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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
THE SEAL ISLANDS.

Why Seal Skins Will Surely Go Up in Price
in the Near Future.
The seal fishing privileges of the ISL
ands of St. George and St. Paul, of the
coast of Alaska, which has just been let
by the Treasury Department for term
of twenty years, are of greater CONNER
cial importance than appears on the
surface. This is sub; Jet which should,
and will when its true bearing becomes
known, attract the attention and excite
the interest of every civilized woman in
the world.
"Why, under the terms of the lease,
the award of which has just been made
in Washington, the price of sealskin
garments will go up from 100 to 500 per
cent" said an ex-Treasury agent who
knows all about the seal fisheries. This
gentleman, who four years ago repre-
scented the Government on the seal ISL
ands, is on his way from Washington to
Puget Sound on tour of timber inspec-
ton and is staying for day or two at
the Grand Pacific. II was much inter
ested in those bids" he remarked, s'for
the reason that all the bidders offered
the Government more than three times
the revenue for the privileges that the
old Alaska Commercial Company has
been paying for twenty years past.
The old company itself offered what it
declared would be practical revenue
to the Government of 1915, 900 year. 1t
has been paying for twenty years about
$500, 900. Part of this revenue, however,
is to come to the Government in the
shape of benefits to the Aleut Indians
and in maintaining wharves, schools and
Improvements on the islands.
But" continued the Treasury man,
''as said before, the chief interest that
the ladies will feel in the new lease will
be that it will add from So to 81 to the
cost of every sealskin before it goes to
London to be dyed. Again, the annual
supply Twill be cut down from 100. 900 to 60, :
900 skins, and dealers will at once take
advantage of that to raise the cry of
sealskin famine and so the skins may
have as result of all this $40 added to
their cost before they get into the hands
of the furriers. The present lease Of
the islands calls for $50, 900 year rental
and So a skin. This is equivalent to
about 81. so skin. The new lease,
with the added royalty on rental and re-
duction Of the catch, will bring up the
amount to be paid to the Government to
about $14. so skin. And who will pay
that difference? Why the beautiful
wearers of the beautiful fur, of course
1t takes from six to nine skins for an Or
binary sealskin sack, and so any lady
can figure out herself that she will have
to pay in the near future from $50 to $125
more for a garment than she has been
paying in the past. The sealskin ques-
ton, can tell you, is one we'll worth
thinking about CHICAGO Herald
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
AGRICULTURAL HINTS,
TRANSATLANTIC TREES.

An Interesting Article Containing Some
Practical Hints ON an Important Sub
ject.
The removal Of large living trees,
and planting them upon the borders Of
streets and boulevards is practiced to q
greater extent in Chicago says Edgar
Sanders in the American Agriculturist,
than in any other part of the world.
During the early years of the city's
growth the business was performed in
a very crude manner, and the only trees
thus removed were poplars, willows and
soft naples. They were trimmed to
mere poles when transplanted, but took
root and were soon covered with a leafy
growth. But these have mostly disap-
peared as business encroached upon the
residence quarters of the city, and
dwellings were replaced by business
structures, which left no room for shade
trees. Meantime a greatly-improved
system has been adopted, and much
better class of trees are used, The no.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
SUBSTITUTE FOR SILK,
A Frenchman Has Beaten the Silk-worn
at His Own Game.

