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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
Fashion Freaks.

SPANS lace, Breton, thread and steel,
or ietted laces are used for garniture
Pink or blue muslin hens an inch
wide are all around wide null neckties.
An effort is made to revive the old
fashioned silver gray shades to use with
steel and silver laces.
Shirred cuffs of India muslin are to
be worn outside the dressed sleeves,
turned up from the wrists.
The material for which the greatest
popularity is predicted is the satin mer.
yeilleux in bayadere stripes.
The poke with. higher brim and mar
rover sides is among the latest bonnets.
1t is.more conspicuous than ever.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Mr.. Lancaster, near London, has
forty-six acres of celery, and his celery
commands the highest prices in mar
ket. His plantation, at 10000 plants
per acre, requires AGO, 900 plants. They
are set in trenches, and vast quantities
of manure are used. Seven horses are
used in his eighty-acre vegetable gar
den. Radishes between the celery
bring about $140per acre, and, the cell
cry $3.50 peracra. The labor comes-to
$3.50 per week in summsE and -aatpshn.-
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
NO.. 6.
A Point of Etiquette.

A cat one day a sparrow caught;
About to eat it up,
"Stopl I" cried the sparrow; gentlemen
Should wash before they sup"
Grimalkin paused; to be presumed
So fine was rather nice.
"Quite true" he said, and dropped the bird
To follow her advice.
Of few the sparrow. "Ah, you rogue p
Cried pussy, in rage,
$50 that's your game? But I'll be wise
In future, I'll engage!
I'll never wash before l eat,
But after' Which is still
A fashion that the cats keep up,l
And, doubtless, always will.
Our Animal Friends,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Gentlemen, we have taken up with
the new idea, and will serve you with
coffee instead of wine. We hope that
you will appreciate our motive, and be
as well pleased"
Politeness alone prevented some from
elevating their eyebrows with quiet
smile. AS for James Burton, his eyes
glowed with genuine pleasure. No one
heard him when he whispered to her:
Mabel, 1 am glad-very glad. I
promise myself brave little wife. But
1 am at loss to know what influenced
your decision"
And with archness dashed with a
vein of tenderness, she smiled upon his
face and asked:
"Do you believe in dreams ?"
He said no but when she told him
this particular dream, he replied that he
would SO far modify his opinion as to
place implicit faith in all dreams that
recommended coffee in the place of
wine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

There has been some surprise that
nothing was left in her will by George
Eliot to her husband, Mr.. Gross, but
that all the money went to the family of
her first husband. This was, however,
an arrangement entered into previous
to herNsspoHd marriage, by. tke,e&press
desire Of Mr., Cross ssgwho is himselfyery
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Ten years with their changes have
come and gone.
We pass from the fashionable
thoroughfare down adisreputable street,
through filthy alley, up four flights OF
ricketty stairs to an attic.
Through the small, dingy panes of
| glass, where they are not broken and
stuffed with rags to keep out the cold
you can see only chimney-tops and roofs
covered with snow.
In a small, badly-cracked stove, sup
ported by two iron legs and a pile of
bricks, there are few Goals over which
a woman is trying to cook something in
| a saucepan.
They do not give out warmth enough
to dispel the chilly air of the room, and
the woman shivers while she huddles as
near as possible to the scant heat.
Perhaps it was because she was so
wretchedly clad, and so thin and wan.
Want and sorrow were stamped on every
lineament of the wasted frame and face.
Her very hair seemed to hang gaunt on
her cheek.
Every once in a while she looked
toward corner of the room where stood
tumble-down bedstead. Her attention
was attracted by the coughing of boy
eight or nine years of age, yet so wasted
by privation that he was almost
skeleton. Out of his great liquid eyes
looked starvation.
Mamma, I'm so cold," he said, in
shrill, piping voice.
"Hush, dearest Don't speak so
loud. Huddle up close to papa. I'll
have you something warm in a min
| ute."
The child looked to the other side of
the bed where man lay in drunken
stupor.
Gathering the ragged bedclothes more
closely about his shivering little form,
but moving no nearer to the man, the
child said in hoarse whisper:
Mamma, I'm afraid"
At that the woman Strengthened up,
her heart swelling almost to bursting.
With the hard tearlessness of despair
her eyes rested on the man, then sought
the child, and last returned to the man,
and from her quivering lips arose the
invocation:
"Oh, heaven !"
His slumber disturbed by some hide
GUS nightmare, the drunkard tossed his
arm so that it fell upon the shrinking
child, who cried in quick terror:
"Mamma mamma !"
| "Hush, dearest" continued the wo-
man again, with her heart in her Hiotfsh,
but to late, the drunkard was sronseas
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Gentlemen, am my own master or
not?"
"But, Burton, you are not fit to go to
her now. Come, there's a good fellow
we'll get you to bed, and in the morn
ing you'll be all right again. You see
you amt seasoned like us old stagers,
but the women don't take that into ac-
count, and she'll think you're on the
high road to ruin, and all that"
L promised her would go to her the
first thing in the morning, and never
fail in the performance of a promise
when it is avoidable."
"That's all right as rule, but you
can tell her that you knew she would be
too tired to see you and all that"
"No, I won't lie to her in the merest
tride. But, Blake, you're making a
mountain out of mole-hill. tell you
l am all right. Here, let me out of the
carriage. I'll show you that I can walk
as straight as any of you. Halloa, driver,
pull up ~
"We'll take that for granted, Burton.
But if you are determined to go you
must at least take plain soda and give
your head sOuse in cold water"
Nothing of the sort. You've init
mated that am drunk, and I'll prove
to you that am not. l shall go into
Miss Aberdeen's presence, and she will
not notice any change in me whatever I"
They had to yield
When before all those present, he
raised her hand to his lips and said:
"Mabel, s'lute you! I"
1t was the first she had occasion to
blush for him, and for the first time she
was stricken with fear for herself.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
MABEL'S DREAM.
"Well, petite, is it to be wine G

