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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-11-08

turned with a number Of s: ec-
linens of gold bearing quartz
in their possession.
Wild geese, ducks, prairie
chickens, etc, were never
known to be as plentiful. The
grain fields in the country are
literally covered with them.
They collect in large flocks and
circle about and settle upon
the fields in the same manner
as blackbirds. One St. Paul
nimrod killed fifteen ducks at
one shot this week. Deer and
bear are also very numerous.
August Steggeman of the
town of Alton, Washington
county, in this state, has rails
ed this season from % acres of
ground over LOO bushels of
wheat by machine measure.
The berry is plump and full
and will average by weight
from three to five pounds more
than the measured bushel.
This will bring the average up
to over 80 bushels per acre.
A farmer near Saltwater
raised this year on his farm
just an even $4,000 bushels of
wheat which he sold for an ev-
en- S25, 900, making his income
from his wheat crop alone just
equal to that of the President
Of the United States.
The Hudson Bay company
sold this week to Andrew
Moore of this city 5000 mink
skins at SO each, making to-
tai of $54,O 900. The duty upon
the skins was $1,000 in gold.
1t is but six years since mink
skins were considered common
and sold for 371a cents apiece.
The poor, despised mink now
warns the shoulder of the
naughty bellies of America and
the old worlo, and is hunted
with an eagerness that will
soon make them very scarce
indeed.
Rev. DR.. Breckenridge of
Kentucky, who is visiting in
this city, says in an interview:
That any state, left to itself,
will ever bestow suffrage on a
mass of slaves of a different
race, suddenly set free, and
nearly equal in number to the
rest of it's inhabitants, is an
event that will hardly be wit
1essed in this world. That in
any state where slavery ever
existed, or where it has long
ceased to- exist, a white race,
both cultivated and predomi-
nant, will ever give suffrage of
it's own accord to a black race
resident with it, is an event
contrary to the common iudg-
ment of mankind, and wholly
In itself"
Hon. Charles d. Gilfillan is
back home with his bride.
While combinations and
speculations are going on to
raise the prices of flour, fuel
and other prime necessaries of
life, it is time some attention
is given these matters by the
public. There is no justice or
reason in flour being held at
1915 per barrel when wheat is
80 cents per bushel. When
such enormous profits are
made on flour, it is no wonder
that millers can make enough
from rented mill in one sea-
son to build new one, as in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-11-08

A farmer near Saltwater
raised this year on his farm
just an even $4,000 bushels of
wheat which he sold for an ev-
en- $4,000, making his income
from his wheat crop alone just
equal to that of the President
of the United States.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-11-08

Messrs- Henry and Richard
Games, whose recent geologi-
cal explorations of the North
Shore region, resulted in the
discovery of rich gold deposits
at Vermillion lake, are back in
the city, having suspended OPP
erations for the winter. They
report the mines, from surface
Indications as rich as those in
California, and from the COM
plete analogy of the geological
associations they infer that
the auriferous formation ex-
tends through the whole vol
canic uplift, which they regard
as a spur of the Rocky noun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-11-08

Aid. Wright, who is back
from the east and south, re-
ports great interest by people
everywhere in St. Paul and
Minnesota. He advocates that
large numbers of immigration
documents be published in
various languages and distrib-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
ALLEY 4x2OFT
OF HOG PEN.

