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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-13
Labor Trouble Notaa.

There was serious conflict in Chicago
on tho I'd between the eight hour strikers
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-13

Some Valuable and Practical Suggestions
To Farmers.
At banquet given the Montana
cattlemen at St. Paul, on the evening
OF May srd, A. B. Stickney, of the
Minnesota & Northwestern r. R., and
j. j. Hill, of the St. Paul & Manitoba,
made interesting addresses, an abstract
of which we append:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-13

100 steers, 400 lbs each, sell for. $3.50 90
Add one-third value for manure. go. 267 &C
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-13

the farmers of Minnesota can feed
CATTLE say for four winter months
during the fattening process, at net
profit of say $40 to $15 per head. If
this is correct, and we could by any
means place it within the reach of the
reach of the farmers of this state that
each could care for say thirty head, and
make profit of $40 per head or $500
for the winter. do You realize what a
boon it would be to the farmer? Three
hundred dollars net profit to each of
the 100, 900 farmers of Minnesota means
100000, 900 net profit to the state Do
you realize how much the average far
m1a of this state needs additional in
dustry which will give him an addi-
tional income? Take the United States
census tables of 1880 and you will find
the statistics of the crop for 1879 You
will fiud in that year that Minnesota
farmers produced 100000 bushels
of wheat, 215, 900 bushels of rye. 49,
100000 bushels of oats, $4,000, 600
bushels of corn, 100000 bushels of
barley, 41,000 bushels of buckwheat,
a little flax. little sorgum, poul-
try, eggs, butter cheese, garden
C1uCh' POCaCOcS' cue, etc.; tnaC the
whole value of all these products, ex-
cept live stock, on the farms before it had
paid any freight, including all sold and
consumed by the farmer and his fam
lily, amounted to $49, 469, 900. This was
the gross value, without deducting the
cost to raise it. Now divide the gross
sum, $49, 469, 900, between 92,4OO
farms then in the state, and l am
sure you will be astonished, as l was,
to find it amounts to only 1888 to each
farm. Mind this is not profit, or what
the crop brought over and above the
cost o. OF l production: Applying the
Iowa, we find the average farm pro-
duces 1884, about 40 per cent. more.
HOW TO DOT.
What can We do to encourage the
adding of live stock raising to the agri
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
MY SHIRT.

I'm afraid you may thInk him a dandy
And mention it. to his disgrace,
When tell you the front was embroidered
And the neck and sleeves trimmed with
soft lace.
But ironed it, Will such a feeling
As never possessed me before,
Though I'd laundried his shirts, a full hun
dred,
And made them for him by the score.
But, tenderly bending Ger this one,
said bless his heart" and sweet boy"
Ana smoothing the lace on the neck-band.
fingered a minute to toy
With the frill as it lay on my finger;
And though you may think l was SOFT
! pressed two quick kisses upon it,
- And laughingly held it aloft.
know wives don't usually do SO,
When ironing shirts for their lords;
Ihey re more apt to indulge in a tautrum,
Or TRADE, DER their ironing boards,
But LIST, and I'll tell you the secret,
And you'll sympathize with me know,
AS one woman will, with another,
If she the white feather" will show.
My little girl up to her Grammy's
was staying the morning before,
And white she was rummaging, child like.
Midst some buds in an old bureau drawer.
She captured a shirt which her papa,
When he was II baby, had worn,
And begged it to rig up her dolly;
And as it was wriukled and torn,
Returned home and said: Mamma wash IT,"
And SO, as [ did her behest.
And thought how my terrible giant
Within its wee size had been pressed.
DO you wonder said bless his heart" As
My fancy presented to view
a immature phase OF the monster
Who now measures just six feet two?
fFglhld G. Hollis, in Good housekeeping.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
GOOD
System In House-Work as Necessary as
System in BUSINESS.

