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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
LOST TREASURES.

If some kind power, when our youth ia ended.
And lifes tirst freshness lost in Anguld noon.
Should stay awhile the doom by Fate intended.
And grant US generously one precious bocn-
Saying, With thwarting~, bitterness and trial,
Your toilsome days thus far have been OPP
pr%sed:
Choose now some blessing: fearing no denial.
To light ard charm and beautify the rest
What should We ask: the price Of young ambi
Fame. power. wealth, and gifts Of priceless
cost:
All. no-our souls would utter the petitions;
Give us-ch. only give us back our lOet..'
No visionc,i bliss. no pleasure new and splendid,
No lofty joy by longing never crossed.
No new light undreamed of. Hcaven-descended
Only our own the treasures We have lost.
Fer. wearied out with strife. and glare. and
clamor.
Grown wiser with our years. and clearrr-eyed.
No mor' heguiled by dreams. nor charmed by
glamour.
We dread the new, and prize the known. the
tried.
All. what crowd of joys would gather round ms,
Could We but have our vanished buck again!
HI" heart unspMled. the strength and hope which
crowned US.
The bount.ous life. the ignorance Of pain
The innocence. the ready faith in others,
~ ne sweet: ssnntansrus earnestness and truth.
And all the rich inheritance Of youth
The plans for noble lives. that earth thereafter
Night be more pure: the touch Of love s warm
lip
Aud saving hand: 'he sound of childish laughter
The peace of home, the JOY of comradcship-
We had them ALL and now that they have left u.s.
We count them carefully. and sec their worth,
Aud feel that time aud fortune have berpft us
OF at the hes, and dearest things on earth.
All, yes when on our hearts the years press
ing.
And all our tlower-rlats are touched with frost,
We ask no more some new. untastsd blessing
But only sigh. 'Oh. give us hack our LOST
-Ei>GG,th ikers. in Baidrin's Ncnthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31

the malady can be known. Chambers is
disease Of the nasal cavities, but soon
affects the glands, and the blood be-
comes poisoned, so that there is no re-
lief. The swelling Of the glands is not
a sure test that the malady is CHAMBERS,
as this is often the case with catarrh
and distemper. But Youatt says the Pc
culiarity of the disease is that the SWELL
ing is not in the center of the channel,
but adtcres closely to the jazz, on the af-
fected side. If it be CHAMBERS. there is
no healthy, red color about the nose,
but dark purple, inclined sometimes
to a little darker than a leaden color.
1t is well to recollcct that the horse will
communicate CHAMBERS to the human
race, when it is one of the most diff
cult cases to control. We think it not
necessary, here, to give all the symp-
toms in the progress of the disease, for
if man is fearful that the malady is
on his premises, he should at once OBJ
tain scientific work on the subject and
watch all the symptoms in its progress.
But horses can and do have the CLAN
ders spontaneously when they are not
exposed to diseased animals. 1t is
caused by insufficient and unwholesome
food, foul air in confined places. There
are frequently instances where cavalry
horses have been taken in crowded
ships for weeks or months, that from
their confinement and foul air, the most
virulent type of CHAMBERS has broken
out, and proven fatal in few days, and
nearly all on board have persisted, en-
dangering the lives of the crews and
soldiers on board. Mules are subject
to the malady, but far less in danger
than the horse.
Unless the discharges from the nose
have assumedthe gangrenous type, and
the constitution of the horse appears to
be broken down, and the glands swellcd
and confined close to the jaw SO as not
to be moved, there is no danger of
CHAMBERS. But recollect that farcy,
nasal gleet, or even a violent cold, if
neglected, with continued bad treat
ment and exposure, may run into the
CHAMBERS. Mercy to the dumb brute as
well as profit to the owners demand
good treatment and comfortable quar-
ters for all animals.-Iova State Req
lister,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
The Clock Of Clocks.

