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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

Old Uncle Nose was not noticed near
the polls on election day. consequently
q colored striker was sent to hunt him
up. He was found sitting by the fire,
grooming dismally, in his cabin. on the
east end Of Galveston Island. "Uncle
Nose, has yer voted yit?" asked the
co!ored rounder. mo. chile, / wouldn't
risk ketchin' cold in my lungses foah all
de money in de world" Here's
dollar to pay for your time" The old
man secured the subsidy. reinarking:
''Ef you is comm de bulldose on dis
ole niggah. he weakens. Hev yer
fetched kerridge foah me?" hits
waiting at de doah, Uncle Nose. lis
yer qwine ter bring me back after Use
voted?" "Bring you right back.
Uncle Nose; hurry up, now "Gimme
a dram foah startsp" "Here it is"
said the emissary, producing . flask.
"Take pull" He pulled and asked:
.Gwine ter gimme annudder pull when
Use done voted?" and then he pulled
again. Eyes, take annudder pull right
now. Don't be afeared OBJ It. Oars
plenty noah. whar il come from" So
the old m@n pulled again and wanted r.
know: "Hev yer got annudder. doalHr
bill wild yerP" "Look heah, ole man,
you must low de campaign committees
made Of money! Here's yer uddee dol
lar. Now jump in. De polls is gwine
ter close" ''Lor, chile, you maxim
out you is q statesman, heah! heah!
Use been foolin' yer. ] done voted de
udder ticket only dis mornin' heah!
heah! heah'' and the old image settled
down In front of the fire and nearly
chuckled his head off, Galveston Nescs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
How to Drop Money at Church.

We are frequently asked regarding
the best manner OF dropping money
into the contribution box at church,
and after carefully considering the
subject we suggest the following rules:
First, if you feel particularly mean and
have only penny to Sestow, you must
keep it we'll covered in your hand, and
when the box is under your nose you
mnst, with quick, nervous motion, let
your mite fall so that it shall escape
observation; second, if you have a
quarter or any other silver coin of
considerable size to give, you may hold
it in plain sight between your thumb
and forefinger, and when you deposit it
you must let it drop from a compare
lively lofty elevation, SO that it may
make a musical jingle when it reaches
it's destination; thirdly, if you contem-
plate Offering bill, you must not take
the money out of your vest pocket un-
til the happy time comes when your
neighbors can best see your unparal-
leled generosity. The moment that
the collector appears at the pew door
is the one when you must tumble for
your money, and then having methodi-
cally unfolded the bill. and put on
your eyeglasses to ascertain its denom-
ination. you may slowly place it in the
top of the box. These three rules. we
believe, will be sufficient for all Ordi-
nary purposes. N. B.--A button should
always be placed in a BLANK envelope.
Boston Courier.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
WIT AND WISDOM,

The Petroleum World has can.
vassed the situation, and finds it oil
well.
"A man has no remedy for his hair
falling of. A woman can always use
hair-pins, and keep on as much hair rs
she ikes.--N. o. Picayune.
When somebody told Mr.. Whistler
that friend of his had received lega-
cy of $4,000, by Jover' cried the
witty spendthrift, "that's 100000
year for six months"
"A Georgia young man asked his
sweetheart whether she had ever read
"Romeo and Juliet" She replied that
she had read Romeo, but she did not
think she had ever read Juliet.
Glucose is described in a recent
French paper as follows: "Glucose
product with which wine is manufac-
tured without grapes, cider without
apples aud confectionery without
sugar."
I'm Mary Carpenters ragged school,
in London. boy defined Conscience
as "a thing gentleman hasn't got
who, when a boy finds his purse and
gives it back to him, doesn't give the
boy sixpence."
The church fair impends, and y
fresh lot of two-dollar pen-wipers, to-
gether with countless unnecessary nee.
essary articles, may be expected to soon
deluge the homes of our people. Boston
Transcript.
If a newspaper should contain all
the things that all its readers want it
to print it would have to be bigger
than a bedspread; if it should leave
out all that each of its readers does not
wish to read it would be blank paper.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
Men and WOme1.

