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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
TWENTY.ONE.

GsowN to mans stature! Omy little child!
My fair. sweet blossom, pure and undefled.
How have the years flown since We laid thee
What have they been to thee? If thou vert
Standing beside thy brothers, tall and fair,
With bearded lip and dark eyes shining clear,
And glints Of summer sunshine in thy hair.
should look up into thy face and say,
=. Wavering perhaps between tear and smile.
20 my sweet son, thou art man to-day!'-
And thou wouldst stOOp to kiss my lips the
But-up in Heaven-how is it with thee, dear3
Art thou man.:to man's full stature grown7
Dost thou count time a. we do, year by yeari
And what of all earth's changes hast thou
Thou hedst not learned to love me. Didst thou
Any small germ of love to Heaven with thee,
That thou hast watched and nurtured for my
Waiting till its perfect flower may .ees
What is it to have lived in Heaven always?
Ne'er to have known in all the calm, bright
The jar and fret of earth's discordant din?
Thy bEothers-they are, mortal-they must tread
Outlines in rough. hard ways, with bleeding
feet;
Must fight with dragons. must bewail their dead,
And fierce Apolly0n face to face must meet.
I, who would give my very life for theirs,
cannot save them from earth'a pain, or loss;
I cannot shield them from its xriefs or cares;
Each human heart must bear alone its cross!
Was God. then. kinder unto thee than them,
0 thou, whose little life was but a span?
All, think it not! In all His diadem
No star shines brighter than the Kingly man,
Who nobly earns whatever crown he wears,
Who grandly cOnQueTs, or as grandiy dies;
And the white banner of his manhood bears
Through all the years uplifted to the skiesi
What lofty peans shall the victor greet!
What crown respondent for his brow be fit!
o child, if earthly life be bitter-sweet,
Hast thou not something missed in missing It ?
Julia C. r. Do'r, in Sunday afternoon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
A Steam Juryman.

The other day, q summons, COM
handing Thatcher Magoin to present
himself for service in the jury-box, was
returned to the Commissioner of Jurors
with the information that it had been
served on the wrong party. The Com
missioner said to the bearer:
'That settles it as far as you are
concerned, but Magoin must come here
and show cause why he should not be
a juror" ...
"He can't" was the reply, she's
too busy. If he did come he would
make things hot for you. Beside, you
would have to send derrick and a
truck 10 bring him. He turns the scales
at 5000 lbs
The Commissioner was incredulous;
worse, he made remarks not cOmpli-
mentary to the speakers condition with
respect tosobriety. Then the summoned
man explained:
~ am telling you facts, Mr.. Com
missioner" he said. "Thatcher Ma
goin is steam engine, and is located
ut the foot of Fletcher street. 1 am
Nicholas Morris, stevedore. Years ago
1 was employed by man named
Thatcher Magoin. named my en-
CINE on Pier 10, East River, after him.
When the Directory man came to the
dock to get names he saw the name of
Thatcher Maguin on the engine, and,
thinking that he was the boss, put it in
the book. You'll see it on page 949."
This, we believe, is the first time
that steam engine has been called to
do political duty. There appears to
be no reason, however, why we'll
conducted or well-constructed piece of
machinery, with a photographic metric
attachment, should not be able to hear
and weigh evidence quite as efficiently
as the average jury.-Scieattfc Anser-
icGn.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

so fast that the wheels of his buggy
didn't touch the ground but twice in
the whole distance. They arrived at
Maysville at midnight Friday night,
and Immediately crossed over to Aber-
deem and were married at 1890 o'clock
by Squire Beasley, the veteran coupler.
Bendels description of the marriage as
performed by Squire Beasley is quite
graphic, to-wit:
do you take this woman for better
and worse?'' .
II do"
"Do you take this man for better
and worse?'
Il do"
MAN and wife. Sit down while
draw up the papers,"
The happy couple got back home
Sunday evening, and are at present
boarding with Miss Lucy Winn.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
Is There q Hole Through Mercury!

