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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
THE ROSY WRAPPER.
Its Charming influence In the Ken.
dali Household.

Beautiful, beautiful, but perfectly
useless" exclaimed Helen Austin, as
she lifted a cashmere wrapper from the
box in which it had been packed, and
shook out its soft folds.
1t was beautiful, in truth. The
ground was a lovely rose color. over
which meandered a delicate vine, with
sprays Of wild roses and buds of deeper
tint, and faint green leaves A little,
not too much, soft lace finished neck
and sleeves, while one or two bows
gave piquancy to the whole. 1t was a
bridal present, which had just come to
Helen Austin on the day before her
marriage.
ut is just like cousin Mary" con-
tinued the bride-elect; fine, dainty,
exquisite; but it would be utterly out
of harmony with my blacks and browns
and grays. l could never wear it in
the world"
But my dear, is there any law COM
polling you to wear only blacks and
browns and grays?" asked Mrs. Lind
ley, the friend to whom she was show.
ing it.
Certainly there is; the law of fitness.
of propriety. An elderly spinster, who
marries doctor of divinity and his four
boys, keeps his house and does her
share of parish work, ought to be at
tired with becoming sobriety."
but the colors would be so becoming
to you," pleaded her friend.
"Yes, used to wear those colors in
my young days, and If were eighteen,
or even twenty-eight, instead of forty
eight, as l am, it would be just the
thing. But will YOU look at the label;
"A Rainy Day Wrapper?' Whatever does
cousin Mary mean?"
Just what she says, Helen. She
wants you to wear it in your new home
to brighten the dull, rainy, depressing
mornings for your husband and chill
dren."
81 thought cousin Mary had better
sense of correspondence. Now, if
could ever bring myself to put on this
dainty thing, it would be upon some
cloudless Sunday morning in early June.
Isbould want to sit out upon the piazza,
with the flowers blossoming and the
birds singing, and the blue sky over.
head, and every thing in harmony.
Even then, I'm sure, should feel like
little brown sparrow in the feathers OF
bifd-of-paradise. A rainy-day wrapper,
indeed! No, thank you. My gray one
with the Persian trimming will do we'll
enough for rainy days.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
CONCERNING POETRY.
Judicious Reading OF 1t VIII Give o
Command of Language.

Judicious Reading Of 1t VIII Give Ono
Command of Language.
A girl said to me few days ago of a
friend of hers: II never in my life
knew anybody who had such flow Of
language as she has. She is never at a
loss for word of comparison or an ap-
propriate quotation. How in the world
docs she do it?'' Well, asked her, and
this is what the good talker said:
when ! was very little girl my
great delight was to read and study
poetry. learned poems by heart to re-
cite at school, to say to my mother and
to delight my brothers with. have al
ways kept up that habit, and every day,
as am dressing,I have an open book
on my bureau and learn something by
heart, even If it is only verse Of four
lines. l have never given drawing-room
Rotations, for know 1 should simply
bore people, but have gotten great
deal Of pleasure myself from the habit.
and believe it has done more to give
me good command of words than any
thing else.
If you take bit of advice fromme
you will chose to begin on the shorter
poems of Austin Dobsin, of Owen Mere.
dith, or dear old Tom Hood or Adelaide
Proctor, and later on, of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning and Rossetti. You
know the last was the poet who so dear
ly loved his wife that he buried with her
the poems which he had written beside
her, and which had never been publish.
ed. Many years after his friends insist
ed that these poems should be disinter.
red, and it was found when the coffin
opened that her wonderful blonde hal,
had grown to her feet and formed net,
work that glistened like gold thread in
the sun over the bundle of papers. II
you do not care for these poets, take any
other you like, but do not try to do toe
much at once. The little by little is the
very best theory in life if you want tc
gain any thing.-Ladies' Home Journal
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
THE FARMING WORLD.
THE USE OF SALT.
Its Value as . Soil Fertiiizer-How I
Use 1t.

