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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

crease the flow of milk, and if corn
meal is added the quality of the milk is
also improved. The oil-cakes are rich
in both albumen and oil, but few dairy
men care to use these, because of the
peculiar flavor which they impart to
the milk. Potatoes, when chopped and
mixed with meal, add to the yield of
milk, and the quality produced by them
is good, as might be expected from the
large proportion of starch they contain.
Turnips should be avoided as food for
milking cows, as the cautious use of
them required interferes greatly with
the routine of the feeding, and makes
much trouble. Pumpkins are rich
food and impart q good color to the
cream; but the seed should be removed
before they are fed to the COWS, be-
cause of their diuretic effects. Apples
are justly condemned by dairymen, ex-
cepting in very small quantities of the
sweet varieties, and even then it is a
question if it would not be better to
cart them to the manure heap or to the
cider mill rather than give them to cows.
The best-chosen foods should be fed
in moderate quantities., and at four
separate feeds. If large quantity
of food is crowded into the stom-
ach. the digestive organs are too Sc
verely taxed, and the ease and comfort
of the COW is interfered with. The
most perfect digestion goes on in a
moderately well-illed stomach, and al
though the cows paunch is capacious,
yet one bushel of loose, dry fodder, or
half . b,ishel of moist feed or roots, at
once is sufficient. 1t is well to feed
four times day. The practice of a
well-conducted milk dairy is to feed at
six O'Clock in the morning one bushel
of cut fodder, wet and mixed with
three quarts of feed of corn, oats and
bran. At eight o'clock the cows are
turned out to water and have picking
at the straw racks or some loose corn
fodder. At eleven o'clock they are
brought into the stable for an hour,
and are each served with half bushel
of chopped potatoes, beets or mangels,
with two quarts of feed mixed with
them. At twelve o'clock they are
turned out to water again-there being
running water in the yard-and pick
at the straw or fodder racks until
4:3O o'clock, when they are brought in
to be MIXED, and after that are fed
with similar mess to that of the morn
ing. The last thing in the evening is
to give them few pounds of loose hay
and to bed them comfortably with
straw and shut them up in u stable
through which no cold draft can pene-
trate, but which is, nevertheless, broad,
high, spacious and well-aired. 1t is
difficult to say how this method can be
mended, and if regularity is observed
in feeding, and a good kind of cows
are kept, the maximum yield of milk,
both in quantity and quality, may be
expectcd.-N. Y. Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
An Eccentric NObIeman.

The London Truth tells of the eccen-
tricities of the Earl of Dysart, who re-
Gently died in England in small town
where he had lived for many years.
He was averse to being seen. He had
lodgings in Norfolk street; no one was
ever admitted to his room, and all cor
respondence with the outer world was
carried on by means of a small slit cut
in the door. through which messages
and their answers were passed.
AS he was rich and penurious, he
managed to accumulate an enormous
sum of money.
Every day Lord Dysart had sent to
him in Norfolk street the number of
cabbages cut, of peaches on the trees,
of eggs laid and of chickens Matched on
his estates.
He made his investments through an
aged female servant One day this
old lady walked into the Southwestern
Railway Colnpany's Office and asked
whether there was not an issue of some
sort of guaranteed stock.
The clerk told her there was.
"Quite safe?" said she.
"Oh, yes, old lady; you need not be
afraid of your money. DO you want to
put your quarters wages in it?''
"Well,'' she answered, eff you
please, be good enough to give me
ECO, 900 worth of it, and here's the
money!" and with that she united a big
pocket from under her dress, contain
ing notes to that amount, and presented
the pocket to the clerk.
A year or two ago his Lordship
thought that he would go out, thing
that he had not done for many long
day.
"Bring me my boots" he said to
the aged domestic. She brought him
the only pair that he had. They were
Hessians.
"Now call a hackney coach, he con-
tinued.
When he went down and found a cab
before his door, driven by man with
out large cape, he was in state of
utter amazement. He directed HIM
self to be taken to Hampstead. When
he reached Regents Park, he insisted
that the driver was going the wrong
direction.
"This is not the way to Hampstead"
he said. "Where are the covers in
which used to shoot pheasants?''
Sad and astounded, he returned to
Norfolk street, from which he never
again emerged alive.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

SPINNER Of the silken snare.
Fell Ar7schne in your lair,
Tell me. if your powers can tell,
How you do your work 40 we'll!
Weaving on. in light and dark.
Segment and cOncentric arr.
lacc-like. gOssamer designs,
Strict to gcOmetric lines.
Perfect to the utmost part
Occult. exquisite Of art,
How are all these wonders bred
In your atom of head?
Propositions here involved
Wit of man has Eever solved;
Demonstrations hard to find
Arc "a crystal to your mind.
How. in decpest dungeon gloOms,
DO your I.iliputian looms
Work such miracles "a these
Faultless. fairy filigrees?
Careless flies that hither Git
Come to die; but there you sit,
Feeling with your fingers fine
Each vibrating, pulse-like line;
Eager to anticipate
Hourly messages of fate
Funeral kilograms that say,
Here is feasting one more day.
Spider, only He can tell
How ycu do your work SO we'll,
Who in life's mysterious ways
Knows the method Of the maze.
H. 5. C0rnTefl. in -itidRtic Monthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
Winter Feeding Of Cows.

