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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
with much force to the cheese business.
Dairymen cannot use their cream for
butter and create popular demand for
their poor skim cheese. Kansas Farmer.
EDUCATION.

No right-thinking person can under
value education, or deny his children
the benefits derived from it !; but some
men have perverted ideas on the subject.
They seem to think that because they
have prospered in life without an educa-
ton, or at best limited one, their chill
dren DO not deserve any more con-
sideration or any better education than
they received, and hence are Indifferent
about the education of their children,
not caring whether they are kept in
school or not. They forget that their
children are living in much better
educated world than they lived in when
they were children. They forget that
brains command a higher price upon
the stage of human action than muscle,
and that he who can command reason
able amount of both stands the best
chance to make life a success. We have
one Of the finest school systems in the
world, and children should profit by it,
and attend school regularly. But if
they are to be educated successfully,
really educated, the physical must re-
ceive due attention, the amount Of at
least three hours each day of gentle ex-
ercise, walking being favorable. Hard
students cannot sleep too much, while
the brain needs special nourishment, as
certainly as the blacksmith needs nour-
ishment for the muscles and bones.
Even the students food should be
adapted to mental labors. Fish con-
tains the largest amount of brain food,
while eggs and the grains, including
peas, beans and the like, are favorable.
Fruits, as part Of the meals, are also
favorable, not on account of their brain
food, but as an aid to digestion. While
attending school, young people should
not be taxed too heavily with home
duties. .....
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23

Mr.. Hoyt's statement, (although from all
can learn, nothing used to be asked be-
yond his own vouching) it happens that
for month or to last autumn, sickness
in Mr.. Hoyt's household caused him to
send his COW to neighbor to be cared
for. Mr.. McClary states that while in
his keeping Jersey Queen averaged, (sev-
en- months after calving) II 1-2 pounds
OF butter week.
Last April the cow was sold to J.. S.
Kenerson Of Barnet, VT, being Jersey
fancier, but not a farmer. placed her in
charge of K. s. Hazelton Of Barnet, dis
interested party. From Mr.. and Mrs.
Hazelton, learned that during the week
ending April Is (13 months farrow) the
COW gave go OTIS. of milk, from which
they made Is pounds of butter, and dur
ing the week ending June 18th, 70 OTIS. of
milk, producing 10 pounds of butter.
So this COW is now yielding milk, fifteen
months after calving. which gives an ami
NAL prodnct of $50 pounds OF butter, or
more. She will calve in February 1881.
During the time Of these performances
Jersey Queen had never been fed more
than five pounds of grain daily, mixed
meal and bran. and during pasturage
season none at all She mas been kept in
all respects like the average Of cows upon
the good dairy farms of Caledonia county,
Vermont.
Her present owner has been shrewd
and fortunate enough to secure both the
living calves of Jersey Qneen and her on.
ly sister, and assures me that they are
not tor sale. ..r
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
Slavery of Farmers Wives.

No single newspaper article of the
present decade created profounder SEN
alton than the Chicago Times editorial
on the slavery of farmers wives. It, en-
forced thought and inquiry, and thus
awakened the public mind to an enormi-
ty that hitherto has excited but little at
tention. It is not urged that all farmers
wives are drudges. Many of them per
form no more work than IS ESSENTIAL to
vigorous health. But thousands and tens
of thousands Of them are worked into
their graves. These are the women who
build the fires, cook three times a day
for force OF men, feed and milk the
cows, do the washing and ironing for a
dozen persons, make the butter and
cheese, do marketing, put up the fruits,
cultivate the kitchen garden-the women
who commence their round of toll by
starlight in the morning, an hour or more
before the stronger men are out of be5 =
and end it near midnight, hours after the
same strong men 60 to bed and sleep.
The farmer, working hard himself, and
hearing but few complaintsfrom his toll
ing wife-doing his work and seeing
that hers is done, asks no questions; and
no doubt feels that while his wife can get
through with her work, it would be a
needless expenditure of means to hire a
servant to help her. When at the age
of 40, from hard work and child bearing,
she takes on the appearance of woman
OF 60, he concludes that she "didn;t have
a strong constitution" and that she
would have Jared better had she been the
wife of carpenter or shoemaker. We
repeat. that the slavery to which we al
lude is not the lot of all farmers wives.
Many farmers are as consideIate for the
health of their wives as they are for their
cwn health; but the tact is undeniable,
nevertheless, that, as class. the wives
of farmers are over-worked. The insane
asylums tell this story: the worn and
exhausted appearance of many OF the
women themselves tell it; aud the aver
age Of their lives tells it in shape not
to be misinterpreted.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
A Water Filter.

