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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26
A Good Word for the Plumbers.

THE plumber is an abused man. All
winter long the papers have been f1inging
at him and maligning him, and yet when
the real facts are brought to light the
plumber stands forth rs free from guile
as any living man. Yesterday, when De.
troit plumber was asked to contribute the
money for the proposed river tunnel, he
repudiated the idea that he was even able
to subscribe tenth of the sum.
I" But last winter was tough one
busted pipes-five pounds of solder to a
pin-hole leak-jobs on the slate three
days in advance - collections sharp
weather right in your favor all the time. Z"
eyes; but didn't make anything"
"1hey say you bought q totting-
horse"
"Oh, that's nothing! If was in some
other business !! could buy two"
"YOu wear diamonds"
Eyes; but diamonds are very cheap
very cheap"
"You carry gold headed cane
around"
"Canes are way down in price-a drug
in the Market"
elbow about that house with the mar
sard roof2''
"Thats Oh, my mother.in-law decided
us that
"And your silver plater'
"Had that with my other wife,
"And those vacant lots on the Cass
farm?"
~ traded an old horse for them twenty
years ago."
"And so you haven't really made any.
thing for q yearv'
"Scarcely anything-hardly dollar.
The papers have lied outrageously.
don't believe we have had over $4,000
cases of busted water pipes since last No
vember, and, when you come to figure up
materials, labor, rent and losses, it leaves
me in debt. l want to sell out and 70 to
making chairs. There's where you can
make some money-use poor glue, paint
over your pine to resemble rosewood,
work putty into the joints and keep the
curtains down when selling to customer.
Don't talk of profits in my business, sir.
Why, / am now half dead for the want
of five-cent cigar!"-Dctroit Free Press.
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happened to be other company, and BY
watching himself with great care, made
brilliant success all through the evening:
He sat with his legs gracefully bestowed
after the manner Of the minstrel gentle
man. His hand were as graceful and
easy as . roller skater. He said bright,
pleasant, brilliant things in an of-hand
manner. And when he rose TO go, every
body wished he would stay longer. He
picked up his own hat. As he backed to-
ward the door, in real country style, the
young lady darted forward to intercept
him. He understood the movement as .
tribute to his former awkwardncss and
penchant for lingering over the door knob,
and backed away more rapidly than ever,
to achieve, before she could, with her we'll
meant but unneeded tact, assist him. He
felt behind him and caught the knob,
swung the door open, and with a perfect
triumph Of mastery grace, the very poetry
of elegance, bowed himself into q region
of outer darkness and shut himself in.
lamp had evidently gone out. And un-
less young Mr.. Diffinger's nose was lying
to him in the most shameless manner,
somebody had carried the old shoe-bOx
into the hall. Mr.. Difilinger could hear
the muff1ed murmur of voices on the other
side Of the door, and it seemed to him,
once or twice, that there was some vi0-
lcntly suppressed laughter going on some
where in the country. He didn't like to
60 back to the parlor and ask for light,
SO he CROPPED on, with some misgivings,
toward the hall door. He thought he
could detect, in the atmosphere of the
close dark hall, struggling with the old
shoe presence, the musty OdOr Of old
clothes. The next thing he knew he
thrust his feet into the box of dismantled
shoes, and fell forward, jamming one
arm up to the elbow in band box. while
| with the other hand he reached out, and
grasping at anything to stay his fall,
pulled down upon himself, as he tell to
the floor, an old army overc0at, q pair Of
overalls, a balmOral skirt, calico dress,
and some flannel things that he didn't
know the names of. There appeared to
be marked increase in the volume of
the muffled laughter, after the crash Of
his fall, and the dreadful truth dawned
upon young Mr.. Difflinger as he rose to
his feet and shook the things off him. He
had backed himself into the wrong door,
and had made his exit into the general
wardrobe. He didn't know at first
whether to cut his throat and die right in
| tnere, OF go out anu muruer the arcnltect
who planned the house. He felt his way
back to the door, he emerged into the
light and tornado of screaming laugh
ter. He crammed his hat on his head as
far down over his burning face as he
could pull it, and strobe across the parlor
with one of the flannel things hanging
on his back, and dashed out of the right
door, while the company screamed and
pounded their knees and gasped for
breath and howled and declared that they
should die, they knew they should.