Its Value as . Soil Fertiiizer-How to
Use 1t.
AGRICULTURAL SALT.-Can you tell
me about how much salt it Is customary
to SOW on an acre?'
The above is clipping from an un-
known paper. A reply from one who
has had experience in using salt as
soil fertilizer may be of interest, says
the Country Gentleman.
was reared on farm within few
miles of the Onondaga salt works. At
that time salt which had been con-
demned by the inspectors was thrown
out as useless, and anybody was free to
take it. l was minor and my father
large farmer and considerable of an ex-
perimenter. Under these favorable au-
spices he commenced trying salt on vari-
Gus crops. 1t was broadcast very light
ly at first. The amounts used l was too
young to remember; but l know he
thought so we'll of it that he kept in
creasing the quantity.
have a vivid remembrance of the
last application made while l remained
at home, its quantity and effect, for l
applied it myself. A field of twenty
four acres had been prepared for wheat
by narrowing. measured off six acres
in one corner, to which l applied one
and half ton loads by broadcasting
from the wagon, with boy to drive,
and then watched the result. The
wheat crop on this was better than on
other parts of the field, the straw
brighter and stood up better, and the
grain plumper; but just how m"ch bet
ter was not ascertainod, for farmers did
not make accurate tests then as now.
The salt told wonderfully on after
crops. The field was sown in timothy
at the time of sowing the wheat, and
clover the following spring, six quarts
to the acre, the small, red kind At
the wheat harvest the clover on this
portion was so thickly set that there
was scarcely a square foot that was not
covered with rank growth, while on
the other there were many spots where
the clover looked sickly, and some
places were bare. On moving the field
the next season the clover on the sailed
portion was badly lodged and the other
not. The succeeding season the clover
had nearly disappeared and the most
:ank, dense growth of timothy that
aver saw had taken it's place. Look
ing back through the misty past,
Judge it turned four to five tons to the
acre, and the rest of the field one and a
aalf to two.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
Tho Sweet Girl Graduate to the Fore.

Graduate of Yale-This encyclopedias
is very imperfect. 1 have looked all
through the letter 'P," and dom t find
a single word about "'possum."
Graduate Of Harvard-It is not worth
a continental! I've carefully examined
the letter &C." and not the slightest al.
fusion is there made to "'coon."
Vassar Graduate-Suppose, Uncle
George, you look under 20" and "R."
Graduates-O Ah!-Harper's Bazaar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
THE klNGBlRD'S SONG.
A Sweet Though Simple and Joyt
Morning Greeting.

A Sweet Though simple and Joyous
Morning Greeting.
The song that had called me up was
sweet though simple strain, and it
was repeated every morning while his
mate was separated from him by her
nest duties. can find no mention Of it
in books, but had many opportunities
to study it, and thus it was. 1t began
with a low kingbird "Kr-r-r" Tor roll
ing sound impossible to express by let
ters). without which l should not have
identified it at first, and it ended with a
very sweet call of two notes, five tones
apart, the lower first, after a manner
suggestive of the thing
like this: "Kr-r-r-r-r-r-ee-be! Kr-r-r-r-
r-ree-be!" In the outset, and think l
heard the very first attempt, it re-
sembled the initial efforts of cage-birds,
when spring tunes their threats. The
notes seemed hard to get out; they were
weak, uncertain, futtering, as if the
singer were practicing something quite
new. But as the days went by they
grew strong and assured, and at last
were joyous and loud morning greet
ing. l don't know why should be so
surprised to hear kingbird sing, for l
believe that one of the things we shall
discover, when we begin to study birds
alive instead of dead, is that every ono
has song, at least in spring, when, in
tho words of an enthusiastic bird-lover,
''the smallest become poets, often sub.
lime songsters." have already heard
several sing that are set down as lack
ing in that mode Of expression. Olive
Thorne Miller, in Atlantic
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
A DRINKING FOUNTAIN.

