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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
CIVIC SOCITZES.

NEASONIC-ANrQIUIrY LODGE, No 81, A, F.
Nl & A. M,-Regular meetings on the lst
and Sd Wednesday of each !, month On l., at I'5o
O'Clock p. m. w. H. CasWell, w. M.; H. Il.
Beecher, Sec.
REDWOOD CHAPTER No. "a, R. A. M.-Stated
ConvoCations the I'd Friday of each month.
o. L. Dornberg, M. E. H. P. s. j. Race, Sec.
REDWOOD FALLS CoMMANDERY: No. IS, K.
II. Stated COnClaveS first Monday OF eaCn
month at p. m. Jos. Tyson, E. G. E. NJ
Holmes, Rec.
CHARITY CHAPTER, No. IS, O. E. S. Regular
meetings I'd and 4th Wednesday evenings of
each month, at 1880 p. m. Anna E. Ward,
w. M; Mrs. c. E. Dickinson, Sec.
r o. o. F-REDwooD LODGE, No. 60, meets
l.. every Saturday evening, at Z: 30 o'clock:
Brothers from a distance cordially invited
to attend. Henry Lys. N. g.; c. E. Andrews.
ENTERPR1zE ENcAMPNENT. No 35-Regular
meetings every Friday evening, at 1880. G.
ID. Thompson, Scribe. H. F. Buechner, E. T.
CRYSTAL LODGE, No. rs, D. of R.-Regular
meetings I'd and 4th Wednesday evenings Of
each month, at 1880 p. m. Nellie Barnes, N.
G. Mrs. T. F. Marsh. X. s.. $50.
A GU. WILDWOOD FALLS LODGE, No.
"A. IS, meets every Monday evening, at their
hall Visiting brethren made welcome. VIM.
Smith, NJ. W.; 8. o. Mason, Recorder.
II of P.-Redwood Falls Lodge, No. ~,
~. meets every Tuesday evening. Emil
kuenzli, G. c.; Geo. L. Evans, K. K. 5.
nj w. A.-Re0WOOd camp NO. 1851, meets
Nl. every I'd and 4th Wednesday of each
month J. T. Stegner, v. c.; A. H. Ander-
son, Clerk.
NJ w. L. H-Redwood Council, No. 100
IN. meets every other Saturday evening
at O'Clock. A. B. Halves. Com; Fred L
Warner, Sec.
~ A. R.-John 8. Marsh Post, No. S5-Reg.
" sular meetings every I'd and 4th Tues.
nington, CON-; J. B. Robinson, Adj.
wv R. C.-Meets on I'D and 4th Tuesday
w of each month in the afternoon at G
A. r. hall. Mrs. Elizabeth McClintock, Pres.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
SCHOOLMA'AMS WANTED.
Not to Teach School, but to be
Courted and Wed.
From the st. Louis GLOBE Democrat.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
Idaho is a paradise for pretty
schoolma ans, and is destined
to become a Mecca for all
maidens desiring quick and
acceptable matrimony. There
is only one young woman for
every bunch of ten unmarried
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
LOCAL DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
CITY OFFICERS.

Mayor. ......................F. w. PHILBRIoK
Aldermen.....
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11

Married People 1.-Two Longest.
Married people live longer than the
unmarried, the temperate and indus
Itrious longer than the gluttonous and
idle, and civilized nations longer than
the uncivilized. Tall persons enjoy q,
greater longevity than short ones.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11

S. O. Mason, one block: north OF
court house, has $1,000 private money
to loan on land, at 7 per cent. interest,
in sums of $500 or more. l1-3t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
Musicians Live to Old Are.

Composers, as rule, have been re-
markably long-lived. Handel was "a
years of age when he died; Lalande was
70; Bach was IS years; Scarlatti was
Sc; Haydn was II; Palestrfna, 70; Spohr,
rs; Marcello, SO; Gluck, "a; Paisillo, rs;
Rossini, 70; Picinni, ~, Cherubini, 81;
Beethoven, 81; Meyerbeer, 20.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
For Sale.

Two good second hand stoves, one
for coal and the other for wood burn
ing. Will be sold cheap. Inquire of
GEORGE LECHNER.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
DreSSmdkinq.

