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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

ion, but adhere to certain fixed and
we'll defined rules. Buy good materials.
avoid cheap trimmings, select always
such bolots is will go we'll together, and
have them usually dark. Never wear
your best on secondary occasion, or
when it is likely to be subjected to Sc
we're wear and tear. Have best dresses
cut or made by best dress shaker, and
employ your own efforts on your house
dresses and washable materials. Use
best black kid gloves, ecru or beige tints.
They wear better than fancy colors,
and the black are better made and can
be worn with all dresses. Never buy
cheap gloves or cheap hosiery-they
are delusion and snare. Always
have plain black walking dress and
handsome black dress, and depend up
on cut and material more than upon or
namentation.' II you can embroider
yourself dress, you can make thing
of beauty with but little cost; but 9TH
erwise content yourself with the neat
ness that is the best evidence of refined
taste.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
Literary Centennial.

AS we are going through an epoch of
centennials it might be we'll to notice
the fact that it is just 100 years since
Amarican literature took its first start
after the revolution. The first book
published on this continent after the
peace with Great Britain was "Watts's
Psalms" edited by Joel Barlow, which
was issued in Hartford in 1875. Barlow
was then thirty. He was a native of
Connecticut, and had studied at Yale,
where in 177S he delivered poem, en-
titled the Prospect of Peace" His
poetic talents had already attracted
notice and this led the clergy to re-
quest that he should prepare an edition
of Watts for public worship. He also
edited weekly paper in Hartford called
the American Mercury, but afterward
added law to literature. He had how
ever, already contemplated what he con-
sidered his great poem, "The Colum-
bad" This was not completed until
the lapse of twenty years, but its incep-
ton was given in the vision of
Columbus" which was published the
year our government was formed.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
The Deadly Sion Drain,

From country house notable for
general neatness hired girl was taken
home i'll of typhoid. Then hired man
left and had run of "sIow fever; af-
forwards little girl "came down" with
the same disease. Soon the mother was
dangerously sick, and finally "aggravat-
ed erysipelas broke out in the face of
the kitchen servant" Here was series
of zymotic attacks. Why? A Maine
Farmer correspondent answers, with q
statement that eliminates the mystery
of the dispensation:
"The only thing in this household
which seemed to be at fault was the dis
posal of the kitchen slops. They were
carried from the sink outside the house
through leaden pipe, and this
discharged into the end of bored
aqueduct log, buried in the earth
and extending about a rod from the
house. This short log drain would soon
be obstructed, and then the end next
the house would discharge its danger
GUS contents into the loose stones which
were filled in on that side of the kitchen,
and thence under the house and into
the cellar; and the same leaden pipe
which carried the water downward,
brought the sickening gases upward"
One "better way, "safe. if not SO "con-
venient," is by use of slop-pails kept
clean and the contents distributed over
the surface soil at various points some
distance from the house. An enlarge
ment of this simple and satisfactory
system is favorably mentioned by the
Iowa Board of Health:
"A neighbor has kerosene barrel
hung on pair of old buggy wheels, SO
that it can easily be inverted; he let's it
stand near the kitchen, where all kitch-
en- and chamber slops can be thrown in
it. and when half full he easily wheels
it on his garden and empties it."
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

