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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
How She Managed 1t.

MIR. MAROONEY is foreman in a fOun-
dry, and gets $50 week. With this
salary the family ought to get along
well and save money, but they do not.
Mr.. Marooney has cousin, a shoe
maker, who gets only Sl5 week, yet
who sails right along in lightning ex-
press, while Marooney comes tagging
along in freight with hot-box.
"How do you manage it. Jack?' he
would frequently ask, "to get along
the way you do? Here you actually
keep your family and save money on
SIS week, while it takes every cent I
make to live, and get double the pay!'
"Oh, l don't manage it all,' says
Jack; Il just take my money home to
the old woman on Saturday night, and
she takes IS to run the house with, and
puts the rest carefully awayr'
"Do you give her all the money!"
asks Mr.. Marooney, musing.
"Oh, no, not quite; keep out 4 lit
tie for tobacco during the week, and a
tritle to keep me from feeling lonesome.
If kept it all in my pocket would
spend it sure, but Mary keeps it tight
and safe.''
Mr.. Marooney talked it over with his
wife that night, and they concluded to
try Jacks plan. The following Satur-
day night he brought home his $50, and
keeping back one, put the rest in her
keeping, and she promised to do her
level best to set the table on but S..
The first week she squeezed through
somehow, and got along with $3.50.
Mr.. Marooney was quite pleased, and
began laying awake at night think
ing about what kind Of house he would
build. He thought a plain rustic cot
tage with bay window would be about
right. The next week her expense
account footed up $3.50 and Mr..
Marooney changed his design for a
future residence from frame to brick.
The next week she brought it down
thirty cents more, and he added wing,
with wash-house. Then she made a
superhuman struggle, quit buying milk,
and came within two shiiliDgs of the
goal for which she had been striving.
Mr.. Marooney decided on an iron fence
in front of his premises. The next
week she lost ground, slipped, and came
tHOuSHG d ucttt IdtlIIS 1cIICc was SOOt
enough for anybody. but when the en-
suing week she came in with flying col
ors, and struck the S. mark in both
eyes, Mr.. Marooney had the iron rail-
ing reinstated, and granite steps rum
ming up to the door.
The next week she took the money
she had saved, and went and bought
her a love of a hat, too cute for any,
thing, a black silk dress, and cherub
of cloak, that made the woman next
door cry with envy till her nose got
sore, and MIR. Marooney came to the
conclusion that it didn't pay to live in
ones own property, keeping up repairs,
insurance, ETC., and the worry and stew
in dread of fire and earthquakes more
than counterbalanced any trifiing adj
vantages there might be.-Pittsb"rgh
G0zetke
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Lost Opportunities.

If we only knew our opportunities,
what difference it would make in our
lives! If we only knew when to do,
and when to cease doing-if we knew
what would lead to success, and what
to defeat. how everything would be
changed!
The world is full of lost opportuni-
ties.
We let them slip away from us as
they offer-let them 20 carelessly,
thoughtlessly, never remembering that
they may never come to us again.
In the spring-time the farmer who
does not sow his grain while the mild
rays of April and May warm and soft
en- the earth, need not expect to reap
his bountiful crops in the harvest sea-
son. If he neg lects to sow, he cannot
garner, and the opportunity is lost.
No wiser than this indolent farmer
are we when we allow the days when
we can work to pass from us and leave
us the night, when no man can
work"
Every individual, we dare say, has
had in his life enough opportunities
presented to him to make, as we phrase
it, his fortune, if he had only seized
upon them.
Too many of us, we fear. are waiting
for something grand to ofer-we have
not the patience to accept the small
things, and make the best of them, we
want the best. of Fortunes gifts, and
want them for nothing.
The one who is wise will allow no
opportunities of making himself useful
to pass unimprovcd. If they do not
present themselves, he will seek them
out and make them his own. And then
if failure and defeat ensue, he is at ease
in his mind, for he has done what he
could. and feels no regret for lost op-
portunities.
And we think nothing can be more
cutting to the shipwrecked life than
the remembrance that it might have
been so different! To think that in our
own power, within the grasp of our
own hands, have lain opportunities
which, if embraced, would have saved
us from ruin!
Day by day we 60 about amid oppor-
tunities. We see them, and realize
them often, but we are waiting for
something better. When just what we
want comes along, then you'll see how
we can work! We will make up for
lost time then! And while we wait the
moments, which constitute hours, pass,
and before we seize upon the hours the
day is gone, and we are looking for
another dawning.
| Men and women, take hold of the op.
portunitics which offer. If you cannot
get the whole loaf, get the half. Dc
not lay it to heart because Mr.. Snap
EN- has made thousand dollars on one
trade-everybody cannot be Mr.. Snap
EN-.
That which comes easily is very APT
to 60 in the same way, and it frequent
ly happens that the slow plodders ir
this world die men of wealth, if it il
any consolation to you to think of dy.
ing rich.-Kate Thorn, in N. Y. Weekly
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Artificial Babies q Boon.