Among all the burdens CnaC woman IS
called upon to bear, there is none that
can be made so CALLING to her as the
burden of dependence. Man is usually,
in the life of the family, the bread-win-
ner. However much he NAV be helped
by woman in the economies of home
life, he is usually the one who earns and
carries the money on which the family
subsists. Whatever money the woman
wants comes to her from his hands, as
a rule. Now, this money can be given
into her hands in such way that she
cannot only preserve her self-respect,
but rejoice in her dependence; or it can
be given to her in such way that she
will feel like dog when she asks for it
and when she receives tin such a
way that she will curse her dependence,
and mourn over all the shame and hu-
initiation it brings to her. We are
sorry to believe that there are multi
tudes of wives and daughters and Sis
tiers, who wear fine clothing and who
fare sumptuously every day, who would
prefer to earn the money they spend to
receiving it from the ungracious and in
considerable hands upon which they de-
pend.
If we had entitled this article "a
Study of Husbands" it would have led
us more directly, perhaps, to our main
purpose; but the truth is that what we
have to say has to do with dependent
women in all the relations of life. 1t is
natural for woman, as it is for man, 10
desire to spend money in her own way
to be free to choose, and free to
economic, and free to spend whatever
may be spent upon herself or her ward
robe. It is delightful privilege to be
free, and to have ones will with what
ever expenditures may be made for
ones own conveniences or necessities.
A man who will interfere with this free
dom, and who will deny this privilege
to those who depend upon him, is either
thoughtless or brutal. We know
and women all know--men who are
very generous toward their dependents,
but who insist on rescrving to them
selves the pleasure of purchasing
Whatever the women of their house,
holds may want, and then handing it
over to them in the form Of presents.
The women are loaded with nice dresses
and ieWlery, and these are bestowed in
the same way in which Turk lavlshes
his favors upon the slaves OF his harem.
Now, it is undoubtedly very gratifying
to these men to exercise their taste
upon the necessities and iineries of their
dependent women, and to feast them
selves upon the surprises and the thanks
of those receiving their favors; but it
is superlatively selfish performance.
If these women could only have had
in their hands the money which these
gifts costs, they would have spentit bet
ter and they would have gratified their
own tastes. man may be generous
enough to give to a woman the dress
es and ornaments she wears, who Is
very far from being generous enough
to give her money, that she may freely
purchase what she wants. and have the
great delight Of choosing.
This is one side mot very repulsive
one Of mans selfishness in his deal
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
RHIlGIOUyA AND HDUCArIOyxI.
Truro 10 the first English town
which in 400 years has founded cathe-

Truro 10 the first English town
which in 400 years has founded cathe-
dral.
The General Convention of the
Christian Church held its annual session
recently at Louisville, KY. The report
OF the Rev. F. NJ. Green, Corresponds
ing Secretary, showed that the denom-
inatlon numbers 100000 communicates
in the United States; that large sum
OF money was expended in evangeli-
cation. and that large addition was
gained to the church during the past
year. Delegates were present from En- .
gland, Canada and Australia.
The New York correspondent of
the Rochester Democrat, who was for
merry a clergyman, and who is thor
oughly posted on personal matters re-
lating to the clergy, gives in recent
letter the ages of several ministers who
are prominent in New York and Brook
lyn. IS Ebert S. Parker. of the Re-
formed Church, is sixty; DR.. Ormiston
Is fifty-nine; DR.. Chambers, sixty-one.
DR.. Armitage is sixty-one. Theodore
L. Cuyler is fifty-eight. Howard Crosby
is fifty-four. John Hall is in his fiftieth
year. Samuel d. Burchard is still
working preacher, though now sixty
eight. Houghton, of the little church
round the corner is in his sixty-first
year. Morgan, of St. Thomas's, is
sixty-two. Bellows, the veteran of
Unitarianism. is sixty-six, while Robert
Collyer is flfty-eight. TAYLOR, OF the
Broadway Tabernacle, and Robinson,
of the Memorial Church, each is in his
fifty-first year. Rylance, of st. Marks,
is fifty-four. Talmage is forty-eight,
and Van Dyke, who was his most severe
opponent, is ten years older. Beecher
has just entered his sixty-eighth year,
and has greater degree of vitality than
any American preacher of that age"
According to reports made at the
recent meeting OF the American Mis-.
sionary Association, the labors of Ameri-
can missionaries abroad have of late
been reasonably successful. The mission
in Burmah is a novelty, being self sup
porting. In China the opium habit has
proved the greatest foe to Christianity,
and is met at every turn. As to the vast
field OF India, it is yielding glorious
harvest. The years spent in patient
preparation of the soil and in seed
sowing have not been spent in vain"
In Turkey "a few of the Moslems arc
diligent readers of the Bible, but the day
has not yet come when the Gospel can
be preached to them openly. New
churches have been organized the past
year, new schools opened, native
pastors ordained, and many converts
received" In Japan results have APP
peared promptly in response to effort,
and many societies have been attracted
to this field on account of its great
promise. Several new missions have
been established within two or three
years, and stations are being opened in
various parts of the empire The
African field is being occupied as rap
idiv as possible, and there is declared to
be no reason for discouragment in that
quarter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
A Heightened gentleman dropped

