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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Grapes In tho aick.room.

DR.. Harrison of Cannes recommends
grapes as valuable aietin fever. The
grapes contain considerable amount of
hydro-carbonaceous matter, together
with aqu antity of potassium salts,a COM
bination which does not irritate, but, on
the contrary, soothes the stomach, and
consequently is used with advantage,
even in dyspepsia. While considering
the carbohydrates contained in the
grape, we must not neglect the organic
acids, particularly tartaric acid. DR..
Harrison thinks the nourishing infu-
ences of these acids too much neglected.
It is indeed known that they are
changed to carbonic acid in the blood
and are excreted as carbonates in the
urine. Possibly careful research might
show that, under some circumstances,
the organic acids are changed to fats.
DR.. Hartsen believes that the organic
acids should be ranked with the carbo-
hydrates as foods. When fresh grapes
are not to be had, raisins or diluted
wines must be used.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
How Roman Women Beautify Their Com
plexions.


p1exions.
Compilations differ very much with
the climate. The English have beyond
doubt, the most beautiful compilations
in the world. American girls possess
more beauty Of feature perhaps, but
their compilations are not nearly so fine.
AS one goes farther south toward the
equator, one sees darker skins and dark
er hair and eyes, for all these physical
characteristics have reference to climat-
ic influences. Upon two things the con-
dition of the skin depends-oil and COL
oring matter. The skin of very old
man or woman, for want of oil, becomes
like wrinkled, dried-up parchment; an
Abino has scarce any ccloring matter
in his hair eyes or complexion. To
finish I will give you receipt for beau
tifying the complexion-the one
used by the danes of ancient
Rome. Probably it is familiar to many,
but there may be others who have never
read it. These ladies make stiff paste
of rye flour, and covered their faces
with 1t on retiring. In the morning
they washed it off with milk (they never
used water), and applied a little powder
if it was deemed necessary. This, we
are told on good authority. is really the
best method Of improving the complex
ion that has ever been used, either in
ancient or in modern times. The rye
-four is said to positively draw from the
skin any marks that may have fingered
on it. Moreover, it makes the complex
ion charmingly soft-an effect which
the milk helps to produce. Several
Partisan bellies adopted this plan, and
it is rumored that the Empress Eugene
tried it. At all events the ladies who
are known to have followed the receipt
of the Romans are also those who have
been celebrated for their lovely skins.
In spite of the opinion of the clever
druggist, this is doubtless very efica-
cious in softening and bleaching the
skin.-Toronto Globe.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
FARM, FIBLD IND FIRESlDE|. ].
ALaxHS Dutter Dsixy..

0. N. Tinkham, seoretary Of the Yer
mont Dairyman's Association, has visit
ed . farm in Pennsyl vania, owned BY
Jessie and Jared Darlington. The farm
contains $50 acres, and the herd consists
of $50 cows of no particular breed.
Their feed is bright clover hay cut and
mixed with an equal quantity by weight,
of corn-meal and wheat bran, about
eight and one-half pounds of each. The
milk is separated directly after it lis
brought in, the sepsrators being run by
an engine in the creamery, and the
cream set aside in the cans to ripen, as
the late fashionable phrase is, or, in
plain United States, to sour before
churning, which is done twice week ;
and in cold weather a little sour, cream
is left in the cream can to hasten the
process. The churn is made of cedar,
barrel shaped, except being of uniform
size and with three narrow slaves pro-
jecting inside. The butter is washed
by pouring cold spring water into the
churn after the butter milk is, drawn
out and before the butter is gathered. "
It is worked by. hand, not sailed by
guess, and after standing about an hour
is re-worked, Jumped and printed, then
put away in the coolers to be shipped
next day. The prints are half pound and
pound Jumps, each wrapped in muslin,
and are shipped in galvanized iron cans,
in cedar tubs, with ice in warm weather,
and holding from pound and half to
seventy pounds of butter.
Their average product is about twelve
hundred pounds per week, and it is
sent to Philadelphia. New York, Bos-
ton, Washington, etc., and they are now
sending to families which have been
supplied by their father and grand
father for seventy five years. The les
son in this for the dairyman seems to
be: Careful feeding, the making of a
uniform article the year through, and
getting good reputation for your
butter. By this is meant the making of
a good article and getting it to the
consumer with the knowledge of where
it is made.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Save the Chlldren-Croup Will como, be
Prepared for 1t.

