•V ^V*,SW*$t': SW itij ^.-^————————— ni I THE MARTY BUSINESS. Farewell—I'll help on your obsequies. I IRRIGATING DAKOTA. 1 THE FARM AND H0ME.K is a requisite indispensible tn the proa hope you're carrying a good block of in VTM. FKANX I O E N I N S keeping of cows. surance. Good-by." Cottonwool Mills. Jif Until after the eighth milking it The next friend I met was one of the should not be offered to a cheese "factory. A Half Hour with the Beading Farmar loud, boisterous sort, who slaps ^people ARTESIAN WELLS O BE USED TO SELF-ELECTED LIVER TINKERS BAFFLED on the back perfectly regardless of the WATER THE ARID LANDS, i^sf iJnSwJ?" and the Busy Housewife., BY A NEW DISEASE. *«s possibilities of boils'. Cows should be milked with dry \\K*y:r\ H3&£$ "Sick again, I see. Don't you try to Custom grinding solicited.* Will hands, and only after the udders have ft. Few Words about Poisonous Plants—The deny it now with me,I know youl Come been washed or brushed clean. grind wheat for (one eigth) or exchange and take some of my medicine. It's the Importance of Doing Farm Work WellNecessity he E of a a it A a a Fift A an W An abundant supply of cheap, succulent, 84 fis. flour, 5 fts. shorts and 8^ greatest stuff on earth. I was just like of Skilled Labor on the Farm- -. in S a a a of easily digestible, wholesome., to W is on for a a you and a half a bottle fixed me right fts. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour '*J Household Suggestions. nutritious feed should be provided. up. How's your liver, anyway?" and Gushers time and feed sold at low rates and delivered he stabbed me with a finger which had All the vessels used in the haudlin us a a New Ulm free of expense. to be extracted by a muscular bystander of milk should be cleaned thoroughly before^we could go on with the conversation. One of the practical questions now attracting The poisoning of domestic animals, after their use. A washing tepid or When I wish to become a martyr and A N & E N I N I told him my liver was staying by eating- plants and vegetables that cold water, to which has been added a the attention of Congress to Wear a weak,flickering halo which gives in nights and behaving itself pretty little soda, and a subsequent scalding frequently grow in out of the way North and South Dakota is the subject no adequate piotection to the thin spot well considering its associates, and he AUG. QTOTSE, places, is not so common as one would with boiling water, will prepare them of irrigation and the application oi on the back of my head where the soil also wanted to know what was the matter. for airing, that they may remain perfectly imagine, considering the number of artesian wells to this purpose. seems to be poor, I will advertise for the I took this gentleman aside, showed v.. sweet. poisonous growths that spring up all Job. As I feel now, it will be a long Wells have been drilled in great numbers him the little package, whispered in his over the country. A natural instinct time before I do the advertising. I never ear as before, and a solemn calm came in Squth Dakota, but thus far they A a I HARNESS MAKER seems to warn most animals away from had any ambition in that line for I well over his whole demeanor. "We aie not have not been used for iriigation purposes. Manure that is "fire-fanging" (as certain plants that are dangerous to know that the martyr business pays no as good as we might be, but we mean it will sometimes do when the heap is Congress will be asked to ap-them —and Dealer in— but, occasionally, new plants •dividends. Besides, even if I went into all right. If I am not very much mistaken very large) should be turned over, as propriate half a million dollars for thefind Whips, Collars, and all other their way into fields and pastures, it and made a fair success, the boys we will meet again in the hereafter. the heating process, if allowed to puipose of ungating the arid lands oi articles usually kept •would come around and have fun witn Good by." which are poisonous, and yet juicy and continue, may cause the loss of am the northern part of South Dakota and a me and try to and possibly blow it out 3weet to the taste. Horses and cows in a first-Glass harness monia. When acquaintance number three saw merely to annoy me. I think it would will frequently eat these, and suffer as shop. me he was oveipoweied with plain, There is not one crop grown that crack my sainted martyrdom to De a result. every-day shock. "Why I am worried requires hilling up if it is grown in obliged to boriow a match every half New harnesses made to order and r« about you. You better give up those the right manner. Level cultivation The Experiment Stations are