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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-08

THE BEST COUNTY PAPER
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-12-11

teen horses and six box-stalls besides.
The carriage room is large and conven-
lent, as are also the harness rooms. The
framework below is of oak and the en-
tire ground floor is sided and ceiled
with hard pine, finished in hard oil.
Even the heavy timbers and huge beams
that support the loft above are planed
and oiled to correspond with the pine
ceiling. The loft, though small in COM
parison with the other barns, affords
enough room to store away one hundred
tons of hay. From the cupolas to the
floor series of hollow boxes that can
be lowered and raised as the hay is put
In serve as two perfect air-shafts, in
surfing the thorough keeping of the hay.
Fig. 3 shows THE Hill Barn" as it is
called, from the fact that it is located
on hill about half mile from the
other buildings. AS will readily be seen,
this differs somewhat from the other
grain and hay barn, and, to my mind,
is really the most practical barn on the
place. Its dimensions are as follows:
Length one hundred and twenty-six
feet, width fifty feet, with twenty-four-
foot posts, and only one drive door.
The structure stands on fine
wall ten and one-half feet high.
The barn-yard. while not exactly on the
Cornell plan, is, l think, equally
good. In the center of the yard and di-
rectly back of the doors, big locust pos is
set five feet in the ground and rising
above it nearly to the top of the wall,
support an open framework on which
the straw is stacked as it comes from
the thresher. This straw-shed, covered
barn-yard, or whatever one chooses t,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-12-11

bracing known as the "horseshoe truss. "
This peculiar truss is used in all the
barns and is so cheaply and convenient
ly constructed as to become prominent
feature in modern barn building, sup
planting in time purline posts and plates
and tie girts with all their many incon-
veniences. Light and airy as the truss
appears to the common observer, emf
nent engineers, after careful examina-
ton, have pronounced it capable of car
rying with safety a railroad train OF
loaded cars.
The capacity of the barn is something
enormous, holding, as i. does, three
hundred and fifty tons of hay in the
bays and loft above the floor. The base
ment is divided into a number of COM
partments designed for the care of cattle.
One is fitted up with stalls for feeding
forty-five steers, and each has stall,
manger and feeding rack to himself.
Adjoining this room is the cow stable,
having room for eight COWS only. which
are kept solely for the purpose of sup
plying the house with milk and butter.
Directly under the drive floor in the
middle of the b asement, safe from the
action of the cold, is the large root Gel
lar. Near this is the granary holding
three thousand three hundred bushels.
The rest of the room is cut up into box.
stalls for bulls, calves and colts, and
they are also used for lying-in stalls for
the cows.
Fig. 2sho WIS the horse barn, ice-house,
and Mr.. Browns private office. The
horse barn is ninety by forty-five feet
with twenty-foot posts. and for large
barn it is model of it's kind. The
ground floor has single stalls for four
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call it, is sided with matched pine. and
will last for years. On stormy days
stock is turned into it to exercise, or if
the basement should be crowded it
would provide warm, comfortable quar-
tors for at least two hundred sheep. ALI
Of the barns and easements have an
abundant and ever-ctnstant supply of
water provided by cisterns, and q
very complete system of watec-w works,
connecting with an immense storage
reservoir, holding enough water for q
weeks supply, which is filled by a
twelve-foot windmill from never failing
springs. The total cost of these three
barns is somewhere in the neigh Dor
hood of $4,000 or $40, OO0-a consider
able sum to put in barns, you may say.
Yes, and this season when was there
Mr.. Brown was building another of tho
same size as 1.-THE Hill Barn"
To the common farmer" these barns
would be, OF course, extravaganza aud
unnecessary. But they are just what
Mr.. Brown needs. / presume that some
Of the readers have been wondering
how ON earth he isgoing to fill them.
If sor they will wonder no longer when
l say that his hay crop viii. foot up at
least eight hundred tons, and be has,
besides, two hundred acres of wheat
that will yield thirty bushels per acre;
sixty scres Of beans and twenty-four
acres OF corn. The rest Of the farm is
devoted to pasture. Edward +. Dibble,
In Rtfal New Yorker.
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HISTORY OF RAZORS.
Shaving Implements of Many Styles an
Peculiar Substances.

