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Oysters Fried to tho queens Taste.

Harper's Bnzar.-Small ones are
just as toothsome for srilling, but
large, plump specimens present a bet
ter appearance. Keep if possible, q
soap-stone griddle expressly for cook
ing them. andlet it heat slowly on the
back OF the range at least an hour be-
fore needed, The oysters can not be
drained too long O too well, for one
of the secrets OF success is to have
them perfectly dry. Ten hours is not
too long to let them stand in the COL
ander; first place them under astream
of water for three or four minutes to
wash off all impurities, wipe lightly af-
terward with a thin cloth, and placing
in theice-chest until wanted; but if de-
sired unexpectedly sop between tow
els, lightly patting out the moisture
until dry. When ready to cook them
move the griddle to q hot part OF the
stove. and grease it very slightly with
fresh butter; lay on the oysters close
together, but not c%rowdiug. and as
fast as Drowned, nicely turn them with
n spoon,not using q fork, for the pierre
ing let's out the liquor. When done.
serve in a very hot dish with q trihe
Of melted butter. If a gr,ddle can not
be procured, a skillet or frying pan
will answer, and they can either be we'll
shaken all the time or turned with a
spoon.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05

trail. The stars and stripes were
tIioed up above ard around a picture
OF Washington, and he had painted q
majestic eagle with his foot just clasp.
ing the whole globe, which his wings
overshadowed. Thedear old boy saw
my glance, and said, with q sad smile,
Here you see l have a country?' He
had q great map OF the United States,
as he had drawn it from memory,
Quaint. queer anne were on it, in
large letters: Indiana Territory
Mississippi Territory etc. o, Dan.
forth he said, Il know l am dying.
| cannot live long. Surely o will
tell me something now. THERE'S notin
this ship, there is not in America
COG bless he-!-a more loyal man
than l. There can not be O man who
loves the old flag as l do, or prays for
It us do, or hopes for it as l do.
There are thirty-four stars in it now,
Danforth. I thank God for that,
though do not know what their
names are. There has never been one
taken away. thank God for that. ]
know by that that there neve has
been any successful Burr. But tell me,
ten me something-tell me everything,
Danforth, before l die!'"
"Mr. Nolan" said 1, ~ viii tell Won
everything you ask about; only where
shall l begin?"
Nolan then for the first time in fifty-
three years heard something OF his
country. Danforth says be was
wild with Joy, ard alternately laughed
II wept in h~ysterical delirum. After
spending morethan an hour withhim,
Danforth went away, with this iniunc,
ton 'front.' the lips Of the poor exile.
Look in my Bible, Danforth, when
lamgone."
"ln an hour, says Dauforth, "when
the doctor went in gently. he found
Nolan had breathed away his life with
a smile. He had something pressed to
his lips. 1t was his fathers badge of
the Order of Cincinnati.
1--WE looked in his Bible, and there
was a slip OF paper. On it was writ
BURY me in the sea; it has been
my home, and l love it. But will some
one set up a stone for my memory at
Fort Adams or at Orleans, that nv
disgrace may not be more than l ought
to bear? Say on it:
in memory OF
PHILIP NOLAN,
Lieutenant in the Army OF the United
States.
He loved his country as no other man
has loved her; but no man deserved less at
her hnnds."'
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Farm and Household.
Farm Brevities.

The largest cabbage farm in the
world is near Chicago. 1t comprises
$500 acres of land.
The Kansas nti-Horsethief Asso.
citation has recovered 90 per cent. Of
oil the property aver stolen within its
jurisdiction.
The alleged unhealthiness OF keeping
animals in yards where the manure
accumulstes Ia not substantiated by
experience, provided that the yards
are kept well filtered.-London Stand.
| ard.
Honorable Pauper: My road has
heard that you have been elected to
the Legislature, and feeling that you
would appreciate being cosidered a
deadhead. forward you this pass
Western Rural.
A Western correspondent tells The
Mirror that he never saw land where
more benefit could be derived from
J%udicious application OF manure than
the "rlch' prairies OF illinois and Iowa.
In the opinion OF the Kansas Horti.
cultural Society, none of the Russian
apples are worthy OF cultivation ex-
capt Oldenburg, Astrachan and
Tetofski, all easily obtained at home
nurseries, and "even these should only
be planted sparingly for family USE"
Mr.. Harry Sedgwick, Cornwall Hol-
low, Conn, sold his apple crop in
North Carolina, apropos of which The
Connecticut Farmer remarks that ito
q man who knows how to avail him
self OF the cheapest means of trans
portation. the Southern cities of the
Atlantic Coast offer a hopeful field"
The harassed husbandman of Great
Britain was urged by The London Ag-
ricultural Gazette to come in out of
the rain OF disaster with both raw
material and finished goods. Clutch
barns Tor hay and straw, and covered
yards for live stock and are
examples"
The Board of Trade OF Utica, N. Y,
reports the one Just ended Us ''the
worst season ever known for cheese
makers since the introduction of the
factory system" The 5,755 boxes
disposed OF in that market in excess
OF last years production brought
S457,3I9 less money-or 19,247, 76O
pound an average of .O7955 each,
"the lowest rate on recorc." Little
Falls sold in 'S5, 2OS,O6 boxes TO-
S99O,6O7, against 526, 1876 in "a for
81, 4O7, 1872.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
His Ear Pierced With a Fish
hook,

