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The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
Weeping at q Wedding.

+. Chinese marriage is all ceremony
no talk. no levity and much crying.
The solemnity of funeral prevails.
After the exchange of presents the
bride is dressed with much care in a
red gown, brocade or silk if she can
get it: her eyelashes are painted deep
black. and she wears heavy red veil
attached! to a scarlet headdreSS. from
which imitation pearls are pendent
over the forehead A feast is spread
upon a table, to which the blushing
bride is led by five of her best female
friends. They are seated at the table.
but no one eats. The utmost silence
prevails. when, finally, the mother leads
off in a cry. the maids follow and the
bride echoes in the chorus. Then all
the bridesmaids leave the table and
the QiScOnSOlate mother takes a seat
beside the chair Of state where the
bride sits. The bridegroom now enters.
with four of his best men. The men
pick Up the tlUone on which the bride
sits, and, preceded by the bridegroom.
form in procession and walk around
the room or into an adjoining parlor,
signifyilIg that he is carrying her away
to his own home The guests then
throw rice at the happy couple. Gus
tom we have borrowed from the
heathen
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
Professional Pride.

Newspaper men, from great editors
down to rural correspondents, are
proud of their profession. although not
all sit as secure as John Black, for
many years the chief of the London
Chronicle.
Black supported the Melbourne ad-
ministration in his paper, yet he never
asked a favor of any Of the ministers.
On one occasion Lord Melbourne said
to him:
You are the only man in England
who forgets that am prime minister.
"How SO, my lord?' inquired Black.
supposing that he had been inadver-
tently disrespectful.
because" replied Melbourne, you
are the only man l know who never
asks a favor Of me-"
II have no favor to ask said Black
quietly. II have no favor to ask any
one in the world, You are prime min
lister of England but | am editor OF
the Morning Chronicle, and WoulC
not change places with the proudes1
man in England-not even, my lord
with yOu.'
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
COlOrinE Matter Not Injurious.

The dairy commissioner Of Mime
sofa has been carrying on scientific
tests of the effect Of butter color on
animals to determine whether or not
it is injurious. 1t is reported that he
has fed colOrs to quite a number of
rabbits, guinea pigs, cats, ETC., and in
every case death was the result. This
is an old experiment: but. as no one is
in the habit of drinking butter color
cause for alarm. Only very small
amount of it is used in a pound Of but
ter-not enough to injure any one but
the manufacturers of oleomargarlne.-
Creamery Journal.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
4 Pitch Lake.

Trinidad. an island in the south At
lantic opposite the mouth Of the ORR
noco, is famous for it's pitch. There
are districts where there is pitch ev-
erywhere. The beach is pitch, and so
are the ''rocks," some Of which have
been carried off to supply Paris and
New York with tar pavements. At La
Brea pneapples grow to perfection IN
a brown soil which is half pitch But
the wonder of the isle is the pitch lake
a mile and half in circumference.
AS it lies gittering in the sun it looks
like a vast bed Of monstrOus mush-
rooms, all black and Of all kinds of
shape and size. some meusul.Lg as
much as fifty feet across. The space
between these unlovely objects is filled
with oily water. In parts of the lake
the pitch is quite liquid. and the ground
all round Is full of pitch and coaly
stuff to a depth of hundreds Of feet.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
Feed Counts.

Professor T. L. Hacker Of the Min
nesota experiment station says that by
weighing all the food given during a
year to the COWS of the station dairy
herd. weighing the milk and testing
the butter fat it was found that some
of the cows produced butter at cost
of II cents per pound, while for others
the cost ran as high as II cents per
pound. A few COWS produced but a
little over 200 pounds Of butter in a
year, and others gave about 400
pounds. Breed made but little differ
ence. but the COWS that made the
cheapest butter were all of the wedge
shape dairy type. The right food ra-
ton and the "maternaI instinct" are
important essentials.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
The Merry WaE.