The Paris Lie Sport describes an :. ar
tificial baby which is to be exhibited
at the great Exposition, and which, it
is claimed, is an American invention.
These babies are designed to promote
the convenience of travellers by rail.
road. 1t is based upon the principle
that nothing is more vexatious than to
have disagreeable companions and
neighbors in the same compartment
when travelling. One occupies the cor
ner you had set your heart on, another
prevents you from stretching your legs,
third insists on shutting the window, a
fourth is not willing for you to smoke,
etc. The journey thus becomes tort
ure.
1t is to remedy this that the artificial
baby was invented.
It is of India rubber, clad in thick
wraps and a hood, SO much like nature
as to deceive anyone. There is valve
in its stomach. Your neighbors have
not yet perceived it. You take it softly
from under your cloak, nurse it tender
ly aud press upon the crying appara-
tus. Instantly it begins to shrek. You
show anxiety and work the valve still
more energetically.
ST. All! poor little one! 1t has fit!
Don't cry, my treasured etc., etc.
With these lavish caresses you all
the time increase the pressure, and the
responses of the machine get sharper and
sharper until they become intolerable.
Your neighbors stop their ears: they
grumble, they protest, but what is to
no longer cries-it howls. At the very
first station all your companions depart
in haste in search of other seats, and
you have the entire compartment to
yourself. Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Giving Her Census.

WHEN the census-taker raped at the
door of a certain cottage on Crawford
street, the other day, aud wondered if
the woman would set the dog on him or
douse him with dish-water, a great dis
appointment awaited him. She opened
the door softly, snuffed the air to see if
he smelled Of lightning-rods, and then
threw it open for him to enter.
MADAM, am making a canvass of
the city," he began.
"Ah! Sit down." she replied, and
as he began opening his book she con-
tinued:
''There are five of us in the family,
and we paid 500 down on this place.
My husbands name is Peter, his age is
forty-two, and he came from a mean
family. His father was always having
lawsuits about dogs, and his mother
was the greatest gossip in Elmira. Have
you got that down?''
He grunted assent, and she con-
tinued:
my name is Alvina Sarah, and
was born in"
II do not care to know where you
was born, madam" he interrupted.
"Well, care!' she exclaimed; cit
makes a great deal of difference wheth-
er l was born in Africa or Boston, and
l want it put down. As 1 was saying,
l was born in Boston in 1888. Put down
that came of good family
Madam, you don't understand
Don't l understand that came of
a rro01 fn,,,S1x,C I'D lilo 10 IS
Boston family which carried their noses
higher than the Rogerses! Put down
that my father was in the Mexican
War;"
"You have three children, madam?'
Il haven't any such thing, sir! Put
down that my mother was Killed by an
explosion in quarry. Her and father
"How many children have you,
MADAME
"Have you got mother down?'
mo, madam. You see, am taking
the census of the city,"
"Well,' she said, giving him dan
gerous look, IL had the typhoid fever
at the age of fifteen, and for weeks and
weeks l hung on the edge of the grave.
l bore up as well as l was allie,
and
"Five in the family-how many chill
dren?' he suddenly asked.
"Put down that bore upr' she COM
manded. "And that one night when the
watchers were asleep l crept out of bed
and took drink Of
'This is foreign to the subject,
madam. How old are your children?'
Haven't you put down that hung
on the edge Of the grave?"
mo, madam"
''Aren't you going to?'
"No, madam. You see, am simply
taking the census of Detroit. / desire
to ascertain"
"You can't ascertain it here, sirr'
she snapped. eff my sickness, which
cost over $500, isn't good enough to go
in the book then you don't get line
here!'
LET me ask YOU"
"No use asking for any of our pho
tographs, sir! If you get 'em anywhere
and put our pictures in that book we'll
make it hot for you! Good-day, sir
good-dayr'
He stood on the step, signing, and
she called through the door:
"My grandfather was also bitten to
death by an alligator, but l won't give
you any of the particulars! You want
to walkr'
He passed on, sorrowfully wondering
if the next woman's mother was blown
off bridge or carried down the river
on hay-stack.-DetroH Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

ton with Russia, was the alteration of the
boundaries of Bulgaria and Austrian military
and commercial supremacy in Servia, Monte
negro, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Albania.
The Russians are fortifying the lines
Of Chatalja, and erecting forts at all strategic
points. 1t is stated that the determination OF
the Turkish and Russian soldiers is complete
The latter are said to go about the streets Of
Constantinople, in uniforms, without provok
ing remark or animOsity.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Spring Wraps.