Lake Ontario Corr. Philadelphia Times.
"Wall, WALL" remarked an ancient
and honorable oarsman, who, on the
retired list as it were, was a trife over.
critical of the younger and rising mem
bers of the profession: ''This 'ere's a
world of improvement, sure enough.
When | was a-pullin'-and I tell you l
hefted the ash fur some big men in my
time-Secretary Edmunds, President
Arthur-and what a fly he kin cast!
And there was Gen.-what's hisname?
he that fought the duel with COL
Names kinder slips on me these muggy
days, but he was q caster too, and I've
seen him put ar old-fashioned hackle
fly eighty-tive feet, with one hand tied
behind him.
"See this EARRING" he continued.
pointing q equity finger at a gold hoop
that hung from his lett ear. 1.-The gen
eral bored that himself. One day we
was out and the two men got into a
Wrangle, they Was always a dom it,
about their castin', and at last thew
got me to stand fifty foot off, OH q
~plnt-down at PITCH Pine p'int-and
hold out q tin mug. The general he
bet that he could take the mug out OF
my hand in three tries by putin the
fly through themiddle.
81 was gettin' paid well, and so, as
| thought ] couldn't lose more than
IN eye or so l stood up, and the first
cast thee old man to ok me right through
the ere ear. l tell ye, Idrop that cup
quick, but the general ups and haulsa
$50 sinner and losses it at me and
says:
Jack, femme reel yein and it
60 it, says I. So he began to reelin,
playin' me for all / was with, the col.
onel standin' ready with gaff, and
when the general got the line in he
hooked the gait i'll the slack of NV
trousers and give me q sling Of about
ten loot and yells out: IT'S wuth SO
to land @ two hundred pound sucker
He paid it, too. They hooked me and
landed me, and it cost EN- $50. When
they cut the hook out the colonel said
he'd pay for a gold earring to 20 10.
and said I'd never have sore eyes, and
| never have, so help me. Thnt'show
l come to wear one earring. lost
the money, though. When the old
woman heard ont she allowed NE was
all drunk, and SO took the $50 former
share"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Shorter Paragraphs.

Mr.. W.T.. Clarke OF The Rural Ca.
madam, expresses the opinion that
"of all dull scholars an old farmer,
'stitf-sot' in his ways, is the hardest
to convince" The good hope centres
in the ''risiilg'' generation.
Mr.. Harris Lewis's grapes having
''froze down last winter, including
the hardy Concord. he will hereafter
lay the vines on the ground in the fall
and cover with hemlock brushfor pro.
lection.
We know of % theological student in
an Ohio college who, sustained by
grace, rice and c%ornbread, lived thir-
teen weeks on 81; but there We're sew
eral good apple orchards near the col
lese, and the farmers kept no dogs
American Miller.
Mr.. G. w. Hoffman is confident
that with a herd OF thirty cows it
would pay to have a MAI devote his
entire time in winter to preparing
food, curryirg, and looking out for
their welfare in various ways.
Northern farmers are putting their
stock into warm stables and sheds
more than they used to, but they
generally err in not protecting them
better from the early frosts and the
fall rains.-kentucky Home and
Farm.
A Long Island market gardener,
writing OF asparagus, says he prefers
to plant one-year-old roots in April
upon well MANFRED soil, and begins
to cut the second year. The best soil
is q sandy loan. The cutting ends
late in May with young plants, but
lscontlnued into July, when the stools
are well established.
Mr.. ]. C. Wolfe tells The Western
Rural chat since adopting his present
system with seed corn he has improved
the quality OF crop in respect to even
ness and size of ears, aud Of uniformi-
ty in ripening and earliness OF maturi-
ty: "My practice for years has been
to save my seed corn when I am hask-
ing and pile it up like cordwood in the
attic OF my house, where no dampness
or mice a get to it. | have a box
that will hold about a bushel, with a
pair OF springseat hooks on it so that
/ can hook it on the outside OF the
wagonbox and when l come across a
choice ear l throwit into the box. In
this way ! get about a bushei of the
most choice ears while l am husking o
load OF twenty-five bushels"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05

