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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05


The planting of sorghum for stock is
again recommended in the agricultural
papers; but after several years cultivat-
ing I have given it up for this purpose,
much preferring sweet corn. The OBJ
lection found was, the stalks are SO
hard and tough that cattle will not eat
any part except about two feet of the
top, whereas they eat every particle Of
the sorts of sweet corn raise for them,
the stalks being three quarters of an
inch in diameter at the butts, and to
6feet tall. If the sorghum could be
first crushed by passing through heavy
rollers, as is done when the juice is to
be made into syrup and sugar, the stalks
might be made tender enough for cattle
fodder; but to pass them through corn
stalk cutter would he Of little benefit, as
the pieces, however shortcut, would
be still sharp at the edges, hard to
chew, and still harder to digest. I be-
tieve there is great future for sorghum
throughout all our climates for making
superior quality of syrup, and per
haps also of sugar when the process of
granulation becomes perfected, which I
suppose chemists will be able to accom-
plish in time. Sorghum has one merit
over corn-its roots penetrate the soil
more deeply, and this enables it to bear
drouth better. and particularly in
light gravelly and sandy soils. If any
one has had more favorable expert
ence in making it acceptable fodder for
stock than I give above, Ishall be glad
TO hear from him.-A. B. Allen.
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LOndon's First Pictorial Paper.

The pictorial press Of London. orig
mated with The Illustrated London
News. in: 1912. The protector. and:
founder of. this popular paper Was Mr..
Herbert Ingram. He was, a. news.
agent at Nottingham. Occasionally,
to accentuate notable events. murders
particularly, the local press published
a. picture. The engraving: was as
crude as the printing of it was unsat-
isfactory, but success always attended
the special edition of the. journal that
contained an illustration. The Not
tingham, news-agent was of an inquir-
ing and observing turn, Of mind.
Taking note of the great extra sale at
tending even the poorest kind of news
paper engraving, it occurred to, him
to- speculate upon the. prospects Of a
journal that should be. full Of pictures.
The idea of an illustrated newspa-
per thus sprang up IN his. mind, and
he, never rested until he, started for
London and put it into shape. OF
was. foolish-that it would never sue
eeed. The paper was not an immedi-
ate success. Mr.. Migrants capital
was limited. If he had entered upon
the business backed as men usually are
who start newspapers in,these days, he
would never once have. had cause to
be anxious. But he was spending his
own money, and for a. time it disap-
peared like the material in Chatmoss
during the railwav-making, and with
as little apparent result. The time,
came however. when. sifoothold'' was
secured, and eventually Ingram stood
upon the new-made ground.. master of
the situation. -zJoseph Hattoz, ias Chi
eprn Mems
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Handsome lIante1 1ambrsQuins and Hat
Crowns, -t', &c.,.

A handsome lambrequ1n which 7 am
making is of crimson velvet. For a
mantel two yards long take one yard of
velvet and cut in two lengthwise; fold
one of these pieces in half and cut,
making two strips one-half yard long,
and another one yard in length. The
short pieces are tackled around the ends
of the shelf. then tack the longer strip
also. Pleat one end of the long piece
and fasten it up to the shelf un-
der a handsome bow of ribbon.
This Grapes the center strip quite
gracefully; place another bow of rib
bon at the other end of it and trim
all the lower edges with crescents and
tassels. One Of the smaller pieces
paint in Kensington painting spray Of
pansies, and the other carnations; the
long strip has large, graceful spray of
Virginia creeper. Hat crowns, so much
in vogue now ARE very easilymade. Take
one third of yard of satin, cut the
fiat piece from one corner. then divide
the remainder into two strips and pleat
around tCthe material should be on the
bias). Ihave both painted and en-
broidered them. One, painted on gray
satin, was wreath Of pink, blue and
yellow daises, with the initial in guilt.
[ painted the same design on pale-blue
satin, and embroidered in chenille on
crimson and ON dark blue. Another
one on pale-blue, was spray of peoples
and wheat. A pretty design for an old
gold lining is wreath Of pansies.
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No Cure for CHAMBERS.

