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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
Pen Pictures Of the Khedive.

Ismail Khedive is a man of about
forty-eight years of age, under the
middle height, but heavily and square,
ly built, with broad shoulders, which,
during the last year, seem to have be-
come bowed down by the heavy bur-
dens imposed upon him, under which
he has SO manfully struggled. His
face is round, covered by a dark brown
beard, closely clipped, and short
moustache of the same color, shading a
firm but sensual mouth. His COM
plexion is dark, his features regular,
heavy, rather than mobile, in express
sion. His eyes, which he keeps habit
ually half closed, in Turkish fashion.
sometimes closing one entirely, are
dark and usually dull, but very pene-
trating and bright at times, when he
shoots sudden sharp glance, like q
fash at his interlocutor. His face is
usually as eNpressionless as that of the
Sphynx or the late Napoleon ILL.,, of
whom, in my intercourse with the Khe
dive, have been frequently reminded;
for they are men much of the same
stamp in character and intellect, with
the same strong and the same weak
characteristics doing constant battle
with each other. The Khedive's voice
is very characteristic-low, somewhat
thick, yet emphatic, well modulated,
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Eddie's First Trousers.

TROUSERS make an era in any boy S
afternoon, writes fond mother, club
by little fellow less than four years old,
wearing u child's frock. remember
distinctly that frock of soft white cloth,
with pretty blue trimmings 1t wa
Eddie going to the city. In two or
three hours he came back. My! What
Il change! Up the front entry stairs he
came, looking like a Dutch Captain cut
short, with blue jacket and trowsers on
(real ones), and in his hand was an
American flag waving!
That night he couldn't sit in his high
chair at the table. He was too big {:
boy. The high chair might do Tor
Beetins Ga name from the Chinese or
Choctaw or Hottentot, given to the
baby by her young sister), but 10y
in trousers must have chair like other
folks.
l really think he felt the change to
trousers was SO marvellous an event
that others would think the boy in
trowsers might go back to something
else in the morning, like ice-cream
that, left in the kitchen over night,
goes back to the sweet milky stuff ON
the morrow. So in the morning when
Uncle John came down stairs, Eddie
cries out, "Here 1 am, just the same. :"
There was one change, and hopeful
one, change of purpose. II am not
going to ky in my t'owsis; l am too
big boy to Ky" was the word for
the future.
Unfailing sources of interest were
the pockets, Oh, those pockets! AS a
fat fist was plunged into one, it was
pronounced a 'werry deep pocket"
''Feel in them! See if they amt
deepr' was the challenge. As we
walked down street one morning, he
cried: g l have got to put my hands in
my pockets. There's Mr.. Dean wild his
hands in his pockcts!'' So the two men
went ''wid hands in their pockcts!'
1 left Hedie just now sleeping on the
back parlor sofa, a hand resting on his
plump chin, and one fat leg thrown
over the other. If / should put him
while asleep in his frock again, it would
mortify him dreadfully on waking.
But when think that jacket and trow-
sers signify that he is growing older,
and shall soon lose my chubby boy,
l sigh for the little white frock with the
blue trimmings, and have great mind
some day to put that frock on him
again.-Erchange
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

ATHENS, with 200 other Christian
cities, was, in 1856, united to the Otto
man Eur DIRE bv Mahomet II
The amount OF sugar consumed in
the United States last year was 638, 1863
tons, of which SCI, 1863 tons were i'm
ported, and only II, 600 were of domes-
tic production-nearly eight times as
much foreign as domestic.
QUEEN VICTORIA's crown is composed
of !, 1868 brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose
diamonds and 147 table diamonds, one
large ruby, seventeen sapphires, eleven
emcralds, four small rubies and 227
pearls. all set in silver and gold.
THE average annual increase in pop
ulation, per 1000, among the Chief Ma
tons of Europe, during the years 1872
1875, was: In Switzerland, rs; in Italy.
6.3; in France, 3.8; in AustrO- Hungary,
6.2; in Germany, II; in England, 1879.
The numerous indictments which
have been instituted against the timber
thieves of the Pacific coast ought to
yield a rich return. An official esti-
mates the stealings since 1855 at $780,
600, 900, one firm alone having carried
w V6VSOOVsVOV WOTlu VI lUluUcr Wlln the
connivance of land agents.
BOSTON has spent within the year
$4,000 in sweeping and cleaning the
streets, a work that employs eighty-six
men fifty horses, twenty-six wagons,
six water-carts and ten sweeping ma
chimes. During the warm weather the
principal thoroughfares are swept reg
ularlv every morning. and the. other
streets twice week.
OFFICIAL documents show that in
Italy for every million of inhabitants
there are 1862 individuals who have
attained the age of sixty years; in Great
Britain there are 1910; in Holland,
76,982; in Sweden, Is, 1877; in Denmark,
86,557; in Belgium, SO, 1882; and in
France, 1O1 1876. On the other hand
Great Britain has Is centenarians
for every million inhabitants; France
has 7.3; Belgium. Z; Sweden, &c; and
Holland, 1.3.
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Stock Gambling i'm San Francisco.