Group will attack the children; it cannot
well be avoided, but the '1ittle ones" can be
saved terrible racking pain and torture,
and the parents sorrow and anguish, by hav-
ing bottle of DIR. Thomas Eclectric Oil at
hand to give them on the first appearance of
Group. 1t never fails to give relief. One
mother writes:-"My little girl had Group of
the worstform, and Thomas Eclectric Oil re-
ieved when everything else failed. Five min
utes after the first dose she was quite easy"
Take child screaming with pain from q
burn, and you can immediately stop the pain
with DR. THOMAS ECLECTRICOIL Asitis
almost impossible to protect the rising genera
ton from an occasional burn, fathers and
mothers should provide for the emergency by
keeping DR. THOMAS ECLECTRIC OIL
handy. 1t is just as good for scald, frost
bite, bruiso, strain, and heals cut quickly
When the children cough, Eclectric Oil will
at once stop the cough.
When they have colds, it will cure them
quicker than anything you can use.
If Threats are sore, rub Eclectric Oil around
the tonsils, and few drops given internally will
cure in 10 hours.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Storing Furs in Summer,

"When we put furs into storage for
the season." said furrier recently,
"our first care is to beat them thorough
ly with rattans to drive the dust out,
and get rid of the moth eggs that may
have been laid in them or been blown
into them from the air. This done,
They are hung on wire frames that dis
tend them, and put into closets that are
lined with tar paper. Moths cannot
stand the strong odor of tar, and never
live long under it's influence. Every
three or four weeks the furs are taken
from the closets and beaten with rat
tans; and so, in the course of the sea-
son, every article has to be handled at
least dozen times. In oldtimes cam
phor was used; but it has been discov-
cred that it had a tendency to detract
from their color and make them much
lighter in hue. I suppose there IL
something in the dyes used for sable
and other dark furs that camphor in
fuences. Old women still use that
drug. however; and when you see
a sealskin sack or cloak or
dolman that shows streaks of
gray or muddy yellow, you can
be sure that it has been kept in
camphor through the hot weather. The
whole secret of keeping furs is to beat
all the dust out of them and keep them
in close closet impregnated with the
odor of tar. Another old preventive
was pepper, either cayenne or common
black, but this has been abandoned;
and some good housekeepers used to
keep their furs in tobacco cuttings. I
have seen moths flourish in to bacco;
and, where have seen insect powder
used, they have sometimes injured the
furs in some way, or have been totally
useless in guarding them from their
bitter foe.
"Another desideratum in stroring
furs is strict cleanliness. We wash all
the closets every spring with water and
common washing soda, and the latter
serves to destroy any moth-eggs that
may have got into the place. Thus
our closets are never invaded by the
moth; but should we show carelessness
for single week the result would be
disastrous. Mufs, collars, and other
small articles we keep in boxes, pack
ing with them sufficient taxpayer to
keep ont the moths, and the shelves on
which they stand are always kept free
from st."-Popular Science News.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
When Should g. Cow 80 Dry7

