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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-16

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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-16

HENRY l. PARK.
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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Farther for Worse fare.

One can scarcely journey far in the
older eastern states without hearing
of farmer once in good circumstances,
who either ruined himself or is living
his old age in a Strengthened financial
as the result OF venturing
too far with some fancy European
breed of cattle From men of this
class $2S7, 100000 has been drawn
to enrich a few favored foreigners
Tell me what reason there is that IL
thoroughbred Of American creation is
not equal to any? Colonel jacques.
more than fifty years ago, demon
strated in the most beautiful manner
that such can be produced. His
Cream Pot" breed. bred for both
butter and milk, reached such results
as were almost unheardof at that
time. Does it not look to reason
that we, in this more enlightened age,
can create and maintain q breed more
fitted to our needs and climate, and
more satisfactory in every way?
Colonel Jacques's cattle were allowed
to die out from the senseless bigotry
of that generation, because the people
preferred to pay their money for some
thing that smacked ola foreign origin.
no matter how much inferior it may
have been to the thing here at home.
Is not the time ripe to begin to take
heed OF the teachings ofColonel Curtis,
3. ID. Gilbert and others, and breed
from oul own native cattle and sheep,
and save to ourselves in future the
stream OF wealth which has had UNI
impeded flow toward the European
breeders. New York Tribune
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
FOundering Horses.

Horses are seldom foundered il
cold weather with water. 1t is when
the horses blood is hot that he can
be foundered by standing in cold wa
ter or by drinking large quantities OF
water, and then standing still. The
temperature of the stomach is reduced
too suddenly and is chilled, which is
called founder. The sudden reduction
of the temperature stops the circula-
ton OF the blood. which stiffens the
body and limbs, from which q horse
never entirely RECEIVERS. When travel
ing on the road, although the horse be
very warm, he can with considerable
safety be allowed to drink literally, if
he Immediately 60 forward at the
same gait, as that will keep up the cir
u!ation. But if a horse is hot and is
going to stand still. not over a swal-
low or two should at first be allowed
him. Let him stand and cool before
more is given And the same is the
case with the human system. We
have known several cases where men
have taken large drinks of cold water
when they were hot, which either
proved fatal to life or rendered them
invallds ever after. This is the season
of the year when many a noble horse
is ruined by ignorance and careless
ness. There is no danger of feeding q
horse when hot. But be careful OF
cold water
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Bodily Weight at Different Ages.
Houghtalins' Handbook.

I1diluDbOh
The weight of the male infant at
birth is 7 lbs, avoirdupois; that of the
female is not quite IL lbs. The
maximum weight GAO 1-2 lbs.) OF the
male is attained at the age Of 40; that
of the female (nearly 124 lbs.) is not
attained until fifty; from which ages
they decline afterwards; the male to
127 1-2 lbs, the female to 100 lbs,
nearly stone. The full grown adult
is twenty times as heavy as a new
born infant. In the first year he trip
les his weight, afterwards the growth
proceeds in geometrical progression,
so that if fifty infants in their first
year weigh 1000 lbs, they will in the
second weigh 1910 lbs; in the third
1880 lbs; in the fourth / AGA lbs; in
the fifth remaining very constant up
to the ages OF hip in females, and
1914 in males, where it must be nearly
doubled; afterwards it may be con-
tinued. and will be found very nearly
correct up to the age Of 19 or 10,
when the growth proceeds very slowly.
At an equality of age the male is gem
orally heavier than the female.
Towards the age of ~ years only, an
individual of each sex has the same
weight The male attains the maxi
mum weight about the age Of 40, and
he begins to lose it very sensibly
towards 60. At so he loses about
- 1929 lbs; and the staturels dimn-
ished 2.75B inches. Females attain
their maximum weight about SO The
mean weight of mature man is 1O4
lbs. and OF an average woman "a lbs.
In an old age they lose about II or
I lbs. Men weigh most at 40, women
at so, and begin to lose at 60. The
mean weight OF both sexes in old age
is that which they had at 10. -
When the male and female have as
sumed their complete development,
they weigh almost exactly twenty
times s.s MUCH IS al birth, while the
stature is about 3 2 times greater,
Children lose weight during the first
three days after birth; at the age of a
week they sensibly increase; after one
year they triple their weight; then they
require six years to double their
weight, and thirteen to quadruple it.
About the age OF SO the lean man
usually becomes fatter, and the fat
man becomes leaner. Again between
the years 43 and so his appetite fails,
his complexion fades and his tongue
i apt to become ,rredupon the least
eseft,an Il body or mind. At this pc
Rod his muscles become iiahhy, his
joints weak, his spirits droop, and his
sleep is imperfect and unreireshing
After suffering under these complaints
? year, or perhaps two, he starts
afresh witt. G renewed vigor, and goes
on to 81 or 80, when II s,rni.ar changa
takes place, but with aggravated
symptoms. When these grand periods
have been successfully passed, the
gravity of incumbent years is more
stlon9ly marked:
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Disease in Clothing.

