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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

or expensive and troublesome modes of
feeding. Plenty Of good corn aud oats,
with good, clean hay, and o ration of
roots once day in winter, If possible
in fact Just what other cattle need to
make them profitable-is all that short
horns require. Feed what they will eat
up clean; do not cloy; give plenty of ex-
ercise, and dry, sheltered sleeping quar-
tiers. A specific ration cannot be estab-
ished, the characteristics of different in
dividuals vary 30 much. When the
calves are born, the dams being all right,
let them run with the COW day or two.
Then place them in small yard, with u
comfortable, dry shed attached, and until
the COW ceases her worry, let her suckle
them three times per day; after she be-
comes contented, twice day will do.
They will soon begin to nibble and feed.
If not in the grass season, give them fine,
clean hay. If in the grass season, cut
timothy and clover. about half cure it in
the sun, and feed in convenient rack
under shelter. As soon as they will take
any, feed them oats and shelled corn
two-thirds oats, one-third corn, by meas
ure. They can be accustomed to this n
little earlier by feeding little at first
from the hand. Now carefully watch
their appetites, and give them all the
oats ana corn they will eat quickly with
out cloying, and keep constantly before
them the half-cnred grass. Feed their
grain rations when they have been long
est away from the COW. Do not leave
the cows with them at night. DO not
feed ground feed-it will scour them.
The whole grain will not scour them, and
it very seldom passes the calf whole. Do
not pasture. After potatoes are grown,
if you have no mangles, feed them q
daily ration of sliced potatoes. save
my small potatoes for this purpose, and
suppose they pay me better than the
large ones.
Ii calf takes the scours, give it at
once one-half to one teaspoonful of
laudanum in a half pint of strong coffee.
Gauge the laudanum according to the
age of the calf. If the first dose is not
successful, repeat in twelveho Keep
the shed and yard clean, and shed well
bedded, and plenty of pure water. In
ration of oilmeal is profitable, but not
indispensable. When the calves are
about six months old accustom them at
first to sucking only once day, and then
take the COW away, and if you have sue
cessfully followed the above directions
the calf will never know the difference.
As measure of my success l will say
that four of my last spring bull calves
were sold for 1886, and I have one on
hand, not for sale, for which refused
$120 in September last. This calf took
first prize in his class at our county fair
last fall.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Amazing DelusiOn.


A healthy boy with a sound pair of
lungs recently saw stirring address be-
ginning: Have you pain under your
left shoulder?" The boy had not had
any such pain. He read further and
found that a pain Of this description in
Dictated consumption. He stood before
the looking-glass and found a hectic
flush on his cheek. That settled the
business for him. Immediately he began
to put all his savings into quack medi-
cines. Before long these things and the
notions he imbibed with them made him
sick. Anxious relations wondered what
allied him. The regular physician wns
bewildered. At last discovery was made
of couple OF dozen empty bottles stow
ed away in drawers and corners. The
boy was saved by total abstinence from
the compounds he had been trying to
cure himself with.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Elihu Vedder, the Painter.

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Traveller, speaking of artists ut
the national capital, says: But the great
idealist of the age goes to Boston next
week, 80 / can scarcely tell you how good
he is, as you already know it. His studio
is tie favored haunt of the reflective and
tho poetical since he has been here. He
paints ideas. His Spring on the Sea-
shore" is the best rendering of M all de-
vastating passion, of a greedy relentless,
pitiless fate, that ] have ever seen. His
"Spring on the Desert" or rather per-
haps the statue of Mcmnon, with the
Arab listening Mt the ips-oh! what a
picture it is! His Cumean sibyl, his
mouse dying of indigestible literature,
all, all are great. They are like Haw-
thorne, immeasureably poetic, ideal, and
sad. It is strange to see the tall, light
haired, jolly, unaffected viking who has
painted them all. He looks like man
of glorious talent, but not like the sad
idealist. Strength, vigor, hope, reality,
are written oil over him. Where in his
cunning right hand does he keep this
muscle which interprets ones dreams?
He has weird picture on Aldrich's two
spirits
at do not know
only died last nightw
That symbolic utterance, that sug-
gestion that death is but new birth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
The New Kind Of Cruel.