making block or so.and go around the corner out baby doctors and their confectionery pairing promptly attended to. is be^t for all while deep planting •of the wind to relight the halo. I don't valuable studies of poisonous plants, lemedies and do something for yourself. NEW MLM, MINN provides depth of soil without the in want to be looked upon as a backslid and it is hoped that in time all ot them Go to Dr. Systemsearchei he's the man jurious piling up of the soil in ridges. isainLand therefoie I am combating Mrs. will be classified, and methods suggested for you." Then I told him I was beyond Empire Mill Co. Jones' efforts to maitynze me. My combating for their destruction. Farmers in The crops grown should be in help, and showed him my little package lecord is giowiug, and at the accordance with the demand of your and divulged the secret of my malady. different sections of the country frequently same time it is sapping my young life. neai es,t market, but this rule does not He was rnoie hopeful thau the rest. disagree as to the relative It is causing me to go aiound with an appearance POLLER MILL. apply where articles can be shipped "You need a change of air. Go to Canada merits or demerits of certain plants, which is wrecking the reputation or the woods." It couldn't be and he beto other points at a low cost. Th and so no true conclusion can of the Jones family physician. KindJieaited gave me up. markets should be carefully observed arrived at until the matter is examined ladies give up their seats ia the and prices noted. During the last week I have been severely scientifically. The loco weed has thus .'4 Rollers and 4 Burrs. handled by two or three kindhearted Professor Storer says that many found champions wuo have claimed but rough young men who farmers in New England havt found that it possessed no poisonous qualities, wished me to join them in meny rounds that mixtures of bone meal and wood We take pleasure in informing th while others are confident that it proves of capsules and cough drops. One fiiend ashes serve them an excellent purpose •ubhe that we are now ready for bu injurious to all animals that eat it. sent me what appeared to be a suit of when used as substitutes for barn-yard ness. The best machinery and all the armor of about the eighth century, with Well nure. On good land apply 600 utest improvements in the manufacire an importunate demand to try electricity. Some succeed in raising large yields pounds of bone meal and 20 bushels of of flour enable us to compete with The clothes were made for a fat of corn or potatoes, and they are in unieached ashes. man, and I am no longer so, besides, I he best mills in the country. addition of a good quality. Another All plants ar.d trees consume water am averse to carrying around boiler castings We are constantly buying Becures a large yield of fruit aud of a iu large quanties. Sir John Lawes for raiment as long as my tailor retains Wheat, good quality, that sells readily at good his innocent, tiusting disposition. discovered that an acre of barley will Rye, prices others have good, fat stock I have been advised to diet and live on take up 1,094 tons of water in two Com, that there is always a purchaser looking chicken feed and also to go in for beef days. Trees and plants are composed for, instead of the farmer being Oats? and mutton blood rare. The yarb crank more largely of water than any Buckwheat, woiked at me two days to induce me to obliged to huut around to find a buyer. other substance. The branch of a AR'lESIAN WELL AT YANKT03S. dunk mulligatawney soup with quinine One of the principal secrets of this is portion of the State of Noith Dakota. It tree will lose nine-tenths of its weight flavoiing out of a black bottle. is anticipated that 10,000,000 acres of & tf that whatever is necessary to be done by drying. A the Highest Market ir*rioe«. land can thus be made to yield a good is done well. Whether it is in the I had some second handstiengthening A gallon of pine tar costs very little, crop annually. preparation of the soil, the planting, plasters offered me in a spiiit of charity. but it is very useful to have around the We sell all kinds of Piobably in no other locality in the I was told to take and avoid exercise cultivating or harvesting of the crops, farm. It makes an excellent grease for Union can there be found 60 many within the period of one miserable hour. or the breeding, feeding or management JE'ZOVB, wooden axles, a little of it rubbed on artesian wells of as great force and supplying People whom I would trust implicitly of the stocK. And in very many SHORTS, a trough which salt is given to the so large a flow as those of South