Pure water is Of great importance to
the human family, and where advantage
es of good springs are not at hand, and
the water Is impure, the following cheap
plan of making filter, copied from q
communication IN the Canada FARMER,
may be of service: "
Rain water is much healthier than hard
water as beverage, and the following
will be found an easy and cheap way to
tit it for drinking purposes: Have an oak
tub made, holding from half to barrel,
according to the amount needed in the
family let it stand on end with faucet
near the bottom-or I prefer a hole
through the bottom near the front side,
with tube in it, which prevents the wa
ter from rotting the outside of the tub.
Then put clean pebbles three or four
inches in thickness over the bottom of
the tub. Now have charcoal pull
verified to the size of small
peas, Chat made from hard
maple is BEST, aud putt in half ,bushel
OF so at a time; pound it down quite firm
~, and then put in more and pound
again until the tub is filled within eight
inches of the top; again put on two inches
more OF pebbles, and then put piece
OF clean white flannel over the whole top
as st1ainer. E,o.a1.gsa -. s.,gsa.. r.
The flannel can be washed occasional
~ to remove the impurities collected
from the water and 1t might be we'll te
put flannel between the pebbles and
the bottom also. When the charcoal be-
comes foul it can be renewed as before,
but will work whole season without re-
newlng. Put on your water freely until
1t becomes clear, when you will be
well satisfied as you would be if it ran
through patent filter costing six times
as much as this. A large jar to hold the
filtered water can be set in the ice box il
preferred or an occasional piece of ice can
beput in the water; but if the filter is
put in the cellar, as it should be, the wa.
ter will be sufficiently cool for health
this makes a good cider filter, also first
stra;ning' the cider through cotton tc
free it from the coarsest pomace. &.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
BIOGRAPHY.
Joh,. G. Fremont.

John G. Fremont, the Pathfinder
OF the Rocky mountains, was born at
Savannah, Ga, in 1913. He became
the professorin mathematics in the navy
about 1885, but he soon resigned that
position and joined an exploring party
to visit the Rocky mountains. His OBJ
servations were confined to the South
pass; IN the following year he returned
to Washington and published book on
his travels. In 1S43 he made another
tour OF the mountains, through to Cali
tornla, making many improvements to
the geography Of the country. In 1916
he conducted a third expedition to ex-
plore the Sierra Nevada, California, etc.
he was attacked by Mexicans near Mon
terey in March, 1916, and defended
himself with so much bravery that he
was appointed Lieutenant Colonel,
and appointed Governor Of California
by Commodore Stockton, whose author
ity was disputed by Gen. Kearney.
Fremont refused to recognize Kearney,
and was arrested and court-martialed for
disobedience. The President pardoned
him, but he declined to receive it, and
threw up his commission. In l848 he
attempted another expedition, at his
own expense, which proved very disas-
trous, on account Of the guides losing
his way. Settling in California in 1849,
he was elected Senator, and shortly after
made other explorations, and received
gold medals from the King of Prussia
and Royal Geographical Society of Lon
don. In 1856 he was nominated for
President by the Republican party. He
was defeated, though he made good
run. Fremont served with credit during
the fore part of the war, but, being ap-
pointed to serve under Gen. Pope. his
junior in rank, he threw up his commits
sion. He is at present Governor of Ari.
IONA. -.. .+.-.. .."s.
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HE GOT CREDIT,

An enterprising business man in Au-
gusta, Me-, was met at the door of his
grocery by an honest-looking French
man, an entire stranger to him., who
asked credit for barrel of -four. FL can
pay half re cash down and re balance
next Saturday, sure" The merchant,
without hesitation, turned to one of his
clerks, and, kindly smiling upon the
would-be owner Of barrel of flour, said:
"This good man wants to get trusted for
barrel Of flour; he'll pay half down and
the rest next Saturday. I'll risk him !;
he's good as gold; open fresh barrel,
weigh out half, deliver it at his
house, put the barrel away safely, and
take it down next Saturday when he
pays the rest; never refuse to trust an
honest-looking man for bread!" Tn
money was paid, and the Frenchman
departed, rejoicing in an abundance of
-four and unlimited credit
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
Il STRANGE PLANT.