W. NJ. Singerly, the prosperous
owner and editor of the Philadelphia
Record, cultivates a COW which gives
eighty one pounds of milk day.
Jere Allis of Isinours, Mimi, writes
the Breeders Gazetta that his herd of
Holsteins came through the winter in
excellent form. Since last June, 1884,
Mr.. Allis' COW Fatanitza, (2,723), not
yet six years old, has given IL, 1O4
pounds of milk. She is now milking
forty pounds day.
Mr.. Charles II. Erwin, Painted Post.
N. Y, is credited with the accidental
discovery of what his successful expert
ence leads him to regard as a Remedy
for Cabbage Worms-namely, sprink-
ling them during the heat of sunny
day with water as near.ice-c cold as can be
procured. This caused the green pests
to "let go, curl up, roll to the ground
and die, while the plants looked all the
fresher for the application.
In setting out raspberry plants do not
bury too deeply; red varieties as rule
are more particular in this respect than
the blackcaps, but care must be taken
with all kinds. Do not delay the oper-
alton until growth begins as IN such
cases the plants that if not killed out
right linger along very unsatisfactory,
and an entire season is lost in conse-
quence. Touch the novelties lightly,
and let the main crop consist of such
sterling kinds as Cuthbert for red,
Gregg for black, and perhaps Skaters
Colossal for purple.
Pythagoras forbade his disciples eat
ing beans, the ancient historian tells
us. Not SO restrictive as to regimen,
however, are some of the gastronomic
reformers of modern times. Halls
Journal of Health advocates their more
general use, as being more wholesome,
nutritious and economical than any
other single article of food in the world,
and says ga quart of beans, costing 10
cents, will furnish family Of five per-
sons with food for a day." Concerning
tastes there should be no disputing.
But we do hope our esteemed coten-
porary willnot say anything more about
that just now. Those beans are al
ready being served on many tables,
three or four times a week, and there
may be too much economy practiced in
this particular.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

short and easy way to settle the diff
Guilty between the farmer and the mer~
chant, is for the farmer to pay cash and
make the merchant his lifelong friend.
The farmer now complains against the
freight agent, There is way to settle
with him. II he charges you too much
on corn, feed your corn. You will thus
condense freight, and instead Of hau1-
ing ton he will haul but 500 pounds.
If he put up the tariff on stock. that
will encourage packing-hous in our
cities, and the railroad will haul 100
miles instead Of 500 Furthermore, If
the railroad buys up your Governor, or
Representatives, you can get your lit
tie votes ready, and the next time take
off his political head. Whenever the
farmers get down to this business in
earnest there will be less cause of COM
plant.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
Flower Culture:

From the Prairie Farmer.
Many Americans could well take q
hint from the following extract from a
paper on the Pleasure of Flowers, read
at the recent meeting of New Jersey
horticulturists, by Mr.. John Thrope,
who stated that "In England there are
hundreds of floral societies, the men,
bers being composed entirely of factory
hands. Viewers, iron-workers, mill
hands and other artisans make special
ties of pansies, tulips, roses, carna-
tons, dahlias and chrysanthemums,
having their exhibitions often Saturday
evenings, the prizes frequently being
made up by subscriptions on the spot.
The pleasure these men derive from
such meetings is calculated to be and is
beneficial, to their interests. Can we
not hope for the beginning Of such i'll
terest in cultivation here? The I'M
provements in flowers keep pace with
other improvements of the nineteenth
century, and it seems that, instead Of
only few families receiving the atten-
ton of introducers and raisers of new
varities, there are actually hundreds.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

Take piece of beef-the rump is the
best for this purpose-cut about three
pounds OF it into small pieces, throwing
out the fat. Now make a good stock ~
dissolving four ounces of Johnson's
Fluid Beef in one quart of water. Put
this into stew pan with the beef and
let it stew for two hours. Then season
to taste with cayenne pepper and salt
and add the grated rind of lemon and
the juice Of half of it. q tablespoonful of
rice -four smoothly mixed with three
tablespoonsfuls of mushroom ketchup,
tablespoonful of soy and a teaspoon
full of Lea & PERKINS, Worcestershire
Sauce. Then add glass of port wine
and allow the contents to stew gently
for fifteen minutes more, when they
may be dished up and served.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
Wat6r Poultioes.

