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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
A ROOSTER HORSE tanner.
How a Poor Hindu Fakir Overcame 8
Vicious Stallion.

How a Poor Hindu Fakir Overcame 8
Vicious Stallion.
Hindus are very.skillful in tanning wilc
animals and snakes, and an incident
was related the other day by an Indian
traveller of how an Indian fakir tamei
in few minutes refractory horse
that no one else could manage.
The horse in question was full
blooded stallion, belonging to one o.
the Raiahs who had bought him fca
25, 900 rupees. The animals favorite
trick was to run backward when any
one mounted him, and no amount u
squirting or whipping could make
him go in the direction that goN
horse should go. Many famed horse
tanners were hired to cure the horse 0;
this disgraceful trick, but none SIC
ceeded. Tha Rajah offered e2oo to any
one who should break the horse OF luis
bad habit
An English officer who was &c
quainted with the Rajah told him tina
he knew common fakir who was OK
very inventive turn of mind, and I'D
vised him to give the fellow a trial
The fakir was sent for, and appointed
day on which he said he would posi-
lively cure the horse of all bad tricks
The Raiah, with a number of officers
and retainers. went to witness the tam
ing. The tricky horse was handsomely
caparisoned, but the fakir made his ap
pearance in his everyday dilapidatet
clothes, that were dirty, as usual, fol
he had no others. By his side walked
ragged boy carrying a bag with
something in it. The fakir said few
words to the boy and then leaped upor
the horses back with the agility of {
monkey. The horse Immediately begar
running backward. Everybody wa
| wondering what the fakir could do
when suddenly the boy thrust his hant
| into the bag and brought out a wild
| vicious-looking rooster with spurs three
inches in length. Quick as a flash the
boy fastened the fowl to the horse''
tail and then the fun began. The
rooster put in some fine work with hi
spurs and cackled and screeched a:
loud as he could. The horse was evi
IDENTIFY surprised First he stopped, ant
then tried to catch the rooster, as {
kitten does its tail, by turning rourt
and round The fakir held on like {
| leech.
Finding this did not succeed, thu
| horse started on run straight ahead
just as would dog with tin can at
tached to his caudal appendage. Thu
stallion had been conquered. That ont
lesson was sufficient, and he nevel
tried to run backward again.-N. y
Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
SKUNkS EAT GRUBS.
A Fact That Many Otherwise Sensible
Men Seem to Forget.

A Fact That Many Otherwise Sensible
Men Seem to Forget.
Recently wandering in the famous
Forest Hill Cemetery near Boston, es-
sayed to view the ''grotto,'' a mass of
artificial rock work constructed in the
side of a conglomerate ledge and suit
ably planted with ferns and under
brush. l was prevented from critical
examination by an overpowering odor
of skunk. An employe explained that
some of the water pools in the grotto
leak, and, becoming dry, form traps
into which skunks fall and can not get
out, and when thus imprisoned they
are killed, sometimes two or three a
week. "Why do you kill them?" Be
cause they root and dig little holes
in the grass he showed me
slope full of the places where the
sharp noses had prodded for grubs
The grass was dead for several square
yards and could easily have been rolled
up like blanket, the roots having all
been severed by white grubs, and it
was these enemies of the lawn that the
skunks were after. l was surprised
that in intelligent Boston such ig-
norance of the value of the skunk
should prevail, and advised the man to
destroy his skunk-traps and thus get
rid Of the grubs as we'll as the job of
killing the sl1unks, with the attending
drawback of unwelcome perfumery.-
L. B. Pierce, in N. Y. Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