A Handy Dsvice for Keeping Chickens
Supplied with Good Water.
Mr.. A. P. Greim, Tompkin's Cove, N.
Y, sends description of a novel and
handy drinking fountain, which he de-
,cribes as follows: Here is the cheapest,
md in my opinion the best, drinking
:ountain, and So simple that any one can
make it. First, procure pan or dish
the size required (mine is an oval-shaped
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

The franchise of easy digestion-one OF
the most valuable in the gift Of medical
enough to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
either to suppress growing dyspepsia, or to
uproot it at maturity. Bilious, rheumatic
and fever and ague sufferers, persons
troubled with nervousness, and the consti-
pated, should also secure the health fran
chise by the same means.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

every ldFIH. liz
accompanying en-
craving shows one
which can not be
surpassed in effect
iveness. A plate Of
steel 6x1O inches
should be shaped as
shown and welded
to a strong shank
that can be attached
to a heavy shovel
handle. After ham,
mering the edges
thin they are
ground properly
and brought within
half an inch of each
other, a circular
hole fully an inch
in diameter being
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
Facts About Hail.Stonss,

It is the heavy blocks of ice which do
the greatest amount of damage, as nat
urally lump weighing even an ounce
is formidable missile when it falls
from height Of 1000 feet When these
falls are about to take place observers
have reported that peculiar rafting
sound is heard in the atmosphere, evil
IDENTIFY from collision between these
stones striking one another in their
fall. A very careful observer, who was
overtaken by. one of these falls in the
Caucasus, near Tiflis, states that it oa-
CURED Immediately after an ordinary
hail shower, and that he could see tbs
successive showers marching over thu
country, and noticed that between tho
last edge of the falling bail and tho
front edge of the falling ice-blocks there
was distinct break, through which he
could see the sun shining. 1t was on
this particular occasion that the best
specimens of crystal-bespangled hail
stones have been recorded and sketched,
but others have been reported from Ma
tai and quite recently from Philadel-
phia, U. s., on October l, 1sS9.-Long-
mans Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
NO, ,.

line of No. 2, and place the dish or pan
in position.
In the illustration, A shows No. 2, C
and D shows whore hole may be cut
for handle This fountain may be
carried anywhere, it will not upset, the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

Mr.. Wickwire-"Is every thing
ready now? Did you get the ice?"
Mrs. Wickwire-"Yes" Mr.. Wick
wire-''By the way, whore is the bill
for it?" Mrs. Wickwire-T used it to
wrap the ice up in."-Terre Haute Ex-
nreas
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

lis your husband verygenerous
man?" Indeed he is. You remember
those nice cigars 1 gave him for birth
day present? Well, no smoked only
one and gave all tho others away to his
friends. ''-Epoch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

Not only shortcuts labor and lessons pair
attending it, but greatly diminishes The
danger to life of both mother and child il
used few months before confinement
Write to The Bradfield Regulator Co, At
lanta, Ga, for further particulars. Sold BY
all druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

Those who go for rest to the fash
ionable summer resorts are lulled to
slumber not only by the piano playing
of the amateur, but by the music from
the girl violinist the girl cornetist, the
flute player and the girl with the banjo.
Bits of broken tunes float out of innum-
cradle doors and windows, and there
never was such a summer for musical
,YarietY
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

"A Maine minister, who has just re-
tired, during his pastorate of nearly
half q century married 4e7 couples and
preached 757 funeral sermons, of which
800 were for members of his own society.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

Jones had been quite i'll. One day
the doctor called and found him in a
bath-tub.
'Why, man, are you crazy? You must
BE- anxious to die!'
mo, 1 amt" protested poor Jones;
but didn't you say that your last medi-
cine was to be taken in water?"-Judge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