DURING summer, when the heritage is
fresh and abundant, cows make their
own milk. All that is needed then is
to see that their grass is abundant and
their water is sure. In the winter sea-
son it is the owners skill, more than
anything else, that makes the milk. To
keep q cow in full flow through the
winter is a matter of difficulty to the
most skillful dairyman. But it can be
done if the means are at hand and the
methods are followed. The first requi-
site is warm stable, in which there is
abundant ventilation, and where per-
feet cleanliness can be observed, for
comfort is as necessary to full milking,
as feed or water. The skin of the COW
should also be kept clean, and well
carded or brushed, for the healthful
action of the skin is necessary for
health and healthful secretions. Then
the feed should be nutritious, easily di-
gestible, and abundant. Hay is the
principal winter fodder for cows. and
early-cut clover mixed with meadow
grass" chiefly what is known as June
grass, or Kentucky blue grass, with
some red-top, is the best for product of
milk. Timothy and orchard grasses,
if cut young and from fields thickly
sown and well MANFRED, will make
good hay for mich cows. Well-cured
corn-fodder is but little inferior to the
best hay; and the writer has found that
sweet-corn fodder, sown in drills three
feet apart, and with stalks six inches
apart, grown to maturity, and carefully
cured, will make more milk than an
equal weight of fair clover and timothy
hay. The concentrated food supplied
is of more importance than the coarse
fodder, and it is here that mistakes
are often made. Corn-meal alone is
too rich in carbonaceous matters
to produce milk. food that is
richer in albumen than this is neces-
sary. Corn, oats and rye bran, in equal
weights, ground together, furnish a
perfect food that is rich in phosphates,
albumen and fat-forming substances,
and thus produce a good flow of milk
rich in cream. Buckwheat bran slim
ulates the secretion of milk greatly, but
this food, being deficient in fat and
starch, produces poor quality of thin
milk. Wheat middlings and bran,
alone, have tendency to reduce the
yield of milk, at least that is the result
Of q continuous trial of this food for a
whole month. Brewers grains are a
nutritious food that helps greatly to in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

Concerning the cause of yellow
fever, those who know nothing about
it find the germ theory most conyen-
lent to handle. It gives a man a chance
to say that there is little something,
no bigger than nothing, which travels
in the air and spreads the disease. The
advocate of that idea cannot prove it
and he rests satisfied that his opponent
cannot disprove tn. o. Picay,tase.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
A Noble Woman.

A FIVE DOLLAR note would be an ex-
travagant price to pay for her estab-
lishment and all itcontains, but if hero
ic womanhood ever found embodiment
in human shape, it can be seen nightly
upon St. Charles street, just below the
Academy of Music. A week ago Grand
ma Wilson was in Memphis, battling
pestilence by her tireless vigilance.
Hailed by terror-stricken community
as their guardian angel, Elizabeth, in
the zenith of her spIendor, could not
have commanded the adulation which
spontaneously went forth to that plain
old woman. For thirty. eight days and
nights during the frightful harvest Of
death at Grenada those withered hands
we're often the only ones to soothe the
burning brow or close dying eyes. To
her tender care were committed their
children by dying parents. Appointed
by the divine mandates of gratitude
universal executrix and Administrative,
in that season of deadly peril and death,
the confidential friend Of the highest,
she now sells peanuts on st. Charles
street. She did so before, and were
another epidemic to carry desolation
into thousand homes, after another
heroic battle with disease would do so
again; but is Cincinnatus returned to
his pillow much more heroic than Mrs.
Mary Ann Wilson returned from the
devastation of Grenada, Grand juno
ton and Memphis to her peanut stand?
Mrs. Wilson was faithful nurse here
in 1887. During the epidemic of 1858
she was on duty the entire summer. In
1856 she devoted her time to the suffer-
ers of Norfolk. Another year she WIS.,
tied Savannah, and, in short, for forty
years this noble woman has flown to
the aid of the sick and suffering the
moment she heard of their needs.
There is q seat above for her among
the best of Gods children.-NeU Or
leans Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

AT the marriage of a rich corn
merchant of seventy-two, in Southport,
Eng, to woman of sixty-seven, the
wedding guests were hidden to two
taverns, where each received a basin of
porridge, potato pie, hammock and
cheese and pint of ale. Then both
houses were thrown open to them to
order what they pleased at the bride
grocm's expense.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

