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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-09

employees. 1t was possible that few clerks
who felt that from their inefficiency they
had no chance of remaining in the service
had endeavored to effect combination
among the older and more efficient men,
but they had failed in their at
tempt. The official postal guide for
May contains notice over the signature
of the postmaster general that honest and
efficient clerks who have not turned their
attention to politics need have no. fear Of
being disturbed in Office. ''That declara-
tiOn in regard to the postal clerks and their
retentiOn," said the postmaster general,
''has never been departed from in single
instance. / believe one mistake was made
but when | discovered it restored the man
to the service There have been very
considerable number Of removals made, but
l think that not less than three-quarters
or perhaps nine-tenths of them were
made because of inef1iciency, because they
were not good clerks, because they
were known as ''dead woods" A very
limited percentage have been removed be-
cause they were partisans. 1t is not un-
likely that many clerks who were removed
for inefficiency have said that they were re-
moved for partisan reasons, but the truth is
just as have stated. The examinations just
completed show that during the months Of
March, April and May the morale of the
service has greatly improved, and better re-
suits have never been obtained in all exam
nation"
Army and Navy Retirements.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June S.-The Army and
Navy Register publishes a list of retire
ments in the regiments of United States in
fantry which will occur up to the year 1902.
1t appears from this list that there will
be no less than thirtytwo retirements
of officers of infantry in the
year 1900, whereas in some intervening
years there vial not be more than three or
four. When it is considered that there will
be a large number of retirements in the ar
tillery and cavalry about the same time it
will be seen that the year 1900 will witness
the placing of more than fifty officers of the
army on the retired list. The whole number
of retirements from all branches of the SER
vice during the present year will be only
ten, but the number increases to twenty in
1856 and the average for each year after
1886 will be more than twenty-five. Army
officers who complain of the SloWness of
promotion win evidently find much less
reason for complaint in the near future.
For the young officers who are now enter
ing the army the prospect of rapid rise is
really brilliant. The same is true in a
measure with the navy, and it is a fact
which few people seem to be aware of that
there never was better time for entering
the service than now.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Pure Well Water.

The water of we'll should be pre-
served from contact with any organic
matter whatever. The we'll should
therefore be closed perfectly on the
sides and top 70 prevent earth worms,
small animals, and roots of trees from
penetrating. The best lining is of bricks
laid on their face lengthways aroun d
the well, and with two or three inch
spaces between the ends breaking joints.
This is done up to the water level, and
above that the bricks should be laid in
cement as closely and tightly as posi-
BILE. It is mistake to suppose that a
we'll should be open to the air. On the
contrary, this is not advisable because
the water would be exposed to myriads
of germs and other floating objection
able matter in the air. Upon this &C.
count drive we'll or an artesian we'll fur
nishes the purest water, and those wells
only which are closely covered up are
safe from atmospheric impurities. A
good cover is large Hagstone bedded
down with cement upon the we'll wall Il
foot above the surface, with the earth
graded up to it SO as to throw off the
surface water.
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Importar CO Of Bee.Keepiu1s

The Popular Science Monthly says
bee keeping is no modern industry,
being as old rs history, but in its scien
tifc developments it is of recent growth.
In these times, when science is proper
ly taking its place at the helm in all
departments of human industry and &C.
tivity, it is not strange that it is prompt
~ assuming the guidance Of bee culture.
This is utilitarian as we'll as scientific
age; and this is why bee culture is be-
ing so rapidly developed for its extra
ordinary growth is only in the ratio OF
it's utility. Though known to COM
nerce for twenty-five hundred years,
hitherto it has been followed and
known, in this country at least, princi-
pally as a local industry. But bee Gull
ture, from the soundest economic con-
siderations, ought undoubtedly to be-
come a great national industry fostered
and protected by the State. Agriculture
is naturally part of, and closely allied
with, agriculture, lnasmuch as the nee
tar gathered by the one is Immediately
derived from the same fields and for
ests that hold the abundant ingather-
ings of the other. Indeed, the bulk Of
the honey crop of this country (which is,
in round numbers, about one million
pounds annually comes from the bee
keeping which is in connection, more
or less, with farming. -
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about one-haH Of those Matched die
within few days.
Slowed Sorghum for steck-

