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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
One Of the Trials Of Rich Ladies'.

If it were not that women are more
patient than men, we would certainly
hear of strikes among those who are
looked upon as wealthy oilers. The
train of woes they depict would be
amusing, if it were not that their pleas
ure and comfort are entirely destroyed
by the trials they are subjected to by
dressmakers and Custom-HOuse officers.
During recent visit to New York. l
heard two young ladies discussing their
vexatiOns. Of course the converse
ton turned on dress, and learned that
there was little choice between being
rich enough to replenish your wardrobe
or too poor to enjoy the privilege. Said
one lady to another: 81 was recon-
mended to try ---, the famous mo-
shown into parlor and asked to send
up my card. The high and mighty
creature sent and asked me if l had
references; she never worked for any
one who did not bring well-known ref
erences." The lady meekly submitted
and sent up well-known name. The
presiding genius then condesccnded to
appear. She used an imperious and
commanding tone when she demanded,
How many dresses are to be made?"
The lady said, "Only one at present.
The naughty workwoman said, 81
never trouble myself to work for any
lady who only brings one dress. 1t is
not worth my while" Then the abject
suppliant promised there should be two,
for, as she said while telling the story.
H.
cut, and l felt that she must make my
dress, no matter what it COST Well,
she had her desire gratitied. The dress
es were made and had the celebrated
fit and cut, but the bill for extras on
each dress ran up to $1O0.-Washing-
ton Cor. Boston Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

The INDEPENDENT, of New York, probably
the ablcst, largest, and best religious newspa-
per in the world, offers ia another column to
give away, absolutely, Worcester's Una
bridsed Quarto Pictorial Dictionary. which
retails everywhere for SO, and is, of course,
a household necessity.
THE INDEPENDENT is now publishing the
Rev. Joseph Cooks famous Boston Monday
Lectures, which are creating so much discus
sion everywhere 1t will also soon begin the
publication of series of articles on Social
ism and Communism" one of the most i'm
portant questions OF the day, by ex-Pres't
1heo. d. Woolsey, D. D., LID.
Sec advertisement Of THE INDEPENDENT, In
this paper.
The AMERICAN BUILDER, for ten years the
organ of carpenters and builders, offers to
send its November and December numbers
free to all who subscribe before the LIST of
January. Price three dollars year. Address
CHAs. ID. LAKEY, 176 Broadway, New York.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
TIE CHILDREN,

TIE children. ali the children!
Your innocent. JOYOUS ones:
Your daughters. with souls of sunshine:
Your buoyant and laughing sons.
Look long in their happy faces.
Drink love from their sparkling eyes,
For the wonderful charm of childhood,
How soon it withers and dies.
n few fast-vanishing summers,
\ season or twain of frost,
And YOU suddenly asked. bcwildered,
" hat il II my heart hath lost?"
Perchancc YOU see by the hearth-stonc
Some Juno. stately and proud,
Or Hebe. whose softly ambushed ewes
FLASH ont from the golden cloud
OF lavish and beautiful tresses
That. wantonly floating stray
Ger the Whine of a throat and bosom
More fair than blossoms in MAY.
And perchance YOU mark their brothers
Young heroes VINO spurn the sod
With the fervor of antique knighthood,
And the air of a Grecian god.
But where, ah. where are the children,
Your household fairies of yore:
Aack, they are dead, and their grace has file
For ever and evermore.
-PaRt NVDRe, IN NdrDtrs Nc0Q-ine
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
Youths Department.
CHLLD'S TIA NKSGIVING HYMN.

In the lovely spring time,
Came the seed-sOwing;
Fruit and grain were growing
Fruit and grain in plenty,
Enough for all the living;
Now in cold November
Comes the glad Thanksgiving.
How shall we thank Thee
For Thy constant blessing?
Low ON our Bonded knees,
Sins and faults cOnfessing?
Or in the sacred church.
Where the bells a-rinRing
Call us to greet the day
With our joyful singing?
Prayer and song we bring Thee;
But heart of pity,
For the hungry, homeless ones
Who wander through the city
Who wander through the fields,
And mourn that they are living,
In Thy sight, o Lord.
Is the best Thanksgiving.
Mrs. ". +. Butts. in Vide-.iUake.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

People complain great deal of
hard times. and wonder what makes it.
1t is as plain to us as a wart on an old
maids nose. If the law would compel
hash factories and clothes-venders to
be less rigid about lucrc, until we
could have time to get on our feet,
there would be wonderful change for
the better.-Csnci,s.sGti Saturday Night.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
A Reliable Life Insurance Policy.

