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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
a Misht Coffin.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
"Yes," he answered, as he seemed :,
hubble himself up in heap, ave beer
there. That is, I've jumped from
railroad train running at a speed o
forty eight miles an hour, and / can
say as want TO repeat the experiment.
Where and when p
about thirty miles east of Chicago
on the Michigan Central, three year
ago"
What was the occasion p
II was half drunk, aud did il on
bet Of IS. The bet was that / daren'
walk out ON the platform and take tn,
jump without picking out my ground
As it happened the ground was prett,
clear, but a million dollars wouldn'
hire me to try it again"
"How did you come out2"
well, it's hard to describe the sen
sation. As | swung from the step
seemed TO fly. | sailed along IN Oh,
air until my wings grew tired, and ther
l dropped down to see the country
I've got good pair of eyes, but didn'
see much. i was too busy turning
cartvheels and handsprings and som
ersaults Sometimes / beat the pro.
fessionals all hollow, and again / mad
muss of it. II was my intention I,
skip all the mud puddles and avoid nj
the stumps, but You can't always hay,
your way in this world. BY and by
rested my case. That is, I brought al
in fence corner, and waited for first
class hospital TO come along"
"Mueh hurtp"
Might have been worse. Broke 81
arm, two ribs, and had over q hundred
cuts ana bruises, and it was sever
weeks before could walk rod"
But you won the $5?'
Yes; but there is where always
grow sad. The stakeholder sent Z
back to me from the first town in th,
shape OF pine coffin, and il didn't Il
my length into seven inches. / had Il
sell the confounded thing for MIST
at half price,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Boston Brown Bread,

Casselrs Family Magazine for April
Make this by substituting two parts
Indian meal and one part rice flour fol
wheaton -four, adding, as we'll as yeast,
a small quantity of soda or saleratus.
1t requires we'll kneading. and must rise
for five hours at least, and after it is
made into loaves they should rise an
hour longer. Bake four-pound Loaf
quite three hours; the oven must be
slow.
Ordinary family bread from white
-four is generally mixed with sponge"
made overnight, A very good recipe is
as under Half a dozen potatoes
boiled and mashed while hot
quarter-pint of brewers yeast,
two ounces white sugar, two ounces OF
lard, one tea-spoonful of soda, three
cupfuls of -four (say a pint, one quart
Of warm water-that in which the pota-
toes were boiled. In mixing, add the
soda last of all. Cover lightly in warm
weather and tightly in winter. This
quantity will make up from two TO
three quarts of floor sufficient TO bake
at time for a small family. The in
experienced in bread making from
sponge in place of yeast must remem-
Der that it requires to be twice knead-
ed: first when the sponge and -four are
we'll amaigamated, then the most thor
ough kneading is necessary, and again
after the dough has risen, when ten
minutes or so will suffice. Then, af.
ter putting into CREASED tins, or making
into rolls and laying them in one large
tin, again leave the dough near the FIRE
for an hour previous TO baking.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Save The stgs;

Spring pigs are valuable. They are
the most certain crop from which to
make money II they are lost from
carelessness Of neglect, toy cold storms,
or not well provided qtlarters for he
sow, the profits of the year IL most
cases are sacrificed. Notwithstanding
they are subject to disease, they are the
best source of individual and national
wealth, This month and next require
especial care, and If the owners would
lose d few nights Of sleep in providing for
their safe delivery, and comfortable pro
visions Tor the first few days, no labor
or care can be better expended. AT
least half the pigs are lost for want OF
care. Some cannot be saved, but wise
care can keep most of them from per
ishing. Each pig savsd in nine months
can be made worth so OF ala with
slight outlay, If the farm is suitably an
ranged for raising this valuable stock.
--Des MONIES Register.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
The Deadly slop Drain.