A curious plant has been discovered
In Wisconsin which produces a kind of
cotton and fax from the same stalk. It
has already been woven into fabrics,
and, as any article that will make as
good cloth as can be made from this
plant will make good paper, it has been
called the paper plant. It can be planted
in the spring, and cut in the fall and
winter. It bleaches itself white as it
stands, and it will yield three Or four
tons to the acre. From a single root
that was transplanted last spring grew
twenty large stalks, with 365 pods con-
tanning the cotton, at least sixty seeds
in each. From this root were obtained
seven ounces Of pure cotton and over a
pound Of flax. It is very heavy plant,
and grows from six to seven feet high.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
INDIAN VENGEANCE.

Some wood-choppers working near
Secret canon, New, being attracted by
screams and groans in gulch close by
the trail in which they were going to
work, came to where a squaw was found
securely tied to a tree. Upon closer ex-
animation they found dead papoose
strapped to her back. Upon untying
the ropes that bound her, the squaw ex-
planned that the Indians charged her
with killing her papoose to get rid of it,
and had tied her, with the dead baby
on her back, to the tree, where she
would have been left to die had it not
been for the arrival of the white men.
This is considered heinous ofense
among the Indians, and the killing Of a
boy papoose was what caused this pun
ishment to be inflicted on the squaw.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
Smaller Cheeses Demanded.

Two reforms are necessary among
cheesemakers to popularlze their cheese
and create a large home consumption.
Smaller cheeses are demanded; cheese
weighing eight to ten pounds, and rich,
whole cream article. Such ,cheeses will
cure well and consequently. keep well.
A whole cheese of this size would often
be purchased by housekeeper, and prov
ing to be rich and good, would be eaten
as a part of the daily food of the family;
hence an increased consumption would
be followed by an extensive home de-
mand, and market for cheese would
spring up at the very door of the factory
which would be worth much more to the
dairYmen who pursue this branch of the
dairy business, than any foreign market
that is likely to be found. A prime arti-
Gle must be produced to create taste in
the American public for cheese, and the
size must De reduced to meet home de-
mands. Occasionally a groceryman
will cut a prime cheese, and in
few hours the whole cheese IS taken by
his customers. The rule is, however, thar
an Indifferent article is found on his
counter, and week will elapse working
It'll of. These mammoth poor cheeses
which are retailed by the slice and sin
gle pound Ia our groceries, will never
create taste that will lead to the con-
sumption of large quantities OF cheese
in this country. The old-time farm house
cheese, weighing from seven to ten
pounds, was more popular than the mod
ern factory mammoth, if the farmers
wife understood her business, and put
honest material into her cheese tub.
Skim cheeses were not popular in those
days, and their popularity has not grown
whit since. The old adago that you
can't eat your cake and have it, applies
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
Milk and Lime Water.

Milk and lime water are, now fire.
quently prescribed by physicians in cas-
es of dyspepsia and weakness of the
stomach, and in some cases is said to
prove very beneficial. Many persons
who think good bread and milk a lux
ury, frequently hesitate to eat it for the
reason that the milk will not digest
readily; sourness of the stomach will al
so follow. But experience proves, says
the Journal of Materia Medica, that lime
water and milk are not only food and
medicine at an early period Of lite, but
also at later, when, as in the case of
infants, the functions of digestion and
assimilation are feeble and easily per
verted. A stomach taxed by gluttony,
irritated by improper food, inflamed by
alcohol, enfeebled By disease, or other.
wise untitled for its duties as is shewn
by the various symptoms attendant up
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23