A Frenchman Has Beaten the Silk Worm
at His Own Game.
American silk manufacturers recently
had their attention called to new dis
covery, which was represented to them
as cheap substitute for silk and was
destined to revolutionize the silk indus
try. 1t was the invention of the Count
Hilaire de Chardonnet of Besancon,
France, of a fiber, prepared by a chem
ical process from cellulose, and out of
which fabrics are declared to have been
woven that resemble pure silk 50 closely
that a chemical analysis alone would
disclose the difference between them.
May 7, 1889, he announced the sue
cess of his work. He said that it be-
came apparent in the early stages
of his experiments that to produce a
thread similar in transparency, texture
and brilliancy to the product of the silk
worm, it would be necessary to spin it
from liquid so ution. Cellulose was
chosen as the starting point, the most
convenient preparation of which was
made from certain parts of young wood.
With this material pure octo-nitro-cel-
iulose was made by treatment with
nitric acid and then dissolved in a mix
ture of thirty-eight parts of ether and
forty-two parts of alcohol, in proper
ton e.5 per cent. Such a solution is
called collodion.
The thread is, under certain condi-
tions, explosive and could not be consid-
cred practical substitute for silk under
such conditions. 1t is therefore treated
with bath of dilute nitric acid, which
removes the nitric acid from the fiber
and renders the fiber non-explosive and
not more inf1ammable than silk. It,
now be made up into fabrics and dyed
like real silk.
Patents were obtained by Count
hardonnet in France, Germany, En-
gland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Spain,
Portugal and the United States,
the latter September 8. 1t is claimed
the stuff can be made from almost any
known material of fbrous character,
and at about $1.40 per pound. This, at
its specific gravity, will make its rela-
tive cost to silk about So per pound
London Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
A STEP IN ADVANCE.

Mrs. Handiboe Reveals Some Family So
crets at the Police Station.
"Do you know my husband?" queried
middle-aged woman who called at po-
lice headquarters the other day.
"No'm," replied the sergeant
His name is Handiboe-John Paul
Henry Handiboe."
Don't know him."
Olives on Champlain street."
"Well, is he lost, strayed or dead?"
Neither, sir. He's alive and out on
the street, and will probably be here
within ten minutes to lie about me-"
"What is the trouble?"
"We had row, sir, and I skinned his
nose and pulled his hair. He will come
down to tell you that broke his nose,
but do you feel of it yourself. Don't be
imposed upon, sir"
Nom, won't"
And he'll say that pulled out
enough of his hair to stuff lounge.
Don't you believe it. Here's what
pulled out Facts is facts, sir, and you
can't get over EN-"
And she produced and unrolled a pa.
per containing about handful of griz.
Fly hair which had been pulled out by
the roots, and laying it on the desk she
continued:
would that stuff lounge? Would
that even pad boxing glove? When
he comes rushing in to tell his story just
show this to him."
"Yes'm."
He's an awful liar, sir. He lied to
me to get me to marry him. Said he
was a millionaire, but sawed wood fol
exercise. Here's the hair. and the nose
he'll bring with him. Let him tell his
story and then crush him with the
proofs of its falsity. He's easily crush
ed, sir, and one crushing will last him
for six weeks.''-Detroit Free Press.
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FIG. l. TREE ON TRUCK.

CA0. 1hEh YIN 1hOShs
bic and stately American elm is at the
head of the list, which includes linden,
ash, hard maple and other first-class
trees.
No size, even up to three feet in d.
ameter, seventy-five feet high, and, it
may be, a century old, is too large to
grapple with. Great trucks, with
wheels eight feet in diameter, and
capable of bearing a mass Of ten or more
tons of soil and tree are used. Trees
have been moved fifteen miles, which
are still growing and have been since
the centennial year of 1876. Last year
the superin tendent of Graceland Come
terry moved two elm trees growing with
in six feet of each other. The larger
was three feet six inches, the smaller
over three feet in diameter. They were
moved nearly half a mile in one solid
mass, as they grew; but in this case
they were operated by a hoEe-moving
apparatus with windlass and chains
The trees came out in full leaf and
grew all summer, as If they had never
been disturbed. But these are excep-
tional cases, showing to what extent
the business has been carried. To take
an elm Of one foot diameter two feet
from the ground. and transplant from
the native forest, or re-lransplant as
soon as a new residence is completed in
new residence quarter, is common
occurrence.
How IT IS DoNE.-A tree twenty five
feet high has roots spreading to a
diameter OF perhaps fifty feet. This
ramifying mass is not all moved, but a
mass of earth, three to six, or even
eight feet in diameter next to the boil
OF the tree, as shown in Fig. l is moved
solidly. If the nature of the soil will
not otherwise allow it's removal, it is
taken during freezing weather. When
the soil is frozen in compact mass, tho
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
BARGAINS A BARGAIN.
oas ss the Queer Phases q Life In Can
adam Lumber Camp.