ure. Some of the cheese now made is
from milk, out OF which every parti-
Gle OF butter has been taken by put
ting it in creameries surrounded by
ice. OF course there is no demand for
such cheese MS this, and the fact that
it IS on the market seriously limits
the SIZE OF the best. With honest
ly made cheese, says the Boston Gull
tivator, there should be n foreign de-
mand that always make its produc-
ton profitable. What is true OF
cheese is true also of nearly every
thing else that the farmer produces.
There is profit only i'll the best.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Bewilderingly Pretty Stockings.

From the New York Tribune.
Stockings are very gay. The gold
embroidered and beaded roses and
lllles OF the present new styles have
tiny dropping tassels OF silk and fine
beads; in others the artistic mingling
OF colors has never been surpassed in
harmonious blendings of pale olive,
brown and blue; brown and vim color,
flesh color and q warm olive, and
dark red and olive. Pretty stripes
are seen in moss-green and rose-pink,
black and red, blue and cardinal.
Vertical stripes OF brilliant colors are
divided by ID AFRO stripe of lace.
Another still daintier style has feet of
r~ose-color and m~oss-green tops. and
other feet OF delicate colors with ar-
tisticcontrasts. The finest silk stock
incs OF plain black have fine ecru silk
soles, and black lace stockings are ex-
quislte enoushforgioves Black spun
silk stockings are finished with un-
bleached soles, and handsome fine
walking styles have balbriggan feet
and black silk tops. Sober gray is a
favorite shade, as a strong contrast
to the butterfly brightness of the 9TH
ers, and cafe au lait where there is
more milk than there is coffee, sage.
peacock blue, strawberry red, and all
shades OF blue, make up the rest.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
snrsd Nv Common aen.a.

Two children, Of five and seven years
respectively, were among many taken
down with scarlet fever ola malignant
type, epidemic in the village. Four or
five others on the same block died;
they survived, having received simply
hygienic treatment. described as fol-
lows:
"They We're in connectincrooms and
n window constantly kept open in
each so as to have q free circulation
Of air, though it was midwinter." The
fire WAS kept burning a little more
brightly in order that the room might
be kept comfortable with the windows
thus opened. For the first four u five
days they wanted no TODD and none
was given them. Their bedding was
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
How to Mako Good Coffee.
Cor. New York Times.

Cor. New York Times.
Buy the best coffee and grind It to
the consistency of ordinary cornmeal.
Into q French teapot put an ounce OF
coffee for every nerson. One pound of
coffee will make 16 cups, and no lore.
Have everything clean, and as soon
as the water in the teakettle begins to
boil moisten the coffee gently, and
leave it to soak and swell for three
minutes; then add n little more water;
don't be in n hurry; continue to ndd
water until you have obtained not
more than a large coffee cupful OF the
extract. II carefully done the entire
virtue OF the coffee will be in the cup
full OF liquor at the end OF five minutes.
For four persons use a quart Of pure
milk and have it piping hot; heat the
large cups by pouring into them hot
water; now divide the coffee into the
four cups, each OF which will be one
quarter full; fill Will, the boiling milk.
This is pure breakfast coffee. thecoffee
of the gods, Of which no man after
drinking would be SO base az to call
for n second cup. He that drinketh it
this morning will be unhappy if he
tails to get it Tomorrow morning. But
these instructions must be followed to
the letter.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Washington's Aids.