lo1t ABOVE them IN me plaCe. 1He
plate should then be tempered so it
will hold keen edge without breaking
if it strikes an obstruction. Hung in a
shovel handle and ferruled, this appli-
ance will cut more brush and do it
more closely without being ground
than any thing on the market. One
edge protects the other, and unless a
thin stone be standing on edge they
can not be dulled without being driven
into the ground. A smaller, lighter
pattern is excellent for cutting corn
and tobacco.-Farm and Home.
Thinning Fruit on the Trees.
This is subject which will properly
bear repetition. Among others who
have amply tested its advantages, is
Jabez Fisher, of Fltchburg, Mass, who
stated in an address before the Massa-
chusetts Board of Agriculture, after an
experience of more than twenty years
in thinning pears, and half as many in
apples, that the labor expended in this
way has always been worth more than
twice what it has cost, and in some
cases more than five times. He con-
uu0uGly SIdGcu GnaG IL auUS 10 GD0 value
of the remaining product from twenty
five to one hundred per cent. 1t pays
the largest profit when the crops are
heaviest. In such crops the difference
in the value of the frsts and seconds il
greatest In 1888, when the apple prod.
uct was very large, and a great guam.
tity went begging at small prices, first
class fruits sold for fullv three tirnos
the prices of the others. But it should
be borne in mind that the trees on
which the fruit is grown must receive
tair attention and good cultivation, for
fine fruit can not be grown on feeble
and stunted trees, nor gathered from
them. The finer and fairer the speci-
mems the handsomer and more perfect
and excellent will be. those bringing
high prices in market; but in all cases
the best fruit will grow ON trees not
overcrowded with crops. = Country
Gentleman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

-"Speaking of wife-beaters," re-
marked M'Corkie, "M'Crackle beat his
wife last evening very badly" "Yop
don't tell me,'' exclaimed Mrs.
M'Corkie, Indignantly. "Yes; beat her
four games of checkers"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

I. L. CRAa1N & Co., Of Phila., the mfrs. Of
Dobbtns' Electric Soap, say they would rather
close up their immense works than to put
one grain of dd,lteratton in their Dobbins'
Electric Soap. Would that all were as hon.
est.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

1T is stated as curious fact that
the city of Monte Video, with a popula-
ton of 1850 souls, has twenty three
daily newspaper
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

The seat of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regu-
late the stomach and you
cure it. DR.. Pierce's Pellets
are the Little Regulators.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
Tho "Mother's Friend~

The first week that man has telephone
in his Office be Is apt to have the yeller
fever badly.-Boston Bulletin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

THERE is nobody or nothing in this worlt
that is so often crossed in love as the front
door mat-Binghamton Leader.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

DRINKING FOUNTAIN COMPLETE.
chicks can drink from either side, they
can not soil the water, and they can
not get on the pointed top-Farm and
Fireside
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

ALBERT BuRcH, West Toledo, Ohio, says {:
"Halls Catarrh Cure saved my life. write
him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, &c
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

A FAIR lady becomes still fairer by using
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hilrs Hair and Whsker Dye, 80 cents.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

A PnoroaRAPHER's negative and pretty
girls affirmative are both developed in q
dark room.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

SAID the penknife to tho pencil: "Since
you're 50 sharp, l think I'd better shut up.''
-BinRhamton Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

The receiver Is as bad as the thief, but
neither Of them feel As bad as the loser
Denver Road
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

ALWAYS avoid harsh purgativepilla they
first make you sick and then leave you con-
stipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate
the bowels and make you well. Dose, one pill
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

soap-dish), and then cut board (of any
size you wish) the shape of No. (see
illustration). and another the shape Of
No 2. You may now fit the pieces to-
gether by mailing No. on the dotted
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

AroPuLAR fallacy-that the easiest things
to do arc to tell the truth and to edit a pa
Der.-LRht
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
Something New,

A tool for cutting corn, tobacco, etc,
and for clearing up brush is wanted on
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

TIE man who lives q dual life will kin
himself sooner or later.-Elmira Gazette.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

IT is no longer necessary to take blue pills
LiverPills are much better. Dom forget this
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28

WISE Is an owl-the lawyer with his ITO
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
Charles Dickens.

IT seems quite natural that the threads Of
conversation should sometimes produce
long yarn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-01

