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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-15
AGRICULTURAL HINTS,
CLEFT GRATING.
Best Method Of Performing-Tools Re.
quired.

Best Method OF Performing-Tools Re.
quired.
The accompanying figures present an
improved mode for performing cleft
grating, which we described many
years ago, says the Country Gentleman,
hut which appears to have become little
known and is still adopted by few. The
instrument by which it is performed
being quite peculiar in Its simple con-
struction ard not manufactured by any
one fer sale, is doubtless the reason that
Orators have rarely brought it into use.
With nursery-men it would not be gen.
orally required, as their work is mostly
applied to small seedlings with what is
termed whip-grafting, while this mode
more properly belongs to the stock
grating in the nursery row of such
stocks as may have made growth of an
inch moro or less in diameter. 1t has
proved specially useful in grating the
cherry, and as u proof of it's efficiency
and value we have grated two-year
chcrry stocks without losing one in a
hundred. performing the work early in
spring. and before the buds had begun
to swell in the slightest degree.
The grating shears, Fig. 2. are so
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in Fig. having been wedged open ard
inserted, in Fig. a. forming perfect
union by contact through the whole
length Of the cleft. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to inform any one who has ever set
graft that the line of union between
the bark and wood should coincide in
both stock and graft. as shown in Fig. 5.
The grafting-shears, on which the sue
cess OF this operation depends, may be
easily made by any ingenious mechanic.
The cutting-bl A. may be riveted to
the iron handle, may be two and half
inches long, and will be about right in
breadth if cut from the broad blade OF a
common table knife 1t should form an
angle with the handle of about one hum
dred and twenty degrees. This angle
is necessary, in order to give it the draw
cut as it approaches the concave bed, C.
The handle on which this concave bed
is cut is entirely of one piece of wood,
OF hard and nonsplitting kind, out Of
which it is cut. The pivot on which
these two portions of the shears move
must be set a short distance from the
angle, in order to obtain the draw-cut
oA'A' ui99ohSC uCilIS CoiFtCJly FoDroSCQ Cou
in the figure. This simple instrument
will enable the CRATER to set CRAFTS
nearly twice as rapidly as with knife.
If the cut is made with a very sharp
and thin blade, the difficulty is les
sened; and if the edge of the blade
presents the uneven shape shown in
Fig. it cuts inward toward the center
of the stock on both sides, and is less
apt to split it. Tho blade should he
broader and thinner than the cut seems
to represent. The point, made of good
steel, is used as wedge for opening the
cleft. AMI if placed at the junction of
the blade and handle, it will more
nearly balance the instrument and pre-
vent it from falling out of the cleft
while setting the graft.
Both this and the shears are of great
value in regrafting and changing the
tops of any fruit trees from poor to ex-
cellent varieties, but the CRAFTS set
with the aid of the shears will be more
certain to succeed if the latter are we'll
made and work we'll.
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A Large Job of Surveying.