Washington was a good judge OF men
and horses. He never trained for the
saddle acolt that he should have sent
to the plough; and he never, unless
oyer-ruled put a mar in q place he
could not fill. The generals he select
ed rarely failed to do their work, while
those whom Congress forced uponhim
seldom justified the selection. He
showed his usual good Judgment in
selecting his two aids, Alexander Ham.
ilton, OF New York, and Richard K.
Meade, Of Virginia. The Virginian
was a fearless horseman, but the New
Yorker was q vigorous writer and
strong thinker"
"Hamilton." said Colonel Meade,
"did the headwork of Washington's
staff, and l did the riding"
At the close of the war, Washington,
while takingieave OF his aids, said to
Hamilton. you must 20 to the bar,
which you can reach in six months"
Turning to Colonel Meade, he said,
Friend Dick, you must go to your
I.plantation; you will make a good
farmer, and an honest foreman Of the
grand jury"
Both predictions were fulfilled.
Hamilton became a leader of the New
York Bar, and Meade built, with his
own hands, a Lighthouse OF two rooms
on his own plantation in the valley
OF Virginia, where he became afalnous
farmer. Several years later, Meade
visited Mount Vernon, and Washing
ton rode to meet hin1.. They met on
the opposite sides of n pair OF draw.
bars. and both dismounted.
Friend Dick" said Washington,
las your host. it is my privilege to
take down the bars"
well. general" retorted Meade, II
will be your aid STILL"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Down with skim MIX chee.o.

Some years ago it was discovered
that pessable cheese could be made
where one-half the milk was skinned
and the cream made into butter.
Since then the cheating in cheese
has constantly increased. One re-
suit is that butter is too low to al
ford any profit, and much of the
cheese is almost unstable at any fig
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Henry Bereh has BENIN q nov, -,

Henry Bergh has begun a new cru
SADIE. According to his belief many
horses are seriously injured and tor
tured by the application of redhot;
shoes to their hoofs while they are be.
ing shod at the blacksmith shops.
ROBERT bonner, the horse fancier,
could not be induced to say that, h.
thought the custom cruel, though ho
believed a horse could be slod az wall
at a little longer expense of time. with
cold iron. This plan, the chest fa,r;era
IN New York say, is impracticable md
expensive, The time would
necessitate very heavy charges for The
work. .Accordingto the smiths. Is il n
rare thing to burn the hoof to the
years old. -
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
The Gift of Being Wcll-Born WHO 10
stow 1t on Their Children,

Hattie T. Griswold in Chicago Tribune.
There is nothing truer than that
real g%entleness Of breeding-fnestman
ners-requires that one should have
been well-born. In this, as in most
other things, Emerson's doctrine
holds good, and when one is born the
gate OF gifts is closed upon him. lam
far from meaning by this that one
must have been born to wealth or
fashion, or to be able to boast of fine
ancestors. All these things are good
and are elements not to be dcspised,
but none OF these are essential to gen
tie birth. What is essential is, that
ones parents must have been people
OF fine grain, poor or rich; that they
must have had real delicacy OF nature,
real refinement of life, real apprecia-
ton OF the elements OF fine character.
No vulgar Itch woman, storming at
and ill-treating her servants, brow
beating tradesmen, boasting OF her
possessions, Haunting her diamonds
IN the street or railroad car, trailing
costly dinner dresses in the streets,
ashamed OF her poor but respectable
relations, and unable anywhere to
find anything quite good enough for
her-no woman OF this description, I
say, can bestow this gift of gentle
birth upon her children. There will
be somewhere a drop OF black blood
in their veins.
No coarse, sensual father, vulgar in
every attribute, unclean in every
thought, polluting himself with to-
bacco and beer, and INDUCING in vices,
can bestow this priceless boon upon
their children. For it comes and
comes only to clean lives, OF high pur.
pose, and OF lifelong culture. 1t is an
evolution, and not a creation. The
men and the womenin however humble
y station who have delicate tastes,
high aspirations, and pure morals,
may be the germs from which shall he
evolved iii due time the finest flowers
Of our civilization. In homes of real
refinement and true cultivation it is
not necessary to teach children much
about They imbibe good
manners with their mothers milk;
they absorb good manners from the
daily atmosphere, they acquire them
as unconsciously rs they acquire a
language. Some instruction will, Of
course, be necessary upon points Of
etiquette, but this will not be hard
for children to acquire who have lived
i'll an atmosphere OF politeness and gen
tie breeding.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05

