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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-04
Invest on tbs Home Farm.

Many a ruralist would greatly aug
ment his prosperity by devoting more
means to personal and other improve
ments upon his farmstead. Somebody
has said, and we think sensiblv, that
one OF the greatest leaks on n farm is
The practice of 1obbing it to get money
to put into a savings bank. In such q
bank of deposit four or five per cent.
interest may be secured-if the cashier
don't happen to be operating in Wall
street or specializing charlottesville
the same money put back on the farm
in the way of improved stock, machin-
cry, better buildings, understanding.
fences, orchards, ETC., would, after a
very few years, return dividends of fifty
per cent. Money in the banks don't
usually show until it comes up in the
administrators hands, but in good stock
and well cultivated farms it will give
returns speedily and with certainty.
There is another way in which some,
if not many, farmers miss it" by in
vesting in the wrong place. For ex-
ample, many a grasping and ambitious
farmer lives penuriously, depriving his
t1lillN VI u ueCtno nome ana various
comforts, in order to purchase more
acres. Possessed with the insane idea
that he must Gown all the land that
joins him." OF as much thereof as posi-
bic, he governs himself accordingly.
To accomplish this selfish purpose he
lives in the old house long after it is un-
fit for occupancy, makes slaves of him
self and family and neglects the proper
education of his children. We're he to
invest the money thus boarded to buy
more land (Which he does not need) up
on his home farm-his rural home and
its occupants himself and family would
soon be the gamers in both prosperity
and happiness. BY expanding his hard
earned and misery kept surplus in inn
proving his farm, stock, etc, and max
ing home comfortable and attractive, he
would not only be quite as prosperous.
but enjoy life far better and keep his
children from leaving the roof-tree.
Disguised with a s~lavish, misery mode
of farming, to seek other and uncertain
.employments.
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a PhiIosopher,s Diet.

/ once knew a man who had reached
ms close to the perfection Of human
philosophy as possible. One.half OF
the discomfort nnd q large proportion
of the misery of the world, he said,
came from u inability to CRAFTY tastes
that are acnired-that are not, BY any
means, necessary to existence. This fell
low held theory that there is not in M
part Of the world absolute necessity for
starvation. That everywhere nature
has provided something that will sustain
life. He argued that men very often
suffered from the absence of what they
had been accustomed to eat, and they
did not stop to think that it was posi-
BILE TO survive even on water for o period
of time Hehad Travelled, and he made
one rnlein all his travels, to eat what
ever any other form o fhuman life could
eat, and failing human life, what any
other form OF animal life could subsist
aapon. He could with equanlmity, if
there was nothing else for 1t, live like a
Digger Indian. His relish for o good
dinner was a great as anybody's, but
he never fearedto get away into a desert,
. strange land, or an unlnhabited is
Land, because he felt implicit confidence
that he could always lind something to
cat, wen if he had to suffer a certain
amount Of unpleasantness in doing it,
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Willie's Birthday.

Willie's birthday is the same day us
George Washington's, and Willie
thought it was rather hard that folks
should make such a fuss about Wash
tngton, and have a grand supper at
the hall, with lots of flowers and good
things to eat, while they never noticed
him at all.
Mamma laughed when he told her
about it, and said he might have a
party too; but when he asked her who
he should invite, she told him to ask
any one he wished, only not make too
much noise. They should havesupper
at six in the great kitchen, and they
might play i'll the kitchen chamber.
OH he ran to ask his playmates, but
they We're all going to the cove on a
grand slelghride, and couldn't stop.
he was going home with q very sad
face, wnen he spied little Sam Jenkins,
the boot-black, %shivering and stamping
his feet to keep warm.
about making a feast for the lameand
blind, and before he hardly knew what
he was DUNG, he steppedup and invit-
ed sam to his tea-party, and told him
to bring Joe and Jim too.
Before he got home he was almost
sorry. What would they know about
playing games or having a good time?
All they knew was to black boots.
But then, they wouldlike the supper:
they didn't look as if they had a great
deal to eat, anyhow.
When he told mamma about his
fresh trouble, she laid her hand O n his
head and said:
May you always be as thoughtful
OF the poor, my boy"
That made him feel better about it,
and when the three boys anne timldly
to the back door he met them with
real delight, and led them up to the
great warm kitchen chamber, where he
oon learned that bootblacks can en-
Joy boyish games as well as any other
boys, and supper time came before
they knew it. w..
How their eyes opened at the sight
OF the daintily spread table with its
load OF goodthings, and how they ate!
1t did Willie's heart good to see them.
Somehow Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Brown heard of Willie's tea-party, and
Just as the boys were going home they
each came in with a good warm suit OF
clothes which their own boys had out
grown, and Willie's mamma found
another in the garnet that was too
small for him, but just right for Joe.
Then three pairs of boots CAMERON
somewhere-just alittle worn, perhaps,
but whole and thick yet, and in each
boot was a warm wollenstockingwait-
ing for a cold little foot. On a chair
near by lay three pairs OF home-knit
mittens, and three thick caps that
were nice if they were a little faded.
How those three boys stared, and
when they realized their good fortune
how they clapped their hands and
cheered for Joy.
AS Willie's mother tucked him into
his little bed that night, he said, with
a happy sigh:
at is more blessed to give than to
receive, mamma, and l guess my birth
day is better than Washington's after
all.'-Youth's Companion.
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The Failing Connecticut.
ork Journal OF Commerce.