system III House. work as Necessary d
System in Business.
Good management is better than
trained servants. Of two women
with equal health, wealth and size Of
family, the good manager, the one who
takes up the burden of life cheerfully
and wisely, will 'do alone" keep her
house and children in good order, will
find time for reading and guiding her
children's studies, while the other with
''help'' will find no time for the minds
of the family, and their merely materi-
al wants will not be as well cared for
rs in the former case. Cause: The first
takes hold of her work at the right end,
in season; also she remembers that
well done is twice done; that it takes
no more time Scarcely to make two
loaves of bread or cake than one; she
strikes the happy medium, she neither
'stodges" on Saturday enough for a
week, nor adopts the shiftless manner
of stirring up a little something each
meal. causing the family to leave the
table unsatisfied and her larder empty
nothing for the beggar or unexpect-
ed guest, nothing to ''build on for the
next meal. The good manager, who
expects her family to dinner at twelve,
does not continue her ironing or sew
ing till a quarter of twelve, and then
put some water on to heat for the po-
tatoes and coffee, run downstairs for a
pan of yet uncleaned potatoes, and
hurriedly "stew and fret" for the next
half an hour as her family stand Or sit
around waiting for the dinner, which
could have been ready if she had taken
hold of her work at the fright end"
Immediately after doing the break
fast dishes the dinner should be planned,
and such things as need the forenoon's
time should have it. Clean, now, veg |
etables of all kinds sufficient to last un-
til tomorrow at the same time. Waste |
neither time nor strength running down
cellar for vegetables twice a day. One
pair of hands should leave ironing or
other general Homework one hour be-
fore the meal is to be served, It might
far better be in season from eleven to
twelve, than to be belated from quar-
ter OF twelve to quarter Of one. II
wastes an hour. A habit of %irregularity
is a very inconvenient one.
l have seen company arrive an hour
after dinner and not a slice Of bread in
the house! To DO sure a short cake
was stirred up quickly, and the house.
was "stirred up" Yet she
must have known the day before that
her bread was running short; had she
followed the slip-shod plan she
would have mixed the night before.
Cake, gingerbread, cookies. boiled
ham and %corned-beef keep so well that
when absolute poverty is not king,
here Is no excuse to be unprovided
the s~ubstantials Of a meal. These
on hand" are conveniently and wise
y prolonged at will BY hot cakes, bis
.uits OF boiled meats at ones desire or
lppetite.- CAv4tdn at Work
- t " r-T ~ -"
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
oistemper in Stock.

Nearly all diseases that affect the
heads or breathing organs of stock are
cIassed as distemper, but are in reality
colds, or contracted from draughts Of
air through cracks and crevices. The
mode Of ventilation usually practiced
on most farms is by opening at the
top. There are times when this ven-
tilation will suffice, but only When the
wind is blowing from an opposite d.
rection. Any change will simply allow
the cold currents to come down on
the upper portions Of the body, and
cause the animals to take cold. In
such cases it is better to have them in
open shed. 1t is not as injurious
have the whole Of the body exposed
as to compel them to remain where the
equilibrium Of heat is disturbed
Field and Stcckman.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

old, was here now, pushing
her. and crying tc her with torner a'nst
voices: 'It's sometime now, Koaa
Rose! it's sometime" "''' o
What did she do' Well. what,
other fifteen-year-old girl would hs"
done. She said: II can't, | c,nr
can't!" and then sat down and h.
into tears. Still came the dre,Sts'
chorus: Sometime! sometime,n
"Why, Rose, it's dinner-time, n..,
you hear the bell?" and Soma
touched her shoulder. viz
Rose started, opened her eyes o.,
there stood her little brother, lauphina
and ringing the bell in her ears. "Hos'
funny You look when you're aslcenr,
he said. II almost thought You we,.
going to cry before l shook YOU"
They wondered, at dinner that ev.,
ing, why Rose looked SO solemn, ana
Misunderstanding came, and her motbe,
asked "hose, dear, did you forget
AGAIN." something very like tear,
filled her eyes as she answered; and
she felt her face grow red and ho,
when grandma said: mo one ever
expects Rose to do as she says sbe
will"
But for a month, or for a year-yes.
longer, even yet-she remembers-and
Rose is a grown-up woman now-those
ten minutes of miser in sometime,
So strong an impression did the dream
make on her, that she has ever since
followed the only plan by which one
can conquer the little thief, Going-to.
.o-it. This is to attend to each THING
as it comes, and not to wait for a con.
venient season.-L. B. Day. in S. S.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
FACTS FOR

