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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-02-08

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
SHEEP ON THE FARM.
why They Are More Valuable Thaa
s@za SO Any Other Kind ofstock. Even
Including Poultry. ..

The dog is the only enemy to the
sheep ind ustry. It can successfully
battle against any sort of tariff laws
and in competition with other kinds of
stock, but the dog is invincible. If we
will take the trouble to compare the
cost of making mutton with the cost of
making other kinds of meat, the sheep
will have the advantage. In paper
read at one of our Michigan farm insti-
tutes there was a carefully prepared
comparison of the sheep with cows.
steers, horses and hogs, and the sheep
got the, best of it every time. 1t has
often been said, and may be said again,
perhaps with profit, that sheep on the
farm are valuable because they are
good weed destroyers, good fertilizers,
produce meat at little less cost than
any other animal can produce meat,
produce a fleece which no other animal
does and is about as handy to kill for
fresh meat as a fowl is. No dry farm
should be without at least small flock
of sheep. When I started in the bust
ness I did it with ten head, and I have
never had more than 16 in the perma-
nent flock. It is not much of flock.
but I call attention to its uses. It paws
for its keep and considerable besides.
It is better for my land than purchased
fertilizers and much cheaper than they
are. It has cleaned my farm in seven
years of many kinds of weeds, and it is
so easy to kill sheep for meat for
the table, and mutton is so healthy and
so relishable that would a good deal
sooner let my chickens than my sheep
go. I have never had any trouble from
dogs. I keep a bell on one of them.
Perhaps it does good and perhaps not.
don't know. But have never suffered
loss, though some of my neighbors
within a few miles of me have. There
is plenty of room for more sheep, and
we farmers ought to breed Sheep
Howard Stilson, in Western Plowman.
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D1SPOSING OF honey.
How One Beekeeper Managed to Do
1t with Decidedly Gratifying
Financial Results, s."r

How to dispose of the honey crop
probably is becoming a serious prob
lem with most bee-keepers. Not many
honey, says H. D. Burrell in Bee Cul-
ture. Ship it to some commission
house in a nearby city and realize 16
to 20 cents a pound for it. Now in
many places most of the honey-produc-
Ing timber is gone, and waste lands re-
claimed and cultivated. These causes,
with frequent poor seasons, render the
honey crop uncertain; and, worst of all,
comb honey in the cities is quoted to
~ cents.
Formerly raised comb honey almost
exclusively and shipped nearly all of it.
to commission houses. But some years
ago I unexpectedly had about ton of
autumn-extracted honey to dispose o.
Shipped to commission house it would
probably have netted four to five cents
pound some time. had never tried
peddling honey, and I was very much
prejudiced against peddlers and ped
ding; but l wanted more for that
honey. 1 loaded some of it into IT,.
wagon, put up in convenient packages
for retailing and started, though with
much trepidation. I knew few re-
bluffs would send that honey to the
city for what it would bring. But
sold honey at nearly every house, over
300 pounds the first day, aud decided
that peddling (honey at least) was not
such bad business after ALL Many
neighbors and acquaintance who had
passed by frequently for years and
seen the sign: Honey for Sale," but
never bought pound of my honey,
bought freely when it was carried to
them. And they didn't buy afterward,
either, unless 1 carried it to them and
asked them to buy.
The ton of honey was soon sold a.
eight to eleven cents per pound, accord
ing to quantity wanted, and several
thousand pounds more were bought
and sold at fair profit. Since that
time l have raised mostly extracted
honey, always retail it myself, and am
getting the same prices now in these
times of very low prices that did ten
years ago. Honey, if a good article,
will sell itself almost anywhere, if
given fair chance. Ihave never found
a place, in country or town, where it
would not sell fairly we'll any time of
year, though in the fall is best in my
experience, after the bulk of fruit is
| gone and the many needs of the winter
season have not yet taxed the pocket
book.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14