in the ordinaiy affairs of life try to poison cases it is the failure to give this care sheep, will preserve them from the MRA-JfTs Ac.g Dakota. in the dftrerent parts of farm work gad fly which lays its eggs in the kT LOW RATES. The artesian basin has been found to that is the cause of not making or sheep's noses and causes "grub in the extend from Jamestown, N. D., to Vermillion, MGHT THEIB CIGARS ON THE HALO deriving as much profit as otherwise head and a little of it stirred with S. D., the eastern wall being Special Attention given to street cars to the poor "Sick man, alias might be realized. Close competition, fresh cow dung and applied to found to be neaily parallel to and about myself. I am no longer blithe and gay, S O W O I young apple trees will repel the hateful the raising of a surplus amount of 100 miles west of the Minnesota State and when Inhere are no muiders in the borer and deter rabbits from eating product that must be disposed of, renders line. A extra stone for giinding feed. papers some of my morbid friends call the b-o-k. The depth of borings of the various it necessary to secure good yields around to hear me give a groan recital, Steam Cornsheller. wells varies from 610 feet to 1,576 feet, and also to take such pains as are just by the way of pastime. Hint the foiiner being at Yankton, while the necessary to secure the best yield at It is this state of patent medicine In sewing it rests you to change Vood taken for cash or in exchange latter is at Jamestown. The flow of the lowest cot,t. And one of the best health which has made me acquainted your position frequently. water greatly depends upon the size of plan3 of doing this, is to condense Ahe limvtiQ jVIill a with a trait of humanity which makes boie. The largest well in the Dakotas Tough beef is made tender by lying work instead of attempting to skim me feel like associating with sea serpents, at the present time is six inches in a few minutes in vinegar water. over a large acreage, doing no part of pink rats and other dumb animals ^BH PURCHASES diameter aud the smallest two inches in Quick buscuit.—Two cups flour, one which are not sympathetic. I have discoved the work thorouguly. diameter. Nearly all of the smaller wells and CHEAP SALES. tablespoonful mixed lard and butter, that next to love, money-making, in the southern part of the State penetrate one cup milk, one heaping teaspoonful running for office the greatest human Skille a or on he a only about 350 feet, where a baking powder, pinch salt Handle HAXSCHEN passion is that of amateur doctoring. Many good farmers use an almost stratum of water-bearing rock is found little, roll out and cut quickly, and You may meet ten homeless, peaceable, which furnishes an ample supply of incredable number of machines and bake in a steady oven. law-abiding citizens who pay their taxes water—from 20 to 200 gallons per minute. Contractor and Euildor. implements in their work, and find without talking anarchy.and out of that Half a teaspoonful of sugar will The six-inch wells, which penetrate them all necessary. For a crop of hay number theie will be niue who have the nearly alw iys revive a dying fire, anH, to the artesian basin, have great force THE REMINDER. for instance, there are ten machines. clothes of gentlemen but the souls of unlike the few drops of coal oil which and volume, flowing from 3,500 to 3,500 A crop of potatoes calls for no less than dog-poisoners. Just why the average my mind and ruin my constitution merely Special attention given to maso» servants are so fond of using and gallons of water per minute, and having for the pleasure of using me for the man wants to try his pet medicine on all theseven distinct implements and machines. which have caused so many sad accidents, a pressure of 50 to 150 pounds to work in the city and country. drugstore dog. But they wept salt tears his friends,regardless of the possibilities A crop of oats or wheat square inch. is perfectly safe. of a wild, volcanic misfit, is something when I told ihem what ailed me. And brings eight of these into use, and New Ulm. Minn. exclaimed in passionate tones "gieat One well at Yankton has been furnishing Chocolate Icing:—Allow one pound for which scientists can not account. I everyone is indispensable for the profitable 40-horse power during the last heavens! so young, so fair and yet there of icing sugar to every two ounces of is also surpii&ing how many men drink The North Star Lung and Throat Balsam culture and harvesting of these two yeais, and the importance of the can be no escape!" chocolate grate the latter into a saucepan, rancid hair dye behind their office doors is a sure cure for coughs