stand he saw the little figure he knew
so well standing at the counter. She
was buying a paper, the heading OF
which he recognized as one of the lead
ing journals of the city.
A thought flashed into his heart and
burned there like a star 81 hope.
He hurried home, seized pen and pa
per and wrote rapidly and increasingly
till daylight crept in, gray and wan, at
his window.
On his way downtown he dropped
thick package of manuscript into the
letter-boX.
What days of torturing anxiety fol-
lowed. At last it came-the envelope
bearing the imprint OF the periodical.
He tore it open and read:
"OFEICE OF THE COURIER-Dear Str:
Your story entitled 'Ruth's Lover is
accepted, and will be published in our
issue of December %. Inclosed please
find check in payment for same
On the morning of December % Ron
aid stood shivering at the corner op-
posite the newsstand. He had remained
there several hours watching for her.
The paper was just out containing his
story. Would she buy it and read it?
1t was signed by an assumed name, but
she surely would-ah, she is coming.
She enters the little store, purchases
the paper-his paper-and turns to &C
out, glancing idly down its columns.
He can see her plainly in the brill
iantly lighted interior of the store.
She is about to put the paper in her
sachel when something near the bot
tom of the page catches her eye. She
reads it eagerly.
The newsman stares, but she does not
heed him. Ronald can restrain himself
no longer but draws near, trembling
with hope and fear.
In that sketch, hastily scrubbed al
midnight, he has told her story and his
own, has portrayed the anguish of the
remorseful lover, his penitence, his
longing for reconciliation.
She chances up; her eyes are dewy
with tears.
What face is that so near? 1t is his!
"Ronald!'
"Ruth-darling! Forgive me"'
And, although the notice was rather
sudden, the wedding did take place OF
that bright New Years day, after all
ENVOI.
| Reader, have you OWNED? This il
my own story: this is my own paper
| l am Ruth's lover. Will she see this
and forgive me?-Willis Boyd Allen, in
| BOSTON Courier
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
g august
Flower
For Dyspepsia.

FOR dyspepsia.
A. Bellanger, Propr., Stove Foun-
dry, Montagny, Quebec, writes: Il
have used August Flower for Dys-
pepsia. 1t gave me great relief. l
recommend it to all Dyspeptics as a
very good remedy
Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer,
Lauzon Lewis, Quebec, writes: Il
have used August Flower with the
best possible results for Dyspepsia"
c. A. Darlington, Engineer and
General Smith, Sydney, Australia,
writes: August Flower has effected
a complete cure in my case. 1t act
ed like a miracle"
Geo. Gates, Corinth, Miss. writes:
Il consider your August Flower the
best remedy in the world for Dys-
pepsia. l was almost dead with
that disease, but used several bottles
of August Flower, and now con-
slider myself we'll man. I sincerely
recommend this medicine to suffer
ing humanity the world over" o
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. A.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
MEAN DlSLOYALTY.
me Folly Of Feeling Too Big for the OIL
Home,

Inc Folly Of Feeling Too Big for the Oh
Home.
The Ledger frequently receives let
tiers from mothers, and occasionally
from fathers, in the country, in which
complaints are made that children wht
have received a better education thar
has been given to their schoolmate,
show discomfort with their old home
and find fault with and criticise theil
old friends and old memories. We are
asked what is best for the parents to do
In most cases the juvenile concei,
must run it's course. 1t might be cured
by strong dose of ''heroic treatment"
but on the whole it seems best for the
boy or the girl to be put on his or her
proper level by the world. The logic OF
circumstance is apt to take the conceit
out of such people when the conceited
party mingles with the world and
makes his own record.
One of the strongest of the credita-
BILE passions is the love for home. 1t
was created as an adjunct of marriage,
and is indispensable in prosperous
race or community. The races and the
families which last longest are those
which cultivate the domestic virtues.
One of the evils following some Of
the modern systems of education is the
educating of children away from their
homes. This is true oftenest in the case
of what are called new families" A
man of the people having in compare
lively short time acquired wealth or
prominence, ambitious that his children
shall ascend still farther the social lad
der, gives them thorough education. In
too many cases the children develop a
disdain for their birthplace. They be-
come restless, discontented and desir-
Gus of ridiculing their town. Such a
child does not seem to realize that when
his witticisms are directed against his
native town they are directed against
his neighbors, his friends and his own
home. They are by implication directed
against his own father, whose success
has made it possible for the son to see
more of the world than most of his
schoolmates have SEEM.
If there is any thing which is mean
and small, it is to reward fathers eff
forts and sacrifices with disloyalty.-N.
Y. Ledger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