sdian Lumber Camp.
When man gets sick or meets with
an accident in a Canadian lumber camp
he neither expects nor receives any
thing like good nursing. 1.-The IL patient,
the men will do what they can; but ii
he shows disposition to whine, he 10
not considered worth any extra trouble
At Camp "B" two or three win.
tiers ago man named Peters
WAS hurt by . falling tree-badly hurt.
Tie camp was forty miles from = town
or doctor. tho snow three foot deep, and
all they could do was to rub the man
with whisky and put him IN his bunk.
While no bones were broken, it seemed
certain that he was internally injured,
and'that he could not live beyond day
or two. Business was driving, and there
were no men to spare, and aiser Peters
had been rubbed down the boss said:
''Now, Peters, you understand how it
is; you'll probably die"
eyes"
Probably die within twenty-four
hours
eyes"
And 80, you see, any thing extra will
be dead loss to me-"
II see, but in case I die you'll have
manners enough to knock the men off
for half day, won't you? I also want a
good square grave"
''But, Peters, we are rushed, and to do
that will cost me fifty dollars worth OF
time"
How much will you give me not to
die?"
"I'll say thirty-fve dollars-that is
If you'll forego funeral if you do de-
''That looks fair" said Peters, after a
little thought ''and I'll do it. Shake. "
They shook; and Peters set his teeth
hard and determined to live. His only
medicines were kerosene oil, whisky,
and vinegar, and his only delicacies fat
pork and bean soup; but in three weeks
he was out and at work.
Couldn't you make it thirty dol
lars?" asked the boss, as he came to set
tie.
''For why?"
because II you had died I should have
had to wrap the body in three-dollar
blanket, and the boys would have in
sisted on q drink all around after the
job"
Couldn't possibly think Of it, replied
Peters. after made the bargain with
you found three broken ribs, and I
had to splice and grow 'em extra. IN.
" Sun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

promptly cures weakness Of stomach,
nausea, indigestion, bloating, weak
back. nervous prostration, debility and
sleeplessness. in either sex. It is care
fully compounded by an experienced
physician and adapted to woman's deli
cate organization. Purely vegetable
and perfectly harmless in any condition
of the system. 1t is the only medicine
for women, sold by druggists. under q
positive guarantee of satisfaction in
every case, or price ($1.00) refunded.
This guarantee has been printed on the
bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried
out for many years.
WORLDS DIsPRNsARY MEDICAL As
ISOLATION. Proprietors, No. e63 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

