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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
A New Story of Gen. G,ar+

The Cleveland Leader prints thu i,
lowing extract from tile manuso,,..
notes of Col. A. H. MARYLAND, who i.
at the head of the army postal service
during the war:
1.-THE first time that General Graz.
left ~Cutpepper Courthouse, where Il.
headquarters then were, for Wasbipc-
ton city the quartermaster made nm
special train TO accommodate the siok
and such as might have leave. Of al.
sence, the road being taxed to its n.
most capacicy to bring forward supplias
One passenger car in the train was ra'
served for General Grant and sucb u.
ticers as might accompany him. Only
two OIL three officers were with him and
they did not attract any special atten.
ton as they passed into the car. Ths
General was always the plainest and
least ostentatious man in the army. an
the cars Of the train except the on.
reserved for General Grant were soon
crowded, and many soldiers were stand.
ing on the platform of the station. Gen.
eral Grant was sitting alone on the side
Of the car next to the platform and near
the door, when a soldier came to the
door, and was told by the guard that
he could not come into that car. Gen.
eral Grant asked the guard what the
man wanted, and was told that he want
ed to go to Washington. The General
then asked why he was not permitted
to come into the car and was answered
that this Car is a special car for Gen
eral Grant and his staff The General
quickly replied, Let HIM come in. |
only occupy one seat in this car. This
was the first intimation the guard had
that General Grant and his staff were
in the car. The General then asked
what the other men were doing who
were standing on the platform, and be
ing told that they wanted TO go {
Washington, he said, Let all who ca
crowd in get in The car was 500
filed, n private soldier taking a sea
beside the General and engaging him il
conversation nearly all the way TO-
Alexandria, not knowing with whom be
vas talking"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
FARM. FIELD And FIRESIDE.
Latest Cooking Recipes.

COCOANUT PUFFS.-Powered sugar
one cup, two cups dessicated cocoanut,
beaten whites of two eggs, two table
spoonfuls of flour or cornstarch. Drop
on buttered paper on tins. Bake quick
ly.
MoLAssEs CANDY.-This is simply
made with a cup of molasses, and one
of sugar, half a cup of vinegar, and a
little butter. Some people prefer the
juice of a lemon to vinegar i'll this re-
cipe. Our little mes are very fond Of
butternuts mixed in the half cooked
candy, and pre- r this to any store con
fections that can be bought.
ANGEL FooD.-Whites of 20 eggs,
beaten stitly, two tea cupfuls of flour
with two teaspoonfuIs of cream-of-tar-
tar. Sift -four and cream of-tartar five
times, three cups of graduated sugar,
cups not quite full. Sift the sugar IN
TO the we'll beaten whites of eggs, mov
ing it in the sieve with a fork that it
may pass through evenly and gradually
Bake on unbuttered pans one hour or
one hour and a quarter in a well-heated,
but not scOrching. oven. Cut out of
pans when cool. One-half this quaint
ty may be made, but l succeed best
when | prepare the whole.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs.-A pound of
sugar, half a cup of chocolate grated
fine, large teaspoOnful of butter, and
tablespoonful of cream. Boil all the
ingredients without the chocolate, add
ing that when the rest is partly cooked.
Boil till brittle, pour into buttered pans
and when nearly cold, cut into squares.
ONION n SAGE FRITTERs.-Twelve
ounces of onions. SIX of bread crumbs,
a teaspoonful of dried sag and four
eggs. Peel and slice the onions, put
them in a deep dish, pour boiling water
over them, and let them remain a few
minutes; then pour off the water and
fry the onions, or put them in the oven
with a little butter, pepper and salt,
and when nicely Drowned, mix the sage
with them. Put about four ounces of
the onion to the bread crumbs, add the
eggs. we'll beaten, season with pepper
and salt and fry in fritters; put the
remainder of the onions on the dish
round the fritters, and serve with
brown sauce and apple sauce. If fresh
sage is used, it should be boiled a little
and chopped.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Some Questions in Everyday Life.

