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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
Prospects Of Beef.

EVERYTHING tends to show that there
will be large and remunerative de-
mand for the best beef the coming
spring for European markets. Some
of the butchers, not only of the large
cities, but of the interior towns and
cities, are learning that customers are
wanting and demanding better beef.
The well-to-do beef-eaters are getting
dissatisfied with eating scalawags and
old COWS, and paying the highest price
therefor. Most of our Western towns
men are paying from ten to twelve
cents for what is called the best cuts of
beef bought by butchers at two cents
per pound. The people reasonably
calculate that better article can be
furnished at that price. If it cannot,
they are willing to pay more. A small
part of the community demand and
will have good beef. And butchers are
making limited efforts to supply them.
The number will largely increase as
they fully test the difference between
the hard and tough meat of the one and
the sweet and juicy beef of the other.
!, This then is making brisker de-
mand for first-class beef. The Anaeri-'
can Stocknaaa of Chicago says they
have never known a time when more
cattle were fattening than now, on the
cheap corn of the West. Many of them,
however, are scrubs and can never
either make the choicest beef or by any
management pay any profit to the
feeder who carries them through the
winter. They can neither be shipped
abroad, nor command good prices at
home. 60 I-.4 ~.
Thus the necessity of breeding and
feeding only the best and most i'm
proved kind is so fully demonstrated
that no one can mistake the true policy.
The demands of the present and all
future time are fully set forth. De-
termine to commence right this year.
In three or four years every farmer can
have that class of beeves which will
command good prices either for the
palates of lovers of good beef at home,
or for shipment abroad. The man who
disregards this system must condemn
himself to plod unremunerated for his
labor, and with hopeless insolvency for
the future. These are solemn truths,
and no sneers or sophistry can change
their results. And we warn the unpro-
gressive man that when utter defeat
overwhelms him, that che knew his
duty but did not do it."-IosUa State
Register.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
USEFUL AMI. SUGGESTIVE.

THERE is more profit in small herd
Of stock literally fed, than in large
herd poorly cared for.-Ioa0a State
Register.
WHEN colt is twelve or fourteen
months old begin to put the harness on
him. In few weeks he is accustomed
to it and ready for the shafts. But in
doing this, do not be in hurry. Give
the youngster time to get thoroughly
acquainted with every strap and buckle,
as it were. Let him see everything and
smell everything. The senses of sight,
smell and touch are the great avenues
of knowledge to the horse, especially
the last two. The ear and eye give the
alarm. These two organs stand, as it
were, on picket for the animals safety.
But if your horse is frightened at any
thing, let him smell and touch it, and
he will fear no longer. If your colt is
afraid of the harness as it comes rus
thing out of the harness-room, Let him
touch it with his nose and smell of it a
few times, and he will soon understand
that it will not hurt him. If he is in
clined to kick or jump, if the breeding
band or any strap hits his hams or legs,
by gently rubbing them against the
sensitive places he will soon become in
different to them. By the time the colt
is two years of age, or even less, he
should be educated to go between the
shafts, either forward or backward,
and be thoroughly familiar with the
harness and vehicle, and ordinary road
service. Golden Bale.
HEALTH HINTS. -Danger comes from
sudden straining of one muscle or sci
of muscles, so as to injure their tissue
and cause lameness. Few escape this.
Then add to this the injury of over
work. Overworking is simply working
after the strength has been reduced SO
low that it is painful or wearing to
move. 1t is working after the nour.
ishment in the blood has been mostly
used up. 1t is like keeping a mill
going when the stream is low, or when
the water in the dam is nearly out. In
such cases not only the muscles suffer,
but all the organs of the body. Over
work at last, no matter what kind it is,
produces bankruptcy Of the body
which is worse than any kind of bank.
ruptly, bad as they all are. In the care
of the muscles avoid colds and rheum.
atism. These make people stiff and
lame. They take away the natural
elasticity which gives so much pleasure
and substitutes a WORKOUT, tired, ex-
hausted feeling, which borders on pain
and is often more difficult to bear. How
very careful the owner of a fine horse
Al L TT
knows if he does it will founder, anc
after this it will never be good step
per. Our whole country is full Of
foundered men and women, who are
stiff, lame, rheumatic, old in feeling
inelastic. Most of them might have
preserved their elasticity to old age il
they had taken proper care of them
selves. Herald of Health.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
Farming in France.

