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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-08
i" MAJOR LUX. :"
The High School Gradu-
ateS a Strong Class
of Fifteen Young
L aides and
Gentlemen.

The High school graduation exer-
cises last night at the Opera house
were eminently successful and entirely
credible to those who took part in
them, as well as the superintendent,
teachers and school officials. The
class of fifteen is an unusually strong
one intellectually, and is composed of
the following:
CLASSICAL CoURsE-Harry e. Plymat.
Latin Course:
Margaret NJ. Brophy.
Albert III. Emerson.
Lila E. Larkin.
Harry |. PettiS.
A. Linda Osborn.
Nellie M. Pinney.
Samuel NJ. Pinney.
Mable L. Wood.
English Course:
Thomas j. Benedict.
Edith M. Gibbons.
Philip A. Helmer.
Marie O. Nicholson.
Lillian T. Sterling.
Louis SWenSOn.
The raising of the curtain disclosed
a scene of beauty rarely equalled on
any similar occasion. The beautiful
woodland scenery enclosed the ele-
gantly attired graduating class, a
large chorus of nearly fifty voices,
High school faculty and members of
the school board. Among the invited
guests on the stage was Mayor
Weaver. The sides of the stage were
beautified with towering plants.
The exercises were opened soon
after o'clock by an invocation pro-
nounced by Rev. L. w. Beattie.
The chorus sung Correcting Song, "
an appropriately worded song written
by Miss Grace e. COmstock, of this
city. The chorus merited the large
applause which it received, and illus
trated the excellent abilities of the
leader, Miss Florence E. Soule.
The first grafton was given by AL
bert Emerson, the salutatorian, on the
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Water Your Horses often.

Feeding a horse principally o
grain and driving it five hours witt
out water is like giving a man sal
mackerel for dinner and not allowing
him to drink before supper time
very unsatisfactory for the man. II
you know anything about the are of
horses and have any sympathy fol
them, water them as often as they
want to drink-once an hour If pos
sible. By doing this you will not
only be merciful to your animals, but
you will be a benefactor to yourself,
as they will do more work, look bet.
ter, and live longer. If you are a
skeptic and know more about horses
than anyone else, you r positive
that the foregoing is wrong, because
you have had horses die with water
Ing them too much, and boldly sa
that the agltators of frequent water,
ing are fools in your estimation, ana
you would not do such a thing. Just
reason for a moment and figure out
whether the animal would have over
drunk and ~overchilled his stomach if
1t had not been allowed to become
overthirsty.
A driver who sits in his wagon and
Iashes his WORKOUT, half-currled,
half-fed, and half-watered team de-
serves to be punished as a criminal.
Our Dumb Animals.
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1t isn't often that a newspaper re.
porter is approached by those who
have a dead sure thing on "a fortune
and given an opportunity to literally
''waller in wealth" hut such an open
ing came TO u member Of The Free
Press city staff II few days ago. 1t was
a young mar from Corunna who had
the scheme and, regarding the world
as his oyster, he was intent upon OPEN
ing it without unnecessary delay.
"Do you want to make more money
in n day than you are now making
in a month";" he asked the reporter.
The reporter said. strictly in con-
fidence and not for publication, that
he did.
well, you can do it. Now, hero in
my scheme, and I'll let you in, because
you're just the sort OF a man l want in
this thing. Here is a stick of DR..
Windgall's medicated candy-six sticks
to the pound-warranted TO cure
coughs. colds, influenza, bronchitis.
laringitis, tonsilitis and all troubles OF
the thorax, borax, and things of that
sort. That's your racket. and you'll
have to study up so you a jingle it
off and never slip u cog. But this
candy is all right as clndy, the mcdi-
cation being extra. 1t costs us thir-
teen cents a pound and we sell it for
thirty, or five cents a stick. with the
chances of drawing gold Or silver non
ey, every seventh or eighth package
containing a s. gold piece or ten silver
dimes. Now Il plan is to hire n va-
cant store in some town wherever We
go, engage a brass band and get a
crowd. You've no idea how they
crowd around a brass band in a country
town."
"But how can we afford to give away
q s. gold piece every or eight
sales and pay rem and pay the band?"
asked the reporter:
"rm coming TO that. When thu
band has finished its first piece you gel
up behind the counter and begin te
warble your little warb. and sell the
stuff"
"Oh. yes; I sell the stuff. And you
what do you dol"
''Why, Pm the young farmer thai
finds u gold piece in every package hd
buys, seee"
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now 1oNa no MrIK COWS.