And that's the way the match was
broken off, or, rather, was never made
| BURLINGTON HACK Eve.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE big tree" rs it is called, which
grew in Calaveras County, CAL, con-
tanned half million feet of inch lunl-
Der, and was fellcd by five men work.
ing twenty two and half days, maki
ing 1921 days labor.
THE sixth annual Directory of David
r. Gould was issued on the 31st of March.
1t shows considerable increase of names,
and, computed by the usual rule, makes
the population of the city sol. 4S9. 1t
also gives official mortality statistics of
all the large cities of the country, which
shows st. Louis to be the healthiest city,
according to population, in the ULiDn,
the deaths here last year being only 1890.
st. Louis Dispatch.
ACCORDING to some statistics on serf
emancipation which have been published
in the Golos, there are still 2,OOO, 600 serfs
in Russia, their emancipation not having
been effected, either in consequence Of the
high price of land or their own unwilling
ness to accept the new state of things. In
the Eastern Provinces of the Empire the
annual number of the serfs emancipated
is rapidly diminishing. From 1861 to
1865 IL was over 500, 900; from 1865 to
1870, $50, 900, and in 1876 it was only
11O,S1O.
THE " Yankee" still retains his promi-
nence as an inventor. One patent was
granted for every 73O persons in Connecti-
cut, 914 in Rhode Island and 918 in Mas
sachusetts, last year, while out West the
proportion sinks to one in 1857 for ILL
nois, and one in 4, 400 for Kansas. Oddly
enough, however, there is wide gap be-
tween Connecticut, Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island, and the three northern New
England States, the figures for Vermont,
New Hampshire and Maine being one 10
1913, 5000 and 3,522 respcctively.-Bos.
ton Transcript.
THE wisdom of many peoples, and of
all ages, ordains for the punishment of
the same act various degrees of severity,
according to the influence of circum.
stances, or the guilt of the offenders.
Thus, homicide may be only killing by
misadventure, or wi1ful murder, or high
treason, according as the case may be. 1t
is, therefore, strictly on principle that the
act Of converting to ones own use the
money of another's exhibits, in the light
of our lofty civilization, various grada.
tions of guilt which, after the manner of
criminal statutes, are signifed by appro-
pirate names, the amount of the spOliatiOn
being in this case the principal criterion.
Thus:
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Appeals.

WONDER If young school teachers
know how much influence they lose
every time they appeal to q higher
power. When q person asks another to
do for her what she ought to do for her
self, people are apt to think her either
indOlent or inefficient, usually the latter,
and children think and decide about
these things as readily as those who are
older. Before q superior should be
called, would exhaust all the ingenuity
possessed, all the advice of the wiser
and more experienced, and all the
methods suggested in the professional
books and magazines at hand.
A teacher who meets, and in q deter
mined way, grapples with every difIl-
Guilty, is soon recognized as the "ruling
power of the realm" and her wishes
will no longer be questioned. As q
general rule troublesome cases need not
be decided at once. It will be better for
all concerned if little time be taken
for thought. Occasionally, an ambitious
young girl will carry this principle too
far, and try to conquer by physical force
pupils larger and stronger than herself.
Such an endeavUr may end in the teach
er's victory, it will be more apt to b
concluded by . most disastrous defeat.
we 6f0 ail coming 70 Dclleve IN the
"still small voice" rather than the earth.
quake or whirlwind. The subtle, per.
suasivc force there is In self-possession,
gentle and firm" comes q often from
the weaker as the Steiner SEX" We
once heard OF q mana teacher-who
had little faith in the work of woman,
who thought, in fact, that women never
ought to teach beyond the first few
primary grades. His reasons were
given as follows: "Women Cannot teach
for three reasons; flrst, tksv lass not tie
heiaht,"-hcre he Strengthened up his
manly form in an impressive manner,
for he stood six feet two inches In his
boots. "Sccond, DIR Aase MT tie
strcnoth"-and he clenched his strong
right hand and shook defiance TO an inn.
sginary foe. "Asd Gaird, they Aass net tie
voice" The deep bass on Tie last few
words made the argument for the time
unanswcra5le. and it only remained to
be shown by his practice that his theory
was not one of the wisest In the world
Educational Wtek;y.
