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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-09-07
VERY OBLIGING.
he Wa. WHINE to Give the Vol.
canic Vocalist y Good Hard
Shove.

The young man who sings loud and long
was interrupted by a tap at the door OF his
apartment.
Excuse me, said the tall, thin stranger,
81 am sorry to intrude. occupy the mas
under you, and have come up to inquire
If you are the gentleman who sings bal
Eyes, was the answer, with the air Of a
man who is modest, but cannot deny the
truth. "Are you fond of music"
tsI don't know that am what You would
call fond of it. At the same time haven't
ANYTHING particular against it. I am very
much affected by some things hear.
THAT amounts to the same thing as being
fond Of It," was the answer, in tone of
soothing encouragement.
II have been wondering if | caught the
words of your favorite song correctly. Let
me see:
.. How often. oh, how often.
Have wished that the ebbing tide
z Would bear. me away on its bosom
To the oceanwild and wide
Is that right ?"
eyes; It's all right, according to my recol-
lection; Is that one Of the pieces you are at
fected by
eyes. 1 have been affected by that for
hours at time 1t has drawn me irreslst-
IDLY to you. 1t has filled me with .yearn-
ing to do something that would make you
happier And called up to say that If
you'll come down to the river with me any
evening I'll pay your car fare and hire
boat and give you a good start on the first
ebbing tide scheduled. And | don't mind
saying that the further out it bears You the
better I'll be satisfied. Washington Star.
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slid between the end boards and held in
place by a bolt through top and bottom
of each. From bottom up, side boards
are nailed on three, four and five in
apart respectively.
# To handle hogs, take three planks
one foot wide, place one end in rear Of
wagon, other on ground, as shown at
g. Two men take the crate at each end,
follow up and drop over the hog and
then walk the hog under the crate, up
the plank on the wagon. In this way I
have loaded alone hogs that weighed
400 pounds. Keep crate close to ground
or the hog will poke her nose under and
crawl out. # hogs are wild, feed them
and while eating set crate over them. I
lead hogs from pen to pasture in this
way. - G. A. Phoenix, in Farm and
Home.
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Chinese sun ana Moon.

In China the sun and moon are broth
er and sister. The moon is the elder
brother who looks after his rather
silly sister, the sun. This is exactly
tn. the reverse of our legends, which make.
the sun the day king and the gentle
moon lady Of the night One day in
s hina--so the legend runs the sun
asked tn the moon if she couldn't go out
at night. The moon answered very
istersnlys: No. You are a young lady,
and It would be imp per for you to go
out. after dark. Then the sun said:s
'.But the people keep looking at me
when q go out in the time 2 So the
moon told her to take the golden
needles that she wore in her hair and
stick them into the eyes of people when
they stared at her. This is the reason
why no one canslook at the sun with
out pain. y. World.
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Potash for Sugar Beet..

In several foreign experiments with
the culture of5sugar beets noted by the
sld1'epartm entz of agriculture it was found
that that whereas heterogeneous fertilizersin-.
creased the yield of beets per acre,
they also decreased the sugar content
and nd purity of the juice, but that the.
application of potash and phosphoric
acid fertilizers improved the quality Of
the beets. The greatest increase in
sugar was due to potash fertilizing.
sBeets grown from large seeds gave bet
ter yields and were richer in sugar
than q those grown from small seeds. It
was concluded that Il inches was a
good depth for blowing.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Her Answer. = Are you fond of
dancing? She q Look here, you can't
talk, but you can dance. SO suppose We
have another turn. Moonshine.
s.Gray thinks man is never too old
to play golf .sNo % mo. He saws
if he had one foot in the grave he'd
rather have the other on the links. - =.
Puck. s.ss " SIS ss
Uncle Haicede-sI have lived in this
here house over 20 year come next Sep
TENDER. Fresh Air Boy--''C Chez! How
do youse git out q payin' de rent. Tn
dianapolis Journal.
The Benedict When I am away
from home my wife writes to me every
day The Bachelor e Well, its your
own fault. Why don't you leave her
enough money to last q few days p
N. y. World. I. '5 IS.
The Convict's Paper. SIT he inmates
of Sing Sing print 4 newspaper Well,
is it any different from any other pa
per?'' Yes; composed of longer SEN
fences and the editors are not allowed
to keep, any old files. 8 chicago Daily
News. Il
"It seems as though this horseless
carriageSis here to stay" he solilo-
quized. And again, a little later, he
said, Eyes, it surely Isl And as the
driver had been vainly trying for an
hour to get the motor working he got
out and walked. Philade lphia Record.
Patient II say doctor, just what is
this grip anyway? Doctor by,
my good fellow, that's the name we
doctors have for everything nowadays
but appendicitis Patient-'s'Ah! And
what is appendicitis Doctor .-s.'Why,
that's the name we have for everyt thing
but the grip Judge.
Unintentional Sarcasm.-He was a
clerk in department store and the
naughty young woman who fancied she
was called upon to give her ideas to the
world in book form desired note book.
II want note book she said, some
thing that can carry in my pocket to
jot down ideas 'sOh, you want
something very small,'' replied the
clerk, and he was unable to account for
her anger.-Philadelphia Call. Is
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RAISE GOOD HOGS
Most Ready Sellers and Bring
the Best Prices.