Leave orders for dressmaking with
Miss Lauterbach, on Minnesota street,
corner of Third. l24t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11
SALESMEN WANTED

Statesmen WANTED
We want two or three good men in your
county to sell our Minnesota Grown Nursery
Stock, Seed Corn, Seed Potatoes, and Grain,
for spring delivery. The most liberal terms.
Three plans. Write for particulars.
THE JEWELL NURSERY CO..
7-8t Lake City, Minnesota.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
CATTLE.

1t is not putting it too strong to say
that with our present knowledge Of
doing the work there is no economy in
wintering cattle of any kind unless we
save the manure.
The only safe and economical way Of
procuring a good herd of cows is by
raising our choice heifer calves. To
buy them is often uncertain business.
II you buy cattle to feed this winter,
be sure to select we'll bred and well
grown animals. There is a chance for
profit with such, but none at all with
stunted. rawboned creatures of no par
ticular breed. You must know on what
kind Of frame you are to attempt to
hang flesh.
For dehorning, take two parts of
caustic soda, one of kerosene and one of
water. First stir the two former ingIe-
dents together thoroughly. and then
add the water. After trimming the hair
away from the horn of the very young
calf, apply carefully with rubber cork.
See that it does not run down the face,
The days Of the large cattle ranches
have gone. and the cattle farms, with
their thousands of acres, in the States
are no longer profitable as in the days
of higher prices. The small farms must
raise. feed and mature the beef cattle
for the future.
Young feeders worth feeding can not
be bought. Those who raise good
grades do not sell them. 1t is always
dangerous to introduce range cattle to
our farms, and we can, il we will, always
raise better than we can buy.
He who overstocks his pastures dam
ages his land, and is at the mercy of the
weather. He who has more stock than
food in winter finds stock growing un-
profitable.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
HORTICULTURE

After tying up the tomatoes allow no
side shoots to grow, and trim out the
center after it has reached the top of
the stake. There will be no more growth
of vine, and the strength will all go
to the fine clusters formed on the main
stake.
Peaches do best when planted in the
spring, but they should be procured in
the fall and heeled in. If you wait to
buy them in the spring they will not be
planted as early as they should be.
Destroy the noxious weeds and insect
eggs in the garden this fall by burning
all weeds, brush and vines; it will also
save you labor another year. NOta weed
should be left over.
There is no work more generally neg
lecte ed on the fruit farm than winter pro-
lection, and yet there il no work which
is more important. Let il be done thor
oughly after the frosts have come, and
before winter sets in.
II does not argue we'll for our inteill-
gence that we view with regret the
barren field which has been cropped to
sterility, and yet look with complacency
on the denuded forest where the giants
stood in our fathers days.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
POULTR ".

Dirty eggs are not choice eggs. Keep
them clean by having clean, fresh nests,
and buyers will have no suspicion of
them. 1t soils your reputation when
you offer soiled egge.
Autumn usually finds ones stocks of
poultry too large for their accommoda-
tione. We will find many not quite up
to the standard; these should by all
means go, however promising they may
seem. Keep the breed at it's best
For little chicks there is no safer food
than milk curd or bread and milk. Hard
boiled eggs occasionally are good, but
the cheaper corn meal must soon replace
these. Next mix this with bran. ground
cats. rye or beans.
To neither chickens nor hens ever give
any sort of meal without scalding it. IL
salt, pepper or other spices are added,
mix them before wetting.
Wheat is always safe food for chick
ems. 1t can be fed as soon as it can be
swallowed. Meat may be given at any
time. but with care that it does not
prove laxative. For fattening, ctrn
stands at the head.
Put clean, white eggs up in packages,
with your name and the date of packing
them upon them, with guaranty that
they are fresh. You will soon find that
people appreciate your efforts, and will
be willing TO pay you little extra for
your carefulness.
To make hens moult more speedily.
feed them lean meat. A teaspoonful Il
sulphur for a dozen fowls, mixed with
their feed and given twice week, will
also help them through this trying
season.
If your fowls be pure bred, do not
cross them; whatever may be gained in
the first cross will be lost in the second,
and they will soon be mongrels. Aim
for constant improvement along all
lines
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
The Hero of the Mines.