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
What is ones social duty? Often we
hear one friend ask this question of an
other. Is ones social done by accept
ing and giving invitations. What do
we bind ourselves to in accepting
the hospitality of a friend or ac-
quaintance? Is our duty by her done
when we have entered the portal of
our hostess and have given her greet.
ing? Do we W anything to her
guests? Ii we are a man, do we do our
duty when we neglect speaking to the La
dies whom we know? five see a chance
when we can be of service to onr hos
tess in making things pleasant and
agreeable for her, is not that our duty
to be ready and happy TO do her bid
ding or even to anticipate it? If we are
a woman our power to do more than to
make ourselves as agreeable as VIC may
is limited. We can then only be kind,
generous and considerable of other wo-
men as it comes in our way. We can
not seek the opportunities of being
polite and making the happiness of
those about us as men can. Selishness,
alas that we see SO much of it where
there is the least excuse for it.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Miners WHO Held on to Their Pila

William III. Stevens went to Detroi1
and retired on q million; Fred Letter
took as much to Chicago. and aiew
others followed their example. bu'
they were the exceptions. x.Go
John Il. Routt made a big strike IL
1877. He commenced as a "way-down
p~rospector. Joe Watson, his partner,
was equally fortunate, and 50 WERE sen
George G. Corning, who made $3OO,oOv,
and ex- Secretary Teller, who maaS
5000 900. Casey also made Q gooi deal
of money in Colorado and had the sense
to save it. Gov. j. b. Grant, ". q.
James and +. Il. Eddy realized aposs
5000, 900 each. Simon Foss maue
500. 900 and he now has . large ca.1i9
rancho in Indian Territory. In fac,' :
can give o the names of q dozen otneI
men who have done well and are now
on the road to large fortunes Dus
when you come to speak OF m~illlonaifes'
there's mighty few worth talking aDon.,
leastwise in Colorado. Those WY
commence mining and make a stake aais
seldom stick to il and succeed. i,1
fortunate men are those who ave inc
good sense to embark their pron's -
good paying enterprises eisewneis,
Mining, like gambling, is q mighty fisny
business.-Jeff Rice in New YORK o'1a'
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Eggs Under a Hen.

The number of eggs that should go
under a hen depends upon the season.
Those set in January or February
should not have more than seven, while
in May the number for the same hens
might be increased to thirteen, or for a
Cochin, even to fifteen, if the eggs be
of the same breed. We have to con
slider not only how many chickens the
hen can hatch, but also how
many she can well protect after
they have reached a size twice as
large as the size of the eggs. Many
early chickens are lost every year be-
cause of insufficient protection from the
mother during the first few months.
Such as are not fairly covered in cold
weather, even if they do not die, will in
most cases be puny little things that
will never add profits to the growers
purse. Better hatch and raise but five
or six early chicks to q hen, and have
them healthy and strong, than twice as
many poor little things. In April
eleven eggs to a hen will answer very
well, provided she be we'll feathered.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
The Business Gait.

A good stalking gait for a horse is
best. Few farmers think of this; most
Of them want the colt to be a trotter.
The trotter craze has been an awful
curse to the country. It makes me sick
to think Of it. How many young men
have gone to the bad on account Of it;
and what good does it all do? The
horses of to-day are not the equals in
endurance of those of the fathers. The
horses of earlier days did more and
harder work, lived longer and kept
eounder than ours They trot faster
now, but what of that? IT is o Write. If
1t is, which makes vice. Teach the colt
to walk, to start on q walk, and to keep
on walking till it is hidden to go faster /;
such a colt viii make q pleasant driver
and last longer, and Will be worth .
great deal more to a sensible man.
Break the colt before il il harnessed
TO any vehicle. 1t will make q safer
and more easily managed animal. ]
have such a horse, and the other day
he saved the team because he would
not run away with his mate. He walked,
AID turned in at home all right, with q
,blg load OF coal. The driver careicssly
left them without tying, and it was
cold. A fast-walking horse will 90
further and faster than one broken to
.go'by spurts, and do il easier, and last
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Ammonia for Plants.

Last year 1 was induced to try an ex-
pertinent in chrysanthemum growing,
and for this purpose purchased n
pound of sulphate of ammonia, which I
bottled and corked, as ammonia evapo-
rates very rapidly. I then selected
four plants from my collection, putting
them by themselves, gave them a tea
spoonful of ammonia in a gallon of wa
ter twice a week. In a fortnight's time
the result was most striking for though
I watered the others with liquid COW
manure, they looked lean when COM
pared with the ammonia watered plants
whose leaves turned to a very dark
green, which they carried to the
edge of the dots until the flowers were
cut. As a matter of course the flowers
were splendid. The ammonia used is
rather expensive as l bought it from a
chemists shop. This year l intend get
ting agricultural ammonia, which is
much cheaper. / have also tried it on
strawberries, with the same satisfactory
result. the crop being nearly double
t t of the others. 1t is very powerful
aud requires to be used with caution
London Garden.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Buster-Masin a wastsfal Business.