--Instead of trying to keep butter
try to find a good market for it, ther
sell as soon as made, direct to consum'
ers if possible. - Chicago Tribune.
"A German observer has found tina,
cows MIXED three times a day give
much more milk than when MIXED
twice only, and the proportion of fat is
the same in both cases.
"A writer to the Cincinnati Com
merctdi- Gazette claims that thorough
tile drainage will prove a greater ben
eft to agriculture than all the inven-
tons of the nineteenth century.
Farmers having good calves from
pollcd cowes or sired by polled bulls
should see that they are not sent to the
butcher. There is a constant demand
for good stock, both pure and grade
Of hornless parentagc, and those who
have tito dispose of would findplenty of
responses to advertising notices CHI
cago Times.
Americans probably invest more
money in farming tools than any other
people. By the census of 1880 the val
ue of agricultural implements made the
previous year was $6s, 0oO, 1000. Ten
years is a long life to the average of
farm tools, and many are worthless
after three or four years use or rust.
1t is probable that the entire amount
invested in farm tools now in use is
nearly or quite $1,000, 900, 0O0.--M Y.
Times.
The value of clover for manure is
the return to-the soil of all plant food,
such as ammonia, nitrogen, carbon,
and the constituents of water absorbed
during growth. The gradual decompo-
sition of this vegetable matter gives a
constant and steady supply of manure
to the soil which renders the effect
more lasting than such as is obtained
from the barnyard. The clover is bet
ter for this purpose after it has pro-
duced one heavy crop of hay and has
been allowed to stand for seed
Western Rural.
Too much care can not be taken
70 get clover seed free from weeds.
This is becoming increasingly difficult
every year. The weed seeds most dan
gerous are the narrow and wide leaved
plantain in clover, and in timothy seed
are wild carrot and daisy. 1t is
safer to take seed two years old if well
kept than that about which there is
any doubt. Spread the seed thinly on
white sheet and examine with a
microscope. Any deteriorations from
The regular shape of clover and seeds
will in this way be made conspicuous.
N. Y. Herald.
"A correspondent of the NeW Eng.
and Farmer gives the following re-
,ipe for making a grating wax for
which he vouches great cxcellence:
White resin, four and a half pounds;
'eeswax, pure, II pound; linseed
n pint. Warm the oil slowly,
nd when hot put in the resin and wax;
tir well till all is thoroughly melted,
nd pour out into a pail of cold
7ater; work like molasses candy, and
orm in sticks of convenient size, say
bout as large as sausages. This will
eep for years in a cool cellar, and is '
n excellent application to all wounds :
( trees. =
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

In Corea, so we are informed by a
returned traveller. both men and
woman wear hats In and out Of doors.
varying in width from three to six
feet. Under these circumstances, we
are not surprised when we are told
that there has not been a theatrical
performance in Corea for the past four
years.-Puck.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

old flour barrels are not always
suitable for apple barrels, especially
when the fruit is ~ DO shipped a long
distance. Bits Of -four left in the crew
Ices Of the barrel mold in . damp at
mosphere and impart an unpleasant
flavor to tho fruik-Boston GLOBE.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

The chances for success in life arc
much greater for the boy who has
grown up on the farm, and the indus.
trious habits formed and the fact that
his evenings were spent at home, are
what give him the stamina which en-
ables him to win in the battle of lifs.-
Montreal Witness.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
DID THE BEST HE COULD,

How Luke Varpum Served His Country
by Shooting Colonel Warmers Horse.
1t may seem at first sight as if tho
boy mentioned in this incident, which
is given by Edward Everett Hale in his
Boys Heroes, did nothing either heroic
or remarkable; but it is a good illus
tration OF the value of doing ones best:
There was a boy whom we will name
Luke Varnum. He was fifteen years
old, and he was lame of his left foot.
So, when every other boy in Number
Five, and every man, old and young,
%shouldered his firelock and marched off
to join General Stark and go and fight
the Hessians at Bennington, Luke was
left at home. He limped out and held
the stirrup for Lieutenant Chittenden
to mount, and then he had to stay al
home with the babies and the women.
The men had been gone an hour and a
half when three men galloped up on
horseback. And Luke went down to
the rails to see who they were. SIS
there nobody here?" said one of them.
YES" said Luke, II am here.n
II see that" said the first man,
laughing. "What / mean is, is there
nobody here can set a shoeP"
II think l cam" said Luke. II often
tend fire for Jonas, 7 can blow q bel.
lows, and I IA hold a horses foot.
Any way, ! will start up the fire."
So Luke went into the forge and
took down the Undertook and struck a
light. He built the fire, and hunted
up half a dozen nails which Jonas had
left unintentionally, and he had even
made two more when a fourth horse.
man came slowly down on a walk.
"What luck said he. ITO find a forge
with the fire lighted"
1--WE found one," said Marvin,
with a boy who knew how to light
it,"
And the other speaker threw himself
off the horse meanwhile. And Luke
pared the hoof of the dainty creature,
and measured the shoe, which was too
big for her. He heated it white, and
bent it closer, to the proper size. ut
is a poor it," he said, "but it will
do"
ut will do very well," said her
rider. ''But she is very tender-footed,
and l do not dare trust her five miles
unshod."
And for pride's sake, the first two
nails Luke drove were those he had
made himself. And when the shoe
fast, he said: ''Tell Jonas that |
up the forge-and put on the
1--WE will tell him." said the Colonel,
aughing, and he rode on.
But n of the other horsemen tar
led a minute, and said: 'Boy, no ten
zen who left you to-day have served
our country as you have. 1t is Colonel
Warner"
When l read in the big books of his.
Dry how Colonel Warner led up his
egiment just in time to save the day
t Bennington, / am apt to think Of
uke Varnum. When I read that that
ay decided the battle at Saratoga, de-
'rmined that America should be indie
| think of Luke Varnum.
rhon 1 ~ . see mont,menu, uroo..a
memory OF Colonel Warner and
eneral Stark, and ven poor old Bur.
,yne, l think of Luke Varnum and
hers like him. And Then sometimes
wonder whether every nan and boyof
who bravely and truly does the very
'st thing he knows how to do does
1t have the future of the world rest
6 on him. ongregatsonalist.
r
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
FOR PRINCIPLE.
Disinterested Suit of Boldop VS..
the Great Railway Company.