back of the loft, and divided into two
compartments, each three feet long;
the shelves themselves extending the
whole width Of the loft, or six feet.
The shelves are six in number, and one
foot deep, thus forming twelve nesting
pens, and such loft will accommodate
twelve pairs of birds, although small
er number would be preferable. In the
accompanying cut, one side OF the
boarding is partly left off to show more
plainly the appearance of the shelves in
the sheltered recess of the loft. The
front of the pens are not nailed, but Sc
cured by buttons to admit of their re-
moval for the purpose of cleaning.
In the foregoing plan for the con-
struction of loft, with necessary dimen-
sions given, we need only add that in
the southern gable hinged shelf, 36xl2
inches, may form an exit for the birds,
if full liberty is dv-;red, and we will
proceed to the consideration of the loft
furniture. This shelf is hinged at the
bottom. and is closed by rope running
over pulley at the top of the aperture,
which is just the size of the shelf.
Thus when the rope is drawn, the shelf
closes upward, and when the rope is re-
Taxed, the shelf opens downward, and
resting upon its supports, forms an
alighting board for the birds.
For feed a hopper may be used. but
it is preferable to feed by scattering
the grain upon the floor of the cage
twice daily. and never more than the
pigeons will eat entirely at meal.
An earthenware dish covered with a
wooden board nailed to an inch strip,
which rests upon the edges of the bowl,
forms a convenient drinking vessel.
The birds can insert their heads under
the edge of the board and drink with.
out fouling the water. The bottom of
the cage, or the aviary part of the loft,
should be strewed with sand and fine
gravel, and it will be very conducive to
the health of the birds to supply them
in one corner of the aviary with a box
of salt cat. This compound may. be
manufactured by mixing clay and old
mortar together and wetting the
mixture with brine until it is about the
consistency of mortar prepared for
plastering. 1t can then be put into a
box perforated with holes large enough
for the insertion of birds beall, and
here it will soon become hard and dry.
p. S. Hunter, in Poultry Monthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
There's a good deal Of

There's a good deal of
guarantee business in the store
keeping Of to-day. It's too
excessive. Or too reluctant.
Half the time it means moth
ing. Words-ouLy w,oras.
This offer to refund the
money, or to pay a reward, is
made under the hope that you
won't want your money back,
and that you won't claim the
reward. Of course.
So, whoever is honest in
making it, and works-not on
his own reputation alone, but
through the local dealer whom
you know, must have some
thing he has faith in back of
the guarantee. The business
wouldn't stand a year with
out it.
What is lacking is conf
dence. Back of that, what is
lacking is that clear honesty
which is above the average
practice"
DR.. Pierce's medicines are
guaranteed to accomplish what
they are intended to do, and
their makers give the money
back if the result isn't ap-
parent.
doesn't it strike you that
a medicine which the makers
have so much confidence in,
is the medicine for your
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
COMFORTING GRANDMA.

Grandma sat in her old arm chair,
Our baby on her knee;
Three score and ten were grandma IS years
Sweet Baby Bells were three
The baby's tongue was chattering
AS fast as 1t could go,
OF things she meant to have and do
When older she should grow.
MED says rs halfpast free" she erie
And tossed her yellow curls,
" And when Use ten I'll be as bid
AS all We dreat bid dirls!"
Then grandma's eyes grew sad and dim:
Dear pet, when you are ten
III be so old scarce can walk,
Oh what will do then?'
Oc, oabys face the shadow fell
OF wondering, troubled thought;
But soon she frightened; she had found
The comfort that she sought:
why dramm don't 90 fink" she cried,
With baby logic deep,
"Vat when 90 can't walk any more
God better learn to Creep"
Carrie Blake Morgan, in West Shore.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