From boy Michael Verran had lived
and worked in the dark mines. One day
he was engaged with two others sir k
ing a shaft. They had bored hole in
the usual way of blasting. and then, &C.
cordipg to a rule one of the three had
assembled the shaft, leaving the others 10
finish the prepar atoms for firing the
charge.
The hole was filed with powder and
securely tamped and all that was left TO
do was to cut the fuse and then for one
man to ascend the shaft and let down
the bucket for the last, 80 that he who
fred the fuse might have time TO be
drawn up to the surface before the
charge should explode.
Mic hazel and his compa MON had be-
come familiar with danger. They were
careless. ar when the fuse was attached
they set to work to cut it through with
a stone and an iron drill. In doing it
the iron gave out spark. and in
second the Kissing of the fuse told them
that in few minutes the charge would
explode.
Both dashed to the shaft, and, hold.
ing on to the bucket, gave the signal to
be drawn up; but. alas! the strength Of
the man at the windlass was not equal
to lifting two-he could wind up only
one man at time.
To remain was death to both. and it
was Michael Verran's turn TO ascend.
He looked at his companion. stepped
from the bucket, and quietly said: "Es-
cape, lad, for thy life! l shall be in
heaven in minute"
Swiftly the bucket assembled. and the
man saved leaned over the pits mouth
and listened-listened for what? For
the great roar and boom that told of the
sudden destruction of the brave comrade
who had given up his life to save him.
Up came the smoke and rubbish.
binding and sickening. There could
be no doubt of the miners fate. close
shut against that fearful hole. Yet
down they hurried. and among the
scattered blocks of rock at the bottom
of the shaft they shouted. in faltering
tones, his name: michael! Michael!
where are your"
And the strong answer came: Thank
God, am here"
Eager hands dragged away the rub
bish and rock and there underneath a
huge slab of stone that had blown across
him, and lodging against the end of the
shaft protected from all the rest. they
found him safe-not scratch upon him
or his clothes torn. He had set himself
down in the corner of his rocky prison,
placed shield OF rock before his eyes,
aud commended his soul in prayer to
God; and the God who cared for DAME ell
in his rocky dungeon had delivered him
and saved him from death.-ForlCard
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16

"a message from the dead, was the
reply; "let us sit down in a quiet
place, and make it out carefully"
The little steamer started that
morning without the travellers, who
sat for hours on a stone bench de-
ciphering the faded characters on the
large yellow parchment. This was
what they read:
''In the year of our Lord, 1893,
Gisbert of Hohenembs being bishop
of Villach, and Sebaldus abbot of the
Monastery OF st. Blasius, Brother
John, cook in the said monastery,
being summoned before the chapter
to answer to repeated and scandalous
Breaches of discipline, did, the night
before his trial, mix poison with the
pottage of the reverend father who
now lieth at the point Of death, in
grievous bodily torment.
1.-THE murderer, being tried in
solemn conclave by the bishop of
Vlllach and the heads of seven ad-
jacent monasteries, was by them con-
demned to be walled up alive in the
right hand corner of the great west
ern dungeon, copy of the sentence,
signed by all the judges, being
placed at his feet. Which just and
righteous judgment was duly exc
cuted on the night of the fourteenth
November, A. D. 1498.-Chamber's
To,Io,aao
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
SWINE.

A boar should not be used for service
until he is fully eight months old. and
only then when steady growth has
been kept up. When this is done boar
at eight months will be fairly we'll ma.
tured.
Let farmers feed their pigs with regu.
larity, and in no case over-feed when
they begin on the new corn crop in the
fall,e&a they will perhaps experience
less trouble with them.
Think twice before driving the wagon
loaded with corn into the hog yard and
dumping the contents on the ground
for day or two's feeding. We would
not treat our cattle in this way. If we
did, we would loose them just as we do
our hogs.
1t the hog is to fare we'll and to make
sure profit for his owner it is neces-
sary that.he be fed with regularity. fed
often enough, fed the right thing, and
otherwise cared for in the proper way.
Do half our herds get this sort of atten-
ton?
a. SOW can not make litter of pigs
and grow at the same time, and, as
rule, should not breed until one year
old. This may not hold good with our
earlier maturing breeds, but breeding
too young Injuries their stamina.
No one wants to buy 30 pound ham.
even if it be cent or two cheaper. This
country grows the best hogs in the
world, but we yet market too many
large once. They sell for really greater
profit when younger, and the small,
plump hams encourage the use of pork.
Until pigs are six or eight months old
there should be no other thought in the
raising of them than how to make them
grow. Any surplus fat at this time is in
the way. We want bone. size, muscle
and good constitution.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

