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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-08
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-08
THIN PEOPLE.

"Wells' Health Renewer" restores health
and vigor, cures dyspepsia headache, ner-
vousness, debility. 81.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09

for rent and $40 week to set our
table. We live well but save nothing"
lie said. It needs no reporter to tell
'ns that man is an American. 1--WE
live well but save nothing" is as
trustworthy for Identification as
his family tree would be. A Ger
man cane chair-maEer on $12
q week also had four children. His
family "have lots to eat and my chill
dren have never been sick day" In
the fveyears since his marriage this
man has almost paid, for a 81, 500
house and lot, and now that he pays
no house rent he lays aside SIS every
Saturday night.
These are extreme. cases from a col
umn of brief interviews. A timer
earning $1,000 week, with two chill
dren, saves IS OF it; man on $2l q
week, with nine children and broth,
er-in-law to support, has paid for a.
house since his marriage, and a car.
penter earning So day supports
three children and saves Sc a week.
But every one Of these prosperous
men chanted tho praises OF "a good
wife" Most of them knew little,
about their expenses, except that they
carry home their money on Saturday
night and cannot tell where the saw
ings come from. The man who lives
we'll but saves nothing naturally said
nothing about his wife.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
How to Make oyster Pie.

Philadelphia Ledger: If the oyster
cook as long as the crust does they
are overdone! If the pieis baked first
and filled in afterward, then the blend
ed richness of the oyster and nnder
crust is lost. To get the true flavor
of the pie the thickened liquor should
be put inside of the pie before it is
baked. No amount of cooking will
hurt the oyster juice. If the oysters
have been simply scalded in the liquor
before it is put into the pie, and then
set away in q covered bowl, the upper
crust may be lifted when the pie is
done, and they can be put in at the
last minute, before serving, getting
their sufficient heating in the boiling
liquor on their way to the table. Even
better than lifting the crust is to lift
"the rose, !" the large ornament of pas
try which fills the center OF the upper
crust, and put it in the aperture. If
the ornament is carefully put into the
centerof the upper crust before baking
there will be no difficulty in raising it
from the pie. Mace, a few peppers and
the same thickening of flour and butter
that you may make drawn butter of,
is put into the liquor whenit first goes
into thepie By this means you avoid
the tough and almost tasteless filling
OF the dish usually served by that
name.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
What Produces Typhoid Fever.

At this season OF the year typhoid
fever prevails in many localities. But
it is never found unless in connection
with some violation of sanitary laws.
en- some premises the cesspool is so
constructed that when it is full and
overaows the overflow will be in the
cellar of the house. We know many
such instances. This overflow is most
dangerous and should be anticipated
and prevented; but if not, disinfect-
ants and ample ventilation should be
freely used until the cellar is perfectly
innocuous. And here we would throw
out a hint to those who are building
to avoid this contingency.
On some premises the sewage is so
disposed of that it filters through the
soil into the well and pollutes the
drinking water. On some the barn
yard is so near the we'll that it cannot
fail to pollute it. Cemented cisterns
and cisterns above ground, such as are
seen in New Orleans, San Francisco
and other places insure clean and
wholesome drinking water with only
moderate care. Life and health
can be maintained only by obedience
to established laws, and those who
violate these laws, whether through
ignorance or carelessness, must pay the
penalty.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
High Life at Newport.

Margery Deane tells a story of high
life in Newport that can hardly be
credited. She says that the --latest
craze" is to make pets of white rats.
Kate Claxton played at the opera
house in Newport the other evening to
a large audience, in which were a
large number of the Fashionable New
Workers left over from the season. A
few seats in front of Margery Deane sat
a well-known society lady with two
white rats in her lap Occasionally
they leaped to her shoulder, took d
turn around her neck or were lovingly
held against her check. Some very
questionable ladies near by shiver-
ed, one left the house, and the boys
in the gallery cried 'Rats, rats,''
whenever there was chance for APP
plause. A young girl arrived at
boarding-school at Newport with two
white rats among the rest OF her lug
gage, not Gagged, but treated as kittens.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
made these statements: His custom
has been to change his seed potatoes