Chambers is certainly fatal disease,
and as it is virulently contagious when
horse is known to be affected by it the
animal should be killed and buried deep
ly without delay. The law enforces by
heavy penalties this disposition of CLAN
derous horse. The disease begins with
swelling of the glands of the throat;
then white, thin, acid discharge es-
capes from one nostril, and at times
from both. On examination the
membrane Called Schinderian )lin-
ing the nostrils is seen to be Of a
livjd or lead blue or purple color, spot
ted with red raw sores or ulcers, having
deeper colored ring around them.
This last symptom is unmistakable, and
when it appears no doubt remains and
the beast should be put out of suffering
and misery which will certainly ensue.
Death by CHAMBERS is horrible; the
wretched animal slowly rots away and
dies by inches IN extreme torment. At
first the symptoms of CHAMBERS are much
the same as those of distemper or nasal
gleet, but when these appear every pre-
caution should be taken against con-
tagion.-.N. Y. Times.
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The Winter's Lesson.

If any farmer has gone through the
past winter and learned no lesson, lie
is not the man we write for. It has
been severe schooling to many. Some
will become Disguised with the State,
and resolve at all risk to sell ont and
90 somewhere. But where will it be?
Running away from Iowa billiards,
what country viii you find which has
not something worse? With your pres
ent knowledge of the good health and
prolific character of Iowa, can not am
pie preparations be made to avoid the
bad effects and annoyances of Iowa
storms cheaper than you can sacrifice
your property, and go to some other
region where rose-colored letters are
written from by bold spectators, and
where the country never keeps half
pace with Iowa IN production, prosper
ity and population.
There will this spring probably be
stampedes from the best States in the
Union to Oklahoma and the two Indian
reservations just brought into mark ct
in Dakota, south of Pierre. In either
case, III two years they will wish they
were back at their old homes.
Stay in Iowa, and prepare your
farms by evergreen wind breaks, and
fast growing groves Tor fuel, and pro-
vide cheap but warm and comfor liable
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Mrs. General Custer.

New York Letter: Mrs. Custer has
now been eight years widow, and dur
ing the most of these years she sup
ported herself by acting as secretary to-
the Society of Decorative Art. Her
pension then from the Government was
only $50 month; but such o TODD was
raised by the papers and public about
this niggardly way: Of dealing with a.
brave officers widow, that short time
ago her pension Was doubled. So now
she is enabled by close economy to Live
without working, and this she has done
in most charming way. She has
little flat in a house in East Eighteenth
Street, and prettier or more attrae-
tive apartment it would be hard to find.
Hstheticisna and comfort in furnishing
are admirably combined. and in
this pretty little place AIrs. Gus
ter dispenses the most gracious
hospitality. She has no end Of
friends, both in New York and scat
tered throughout the country. and the
latter never cometo town thai they do
not run in to see Libby, "a for she is ex-
ceeding ly popular, as woman with her
manner could no we'll fail to be. In
speaking of her circumstances to me
the other day, Mrs. Custer said that her
poverty seemed to distress her friends a
good deal more than it did her, and
that they made up any deficiency in
her income by their practical attentions;
that she had more invitations to spend
weeks at time here and there, and 60
on long excursions anywhere from
Mexico to England than she could pos
sibly accept. My friends are kindness
ITSELF" she said, tsand seem to feel
that I am their special care" She is
so modest that she does not for 4 mo-
ment consider chat her pleasant com.
partnership is 9 thing to be. particularly
desired.
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Brown Bread,