Shaving Implements of Many Styles and
Peculiar Substances.
In my wanderings about the world,
writes veteran traveller, being of the
Esau type, a hunter and hairy man,
have tested the BARRIERS Of many nations
and bought their facial instruments,
too. The razor of India, though clum-
sy-looking semi-disc of steel on q
straight handle, does its work in
native hands on scalps las religious
rite) and on rough faces very neatly and
comfortably by merely moistening the
epidermis with cold water, soap being
prohibited. Many a time has that
primitive instrument crossed my chin
without making scratch. At the
courts of Oriental tyrants drawing a
drop of blood during the operation of
shaving was a capital offense-a precau-
tionary edict, no doubt.
MusselSheIls were till lately used BY
savages for the removal of hair till the
important discovery that a fragment of
broken bottle is far more effective
Such is the case with those fierce ISL
anders of the Andamans, who operated
in this rough fashion on two escaped
Indian convicts whose lives were
spared, as they were considered de-
sirable young men," fit for tribal al
lance by marriage. When afterward
rescued these foolish truants described
their sufferings under the ceremonial
installation as terrific and of long dura-
ton.
Prehist oric man used flake of flint
to remove his locks and evehrows,
"disfguring his countehance" on occa-
sions of mourning. The modern Hindoo
shows his grief at the bacber'S hands in
the same fashion as did his mother
land, old Egypt
l have nice specimens of Norwegian
cutlery, but not until few days ago
did know that the inventive Morse.
man had marched before US in razors.
A friend who has been travelling hard
for two whole years came to stay with
me and exhibited the most beautiful
pair of these toilet tools l ever saw, of
very highly-finished Bessemer steel,
simple and scientific, being merely
thin, fat blades of metal inserted in
grooves of thicker stuff. The agent
warrants their edge to stand three
months, when the razors must be sent
to him, dismounted and sharpened, hav-
ing to be removed from the grooved
back to do So Cbantrey, the sculptor,
made one of hard bronze with keen
and effective edge, and there are relics
Of Pompeii manufactured in that alloy.
IN. Y. Ledger.
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TRYING 70 LEARN.