WV oTk JouFIiti Ol commerce.
The Connecticut river, given over to
the timber-drivers, has become a ca
nal. Reefs are blasted out. Bulk
heads are built to turn the current in
ito the central channels. The melting
SHOWS, no longer held back in the
spongy MOSES OF the forests, and the
spring rains, are hurried swiftly
down in freshets which destroy prop
erty in the lower country. The fresh
cts are utilized to bring down every
spring the timber from thousands of
acres, where no pine wood will ever
grow again. The summe comes, hot
and dry, with low water in the rivers.
which wereformerlyfu full 1.-THE summer
from the slow drain out of the dark
shades III tie uppercountry. Thenat-
ural reservoirs, which thus gave out
slowly their reservoirs of water, are
ne,and all the water comes down
with a rush after every rain. Man
ufacturing companies everywhere have
found it necessary to make artificial
reservoirs'to take the place of the lost
natural reservoirs. Hills that were
once forest-covered are bleak masses
OF rock, growing drier year by year.
Ii there was ever an instance of killing
the goose that lays golden eggs, it is
in this method o~ftreating ournorthern
forests. In hundreds ofvalleys, where
water was abundant in former years,
the water line in the ground is now be,
low the reach of ordinary wells. The
tendency is toward that condition
which in a century or two will compel
resort to irrigation for ordinary agri,
cultural purposes.
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Mormons in Idaho.
Idaho Letter in the Springfield Republics

Idaho Letter in the Springfield Republican.
We found many Mormons along the
road through Idaho. Let me tell you Of
one family. I went in to buy some eggs
and found an old woman washing. She
asked me to be seated and said He and
the women had gone to meetin'." There
wa q swarm of children around and I
could not help looking at them and then
at her, for they called her 'sma." At
ter a while she said those children be-
longed to the women" Iasked who
the women" were. She said they were
Mormons and his wives. The family
consisted of MI. -; Mrs. -, aged
II; Mrs. 49,, aged So; MRS., aged
l6; children, II. The old lady's child
rem were not there. Should you call this
ahappy family They had q house about
fifteen by twenty, with one room below
and q loft above. Where in the world
all the Mrs.---s and the small ones
were slowed away at nights I coul 4 not
imagine. ! did not try to stop the feel
ings OF disgust I had while waiting for
the eggs to be brought in.
Another night we campe1 near a Nor
mon who talked with T. about his re-
ligion (0. I vas very much interested
in the conversation, but l did not "pos-
sess the information necessary" for me
to agree with him. He said among 9TH
er things that, the reason so MANY men
took more than M wife was, "that it
was revealed to the men that they must
take the women, or at the last day the
women could not beraised. No woman
can be resurrected unless married. All
men are raised, and they call the wom-
en-" This man had but one wife for he
said it had not bereyealad to him to take
another. There never lived people
kind and hospitable than these
Mormons, but their practices are not
quite the stampto suit New Englanders.
You will be surprised to hear that I
have lost my relish for shopping. I do
not have any desires in that direction.
Strange, you Will say. Yes, rather,
but then the nearest store is about As
miles from the place we call home. I
like better now to go higher in the
mountain hunting deer. The last time
we went we started three from a thick
~ SAosO pSoluo U.s. Uub II tuo Door
things had only known how secure they
were from any danger of IT'S gun,
they need not have bounded of in
quite SO much of q hurry. Ono must
ride in very rough places in these
mountains and often when it seemed as
If / must slip from the horse, the hill.
sides were so steep, l thought as
the irishman did with the bicicle,
I'd as soon walk afoot as ride afoot."
the wilderness and grandeur of
these almost man-forsaken old hills is q
constant source Of delight to me,
though it brings, too, q feeling of awe.
I stand in the presence of the great "I
with such a sense of nearness as /
never felt before. The old, old trees
and lofty mountain peaks show his
power. 1 can only think
while there, Jesus went unto the
mountain to pray" The cares and
troubles of everyday life fade away,
and only thoughts of God fill the soul"
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Agricultural Miscellany.

