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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
The Consequences of Failure.

Let man fail in business, what an
effect it has on his former creditors Men
who have taken him by the arm, laughed
and chatted with him by the hour, shrug
their shoulders and pass on with a cold
How do you dor"
Every trifle of bill is hunted up and
presented that would not have seen the
light for months to come but for the mis-
fortunes of the debtor. If it is paid, well
and good; if not, the scowl of the Sheriff,
perhaps, meets him at the corner. A man
that has never failed knows but little of
human nature.
In prosperity he sails along, gently
waited ny favoring smiles and kind
words from everybody. He prides him
self on his name and spotless character,
and makes his boast that he has not an
enemy in the world. Alas! the change.
He looks at the world in different light
when reverses come upon him. He reads
suspicion on every brow. He hardly
knows how to move or do this thing or
the other; there are spies about him; a
writ is ready for his back. To know
what kind Of stuff the world is made of
a person must be unfortunate and stop
paying once in his lifetime. If he has
kind friends then they are made mani
fest. A failure is moral seive-it brings
out the wheat and shows the chaff. A
man thus learns that words and pretend
ed good will are not and do not consti-
tute real friendship.-Trade Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
Don't Worry About Yourself.

To retain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from anxiety concern
ing disease. The mind has power over
the body. For a person to think he has
a disease will produce that disease This
we see effected when the mind is intense
ly concentrated upon the disease of an
other. It is found in the hospitals that
surgeons and physicians whQ>rnake q
to die of it themselves; and the mental
power is so great that sometimes people
die of diseases which they have only in
imagination. We have seen person
sea-sick in anticipation of voyage be-
fore reaching the vessel. We have known
a person to die of cancer in the stom-
ach when they had no cancer or any
mortal disease. A blindfolded man
slightly pricked in the arm has tainted
and died from believing that he was
bleeding to death. Therefore well per
sons, to remain we'll, should be cheerful
and happy; and sick persons should have
their attention diverted as much as pos
sible from themselves. 1t is by their
faith that men are saved; and it is by
their faith they die. AS man thinketh
so he is. If he wills not to die, he can
often live in spite of disease; and if he
has little or no attachment to life he will
slip away as easily as child will fell
asleep. Men live by their souls and not
by their bodies. Their bodies have no
life Of themselves; they are emily recep-
tacles of life, tenements for their souls,
and the will has much to do in continuing
the physical occupancy or giving it up
Rural NeO Yorker. $. sa,s,.~ ~ IA
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Revolutionary Relics.

The Andre papers being the very doc
uments that the British spy carried in
his boots when he was seized at Tarry-
town by the three militiamen) are prob
ably familiar to. most people who visit
Albany, for they have been in the library
for years. They now hang near the en-
trance, framed and glazed, and among
them q fac-simile of the famous sketch
of Andre BY himself: the original of
which is in the college library at New
Haven. At the other end of the hall, in
q glass case, are more precious memorials
of the General who executed Andre. Less
than two years ago the State of New
York acquired POSSESSION Of these Wash
ington relics by purchase from Mrs. Ella
Bassett Washington, the widow Of Col.
Lewis W. Washington, who goes into
history as the Washington captured by
John Brown in 1850, when he made his
campaign in Virginia. Col. Washington
was the grandson of George Washing
tons nephew, William Augustine Wash
ington. This nephew inherited by Wash
ingtOnb will one of the Ave swords be-
quosthed to the i've nephews then liv-
ing, and he chose the particular sword !
have Just seen in the State Library he.
cause Of its traditional history. It was
generally believed In the Washington
family that it was sent by Frederick the
Great tos.Washington In 1850 or there
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
The Bright Side.

