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Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
Honorable Scars.

There is one member Of the present
United States government whose face is
30 Scared as to be pitiful to look upon
but the story Of these scars is record
so honorable that no decoration of the
Legion of Honor confers more glory than
do these cruel seams and gashes.
When this man of whom we write was
but boy, he was sitting with his young
er sister before the fire of country
house, where they were spending the
Christmas holidays. Did spark snap
from the blazing wood that cracked SO
merrily upon the hearth? Or did some
lncauhous movement on the girls part
bring her dress too near the blaze? At
any rate, in an instant her clothes were
all flame.
The boy loved his pretty sister even
more, perhaps, than most brothers do.
He was proud of her cieverness and Of
her beauty. Should the fierce flames
scorch her life out before his ewes?
He caught wrap from the sofa, a rug
from the floor He wrapped them round
her and struggled for her life, so utterly
forget'ul of himself that, at the end, he
was burned almost beyond human re-.
cognition, while on the fair girls face
the fire had left no mark.
And the boy was well content. II am
boy" he said, "and it does not matter.
She could not have borne it,"
For long time his life was dispaired
Of but at length the vital forces Of his
forth into the world again, wearing his
scars for badge of glory in the eyes OF
al .hose who knew the tale.
He has made himself one of the men
of mark OF his generation. He has won
love for himself and distinction and the
fair repute of men. But of all the gains
of his life, none do him such honor as
those scars of his curly battle.
The sister whom he saved from the
awful fate that threatened her, has wou
her own laurels also. She lives in Italy
annie" "the grandeur that was Rome.n
whence she sends to America some Of
the brightest and most charming work
which our journals print.
She has salon where you meet the
men and women best worth knowing
Her life is happy and prosperous-but.
for all its pleasures, she has to thank the
scars which would make her brothers
face unpleasant to look upon, dill not
the knowledge of how they we're won
make them his crowning glory.-Yo outh's
Companion.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
ment, good hedge that win turn all
kinds of stock, can be grown from seed
In from three to four years.

/ Al kIOA VIIkOC W 4OuT ycAI6s 4.
Bedspreads OF Unbleache.l Muslin.
l. / use good heavy sheeting and
make up as if for sheet, with broad
hem at both ends; then spread it on the
floor, and with stick, or platters and
plates, and good black pencil, mark a
design to suit my fancy, all around, a
foot from the edge and ends. Then I
sew to quilting frames and use No. 10
knitting cotton, and draw through as
thick on the lines as prefer. Cut the
ends an inch long; do not tie, for when
washed the shrinking of the cotton
cloth holds the cotton in. have used
them and had them last ten years; but I
always use a washing machine, which
think saves many times its cost in that
time; besides it saves much hard work.
2.-Get unbleached muslin, ten quar-
ters wide if possible tthen there'lf be
no SEAM, and cotton thread unbleached,
cloth. Take eight threads, using large
darning needle, put it in double, that is
SO, there will be sixteen threads when
you're ready to begin work; mark it any
design you like, mine is marked diago-
naily both ways, about two inches apart;
then take a short stitch both ways where
the lines cross each.other Cut off about
half an inch long. Then bleach as You
would anything else. The threads do
not need any fastening, and the cloth
and thread both shrink in the bleach
ug, l can not tell how much yarn it
Will take as used some had. think
three hanks will be sufficient. Length
of spread, two and half yards.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
CUNNING OF ELEPHANTS.
How Wild Ones are Decoycd-- Skill.
full Theft Concealed.

