The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18

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be sent as samples, postpaid, for only so
cents. Address, Donnelly, Lloyd & Co.,,
corner Clark and Adams SITS,
Chicago.
The American Newspaper Advertising
Agency of Geo. P. Rowell l. Co.. New York,
is the only establishment of the kind in the
United States which keeps itself PERSISTENT
ly before the people by advertising in news,
papers. They evidently receive their re-
ward, for we have it from reliable source
that advertising orders issued by them for
their customers have exceeded three thou
day since the commencement
Of the year, and this is not very good
year for advertising either.
CoM1NG-A CRASH! Will You
AVERT IT Zone thing is certain. 1t
our farmers persist in sowing as much
wheat this coming year as they did last
harder times are In store for Minneso-
ia than she has ever seen before.
With an overs,ocked home market !;
prices barely covering the cost Of p'o
duction ; but moderate forcipr IL.
mand, and large amount Of grain vet
in the hands Of the producers to fool.
lshly throw another such crop on the
market in September, will bring disas-
ter to the farmers and involve every
other industry in the West in a com
mon ruin. Our production Of wheat
during the past ten years has increased
:hree times faster than our population.
La the decade .n.om 1852 to 1872 the
production ran up from $4,000 o0o-
IN increase of 81 per cent, while our
population gained but % per cent
during the time. Is it any wonder
then that the cry Of ''hard times is
general; that farmers cannot pay tLs
merchants their Eastern
creditors, and Eastern creditors the
Is it any wonder that
gold Is creeping slowly up, and would
it be surprising if general smash up
occurred one Of these days, in conse-
quence Of such persistent folly On the
part of Western farmers? viii you
stop and consider before you bring
such a calamity on yourselves aud the
country ?-Farmers' Union.
Mr.. Watts, the Commissioner Of
Agriculture, in summing up the grass
hopper calamity, makes out the devas
tated area to be about 200 miles north
and south, and about 500 miles east and
west, altogether an area of 100000
square miles, or district nearly one
aud half times as large as New Eng
land. The population Of this distric
was 100000 four years ago, and is no7
probably 100000. As nearly as car
be determined, fully $4,000 are i.
more or less want, and probably IS 900
will cot cover the whole number o
persons who have suffered damage
Congress has already passed and thu
President has signed law extendins
the time for the payments of install
meDts on pre-empted lands in Kansa
and Nebraska, which will be equiva
lent to loan of some millions to tn
afflicted States. A ill appropriatlns
thirty thousand dollars for the distri
button of seeds in the spring has pas
sed the Senate. The Secretary of Wa
is distributing army clothing to tn
naked.
W1DowERs-When Mr.. Blank los
his wife he lay down On the floor, ant
for seven hours without intermission
except for meals, he beat the carpe
vehemently with his boot heals, au'
cried, "What shall I do ?' When hi
elderly serveat mildly said, "She's i
a better place." he beat the groun'
still more violently, and roared NOR
piteously. than ever Still nothin
seemed to come of it, aud echo merel
sent his wild question back again upe
his swelling heart. Ina sympatheti
tone his faithful attendant warned bill
that he would wear himself out, whcr
at he became inconsolable, and fran
tically exclaimed, "What shall I do ?
The elderly woman advised him to loo
out of the window awhile He locke
|out, and in six months he was a newl
married man. His neighbor, who ha
sustained similar loss, never groane
and never married again.-Christir
at Work. .
: A bit Of glue dissolved in skim mil