The habit of looking on the bright
side is invaluable. Men and women who
are evermore reckoning up what they
want rather than what they have-count-
ing the difficulties in the way instead of
continuing means to overcome them
are almost certain to live on corn bread,
fat pork and salt fish, and sink to I'M
marked graves. The world is sure to
smile upon man who seems to be sue
cessful, but let him 60 about with acrest-
fallen air and the very dogs in the street
will set upon him. We must all have
losses. Late frosts will nip the fruit in
the bud, banks will break, investments
will prove worthless, valuable horses
wil die and china vases will break, but
all these calamities do not come together.
The wise course to pursue, when one
plan fails, ID to form another; when one
prop is knocked from under us, to fill its
place with substitute, and evermore
count what is left, rather than what is
taken. When the final reckoning is made,
if it appears that we have not lost the
consciousness of our internal rectitude
if we have kept charity toward all men;
if by the various discipline of life we
have been freed from follies and con-
frmed in virtues, whatever we have lost,
the great balance sheet will be in our
favor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
A Hotel Puff,

A correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
Quirev writes the following eulogy of a
certain hotel at Atlanta, Ca: "It's the
largest hotel, presume, in the world.
Many people who go up in the sky parlors
to repose never come down, but go right
on through to heaven without change of
elevators, and those who have written
back say they could smell the hair oil on
the hair of the clerks all the way up. The
halls are SO long and winding that many
of the walters get lost while going after a
pitcher of water, and are never heard of
until their remains are found years after.
l went in there one morning and ordered
breakfast. A small colored boy took nv
order, and it was SO far out to the kitchen
that he was grown and gray headed when
he got back. It's very large house
hotel! Many travellers. going South and
returning by this city order their meals in
advance, and frequently when they get
back they have to lay over a week to make
connections. The hotel is a very large
one, and everything about it is very large,
from the feet of the clerks, the mouths Of
the walters, up to the bills. It is provided
with all modern conveniences, hot and
cold water, bay windows, idiots, dirty
sheets-everything to make the traveller
happy, including an undertaker's estab-
lishment for the accommodation of such
boarders as starve to death while waiting
for the walters. 1t is very large hotel,
and everybody stops there just once"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
The Children's Gift to Hans Andersen.

The following letter from the Danish
poet, Hans Christian Andersen, to White
law Reid, the editor of the New York
Tribune, will be read with interest by 9TH
ers beside the children. The arrival Of
the books at the time they did-on his
seventeen birthday-was q very happy
coincidence:
CoPENHAaEN, April II, 1875.
DEAR SIR-During long period it has
weighed on my mind to address you-to
express my sincerest thanks for all the
sympathy you have shown me-but my
illness has pressed me down during this
severe winter so that I have had, and still
have, great difficulty in writing. 1t at.
fOrded me great pleasure to receive the
volumes about America, with their beauti-
full illustrations, after your having SO
heartily interpreted my utterances about
the subscriptions raised in my favor, when
the dear children broke their savings
boxes in order to support their tale-teller,
whom they believed in want. Christmas
morning received the advice by telegraph.
expected the books ere long, and had
noble, sympathizing friend, letter in re-
ply In the meantime weeks and months
passed away. l therefore wrote to my
honored friend, Gen. Christensen, New
York, in order to get information whether
the books were lying with some bookseller
or, perhaps, at the bottom of the sea.
About simultaneously with his friendly
reply got advice that the steamer had ar
rived, and exactly on my SEVENTEEN birth
day received the books. I rejoice at
this gift, the dearest that could be granted
to me from the powerful country where I
am happy to have so many friends, young
and old. Now, l do not only read about
but l have before my eyes this beautiful
country, where my age and delicate state
How charming if it could have been done
next year to the great feast; but this is
quite out of the question. I have, how
ever, reached a greater happiness than
millions of others. My SEVENTEEN birth
day was day Of sunshine and bliss-from
my native country and from abroad, far
away, came beautiful gifts, letters and
kilograms, and the charming present from
America arrived. I have to thank the
Lord for such infinite grace. Yes, am
child of fortune. MY life is the most
beautiful tale. But felt myselfoverpow-
cred my delicate health could not bear it.
During the fortni ght after the birthday I
have been suffering, and unable to write
this letter, which have been very anx-
ious to send you. Be content, pray, with
my words, and give my thanks in richer
and better expressions to young and old.
The precious work, Picturesque Ameri-
Ca" is to me dear present, and will be
preserved after me as memory of the
American youths love of their old tale
teller, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
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Whose Daughter2