An old sexton of Gloucester was once
summoned to lay out the body of an old
man with whom he was well acquainted,
when, on entering the room where lay
the supposed corpse, he was dumb-found-
ed on seeing the supposed dead man rise
up in bed and in hollow tone of voice
articulate: Halloa, John, how are
you? Shake bands" The sexton was
almost frozen with horror, but in q mo-
ment recovered himself, and shaking
hands said: I came up, Sam, to see if
you didn't want me to make new kind
of Cruel" The sick man assented, the
Cruel was made and carried up, and the
affair passed of. Sam lived until the
next day, and when the sexton was again
summoned he performed the work Of his
profession uninterrupted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Effect OF the Democratic Attempt to
Steal Maine.

Ex-senator Lot NJ. Morrill,, chairman
of the Republican state committee, gives
glowing account of the future pros
poets of the Republican party in Maine,
and believes that the state viii be carried
by a rousing majority next November
for tn presidential ticket. A great many
Democrats were thoroughly Disguised
with the course pursued by their leaders
in their recent attempt to steal
the state government, and they
evinced their dissatisfaction by vot-
ing against their party at the late local
elections. Mr.. Morrill, believes that q
large number of Democrats will further
emphasize their dissatisfaction at the
course of their leaders by voting with
the Republicans at the approaching
election. Conservative Democrats were
thoroughly alarmed at the revolutionary
course pursued, and they are determined
to put seal Of condemnation upon these
acts which win be remembered by the
Democratic leaders for great many
years to come.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
SONGS TUNELESS.

He kissed me! All, now, at last.
He says goodnight rs IL should be,
His great warm eyes fant yearningly
Above my face-his arms locked fast
About me, and mine own eyes dim
With happy tears for love Of him.
lie kisses me last night, beneath
A warm Of star; he said I stood
His one fair-form Of womanhood,
And snringing, shut me IN the sheath
az a caress that almost hid
Me from the good his kisses did.
He kisses me! lie kisses me!
This il the sweetest song know,
And no sing IL very low
And faint, and oh, 70 tenderiy
That, though you listen, none but he
May hear II az he kisses me.
How can make you love me morc!"
A thJusand times she asks me this,
Her lips nplifted with the kiss
That have tasted DER and DER.
Till now drain il with no sense
Other than utter Incidence.
"HoS can make you love me more?"
4 thousand tilnes her questioning face
Has nes.led IN its resting place
Unanswered, tiil, though 1 adore
This thing OF being loved, ] doubt
Not could not get along without.
How can she make me love her more?"
All! little woman, II, indeed,
I might be frank as is the need
OF frankness, would fall before
Your very feet, and there confess
My love were more IL yours were lers.
III.
Since l am old I have no carr
To babble silly tails of when
loved, and lied, rs other men
Have done, who /, asted here and there.
They would have died for the fair thing
They after murd' nd. marrying.
Sine am old reason thus
Nothing survive. Of all the past,
Bat lust regret enough to lat
IL til the clods have sluo;hSrGd uS--
Then. with oar dead loves, side hy side
We may, perhaps, b. satisfied.
Since am Old. and strive "a blow
Alive the embr.s OF my youth
And ea.ly loves. l fiud. in sNOth.
An old mans heart may burn ~ low,
lis better just to calmly sit
And rake the aslcs over II.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

The sentence which two out Of thirty
contestants failed to write correctly last
night ct q spelling match was this, as
originally written: A student, porting
over his studies as the rain poured down,
formed this sentence: 81 once, sitting
on kiln, saw q knight-errant, himself
an arrant knave, throw throwe at q
foe, which, striking him, produced a
throe of anguish and poignant pain like
that of the stab of poniard, which was
healed only by the juice of the thyme
Paducha Netos.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

An Iowa correspondent of the Country,
Gentleman says: / viii describe briefly
my system of reasing short-horn calves,
which seems to be reasonably successful.
Good short-horn cattle, kept for breed
ing purposes, do not require pampering,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Raising Early Chickens.

