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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
Keeping the Boys on the Farm

In an 'extended argument as to the
desirability of farmers sons sticking
to the farm, the Cincinnati Commercial
observes that there is feature in this
matter of sons following the calling of
their fathers that is not sufficiently re-
garded.
"The calling of the father may rise
to higher dignity when the sons
adopt the business, thoroughly learn it,
and zealously and proudly pursue it.
Then the accumulated reputation, cap
ital and business of the parent can be
inherited and preserved by the sons.
Again, it is a law of nature that
holds good in all the animal kingdom,
that aptness for any business may be
inherited, or may be bred, as we say of
stock. The great desideratum in de-
veloping race of trotters is to insure
an aptness to trOt. And this comes
not from stock that has habitually
been used for the draught, or chase, or
race course. If the dam trots and the
sire trots, we do not expect the offspring
to be a running horse.
"The old Spartans understood this
law of developing an aptness for a
given calling in the children. The Ger
mans of olden times developed a race
of warriors on the same principle.
"The law of heredity is so broad and
so powerful in it's influence that it ex-
tends not only to color and form of
our race, but it extends to the tenn
permanent and even to the tastes, The
taste. though like the muscle and
reasoning faculties, may be improved
by education. Still the taste for and
aptness for any calling may be increased
from generation to generation.
Then, if we are to reach the high
est development as race of farmers,
we must expect it through the line of
descent. The son must inherit the fit
ness of the father, and take up the call
ing and business where he left of, and
his son after him, and so on. When
this shall become the custom in our
farming families, then shall we see
greater stability in society and higher
type of civilization. Every parent has
the chief power to bring this work
about. The very independence of the
farmers life is to be the germ which
develops race that cannot be other
than an Independent people. Our Ma
ton is to achieve its greatness in the
development of agriculture. Its power
at home and abroad is to be established
and held through the arts of husband
ry, practiced by skillful and viltuous
race of farmers. All then that can be
done by the State or family to emo
BILE and to dignity the calling, and to
entail its blessings and influence from
father to son, will add to the stability
and grandeur of the Nation
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN HER
SHOES.

- There was an old woman who lived in Il shoe
She had SO many children, -"
Mother Goose.
OwONpERFrL tale! can it really be true,
That there once was Il woman who lived in d
Shoel
If her children were many, they must have
been small.
OF a wee, fairy size like the tiniest doll
Could it be. do you think, that the shoe hat
BY some giant of old. in some Granny or cleft
0r might suggest slight error in sense.
Yet give Mother Goose no cause for offcnse?
1t need be no reproach to that time-honored
sage. So =
When mistakes may be found on the hes,
And with Il few changes, a letter or two,
Inc story is sadder. but then it is true
It's of one who was busy too busy to rest,
whose six little d;lrlings quite filled the home
nest:
With many to feed. no time could she lose
ANA so TINS poor woman Just lived in her shoes.
don't mean to say that she slept not wink,
Or never sat down to eat or to drink:
bu' ner work was SO constant the phrase that
May be reckoned figure of speech, if you
Was she old? Why. not very; if she had been
rich.
Atu uaO worn Il me gown, Win the usual
hitch.
You would hardly have thought of her age, for
the pace
OF time is much hindered by ribbons and lace.
Though her years were not many, yet trouble
and care
VIII furrow the brow and Written the hair:
Aud think you will say, when my story is
told,
old"
With the wolf at the door, were there none who
could save?
Was the hand that might shield her laid cold
in the grave?
BE that rs il may. were she widow or wife,
She was fighting alone the stern battle of life
A brave soldier, indeed! for she wrought with
her might,
Though the task of each day was from MORN
ing till night:
Yet she was but one Of the thousands who
tread
In the same busy circle, and toll for their
bread.
DYE. who are idling in slippers at ease,
And have nothing to do but to do as you
please,
Could You mink for moment, I'm sure you
would choose
To help the poor women who live in their
shoes
Catherine s. Boyd, in Womdn's Journal.
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Treatment Of Clay Soils.

