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Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-03
THE COURT RECORD.
City Court - Criminal Side - Judge
 Pickett.

Pickett. Henry Mack. S7 and costs, Samuel Chase. Theo- dore Lowe and Levi B. Johnson, same, discharged; Fred Reinmann, violating liquor law, continued law, nolled on payment of $l744 costs; Ada Cook, breach of the peace, continued to Decem- Michael Burns, $5 fine $6.24 costs; John Dwer, theft from Adam Redaise, continued to Decem; to December 1a; Jerry Feeley, breach of the peace against Winifred Handy, continued to De- cember5
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S7 Church Street.

Special treatment for CHRONIC DISEASES. Catarrh Cured and all Diseases of the Nose, Throat, Lungs, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, Rheuma tism, ], Asthma, Bronchitis, Nervous and Skin Dis- cases.
 Office hours, to il a. m., to and to p. m Consultation free at office or by mail.
 Patients living at a distance can be successfully treated by mail. n3 nrm
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DIR. EDWARD ROTH.

graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, physician to the late Hon. Chas. O'Connor, the eminent New York lawyer.
 OFFICE PERMANENTLY LOCATED In the Clark Building, Nearly Oppo-
 site the Post Office,
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LUCIUs FUTILE.
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Housatonic Railroad.

CT. HBMPsTRAD, - Gen. Pkss. Agent. Express Trains. -LocaI Express
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
MICHAEL ANGELO.

How the Great Artist Gained the Friend
ship of a Duke.
One afternoon the Duke Lorenzo de-
Medici in walking through the garden
came upon young Michael Angelo, who
was busily chiseling his first piece of
sculpture. The Duke saw in the stone
the face of a faun which the boy was
copying from an antique mask, but
which, with his usual Impotence of
imitation, he was changing so as
to show the open lips and teeth. GLOW
is it," said the Duke, drawing closer,
''that you have given your faun a COM
plete set of teeth? Don't you know
that such an old fellow was sure to
have lost some of them?" Michael
Angelo at once saw the justice of the
criticism. Artists are not always ready
to receive adverse comment. Michael
Angelo himself was quick-tempered
and hard to move. A hot word to one
of his boy companions on certain &C.
casion brought so severe blow in the
face, that all truthful portraits of
Michael Angelo have since had to show
him with a broken nose. But the
Dukes criticism was kindly given, and
was plainly warranted, and the young
sculptor could hardly wait until the
Duke walked on before beginning the
correction. When the Duke saw the
faun's face again he found some of the
teeth gone, and the empty sockets skill
fully chiseled out.
Delighted with this evidence of the
lads willingness to seize and act upon
suggestion, and impressed anew by his
artistic skill, the Duke made inquiries,
learned that Michael Angelo had bor-
rowed stone and tools on his own ac-
count in his eagerness to begin sculpt-
ure (he was first set at drawing from
the statuary), and ended by sending for
the boys father. The result of the
consultation was that the Duke took
Michael Angelo under his own special
patronage and protection, and was so
well pleased after he had done it that
no favor seemed too great to bestow
upon the energetic young artist.
Michael Angelo, then only fifteen, not
only received key to the Garden of
Sculpture, and an apartment in the
Medici palace itself, but had a place at
the Dukes table. In fact, a real attach
ment grew up between Michael Angelo
and the Duke, who frequently called
the boy to his own rooms, when he
would open cabinet of gems and in
taglios, seek his young visitors opin-
ions, and enter into long and coniden-
tial talks.-Alexander Black, in st.
Nicholas
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"GHEWy
FIG. 2.

represented, but with more ornament
and finish, and with more ready access
from buildings to road. 1t needs but
little additional explanation, other than
that the broad beds may be planted
with a few handsome shade trees, or
with larger number of smaller trees
and large shrubs; or the planting may
be exclusively of shrubs of various
sizes. They sufficiently exclude the
view from the dwelling to the public
road, while the openings between give
sufficient view, and afford short en-
trance when desirable. 1t will be OBJ
served that neither of these plans oc-
cupy any considerable portion of the
farm lands, while they give good OPP
portunity for landscape adornment, and
shut out the dust from passing vehicles.
If a simple symmetrical exterior is
given to the barn buildings (such one
as in Fig 81 which are partly hid by
trees, they will aid in pleasing view
from the grounds and dwelling. The
ornamental trees should be such as are
perfectly hardy, and which will grow
freely when standing in grass; and the
larger and smaller shrubs should pos
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
Regularity on the Farm.