IT absolutely surprising to see what
Il mania prevails here for stock gamb-
ling. Capitalists, merchants, clerks,
servant girls, all shades of professions
and vocations are engaged in it. hop
ing to realize sudden fortunes. Men
of Opulence are impoverished by Il
single deal. Millions and millions of
dollars change hands in month.
When one comes to ascertain that the
most of the mining stocks in the market
are absolutely worthless, it is past my
comprehension why investments in
them are made. l have been making
some figures and find that only thirty
two out of the sixty-seven mines in
Nevada ever declared dividend Thir-
teen only have declared dividends with
in the past two years. There are some
217 mining industries on the Pacific
coast, and their total dividends up to
the present time foot up SlOS.859, 500.
Of this amount Consolidated Virginia
and California have paid $40, 100, 900,
or nearly onc-half. The total amount
of assessments levied on these PIT
mines aggregates 500. 259.1O3. Taking
out four mines from the list, it is found
that there has been more money put
into the rest than was ever taken out.
Deducting S97, $50, 100, the aggregate
dividends Of the seventeen bonanza
mines, and we have 81, 279, 11O as the
total dividends of the remaining 200
mines, or $4S,OOO,OOO less than the
total amount of assessments Il We'd dur
ing the period that dividends were
made. Outside of few of the bonan-
zas all the money made in mining
stocks is by mine managers and their
friends. The victims are the fools who
are captured by stock sharps, and who
are led to risk every dollar they have in
the world, too often on single venture.
Such fraud and robbery that is prac-
ticed by stock manipulators here is
without precedent Francisco
Cor. Boston Journal.
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He Knew Him.

A Police Inspector ON being informed
that restauratcur in his bailiwick
was serving game out of season. visits
the restaurant in multi, and orders din
ncr. Waiter says he, "can you,
give me salmi of partridge?''
"Sertingly SIR replies the waiter
promptly, and yclls to the cook, part
ridge for one.''
The Inspector finishes his dinner lcis-
urely, and then says to the waiter,
"Ask the boss to step this way
minute
"What for?''
Il wish to notify him to appear in
court tomorrow, and answer for selling
partridge out of season.
80, guess it amt worth while both
ering him about that"
"Do'as l tell you. am the Police
Inspector, and have secured the neces-
sary evidence against him.
20, spotted you, and guessed what
you We're after. 1t wasn't partridge
you had
Police ! Elm Inspector ("neasily)-" What
Waiter (checrfully) -" Crow." 49,
Hartford (COnR. Post.
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How They Vote in Paris.