From a country house notable for
general neatness a hired girl was taken
home i'll of typhoid. Then a hired man
left and had a run Of "slow fever; af-
forwards little girl came down" with
the same disease. Soon the mother was
dangerously sick, and finally "aggravat
ed erysipelas broke ont in the face of
the kitchen servant" Here was q series
of zymotic attacks. Why? A Maine
Farmer correspondent answers, with a
statement that eliminates the mystery
of the dispensation:
"The only thing in this household
which seemed to be at fault was the dis
posal of the kitchen slops. They we're
carried from the sink outside the house
through a leaden pipe, and this
discharged into the end of bored
aqueduct log, buried in tho earth
and extending about a rod from the
house. This short log drain would soon
be INSTRUCTED, and then the end next
the house would discharge its danger
GUS contents into the loose stones which
were filed in on that side of the kitchen,
and thence under the house and into
the cellar; and the same leaden pipe
which carried the water downward,
brought the sickening gases upward. +"
One better way, "safe, if not SO "con-
yenient,7 is by use of slop-pails kept
clean and the contents distributed over
the surface soil at various points some
distance from the house. An enlarge
ment of this simple and satisfactory
system is favorably mentioned by the
Iowa Board of Health:
"A neighbor has a kerosene barrel
hung on a pair of old buggy wheels, so
that it can easily be inverted; he lets it
stand near the kitchen, where all kitch-
en- and chamber slops can be thrown in
it, and when half full he easily wheels
it on his garden and empties it. !"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

ion, but adhere to certain fixed and
well defined rules. Buy good materials
avoid cheap trimmings, select ALWAYS
such eolors rs will go well together. and
have them usually dark. Never wear
your best on secondary occasion. or
when it is likely TO be subjected "a 40.
we're wear and tear. Have best dresses
cut or made by best dress-makeY and
employ your own efforts on your honse
srs,.. and washable materials Tse
best black kid gloves, ecra =. - beige beige tints.
They Weaf better than fancy colors,
and the black are better made and can
be worn with all dresses. Never buy
cheap gloves OF Sherp kosieryxthey
are n n-,,"Sion and snare. Always
have a plain black Viking dress and
handsome black dress, and depenu nm NM
on cut and material mofs thsr upon or
naitefitation. If you can embroider
yourself dress, you can make a thing
Of beatty with bus little cost; but 9th.
erwise content yourself with the neat
ness that is the best evidence OF refined
taste.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
English Stew.

Take piece of beef--the rump is the
best for this purpose-cut about three
pounds OF it into small pieces, throwing
ont the fat. Now make good stock / y
dissoIving four ounces of Johnson's
Fluid Beef in one quart of water. Put
This into a stew pan with the beef and
let il stew for Two hours. Then season
10 taste with cayenne pepper and salt
and add the grated rind of lemon and
the Juice of half Of it. tablespoonful OF
rice -four smoothly mixed with three
tablespoonsfuls of mushroom ketchup,
a tablespoonful of soy and teaspoon
ful Of Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire
Sauce. Then add glass of port wine
aud allow the contents to stew gently
for fifteen minutes more, when they
NAV be dished up and served.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
How to Measure Fields.

Pitisburg Chronicle Telegraph: Du-
ring seeding time farmers often wish to
make an accurate estimate 81 land in a
field The accompanying table has
been found useful and convenient for
the purpose, and may be cut out and
preserved for future reference:
SYards wide by 96S long contains an acre.
10 yards vide by 4S4 long contains an acre
20 yards wide by 242 long contains an acre.
40 yards wide by 12l long contains m acre
20 yards wide by 69lS long contains an acre.
S0yards wide by 6)JS long contains an acre,
60 feet wide by TBS long contains an acre
40 feet wide by Sg7 long contains an acre
$50 feet wide by 500 long contairs VT scra
220 feet wide by los long contains an acre
240 feet wide by iSlIS long contains an acre
40 feet wide by % long contains an acre.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Flower Culture

From tho Prairie Farmer
Many Americans could we'll take q
hint from the following extract from q
paper on the Pleasure of Flowers, read
at the recent meeting Of New Jersey
horticulturists, by Mr.. John Thr6pe,
who stated that "In England there are
hundreds of floral societies, the mem
bers being composed entirely of factory
hands. Viewers, iron-workers, mill
hands and other artisans make special
ties Of pansies, tulips, roses, carna-
tons, dahlias and chrysanthsmums,
having their exhibitions often Saturday
evenings, the prizes frequently being
made up by subscriptions on the spot.
The pleasure these men derive from
such meetings is calculated to be and is
beneficial to their interests. Can we
not hope for the beginning of such in
terest in cultivation here? The i'm
provements in flowers keep pace with
other improvements of the nineteenth
century, and it seems that, instead Of
only few families receiving the atten-
ton of introducers and raisers of new
varities, there are actually hundreds"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Peculiariass of the Chinese.
From the Baltimore american.