tight. AS arranged, the sows can make
their nests in corners away from doors,
and the wind will not blow on them
when the doors are open. The pens next
to the alley can be used to feed in, when
the weather is bad, and when good, the
feeding can be done in lots outside. The
more feeding done inside, the more work
required to keep the house clean.
| would lay the floor with cement con-
crete, making the alley floors level, but
the pen floors I would slope from the
south wall towards the alley, about
three inches in the II feet. This will
tend to cause all water to flow towards
the alley, and keep the nests and feed
stalls comparatively dry. The bedding
from the nests, when soiled, can go into
the lots or alley, just as the feeder
wishes, when he cleans out the stalls.
The yards should be kept clean by
throwing in straw, or other coarse mate
rial. Over this floor plan the builder
can put such building as suits him best;
a shed in form, the roof sloping one
way, or a comb roof. In either case, il
he wishes, a room for bedding and feed
above the pens. The building should be
located on an elevated point of ground,
so the water will flow away from it in
all directions, and the roof spouted, to
keep water from making it wet about
the building. Make doors at the ends of
the alley. If the doors are cut in half,
1t will often be an advantage in airing
out the pens. There should also be
plenty of windows on the south side,
for sunshine Is a very important factor
in the health and comfort of swine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
FEEDING CABBAGE.
They Are Almost Certain to faint
the Milk of the Dairy
Cows.

Pure milk is the product of a healthy
cow fed on suitable food, exactly as it
leaves her udder. Fortunately all our
common feeds including silage, produce
pure milk free from taints, odors or
poisonous ingredients. Such food ma
terials as cabbage, turnips or onions
will leave in the milk their character
istic oils, give it an unpleasant flavor,
and make it unstable, says G. D. Smith.
of the Michigan Agricultural college.
Turnips would better be omitted from
the catalogue of dairy foods.
In SO cases out of 100, turnips, cab
bage and rape can be so fed as not to
affect the quality of the milk in any
way. Just when you want pure milk
the worst, however, you will find
that some particular cow, the di-
gestive apparatus of which was not
keyed to the right pitch, will give a
mess of milk which taints the product
of the whole herd.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
THE LIVE STOCK.

Study the individual needs of each
COW and supply those needs.
Keep the horse judiciously shod and
exercised.
Be cheerful-help to inspire the other
fellow too.
Some cows would be better ones II
they were fed more.
You can change the quantity Of milk
by tle feed, but the quality is born
with the cow.
A strong, well-grown SOW may be bred
to farrow at one year. but a small n
should not be bred until 10 or IL months
old.
Chaff and loose straw dropping
through the cracks of an ill-construct-
ed ceiling are a constant source and
cause of dust during milking. The cell
ing of the stable should be as tight as
your house.
Many a stable Of four or more horses,
II intelligently mated and driven, would
do better work and do it easier. An
old horse mated to a young Ole, a heavy
horse to a light one, a slow horse to a
fast ore, often causes trouble, which
might easily be avoided by a little fore
sight and Judgment in the matter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
THE PROSPECTIVE DEFICIT.
Expenditures Bid Fair to Put the Ma
tional Ex%chequer in Bad
Shape.

While the improvement in revenues
during the past two months has re-
duced the difference between receipts
and expenditures and cut down the
deficit for the year somewhat, the con-
tinued advance in the nations expendi-
lures more than offsets the increased
receipts, making the prospects for a
decreased deficit anything but encourag-
ing, says the Detroit Free Press. In his
last annual report to congress, Sec.
rotary Shaw estimated the deficit
for the year would be $3.50 Doc, 900,
based on visible receipts. There are
indications that the latter will be fully
up to the estimated figure, but expen-
ditures are mounting upward at a rate
that promises to be far in excess.
The treasury statement covering the
nine months Of the present fiscal
year indicates that, unless there Is
a marked improvement in receipts,
the deficit July 1 will be nearer
$25, 900, 900 than the estimated $1S,OO0,-
900. For the nine months just closed
the receipts were SAIL 1886. ST, and the ex-
p%enditures $436,4 LOG. The increase Of
$24, 900, 900 in disbursements is due to a
heavy advance in three items, the civil
establishment calling for an increase
Of 1000, 900, the wal department for
$40, 900, 900 and the navy for $14,500, 900.
The last three months of the year
are always productive of heavy reve-
nues. 1t is possible the increase will
be sufficient to wipe out the difference
between Secretary Shaw's estimated
deficit and the prospective one, al
though a comparison of receipts for
the nine months past and the corre-
spending period Of last year holds out
no encouragement, the two running
practically the same. The statement
Just issued emphasizes the necessity
of greater economy on the part of the
nation or the adoption Of some plan
which will be productive Of insufficient
revenue to meet the demands made
upon the treasury and furnish a reas-
enable guarantee against continued
deficits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
A Double Evil