There went to Davenport, Iowa, eight
cen years ago a poor young couple,
who had pretty child for whom they
were not able to provide. The child
girl, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Martin,
having no one to love, offered to take the
girl and make her their own. This they
did with the free consent and to the
great Joy of the poor young couple. The
girl grew in grace and ,loveliness, and
was embellished with all the feminine &C.
complishments which shine in society
and turn mems heads. She was beauty
and became a reigning belle in polite
circles. She had all the luxuries of life
at command and wealth and position in
prospect. She supposed she was ythe
own daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin. A
short time ago she found out by some
means the secret that had been carefully
hid from her. She ascertained that she
was Miss Martin under false pretenses.
Her real mother-still poor-was in Dav-
export, always near her daughter and
seeing her every day. The other day the
young lady mysteriously disappeared,
and it was noticed that the mother be-
came invisible In Davenport at the same
time. Putting, the two disappearance
oOAOVAOA AZ ~ tAOy NAASAA w oO1NO GAO
mystery. Nothing is known about the
interview between the mother and
daughter when the former told her love
after eighteen years of separation. It
would make q pretty story, but will have
to be omitted here. 1t IS one of those
family secrets with which the public
have nothing to do. There is no doubt
that the mother and daughter have gone
together. The young lady forsook her
foster-parents without even bidding
them good-by, and cast luxury, wealth
and position behind her. But she took
her gentle ways and education along, and
that locked like robbery. She left her
foster parents inthe deepest grief, for
they l0HeA her as. their own. They had
funeral in their hearts, where they
buried the hopes Of eighteen years. Had
blood any vested right to dow in and
sever ouch hearts as ihesea It was not
. truA h9tAer's love that could advise
Or even permit it-a. Louie Republican.
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Justice in Turkey.

The Constantinople correspondent of
the Providence Journal says:
''The legal science does not flourish in
Turkey. Some of your readers will per-
haps want to remove there when they are
informed that there is no such thing
known as writ of execution upon attach
ment for contempt, or subpoena to con-
troll the attendance of witnesses. The le-
cations look out for their respective coun-
trymen, but the Turks must look out for
themselves. There are several local courts
for the decision Of controversies arising
between Turkish subjects, but the Judges
are men who might as we'll be toll gather
ers on the Stamboul Bridge, and are
changed with every change in the Minis
try. Whichever party litigant pays the
court the most bucksheesh' gets the most
of the kind of justice he wants. There is
one court which will receive in evidence
only written documents, another which
will recognize nothing in writing, but de.
cides only onp arol testimony. According
ly the strongest party moves his case into
the court which will best suit his purpose
DR.. Washburn told ME that some five
years ago proceedings were commenced
against Roberts College by an adjoin-
ing landed proprietor, who claimed that
his iand was encroached upon. The
title to TIE college territory is registered
in the name of Turkish subject, and con-
sequcntly the local court had no jurisdic-
ton. All the Judges appeared on the
premises, and squatting down upon the
ground proceeded, with the aid of pipes
and coffee, to hear the case. The defense
partook more of the treatment adopted
by the medical than by the legal profess
sion. 1t was to apply counter-irritant.
A friendly Turk appeared as soon as the
plaintiff stated his claim against the col
lege, and set up for himself claim to
the land in dispute. This proceeding
forthwith made him party to the cause,
and thereupon the college claimed that
this new controversy ought to be settled
before its property should be put in jeop-
ardy. The court saw the wisdom of this
reasoning, and the two Turks have since
that time been fairly at work with pros
pect of arriving at a conclusion some time
during the next Hegira.
"The criminal law does not regard Of
lenses as committed against the State, but
against the individual injured or his family.
The system of punishment is that which
belongs to the lee talionis, and in case of a
murder, even, the executioner, before talk
ing the life of the criminal, is obliged to call
aloud three times upon the next of kin to
say if they will condone the crime for
money. If they assent, the life of the
criminal is spared"
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second fiddle. There is the true kind of
rivalry, if they would 0nly stick to II.