"Well, petite, is it to be wine OF
coffee"
Standing in his own doorway and
| looking out over the thousand acres of
| waving grain which surrounded the
home where he had been born and
reared. James Burton had rather dis
dained the city, where men jostle each
other, the strong mounting on the
downfall of the weak, until summer
visit brought Mabel Aberdeen, butter
| fly of fashion, to win his heart and con-
quer his prejudice. so that winter found
him at her side in the city home, hold
ing the hand that bore his ring, and
| saying with smile:
"I have been brought up to believe
that wine is q mocker and strongdrink
raging but when one is in Rome, ~ou
know-and l don't want to bring dis
credit on my patroness by unconven-
tional singularity, which 1 believe is
the greatest crime in your social code.
So / leave you to decide-wine or
coffee.
She looked at his strength.
Of all men there could be no danger
of him.
And women would think it country
prejudice should he decline wine.
"Come to me the first thing in the
morning, and then do as 1 bid you,"
was her decision.
Aud five minuter later the crisp snow
crunched under his firm tread, and she
had gone to her own room to tell Cousin
Grace what splendid fellow he was,
and afterward to dream of to-morrows
festivities.
The frosty air seemed to fairly dance
with the jingle of bells.
The reception-room was like a hall in
fairy palace.
"Wine or coffee?
And with her jeweled hand she held
fragile wine-glass brimming with the
red blood of the grape, and looked into
his eyes with smile that siren might
have envied.
"To the health of our fair hostess
May her beauty never wane!"
And for good OF i'll the wine had
passed his lips.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
VOL. XI.
The Indian Camp,

out from the Northern forest, dim and vast:
Out from the mystery
OF vet more shadowy times, a painless past.
Untracked by history;
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE

Whereas, default has been made in the con-
dittons of certain mortgage, executed ami
delivered by John s. 9. Homer and Ant"inette
first, A. d. 1875, and duly recorded in the Office
of the Register of Deeds in and for the county
of Redwood and State Of Minnesota: ON the
9Th dry Of OctObe-, A. ID. 1875, at II O'clOek A.
n. in Book two(2) Of mortgages, pages 2o4, etc..
whereby said mortgagors granted. mortgaged
and conveyed to the said 1. G. Lash. his heirs
ing md being in ru said Redwood county, and de-
sCrfoeil AZ follows, to wit: Tho west half of the
northwest quarter of section twenty-nine t29);
northeast Quarter OF the northeast quarter;
north Of the Redwood river) and the northwest
quarter Of the northeast quarter OF section
thirty @ and lot number s,x o. "a ana ~ m
Der Eve ~, in section number twenty (s0; lot
number four a., and the southwest quarter of
the southeast quarter in section number nine
teen 0is,. range thirty-flye CaO containing three
hundred and fourteen tsl4l acres, according to
government survey, on which mortgage there
est, and nifty dollars attorneys fees. stipulated
in said mortgage in case Of fOrecloaure, and
one hundred and eighty and seventy three one.
hundredth (&l007O dollars taxes paid on SAID
lands September ID, 1881, BY the undersigned,
administrator Of the estate Of said I. g. Lash,
making the total amount due on the said mort
Thousand ono hundred and eighty-eight dol
lara and thirty-three cents ~, 1s8.8Sl:
And, whereas, no action or proceeding ut law
or in equity has been instituted to recover the
debt secured by said mortgage, or any part
thereof:
! Now, therefore, notice Is hereby given, that
BY virtue OF q power Of sale contained in said
mortgage, and Of the statute in such case
made and provided. the said mortgage will be
forcclOeed by a sale Of the mortgaged prem
ises therein and above described, at the front
door Of the court house, at Redwood Falls, in
tho said county Of Redwood, at public yendue,
lbv the Sheriff Of said county. on Friday,
the eth day Of December, A. d. 1881, at 10
O'Clock A. H., to satisfy the amount which shall
then be due on said mortgage, with interest
thereon and taxes and costs and expenses of
sale. K. B. GALVSHA,
ADMINISTRATORS OF the said /. g. Lash, decd.
| October n, 1881. ~
| st. Paul. MINI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01

Mr.. Walter F. McC une, of Pitts
burg, Pa, writes: "Ay age 10 20. I
was born with IN excellent eonstitu-
ton, but It the age Of 10, having
Just finished my collegiate education,
I fell into habits Of dissipation. AZ
ter six years Of fast living I felt my
Constitution broken down. / put
myself under the care of one of our
best physicians. His treatment
seemed to do me no good. Finally
he said at best l could live but . few
years, that my bowsls, kidneys and
lungs were eli threatened with con-
sumption and were. fast wasting
away in certain decay. I tried ev-
ery:hing advertised, hoping to gain
relief. Finally I .drifted into state
of melancholy and hopeless despair,
suffering .excrnti,tingly from dys-
pepsia, short. breath, and urinary
catarrh. A. few years ago I saw
Browns Iron Bitters advertised. ]
used them, and they acted like q
charm. l soon began to enjoy
dreamlsss' slnmber-and now l feel
myself . man. once moro, and have
gained 81 pounds since uaing the
rsmedy. l feel very strong, and can
hold out = forty-fve weight
Browns Iron Bitters saved my
life"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
First publication Oct. 20, 1881
PROBATE NOTICE.

s Cousr o. on In Probate Court
Special Term, October II, 1881.
In the matter of the estate Of Jonathan p.
YOWle, Deceased.
Whereas, an instrument in writing, purport-
ing to be the last will and testament Of Jonath-
an p. T0wle, deceased, late of said county, has
been delivered to this court;
And, Whereas, John Turnbuh has fled there
with his petition, representing among other
things that said Jonathan p. TOwle died n
said county on the 18th day Of October, 18Th,
testate, and that said petitioner ID the sole ex-
ecut0f named in said last will and testament,
snd praying that the said instrument may be
admitted to probate, and that letters tesla
mentary be TO him issued thereon:
It 10 ordered. that the proofs of said instru-
ment, and the said petition, be heard before
this court, at the Probate Once in said county,
on the 18th day of November, A. D. 1881, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, when all concerned
may appear and contest the probate Of said
instrument.
And it is further ordered, that public notice
Of the time and place of said hearing be given
to al persons interested, by publication Of
these orders for three weeks successfully pre-
viOus to said day of hearing, in the Redwood
Gazette, a newspaper printed and published
at Redwood Falls, in said county.
JOHN H. BOWERS,
Judge of Probate.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01

We need not apologize for devot-
ing considerable space in this num-
Der 70 the subject Of vaccination,
which l. ably treated by . medical
contributor. Small pox has appeared
in . dozen or more Minnesota towns,
but happily has been met with such
prompt sanitary precautions - to
occasion comparatively few deaths.
The loathsome disease is no respect
or of persons or location, however.
The most clearly people and the
healthiest localities are alike liable
to the infection. The good people
of Redwood Falls may yet witness
an outbreak even here. In view of
this liability, it will be wise to pro-
tect ourselves by timely vaccination.
Our physicians have finally succeed
ed in procuring fresh, reliable, non
humanized virus, and although many
have been vaccinated, not one in ten
of our school children have availed
themselves of this opportunity. The
vaccine virus cannot be we'll pre-
served. It soon becomes inert and
worthless, and physicians are there.
fore not always in possession of
fresh and reliable article. Careful
parents and guardians will not lei
this opportunity pass unimproved.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
First publication, Nov. 10 1851
PROBATE NOTICE.
STATE or MINKnDu6A, l.. pA..C,.,..
County Of Redwood. Vs. Az 1H"se oouI'