1t is not the man with the most nose
that knows the most.
Energy and boy digging fish bait
both mean about the same thing.
The Psalmist was not looking at the
market gardener when he said: go
to the ant
The fact that Washington never told
a lie has been satisfactorily accounted
for. He never went fishing.
Il tell you, folks, 7 like to travel"
said granger; land for that reason I
generally go to mill myself.
No one ever heard of female VEN
triloquist. When woman talks all
the vocal machinery IS in motion.
Telegraph poles are now SO close
together in cities that there is no long
er any excuse for a drunken man fall
ing down.
''The first gray hair!'' All, yes;
what emotions the sight of it stirs up
unless you happen to find it in the
gravy.
A mountain filled with soft soap has
been discovered. This looks as though
nature had about concluded to take
hand in politics.
''Disguised his writing and was de-
tected. eh? Well, why didn't he have
the gun1ption to write his letters on
board q railroad train?''
Away back somewhere in the re-
mote past the heel of a woman's shoe
was bigger than a nickel, and was not
placed in the hollow of the foot,
In speaking of a certain lecturer,
rural paper remarked that he could
talk like q blister, from which it may
be inferred that he was some on the
draw.
The boys description of having a
tooth pulled was the best example of
boiled-down yividness ever given:
'Just before il killed me the tooth
came OUT Nothing in language
could express the idea better.
A man may have head more crowd
cd with knowledge than the Congress
sional library, and still be at loss to
understand why the shedding of his
undershirt in spring time is sure to
bring lapse of winter.
Eyes, he's terrible fast horse,''
said the admiring jockey, as ne picked
his teeth with a straw. There's no
use talking; 1 tell you, boys, that
horse can 60 farther in an hour than
bad news would travel in day.
The Widow Leslie claims that she is
too busy to marry. They must be a
little late with house-cleaning down in
Gotham. 1t is moss grown fact that
when widow can't take time to mar
ry she is up to some other devilment.
A sixteen-year old postal clerk de-
camped near New Orleans the other
day with a registered pouch contain
ing several thousand dollars. This is
q, great country. Even babes and
stockings take an interest in politics,
and emulate the deeds of statesmen.-
CHlcaOO LeGOey
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'sNell!'' he cried loudly.

She started at the sound of his voice;
her eyes had dazed expression; her
face was the picture of perplexity.
''Oh, Vic!' she cried, 'swhat does
this mean? The last I remember was
standing before the glass in my room,
and now I am here. I do not under
stand" " ~ =" -
A thought flashed across him, and
he said, grayely:
THAT unseen influence which watch.
es over US has brought you here. And
now that you are here. Nell, what have
you to say?"
A moments pause, her eyes again
| stared vacantly into space, and, kneel-
ing at his side, she said:
II have repented. Forgive me as
you hope for forgiveness"
II forgive you, Nell, freely-freely
free" His voice was lost in fit
of choking, and an internal hem-
orrhage covered his breast with his
life blood. He threw one arm about
her neck, convulsively, and drew her
toward him.
"Come. Nell, let us 60 where we
may be happy together, away from the
world he murmured.
''Whithersoever thou goest there
will go ALSO"
Darlington, who had logged her
footsteps 10 the very door of the room
and had remained outside to watch
and listen, softly entered the room.
He surveyed them for some time, an
evil smile upon his still more evil coun-
tenance. Then, touching Eleanor upon
the shoulder, he said, with a sneer:
"Come, my pretty one; it is nearly
midnight, and you are wasting time
idllng with a completed task. Your
lover is dead"
She did not move: she seemed not to
have heard him. He called her name
loudly and angrily, and, grasping her
shoulder, shook her roughly. This
elected no reply, and, in surprise and
wonder, he stepped to one side that
he might view her face.
He started back in horror, his face
livid, his eyes protruding, his form
trembling like an aspen, and, as the
beautiful strains of the Gloria stole
slowly through the wide-opcned street
door, filling as it went every nook and
Granny with divine melody, Barring
ton fled from the house, leaving the
dead alone with the dead.-Fraaak W.
Lee, IN Des MONIES Saturday Eveni1sg
Mail.
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AFTER WARD.