Our Minister, Gen. Moves, visited
several Of the polls during the day,
He told me that everywhere he found
the same tranquility prevailing, nor
was there any extra force of policemen
employed. Probably the method adopt
cd to prevent fraudulent voting has
much to do with this perfect maintc-
nance of order. Every voter in each
reimbursement must be registered. He
then receives printed certificate, set
ting forth his right to vote, which GER
tificate he must take with him when he
goes to the polls, as without it his vote
will not be received. He shows his
certificate to the inspector, and it is
then taken from him and one corner
torn off, so that it can never be used
again. Then he deposits his vote and
the matter is ended. He cannot vote
IN any other precinct, as without the
certificate the vote will not be taken.
BY twelve O'Clock the voting was pretty
much over. Even the act of saving
their country could not make the Paris
ians ObliviOus to the golden splcndOrs
of that lustrOus afternoon. the linger-
ing summer beauty of the parks and
L ais. HC OIiuDS
Elysees and the Bots de Boulogne were
thronged with people. The carriages
around the lake extended in three un-
broken rows for over mile and half.
To this lovely day an evening almost as
beautiful succeeded. The Boulevartls,
till near one o'clock in the morning,
presented an animated spectacle. Every
newspaper kiosk was besieged by an
eager crowd, every lucky holder of a
newspaper was surrounded by group
of listeners. as he read aloud the re-
turns. Thus passed this day SO dreaded
by English and American tourists; "a
day the approach of which drove hum
dreds of foreigners away from Paris in
sheer terror of coming riots and posi-
BILE revolutions. The elections are over
and the Republicans have Jared very
much like Tennyson's Light Brigade
Then they rode hack hut not.
Not the Three Hundred
and sixty-three. Well, Heaven be
praised, the result concerns us Ameri-
cans not whit. Its none of our
funeral" as the little boy remarked to
an outside weeper on the interment of
his grandmother. 1t is by such sage
reflections as these that keep myself
from becoming too warmly Interested
in the political events that are transpir-
ing around me.-Paris Cor. n. Y.
Graphic.
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Report OF the Commissioner OF the
General Land Office.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.
The General of the
iand-O Office, in his annual report, says
the sales of public lands for cash are
about 100, 900 acres more than the pre-
vious year, while the number entered
under the Homestead and Timber-Cult-
ure laws is 7S5, 123 less. There were
certified for railroad purposes 700, 791
acres. The total disposals of public
lands were AZ 1922, 452 acres. Public sur
veys have been extended over 713, 572,-
737 acres. The total of unsurveyed
lands is 1,1O1, 1877, 1873 acres. There
were surveyed the past year II, 242, 1928
acres, at cost of $215,942.
The consolidation of all the offices of
the Surveyor General into one is recon-
mended; also, the abolition of the con-
tract system, and the appointment of
Surveyor General, who may appoint
assistants required to personally make
surveys.
A large number of grants for rail-
roads have expired by limitation, and
it is regarded important that action
should be taken by Congress either to
enforce the forfeiture of the grants or
extend the time for the completion of
the roads. Should the latter course be
pursued, the claims of bona .1sde set
tiers upon lapsed lands should be
protected. 1t is recommended that
Congress withdraw all lands chiefly
valuable for pine timber from the
Homestead and Presumption laws, and
from sale except for cash; also, that the
Secretary of the Interior be authorized
to sell timber from public lands in the
mining districts; also, to sell timber
upon any unsurveyed land (not min
eral) when needed for actual settlement
before public surveys; also, that law
be enacted providing for the care and
custody of timber lands unfit for agri-
culture, and for the gradual sale of
timber, and for the perpetuation of the
growth of timber of such lands.
Legislation authorizing seizures of
timber cut from public lands without
resort to the tedious process of the
courts is also recommended.
The United States Marshal for the
jouthern District of Mississippi has
seized in three counties bordering on
the Gulf of Mexico, in the suit of the
United States against John Manning
and others, large amounts of timber,
principally pine logs, estimated at over
Is, 900 in number. There will also be
seized large amount of charcoal and
turpentine. This action stops . trade
which has employed many vessels
carrying timber or lumber to foreign
and domestic markets.
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stolen something, but he did not steal
\ bed-quilt, as chare ed in the indict-

stolen something, but he did not steal
a bed-quilt, as charged in the indict-
ment.
We once asked lawyer if man un-
der arrest should confess to him that
he was a murderer, but desired him to
undertake his defense, if he would do
so? "Certainly,'' he said; .'lawyers
know no guilt until it is proven; and
they must in all practicable ways strive
to clear their clients from any and all
charges. In such case, even if the
lawyer was witness of the crime, he
could plead that he should not be re-
quircd to divulge the secrets of his
client, and decline to testify against
him.
But while, we are sorry to say, many
lawyers take this ground, there are 9TH
ers who feel it a duty to society that
right and justice should prevail One
of this class, living in New Haven a
few years ago, was approached by a
Yale student to serve him in mat
ter in which he was shamefully wrong.
After listening to the statement of
facts, the lawyer said: Young man,
will not undertake your defense, but
will give you advice in the case without
fee; and it is, that you make humble
and ample apology for what you have
done, and that you never again insult a
lawyer byeven suggesting that he should
lower himself or degrade his profession
by endeavoring to shield culprit from
his just Deserts
In speaking of an eminent attorney,
now Judge in Brooklyn, a fellow-lawyer
once said to us, "When he finds he has
the wrong side of case, he is the easiest
man to whip there is in the county. ,,
We have had greater respect for the
Judge ever since. We suppose there is
no class of men, except it be physi-
clans, who are more generally deceived
by those desiring their services than
are lawyers. Most clients, instead of
stating their case fairly, argue their
own side and only show the facts bear
ing in their favor. We have heard law
yers examine their clients in order to
get ut facts with as much keenness us
they would, on trial, the opposing wit
nesses. The fact that unforeseen con-
ditions arise on trial, may sometimes
be the reason why attorneys resort to
trick and subterfuge. No one likes to
be defeated after having taken up a
case.
To become deservedly eminent as a
lawyer, doubtless, requires more talent
and application than to attain Il high
position in medicine or theology. The
ignorance or laundering of the physi-
clan is often undiscovered, and the
''thus saith the Lord of the clergy
man is too often allowed to pass with
out criticism or thought. But the law
yer stands before Judge, jury, the men,
bers of the bar and the public. with no
other armor than his intellect and no
other weapon than his tongue.
How important that these be used
only in the cause of justice, and it is for
the people to decide if it shall be so
Let the trickster in law be frownetl
down. Avoid all suits at law if posi-
BILE, but if you must appeal to the
courts for redress or protection, employ
rs your attorney only him who desires
to have the law properly enforced, and
to see justice prevaii.-Rural New
Yorker.
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Turning the Tables on Scribe.