There is such a thing as burning
candle at both ends. One may easily do
this in the dairy, and while the "good,
easy man" thinks he is making good
deal of light at the same cost, suddenly
his candle may go out. This kind of
thing may go on when one milks the
COWS up to the time of calivng or near
it, and even encourages it by feeding it
for that end. But then it may not.
And it is the dairyman's business to
know all about it and take any general
rule for his guide. There is no rule
without multitude of exceptions, and
these are as numerous as times, places
and circumstances; and as circum-
stances alter cases, so the reply to the
question we have put above depends
upon circumstances. There are COWS
that will not go dry, but will milk from
calf to calf. Is the dairyman to worry
himself and the COW in useless defiance
of her natural habit? By no means,
He must suit his case to the
circumstances, and reduce the milk
yield as much as possible by
milking once day perhaps and COM
pensate the COW for her extra burden
by giving her more feed up to safe
limit. What this limit may be depends
wholly upon the ability Of the COW to
beautifully digest and dispose of the
food. And no one but the intelligent
owner can say what this limit may be
for it will vary as COWS vary, and no two
COWS are precisely alike. As long as
the COW is in thriving condition, not los
ing flesh or making fat, the limit is not
reached.
But as rule, to be contracted and
expanded judiciously and safely, it
might be said that a COW should be dried
off six weeks before she is due to calve.
That up to that time she should be- lib
orally fed in the usual manner; that
thenceforth her food should be cur
tailed or even changed to dry hay; and
if her condition is reduced somewhat so
much the better. It will make it safer
for her and the calf. The milking may
be done once day, or not wholly COM
pleted, leaving little in the udder.
We have even taken little milk sever
al times day from COW in this con-
dition, with the effect of rapidly drying
the udder. But it is a dangerous thing
and one to be avoided, to leave any con-
siderable quantity of milk in cows
udder at this time.-The Dairy.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
What a Kentucky Burgoo Is.

Washington Letter to the Philadelphia Record
IF you should go 70 Kentucky about
this time" said the old Judge, "you
would probably be invited to a burgoo.
You don't recognize him by that name,
do you? No? well, a burgoo (accent on
the last syllable) is agrand, good thing.
It is an all-day picnic in the woods,
with feast which throws the clam
chowder and the barbecue into the deep
shade of obscurity. In fact the burgoo
usually includes a barbecue as sort of
incident. You 60 out to corner of the
woods, where the thick underbrush has
been carefully cut away, and whore
there are trees enough for shade, but
not enough for gloom, and there you sit
and play poker and smoke the finest
tobacco in the world and drink oily 10
year-old sour mash and sniff the de-
lightful aroma of the burgoo until along
in the afternoon, when the niggers pro-
nounce the burgoo ready and ladle it
out to you in big bowlfuls. The burgoo
is adelicious broth, which is perpetual
reminder of the aborigines, who handed
it over to our forefathers when they be-
gan coming across the mountains from
Virginia. You take-or, rather, the
darkies take-a gigantic kettle and hang
it over roaring fire. A light broth Is
made first; then they throw i'll young
chickens, young ducks, sucking pigs,
and all sorts of small game, with fresh
potatoes, green peas, string beans.
corn and every other vegetable. Every
thing is cooked until the meat begins tc
fall to pieces. Then the walters, with
shining, smiling, black faces, and snow
white jackets and aprons, bear great
bowlfuls of the toothsome stew
through the grove. Oh, how good it is
Ny mouth waters as I tell you of it.
Afterward there is q more burgoo, and
then more burgoo, until everybody has
actually had enough. Then the dar-
kies satisfy themselves, while you re-
turn to your pipe and your glass, IN
til the shadows of evening gather Sleep
lily around YOU" His voice became
low and his look became dreary. Sud.
denly he reused himself and remarked
as he turned away: "A few weeks late
the darkies hold their camp meeting OF.
the same spot, .s.. sl.:s. .ss III So
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
General Gatherings.