filled witt" joy at finding her mother. The
rest. of the happening is best told in the
mothers own words She said:
"On the 2Sth of Sept, 1885, while in the
bloom of health, Beatrice was suddenly and
severely afflicted with spinal meningitis.
Strong and vigorous before, in five weeks
she became feeble and suffered from para
lytic stroke which twisted her head back to
the side and made it impossible for her to
move limb. Her speech, however, was not
affected. We called in our family doctor,
one of the most experienced and successful
practitioners in the city. He. considered
the case very grave one. Before long lit
tie Beatrice was compelled to wear plaster
paris jacket. Prominent physicians were
consulted, electric batteries were applied,
but no benefit was noticed until we tried
DR.: Williams Pin. Pills for Pale People.
"Busy in my kitchen one afternoon was
startled by the cry of Mamma from little
Beatrice who was creeping towards me-
had placed her on an improvised bed in the
parlor. She became tired of waiting for me
to come back and made up her mind to go to
me, SO her story MY Pink Pills made me
walk which she tells everyone who comes to
our. house, was then for the first time veri
fed. She has walked ever since. She has
now taken about nine boxes of the pills and
her pale and pinched face has been growing
rosy, and her limbs gained strength day by
day. She sleeps all night long now, while be-
fore taking the pills she could rest but few
hours at time" DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People are sold by all druggists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
The Value Of the Bee.

The value of the bee in the work of
fertilizing plants by carrying pollen
from one plant to another is greater
than its use in producing honey, says
the Southwest. In fact, without the aid
of bees many crops would be complete
failures. Darwin found that in 100
heads of purple clover protected from
the visitations of bees not a seed was
produced, while 100 heads visited by bees
produced nearly 5000 seeds. When two
varieties of certain plants are grown in
the same neighborhood there is a liabil-
ity of Decentralization, as bees forage
over wide territory. twill, therefore,
pay the farmer or fruitgrower to keep
at least one hive Of bees or encourage
his neighbor to do so.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
NOyfces and tors.

Recently gentleman said that he
had mortgage on farm and was in
clined to buy number of incubators
and put them on the farm in charge of
his brother. He thought he could thus
build up a good poultry business. His
idea seemed to be that all he had to do
was to put the money into the work
and it would run itself. On inquiry, it
was found that he knew nothing at all
about poultry culture. The writer ad-
vised him to go slow, as there is no
branch of farming that does not have
to be learned. It is not for the bene-
fit of poultry science to have men rush
into poultry raising in this way. They
must approach the business from its
proper standpoint to make a success
of it.-Farmers' Review.
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LIVE STOCK POINTERS.

Grow Pumpkins for the hogs and
cattle.
Smartweed rubbed on an animal will
keep off flies.
Never keep more hogs than you can
take good care of.
Don't feed the horse too much corn in
hot weather; don't.
The well-bred hog will pay. The in
ferior hog will not.
Filthy surroundings for the pig and
mango often go together.
The best hog has good chest, for
there are the vital organs.
Remember that a fat animal should
not have violent exercise.
If sheep are kept in a pasture with
cattle dogs will not attack them.
The bay horse with black points is
now the favorite carriage horse.
The colt should have clean stables.
Unclean stables produce joint disease.
A shade for the horses head in hot
weather will save the life of the horse
very often.
Let the colt have chance to learn to
eat oats by keeping them where it can
get at them.
A horse that is fed three times day
should be given no more hay than it
can eat in an hour.
Just as soon as the hog will eat give
it just such food as you give the SOW,
with plenty of milk.
A pig that has been shipped long
distance cannot be expected to show up
we'll on its arrival.-Western Plowman.
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SQUAN CREEK FOLKS.
jep Jones Relates Of Family Trouble.
By NJ QUAD.

Jep Jones Relates Case of Family Trouble
By NJ. QUAD.