Next to milk butter is by far the
largest product of the dairy, and the
costliest and most wasteful of intrinsic
value in its production. T~wenty-ive
pounds of milk-the average weight ac-
quired for making apound Of butter
would sustain a mans life well nigh
half a month, while the butter weuld
supply bodily waste for hardly half a
day. The life -sustaining matter in the
form Of caseine and albumen In the
milk for a pound of butter, would be
just about equal to ten pounds Of meat,
all Of which is sacrificed as a direct
human food, and is only indirectly util-
lied as q by. product, to be fed
to animals and after sacrificing
nine-tenths of its life-supporting abil-
itY, will return one-tenth IN q new
form fit for human use--au for one
pound of butter which is little else than
q luxury, and not an indispensable one.
1t is but a pound of hydrocarbon, an
effective equivalent for which science
at q profit can replace for ten cents.
When thousands of the laboring poor
in Cur towns and cities, in whose veins
q kindred blood is flowing. are pinched
and suffering for the want of just such
food, to keep soul and body together,
is it q Christian work to occasion SO
large q sacrifice Of useful food for o
little luxury? No one will say nay, for
we "all do its"-Professor l.. B. Arnold.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

The chief point to note about the
dress of a Partisan woman. observes the
fashionable Philadelphia Telegraph, no
matter what her station in life may be,
is its appropriateness. She does not
wear as costly garments usually as the
American of the same social class. but
they are always thoroughly suitable to
her position and to the occasion on
which they are to be worn. A French
elegante, for instance, will neither go
shopping In a velvet costume nor to q
wedding or official reception in a cloth
jacket and cashmere gown. She never
goes out on foot In superb and snowy
apparel, or appears at a ball in a dark
silk made high in the neck and with
long sleeves. Etiquette forbids her re-
ceiving even the most intimate Of her
gentlemen friends In hsr morning dress
though this rule has been relaxed of
late in favor of the very suberb morn
ing toilets Of brocade and satin and
lace which have been concocted for
morning wear by the leading Partisan
dressmakeYs. These, however, are
simply reception toilets for morning in
stead of for afternoon wear. If she
desires to go out on foot she dons the
simplest CT costumes in dark cloth or
cashmere. Her visiting costume may
be as magnificent as her purse or her
desires may make it, and the same may
be said of the dress IN which she re-
ceives callers on her Eat horaen day.
Her theater bonnet is much more
showy and dressy than her visiting
one. For street wear she tlons Q
boh<et6agsery dark velvet or felt. In
the matter OF gloves and chassure she is
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

always irreproachable. For evening
dress the satin slippers and silk stock
ings precisely match the toilet with
which they are to be worn. There was
an attempt made at one time to intro,
duce the wearing of scarlet hose and
black slipper with white evening
dresses, but it proved a total failure.
Neither we're black slippers and stock
iDgs ever worn in Paris with white or
pale tinted ball dresses. That fashion
was not French, it was possibly Eng
lish, and unfortunately it was Amerl
can.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Spring Suits.

Harper's Bazaar says: The general
designs for spring suits is that Of short
basques, with long drapery and plain
lower skirts, and this suggestion is Civ
en- alike in dresses Of one fabric or for
combinations Of two materials. The
upper part of the dress will be of plain
goods, with figured stuffs for the
trimming and for the lower skirt. The
short plain basque of bison, serge, or
of camel,s hair, will be inlaid with vel
vet in front and back alike; sometimes
the velvet forms q short curved or
pointed plsstron, while in other dresses
it extends to the waist line like q vest
in front, and this is repeated in the
middle forms of the back. Revers or
bretelles of the wool goods edge the
inlaid velvet, and these revers are some
times covered with braid. Polka
basques for the house are very
similar in shape to-. thc jackets
used over them for the street they ex-
tend plainly over the hips, but are quite
short, reaching only three or four in
ches below the waist line in the back,
where they are shortest, lying smoothly
on the tSurnure without pleats. Very
narrow vests are preferred when velvet
is used, especially If it is Of q contrasts
ing color. The deep pointed aprons
are now made of q separate breadth Of
seioth and disappear entirely. on the
sides next the belt. leaving In view all
the underskirt, which may be ct q velvet
or OF the plain cloth stitched in clusters,
or tucked, or else braided. The straight
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
De.ry.ag VI. whsas GROWING.