Butkins-I don't know that you ever
met my wife?
Wisbin-Can't say that l ever met
her. but l have seen her many times
BY the way saw her kissing man OF
your back stoop t'other evening.
Butkins-Saw my wife kissing a
man: What do you mean by such a
story as that?
Wisbin-Just what l say. that's all.
Butkins-You actually mean it? If
only knew who the rascal was, I'd
Wisbin-Don'r get excited. 1t was
you. of course. Supposed you'd know
that at once-BoSton Transcript
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03


Shorthorn blood in their herds. but we
do not hear Of pure bred dairy Short
horns
In England the ShorthOrn has a dis
tinctively strong place for dairy pur-
poses, and pure bred Shorthorn dairy
COWS are not uncommon. \ friend Of
Dairy aud Creamery, who has just re-
turned from trip to England. tells Of
800 Shorthorn COWS that he saw in one
herd. the milk being sold in the Lon
don market.
The Kansas Cow.
The Kansas COW is given high praise
in 4 recent number of the Kansas
Farmer. which puts her productiveness
before the public in a new way. It
says:
The Kansas COW is good for three
square meals day for the next eight
cen months even if it doesn't rain an
other drop. Forage. roughness. hay and
all kinds of fodder are plentiful and
will be for some time. and no matter
what becomes of the wheat and corn
crop the old COW will be giving down
! hor milk just as though nothing had
happened.
The thing most needed in Kansas is
! closer orga MIA ton of the dairy farm
ers. Every other industry in the state
lIs Il close organization. but the farm
ers are as yet in the infancy of their
work in that direction.
! kansas is avera ging 5000 gallons of
milk per minute for every day in the
year. enough to make a river 80 feet
/ wide and , feet deep, flowing at the
rate Of a foot per second. This milk
makes about 5ooOO.0OO pounds of but
ter. worth S12000OO0. Within the
next ten years this will be doubled
perhaps trebled. Kansas is capable OF
producing 3O000O.0OO pounds of butter
year"
Cultures For RipeninE Cream.
The Ontario Agricultural college ha:
been testing the use of cultures il
ripening cream, testing per cent. 10
-, 20 and % per cent OF the culture
It found that the 3 per cent culture
ripened it in fifteen hours and the ,,
per cent in five hours. but the highes
score for tiavor was obtained by ths
smaller per cent and larger time o.
ripening at lower temperature. !
culture made st the college of pasteur
lied skimmilk gave as good results a
one made OF equal parts of whole milk
skimmilk and burtermilk-
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
shaved.

shaved.
Barber Ghttered)-Very glad, I'm
sure. sir.
Customer-I thought | was being
sandpapered-London Pick-Me-lp.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
~ERe
Redwood Go3ette
BY AIKEN g. SCHMAHL.
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 3. 1902.

Guy H. Miller in Dairy and Produce
Review, makes the statement that the
Jersey COW Gold Drops Maud. dropped
May 2G. 1895. has produced during the
year ending Aug. 81. 1890. 7,2GG1s pounds
of milk. or 5O492 pounds of butter;
during the year ending Aug. 81. 1900,
7,100A pounds of milk, or 5O2.S3 pounds
Of butter: during year ending Aug.
81, 1901. 1914 pounds of milk, or
521.14 pounds of butter. and during
the year ending Aug. 81. 1902. 7,4353s
pounds of milk. or JOG.S9 pounds OF
butter. an average for four years OF
1899 pounds Of milk and 5OS.92 pounds
of butter. The butter yield has been cal
culated for this statement by adding
1G % per cent to the butter fat as
shown by the BabcOck test us taken
twice a month. which is not unfair.
though we would not like to allow
quite as much overrun as that for we
think l5 per cent overrun is enough to
make Il butter with full amount Of
butter fat. But she made a churn test
Of 1G pounds 61a ounces per week as
a three year-Old. She has gone dry
from five to seven weeks each year
and has dropped a vigorous. healthy
calf each year during the test She
also took the sweepstakes record as a
show COW at the Les Angeles fair last
October
1t will be noticed that her best rec
ord was made when passing from a
tive-yearOld to siX-yearOld. and we
think that is usually the most produc
tive time for the Jersey. Some other
breeds, if not forced do not reach their
best until about eight years old, and
even then the best is not large. Ger
tainly, if not the best COW west of the
Rocky mountains, she is good one. AS
her weight is about 900 pounds, it will
be seen that her production Of butter
fat was about half her own weight
each year. AS it costs but little LlCre
to make a pound of butter fat than a
pound Of beef. how would fattening
even baby beef compare with butter
making from such a COW: Or. reckon
ing butter at 20 cents q pound, she
would give an income of over 500 a
year, while the cost of her fo>d should
not exceed $50.
English Dairy ShOrthorns.
In this country we have almost lost
sight Of the fact that ShOrthornS were
once valued as dairy cattle and had
high reputation as performers at the
milk pail. TO be sure, a great many
dairymen like TO have an infusion Of
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
What He Sold.