Mr.. Allen is right in preferring sweet
corn to sorghum, particularly when sor-
ghum is cultivated IN drills; it is coarse
for feeding in barn, and cattle will not
eat it clean when chopped. The way
to feed heavy sorghum cane, green or
cured, is to haul it to the pasture,
where, if grass is short, 1t will be eaten
clean. But sorghum sowed like 1oillet,
two or three bushels of seed per acre.
gives me as valuable crop as / can
raise for stock. When sown or planted
early, it is very slow to terminate,
when sown late on wen-pulver-
lied ground and lightly har-
rowed, it will take care Of itself. ]
select the poorest land and plough ind
SOW about the first of June. 1t won't
hurry you about cutting like millet; you
can let it stand until weather is sure. /
let it remain three or four days before
raking up, and then stack it in a long
narrow stack. Sorghum will do to
chop, green or dry, when raised as above.
It has several advantages over millet;
it gives more and better feed per acre;
it is surer in 4 dry season. Here in
the West, where cattle run in stalk
fields, sorghum let stand uncut furnishes
more and better winter forage than any
other crop. Lastly, no other sowed
crop leaves the ground SO clean for next
year. The seed does not shell off i'll
raking as the millets do.--Dr. Mulvey,
Coffey Co., Kan.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Good Old Proverbs.

Keep good company or none. Never
be idle. If your hands cannot be USE
fully employed, attend to the cultiva-
ton Of your mind. Always speak the
truth. Make few promises. Live up
to your engagements. Keep your own
secrets If you have any. When you
speak to a person, look him in the face.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews Of virtue. Good
character is above all things else. Your
character cannot be essentially injured
except by your own acts. II any one
speaks i'll of you, let your life be SO
that mono will believe him, Ever live,
misfortune excepted, within your in
come. When you retire to bed, think
over what you have been doing during
The day. Make no haste to be rich if
you would prosper. Small and steady
gains give prosperity with tranquility
Of mind. Avoid temptation, through
fear that you may not withstand it.
Earn money before you spend it. New
ar run in debt unless YOU see way to
get out again. Never borrow if you can
possibly avoid it. Do not marry until
you are able to support . wife. Never
speak i'll of any one.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Pretty Work For the Needle.

TABLE CovER.-Get square of dark
blue felt. Have design stamped in
the four corners concentrated for
braiding Or COUGHING, but have them
five inches from the edge. Follow the
pattern first with gold thread and then
on one side with cherry or scarlet silk,
on tho other with olive green. The
combination of colors is very pretty.
Sew narrow silk gimp all around the
cover just below the work. At inter-
walls fasten to this small gilt crescents
through which several tassels have
been passed. Let the tassels just come
to the edge of the felt.
CLOCK ScARF.-This must be just the
width Of the clock and long enough to
droop down ten or twelve inches below
the edge of the material. If there is
already mattel lambrequin the
colors must be chosen accordingly.
A very pretty one is made Of
dark crimson silk, bordered upon the
three sides with band of velvet of the
same color. Just above the bottom
band paint or embroider spray OF but
tercups. Finish the lower edge with a
heavy silk fringe, or with tassels of
gold and crimson.
T1DY.-A pretty and serviceable tidy
can be made out of fine linen Make
several bands OF the linen of the length
Of the square which you want the tidy
to be. These bands should be third
of an inch wide when completed. Sew
these bands together crossing them so
as to leave two-inch squares. Cut out
pieces of the linen with four broad
round leaves which will measure two
inches the longest part each way. But
tonhole the edges with scarlet cotton.
Put these into the squares with lace
stlches, and when all are sewed togeth-
er trim around with broad lace. This
tidy can be washed.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Living in New York.

