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Der fortschritt. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1891-1915, 1895-10-24

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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20

ing in manner quite in contrast
with the range methods and finds
it profitable. As sample of how
it pays to take the best of care of
cattle We note the following in
stances from Mr.. Hutchison's ex-
perience: Some time since he sold
steer at the age of 18 months
which weighed dressed 400 pounds,
and brought him $32. just last
week he sold to Doyle & Co., of
Pueblo, two steers aged respective
ly IL and ID months, which
weighed $50 pounds each, gross,
and which brought him $17, so
each. Mr.. H. believes in letting
his cattle want for nothing from
calfhood to killing age. and finds
that the extra labor and care bring
good cash returns.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20
Kindergarten.

An intensely practical man gaz-
ing at Niagara Falls said "Whst
waste of force!' He thought of
the mill wheels all that falling
water might be made to turn
So Froebel the great originator of
the kindergarten system watching
the gambols of children saw a
waste of energy. Children must
and will play, he said, but did the
Supreme Being intend this only
to fill up time? No! it is intended
as a means of unfolding all their
powers.
Children delight in movement,
they walk, run, hop jump, toss
their limbs about, and thus by ex-
ercise develope physical strength
they use their senses, they observe,
they invent and construct,-wh when
left to themselves, but all this is
done aimlessly-often awkwardiy.
Froebel conceived the idea of put
ting all these things to use, give
them the kind Of exercise that
best develops the body, give them
occupations that would train to
observe i'll such a way as to obtain
clear perceptions of what they see
and hear, train the eye to distin-
guish delicate shades of color,
train the busy fingers TO make
something, the mind to perceive
and invent.
A youth went to the father of
his sweetheart to ask of him her
hand AS he met the father, he
had III his hand knife and during
the preliminary conversation
whitfield stick. When he whit
tied it all away he plucked up
courage to broach the subject in
which he was most interested.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20

"Have my daughter?' said the
father "No! If you had made
anything even toothpick, out of
that stick you have been whiting
1 should have some hope of you,
but you whitfield it all away and
that is what you will do with your
life. No."
That poor youth had not re-
ceived kindergarten training or
he would have made something of
that stick. Froebel said: II can
convert children's activities, ener-
gies, amusements, occupations, all
that goes by the name Of play into
instruments for my purpose and,
therefore transform play into
work. This work will be educa-
ton in the true sense of the term.
1t might be objected that the
freedom of childhood would be
taken away, that the child would
not really enjoy play that is all
planned and turned to useful ends,
but experience has proven that his
delight in his play is increased by
the purpose in it and the results
obtained.
Froebel's first thoughts was that
the mother should be the only ed
ucator of the child till 1T was seven
years old, but years of observation
taught him that no mother had
time and strength to do all that
was necessary to be done for him
till that time, and that the moral
and social nature of the child re-
quires that it be associated, with
equals,-that is with children of
its own sge-after three years
thus associated children are taught
to respect each others rights.
The timid and those holding back
are encouraged, the forward ones
restrained, all gently taught the
spirit of their kindergarten motto
'Preferring One Another"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20
AMONG THE FARMERS.

b. +. Powell, of Catlin, a few
weeks since gathered a lot of
Missouri pippin apples from the
trees which have been set in his
orchard only three years. They
were two year old nursery stock
when planted, making only five
years from the graft to bearing.
Where else in the U. S. can hor-
ticulturists begin to get returns
for their labor as early as in the
Arkansas valley?
A. p. Kouns recently pur-
chased of Senator Swink another
five acre tract adjoining his pres
ent home. Five years ago Mr..
Kouns arrived in Rocky Ford with
IS in his pocket. He purchased
five acre lot of Mr.. Swink on
credit, and then borrowed money
of Mr.. s. to build a house. His
success in market gardening has
been such that he is now able
to add to his possessions. During
the past season Mr.. Kouns raised
two acres Of cantaloupes. The
cash return from the crop was
1856, 10, after she express charges
were paid. Land that bring such
crops as that is .ly worth 800
per acre.
Hon. w. N Randall marketed
big lot of fat hogs in Rocky
Ford on Monday. He has yet on
hand 300 hogs of various ages,
and is planning to go into the bus
mess on n larger scale than ever.
To this end he is having his entire
farm fenced with hog-proof wire,
SO that his hogs can be given a
wide range whenever the con-
ditions are such as to make such
liberty profitable to them. Two
years ago Mr.. Randall purchased
IL hogs, from which all of his
present holdings and those sold
have been the increase. During
this time but two hogs have died
from disease of any kind. Such
an experience certainly justifies
branching out in the line of swine
raising.
M. X. Hutchison, of Fowler,
made us call Monday morning.
MI. II. is doing some cattle rails
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20
Alfalfa Seed in the Stack.