In the course of his observations dur
ing the recent transit of Mercury, Mr..
r. A. Proctor, the eminent astronomer,
noted q very interesting circumstance.
A bright spot was seen on the planets
disc, which appeared to him to be per-
fectly central and of sensible size. 1t
looked, he says, just as if the disc were
o round piece of black card, and the
bright spot a hole pierced through with
the compass-point in striking the cir
conference. One feature seemed de-
cisive of the subjective nature of the
bright spot-when small cloud passed
over part of the suns face, nearly the
whole of which was in the field of view,
the spot perceptibly diminished in
brightness, though not crossed by the
cloud. Another feature was that, as
the spot thus waxed and waned, it was
triangular in shape, but when the lus-
ter of the spot was steady. Mr.. Proctor
could not distinctly recognize this pc
culiarity. The appearance of the spot
was not modified when the planet was
allowed to approach the edge OF the
rather wide "field." Commenting up
on this remarkable Observation, an
American paper suggests that Mercury
NAV have q hole through it, and that
the bright spot may have been nothing
more or less than the sun shining
through: while the question is also
asked whether, if Mercury be tubular,
the earth may not be 50 also.-Casselps
Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
The Western ClfF.Dwellrrs.

Or late. blown over the plains, come
stories of strange ewly-discovered cit
les of the far Southwest; picturesque
piles of masonry, of an age unknown
to tradition. These ruins mark an era
among an:iquarians. The mysterious
mound builders fade into comparative
insigniticance before the grander and
more ancient cliff-dwellers, whose
castles lift their towers amid the sands
of Arizona and crowd the terraced
slopes of the Rio Mancos and the How
enweep pronounced Hov-en-weep).
A ruin, accidentally discovered by
A. d. Wilson. of the Hayden Survey,
several years ago, while pursuing
his labors as Chief of the Typographical
corps in Southern Colorado, is de-
scribed to me by Mr.. Wilson as a stone
building, about the size of the Patent
Office. It stood upon the bank of the
Animas, in the San Juan country, aud
contained perhaps 500 rooms The
roof and portions of the walls had
fallen, but the part standing indicated
a height of four stories. A number Of
the rooms were fairly preserved, had
small loop-hole windows. but no outer
doors. The building had doubtless
been entered originally BY means Of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
A Novel and Romantic El0pement
From Kentucky.

The Winchester (Ky.) Semi Weekly
Sun gives an account of an elopement
which recently took place in that city.
The parties were Mr.. Thomas /. BEN
del, Polish Jew, and Miss Kate Mar
tin, a beautiful girl, and daughter of
of one of the most respectable citizens
of Clark. The San tells the story:
Notwithstanding the differences in
their religion and the disparity of the
social relations, it was case of true
love at first sight, and it soon became
patent to the casual observers that
matrimony would be the ultimatum of
the affair. OF course Miss Kate's peo-
pie were very much opposed to the
whole affair, and tried every means in
their power to prevent the young peo-
pie from seeing each other. But
"love laughs at locksmiths,' and all
such trifies, and Miss Martin and Mr..
Bendel found means of communicating
in spite of everything done to prevent
it. Mr.. Samuel T. Martin, "the brides
father" had several very warm con-
ferences with Bendel, but to no pur-
pose, as it transpires. Last week Mr..
Martin was caught on the jury, and he
brought Miss Kate to town with him,
where he could keep his eyes on her,
as it were. Friday he concluded to
send her home, and after dinner she
started for her fathers residence in a
buggy, in care of an old colored wom-
an. Mr.. Bendel was apprised of what
was going on, SO he got into a buggy
and started after her. He overlook her at
Fox's toll-gate and took her VI ct a,nsis
from her colored duenna, and made a
break for Maysville By the way of Mt.
Sterling. Sharpsburg and Jennings
burg. Mr.. Bendel told 3 Sun reporter
that at Flemingsburg he received init
nations that Mr.. Martin bad been tele-
graphing to have him stopped. and
that from that place to Maysvllle. a
distance OF seventeen miles. ha I. drove
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
Punch'S Advice to Travellers,