We take pleasure in commencing to our
readers a thoroughly safe and reliable life in
surance agency, whose funds or assets are in.
exhaustible. 1t is a stock company, operating
under the joint title-Health. Life policies are
issued in the form Of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative
Pellets (which, If taken as directed, insure
the system against disease) upon payment of
very small fee. All the principal druggists
are constituted agents.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

The Cincinnati Gazette, having in
vestigated the tramp question, has
come to the conclusion that "Superin-
duced cerebral uneasiness, without a
counterbalance of digested and assimi-
lated knowledge, and memory pie
thoric with the husks of a vapid cru
dition, constitute the proper receptacle
for those half ideas and one-sided ratio
cinations which impregnate men with
the belief that they are in advance of
the age in which they live, and were
born to be the renovators of society
and the harbingers of new dispensa-
tiOn.'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
No Joke on Him.

1T having come to the attention of
some of the workmen in a boiler shop
on Larned street that an old vagrant
was in the habit of sleeping in an old
boiler in the yard, three or four of
them came down at an early morning
hour, cut off his retreat by pushing a
barrel into the orifice, and then, armed
with sledges and hammers, they made
such a din as only boiler-makers can.
When they had become tired they
pulled away the barrel and looked in.
The vag was rubbing his eyes, and, as
they called to him, he replied:
''Hey? What ju soy Was that a
fire-alarm?'
They were by no means satisfied. and
next morning they turned on the
water used to test boilers and thrust
the hose into the boiler. By and by
the old chap came crawling out, wet as
a rat, and, as he landed on the ground,
he inquired
"Boys, have you got any soap around
here?''
They gave him a piece used at the
wash-basin, and as he crawled back in
to the boiler with it he remarked:
Its four weeks since this shirt was
washed, and if you gents will let that
water run for about fifteen minutes
more you'll be doing me a great favor!
I'm sorry to bother you, but + II try not
to waste any of the precious fluidr'-
Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

ABOUT organs, this fact is coDcihsive: Ma
son Il Hamlin Organs have taken the highest
donors at every Worlds Exhibition for t.celm
years, and no OF Ter American organ has IT, Zen
the highest award at aug such, 4,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

-" have lost all faith in human
nature,' said man on the Postofiice
corner yesterday. At almost any other
time we would have sided with him;
but we had to take the negative in this
instance because we had just asked q
man to lend us five dollars and he
forked over the money.-Keokuk Con-
stikzkiO7a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

FREE OF CHARGE. Your druggist will refund
your money, if DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup does
not give you satisfaction and cure your cough.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

FOK DYSPEPSIA.
ASHLEY. ILL.,, Jan. IL, 1873.
H. II. STEVENS:
Ieur Sir-I have been using vegetne for Dyspepsia,
and find relief from it than all the other icines
ever used There is nothing like it for Dyspepsia
MRS. NJ f. FOWLKS.
am personally acquainted with Mrs. FOwlks and can
certify that the above statement is true.
VIC. PACE NJ. D.. Druggist, Ashley. Ill.
ve3etlme Il Sold by All DruyglstS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
DIR. r. v. PIERCE, of Buffalo, N. T., the
nr0nrief0r of Dir Pierce1a Family Medicines.