and coids* crops. There are several kinds .of artesian well as a motive power is even three times per day before meals, and and with it eight tablespoonfuls It wasn't much but it has wrecked machine too, plows, harrows, etc for of more importance than for hrigation. whose vest pockets bulge with pills. As of water stir well and let it cook gently etioneer m3n than I. It was simply this: different uses and so on. And everyone The question of an inexhaustible supply soon as I got into the habit of coming Mis. Jones two weeks ago gave me a for ten minutes, then add the sugar, of them calls for mechanical skill seems to be satisfactorily answered by BOEMEB & SHAFEKAM, down town looking like a man who commission to match a section of baby and use while waim. reference to the wells of Yankton Couuty and scientific knowledge of the purposes needed an antidote I learned all this blue libbon and buy a yaid and a quarter If a child chokes in trying to swallow alone, whose boundaries contain not for which it is ubed. I is thus without reading it in the papers. My more of the same. It is this trying to Carpenters, a button, a penny, or any article less than 100 of these spouters.and theie first bout was with a long-haued stranger, patch up her incomplete job of shopping seen that skilled labor is indispensable of the kind, turn him head downwards, iB no decrease of flow or force yet perceptible. who does not exactly fall under the which is undeimimng me. I industriously to the profitable culture of a farm.ajnd holding him by the ueck aud heels. Builders and Contractors. class of amateur Lucietia Borgias, who forgot it during the first week after not to mention thorough business habits If the offending article does not roll has been chasing me around to tiy variegated which to aid my intellect she tied a In the State there are 350 wells, those which are equally necessary, it follows out of his mouth, administer a dose of Nh W ULM, MINN. diugs on me. He looked at me large, gay bow on my forefinger. As noted for great flow being located at that a farmer needs quite as castor oil to aid its passage through along time befoie he made his attack soon as I got out of sight of the house I the following points: Yankton, 3,500 much preparation for his business, as the stomach and intestines. Designs and plans made to order and until I giew lestive under his gimlet removed the bow and put it back when gallons per minute Huron,2,500 Woousocket.3,000 a business man or a mechanic. -timates on all work furnished and gaze. I letum. At the piesent writing it is Columbia, 3,000 Aberdeen, Potato soup:—Three pints of rich difficult to tell which will wear out first, 3,500. In compaiison with some of the •ontiacts faithfully executed. milk, one pint of mashed potato, two "Young man," he commenced, "you Cos of W in or Land the bow or myself. This is how Mrs. noted wells in this country and Europe tiblespoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper have something on your mind. I can see The reason many farmers have to Jones is tiying to thiust an unsought the wells of South Dakota are wonder- to taste. Boil the milk, add the it-in the lines of caie which are furrowing tvork harder and longer hours martyrdom on me as indicated above.— potato and boil again, stirring frequently, E I E 9 your brow. I take a gieat inteiest in is because their land is not Conflagration Jones', in Inter- Ocean. that the potato may become The figure 9 in our dites T\ ill mako a long stay young men, and so you will pardon my rich enough to give full crops. thoroughly disolved, and seasoxi just No man or woman now living will ever date a solicitude. I haven't had anything but Such land may be called cheap, but before serving. Serve very hot. solicitude to eat for over two days. If Queer a of Mar Twain. document without using the figure 9 I stands the greater coat of working it in •proportion in the third place in 1S90, where it will remain ten you would but refoim you will be happy. The simphest method of loosening to its products makes it the Whenever Mark Twain has a large years and then move up to becoud place in 1900, Please reform, and loan me a dollar, wall-paper is to start a large kettle of dearest of all. So if the farmer wants a half, a quarter, or a dime. Do youdinner party at his home in Hartford, v, here it will rest for one hundred ears. water hoiling in the room. The dampness reduced hours of labor let his ifforts catch my drift?" There is another "9" \v hich has also come to stay. says the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, will soon loosen the paper, and it be concentrated on increasing the fertility It is unlike the