One of the greatest mistakes which
rVias ever made in the management OF
milch COWS, was to milk them a little
over half the year, and allow them to
run dry the other half, writes Albert
Pringle, of Canada. There is little
profit in this. A good animal should
be fed we'll and kept producing all, or
nearly oil, the time, 1t is probable
that, in a state of nature, the COW would
cease to give milk when the time came
for the calf to cease to suck. But
domestic animals are not in q state of
nature, and they are influenced by sur
roundings. The object in view would
have something to do in this matter of
protracted milking. If the aim is the
greatest amount of butter and cheese,
then keep the COW milking nearly all
tho tune. = II the aim 10 to- aisa-anax:
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According to the Investigations OF
Sir Il. Ball, the eminent scientist, it
appears that we're the sensibility OF
the human eye increased so as to
make it a lew million times more
powerful, it would be seen that the
diamond atoms, which form the per-
feet gen when aggregated In suiii-
Gent myriads, are each in u condi-
tiou OF rapid movement of the most
complex description; each luolecnle
would be seen swinging to and fro
with the utmost violence among the
neighboring molecules, and qul erint
from the sho. ks it receives from the
vehement encounters with other
molecules, which occur millions Of
times in each second. IEr. Ball ad-
mit3 that the hlFdiac; IS and impene-
trability SO characteristic won d at
first sight seem to lefute tie suppo-
sition that it is no more than d clus-
ter Of rapidly moving particles, but
the well known impenetrabllity OF
the gem arises, he says, from the
fact that when attempt was made to
press a steel point into the stone it
fails, because the rapidly-moving
molecules of the stone batter the
metal with such extraordinary vehe.
mence tn t they refuse to allow it to
penetrate, or eyen to mark, the crys.
talized surface. Again, when glass
Is cut with q diamond the edge,
which seem SO hard, is really COM
posed of rapidly-moving atoms; the
glass which is cut is also merely Il
mass OF moving molecules, and what
seems to happen is that as the
diamond il pre- sci forward Its sew
eral particles, by their superior V gor,
drive the little particles of glass out
Of the way.-Sun.
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A recent traveller in China and
Japan notices that in those couhtries
the orange trees are not grown as we
grow them in our country, by train
Ing them up to good stems aud allow.
Ing them to have large and bushy
heads, but are suffered to grow low,
crooked ami stumpy like, more like
bushes than a; trees such as ours
resent. The traveller states that the
teason given for this by the AsiatC
Eultiyators was that 1t was much
more elsy In this way to gather the
fruit, AMI for that reason it was
cheaper and more econc mical to train
the trees so than in the form Of trees
rs our orange ~cultlvators do; but
his could scarcely be the reason, as
he labor In those countries is so ex-
cessiyely low that the extra cost OF
l. ladder and baskets TO gather them
could scarcely be an item in the cal
culation. We have recently come
lcross some account Of an expert
Inpnt by an orange c%ultivator in Cali
Iornia, who a lowed some of his trees
TO grow low and bushy, as the cuiti,
tator might say Struggling" and
had alongside the other trees trained
up as il they were apple trees
In the ordinary manner of an orange
grove, and to his amazement he finds
That these unpruned trees, suffered
10 gruw in this way, are more than
as productive as those which
have been subjected to the pruning
necessary to give them an ornament
nj character. 1t is more than likely,
therefore, that it was this productiy,
character rather than the savin! @
labor which has led the Chinese and
Japanese TO adopt this method a,
their universal plan Of civilization -
Meehan's Monthly.
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FERTILIZERS FOR POOR LANDS,

The Improvement Of rocr land IS
best secured by any means by which
clover may be grown. With q crop Of
clover to be turned under the'ouestion
OF the recovery of worn land is settled
afirmatiyely. But this is the difficult
ty. The clover must have something
to feed upon, and this is provided by
p liberal dressing of lime, by which the
unavailable fertility of the land is de-
Eeloped and made useful for the crop.
Unless the land is exceedingly impov-
fshed by wasteful culture, an applica-
ton of twenty-five bushels Of air.
Hacked lime will be sufficient to bring
/ fair yield of clover, and this plowed
Under will add q large quantity of nj
trogen and organic matter to the soil.
Then by giving about 800 pounds to
The acre of mixed superphosphate and
potash salts, q good yield of wheat
may be made, and a better crop of
clover grown with it than at first.
This moved for hay and then planted
with some early kind Of potatoes will
yield a profitable crop. The best 70.
tation under these circumstances is
wheat, clover and potatoes; the next
wheat being sowed on the potatf
Eround.-New York Times.
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The Blood Orange.