Miss nightingale gives the following
advise: There is reason to believe that
not a few of the apparently unaccount-
able cases OF scrofula among children
proceeds from the habit of sleeping
with the head under the bed clothes,
and so inhalng air already breathed,
which is further contaminated by ex-
halations from the skin. Patients
are sometimes given to a similar hab-
it, and it often happens that the bed
clothes are SO disposed that the pa
tient must necessarily breath air more
or less contaminated by exhalations
from the skin. A good nurse will be
careful to attend to this, 1t is an i'm
portant part, so to speak, of ventila-
ton. 1t may be worth while to re-
mark that when there is any danger
of bed sores blanket should never be
placed under the patient. 1t retains
dampness and acts like a poultice.
Never use anything but light wooden
blankets as bed covering for the sick.
The heavy impervious cotton coun-
terpane is bad, for the reason that it
keeps the carnations from the sick
person, while the blanket allows them
to pass through. Weak patients are
invariably distressed by a great weight
OF bed clothes, which often prevents
their getting any sound sleep what
ever. = -
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
How to Make u Happy Home.

Mrs. John, in Cleveland Plaindealer.
Have no secrets from your compan-
ion. What husband knows a wife
should know. Never tell your neigh
bors your troubles. OF course We
must greet ones friends with smile
when we feel sad at heart. Now, hus
band, show your love for your wife.
Suffer for your wife if need be. Christ
suffered for the church. Studyto keep
her young. 1t is not work but worry
that wears. Keep a brave, true heart
between her and all harm. Stay at
home; habitual absence during even
ings is sure to bring sorrow. If your
duty or business calls you, that is all
right; but if you go out to mingle with
other society and leave your wife at
home alone or with the children, you
may be sure there is no good in store
for you; home is your only retreat.
Take your wife with you into society.
She must see how other people appear
and act.
Wife, love your husband. Seek to
secure your husbands happiness,
make your home attractive. This
means more than furniture; it means
the thousand little touches of taste
that drive the darkness out of the cor
ners and the stiffness out of the par
lor, and the gloom out of the house.
Make your home SO easy that you
will feel easy i'll it yourself Keep
your house clean and in good order; it
takes less time to keep things than to
neglect them. Even poverty is no ex
cuse for dirt; many a man is driven
by home dirt to the bar-room, and
through that to death Have your
sable clean; your food may be course,
but if it is clean and put on in an in
viting shape the meal will be relished,
OF course, all homes are not happy
ones; but il we would do our duty
they might be. | will say this; My
home Is a happy one; my husband
tells me all his business, and l
cell him all my little affairs.
Now I will tell you all how a
home was made unhappy by dirt
and carelessness. The couple had
been married about six years, and the
wife GOT so careless she would not
keep her house clean. The husband
took to drinking and spent his even
ings around town. One afternoon the
little girl went to visit a neighbor
When she returned she said: Mamma,
why can't you look like Mrs.; she
looked so clean?" The wife thought
things over, and finally thought she
would give her husband a surprise, SO
she few around and swept clean,
Cpraa1 tho + abla wit n q clean + q bla-
cloth, and then she made her toilet
and combed her hair nicely. When
her husband came home he could not
find his wife in the kitchen as usual
He went to the parlor and found his
wife playing Oh the piano; he could
not believe that it was his Mary. Since
then that home has been different-the
husband has reformed from drink,
the wife keeps the house clean and
tidy.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Keep tho DuoryarGs Trimmed Up.