A AtASAA SoIlSdfC6.
Hhe highest mental faculties are more
developed in the elephant than in any
ofher animal, except the dog. and the
monkey. The genera! fact that the ele-
plants are habitually employed in parts
iof India for storing timber, building,
etc, shows high level of docile intelli-
gence. But perhaps no labor in which
they are employed Go they display a
more wonderful sacacity than in help
rag to catch the wild elephants. A herd
OF Wild elephants is driven into corral
and two tame ones ridden in amono
them. Two decovs will crowd up on
either side ola Wild one, and protect
The nooser a rope is fastened around
the Wild elephants leg, when the tame
one, to whose collar the other end of
the rope is fastened will drag the cap.
tive out and wiad the rope round a tree,
WINE the otfea decoy prevents any in
terierence from the herd, and pushes
the captive toward the tree, thus enabl-
ing the first one to take in the slack of
the rope. ,ahe conduct of the tame
ones during all these proceedings is
truly wonderful. They display the most
perfect conception Of every movement.
both OF the object to be attained and of
the means 10 accomplish it, On one oc-
caslon, IN lying up large elephant, he
contrlved, before he could be hauled
close up 20 the,tree, TO walk once or twice
around t. carrying the rope with him;
the decoy,, percelvlng the advantage he
had gained oyer the nooser, walked up
OF her own accord and pushed him heall
ward With her head till She made him
unWAad himself again; upon which the
ROBE was haul ed tight and made fast.
o2e could almost fancy there was s
display OF dry humor in the manner in
which tie decoy, thus play with the
fears OF the wild herd, and make light
CT their efforts of resistance N'hen re-
lucant they shove them forward, when
violent they drive them back when tho
Wild ones throw themselves down. tie
tame ones butt them With head and
shoulders and force them I'D again; aad
when ltls necessary to keep them down.
they kneel upon them, ana prevent them
from rising TIL the ropes are secured.
a remarkable degree Of tunning was
displayed by an elephant who had been
chained to tree, and. whose diver had
made an oven at . short distance in
which to put some rice cakes to bake
The man covered his cakes with stone
and grass and went away. When he
was gone the elephant with his trunk
unfastened the chain round his foot.
wen. to the oven and uncovered it, took
out the cakes, recovered the oven with
the stone and grass as before and went
back to his place. He could not asten
the chain again around his own foot, so
he twisted it round and round it. in or
der to look the same, and when the
aIver returned the elephant was stand
ing with his back to the oven. The
,lrlver went for his cakes, discovered
the theft, and, looking round, caught
the elephants eye as he looked back
over his shoulder out of the corner of If.
Instantly he detected the. culprit, and
condign punishment followed. Popular
Science Monthly.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
THE COURAGE oF,L1FE.

Courage to look on coming years,
Their slender hopes their certain tears.
With spirit still undaunted.
Courage to strive for evry gain,
For Genius, even, must work again,
And struggle for what is wanted.
Courage to see illusions fade,
Thine idols fade that thou has made
To be by their mem'ries haunted.
COURAGE to see thyself grow old,
Thy place usurped by the young and bold,
Their vigor before thee Haunted.
Courage to face the dark, hours
When all things seem beyond the powers
OF the faith that thou hast vaunted
Boston Transcript.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
Men and Women.

The real truth is that, the country
over, there are not enough earnest, de-
serving, ambitious young men to marry
the honest, sensible, well-meaning girls
who are ready to do true woman's part
in building up good and happy homes.
Our family training, defective as it may
be in many respects, has still kept the
rein on girls while it has given spur to
boys, and if the grumblers are sensible
they will try to devise some way to
overcome this inequality, and thus bring
the young man up to such standard as
shall fit him to do something else in life
than to stand off and rail at the follies or
the friyolities of young women.-Phil-
adelphia Times.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
F'ounuereu Horses.

If your horse is really foundered en-
'velop the front feet in warm poultices,
and encourage the animal to lie down
by giving the animal clean straw for a
bed. The shoes should be removed.
and keep the horse on soft ground,
whether in the stable or out of it. Give
him twenty drops of aconite once OF
twice daily in bis drink. In week or
ten days the fever and tenderness will
probably have subsidized sufficiently to
remove the poultices and permit of the
animal taking little exercise in yard
whore the ground is soft or covered with
grass. Keep the hoofs soft by applying
ointment, or by wrapping in wet cloths
occasionally. Attend to the feeding,
and give no corn or corn meal, but
sound 50 oats. with good new hay or grass.
The recovery will be slow at best, and
sthe hoofs will have to grow entirely out
before all lameness passes away.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
How to Plant, Cultivate and Make
~ Hedge