ST COUNT 2, q nRs s1oss 1nProoass Court.
Special term, November 9Th, 1857.
In the matter Of the estate Of Peter JorRen-
sen. deceased.
Whereas, An instrument in wr9ttag, pur-
porting to be the last will and testament of
Peter JOrkensen. deceased, late of said county,
has been delivered to this court;
And, Whereas, Mette JOrkensen has fred
Herewith her petition, representing among
other things that said Peter Jorkensen died in
said county on the 9th day Of October, 1881
testate. and that said petitioner is one Of the
executOre named In said last will ana Tesla
ment. and praying that the said Instrument
may be admitted to probate, and that letters
Parliamentary be to her issued thereon;
1t 10 ordered, that the proofs Of said instru-
ment, and the said petition. be heard before
this court, at the Probaee Once in said county
ON the ID day Of December, A. d. 1881, at II
O'Clock in the forenoon. when all concerned
may appear and contest the probate of said
instrument.
And It isfuyther ordered, that public notice
of the time and place Of said hearing be given
to all persons interested, by publication OF
these orders for three weeks successfully pre-
yiOus to said day Of hearing, in the Redwood
Gazette, . newspaper printed and published
ut Redwood Falls, In said county.
JOHN H. BOWERS.
LSEAL.1 Judge of Prubate.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has been

Mrs. Abraham LINCOLN has been
in New York nearly two months,
submitting 70 medical treatment At
the hands of Dr. Lewis A. Sayre.
A Times reporter says che has need
ed money 70 secure proper attention
and nurses, and the $4,000 pension
granted by Congress is utterly made
qaats to supply her wants in her
present condition. Cyrus w. Field
has been applied to take interest in
her case and he announced yestsr-
day he was actively exsrting his in
duence to secure the passage Of q
bill through Congress to increase the
amount Of her pension to a figure
which will render the remaining
years of her life as comfortable a.
her sickly condition will permit.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
The Lac oui Paric Independent

The Lao qui Parlc Independent is]
not satisfied with NJ. Braley's vote
against the repeal Of the act which
creates the Office Of district attorney.
for the 18th judicial District. One
Of Mr.. Bralsy's strongest reasons for
voting for the law was because Mr..
Stone-whom the Independent can
not speak too highly of-assured him
that it, passage was desired by his
constituents in the 18th Judicial
District. When he was asked TO
vote for the repeal Of ne law at the
last session Of the Legislaeate. Mr..
Braley refused to do 90 because his
constituents interested in the mat
ter were about equally divided in
their views, 90 far - he could learn
from the names signed on the petit.
tione and remonstrance sent to the
Legislature. The editor Of the In
dependent is probably not aware
that Mr.. Braley in 1t least two in
stances did what was asked of him
by his constituents in Lac qui Parle,
or he would not have said the only
favor the people of that county asked
of Mr.. Brslsy was to vote for the re-
peal of the act referred to. On page
SOL, Of the Special Laws of 1881, it
will be seen that he had one act
passed Of considerable importance
to the citizens Of . number Of towns
in that county, and on page sos Of
the same book appears an act legal
hing the taxes levied BY the county
commissioners of Lac qui Parle
county for: 1879. The Journal Of
the House shows. that both those
measures were introduced by Mr..
Bradley. Mr.. Bradley was . faithful
Repr> sentative, aud however much
the Independent may see fit to crit.
else his course, the citizens of this
county as we'll as of the district
know that they never had Repre-.
sentative who worked harder OF
more successfully for their interests.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE
BY ADVERTISEMENT.