A water poultiee for the throat inlay
be made as follows; Talks four thick
nesses of old cotton cloth, three 81 four
inches wide. and long enough to extend
from ear to ear, Dip II IN water, hot
or cold, as the throat may require, 1t.
Over these folds of cotton cloth apply. a
layer Of cotton batting; An inch in thick
ness, and long and wide enough to coy
er the cotton cloth. Over this place a
strip of waterproof cloth or oil silk.
Apply to the throat, and keep in place
by bandage. This poultice, if cold,
will induce local sweating, that will
relieve the mucous membrane, or inner
lining of the throat. When nearly dry
wiring the four folds of cotton cloth
again in cold water, and repeat the APP
plicatlon for two or four nights, if nee
essary. It inlay be wise to keep chill
dren who are thus treated within The
house Tor few days; but if they must
go out on the following morning,
wash the throat with cold water
just before the patient leaves the
house. The water poultice should be
cold i'll all eases In which Inflammation
may exist, but should be hot if uleera-
ton or suppuration exists. 4 sore
throat needs cold water, but suppura-
ton needs hot, .as the diseased throat
of diphtheria, or scarlatina in assesses.
A sponge poultice has some advantages
above all others, and is made as follows:
Make flannel bag three inches wide,
and as long as any given affection re-
quires: Fill this bag with very small
bits of sponge; then soak In, hot Or
cold water, as the case may need.
Cover the outside with layers of cotton
batting, and over this some waterproof
material. This poultice is elastic, and
may be kept constantly near the skin,
and will keep the throat at a uniform
temperatures very important point
in diphtheria and scarlatina and all
other maladies in which suppuration
exists. Cold sponge poultices may be
applied in the early stages of scarlatina
and diphtheria, to lesson the tendency
to Inflammation. Halls Journal of
Health.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
He Wasn't Sure.
Tennyson cries.


@Oh, for touch of vanished hand,
And the sound of . voice that is STILL"
but the sentimental young man who
boosted that he would know the touch
of the hand anywhere, and identify the
owner without the voice. was farther
along" in such matters than the tender
STRIPPING who is described below as do
ing escort duty:
Robert, bashful lad, recently sum-
moned up enough courage to escort a
young lady home. At the breakfast
table next morning his father said,-
"Well, my son. did you go home with
any of the girls last night?"
Yes" said bob.
"Who was she?"
Robert hesitated, but finally blurted
out, II thought it was Annie Warren,
but when we got to the turn of the road
she went into Ellen Hams house."
''But I should think you might have
told by the sound of her voice. said his
father.
Neither of us said word, said Bob.
blushipg and stammering.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

Spring pigs are valuable. They are
the most certain crop from which to
make money If they are lost from
carelessness or neglect, by cold storms,
or not we'll provided quarters for he
SOW, the profits of the year in most
cases. are sacrificed. Notwithstanding
they are subject 10 disease, they are the
best source of individual and rational
wealth. This month and next requira
especial care, and if the owners would
lose few nights of sleep in providing for
their safe delivery, and comfortable pro-
visions for the first few days, no labor
OF care can be better expended. At
least half The pigs are lost for want of
care. Some cannot be saved, but wise
care can keep most of them from per-
ishing. Each pig saved in nine months
can be made worth $40 or $12 with
slight outlay, if the farm is suitably ar
ranged for raising this valuable stock.
-Des MONIES Register.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
a Mis6t Coffin.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press
eyes," he answered, as he seemed to
hubble himself up in heap, Give been
there. That is, I've jumped from a
railroad train running at speed of
forty-eight miles an hour, and I can't
say as want to repeat the experiment. +"
where and when?"
about thirty miles east of Chicago
on the Michigan Central, three years
ago"
what was the occasion?"
1 was half drunk, and did it on a
bet of S.. The bet was that darent
walk out on the platform and take the
Jump without picking out my ground.
As it happened the ground was pretty
clear, but a million dollars wouldn't
hire me to try it again"
How did you come out?"
"Well, it's hard to describe the SEN
sation. As l swung from the step I
seemed to fly. I sailed along In the
air until my wings grew tired, and then
| dropped down to see the country.
I've got good pair of eyes, but l didn't
see much. I was too busy turning
cartwheels and handsprings and SOM
ersaults. Sometimes I beat the pro-
fessionals all hollow, and again I made
muss of it. It was my intention to
skip all the mud puddles and avoid all
the stumps, but you can't always have
your way in this world. By and by /
rested my case. That is, l brought up
in fence corner, and waited for first
class hospital to come along"
"Much hurt?"
Might have been worse. Broke an
arm, two ribs, and had over hundred
cuts and bruises, and it was seven
weeks before could walk rod"
But you won the $5?'
Yes; but there is where I always
grow sad. The stakeholder sent it
back to me from the first town in the
shape Of pine coffin, and it didn't fit
my length into seven inches. had to
sell the confounded thing for q misfit
at halt pricel"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
The Treating" Custom.