SINCE the transfer of Alsace and
Lorraine to Germany the population of
France has been estimated at thirty-six
millions. This is probably more near
ly accurate than such estimates usually
are, as, in the first place, the French
collect and preserve statistics far more
exact and exhaustive than any other
people, and in the second place, the
population is more nearly stationary
than that of any other important terri
tory. France has been for the past five
years the most prosperous of civilized
Nations, and her prosperity has not
been in the brilliant fortunes of the
snowy few, but in the comfortable COM
petence attained by the many. We are,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer, apt to
think of the French as excelling i'll the
manufactures, especially of productions
requiring artistic skill, and to these SUI
perior industries we often attribute
their exceptional good fortune through
the hard times prevailing all over the
world. But the truth appears to be
that agriculture is, after all, the basis
of their accruing wealth, as it has been
of permanent and abiding welfare in all
lands and all times.
OF the 100000 of population, as
above noted, 21,OOO,O0O, or about three
fifths, are agriculturists. The total
arabic area is estimated at Ia, 100000
acres. This would give an average of
$50 acres to each individual, or twenty
seven acres to each family Of five men,
bers.
A farm of twenty-seven acres in
this country would be considered
rather ''small potatoes" In the
grain-growing regions of the West,
the cotton-ields of the South and
among the cattle ranches of the South
west, twenty-seven acres would be
counted garden-patch, and not very
large garden at that. But in France
these small farms not only support the
cultivators' families, but enable them
to improve their condition year by
year. The rural population raise crops
enough for themselves, provide sur
plus for the other two-fifths of the COM
munity engaged in manufacture and
trade, and usually have considerable
stores to spare for export beside. How
small the shares contributed by each
farm must be is illustrated by the fact
that any shortcoming of crop is more
than likely to wipe out the surplus en-
tirely, as, for instance, the bad wheat
harvest of this year makes ali the differ
ence between the exports of about TO-
OOO, 900 bushels and the import of near
ly as large an amount. But this is only
an accident. Usually the surplus can
be counted on with degree of certain
ty, and the French farmer is in the long
run sure of fair returns for his labor.
1t is plain to see that the system of
agriculture pursued on these miniature
plantations must be very different from
that in vogue on our broad prairies and
wide-spreading valleys; and, in view of
the substantial results obtained, it may
yet be worth our while to learn what
the distinctive features of this system
are that gives success to the farmers of
France. San.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
DIR. Ponds Cancer Institute.

The continued and unvarying success Of DR..
F. L. Pond, Of Aurora, Ill, in his treatment
of cancer and kindred diseases, is something
SO extraordinary us to be worthy of more than
passing notice. Since the Doctor first opened
the doors of his mansion to the afflicted, hum
dreds of cases have passed under his care.
Some came in good time, before the dreadful
scourge hsd fully developed and fastened it.
self on some vital part of the system; but by
far the largest number only came to the Doc
tor when their family physician had given
them up and hope had almost fed. Yet, not
withstaniing what might properly be called
such unfair odds against him, the Doctor has
but seldom failed to cure even these desperate
cases, and in no instance has he failed to give
relief. Such record is simply marvellous.
The Hospital is capable of accommodating in
the neighborhood OF 300 patients. It should
be said, here, that this institution Is not hos
pital in the common acceptation of the term.
There are no large wards, where numbers OF
patients are lodged together, to annoy each
other with their complaints. Nor Is the at
tendance of that mechanical sort so generally
afforded. At very moderate charge each pa
tient may have room to himself, and the
most careful and tender attention Is bestowed
on all. All afflicted with Cancer are advised
to 60 at once to DR.. Pond.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