ADVICE To YOUNG MEN.
My son, when you hear man growl-
ing and scoldipg because Moody gets
5000 week for preaching Christianity,
you will perceive that he never worried
a minute because Ingersoll gets 5000 a
night for preaching atheism. You will
observe that the man who is unutterab'y
shocked because Francis Murphy is pa d
$3.50 per week for temperance work,
seems to think it it is all right when the
barkeeper takes in twice as much money
in a single day. The laborer is worthy
of his hire, my boy. and he is just as
worthy of it in the pulpit as he is upon
the stump. Is the man who is honestly
trying to save your immortal soul worth
less than the man who is only trying
his level best to go to Congress? Isn't
Moody doing as good work as Ipger-
soil? Was not John B. Cough as much
the friend of humanity and society as
the bartender? Do you want to get all
the good in the world for nothing go
that you may be able to pay a high price
for the bad? Remember. my boy. the
good things in the world are always the
cheapest. Spring water costs lees than
corn whiekey; box of cigars will buy
two or three bibles; a gallon OF old
brandy costs more than barrel of
-four; "full hand" at poker often costs
a man more in twenty minu ties than his
church subscription amounts to in three
years; State election costs more than
revival of religion; you can sleep in
church every Sunday morning for moth
ing, ii you're mean enough to dead beat
your lodging that way, but nap in a
Pullman car costs you SO every time;
fifty cents for the circus and penny
for the little ones to put in the mission
airy box; 81 for the theatre. and pair Of
old trousers. frayed at the ends, baggy
at the knees. and utterly bursted as to
the dome, for the Michigan sufferers;
the dancing lady who tries to wear the
skirt of her dress under her arm and
the waist around her knees, and kicks
her slippers clear over the orchestra
chairs every night. gets 5000 week, and
the city missionary gets $500 a year;
the horse race scoops $4,000 the first
day, and the church fair lasts a week,
works twenty five or thirty of the best
women in America to death, and comes
out $40 in debt-why, my boy, if you
ever find yourself sueeripg or scoffing
because once in awhile you hear of a
preacher getting living. or even lux.
urious salary, or temperance worker
making money. go out in the dark and
feel ashamed of yourself, aud if you don't
feel above kicking a mean man kick
yourself. Precious little does religion
and charity cost the old world, my son,
and when the money it does get is flurg
in its face, like a bone to dog, the
donor is not benefited by the gift, and
the receiver is not and certainly should
not be grateful. He is insulted. Bur-
dette.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16

Such, in condensed form, is the elo-
quent argument af W. Hamilton Gibson.
Many poets have added their appeal in
verse. Painters delight to illustrate it's
knjghtly beauty, on banner or shield, as
we'll as its homelike charm.
MOTHER distinctively American flower
has SO many taking qualities. so many
enthusiastic admirers. SO popular vote.
Let us all take it up. adopt it and say
it is elected by acclsmation.-Rev, A.
+. Sheriff.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16