made these statements: His custom
has been to change his seed potatoes
every third: on fourth year. After
many trials he-is convinced that seed
grown from Is to 80 miles north Of
his farm yields better than that from
other localities. He formerly bought
seed from Maine and Canada, but the
yield the first year of planting was no
greater than from homegrown stock.
The secondhand third years the yield
was better than from his own seed;
the potatoes seeming to get acclimated,
but in no instance has it done as we'll
as seed procured a few miles north of
his farm. Possibly the nature of the
soil on which, the seed was grown may
have influenced the result more than
location, but our informant was vefy
positive that the causes were climatic
ones. He had also noted much the
same result In wheat, New York State
and western-grown seed yielding the
best the second year, but never equal
ing the first year product from south
ern Verment seed.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Tho Old Story.

Well! how many cows will be- kept
over this Winter at dead loss tor
their keeping? One or more on every
farm, where the owner does not test
the value of each one. 1.-The does, very
likely the brag COW will prove to- be the
poorest, A farmer told us the other
day that he once bought a lot Of poor
and puny ones in drove with others,
and because they were so. small as
compared with the most of the COWS
be- sold them at a low price to sharp
neighbor who thought he could see
butter in them. They did not give
more than half as much milk as the
other cows and so they were rated at
about half their value.. Sad mistake!
The first owner after q whilegrew wiser
and sadder when he found out he had
sold his butter tubs and kept his milk
cows. Butter was what he wanted.
Repenting of his folly he offered double
the price he sold for, but no use; treble
was demanded. While the pasture
lasts the COWS shonld be tested for
their value, if kept for butter, and the
COW which will not make pound of
butter in a day should be turned into
beef. It takes good COW to do this,
and it will not pay to winter any but
good cows. If q farmer wants to keep
cows for the fun Of it, that is another
thing, but as a business matter, he
should know what each COW can do
at pail and butter tub.-Our Country
Home.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Wives and Wives.

Considerable light is being thrown
from Chicago upon the wives of that
city and their capacities. Onereport-
er pays tribute to good" wives, and
shows that there is at least one sphere
OF woman's usefulness that is not over
done. The reporter started out with
the commendable purpose OF finding
out on what wages an artisan could
live and lay up something for rainy
day. He had not gone far before he
found that it was not question of
wages but of wives. A stained-glass
workman who earns $S5 week and
has O wife and four children saves
nothing. 1T costs me $50 a month
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Dipped In Angel Instincts.

writer in the Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette says: Recently l met one of
those sweet woman SO aptly described
by somebody as having come into the
world with both hands outstretched
like any distributing angel's-one of
the kind who clasps tightly only one
thing and that is cornucopia of
goodness, gentleness, sympathy and
charity, which is at the command of
every one in sorrow, need, sickness or
any other sdversity. Does any one
weep? Hers y ~ heart to ache in re-
Spouse. 1s any enc in need? Hers is
the purse to - opened and emptied.
Is any one sick unto death? She is
prompt to don nurses cap and apron
and share the night watches until the
final hour comes. She is not an angel;
no, far from it. She is only dipped in
"angel Instincts" which keep heart
open to every cry for help and her ear
alert for every tale of sorrow A great
grief had suddenly come upon her, and
those who had been ever welcome to
pour their troubles into her listening
ear came from far and near to render
sweet coincidence and gracious SYM
pathy. Her self-sacrifice, her zeal in
all good works, her intelligent activity
and practical faculty had won for her
the sincere love of q very wide circle,
and when her own time of deep Attic
ton came she was abundantly sus-
tanned by evidences of devotion which
can only be the lot of characters like
her own. Would that there were more
such women in the world CARRYING
benedictions by their very presence.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Growing Strawberries.
The Fruit Recorder