-Rheunatism is frequently the re-
suit of an overdose of moisture; in 9TH
er words. to be caught out in pouring
rain often insures roaring pain.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

Rev. VIM. H. CHAPMAN. Pastor Of NJ. f.
Church, Georgetown, D. c., writes: ''IIaving
had an opportunity to test the excellent quail
titles Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. hesitate not
to say, it is the best remedy have ever used
in my family"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

"A correspondent asks, "What did
William TellP' So far as we remem-
Der he said. "Oh shoot the apple any.
wayl''--N. o. Times. y
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
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"That invalid wife, mother, sister or child
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"When worn down and ready to take your
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"Don't physic and physic, for it weakens
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"Physicians of all schools use and recon-
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"Health is beauty and joy-Hop Bltters
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"There are more cures made with Hop
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when the brain is wearied, the nerves
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ters."
"That low, nervous fever, want of sleep
and weakness, calls for Hop Bitters."
Hop Cough euro and Pain Relief IN
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For Sale b. al Dvuaoisss.
Hop Bittsrs Arg Co., Rochester, n. 7.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
Bogus Certificates.

It is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to be
made OF wonderful foreign roots, barks, etc.,
and pulled up by long bogus certificates OF
pretended miraculous cures, but simple,
pure, effective medicine, made of wcll-known
valuable remedies, that furnishes its own GER
tificate by its cures. We refer to Hop Bit
tiers, the purest and best of medicines. See
"Truths' and " Proverbs" in another column.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

The Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcnER, in his
lecture on "The wastes and burdens o. socie-
ty," claims "msn's natural life to be so years,
and as the anrd:Je life is but b years, there
must be waste Of Al years." There is much
fortunate in br siaess, it is attributed to the
violation of come commercial law. Now, if a
person be taken of in the prime of life, ought
1t not to be attributed to the violation of some
they would I've better and longer; but how
can they profit by that which they know not
Of! The only popular work that meets this
great want is DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser. In it the great problems of
work contains over 900 pages and $50 colored
plates and woOd-cuts. Price $l.5O tpost-
paid. Address the author, II. V. Pierce, M.
D., Buffalo, N. Y.
iARTIGuiARs regarding Electric Belts free.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., Cincin.. o
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

1t is now thought that the thirteen
inch footprints in the Connecticutsan
stone were made by Chicago girl
baby.-N. Y. Graphic.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
THE SPIDER.

REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26

ana prayed, out i vowed La beat MIN
again for that bit of insolence.
We'll, sir, never got the chance.
That happened at Christmas, too,
Lizzy was q baby then. Yes, that
mornin' found a Christmas present
from Bill-he'd spent all his earnings
for months, Ben told me, to get it-bHt
there wasn't no Bill" tho old voice
faltered. HE left q letter-and in that
he said-good-by-to all of us, even to
old Susie, out in the stable. You'll ex.
cuse me-" and the, horny hands FUN.
bled for handkerchief; al thought
could tell the story-but somehow
can't"
Mother Rolf had turned her face
away to hide the two slow tears falling
from eyes that had often wept. Lizzie
was looking out of the window, perhaps
at the moon.
The minister sat like statue, arms
folded on his breast, lips fastened to.
gether, eyes fixed as if upon some Wis.
ion that troubled him, but the folded
arms heaved up with the deep chest
breathing.
"There, I'm through now," said the
OLD man, hoarsely, heaving great
sigh; "there amt much more to tell,
Wed a given everything we owned
that day to have his blue eyes back.
Turkey went for nothing. Benny was
broken-hearted. There, there, DOM
cry, old lady! You're home this time,
and we've got good company to help
make merry.
"But there's q leetle more to tell,
young man. l must clear it all up
now, and don't think harder nor YOU
can help of me. The Lords forgive
me, trust. Bill wrote me about q
year after, from the West; said he was
dom well. I dare say twas good
enough letter, but somethin' in it raised
my anger. and. though meant to for.
give him, | thought Of how 1 might
make him more sorry. l wrote him
that his mother was desd-'twas awful,
wasn't ita IN never. never forgive
myself for that. Don't try to stop me,
old lady. I'll own up the whole, now
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
Intellectual Test OF Nations.