The Usage Orange is native ofTexas,
but can be grown and cultivated advan-
tageously in most parts of the United
States. The ground should be thor
oughly pulverized by either plowing OF
spading, before the seed is planted.
The surest way is to spout the seed be-
aore planting, rs it is very slow to germi-
mate when put into the ground without
sbeing sprouted, sometimes taking a
whole season to come up. To sprout
tthe seed, put into a vessel and cover
with warm (not hot) water. Keep the
vessel in warm place, and change the
water once a day. Let the seed soak
about five or six days, after which pour
OH the water and cover the vessel with
damp cloth. Keep in warm room
and stir the seed occasionally. In about
and are ready fer planting A
pound of seed, if properly man
aged Till produce 5000 plants.
The seeds should be sown in April
or May, with twelve good seeds to the
loot, IN drills twenty inches apart. They
should be kept free from weeds, as the
young plants are very tender and deli
cate until they get from three to four
inches high. They can be set out in per
.manent hodges the following spring in
rows, placing them six inches apart in
the row, but should be cut back TO with
in an inch Of the ground before they are
set out; and to make thick hedge, it
will be necessary to cut back the first
three ears growth, leaving only about
eight inches of the seasons growth,
This evstem must be p,lrs,led everv
season until the hedge is oI the desired
's4s::ii::at and f3rI. Under r...,rrer treas.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29

From the Burlington Free Press:
"Who is that Thin, Sad MANS he an
editorf Oh, no, my son; the editor is fat
ana strong, The man you see was mar
ried when ne was nineteen years old,n
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
Jewelry for the Street.

n
There has been great change of late
years in fashion Of wearing jewelry on
the street, and the tendency is still to
get rid Of all show and parade Of Jewels,
restricting to essentials watch and a
collar button. Twenty five years ago a
woman who could afford it carried a
small jewelry shop in rings, bracelets,
Plus, earrings, watch, long chains,
charms and pendants,
The modern limitations, which are so
good that an expert is required to detect
them, made it possible for all women to
wear jewelry, and the moment it be.
came common it ceased to be desirable,
lady, and, was voted vulgar on the
street.
Long chains and chatelaine chains
are eqaully discredited, though they
have not wholly disappeared, and the
tavorite watch is email one, suspended
from an engraved band, compact tiny
plates connected links, and attached to
the belt. the watch falling into little
pocket Of the dress.
Naturally there are many fluctuations,
many spurts OF fashion, many Temporary
crazes for pins bangles, some of which
still survive and are likely to be SUPER
ceded by others; the pig craze; the owl
craze; and now the fly and grasshopper
craze-but these are all fancies which
are born and die with season. The
permanent tendency is towards the eli
mination Of jewelry from street costume
and the best dressed women even now
allow none to be visible, except perhaps
y 4 r
pearl or gold knobs screwed into the
continued, it is found that they were
disfiguring rather than ornamental; that
their weight crushed lace and disar-
ranged the front of the Dress Bangles,
too, spoil the shape Of really beautiful
arm, and are not admissible with the
very long gloves as they spoil the con-
tour of the lower arm and destroy the
gradually diminishing effects.
Cucumbers That Keep Green.
Take three gallons of cucumbers; wash
them, put in pickle for six or seven days
changing the pickle once or twice DUR
ing that time; sca1d vinegar and put in
it a lump of alum as large as a butternut.
Drain the pickles, pack into jar and
pour the hot water over them. Pick
some grape-yine leaves and lay over
them. Close the jar for a week, then
pour of this vinegar, which will do for
another lot; scad fresh vinegar in which
some red peppers have been placed,
some horse radish. mustard seed, spices
and celery seed. Lay on fresh grape
vine leaves and pour the vinegar on hot.
Keep closed for a while until thorough
ly cool. This recipe is good and given
by lady who has made pickles the same
way for 40 years and never fails to have
the best. They are green and firm; l
may add, however, that she makes her
own vinegar by saving apple parings and
cores in stone jar and keeping covered
with warm water. 1t is clear and good.
She sometimes adds a teaspoonful of
white sugar.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
Batter Pudding With Strawberry
SanCe