SOME farmers have prejudice
against clay soils. Some have even de-
clared that they would not take clay
farm as a gift. Such an extreme preiu-
dice may be excused when it is consid-
cred how difficult it is to work clay
soil well, that is, with ease and profit.
Clay land in a wet season must lie I'M
touched, while the highland farmer
whistles light-heartedly behind his pillow,
turning his moist and mellow burrows.
In a dry season the clay turns up in
Jumps which are as refractory, for the
time being, as granite blocks. 1t is to
obviate these extreme conditions that
the skill Of the clay-land farmer needs
to be directed in season. For, in no
other case is forehandedness and readi-
ness SO necessary as, in farming clay
soil. If blowing is neglected until the
land is covered or soaked with water,
the pillow must necessarily remain idle,
for to pillow wet, heavy soil is to ruin
its texture for years. A clay soil that
is fall-plowed and only remains to be
narrowed and sown in the spring may
be put under crop in good season when
otherwise it could not. The prepare
ton OF clay land, then.2 at this season is
OF great importance to every owner of
thatekind of. farm. At this late sea-
son the blowing of heavy land should
go forward as rapidly as possible. It
should be done, too, SO as to expose as
much of the soil to the effects of the
winter weather as may be practicable,
and to preserve it from the injurious
and delaying effects of possible wet
spring. 1t should also be made the
means of improving the fertility of the
soil as well as its mechanical condition
by bringing up small portion of fresh
soil from below, and each year grad
ually deepening it. This cannot safely
be done in the spring and only in the
fall, for several reasons:
In blowing heavy land the burrows
should be turned nearly on edge or lap
ping very little, 50 that the contour of
the surface should present a number of
small angular ridges. It should be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
', FARM ann HOUSEHOLD.


Farmers had better have patches
on their clothes than on their farms II
the shape of mortgages. Keep al
patches of the latter kind off your farms
if possible, even if you have to veal
patches on your backs or limbs instead
You will feel better for it some time
Iosca State Register.
-Escalloped Oysters.-Butter the
bottom of shallow pan and cover il
with layer of oysters; cover these
with crushed cracker crumbs, and lay
several Jumps of butter on this, and
pour in enough of the liquor of the oys-
tiers to dampen the crackers. Repeat
this until the dish is full. Then bake
brown.
There is no doubt OF the hurtful
character of corn-smut, and cattle
should be prevented from devourine
stalks affected with it. Where the cat
tie are worth more than the labor OF
saving them, this may be done by
throwing out smutty stalks by them
selves and burning them.-Kansas
American farmers for the most part
have yet to learn the value of covered
yard for their stock. There are many
days in the year when cattle could be
turned into such yard, that would
otherwise be condemned on account OF
the weather to stand all day in the
stable. The roof would prevent all
waste of manure from washing, and
would make the yard SO clearly and
comfortable that the animals could lie
down. In this country, where wood is
cheap and almost every man sufficiently
handy to be his own carpenter, we are
convinced that farmers have only to
see the advantages of such yards to
adopt them at once.-N. Y. Herald.
"A correspondent of the Inter- Ocean
sends recipe for making an Indian
pudding, that will bake like a custard.
She says: Take one quart of sweet
milk; put it over the fire, and let it come
to a boil. just as quick as it boils stir
in three fourths of a teacup of Indian
meal and one level teaspoonful of salt.
Take off from the fire Immediately. as
it burns quickly, and that would spoil
the pudding. Beat one egg with one
cup of sugar; add one tablespoonful of
molasses; stir this into one quart of cold
sweet milk; next add this to the hot
mush, and stir it real wen to beat out
the Jumps, should there be any; next
put it in your bake-pan. Crate little
nutmeg on the top, and drop few
Jumps of butter on the top, just as you
put it in the oven; bake nearly three
hours. This is our Monday pudding, as
on Monday, while we are washing, we
are not using the oven for anything
else, and it is better to bake slowly.
This is good without fruit, but we like it
better with two or three handfuls of rails
ms or currants. When the pudding is
about half done it is good idea to take
a spoon, put it in the pudding carefully,
SO as not to disturb the top Gas l like
that nice brown), and stir the bottom
of the pudding. This is large enough
for six or eight persons. ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
Dead Letters, Etc.