DIX. Il. V. f1HRCE, OF BuuaIO, ~. T., tn0
proprietor of DIR. Pierce's Family Medicines,
and also of the Invalids' and Tourists Hotel,
of that city, has recently been elected to Con-
gress by. the very fattering majority Of nearl:;
5000. He has already served his constituency
Is State Senator, and this renewed ind0rse-
ment signifies that his services have been
highly satisfactory. His extensive practice in
the treatment of Chronic Diseases will not,
we are informed, be neglected or suffer in the
least when tho time arrives for him to take
his seat in Congress, it being intrusted to his
brother and other experienced medical gentle
men who have long been associated with the
Doctor in the Medical Department of his Gel
tel. Besides, as the Forty-sixth Congress does
not convene until December, 1879, DIR. Pierce's
patients will not lose his personal attention
for some months vet.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

The five-year-old son of a family
the other day stood watching his baby
brother, who was making great noise
over having his face washed. The lit
tie fellow at length lost his patience,
and, stamping his tiny foot, said:
'You think you have lots of trouble,
but you don't know anything about it.
Wait till you're big enough to get a
lickin' and then you'll see-won't he,
mammar'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

When Chicago editor gets mad at
his wife ne twits her of having her feet
made to order in st. Louis. But the
genial st. Louis editor, when in the
same condition, merely remarks with
contempt, Madam, l saw your
fathers name in the Chicago directory"
IN. 7. Graphic.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
Mr.. Sankey will Join Mr.. Moody in
revival work at Baltimore next spring.
Lady Reautihers

Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy
cheeks and sparkling eyes with all the cos
metics of France, or beautifiers of the world,
while IN poor health, and nothing will give
You such good health, strength and beauty as
Hop. Bitters. A trial is certain proof. See
another column.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

Each effort Of the mind, every act Of tho body, will
extract volume Of nervous element in proportion to
the magnitude of the thought action, and since Eel
lows Hyphosphites really will supply the ris rite to
the body, it must support the human mechanism sue
ceSSfully after the VgUr of youth is past
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
ART SCHOOLS
Chicago Academy Of Design.

IOC6uC INSTRUMENTATION,
Design has been put In better condition than ut any
time since the fire.
THE ART SCIIOOLS
Arc In complete order and persons who wish to pursue
any branch Of Drawing or Painting, Portraitlre IN
Crayon, Oils Water Color, Drawing from Casts Land
scape Painting, Figure StLife or Decorative Paint
ing, Mechanical Draughting Perspective, Will hnd
The Teachers are II. f. SPREAD and l. G. EARLE, Pro
fessoTs Of Drawing and Painting; w. =. b JENNEY,
TER, Instructor In Perspective. The Secretary, MR.
FRENCH, also acts rs assistant In instruction.
to pupils from to O'Clock daily with the use q al
materials for study copies costumes casts from ANTIQUE
Tho term now in progress will continue through the
whole summer, with especial reference TO the
needs or Teachers. and pupils will be admitted ct
any time, by the month quarter. Certificates Of At
tainment will be issued for decided merit
President Jas H. Dole; Vice President, VIM. T. Baker;
Treasurer, MurTy Nelson.
plicatiOn to W. M. r. FRENCH, Secy Chicago Academy
Of Design, 40 state street. Chicago
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
An Astonishing Offer
DICTIONARY fnrice no,
loGnd in libraiI
Es1ir? jJy.A q Sheep 1874 pages
fs..t:E,s.s -.Tj:!#EE&y~ over 400 wood
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Subscription price of THE INDEPENDENT 81
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une II Lectures p'stagt paid, 81 Three years to
Subscriber one t. three Subscribers with SO
Dictionary, for only 80. Specimen copies sent free.
Address 1.-THE Ind cpc ntient,- New York.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free
Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co. Cincin. q.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05

vesetIne Is Sold by All Druygis t..
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
LOST In A COAL.MINE.
A Thanksgiving story.