The Fruit Recorder.
The successful cultivator uses his
brains as well as his hands. First, he
takes into consideration locality. If
he has high and low ground and he
must use both, varities that blossom
early and show their blossoms largely
above the leaves, should GO. on. the
high, dry ground, while other sorts
that have dense foliage and blossoms,
are we'll hidden by such, and that bios
som late, can go on the lower soil.
One OF the most important points,
is to extend the season from the ear
hest to the latest time, and he that
advocates the growing of one or two
sorts only, like the Wilson or Charles
Downing, ignores this important point.
Set the earliest sorts on southerlv
spot, and the later sorts on a
northerly decline, and to have
very early berries keep off all mulch.
and what is still better, keep old
plantations running for years, simply
giving them little compost yearly to
keep up vitality ofplants, and further,
to have earliest berries grow on rather
poor soil. We have picked fruit from
an old plantation of Triumph de
Gands (which is q latish berry, that
was growing in grass, as soon as from
new beds of the earliest sorts.
We grow acres of old beds purposelv
to get earliest fruit, and this fruit sells
for double the price with us of later
fruit.
Sorts like the Green Prolific, Downer
and Kentucky, will run largely to foil
age the first season if on too rich soil,
if mulched, but if not mulched will
yield splendid crops for two or three
seasons after the first year, while on
the other hand, sorts like Wilson,
Crescent, etc. will stand heavy manur-
ing and mulchiAg. For cold climates,
they should be croyn in matted rows.
Too late cultivation and working in
the fall in some sections is not bene-
fetal.
So We say, use your eyes and brains,
watch closely all these things and the
habits and peculiarities OF all different
sorts, and little care and observa-
ton and practice will soon post you.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Heaven Was With Him.

81 was in Custer City three years
ago, and as dead broke as q skinned
WOLF" he said, as the boys pumped
him to tell how he got such scar on
his face.
mo, sir, l hadn't blessed nickle,
and didn't know human being in
that town. There was no work, no
way to get out, and leaned against
a dead wall and wondered how much
my revolver would sell for, and which
way should head if I had $40. Tell
you, gents, I was feeling powerful blue
when Hope cum scooting around the
corner to pat me ON the back and give
me a boost. If you remember, the
poet says it's always darkest just
afore dawn, and somebody has writ
ten that Providence never goes back
on q man who means to do the squar'
thing"
''Who was Hope?" asked one.
"She was a female-a woman.
don't remember whether she was as
purity as an angel or as homely as a
Digger squaw. She flew up to me and
says, says she:
"sDo | address gentleman?'
".Madam, you haven't made any
mistake, says /.
"tHave you got sand?'
"'Tons of it, madam
And do you want to make fifty do
lars?' says she.
IF l don't, then an Injun never
hankered for scalps, says I.
with that she puts FIVE ten-dollar
bills in my paw, walks me to the cor
near, and, printing up the street to
the St. Louis Red Front saloon con-
timers:
Giles in there! Go and shoot
him!'
"'Who might it be ma amp
"'My husband! He's brute and a
tyrant! He's just run me outdoors
at the muzzle of a revolver! He's a
big, red-faced fellow with q broken
nose. Go, and may heaven be with
YOU
":Certingly, ma am, certingly, says
|, and makes bee lire for the Red
Front.
"The tyrannical husband was pre-
pared for me. When | was q hundred
feet away he takes dead squirt on
me and pops off his gun. The bullet
rips open my cheek, as this ERE scar
makes afidavy. Twas whirled around
and sent to grass, but whips over on
my stomach, gets quick sight on him,
and before he could squint agin he was
my meat. That ere woman's appeal to
heaven was answered"
xiii him at once?"
Gas dead as this, 'ere curbstun! He
never kicked around or unused up the
saloon bit. Theinjo wife climbed
over him and took possession, the
coroner came to conduct the funeral,
and a chap with lot Of sticking plas-
ter fixed up my hurt and said Clusters
great need was dozen Romans like
myself"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Close Farming Pays Better Than Scratch
ing the Soil.