FICHUs, mantelets and scarfs are the
shapes chosen for the most dressy spring
wraps. The materials are principally
black camel's-hair and black Sicilienne;
cashmere in the finely-woven French
twills has lost its prestige, but the
rough-surfaced cachemire dcs Indies is
still in favor. Black gros grain is oc-
casionally used, but is less pliable than
the soft Sicilienne. The tichu in its
various styles is so simple and so grace
full that it is universally worn in Paris,
and is largely imported not only as a
separate garment, but as part of the
costume. Some of these are quite shall
low, reaching just to the waist line, and
they may he quite low on the shoulders
or else high behind; the fronts are
quite long and narrow, and are tied ir
a half knot that draws the garment
closely to the shoulders, keeps the arms
close to the sides, and has the graceful
clinging effects that the clinging Co.'S
tunes require. Those of black wool
are most used, and are embroidered
directly on the edges, and finished with
fringe that is tied into the hem of the
garment, like that seen on Canton
Grape shawls. The prices of fichus be-
gin as low as ten dollars each. Another
small wrap is the Clarissa Harlowe
scarf, made almost straight, reaching
from shoulder to waist in the back.
with long ends in front. There are
short darts in the shoulders to shape it
properly, and fanciful fat hood is in
the back. These are embroidered, or
else trimmed with three or four rows
of knife-plaited lace and passementerie.
There are also many capes, some of
which are three round Carricks, while
others are single cape of black camel's-
hair slightly pointed in front and back,
and cut with long seam ON each
shoulder in the old-fashioned wav.
Around the neck of such a cape
is deep plated collar of black
wstered silk edged with beaded
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Infant Memories.

You are no longer a child; you have
long since put away childish things.
Yet you may not own to your most in
innate friend how often the remem-
ORANGES of your earliest childhood are
uppermost in your mind. They come
in fragments, like torn bits of some
bright picture, and at times when those
about deem you immersed and absorb
ed in the important concerns of life
You may be statesman, lawyer, editor,
merchant, physician, clergyman. SOL
der; the attention of Natio i may be
concentrated upon you; hundreds, thou
sands may be under your employ or
government; you are fighting great le-
gal battles; your commerce extends to
the uttermost parts of the earth: the
treatise you are writing reaches the
profoundest depths of philosophy, sci
ence or theology; the editorial you pre-
pare to-day may change the policy of
government; your face may be a reflex
of the hard, stern probabilities of life,
yet in the very thick and press of
your business as you take your
seat in court, as you ascend the
pulpit steps, as you see the good ship
Washington laden with thousand tons
of grain disappear in the ocean mists,
bound for Constantinople, there may
have mingled with all these important
concerns some memory of your earliest
childhood-the flower you plucked, the
dirt pies you made, the little sled and
the first remembered snow-storm, the
gilt watch and chain, the first pair of
pantaloons, the low bench at the infant
school, and there comes with all these,
proud, busy man rs you are, a warmth,
a glow of old and, perhaps, dear recol-
lection-a living over in memory of
childish days, wish that for the mo-
ment you could jump from all this tur-
MOL, care and perplexity into your first
jacket and trousers, and be a child
again. The world imagines that naught
but the greater matters engage your at
tention, and you think the same
of the world about you; you
would deem it most frivolous and
puerile to talk to anyone about
the wooden horse you found in your
first Christmas stocking, yet you cannot
rid yourself of this and other similar
recollcctions. They are indelible and q
part of you; possibly, in time, you may
realize that when a wee, toddling infant
looking out with wondering eyes upon
the world, feeling the force of a thou
sand surrounding events and situations
which you could not shape into words,
as impressible to the characters of men
and women as you are to-day, knowing
far more and Judging more than you
were given credit for, you were still as
the germ of the future man or woman.
being of more Importance than you
were accredited with by others or your
self. The acorn has that quality and
power which under certain conditions
gathers to itself what makes the state
" oak, as the gathers from events
and surroundings what makes the fu-
ture man or wOman.-N. Y. HraDhtc.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Its told of the late Chief Justice

1t is told of the late Chief Justice
Chase that Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines
(who is much older than she looks)
assured him one day that she should
plead before the bar until she was $50
years old. "And to think, madam,
that this is. to be kept up 1875 years long
err" said the gallant hief-Justice, as
he bowed to the widow.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

and easily developed, too firm and too
soon mature, so that it remains
throughout manhood a large child
brain, very wonderful in a child and
equally ridiculous in man or woman.
DR. Hammond.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