Among many notices adjoining the
walls OF the audience room on the oc-
casion Of the recent nineteenth annual
session, in Boston, OF the National
Grange, Patrons OF Husbandry. were
these: "The earth is full OF his mel.
cies;' Reap for the mind as well as
for the body" and this from Presi-
dent Jefferson; They who labor in
the earth arc the chosen people OF
God"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
Feeding of Young Calves.
New York Times. -

y AoAh itAiSSs
The feeding OF young calves is now a
timely subject tor consideration. Full
leedins up to the point of perfect di-
gestion and assimilation should be
the aim. 1t is easy to discover when
this point is reached. The condition
Of the bowel discharge is an accurate
test. As soon rs the dung has an Of
%fensive dordigestionis impaired, and
either the food is given to excess or
the character of it is not healthful. As
Il rule sour food is not wholesome for
calves. II one goes to the cattle mar
kets and visits the calf pens, the :.but-
termilk calves are readily found by
their filthy odor. The calves may
be plump and appear all right,
but the contrary will soon
appear when n purchaser gets them
home. Thefasting will soon affect in
luriously the soft, haccid, unhealthy
flesh, and the calves will fail in a
serious manner, and time and food
will be wasted in bringing them into
condition again. This experience
should war; the owners OF calves to
study carefully the feeding, and to use
only the best Of food. 1t is easy to
have sweet milk Tor the calves, and it
will pay to warm this to 90 deg. At
this time calves are sufficiently ad-
vanced to take q considerable ration
of meal, but the full feeding of this
should be cautiously reached by
gradual increase OF the ration from a
small and safequantlty. The moment
dlarrhea occurs Observation-Disclosures
4S hours, and then small doses OF hot
sweet milk only should be given.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05
In Germany apothecaries are not
allowed tn soil miscellaneous articles

on the ground that such sales are like
ly to divert the clerks attention from
the delicateduty ofcompoundinsme di-
clnes. There are drug stores where
miscellaneous articles are for sale, but
no prescriptions g. be prepared iii
them, under severe penalties. Poison
Gus articles + kept in n room re.
served exclusively for them.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05

The largest cabbage farm in the
world is near Chicago. 1t comprises
$500 acres of land.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1886-10-22

Baltimore Sun.

A new departure in the matter OF coun-
terfeiting money was brought to light at
the United States Sub Treasury III Baltl-
more few days ago. A somewhat worn
ten-dollar government bill was presented
at the cashiers window with request
for change, which was given. 1he note
was sent to Washington as mutilated cur
rency, and was returned with the infor-
nation that one side of the note was
good, but the other side was well-ex-
ecuted counterfeit OF the original. 1t
was found thar "A genuine ten dollar bill
had been split. the face being separated
from the back, seemingly impossible
undertaking. The original face, with
counterfeit back, had baen used, and 1t is
quite likely that the genuine back with o
well executed counterfeit face had been
passed in some other quarter. The por-
ton of the note was worth exactly Its
proportion OF the whole, or In other
words, $5. More recently another $40
''front" was presented at the cashiers
window, with a similar request tor
change The clerk at the window, sus-
pectlDg the bill, told the man who handed
It in to wait moment until he could
consult DIR. Bishop, the Sub-Treasurer.
DR.. Bishop recognized in the note the
familiar game, aod said it was worth just
S.. When the clerk returned to the
window, however, the man left without
waiting for his change. The Sub-Treas-
ury, which was out IS on the first trans
action, was evened up by the second.
This system of manipulating paper
money is perhaps one of the most dan.
aerous forms Of swindling ever attempted.
One or more genuine "fronts" mixed with
several whole notes would be liable to
deceive expert bank tellers. The face
bearing undoubted proof OF genuneness,
very few would be apt to examine the
backs of all the notes, unless something
in the feel OF the paper might arouse sus-
picion. Then, should any one, especially
II not SO expert as bank teller, happen
to strike the counterfeit side and have
his doubts about the notes, a glance at
the other side would possibly set at rest
all questions.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1886-10-22

The substitution of glass flooring for
boards continues to increase In Paris,
especially i. those business structures IN
which the cellars are used as offices. At
the Bank Of the Credit Lyonnais the
whole OF the ground in front is paved
with large squares or blocks of roughen-
ed glass imbedded in a strong iron frame,
and in the cellars beneath there is suffi-
cieut light, even on dull days, to enable
clerks to carry on their accustomed work
without resort to gas.