On entering railway carriage, kick
any parcels you may find in your way,
and, if possible, seat yourself upon a
bOnnet-box.
If ladies' are present, insist upon
lighting short pipe, and close or open
the windows at your own sweet will,
and with regard to no ones comfort
but your own.
On board the steamboat make YOUR
self nuisance to your fellow-travelers
by indulging in silly practical jokes and
smoking bad tobacco.
On arriving ut hotel, force your way
out of the omnibus before any one else,
and in your selection of room be as
modifying to your fellow-travelers as
possible. .-.0...
Lounge about the hall, smoking your
favOrite pipe, and stare at every lady
who enters or leaves the place. If you
find a lady away from her father, hus-
band or brother, grin at her.
Bully tho walters at the table dh0te,
and if you find q kindred spirit, indulge
freely in a conversation of q strongly
seasoned character.
On your return to the hotel late at
night, shout at the top of your voice to
your companions. to the great disturb
ance of those who have retired to rest
before you.
If you are fond of fun, alter all the
boots at the doors and change the num-
bers and hours of the waking-up
slate"
If you have to catch an early train in
the morning, be careful to arouse, by
your noisy conduct, all the other in
mates of the hotel.
Touch everything~in the museums
and picture galleries, and declare in
broken French, bad German or imita-
ton Italian according to the country
that the South Kensington treasures
beat all the foreign collections hollow.
In fact. behave like q selfish, under
bred, ill-conditioned cad for q month or
six weeks, and then return to England
to lose your individuality in some small
city Office, or post of a mental charac-
ter, until the time arrives for your an
nual outing next year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

ladders resting on inches, and drawn
in after the occupants. The floors
were of cedar, each log as large
around as q mans head, the spaces
filed neatly by smaller poles and
twigs, covered by a carpet of cedar
bark. The ends of the timber were
bruised and frayed, as if severed by
dull instrument; in the vicinity were
stone hatchets and saws made Of sand
stone slivers about two feet long, worn
to smooth edge. A few hundred yards
from the mammoth building was a
second large house in ruins, and be-
tween the two strongholds rows of
small dwellings, built of cobble-stones
laid in adobe, and arranged along streets,
after the style of the village Of to-day.
The smaller houses were in more ad-
vanced state of ruin, on account of the
round stones being more readily disin-
tegrated by the elements than the
heavy masonry. The streets and
houses of this deserted town are over
grown by juniper and pinyon-the lat
ter dwarf wide-spreading pine which
bears beneath the scales of its cones
delicious and nutritious nuts. From
the size of the dead. as well as the liv-
ing trees, and from their position on
the heaps of crumbling stone, Mr.. Will
son concludes That great period of
time has elapsed since the buildings
fell. How many hundred years they
stood after desertion before yielding to
the inroads of time cannot be certainly
known.
The presence of sound wood in the
houses does not set aside their antiquity.
In the dry, pure air of Southern Colo
RADIO, wood fairly protected will last for
In Asia cedar-wood has
been kept thousand years, and in
Egypt cedar is known to have been in
perfect preservation 1000 years after
it left the forest. The cedars through
out the territories of the southwest do
not rot, even in the groves. They die,
and stand erect, solid and sapless. The
winds and whirling sands carve the
dead trees into forms of fantastic
beauty, drill holes through the trunks,
and play at hide-and- go-seek in the
perforated limbs until, after ages of re-
sistance, they literally blow away in
atoms of fine, clean dust.
On the Rio San Juan, about twenty
five miles distant from the City of the
Animas, Mr.. Wilson discovered the
following evening similar pile, loom
ing solemnly in the twilight near their
camping-place. The scene as described
was weird in the extreme. As the
moon arose, the shadows of The phan-
tom buildings were thrown darkly
across the silvery plain. The blaze Of
camp-fires, the tiny tents, the negro
cook, the men in buckskin hunting
garb, and the picketed mules, made a
strange picture of the summers night,
with background of moonlit desert and
crumbling ruins, on whose ramparts
lowered dead, gaunt cedars, lifting
their bleached skeletons like sheeted
ghosts within the silent watch-towers
of the murky past.-Scrib'ser for De-
cenlber.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
Does Running Water Purify Itself?