The American system of treating" in
barrooms and other places where strong
drinks are sold, has been made mis-
demeanor by law in Nevada. The anti
treating law makes setting EN- up pun
ishable by fine and Imprisonment, eth
er or both. It is made water tight;
and therefore liquor-tight, and would
require ingenuity to evade it, which
when possessed can be employed to
better advantage than in law breaking.
The first section of the act makes it
unlawful to treat or be treated, and fix
es the penalty for it's infraction. The
other sections constitute any attempt
ed evasion of the law greater offence
than its open violation and attach still
more severe penalties for practising Chi
canery or subterfuge. The fines when
collected go to the school fund of the
county in which the offence is commit
ted and conviction had. This Nevada
law is founded on the principle that
treating is a vice, rather than that
drinking is pernicious habit. Liquor
selling is licensed, and therefore law
fal. A man may go into saloon and
buy and pay for all the liquor he wants
to drink himself, but he is not per-
mitted to pay for his friends tipple.
The theory is that under this reg1la-
ton man will drink no more than he
wants, and in nearly all cases will 60
out sober, whereas party of ten or
dozen drinking after they treat all
around often have more than they can
carry. The law covers all kinds of dis
titled spirits, wines, malt beverages and
even takes in cider. Lemonade, soda
and seltzer are exempt from its provi.
sions, but to pay for another mans Ice
water would be regarded as chicanery
and subterfuge.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
DESTROYING Horns.

The horns of an animal can be de-
stroyed in embryo with very little pain
in the following manner: The small
"nubs" from which the horns will grow,
which appear on the calls head, are
cut off with knife SO that the embryo
horns can be cut away. This is done
with great ease and quite rapidly by
tie use of sharp knife. The wound
is then Scared with a whitehot iron,
which is not painful, rs the great heat
deadens the sensation, and it soon heals.
The horn is destroyed and its growth
is prevented. Considering the great
danger of injury from the horns of cat
tie. this operation is a necessary one.
and as it is less painful than thst of
docking lambs tails and far less pain
full than castration, any peoson who
object to it may be thought more nice
than wise.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
Peculiarities Of the Chinese.

From the Baltimore American
But the measure of the wrong done to-
China must be allowed to correspond
with the facts OF Chinese civilization.
Human life is cheaper than that of the
horse within the borders of the empire.
Nearly four hundred millions of people
crowd It's provinces. The market value
of life cannot be very high with a man
who will commit hari kari for trifing
insult of moments notice, or with an
officer who will execute an entire regi-
ment to crafty caprice. Moreover,
no nation is so cruel or SO accustomed
to cruelty as china. Torture, malig-
nant and exquisite, lis the punishment for
the smallest offense. Infanticide is
practiced with perfect impunity, and
even with the entire justification of law
in SOME of the crowded districts. Is it
probable that people who will public
ly starve man to death for stealing a
coat, or cut him while living into min
ute pieces for similar offense, will be
greatly shocked by the "sickening
slaughter" at Foo Chow? May it not
be considered relief of an overcrowded
population? But this, of course, does
mt lessen the justice of France, nor
does It Tide the almost pathetic fact
that China is rl,,roud and knows how to
feel and resent an ms. lting and coward
ly attempt to Cypress her. NO hatlon
has yet given her cause for W. pu'
that she has courageouslv accepted the
wage Of battle. There is, indeed, room
for the pathos which the poet of Erin
throws around the history of the Irish re-
belli6ns; "They went forth to war, but
they always fell"
But, again, it must be remembered
that the Chinese are of all nations over
the globe the most difficult and peculiar
to deal with. What shall we expect from
the obstinacy of nation which IN the
nineteenth century can only be induced
by force of arms to recognize by treaty,
Chat England is an independent nation
and in no manner subject to the Chi
nese governmental How shall we deal
with people whose very treaties re ad
backwards and from the bottom OF the
page? How shall we direct our actions
in the presence of men who shake their
own hands instead of grasping yours !?
What steps can be taken without Of
tense in d land where" to quote the
comical complaint on Wingrove Cook,
"the roses have no fragfence and the
women no petticoats; where the lsborer
has no Sabbath and the magistrate no
sense of honor; where the needle points
to the south, aud the sign of being puz-
zled is to scratch the antipodes of the
head; where the place cf honor is on
the left hand and the seat OF the intel
lect is in the stomach; where to take off
your hat is an insulting gesture, and to
wear white garments is to put Yourself
into mourning"
Without doubt the Chinese are a
most extraordinary people, and all the
judgments which civilized people are
disposed to pass either upon them or
their enemies mtist, for especial reasons,
be Withheld until full and correct
knowledge of exact circumstances can
be had.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: Du-
ring seeding time farmers often wish to
make an Accurate estimate of land in a
field. The accompanying table has
been found useful and convenient for
the purpose. and may be cus out and
preserved for future reference:
s rards wide by 968 long contains an acre.
10 yards vide BY 484 long contains an acre.
20 yards wide by 242 long contains an acre.
40 yards wide by 121 long contains an acre.
70 yards wide by 6916 long contains an acre.
SOyards vide by 6o11 long contains an acre.
60 feet wide by 726 long contains On acre.
10 feet wide by 397 long contains an acre.
100 feet wide BY 363 long contains an acre.
220 Zee. vide by 19S long contains an acre.
24O feet wide by 1915 long contains an acre
40 feet wide by 80 long contains an acre.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
i.Mo+.,.rz sbou1a Note This"