found my love enslaved and sold
To serve in letters hard and cold.
Rare beautiful she was to me,
For alone had eyes to see
Into her pure hearts privacy.
Oh, love, cried, these chains so cold
We're never forged apart to bold
Twin hearts that leap to sweet embrace.
Ayowal IN thine eyes trace, '55.
Thy heart makes answer in thy face.
Strong am I, love, thy chains to break;
One word, and to my heart take,
For veal or woe, for death or life,
Thy woman-wealth, and name thee wife.
"Alas!" she cried, II am named wife,"
what's In q namel The birds that mate
For seasons only, rightly rate
The part OF love; they love and live,
Each giving all that each can give
; She sighed ''Thou hast all I can give!"
Thou. hast my heart; cannot keep h..
The gift which from myself doth leap.
That Heaven will keep thee in It's care.
But am welded with Despair.
Nay, shame not manhood with the thought
OF passing JOY with virtue bought
Law writhing trampled in the dust
While Love, with drunken leer of lust,
Drains down de.irium's dregs, disgust.
y And thou wilt seek some far retreat
And die for me! Nay live, and beat
War-music out on iron fate.
Be leader In the good and great,
And bide the afterward wait.
The afterwa'd of that calm cline
OF Avalon, where waves of time
Are spurned from off an island strand
And mountainward the loye-lit land
Doth wait our rowing, hand in hand.
Farewell, my love! Unclasped turn
To where life's beck'ning beacons burn;
And every battle blow shall be
Dear as a kiss that comes from thee,
SWeet-sealing thy 1ond prophecy.
Il. O.. Cheverton, in The Current.
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Too Sleepy for Sentiment.

"And now as l am about to press
my goodnight kiss on your sweet lips,
l want % tell you. that this is the ha o.
piest moment of my life," gushingly
remarked the Lee avenue dude, as he
stood in Jarby's doorway holding
fast the hands of Miss Lulu at 2
o'clock this morning.
''And mine too" murmured Lulu,
as she suppressed q yawn.
"Your words fill me with delight;
tits your trusting love that prompts
you to utter them, is 1t not, darling?"
''No, not that"
'What is it, then sweet that makes
this the happiest moment of your
life?''
1.-The fact that you are going and
I can 60 to bed. I'm awful sleepy,'
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The Bantam Grandmother.

Ordinarily newborn chicken will
follow any hen, and any hen will cluck
and scratch for any newborn chick,
if not over a day or two old. but not
so with five little. bansanas recently
Matched in Justice Poe's heanery. His,
little bay, Harry, possessed a very:
beautiful little bantana hon, which was,
priced for it's beauty and gracefulness,
but no soonez had she served her time
on tie nest, and came strntt,ng forth,
with the fire little beauties, than her
worldly existence came to an end.
In this dilemma Harry tried to,get
another hen to. be tender and true to
the little orphans, but it remaineds for
the grandmother Of the orphans to. as
sumo this responsibility. Tbs. grand
mother was herself on a nest AMI try
ing to raise another brood, but readily
gave up the prospecrs and began to
care for grandchildren and shows un-
usual affection and sympathy for the
orphans.--Atza'ata Consultations,
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FARM, FIELD And RIgESlDE.
4 Few shorts,