w netner or not there should be fall
blowing done depends largely upon the
nature of the soil. Land, however we'll
plowed in the fall, will dry out quicker
and be ready to stir earlier than il left
until spring.
1t is said that put of every 100 persons
in the United States, A are agricultur-
lists. Sc in Canada, 4S in France, II in
Germany and seven in England.
In wheat, the average an acre in
France is II bushels, ard increasing,
while ours is but II, and the yield
growing less. The country spends
eight million dollars in encouraging
agriculture, while the United States
spends about half as much. France has
a potato crop nearly twice as large as
ours. and we buy the surplus.
Whatever may be the price of wheat
it will be vastly better to put in few
acres so we'll that you get more than
the average crop than to put in more
acres and get less yield an acre. 1t
takes the best we can do. usually, to
meet the cost of production. and il we
put in more than we can properly tend
we will suffer in pocket without ques-
ton.
Now is the time to bear in mind that
potatoes should be kept from the light
and as near the freezing point as may
be, when stored away.
Green manure upon potatoes is very
apt to produce scab. especially il APP
piled to the hill at the time of planting.
Rot it well. For this reason commercial
fertilizers are often better and produce
smoother tubers.
Our object in sowing wheat with
drill is not only to get an even distribu-
ton of the seed, but to get furrow
which will help to hold the snow over
the plant. and whose edges will grad
ually crumble down upon the roots and
cover them as they are heaved out by
the frost.
Glover hay seldom or never brings a
price which will justify the farmer in
selling it, and the first blossoms never
give profitable seed crop for the want
of bumblebees to transfer the pollen
from one blossom to another.
Topping the clover in May has proved
a successful experiment. Even il quite
heavy, the mulch will not smother out
the crop. Such procedure will adj
vance the chances for a good crop of
seed, either with the common red or the
mammoth.
Sunfower seeds make an excellent
poultry food, but, in addition to this.
every bushel will produce about gal
lon of oil, worth perhaps 50. Let the
boys have trial at this; it will interest
them, and there is very little chance for
a failure.
Be sure that the next farm hand you
hire is good plowman; many spend
their lives on a farm without knowing
how to pillow properly, with due knowl-
edge of what is needed in fitting the
BAOOAA LOA bhO ClOP WulCH Is W
be planted there. The pillow is the key
to the storehouse of the riches of the
soil.
If farmers would spare no effort 10
have the soil which comes in contact
with the seed and the tender rootlets of
the starting plants as fine as cultivation
could make it, we would soon enter
upon the era of better crops.
Let nothing prevent good diversity
of crops, if possible. Too much OF one
crop crowds the work so that good cul-
tivation can not always be given. This
doubling up is apt to happen when the
season prevents the planting of some
particular crop.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16

give fair indication of their abilities
and value.
In combination with all the good
qualities which can be procured, to
make success of horse breeding one
should always breed for weight. The
English have been building on these
lines for many years. and have never yet
had their horses too heavy.
Transfers and trucks generally do
not care to buy mares if they can obtain
geldings of an equal quality; they will
even pay more for the latter. 1t is wise
management to hold back from the
market such mares as are at all above
the average, and retain them for dams.
In this way they will pay you much the
best.
There are some things besides breed
ing which must go toward the improve
ment OF our horses; especially fe edirg
and handling. The breeder should
know what is meant by intelligent
handling, humane treatment and scien-
tifc feeding.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
HORSES.
profitable

In respect to what can be made of
them, colts are very much like children.
Education can not supply faculties
which are wanting but it can develop
and strengthen to wonderful degree
any powers of which germ exists.
In many cases much higher prices
would be cheerfully paid for horses if
they have been trained sufficiently TO
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
ORDINATION HYMNS
BY ERMINA C STRAY.
Tune Ortonville.)

Tune Ortonville.)
o thou, our Father and our COD,
BY heaven and earth adored,
We consecrate our lives to thee,
Our sovereign and our Lord.
We consecrate our lives and hearts
Unto thy work and will;
ur spirits and our souls shall both
Obey thy mandate, still.
In sickness and in sorrow, Lord,
In Deaths still solemn hour,
Well gently whisper of thy love,
Thy goodness and thy power.
We stand as units in the faith,
For hope and trust and love,
For Christ, his church, his tender care
That guides the thoughts above.
We pray thy blessing and thy love,
Shall guide and guard us still.
Thy strength shall strengthen heart and
hand
To work thy gracious will.
*Written to commemorate the ordlna-
ton of George H. Ashworth and Ermlna
C. Stray at Mount Gilead, Ohio, Sept. IL,
1897
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16

The trial was a short one; many
AN evil deed and word were remem-
bered against the accused, and not
one voice bore testimony in his favor.
He stood before them, stubborn,
stolid, the personifcation of logged
impenitence, never even attempting
to contradict his accusers. The case,
bad as it was, was simple enough,
the sentence unanimous: Let the
culprit be walled-up forthwith in the
deepest vault of the monastery, and
let the record Of his crime be buried
with him" At that awful moment
one of the monks rose from his seat.
1t was Brother Anthony, pale and
weary with long watching by the bed
Of his friend. In the name of the