From the American Agriculturist
Our own notion is that small farms,
we'll cultivated, are most invariably
the most profitable; and hence, firmly
believe (what has often been asserted)
that if many farmer would sell half
or two-thirds of the acres he now &C.
cupies and poorly tills and manages,
and devote his entire time and onsnKies
to the care and cultivation q the re-
mainder, he would derive lar more
profit from his labor and investment,
with much less vexation Of spirit. The
fact is, as somebody truly asserts, we
have too many farmers who are Gland
poo" who have so much land they
cannot make a living. Paradoxical
as this may appear, itapplies truthful
ly to many g. naturally fertile
and productive locality. When
such farmers have learned that it
is not economy to own more
land than they can till in the most
profitable manner. so that it will paw
for the money expended in keeping it
free from taxes, weed and other in.
cumbrances, they will have solved the
problem of ease in practical rural life.
The happiest and thriftiest farmers we
have ever known lived on farms of
only ten to 100 acres, every foot Of
which was made to count. On the
other hand, the farmer who has so
many broad acres that he can not
walk over them daily-where rods Of
fence corners are never cultivated or
otherwise utilized-lives life of
anxiety and worry. Instead of work
ing like slaves and living in a miserly
manner, in order to run a big farm"
or purchase call the land that Joins
them" it would be we'll for hosts Of
farmers to sell some of their broad
acres, concentrate their efforts upon
limited areas, and look more to the
comfort and happiness OF their house
holds and the proper education of
their children. Even if large farms
were the most profitable, which we
deny, small ones are to be preferred,
for many and cogent reasons, not the
least of which are the comfort, peace
and general welfare of the owners and
their families.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
FARM AND. HDU SEH0LD.
Farm ,eotes..

s Z S Z 1 Z
The Concord People and Patriot is
authority for the gestivestatement
that with 195 farmers.to, one LAWYER
among our abitants, there are 22l
lawyers to fourteen. farmers in Con-
gress.
The mother OF a. large family of in
teresting children at Athens, Ca,
is honorably mentioned as having new
er struck one q blow in anger. Her
corrective is simply a, dose of castor
oil and rhubarb.
The reason for a. rotation of crops
is that no two plants of different kinds
require the same substances in the
same proportion for their nourish-
ment. The grasses may soon exhaust
the supply Of silica. These should,
therefore, not Immediately succeed
each other in rotation. They ought to
befollowed by 0crop which needs less of
silica but more Of potash or some
other mineral salts
Assesses which have discharged and
formed running sores should be poul-
ticed with linseed meal until they
cease to discharge The wounds are
then dressed twice Q day in a solution of
sugar of lead 4 drains and water one
pint. Il there is danger of the traces
chatting the sores they should be pro-
tected by bandages and pads and the
traces bound With sheepskin.
The average yield OF wheat in the
United Stetes is 11.9 bushels per acre.
Too much slip-shod farming; less
acreage and better culture would
make larger average yield. Ameri-
can farmers will yet learn that more
yield and less acres is the true basis
for success in their business. Put the
same labor and manure on one acre
which is ordinarily given to two, and
the yield will be doubled. Whatever
is obtained from the other acre in the
way OF hay or pasture may be consid-
cred clear gain, and the acre applied to
wheat will be doubly better for sec.
ond crop.
Many find difficulty in keeping celery
during the winter, while others sue
coed we'll with very little care. 1t is
not a difficult matter where the con.
ditions are all favorable. Celery needs
to be kept cool, but must not be al
lowed to freeze. 1t requires plenty OF
moisture at the roots but the stems
should be kept dry; and lastly, that
intended for late keeping must not be
much blanched when it is packed.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09