In Mengers Building is now on ex-
hibition in all probability the most won
dcrful clock in the world. 1t was built
by Stephen ID. Engle, a matchmaker, at
Hazleton. He is about forty-five years
OF age, and was about twenty years in
perfecting the clock. Mr.. Reid paid
Engle $4,000 for it. Engle never saw
the Strasburg clock. In fact, he has
not travelled more than 200 miles from
home at any time. This clock stands
eleven feet high. At its base it is about
four feet wide and at the top about two.
1t is about three feet deep at the base,
gradually less toward the top. Its col
ors are dark-brown and gold. The
Strasburg clock is thirty feet high, yet
its mechanism is not SO intricate, nor
has it as many figures as the Hazleton
clock. The Strasburg clocks figures
are about three feet high, and the
American clock about nine inches.
Three minutes before the hour pipe
organ inside the clock plays an anthem.
1t has five tunes. Bells are then rung,
and when the hour is struck double
doors in an alcove open and figure of
Jesus appears. Double doors to the
left then open, and the Apostles appear
slowly, one by one, in procession. As
they appear and pass Jesus they turn
toward him, Jesus bows, the Apostle
turns again and proceeds through the
double doors in an alcOve on the right.
AS Peter approaches. Satan looks out
of a window above and tempts him.
Five times the Devil appears, and
when Peter passes, denying Christ, the
cock flaps its wings and crows. When
Judas appears Satan comes down from
his window and follows Judas out in
the procession. and then goes back up
to his place to watch Judas, appearing
on both sides. As the procession has
passed, Judas and the three Marys dis.
appear and the doors are closed. The
scene can be repeated seven times in
an hour if necessary, and the natural
motion of the clock produces it four
times per hour, whereas the Strasburg
procession is made but once day, at
twelve o'clock. Below the piazza is
the main dial, about thirteen inches in
diameter. To its right is figure of
Time with an hour-glass. Above this
is window, at which appear figures
representing Youth, Manhood and
Old Age. To the left of the dial is a
skeleton representing Death. When
the hour-hand approaches the first
quarter Time reverses his hour-glass
and strikes one OH bell with his
scythe, when another bell inside re-
spends; then Childhood appears in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A wELL~FILLED wood house is sure
sign OF good farmer, and the winter
is the time to provide the wood, cut,
split and carefully piled away, ready for
the busy season.-IosUa State Register.
A MAN took first premium on "big
crop" at our fair one year. l investi-
gated and learned that he was a very
poor farmer, never studied principles,
and that his big crop was the result of
fortultous circumstances altogether
Ohio Farmer.
FEW men achieve success through
luck. Especially is this true of the
cultivation of the soil, where nothing
is got for nothing; where there is an in
innate relation between cause and eff
feet, just compensation for an honest
days work, reward only for persist
cnt effort and steady purpose.-Massa-
chusetts Ploughn,a,a.
For PRESERVING EGGs.-Mix half a
pint of unslaked lime with the same
quantity IF salt and couple of gallons
Of boiling water. When cold put in
the eggs; see that they are we'll COW
cred with water and the vessel contain
ing them kept in cool place. The
eggs should be fresh when put in, as
one bad one will spoil all.-Scicntifc
american.
PROF. HALL lays down some posi-
tons, which, if followed by dairymen,
butter and cheese would be eaten with
better appetite. He says there are
thoroughbred men as well as animals.
Your thoroughbred man is essentially
clcanly in his habits, and in his work.
Hence such in dairying will commend
themselves to their customers. Among
such, even fly in the cream will not
be tolerated, and to such want of tidi-
ness in dairying processes would be in
tolerable.-IOWGS State REGISTER.
The Rural Ncu Yorker notes that, in
drying, corn loses one-fifth and wheat
one-fourteenth. From this the esti-
mate is made that it is more profitable
for the farmer to sell unshelled corn in
the fall at Is cents, than at 81 per
bushcl in the following summer, and
that wheat at $1.25 in December is
equal to $3.50 in the succeeding June.
In the case of potatOes-taking those
that rot and are otherwise lost, to-
gether with the shrinkage-and there
is little doubt that between October and
June, the loss to the owner who holds
them is not less than 33 per cent.
AMERICAN farming is now equal to
any in the world. Our farms, gener-
ally, are cleaner and freer from weeds
than foreign Ones-with some cxcep-
tions-and if we would use our native
fertilizers, such as bones and meat
refuse, and fish guano; our native foods,
such as linseed and cotton-seed oil
cakes, instead of selling to our foreign
competitors; and also use those artifi-
cial fertilizers which are so cheap and
effective, as an aid to increase our
crops, we could excel the famed
English farms in the product of the
fields. We have this yet to do. All
that is needed is intelligence and con-
tidence, that the more literally we feed
our soils, the more bountifully they will
reward us with teaming harvests.-
american AQ;lculturist.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
Conduct in Care OF Fire.