From the Baltimore American
| Bat the measure Of the wrong done TO
China must be allowed 70 correspond
with the facts Of Chinese civilization.
Human life is cheaper than that Of Che
hossn within the borders of the empire.
Nearly four hundred millions Of people
! crowd IT'S provinces. The market value
Of life cannot be very high with man
! who will commit hari kari for triffinp'
insult az moments notice, or With an
/ officer who will execute an entire regi-
ment to crafty caprice. Moreover,
no nation is so cruel or SO accustomed
| TO cruelty as china. TortEra, mfg; mfg
nant and exquisite, is the punishment for
] the smallest offense. Infanticide is
practiced With perfect impunity, aud
even with tho entire justification of law
in some a She crowded districts. Is it
probable that 4 people who will public
| " starye man TO death for stealing q
coa., or cut him while living into min
ute pieces f0t y similar offense, will be
greatly shocked 0y the "sickening
| slaughter" at Foo Chow? May it not
be considered relief OF an oyercrogded
population? But this, of course, does
not lessen the justice of France, nor
| does il hide the almost pathetic fact
that China is proud and knows how to
feel and resent an insulting and coward.
| ly attempt TO Cypress her. No nation
has yet given her q cause for war but
/ that she has courageously accepted She
wage of battle. There is, indeed, room
for the pathos which the poet OF Erin
throws around the history OF the Irish re-
bellions: "They went forth 10 war, but
thet always fell"
But, again, It must be remembered
that the Chinese are Of all nations over
the globe the most difficult and peculiar
to deal with. What shall we expect from
the obstiuacy of nation which in the
nineteenth century can only be induced
by force of arms 60 recognize by treaty
chat England is an independent nation
and in no manner subject to the Chr
nese government How shall we deal
with people whose very treaties re ad
back n ards and from the bottom of the
pageP How shall we direct our actions
In the presence OF men who shake theiI
own hands instead of grasping yours
What steps can be taken without Of
Tense in a land where" to quote the
somical complaint or Wingroye Cook,
"the roses have no fragrance and NJ
women no petticoatsy where the laborer
has no Sabbath and the magistrate no
sense Of honor; where the needle points
TO the south, aud the Sign of being puz'
zled is TO scratch the antipodes OF the
head where the place of honori is on
the left hand and the seat of the intel
lect is in the stomach, where TO take of
Your hat is an insulting gesture, and q
wear white garments is to put yourself
into mourning"
Without doubt the Chinese are a
most extraordinary people, and all the
judgments which civilized people are
disposed to pass either upon them Of
their enemies must, for especial reasons,
bo withheld until full and correct
knowledge of exact circumstances can
be had
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
He Wasn't Sure.

Jennyson crles,-
~oh. for touch Of a vanished hand,
And the sound of voice that Is stu;
but the sentimental young man who
bossted that he would know the touch
of the hand anywhere, and identity the
owner without the voice. was farther
along" in such matters than the tender
STRIPPING who is described below as 40
ing escort duty:
Robert, a bashful lad, recently sum
moned up enough courage to escort a
vounc lady home. AT tho breakfast
table next morning his father said,
well, my son, did you go home WITH
any of the girls last night"
Eyes" said Bob
"Wbo was She"
Robert besi.ated, but finally hlurted
ont II thought it was Annie warren
but when we got to the turn OF the road.
she went into Ellen Hams house.
"But / should think you might nave
told by the sound OF her voice. saia MS
father. p;5poh
blushing aud stammerins'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
The Treating" Custom.