If person who knows anything at
all about hog feeding was given o
chance between a hog that would gain
% pounds in six weeks and one that
would gain 80 pounds in the same time
on the same feed, he would not be long
in choosing. During the past ten
months the Kansas experiment station
has fed 100 hogs that were bought of
the farmers in the vicinity of Manhat-
tan without regard to breed or breed
ing, just as they were, thrifty and
weighing. in the neighborhood of 100
or 125 pounds. This class-of hogs il
used because those experiments are for
the highest benefit of the farmers, and
by taking the stock they raise we stay
within their conditions. A few con
illusions may be drawn from the follow
ing facts taken from observations of
feeding SO head of hogs which were Just
finished. These hogs were nearer of-the
same age than size, and ranged from
the long, big boned bacon hog, to
the short-boned chunk, according to
the care or carelessness of the farm
er who raised them. First, as to point
OF gain: The comparisons are between
hogs fed the same in every respect. The
best and poorest five out of twenty
have the following showing: Best five,
weight at beginning of test 500 pounds,
gain 416 pounds, 70 per cent; poorest
five, weight at beginning Of test 579
pounds, gain 235 pounds, 40 per cent.
This was for period of ~ days, and
from observations made from week to
week, this difference of gain from lit
tie over one pound to practically two
pounds day was largely due to the
breeding. short, small-boned chunk
will make good gains for few weeks
and then stop. 1t will be fat and ready
for market, while well-bred ranpy
hog will fatten and continue to grow
and make good gains for much longer
period. Then as to the demand of the
market: The three-rib shoulder is now
one of the most profitable cuts that is
made for export trade. Hogs from
which these cuts are made must be
large and muscular, long and rangy.
The short, small-boned chunk will not
answer the purpose. The bacon hog
is also of the latter description and
brings the best price on the markets.
Well-bred rangy hogs make the most
profitable gains, are the most ready
sale and bring the best price on the
market. j. G. Haney, in Prairie
Farmer. -
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Remedy for the Hornfly.

y The hornf1y is becoming trouble
some in some sections, and the Kansas
experiment station reports that they
have found the following mixture te
eHectually prevent them from troubling
the agricultural college herd: Two
quarts fish oil, one pint crude carbolit
acid, ten ounces of oil of tar, one ounce
oil of pennyroyal, one quart kerosene
All except the kerosene can be obtained
at any good drug store, and the cost is
but IS cents gallon. Put it on will
brush, cloth, or in fine spray from
atomizer, about once in two or three
days. The cost is from one half to one
cent head each day, and these Aies and
all others will carefully avoid it.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-09-07