The farmers Of Iowa were among the
first to break away from the one-crop
system. and TO diversity their grain
growing with dairying. There are now
400 creameries or cheese factories In that
State, and their patrons find the indus
try much more profitable than raising
wheat at 90 to 20 cents a bushel opsaand
that is worth from SIS to 800 per acre.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

longer. When a working horse is
pushed to a trot it will walk every
chance it gets and walks slow to get its
breath and rest. A driving horse with
a light draft can trot with more ease,
but a good walker on a long heat will
make the time much ooner tEan one
could suppose. Franklin D. Curtis,
kirkbv Homestead, n. Y.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

full back drapery may HANG o,.;.
entire length, or is may be laid II INN lts
pleats, or, if it must be more ho = sarge
it is pleated in a single puff, and aT thll
pleats are cleary defined, both i ou ~
puff and in the cloth which falls hai lne
to the foot. peiov
Sharp County record., 1885-05-07
For Weak Women.

Mrs. LYDIA E. PINKHAM: 9About the
first Of September, 1881, my wife was taken
with uterine hemorrhage. The best styp-
tics the physician could prescribe did not
check it and she got more and mere en-.
feebled. She was troubled with Prolapsus
Uteri, Leucorrhea, numbness of the limbs,
sickness of the stomach and loss Of appe-
tite. I purchased trial bottle of your
Vegetable Compound. She said she could
d:scover sal,ttary effect from the first dose.
Now she is comparatively free from the
Prolapsus, Stomach's sickness, &c. The
hemorrhage Is very much better and is
less at the regular periods. Her appetite
is restored, and her general health and
strength are much improved. We feel that
we have been wonderfully benefited AID
our hearts are drawn out in gratitude for
the same and in sympathy for other suf-
ferers, for whose sakes we allow our names
to be used"
G. W. EATON, Thurston, n. Y.
Sharp County record., 1885-05-07
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Feather Cake: Two cups of flour,
one cup of milk, one egg, one cup OF
sugar, half a cup of butter, half tea
spoonful of sodl, one of cream OF tar
tar Flavor with lemon.-Ihe House
hold.
Little onions, or onion sets, excep,
q few for early table use, are a useless
and an expensive investment, when
onions weighing two pounds can be
raised direct from the seed in one sea-
son.-EGchdnge.
-MarmaIade Pudding; To a quarter
of pound of suet, chopped fine, allow
one-half pound of fine bread crumbs
and a quarter of a pound of brown
SUGAR. Mix all together in a basin and
add a pot of marmalade, reserVing
enough to make the sauce, unless wine
sauce is to be served with it. Lastly,
add two eggs well beaten up. Put the
m xture into q mould and steam for
couple of hours. Serve with marmalade
or wine sauce. N Y Herald.
Lima beans is a crop that delights
IN WARM WtdtHCl, III N'.l LII DOit civ
plenty of manure or compost. Poles
are used to support them, as a rule, but
brush answers as well, and can be easily
procured and cleared away. The tops
of the vines should be pinched off when
they reach the height of five feet. which
will cause denSer foliage and
heavier yield, especially if the pinching
process be extended to the shoots that
are set out. The plants should be kept
clear and free from weeds.-Ir0y Times.
After tea has been stepped in boil
inc water for three minutes, over five
sixthS of the valuable contitutentS are
extracted. At the end of ten minutes,
the leaves are almost entirely exhaust
ed. Prolonged infusion gives no ad-
ditonal strength to the liquid, but it
does cause the loss, by volatilization, of
the flavoring principles Hard waters
are to be preferred to soft waters in the
teapot, as the hard waters dissolve less
of the tannin out of the leaves. The
bearing of these laboratory results on
the art of making good cup of tea is
obvious.
Rats can be compelled to vacate
premises by using mixture of chloride
of lime and water at the places fire.
quented by these animals. Some Of
the mixture ought to be poured into the
holes. Rats have great aversion to
the odor of chloride of lime, and betake
themselves at once as far as possible
from it. Unlike most other mixtures
for abating rat inroads this mixture Of
chloride of lime and water is a safe one
to employ, and as it does not kill the
rats there are no dead bodies of victims
undergoing decomposition in inaccesS-
ible places and polluting the atmos-
phere after the riddance has been
effected. - Chicago JOur1Gl.-
Sharp County record., 1885-05-07
"The Slough of Dependency