IT is not impossible to point out au-
thorities on sanitary matters SO welded
to pet theories that they unhesitatingly
deny that the conversion of a pure run
ming stream, or even large river, into
conduit for the sewage-flth of great
city will have any deleterious effect on
the potable quality of the water taken
few miles below the filth-entering
point. 1t has been demonstrated that
this is not only false in theory but also
in fact. 1t was DIR. Letheby, of the En-
glish "Royal Commission on the Wa
ter-Supply of London" it is believed,
who was the first to announce what has
since been proved fallacy, viz. that
eff sewage be mixed with twenty times
its volume of river water, the organic
matter which it contains will be oxi-
died and completely disappear while
the river is flowing dozen miles or
So" and, further, that it is safe to
drink sewage-contaminate water after
filtration" The "Royal Rivers Pol
luton Commission of 1868, unwilling
that this expression of opinion should
remain INFESTED, submitted it to care
full and ingenious experimental inves-
tigation. The result is thus an
nOunced: 1t is thus evident that so far
from sewage mixed with twenty times
its volume of water being oxidized dur
ing flow of ten or twelve miles,
scarcely two-thirds of it would be so
destroyed in flow of 1913 miles, at the
rate of one mile per hour, or after the
lapse of a week." And, after mention
ing certain details i'll support of this,
the Commissioners conclude with the
remark that lit will be safe to infer,
however, from the above result, that
there is no river in the United Kingdom
long enough to effect the destruction of
sewage by oxidation" DR.. FARMLAND,
an eminent English authority, before
the Royal Commission ON Water Sup
ply, gives some strong testimony in
support of the statement that it is inn
possible to remove the sewage contain
nation from water by any known pro-
cess, natural or artificial, so as to rem
der it harmless, except by boiling for a
long time, or by distillation; and, as
these two processes are impracticable on
a large scale, then, he says, in his opin-
ion, ".water that has once been con-
taminated by sewage ought not after
ward be used for domestic purposes;
and, inasmuch as it generally believed
that the noxieus matter of sewage ex-
lists there in the form of minute germs,
which are probably smaller than blood
globules, do not believe that even fill
tration through a stratum of chalk
could be relied upon to free the water
perfectly. from such germs" ~. a.
Judson, in Popular Science Monthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

AN exchange prints fourteen rules
for spelling q child-and the quickest
and most certain rule is omitted. If
you want to spoil a child, give the
youngster NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
pistol to play with. IT. goes right to
the spot, and no postponement on ac-
count of the weather. Norristosc,s
Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

Springs are little things, but they
are sources of large streams; a helm is
little thing, but we know its use and
power; nails and pegs are little things,
but they hold the parts of large
building together; word, a look, a
smile, frown, all are little things, but
powerful for good or evil. Think of
this, and m ind the little things.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

Mayor Doyle (Rep.), Of Providence,
r. l., was re- elected, on the 26th, By 1900 ma
jority, over four competitors.
In the Superior Criminal Court at
New Orleans, on the 18th, Judge Whitaker
charged the Grand Jury to inquire into the
frauds alleged to have been perpetrated at the
late election. He said the jury was composed
of members of all political parties, and they
could, a. good citizens. make a diiigent and
impartial inquiry into the frauds, and he
pledged the support of the Court and its off,
gers to assist them. -r
Intelligence was received in London,
Up the 9Th, that aDother revolt had broken
out In Kurdistan, and troops had been sent to
repress the disturbances. ''''
A Constantinople telegram at the
9Th says there were Indications of trouble be.
tween Pess!s and Turkey. about tho oseppA-
ton AZ The Province Of Khotou4 BY thc'Srpops
Of the latter. Persia had lhteat(nsd war I'm,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