figure 9 in our datob in the respect I thought I did and I told him to go particularly when he has any Englishmen may be readily stripped off. If the of his soil. When it is rich that it has already moved up to first place, where and fill up on doughnut holes and charge for guests, he is in the habit, it is boiling water is not a possibility, mop the same to my account. This gentleman's enough he may make eight hours a it will permanently rem It is called the Xo said, of rising at what he considers the the paper all over with wet cloths, and solicitude furnished a sort of tip 9" High Arm Wheeler A, W'lson Sewing Machme. day's labor. Hours of work for market proper moment, without any warning leave the water to soak in, repeating that I would have to rouge if I cared to The "No 9" is erdor=ed for first place by the gardjoers are always shorter than on or explanation, and beginning a set the process many times until loosened. experts of Europe at the Pjria Exposition of 1889, maintain my old-time buxomness. But speech of a humorous kind. usually the farm. The land is richer and the "All is not gold that glitters," nor is where, after a severe contest with the leading machines the real shock came when I met a fine, employes receive on the average better occupies from fifteen to twenty of the world, it was awarded the "only everything brass that discolors. A frank old gentleman with whom I was wages for their shorter hours than minutes, and does his best to entertain Grand Prize given to familj sewing machines all person wearing a 14-carat ring on one •on a speaking acquaintance. "My boy," others on exhibit having received lower awards and tickle his auditors. Sometimes do hired men on the farm. finger and a 10-car.*t ring, on another «aid he, "you look bad. You won't live of gold medals, etc The French Government his efforts, always premeditated may have noticed that the finger with also recognized its superiority by the decoration of and carefully prepared, are highly successful Picking:. the higher carat will be discolored and Mr Nathaniel Wheeler, Presidentof the company, sometimes they are not. If farmers would take one good with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. the other one not The reason is that Humor cannot be fabricated to order. breed of fowls and carefully study the ring of the lower carat fits snugty The "No 9" is not an old machine improved But they are invanbly laughed at, of their characteristics, they would maKe and the other is rather loose, thus upon, but ib an entirely new machine, and the double the profit than if they keep course. I is an absolute requirement Grand Prize at Paris was awarded it ab the grandest causing friction. advance sewing machine mechanism of the trying to originate some new breed. of common politeness that they should age. Those who buy it can rest assured, therefore, It sounds nice to hear yourself spoken be, when a host demands laughter as is a a Californi a a in of having the very latest and best. ANOTHER AKTESIAN WELL AT YANKTON, of as the originator of some new and a return for hospitality. Twain likes ful. The largest well in the world, at valuable breed but few succeed in Whatever injures farmers in any to be regarded as eccentric and original Paris,2,359 feet in depth and 3 1-2 feet in starting a variety of fowls that amount section of country is likely to affect all and this is unquestionably original. diameter, throws little over 1,000 gallons to anything. others. Fo several years the profits No man that I have ever heard of, per minute. of California fruit growing have greatly either here or abroad, regularly makes* At a recent meeting of the Oxford In South and North Dakota the limits diminished the yield of wheat and formal speeches at his own table, especially of the artesian basin are clearly defined Farmers' Club Mr. Linter said: "Four other grains. I is probable that fruit without premonition. Twain on the north, east, and south, and it is geese are good for a pound of feathers will in the future be the chief agricultural evidently thinks he has a reputation to believed that the western boupdary extends every six weeks, and their feathers product of the Golden state. sustain and he sustains it in the extraordinary a considerable distance west ©f are worth fifty cents each year. W the Missouri River, although no wells But- a new disease has attacked the manner described. He might are looking for something that pays. have yet been drilled upon the west side. grape vines in the southern part of the be funny, if he chose, while keeping We have it in the goose. But it is not A chemical analysis shows that some state, and is giving vine