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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
Privilege Of Prayer.

PRAYER is not a consultation with the
highest wisdom which this world can
supply. 1t is not intercourse with an
angel or spirit made perfect. But it
is an approach to the living God. 1t is
access to the high and Holy One who
inhabiteth eternity. 1t is detailing in
the ear of Divine sympathy every sor-
row. 1t is consulting with Divine Wis.,
dom on every difficulty. 1t is asking
from Divine resources the supply Of
every want. And this not once in Il
lifetime, or for d few moments on Il
stated day of each year, but at any mo-
ment. at every time of need. Whatev-
er be the day of your distress, it is 4
day when prayer is allowable. Whatev-
er be the time Of your calamity, it is a
time when prayer is available. Howev-
er early in the morning you seek the
gate OF access, you find it already open;
and however deep the midnight moment
when You find yourself in the sudden
arms of death, the winged prayer can
bring an instant Savior near. And this
wherever you are. 1t needs not that
you should ascend some special Pisgah
or Moriah. 1t needs not that YOU should
enter some awful shrine, or put off your
shoes ON some holy ground. Could a
memento be reared on every spot from
which an acceptable prayer has passed
away, and on which q prompt answer
has come down, we should find Jeho-
cab Shammai- the Lord hath been
here'-inscribed on many u cottage
hearth and many dungeon-tloor. We
should find it not only in Jerusalem
proud temple, and David's cedar gal
leries, but in the tisherman's cottage by
the brink of Gennesaret and in the up
per chamber where Pentecost began. :
Hamilton.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
Care OF Hogs In Summer.

The principal diet of hogs in sum-
mer should be grass, rich slop, fruits
and vegetables and some corn; these,
with the worms and insects obtained
on range, are amply sufficient to sus-
tain steady growth until the cool au-
tumn weather sets in, when diet of
sound corn, with some slop, should be
continued until they are fat enough for
killing or for market. This process of
taking hogs through the summer APP
plies equally to hogs that have been
wintered, or to spring pigs, except the
pigs should be fed stronger on account
Of their more rapid growth. Summer
is the time to make pork; making it in
winter is much like running a boat
against a wind and tide; it requires too
much food to keep up the supply of an
imal heat. If hogs have plenty of
grass in summer, and about half the
grain they will eat, they i win
fatten rapidly. ! The grass i cool
ing and lOOsening, and counteracts the
feverish properties of the grain. An
other important consideration in favor
of such diet Is cost, which is merely
nominal as compared with grain alone.
Free access to pure water and good
shade is essential to comfort and con-
sequent growth and thrift Of the pig.
The hog delights in a cool. damp local
ity, and is very sensitive to heat and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
Lost Immortality.

LAST Sunday a vcnder of pomades
and purgatives in Battle Mountain con-
ceived the idea of acquiring fame and
astonishing his friends and relatives in
the East by representing himself as a
noted scalp-lifter, and furnishing oc,,-
lar proof of his prowess on the war
path. He engaged two decrepit Sho-
shone bucks, whose faces glistened
with vermilion, to decorate their scalp
locks with feathers and 90 with him 10
Lakes photograph tent and have their
pictures taken, while he stood in the
foreground with double-barreled
shotgun, shouting, "Surrender, say
agesr' TO make the scene as tragic as.
possible he gathered a lot of beef bones
from the rear Of hotel and scattered
them around the Indians. The pre-
liminaries having been arranged to his
satisfaction, the photograph man fixed
his machine and was in the act of get
ting it located on the group when the
Indians, saying. Heep no good; may
be shoot!' skedaddled from the tent us
fast us their legs could carry them, and
have not been seen since. The white
brave wanted a photograph of the
group with Straightforward surroundings
to send back to his friends in New York
to show them how he captured two
Bannock warriors at the muzzle OF a
shotgun. The unexpected departure
OF the Indians deprived him of the OPP
portunity to immort;lize himself, and
he is now the most disconsolatc warrior
in the State of Nevada. - Winncnuccu
(Ncr.) Siircr State.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