The seriousness of the collapse in
the shipbuilding in Scotland was made
apparent during the attempted sale Of
fine new steamer the other day. The
vessel is classcd A l; she is we'll en-.
gined, and guaranteed fast; yet no of.
fer above ct los. per ton could be OBJ
tanned, and she was finally withdrawn
from sale after one bidder had offered
$4,000 below the contract price for her.
So that before leaving the ship-y ard
this vessel had fallen in value by the sum
of $4,000, or 40 per cent of her estimated
worth.
An old Indiana railroad man recently
remarked that IS per cent of the acct
dents which occur when men are coup
ling cars are through their own reckless
ness or want of attention. In his large
experience, he said, he had never known
half dozen cases where men had been
injured in coupling cars if they had
been duly careful.
The following is list of the guns now
in course of construction for Spain: In
England, IA Armstrong; and IS Norden-
felts lin Germany, Is Krupps; in France,
80 steel guns, principally of - and 10
centimetres, and in the Spanish nation
al mandatory 8 OF Is centimetres
and two of 20 centimetres. More artil-
lery is being contracted for abroad.
The following samples of the spelling
of q man graduating with honors at
Harvard College last June are taker
from his examination papers: Prepair.
ing, ORDINARY, boundaries, descent (de.
cent?, classic, 1mmence, icolate. comerce,
cheepness, cituated, cristeline, polluted
temperature, satisfactorily, freeky,
gases, valley, Tindel (TyndalD, Hum
bolt, Surage (sewerage), week (weak)
bearing (boring), emmlrant (eminent),
alum. orange, dycoteledous (dicotyle,
donous), deteriates (deterierates), sui
pher, stratesecation, Cleavage (clevage),
e1pirement, PEBBLES, Apanines.
A foreign letter writer gives this de.
scription of Lord Tennyson, the poet
laureate of England: "His figure is
bent, and yet it bears its Is years light
ly. The once dark mass of hair, now
gray, falls back from the broad, high
forehead, while the 'knightly growth
fringing his lips is streaked with sill
yer, and the face. though rugged and
deeply lined with thought, is still full
of calm dignity, and of tenderness
strongly at variance with the poets
somewhat brusque tone and manner.
His disregard of the conventionalities
of life is thoroughly natural and unaf-
fected. His suit of gray, hanging
about him in many fold, like the
hide of a rhinoceros, the loose, i'll fitting
collar and carelessly knotted tie, the
wide, low boots, are not worn for ar
tistic effect"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Polygaznous EoononaIek

From Harper's Magazine.
The private home routine Of polyga-
nous family is mattor upon which so
much curiosity is constantly expressed
by my acquaintances that I venture to
say here what little I know; but the
reader must remember that less than
ten per cent. of the voting Mormon
population of Utah are polygamists.
The polygamist as rule, has accum-
ulated some property and owns house
before he takes q second and successive
wives, though sometimes he begins by
marrying two or three at once. All of
these marriages, however, except the
first are made secretly by the Church,
and no record of them is accessible.
In the city, at least, it is seldom that
different wives share the same quarters.
In the country this is not so uncommon,
but the natural unpleasantness follows
in most cases. The general method is
to have large house, the main part
of which, perhaps, is occupied by the
first wife and wings or additions by the
successive candidates for marital honors.
These large, struggling, hotel-like
houses are common in Salt Lake City
and mark difference between it and Il
town of small houses like Cheyenne and
most other western villages. In many
cases, however, the husband sets up his
wives in separate homes, either side by
side or in different parts of the city. In
any ease each has her own kitchen gar
den, etc. I have in mind a wealthy
digintary of the church whom you
might eaisly have mistaken for the late
Peter Cooper and who is possessed
of seven wives. Each of these
women has some farming and
garden ground of her own and all
are greatly devoted to rearing bees.
With the help of their grown children
they each raise a large amount of pro-
duce and honey annually. The husband
acts as their agent. He hives their
swarms of bees and charges them for it
he renders special aid when called up
on and is paid for it; he sells their
crops and honey when it is ready and
credits each wife with her due share.
Most Of them live in suites of apartments
Under the roof of his great house IN
town, but the first wife has beautiful
farm of her own little out of the city,
to which she and her children have re-
tired, to end their days in peaceful in
dependence.
The way in which this old gentleman
has always arranged his domestic life is
reported to be thus: He had certain
rooms in his house where he kept his
bed, his wardrobe, his books and saw
any visitors who called upon him. Here
he was a bachelor and here he staia
every other day and night. On alter
nate days and nights he was the guest of
one or another of his wives in regular
rotation, devoting the one day Tin this
case fortnightly) which was hers dill
gently to her society. Of course this
routine was not invariable, but for the
most part it was regularly followed.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

DROP B1scU1T.-Stir together one
pint of rich sour milk and one we'll
beaten egg, little salt, piece of but
ter, the size of hens egg, (melted(,
and one even teaspoonful of soda, dis
solved in a little hot water. Beat all
well together and put in flour enough
to make it q little sitter than pancake
batter. Drop into patty-pa and bake
in quick oYen, = :. =, :.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Sailing Butter.