WASHINGTON, November Il.
The report of Mr.. E. j. Dallas,
Chief of the Dead-Letter Office of the
Post-Office Department, shows that
there were received during the
last fiscal year an aggregate
of 2,996,513 dead letters, a de-
crease of 100, 292 from the number re-
ceived during the previous year. This
decrease is believed to be owing to the
general use of envelopes ON which re-
quests to "return if not called for"
ETC., are printed. The extent to which
these "request envelopes are used was
ascertained by test made in May last.
In single day there were mailed at the
post-offices in Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore 354, 696 letters,
of which number 193,879 bore the re-
quest to ''return in ten days if not
called for.'' II '5rif ~ ~ clF't6
Of the aggregate number of letters
received at the Dead-Letter Office, 49,
O07 contained money to the value Of
$31. 591; ,575 contained drafts, checks,
ETC., to the value of 81, los, 1852; AZ, 797
contained postage stamps of the value
of 50, $751;, sand 24.372 contained other
papers representing a monetary value;
M,024 letters contained photographs,
and $500 contained articles of all
descriptions. - -
The efficiency of the system of regis
tered letters is shown by the fact that,
out of 5, 262, 24l registered letters sent
lastyG but 3 1913 found their way to
the DeadL etter Office and of these all
bot 2l1 found their way finally to their
owners.
The following is a statement showing
the amount Of fees collected at the
leading post-ofices of the country on
registered mail matter for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1879, placed in
comparison with, the receipts of the
previous fiscal year. and also the per-
centage of increase:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27

"A woman who was called as a wit
ness IN an assault case tried in the Ed
inburgh Police Court recently, on being
asked by the Magistrate what was the
profession OF her husband, answered.
promptly, my husband is a bankrupt,
SIR"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27

The N. Y. Commercial advertiser
finds that cooking clubs do. more to
prevent crime, than all the prisons and
reformatories in the country. Good di-
gestion is the first cousin to morality.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
The Best Remedy Known to Man

The Best Remedy Known to Man !
d.. Clark johnson having associated himself with Mr.
Edwin Eastman. an escaped captive. long . slave TO
prepared lend his aid IN the Introduction Of the
wonderful remedy Of that tribe.
Of Mrs. Chas. Jones and son, Of Washin9ton County
Iowa. an account OF whose sufferngS were trtlltnGy
narrated in the Neso FORK Herald Of Dec 18th. 1875
the facts q which are 80 widely kncn and 70 nearly
perences Will b given here They sra however, pub
lished in neat volume Of 800 pages, entitled Seve0
and Nine Years Among the COmAnchoS SDd ApachoS"
Of which mention will BE- made he1naftar Shce to
say that for several years Mr. Eastman, while captive
and berries Of which WakAnetklas medicine was
made. and y still prepared to provide the SAM ma
20 the world; and assures the public that the remedy
tho same now a. when Wakametkla compelled Miro y
nj
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27

BECAUSE he could not bear to see the
sufferings of the Nihilist prisoners, which
he dared not alleviate, Major Lisso-
vitsch, the commander of the citadel of
Charkoff, committed suicide within a
month after assuming the post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27

No dictionary can equal the child's
definition of chaos. ''It is a great pile
of nothing" she said, "and nowhere to
mt If -
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VEGETINE
HAS ENTIRELY CURED NE.

BOSTON, Oct, 1870.
NR. II. r. 6TRvxNs,
Dear Sfr-My daughter. afhr having severe attack
Of Wh00ping Cough left In 10 BILE state Of health
Being advised BY friend she tried the vEaKTMK and
after using few bottles fully restored to health
have been q great sufferer from Rheumatism
have taken several bottles Of the vK0ETN8 for this
complaint. and am happy to has entirely cured
me. have recommended the vKaKTfNI 70 others with
the good results It great cleanser and puri
fer Of the bood tits pleasant to take and can cheeR
fully recommend 1t.
; JAMES MORSE, S64 Athens street.
aS blood purifier. Hearing Of its many wonderful
cures after all other remedies had failed visited the
It Is prepared from barks roots ana herbs each Of
which Is highly effective and they arc compounded In
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JAMES MORSE, Se4 Athens street.
VECETINE
PREPARED BY d..
II. r. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.