second fiddle. There is the true kind of
rivalry, if they would only stick to it.
A Parls sheet says there are 462 Ger
man journals published in the United
STATED, and all of them are in the secret
pay OF Bis. Lett be hoped time will
come when he will be in their pay, and
then tie world will run all the smoother.
In the meantime this tyrant, who salaries
the press with a greasy hand, keeps up,
moreover, i've organs in Australia and
one at the Cape Of Good Hope for the
benefit Of Africa and China.-Ctncinnatt
Commercial. "a
In Paris they make two eggs out of
one by cutting the shell with q GLACIERS
d1amoHd and then slicing the egg quickly
with an oiled knife. The two halves are
deity dropped into boiling butter on the
plate, which fixes" them, making them
took like two, and for which the custom.
er-who has net seen the performance
pays without suspicion. Who couldn't
pay the Germans their indemnity and get
back to specie payments in three years
with such gains?
"A correspondent says: "a man OF
much tact came to New York from
Maine and made handsome fortune
One DAY he came home out of sorts. He
was restless at night, awoke early in the
morning, and was evidently in trouble
His wife said: Husband, what is the
matter with your I am in trouble and
dare not tell you what the matter is.'
Have you committed murder or some
great crime? 'Oh, no! no crime at all
| am afraid shall have to fall rs
that all? Why don't you fail, then? II
can't hurt you to suspend payment when
no one pays you. We began with moth
ing and we can start again. When times
are better you will make money and
then no one can prevent you from paying
your debts do you feel like that
Then can take heart and begin anew.
Even now he is on the fair way to sue.
cess"
Was it really glass slipper by
means of which the darling little Gin.
derella triumphed over her unnatural
relatives and won the hand of the Prince
No, that is pathological blunder. The
story of Cinderella was tradition before
it was put into print in the French of
Charles Perrault. In medieval French
the phonetic equivalent of verre (glass,
was vaire, q kind of variegated or spotted
fur. The first man who translated the
spoken into the written legend is answer.
able for the introduction of uerre instead
of vatre, and hence for changing the slip
per of the ancient story into the now
universally accepted glass slipper. The
verre is manifest absurdity. The pref.
ty Cinderella could not have danced in it
The fur slipper, on the contrary, has
abundant excuse for its appearance in
the story, for was not the wearing OF
fur and other pelletry" rigidly forbid.
den by the sumptuary laws to all Princes
and Processes?
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A CORRESPONDENT, who evidently cares
nothing for the fact that the tresses of the
Lydia Thompson style have gone out of
fashion, pens the following: She whom
1 love has golden hair, the Loreley's
witching, golden hair, an aureole beyond
compare, fit nimhus for her face so fair.
She whom I love has golden hair, cas-
cades Of dazzling golden hair, with dane.
ing CLEANS that seem to dare-e'en mock
the SUMS bewild'ring glare. She whom
love has golden hair, Golconda mines ,of
golden hair, sly Cupid s., fell and fatal
snare to haste me to foreseen despair. .
N, Y.Grd1,htc,, ls'"2 l+a3 sa#@'' - ~
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

:. "A new personal pronoun is called for
that will answer for a person of either
sex. ~
flag through Canada now, if he isn't
shot before he starts. -
Rev. w. H. Murray, whose fame
wanes and grows with the grass of the
Adirondack regions, is just thirty-five.
Mime. Patterson Bonaparte will
make her seventeenth trip to Europe
this season, being ninety years old, too.
Ex-senator William Sprague has
been elected Colonel of the Veteran AS
sociation of the Providence Marine Ar
tillery.
Eli Wellen. an injudiciously faithful
negro servant of DR.. Rhodes, at Amherst,
Mass, drove off q creditor of his master
with musket, and has been fined twen-
ty dollars.
Mrs. Lincoln, though insane. will
per month from the Government. Sym.
rowful condition, are being expressed in
all parts of the Union.
Michael Lahy, no-armed graduate
VI IAe 1IIsuelu, MASS, Hlgu-OCnOOl, mas
been appointed by the Selectmen to take
the census of persons in town between
the ages of five and fifteen years. He
writes a good hand" with the pencil in
his mouth.
1t was at New Orleans, during the
exciting events of last j January, that Gen
Phil. Sheridan met the daughter of his
old friend and staff officer, Gen. Rucker
and first took into his great fist a little
nervous hand, and asked if it should be
"for keeps"
"A cruel Brooklyn jury destroyed
the future prospects of Mrs. Toby by
finding that the deceased Matthew To.
by hanged himself; that the act was
premeditated, and that it was occasioned
by the abuse of his wife, which drove him
to desperation.
Mrs. Sharon, wife of the California
Senator, died recently at San Francisco
at the age of forty-two years, from
cancer in the side. The last time she left
her room was on the occasion of he1
daughters marriage. in November last
Mrs. Sharon was highly esteemed by hel
friends and acquaintances, and was the
subject of her husbands tenderest solici
tude during her long illness.
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The Hackman In Court.