After all, New York is the place to
live. If you want to work, to dream,
to study, to mediate, go to Boston, but
if YOU want to feel the vital throb of the
worlds life, go to New York. Out
from half ideal life of books and ideas,
and people who live largely for INTEL
lectual and immaterial results, you may
go to New York and are suddenly pre-
cipitated into its magnetic life: its
strong attractions, repulsions; its de-
pressions and it's exaltations, and per-
haps after few days, if you are sensi-
tive to the presence Of these throbb1ng
currents of life, you will suddenly leave
it, feeling as if, in another hour, the
pressure of this strangely electric at
mosphere would be more than you
could bear--and 1--we. Would one get
used to it in time? I question. Yet
once away, the spell of its fascination is
upon you, and you long for all this
wine Of life over again. Roses and
champagne are not good for steady
diet, it may be, but the perfume and ex-
hilaration are about you, and you long
to breathe it again.-Correspondence
Boston Traveller. :
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
a. T.mckv Man.

. Great excitement has prevailed here over
SIS 900 having been drawnin the last draw
ing of The Louisiana State Lottery, May
18th, and we sent our reporter to PERSONAL
~ Interview the lucky man. He found him
when the following conversation took place.
What is your name and occupation1
In Chandler, bridge carpenter.
Doyou live here? Yes. | board at the
Stacker House and room in one OF the cot
tages near the park. s..s.-. o.
I, How long have you been patronizing the
Louisiana Lottery?
Ever since my accident last December.
Was it you that we reported lying at the
Stacker House last New Years day with q
broken arm?
Yes, while in the company's employment
+ fell from the top of an ice house, injuring
myself very seriously.
Isit true you severed your connection with
the company the day you heard OF your
good luck?
No, I continued at my usual employment
ing, and left.
Where did you purchase the ticket?
Direct from A. Dauphin, manager OF the
company at New Orleans. 1t was one
fifth ticket of $25, 900.
When didyou first learn that your ticket
had Won a prize? I saw it in the Kansas
City Times.
Had you any trouble in gettiug the
$4,000? None whatever. I asked Adams
Express Co. to collect it, and it came all
right. without any delay.
Were there any drawbacks or deductions?
No. Nothing but the usual rates for col
lection made by the Express Co.--Ottawa
(Kas.) Republican, June IL.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Feeding Young Chickens.

Feeding the young chickens is very
essential matter. More chickens are
lost by overlooking than by any other
mistake. "A very common complaint in
young chickens during the first few
days Of their lives is diarrhea and a
sticky discharge which adheres to the
vent, and very soon kills them. This
is caused by overlooking. A young
chick weighs but little more than one
ounce, and at the usual allowance Of
food for . young animal about Is grains
IS sufficient fora daily supply. This is
about as much as will lie upon dime,
and would not more than fill the crop
quite full # this is given at once mis-
chief is done Immediately, and yet
Young chicks are urged to eat several
Tunes day Is much as is sufficient for
q whole dey's allowance. Consequently
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Moving Bees.

4 Spring is the best time to move bees.
The combs are not heavy with honey,
there is no hot weather to melt the
combs or to suffocate the bees, the
combs are tough with brood, and there
are comparatively few bees in the hives.
A spring wagon is the best to carry
them, but lumber wagon can be used
if plenty Of straw is placed under the
hives and the driver is careful. If the
top of the hive is covered with wire
cloth it will afford sufficient ventilation
early in the season; in hot weather,
both top and bottom of the hive should
be covered with wire cloth. The frames
should be nailed at the ends to prevent
their slipping about. When bees are
moved only short distance there is usu-
ally trouble Of their returning to their
former location. If the distance
that they are to be moved is
very short, it can be accomplished by
moving them only few inches each
day; if the distance is several rods, the
bees should be fastened in their hives,
after which they can be carried to their
new location. Before releasing them,
however, board should be leaned
against the front of each hive. Then,
as the bees come rushing out, they
strike their heads against the board,
which causes them to notice their new
location and take bearings" as they
leave for the fields. Remove as many
land marks as possible, from the old 10.
cation, and if necessary, keep shoulder
ing, smoking fires burning for few
hours, upon the place previously occu.
pied by the hives.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Onion and Lettuce Salad.