VeSetIne Is OOlu ny MI druggists.
A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
Gentlemen of business ability whose
time is not now fully occupied, would
do well to consider the offers made BY
the Equitable Life Assurance Society to
local agents. The average annual new
business of this Company for the past
eight years, has been larger than that
Of any other company in existence. 1t
has recently made its policies incontest-
able after three years; and has gained
a worldwide reputation for great finan-
cial strength and promptness in the
payment of its death claims. Letters
should be addressed to the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, 120 Broadway,
New York.
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For Regulating the Bowels.

81. r,. JIIy1esoN jefferson County. Wis.
Daae Sls-Ths ID to certify that your Indian
NJ Bowels and stomach. can recommend Its ueo Il
III who are similarly aatictod
sf~ CHRISTIAN HENaEY.
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Best Family Medicine.

NORTH FREEDOM. Sank County. Wis.
Dear SSS-Ih have used your reliable Indian BlOod
Syrup and pronounce it tho best family medicine
ever had In nv house. MRS. GEO. MYERS.
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X Has no Equal.

PAcKwAUxEE, Marquette County. VIA
Den, SrlMy wife was SICK confined to her bod, and
yor Indian BLOOD syrup completely restored hee
health Il has NO ouual. WILLIAM TARR
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Liver and Kidney Disease.

NORA, Pope County, MINI.
Dear Sir-I was aficted with Liver and Kidney Dis
oase and also Dyspepsia AMI after taking your excellent
Indian Blood syrup for short time, was per.
fectly cured. can recommend the Syrup valuable
rannedy FREDERICK CALNEYER
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Cone umrtion Cured.

!. Az old physician retired from practice,
having had placed in bis hands by an East
vegetable remedy. for the speedy and per-
manent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma, aud all Throat and Lung
Affections, also positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having tested it's wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty to make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, I
will send free of charge to all who desire it,
this recipe, in German, French, or English,
with full directions for preparing and us
stamp, naming .his paper, W. W. saEnAR,
Lao Po,0ers' Block, Rochester, N. r
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A GREAT medicine in small Walls. DR..
Pierce's Pellets little pills). No cheap,
paste-b0ard or wooden boxes, that allow q
waste Of strength. Sick headache, dizziness,
rush of blood to head, bad taste in mouth,
bilious attacks, juandice, internal fever, boils,
and nettle rash. Sold by druggists.
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Remedy for hheumatism.
ENTERPRISE, Vernon County, "

Dear Gi1-HaS1ng been afflicted a good deal with
Rheumatism, tried different medi Ines without lind
ing anyhins to 6eneat NE. until commenced using
syrup effected complete cure and l have not been
troubled since
SAMUEL BEIGE.
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From Rev. }. b. Rankin d. ID.
June 18th, 1879, the Rev. j. E. Rankin, D.
D., Of Washington, D. c., certified as follows:
II have known of several persons who re-
garded themselves as greatly benefited and
some OF them as permanently cured of dis
eases of the kidneys and urinary organs by
the medicine prepared by Charles Craig, Of
Charlotte, N. Y. l have known, too, Of its
use In similar cases by physicians Of the high
est character and standing. do not doubt
that it has great virtue" In previous COM
munication to the Congregationalist, DR.. RAN
kin referred at length to the beneficial treat
ment of a case in his own family, pronounced
Bright's Disease by sig physicians, with the
treatment want, in the interest of humanity,
to describe and commend" =.
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VEaETINE is the great health restorer-
composed exclusively of banks, roots and
herbs. It is very pleasant to take; every
child likes It.
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Remedy for rheumatism.