1t is easy enough. Suppose you
have mailed letter in your coat
pocket and carried it there three weeks?
Sit down and write: "YOu will observe
by the date of the within, my dear
motber-in-law. that Eliza forgot to
hand it to me until to-day. 1t has been
banged around in the bureau-drawcr
and is rather soiled in consequence. I
must talk to Eliza. She is getting
more careless and forgetful every day."
.BufnlO ErDress,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

-"Ahar' exclaimed q man who had
been chased across Dforty-acre pasture
by u bull, and just escaped by the skin
of his teeth. Now for revenge
henceforth I uat beef only"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

=" He who reels and staggers most
in the journey of life takes the straight
est cut te the devil. If, D. hers'ce'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

The Sixpenny Savings Bank of New
York City suspended on the eth. Liabilities,
SLIGO 900: assets, Sl,6O0,0OO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention will be held at Harrisburg on the
18th Of May.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

HE big bad boy was early at the
station. One of his chums had been
arrested. and he wanted to hear the
trial. He spit on the floor, snapped
peanuts at the clock, whistIcd and scuf-
fled around, and Bijah was finally forced
to say:
my son, you haven't been brought
up according to Hoyle. You want to
conduct yourself while here the same
as if you were in the Ears parlors.''
"Who's the Zar?7 impudently asked
the boy, as he showed the chairs around.
"Who's the Ear? Haven't you ever
studied the directory or the dictionary,
or read Uncle Toms Cabin! What
ignorance here in our midst, where
even every member of the Common
Council can read and writer
"Oh! take down your steeple!'
growled the boy
"Gcntlemen," said the old man, as
he put down the feather-duster and
looked over to the reporters. "I
think duty calls me. In fact, | know
she does. Somehow or other, kinder
feel as if the responsibility Of this boys
future depended on me, and Pm going
to set his better ideas in motion. My
son, come here!'
81 can't see it!' replied the boy,
shutting his eyes.
"When the mountain wouldn't come
to old Dan Tucker, Daniel went to the
mountain" unused Bijah, rs he walked
over and collared the young dime
novel reader. Come over these ere
loving knees, my son, and let me show
you how raised sixteen children of
my own"
The boy yelled and struggled, but the
fatherly clutch was on him, and in a
few seconds he had assumed most
favorable position. AS he continued to
yell, the reporters were requested to
strike up song and drown him out.
While Bijah spanked they loudly sang:
"'M had 'orse which wouldn't go,
I'd dump him into the Ohi";
Ia sell the buggy awful cheap;
And trade the harness off for sheep.
Ha. ba! ha!
Hear him yell
Bi ia m 'sSi the sp"nk'
So he did. When he had finished his
contract the boy slid for the door, say
ing never word, and looking as hum
bic and repentant as defeated candi-
date for a county Office.
"Ah! how many tender memories of
the long ago that ere job awakesr'
sighed the old man as he brushed a
tear from his eye; and he blew his nose
quite frequently as he resumed his dust
ing.-Dctroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

The Pope had appointed Cardinal
di Pietro Pontifical Camerlengo.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

At st. Adams, VT, on the 9th, G..
L. Storrs, Of Bath, Me-, walked log miles in
twenty hours. three minutes and twenty sec
onds.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

Octave Feuillet says: Providence
has so ordained it that only two women
have true interest in the happiness of
4 man-his own mother and the mother
of his children. Beside those two legit-
innate kinds of love, there is nothing
between the two creatures except vain
excitement, painful and idle delusion."
February % was observed in honor
of the grand old original paragrapher,
who could not tell q lie.-R0me Se,sti-
AeL
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

The body of the late Congressman
Leonard. Of Louisiana, who died recently at
Havana, Cuba, arrived at New York ON the
aSth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

Edward =. Weston has challenged
O'Leary, the victor in the late international
pedestrian contest. to walk with him six days
for the sum of $500.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

The Iowa Legislature adjourned sine
tlit. on the Goth. Among the bills passed be-
fore adjournment. was one restoring capital
punishment in the State.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

Sherry and Connolly. the young men
convicted in Chicago of the murder of peace
able cit Zen named McC onyille. who sought to
protect his niece from insults offered by them
on the street. have been denied new trial.
and are under sentence TO be hung on the Fist
# I,,np
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

Madam ReStell. Of New York City,
under indictment for Illegal practices COM
mitted suicide at her residence, on the list, by
cutting her throat with carving knife. She
was Dut on bail.
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DIR. ]. @. GRASSE. DENTIST, Of
Y fee In Stone & vuttt's New Build
01IIU ing on Commercial street. All work
guaranteed.