Stir twelve teaspoonfuls Of flour INTO
the yolks of nine eggs anu beat thor
oughly, adding a little salt. Stir in slow
ly quart of milk, and just before put
ng the pudding in bag add the whites
of the nine eggs. Boil either in a
creased mould or in heavy linen or
jean bag, which has been well creased
AMI Toured. Letthe pudding boil slow
ly two hours, being careful that the
water is boiling when it is put in and
that the boiling does not stop for an in
slant till it is done. After you lift the
pudding out of the boiling water, SUBJ
merge the mould or bag in cold water
for second; this will insure the pud-
ding coming out of the mould smooth
and CLASSY. Serve at once with the fol.
lowing strawberry sauce: Beat to a
cream halfa cup of sweet butter and
two cups of powdered sugar, and add a
large cup OF Strawberries. Mash the
berries thoroughly and beat them into
the sauce SO that they form smooth
crimson mass The golden batter pud-
ding looks very pretty with this Grim
son sauce, and is delicious. Only few
strawberries are required, and the early
acid berries are fully as good for flavor
lug as the sweet ones.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-06
STANDARD MEANWHILE TENNEssEE-sATURDAY OCT 1881

we do our duty in preparing the lands
well and planting good seed in due
time? Even If the seasons should not
prove altogether favorable, if we pre-
pare the land well and plant in due
time we may reasonably hope to make
our bread. The past year demonstra-
ted an important fact, that even though
the season may be unfavorable, if the
work is we'll done, thorough prepare
ton of the soil and good seed drilled in
well and in due time we may reasona-
bly, expect good return.
Wheat has ruled low during this
year although the crop has been short.
At the beginning of last harvest large
surplus of the crop Of 1882 was on
hand, which, added to 1888, furnished
a full supply and caused prices to rule
low.
There are two considerations for
planting large crop this season. The
chances are good for a good crop and
also for good prices, as the supply of
old wheat will be pretty well exhausted.
1t is very important for farmers to
know in advance what crops will sue
coed and the demand there is likely to
be for them when made. We do not
believe in growing grain or cotton for
surplus in this country, from the fact
that we cannot compete with the West
in the one or the South in the other.
We believe in growing grass and fruits
for profit, but if we desire to risk a
wheat crop at any time we believe this
is most likely to be favorable year.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-06
OUR NEXT WHEAT CROP.

If our farmers could only know the
result of the next wheat crop, whether
it is to be success or failure, they
would know whether to sow a large or
small area. Results we cannot always
foretell, but by studying the history of
crops we can generally make some rea-
sonably good guessing.
There seldom comes two poor crops
in succession. AS the last was failure
in Tennessee, may we not reasonably
expect good crops the coming season if
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-06
To the Standard.
Rust in Wheat.