The American system of treating IN
barrooms and other places where strong
drinks are sold, has been made ms
demesnor by law in Nevada. The anti
treating law makes setting 'em up" pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment, eitn-
er or both. IL is made water tight,
and therefore liquor tight, and would
require ingenuity TO evade ii, which
when possessed can he employed to
better advantage than in law breaking.
The first section of the act makes it
unlawful to treat or be treated, and fix
es the penalty for its infraction. The
other sections constitute any attempt
ed evasion of the law greater offence
than its open violation and attach still
more severe penalties for practising Chi
canery or subterfuge The fines when
collected go to the school fund of the
county in which the offence is commit
ted and conviction had. This Nevada
law is founded on the principle that
treating is a vice, rather than thai
drinking is a pernicious habit. Liquor
selling is licensed, and therefore law.
fdl. A man may go into saloon and
buy and pay for all the liquor he wants
to drink himself, but he is not per-
mitted to pay for his friends tipple.
The theory is that under this regula-
ton a man will drink no more than he
wants, and in nearly all cases will go
out sober, whereas a party Of ten or a
dozen drinking after they treat all
around often have more than they can
carry. The law covers all kinds of dis
titled spirits, wines, malt beverages and
even takes in cider. Lemonade, soda
and seltzer are exempt from its provi.
sions, but to pay for another mans ice.
water would be regarded as chicanery
and subterfuge.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Water Poulttoes.

K water poultice for the throat may
be made as follows: Take four thick
nessos Of old cotton cloth, three or four
inches vide and long enough to extend
from ear to ear. Dip II in water, hot
or cold, as the throat may require it,
Over these folds of cotton cloth apply a
layer of cotton batting, an inch in thick
ness, add l6ne and wide enough TO COW
er the cotton Cl6th Over this place a
strip of waterproof cloth or 6tlssilk
Apply to the throat, and keep in place
by bandage, This poultice, II cold,
will induce local sweating, that will
relieve the mucous membrane, or inner
lining of the throat When nearly dry
wiring the four folds of cotton cloth
again in cold water, and repeat the APP
pllcation for two or four nights, if nee.
essary. 1t may be wise 10 keep chill
dren who are thus treated within the
house Tor few days; but IL they must
60 out on the following morning,
wash the throat with cold water
just before the patient leaves the
house. The water poultiee should be
cold in all cases in which Inflammation
may exist, but should be hot if ulcera-
ton or suppuration exists. A sore
throat needs cold water, but suppura-
ton needs hot, as the diseased throat
of diphtheria, or scarlatina in assesses.
A sponge poultice has some advantages
above all others, and is made as follows:
Make flannel bag three inches wide,
and as long as any given affection re-
quires. Fill this bag with very small
bits Of sponge; then soak in hot or
cold water, as the case may need
Cover the outside with layers of cotton
batting, and over this some waterproof
material. This poultice is elastic, and
may be kept constantly near the skin,
and will keep the throat at uniform
temperatures very important point
in dlphtheTia and scarlatina and all
other maladies in which suppuration
exists. Cold sponge poultices may be
applied in the early stages of scarlatina
and diphtheria, to lesson the tendency
to Inflammation. Halls Journal of
Health,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Paw Cash for Goods.
From the Iowa Homestead.

From the Iowa Homestead
The farmers in former years had
great complaints against the merchants
on account of excessive charges for
goods. Grange stores were the rage
and the remembrance Of them Is not
now very pleasant.
There was a much better way, and
the farmers see il now. That was 10
pay cash. For cash is great leveler
Of prices The merchant was glad 10
come down like little man when his
ewes caught the CLEAN of gold. In q
State like Iowa there ought to be nc
such thing as credit at the store for the
farmer. There is no class of men the
merchant can credit more safely. What
we mean is, the farmer should not
ask il in fact he can not afford to ask
&c. For credit means a higher price;
price 70 cover interest and
risk, and the good farmer who asks
credit simply asks 10 share the losses
Of the merchant on poor customers, and
he always does it, So that the one
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Destroying Horns.