with good government, none is more
useful, and without ii, none more mis-
chievous."
Boerhaave," says DR.. johnson,
''was never soured by calumny and de-
traction, nor ever thought it necessary
to confute them, for said he, 'thcy
are sparks, which, if you don't blow
them, will go out of themselves
1--WE cannot" says Cato, "control
the evil tongues of others, but a good
life enables us to despise them"
ISLANDER says Lacon, "cannot
make the subject of it either better or
worse. 1t may represent us in false
light, or place likeness Of us in bat,
one. But we are the same. Not so
the slanderer; the Islander that he ut
ters makes him worse, the slandered.
never"
"No one" says Jerome, Gloves to
tell tale of scandal except to him who
loves to hear it. Learn, then, to re-
buke and check the dctracting tongue,
by showing that you do not listen to it
with pleasure"
''No man sees the wallet on his own
back" says the old proverb, abiding
to the fable of the traveller with two
packs, the one before stuffed with the
fanlts of his neighbors, the one behind
with his own.
1t was a maxim of Enripides either to
keep silence or to speak something bet
ter than silence.
"Set a watch, o Lord, before my
mouth; keep the door Of my lips. In
cline not my heart to any evil thing"
psalm cxli:3. Church Union.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
Buying Tools.

The Scientific Farmer gives some
good advice in regard to buying tools:
First-Know what kind of work you
want to accomplish. If 4 pillow, do you
want q lap furrow or Il flat furrow
turned? If harrow, do you want a
scarificr or pulverizer or a smoothing
implement? do you want light draft or
heavy draft? and so with other tools.
Second-Decide on the most efficient
implement to accomplish your pur-
pose. If corn shelter, do not consult
a false economy BY getting one little
smaller than you can most probably
use. If a cultivator, get one that is
strong enough to wear. If a pulley, one
that is stronger than anypossible strain
to which YOU can apply it.
Third-AlwaVs get the best and most
thoroughly built instrument in the
market. and be willing to pay for the
workmanship. A cheap tool is never
satisfactory in the end. Buy at as low
price as YOU can, but don't get
cheap tool!
Fourth Before buying see if you
really need it. Calculate the gain
which will come from it's use and the
saving which may reasonably be ex-
pected from its ownership.
Fifth-Remember that too many inn
plements and too expensive implements
are a ruinous draft on the farm profits.
Balance this thought, however, with
the opposite retlectiOn--there can be no
greater waste of resources. than going
without q tool that is really needed.
Few farmers buy too many tools, but
many farmers buy unintelligently and
wastefully. The best tool is always
more profitable to buy than an inferior
one, and yet, no matter how good the
implement, it is unsatisfactory unless
you find for it advantageous use. The
saving from machinery comes from use
not from storage.
Now, if farmers will add to this care
full buying, intelligence in taking care
of the tools so wisely purchased, they
will save severe drain on the farm in
come. A rusty pillow by the roadside is
very common sight at this time of the
year. A farmer plows field and con-
cludes that he will want the same pillow
in an adjoining lot next week, and SO
instead of taking the pillow to the barn
and placing it under cover, he leaves it
on the ground to be handy for use. In
this way tools are destroyed more by
exposure than by use.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
A Little Boys Terrible Death.

A BRIGHT little fellow aged six-and-
a-half years, named George kraus, has
been in the habit lately of going to a
tannery, where his father was en-
ployed, and after spending the after
noon in play accompanying his father
home. Day before yesterday, at about
two o'clock in the afternoon, he went
to the tannery, and after greeting his
father, went out into the lanyard.
This was the last time he was seen
alive. AS has since been developed,
he, in walking across the inclosure, in
advertently stepped into vat-from
which the hides had been withdrawn
containing a strong solution of tannin
liquor seven feet in depth. The sharp,
biting fluid brought Immediate uncon-
seriousness, and the body of the child,
after rising the usual number of times,
sank to the bottom, and when the pa
rent came along little later, the dark
smooth surface gave no indication of
his sons dreadful fate. Mr.. Kraus
then, in prosecution of his work,
stopped at that identical vat, and threw
into it, on his son, seventy-fOur raw
hides, and then went elsewhere and did
other work.
That night, when he went home,
George was missing. Search was
made for him all through the house
and about the neighborhood, but with
out success. Unable to rest, the father
put on his coat and hat and went the
rounds of the station-houses, hoping
to find the supposed wanderer among
the lost children. The efforts We're
fruitless, and night of misery was
passed by the distracted parents. Yes
terday morning search was resumed,
and the now nearly frantic father went
to the tannery and began systematic
examination of the tannery premises.
At two O'Clock in the afternoon he be-
gan on the vat in which he had cast
the hides the day before. One by one
he pulled them out by aid of pole
with hook on the end. Sixty-two had
been taken out in this way when the
next lift brought the dead child to the
top. The father, on seeing him, gave
one desparing cry, and, letting 90 of
the pole, staggered forward and would
have fallen in but for the strong arm
of a bystander, who, after laying the
father, who had tainted, on the ground,
tished the corpse out and had it con-
veyed to the family residence. -Cincia-
natl Commercial
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
A Few Fashion Items.