A HIGH-ToNED gentleman dropped
into an obscure barber shop to get
shaved. The colored barber rubbed
his chin with q piece of soap as pre-
liminary step. "My goodnessr' ex-
claimed the victim; "that soap smells
very peculiar" "Not de soap, sab.
OATS de berry same cake oh soap has
been usin' all summer ON my own pus-
son, sab. Mebbe. sab, it's de water
melon rhinds in de alley, sah." After
the gentleman had made his escape, the
barber said to himself as he strapped a
razor: IF he had kept his mouf shet,
he mout not er smelled muffin. "-Gal-
Uest0n Nevs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
How the FOrger Brockway Secured His
Release.

A NEW YORK special of the 1st says:
The mystery about the release of William
Brockway, the forger, by the United States
authorities, was cleared up to-day. Last week
Brockway pleaded guilty to the charge of for
gerry, before Judg, Benedict, in the United
States Circuit Court, and was subsequently
released on his own recognizance, although
the latter fact was. for some unexplained rea
son, denied by the Secret Service officials, both
in Washington and in this city. 1t was well
understood that BrOckway had made some
restitution, but what its precise nature was was
withheld until to-day. BrOckway has surren.
dered all the plates, twenty-five in number,
from which counterfeit notes and bonds were
printed. He has also given up $45l,OOo in coun-
terfeit 300 bank notes on various banks and
800 or 400 sheets of fiber paper, and he has
furnished information which it is believed
ment The material surrendered was all
displayed in the District Attorneys
office to-day. The counterfeit plates shown
were three for bank notes. two of them for q
Pittsburgh bank and the other for Wilkes
barre bank bills. Then there were four plates
for the border of the notes, each bearing the
coat-Of-arms of different States. There were
also splendid plates for the back of notes.
Plates and number and seal of notes com.
pleted the outfit for 800 notes. Next, the
counterfeit plates for United States six per
cent. 1881 bonds were shown. and with them
bond seal of the Treasury Department en-
graved ON copper, and a bond seal of the loan
division in e!ectrotype. The type with which
the numbers were printed on the bonds was
also displayed. Plates for the back and Dor
der of the $50 bond coupons were also shown,
but they had never been used.
Last Thursday BrOckway, accompanied by
several United States officers, went to Jamaica,
L. l., and drove to the woods near Richmond
Hill. Brockway conducted the party into the
woods, and although the ground was covered
with snow, soon directed the officers where to
dig for the plates. The bond plates were first
dug up. They were done up in tin-foil, and
were covered with asphaltum. Next So, eco in
800 bills was found. The package was sealed
up in a glass pickle jar. The bank-nOte plates
were found near the same spot They we're
protected by asphaltum. In another place
$4,000 was found inclOsed in a piece of lead
pipe. The fiber paper was found done up in
tin-foil, and sealed in q lead case.
In addition Rrcckway has made q clean
breast Of his connection with the forgers. He
has told where the fiber paper, which was sup
posed to have been stolen from the Govern
ment, was manufactured. He has also given
the authorities number of letters, among
them several from William P. Wood, cx-Chief
of the Secret Service Department, which are
said to be important. The forged paper was
printed by Charles H. Smith. and the electro
tipping was done by Brockway. Doyle, who
was arrested in Chicago, disposed Of the
forged paper in the West.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
Railroad Accidents.