ANYBODY who was minded to spend
an hour askin' questions coul1 hev
learned all about Squan Creek any day
IN the week. Everybody knowed all
ABOUT everybody else, and was always
glad to tell all they could. Among the
tnlngs that was known was that Abner
dolt's wife had only four toes on her
rlght foot; that Deacon Parker wore
a porus plaster on his back the year
round; that Solomon Taylor shut his
wife up for three days on bread and
water for breakin' gallon Jug; that
Perry White always licked his seven
children twice week; that Mrs. Cyrus
Green was allus borrowin' white sugar
OF her naybors and payin' back in
brown, and other things too numerous
to mention. Every house was free for
everybody else 10 run into without
knockin' and if anybody got a letter
and didn't let at least a dozen people
read 1t there was gossip for mouth.
Things was goin' on in this pleasant
way when Hiram Carter spread the
news one morning that his wife was
missin'. It wasn't ten minits before
Squan Creek was Dublin with excite
ment from end to end. AS the crowd
collected around Hiram at his gate he
told how it was. Just before they went
to bed his wife had set emptyings for
bread, and in dom so had broke bowl.
They had jaw about it and he had
cutfed her ears. He knowed she was in
bed at midnight, because he dreamed of
ghosts and woke up; but at daylight
she was gone. She hadn't said nuthin'
about committin' suicide, but it was
his idea that she had gone down to the
creek and jumped in. AS he was cross
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
HER EXPLANATION.
Che Told Him How He Would Make
a. Es Her and Mamma and
Aunty Happier.

There are incidents of real life which con
stantly prove that truth is often more anus
ing as well as more stran than fiction. A
sweet. gentle-voiced girl lone from whose
disposition sarcasm is as far as frost from an
active volcano-won the affections of a
young man. 1t was an unintentional con.
quest on her part, but none the less com.
plete. He propounded the old question and
she demurred. He bided his time and again
proffered his suit. She again delayed an an
swer. But the third time she received his
question first with silence and then with as
sent. p
land you will be mine?' he asked.
ut seems too good to be true. When shall
the wedding take p!ace?'
81 don't know"
."Ihere is no. use in putting it off,"
NO." she answered.; "I think not"
.".SSa Srx WE, week from today"
II knew that you would realize that you
can be happier with me than without me"
he suggested, a little triumphantly
Eyes" she answered. "I do realize it
now. You see, since Uncle Bob went away,
mamma and aunty and I have been quite
alone. We all talked it over and agreed
that it would be ever so much safer to
have man in the house at nights. "-Wash-
ington Star.
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eyed and bow-legged and the homeliest
man in Squan Creek she would dc it to
git revenge on him, KNOWN he could
never find another woman to marry
him. Hiram wanted the folks to drag
the creek at once and find the body,
and dozen men set to work. It wasn't
long, however, before they knocked off,
William Hopson's wife had a story to
tell. She was sittin' up late the night
before, she said, putin gray patch
on Williams trousers jest where it was
most needed, when she heard scream
from the direction of Hiram Carriers
house, followed by woman's voice
sayin':
"Oh! Hiram, don't hit me with the
ak! I know I deserve death, but GIN
me time to repent"
She had skassly finished her story
when Mrs. John Bottsford come for
ward. She had run over to Mrs. Car
ter's the evening before to borrow a
fiat-iron, and had found her acting
queer. When pressed to tell what was
the matter Mrs. Carter had burst out
cryin' and said:
II don't want to say nuthin' agin my
husband, but if he ever butchers me
in cold blood he orter hang fur it!!''
Them two stories was enough to set
the people on the right track, and
Hiram Carter was at once arrested.
He got mad at first and called every
body fool, but when he seen that his
crime was brought home to him he
wouldn't speak another word. No
sooner was he arrested than evidence
begun to pile up mountains high. Mrs.
Sam Barlow had once heard him say
that be wished his wife was dead; Mrs.
Thomas White had twice seen him look
at his wife in a peculiar way; Adina-
bad Thompson had once caught him
reading book of murders, and six
different women were sure they had
heard screams on the night his wife
disappeared. That was the only evil
dence raked up in the forenoon. Dur
ing the afternoon the postmaster re-
membered that Hiram's voice had trem-
bled when he asked for letter on the
day of the murder; he had gone down
to the lobster pots along with Ike
oTO"Q, anu Ike udU u0dTQ MIN SWedrlO
more than usual; three different people
had noticed him measuring off the
ground in his back yard, as if for a
grave; a dozen or more persons remem-
bered that Mrs. Carter used sheep Irvine
for shoestrings. and when spoken to
about it she said that Hiram would
murder her if she asked for regular
strings. The strongest piece of evil
dence, however, came from Moses Har-
per. Moses had been down to SINNERS
grocery after two pounds OF brown
sugar and box of bakin' powder, and
had hung around until late hour to
hear Jim Hopewell lie about his adven-
lures in Mexico. When Jim got through
lynn Moses started for home. AS he
passed Hiram Carriers he saw light
and heard scream and shout. Afew
seconds later a voice which he could
never, never .forgit walled out: "a
Help! Help! Oh! Hiram, if you
will only spare me this time I will never
do it again!". r.. Il .. s. u Y +.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
Demand for Fat Lambs.