POultry-raisers are generally DESTROYS
of obtaining all the eggs they can during
the early part of the season. If hens
show a disposition to sit after they have
laid their first lot of eggs, as those over
a year old generally do, they resort to all
sorts of means to prevent them. They
want eggs during the spring to eat and
sell. After the weather becomes warm
of hens are then DESTROYS that they shall
take to their nests for the purpose of
raising chickens. There are many rea-
sons, however, why hens, old hens es-
pecially, should be allowed to sit as early
in the spring as they manifest DISPOSE
ton to. Ordinarily about three weeks
time will elapse between the period of
laying two lots of eggs, and this time can
be employed to better advantage in
matching chickens than in scratching up
seeds in the garden.
Hens that raise brood of chickens in
the spring will generally lay large
number of eggs in the latter part of the
summer or during the early part of au-
tumn. In the spring hens are well feath-
cred, and are accordingly in the best con-
dition to set on eggs. Later i'll the sea
son they lose most of the feathers Oh the
lower portion of their bodies and gene
rally become poor and restless. In this
condition they will not SIT patiently ON
then When off the nest they are
extremely quarrelsome. When they re.
turn to it they are likely to break the
eggs in the nest and to show fight when
any one approaches them. The temper
ature of spring is more favorable to
Matching eggs than that of the hitter por-
+ ton of summer. The atmosphere is
somewhat moist, and fair degree of
moisture is essential to matching eggs.
Setting hens will leave their nests for
shorter periods during the spring than
during the hot weather in summer.
Chickens Matched in April make better
and more useful birds than those Matched
in July or August. They will be large
enough to broil in midsummer, ut which
time they will command the highest
prices. Chickens Matched in early spring
will sell for more when three or four
months old than late chickens will after
they have been fed a year. The earlier
chickens are Matched the sooner they
will be ready for the market, and the
sooner they are in the market the more
money they will bring. Chickens hatch
ed in April will be more hardy than
those that leave the nest late in summer
They will learn to take care of them.
selves long before the approach of cold
weather, and will often commence to lay
by Christmas. The first eggs laid by
fowls in the spring are almost always
fertile and generally produce very vigor
GUS birds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26
Hungarian Grass.

A correspondent of the Country Con
Hcn,aR says:
| know of no crop that answers 80 well
instead of summer fallow as Hungarian
grass. 1t shades the ground so the
weeds can do nothing, and pulverizes it
nicely. 1t grows well on inverted sod,
oughly pulverized, at least two or three
weeks before the sowing, and is fine and
moist at time of sowing. have had the
best success with fall plowed turf, and
in that case the turf rots enough for
wheat. Yes, it is difficult crop to cure.
When heavy il requires one turning and
two days good sunshine. If turned near
night the green surface is not much in
jured by dew, and it is ready to cock by
the next night, and may be drawn (for
cows without opening the cocks, if the
weather has been clear and hot. For
horses, the cock should be opened, to
insure tine hay against mustiness. Yes,
it "ripens" after wheat harvest if sown
June /, but should never be permitted
to ripcn for hay, but should be cut as
soon as fairly headed. In a favorable
season, it is fit to cut GO days after SOW
ing. Mine last year was sown June 4,
and was ready to cut August 4. From
three to four pecks of seed are required.
I" Is it safe to feed as You would clover or
timothy?" Yes for COWS, and not for
horses-i. e., as rule. If properly
cured, and raked by hand rake, l do not
think it will hurt horses. But it is SO
liable to be either musty or dusty, that 1
am free to confess that have not fed it
to horses more than two out of ten years.
All things considered, think timothy is
wisely chosen as the hay for horses,
though clover and Hungarian are both
good, if properly cured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

WHEN viii the angels call me?" sang
the leading soprano. Captain Grote,
who sat in back seat, suggested that it
depended good deal on what kind of
hand Mr., Angel held,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-26

LORD DUFFERN spends an hour every
day studying Russian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-03
MOn0'S Dead Sea.