In a good dairy COW all the surplus
goes to make milk. In general-pur-
pose COW part goes to make milk and
part to make flesh. The larger part to
make flesh. This goes on for years and
then the flesh is sold. Not the flesh
made the first year, but the annual re-
newal, for the general purpose COW
gets thin at least once during the year.
Hshe is owned by general purpose man
her thinness is chronic. But cure is
made the last few months of her life.
And when she is sold it must be hard to
say s%hsrs the preft was
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
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should be made tight and slat cover
or lid fastened at the top by hinges in
such shape as to allow the Stats to lie on
the hay. Make the cover small enough
to pass down inside of the rack and on
top of the hay as it is being eaten to-
ward the bottom. Three or four inch
strips will be found a good width for
the Stats and they may be made any dis
lance apart, depending on the quality
of hay, age and kind of stock.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
Malaria

Is believed to be caused by poisonous masms
arising from low, marshy land, or from decaying
vegetable matter and which. breathed into the
lungs, enter and poison the blood. If healthy
condition of the blood is maintained by taking
Hoods Sarsaparia, one is much less liable to
malaria, and Hoods Sarsaparilla has cured many
severe cases of this distressing affection even in
the advanced stages when the terrible shills and
fever prevailed. Try it.
And if you decide to take Hoods Sarsaparia
do not be induced to buy any substitute.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

Daniel Salisbury and his wife, Of
Lac Qui Parle, Mimi, are probably the
oldest married couple. in this country.
They are 1oa and 1o1 years old respect
lively, have been married eighty vearA
and are still "9aite smart"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
A PHANTOM DRUG CLERK.
4 Remarkable Apparition in Sllesis
Couple of Hundred Years AHo.

4 Remarkable Apparition in Sllesis
Couple of Hundred Years Ago.
A curious thing is said to have hap
pened in Crossen, Silesia, in the year
1859. In the spring of that year one
Christopher Monigh, a drug clerk ian
apothecarie's servant, as the old account
usual services of his church. A few
days after his death shadow exactly
like his in face, clothes, statute, mein,
ETC., appeared in the drug-shop where
he had been employed before his de-
cease. In the shop he would walk
about, sit himself down, take boxes,
| pots, glasses, ETC., from the shelves, al
ways returning them to their exact
places. Later on he began to try the
quality of medicines and to weigh var
ious drug stuffs in the pair of scales
used for that purpose; would pound
drugs in a mortar with ''mightie
noise and even serve people who came
on business to the shop; in word, do
all that servant in such a capacity
could do. He looked very CHASTITY upon
those who had formerly been his fellow
servants they being afraid to say any
thing to him. The owner of the drug
shop was sick at the time and this
phantom servant soon began to cause
him a deal of trouble. performing all
sorts of tricks on the invalid, such as
pulling down the bed upon which he
lay, burning sheets, coverlets, ETC., and
at one time even going SO far as to
throw the lamps in the fire as
often as they were brought into
the sick-room. During all of this
time he had never been seen in
the streets or heard to speak.
Finally, one day he put on a cloak that
hung in the shop and walked out into
the streets, minding no one and turning
neither to the right nor to the left. Near
ing the church-yard where his mortal
remains had been deposited he met
maid-servant with whom he had form
erly been on speaking terms; accosted
her, only to see her fall in a swoon
This single instance is the only one in
which he is said to have spoken during
the six weeks he was terrorizing all OF
that portion of Silesia. When the girl
tainted the gallant phantom essayed to
help her to her feet, and placed in her
hand paper written in blood-red ink
telling the location of much buried
treasure. That night Princess Elizabeth
Charlotte, the then chief magistrate of
Crossen, determined to put an end to the
ghostly raids of the drug clerk. She
ordered the grave opened and the corpse,
grave-clothes, and the coffin burned.
This weird proceeding was carried out
to the letter, and nothing of the ghost
clerk was ever seen afterward, although
exact pictures of him appeared in every
window-pane in the drug-shop building.
Some of these pictures, which much re-
sembled sand-blast work, faded in a
few months, but two of them, in an
attic window where the clerk lived pri-
or to his death, were plain to be seen up
to the time the building was destroyed
by fire in 1741. explanation of these
mysterious shadows has ever been
given.-Chicago Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