-"One-half of the world don't know
how the other half liver' exclaimed q
gossiping woman. "Oh, WE'LL" said
her neighbor, "don't worry about it,
'tisn't your fault if they don't know"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

1t is as much as rich mans life
10 worth to die. nowadays. II his
relatives don't try to break bic will
thieves will endeayor to carry Of his
b!naY.- GncsaFaN! ssssrdey N'sM.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

Minister Bayard Taylor has sub
mitted to an operation for dropsy. and
IL il found that his kidneys and liver
are seriously affected. The operation
was successful and his condition ID H.
vorAhle,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

A Chinaman was naturalized in the
Court of Common Pleas, New York City, a
few days ago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

j. 4 j. Fenton, bankers, of Roch-
dale and Haywood, Eng, have failed for
u, 5O0OOO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

Robert Heller. the magician, died in
Philadelphia, on the night of the 27th, after a
very brief illness.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12

Henry Taylor 4 Sons, flour and grain
merchants, of London and Glasgow, have
failed for g. SO, 900. -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,


Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian
Prime Minister, has rendered his resignation
ho C,uv
, 1878-01-18
Mr.. Hayes Ohio Home.

FreGont IL a trItls over 100 miles from
CpIumn'. Tho population is about
1000. mostly all pc pie 1T wealth The
late Mr, Bi'chlri, President Hayes I'M
rli, WAS pnrn rniths wealthy men here. Mr.
Birchtri at his Heath left his property 1,
Mr. Hayes, A. also the present residence,
which Is delightfully."- situated IN the heart
nr forty acres Of beau itul forest trees id
g-rru ilcid1. Our call wa- M early one.
We waited in a tt,tily furnishes parlrr,
NlIich showed all the simplicity OF a
country home qa,int tables, old fash.
iDHed chairs ami ancient ornaments, hut
"A look of dnmosuCity about il that
warmed tho heart. Few ptintings aiorn
the walls, A landscape ny Gri,w"ld was
over tile piano, while over the mHn'el
hung Nh excellent Portrait, taken about
Two years agn, of P.esiicnt HAYES, with
his only daughter, bcAurltul little
blonde, on his arm with her feet on his
knee, and her dolly on her lnp. Mrs.
Haye'' picture, taken many years ago,
shows her ~ having her hair the same to.
day a' then. Her eyes are lustrou5 and
dark, and her hair black in her picture,
while her husband seems perfect blonde
a status OF Gen. Grant in civilians dress,
life size, in terra cotta, adorned niche
He was seated with his perpetual cigar
between his fingers, A photograph, that
attracted mucn attention, was one of
President Lincoln, taken with his son
Tai, and framed with the picture was an
letter from the artist to G "
Hayes, stating it to lie the last one taken.
1t WAS taken on the 2Gth day of February,
10 1868, by Alexander Gardner, who sent
il to Mr.. Hayes. The President is seated
in large arm chair, his left hand rest.
ing oa small table. His youngest son,
Tad, is standing in school-boy position,
reclining at the small table, looking at
his father. Close by on the wall was the
plan of the Battle OF Gettysburg and the
steel engraving of La Madonna Di Drssde.
A landscape, representing scene in
Pennsy ylvania, was remarkably fine and
painted by Weber. In the Town Hall
here is picture by Weberof Mrs. Hayes,
taken AZ u hospital nurse. The idea is
rather idealistic than realistic, and re-
markably tinei in conception. 1t was sug-
gested to the artist from visit made by
Mrs. Hayes to the wounded. 1t repre-
sented Mrs. Hayes st the bedside Of a
dying soldier, who, while his life ebbs
fast away, wishes, 10 take farewell
glance at some loved ones face in an al
bum which she holds before his eyes.