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plate is . long and even line where the
ray Of light has acted. But - soon ~ tho
string vibrates, a. soon, that is, - the vio-
lin bow 10 drawn across IT. the little
disk also treu bles and viheates, moving
up and down with great celebrity, and the
ray of light rs1ected upon the photo
graphic plate behaving in similar man
ner, curved line 10 the result, and the
number of these curves denotes the mum.
Der of vibrations which are thus made
visible and 90 easily counted. Ali ordi-
nary musical tones, it Is said. can be pho
tographed in this way, and DR.. Stein has
been able to register several tones togeth-
er by fixing the disks attached to . series
of strings like those of . viOlinr.Qne
above another, 90 that four curved lines
are written down at once.-Bost0n Tran
script.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26
The Heir Of Confucius,

The death is announced of the eldest
male descendant of Confucius, the only
hereditary noble in China, or rather, we
should say, the only hereditary noble &C
coriing to European ideas. The editor OF
the Alnaaach do Gotta ought to include
him in his Isis, for Sianko was the lincal
male heir of adescendant of Confucius en-
nobled by the founder of the Han dynasty,
B. G. 2O2.
His representative was, again, accord
ing to the Celestial Empire, raised to the
highest rank in China short of the throne
in A. D. $50; and the title, the governor
ship Of the district surrounding the tomb
of the sage and an estate Of 166, 900 acres,
are still enjoyed BY the representative Of
the house, who, moreover, controls all
the family, now numbering more than
II, 900 persons. He IL entitled beside to
royal hono1, and receives them even from
the highest officials.
The case il curious, Is the only one in
which . great family has retained . grand
position owing to pedigree derived from
q thinker, and not from . soldier, . states.
man, or, like the Plantagenets, from .
brigand. The descendants Of MOhammed
are still separate In the East, and still en-.
joy an exemption from capital punish
ment, but they are not nobles.-Loadon
Spectator.
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IT may surprise some readers of the
Inter OCEAN to know that Imprisonment
for debt is not, as we have been taught to
believe, abolished in England, and that
at the present time by far the greater
number of English people live under a
law which Furnishes the inability to pay a
debt with imprisonment.
In our scho0lboy days, when ones fam
cy was kept alive by porting over the &C.
counts of Peregrine Pickles and Mr..
Pickwick's sojourn in the Fleet, the hor.
rors, alike depicted by Smollett and Dick.
ems. of that dismal abode of the insolvent,
were mitigated by the air of jauuty adj
venture that seemed to cluster around its
time-worn walls. Barbarous as the old
law was, it reached alike the rich and the
poor; 1t recognized no aristocracy of in
sOlvency.
The defects of the present system, a.
lately pointed out by the Right Hon.
Robert Lowe, are great, and the continue
ton of such law upon the statute books
of England is burning disgrace to her
boosted liberty. The present act in rela-
ton to debt does away with all imprisOn-
ment for debt unless the cebt is under
$3.50. The man who fails to meet his
creditors, If he owes more than $3.50, has
no terrors on account of imprisonment.
He is dealt with as tenderly as we deal
with hankrupts in this country. He is
free from arrest; all suits against him
are stayed; his household goods are safe.
and he is treated with the humanity be-
coming . great commercial country,
which should never aim to make fail
ure to meet pecuniary obligations justi-
ficatiOn for harsh and severe treatment.
But, according to Mr.. Lowe, the man
who has not been able to obtain $3.50
worth of credit has NO Bankrupt law;
there IL no provision made for the division
Of he assets. He is, in fact, . human
creature 90 small that the law cannot see
him. The poor debtor. though entirely
overlooked for the purpose of relief from
the burden of . debt he cannot possibly
nay, has the intense satisfaction of know.