One of the witnesses in a case in a
Dublin court was asked Did you sell
Major Studdert a horse:' No. sor."
Did your father sell Major Studdert
a horse1'' NO. sor." Did your grand
father sell him Il horse:" No. sor. y
Well. then. did any member Of your
family sell Major Studderr anythingF
Yes. Sor.' Who did. them" 4 did.
sor." And what did you sell Major
Studdert:'' II sold him a mare, sor.
The counsel sat down. and the court
roared.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
BAD FIavOrS.

Bacteria that come by the use of de-
caying food for COWS. dirt and bad
odors may reach the milk and cream. 1t
is quite easy to have bad favors. There
vor. beginning with a dirty. unventi
lated barn. soiled clothes on attend
ants. poorly ventilated dairy, unclean.
ly dairy room or utensils, sour dish
cloths and unaifed or badly washed
churn. poor water. etc.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03

Changed From Her Former State.
Shes not as pensive as she was be-
fore YOU married her.
mo; she's expensive now.'-lndian-
apolis News.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03
Where Wisconsin Leads.

Wisconsin has made an increase of
1856 per cent in the increase of its dairy
product in the last decade. This. the
officials Of the United States census
say. is the greatest increase of any
state Of the Union.
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-03

With the exception of the British
parliament. the Swedish riksdag is the
oldest of the existing Legislative bodies.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
a New Danger.

A story is told in n neighboring town,
says the Troy Press, of the we'll meant
efforts to do his duty of a hOstler en-
ployed by n local doctor. 1t so happen
ed that the doctor was attending two
cases on the same street, one house
which had just been blessed by an
heir and in the other existed 4 slight
case of scarlet fever.
The doctor instructed his man to
take n contagious disease" card and
tack it up on the house where lived the
fever patient. Unfortunately the mes
senGer made mix up in the location
of the house. and what was the aston
ishment Of passersby to read on the
house where cooed u lusty newborn
infant: Contagious Disease. Keep
Ont ("
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Miracles of Warfare.

Until war ceases. which will be the
greatest miracle of all, it will always
be the exhibition ground of miracles.
How can Il bullet puncture a mans
coat behind and before or piece his
boot and sock and be gravely shaken
out of both without woundinE him ?
And what mysterious channel does this
human body contain which leads a
bullet deXterously around the heart, Il
hairs breadth from the seat of life, yet
never rending it-a phenomenon vouch-
cd for by more than one army surgeon:
Shells have burst thunderously be-
tween the very legs of soldiers and left
them still soldiers. Pompom shells of
two inches diameter have passed
through legs and arms without shatter-
ing the bone or bursting at the impact.
though there appears to be literally no
room for such Il merciful performance.
In fact, history of the escapes in war
would be wild reading even after Il
course of Munchausen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Grewsome Football legend.

Where did football originate? Some
people give ancient Chester, in Eng
land, credit for bringing the great
winter pastime into existence. There
is record of football playing in that
city in the year 1910, but Chestrians
believe in Il legend of much earlier
date.
+ In the tenth century, 1t is said, Il
Dane was captured and beheaded by
the citizens. Some one began kicking
the head about the streets, others
followed, and it was discovered that
this formed a new and decidedly fas-
cinating sport. This was repeated
whenever possible. but as enemies
heads became scarcer and the enter
tainment of kicking them more diff
cult to procure it was at last arranged
''for the shoemakers yearly on Shrove
Tuesday to deliver to the draper, in
the presence of the mayor of Chester.
one ball of leather, called 4 football,
of the value of IS. 4d. or above"
There is evidently fine precedent
for those concerned in the game los
ing their heads"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
= Thousnnd aIII1ion SIMS.

Lord Kelvin once made some inter
esting calculations of the probable total
amount of gravitation matter in the
visible universe. He showed that if %,
100000 years ago 1,OOO,0O0OO0 masses.
each equal to our sun. had been dis
tributed through n sphere about 49,
0OO, 900, OOO, 100000 miles in radius they
would now have acquired velocities
about equal to those known to be pos
sessed by the stars visible to us. There
fore it is probable that the total amount
of gravitational matter in the visible
universe does not differ much from
that Of 1,OOO, 100000 suns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
German Blrt.dax Cakes.