PLANTING.
tree is placed in position, the trench
about it filled temporarily with soil,
and the work finished when the
weather will permit. 1t is often done
in one season, but previous prepare
ton of year or two gives greater
security of success. This consists of
cutting a trench around the tree, as
shown in Fig. 2, severing all roots save
those Immediately beneath, filling back
the soil, and leaving nature to par
TALLY repair damages, which she will
do by starting mass of fibrous roots. A
moved with perfect safety. Every
planter or gardener, with his celery,
strawberry, blackberry, raspberry,
grapevines, roses, or other plants, if he
has not all the roots with his subject,
will prune away portion of the top, to
balance the mutilation of the roots
With this precaution, active growth is
promoted, instead of the feeble growth
or possible failure from excessive evap-
Grafton through the excessive LEAKAGE.
It is the same with large trees. The
LEAKAGE must be reduced to balance the
cot power, and natures efforts to favor
a living growth will do the rest A
bungler will chop the top and destroy
its symmetry. A good primer will have
an eye to safety of growth and the
future contour of the tree.
PREPARATION OF ITS NEW HOME
Whatever the preparation in its first
situation, the new home of the tree
must not be neglected. Manure is not
wanted, but good, fresh soil is. If this
Is not natural to the new location it
must be brought there. If the soil is
sandy, as it generally is near Chicago,
then good bed of stiff clay is highly
beneficial Immediately below the mass
Of earth and roots. This is to prevent
teaching and to hold the moisture where
the roots are. Many of the forest trees
near Chicago grow on land which is very
little above water level, and at times
are actually more or less covered. A
well-planted street tree will have q
space three feet deep, fourteen long and
seven wide of good, fresh soil, with the
rest of the area between sidewalk and
street foot deep of the same material.
A TREE-PLANTING TRUCK - Every
thing being made ready at both ends of
the route, the next step is removal.
Fig. l shows very effective truck,
which by all means should have very
wide tires-not less than six inches. A
tree eight to twelve inches in diameter,
with ball of earth four or five feet
,ide and two feet deep can be easily
moved on good roads by two heavy
horses. Four horses would be good for
six tons. By means of tripod derricks
and horse power any of these masses
are readily raised out of the ground and
loaded upon the truck. The same
means are used to place them in the
new position. Nothing then remains but
to thoroughly firm the soil on the roots,
secure with wire guy-rapes to prevent
swaying by high winds and resod the
space. and the growth Of quarter of .
century, at least, is the work Of day,
and its enjoyment to the living present
instead Of those who cone after US
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

dies of those dead warriors They wouid
have further found stages riddled with
bullets and spattered with blood
corpses shot full of arrows, settlers
homes destroyed, and women and chill
dren carried away-skeletons OF soldiers
and civilians bleaching along every mile
of q route two hundred miles long. 1t
was this blow which cleared the route Of
savages, and it was those which followed
it the next season on a large scale that
put an end to Indian warfare in the
West forever.-N. Y. Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Horse Sense.

Good care lightens the horses load.
With easy, well-fitting harness not SO
many oats are required.
Exercise is just as necessary to thrift
In winter as in summer.
To bring up worn-down horse, give
It light work, not idleness.
II the horse is subject to collie, give 1t
little salt and ashes on its grain once
day. and feed more oats and less corn.
Il Is mistake to think mares can foal
good colts when they can no longer work.
The worn-out mare il not q profitable
brood-maret
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
A Woman Two Hundred Years Old.

A case is on record of q woman who lived
to this advanced age, but it is scarcely nee
essary to state that it was in sthe olden
time Now a-days too many women do not
live half their allotted years. The mortality
due to functional arrangements in the
weaker sex is simply frightful, to say moth
ing of the indescribable suffering which
many women. But for these sufferers there
is q certain relief. Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription will positively cure leuchor-
rrhea, painful menstruation, prolapsus, pain
in the ovaries. weak back; in short, all
those complaints to which so many women
are martyrs. It is the only g,larauteed cure,
see guarantee on bottle wrapper.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

Last chance for fine agricultural land
free. The great Sioux Reservation Of H.
000, 600 acres now open for settlement, lying
in the Missouri valley, is equal to any state
in the Union for fertility and productive
ness. Pierre is the key to this land, and the
coming large city Of South Dakota. For
full information, FREQ of charge, write to the
Alliance Committee, Pierre, South Dakota
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For "run down." debilitated and
overworked women, DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription is the best of all
restorative tonics. 1t is potent Spe-
cific for all those Chronic Weaknesses
and Diseases peculiar to Women;
powerful. general as well as uterine,
tonic and nervine. 1t imparts vigor
and strength to the whole system. 1t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

THERE is more Catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney Il Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. It is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful It acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case II
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

ToTHE EDITOR Please inform your read.
ers that have positive remedy for the
above named disease BY its timely use
thousands Of hopeless cases have been per-
manently cured. / shall be glad to send two
bottles Of my remedy FREE to any of your
readers who have consumption il they will
send me their express and postoface adj
dress Respectfully, T. A SLocUM, n C. /,
1S1 Pearl street, New York
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