bride from one of his Western trips.
She had died soon after the birth of
this daughter, and he had been appar-
emily too busy to ever marry again.
Perhaps this press of business was why
he had never called when she was
home. 1t was strange, she used to
think, that he never did, but late years
she had ceased to expect him.
The next afternoon, as she was writ
ing letter in the little parlor which
was always given up to her in the
home-comings, the gay jingle of sleigh
bells in the yard attracted her atten-
ton. Clara had come again and her
father accompanied her. To Miss
Vesta's surprise, he was ushered into
her cozy apartment and grasped her
hand with friendly manner. He
seemed intent on some errand, yet
spoke of the weather, the long time
since they had met and the suddenness
of her mothers recent DEATH. At length
his tone changed and he began:
"My Clara made acquaintance with
you last evening, she tells me, and
copied an old valentine you showed
her. have called to inquire-that is,
I would like to ask if you will let me
see it myself?''
Miss Vesta hesitated. She "hardly
knew how she came to show it to the
girls-really-she---'
81 would not ask to see it, Miss
Gridley, if l did not think 1 had a
right-if I did not believe it was in my
own handwriting"
Covered with confusion, the little
chest, which still remained by her, was
reopened, and the L. epistle was
handed him.
"Just as I expected! Remember it
perfectly well. Had some trouble with
the sealing-wax. / won't look inside,
as don't need to. 1 only wanted to
satisfy myself as to the genuineness of
the document. And so you didn't think
it was from me, eh?''
"The postmark-is--"
eyes, yes! What precious fool l
was! Walked miles one clustering day
to get it mailed out of town. Afraid
our Postmaster would laugh at me!
And cut my head off by the operation!
OF course you thought it was from Dick
81 must confess did," blushed Miss
Vesta. Oh, the modification that
rushed over her that she had supposed
herself the object of mans affections
who had never given her reason to
thus presume! And if she had only
known at the time that it was John!
"Vesta," said he, II was a green
boy when this was written-I may not
be much else now, but l will put this
matter into more straightforward
shape, at least, than 1 dared do them"
and, taking up the pen, which she had
laid aside at his entrance, he wrote
beneath the lines, "'Tis 1, John j.
Dexter" with all the flourish to be
found on his bank-bills.
There, Vesta," said he, returning
it to her hands, "this paper may be
somewhat worn and stricken in years
as perhaps you and are-but the rec
ord stands as plain to-day as the day
it was written. Even palmer" he
added, pointing to his fresh-ink sigma
ture. II supposed you went into your
school to get rid of mel will ask you
now to consider the plan of getting rid
of your school-.tor nae"-Mrs. j. W.
Gris'oold, in Springfield (Mass.) Re-
publican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
Bullets Meeting in the Air.

The probability of bullets and other
missiles meeting in their fight when
shot from opposite points in such num-
bers as they would necessarily be in
battle is certainly not by any means
doubtful. The possibility of such mis-
siles being welded together by their
contact, however, seems SO decidedly
remote that such a result appears to us
certainly phenomenal. It appears,
however, from Forest and Stream, that
the New York shot manufacturers,
Messrs. latham Brothers, occasionally
found bullets welded together in the
scrap lead brought from the battle
fields of the American Civil War, and
Lieut.. Col. John A. Mclaughlin re.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
DON'T STOP MY PAPER.

DoN'T stop my paper, printer.
Don t strike my name off yet;
1ou know the times are stringent,
And money hard to get;
But tug little harder
Is what mean to do,
And scrape the dimes together.
Enough for me and you.
can't afford to drop it;
find it doesn't pay
To do without paper,
However Others may.
hate to ask my neighbOrs
To give me theirs ON loan;
They don Just say, but mean 1t,
Why don't you have your Own4
You can't tell how we'd miss it,
If it. by any fate.
Should happen not to reach us,
Or come q little late;
Then all is in hubbub,
And things 60 all awry,
And, printer, If your married,
You know the reason why.
cannot do without it,
1t is no use to try.
For other people take it.
Ard, printer, 80 must |.
/, too. must keep me posted.
And know what 9 going on,
Or feel, and be accounted,
A fogy simpleton.
Then take it kindly, printer,
Ii pay is somewhat slow;
For cash is not SO plenty.
And wants not few. You know.
But must have my paper,
Cost what it may to me,
Id rather dock my sugar
And do without my tea.
So. printer. don't you stop it,
Unless you want my frOwn,
For here's the years subscription,
Aud credit it right down;
And send the paper promptly
And regularly on.
And let it bring us weekly
Its welcomed benson.
Detroit Free Press,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