The custom of having a birthday
cake is widespread in Germany.
know it for certain that it is prevalent
in the province of SaXony. in Hanover
and the mark of Brandenburg. As
many lights as the one whose birth
day it is has years are stuck around the
cake. or the Torte. thick one III the
middle called the Lebenshcht. the light
of life. For persons advanced in years
one candle must do duty. as otherwise
too many would be required, or skill
full lady expresses the exact number
Of years in Roman figures CNN, l..
When MoItke completed his seven
tieth year during the campaign of
1ST0-T1, Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam, later on Emperor Frederick, pre-
scented him with cake adorned with
seventy lights.
Only he or she who celebrates his or
her birthday may put out the light of
life. 1t is unlucky if done by any 9th
er member of the family.-Notes and
Queries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
A STORY OF FORREST.
aow the PeDDery Actor Squared Ac-
counts With One Critic.

counts with One Critic.
Many years ago Edwin Forrest. the
celebrated actor, when in New York,
was in the habit of dining at Win
dust's, a noted restaurant on Park
row that was favorite resort of ac-
4 tors and literary men. 1t usually hap
Dened that Forrest would be joined by
! friends and that the little group would
sit together at one table. On one oc-
casion it Glanced that an Englishman
with reputation for conceit and i'm
pertinence, who had scraped acquaint-
ance with the tragedian, was one OF
the group.
Early in the course of the dinner the
Englishman began to make criticisms
which he considered pleasantries about
Forests conception of certain roles.
Encouraged by his own appreciation he
gave full play To his humor and con-
cluded each of his impertinences with.
Pardon my freedom, sir; it's my way"
To the establishment of all who knew
Forests irascible disposition he bore
the Briton's offensive remarks patient
~ and seemingly ignored them as far
as possible. When, however, the nuts
were brought in by the waiter, he took
several cracked walnuts in his hand
and, walking over to the Briton's place.
jocularly snapped them successfully in
the face of that individual, lightly say
ing after each shot, Pardon my free
dom, sir; it's my way" and snapped
him out OF che restaurant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08

Il was Just about gone" writes
Mrs. Rosa Richardson. of Laurel
Springs, y. {. u had consumption 81
bad that the best doctors said could
not live more than month, but l
began to use DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry, and was wholly cured by seven
bottles. and am now stout and Well
It's an unrivaled life-savcr in con-
sumption, pneumonia, In grippe and
bronchitis; infallible for coughs,
colds, asthma, hay fever Group or
whooping cough. Guaranteed bot
ties soc and 81. Trial bottles free at
Hartz d Ullemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
PAST HIS FIRST YOUTH.
A Fowl That Was Hardly to blame
Ter Proving TouGh

]
Fer Proving Tough.
The swan is said to be excellent eat
/ ing when young. but as it is one of the
! longest lived Of all creatures it is well
to learn if possible how old your bird
is before you cook it.
! y gentleman in Lincolnshire, Eng
I land. sent dead swan to the Athena
um club, addressed to the secretary. 4
special dinner was to occur that week,
and the committee without question
turned the bird over to the cook.
AT the dinner the swan. resting on a
great silver dish, was Il delight to the
eye, but when it came to carving and
eating the bird no knife seemed sharp
enough to cut it, and of course eating
it was out Of the question.
a few days later the donor met the
secretary and said, Il hope you got my
swan all right"
''That was nice joke you played on
us" returned the secretary.
Joke? What do you mCanY'
"Why, we had the thing boiled for
thirteen hours, and even then we
might as well have tried to cut through
the rock of Gibraltar"
you don't mean to say you had the
swan cookedr'
''Why, of course"
Man alive! 1 sent it to be stuffed
and preserved rs a curiosity in the
club. That swan has been in my fami-
ly for $50 years. 1t was one of the
identical birds fed by the children of
Charles I. You've seen the picture of
It. My ancestor held the post IS mas
ter of the swans and keeper of the
kings cygnets.' Well, have no doubt
it was bit tough"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
snrcd the Lnmn.

An amusing scene occurred at New
York dock the other night. \ Scotch
engineer, who wished to go ashore, or
dered boy to show him the way with
n lantern. AS he was crossing the mar
row plank that served as gangway
the boy slipped and fell into the water.
The instinct of the true Scot instant
" showed itself. Hold on to the lamp,
boy" the engineer shouted, leaning
over toward the water. do you hear?
If it's lost. there's Il dollar gone from
your wages"
After some time the boy was rescued
half drowned, but clinging to the lamp.
AS some compensation for his trouble
he was forgiven for losing the bottom
of it. e
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
THE ALLIGATOR.
He Is Always In Good HumOr when
Catching Flies.