The following gives an estimate
of the yield of some of the largest
crops of alfalfa seed in Otero
county which have not yet been
theshed. bus.
j. H. Lane. 600
Beatty Bros. -. $50
John Vroman. 500
Effner h McCaskill ....... $50
r. Sickenberger. ........... 200
David Call 200
Potter Bros. ............... 800
Price & King. 600
Colorado Land & Water Co.. 800
Cazadd. ................ 2GO
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their heads the notion that the hogs
were trespassers and ought to be evict-
ed, the trouble was more serious from
the difficulty of reaching the battle
field, a difficulty that was finally sur
mounted by sending In boy with a
cowhide to eject both dogs and pigs.
Such trifes as crying babies were never
noticed in a congregation Of this kind;
crying was popularity supposed to be
good for the lungs Of the infant, and
the mother let it cry, with such efforts
to soothe it as occurred to her on the
spur Of the moment, or were suggested
by interested friends.
To the people of the present time
with their $500, 900 churches and $4,000
preachers, with organ and choir and
Sunday-school appointments Of the
most elegant description, such services
seem farcical and lacking in proper
reverence. But it should not be forgot
ten that all these things are merely
comparative, and that to the people Of
the latter part Of the eighteenth and
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COMING INTO GENERAL USE

Storage Batteries for illumination
Popular In Country Residences.
The storage battery Is the "dark
horse" Of electrical engineering. Grad.
ually but surely it is emerging from the
hamperings Of imperfect mechanical
and electrical construction, and the be-
setment Of legal wranglings, and is now
growing so rapidly in public favor that
it gives greater promise Of future possi.
bilities than almost any other article Of
the Industrial world. Until recently,
says the St Louis Globe Democrat, ita
use has been mainly confined to trac'
ton and light power station work, but
Of late it has been utilized under condi
tons that give the general public o
clearer idea Of its practical value. Elec
trio craft propelled by storage batteries
will soon be as common as steam and
naphtha launches are now, and the
owners Of country houses that are miles
away from every other source Of cleo
trical supply are finding that the stor-
age battery is a very important factor
in promoting the comfort Of their iso-
lated homes. An installation has been
made Mt a summer residence near Lake
Forest, ILL.,, which Is an excellent ex.
ample of a type that will doubtless
come largely into vogue in the next few
years. The power house, measuring q
by q feet, is erected about 800 feet
from the residence. It has three rooms,
one for dynamo and battery cells, a
workshop and an attic. The wires are
carried to the house on cedar poles,
which also carry a telephone line,
through q wooded grove, which almost
entirely conceals them. Two hundred
and fifty-six lights are fed. 237 In the
residence and the rest in the dynamo
room, barn and outlying sheds. In the
battery room there are sixty chloride
accumulators, or storage batteries, In
closed in glass jars and ranged on
shelves 8 inches broad. The whole bat.
terry rack occupies a space Of but II by
6 feet. In charging the batteries gas
engine is used, which has many ad-
vantages over the steam engine for this
purpose. The usual practice is to run
the dynamo during the daytime tc
charge the storage plant, and to run
the house lights direct from the bat
terry. But when needed the dynamo
Gun be brought into service, and will
furnish current for the entire capacity
in lamps. The whole plant works noise
lessly and gives perfect service. 1t ie
intended to light the grounds all around
the house next year, so that garden
parties can be given and lawn games
carried on at night.
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eress Of Dc Weyfarer. When dark
kels overlook the preacher on his Jour
ney, and be could no longer discern the
''biaxes" on the tres, he trusted to the
instinct Of bio horse, and when this fail
cd, as It sometimes, though rarely, did,
he was compelled to pass the night in
the woods. If he had flint and steel he
made q f3re; If not, he sat down at the
root Of = tree and held his horse until
morning. In rainy weather he was
often compelled to swim the swollen
streams that lay in his route, or make
long detours in search Of place where
the stream could be forded. Yet all
these hardships, and more. including
sleeping In lofts where the snow drift
ed in, in rooms where four beds were
placed and the family all slept in the
only room the cabin afforded, and the
annoyance Of having absolutely no pri-
yacy but that Of the forest during his
journey from one appointment to an
other, were cheerfully endured, and for
no compensation save the conscious
ness of duty well done, and the pittance
that the people were able to give In re-
turn for the services rendered them.
Money in those times were scarce, and
many an old preacher has been heard
to tell how in the early days of his min
istry he received but $25 or $50 from
his people for a years hard work. But
this sum did not really represent all
they did for him, for his entertainment
was free wherever he went, and a pair
Of stockings here, pair of shoes there.
q wool hat or fur cap from one, q coat
from another and a pair of jeans trous-
ers from q third, eked out his scanty
support very materially. Nor was this
all, for on his "home round"-that Is,
when on that part of his circuit that
brought him toward home-he might be
seen with a ham or fitch Of bacon on
one side Of his saddle, pair Of chick
ems or a wild turkey on the other, and,
1t may be q haunch Of venison or bag
of corn in front, all the contributions
of those who gave willingly of what
they had to give at oil. These, with an
occasional wedding fee, a sum varying
from Csc to 81, paid by youth in his
first suit Of Hitting store clothes,
constituted his principal reliance for a
livelihood. His wife did her own work,
and her neighbors brought In supplies
from time to time to help out the
preacher, so. on the whole, he lived
about as well as they, and. what was
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for invited guests, and the balances Of
the load made up Of children packed in
straw, were common. but more fire.
4ueent were the riders on horseback.
They came in twos and threes, men and
women, with children In front and be-