TERALD GORDON, the new school
II superintendent for the town Of
Peacedale, was young-that is, COM
paratively young-say not more than
80 at the outside, and for some reason
best known to himself, still bachelor.
He was not what would be called a
handsome man exactly, but he was the
possessor of a graceful, ell-knit figure,
and clean-cut, self-reliant face, from:
which pair of honest gray eyes looked
forth uniinchingly upon the world. ,
Just now they were looking into a
pair as honest as his own-the troubled
blue eyes of Ethel Ellis, the teacher in
one of Peacedale's half dozen schools.
i am very sorry, Mr.. Gordon, that
you should have heard such poor re-
ports of my school," she said, looking
the new superintendent frankly in the
face. eyes, I am very sorry, indeed
and the speakers eyes certainly looked
as if she meant it; in fact, Gerald Cor
tear in one of them at that very mo-
ment-''but don't think it is wholly
my fault.
have tried hard enough to keep or
der, and if the three or four big boys
who have made all the trouble had a
spark of chivalry or manliness in their
nature I should have no difficulty in
controlling the school; but do you
know, Mr.. Gordon, there are boys who
simply won't behave, and there is moth
ing in their makeup, no sense of fair
ness or justice, no gentlemanly in
stincts, absolutely nothing to which one
can appeal to induce them to do sop
"You put the case rather strongly,
Miss Ellis" replied the new superin-
tendent, thoughtfully; ''but, after all,
there is little doubt that you are right.
Such boys are natural born DULLES, and
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When to Duy Mill Feed.

At this time of year millers need all
their spare store room to hold grain,
and will sell bran and wheat mid dlings
much cheaper than they can afford to
do later in the season. There is often
a saving of two or three dollars per ton,
even though the price of grain does not
advances il the mill feed needed for vim
ter and spring useis purchased now. If
farmers have spareroom in their barns
that can be kept always dry they can
probably use it for storing bran,
though it's very bulky in proportion to
its cost, and for that reason room for
it cannot be afforded where storage is
expensive. American Cultivator. .
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Vigilance Il NeceHsarv.

Any crumbs from the table are val
liable for young chicks. Change of
diet is equisite. Do notlet the chicks
get chilled 8 as they are Of no earthly use
after that. hear people say: ooh,
g. cant an bother that way. Itisstoo much
trouble. " Well, Igo into poultry houses
where lice get onto me in a moment.
e say those people have no business to
have chickens. Our chicks will show
1T, and it pays. Eternal vigilance is
the price Of chick good ones. and I
would want no Others. Mrs. Curry in
Pacific Poult man. 'ssSsgI
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STOCK ON TIE FARM.
No Matter How Small the Premises 1t
Will Pay the Owner to Keep
Hogs or Sheep.

No farm so small but there are some
wastes on it if the produce is sold direct
from the farm. It is impossible to raise
and sell grain and hay without losing
some portion of it which might have
been saved if live stock were kept.
The man with large farm may be
able to go on raising and selling grain
and let the wastes go, but the small
farmer cannot allow@these losses.
For the small farmer horses or cattle
are out of the questionas they require
too large an area for pasturage, but
with hogs or sheep the case is different.
They can be kept with profit in COM
paratively cramped quarters. Either Of
these kinds of stock may be used to
make meat of grass and grain. Feed
may be. sold in the shape of mutton;
wool or pork to better advantage than
in its original condition. The small
farmer should be an intensive farmer
and intensive farming is impossible
without the help of live stock or the
purchasing of large quantities Of fer
tilizers which is not good farming.
The man who owns small farm and
keeps a small herd of hogs or a small
flock Of sheep is likely to become an en-
thusiast and if this is the case the stock
kept will get much larger prices than
common stock and the profits will be in
creased.
AS matter Of fact the small farmer
with a few animals is in position to
take the very best care of his animals
whether they are to be used for market
or are pure-breds which are to be sold
for breeders and in either case the re-
turns will be larger than they could be
where larger focks with less care are
Farmers Voice.
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owes No Man AnythfnE.

"a Sheep are unlike all otherstock. If de-
Gently managed. A good sheep can
never die in debt to: man. If it dies
when weaned it has consumed nothing.
IS it dies the first winter the wool will
pay for its keep up to that period. lit
lived to be sheared once, it brings its
owner in debt toAit, and if the ordinary
course of wool prod uction and breeding
goes on, that Indebtedness increases
with great rapidity as long as the sheep
lives. If the horse or steer dies at three
or: four years old or the COW before
breeding, the loss is almost a total one.
Free Press, Ontario, Canada.
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AN EXCELLENT PLAN.
Catching, Moving ana Shipping Hogs,
sheep and Yearling Cattle
Is Made Easy.