Systemat-. feeding and care of every
kind is the part of farmers capital
that makes the best investment. The
cows should be fed, MIXED and cared
for morning, noon and night, with ex-
actitude and on time. No milk is elabo-
rated while COWS are chatting and wor-
rying for food and drink. The horses
appreciate regularity, and know when
feeding time comes. 1t is at these anx-
ious delays that the stable is marred by
paving, biting and kicking, and irregu-
larlty produces bad habits and bad tenn
pers in otherwise gentle beasts. The
ducks, geese, turkeys, chickens and all
living creatures on the farm suffer from
irregularity more than can be estimated
in the farmers loss of profit. Regular
ity brings contentment and thrift to all
the live stock, kills the weeds that eat
up crop food and fills the barns with the
best quality of crops, pays off mort
cages, replenishes the bank account,
dresses the family, educates the chill
dren and imparts, tone, energy, respect
ability and character to all concerned.
American Agriculturist.
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way back, for him to scare up such
nailin' fine lot of female relatives on
such short notice.
''Well, as 1 was sayin', the scheme
that Tom put up was this: AS each girl
came down, after seem Jim, he would
stop 'em, and takin' 'em to one side,
would tell how Jim had said lot of
nice things about them, and how he
had been hoping they would come, and
all that. Then he would ask if they ex-
pected to call again-for linn would be
very lonesome. OF course they all al
lowed they would. Then he told them
that there was new rule, and visiting
relatives could only come on certain
days and at certain hours. One way
and another he fixed it up, so they was
all agreed to come back to see i'm a
exactly the same time on the same day.
And jim, of course, he was never
suspicioning nothing no more'n a man
comm round a curve in a cut with a
wild train bearin' down on him.
well, come the day that Tom had
set, the girls began to arrive-some of
'em ahead Of the schedule. The butcher
takes 'em into the waitin' room. grin
MIN like only butcher can grin, and
tells 'em that Jim will be ready to see
'em in minute. When he thinks they
are all in-some dozen or fifteen there
was altogether-Tomc calls out: Step
this way, ladies, pleasen and leads 'em
off all in line upstairs.
Now it jest so happened that there
was quite a crowd around Jim's bed.
There was a couple of the Sisters of
Hope and the assistant surgeon of the
line, Doc What's-his- Name?-I forget,
and several patients that was able to
get about-and Jim he was givin' 'em
some of his remarkable experiences on
the road-for he could lie against any
man l ever knew-and the audience
was gettin' properly excited-when all
of a sudden Tom looms up, pullin' that
train of girls along behind him.
Here's your female relatives, Jim,'
he calls out.
Say, but it must have been sight!
There was Jim, with no chance to Jump
for his life. There was the Sisters of
Hope and the others around the bed,
who had already been quite uneasy
about the surprisin' number of Jim's
female relatives, and now was paralyzed
to see 'em all at onct. And there was
the girls themselves-O Lord! Fust
they looks at Tom to see what he
means; then they stares at one another,
beginnin' to take it in, and then they
all unanimously glares at poor Jim,
who was lynn still in the bed utterly
f1abbergasted.
'And the silence was so thick and
hard that you couldn't have got through
it with a rotary.
cat last one Of the Sisters of Hope
spoke up and says: why, it's quite
family reunion yous do be havin' to-
day, Mr.. Ritter
YES says Jim, very faint, like
kid that expects to git belted.
"'What! says the doctor, are all
these here ladies relatives of yourn?'
and he begun a-sguintin' down the line
Some was short and some tall. some fat
and some lean, and one was red-headed
Really he says, it is very remark
able family likeness. Are they all SIS
ters?'
-Four sisters answers Tom Bixby
sensultin' piece Of paper which he
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AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
COUNTRY HOME GROUNDS.