Do not neglect to NOV the door
yards early, says the New England
Farmer. Not every farmer needs to
keep q lawn mower, to berun over the
front yard every week, but every farm
doorvard should have early and ire
quent cutting of the grass along the
paths to the stable and the other out
buildings Then the clothes yard
needs to be kept we'll in hand, so that
the women can hang out the clothes,
or spread them upon the grass to
whiten without getting their skirts
bedrabbled with the morning dews.
Never let bad weeds run up to seed
about the buildings. but kill them or
keep them down by frequent moving.
One should also NOW the roadside
along his own premises, and keep it III
condition so that it can be moved
with safety to the soytho. Eaver
make the highway the catch-all
for old rubbish, such as broken
vehicles, refuse lumber and fire
wood, old tin and broken crockery.
Keep all these out OF the highway and
NOW the borders two or three times
u year, and our streets would present
less the appearance of jungles between
the travel and the fences. Let the odd
hours be spent In cleaning up yards
and streets.
You will like your place better if
kept neatly cared for; your neighbors
will get an example they may be glad
to follow, and if you should have oc-
casion to sell the old homestead it
would sell quicker and bring more if it
hes always been managed with taste.
Many farm buildings are surrounded
by rank growths OF the coarsest OF
weeds, burdocks, briers, thistles, pois-
on ivy, and q host OF annual weeds
which often shed their seeds upon the
manure piles, and thus get carried to
the cultivated fields. Better have
clean grass sod in such places. such as
every one may have by q little judi
cious care at the proper time.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15

enginel On flew the pursuing headless
train as if determined on revenge for
lost prey, but in this race the Thun-
derbolt is alive breathing knowle lge
of a minds mastery over material.
Shrek winds, if we will, UNDECIDED, for
when the long hill had slipped away,
as a tale that is told, the Thunderbolt
speeds over q level stretch up another
hill and rests, while the train gradual
ly slackens OF it's own inertia, lags
along to the foothill and stops, hum
bly, waiting for the Thunderbolt to
come back and pull it over From
a watching mothers heart goes up
prayer OF thankfulness. In describing
that race, the fireman said: "When
Clay Grouse is dead and laid out, his
face won't be winter than it was when
he saw that woman going so steady
down to the crossing ahead Gus. He
Just signed to me to stand by the coal,
and scarcely moved after that. Once
touched his hand, and good Lord,
it WAS like ice. didn't know until we
made it, that twas his mother, or |
reckon I'd been so broken up couldn't
do nothin', for all the boys think a
heap of that old lady, and don't You
forget it. Bout twice a week, regular,
she comes to town with jug of milk
an bag of doughnuts, mince pie or
roast chicken, and many's the cold
wet night way out on hepains, we've
blessed her while eating her lunch.
Well, | tell We, never thought we'd
make it, and | was Just as sure we'd
lift that buggy off the track as am,
of seeing Heaven, and when we ran I'M
ahead OF her yelled like a Comanche.
"Old Cash." he never looked toward
her or reckon he'd a broke down.
He never spoke a durn word the whole
run of forty miles into Neodesha.
He's mighty proud of his engine, and
mostly hangs around to See things
made shinin', but that day he ran Off
like he hated it, and Pm blamed ef |
don't think he was crying. Hewas all
nervous and done up for two or three
days. and | didn't feel pretty much
like a camp meeting myself. You bet
your last life | don't want TO get into
another race like that, and to this
day you can never get Clay to talk
about it"
Mrs. Grouse says she heard one
whistle, but knowing it was beyond
her sons time to pass, that no other
train was due for some hours on his
track, and deceived 10y the wind, sup
posing the signal came from the Mis-
souri, Pacific in front, instead of her
sons unexpected train behind her.
The thick veil and hood had aided de-
ception, and no knowledge OF danger
dawned until the engine dashed before
her on to the crossing. The next meet
ing OF mother and son can be best left
to Imagination, but the moral OF this
true tale is 'Look out for the cross
ing"
p. S.-The chicken-hou was duly
repaired.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
To Grass A Bank.