The propeller Rocket, which will soon be
placed on Mono lake, will have no trouble about
floating, as the density OF the water Is remarka-
ole, being just the reverse of that of Lake Tahoe
In which the body OF a drowned person never
returns TO the surface. An exchange says that
for bitterness and promiscuous meanness the
waters OF Mono lake surpasS those OF the Dead
Sea. Ihey contain SO much alkall that on a
windy day the lake 1s regular tub of soapsuds
The writer has seen wall of lather five feet
high along the whole OF that shore against
which the waves were beating. Occasionally
the wind would take up bunch OF this lather
as big as bushel basket and carry it several
hundred feet inland. So buoyant are the wa
tiers OF the lake that quite party of men may
navigate them on a raft made of four or five
Dry cottonwood poles. Out In the lake are
Islands OF rock Qava-like concretions) through
which streams Of water boil up. The water Of
these springs Is like that of the lake. bat in one
place is large spring OF fresh water. This is
near the northwest corner of the lake. and at q
point where there is depth OF eight or ten
feet OF water. 1t Is sort OF fountain. A col
umn OF fresh water, some three feet in Diane.
ter, Is projected upward with such force that
It rises to height OF at. least two feet above
the general level of the lake In the form of a
mound or knoll, and makes ripping noise that
can be heard considerable distance But for
the fact that this fountain has depth OF eight
or ten feet OF water TO contend against 1t would
probably rise to considerable height In the
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The Summer Holiday Humbug.

Rebccca Harding Davis, In Harper's Maya
zine for July, exposes the deluSion that hangs
about the leaving OF a comfortable home for a
time In the hot summer months to suffer In a
so-called summer resort. One goes because 1t
Is the fashion, without knowing how to enjoy
the fdleneSs. His French or German cousin
over the sea has 100 holidays in the year. He
knows how to bring the flavor out of every
drop In the orange. He drifts into idleness
easily, without thought. When his fete comes
he goes, for few francs, with his sweetheart
or wife, mile or two out of town. They joke
and laugh. The sun shines, the wind blows;
1t is all good. 1t rains, tits dusty; but they
joke and laugh all the same. They critieiSe
nothing. How good 1t all Isl But as for our
American, a corn husk bed, or mosquito In
the woods, Will Overturn whole summers
airy fabric of happiness. In his anxiety lest he
should not seize the best chance OF enjoyment
he is apt to follow the largest crowd. He goes
to Niagara. to Cape May, the Adirondacks, or
sions or hot farm houses In the suburbs OF the
cities. He tells you that his object Is rest ana
freedom but the chances are that he leaves
both behind Ia his house In town. Ihere ne
could wear his old SnpperSshe chose his own
companIons: he held such habits and opinions
as suited him; he was the Macdonald, and
where he sat was the head OF the table. But
In every one of these summer homes society
uamBles him down. In the hottest months OF
down to rest, 1t forces upon him a hurry -buriy
of fashion gossip, dress, outlay and WEAKNESS,
which at home he can manage to shut OUTSIDE
of his own door. He goes back. as rule, 10
his shop or Office, his gas-pfpes ana lamy
table, unrefreShed, and glad that the nonoay
Is over. But, after all, he goes with the crown
the next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-03

AS 10 the question Of the privileges Of mem.
Ders 1t may be observed that one Of them. now
extinct, that Of ranking, dated from the com
mencement OF the reign of Charles III. The
House conferred the revenue of the post
Office ON the Duke OF York, or to put II more
e. exactly, gave his Royal Highness monopoly
OF the letter.carrytng trade, At the same
time they claimed that letters sent by mem.
bers OF either house should go free, one
member spoke bitterly against this clause "a
'pitiful" and contemplate. Was he rich MANI
The privilege OF ranking was always hiphly
esteemed and abused by patriots of ali hneS
without the slightest sense OF shame Chief Jus
tice Abbott, on being raised to the peerage. ma.
turally received the congratulations OF the Bar.
The new Lord, (Tenterden), in returning thanks
observed that nothing In his elevation raye
him greater pleasure than the privileges of
being able to frank the letters OF his friefds of
the legal profession. Members OF the innior
Bar soon availed themselves OF his Lordshin,s
Kindness In way that grieved him musf n
was not the number OF the franks he minded
but the remarkable addresses to when rho
signature 'Tenterden" found itself annendad
A rev years later, MacaulAy, giving his sister
an account OF how he spent the day. mentions
that he regularly devoted portion OF his tine
TO ranking letters. The system was At ienuth
abolished In 1s4O with the INTRODUCTORY nf fSa
generation behind us in political progress stiii
allows her Senators and Representative n EN- on.
JOY perfect immunity from the Claims OF reve-
nue. IN this pect-Cornhiu Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-03
Learn to Swim.