A Task That Requires an Immense
Amount Of Genuine Humility.
An open mind is one of the most diff
cult as we'll as one of the finest attain
ments in life. II involves an immense
amount OF genuine humility to lie al
ways sitting at the feet of experience
and trying to learn, instead Of going
about the world with set of opinions
and neatly arranged group of theories
to explain and interpret events. The
men who have complete cast-iron the
cries Of every thing that can happen in
life are numerous; the men who are
waiting to find out what life has to
teach them are few. And yet to be
anxious to be taught is the only atti-
tude in which we can get from life all
that life has to give us. No sooner do
we embark in business and formulate
our methods, no sooner do we become
scientists and guess at theory, no
sooner do we become preachers and &C
cept an arbitrary theological system,
than we straightway shut eyes and ears
and refuse to entertain any suggestion
of different and better things; and as
We get older the limitations OF our
minds become m ore apparent until it
has become a proverb that leadership
belongs to young men. When we find
an old man like Emerson or Gladstone,
who is still open to new impressions
and still pursuing with flying feet
knowledge and truth, we feel a profound
satisfaction. Here, at last, we say to
yUhn hoa
ideals; a man who has kept his mind
open, and who at seventy or eighty IS
still learning with as much zeal and
enthusiasm as at twenty or thirty. And
when We think of the joy of such life,
of its sustained interest and unfailing
freshness, we can guess at what most
men and women miss and lose. If
there is to be no dead line in life there
must be no closing of the mind, no day
when we shall stop and say of any po-
sition which we have taken or any
method which we have adopted: This is
final; nothing shall induce me to change
it." The whole interest of life lies in
the change which some men endeavor
to shut out from their experience.
Every decade has new secret of sue
cess to contide to the man who has an
open mind. There are new truths to
be learned in the sciences, new beauty
to be found in the arts, new successes
to be secured in business for the men
who are looking for the new tools and
waiting for the new impulse. The
things already accomplished may be
great enough to afford lasting satisfac-
ton, but they can never be final. The
last stone laid, however substantial and
beautifully carven. is but the founda-
ton for the next stone; the last fact
wrung from nature is but the hint of
the next fact; the last truth shining
suddenly out of some vast experience
thrills men with the prophecy of a
greater truth to follow. So, to the
open-minded, life sustains and enlarges
itSelf.-ChriStian Union.
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"Why don't you ask her to marry
your
II have"
And she refusedT'
"Yes," and the curly head went down
into his hands. I had hated her before
because l thought she had accepted
Rob-now l hated her because she lad
refused him.
| Then she isn't your dearie at all?"
| A mournful shake of the still bowed
head.
well, ! hate her!"
Don't - don't Anne - she is the
sweetest, best girl in this world, and size
has the kindest heart"
Then why does she treat you SO
cruelly?"
She is not cruel. She doesn't care
for me. 1t is not her fault don't see
how she could love mel am not nice
or any thing, and she is SO good and
so beautiful"-then,w with burst Of con-
| fidence-"Ill tell you all about it.
| Anne"
But will let Rob tell it in his own
way:
! You remember that young Parker,
who used to come over from Forrest
vile to our shooting club last year?
| Well, we rather took to one another the
first time we met, and when he invited
me to run over to Forrestville for a
days shooting, I accepted and went.
| You know it's only about forty miles
| from here and there are good snipe
grounds near the town. We got in a
good days work and had fine bag be-
| fore shutdown.
SNAP was with us (you remember
that he was only puppy then and was
| not broken, and he used to chase the
chickens all over the neighborhood).
| and as we were passing house near
| the outskirts of town, he made a
break away from me and disappeared
behind the house. There was the
| awfullest hubbub, hens cackled and
geese squawked, and presently Snap
came running to me carrying a plump
hen in his mouth. The stupid thing
was not bit hurt only scared half to
death, but it just lay and kicked and
rolled its eyes and gasped as though it
were dying in great agony, and so of
|
apologize.
Parker knew the folks, so he went
to the door with me to see me through.
The door was open and could see the
people inside, so raped, and the pref
tiest girl l ever saw came to the door.
Parker introduced me, and l began to
explain the commotion Snap had made,
when the hen, having recovered her
scattered wits, made ferocious dash at
Snap. who put his tail between his legs
and ran of yelping.
"Of course it was awfully funny, and
she laughed and said the apology was
due me for her hens attack on my dog
and then we all laughed. and she and
Parker chaffed each other little and
we went on.
| 81 know this will sound silly and
sentimental to you, Amaze, for used to
make awful fun of sucn things myself
but fell in love with that girl then,
even though didn't know her or any
thing. 1t wasn't just because she was
so pretty, for l suppose there may be
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coaxed to 60 out anywhere; he was NOR.
bid; he lost his appetite, and finally he
was downright i'll.
wanted to send for a physician. but
grandmother said that a few days
coddling would bring him about and we
would doctor him ourselves.
''Its all that grill" l said, angrily,
and grandmother, whom 1 believe had
Rob's confidence all the time. said gen.
thy: Don't judge too hastily, my dear. u
Rob insisted he wasn't really i'll, just
miserable; so he lay on the lounge,
and grandmother cooked him dainty
messes and read to him. 1t did seem
that he paid very little attention to
me, for I was reading Tom Sawyer,
about where he got the boys to help
him whitewash the fence-you know
how funny it is-and looked up and
Rob wasn't laughing at all, but looked
as though he had not heard word.
just dropped my book and took hold OF
his shoulders and shook him.
''Why, Rob Sinclair. what is the mat.
ter?" said !, and as l shook him that de.
tested picture fell to the floor As
picked it up I could not help seeing
that Rob's name had been scratched of
the back and just ''His dearie" was left
written there. &''Oh! no! SO she's some
one else's dearie," thought to myself
Rob held out his hand for the photo
graph.
"Rob, are you engaged to her?'
mo- - 80. zsss .-zz--... .r -.. 49,. -
Does she know that you have .hiss'
scornfully designating the Poor picts.s,
ssNo" -....
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lots of prettier girls, even though they
why or explain it at all l only know
that l felt right in my heart that she
was the one girl-the only girl-for me,
and that if couldn't win her | never
would be happy or care for another
thing"in this world.
"Well! l used to make errands over
to Forrestville often. and I would get
Parker to take ME there to call, and
then after awhile got so that went
alone.
Her father was funny old fellow, a
naturalist or something, always poking
around with bugs and stones; and her
mother was sweet and motherlv, like
what our mother would have been,
used to think, Anne, and there were q
lot of children, all full of fun and
FRANKS.
1.-The house was a comforta ble.look-
ing old place with lots of porches and
hammocks and things, and it wasn't
furnished nicely. either-not one-quar-
ter as we'll as ours here-but somehow
it looked cheerful and home-like; and
then they were such cordial, pleasant
people that they made a fellow feel as
though they liked him to come.
Il made friends with the childre the
first thing, and pretty soon l coaxed
them to call me Rob- for l thought
that may be some time 1 might hear
her voice say my name. l waited a
long time, though, but after awhile the
old people took it up and finally she
called me so herself.
'Of course the more I went there the
better l loved her, but l never dared
tell her so, until at last did, and she
was some one else, Anne" here Rob's
voice shook.
But Rob, you never told me her
name"
No, couldn't bear to now"
Tell me, please"
nina Lamar"
why. Rob Sinclair. that's the name
of the girl whose engagement to young
Ferrars was announced last week.
Eyes, Anne"
And he is horrid; he gam bles and
drinks and every thing"
She doesn't know it, dear"
"Why didn't you tell hcr?'
II couldn't do it; it. wouldn't look
square, you know, because loved her
myself
''Oh, Rob-" and put my arms about
him and gave him tigst hug.
Well, Rob got better and 1 tried to
make it as jolly at home for him as
could. He was as good and patient as
he could be, but he wasn't our old gay
Rob, and grandmother and ! used to
cry about it and feel dreadfully discour-
aged.
1t wasn't six weeks after Rob's ILL.,
ness that our town was excited over the
news that young Ferrars had left sud-
denly drawn money on a forged check
and run away. Rob came in quite white
and handed me the newspaper. Pm
glad of it." said, spitefully.
But oh Annel think OF my Door
dearie."
I'm making horrid botch of telling
this, know, and can't make it inter-
esting bit. but really. it was just like
| a story-the way that Rob waited pa
tiently and never went near Forrest
vile for year; and then when he went,
| he came back looking SO happy that
knew without his speaking that it was
all right --- -----.
He didn't tell me any thing either. he
just handed me the old picture, and over
the place whore 1t had been scratshsd
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-12-11
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
BROWNS BIG BARNS,
A Trip Through the Genesee Valley W
C0maPa