Acknowledge the efficacy Of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters as means Of extirpating
S9 aria and bilious
ments. The learned and sacred professions,
the press, the mercantile, manufacturing,
agricultural and mining communities have,
for the past thirty years, been furnishing
each their quota Of testimony in its behalf,
until that has reached unwieldy but graft.
flying proportions, afording unequivocal
proof that the public il discerning.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
DARKEYVlLlE SOCIETY.
Doings of the Four Hundred as Recorde
RY the RuRle,s Renorters

Doings of the Four Hundred as Recorded
by the Bugle's Reporters.
This has been very gay winter in
deed, in Darkeyville. The select -Four
Hundred have dispensed hospitality
with lavish hand, as we learn from
the last issue of the Society Bugle
which says:
Mr.. and Mrs. Wintergreen gave a
large and elegant reception in MI.
Green's barber shop on b street last
night. The chairs were removed and
dancing INDUCED in until daylight
Mr.. Billy Mash has rendered his resig-
nation as cook at the Simpson House to
accept similar position with higher
salary at the Blue Eagle restaurant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Price Greenwood gave
an elegant reception at their laundry
last Friday evening, which was attend
ed by the elite of the city. Mrs Green
wood wore superb Worth gown of
purple and green, with full court train
of robin's-egg blue, and bodice of orange
yellow with broad pink and red. sash,
harmonious and beautiful blending of
colors most becoming to the wearer's
beauty.
Miss Pet Greenwood wore pale-blue
gown f1ounced with green. A crimson
bodice, purple sash, plaid overdress and
pink satin ribbons completed her strik-
ing and beautiful costume.
Miss Mamie Marmaduke wore a beau
tiful gown belonging TO her mistress,
who is out of the city for few days
Miss Cleonatra Helene partrid ro oox,,
occupies the responsible position Of head
dish-washer at the Bangor House. Miss
Cleopatra is one of our most select and
charming bellies and we are glad of her
good fortune.
Miss Lily May Hartshorn, one of our
most gifted society girls, announces her
engagement to Mr.. Sambo Peters, the
active and efficient bootblack at the
Diamond Star barber shop. Congratula.
tiOns-Timo
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

The Christian Register relates the
following story Of IN English Bishop:
To man who had been bothering him
for promotion till he lost his temper, he
said, ''Dear sir, If 1t were to rain rector.
les and shower vicarages, should pre-
sent ydl with an umbrella"
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Entitlod 70 the Bsst.

SOMETIMES tho lover who IL fred with
passion for the daughter is put out by the
father.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

CoCGHs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, etc. :,
quickly relieved by Browns BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs A simple and effectual remedy,
superior to all other articles for the same
purpose Sold only IL boxes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

All are entitled to the best that their
money win buy, 90 every family should
have, at once, Q bottle Of the best family
remedy, Syrup Of Figs, TO cleanse the sys-
tenn when costfve or bilious. For sale in
Soc and 81 90 bottles by all leading druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

If you are tired taking the large old fash
toned gripping pills, try Carriers Little Liver
Pills and take some comfort man can't
stand everything. One pill a dose. Try them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

MANY beau who wears a sweet smell
ing boutonneire is without a cent in his
n0cEet
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IT is better to be door-keeper in New
England dime museum than to own farm
in the West.-Providence Telegram.
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Au sorts and Condltions of Nren

LIFE INSURANCE. is o great consolation to
the truly good, but fire insurance ayailsth
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

HALE's Honey of Horehound and Tar re-
ieves whooping cough.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
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Con.umpt:on surely Cured,

IT is . mistake to say that rain falls alike
on the just and the unjust The latter a.
ways has an umbrella.-Puck
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ZONE good turn deserves another" Is the
motto of the economical dressmaker.- Bos-
IN Post
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

IT does not require legal education to 60
into the son-ln-law business.-Rome Sen
tinel
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

ONE swallow does not make a summer
but it frequently creates a sensation OF
ethereal mlldness in q mans "innards II
-Binghamton Leader