But for the implied agreement be-
tween the republican leaders and the
trust magnates to continue the discrim-
ination in their favor through which
they have preyed on the consuming
masses, there would not have been any
enormous overcapitalization of proper
ties, nor would a situation have been
created in which a reasonable and just
reform of the tariff would be attended
with serious danger. This cannot. how
ever, be permanent. It is too oppressive
and exasperating a system to be toler-
ated as a fixed feature of our industrial
and commercial interests. Sooner or
later the outrages perpetrated in the
name of protection, which are outrages
on protection as well as upon the Amer
lean people, will have to give place to
justice. Let us hope that there will be
craftsmanship enough in the nations
service to accomplish the inevitable re-
form with the least possible disturb
.ance.-Washington, Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Wooden Fabrics.

Certain fabrics are being made in Eu.
rope, the warp of which is composed OF
cotton and the wool of a thread made
from wood pulp. These goods were in
troduced almost four years ago. AT the
outset sheets of wood pulp paper were
cut into finest shreds and twisted into
thread by machines made for the pur-
pose. Lately the paper process has been
abandoned, and wood pulp is passed di-
rectly over grooved-metal sheets, form,
ing very thin ribbons, which pass in
turn owe a machine that twists them
into a very regular thread of any desired
length.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Little Probability of Any Revision
Which Will Be of Benefit
to the People.

The senate, it will be remembered,
authorized ar inquiry by one of its COM
mittees into the question of revenue
Much good may be accomplished by this
inquiry, provided it be conducted in the
right spirit. 1t is not, however, well to
expect too much from a committee pre-
sided over by Senator Aldrich, says the
Indianapolis News Qnd.). We know.
that he is often spoken of as a tariff
expert, and so he is in one sense. He
knows how to get what he wants in the
way of protection for those whose inter-
ests he has at heart. That he will control
the committee may be taken for granted,
for does he not control the senate? In a
recent interview Senator Allison, the
second member of the committee, said
that nothing would be done till Aldrich
returned from Europe. This may be SIM
ply the manifestation of a proper court
esy to the head of the committee. At any
rate the delay will not be long, for AID
rich is expected home May l.
But we are not sanguine of any i'm
portant results from a committee that
will be dominated by Aldrich. He is a
corporation man and nothing else. He
looks on the taxing power of the govern
ment as something which private indi-
viduals ought to be allowed to use for
their own benefit. He has no concep-
ton of government as a great public bus
mess, to be conducted solely in the inter-
est of the public, and without a thought
Of private interests. To him the pull"
is a legitimate influence in politics. He
is a tariff expert in the sense that he
knows how to trade n interest against
another, how to get tariff favors for
manufacturers, and how far it is safe
to go in this business of dispensing
charity. But as a statesman and econo-
mist we do not think he is to be highly
esteemed.
AS long as the senate is constituted as
it is at present we do not look for any re-
vision of the tariff that will greatly ben
eft the people. But it may be that the
senate committee will unconsciously
give to the public some important and
~greatly-needed information. We are
sure that an honest investigation would
show that there are few industries in the
country that, even from the protection.
list point of view, need any protection at
all. 1t would appear that other indus.
tries are protected far beyond their
needs. And the inquiry would further
show that, as a result, the revenue of the
government suffers very greatly. We
could greatly increase the revenue
stimulate trade and commerce, benefit
many manufacturers, reduce prices, and
at the same time give all needed protec.
ton, by cutting many of our present ex.
orbitant duties in two. We believe that
a fair investigation, one conducted
without any purpose to make out a case,
would make all this abundantly clear.
But such an investigation we are not,
we fear, likely to get from the senate
committee. Senator Aldrich will go into
the work with the idea that as little
change as possible be made in the tariff.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13