Two heads of lettuce and small
Spanish onion must be taken, as well as
Six tablespoonful of olive oil, three of
vinegar, half teaspoonful of salt, and
one eight of teaspoonful of pepper.
After mixing the salt and pepper with
the oil, add the vinegar, and stir very
thoroughly. Strip. off and put aside
the green leaves Of lettuce, and after
washing the heart leaves in cold water,
! drop them into pan of ice water, to
make them crisp. Peel the onion (it is
we'll to peel it under water) and with q
sharp knife cut it into shavings.
Shake the lettuce in colander until
Il. is free Of water. Put the lettuce and
orion into q salad bowl in alternate lay
ers, sprinkling little of the dressing
upon each layer. Serve the salad as
soon as possible after it is made; or, to
put it in another way, do not make it 50
early that it will stand q long time be-
fore being eaten. The green leaves OF
the lettuce. which were put away at the
outset, may be boiled and hashed 4 like
spinach, and served as 9 cooked vege-.
table. Il III y II .5 .j.8 n 7, III
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03

3e.fs 4 sy
doctor, this remedy was tried IN the hope
that it might relieve; it did more--it
dies failed. Being twenty miles from 8
cured. Take five drops Of ammonia in
half pint Of water, as hot as you can
drink, twice daily. Inhale the ammo
MIA by the nostrils, breathing it into
the head and lungs as freely as possible.
The pain will soon be relieved and it
will gradually recede toward the seat Of
the trouble, which is often in the teeth.
Be patient, continue to inhale the am
monia frequently, and the diseased
nerves will begin to regain their vitali-
4ty. Sound and natural sleep will come
at night time, and if these simple direc-
tons are followed for three days cure
will be effected"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Where the Scorpion Gets His
Poison.

When he strikes you with the end Of
his tail, like g wasp, he exudes q ven
omous liquid, and man might better
hold red-hot iron in his hand than
to get a tenth part of drop of this
liquid into his blood. 1t is not neces-
sarily fatal, particularly in the Bahia
mas; but it condenses the heat forty.
furnaces. In some parts OF South
America scorpion bites are frequently
fatal, but l have not heard of any one
having been killed by them in Nassau.
This is easily accounted for. The
scorpionlikes to feed on decayed wood.
In South America, where dye-woods
and other poisonous woods abound
the scorpion feeds upon them, and
thus work into themselves a good sup
ply of outside poison, which, taken to-
gether with his naturally poisonous
liquid, does it's work for whoever is
unfortunate enough to bestung. But,
in Nassau, such poisonous woods are
few, and the scorpions have to fatten
themselves respectfully On pine, cedar
and mahogany From a Nassau Let
ter.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Married Folks Would Ee Happier


Ifhome trials were never told to neigh
bOrs.
If they kissed and made up after a
quarrel.
If household expenses were proper
toned to receipts.
If they tried to be agreeable as in
'courtshlp days.
If each would try to be support and
comfort to the other.
If each remembered that the other is
human being and not all angel.
II women were as kind to their hus-
bands as they were to their lovers.
If men were as thoughtful of their
wives as they were tor their sweethearts,
II fuel aud provisions were laid in
during the high tide Of the Summer.
II both parties remembered that they
were married for worse as we'll as for
better.
If there were fewer silk and velvet
street costumes, and more plain, tidy
house dresses.
If there were fewer please darlings"
in public and more common manners
in private.
If wives and husbands would take
some pleasure as they go along, and
not degenerate into mere toiling ma
chimes. Recreation is necessary to keep
the heart in it's place, and to get along
without big mistake.
II they would contide in each other.
The wife should know the business az
fairs of her husband. In very many
cases, if the wife knew her husbands
condition financially, she could and
would save him from bankruptcy and
humiliation. ---.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
How to Handle Steers