1.-THE alligator is a funny beast
said the old circus man. The old fell
low we have in the menagerie is a
cross tempered chap. Often at feed
ing time lie won't open his mouth, and
we tickle the top of his nose. An ALI
gators nose is very sensitive, and it
always makes him very mad. He
throws back his upper jaw like a cell
lar door on hinges. Then we throw in
a chunk of beef. five pounds or so, and
repeat the performance until we've fill
ed him up with about twenty five
pounds, which it takes to give him q
square meal
Hes never cross when he's fly catch
ing. That always puts him in good hui
NOR. One would think a fly a small
udbit for an alligator. but they eat
them wholesale. Our old alligator is
an expert fly catcher. He throws back
his upper jaw and goes to sleep appar-
emily. The flies light on his under
jaw, and he waits until it is pretty
well covered with fiies-until its red
color seems about changed to black.
Then suddenly he slams down his up
per jaw, and he has a fine mouthful
of flies. Alligators would make excel
lent hytraps for houses where there
are no children, except that they are
expensive. as they consume such 4 vast
quantity of beef. "-Houston Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08

The expression was used toward the
close of the famous debate on the Mis-
souri, compromise in the sixteenth con-
gress QS2D. Buncombe. Il county in
the western section of North Carolina,
was then part of the congressional dis
trict represented by Felix Walker. 4
resident of Waynesville, in the ada
cent county of Haywood.
The house was impatient to bring the
long debate to an issue when old man
Walker Che was then sixty-eight years
of age) rose to speak, and he was
greeted with loud clamors for "QUes-
ton" Several members gathered
around him. begging him to desist; 9th
ers left the hall. but he kept the floor
declaring that the people of his district
expected n speech from him, that he
was bound to talk for Buncombe (or
words to that effect, and he did.
This Felix Walker had been in his
younger days the friend and cOmpan-
ion of Daniel Boone when the latter
explored Kentucky and founded BOOns-
borough. After representing North
Carolina from 1917 to 1923 he was Il
member of the state legislature and
died i'll 1880 n short time after remov-
ing to Mississippi.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
The esyv,, In writers' Names.

Beginning with William Shakespeare,
we remember instantly Sir Walter RAJ
leigh. Sir Walter Scott, William Words
worth, Washington Irving, William
Makepeace Thackeray, Henry w.
Longfellow, John G. Whittier. William
Cullen Bryant. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt
Whitman. Others whose names occur
almost simultaneously are William
Cowper. Isaac Watts. Henry Ward
Beecher, Daniel Webster, Wendell
Phillips, George William Curtis. Rich
ard Grant White. Julia Ward Howe,
George w. Gable, William D. How
ellis. Charles Dudley Warner and
Richard Watson Glider. To these are
easily added Sir Walter blackstone,
John Wesley, Edmund Waller, Nathan
iel z. Willis. Walter Savage Lander,
Will Carleton, James Whitcomb Riley,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, DIR. S.
Weir Mitchell, Hamilton Wright Ma
bic, William II. Prescott, Constance
FenimOre WOolson, Mary E. wilkins
and many mOre.-Ladies' Home Jour-
nal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Letter TO MOTHERS.
By Mrs. J. III. Haskins, of Chicago, ILL.,,
President Chicago Arcade Club.
OOmfOrting words to women Regarding Childbirth,

All the of
tbs of
of
lin
10
Haskins
period OF childbirth; thousands who Frustrated nigh
dnser land
almost counting a III
A capable mother a healthy
of should not be approached without careful physical
Eouldbe mother
cost by writing to Mrs. Pinkham
happiness abounds Lydia f. Pinams Vegetable
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Sounded Familiar.

"You wretch You miscreant, You
worst of villains" exclaimed the hero
ine at rehearsal.
The heavy villain, who had just join
ed the company, looked patiently ag-
grieved and said:
Excuse me, is that in the part or are
you acting as stage anager."-Wash-
inpton Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
dickens, Finances.

Dickens did not begin to save money
until he was nearly forty, and through
out life ne suffered acutely and inces-
sanity from pecuniary worries and
anxieties. He was never short of ready
money after his great crisis of 1874,
but lie was never easy about the future
until after his enormously profitable
second American trip in the winter of
1S67-6S
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Secrets of Comfort.

Though sometimes small evils, like
invisible insects, infiict pain and a sin
gle hair may stop vast machine. yet
the chief secret of comfort lies in not
suffering trifies to vex one and in pru-
IDENTIFY cultivating an underground of
small pleasures. since very few great
ones, alas. are let on long leases.