Ny plan Of Grating live stock, hogs,
calves, sheep and yearlings is to. have
four pieces three by three inches and
three feet long Tor more for large
stock as corner pieces. Then four
boards, a, six inches wide and six feet
or more long are nailed securely as side
pieces. Double end boards are two feet
ten inches long and nailed securely. At
one end Of crate, two boards, b b, are
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BOOMING BLANKS PLACE.
Clever scheme Adopted by New
York Man to Advertise His
r. $500 Restaurant. tssf

| "A West side surface car, well filled
with passengers, was rolling uptown
late Saturday afternoon when a man
| who sat near the front door. shouted:
Conductor, put me off at Tom
| Blanks place, will you?"
Sure" said the conductor, and then
he remarked: THAT'S new one on
me.''
s'Why, you don't mean to say that you
don't know where Tom Blanks place
is? said man in the rear of the car.
The conductor admitted his ignorance,
AID each of the other passengers as
sumed a wise look. AS the car reached
one of the cross-town streets the man
in the rear of the car called loudly to
the conductor: 6 u
This is Tom Blanks place, conduc-
tor. Stop your car
Every passenger looked out and saw
new chophouse, with Tom Blanks
name oyer the door, and the man in
the front of the car got out. So did the
man in the rear Of the car, who knew
the place. They went inside, had a
drink, and then went downtown half
a dozen blocks to repeat the operation
Of asking conductor to let them off
at Tom Blanks place. There were 9TH
er men working, these cars in the same
way. Blank was for many years a
popular head waiter in downtown
chophouse, and he madeit his business
to befriend befuddled men who came
into the place late at night for 'sjust
one more" He guarded their yaluables
for them, and he gave them much good
advice. When Tom opened place for
himself the old guard rallied at his
opening and asked him how they might
help him.
If you will make my place known"
said Tom, sI'n do the rest. Now, I'll
be obliged to you if when you come here
on the surface cars you'd just ask the
conductor to let you off at Tom Blanks
place. i want every conductor and
every regular passenger on this line to
know the place =
The old guard thought this was
modest request, and a few of them who
had leisure have been devoting several
hours every Saturday afternoon to
making Tom Blanks place known on
the cars. They shout it out to the CON
ductor for the benefit of the passengers.
Its novel scheme, and If Blank doesn't
succeed it won't be the fault of the
men who liked him as a head waiter
and Who'll lost no opportunity to suggest
that he ought to open a chophouse of
his OWN. y. SIM.
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towards as well. There is nothing that
appeals to them except a good thrash
ing, and you are almost too slender to
attempt anything of that kind
20, / shouldn't think of such thing,
Mr.. Gordon. lam too ender-hearted to
punish my pupils It3Would hurt my
feelings worse than theirs, am
afraid, and if cannot conquer them by
Z love shall have to give up doing so at
ALL
You would have an easy task before
I you if were one of your pupils said
I Gerald Gordon, with glance Of adj
miration at the blue eyes before him.
The schoolma'a am smiled for the first
time during the interview
A moment later the girls came hurry
ing in, with faces flushed from theft
exercise in the open air, and quietly
took their seats. The majority of the
boys did the same, but bringing up the
rear were half a dozen Of the larger
boys, scufling and showing each other
about, and behaving in any thing but an
orderly manner.
They kept it up until they were inside
the schoolhouse door, and when the en-
barrassed teacher requested them to
come to order, the one who was evil
IDENTIFY the ringleader sung out: 'sAll
right, ma'am; just as you say!" and
then, reaching out and alternately up
setting an empty bench standing a few
feet in front of the rest, he staggered
to the back part of the schoolroom and
took his seat. ,..,=s,. 5s..
Peter Crane" said the teacher, quiet
". you will please walk back here and
Il pick up the bench that you upset. - - =s
3l But Master Crane, thick-set, bullet
headed youth of Is, was very busy with
i his books just them and apparently
failed to hear the teachers command. 81.
Like a flash Gerald Gordon was on his
feet, with flushed face and eyes blazing
with indignation.
Peter Crane he began, in firm, even
tones, Il amfthe new superinte hdents of
schools for Peacedale, and would like
{ to know if you intend obeying your.
4 teachers request to pick up that bench
which you purposely upset %
Il dunno, muttered Master Crane.
Well, know, young man! I" reioined
the new superint ndent, briskly. Youu
are going. to pick up that bench, and
you are going to do itinside Of one min
ute by the clock or get a thrashing that
you will have good reason to remember
Tor the rest of your life!''
Master Crane gazed doggedly at the
new superinten dent fora moment, and
then he came slowly forward, and.
picking up the bench, replaced it in its.
original position. Then, casting a.
scoWling look in the direction Of his
teacher and the superint he.
turned and shufled back to his seat.
Not much there to work on said
Gerald Gordon, in tones intended only
for the teacher. 1T is just as you said,
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is shown in the illustration. The bot
tom part of a barrel is sawed off and two
narrow strips of board are fitted to-
gethe,randnailed firmly into the trough.
as in the drawing. A flour barrel can be
made to answer this temporary pur-
pose, but a trough from a stouter barrel
will prove more lasting. American
AgriculturaliSt.
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STORY SOUNDED WELL
nut There Was Reason to believe
That 1t Was Not Wholly
True.