In some parts of the country corn
stalks are never stacked or taken into
account. In a few places yet the corn
itself is never husked or harvested, but
left standing, while cattle and hogs are
turned into the fields in Winter to help
themselves. In Virginia 10 per cent Of
the crop, Or nearly 5000, 900 buseels,
was left in the field over Winter last
year; in Tennessee, 5 per cent, or
3,2S6, 600 bushels. Kentucky and Ohio
had each nearly 5000. 200 bushels, while
Illinois left 17,11S 900 bushels uHhar-
vested. Thrifty Kansas left % per cent
of her crop, or 81 ,905, GOO bushels, I'M
gathered, while in the whole United
States 110,S11, COO bushels were left to
mercy of Winter weather under this
primitive form of %husbandry.
The food exerts o great influence up
on the quality of the butter. Cotton
seed meal makes hard butter with a
good color but q ~disagreeable flavor;
linseed meal makes soft, greasy, light
colored butter. The best quality of
butter is made from yellow cornmeal
with one-third its bulk of coarse mid
dlings with the bran in it. Glover hay
should be fed for butter, and pea meal
is thought to be the richest food for
making butter. No doubt if it were
mixed in equal proportions with fine
yellow corn meal and coarse middlings
the mixture would make the finest and
most butter. If one doubts the effect
of food upon milk, andnecessarily upon
butter, he may feed some wild onions,
cabbages, turnips, or ragweed hay.
when he will soon be convinced of the
fact.
As a rule it is best to pillow in manure,
but not deeply so as to buryit. 1t does
tile most good when it is mixed with
the soil, IS it is absorbent of moisture
and helps to keep the soil from drying.
1t is also then i'll the best condition for
decomposing and helping to exert u ia
vorable effect upon the soil to q far
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Washing Elauuels,

An English Journal gives the follow
ing practical hints on the subject:
Take as much good washing soap
as seems requisite; pare it up fine, pour
over ONE boiling water, and let it stand
till the soap Is quite dissolved, stirring
it occasionally. If left to stand for
some hours, it will be found to be a
thick jelly. Add to this sufficient
warm water to wash the fiannels in one
by one. Knend them about we'll, but
do not rub any soap on the %fiannels,
and do not rinse them in plain water,
but have ready another lather, warm
and well blued, in which rinse out the
fannels. Do not wiring them at all
tightly. ~ Mringing-nlachine does
them much more etfectually than
the hand. The freer from water
you can get them the softer they will be.
Hang them out, if fine, Immediately /;
if not, dry them in front of the fire. If
left to stand wet, the hannels Invariably
shrink. The great mistake in washing
Iiannels is, LIST, washing them in too hot
water-they should ley be put into
WV "opCi MA Sou Sull SoullOitdDIy
bear your hand in; ID, rinsing them in
cold water instead OF a good warm lath-
er; and 3D., letting them lie in the tub
instead of at once hanging them to dry.
Many persons object to ~tiannels being
ironed. For my own part, I always run
a cool iron over all shirts, petticoats,
etc, with gathers and plaits in, but not
others. Those that are to be ironed |
fold up for an hour or two when slightly
damp. The remainder / shake out
several times when drying, which
makes them softer, and takes out
any creases. Inever use either soda or
any kind of dry soap in washing
blankets or t1annels, as it has a tendency
to discolor them; but I use more than
twice as much blue as I should do in
washing linen or calico, though great
care must be taken to mix the blue
we'll in the lather, or it will be strealy.
Colored ~fiannels should always be
washed last, and be rinsed i'll a plain.
warm lather without blue. Recently
We washed fourteen blankets, with the
use of q machine, following the direc-
tions given above, and they are beauti-
fully soft and white. not having shrunk
at all. / may add that blankets should
be taken down when half dry, we'll
shaken, and then hung up till quite
dry"
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They Want Their Wives Letters.