SCRIBE, til edramatist, met his match
in a nobleman ambitious of gaining Il
literary reputation by proxy, from
whom he received the following curious
epistle: /" Sir, l have the honor to pro-
pose to you to associate yourself with
me in the composition of u drama. Your
name will figure by the side Of mine;
you alone composing the play, and 1
alone defraying all the expenses of the
first representation. You shall have all
the profits, for work only for glory"
Scribe replied: Sir, have never been
accustomed to harness together in my
carriage horse and an ass; am there
fore unable to accept your very kind
offer" The nobleman closed the cor
respondence with: "Mons. Scribe, l
received your kind note of refusal to
unite our literary labors. You are at
liberty not to understand your own in
terest, but not to allow yourself to call
me horse. "-Chamber' Journal. .
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Law and Lawyers.

LAW, as defined by an eminent En-
glish jurist, is a command proceeding
from the supreme authority of the State
and addressed to the persons who are
the subjects of that authority. Burke
says, claw is beneficencc acting by
rule" For other definitions, see Web
ster's, or any other good dictionary.
For our present purpose we may con-
slider law, in this country, at least, as
an agreement entered into between the
members of society, that certain rules
shall govern them in their actions to-
ward one another.
As men are not infallible, it often oc-
ours that different constructions of the
meaning of written law are made by
different people, and different opinions
are held as to whether the actions Of
persons are such as to make them guilty
of its violation. To settle such points
when in dispute, Judges are appointed,
before whom the matter is brought
and discussed by a class of men called
LAWYERS. 1t is with this class that we
have to do at this present writing.
1t might reasonably be supposed that
the whole talent and skill of the lawyers
should be directed to the support of the
law; but it has become the custom with
many of them to support their clients,
right or wrong. The result is, that
many lawyers of ability are engaged
the greater part of the time in defeating
the action and intent of what they be-
lieve to be just and righteous laws.
Their maxims seem to be-First, get
your fee; second. look out for your
client.
1t is said that the first criminal case
undertaken by VIM. HI. Seward was
that of thief accused of stealing a
bed-quilt. The stealing was clearly
proven, and the article stolen was pro-
duced in court; but it was bed-cover,
tackled, not quilted. Mr. Seward insist
ed that his client be discharged. He
J might Be . thief and he might have
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giving meaning to the most common
place utterances; his words accompa-
MED by smile of much attractiveness
when he seeks to please, and his mind
is at ease. But under the mask of ap-
parent apathy or serenity the close OBJ
server will remark that the lines across
the broad brow and about the strong
mouth indicate strong passions as
strongly suppressed, and the cares of
empire intruding ever on lighter
thoughts, and judge the Khedive to be
far from happy man.-Fhiladelphia
TeLeqraph.
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The case Of j. Herbert Browne,
who while intoxicated shot himself
twice in the head near Burrillville, r.
l.. few nights ago, is . most interest
ing one for the surgeons. Two holes
made by the balls Of . Smith & Wesson
revolver of small caliber lead directly
through his temple into his brain, into
which probes have been rum several
inches without touching the bullets. He
still goes about, and suffers, seemingly,
no Inconvenience. The surgeons think
that the balls ere embedded in the skull
on the side opposite that Id which they
entered.
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attempting to rival. So, also, hard
physical work, presenting a still wider
dlssimilarlty to mental labor, becomes
comparatively play. The ex-Prime
Minister OF England finds his greatest
enjoyment in hewing down the trees on
ms estate. And We know of many an
instance where an amateurs mechanical
workshop adjoins the Office of a physi-
cian or lawyer, or where the artists
easel furnishes the necessary play to q
Drain closely engaged in scientific
study.-Scientifc dnlerican.
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=" When die let me be buried with
in the sound of the hammer, the clang
of the workshop, the hum. of the mill"
says the candidate in his speech. And
then he goes home and seats himself
in the rocking chair, while his wife
carries the coal out Of the cellar to get
supper with.-Inter. Ocean.
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The returns of the vote cast in Wis
consin, received early on the 9th, ut Repub-
lican headquarters, indicated the election of
Smith (Rep.), for Governor, by . plurality of
from 1900 to 5000. Legislature Republican
The returns from the Minnesota cleo
ton, received on the morning Of the 9Th, indi-
Gated the reelection Of Gov. Pillsbury (Rep.)
by about $4,000 majority.
The Republican candidate for Chief
Justice, in Nebraska, was elected BY . small
majority.
In New York the Democratic State
ticket WIS elected. On the 9th, according TO
Democratic returns, by about Is 700 majority.
The Legislature 10 Republican.