flow to Make Them Attractive to Owner
as Well as Traveller.
Owners and occupants of farms and
csuntry places possess important ad-
vantages over the residents of towns
and cities, in the broader scope for
planting ornamental and shade trees
for surrounding their dwellings,. They
can improve and plant with scarcely
trenching on their acres for farming.
They need not fall into the mistake
which some farm-owners make, in their
endeavor to save every square rod of
ground, by placing the dwelling nearly
ON line with the boundary of the pub
lie highway, and converting the high
way into barn-yard.
All the advantages of shade and seclu-
sion may be secured by judicious use
of trees and lawn, with near proximity
to the public road, by an arrangement
like that represented in Fig. l. The
dwelling is placed quite near to the
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held up to look at palmer; 'hvo eous.
ms, three sisters-in-law, two aunts-
and a mother, mother-in-law, and great
aunt, if needed
''By this time Jim was beginnin' to
get his wind again, and he puts his
hand out towards the nearest girl, and
says: 'Howdy do, Sister Emma? I am
glad to see you And to the next one:
How are you, Cousin Mary - and
was goin' on down the line, thinkin'
perhaps that he could make each one
real relatives. But it wouldn't work;
before he had gone any distance, one of
his sisters points to another sister
right alongside of her, and says, in
loud voice: Jim Rittler, who is this
person? l insist upon knowin'.' The
other answers back, and they all begins
to talk at onct. Some of 'em turns on
Jim, and tell you they give it to him
raw; but most of 'em keeps right ON
iawin' at one another. At last the
doctor and the sisters had to inter-
fere. They rounded 'em up and led 'em
away downstairs. Even when they
came out in the street, there was two
that very nearly had fight, and they
kept a-goin' on, as long as any of 'em
was together.
1.-The moment the girls was out of
the way, Jim he began to look for Tom
Bixby, but the news-butcher had jest
naturally slid off, and before Jim was
able to get about, he had left the hos
pital for good.
after that Jim was hardly ever at
rest for the joshin' he got about his fe-
male relatives. The very next time l
went up to see him, two of the doctors
that was passin' along stopped to ask
why his mother had never thought. to
introduce his sisters to one another
when they was little, and how it hap
pened that his great-aunt was such a
bloomin' young woman-and every
thing like that. It's my idea that the
scrape kinder had good effect on Jim,
leastwise to the extent that he is now
tryin' to centralize his affections on one
girl, instead of disseminatin' them all
along the line. And l shouldn't be sur
prised if before long that one girl and
Jim was to-"
"There's Seventeen's whistler cried
the agent; ''she is on time for once"
and they all sprang up and went out on
the platform. Naylor. in San
Francisco Argonaut.
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THE ART OF GROWING OLD.
It Is Half a Million to One That You Will