M t%lgE]B&
ARRANGEMENT OF HoGPENS
Practical Plan Which Has Been Tried
by One Farmer with
Success,

The great difficulty in planning a hog
house is to get it so that it will be dry
and clean. In this plan, 16x2O feet, l
have four ~sleeping-or nest-pens, and
four feed pens; close partitions between
them, except passageway between the
nest pen and the feed pen, explains John
M. Jamison, in the Rural New Yorker.
Each feed and nest pen is to be 5x6 feet,
and the alleyway 4x20 feet. The build
ing should stand east and west, with
pens on south side, and alley on north
side, and have a yard on south side as
large as desirable. l would make a.
double doorway at two of the partitions,
and make the doors so they will close
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
WORTH

There are three entirely different
kinds of ingredients used in making
the three different varieties of baking
powders on the market, viz: ID Min
eral-Acid or Alum, (2) Bone-Acid or
Phosphate, and (3) Cream of Tartar
made from grapes. 1t is important,
from the standpoint of health, to know
something about these ingredients, and
which kind is used in your baking
powder.
"a Mineral-Acid, or Alum, is made
from a kind of clay. This is mixed with
diluted oil of vitriol and from this
solution a product is obtained which
is alum. Alum is cheap; costs about
two cents a pound, and baking powder
made with this Mineral-Acid sells from
lotto 25c. a pound.
(2) B0ne-Acid, or Phosphate, is the
basis of phosphate baking powders
and the process is fully described in
the patents issued to a large manu-
facturer of a phosphate powder. The
U. S. Patent Office Report gives a full
and exact description, but the follow
ing extract is enough:
Burned bones, after being ground,
are put into freshly diluted oil of
vitriol and with continual stirring
and in the following proportion"
etc.
From this Bone-Acid phosphate bak-
ing powders are made; such powders
sell from 20 to 80 cents a pound.
(3) Cream of Tartar exists in all ripe
grapes, and flows with the juice from
the press in the manufacture of wine.
After the wine is drawn off the tartar
Is scraped from the cask, boiled with
water, and crystals Of Cream of Tar
tar, white and very pure, separate and
are collected. 1t differs IN no respect
from the form in which it originally
existed in the grape. Cream of Tar
tar, then, while the most expensive, is
the only ingredient that should be used
in a baking powder to act upon the
soda, as it's wholesomeness is beyond
question. Cream of Tartar baking
powders sell at about 40 to so cents a
pound.
Such are the facts, and every one,
careful Of the health of the family,
should remember this rule:-Baking
powders selling from 10 to rs cents a
pound are made of Mineral-Acids;
those selling from 20 to 30 cents of
Bone-Acid; and those from 40 to SO
cents of Cream of Tartar made from
grapes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Transvaal Census.

The recent census of the natives in
the Transvaal was taken with beads.
Each headman was furnished with a
number of beads of different colors,
and Irvine on which to string them. A
big black bead represented an adult
married native, a big yellow bead a
married woman, and a white bead a sin
gle woman over Is years old. A small
yellow bead stood for a boy, and a small
white bead for a girl.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Woman's Wav.

When the women see the heroine in
the hero's arms on the stage; when
they read in the last chapter of a
book that the hero and the heroine
are embracing, how they applaud! But
when they see the man next door kiss
his wife goodbye before starting for
work how they laugh and wonder
how long it will ast."-Atchison
Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
TEN TRUTHS.

Easy tasks make idle men.
Folly is a close friend of pride.
Silver and gold-the sea and the sur,
The surest shot takes the quickest
aim.
To succeed be devoted, but not de-
pendent.
The smallest flowers have the sweet
est smell.
Eternal dissatisfaction is the second
law of nature.
No laugh a be as roguish as the rip
pie of a stream.
The man who pleases himself most
suits others best.
Men wonder what they will do; wom-
IN what others will think.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Quaint Clock.