A Trip Through the Genesee Valley with
Camera.
Thomas Brown, of Scottsville, N. Y,
has one of the finest and most product
i've farms in Monroe County. Half of it
is on the Genesee Flats, at this point
two miles in width, and the other half
Is upland. Every thing that wealth
and the architect could do to make
large practical barns with an immense
storage power has been done, and as a
result Mr. Brown has the finest barns
of their class in the Genesee valley.
The farm is principally devoted to rails
ing hay and wheat and the buildings
are designed chiefly for the storage Of
those crops. Fig. shows the largest
barn and perhaps the most interesting
one owing to its peculiar construction.
1t is 100 feet long, 60 wide, with % foot
posts, and. as the cut shows, drive
floor running the entire length with
bays on either side. The roof, which
by the way used up 49, 900 shingles, is
supported by an ingenious system of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-12-11

Small wonder, then, considering the
many advantages possessed by the Can
adam country, and the millions of acres
OF fat lands now offered in Manitoba,
Assiniboia and Alberta, that settlers are
flocking thither eager to secure farms
in a well-governed, peaceable country
where the climate is most healthful and
the soil does not wear out, but yields a
rich return year after year for the labor
bestowed upon it.
The following dispatch in this con-
nection will no doubt be read with in
terest. 1t refers to the province of
Manitoba:
"WINNIPEa, Nov. 27.-The local gov
''ernment has just issued another bull
'letin which gives the following compar-
''isons with 1889 in average yields ard
products of wheat, oats, barley and po-
"tato crops, based on the returns Of
acreage and average yields for the re-
''spective years:
ESTIMATED average yield in wheat
1924 bushels in 80, Oil bushels in go
"Oats, 1853 in 80, Alb in go. Barley,
1875 in 'S9, 32.1 in 80. Potatoes, 119
''in 'S9, $50 in 80. Product of wheat,
81 POI, $40 for 's9, IA, 665, 100 for go Oats,
80, AS, 1O4 for 's9, 9,513, 433 for 80. Barley,
81 ,051, ISL for 80, 1909, AS for 80. Pota-
toes, 1883, 1856 for 's9, $3.50, 800 for 80.
''Little information is given about
"flax, but field roots are spoken of as
''being more than usually productive
"this year.
Large quantities of hay were put up
this year, compared with last. During
"the harvesting season there was great
scarcity of farm laborers.
'Three persons from Hamilton, Dako-
eta, have been in the city since Monday,
'and to-day left for the West. Their
'expenses here are paid by the Domin-
sion Government, and their mission is
ito pick out sufficient good farm land
ION which to locate three hundred Da-
"kota families whose names are in their
"possession, and who will remove to
''Manitoba early in the spring."
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VT AND WISDOM.