The horns Of an animal can be de-
stroyed in embryo with very little pain
in the following manner: The small
"nubs" from witch the horns viii grow,
which appear on ths ealfs head, arr
cut off with knife so thst the embryo
horns can be cnt away. This is done
with great ease and quite rapidly by
the use OF a sharp knife. The wound
is then scared with white bot iron,
which is not painful, as the great heat
deadens the sensation, aud it soon heals.
The horn is destroyed aud its growth
is prevented. Considering tho great
danger of injury from the horns of cat
tie. this operation is necessary one,
and as il il less painful than that OF
docking lambs tails and far less pain
full than oastration, any peoson who
object 10 il may be thought more nice
than wise.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

short and easy way to settle the dir
Guilty between the farmer and the mer-
chant, is for the farmer TO pay cash and
make the merchant his lifelong friend.
The farmer now complains against the
freight agent. There is q way to settle
with him. II he charges you too much
on corn, feed your corn. You will thus
ccndensa freight, and instead Of haul.
ing ton he wilf hcui but 500 pounds.
III he put up the tariff on stcCt. fhst
wiil encourage packing. noassss in our
cities, ana the railroad will haul 100
miles instead of 500. Furthermore, il
the railroad buys up your Governor, or
Representatives, you can get your lit
tie votes ready, and the next time take
off his political head Whenever the
farmers get down to this business in
earnest there will be less cause of com
plant.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Trx ali Varieties.

Why not, this year, try all tbs yarie-
lies you can get of the special crop you
deem best aaarted to your soil, climate,
and market? If cabbage or grass, OF
wheat, or corn, or cucumbers, or celery
81 potstoes--if either is, or might well
be, a specially with you, get seed of d
dozen, or twenty, or mote varieties OF
the one species, and give them careful
treatment and comparison in all points
The cost of the seeds is very slight. OF
land, but Few rods is required; Of
time, but a few days tr all and the
pleasure and profit of the trial would
be many fold the cost.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

Among other valuable lessons impaired by
this teacher is ths fact that for very long
time Dr. Pierce's @Golden Medical Discovery
has been the prince Of liver eorrectiges and
blood purifiers, being the household physician
of the poor man, and the able consulting
physician 10 the rich patient, and praised by
an for its magnificent service and efficacy in
an diseases of a chronic nature, as malarial
poisoning, ailment OF the respiratory and di-
gestiye systems, liver disease and IN al cases
where the use of an Alternative remedy - IN
dicated
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
..NT,th.rs should Mote This. o

Under this caption an old physician writes Z
Cincinnati Medical Jogrnal, that in view OF
the fact that people living al distance iron
cities are frequently obliged TO resort W cougt
mixtures already put mp for use, they sholiic
provide themselves with only suen remedies a.
are known 70 be free from opiates, poisU2s an
even fatal results he recommends the re-
Gently discovered Red star Cough Cure which
Gualyses and tests by various Boards OF Hoaltt
proved 20 De purely vegetable as well - prompt
effective and entirely harmless
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

II Is not understood why druggists keep in
stock so many kinds Of medicines for coughs,
colds and consumption, when II ~ only neces.
sary 10 keep Aliens Lung Balsam, that old, re-
liable remedy which il q pure vegetable prep
aration, and perfectly harmless, as II contains
no opium in any form sold everywhere
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

Hostotter's StOu,
aeh Bitters ooaquers
and prevents nalav
Val feYers, dyspepsia.
chronic constipation,
a tendency 10 kidney
and bladder ailments
and rheutlatislp, ard
= % the rrcatest value
In Gases II bodlly
trouble arising from
v eaknces. Old peo
pie are greatly aided
b. II and Il Is highly
serviceable 10 oonYAi
esoents and ladies IN
delicate health. Its
moreover, a useful
N e dicin Q 30 take
with one on long Jour
neys and oouuterActs
the effects Of rental
exhaustion. For sale
by all Druggists and
IAcaleg generally.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
AAu,o. ana, !. ch.ap bu. valuabis.

From the Ladies' Home Journal
tits not easy for American women TO
resist the influence of pretty things and
the only way is not to pay much atten-
ton to mere novelties OF dress and fash
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

For DYSPEPSIA Indigestion, Depression OF Spir-
It's and General Debility, In their various forms,
also as "A preventive against Fever and Ague and
other Intermittent Feyers, the ''FGRRO- FnosPBo
RATED ELIXIR OF CAIAsAYA' made by Caswell
Hazard & Co, New York, and sold by all Drug
gists is the best tonic, and for patients recover
ing from Fever or other sickness, IL has noequstl
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04

will cure Heart Disease. Thirty years use aud
mafy persons of prominence tesufying prove
t-Readvfls Press. si.0O per bottle at drug
yists. Free pamphlet Of r. l., Ingalls,, Cam
bridge Mass