TIE Railroad Gdzette has summary of the
RI lrord accidents during the month of Octo
Der. Thee was a total of 120 accidents, where
b. 60 persons were killed and 1T wound ID In
q accidents the death of one or more persons
was caused; in 26 others personal injury, but
not death, resulted, while in g. or 8l.S per cent.
ofthe whole number, there was no personalin-
jury serious enough for record. As compared
with October, 1879, there was an increase of l6
in the number Of accidents, of 81 in the num-
Der killed, and of Il in that injured. For the
year ending with October the record 10 as fol-
lows:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
In Roumelia the rose harvest is re

In Roumelia the rose harvest is re.
ported to have been an exceedingly
abundant one this year, the value of the
total yield exceeding, u is estimated,
1000, 900 francs. The richest harvest
of late years, however, was in 1876.
when 3, 800 pounds of altar of roses, OF
the value of So, O17 francs, was export
ed from Philippopolis alone. The altar
is principally exported to France
Austria, America and Germany. Ed
gland obtained what she requires from
India. The French scent manufacturers,
and especially the Partisan. buy the
finest qualities Of altar, while the set
ond qualities are mostly sent to Russia
and Austria.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
A Base lmpOstOr.

Shortly before three O clock the other
afternoon farmer from the vicinity of
Hampstead appeared in front of the
Stock Exchange and entered into con-
versation with citizen who was wait
ing at the door by asking:
1.-The convention in there breaks up
at three o clock, don't it?''
"Yes, that's the hour" was the re-
"Do you know Jay Gould when you
see him?''
"Oh, yes.''
els he in there?"
IL presume So"
T. "Well, 1 wish you'd point him out to
me when he comes out"
The citizen promised to do this, and
within few minutes he kept his word.
The farmer took a square look at the
railroad and telegraph Prince and then
turned and asked:
"Are you dead sure?"
"Oh, yes"
Cant be no mistaken
"No."
swell, it's about as suspected. A
few days ago great big slouch OF fell
low halted at my gate and began meas
uring my ground with tape line. and
sauinting around in the most mysteri-
GUS manner. went out to see what
was up, and after beating around for q
while, he said he was Jay Gould. I'd
heard and read of Gould, but didn't
know what he looked like.'
cit must have been fraud"
"rm sure of that now; I pumped
around to find out what he was up to,
and he finally said he wanted my place
for an orphan asylum. He was going
to build one as big as palace; and take
care of all the orphans in the country"
land of course, you treated him
well?''
"Didn't1! Why, for se:ree days he
lived on the fat of the land and slept in
the parlor bedroom. He was going to
give me $500 for my land, and the
way we killed chickens and turned out
sweet cake for him made the old woman
sick. He finally jumped the house and
took my Sunday suit and fiddle worth
eight dollars"
III don't believe Gould would steal a
fiddle"
THAT'S what 1 thought, and so l
came over to have a look at him. It
wasn't Gould at all, but some base i'm
poster"
"And you are 80 much out?''
"Wall, it looks that way, but the ex-
perience is worth something. 1t may
not be a week before some one else will
come along with ten-foot pole in his
hand and theological seminary in his
eye and claim to be Russell Sage, and
the way I will knock him down and
step on him and walk over him and
drive him into the sile will pay me q
profit of fifty per cent. on the invest
ment. - Wall Street NeUs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