The following directions for conduct
i'll case of fire are issued by the British
Royal Society for the Protection of Life
from Fire:
Every householder should make each
person in his house acquainted with
the best means of escape, whether the
fire breaks out ut the top or at the bot
tom.
climates at the first alarm should
endeavor calmly to reflect what means
of escape there are in the house. If in
bed at the time, wrap themselves in y
blanket or bedside carpet; open neith-
er windows nor doors more than neces-
sary; shut every door afterthem. (This
is most important to observe.)
lin the midst of smoke it is COM
paratively clear toward the ground;
consequently progress through smoke
can be made on the hands and knees.
A silk handkerchief, worsted stocking
or other flannel substance, wetted and
drawn over the face permits free
breathing and excludes to a great ex-
tent the smoke from the lungs. A wet
sponge is alike eflicacious.
''ln the event Of being unable to es-
cape either by the street door or the
roof, the persons in danger should inn
mediatcly make their way to the 'front.'
room window, taking care to close the
door after them. and those who have
charge of the household should ascer-
tain that every individual is there as
sembled.
Persons thus circumstanced are
entreatcd not to precipitate themselves
from the widow while there remains
the least possibility of assistance, and
even in the last extremity plain rope
is invaluable, or recourse may be had
to joining sheets or blankets together,
fastening one end to the bed-post or
other furniture. This will enable one
person to lower all the others separate
ly, and the last may let himself down
with comparatively little risk. Select
window over the doorway rather than
over the area.
"Do not give vent to the fire by
breaking into the house unnecessarily
from without, or if an inmate by OPEN
ing the door or windows. Make a
point of shutting every door after you
as you go through the house. For this
purpose doors enclosing the staircase
are very useful.
upon discovering yourself on fire,
reflect that your greatest danger arises
from draft to flames and from their
rising upward. Throw yourself on the
ground and roll over on the tlame-if
possible on the rug or loose drugget,
which drag under you. The table
cover, mans coat, anything of the
kind at hand, will serve your purpose.
Scream for assistance, ring the bell,
but do not run out of the room or re-
main in an upright position.
Persons especially exposed to the
risk of their dresses taking fire should
lopt the precaution of having all linen
and cotton washed in a weak solution
of chloride of zinc, alum or tungstate
of soda.''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
Are Plants Healthy In Sitting. rooms:

THAT is, are rooms in which plants
are kept more healthful or less health
full than the same rooms without such
plants?
To answer this either one way or the
other, it would be necessary to know
how many and what plants arc kept,
and how they are kept; the size of the
room and the exposure to sunshine and
light, and, finally, how the room is
heated. We believe that plants, as
they are generally kept in sitting
rooms, are positively injurious to the
health of the inmates. Such plants are
never healthy. Scarcely one condition
Of Il healthy existence isprovided them.
The heat of the room is always chang
ing, to suit the people, not the plants.
AT night the temperature is generally
too low, and oftentimes the air is i'm
pregnatcd with deletcrious gases that
escape from stoves or heaters that are
fixed to last through the night.
Sunshine, the first necessity of their
healthy existence, fits by them like a
savory odor by hungry man. The
soil of the pots in which they
grow, is almost always too wet
or too dry. In the former case, they
are like SO many stagnant pools that
no doubt generate, though in minute
portions, poisonous exhalations; and
the same may be said of the green,
Shiny substance that too often is per.
mitted to collect upon the pots and
remain for weeks at time.
Ii plants are healthful in sitting.
rooms, it can only be because they lib
crate more oxygen than they consume
But this is true probably only of plant:
in vigorous growth; and the house
plants of which we speak, instead OF
growing vigorously, are rather in a
slow decline that, if permitted to con.
tinuc long enough, would end in thei,
death. We are fond of house plants.
They invest home with an interest that
nothing else can supply. But unless
the pots are frequently and thoroughly
washed, unless they are amply drained
and the soil used so eight that il
cannot become "sour," we should an
swer our question in the negative
Rural NeW Yorker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31