A correspondent of the Breeders Ga
zette says: One morning last summer
two or three friends met at my dairy.
While there the question was raised
whether butter gained or lost by sailing.
The cream of the herd was placed in
two churns and churned simultaneously.
Butter came first in the smaller churn,
coarse grained and yellow, and was
washed in several waters, worked dry
in a butter worker, and weighed. It
was then sailed, the salt being weighed
in, one ounce to the pound, was re-
worked and reweighed. It was strict
ly gilt-edged article, and was imme-
diately packed for shipment. Here are
the weights:
Unsaltcd, well-washed dry butter. ....... .17O6
Sailed and rewOrked. ....................17 B
Loss in ounces. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. O3
Particular attention is asked to the
other churning. The butter came too
soft, but of excellent color, and was
treated precisely like the other sample
except that it was too soft to be passed
through the butter-worker, and the salt
was worked in, and the water and brine
apparently thoroughly worked out by
hand:
Unsalted, well-washed soft butter. :. 20 OSL
Sailed and revoked. 49, 01f
Apparent gain. ..lM
This sample was too soft for packing
or making into rolls, but to casual OBJ
server it would seem about as dry as
the other, and to need only cool
ing in order to be marketable. But my
dairywoman at once pronounced if full
of moisture, and insisted that it be put
aside and re worked the next day. I
therefore took charge of it, and next
morning it was revoked and weighed
again, making only 26.O84 of strictly
marketable butter. s.. 49,.
Here we have an apparent gain in the
first instance of seventeen ounces, but q
final loss from original unsalted weight
of twenty-seven ounces, and from the
extreme sailed weight, while soft, of
forty-four ounces, nearly one ounce and
one and half ounces to the pound re-
spectively. This is q rather extreme
case. .s Is s. .:l-5z5 E. +5s zz .. :$$ =.
Subsequent experiments led me TO.
the following conclusions;
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

Captain Hoxie, of the United States
army, the husband of Winnie Ream, the
sculptor, has been ordered to Mont
gomery, Ala, to take charge of the river
and harbor improvements in that locali-
ty. The order has caused quite SEN
sation! in Washington society. where
Captain and Mrs. Hoxie are favoritea,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
"NiD't In tue Rudl"

Sad to say, many good thing attains to
other hand it is matter for congratulation
that the growth of some evil things may be al
so promptly frustrated, A large proportion of
the cases of the most widespread and fatal Of
diseas have their inception in
nasal catarrh. DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is
has cured thousands All druggists.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
One branch of trade shows no effec

One branch of trade shows no effects
of the panic. II am manufacturer of
babies caps," said New York mer-
chant, land I regard it as the most sta
pie business in the country. Babie,
are coming into the world all the time,
and every mother will stint herself be-
fore she denies her infant o cap. No
panics interfere with my business.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
A Priuter1'R Error.

Sweet are the uses Of adversely, the printers
Of advertising Sweet, indeed, to those who in
sickness and suffering have seen the ADVERTISE
ment of some sovereign remedy, which upon
trial has brought them from deaths door,
''The best thing ever saw in my paper was
the advertisement of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery" is again and again the
testimony of those who have been healed by it
of lung disease, bronchial affections, tumors,
ulcers, liver complaints and the ills to which
flesh is heir
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

A lady reader writes to say thatshe has been
losing her hair and wants to know what she
shall do to prevent it. Either keep your bu-
reau drawer locked get bottle of Carbo-
line the great Petroleum Hair Remover.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

An Invaluable Remedy.-None except those
can fully appreciate the value and efficacy Of
Perry Davis Pain Killer, sovereign remedy
for this distressing disease in al its forms is
used internally and externally, test its virtuea
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

Sportsmen all through this section of the
&C untry, say the Parker Repeating Breech- load
ing shot gun is the best and truest they ever
handled. See advertisement in another COL
umn.-Peck's Sun.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

x \ 4 Loss of power in either sex, however
ly cured Address, with three letter stamps
for reply and book of particulars, Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N Y
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

The only genuine German Hop Bitters an6
White Wine of Tar Syrup are DR.. G. D. War.
ner's whose name appears on every bottle, ID.
bel and wrapper of the genuine,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

+, New York parties have bought tyenty;six
walton, near Las Vegas Springs, n M The
purpose is to found an Episcopal colony of
Eastern people, in connection with which an
educational institution will be established