Lecturing in London the other even
ing Henry Cunningham told of a
quaint clock which once stood on the
bridge at Basel, Switzerland. 1t was
placed there to commemorate the VIC
tory of the upper town over the lower,
and it had a mask which put out it's
tongue and rolled it derisively when
the hour struck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
il. however M hone q,

There is, however, no hope of ef-
fective reform until the people them
selves perceive the facts and resolutely
determine to sacrifice their time, their
labor, their money and their party preju-
fices in an effort to turn the rascals out.
.-Nltladelphia North American (Rep.).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Stray Cats Take Prizes.

A lady, fond of cats, rescued and fed
nine homeless cats found wandering in
poor districts of New York. Thinking
that perhaps som visitors might take
a fancy to one or two of them, the lady
exhibited the animals at a Madison
Square Garden fashionable show. Be.
tween them the nine took 10 prizes!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Locomotives in Greece.

A company at the Piraeus, Greece, has
gone into the manufacture of locomo-
tives. Thus far no locomotives have
been constructed in any of the Balkan
states. The engines in use on the rail-
roads there are all of German, English,
Belgian and French manufacture.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
A Hint.

Energy" said the young man, who
had been calling steadily for about a
year. ENERGY and promptitude-those
are what are wanted nowadays"
Eyes, indeed" replied the young lady,
with meaning. "Just look at young Mr..
Wilson. He met Miss Anderson only
two months ago. and he is engaged to
her already."-Tit-Bits
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
The Present Rate Law.

The duties Of the present Interstate
Commerce Commission are to correct
all determinations in railroad rates.
If it finds that an unjust rate is in eff
feet, the railroad is notified. If it de-
clines to change it, the Commission
can bring suit in Court and if the
Court decides in favor of the Commits
sioners' finding, the railroad must obey,
or it's officers may be brought up for
contempt of court and summarily dealt
with,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
eternal Fires"

Natural gas has been f1owingf for many
years in several of the Caucasian prov
inces bordering the Caspian sea. Some
of these gas wells, which have emitted
flames for a period beyond the memory
of living men, are superstitiously called
eternal fires"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Definition.

A picture hat" is n SO exquisitely
and mysteriously fashioned that the
only means of describing it is by TAX
ing a picture of it. It's value can
never be expressed with less than
two fgures.-Chicago Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Berlin's Bird Catcher.

Berlin supports a professional bird
catcher, who keeps scientific institu-
tons supplied with birds, nests and
eggs. He is the only man in the en-
pire permitted to do so.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Fifty-Three SUNDAYS.

There will be SO Sundays in the pres
ent year. Those who find the Sabbath a
dull day, however, may console them
selves with the reflection that it won't
happen again in 113 years,-Long
Branch Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
Extensive Country.

New South Wales is just two and
one-half times the size of the British
isles. Queensland is equal to three
times the German empire and Belgium
nut together.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
When a Good Man Dies.

A mans neighbors seldom realize
what an excellent man has been living
among them, all undiscovered, until
they hear the minister tell about it at
his funeral.-Chicago Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAK?
Thousands of Men and Women Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect 1t.
To Prove What the Great Kidney Remedy, Swamp-Root, Will
Do for YOU, Every Reader of This Paper May Have
a Sample Bottle Sent Absolutely Free by Mail.

1t used to be considered that only urinary and
bladder troubles were to be traced to the kid
all diseases have their beginning in the disorder
of these most important organs.
If you are sick or feel badly" begin taking
the great kidney remedy, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, because as soon as your kidneys begin to
get better they will help all the other organs to
health. A trial will convince anyone,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13

C~ontentment comes neither by culture
nor by wishing; it is a reconciliation with
ones lot, growing out of an inward su-
periority to cur surroundings. X. Nc
Lean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13

Conover, N. C., R. F. D.
My wife. used one package of Push.
eck's-Kuro and received most wonderful
benefit from it. j. f. Miller.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-13

If you are invited to a wedding, the
cheapest thing to send is regrets.-N. Y.
Times.