LADIES in mourning wear black lace
mitts with a cuff of Grape.
Velvet underskirts, with polonaises
of delicate fabrics, are largely worn.
New absurdities in the shape of ear
rings combine cross, anchor and heart.
White dresses for evening wear are
trimmed with a profusion of broad
white satin bows.
Dressy caps for elderly ladies are
made of the finest tulle. with dots of
white or black chenille.
The amount of Swiss plating put in
the train of a dress renders long white
skirt unnecessary.
Ball fringe continues in favor; new
design has large and small balls of
many-colored silk and beads.
An ivory brooch in the shape of a
passion flower, exquisitely carved, is y
new design shown at the Palais Royal.
1t is as inappropriate to wear a white
cloth suit after six o'clock as to appear
in Il swallow-tail' coat in the MORN
ing.
Spanish netting embroidered with
cut jet beads is a new fabric designed
for evening over-dresses.
A lovely necklace is in the shape of
spray of forget-me-nots of turquoise,
with tiny diamond dew-drop on each
flower.
The lislc-thread gloves and the black
and colored lace mitts have nearly
driven the favorite CANT. de-sucde to the
wall, but they promise to be once more
in favor in autumn.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

cold, and suffers extremely from ex-
posture to either. ANY unusual exer-
else will be fatal to a hog that is fat,
on a hot day, if it has not free &C
cess to water. Hogs are not apt to
root when there is plenty of grass on
the ground, but rings in their noses
have many great advantages and by all
means should be used. They should
be allowed to have all the grass they
will eat as early in the spring rs pos
sible, and clover and timothy is good
for them in winter. Hogs that have run
to grass and slop all summer can be
shut up in a pen and fed to advantage
six weeks or two months. but no longer.
A pig should never be allowed to stop
growing-in, fact, that rule holds good
during its entire life. A poor, NANCY
pig, is of no value. Close confinement
in filth and dirt will check the growth,
however generous the feed; but if
starved at the same time it will be a
mercy to both pigs and owner to send
them to the manure pile. Milk is a
very cooling drink and almost indis-
pensable in raising young pigs. But
very little corn and no corn-meal
should be fed to young pigs before they
are four months old. The effects of
corn and raw corn-meal on young pigs
are these: These pigs will first be cos
tive; then they will scour; they will rub
against everything they come in contact
with and rub their hair off; their skin
will have a red and dry appearance. A
dry, black scurf will begin to form on
them. and the more of the corn-meal
that they eat the poorer they will get
The best thing that can be done for a
pig in this condition is to give him
thorough washing in warm rain water
or sour milk. Sour milk is best. Coarse
flour or middlings from rye or wheat,
when made into u thin drinkable slop
with milk, is the best feed for young
pigs except bread and milk. Bread is
good for young pigs because it has been
leavened. Food has to ferment before
it will digest, and if fed to q young pig
before fermented it will overtask his
stomach and spoil him. Lettuce is
good for young pigs. 1t will stop the
scours on them. The middlings should
be put with the milk at night, after the
feeding has been done, and allowed to
be in the milk through the mig hit, never
allowing the swill tub to get quite
empty, always leaving little in the
bottom for yeast. The swill should
never be allowed to get stale. Hogs or
pigs treated as here described will
grow to satisfaction and prove profita-
ble.-Ohio Farmer
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
Height or the Washington Monument.