Prof. Henry says, in Feeds and
Feeding," the demand for well-fattened
lambs steadily increases, the tender,
juicy meat finding favor among Amer
leans. Not only do prices for fat lambs
rule high as compared with mature
sheep and farm animals generally, but
there are other advantages in favor of
feeding of lambs before they reach ma
turity. A given weight of feed goes
further with the lambs than mature
sheep; the money invested is sooner
returned, and there is less risk from
death and accident. Thus, everything
tends towards hurrying lambs to mar
ket as rapidly as they can be fattened
and as early as they can be disposed of
to secure the highest price.
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1898.

Moses didn't interfere. Such things
occurred now and then in his own fam
lily, and he would not brook interfer-
ence. He didn't even say word to his
wife when he got home, but pulled off
his boots, put piece of stickin' plaster
on his sore heel and went to bed to
sleep soundly till mornin'. He didn't
want to- say word against Hiram Car
ter, who was allus ready to lend any
man tobacco or 6shhooks, but Hiram
had 40 business to murder his wife. He
couldn't expect his best friends to
shield him in that. A search of the
house found gallon of vinegar, two
pair of old shoes. four knives with the
handles missing and butcher knife
with the point broken off. Some of the
folks held that these were evidences of
murder, and others that they only
showed that Hiram Carter was a man
who would stop at nuthin' when his
temper was aroused. No blood stains
could be found, but that didn't help
Hiram any. He had three cats in the
house, and of course they had licked up
all the blood.
The next day after the arrest Hiram
was taken before Squar' Williams to be
examined. Everybody thought he
would break down and confess and
hope to git off with imprisonment for
life. He didn't do it, though. He was
as ugly and as brassy as you please,
and he told the squar' that there was
more fools to the inch in Squan Creek
than anywhar' else on the face of the
airth. He didn't hesitate to say that
he'd boxed his wife's ears over that
broken bowl, but the idea of his muir.
derin' her made him laugh. Twenty.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
Compact Hogs in Demand.

Breeders everywhere show signs of
returning reason, and want hog with
a complete anatomy, not a mass of
fabby fat, an overloaded body minus
constitutional vigor and carrying ca
pacity. In the upbuilding Of the vital
parts, so long neglected and overlooked
by swine breeders. shall we not acquire
more hardness, promote proliicacy,
and produce better pork. more nutri-
tious and healthful, with a less tend
ency to disease? Do not all these signs
teach us that we shall in the future
have less disease among our swine, say
nothing of the consequent advantages
of q broader market and an increase
in demand and price ?-Farmers' Guide.
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Francis B. Harlowe, of Atlanta, Ca, fur
nlshes case in point. He writes;

Francis B. Harlowe, of Atlanta, Ca, fur.
n1shes case in point He writes;
For some years past, was subject to
constipation, from which suffered in.
creasing Inconvenience, in spite of the
use OF medicines of various kinds, until
some months ago, when I began taking
DR.. J. G. Ayers Pills. They have entirely
corrected the costive. habit, and vastly
improved my general health."- (REv3
FRANCIS B. HARLowE, Atlanta, Ga. :,
Constipation is. perhaps, the most seri-
GUS physical evil of to-day: 1t is like the
Octopus, that grapples its victim and
one after another, until at last, incapable
of 0ngeE re list the being
ton is the beginning of many of the most
murderous maladies the c1ogged system
the liver and kidneys, and PROSTATE
the entire being mentally, morally, and
physically. DR.. Ayers Pills will cure
constipation, If you doubt it send for Dr.
Ayers curebook, free, containing the
Address J. c. Aver Co.. Lowell, Mass.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-07-14
TRAVELLERS TESTIMONY
What He Carried on the Cars.
To Take when Travelling.