growers great his seat the position would not mar fashionable now for farmers' wives of the wells flow soft water others pour uneasiness. The worst ol it is they do his fun. But that would not be sufficiently and daughters to pick geese. I is forth extremely hard water, while it is not know its character. The state and emphatic to suit him,so he prefers hard to find any fancy work that pays impossible to drink the Water from soma National Departments of Agriculture much. Any smart girl can make muscle to impress his guests with a full HOW'S TER LIVER? of the wells, so highly is it impregnated and money raising geese." have been applied to, but though the consciousness of his premeditated determination with mineral properties. One well was s*¥\ long if you don't do something* right leaves and fruit of the planes, and even to do something worthy of The American Agriculturist advises, away. Who's your doctor?" found to produce salt water and had to the soil, have been oarefully examined, the occasion. I may be that he is if you can't get meat for your fowls, be abandoned. Artesian water is mineralized "Doc Jandera." V* \~^.. no cause appears for the thus seeking to advertise himself by his buy them some cotton-seed meal. If to a great extent from 'having "Homy-pathy?" --*•?. fatality. The fruit appears all right post-prandial harangues—a disposition fed daily one pint to a mess of soft dissolved the soluble constituents of the "No. in the afternoon. The next morning with which he is sometimes credited. strata through which it percolates. In food for 200 hens is sufficient Milk is "Ally-pathy, hay? Well, see here, the grapes turn a sickly yellow, and Doing the thing in that way is in itself South Dakota these constituents are also an excellent substitute for meat, you're a dead man if you go along this soon shrivel and die. The trouble at so comical that he could not hope, however sucn as have imparted to the water undoubted and, in fact, is considered preferable «-. -way taking boss medicine. You don't present affects "the San Bernardino preposterous his jests might be, hygienic remedial properties, know now whether it's the original disease by some poultry keepers. No matter and are in no wise to be considered unfortunate, valley in the southern part of the to say anything half so good. or the drugs that's keeping you how well balanced their ration may WHEELER & WILSON WFQr CO., although the water is not state, where Los Angeles is situated. 1J0» -down. Come with me right now and I'll be, change it often. A variety of food 185 and 187 Wabash Ave., Chicago. always pleasant to the taste. There are reports that it has extended |*V,introduce you to my doctor. He's homy,*•? v, tJ^zgfA. a E a is best. .Jgf &*%M?$mL&% T*Str For Sale by jpathy and he's a daisy. You can't live "fJk to the San Joaquin valley farther "Where do you come from?" asked the The Senatorial Investigations Committee C:H HORNBURG,|-\ §S ^/Bj in a taking so much drugs." -3.3 ™r^ north, but these lack confirmation. has recently completed an exhaustive lady addressing the girl in the intelligence "^Tin jlLils only should be used'i pA "But I'm taking no drugs." «&.*« 4*£J investigation of the uses of artesian wells Sew Ulm, Mmn.*~ office,who was an applicant for a cook's Some of the growers have a theory All mild should be strained immediately "What in thunder ails you then?" for irrigation purposes, and has -recommended situation. "Sure an' I'm a Down-easier, that the blowing of ocean air on the ED. PAULSEN, "fej For au answer I took him aside, drew the expenditure of half a million after it is drawn. ma'am," replied the girl ia & decided vines is the cause, but this has always fig* small package from my pocket, dollars for experimental purposes in this iJ^'jMilk from cows in good health and brogue. A down-easter? Why, I been the condition, while the blight Licensed Auctioneer g||8howed it to him, and whispered a few direction. tfould take you to be an Irish girl 'by apparent contentment only should be has only appeared the past two or words in his ear. His face blanched,tears your tongue." "Well, it's true I'm used. three years. New vineyards planted came to his eyes, and he said with a The Rainbow Fire Company of Reading, Irish, but I came from the County A box or trough containing salt, to in the place of old ones die before, they ff^LINDEN, BBOWN CO., MINN! voice husky with emotion: Pa., celebrated its 117th anniversary Down, and that's east of hsre, so I call which the cows have access every day, come into bearing. gglg $ ^Correspondence pronvptly attended to. didn't know it was as bad as that. recently. ttvself a Down-easter."-—2?a*to» Courier^ N