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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-02
Peter Henderson ON CarniyOreus
Is!o -ea ia Plants 4f 53fg-

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8 MR.. PETER HENDERSON, well known
to floriculturists, is not a believer in car
niverous plants as stated by the OAR
wins. He tried an experiment recently
of planting in two boxes, a hundred
plants in each, Of DionUG Musctpat0
(Carolina fy-trap.) One box he COW
cred with fine wire netting and the
other he left open in order that he
might feed the plants with flies and
other toothsome insects. It was im-
possible at the end Of, three months to
discover the slightest difference in the
splendid growth attained by the plants
in the two boxes. The experiment
failed to corroborate the theory Of Mr..
Darwin. Mr.. w. r. Smith, of the Bo-
tanic Gardens at Washington. who Is .
believer in the carnivorous-plant doc
trine. discovered by the use Of magni-
flying glass o minute species of shell
'snails In one box of these plants, and
very naturally he thought Nature had
made this wise provision for the food
of these plants, but MIR. Henderson
watched the result, and in the course
of six weeks the snails not only in
creased wonderfully in size, but they
had eaten tho fly-traps almost COM
pletely up. There must be something
In the snails or the climate of the
United States which produces different
results than those Which Mr.. Darwin
speaks of as the result OF his observe
tion.-Boston journal.
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Sensations Produced by Hanging.

A REP0RTER for the Sun some time
ago made the acquaintance Of a gentle
man In Livingston County, who is HIM
self living illustration of the careless
ness with which an excited mob of men
life if they once get him into their
clutches. The gentleman alluded to is
now in the city. en- route with his family
to Texas, which State he will make his
future home, and from him permission
was obtained to make use of the follow
ing facts: 'He T'1 17f" '9H
Tho most of our readers are familiar
with the details of the murder of
Marks, the Evansville commercial trav-
eler, at point between the Tennessee
and Cumberland Rivers, known as
"The Narrows," several years ago.
The name of the murderer was Sulli-
want, and he was q merchant at the
point named and was in the habit of
buying goods Of the firm for which
Marks was travelling. Marks, on his
rounds, called on him as usual. Sulli-
want invited him to spend the night
with himself in the store. That was
the last ever seen of the unfortunate
drummer" alive. His ,mutilated re-
mains were subsequently, exhumed
from grave near by, where they had
been placed by Sullivant, who undoubt-
eddy slew him for the purpose of rob-
berry. 100 4
But with the strange fatality which
SO often pursues the perpetrator of 4
great crime, the criminal makes some
blunder, which almost invariably
makes his detection easy. In this case
! spllivant sent . forged receipt for mon.
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Small Farms.

IT is an interesting question whether
this country would not be richer and
more powerful if the population were
concentrated in the original thirteen
Colonies, leaving all the vast domain
west of the Alleghanies to the Indians
and buffalo that once possessed them.
The concentration would certainly in
sure more thorough cultivation of the
soil, and save us the enormous waste of
time and energy now expended in trav-
erting a domain 5000 miles across.
The expansion of our population over
the uast area embraced within the At
lantic and Pacific Oceans, the British
boundary and the Gulf of Mexico,
forces upon us the habit of owning
large farms and the vice of slovenly
cultivation. That these are injurious
both to individuals and to the country.
is sufficiently proved by the successive
failures of the baronial farmers of Illi-
nois, who, one by one, have been re-
duced to bankruptcy during the last
ten years. Large farming, in this coun-
try, even with the aid of improved ag-
ricultural machinery and implements,
is a dangerous business; it generally
ends in disaster. There are few men
who make fortunes on large farms;
they generally make their fortunes, or
the beginnings of them, on small farms,
and lose them on large ones. 1t has
been stated that the subdivision of
France into small farms, which, thor
oughly titled. are capable of supporting
large population, is the real secret of
that phenomena of exceptional pros
perity and contentment exhibited in
that country all through the last five
years Of depression and discomfort in
Europe. We are not in. the habit of
regarding France as an agricultural
country; but it is. 1t produces more
wheat than the United States, its crop
for 1868 being 35O,0O0,0OO bushels,
while ours, for the same year, was but
24O, 100000. Wines, silks. oil and fine
fabrics are not the only exports sent
abroad from that country. Immense
quantities of butter, grain and fruits
are shipped to England-the surplus of
y people whose diligent industry and
careful economy enable them to feed
themselves and contribute very largely
to the feeding of their hungry and vo-
racious neighbors. The explanation of
their capacity to do this is that two
thirds. the area of France is in actual
cultivation every year, the farms being
small, of course, but cultivated with q
thoroughness that causes them to yield
three or four times as much per acre as
farms yield, on an average, in our
Western States. The advantage of
small farms, we'll titled, needs no DEM
onstration, even in this country. OBJ
servation and uniform experience show
that they are abodes of thrift and COM
fort, while the history of large ones is
extravaganza, debt and bankruptcy
st. Louis Republican. ..,.
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Milk, Butter, Cheese.