Every. traveller knows that continuous
journeying on the railroad is very apt to
derange the system in some way. In spite
of springs and soft seats there is a contin-
uous jar and vibration, which acts upon
the nervous system, and produces results
VARYING somewhat SOM according to the
81 so o1 me or his
common consequence of continuous car
riding IS constipation. And this condition
invariably produces. headache, and tends
to biliousness. J. J. Converse, St. Louis,
Mo-, found way to avoid the evil effects
of constipation, to which he was subject
when travelling: He carried with him
the pill that will" cure constipation and
all its sequent sufferings. This is what
he says:
Travelling on the cars tends to consti-
patton patton With Wii1a me, but by using DR.; J. G.
kept in healthy action. They also prevent
headache."-J. J. CONVERSE, St. Louis, Mo.
DR.. Ayers Pills are good for constipation
under all circumstances and conditions.
They have cured long standing cases after
every other medicine had failed. Rev.
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WASTE BARREL BARROW

tryhouse. Meal and bran can be put
in and mixed in the tub with the water
from the house. Scald the tub frequent
ly in hot weather. Where one has no boil.
er for cooking the morning mash for
fowls the work can be done very Wen
in such tub as this. Put in the meal,
bran, meat and table, scraps, and pour
in boiling water, making thin mix.
ture. Cover tightly with an old wooden
blanket and leave over night or several
hours. at least. Meal thus cooks very
thoroughly, and swells up to a dry,
crumbly mass.-N. Y. Tribune.
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A DRld-Hea6ed Reply,

A naval officer very we'll and favorably
known in London has for some unknown rea-
son been advanced in his profession very
slowly, though he has grown gray in the
service, and, indeed, lamentably bald. Re-
Gently one of his Juniors was bold enough
to question him as to his remarkable alb
sence of hair
GLOW comes it that you are so very bald?"
The officer replied promptly and with
much vindictiveness:
"Young man, you would be bald, I think,
if you had had men stepping over your head
for years in the way I have "-London Judy.
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NORTHUMBERLAND || |||||I||I|3I|||tB||| 4
THE LATEST HENHOUSE.

cloth run is excellent for chicks in
early spring. When they are few
weeks old a hole is made under the
frame to let them out. Don't make the
hole large enough for the older fowls
or for cats. The main henhouse is
12x6xS feet high, with slightly sloping
roof. The cloth run is 12x6xG feet high.
The floor of the main house is raised two
feet, allowing an extra run beneath for
the chicks. l have used this oiled cloth
also for doors and for coverings for
hotbeds, and it has lasted several years.
Orange Judd Farmer.
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one witnesses were sworn agin him,
and they made out an awful case. Ac.
cordin' to the varus stories, most of the
people of Squan Creek had gone to bed
every night in the year for Is years
expectin' Hiram Carter to murder his
wife before mornin'. Nobody was sur.
prised that it had come about at last.
The only wonder was how SIGH a des-
perate villain had held himself in 50
long. When all the evidence was in
and squar' Williams was ready to bind
him over, he said to Hiram:
II know jest how you felt when your
wife broke that bowl. 'Twasn't month
ago that my own wife broke the nose
off pitcher, and before knowed it l
was cutfin' her ears. If you'll plead
guilty and tell us whar' the body is, it'll
count in your favor"
Hiram shook his head and grinned.
The squar' called him a hardened
wretch and was about to announce that
he was held for trial, when the MUIR
dered woman walks into court and
says:
"Bein' as Hiram boxed my ears when
[ wasn't to blame. and bein' was mad
about it, l got up and hid in the wood
shed and hev bin there all the time!"
That was an awful blow to Squan
Creek. Real estate dropped SC per cent.
right then and there, and fishhooks
went up to five cents apiece before night.
That wasn't all, however. Hiram Carter
was forgivin' man in a gineral way,
but he wasn't forgivin' to them wit
nesses. 1t took him four weeks to git to
the last man, but he kept at it till he
licked every one, and the mercantile and
other business suffered so that Brigan-
tine Shoals got two years ahead of US,
and has kept the lead ever since.
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Devoted to 1t.

"Does your wife do much fancy
work?"
"Fancy work? She won't even let
a porous plaster come into the house
without crocheting red border round
it and running a yellow ribbon through
the holes."-Tit-Bits, -