A dispatch from Benton, Mont, says
Messrs. Page & Orr, who have contract
with the government for surveying a
half million acres of land in the Milk
River Valley, are there with their men,
teams and equipage, stocking up for
active work in the field. Their initial
point is Fort Conrad, on Marais river,
from whence they run east one hundred
and eighty miles to the mouth Of Woody
Island creek on Milk river in Dawson
county. From there they run south to
and west along the foot Of the Little
Rocky and Bear Paw Mountains. Their
contract calls for the sectionizing of all
the agricultural lands in the Milk
River Valley which are open for settle
ment. This is one of the largest sur
veying contracts of recent years.
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distance he talked of home, and of the
time when he was going there.
cit will not be long" he said, when
l will go back to my home where the
flowers doomed in the meadow down
by the orchard, and where the birds
used to sing in the woodland pasture
down by the big spring. Tomorrow,
perhaps, or the next day, or the day
after, | shall go back. 1t is long time
since l was there and since l saw it all,
but l know it is just as it was when
came away, for every night l have seen
it in my dreams, and il all looks just as
it did that day when left it to wander
over the world.
The people said the old man was
queer, and many of them were so
thoughtless as to laugh at his eccen-
tricity. Som etimes he did little e-rands
about town, and sometimes he begged
from house to house, for he was too
feeble to work much and he could no
longer wander from place to place as he
had done for so many years.
He lived in little abandoned cabin
and there was no one but his faithful old
dog to keep him company. He did not
care for those about him, and when they
tried to learn something of his past life
he would only speak of his old home,
and of it's beauties and end by saying
that he was going back soon.
Often when the days were clear and
warm he roamed in the woods and gath
cred wild flowers, or wandered along the
banks of the little river picking up
shells and pebbles. On such occasions
his little cog trotted by his side, and
sometimes the old man would stop and
talk to him about the flowers and shells,
and the dog would look up as though he
understood it all.
The summer waned and the beautiful
autumn days came on. The people no.
ticed that the old man appeared on the
streets less frequently, and it was sell
dom he and his dog went out to roam as
of old. They noticed, too, that he was
growing thinner and his step was be-
coming feebler.
Then there came time when he did
not appear at all, and when two DAYS
had passed, the little dog came TO a
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them again, only they sang 1t better
than they used to. and 1t sounded
sweeter and softer than they used to
sing. heard the old minister preach,
too, but was so tired that I could not
hear it all, but know his text was:
in my Fathers house are many man
sions'
Flush! They are singing down there
now. Their voices grow stronger and
the words ring out clearer and palmer.
1t Is the same song-the one l always
loved so we'll and the one Marian used
to sing-'Nearer Home Do you hear
them say it? Nearer home. Yes, We
are nearer home. We are almost there.
Now the minister is preaching. He is
telling about that other home not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens 1t
is beautiful place, for as he talks l
can see it. 1t is fairer than the old
home we have been looking for SO long,
and its fields are green and its waters
clear and soft Its gardens are all
abloom with beautiful flowers and the
air is filled with their rich perfume. I
see it all clearly now, and hear the
softest, sweetest music, and there are
angels coming, and as they float down
through the air they sing of the land so
bright and fair. Be still, now, and let
me hear them before we 90 on. l will
rest little longer here and listen to
the songs of the angels before l 60
home"
The old man closed his eyes and ono
hand rested in that Of his son while the
other lay affectionately on the littlo
dog that had been his only friend and
companion through all the years Of
his wanderings in search of his
home. Twas thus he waited for the
coming of the angels, and in littlo
while he was at lase Eat home. -
Thomas P. Montfort, in Detroit FREQ
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They tell good story of man who has
fondness for fast horses A year or two
az he had one that was said to be a flyer"
and marvellous stories were told of what she
had done, and was capable Of doing But
an intimate friend noticed that the owner
of the wonderful horse never staked any
money on her.
"Why don't you back her for good,
round sum, if she can do what you claim
she can 2" he asked ''That would prove
that you had confidence in her, but as it
it is"
"See here, my FRIEND" said the other,
with a twinkle in his eye, "don't you know
me well enough to know that I'm too modest
to bet on my own nag, especially when feel
sure that she can't come out ahead ?"
When a man knows he can accomplish
what he undertakes, he doesn't feel too mod
est to say so. When DR.. Pierce put his
"Favorite Prescription" before the public
as certain remedy for "female weakness, "
with " satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
funded" on every bottle Of it, it proved
that he had entire confidence in the prep
aration. He felt sure of its merits, and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-15
NIHlLIST STEPNiAk.
A very Hard Worker, But Not so Success
full as He Deserves.