From the Chicago Herald.
"The third man I've sent away mad
this morning" remarked a clerk at the
general delivery window. "He called
for mail addressed to his wife, and we
wouldn't give it to him. We are not
allowed to, unless he has an order. I
tell you, it is an eye-opener to many
men to discover that their wives have
any rights. What. they will say a
man can't get a letter for his W wife
without an order" NO. sir, it is a rule
of the department. And then thew
boil with rage. You see, most men are
III the habit of opening their wives let
tiers. They don't think it is wronE
Sometimes q married women wants to
carry on correspondence without hay-
ing her husband q party to it, and to
protect her rights that rule was made.
VI course, it is o II of our business
what her correspondence is about. It
may be with her relatives, lady friends.
Ter lawyer, or with an admirer. We
don't know, nor care. All that the
department knows is that she /
is a woman, entitled to have
her letters delivered into her
w hands. If she wants her husband
or any other person to have them she
can write al order. Sometimes the
husbands will go off and come back
aftera While with an order which they
have written themselves and signed
Their wives names to. In such cases
we get ahead of them by making them
sign a receipt, and the similarity of tho
writing in the surname gives their little
game away. "a
Il remember a case where n woman's
foresight was too sharp for her husband.
Evidently suspecting that he knew she
was geoing mail here. and that he
would present an order in q woman's
handwriting, presumably her own, she
eft here o written order that her letters
were to be delivered to nobody but her.
self. When Mr. Husband came around
with his little order we presented his
xlie.s order, and he walked aw ay as
quick ns he could. But manytimes when
men ask for their wives letters here or
at the advertised window they do not
know OF the rule, and the honest amaze
ment that comes on their faces kpon
discovering that their better halves
have some privileges not shared by
them IN common-some rights which {
even the husband cannot interfere with
is quite comical.
1 have seen men who get mad at first,
pnt who, l would be willing to say,
started INTO a train of thought upon
Gaining down that resulted in increased
respect for their partners and in the re-
Aviation that the husband is not nine
t~een-twentieths of the family team"
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grain crop is removed in July or early
in August. Glover thus sown with TIM
othy or orchard grass will be strong
enough before the Winter to stand the
exposure, and will be equally forward
tho next year as if it had been sown In
the Spring on the grain. The old
fashioned way of seeding to grass and
clover should be abandoned and every
possible care be taken to get the soil in
the best condition for the seed, and to
put the seed in in the best manner.
covering it with o brush harrow and by
rolling.
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The Parting or Lee and His Gen.