Ing that the law in its mercy has devised
for his especial use what Mr.. Lowe calls
- system of oppression hitherto un-
known in England" 1.-THE old law"
says that gentleman, ".of imprisonment
for debt on final process, harsh and even
barbarous q it was, had in It, at any rate,
this alleyiation, that the arrest Of the pris-
oner was asatisfaction Of the debt. When
ever the prisoner was let ont Of prison he
came out Q free man, 30 far q the debt
for which 10 was imprisoned was con-
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cerned. 1t will be seen that of this privi-
.lege the law has, under the benevolent
title of abolition of imprisonment for
debt, found means to deprive him." The
wording of this law seems to give the
Court power to commit the defaulter for
six weeks certain, or till he pays the debt,
which, In some cases, amounts to perpet-
ual imprisonment. The law falls with
great severity upon the poor. who are fire.
quently torn away from their families and
thrown into Jail to await the pleasure of
creditor, while the debtors family have
to seek parish relief. Not only are the
pei ceful ways and sunny paths OF the
heavy bankrupt too good for the poor, but
the privilege extended to murderers and
robbers, which SHIELDS them from GRIM
mating themselves, is denied the poor
debtor, and he Is reluctantly forced upon
the witness stand to testify against him.
self or be punished for perjury.
Lastly, the law explicitly says that no
amount of imprisonment shall ever extin.
guish any debt or deprive any person Of
The right to take out execution against
the goods of the person imprisoned, in
the same manner as If no such imprisOn-
ment had taken place. For the purpose
of enforcing this disgraceful law against
the poor people, England maintains sub
ordinate judicial establishment at an an
nual cost of over g, OOO,O 900. In 1874 the
number of persons imprisoned in the
county courts in England for de0t was
4,488 As will be seen by the following
table, these we're all poor persons:
For debt above So. 15s
For debt under $40 and above $1.25. B. 57
| For debt above Is cents and under $1.25... q
| 1OCal .1s3Oc
The misery inflicted on the poor, the
waste of labor, and the cost of such q
fearful system as this to the country have
attracted the attention of Parliament; but
bill introduced by Mr.. Bass to mitigate
this evil, though supported by all the
great Liberals, was defeated, and the dis.
grace to the country and to the times we
live in is allowed to continue. Civilized
countries ought to have found out long
before now that the only Legitimate
grounds of credit are the possession by
the debtor of sufficient property, or the
confidence of the creditor in the integrity
of the debtor. All laws which tend t.
punishment for debt, other than that Of
giving up of all property to satisfy the
creditors, tends also 10 the creation of IN
unwholesome credit system which re
suits in the most fragrant abuses of jus.
ticc. In this credit, which in many
cases never ought to be given, the prices
charged the poor is something enormous
The debts thus contracted are frequently
collected by other persons who make il
their business to do so, and who secure a
handsome profit out Of the want and mis-
cry of the poor. Altogether, this system
is most oppressive, and the grounds OF
which the bill to mitigate the evils wa.
defeated-that without imprisonment fo
debt the poor would have no crcdit-ar'
too silly tn need argument at this advanced
stage of the worlds history.-Ch icago In
ter-Occan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26
How Music Is Photographed.

ONE of the latest novelties in applied
science, it seems, 10 to photograph mu-
steal tones, and in this way to record by
light sounds that are usually apparent
only to the ear. The art of photography
has already worked so many wonders that
few, probably, will be astonished at any
further feats It may be able to accom-
plish. At Greenwich for long time past
the magnetic pulsations of the earth have
been automatically written down by that
most faithful and Trustworthy of clerks,
and vt the Kew Observatory we hear of
daily records being secured of the sun
whenever that of late rather bashful lu.