A very Hard Worker, But Not so Success
full as He Deserves.
Stepniak the Russian Nihilist, who il
spending some years of exile in London,
is not as prosperous as he might be, al.
though he has recently been paid a big
sum for his new work on Nihilism. He
is one of the most Industrious workers
in London; he is always writing or
studying. He spends hour after hour
an the British Museum, accompanied by
his charming wife. They ransack through
the big books, make piles of notes, and
then the great Socialist goes home and
to work. He is possessed of wonder
full constitution, for frequently, after
spending an entire day in the museum,
he dimes very frugally, then goes into
his little study and remains there until
daybreak. But somehow, with all his
hard work, he does not seem to make as
much Roadway as he should. He is &C.
casionally seen at the clubs and the
theater, but he does not make a practice
of going much into society. He writes
English with ease, but in speaking often
seems lost for the right word. He has a
small army of friends who stick to him
Loyalty, and in their society and that Of
his books he seems happy. He is per.
haps the best informed man in England
on the Russian question. He has been
asked to come to America and take the
lecture platform, but I doubt whether
he would be success here. He could
hardly tell US any thing new, and his
use of English is not such that our pub.
lie would be pleased with. He seems to
recognize this fact, and goes on plodding,
studying and writing, hoping that the
sun may break through the black clouds
that obscure him, and that he may wake
up some morning and find that the Rus.
sian dynasty is thing of the past
Philadelphia Times
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constructed that the thin cutting-blade
A makes draw-cut or saving motion
as it approaches the wooden cavity or
furrow by the closing of the handles.
This gives it strong CT ting power, and
If the operat or will press the tree slight
ly from him with his left hand
as he applies the shears with
his right hand, tree an inch
or more in diameter will be cut
squarely off with as much ease as a
jack-knife will cut carrot. Another
stroke of the cutting-blade will make
the cleft for the insertion of the graft.
This cleft being thus smoothly cut in
stead of being split as in common graft
ing, admits perfect contact or joint
with the graft and the smooth surface
of the cleft, and renders the union and
success more perfect. To make this ex-
PLANTATION more plain, we represent in
the figures the common mode of cleft
grating, the smooth-cut (thus made)
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NEVER BETS ON HIS OWN HORSE.

the testimony of thousands of women who
have been cured by it of weakness" ir-
regularities," and all the peculiar diseases
from which their sex suffers so much,
proves that his faith was well founded.
As a powerful, invigorating tonic, Fa-
vorite Prescription imparts strength to the
whole system, and to the womb and its
appendages in particular. For overworked,
"worn-out, !" " rundown" debilitated teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop girls" housekeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest
earthly boon, being unequaled as an ap-
petizing cordial and restorative tonic, or
strength-giver.
AS soothing and strengthening nerv-
inc, "Favorite Prescription" is unequaled
and is invaluable in allaying and subdu-
ing nervous excitability, irritability, ex-
haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and
other distressing, nervous symptoms, COM
monty attendant upon functional and
organic disease. 1t induces refreshing sleep
and relieves mental anxiety and despond-
ency.
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Bedwnud Gazette.
JAMES AIKEN, Publisher.
REDWOOD FALLS, MINI.
THE DYING WIFE'S FAREWELL

Raise my pillow, husband dearest
Faint and fainter comes my breath,
And these shadows stealing slowly
Must, know. be those of death.
Sit down close beside me, darling,
Let me clasp your warm, strong hand,
Yours that ever has sustained me
To the borders Of this land.
For your God and mine, our Father,
Thence shall ever lead me on,
Where upon o throne eternal
SID his love and only Son;
I've had visions and been dreaming
Ger the past, of JOY and pain;
Year by year wandered backward,
Till was child again.
Dreams Of girlhood. and the moment
When stood your wife and bride,
How my heart filled with loves triumph
In the hour Of woman's pride.
Dreams of thee and all the earth cords
Firmly twined about my heart
Oh! the bitter, burning anguish,
When knew that we must part:
1t has passed, and God has promised
All my footsteps to attend;
He that's more than friend or brother
He'll be with you to the end
There's no shadow DER the portal
Leading to my heavenly home
Christ has promised life immortal,
Aud It's He that bids me come.
When lfe's trials wait around thee
And it, chilling pillows swell,
Thou',t thank Heaven that I'm spared, then
Thoult fe i that "all is we'll"
Bring our boys unto my be lside-
My last blessing let them keep
But they're sleeping, do not wake them,
They'll learn soon enough to weep.
Tell them often Of their mother.
Kiss them foc me when they wake;
Lead them gently in life's pathway,
Love them douby for my sake.
Clasp my hands still closer, darling,
This, the last. last night of life,
For tomorrow l shall never
Answer when you call me wife"
Fare thee well, my noble husband!
Faint not meath the chast' ming rod:
Throw your strong arm round our children,
Keep them close to thee-and God.
Memphis Bulletin.
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EXPECTING TOO MUCH. .
That What Many Persons DO When They
Engage Q Physician,