''Attempts BY evil-disposed peroons - ~
wade the Indian Territory, and to take posses
sion Of certain unoccupied lands there, have
20 far been successfully frustrated by thu
prompt action of the Government, but they
havo been as persistently repeated. 1t ID 70.
ported that another attempt il in preparations
now. The military forces Of the United States
in the Territory are instructed to arrest III.
trtaders, and to take proper measures to bring
them to Justice, a. they have done here.
tofore. But 1t Is evident that the penal
ty imposed upon repeated intrusion into the
Indian Territory, which penalty consists in a
mere fine, and is dificult of enforcement, is
not sufficient to deter lawless characters from
such undertakings. concur with the Com
missioner in recommending that q law be
passed adding penalty Of imprisonment to
that of fine. II this Il done invaders will
know that such attempts are not without seri.
GUS risks to them"
Referring to the measures instituted by the
Department to put a stop to depredations ON
public timber lands, the Secretary reports they
have been highly successful. During the past
three years upwards of $4,000 have been
turned into the Treasury as the result of keep
ing the Departments special agents in the field
to defend and prosecute wholesale timber tres
passers. and the illicit cutting and expectation
of timber from the public lands along our
coasts, which had grown to an enormous
yearly aggregate, has been almost entirely ar
rested.
The Secretary again urges upon the atten-
ton Of Congress the great desirability of en-
acting laws to provide for the proper prcser-
walton of our forests by preventing the
reckless waste which now attends the cutting
of timber In many parts of the country With
out restraint.
The Secretary recommends liberal appro.
priations for extension of the geological survey
all over the United States, and the adoption BY
legislative enactment of Commissioner BENT
!y's plan for taking evidence in pension cases
by oral examinations throughout the country:
concnrs with Commissioner Marble in asking
al increased force of clerks and examiners
Tor the Patent Office; recommends early action.
upon the Public Land Commissions bill; in
lurses General Walkers Recommendation for
authority to secure prompt publication of
census reports by special contract. and in
view VI the present and prospective need
If additional accommodations for the work of
the Interior Department, Post-ofice Depart:
ment and other Government Offices now ex-
tensively occupying rented quarters, he rec
ommends that four new Government build
ings of adequate size be erected Oh three
blocks surrounding Lafayette Square, oppo-
site the Executive Mansion.
The report also contains, among other mat
tiers not above indicated, a series of synopses
of reports furnished under special instructions
of the Department by the Governors of the
various Territories, setting forth their material
resources, and their respective attractions for
immigrants.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
West and South.

The official declaration of the Presidential
vote in Wisconsin 10 IS follows: Total vote,
267, 1856. Garfield, IA, 400; Hancock, 400;
Weaver. 1885; anti Masonic, 81; Prohibition,
90; scattering. l. Garfield over Hancock,
70, Isl; over oil, 2l,604.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ROBINSON
of Colorado, who was mistaken by . guard
near Leadville for . c;aim-jumper . few days
ago and fred upon, died Of bis wounds on the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

NOVEL scarf-pins represent diminu-
tive oysters and Holsters, miniature
newspapers, letter envelopes and pearl
bootjacks, inlsid with mock rubies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

The averages per day for the month were
3.S7 accidents. 2.23 killed and AZ injured; for
the year they were 2.00 accidents, OFT killed and
ia injured. The average casualties per acct
dent were, for the month, 0.575 killed and l.l2
injured; for the year, .Q.sa4 killed end L051 in
4,ano
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

The favorite dream Of most French
boys having fair amount of pluck and
90 in them. says foreign writer, is to
be military men in fine uniforms, and
the most cherished fancy of most
French mothers is to walk about on
Sunday. in matron majesty. on the arm
of smart young officer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

AN illuminated red nose is not safe
guide for man in dark night. 1t
leads directly to a bar-room.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

--Krupp has lately devised new gum
boat for the German navy, to have .
speed of twenty miles an hour and to
carry . fifty-ton gun, mounted on q
pivot and non-recoi' system.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
Some of the officials Of the Boston

Some Of the officials Of the Boston
Post-office propose to establish Co
operative society similar to that of the
London Post-office. The stock will be
S5 share, and there will also be fee of
$1for annual membership for those who
purchase ct the society's warehouse.
but are not stockholders. It is expected
that the profit will be II or perhaps 20
per cent. net, and no payments for stock
or membership are asked for till the
warehouse is ready to be opened.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

An editor in Georgia says: ''Gold il
found in thirty-six counties in this
State, silver in three, copper in thirteen,
iron in forty-three, diamonds in twenty
six and whisky in all of them, and
the last gets away with all the rest"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09

CARD boxes, note books, knife handles
and an infinite variety Of fancy
articles are now made of pressed cork.
Many Of these articles are hsnd-paintW
in the most beautiful designs.