hind, and on arriving at the grove In
which the church was situated they
tied the horses. not always far enough
apart to prevent an equine dispute,
scattered ear-corn on the ground in
front Of them to be about equally d.
vided between the steeds and the stroll.
ling pigs that always infested the
neighborhood on such occasions, and
men and women separated into groups.
Down at the always convenient spring
the former gathered, the elders to
smoke their pipes and talk crops. their
juniors to discuss politics. In and
about the church the old women talked
butter and eggs, or discussed the attire
Of the one worldly" girl sure to be
found in every neighborhood, while
their daughters sat silent, for 1t was q
favorite maxim In those days that
young girls and children should be
seen and not heard.
A stir In the little crowd about the
door told of the arrival Of the elder
and his brother circuit riders, for the
elder was just as much q circuit rider
as the rest, except that his circuit was
bigger, and a few Of the nearest fled
into the church, whittier the preachers
had preceded them. The brethren
said their prayers, took their seats,
conferred among themselves In loud
whispers rs to the order of service,
and then some one struck up famil-
lar hymn. All joined Justify, and the
sound thereof, waited out Of the open
windows and down the hill to the
spring, notified the brethren there that
"meetin' had begun" and induced an
instant suspension of crop talk and a
stampede in the direction of the meet
ing house. BY the time the hymn was
ended the house was filed and the reg
ular service of the day began.
There was preaching in abundance,
for preaching was the main feature of
the exercises. The preaching would
hardly be acceptable in a 100000
church nowadays, for it often happened
that grammar and rhetoric were con-
spicuous by their absence, but there
was always enthusiasm in any guam
tity, and also plenty Of Scripture. The
old preachers Of those days did not
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Know much about the graceS OF OratOry,
but they did know all about the Bible,
for it was the one book that they con-
stantly read, and that they were thor
oughly conversant with from cover to
cover. A proposition was started, and
Bible texts in confirmation of 1t were
cited; If it could be proved from the
Bible, we'll and good; If not, no matter
what it was, or who stated 1t, 1t was
rank infidelity, and the proposer was
an infidel. The nice distinctions Of the
higher criticism were unknown quaint
ties; the preachers of those days knew
nothing Of the Javist, and the Elohist.
Where the apostle affirmed "Wives, sub
NIT to your husbands" they said that
1t meant that the women should mind,
and not cherish any ideas about being
equal to the man and voting. They hat
ed gold chains and rings and silk
dresses and boiled shirts and cards
and fiddles and whisky, and all these
things were, In their sight, almost
equally abominable. A man with spot
less linen was to them dandy; a wom-
an with gold chains and jewelry was
on the right road to perdition. Some
Of them preached against these things
and denounced unsparingly all who
favored them. Cards and fiddles were
their pet aversion, and when, AS some
times happened, mischievous person
went to q "protracttd meeting" or a
camp meeting with fiddle or jug Of
~rt,sol>xv ~ nm oly ~ oo rdc tho y,roo ct,orc
were sometimes known to knock down
and drag out the offender with as much
energy as would be shown by any
shoulder-hitting son Of Belial in the
country.
Their meetings did not lack for vi
vacity from other causes. In those
days 40 man stirred abroad without
his gun and his dog, and q concourse
Of people was the occasion also for .
concourse Of dogs Generally ours Of
low degree. they had neither patience
nor pedigree. and dog fights at meeting
were matters Of by NO means infrc-
Quent occurrence. When they took
place outside. the ours were generally
left to settle their dispute among them
selves, unless 1t became too noisy, but
when this occurred some man seated
near the door and armed with q good
sized whip. quietly slipped out to act
a. umpire, and a moment later q series
Of yelps, followed BY silence. gave in
dication that the war was over. More
of an incident were they when they
took place within the limits Of the con-
creation, for every other exercise was
ct once suspended until the belliSerents
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TRUE faith never hesitates about
stepping where God directA
If some Of u would praise God more
we would blame our neighbors less.
THE only thing about some churches
that points to Heaven is the steeple.
LIVE at peace with all men, and you
Will have the devils war all You life.
A HYPoCRITE only wears his mask
while he thinks he is being watched.
If there were no fools in the world
tho lawyers would all be out Of work.
TIE real duty is neglected when we
step over one duty to perform another.
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the early years Of the nineteenth CEN
tury, the religious elegances of the
present would have seemed just as in
appropriate. The preachers and the
singing were to their taste. To them
he eloquence Of Talmage and the mu-
sic Of Handel would have been only
words and noise. They could under
stand their preacher, and could sing
their "himes," and were satisfied with
both. To them separate hymn books
would have been superfuity, for
many of them could not read, and one
hymn book, held by the preacher, who
"lined" the hymn, that is, gave out two
lines of the hymn at time for the peo-
pie to sing, was enough for the whole
congregation.
The old preachers have mostly passed
away, but the results of their works
are seen In the thousands Of churches
that everywhere dot the country dis
tr!cts, many Of them on the identical
spots where the log cabins once stood
that were sanctified BY the presence
and labors Of the early circuit riders.
And the system still continues, and
some readers may be surprised to learn
that many thousands Of country peo-
pie in the North, West and South have
now no other religious services than
those conducted by the circuit riders.
The times have changed for these, too,
and now they wear broadcloth and ride
in buggies instead Of on horseback, to
their appointments. Their churches
are of boards, or even Of brick, and
have choirs and cabinet organs, and
the women wear feathers in their hats,
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- GRASS Is KINGl