So far as the general ability of the
people of nation to read and write is a
proof of their superior enlightenment,
the Americans have no rivals In the
world. AS readers we lead all nations.
We are 100000. The population of
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland is
33, O00,0 600; of France, $4,000, 900; Ger
many, 100000. In 1870 there were
published in the United States 274 daily,
1926 weekly and LOOP other papers and
periodicals. In 1877 the figures were:
Dailies, 700; weekhes. 6, 221; all others,
LOLA; total, 1914. England has but
1852; Germany but 1885; France but
1869 and Italy but 835. The total for
the four nations, embracing an aggregate
population of 1877, 900, 900, is but 6, 731,
or 1918 less than supplies the American
population of AZ, 1000, 900. The distribu-
tion of our daily and weekly papers
among the several States is instructive.
They are not by any means apportioned
according to population, though New
York is always first 1t appears that
New York has 81 .dailies; Pennsylvania
comes next, with 70; Illinois third, with
AZ; curiously enough, California fourth,
with 43. In that State of less than $780,
600 of the European race, they have 4
more daily papers than Ohio, with her
5000, 900, 10 more than Massachusetts,
or Indiana, II more than Missouri, 20
more than Iowa, as many, lacking one,
as Wisconsin, Virginia and Georgia COM
bined, and more than eight times as
many as either Minnesota, Delaware or
Oregon. If, then, the reading of cur
rent publications is an irrefragable test
of the superior instruction Of a commu.
nifty generally, the population of Cali
fornia stands at the very summit of mod
ern civilization-so soys California ex-
change.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
Legal Advertising in Cooperative
NeWSpaperS.

An important decision, touching the
legality of advertising in newspapers
printed on the cooperative plan, has
been rendered by the New Jersey courts.
A mortgage sale was advertised in a
newspaper printed on this plan, and the
property was sold as advertised. The
owner of the property protested against
the proceeding, on the ground that the
advertisement thereof was not legal, be-
cause the newspaper printing it was a
so-called "patent inside" A petition
to set aside the sale was accordingly
fled in chancery. The petition fully
and sqqarely raised the issue as to
whether newspaper using "patent
outside" printed outside the State, was
newspaper printed and published in
the State, in which land sales might be
legally advertised. The question was
fully argued before the Vice Chancellor.
at Newark, N. j., and decision rem
dered "that such an advertisement was
legal and sufficient, and was both a SUBJ
stantial and literal compliance with the
statutory requirement )" and the motion
to set aside the sale was denied and petit
ton dismissed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
MIR. SCHROEDER'S AlR.SHIP.


Hf ~ ~. M
The Investor PROPOSES 70 Cross the Ocean
81 am not an enthusiast, but prac-
teal man, said Prof. F. w. Schroeder,
the aerial navigator, who is building an
air-ship in this city with which to jour
ney to Europe in forty-eight hours, as
he sat on one of the benches in Stuyve-
SAINT park yesterday, with drawings of his
inventions spread out on his knees.
I" Nor am 1 a mere adventurer, but the
son of a distinguished noblemsn of
Hanover, Colonelin the Prussian army,
and have iVst as good a home as a
man can want. Some of the papers have
been trying to make me out crazy adj
venturer, and, two years ago. when /
was trying my experiment, the Baltimore
papers ridiouled me as a lunatic, but
after some OF my inventions had been
adopted in France they wanted to lay
claim to them as of American origin"
4 am 30 firmly convinced, continued
Mr.. Schroeder. " of the practicability of
going to Europe on current of air that
l will risk my life in the trial. Why,
have received dozens of letters from all
parts of the world from persons begging
to be allowed to go with me. Among
others, the most celebrated aeronaut in
Europe, Christopher Collier, of Brussels,
has asked me, but shall take only two
beside myself. have no fear of acct
dents, for the material of the balloon or
gas receiver will be wonderfully strong,
closer knit even than silk-here is some
OF it," and he exhibited white fabric
of stout texture. "They called it ba-
tlste, and it cannot be procured in Eu-
rope. If the receiver should explode,
there is, above the balloon, piece of
canvas so arranged as to act as n para
chute to let me down slowly. With the
same arrangement, when balloon burst
with me once in Brazil, came down SO
slowly that took out my pistol and
fired holes into the canvas in order to
hurry. The published description OF
my balloon is fantastical and incorrect.
The distance between the car and balloon
is two instead of twenty feet; the length
is ninety-six feet. 1t is twenty-five feet
in diameter, with capacity of $4,000
cubic feet of gas, the lifting power OF
the gas being one ounce to the square
foot. l have made upward of 40O
ascensions, and never met with an acct
dent. Heretofore I have worked the
machinery by hand. On my ocean
trip shall have an electric
engine. On all my trips across
the ocean before this I would LET
up from the steamers deck small bal
looms, which I observed would be
i caught in a current of air and carried
east higher up they would be caught
by contrary gust of wind and whirled
west, which proved to me that lower
and warm current of air blew from west
to east, while the upper current blew
from east to west. Now L shall get in
the lower current and go straight to
Europe. 1 cannot fly in the teeth OF
the wind, but, if necessary, by using the
wings of my machine, can mount to a
favorable current and continue my pro-
gress."