uB@ko u fnyeicla0s
When you buy a ticket from any Of
the leading railroad companies they can
not promise you, If they are truthful,
that they will take you to New York in
time to catch the steamer to Europe.
Many things might happen to delay the
train-wreckage, fire, food, tornado
yoasmight die yourself. A berth in one
Of the finest ocean steamers does not as
sure you that you will land safe in Liv.
erpool, Queenstown or Havre. You con-
tract to have your house built according
to certain plans and specifications, the
house to be finished and ready for occu.
pancy on certain date. Do you always
find it ready at the promised time?
When you occupy the house do not the
windows often move with difficulty, the
doors close badly, cracks appear in the
plastering. the plumbing unsatisfactory?
You find that the plans and specifica-
tions were not followed. You get on
the cable car and pay your nickel, to
ride few blocks, or a few miles. The
cable breaks or the grip gives out and
you are compelled to walk. In none of
these cases mentioned, and hundreds
more could be cited, can you be assured
that what you desire will be granted.
There is nothing certain but death and
taxes.
When you call upon physician, you
very often demand from him more than
you would from the railroad company,
the steamship company, the contractor.
or anybody else. You often say, DOC
tor, what will you take to cure me?'
You may have been sick for many years.
Your parents may have been delicate
people and started you in life with in
herited tendencies to disease. You may
have injured yourself by bad habits
you may refuse to correct these bad
habits when pointed out. Notwithstand-
ing these facts. you want to be cured. "
No honest physician will promise you a
'cure." He would not guarantee cure
for scratch of a pin, for men have died
from as trifing matter as a
scratch Of pin. Cure, formerly
meant, ito care for" He will do that.
Quacks promise cures; the true physi-
clan never uses the word, except in its
sense ito care for" Remembering the
instances cited above-the uncertainty
of earthly things-no intelligent person
should ask physician to guarantee a
cure; and if so-called physician under
takes to make such guarantee, every in
telligent person should know that the
guarantor is a quack. Monitor.
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The Hedrick Ro to to Kansas City and
st. Louis,

The Hedrick Ro to to Kansas City and
st. Louis,
via the CHICAGO, Milwa kee & st. Paul
/ ailwav from st Paul and Minneapolis
''Solid Vestib led Trains to Kansas City"
"Double Daily Pullman Service to st.
Louis"
Through Coaches to St. Louis,''
Through Coaches to Kansas City on Morn
ing and Evening II aims"
Elegant Day Coaches"
Magnificent Lunch Cars"
"Pullman's Best Sleepers
1.-THE Shortest and Quickest Line"
''The Best Route to Kansas City,"
THE Best Route to st. Louis"
"The Best Route to Colorado"
ITO Kansas to alifornia,"
ITO the West and Southwest"
Do not fail to try it. The Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway guarantees its
excellence Secure accommodations from
the Company S agents in St. Paul and Min
neapolis or from any coupon ticket agent
in the Northwest.
Open May 18th, 1890.
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CELLAR DRAINAGE,
Some Very Practical Hints on an ImpoI
tant Subject.