erals
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Amid the ruins of their capital, with
bare, bowed heads, in utter silence and
bitter tears, Lee and his Generals sepa
rated and went their several ways tc
homes destroyed, families broken VI
and scattered, and often into exile and
oblivion.
The final parting was in front of Lees
mansion in Richmond, two days after
Appomattox. Lees house is an ordi-
nary square brick, standing alone on
Franklin street, n square from the
Capitol. All the other houses on the
square are connected. Upon the after.
noon of the second day after the
surrender, people in that vicinity
were surprised to see come riding up
the street from the south q company
OF Confederate horseman. They were
unarmed. Their gray uniforms were
worn, soiled, and often tattered, their
trappings old and patched. They wore
slouched hats, and here and there was
q feather remaining Of the once smart
and jaunty dropping plume of thu Con-
federate calyarymen. They we're bronz.
ed and Drowned and bearded. They
sat erect and came on with. the splendid
3horsemanship for which they were
noted. Upon the collars of some of the
gray jackets could still be seen the
faded and furnished gilt stars, the en-
blems OF the wearers' rank.
In. front of them rode Lee. His two
hands held the loosely swinging reins
and rested upon the pommel. His
head was bent and his eyes were look
ing straight ahead from under his
downcast brow, but they seemed to SEQ
nothing.
AS the troops cantered up to his old
his horse stopped ut tile gate,
and he aroused himself suddenly, as
from q dream, and, cast his eyes upon
the familiar windows and then around
ove the group of gallant soldiers who
had followed his fortunes for four
bloody years and gone down in defeat
under his banner.
The end Of it all had come at last.
He threw himself from his horse. and
all his companions followed his action.
They stood hat in hand, and an arm
through the bride reing while
Lee went from man to man,
grasping each hand, looking in
tently into each face as though he
would press it upon his memory forever.
Then he turned and walked through the
gate and up the steps to his door. Asa
servent opened the door he paused
with his left foot upon tho veranda, his
right upon the last step, and looked
back for the last time. Not a word
had been spoken not q good by uttered.
There was no sound heard but that of
sobs as these unkempt and grizzled
heroes Of a hundred battles leaned their
heads against the shoulders of their
horses and wept.
Lee gave one look, and broke down
ct last. His hands were over his eyes,
his frame shook with sobs, as he turned
quickly and disappeared into his lone
ly house. With the closing of the door
behind him ended forever the wild
dream of the Southern C~onfederacy.
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ALONG BROADWAY.
AasAfSsrnoon akstoA OF Great Thor.
euxhfArs u New Yoxr,

anaASSsrnoon skstoA OF the Great Thor.
cushfars 81 new xcrr.
a gossipy writer in the New York
Oitizen Gays: Ihave stood on the Corso
ct Rome, the Strada Toledo Of Naples,
the RrAd0 OF Vienna, the Linden Of
l5esIin 7 have wandered through the
0Annnxsof Constantinople and Of Smyrna;
I9hAse looked down upon the motley
group OF Russian soldiers and Polish
p0ddkots in the streets of Moscow; /
have stood at heat of day amid the
thr0nG OF London bridge, and watched
the tides OF men ebb and flow along the
Boulevard dea Italiens and Boulevard
Montnartrs Of Paris, but in no city
hAvel seen 30 atrong = mixture Of races
- tn Broadway at oon The great
annual fairs 81 Saxony, Of Russia, and
OF kfance-Leipsic, Novgcrod, and
B~eau9ire, and the motley qnays OF
Gibraltar. Marseilles, Alexandra and
GenGA--come nearest TO New York in
the strange picturesqueness and variety
of their crowd. In those great fairs
you once or twice 8 year ! huge
comminging Of those dreamy eastern
9 who hang around the gates
that separate Europe from Asia,
and along the beautiful shores
s0f the Adriatic, where the ocean
SEEM to have sent it's worn waves to
seek, like SO many other wasted spirits,
9 soft and sunny grave, are to be seen
lf1tlging on every quay sailors OF every
lone and cline and race. But oyer
these pictures there hangs o lazy, indo-
lent cloud, and they i to be seen but
periodically. The Ger Of Broadway
= eqslally Varied, ever constant ana
more brisk. There goes . Yankee
passon, an embroyo Talmage, for in
sstanoes evidently calculating how he can
concoct sermon which will not only
sult the pulpit IN next Sunday, but
with SONY gentle torturing o second APP
spearAnce on the lecture stand, and pos
sibly after find lucrative repose on a
shelf of the Messra. Appleton and Har-
per. Next comes a Pennsylvania farm
looking rs if he had just risen from
the g OF Harlem. carrying in his eye
q vigilant determination not to be out
done. which proclaims that, though
broad Dutch in frame, he is sharp YAM
ke8 in spirit. Here we ses two Of the
most honored Judges of our bench
which has of late years much grown in
llonor--one Irish, the other American;
one in tho autumn. the other in the
spring OF life p covered with the full
ripe fruit Of eminence and distinction,
the other wearing the blossom CT one
day ripening into o similar richness
pleasantly discussing the last novel or
the last play IS q light relief to their
weightier intellectual morning work as
they saunter home.