I "Your name is-is-what?" asked the
Court.
"Davey, sir-George Davey."
"And you work at-whatS'
"Drive hack"
"Ah-ha!'' smiled His Honor, acquir-
ing sudden interest; this is worth
twenty dollars to me. You are one of
those men who stand on the edge of the
walk at the depots and shout 'Hax! at
people"
II have to git passengers, sir"
"Don't sass me back, Mr.. Davey-I
know all about you! Only the other day,
as I returned from a May-day party in
the country, there were one million five
hundred and sixty.five thousand three
hundred and nlnety-two of you on the
curbstone, and every one of you yelled
Haxp at me. One seized my sachel, an
other grabbed at my coat, and another
pulled me backward by the coat-tails.
/ believe you are that mani" :
"'Deed, sir, I hain't."
swell, it's barely possible that I am
mistaken; but here's charge that you
were lying on the walk drunk"
II wasn't, sir; was sitting up along
side house. eEs@
"That's too fine point to argue. We're
you drunk" ,:.. =.
"Oniy sprung, sir; only little
sprung" ...-
THAT'S just as bad in the sight of the
law, and ought to fine you $780,,
"Grashus! but could never pay
that" b. -....a-
mo; my object would be to keep you
in prison all your days" .r.>
"Oh, let up on fellow" pleaded the
prisoner. "This is the first time, and it
shall be the last. I've a large family,
sir. and they need my wages to get their
bread"
His Honor took . long time to think,
and then replied:
It's wrong to let you off. The citi-
zens will condemn me, and the news.
papers will blow at me, butt believe lll
give you . show. You may 60, but i!
shall keep watch Of you. You must
mend your ways right off: Instead OF
yelling HaxP at man, do you smile.
and softly Whisper Sir, can. ! have the
pleasure VI conveying you tots0me des-
ignated pointr Promise me this"
The prisoner promised, and was al
lowed to disappear. imping sadly with
! . sore heel.-D6sroit Free Press. w.
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The obituary poetry Of the Philadelphia
Ledger grows ever more sweetly pathetic,
and is really becoming one of the glories
Of American literature. Witness this
lateSt:ai aEt 'a@E NfH&Fg'~HaE u.'ii Ff
Do not fasten the lid of the coffin yet, '19q
Let me have long look at the face Of my
pet. .,., -
Please, all quit the chamber and pull to the
"a, door, staf .ssEi ssg fsf4EJ is5.lgs va,
And leave me alone With my Maggie once
more.
IL t Gone TO meet her brothers. af.s q 2
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"a WE are told that 4 For man love Il /
story; for woman it il 4 history. . This
ispretty and alliterative, but, to throw
away the gush, it will be nearer the marx
to say that for both of rem love Is eventu-
ally . work on; domestic economy. with
light literature only in the, firss chaptm.--.
E1ehGnas. t,,f,s.: 81. +,,...,
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TO make tomato soup, take one pint
canned tomatoes. half q pint of water
stew fifteen minutes; add pepper, salt
and little butter. Then stir in two ia
b1espoonfuls of pulverized cracker
linked with little milk. Let this boil
once, then add one pint of milk. Boil the
whole three minutes, then serve hot with
oyster crackers or toasted broadly. r..
Farmer. s-' ~ - r
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A HARVARD student, the other day,
concentrated all his force. in one mighty
kick at football. Then there came q
rccoil, and, when he got through, his
collar bone needed splints on it. Another
evidence of the severe strain to which
the peor youth of the age, are committed
by the modern educational system. Il.
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