minary can be prevailed upon to show
his face. The movements of the barOm-
eter and thermometer are also noted now
adays by the retina of q sensitive plate,
and doctors may employ the same infalli-
BILE and sharp-eycd telltale to register the
pulse beats of their patients. 1t is, per-
haps, only in the natural course Of events
therefore that notes and sounds should be
found capable of being written down by
the same wonderful agency. DR.. Tynda1l
showed US some years ago how flames
were influenced by sounds uttered in their
immediate neighborhood, and how they
were capable of approaching various in
donations in very marked degree; in
deed, II we remainder rightly, one fame
that he exhibited was 20 sensitive that,
like delicate-minded person, it invaria-
bly, went out when some particular word
or vowel was mentioned. Mr.. KOenig, Of
Paris, has already essayed to record by
photography the change that overcomes
flames from this cause: but German
physicist, DR.. Stein, has successfully &C.
complishel the photography Of tones"
by much moro direct method His
plan, It appears, 70 simply to fix upon .
violin string an upright disk or screen Of
mica, with hole in 1t. A brilliant ray
Of light 10 made to pass through Ibis III
tie hole on to sensitive Photographic
plate, which moves along q rapid pace
OF course IL the disk and the tiny oriflce
In It remain perfectly stationary while
the Photographic plate il moving, al that
will be produced in tho end upon the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26

Once when q bluff Western statesman
was urging Mr.. Lincoln to make certain
appointment, Mr.. Lincoln remarked that
the appointment would be q proper one
and that he would be pleased to crafty
his friend, but that Senator Blank would
probably desire to name the man. I'D
like to know who is President, you or
Blank" brOke out the Westerner, and
Mr.. Lincoln in his sadly humorous way
replied at once, "Blank is President. ~
NJ y Trib,Gne
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"A new style of gun, resembling in
shape walking'cane, is being introduced
in San Francisco, and generally adopted
as weapon of defense. It will prnpel
bullet 100 PAGES, and only trifiing re-
port is given. II is manufactured in the
city. and no concealment is attempted by
the makers.
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lation Of his pledges to leave disputed questions
to legal settlement.
Vienna kilograms of the 10th say Aus
tria would not long remain an indifferent spec
tator 10 the action of Turkey and Russia, but
would assume the position of defensive neu-
trality. SIS
On the 10th, the Nichols Senate passed
resolutions approving Of The Presidents deter
mination Ito restore local self-government to
the Southern States by return to rigid fol-
lowing of the wise principles of Constitutional
of the Government of the State of Louisiana,
represented by Francis T. Nichols: To accept
in good faith the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitutions; the
rigid enforcement of law and the suppression
and punishment of violence and crime; the
promotion of kindly relations between the
white and colored citizens of the State; the
maintenance of an equitable puplic-school sys-
tenn, and the circumference of any attempt al
persecution from any quarter of individuals 70.
past political conduct. The House caucus sub.
sequently Endorsed the resolutions.
A New Orleans telegram of the 10th
says the Nichols Legislature has accepted a
proposition made by the Commission that seven
members who had been seated subject to contest
should be unseated, and that, with this excep
ton, the roll should be called a. when the Legis
lature first assembled, and the present organise
ton remain intact. The House would thus in.
cludc sixt, two Democrats and 6fty-seven Re
publicans, one Democrat having died.
On the 10Th. Gov. Packard addressed a
letter to the President, declaring that the effort
of the Commission to secure the removal of the
obstacles to the acknowledgment Of one of thu
State Governments would fail, and that the Ne
ported purpose of the Administration to with
draw the United States troops was standing
menace to the Republicans of the State, land
encourages the Democracy to emulate the ar
rogant policy of Gen. Hampton in South Caro-
lima"
On the 18th, 1000 Northern hostile
Indians formally surrendered to Gen. Crook, al
Spotted Tail Agency, in Nebraska
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Thus far, every patent medicine or
soap man who has swindled newspapers
out Of money for advertising has gone in
sane.
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SOMETHING like epizootic Is killing
New York horses off, and . still worse
disease is attacking the Canadian cquincs.
The saw. horse Is the only safe horse.
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-PsaeA defines woman q . cree.
ture endowed with = self.ornamental in
etinct.