Default has been made in the conditions OF
. certain mortgage executed and delivered by
Charles Porter, and Phebe Porter, his wife,
to ps rcS dated
hundred and eighty, and recorded as a mort
gage in the Office Of the Register of Deeds Of
the county Of Redwood, in the State Of Minne-
O'Clock A. NJ, in book of mortgages, OH page
IS, on which there IL claimed to be due. at the
date of this notice, the amount of forty j.
lars, which became due January LIST, 1881, and
there is yet to become due thereon 500, ana
no action or proceeding has been instituted at
law or in equity to recover the debt secured by
Notice Is hereby given, that by virtue of q
power Of sale contained in said mortgage, and
of the statute in such case made and provided,
Of the mortgaged premises therein described,
which sale viii be made at the front door Of
the court house, in the village of Redwood
Minnesota. at public auction by the sherin Of
said county, on Saturday, the 10th day of De-
cember, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty
the amount which shall then be due on said
mortgage, with the interest thereon, and costs
and expenses of sale, and twenty-five dollars
attorneys fees. as stipulated in said mortgage
The premises described in said mortgage,
and so to be sold, are the lot, piece, or parcel
Of land situated in the county VI Redwood, and
State OF Minnesota, and known and described
as follows, to-wft: The northeast quarter
me NJ of the southwest quarter [s-w.lN of
section nineteen [l9l, and the southeast quar-
[w.h1 of the southwest quarter [s.w,lll of sec
ton twenty (20], and the west half lw,,sl of
twenty-nine [29l, and the northeast quarter
(n.e.Al Of section thirty (3Ol. all in township
one hundred and nine l109] north, of range
thirty six 1851 west, containing SO acres. more
or less, according to government survey there
Of, excepting therefrom the following de-
scribed piece of land, viz: Commencing on
section line between said sections 10 and 10,
about az rods west of east line of said sections
at a point where said section line crosses the
creek; running thence up the channel of said
creek to the bluff, thence up said bluff to a
stake on point of said bluff, thence in north
westerly direction on brow of said bll6 to a
stake, thence northerly down said bluff to the
said creek, and thence up the channel Of said
creek to the place of beginning, containing
seven acres.
F. T.. DAY, MOrtgagee.
~. HOD0anN. Attorney for MOrtgagee.
i Dated October 18th 1881.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01

It makes the heart of every phil
anthropist sad to see 40 many worth
less patent medicines puifed and ad-
vertised for the cure Of chronic dis
eases. Usually the remedy is some
vile cathartic compound or alcoholic
preparation, combined with buchu,
or other severe diuretic
that affords the invalid only tempo
rary relief, but which has no lasting
effect, aud in truth eventually brings
on a complication of diseases arising
from q state of wornout and exhaust
ed digestive and urinary organs that
nothing but death can relieve. H.
valids should trust moro to nature
for their recovery. A gentle medi-
cinal tonic that stimulates the sys-
tenn, and strengthens every part of
the body by its soothing and refresh
ing effect on the mind, 10 natures
truest aud best assistant. lSuch a
remedy is Browns Iron Bitters, a
medicine surprising the sale Of all
other remedies, whenever its merits
become known, for it acts in such
perfect harmony with the laws Of
life aud health, that all pulmonary,
urinary and digestive troubles are
prevented and permanently cured by
its timely use. 1t contains no alco.
hol, and will not blacken the teeth.
Physicians aud ministers endorse
and recommend it. if !.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
NOTICE.
LAND OrrTCE AT

LAND OFFICE AT
REDWOOD FALLS, MINI, Nov. Z, 1881
Notice is hereby given, that the following
named settler has filed notice Of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and secure fnal entry thereof, and that said
pI cot Win be made before the Register and Re-
cefs er of the U. 3. Land once at Redwood
Falls, MIMI, on Saturday, the 10th day of De-
cembor 1881, viz: Martin Murray, homestead
entricsfNo 24dO and S45 for southwest 4. section
"A, township Ill, range -, and he names the fol-
lowing witnesses to prove his continuous resi-
dence upon and cultivation OF said tract. viz. !:
A. L. Gale, and Fay. Robinson Of Redwood
Falls, Redwood Co, John Kull and Z. West Of
Marshall, Lyon county. Mimi.
WV. p. HUNTINGTON.
Register. +
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NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE AT

LAND OFFICE AT
REDWOOD FALLS, MIMI, Nov. =, 1881.
Notice IL hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice Of his inten-
ton to make final proof In support
and that said proof will be made before the
Register and Receiver Of the Q. 9. Land once
It Redwood Falls, Mimi, on Friday, the 10Th
day OF December, 1881, viz: Mary Barber,
homestead entry No. ia, for southeast 4. SEQ
tiOn Q, township liz, range 80, and she names
the following witnesses to prove her conttn.
tract. VIZ: David Alexander, OF Yesta, He'd.
wood county, s. 4. Bunch, ]. B. WATSON, and
n. 3. Powell, Ut Redwood Falls, Redwood
WV. r. DuHxin0rox. Rsgister.