Tho blood orange, which, accord,
ing to the best horticultural authoriI
ty, was first raised by the SpaniardA
of the Philippine Islands, is a merd
variety of the common sweet orange
"a creation Of mans ingenuity. 1t
was first seen in the markets Of Eu.
rope during the closing decade of the
last century, where 1t created quito
q sensation. Almost Immediately
there were heavy demands from al
the s%ubtropical countries of both
Asia and Europe for cuttings Of tho
trees which bore this wonderful
fruit. at present, owing to som I
edict promulgated from Manila, n
blood oranges are cultivated In thu
Philippines, the European supply
being chiefly raised In Malta. There
are probably a score of places In tho
United States and its contiguous isl
ands where blood oranges are profit
ably propagated. st Louis Repub-
liz
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GATHERING THE HAY cRop.

The gathering of the hay crop
rapidly approaches, and farmers will
Ho we'll to see to it that it is cared for
In every respect as one of the most
economical and valuable of crops pro-
duced on the farm. In time gone by
too little attention has been given to
it. 1t is important that more interest
be taken in this branch of farming, for
the reason that it governs the price OF
milk, meat and stock. Not only does
it raise the price of these, but it indi,
rectly has an influence over the wheat
and corn prices. The history of agri.
culture has shown that the original
productiveness of farm lands in all civ.
ilized countries has suffered, in course
of time, q gradual decline. 1t has been
ascribed to the reduction in the area
occupied by our natural pastures and
meadows. This cutting off of the cul-
tivation of grasses means a gradual re-
duction of live stock, which in turn
causes q falling off in the principal
home of manurial matter.
By experiments it has been shown that
the chief cause of less remuneratiye
crops was due to a serious falling off
of the fodder crops--grasses. 1t sim
ply shows that we need more liberal
productions of nutritious fodder crops
Chicago Times.
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am. Il would. oI 4oGTse, 6o TsIfI5

ira cali, IL would, OF Course, be welfto
free the COW from the milk pail sooner.
The farmers common sense and OBJ.
servation and the stockman's sagacity
must be used here, as everywhere else.
Many farmers make a great mistake,
not only in drying up the mich cows
too soon, but in the time Of calving.
The COWS are usually timed to calve
about the time the cheese factories
open. The cows are allovedto dry up
soon after the cheese factories close in
the fall, except, perhaps, one or two of
the best, which are MIXED once q day.
This certainly is not the way to make
much profit out of the COWS.
/ The vitality Of the COW will certainly
Afford greater results expended in
lactation. Dairymen will scarcely
have failed to notice that even the new
mich COW begins to fail in her milk
soon after service. OF course, one in.
variable rule will not do for all cows
and all breeds. Some may not bi
MIXED to advantage more than siS
months after coming in before service.
Others may be MIXED with advantage
for u year, others longer. 1 knew q
COW to be MIXED for six consecutive
years, continuously, with profit.
, Instead of having all the cows calv,
in the spring, they ought to be time4
to come in at different seasons of TIL
year. so that there may be a continu.
Gus supply of milk. The cheese fac.
tories will take the milk six months,
md the creameries the other six. Gel
the right kind OF cows and feed them
well, and they will milk eleven month";
in the year, and sometimes longer, il
the COW is well bred. American Agri.
,ulturist.
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Coal Oil Spraying.