Grass rules. 1t is the most valuable
crop of America, worth more than
either corn or wheat. Luxurious
meadows are the farmers delight. A
positive way oget them, and the only
one we know, is to SOW Salzer's Extra
Grass Mixtures. Many of our farmer
readers praise them and say they get
I to tons Of magnificent hay per aero
from Salzer's seeds. Over one hundred
different kinds of Grass. Clover and
Fodder Plant seeds are sold by Salzer.
! II You win Cut This Out and Send Il
with &c postage to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co. La Crosse, Wis you will get .
sample OF Grass& Glover Mixture and their
mammoth seed catalogue free. wnu
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regular houses were built for service,
however. the neighborhood was under
stood to have advanced considerably
On the road to refinement Quarterly
meeting" at one Of these wayside log
sanctuaries was great occasion. The
presiding elder was always there, with
- many Of the brethren a. could be
mustered Long before the appointed
hour for the service the roads were fun
Of primitive vehicles On the way to the
meeting house AnuQuated wagons,
. man and his wife On the front seat
two or three wooden chairs Just behind
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nth conference" came, when the; ap-
Rsintments were changed and the
Dreachers went to new fields. Twenty
- thirty sermons every four weeks
vsre the usual work. together with 200
e000 miles Of the hardest kind Of trav-
q OF roads there were few, the trav-
aAsr being compelled to rely on bride
PATHS through the forest, and often on
0sEe tracks aided BY ''blaxes' on the
6ses. or pieces Of bark chopped out,
having Q white. place underneath,
VAbch could be seen ct . considerable
CRANES and mGtorially aidea IL pus,
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could Be parted. Tho brethren united
their forces, however, and by kicking
one and half-strangling the other, gen
orally accomplished the desired end In
. few moments. When the church had
q floor raised q few feet from the
ground, the space beneath was not in
frequently used by vasrant swine as
place Of temporary abode. and when, as
sometimes happened, the dogs took into
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PERFORMS A PLEASING DUTY.