According to the Gardeners Chroni-
Gle, the Germans employ the following
described method to seed bank For
each square rod to be planted take
half pound of lawn grass seed and
mix it intimately and thoroughly with
six cubic feet OF good dry garden earth
and loan. This should be placed in
tub, and liquid manure diluted with
about two-thirds of water added and
well stirred in, SO as to bring the whole
to the consistency of mortar. The
slope must be clean and made perfect
ly smooth, and then we'll watered, at
ter which the paste just mentioned
should be applied with a trowel, and
made as even and thin as possible.
Should it crack from exposure to the
air. it must be again watered and
smoothed up day by day until the
grass makes its appearance, which
will be in from eight to fourteen days,
when the whole declivity will soon be
covered with close carpet OF green.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Various Agricultural Items.

If the universal corn ration was
varied with more sugar beets and 9TH
e.. .Foots there would doubtless be less
hog cholera" "dry murrain," and
other diseases of farm Stock Prairie
Farmer.
The Indian Agricultural Gazette has
lately been started at Calcutta-pro-
perly speaking the first farm journal
in vast continent so exclusively de-
voted TO the pursuits of husbandry
When q cow'once losses her calf be-
fore the time it is scarcely worth while
keeping her, as the same trouble is al
most sure to happen again The ami
nal should be fattened for beef, as she
is not injured in any way for this pur
pose.
1t is surprising that so many young
men are trying to become clerks in
our cities and villages, are not looking
to agriculture, that grand and CON
stantly enlarging pursuit. where there
is more independence and more scope
fol the mind.
Keep the garden in neat, clean,
condition. Cut off fading flowers,
dead leaves and broken branches.
Don't let them scatter themselves
over the grass of the lawn. For re-
moving them from the grass there is
nothing better than an iron rake with
long, close teeth.
The Hon. J. Sterling Morton, sever
al years ago as governor of Nebraska,
started the practice of setting apart a
particular day each spring for the
planting of trees. He called it "Arbor
Day" and now the name and the day
are known all over the west, and the
good practice has recently gone east
ward, where the destruction of the
forests has created demand for tree
planting. In Nebraska the day april
22) is by law a holiday.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Avoid instantaneous Rising,

Do not violently disturb sleepy
child by lifting it suddenly out of bed
before it is fully awake. Do no vio-
lence to your own sleep either if it is
possible to avoid instantaneous rising
at the first waking moment. There
are professions, the soldiers, the doc
tors, the nurses, where wakefullness
to order and on the Jump is required.
But all persons are not under such
bonds to attention, all young folks
are not West Point cadets to start up
at the "reveille." The words of an
expert are worth quoting: Fifteen
minutes spent in gradually waking up,
after the eyes are opened and in turn
ing over and stretching the limbs, do
as much good as sound sleep, because
the operation sets the blood in motion
by degrees, tending to equalize the cir
culation, for during sleep the blood
tends to stagnation, the heart beats
feebly and slowly, and to shock the
SYSTEM by hounqing UP in an instant
and sending the blood in overwhelm
ing quantity to the heart, causing it
to assume a gallop, where the instant
before it was q creep, is the greatest
absurdity. This instantaneous bounc-
ing out of bed as soon as the eyes are
open will be followed by long wear
mess before noon. "-Phlladelphia Led
ger
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Physicians in Providence, r. l., are

Physicians in Providence, r. l., are
greatly interested in the case of Miss
Evelyn C. Smith, who has been sud
denly struck speechless. Last Satur-
day, with young man named Brown
she was examining map. Her com
panion made some comlcal remark
which caused her to burst out IN q Vi
client fit of laughter. While the shouts
were still ringing through the room
she suddenly turned pale, choked and
fell. Her companion caught her, but
she could only make a motion to her
mouth. The young woman was well
enough Thursday to be interviewed
with the assistance OF a pencil and
paper. She said: 81 feel as nearly as
can express, as if | were in wise. "
She could move her lips as If shaping
words, but could not send out sound
from the tongue. She coughed freely
and cleared her throat, although both
OF these processes panied her. She al
so complained OF pains In her ears and
burning sensation in the and OF
feeling weak. Her physicians can only
say it is nervous trouble and express
the hope that she will improve in time.
There is much sympathy expressed for
her.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
John lsuskin on Church Debts.