A correspondent of the Homestead
gives the following advice concerning
the selection and training of these use
full animals:
First, teach steers that you are their
friend. Then halter break them, teach
them to yield to the whip, to back and
to drive on the off side. AS soon as
they are in good subsection to the whip,
drop off the halter and repeat the les
sons. Call them to you with the whip.
AS soon as they are quite obedient, put
on the yoke and train them some every
day or quite often. Yoke them both
ways, and drive them on both sides.
They must both love and fear You.
They should be handled when quite
young; I think the second winter is as
good time as any.
We cannot be too particular about
selecting steers. We should get them
as we'll matched as possible and be sure
that they are both Of good shape and
shaped alike If their horns are bad
they can be shaped as you wish by pull
ley and a twister. have had several
steer with one horn dropped, but have
always succeeded in raising them when
tried. ! have pair now which pur-
chased last March; ones horns were
broad, the others were high and Topped
very badly. They are as near alike as
two peas in apod. 1t only requires pa
thence, energy and perseverance. This
must be done when quite young-say
the first, second and third year.
It costs no more to train and feed q
close matched well shaped pair of steers
than it would an ordinary pair, and when
you wish to sell you can always sell the
former at much better profit than the
latter.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
FARM, FIELD and FIRESIDE.
Remedial Voter.

Port Wine Jelly to be given to an in.
valid is made BY dissolving one heap
ing teaspo onful Of gelatine in one tea
cupful OF the vino; sweeten to suit the.
taste OF the sick ono for whom it is In
tended. This is said to be an excellent
medicine for cold, and may be given
hot. I, .sss 55..- - s ~. IS
D1s1NFECTANTs. These are many
and various. Lime, copperas, chloride
OF lime, the chlorides Of iron and zinc,
are all good. To fresh animal matters,
qucklime as q preventive Of smells is q
very proper addition. Carbolic acid is
agood disinfectant. IT DESTROYS germs.
arrests decay and arrests growth. Dry
earth is one OF the best deodorizers,
but it is not a disinfectant. The same
may be said Of parched coffee throw.
on shovel Of burning Goals. It will
overpower other doors, but will not
chemically remove their poisonous
properties. =
An English journal recommends
syrup made Of the following ingredients
for coughs and colds: Take Is ounces
OF perfectly sound onions, and after re-
moving rind make several incisions,
but not too deep, Boil together with
4 81 ounces Of moist sugar and 81 ounces
OF honey in IS ounces Of water, for
three. quarters OF an hour; strain and
fill into bottles for use. Give one
tablespoonful of this mixture (slightly
warmed) Immediately on attack, and
then, according to requirement, five to
eight half tablespoonful daily. It is
said that this recipe was that used by the
Zulu Caffres when visiting Europe some
two years since, and who suffered much
from the climate, but invariably recoy-
cred from its use.
A physician OF Bishops College,
Montreal, has had such almost invaria-
bly, good results from the simple pre-
scr,ption Of total abstinence from food
for rleum atism, that he inclines to be-
lieye this disease--so common among
farmers--is only a, phase of indiges-
ton, to be cured by giving the complete
and continued rest to all the visceru
which comes Of q fast of from four to
eight days, and in no instance Of more
than forty in his practice was over ten
days necessary to effect complete relief
in acute azticular cases. Meanwhile
the patients were allowed to drink
freely of cold water, Or lemonade in
moderate quantity, if preferred. Nat
urally, less positive results were OBJ
tanned when the ai1ment had become
so deeply seated as to be chronic.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
Advantage OF q Thoroughbred.

The advantage of having thorough
bred sire of high butter producing
blood, whether of jersey or some other
breed, to cross on common COWS, must
be apparent when it is remembered that
the sire may reasonably be expected to
exert as much influence upon his Off
spring as the dam. A heller calf from
a COW making 200 lbs. Of butter year,
out Of a sire from a family habitually
making 400 lbs. yearly, may fairly be
expected to become a COW that will
make 800 lbs. in year. This may not
be true in every instance, but it will
generally be closely approached. 1t is
claimed by breeders that in such
crosses the sire affects more especially
the quality and the dam the quantity Of
milk the progeny will produce. II so,
there might lie special advantage
gained by selecting sire from family
of very rich mixers to cross on dam
giving large quantity, with reason
able hope of developing COW superior
to her ancestry on both sides.