ACCORDING to the statistics of 1870,
there were 9,749, 1873 acres of timbered
land in Ohio. In 1877 there were but
5,117,3 acres. If these figures are
correct, they show the destruction of
over 1850, 900 acres of timbered land
in Ohio in seven years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

Lack Of judgment causes fully 50 per cent.
OF all business men to fail, earlier or later.
Do not an equal proportion of physicians fail
to cure from the same cause2 At the Grand
Invalids' and Tourists Hotel, Buffalo, N. T.,
DR.. Pierce, through the skill attained by his
several specialists, each having devoted years
to q special department of medical science, is
able to cure large per cent. of cases hitherto
considered incurable. Many physicians, In
view of the superior advantages of this model
sanitarium. bring there stubborn, obscure,
complicated. and surgical cases, for examina-
ulars given in the Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, an illustrated work of over
900 pages Price, post paid, $3.50. Address
}he author, r. v. Pierce, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. 7.
CHEW Jackson,s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

"A man was found freezing to death
on Montgomery street at an early hour
by some citizens, but when their eyes
fell upon coil of lead-pipe and a
soider-iron lying near him they passed
on and left him to die.-Jersey City
Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

An aristocrat, whose family had
rather run down, Boosting to a pros
porous tradesman of his ancestors, the
latter said: "You are proud of your
descent. am on the opposite tack,
and feel proud of my ascent"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

=" What is meant by consciencep'
asked an English schoolmaster of his
class. ga Inward MONITOR "And
what do you understand by monitor?''
"a hironclad." replied the intelligent
youth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

viii somebody explain how it is
that the dog, the best, truest, most
courageous and unselfish of mans
friends, is used in various expressions
as indicative of everything that is bad?
An obstinate scoundre1 is termed
"dogged," lying scamp 6 hound, !"
a coward a sour and a brainless
idiot puppy" The road to ruin is
termed "going to the dogs" This is
not fair to the dOgs.-EIchange
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
PULvERMACHER'S
ELECTRIC BELTS AND BANDS

are Endorsed and approved by the most emf
nent medical and scientific authorities in the
world, by the Faculties of France, England,
Austria, Prussia, Belgium, and America, and
by well-known writer's, who refer to the cx-
traordinary cures effected by Pulvermachcr's
Electric Belts and Bands, in upward of one
hundred medical and philosophical works.
DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET and THE ELECTRIC
QUARTERLY, large Illustrated Journal, con-
tanning full particulars, mailed free.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

-"Didn't 1 tell you to call me at six
o'clock this morning? Why did you
disobey me. Joseph?" If you please,
sir, was afraid you wouldn't like it.
You were asleep"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

1t seems singular how one horse
in q team wants to run away when his
mate doesn't, but it is probably be-
cause of hard-heartedness-he cannot
feel another's whoa Cincinnati SGtur.
dan NiOht.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

Rev mge is sometimes gained by
making an impudent rctort, as in the
case of the student who said, in re-
spouse to a reproof for the lowness of
his position in the class: ''Well, pro-
fessor, never mind. Ipresume I am as
much to blame as YOU are"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
$500 Reward.

They cure all diseases of the Stomach, Bow.
els, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys and Urinary
Organs, and $500 will be paid for case they
will not cure or help, or for anything impure
or injurious found in them-Hop Bitters. Test
column.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

No WONDER the people have confidence,
when the best physicians are prescribing DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup in ill cases Of Cough,
Cold, ete.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

REDUCED PR1cE.-Twenty-fve cents WIN
now buy ffty-cent bottle of Piso's Cure fos
Consumption. Thus the best Cough Medicine
Is within the reach Of everybody. For ssle b.
al druggists,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

None but the brave deserve the
hair, is how the aborigine puts 1t.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

To remove paint from door-posts
back up against it when it is fresh.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13
VOLUNTARY
TESTIMONY.