John Ruskin, being asked the other
day for aid in paying of a church debt,
replied by letter thus: 81 am sorrow
fully amused at your appeal to me, of
all people in the world, the precisely
least likely to give you farthing.
Ny first word to all men and boys
whs c4re t9 bear me is Don't get in-
to debt. starF6, ana sc IL heaven;
but don't borrow. Try first Begging,
| don't mind, If it's really needful,
stealing. But don't buy things you
can't pay for And of all manner OF
debtors, pious people building churches
they e.11't pay forare the most detest-
able NONSENSE to ..,e, Can't you
preach and pray behind the hedges, Or
in q sandp{t, or in II coalhole first?
And of all manner of churches thus
,diotically built, iron churches are the
dnmnablest to me. And of all the
sects and beileveys ir any ruling spirit,
Hindoos, Turks, Eeather ilplators
and Mumbo Jumbo Log and Eire
Worshippers WHO want churches, your
modern English Evangelical sect is the
most absurd and entirely objectlona-
bio and nnendufable to me. All
which you might very easily have
found out from my books, Any other
sort of sect would. before bothering
me to write it to them"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
Keen The Chickens Growing.

1t is a mistaken policy to STINT
young iowls in food. Good, rich food
and plenty OF it, is what they need,
and no danger Of overlooking i they
are growing and have their liberty.
Old fowls that have their growth. and
are shut up, can easily be fed too much;
but do not fail to furnish the young
ones all they will eat. A good feed OF
whole grain OF some kind, just as late
in the evening as they can see to eat,
is one of the means OF making fine
stock. Also, give them a plentiful
breakfast OF soft food early in
the morning. Let no food lie
on the ground or in anything
where it will sour; it will be very likely
to make the little chicks sick. Ii
worms and bugs are scarce, q little
cooked meat will repay It's cost. A
few cents worth OF food given at the
proper season to q fine bird, may
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15

rortleres have proved to be a boon
to many household. They can, with
graceful effect, curtain off the obstinate
end of a hall, and are very useful in
flats, or where quarters are circum-
scribcd. Besides, they furnish more
than is easily realized, except by their
absence There is real elegance and
refinement about even the simplest OF
them 1t is so much more convenient
to draw portiere than it is to close a
door in case little privacy is desired.
A marble mantel has warmer ap-
pearancc from being decorated by a
lambrequin or scarf. If the former, the
valance should not fall more than
twelve or sixteen inches, and wooden
shelf should be covered with the same
material Silk, velvet, yeiveteen, or
felt are all effective. The narrow tassel
fringe forms good finish, and in en-
broidery. applique work of velvet, or
velveteen, or felt, rich appearance.
For this the conventional designs are
the best
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15

The ST., Louis Rural World claims
that Nodaway caanty Missouri, raises
more corn than any county in the
United States. Ii that writer will
turn to page 768 of compendium OF
United States census for 1880, it will
be found that Pottawattamiec county,
Iowa, raised 7,35O,176 bushels, and
on page 100, that Nodaway county
Mo-, raised the same year 6,961, 556.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15

Miss Lille Wall, Stockton, MINI. was a
great sufferer from a diseased stomach, in
digestion and its kindred troublesome dis
eases gave her agreat deal ofpain. Nothing
seemed to do her any good until Brown ;
Iron Bitters was tried, this valuable med
icine soon made a cure
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15

make considerable difference in the
price when you come to sell.
1t takes a certain quantity of food
to keep up the waste OF sustaining
animal life; SO every ounce OF food
properly digested, in addition to this
actual requirement, goes to increase
the size of the fowl. Remember this
and never neglect the growing stock.
Time lost here can never be regained.
Neglect the little chicks and you will
surely see the effects OF the neglect in
the mature fowl.