Prof. H. E. Alvord contributes to the
County Gentleman the following letter in
regard to the record of remarkable COW
owned in Vermont:
For seven years the Messrs. Fairbanks
of st Johnsbury, have owned and bred a
strain of Jersey cattle, including numer-
GUS animals of great excellence, although
few of them have been registered in pub
tic note books. Among others they bred
Jersey Queen, dropped January 2, 1874.
and sold her while a heifer to Ara Hovt
of Peacham, vt. Her first calf was heit.
er, June 26, 1879, still living; her second
bull, dropped late in 1877. It was af-
ter this calf, and while still owned by
Mr.. Hoyt, that she first showed remark
able butter capacity. March 10, 1879, she
dropped her third and last calf "a bulN,
and having no other COW Mr.. Hoyt then
determined to keep account of the butter
made from the jersey Queen. From March
IS, 1879, to March Is, 1880, Mr.. Hoyt
testified under oath that this COW pro-
duced and 1-2 pounds of butter, carefully
weighed and recorded. though not, un-
: fortunately, by the week or month. Dur
ing the same time 46S measured quarts
of her unskimmed milk were disposed
OF. Repeated tests showed that it took
six or seven quarts of her milk to make q
pound of butter, so, at 6 1-2 quarts, an
additional credit of 70 pounds OF butte,
is due to the COW. A product of 74s
pounds of butter in 365 days is thus re.
ported for Jersey, Queen. So far Mr.
Hoyt is certain he states, moreover, tina,
his family used cream from the COW, est
mated at enough to make 80 pounds o.
butter, but having no record of this, h,
does n Ut count it. AS verihcatim O
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
TARDY PEOPLE.

An enthusiastic statistician has ascer-
tanned the number Of tardy passengers
at railway depots to rate at ten per day.
Of every hundred there were twenty
nine men and seventy-one women. The
statistician was not surprised that the
male sex should show to advantage, but
the disproportion astonished him when
he reflected that many men are delayed
by the fault of their wives, while the
contrary seldom occurs. More people
miss local trains than express trains
the proportion being as three to one.
In winter the number Of these unfortu-
mates is least, and in the warm months
of July and August it is greatest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
THE BRIGHT SIDE.

A cheerful side may be found in every
position Of life. No man can go SO far
down the hill that the sun won't shine
on some part of the valley for at least
an hour in the day. Think Of the poor
organ-grinder and take heart. ssAh, +"
he said to himself, as he turned the aw-
full crank Of that unmelodious instru-
ment, and heard the pennies drop on
the sidewalk, if I hadn't studied music
when I was young, I might now be a
common beggar."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
NUTRIMENT FUEL FOE THE mimi

NUTRIENT FUEL FOE THE MIND
The true secret Of living well and
healthily is to feed appropriately. The
chief, if not the only, use of wraps and
"warm" surroundings is to avoid the
loss of animal heat by abstraction. It
is neither scientific nor hygienic, in any
true sense, to trust to external sources
of supply for the warmth we require to
live well, happily and usefully. The
food is more than the raiment, and
those who desire to help the poor and
melancholy over their ttdead points" in
the course of Life should be chiefly
anxious to feed them well and sufficient
~. Neither do stimulants give strength,
and are on all accounts to be avoided.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23

on indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dys-
EMERY and fever will resume its work,
and do it energetically, on an exclusive
diet Of bread and milk and lime water.
A goblet of cows milk may have four
tablespoonfuls of lime water added to it
with good effect. The way to make
lime water is simply to procure a few
Jumps of unslaked lime, put the lime in
a stone jar, and add wBter until the lime
is slaked to the consistency of thin
cream; the lime settles, leaving the pure
and clean lime water on the top.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
ANECDOTE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

ANECDOTE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
The Trenton IN. j. Gazette says that
President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton
rendered B. Bush Plumly, in person, a
Brigadier Generalship, after lie had re-
cruited 700 colored men ii sixty hours
for the defenses of New Orleans, and
that he declined it, the conversation be.
tween MIR. Lincoln and the Major be-
ing "Plumly," says Lincoln, "Stanton
says you don't want the straps" emo,
sir. Mr.. President, I know how to re-
cruit men, but not how to command
Them "Well," said the President,
" there's good many men who know
how to recruit men that don't know how
to command 'em, but there's mighty few
that know it."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-23
THE FIRST DUEL IN THE UNITED
STATES,