THE obelisk of the Washington Mon
ument, which was originally intended
to be 600 feet in height, will be carried
to 4S5 feet, in order, it is said, to en-
coed in altitude the Hottest structure in
existence in any part of this mundane
sphere. This would make the Wash
ington Monument five feet higher than
the Pyramid Of Cheops, in Egypt. but
would leave it twenty-six feet short Of
the great cathedral at Cologne, which,
when finished, will be 511 feet. 1t is
suggested that the plan to make it the
lofticst structure in the world had bet
ter be adhered to, and bring the apex
up to $50 feet, at least, which would
exceed the height of any structure now
in course of completion or in contem-
plation. The Tower Of Babel, that
early enterprise of our progenitors,
had reached, according to divers au-
thorities, the extraordinary limit of hui
man energy and perseverance, $50
feet, when the work was abandoned.
But this wonderful creation of man up
on the remote plains Of Asia Minor is
but thing Of history. Baalbcc reared
its top to 500 feet. OF the structures,
ancient and modern, extant, those
which rank first in height are Cologne
Cathedral, 511 upward of half the
height builD, Washington Monument,
4S5 feet modelled plan Original plan
600 feet, at time Of resuning work ia
feet); Pyramid of Cheops, Egypt, $50
feet; Strasbourg Cathedral, 474 feet;
st. Peters Sicilian Basilica, Rome, 45S
feet; st. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna,
AS feet; Salisbury Cathedral, England,
4O6 feet; Antwerp Cathedral, 4O5 feet;
st. .Paul's Cathedral, London, 4O4 feet;
Milan Cathedral, 400 feet; Capitol If
the United States, 3074 feet from base
line of the building to the apex of the
statue of Freedom. - Washington Cor.
Philadelphia Press. "3# ih
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
The MOcking-Bird.

During the hot spell l remove my
writing materials to the front porch
overlooking the lake, and bright view
of shining water, broken by islands of
oak, hickory, magnolia and the far line
of crankling coast, with tree-trunks
visible in the clear air, two miles away.
Try to distinguish such objects across
the Ohio, at Cincinnati, against dark
mass OF foliage, not light background.
There are mocking- birds nestled in the
orange-trees all about me, who keep up
a constant medley of song. One fellow,
especially, likes to perch on the castles
topmost peak and sing his very heart
out. My appearance on the porch this
morning was signal for q ranturous
shout among them, for these birds learn
to know you like their voices, as well
as any rrimG donna at Springer Hall.
One voice l distinguished, particularly,
by the rapidity with which its troulades
ran from one to another; wren, finch,
linnet, chick, partridge, were all run
together i'll q marvellous phantasy OF
notes. AS the hearing of one ear is
slightly affected, was at q loss to get
his position. and stepped from the porch
to see if he was on his favoritc perch
on the peaks. AS did so l saw his
graceful gray coat and white lining
tiuttering on 4 pine. But us soon as
the gay fellow saw that | noticed him
he went mad with vanity and conceit.
Down he jumped on lower branches
until he was just above my head, exc
cutting a variety of fantastic trilis, and
tluttering and throwing his body about
in 4 state of intense excitement. a
fellow likes to be appreciated, and
know it, in this world. Iwhistled back
and he stopped, cooked his head aside,
as if to say, "Try that again, old fell
low, but you don't do it right; here's
the way'--and off he went. They are
very fearless. One flew into the room
and | caught it on the window-pane.
In five minutes or less, holding it by
the feet, it was eating rice from my
open hand. But the wild bird dies in
confinement: and even OF the young,
taken from their nests, five out OF six
are lost in raising. 1t is pitifui to see
the mother-bird come to the cage to
feed them, taken in this way; and q
popular superstition asserts that the
mother-bird poisons her young, cap
tured and Gagged, if you let her at them.
Poor thing! ] suppose the worst to be
said of her is that, in her over-anxicty,
she Over-fceds them. Florida Gor. Gin
cin,anti Commercial.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
The Tongue.