1t is asserted that the objection for,
merly urged against the Norman horse
to the effect that it could not endure the
southern climate of the United States,
is fallacy, as proven by the experience
of the principal importers.
The late General Horace Capron, al
one time owned farm, the net receipts
from which amounted, in one year (1S47)
to over $1,000. It would seem as
though some men could make farming
pay. r.. 49, :.
Eighteen hundred dollars worth Of
strawberries have been raised on two
and q half acres of ground by far,ne,
of Delaware township, Camden County,
N. j., and he accordingly has been
awarded premium by the State Board
of Agriculture.
Having abandoned all hope OF peach
crop, this year, the fruit growers of the
Hudson River Valley have generally re-
solved to plant young Concord grape
vines by the thousand where peach or
chards now stand. For the space of sixty
by sixteen miles, between Cornwall and
Catskill the average of grape vines is
already very large. Good wine has
been made on the North River for years
past. Indeed, there are those who as
sert the vintage there already exceed
that of California, and are confident
the average quality of the wines is fully
equal to those of the Pacific Coast.
Every one owning a hotbead, and
there is nothing to prevent any one
living in the country owning one, should
bear in mind that by its use many
vegetables may be forwarded several
days in advance of the season. Beets,
for instance, sown in warm bed and
transplanted to the open ground, may
be had much earlier by this method.
Use only the turnip.rooted varieties,
however, for forcing; the long rooted,
kinds are apt to become forked and
covered with fibres Lima beans, GU
cumbers, sluashes, melons, ETC., plant
ed in inverted sods and placed in hot
bed can be brought into use before the
regular season.
In planting trees be careful to pre-
serve the roots moist, and the tops will
as rule take care of themselves.
Many planters drop their trees where
they are to be set, and allow them to
lay in the sun and wind without any
protection, until they become seriously
injured. The moment they are un-
packed at their destination, each tree
must at once be 'heeled Mn other
words, have the roots we'll covered in a
trench, and the soil tramped hard. 1t
is ruinous to have the air circulating
freely through the delicate ibres, and
almost as much care should be taken
with the trenching as the planting.
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VIII be Retired Early.

How innocently unfortunate is the
utter frankness of childhood. Young
Orotund Delsarte, the dramatic read
Ell, was taking tea, on invitation, with
the family, and in the evening favored
the guests with few of his most start
ling recitations. He was approached
by the midget of the family, fairy
in looks, but with an early develop.
ment of speech. es-
Nov, { know why you talk SO loud
when you speak pieces.' she said to
him. 4 & ...sszsE ~ .-....-s...-.. .-....-
."And why, my deara'' with little
patronizing stroke of the golden hair.
Cause you're Bellowcutionist;
ma said so. -
That child will be put to bed early
after this Hartford Post =
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A Young Girls Good Taste

a Lady in New York Mail
A we'll cooked meal served on a poor
ly set table ia Like gingerbread with the
spice left out. Say as you will, eat
ables taste better out Of pretty dishes;
but to be pretty, it is not necessary that
they should be expensive. A lady was
once visiting family whose means
were somewhat straitened, yet through
the dizziness and ingenuity of one OF
the daughters busy fingers, their home
always possessed a cosy prettness pe-
culiarly It's own. & .5. ...
'tMy DEAR" said the lady, / was
never so much surprised as when
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The Best Land for Melons.

From the Nashville American
The best land for growing melons is q
dark, sandy loan, having a gravelly SUBJ
soil, through which water rises within 2
or 6 feet of the surface. Such lands
are seldom found outside of the first or
second bottoms of large Or small rivers.
The high or upland which nearest ap-
proaches in character river bottom is
the best place to grow melons. The
best manure is well-rotten stable dung,
in connection with that of pigeons,
chickens and turkers; and the best fer
tilizer, guano, with or without the acid
phosphate. The land should DO plow-
ed, narrowed and fined in the fall, and
laid off so the melon hills will be from
ten to twelve feet apart each way.
Where each hill is to be an opening
should be made foot deep, and in cir
cular shape, three feet across. Into
this the manure and fertilizers should
be put to the extent in quantity that
will third fill the hole, the earth
returned and filing the remaining
two-thirds. This should be done in the
fall, so as to give a chance for the man
ures, fertilizers and earth to become in
corporated with each other. Plant q
dozen seed in {. hill as soon as the earth
is we'll warmed up and there is nothing
to fear from frost. Commence cultiva-
ting as soon as plants are fairly above
ground, and when the cut-worms have
done their work, thin to two plants in a
hill. Continue cultiyating, and keep
the land clean till the vines begin to
run, but beware of disturbing them in
any way after that period Of growth has
been reached. If our correspondent
will find the right kind Of land, and viii
follow these directions, he will be pref
ty sure to get large, if not early, mel
ons. But still he will find many diff
culties in his way, and we advise him
before he undertakes growing melons
on any considerable scale to take a tour
among the melon growers, near and re-
mote, and he will return home feeling
the time and money we'll spent.