He who laughs at himself will not
laugh alone.-Ram's Horn.
Hay fever may be likened to "tie
vote" as 1.-The eyes and nose both appear
to have it."
"A close reader-one who always bor-
rows his neighbours paper, being too
close to buy one.-Texas Siftings.
Go to work, you lazy thing
""Tain't no use. Work won't do nothin'
for me since 1 struck him." -Harcer's
Bazaar.
After all the only way to profit by
the experience Of others and avoid
their troubles is to die young-Atchi-
son Globe.
The way to enancipate man is to
make him so large that you can't afford
to furnish iron enough to make fetter.
-Beecher.
Speak no evil of the absent; that is
cowardly. Likewise, speak no evil Of
the present; you might get licked.-In'
dianapolis Journal.
The man who is small in statue
never regrets the fact SO much as when
he is holding an umbrella over a pretty
girl who is about fourteen inches talle.
than he.-Boston Herald.
Mrs. De Fashion-WEat! Did your
daughter marry for love? Mrs. Oldtime
Indeed she did. Would you like to
see her? "Well, yes, unless she is ex-
hibiting herself at some dime museum.
Good News.
"A mans ears are placed in such a way
that he may catch the things that are
said in front of him. A merciful Provi-
dence never intended that he should
hear what is said behind his back
Atchison Globe.
Il believe in holiness, truth, beauty;
I believe in the redemption of the soul
by faith in forgiveness; I believe in
love, devotion, honor; I believe in duty
and moral conscience; believe in pray
or; 1 believe that our higher nature is
our only true nature.-Amiel's Journal
Somebody says that healthy in
FAINT, cooling in a cradle, is sight that
makes angels lean over the battlements
of Heaven and gaze longingly toward
earth. The idea is poetic, but the cold
facts in the case are that life is full of
bowling discord to the inexperienced
father of colicky twins.-Ram's Horn.
Great Editor NEW daily paper)-
"Have you finished that double-leaded
leader on our marvellous increase of cir
culation and our phenomenal success?
Assistant-Yes, sir. just got through.
Ibid you refer to the paper as the most
wonderful journalistic triumph since the
days of Franklin?'' Those were al
most my very words" Good! Quick
as the edition is on the street, Pll hus-
tie around and see if 1 can borrow
enough to pay your salary. IN. Y.
Weekly.
"A gift to be perfect, when given to
persons of mature years must sink itself
in its symbolism; that is, the emphasis
must be laid by both giver and receiver,
not upon what it is, but upon what it
expresses. 1t is the feeling of esteem,
of respect, of affection, of sympathy, OF
appreciation seeking an outlet through
the gift that makes, or ought to make,
its real preciousness. That it is which
throws a halo around the simplest tok.
on, and sometimes makes violet or a
curl of hair more truly valued than the
heaviest gold or the rarest gem.
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The Value of Rest.

Fatigue should not be treated IS q
light matter. Women often say: Il
am perfectly we'll, only l get tired
easily" Then you are not perfectly
we'll, you need rest care and possibly
medical treatment Try the rest first
and set your mind free from worries and
restraints. With the rest take nourish-
ing food, not tonics of necessity, but in.
Ssead VI waiting until luncheon take a
cup Of beef tea during the forenoon; be-
tween luncheon and dinner an egg lem.
onade, or a glass of milk and a cracker.
Do not exact from yourself work which
you do not feel equal to; make it rule
to lie down two hours each afternoon
and go to bed early. Keep this treat
ment up for three months, with all tho
out-of-door life that you feel equal to
and you will realize what rest can do
The tired feeling means that you need
rest; it is as sure an indication rs that a
clock needs winding when it runs down.
Boston Traveller