AS IN any other pursuit, the farmer
desires to make the most money with
the least labor and risk-at least to UNI
dergO as little labor and risk as posi-
BILE. Sometimes he will abandon q
mixed husbandry, in which he has been
all his life profitably engaged, and con-
vert his farm to dairy purposes alone;
that is, producing milk for the city
market or cheese factory. This re-
lieves the family of great deal of la
Dor and the farmer himself from much
hard work and looking, after.i 1t is
true he has his responsibilities with his
cattle and the pastures and soiling
crops; still it is q release from at least
one-haf of his labors. But in many
cases-we think we can say in q major
ity of cases-he does not lind it to pay
nearly SO we'll as the old system; that
it becomes irksOme from its sheer mo-
notony; and that he does not feel that
his position Of a farmer is quite up to
the mark. He becomes uneasy, and
longs for the past life; and some day,
after selecting from his stock of cattle
portion of the best of them, sells the
rest off, and returns to actual farming
and the good old way in which, though
working harder, and requiring more
attention from his family, he found his
true position, his true happiness, as
we'll as greater gains. MT r
We know of q number who have re-
linquished the mere routine production
of milk, and have resumed the old and
more satisfying system of raising wheat
and corn, rye and oats, q little buck
wheat, an acre or two of potatoes,
from ten to twenty acres of timothy
if within reach of a market; clover
for the cattle; field of turnips and
another of rutabagas; a half-dozen
bullocks for the shambles, a half-dozen
head of good cows from which to make
butter; dozen to fifty sheep for sale
and for home consumption; aagood
pen or two of swine; together with
the usual other little matters and
things making up the real business of
farmer who lives within reach Of q
ready market. Even in relation to the
matter of butter alone, there are few
who know how to make a frst-class
article, but who will admit that it is
more profitable than to sell the milk.
As to cheese factories. these will be
established only by men of capital,
who are frequently not farmers at all,
and, if well conducted, they will make
great deal of money; but unless they
own the land and the cattle as part
of their business capital, the heavy
profits will come from the farmer, who
seeks to reduce his labor, as he will his
income at the same time, by what we
regard only as an unfortunate change
in his system of husbandry. German
torn Telegraph. @i r." F". ~ -.
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The Cypress Tree.

on Lebanon itself, as well as in Cy.
press, cedars, we believe. have been
known to attain to the height of hum
dred and thirty feet, with proportion
ate bulk; whereas the largest in this
country seem never to- have exceeded
the height Of seventy-ive feet, q differ.
ence which some naturalists. have at
tributed to the colder and more un-
genial climate of England. But there
are mysteries in vegetation as well as
in other things. The cold Of Lebanon
is in winter more severe than that ex-
perienced in England, though, ON the
other hand, the heat of summer is much
greater, and these variations of tenn
perature may possibly be necessary to
develop the cedar in its full beauty and
dimensions. The cypress in nearly all
the countries bordering on the Medi-
terranean grows to great height,
though it increases 50 slowly in bulk.
that many ages are necessary to bring
it to perfection. The wood Of this tree
is of rare beauty, closeness and dura-
bility, for which reason it was selected
by the Egyptians for the manufacture
of mummy collins, many. of which, aft
er having lain in the earth several
thousand years, are still to all appear
ance as tough and serviceable as ever.
There is sort of mythology in natur-
al history which constructs its fables
and legends after quite as marvellous a
fashion as that thabitually followed by
the founders of wild creeds. Thus, not
content with appealing to genuine his
tory, in proof Of the lasting qualities of
cypress-wood, the old naturalists 90
back to Semiramis, and refer gravely
to the bridge, all of this timber, which
she is supposed to have thrown across
the Euphrates, and which lasted no one
knows how long. So, again, the phil
osopher Plato, when selecting the most
durable material on which to write his
laws, rejected brass, as of too fugitive
a nature, and gave the preference to
cypress wood. The cause of durability
in this wood is what no one has ex-
planned, nor is it perhaps susceptible
of explanation. 1t is easy to say that
the timber in question is pervaded by a
bitter juice, which repels all kinds of
worms. SO that it never presents, like
many other kinds of wood, the appear
ance of being moth-eaten. To account,
however,, for its lasting qualities, we
can only assume that Nature, by COM
posing it of the finest particles piled
slowly upon each other, pressed close
and ragglutinated by the laws of its
organization, designed it to outlive
temples and pyramids Chambers
journal. .- .r .
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PROVERBS.