ly a creature as the morning sun ever
shone upon; I" but as for the silver, you
must excuse me there; l never stole
anything before, and, please Heaven,
never will again!''
"Surely you are the most cxtraordi-
nary person." said the young lady,
suddenly, for the light seem I'd to bring
revelation to her likewise; "you
neither look nor talk like a robber.'
"Nor am l. am not even q robber
Il am nothing. and have not property
in the world to the value of these arti-
cles of plate.''
"Then, if you are not robber, why
are you here? Why creep in at the
area window. appropriate other peo-
pies spoons, and get locked up all
night in their housc?''
"For no other reason than that was
in u hurry. l had come home from
Barcelona. and was going to my guard.
ian's, next door, when your unfortunate
area-window caught my eye, with the
plate on the table inside. In an in
slant l was over the rails and in through
the window like harlequin, with the
intention of giving the family pleasing
surprise and my old monitress, Sister
Laura, a great moral lesson on the inn
propriety of her leaving her plate about
in SO careless manner"
Then you are Gerald, my dear
Laura's cousin, SO longingly expected,
so beloved by them ALL Here the
young lady blushed and cast down hel
eyes. What these two girls could have
been saying to each other about me
never found out; but there was secret,
l will go to death upon it.
She let me out SO quietly that neither
her father nor the servants ever knew q
syllable about the matter. need not
say how l was received next door. The
governor swept down another sob with
another blessing and another kiss
and Laura was so rejoiced that she
gave me another hearty cry and
forgot to give me another lecture.
My next four years were spent
to more purpose than the last. Being
less in Il hurry took time to build up
tlourishing business in partnership
with Laura's husband. AS for the Bar.
onet's daughter-for we must get
everybody into the concluding tableau
why, there she is, that lady cutting
bread and butter for the children with
as matronly an air as Werter's Char.
lotte; she is my wife; and we laugh to
this day at the oddity of that first inter.
view which led to so happy Il dcnoue.
ment.-FrOm an Old Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
Fight With q Wolf.

BETWEEN three and four O clock Sun.
day morning, Mrs. NJ. f. Gratz, who
lives at the corner of Scott and Chene
streets, and is widow woman, heard a
great noise among the fifteen or twenty
fowls i'll the coop at the back end OF her
yard. Thinking that chicken thieves
were paying her a visit she awakened
her son Henry, a lad about twelve years
old. and told him to creep out silently
to the chicken house and see if he could
recognize the thieves, while she would
follow at safe distance with an az,
ready to assist him should they see him
and attempt violence.
Henry put on his clothes, and, follow
ed by his mother, had crawled to within
about ten feet Of Il small barn next to
the poultry-house, when the door of the
barn suddenly opened and out sprang
what they at.first thought was large
dog. AS the animal sprang toward the
boy he gave loud bark, the harsh,
sharp tones of which proclaimed to the
mother that they had no dog to deal
with. The boy attempted to spring
aside, and was partially successful, till
the animal, with glaring eyes and jaws
wide open, gained temporary hold with
his sharp teeth and claws upon the
boys right shoulder and hip.
What might have followed it is diff
cult to say, had not Mrs. Gratz come to
the rescue of her son. With all the
strength at her command she struck
the animal across the back with the
face of the AZ, then dropping her wea-
pom sprang in bare-handod for Crap
pie with the intruder. For several
seconds lively tusslc was had, during
which Mrs. Gratz and her son were
severely scratched and had their cloth.
ing badly torn, when the animal broke
away from them and disappeared across
the commons, and in the darkness, to-
ward the Detroit T. Milwaukee Junction.
From tracks found in the snow Sunday
forenoon it is concluded that the AMI.
NAL was strong wolf, but whether &
wild one or not is not known Detroit
Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
Sunday Amusements In Peru.