A Thanksgiving story.
"On, papa! there is to be no school
from noon to-day until next Monday!'
exclaimed Tom Duncan as he and his
brother Jamie ran into the coal breaker
at Mountainville Colliery and caught
the hand of the boss, as he stood in his
Office, surrounded by several miners.
"Why nOt?'' he asked, turning sharp
ly on his little boys.
Because our teachers going home
to keep Thanksgiving" replied Tom.
6 He read us the Presidents proclama-
ton all about what we're to give
thanks for. Have you got our turkey
yet, papaP You know we want big
dinner"
"Yes," said the boss, turning to the
men, +" turkey and a big dinner for
those who can get it, is what the
Thanksgiving amounts to. It's pre-
cious little l have to give thanks for.
No business and hard times was the
cry last year, and I'm sure it's worse
this. We miners have too many idle
days already. We don't need Presi-
dents proclamation to give us an
"That's so, boss. An I'm thinkin'
ye'd betther reconsider them names
yer for droppin.' Mike Finn can't at
ford holidays-nor the rest aither, as
fer that
"Then let them obey the rules and
be on time. Mike has been late three
mornings in succession. 1t must be
stopped"
Faith! l know there's some de-
sarves it, but Mike, yer honor
Il shall drop them for a week, any
way: you see that my order is given, -
and the boss turned sternly away.
The men saw there was no appeal
and went out, but the boys heard the
Irishman mutter, "It's moighty hard on
poor Nike"
John Duncan was sturdy, honest
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30
An Eccentric woman.

One of the most noted and eccentric
women of the country is now lying at the
point of death, at her rooms, in Washing
ton. DR.. Mary Walker has been the stand
ard theme for the paragrapher's pencil
for many years, and no one woman's
name has been so frequently before the
people during that period; yet her history
is so comparatively little known, that a
few facts relative TO her career, at this
time may not be Inappropriate. Mary
Walker was born in Oswego, n. Y, about
1880, and though she had the reputation
of being peculiar, was not by any means
a wayward girl. She was Il superior
scholar, and, taking to the study of medi-
cine, graduated regularly. She married
when quite young DIR. Miller-the match
proving an unhappy one. A suit for di-
vorce against him was unsuccessful be-
cause of his declaration of his willingness
to live with her, and his allegation that
she had deserted him without cause. Dur
ing the war DR.. Mary had charge of a
hospstal in the West, and,was captured by
the Confederates and confined in Libby
Prison as spy. Since the war she has
lived at Washington, where she has al
ways been doing something to attract no
toriety, from the time that she so persist
emily endeavOred to gain admission to the
execution of Mrs. Surrat down to the day
of her recent violent assault on a smoker
in the National Capital rorridors, whC
} refused to extinguish his cigar at her bid
tding.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30
PauperIsIn i'm Ireland

1t is terribly on the increase. From the
s'Irish Times" we learn that out of pop
ulation of 5000, 900, nearly 100000 are
supported by public relief; and the num-
Der of paupers we are told, is increasing
at the rate of I 800 month! To support
this vast army of paupers the labor of Ire
land is taxed 81, 900, 900 year. OF this
sum the salaries of workhouse officials
and the cost of the pauper prisons eat up
nearly s., 900, 600. 1t used to be said that
Ireland was over-populated. Well, fam
inc killed off /, ,OOO, 900 of the people, seat
tered 8 .OOO, 900 more all over the globe;
vet here is Ireland to-day in her rags
with her begging-bag over her shoulder,
and her beggar's hand extended for re-
lief! Ireland has natural resources sufd-
cient to support comfortably $4,000, 900 of
people. Independent of the millions Of
acres which have been robbed from the
people there are millions of acres of land
which, under a wise and benefcent gov
ernment, would be sustaining a happy
people instead of what we now see-a
pauperised population. Restore the peo-
pie to their natural Inheritance; educate
them in the science of agriculture; put
improved implements into their hands;
enable them to utilize the mineral re-
sources of the country; push on manu-
factures-in a word diversity industry
and abolish landlordism-andin in ten short
years Ireland will present to the world q
picture of contentedness such as no coun-
trv ever before exhibited, but which, in
deed, every country under system of
government conformable to the laws of
God may and can exhibit as well.-Irish
World.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30
He Confessed.
World.