In which you are wallowing, on account of
some of those diseases peculiar to you,
madame, and which have robbed you Of
the rosy hue of health, and made life a
burden to you, you can easily get out Of.
DR.. Pierce's " "Favorite Prescription" will
free you from all such troubles, and soon
recall the rose tint of health to your cheek,
and the elasticity to your step. 1t is most
perfect specific for all the weaknesses and
Irregularities peculiar to your sex. 1t
cures liberation, displacements, "internal
fever,' bearing-down sensations, removes
the tendency to cancerous affections, and
corrects all unnatural discharges. By
druggists.
Sharp County record., 1885-05-07
Tho killinn of C. NJ HODGES. at

The killing of G. NJ. Hodges, at
Cetulla, suggests the idea OF a change
in the treatment of murder eases. Let
it be understood that when Cne man
kills another the Her shall be shot
down on sight, and then hold the third
party to answer to the charge OF the
first killing only and show justification
or take the consequences. If every
man knew that if he should kill an
other man, the justification of it
would be tried after his own death,
which must speed ly follow the original
killing, the tendency would be to make
fewer reports of bloody deeds.-San
AntoniO (Ier.) ETpreSS.
Sharp County record., 1885-05-07
RlCHM MOND, VA.
Society at Richmond at the Beginning OF
This Century.

Society at Richmond at the Beginning OF
This Century.
1t would be worth while, had we the
space, to present here characteristic
sketch of Richmond society at the be-
ginning of this century. The cravat
was the important part OF "a gentleman's
toilet. A Richmond exquisite of the
first decade of this century vested him.
self like a silk-worm in the ample folds
of his cravat. His valet held one end
and he the other of the long thin
texture, the former walked round his
master till both ends met, when they
were tied in a large bow. If the gentle
man did not enjoy the luxury of wallet,
one end of the cravat was tied to the
bed-post. and he walked toward the
latter, turning all the while, and wrap
ping his neck in his cravat till he was
wound up like an Egyptian mummy.
The stiff collar of the dress-coat stood
as high as the ears, and was kept back
several inches from the head to enable
the wearer to turn to the right or the
left. Buckskin breeches and top-boots
completed the gentleman's apparel, the
perfection of both depending on the
tightness of the fit. A quarter of a
century earlier-that is, about the time
of the American Reyolution-Richmond
was a smaller town than either Norfolk
or Fredericksburg. Its safe and CEN
tral position caused it to be selected as
the capital of the State but in the year
1775 it was a cluster of villages rather
than town.
The gentleman of Richmond at that
time wore an old-fashioned dress
breeches, stockings, large roomy coats,
cooked hats, and knee-buckles. They
figured in magnificent waist-coats
covered with flowers in gold threads,
and reaching to their knees, hig -heeled
shoes, queues tied with gay ribbons,
and snowy storm of powder on the
hair.
The favorite amusement of the most
stylish Richmond ladies at that time
was game of cards called loo. The
ladies met at each others houses, and
after discussing dish of tea and an-
other of gossip, the card-table was
brought out. Gentlemen were admit
ted to this entertaining circle, and he
who played the most careless and
dashing game was the most welcome,
provided he was not too successful in
his winnings. The stakes were small,
but by forfeits, ETC., the money in the
pool would sometimes accumulate until
it amounted to $50, S75, and 800.
Then the game became intensely inter
esting. The practice of gaming be-
came at last a social evil; domestic
duties faeet g
their children, wives rihed the pocket
books of their husbands; gentlemen
gambled away their gold vest buttons,
and ladies their earrings and bracelets,
carried away by the mad spirit of loo.
The burning of the Richmond Theatre
on the 26th of December, 1911, by
which seventy-two valuable lives were
lost, changed the light tone of society
to one of a graver and more serious
character. L. Didter, IN Ha1Der'S
Magazine.