THERE are but ten precepts of the
law of God" says Leighton, land two
of them, SO far as concerns the out
ward organ and vent of sins there for.
hidden, are bestowed on the tongue
Zone in the first table. and the other in
the second), as though it were ready to
fly out both against God and man, if
not thus bridled."
Pythagoras used to say that ga
wound from the tongue is worse than
wound from the sword; for the latter
affects only the body, the former the
spirit-the soul"
It was q remark of Anacharsis that
" the tongue was at the same time the
best part of man and his worst; that,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
VEGETINE
ACTS AS A TONIC,

Vegetine also acts as most powerful and grateful
tonic and this feature is most nOticeably experienced
by persons recovering from acute Diseases and by wo
men who have long been afflicted with ills peculiar to
their sex alone. Invariably has it been found to in
crease the tone or power Of the nervous SYSTEM By
which, in turn, all other portions Of the frame are
strengthened, and the quality of the blo0d improved
TO man, woman or child 1t will impart strength when
strength wanting. viii rcvitaze the system Of The
poor overwoi ked being, whose life is being frttered
away in endless and anxietes it will infuse the
strength OF iron and the roseate tint Of health into the
weak >inews and bloolless cOuntenance Of women
crushed by many harshps and oppressed by the dan.
gers Of chiIdlearfng it will give new life to the pallid
and er,aciated child whose appetite Is gone, whose
movements are feeble and nerveless, and whose whole
system is one Of decay and debitatOD. vEGETINE is
Hue onic and not a deceptive stmulant the good
that 1t paits to-day is not succeeded by injury tom0
row.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
A Wise Deacon.

Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how
you kept yourself and family SO we'll the past
season, when all the rest of us have been sick so
much, and have had the doctors running to US SO
long"
Bro. Taylor. the answer is very easy. l used
Hop Bitters in time and kept my family we'll and
saved large doctor bills. Three dollars worth of
it kept us all we'll and able to work all the time
and will warrant it has cnst you and most of the
keep sick the same time. guess you'll take my
medicine hereafter" See other column.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

WILHOFT's ANTI-PEpIoD1C OR FEVER AND
AGuE ToNIC.-This invaluable ami standard
family medicine is now household word and
maintains its reputation uniynpaired. 1t is in
dorsed by the medical profession, and pre-
scribed daily in Hospital service Whys Be-
cause, after years of trial in the worst malari-
81 districts of the United States, it has proved
iteef positive antidote for all diseases caused
by malarial poisoning OF the blood. WHEEL
oCK, FINLAY u Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
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Imperial Enforcement.

Owing to the perfect purity of Dooley's
Yeast Powder, and its superior excellence in
every respect over all other preparations, it
has been adopted and used in the Royal house
holds of the following countries, viz. Ger
many, England, Spain, Russia, Denmark,
Sweden, Italy and Brazil. 1t was long ago
adopted and is to-day used by thousands OF
royal American households scattered all over
the western world, and the high esteem in
which it is held in this country fully justifcs
its Introduction and use as above stated.
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Religious.
SIMPLY TRUSTING.

MY God. do not fear
To yield myself to Thee;
However strange Thy will appear,
1t must be good for me.
0 Father, kind, and wise, and strong,
Thy will can do no creature wrong.
The little babe at rest g.
Becomes my minister;
1t lies upon its mothers breast,
And leaves itself to her.
All! foolish babe, il it should dread
The heart that thrObs beneath its head.
do not fear to trust
NJ. little all to Thee:
Tn. every motion must be just
To all the world and me.
~! a.; as 10, inon , wilt, IN. my 10y ne st1il
6 -L0AdOa Christian.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says that the growth Of
horns in cattle may be prevented by
soaring the germ, before it passes
through the skin, with hot iron. By
this means the growth of horn is sus-
pended, and the animal remains horn
ess.-IoUa State Register.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

1t is perfectly easy . become SO
infatuated with yourself thse yeu labor
under the delusion that everything be-
longs to you which you can put your
hands on. The fact that other people
differ from you in opinion is what
causes half the trouble in your life.-
~. Y. Herald. EH
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

"A leopard and fox had a contest
as to which was the finer creature of
the two. The leopard put forward its
numberless spots; but the fox replied:
ut is better to have versatile mind
than variegated body"