"The Richest Blood, Sweetest Breath and
Fairest Skin in Hop Bitters."
"A little Hop Bitters saves big doctor
bills and long sickness"
.'That invalid wife, mother, sister or child
can be MADE the pictsTe OF health with Hop
Bitters."
when worn down and ready to take yo~f
bed, Hop Bitters is what you need.
"Don't physic and physic, for It weakens
and destroys, but take Hop Bitters. that
build up continually"
"Physicians OF all schools use and recon-
mend Hop Bitters. Test them.n +,
"Health is beauty and joy-Hop Bitters
gives health and beauty" ~
"There are more cures made with Hop
Bitters than all other medicines" y
"When the brain is wearied, the nerves
unsti ing the muscles weak, use Hop Bit
ters."
"That low, nervous fever, want of sleep
and weakness, calls for Hop Bitters"
Hop Cough Cure and Pain Relief II
Pleasant. sure and Cheap.
For Sale By AH Dru00ista
HIM Riffara Mo- On. Rnrhesfaa. N. Y.
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

ii ~ ss III sEfgs
The Overlooked manufacturer can
not eat his super1uous knives or prints,
nor can the locked-out operative dine
on his tools, but in the worst season
Tho farmer, il sure at least of a. full
stomach and q roof over his .head.A
l0aca Stale Register.
The skin of boiled egg is the most
efficacious remedy that can be applied
to boil. Peel it carefully, wet and APP
ply it to the part Affected. II will
draw off the matter and relieve the
soreness in q few hours. Simple but
efficacious. -Erchange
Mash some boiled potatoes, and then
whip them with the white of an egg
until frothy, using for the purpose
either wire egg-beater or q silver
fork. Add little cream, butter, salt
and pepper; press through sieve, and
set in the oven for few minutes and
it will make a most palatable dish.
OPIUM and other powerful remedies
often fail to relieve cramp in the
stomach. Hot water, sweetened with
brown sugar and taken freely, rarely
fails to relieve this painful trouble.
Swift remedies are always the most
desirable, as they do not disorganize
the system or cause reaction. Chicago
journal.
A CALIFORNIA paper says: I'm order
to keep their butter over the period of
low prices and hot weather, California
dairymen simply seal up their products
in tin cans, sinking them in the bottom
of cold streams. Butter made in April
comes out in October in good order,
and continues to keep fresh in the cool
weather of winter. Foreground cans
are commonly used.'' i
OYSTER PLANT.-Put oyster plant to
soak in cold water one hour before you
wish to cook; then scrape and cut in
pieces about one inch in size; place in
an earthen saucepan in cold water
enough to cover them; they require
about one hour to cook; when they are
soft, add one pint of milk, six butter
crackers, rolled fine, and lump of
butter as large as an egg; one teaspoon
full of salt; a little pepper.-M. Y. Times.
In baking buckwheat and other grid
dle-cakes, a piece as "greaser" is
thought to be almost indispensable.
Those who are of this opinion will, on
trial, soon learn that turnip, divided
in two, answers the same or better
purpose, as the odor-the most un-
pleasant part of cake-baking-comes
from the greaser in contact with the
hot iron, whereas with the turnip, very
little of this is perceptitle.--Countr
Gentleman.
THE BURDOCK BEATEN.-For years
we have been troubled with burdocks,
and, Notwithstanding repeated moving
during the summer, they would form
seed in the fall. After many expert
ments. q certain and speedy remedy for
the pests has been discovered in kero-
sene oil. If small quantity be poured
into the hearts of the plants, directly
after cutting, they will disappear en-
tirely, roots and stalks. leaving no
trace of their former existence save a
small hole in the earth where they
stood. This may be styled, by Gen.
Noble, crude idea, but refined or
crude oil will accomplish the purpose
equally as well.-Rural NesU Yorker.
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Bound to Die-A Singular Suicide.