[Ertrad from the Baltimore Amer;can,"
. s December 81, 1SzS.] .,-.
"Thc Pulvermacher Electric Belt is recon-
mended to general use for the following rea-
sons: First, for its wonderful properties for
the cure of diseases Of the kidneys, stomach,
liver and blood; secondly, for Its extreme
simplicity, and the fact of its being applied
outside, precludes all possibility of any in
jury being done to the patient, as an external
remedy is universally acknowledged to be
safe. Another advantage is the facility with
which the progress of the disease AMI cure
can be watched, and if the Belt be not quite
in the right place, it can be very easily read
justed SO as to cover the parts affected. The
Pulvermacher Electric Belt, and its perfec-
ton, has been hailed with delight, not only
by the sufferers who have regained health,
enjoyment, and a new lease of life through
its benefcent qualities, but by the medical
profession, who very frequently prescribe its
use to their patients.'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-13

the little chest had so long contained,
but now they were only curious as to
the ancient valentine. "Didn't they
have any fancy ones in those days?''
asked the inquisitive girl, who evident
ly thought pain sheet of paper was
no valentine at all.
~ presume so, but this is the only
one ever had"
"Why, it's an acrostic, amt it? gig
gled the girls again.
"''Tis L. That's real nice. May
copy it, Miss Gridley?' asked Clara.
"Yes-I have no objection"
Did you know who sent it?'' went
on that impertinent niece.
81 suppose ] did,"
"Was it anybody we know" pur-
sued the persevering miss.
"No. 1t was nobody that you have
ever SEEM" replied her aunt, curtlv.
The girls went out, giggling as they
had come.
$50 your aunt used to have beau.
wonder why she didn't get mar
ried?'
"I guess they must have had fuss
or something" replied the young Miss
Gridley, whose own experience with
beaux had thus far always had that re-
suit.
It was late when Miss Vesta retired,
and still later before she could free hel
mind from the impressions the contents
of the little old-fashioned chest had
recalled. John Dexter's daughter, too
how little while it seemed since she was
just her age, and John and she such
good friends! And she had hardly
spoken to him all these years. He had
developed much business talent, had
John. No trace now of the bashful boy
in the President of the village bank and
other moneyed enterprises. He had
shot out from his bachelorhood some
years ago and brought, Unexpectedly,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-18

where Mr. Grecnman has farm, and will fol-
low farming for change"
Improvement upon Oak Ridge Cemetery
has commenced
Mr. Derring, of Chicago, sent the Sand wlch
Fire Company Protection No |, y draft iol
800 last week for their services at the gTca
fire in Plano.
The ten rabbits and one game rooster
sent by Mr. Fish here to man in the
other day, cost tie purchaser a total of S21.1j
including express.
II is incorrectly reported that Orlando Cham
plain has skipped" If any honest man
| leaves home for one week lie Is baScly slardcrcu
4 number OF Plano boys got drunk on Sand
wlch whIskcy saturday night, and left So ia
81 apiece with Esq Montgomery to-day to
| help build our sidewalks,
Brother Asa Wilcox is member of the VI
+. Church here HIS wife left him and pre-
ferrcd charges against him in the church. IN
Goodfclow summoned jury of members "a
try the guilty y one while he himself pre-
sided ut the trial Rev. j. X BurncS, Of Earl.
vile, appeared for the church, while Rev. Mr.
Lee, of Newark, was counsel for Mr., Wilcox
The defendant came ont with lying coior'
while his wife was "droppCd.'
Immense quantities OF corn are growing on
the car-bOth before and after husking; the
crop cannot average over 30 per cent. here
Milton Kahn the milk-man, sold his dairy
and business to Sir. 5. l.. Tolman last week
The entire outfit, consisting of lot of milk
cans, one wagon and 81 good cows brought
$3.50. Mr.. Kan has been unfortunate. lie
had paid about $1,000 on his farm, but the fall
IN prices Of land left the mortgage worth more
than the farm, and he was compelled to sur
render the land to Mr., A. Gage
Mrs Ruth kirkpatrick, of Waterman, moth.
er of Mrs Robert Ferguson, of Sandwich, died
oct s, 1879, at 30 years of age.
The Rcco,d, Of Yorkville, and other papers
are saying that the Haas boys have skipped y
Yorkvile, after having been sued for Illegally
selling liquors. If the boys are wanted badly
they can be found just north of this city, at
work on a farm. EX UNo.