Some Very Practical Hints on an Impor.
tant Subject.
A stranger passing into the apart
ments of the cellar should be unable to
perceive any thing but perfect purity
in the air. To secure this desirable re-
suit, perfect drainage, usually by artifi-
cial drains. is required. One point
which should be we'll understood is, to
give the bottom of the drain form
which will aid the free flow of any water
which might otherwise accumulate. A
broad, fiat bottom, as shown in Fig. !
of the accompanying cross-sections
would cause the water to spread thinly
over it and not run off; but sharply
narrow channel, bringing all the water
together, as shown in Fig. 2, would pro.
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STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, | .

LUCAS COUNTY, ~.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the firm Of F. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh
that can not be cured by the use of Hall 8
Catarrh Cure FRANK j. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in nv
presence, this 9Th day of December, "A D. 1885,
lsEAL] A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system Send for testi-
monials, free. F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold w Druggists, 75c.
WHEN broker loses all his money he's
dead broke; but when he DIES he's O dead
broker.
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Progress.

It is very important in this age Of vast
material progress that remedy be pleas
ing to the taste and to the eye, easily
taken, acceptable to the stomach and
healthy in its nature and effects. Possess
ing these qualities, Syrup Of Figs is the one
perfect laxative and most gentle diuretic
known.
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The man who should pass through life
without experiencing a twinge OF indiges-
ton might fifty be regarded as wonderful
phenomenon. We doubt if such q privil
eyed mortal has ever existed. If 50, we have
never seen him. But thousands are known
to be daily relieved Of dyspepsia by Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, the popular remedy
for that national complaint, as well as fol
fever and ague, debility, constipation, rheu.
matism and kidney troubles
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In another place in this paper will be seen
an advertisement of the Hartman Manu-
featuring Company, of Beaver Falls, Pa
They are an enterprising, reliable firm, and
have great deal of testimony to show that
the Hartman Steel Picket Fence is the best
find out all about it by writing for particu-
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GOING HOME.
The Old Man Reaches the Fair
Place of His Dreams at Last.

E WAS an old
man and his
h e a d W a S
whitened by
the frosts of
many winters.
His form was
bent and his
step was totter-
ing. His eyes
ndu long Sl"Ce
grown dim and
his hands were
f e e b | Q and
wrinkled.
Often and
often of even
ings he sat in
the twilight,
and as he
gazed up and
awav in the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-15

MUST not be COMPOUNDED with common cath
artic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liv-
er Pills are entirely unlike them in every re-
spect One trial will prove their superiority.
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OuF Jan0s
Our Hannah Jane was thin and weak,
And ashy white her lip and cDeek,
We often thOught-and thought with pain,
I've soon must lose our Hannah Jane"
With change of doctors, change of air.
She sought for healing everywhere.
And. VIII len our hopes were almost past
"Favorite Prescription tried at last.
1t gave us Joy, it gave us hope,
Shec ,ased to pine, she ceased to NOPE
tPierce's remedies are sure and true
Now Hannah Jane is good as new.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the
only medicine for women, sold by druggists,
under positive guarantee from the manufact-
urers, that it will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded This
guarantee has been printed on the bottle
wrapper, and faithfully carried out for
many years.
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The Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
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Sir Norels Free, will be sent by Cragin &
Co., Philada., Pa, to any one in the U. s. or
Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of Is
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list
of novels on circulars around each bar.
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OccAs1oNALLY you see girl with five
dollar gold pieces for bangles on her brace
let and lonely nickel in her pocket book
Atchison Globe.
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MONEY talks, but occasionally the sales
lady cries "Cashr'-Pittsburgh Chronicle,
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B1L1oUsNEss, dizziness, nausea, headache,
are relieved by small doses of Carters Lit
tie Liver Pills.
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MANY maiden lady's ago is marked
down at low figure that she may be Dis
posed ofat Q bargain.-Rome Sentinel
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A Wonderful Phenomenon !

TIE fisherman considers it part of his
business to scale the heights of felton,
Yonkers Gazette
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FRANCE has half as many people as
the United States, but her ma tional debe
- twice IS great as ours.
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Our Hannah Jane.

An exasperating coincidence-that coal
should always come down at the same time