B. NJ. Goodwin sends to the Orange
Judd Farmer the following plan for
constructing rack for feeding loose
hay without waste: The ends and sides
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

When good woman gets as sweet
as sugar look out for sand. -nenver
Road.
Men exist for tho sake of one anoth-
er Teach them or bear with them
Marcus Aurelius.
If you were to take the conceit
out of some people, the remains would
defy Identification Joseph News.
How slight clue ones public char
actcr affords to the profounder sym
pathies Of his nature Margaret Fuller.
"A genius is a person whom nature
let's in on the ground floor, and whom
circumstances force to live in an attic
Puck.
Somehow or other the man who
shores tho loudest always seems to 60 to
sleep first in a Pullman car.-Elmira
Gazette.
Suspicion is very often an index OF
character. What man suspects in 9TH
,rs he would very probably do himself.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
There isn't mansion in Heaven
but what would be thousand times
hotter for the sinner than tho lowest
place in the pit.-Ram's Horn.
A Poor Observation-Disclosures
clothing is badly rented" Hungry Hig-
gins-"I know it, I have been the ten
ant for many ks."-Boston Herald.
-Bibbs-Well, Impecune, what song
are you going to sing this winter? I'm
pecune-That one which begins Gail
loan, my watch Pm keeping. '-Drake's
Magazine.
You haven't heard any thing until
you have heard both sides," says a
writer This may be pretty logic, but
the base drum refutes it.-Bingham
ton Herald
Wanted Ono More.
What is this, waiter? Waiter-Just
what you ordered, sir-pea soup. Gus
tomer-Please bring mo another pea as
side dish.-Boston Herald.
knowledge must DO gained by our
selves. Mankind may supply us with
facts; but the result, even if they agree
with previous ones, must be the work OF
our own minda-Earl of Beaconsfield.
Duty is never uncertain at first. II
is only after we have got involved in
the macs and sophistries of wishing
that things were otherwise than they
are that it seems indistinct. - Robert.
son.
Said a-matter-of-fact man to an ses-
thetic damsel who was talking abou,
"beautifyirg property" Tho mos,
charming decoration for plate is good
beef-steak, with well-cooked potatoes,
and just sufficiency of gravy. 1t will
beat trailing who's or a sunfower any
dav in the week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

ALL that are can say as to the merits of
Dobbins' Electric Soap, pales into nothing
mss before the story it will tell you itself, of
its own perfect quality, if you will give it
one trial. Don't take imitation. There are
lots of them
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they can not
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you have to take internal RENE
dies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is
no quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by
one of the best physicians in this country
for years, and is a regular prescription. It
is composed of the best tonics known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers, acting
directly on the mucous surfaces. The per-
feet combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results in
curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
SWEETNESS and light - The cake oul
mother used to bake.-BostOn Transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

The duck takes to both water and land
for divers and sun dry RESPONSIBILITIES
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

For twenty-five cents you can get Carter's
Little Liver Pills-the best liver regulator in
the world. Dom forget this One pill dose.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
Gained a. Pounds.

Mr.. James J. McCalley, Of
Monet, Mo-, says he had
dyspepsia for eight years,
which made him a wreck,
sick and suffering during
the whole time. After try
ing all the remedies, includ-
ing all the doctors in reach,
he discarded everything and
took Swift's Spe cific. he
increased from ia to 158
pounds and was soon q
sound and healthy man.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
Catarrh Can't Be Cured

FoGGs-"Evcry thing seems to go awry
with me latelyI' Van Pelt-"Switch off
and mix rock with it"'-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

NONSENSE is the straw that tickles hu-
manity the world over.-Pittsburgh Dis
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

How MY THROAT HURTS! Why don't you
use Hale's Honey of Rorehound and Tara
Pike s TOOthache DROPS Cure in one minute
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

THE easiest way for prisoner to escape
from Jail is by filing his objectons.-Bing-
hamton Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19
Hoods
Sarsa pariI|a

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S. Prepared only
by C. l. HOOD 4 CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-19

JOBS ailment never confined him to the
was continually "breaking out "
Boston Courier