Under this capt. IN an old physician writes to
Cincinnati Medical Journal; that N view OF
the fact that people living at d distance from
cities are frequently obliged to resort to cough
mixtures already put up for use, they should
provide themselves with only such remedies as
are known 70 be free from opiates, polsons and
narcotics: thus Avoiding not only danger but
even fatal results. He recommends the re-
Gently discovered Red Star Cough Cnre which
analyses and tests by various Boards OF Health
proved to be purely vegetable as well as prompt,
effective and entirely harmless
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
Pay Cash for Goods.
From the Iowa Homestead.

From the Iowa Homestead
The farmers in former years had
great complaints against the merchants
on account of excessive charges for
goods. Grange stores were the rage,
and the remembrance of them is not
now very pleasant.
There was much better way, and
the farmers see it now. That was to
pay cash. For cash is a great leveler
of prices. The merchant was glad to
come down like little man when his
eyes caught the CLEAN of gold. In Q
State like Iowa there ought to be no
such thing as credit at tho store for the
farmer. There is no class of men the
merchant can credit more safely. What
we mean is, the farmer should not
ask it; in fact he can not afford to ask
it. For credit means higher price,
price to cover interest and
risk, and the good farmer who asks
credit simply asks to share the losses
OF the merchant on poor customers, and
he always does it. So that the one
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04
TRY all Varieties.

Why not, this year, try all the varie-
hes you can get Of the special crop you
deem best adapted to your soil, climate,
and market? II cabbage, or grass, or
Wheat, or corn, or cucumbers, or celery,
or potatoes-if either is, or might well
be, specially with you, get seed OF a
dozen, or twenty, or more varieties of
the ore species, and give them careful
treatment and comparison in all points.
The cost of the seeds is very Slight. OF
land, but few rods is required; of
time, but few days in all; and the
pleasure and profit of the trial would
be many fold ths.eost.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

Among other valuable lessons impaired by
this teacher is the fact that for very long
time Dr. Pierce's aGolden Medical Discovery"
has been the prince of liver correctlves and
blood purifiers, being the household physician
of the poor man, and the able consulting
physician to the rich patient, and praised by
all for its magnificent service and efficacy in
all diseases of chronic nature, as malarial
poisoning, allment of the respiratory and di-
gestive systems, liver disease and in all cases
where the use of an Alternative remedy is in
dictated
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

1t is not understood why druggists keep in
stock so many kinds of medicines for coughs,
colds and consumption, when it is only neces-
sary to keep Aliens Lung Balsam, that old, re-
liable remedy, which is pure vegetable prep
aration, and perfectly harmless, as it contains
no opium in any FORM Sold everywhere.