Mr.. E. II. Keru writes this to I'm.
sect Life" Last August 1 saw a
number of my hogs we're not doing
we'll, and were continually rubbing
against the fence OF some post. l
put a gallon OF oil in my knapsack
sprayer, put IL on my shoulders and
walked out to the Pen could not
get my hogs quiet enough to spray
we'll, so l put some corn-chop into
their box, and while they were eat
ing 1 gave them an excellent cover
ing of oil, very finely put on. My
'neighbors said, The hair will come
off, 1T will blisteE.' Next morning
on examining their backs l found
great loose scales OF dirt and mango,
and under these and among them
were thousands Of dead lice. Result,
my hogs are smooth aud slick-liee
all gone. Have tried the same IN
hen houses to kill chicken mites; also
lice on horses, A flannel cloth sat-
urated with best coal oil and rubbe |
Dver eggs from bot fly on horses legs
causes eggs to loosen and drop In a
short time
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The effect is magical. TIE cubes
ire arranged. as in the accompanying
;ut, with three blocks en- the bottom
20 ", two on the next and one at the
top.
Look steadily at the cubes a min
ate.
You will notice a sudden change.
Keep on looking and there will lie
mother. First there will be two
,ubesU at the top, three In the middle
and two on the bottom row. The
star you will find in an entirely diff
Ierent place than in the picture.
No n seems able to explain it,,
md all who have seen it are In adeep
Iuandary as to what causes the Pc
;uliar change.
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MAxAaEsIENr OF ru1rps

Tulips may remain in the groun,.
:%eyeral years without taking up, but il
Is a far better plan to cut the flowers
as soon as they begin to fade, which
hastens the ripening of the bulbs, and
Us soon as the leaves begin to turn yell
low, take the bulbs up, and put them
in some shaded place, where they may
remain for a few days. Then take
them up and store in a cool, dry place,
until the time comes for re~pianting,
which should be early in October. One
OF the objections to leaving tulips in
the ground over summer is, that the
old skin of the bulbs forms q harbor
for insects that sometimes trouble the
new bulbs. Tulips grown from seed
are selfs-that is. of n color-in the
cup, crimson, scarlet, purple, white,
or yellow, the base being generally
white, or purple. These, after a few
years, break or become variegated.-
american Agriculturist.
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-
90 q loTer II WY MIN. II ne n
really meanin'V Will II he amt, |
won't An he an, she dld. I
Philury pauj with n smile, and
glanced inquiriKy at the bride.
An GLORY Ann shook her head
emphatically) IAN Philury, Dorlesky
was right - MT intend to ba
cast dow q pou by eny OF them
bulltes lros, IN, Nor l DON'T
neither. M on y tower TO Kings
Hoiler. a DIN TO tower at
all. 50 ] 1i"'t
WAL te1'a 'rJerposed Philetus
"Well We ST. IuD daily till l git
ready tc 10 on "g Their tower" said
tbs Grid, MP lily, as she pas ed
her PLATE 10 s,f please gimme
some mt - SIN cakes, pa"
Hereu ytu5 grew very angry.
Rising he sand, iiercely:
Glory Ann, I'll t Ike back that salt
cellar, and you don't como to Glen
ham"
AN YOU. Philetus, kin tako your
salt an yourself-yc are both too fresh
for mean go to Glenham, or where
We Kill. for I'll tower to the Hoiler or
III tower none"
And Glory Ann arose and passed
maiestically upstairs. carrying u glass
Of cider auG them cakes" with her.
After supper, MIR. Carter said, turn
Inc to his new son-in-law:
Seems to mo, Phile, that if We amt
roin' to tower none, 'twould be as
well to onhotch the horses an get
ready for milkin'; it's arter s."
II low TO tower TO Glenham YETI
said the groom, as he and van
ished up the steps in the direction the
bride had disappeared.
Slowly the time passed. 1t was al
most dark when Philury, who had
outstayed all the guests, in order to
help Mrs. Carter. returned home to
impatient Rhody Ann, who sat in the
kitchen waiting for hef.
We'll" she exclaimed, "Philnry,
where did they tower to, Or amt they
:owered?"
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HOP licking IN KENT.