During lpll in the conversation yes
terday evening grandfather Lickshingle
startled the family by remarking:
'spve lived over hundred years by the
watch, and never felt this way BEFORE
and he blinked in a very sorrowful man
ner.
''What's the matterP'' asked mother,
who was at his side in an instsnt.
''I don't know" he said, ''unless have
a quickened conscience" and he blinked
and stared by turns in very alarming
manner.
''I feel sort of hot around the ears, y he
went on, sam mebbe I'd better confess"
His whole frame trembled like a leaf,
and deadly pallor overspread his face.
A window was thrown open, which
seemed to revive him, and he gasped:
at wrote Beautiful Snow y "
"You did nothing of the Sort" yelled
father. ''T wrote it myself, and l can
prove :"
Grandfather then went on with his con-
fession.
sIkilled old man Junius an wrote the
Nathan Lettersl Bind up my horse
Give me another wOund"
Another window was opened.
81 voted for TIL
Something rose in the wretehed mans
throat and chOked the dreadful sentence.
Summoning all his strength again he
whispered:
''It was 1 who struck Billy Patterson
struck him twice; once for v, next time
for twenty;" and grandfather fell back
in his chair exhausted.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30
Gold In the World.

The bulk of gold in the world steadily
increases, though the amounts but rough
ly approximated. Ten years ago it was
estimated at about So, $50, ,0OO, 600 in value
1t must be greatly larger now, though we
haye no fixed data for approximating the
amount. But-it may be of interest to see
what the bulk of the smaller sum ten
years ago would be if it were all melted
and run together. Pure gold is more
than ninteen times as heavy as water, and
q cubic foot of water weighs a thousand
ounces of advoirdupois. A cubic foot of
solid gold would weigh over Is, 900 ounces
avoirdupois, and every ounce of fine gold
is worth according to our coinageJ, to
somewhere more than eighteen dollars;
so that the whole cubic foot of gold would
be worth a little more than third of a
million of dollars. A cubic yard of solid
gold would be worth twenty-seven times
as much as that, or over nine million of
dollars; and $50 cubic yards would con-
tain somewhat more than the $3.50, ,00O,-
900 of the gold in the world ten years ago.
These $50 cubic yards would be contain
ed within room about fifteen feet high,
twenty-four feet wide and forty-eight
feet long; say good sized parlor or
store of monerate size. "But," says some
one, gold is so very malleable that even
this small bulk of it would glide over the
whole earth. But he either over-esti-
notes the malleability of gold, or, more
likely, under-estimates the size of the
earth. It takes I,28O,O 900 leaves of the
thinnest gold foil to make an inch in
thickness, or about fifteen millions and
third to make a foot, or $4,000, 900 to
yard. A cubic yard of gold, then could
be beaten out so as to cover $4,000, 900
square yards, somewhat less than 10000
acres, for there are 1910 square yards to
the acre. Then, as there are $40 acres to
the square mile, the whole $50 cubic
yards of gold could be beaten out so as to
cover about 1O, 900 square miles; that is,
tract only hundred miles square, less
than the extent of Vermont, and little
more than a fifth of either New York or
Pennsylvania.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30
A Kentucky Maidstone.
i, r. Scott in Chicago Tribune.

John B. Scott in Chicago Tribune.
1t is now in the possession of w. F.
Clarkson, of Mercer county, KY, near
fourth of mile from the high bridge
over the Kentucky River (Which is sta
tion.) Mr.. Clarkson has owned it twen-
ty-seven years, and has applied it to hum
dreds of cases, and has never failed to
give relief and satisfaction to the patients.
I learn from Clarkson that the maidstone
in his possession was brought to the Uni
ted States by an Italian named Brook, in
1903 Brook got it from German ply
sician in 177O. The physician said that it
had been in his family great number of
wears, and had been tested hundreds of
times, and not in one case has the stone
failed to give relief and effect a cure
From the description given by your Da-
venport correspondent, the two madstones
resemble each other very much; the
greatest difference is in their Size, Mr..
Clarkson's being the largest; it weighs
over an ounce.
Mr.. Clarkson is no visionist, nor is he
in the least superstitious, nor does he seel
netoriety. He is about fifty years old
and of more than ordinary intelligence
his mind seems to be richly stored will
much valuable information. He is no
permanently located, lis a renter). H
says that he would part with his msdstOn
on certain conditions; and if any person
wishes to learn more about the stone h
can write to him at Pleasant Hill, Merce
county, KY.