plants cease growing and
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INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

"A train ON the Georgia Northwest
EN- Railroad was checked Just in time
latSly, fora colofedsm man 70 siAtch from
beneath the plot : little child on the
track.
The life of q valuable dog, owned
by q Boston gentleman, was recently
saved by making an incision in its
stomach and removing . ~rubber-baI it
had swallowed. -
a little son 81 Mr.. Hsus, living III
Lexington, Mimi, while playing with
his sister. became enraged at her, and,
seising an ak, cut of both her feet,
from the effects of which she died.
A colored man, named Anderson,
has been arrested, at London, Ont,
charged with having placed a mixture
of salt and paris green in a pasture
field, whereby several cows were poi
soned.
"A woman-tramp and her daughter
celled at a house in Pittsburgh, recent
", and demanded dinner. Aater delib-
erately partaking of the repast the
woman coo.ly asked for q set. of ear
rings or other jewelry that the family
might have to spare.
LIN Merrimac, N. H., "two female
tramps entered a house while the fami-
ly were out, and, without ceremony,
went into the best room and went to
bed. The first that the family knew of
this was in the morning, when the two
women got up, dressed, entered the
dining-room and demanded breakfast -
Waterford, N. Y, has the cham
pion absent-minded young woman.
She was recently married, and a few
days after hadher furniture insured, but
the next day appeared before the agent
and wanted the policy changed, ex-
planning that she had forgotten that
she was married, and had had hermaid-
en- name inserted in the policy.
The barn of Van Meter, of Ken
lucky, was recently burned by sponta-
neous combustion. A pile of horse
n had been heavily covered with
straw, and an explosion occurred under
the straw pile, the result of spontane-
BUS combustion, which was instantly fol-
lowed by a blaze in the straw. The sta
bles we're rapidly consumed, together
with two young bulls and two horses.
Somebody down in Biddeford, Me-,
vouches for the following story: GA
lady was descending a flight of stairs,
when she fell. dislocating her shoulder.
She landed on a large dog at the foot
of the stairs, which rose in a fright and
threw her into an adjoining room,
where she fell upon a hot stove. and
would doubtless have been seriously
burned had not a man who happened
to be in the room suddenly pulled her
away, in doing which he brought her
arm back into place again"
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what is More Satisfactory

In purchasing an article for use in your own
family, than to feel assured and satisfied OF
its purity, free from all injurious Ingredients,
something in which you have full confidence.
As such an assistant for producing light bread,
biscuit, cakes, etc, we would suggest a trial
of the celebrated Doosey's Yeast Powder, and
rest assured you will be fully satisfied with
its results and you will have the whitest,
sweetest and most healthful baking you ever
had.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-23

WnuoFT's FEVER AND AGUE ToNIc.-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees, when engaged
in malarial districts. Tn highest testimonials
have been given by contractors and by the
Presidents of some of the leading railroads in
the South and West. When men are congre-
gated in large numbers in the neighborhood OF
swamps and rivers, Wiihoft's Tonic will prove
a valuable addition to the stock of medicines,
and will amply reward the company in the
saving of time, labor and money. We recon-
mend it to all. WHEELoCK, FINLAY ~ Co.,
Proprietors, New Orleans.
Eop SAFE ny All DRJrGQISTS.
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Evil Communications.

RSAoOAo "A AANS shS
knights-errant of past days, seem to
listing wrongs. The way in which they
propose 70 do it is to make them the
theme of social intercourse, the subject
of infinite talk. OF course they never
can lack material to work upon. The
newspapers abound in it, political cir
cles overflow with it, every neighbours
family will afford it, in some form and
degree.
Our Savior says: Judge not, that
We be not judgedr' Now, of course, He
did not mean that we should have no
opinions respecting men and their ac-
tons, or that we should refuse, at the
call of duty, to give voice to those
opinions. 1t is an everyday duty,
which He Himself recognized, to de-
eide questions of right and wrong,
whose decision will involve some about
us in condemnation. But this is a very
different thing from gloating over So
cial crimes and evils, or sitting down
cynically to form adverse judgments of
our fellows, taking refuge in the shad-
ow of principle.
A conscientious man feels that he
must defend the right, and therefore he
must condemn wrong-doers. A cynic
feels that he must condemn everybody,
and he rejoices that truth bears him
out in it. Now, it is the spirit in which
we contemplate what transpires around
us that reacts to fix the seal of our
Judgment on ourselves. If we are Sc
cretly gratified with r~ecitals of vice and
crime which, protesting to loathe, we
eagerly deyour with u rolls and cof-
fee, the fact is, though we seem to be
condemning crime, we are nourishing
the incipient criminal within us. In
proportion as these things have a fasci-
nation for us, they have drawn us down
to their own corrupt level.
1t is in vain hat we f1atter ourselves
that we look upon these disclosures of
crime and corruption with Indignation
and loathing. We cannot altogether
loathe that which we desire to contem-
plate; we cannot altogether hate that
whose details have a pleasing fascina-
ton for us. tits curious to see with
what assumed superiority some declaim
against popular vices when we per-
ceive, from their secret attitude, that
the principal result of the process is
their own degradation. evil com
munications corrupt good manners"
But, if one who makes himself a self
constituted censor does not become I'M
charitable and evil-minded, he is almost
sure to become a confirmed gossip, and
few fates in the world, outside of the
lunatic asylum, are more to be dreaded.
Can ANYTHING be more utterly diluting
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sanday-schooI Lessons.


1909 SECOND QUARTER, I6I7.
June 2-The Handwriting % 80 sm o.
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June 9-Daniel in the Lions - a.. n
Den....:i m D~niei Z: ga.
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Inna N-Reyiew of the Lessons TOY the Quafser.
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The heirs OF Brigham Young
brought a restraining suit too late, and
the executors have restored to the
Church property of the estate valued
at from $780, coo to $3.50, 600. An ex-
animation of the books has been going
on since Yonng's death, and i shows
rat IL was n debt to the Church about
81. GOO. GOO, which is almost the full
value of his property.