OAK CENTER. Fond du Lac County, Wis.
Dear Str-I had Rheumatism and concluded to give
you valuable Indian Dl0od Syrup . trial, which
did, and am happy to say that have received great
Dene1t tor it, use It 70 all b recommended to be.
... MRS BACKEN
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vEGETINE. E.
WILL CURE RHEUMATISM.
Read His Statement

NIX ALBERT CKOOKEK tho Mel-m0Wn Ddo9K1st
and Apothecary. of SDrlngvale, Me. always advises
every ono troubled with Rheumatism TO tn vEG6T1NE
Read His Statement
sPANsvALl, NE, oc& II. 1876.
MR. Il. r. STEVENS:
Dear Ssr-Fiiteen years ago last fall Was taken
sick with rheumatism was unable to move until the
next April From that time until three age this
fall suffered everything with rheumatism Sometimes
there would be weeks 1t tune that could not st0p one
step; these attacks were quite Often suffered every.
thing that man could. Over three years ago last
spring commenced taking YEGE me and followed Il
mp until had taken seven bottles havs had no rheums
tsm since that time always advise every that b
troubled with rheumatism 70 try vE9ETlNR, and MOI
suffer for years - done This statement u 8rA
tuitous Is far az Mr. stevens il concerned Yours ETC.
ALBERT CROOKER
Firm Of A. Cro0kor Co, Druggists and Ap0thecaE1eA
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For the Stomach.

MARSHALL, Lyon Co.. Mimi, Mag 49, 1879
Dear Sfy-This Is to certify that YOU Indian
Blood syrup has been used - me. with very beno.
hcial results. was troubled with cramps
WI GOODRICH.
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CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco

DoN'r be without C. Giibert's Starches.
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Dvspepsia and Indigestion.

LocHnL. Dunn County. Wis., Feo. 20 1873
Dear Str-Havng had every opportunity Of Judging
Il the merits of your valuable indian BLOOD
NyruP, lean Gay with confidence It + an unfalitng
remedy for Dyspepsia d. u MCPHERSON.
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JUST OUT:
Bells of Bonneville

A handsome and complete edition Of the Bells Of
Corlevio," BY PanQuette, Is now ready; and ~ tho
within the reach 81 amaeus It Is to be extensively
given and enjoyed. Pretty lively French village scenes,
contrasting with events In the haunted CASTLE make
spirited combination. Words unob1ec1onable. Price,
$1.60. "a g, .sl
WHITE ROBES. the new Sunday School Song
Book BY Abbey and Munger bids fair to be Of the
most successful books Of 10 class IS it 10 undeniably
ohe Of the sweetest and best 1t Will pay to buy one,
only to sing from at home. Price IS cents
VOICE OF WORSHIP. Il. o. EMERsoN.) 30
per dozen.
THE TEMPLE. Nv. O. PERXINs.) 80 per Dozen
NEW NJ ETHOD FOR SINGING CLASS
ES. "a. N. JOHNsoN) 20 per dozen.
The above three newest Singing School Books.
The first two have full set OF tunes for ChOirs.
See full lists Of New Sheet Music every week in tho
Ausic0l Record. That Is the way to keep well informed
Of all new issues. Mailed for 8 cents.
Wait for these books, (almost through the press)
TEMPERANGE JEWELS. j. H. Tenney.
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Good Medicine for Family Use.

CoLBOURN p. O.. Wis. Jan. Is. 1873.
Dear Sfr-l have been using your Indian Hood
Syrup and 1t has done nlc great deal OF 1000.
Would recommend good medicine for family use.
MARTHA BALL NICHOLSON.
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Wait for these books, almost through hepress)
TEMPERANCE JEWELS. J: II. Tenney.
Am ERlCAN ANTH EM BOOK.
PARLOR ORGAN INSTRUCTION
BOOK. A. N. johnson. ''-
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Pain in the Side.

HAYWOOD, Benton County, MINI.
Dear Str-I was afflicted with Pain In my Side, and
your Indian Blood Syrup is the Only ntsttctle
hat gave relief IrscoMnlend II a. valuable
Femedy MISS SKULL.
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