The first duel in the United States was
fought at Plymouth, Mass, on the 18th
Of June, 1921, between Edward Doty
and Edward Leicester, two servants,
both of whom were wounded. For this
outrage they were sentenced to the
punishment Of having their heads and
feet tied together, and Of lying tLas for
twenty-four hours without food or drink.
After suffering, however, in that painful
posture an hour, at their masters inter
cession and their own humble request,
with the promise Of amendment, they
were released by the Governor. Port
land (Me.) Press.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-10-22

maid and, all .a45y.g3 FL
s"Ohl" said Miss Simmons, sitting up
straight, and setting her spectacles more
firmly. ,a,si gn,e,n.,dt y,.,sf M
's'And. now that you've. learned all that
you can, y said John, turning round to her,
still holding Betty, 'swhy--you may go =
The, chair was vacant. A dissolving
view through the door was all that was to
be seen of the gossip, who started up the
road hurriedly, leaving peace behind.
Betty" said John, some half hour af-
terward. "What was the sigh for
don't care now, but | think, dear, and it
cut me to the heart. how you might have
mar ried richer. l longed to put ten times
ten into your hand, Betty, and it CALLED
me because I couldn't.''
Betty smiled and twisted away from his
grasp. Running into her bedroom, she
presently returned, still smiling, with a
q bundle rolled up in q clean towel. i
. This she put on her husband 3 knee. who
stared at her .wonderingly..
- .tsI didn't mean,'' she said, unpinning
the bundle, 80 let it ont, now, but I shall
have To- Why, John, day after tomorrow
is,'y your birthday n, y s-l'i9'l ''.a s. IS
,o' - % tist said John. GRACIOUS has it
come around So soon p ''''"
s'And you, dear boy" said Betty. shak-
ing out before his eyes a pretty brown at
fair, all edged with silk Of the bluest shade,
that presently assumed the proportions of
4 dressing gown sthis is to be your pres
ent. But you must be dreadfully surpris-
ed, John when you get it. for oh I didn't
want you to know!'' tasi III ,s..q
John made the answer he thought best.
When he spoke again, he said perplexedly.
while q small quicker of bewilderment set
tied between his eyes: ''But l don't see,
Bettey, what this thing,'' laying one fin
ger on the gown, chad to do with the
sigh, ~. H., rs
sssThat. said Betty, and then she broke
into a merry laugh, that got so mixed up
with the dimples and the dancing brown
eyes that for moment she couldn't finish,
Cob, John, I was worrying SO over those
buttons; they weren't good, but they were
the best I could do, then. And l only
bought 'em yesterday-two whole dozen.
And when you put that ten-dollar bill in
my hand, I didn't hardly know it, but
suppose | did give one little bit of a sigh,
for was so provoked that I hadn It waited
buying them till to-day III. .st..
John caught up the little woman, dress
ing-gown and all! Idon't think they have
qaarreled again-at least have never
heard of it. a7o ~ ss },.,s.aaf j sa. a
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-10-22

KEEPING FRIENDs.-We are the weak
est of spendthrifts if we let one friend drop
off through inattention, or let one push
away another, or if we hold aloof from one
for petty jealusy or needless slight or
roughness Would you throw away dia-
mond because it prlcked you? One good
friend is not to be weighed against the
jewels of all the earth. If there is cool
ness or unkindness between us, let us come
face to face and have it out Quick, before
love grows cold Life is too short to
quarrel in, or to carry black thoughts Of
friends. If it was wrong, I am sorry; if
you, then am sorrier vet, for should I
not grieve for my friends misfortune !?
and the mending Of your fault, does not
lie with me. But forgiving it does and
that is the happier office. Give me your
hand, and call it even. There! it is gone;
and I thank kind Heaven kept my
friend still A friend is too precious a
thing to be lightly held, but it must be
little heart that cannot find room for one
or two. The kindness feel for you warns
me toward all the rest, makes me long to
do something TO make you all happy. 1t
is easy to lose friend, but new one will
not come for calling, nor make up for the
old one when he comes.