ALErrER from Lima, Peru, to the
San Francisco Chronicle, dcscz ibing Il
Sunday entertainment at the Plaza dc
Acho, gives an account of bIll-tight
and bull and bear fight, and con-
cludes with the following sketch Of a
fight between lioness and four bull
the programme:
1.-The cage was now turned, and we
saw large full-grown lioness of fero-
cious aspect, while at the same moment
an attendant appeared leading by a
chain four small dogs of the bull spc-
cies. They were Immediately led into
the cage, and with fierce growls in
stantly sprang on their foe. 1t would
seem almost impossible for four such
insignificant animals to be victorious in
an encounter with an enormous lion,
but the result showed how mere brute
force falls a prey to cunning strategem.
The audience were now worked up to a
fever pitch of excitement, and hundreds
sprang into the arena to obtain a closer
view of the combat. The soldiers were
now ordered to clear the arena, and
charged with fixed baycnets on the
crowd, wounding several in their CT
forts to force them back. This so in
furiated the mob that knives and pistols
were drawn, and a fierce encounter
took place between the military and
the rabble, resulting in the killing of
several of the former. The soldiers
were first ordered to fire into the air,
but this proving futile, a volley was
,>o,pvo1 INT Ls1ls,,<r
and wounding others. The crowd.
threatening dire vengeance, retreated,
leaving the space clear, and thus Civ
ing the spectators an extra perform
ance not down in the bill, and which
appeared to be heartily enjoyed by
them.
"During the excitement caused by
the collision between the soldiers and
the mob, the fight between the lion and
the dogs had ended in the latter being
victorious, and as we looked toward
the cage we saw the dogs standing over
their PROSTATE foe, tapping its blood
and apparently little the worse for the
encounter, though subsequently three
of them died from their wounds. This
closed the entertainment, and the
enormous thrOng OF spectators left the
Plaza de Acho well pleased with what
they had witnessed.
Receiving ali invitation to spend
the evening with the family of my lady
friends, gladly accepted and was soon
ensconced in their hospitable mansion.
The conversation naturally reverted to
the scenes we had that day witnessed
at the Plaza de Acho. The ladies
stoutly defended their National amuse-
ments, although l pointed out the fact
that such barbarous spectacles did not
tend to elevate the morals Of people,
and instanced the bloody affray be-
tween the military and the mob; still
they were unconvinced, declaring that
no country in the world afforded such
exquisite entertainments as their own
beautiful Peru"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
Chambers.

1T is said to be difficult to determine
a case of CHAMBERS in Ms first stage from
distempcr, farcy, catarrh, nasal glcet
or even cold. The prevailing wealth
err of December has been favorable for
breeding diseases with horses as we'll
as with the human race. And doctors
as we'll as lexicons differ as to the def
milton of "contagious'' and "intcc-
tious." 1t is generally supposed that a
contagious disease means one which is
communicated by contact with dis
eased body, or the matter from such
disease, while infectious diseases are
communicated in the atmosphere by
the breath or effluvia from diseased
body. The air becomes infected. If
this definition be correct, CHAMBERS is
contagious, and it can be communicated
by contact with the horse, or the foul
matter dropped from the nose or sores
on fences, feed troughs, water pals,
and even some contend that it can be
communicated . short distance in the
atmosphere.
Chambers can also be engendered or
originated without contagion or infec-
ton. Foul or closely-confined air in
damp and impure stalls or pens will
sometimes bring on the worst form of
CHAMBERS. But there are but very few
places SO foul and damp as to engender
this fearful disease.
Chambers, like the leprosy, is general
ly of slow progress, but fatal. 1t may
be months and years after the disease
has commenced its fatal work in the
system before its character can be de-
termined. 1t is a rare disease in our
climate, so much so that it is scarcely
necessary to be alarmed at any ordina-
~ discharge at the nose. In the more
humid atmosphere in some parts of the
United States, but more especially Of
Europe, it is well to look more serious
~ at the first symptoms of this disease.
Youatt (who, by the way, is poor au-
thOrity, but the best we have) says the
discharge, in case of CHAMBERS, may
continue, in SO slight q degree as to he
scarcely perceptible. for many months,
or even two or three years, unattended
by any other disease, or even the ulcera-
ton of the nostrils, and yet the horse
will be decidedly glandered and capa-
BILE of propagating the disease. But so
soon as the puss (gangrenous erup-
tions) mingles with the discharge from
the nose, then the distinct character Of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31

THIRTY-sEvES years have elapsed since the
introduction of Perry Davis Pain Killer to the
public, and yet at the present time it is more
popular and commands larger sale than ever
before. Its popularity is not confined to this
country alone; all over the world its beneficial
effects in curing the Ellis that flesh is heir
to" are acknowledged and appreciated, and
as Pain Killer its fame is limited to no coun-
try, sect or race, has never been cqualed by
any medicine in Europe or America 1t is sold
by all medicine dealers.