uttered to the spiritual wants Of the
settlers in the backwOOds. He was a
natural product Of the times In which
b lived and Of the country in which
his lot was cast. He was in the most
snlphatic sense Of the word one of the
people himself, for, in oil probability,
10 had been born and reared in the i'm
mediate neighborhood Of his "circuit,"
Aine-tenths of his auditors knew him
hom his boyhood, and his father and
he rest of his family, and were pre-
pared to give his pedigree back to the
6me when the family made its appear
hnce in this country. Earlier than this
eew knew even their own family his
Aory, and nobody cared, for 1t was q
Well-established social principle In the
Early days Of the colonies that nobody
had father until he came to America,
md when he was here he was as good
- anybody, II not little better. Tho
travelling preacher, or circuit rider, as
he was generally called, was q man
horoughly and conscientiously devoted
b his calling. He always believed him
self to be called to the work of the
ministry, and, having this conviction,
gave up everything else for its sake.
His worldly belongings. barring the
wife and children, that always lived
somewhere within the bounds of his
circuit, were generally limited to what
h. could carry in his saddle bags, and
these usually contained q change of
linen, a Bible, a hymn book, In those
days called chime book" and some
times q lunch of chicken and corn
bread, put up by kindly sister at the
hast preaching place. He had q horse,
generally good horse, for no other
Kind could stand the hardships of tho
Journeys he had to make, and for his
living he trusted to Providence and the
people Of the various appointments"
along his route. And, as rule, he was
n well cared for as the means Of the
people permitted, for every family
counted 1t an honor to have the preach.
q stay with them, and as he was usu-
ally the bearer of news from one neigh.
borhood to another, he was always a
welcome guest.
His circuit was planned, partly by
himself, partly by his ecclesiastical
snperiors, who laid out the general
ground and expected him to add to
the number Of appointments or preach
hg places as the membership increased
md the work broadened. Two preach
ors, senior and junior, were Usually
assigned to each circuit, and the ap-
pointments for the two were arranged
b such way that the people Of each
station had preaching every other week,
1t least, or sometimes every week. The
hbors Of these self-sacrificing men
were by no means, however, confined to
Sunday. They preached every day.
sometimes twice day, reaching one
station at or 10 in the morning, hold
nc service, dining with some brother
Who lived near by, in the afternoon,
kading on to another station, where an
evening service was to be held, and re-
Deatfng this round week after week,
Month after month. during the year