A communication is copied in your
paper from the Nashville World, over
the signature Of John w. Glenn, an
experimental farmer. The article is
headed crust in Wheat. Is there
any Remedy" 1t is easy to ask
questions but not always easy to answer
them. The writer of the article makes
many suggestions that are valuable,
and we may, as the doctors would say,
give a correct diagnosis of the disease
on wheat called rust, which causes it to
wither and dry up.
do not believe very much in the
vegetable theory put forth by the wri-
ter but which is generally accepted,
nor does it much concern the farmer
whether it is of vegetable, animal, or
metallic origin, or neither; he finds it
frequently among his wheat to his in
tense disgust. But it certainly looks
as much like the rust that consumes
iron, as it does like anything in the
vegetable kingdom known to me.
The suggestion of the writer that it
is more disastrous on wheat or oats
that have soft or tender stalk is with
out doubt correct, but the means he
suggests to make the stalk hard enough
to resist the germs of rust or the roots
of the rust plant, (if 1t be a plant
might be effective for the purpose of
an experiment; but where wheat is
grown in such quantities that it is i'm
practicable to apply the chemical fer
tilizes that he suggests, and he is cer>
tainly mistaken in surprising that a
heavy growth promoted by stable mas
nures or anything else will avail, for
it is a matter of universal experience
that a rank growth, or even a rank
spot in wheat is the first attacked and
the most injured. Manure of any
kind is certainly beneficial to wheat if
the soil be there, but it only incseases
the yield and does not prevent the rust.
And the same may be said about the
proper preparation of the soil it pro.
notes thrifty growth of the plant and
rewards the farmer amply for his
trouble, but in my opinion will not
prevent rust, nor materially lessen the
injury if rust should strike 1t.
Proper preparation of the soil and
the use of manure or fertilizes and
early sowings will promote hastY and
vigorous growth and the plant will,
under these circumstances mature
earlier and thus may escape the rust
but will not prevent it.
The best remedy that l can conceive
of, is to get a variety that has stalk
sufficiently hard to resist the effect d
the rust, for without a doubt it doe;
fasten upon the stalk and absorbs the
substance that should and would 90 tC
fill out the grain, and leaves it tC
wither and shrink away for the want
of it. And if such a variety cannot
be found in any now known, the effort
should be made to secure one by judi
cious seeding and breeding.
am of the opinion that the variety
known in this latitude as "Red Ian
caster" very nearly approximates q
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-06
OUR AGENTS.
HANDLING GREEN APPLES.

~N~N----'
AS the season is at hand to begin to
move thegreenapple crop we deem it not
out of place to make few suggestions
to inexperienced fruit growers and ship
pers in reference to the proper way to
handle their fruits and vegetables. 1t
should be the aim and study of every
farmer and producer to make his crop
pay the largest profit possible. When
he has done this, and all the expense
paid, his profits are not generally more
than they ought to be. From per-
sonal observation and experience, we
are convinced that fully one forth of
all we produce on the farm, especially
of green fruits are lost for the want of
proper care and attention in gathering
and marketing. If we dry our fruits
we should not only gather at the proper
time, but should be careful in handling
them so as to make the very best and
most valuable dried fruit that it may
command the highest prices. So with
green fruit. We should begin by TAX
ing care Of the trees, and when the fruit
has matured we should gather very
carefully and 50 pack it as it will COM
mand the highest market price. To
do this it is not only profitable but as
source of very great pleasure to know
that what we have for market is put
up in such way as to command the
very best and highest prices. We
should not only strive to excel all our
neighbors in quantity but also in quail
ity and putting in good shape for mar
ket. The cost of the package and
i. the freight on a barrel of inferior and
poorly put up apples is the same as on
good stock well handled, while the
profits on the latter are much larger.
In fact it is too often the case that poor
stock carelessly handled does not pay
expenses. In gathering apples they
should be picked off the trees carefully
without bruising and kept clean, sepa-
rating the perfect from the imperfect.
A half dozen barrels of large fine per.
feet apples will sell for more money
than dozen barrels which are partially
filled with little dirty imperfect apples.
We speak from experience. We had
better feed the small dirty apples to
our hogs, or what is better, wash and
evaporate them than to ship them. To
save little time, some farmers, when
ready to gather their apples, are in the
habit Of shaking them down on the
dirty ground among the rocks, bruising
and soiling them so much that they
are not fit for market, and then after
hauling several miles complain because
they are rejected as unfit to ship. AT
ter the farmer has labored hard all the
year to make his crops and harvest
comes, to fail to take care Of them is
too bad. 1t is like the cow that gives
large pail Of milk and then kicks it
over. The practical result is the same.
We should strive to make all we can
and then take care of it in such way
as to realize the largest profit there
from. Those who have green apples
should bear in mind that they are val
liable just now and will command good
prices if carefully handled and sent to
market in good condition. 1t will pay
to take care Of all you have.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-06

Use MilIer's Fine CaisOmine. For
sale by j. B. Ritchey.