Isle OF Kentucky for speaker Mr.. Carlisle
made quite lengthy speech, on accepting
the nomination., in which he trusted
that during the time we are associated
in the Forte-ninth congress we may be
able to diminish the expenditure of the
government, tighten the burdens OF the
people, reform business in the public SER
vice, complete the restoration Of conf
dence among the people in all divisions OF
the country, and give such assurances OF a
wise and patriotic policy as will guar
antee long line Of Democratic
administrations. There is much to be
done, and the responsibility for it's accom-
plishmcnt rests largely on the gentlemen
who are assembled here this evening"
The caucus then proceeded to nominate
the minor officers as follows:
John B. Clark, Missouri, the present in
cumbent, clerk of the house: Mr. Leedom,
Ohio, renominated sergeant-at-arms; Sam
uel DOnelsOn, Tennessee, doorkeeper.
The republicans OF the house, gave the
complimentary nomination for Speaker
to Thomas B. Reed of Maine Reed receiv-
ed sixty-three Hiscock forty-two, and
Ryan Of Kansas three. The balloting for
the minor Offices OF the house was then pro-
ceeded with, and the following ticket was
nOminated:
fOr clerk, COl. w. v. CrOsble, Iowa; SER
geant-at-arms, Capt. Albert o. Marsh, Indi-
ana; doorkeeper, Col. Joseph K. Seldcn, Con
necticut; postmaster, A. w. Adams, Mary
land. chaplain, Rev. DR.. F. F. Bit, Ne
braska.
Mr.. Price offered the following, which was
adopted without opposition:
Resolved, That it 10 the sense OF this
caucuss that immediate action be taken by
the Forty ninth congress- To provide for the
presidential succession.
On motion Of Mr.. Thomas OF Illinois
the following was adopted Resolved,
That the cancus favors the passage of a
properly guarded Mexican pension bill,
with provisions for pensions for Union
soldiers OF the late war, their widows and
orphans, similar to the bill passed by the
senate during the Forty-eighth congress,
and we declare in favor OF the uncondition.
al repeal OF the limitation on the payne mt
OF arrears OF pension.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
Tho Smaller Social Obligations.

Ellen Bliss Hooker, writer in Good
Housekeeping, has said good many
sensible and practical things relating
to the smaller social obligations.
Here is one of her latest givings-out:
'"The demands of social etiquette are
such that much time is necessarily
spent in receiving and returning calls.
When once this round is accomplished
and your pleasant circle of friends is
established, it would be we'll to let
those friends know that there will al
ways be one evening when you will be
at home and ready to welcome them
not that they will be unwelcome at
other times, but by this method more
freedom is gained for other things We
all need diversion and recreation
at times, and it is a mistake
to suppose that you are always
to be sufficient OF yourselves for
amusement, but the young woman who
considers it her duty to provide some
entertainment for each evening of her
life will, sooner or later find her mis-
take. Soon, what began as pleasant
performance, becomes to be considered
by him as right, and when, by reason
of other cares and duties the wife can
not always be at leisure, she finds that
by her own act she has laid on herself
unnecessary burdens. This custom
grows largely out of the fear that the
monotony Of home life may become
irksome to one who has had the free
dom of male companionship. Let
these companions find themselves
welcome in the little home circle, if they
are suitable ones, if not, then the soon
erthe connection is broken the better.
The social duties you owe to your
friends are important and should be
kept up. If you would preserve your
friends you must not neglect to observe
the claims of society upon you-not
for dinners or balls, but the ordinary
courtesies of life."
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Carlisle syoas

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Carlisle Stook0r.
IL, the. Senate republican, caucus upon
ballet being taken for President Oh theSen-
ate, Mr. Sherman received all thewotesbut
three and upon. motion Of, Mr.. Edmnntss
the nomina ton neutrality-suspicious. Mr..
Sherman, rising said!
Senators: Ireturn my hearty thanks for
the high. honor you propose to confer upon
me.Nour CHI dice; no doubt, hasbeen influence
ed by the fact that have long, been a menar.
Der Of the senate. Still, my dutics hereto
fore have not given me the practical ex-
perience necessary-fo for good presiding Off
GER. can only say that will do all I
can fairly and impl rtially to observe and
enforce the rules of the senate, and shan
rely greatly uBenr your forbearance anta
courtesy.
The votes against Senator Sherman we've,
cast by Senator Morille, OF Vermont, and
Senator Riddleburger, of Id.
The Democratic members Of the House,
in common, nominated Hon. John G. Gag
SPEAKER OF THE. HOUSE.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09

Acolimation of Seod.
An inexperienced and successful potato
grower Of Franklin Co., Mass, recently
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09

& When Lieut.. Greedy lecturcd before tho
Scottish Geogr aphical society recently in
Edinburgh he had one OF the most brill.
liant and intellectual audiences ever as.
semblcd in that city. Lord Roseberry pre-.
sided.