The disasters that have already taken place
this season through collisions and other acct
dents to water craft and the list OF drownings
which is always swollen one In the months
when bathing is popular, emphasize the gen.
orally conceded wisdom OF learning to swim
The swimmer is doubly equipped. He possesses
In new element. He can partake OF
phibians have over other animals In their re-
sources OF enjoyment. His evolutions In the
water, If he is master Of his art, not only
win the admiration OF others but are the means
OF the 1VeliesU qualification to himself. To con-
duer the mastery Of an element that has before
either filled us with fear or rendered us power
less to help ourselves, Is no small triumph
Were 1t possible to fly through the air like
D1Io few would fail to acquire the art, andeven
or to realize such an aspiration. But it is no
less delightful to be able to dash through the
ourselves In cooperation with the forces of na-
ture, even those apparently the most fOrmidab
are kind and hospitable. Therefore, as an ac-
compi1shment swimming heads the list for sum-
mer wear. IL Is 1nVigoratlng, healthful, exciting
and graceful.
But, as we have already intlmated, it is in
the new power that swimming gives to man,
that Its benefits are most marked. 1t gives him
command over himself; 1t prepares him for I'M
usual emergencies and it guards him against
surprises. Swimmers sometimes drown, it Is
true, but the chances are at least twenty to one
In their favor. business man In this city, In
communication to one OF the daily papers.
makes the offer TO the school board, to devote
an hour or SO every day for a time to instruct
the boys In the public schools in swimming
He offers his services free and proposes when
the feature Is established as part OF our
educational system, to pass 1t over to other
hands. We suppose the offer is made In good
faltn, and n so, we regard it as very
pIactcal proposition, which the school
and favorably consider. The obje;t OF education
Is to enable boys and girls to help themselves.
we have sewing schools and cooking schools, SO
why not swimming schools, which In the sum-
ervat1on OF health as whole blocks of gymna-
Sums. The LIE insurance companies ought to
FAVOR such movement. We're the accomplish
ment OF swimming systematically taught their
risks would be many thousand dollars less
every year. But parents ought to think enough
OF their children to insure them to that extent
to SWim.-BOStOI Post
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FoR THE EVENING stan.
Rest.

Rest u the dream Of dull and iDdolent minds:
Work eagerly. and count the gold. and rest:
Then to the grave for more Poor fools, possessed
OF either fancy, Active Business finds
Still ease and country quiet vexing pain.
And tortured longing for old toll again
And underRround repOse is-never there,
Nature is economical. and leaves
NOTHING to waste each particle receives
New form and nae, In water. earth and air.
Wilt seek for rest in Hesveng-Where is found!
Progress pur-ue. her everlasting round.
Since. then, the law below, the law above,
Is motion-moye; and ever move in love,
SEAToN DoNoHo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-03

A SMALL Boy IN LOUISVILLE owns a large kite
and small dog. He likes TO see the Kite fioat
calmly and peacefully In mid-air, but to boise It
REQUIRES some physical exertioH OF which he
does not feel himself capable. To avoid it, he
string to the dogs tall, ana starting the animal
on On run. The first experiment was nighly
successful, and the passer-by could have seen
me Deg not only waSgtng his tail, but wagging
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rThey were IN 4eadyille and , when t neg
man said: zone pieol Of pie, so cents one cup
0rumbled about the price, whereupon the old
man behind the counter Strengthened himself
up. folded his arms In a dignined manner and
said: ssStranger, look at me; do you suppose /
am staying out here for my health?"
az No less than thirty pearl divers In the
Persian Gulf fell victims TO the sharks during
the last year. This low rate OF mortality would
hardly Re noticed IN Wan street.