BoARDERs at 318 West Twenty
second street heard Rowland Levine
walking in his room late on Monday
night. They remembered that he had
threatened to kill himself, and so
raped at his door. He readily ad-
mitted them, and his composed manner
was disconcerting, for they hardly knew
how to excuse the intrusion; but he re-
lieved the awkwardness by saying that
he was glad to see them, as probably it
was for the last time. He had seen all
the trouble he wanted to, he continued,
calmly, and was going to escape from
any more, having just taken some
thing that would put him at rest for
ever. He pointed to an empty bottle
that had contained laudanum. The
boarders sent for DR.. Henry r. Wilson,
of 203 West Twenty-second street, to
whom Levine reported that he had
poisoned himself. The physician tried
10 induce him to take an antidote.
"No," he said; 81 have made up my
mind to die, and am going to-
He sat upon the sofa, fully dressed,
and nobody but the physician could de-
tect the effect of the drug. An emetic
and stomach-pump were suggested,
and the young man firmly declined to
have anything to do with either.
You may watch me all you want
to, doctor" he said; "but If you at
tempt to do anything to me I'll order
you out, and if you don't 20 out one
way you'll 60 another. This is nv
room, and l have q right to do as
like in il; and it is only through
courtesy l allow any of you gentlemen
to remain. If you're curious to see 9
man die you can stay, so long as you
don't interfere with me-"
The boarders argued to induce him
to submit to treatment. They spoke
of his duty to his widowed mother, bu
he was unmoved. His mother, who il
in feeble health, had not been callet
from her room, and was ignorant o.
what was going on. To the stronges
appeals Levine replied: "My life il
my own, to do as please with, and
propose to take it. It is no pleasur,
for me to live"
After watching beside the patton
three-quarters of an hour, and beins
assured. both by the young man him
self and the circumStantial evidence
that nearly two hours had elapsed sine,
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WAITING.

LEARN IA wait, life's hardest lesson.
Conned. perchanoe. through binding tears
While the heart-throbs sadly echo
To the tread of passing yeara
Learn to wait hopes slow fruition;
FAINT not, though the way seems long:
There is Joy in each condition,
Hearts through suffering may crow strong.
Constant Sunshine, however welcome
Ne er would ripen fruit or flower:
Giant oaks owe half their greatness
10 the scathing tempests' power.
Thus a soul untouched by sorrow
Aims not at higher state; l--
Joy seeks not u brighter morrow
Only sad hearts learn to wait,
Human strength and human greatness
Spring not from life sunny side,
Heroes must be more than driftw God
Floating on a waveless tide.
". y. Witness,
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he had taken the poison, the physician
concluded that the dose had been
either too little or too big to effect him
seriously, and hat he would recover all
right without assistance. So he said to
1;sSt :,,:l s 81 You'll come out all
II hope ndt," was the reply. 81
calculated the quantity very accurately,
and shall be disappointed if I am not
successful. What's the difference, any
w4yP Therein only be one fool less in
the world. By the way, doctor, I've Q
motion to bequeath my body to you;
and let you soc if you can find any
brains in my Head" ~
This levity Increased the Impression
that his condition was not SO serious as
had been thought. DIR. Wilson said to
him, as he started to leave the room,
:f you get over this all right I wish
you would come and see me. Perhaps
o. little visit wal do us both good"
s'All right /; thank you, DOCTOR" Lee
lYine said, as he received the doctor s
Card. "Td Ii e to call around for an
evening, if you've plenty of brandy and
soda, but l don't believe youth ever
see me-"
At this he arose and shook hands
with the phyScian, who went down
stairs. and would have gone from the
house had not one Of the 'fnen "beggcd
him to remain in the parlor for while
until it could be seen how Levine acted
when left alone.
Levine walked to and fro in his room
several times, but maintained his quiet,
determined manner until a few minutes
after two O'clock, when he suddenly
collapsed. The two ounces and halt
of laudanum that he had swallowed
seemed to exert their full influence in
an instant. DIR. Wilson was hastily re-
called. He did all in his power to re-
move or counteract the poison. The
use of the stomach pump showed that
the drug had all been absorbed from
the stomach Hypodermic injections
and other measures were reSOrted to.
Finally, the dying man was kept alive
for a while by artificial respiration. At
half-past four life was extinct.-N. Y.
Sun,
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The u. 8. SIGNAL Service.