ssWhen I first went west" tells retired
business man, who now does nothing IN the
way of work except to NOW the lawn and
see that the cat is in the barn at night,
"this manned hand saved my life
s:Is that so?" asked the visiting neighbor,
who knew that this form of invitation would
be sufficient to insure the story.
eyes, that's right. If I hadn't lost that
first finger when was boy wouldn't be
here now. jim Dixon and me were tradin
with the Indians. We exchanged beads, fake
jewelry and bright calico for furs. All the
buffalo We're not gone then and we did a
good business: One time we happened to
strike wandering band of savages that
the way the red devils danced around us
that we were to be put to death after the
Indian fashion. All at once recalled that
a good many Of the Indians knew me as the
'four-fngered' trader who was always on
the level with those wild merchants, so
held up the hand and kept it up till one of
the young bucks let out significant grunt
and then hurried to the chief in command.
He came to me in dignifed manner, ex-
amined the hand, grunted about l6 times
while celebrating, said How and released
me as we'll as my partner. We were treated
right up to the handle and permitted to de-
part when we wanted to. 1t was the closest
squeak and the worst scare had out in that
country when near calls and heart-failure
frights were the rule"
Brave man." said one neighbor to an.
Other !sH. as they walked away !,
he tells. Between me and you he lost that
finger two years ago while examining hay
cutter. Detroit Free Press
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OUT-oF-DOOR FEEDING.
Description OF a Trough That Is Sure
to Keep the Hogs from Crowd
ing Each Other

Where several hogs are quartered in
an orchard or other pasture they must
be fed out-of-doors. To keep each one
from crowding and fighting his neigh
Dor when eating, make such trough as
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The depth of feeling displayed by the
mosquito touches all mankind. - Chicago
Daily News
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-09-07

A Lesson Of Love
By Will S. Gidley.

,~.>..~>>>.>..>.~~.
The times., 1899-09-24

PARIS, Sept. 17.-while the great Pari-
sian courturiers are sending out their new
est devices for fall and winter attire. Paris
lingering summer, while it's gay and pleas
ure loving inhabitants, needless of natures
nearing dissolution, bask in the radiant
sunshine and frequent the Bois and the
Champs in such airy and charming attire
as marks the warm summer weather Ey-
erywhere dainty summer garb is still ap-
parent though intermingled here and there
is a fashionable travelling gown fresh from
the ateliers of a great master of fashion
and generally adorning the stylish hgure
of an American from across the channel.
A morning at Doucet's reveals wonders
in novel ideas and combinations OF colors
which prove most attractive to the femi-
nine world, who, after seasons worship
at the shrine of nature, in garbs which pro-
claim the highest refinement" OF art and
artfulness-is slowly awakening to the de-
sire for change. Fashion. however, has
inaugurated no decided noyelty-the long,
slender lines are perhaps slightly intensi-
fed and the flare at the hem is somewhat
diminished, but draperies and trimmings
and furbelows are as manifold and extrav-
agant as ever. A new departure is shown
in the charming morning gown which Dou-
Get has just finished for an American bride,
whose wealth and beauty have opened for
her the Sesame of the highest European
aristoeracy.
The Partisan gown in question is made
of creamy voile, which is covered with a
hand painted design of large mauve pop
pies with stems and leaves tinted with
dainty sage greens. The model envelops
the figure with faultless fit and closes at
| the back by means of white silk lacings.