-
al am fairly dished
for. had better order NV coffin whiIo
| can paw for it," This was tbo cod
s%oliloQny Of Mr.. James PoIdon 60.
HECTOR ami notary nrh,io oS ha ca,
alone in his Office in Hirb s,rnot Uost
BOROUGH, one October morning
And truIv Mr. .Jamas Ro1I9n ,ari
ton was not . honnv mo H. was a
vounq man. IotrIv adrittod osa,
l;citor and ho had .,o,+ oil His r,,,.
capital to no n,rposo in +rv;ncta mal.,
a practice for himself in tba town. ~
WpsthororrL
Hewos, 1m,s4 d yrr,,, ,.,;n th,.n,o
and. aIrhnurh he hal boon ,hnro ,.orIv
a yrngr, Ir h,l hardly ,,,oo,o1oI IN
nIkinc an qrrnaintanra muoh 1oss IN
cafn;nr clients The ronort that thoro
was IAN oponinc" in thr nl,co an +bo
STRENGTH Of which he had coma th.ro
had proved 10 hn nn+irn1v fouooio,s
The town was inst large ononrh IN
hide him. It was in vain that he wont
regularly to St. Aucustipe's Mission
Chapel, in the hope Of having his name
put on 'hc building committee Of the
new church: iuyain that he frpuurnted
Cat proper hour>) the billiard-room Of
the new Royal Hotel; in vain that he
scdulousIy attended the county court
and the police court with 4 glazed
black bag which held nothing but a
newspaper and one or two law books.
Business would not come to him. Nc
body knew him, and nobody cared to
kno" MN.
Ihrrr was indeed, one man who
knew hIm-one who might, if he had had
any business whatever, have proved y
useful trIrui-Mr. Lionel Vim, editor
OF I'll" Nr~'o'rough l"depen'SW. The
young lawyer mad made the acqnaint-
OF AF' "mn over the billiard ia
oI'' h"t Oh what use was it to have
th' means III getting 4 ilattering notice
N Inc newspaper, when there was alb
soioteIy nothing to notice?
1t was nearly twelve O'Clock. Mr..
BoldOn had been looking over :
his ledger. and even his sanguine dis
position failed him, as he marked the
of things there disclosed. He rose J
the table with a groan. put on his |
hat, and, telling his solitary ofice-bov l
lwho was improving his time by Dor
nc holes in the lid of his desk) hat he 2
wOu]dnot be in till after lunch, he sailed '
.orth into the street. !
Not having Il particular object in :
Jew he THOUGHT he mioht ~ woir ao r. ?
he railway station and oet . London C
,aper, and thitbar ha diroctad bis
tepS. z
After buying his paper Boldou OBJ a
erved on the platform the station VI
master, whom he knew by SIGHT. en-
aged in an angry alteration with an
man, who looked like A farm n
lborcr. A little crowd surrounded q
lc disputants, and BOlden sauntrrcd N
p to see what was the matter. OF
"A tell zee ave COON from Lam II
ornc, an all pay no more" said the IN
IAN. Fl
"You must pay the fare from Lon
on all the same returned the sta 60
on-master, angrily. Heres the by d.
wv. You can read it for yourself BIZ
lat is, if yon can read az
Nav, a CANT hi
well, it says that any n travel
g without a ticket must pay the fare ~
the station at which the train N
How am | to know you only OF
in at LamborneP' il,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
THE SICK DOLLY.