Gradually, the wild and ungovernable fortes
of Nature are, through science, made Of use
to man. Following in the wake Of the inge-
NOUS Inventions for the use of steam and cleo
tricity, comes the organization of the U. s.
Signal Service. Is it not wonderful that a
system could be originated and perfected
whereby an operator can accurately predict
the weather of a distant locality! And yet
experience proves our '' storm signals' to be
reliable. Equally great are the advances made
in the science of medicine. Step by STEP I'M
ccrta.nties aud tl0ubts have Yielded to absOlats
certainly. The discoveries Of Harvey and Ju-
mer have been succeeded by the Golden Medi-
cal Discovery of DR.. X. v. Pierce. No longer
need people despair because some physician
has pronounced the lungs unsound. Hundreds
of testimonials are on file in the office of DR..
Pierce from those who had abandoned all hope
and had been given up to die by physicians
and friends. Incipient consumption, bron-
chitis, and scrofulous tumors, speedily, sure
~, and permanently, yield to the healing in
fuences of the Discovery. If the bowels be
const pated, use DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets. For full particulars see Pierce's
Memorandum Book, given away by all drug
gists. lao. s..--. .......r -,
PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free,
E1I
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THE NEW YEAR,

In the silence and darkness of the night
The Old Year steals away, g.
And quietly the New Year takes his place
Before the dawn Of day,
Half conscious of his presence, we awake
And Joy to find him mere
Friend calls to friend, and merry children shout
Happy. happy New Year." q
We think not of the snow, the piercing colds.
UT bitter winds that blow,
The sun is coming nOrthward through the storms
Although his pace is slow.
Our thoughts run on before him. and the Spring
With violets is here.
The roses We already scent afar;
Our hearts are full of cheer.
O, happy human hearts! your thoushtless Joy
Honors God unaware;
It's the instructive utterance of trust
In His unfailing care.
-Frdnces l.. Gardner, in Springfield (Nass.) Re
publican,
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ment in the degree Of skill can be ex-
pected. They must be composed ofra
class with settled, and definite, ends and
aims. who are educated to the business
as earnestly as mechanics. With such
assistance agriculture will attract cap
ital. and afford it q safe investment.
Skilled labor is the immediate demand
of the future in agriculture.-Rural
Nes0 Yorker. hc,. .,.1 MIA. ..... a.
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Never Return.

J 1t is said that one out of every four real in
valids who 60 to Denver Col, to recover
health, never return to the East or South ex-
cept as corpse. The undertakers, next to
the hotel-keepers, have the most profitable
business. This excessive mortality may be
prevented and patients saved aud cured under
the care of friends and loved ones at home,zif
they will but use Hop Bittcrs in time. This
we know. Zee other column.
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MIR. w. w. Corcoran, the Washing
ton banker, has presented the State Of
Louisiana with an historical painting
of the Battle of New Orleans, by q
celebrated French artist, and costing
$4,000.
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DIR. BULLS CoUaH SYRUP is fast taking the
place OF all the old-fashionei Cough remedies
It never fails to relieve the most violent cold,
and for throat diseases It IL tpyaluable, Price,
g cents. = - =
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Only S7.20 worth of soap was used
in the public buildings of Cincinnati in
the last six months, while $84 worth of
busters were used up. , a.. ...
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DAINTER'S Nlanual.-Honsc and
sign painting, granting, vanishing, polishing, kal
cts. Book Of Alphabets 80: Scrolls and Ornaments 81:
furniture and Cabinet Finisher, So Watchmaker and
Is. Taxldermist so. Candy Maker, 60 Authorship
30. OF Booksellers q BY mall JESSE HANEY & CO.
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