UoInsn Are BETTER ut It than Men, but
Their Pay IL Small.
The working day In the Kent hon
ya'd leglns with full daylight, say
the National Review. By 8 O'clock
the barns let loose their inmates, and
a procession Of the pickers wends its
way through the meadows and o.
chards towards the field of labor.
There is plenty OF water for theul IL
they like to wash: but they are quite
content with evening ablutions, and
for the mosSG part step from under tho
sackcloth blanAct' provided by the
farmer, stretch themselves, yawn,
grumbfe a little at they scarcely know
what, and set off. The women i'll
cumber themselves with pots, kettles,
provisions and babies. After an hour
or two of picking fires are lit among
the stripped blue-stalks and a score
Of simple breakfasts are prepared.
The pay they get Is not magnitl-
cent. 1t averages twopence a bushel
Of cleanly picked hops. and tn, per.
son who can pick twelve bushels in
the day IL ieckoned a ski lfui aud
practiced hand, Women, as one
would expect, are beLger at it than
men. They strip q custer OF the
cones in the time it takes the mex
perleneed man to detach three or
four cones only. They talk and sing,
too, all the while, in a manner that
is highly irritating to certain Of the
men.
There are all sorts and conditions
in the hop garden, so that, while on
the one hand you may hear girls
chanting improper music hall catches,
you have only to listen with the
other ear to be charmed by the
hymns of Moody and Sankey and the
Salvation Army. The men, as | have
limited, work more silently and with
a certain moroseness. 1t Is with
them that The customary strike ini-
tiates in the middle of thu picking.
Either the hops r too small or the
pay is too little-the pretext Is read
lily found. During the strike thu
farmer aad his family may we'll be
anxious, but the difficulty soon ar.
ranges itself. and the men set to
again with a few hearty oaths as 6
relief to their feelings.
Among the local agricultural
hands 10 the hop garden n often
hears very for IDLE accounts OF the
ferocity Of the pickers. .They'd as
soon stick a knife into you as look at
| you" is a remark that vas offered to
me from several of them. Yet II
they are left to themselves and tier
own ways, in 50 far as these do not
affect the wtll-being of their neigh
bors and the pro- erty Of the farmer,
they seem sufficiently inofensive.
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r.N DE sIEcLr BLOCK OF ICE

improvement that promises to become
an immediate success. This Is MOTH
ing more nor less than the freezing
Of the ice into prepared forms in
stead Of rough blocks. Every user Of
ice knows the difficulty and the
trouble OF cutting ice for the water
pitcher or for a glass, to say nothing
OF the uphe wal necessary in the re-
frlgerator before the ice can be
reached, when it can be counted
upon to split into pieces that are just
what Is not required.
The new form of ice will be known
as cube Ice" 1t Is Obtained by the
water being frozen in a machine from
which the ice emerges in the usual
SEED blocks, but "cubed," or subdi-
vided to such an extent that a tap
with an ice pick mot a Blow will bd
sufficient to break 1t up Into regulat
inch and a half cubes, a dozen Of
which can be dropped without
trouble into the ice pitcher, or ono
into a goblet for individual use. on
each of the cubes will appear thd
trademark of the maker, to serve al
q guaranty OF genuinentss.
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80
! The light Brahmas are excellent lay.
Yrs.
Green corn ensilage will iniure any
animal.
Sunhower seed is excellent for chick
en- feed.
Cooked rice is said to be good for
the chicks.
A good dust-box is q valuable aid IN
destroying lice.
The profit on hens should average 81
per head a year.
In breeding the evidence is strongly
in favor of your sires.
The best natured foal can be easily
ruined by careless and incompetent
handling.
The best milk COWS will become pooh
mixers if they are not properly fed
and cared for.
Picking, packing and marketing ga
points to be attended to in growing
berries for profit.
Charcoal is a good purifier, anG
should be given to the fowls OF kept
where they can get at it.
The Indian game fowl has come t.
the front as a remarkable layer and an
excellent fowl for the table.
The egg of the black Spanish fowl i.
generally credited with being much
richer than most other kinds.
Don't catch a sheep by the wool. II
is not the kindest way to handle them.
1t hurts the sheep and it hurts the
wool also.
Keep the premises mp and things
looking neat and tidy. The extra
amount of labor to do this will never
be felt in o year.
If the mature fowls, the sitting henn
especially, are entirely freed from YER.
min, there will be only half the sronbls
in raising the young chickens.
Work horses want bone, muscle anu
strength, and not too much fat better
feed oats, bran, good hay and other
forage. and not so much corn.
Tomatoes grown from Australia.
seed are reported to be more uniform
and regular in shape and the plants
rather more productive than the same
varieties grown from American seed.