Mamma, Dolly's dawn to s'eep,
An wis God twy to keep
Vewy, vewy still;
For il Sc sud wake, ! fink
It would make her Iii.
Dolly's been 80 sick, 90 know,
For eh doctor toll me So
Vewy sick indeed;
~ SEES dot a poultice on.
So SIC wouldn' bleed.
Dolly's had q psin-so bad,
Oh, 1t made me dwefful sad,
An l Amos cwied.
Mamma dear, what W0uld / do
II my Dolly died?
Now SEES wokened up, l fink,
'Tause her eyes bedin to wink.
Dolly, tum wife here,
An I'll wock 90 In my arms.
Is 90 better, dear?
Mamma, Dolly's almos' well,
An Use gladder n | tan tell
S'pos'n' sc had died2
s'pose If Dolly had been me,
Wouldn't 90 have cwied?
Thomas D. COndnt in Harper's Young Pc
pie.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

--ot. raul MINI, says a prophet
Of that city, will be known ten years
from the pres sent time as the "City of
Bridges with fifteen bridges spanning
the Mississippi ""
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

"A strawberry plant has been e1.
s'olted in Gainesville (Ga,) which con-
talns 40 berries, ="
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-26
The Mortality from Consump.
ton.

Within the past year the civilized
world has been shocked and saddened
by the knowledge of thegreat devasta.
ton wrought by the cholera in Spain;
and every precaution, in the way Of
sanitary measures and quarantine
regulations that modern science could
suggest, was taken to prevent its
spreading into other countries. The
public scanned the columns OF the daily
press, eager for information with re-
gard to the advance Of this fearful dis
ease, and read with bated breath as
they learned that it numbered its VIC
Tins by the tens of thousands.
If it was a matter of such deep and
universal concern that in Spain 101,
600 souls gave up their lives to this
fell destroyer, should it not also be a
matter of some interest TO our own
people that, within the borders Of
the United States, over 81, 500 per-
sons die each year OF pulmonary con-
sumption?-that twelve out of every
hundred deaths are caused by a dis
ease which though slow in progress. II
as sure in its results as cholera ITSELF
Should it ever transplre that some
means of prevention should be found
by means of which people would be
rendered proof against the disease, or
at least could be cured when ut once
it had set it's sealupon them, would II
not be one ofthegreatest Doons vouch.
safed to man since the introduction Of
vaccination?
Neutrality-suspicious. have from time to
time thought that they had secured q
sure cure, if not an mfailing prophy
Tactic; and, at the present time, since
the discoveries of Koch, all sorts Of
parasiticides are being used to xiii the
germ of the disease. The unfortunate
bacillus is now being hunted down
with pneumatic chambers, deep IN
halations, and local applications IN
PRODUCED by means OF the hypodermlc
syringe, with the results that are, 70
say the least, uncertain.
But, after all the years OF research
devoted to the sabject, and out OF ail
the methods OF prevention and cure
that have been suggested, the one tnat
has given the best results, and - Q
being universally adopted, ischafge q
climate.-Froin Colorado as q WIN
ter Sanitarium,v By Or. 5. A. FISK ~
Popular Science Monthly for March,
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-26

HIN, Granhy, 4 done lila
moralp' / answered. saTha "
are FAR enough off now, and for ms IVA
part | shouldn't mind runnino ths
risk of beng tolerably n~ice.loot;nssh y
Granny was going to scold. but H.
corners OF her mouth twitched o Sas
before size could recover hersols* ~ .
had Jumped up eyclaiming:
Listen, the bells have been r;n,;.
this long time; the weddino i s'ns
and they will be here directlyt3
went once more hastily thro,,.h
the rooms to see that everything waa
In order, and then | strewed ae.a~S
oil down the stairs to the front 49,
and then Granny and | waited At tba
window.
Soon the head of the nroaos
made its appaarance-such 3 lons
long procession! First came the oId
people, several couples, and then fhs
young ones,. and lastly the grand
children all decked with flowers. bn4
the bridal pair, who were that dav
celebrating their golden wedding. wers
the most beautiful sight OF all.
Aunt Dernau looked lovely in ha.
blue lowered damask and three-coru.
cred lace handkerchief, with the cold.
EN- sprays OF myrtle in her hair; and
Uncle Dernau, with his snow-whits
curly hair, and tall, upright figure
looked most dignified, and ouite
grand, too; for besides thegelden soris
in his button-hole, he woretne ordess
and decorations which he had 3
during the war. How tender aoS
careful ne was of his little wife, too.
Just as tender and affectionate az
he had been to the young beauty
when he married her in the sunny
May-time fifty years before!