iaiied and be vas employed by tee Phila-
oeipnla and Trenton Railroad Company
Is an omnibus agent and occasionally as
conductor on the railroad, and In assisting
MS rather. who yves superintendent of the
ROAD from 1884 to lsiS. In 1898 he was en-
gagged TO act as conductor of the Easson
iine, oy horse car from Third and Willow
streets, Philadelphia, 60 Trenton, thence by
stage coaches to Easton; aud later bstween
bristol and Trenton, connecting with
Steamboat at Bristol, this being the first
line used exclusively for way passengers.
ln December, 1859, he commenced to run
the line betW cen Trenton and Philadelphia
oy locomotive, via Bordentown and Cam
den, and without intermission continued IN
active service as conductor of passenger
trains between Trenton and Philadelphia up
To the present time In life Of such long
continuous service as Mr.. Quintin's, many
incidents and interesting anecdotes abound.
In the olden time the cars were entered
from the side, and planks ran along the
side or the car, on which the conductor
took the fare, in similar manner to the
summer cars on-the city railway. The
locomotives burned wood and were hardly
capable of making mere than 20 miles an
hour. Dir. Quintin's ''f'kets, please!" has
been sounded in the ears of presidents,
statesmen, generals, foreign dignitaries,
potentates and hundreds upon hundreds of
thousands of less notable members Of the
human family. His integrity was part of
his nature. He was terror to BURNERS,
dead-beats and a certain respectable class
whose chief ambition in life is to beat a
railroad company.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-01
aUNTING DOWN a sCOUNDREL.
Brothers ola Wronged Won an on the
Trail of Her Deceiver.
From the PhiLadeLphia Times.

rTOHt Hle fUtCu0etDhtu IlfHeS
LANCASTER, Oct. 29.-R. N. Wardlow, a
real estate agent of st. Louis, arrived in
Lancaster tonight in search of Charles
Mowery, a former resident OF this city. Mr..
Mowery has wife and married daughter
here. He left them in September, 1889, and
went TO Little Rock, Ark He made love to
a sister of Wardlow, young girl who lived
in Little Rock, and married her the follow
ing December.
Some time ago he deserted her and left for
parts unknown. she wrote to Lancaster
and then learned for the first time that her
husband had a family here. She at once
became a raving maniac. The young wo-
man has five brothers and they concluded to
hunt Mowery down and kill him if they
found HIM.
Mr.. Wardlow saw Mowerv's family here
and found that they knew nothing of the
missing man, who has done nothing for
their support since he left here. The sup
position is that he has gone to Mexico, and
one Of the Wardlow brothers is on his trail.
Mowery is probably 40 years old, but
looks younger. He was engaged in the sale
of musical instruments here and bore fair
reputation. Mr.. Wardlow left for home at
midnight.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-01
THE RIVER AND HARBOR.
Happenings Along the Wharves a
Among the Shipping.

Happenings Along the Wharves and
Among the Shipping.
The schooner Lucie Wheatley had a new
rudder stock put in yesterday morning and
she sailed for Brunswick.
The British steamship CapuIet was cleared
yesterday by A. Minis Sons for Bremen,
with 6.249 bales of upland cotton. weighing
3,247, AS pounds, valued at $3.50, lS9.
The British steamship Scotsman was
cleared by Richardson a. Barnard, for Re-
val, with 4,90S bales of upland cotton,
weighing 2,499,767 pounds, valued at
$253.301 CO.
The steamer Farmer, on her trip Thurs
day night, took down a number of thorou III
bred horses and some Jersey cows and
calves for Mr. Pierre Lorillard, to be put
on his place at Harris Neck.
Wilder & Co. cleared yesterday the Ger.
man steamship Holstein for Bremen. with
200 bales of upland cotton, weighing
l, 1857 pounds, valued at $113, 800, and
$3.50 barrels OF rosiu. weighing 1075, 395
pounds, valued at $1,000. Total valuation
OF cargo S120, 800
The Lillian. Mr.. Pierre Lorillard's steam
launch, which has been laid up across the
river for several months. was brought
across yesterday to the south side, where a
new steam boiler will be put in her and
triple expansion engines, when she will De
put in commission for the winter season.
She will be generally overhauled.
Stratchan & Co. cleared yesterday the
British steamship Navigation for Liverpool,
with 3,701 bales of upland cotton, weighing
1,877,3J1 pounds. valued at S1s5,65O, and
4y3 Dales of sea island cotton, weighing
163, 1913 pounds, valued at S37, 600, and $50
bales of wet cotton On deck cargo ex-
Nedjedl, weighing 124,9S0 pounds valued
at $500. TOTAL valuation of cargo
1926, $50.