It Is Half Million to One That You Will
Not Live a Century.
Every citizen of the world, growing
wiser each year, believes that the fight
of time should have no influence upon
the heart, should not destroy vigor of
health and freshness of feeling, and
should not mark a man as ''old" simply
by standard of years. In spite of the
rush and excitement caused by modern
competition, there are many remarkable
examples of active longevity. Old
men of eighty-four years are seen
taking tours in Europe. One old gen.
tlelnan over eighty has just started for
Michigan to enjoy the good skat-
ing in that region. Five people over
seventy were found in party of TWEEN
ty-two upon an excursion to the Yose-
mite. Old people like Mr.. Gladstone,
DIR. Holmes and Mr.. Whittier and others,
both in this country and Europe, are
increasing the tendency among people
of to-day to believe that old age is not
a matter of years. Our sanitary i'm
provements and the dissemination of
ideas of hygiene have not only added to
the average length of life, but have
made those added years period of en-
joyment and of value to the community.
That Western nations do not possess
monopoly of good old age is proved by
the statistics of the latest census Of ia
pan, the results of which are carried Lp to
December 81, 1889. According to the fig
ures which have recently reached these
shores, out of total population of 49,
702, O20, sixty-fve persons have attained
their Tooth year, forty-fve their 1O1st
year, thirteen their 1O2d year, eleven
their 1O3d year, one his 1O4th year, nine
their 1O5th year, three their 1O6th year,
one his 10th year and one his 1O9th year.
The japanese, with their extraordinary
habits of cleanliness, their simplicity of
diet and light heartedness, seem to have
grasped an understanding of the means
of duration of life which even Western
nations are still hoping to gain. Ac-
cording to the ideas exemplified by Mr..
Gladstone, it is possible to measure
quantity Of work done equally with
length of days, and to make old age
count for more value than mere statis-
tics for the census.-Boston Journal
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tracked at the hospital. And what do
you think?-why, every one of them
bloomin' girls allowed they would go
right down to the city for to nuss him.
They was unanimously of the idea that
If they didn't poor Jim wouldn't have
no one to take care of him-for, of
course, there wasn't one of them that
suspicioned the existence of the other,
and Jim, he always made a point OF
tellin' 'em all how he was an otfun and
alone in the world.
But we assured 'em all-leastwise I
did them that spoke to me-that the
Sisters of Hope, who was running the
hospital then, would take good care of
Jim, and they needn't worry. Still
there was some of 'em that wasn't salts
fed, and they allowed they would go
down anyway, jest to visit him. When
got in from the run that night, went
around to see Jim myself, and told
him to be on the lookout, or he'd get
lacked up. But he was feelin' pretty
perk? SID said he reclSoned it was all
righa~ that he had put up kind OF
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out entirely. Bein' as Jim was my
side partner you might say. at the time,
of course had the whole story straight
from him. You've heard it often
enough, reckon, so don't need ter"
The dispatcher and the agent said
that they knew Jim Ritter, but they
had never heard the story.
Say, that's funny. 1 thought every
body about the road knew it. The gen
eral superintendent heard it, and Jim
was expecting every day for a long time
to have dance on the carpet. You
ought to get Jim himself to tell it, and
If he ever gets transferred back to Thu
division you jest ask him how all his
female relatives is gettin' along. He'll
l1ctch right on and probably give you
the whole story.
"Well, if you know Jim, there isn't no
use in my sayin' much about him. He
was as popular and as well-lil1ed as any
of the boys that was brakin' on this
division at that time. But you prob
ably couldn't tell, no more n can,
why the girls was SO struck on him, for
he want particularly good-loollin', and
he didn't put on any great amount of
dog. either. However, he was a pretty
good singlc-hand talScr, and probably
that was what counted. My, but he
was lightning-striller with the women!
Why, sir, have seen him cut right in
and jest naturally walk Off with the
contiding affections of some young
creature before you or I or any other
man would have managed to get intro
joosd to her. And for the number of
EN-. Well, l hope to croak, if there
wasn't one at every stop along the line,
and in the big places, two or three
and in the city, oh Lord! there they
was thick! The boys was all onto it,
and they used to say that if we laid up
on siding right out in the desert, all
the Indian squaws would be around
| askin' for Jim Ritter. Everybody
seemed to think that he was a very
lucky fellow. but l always s,lspicioned
that things would get balled up some
day. If you keep putting on more
trains. you have to keep changin' the
schedule, and the first you know the
thing is too complicated to manage, and
then there are wrecks. Now, that's
the way it was with Jim.
do you remember about two years
ago, when Thirteen was ditched lest
this side of Whites? Well, Jim got
hurt there-not much-jest enough to
lay him up in the hospital for awhile.
OF course the news went all up and
down the line, and at every station you
would see some girl wringin' her hands
and asl1in' about Jim. Naturally the
boys told them jest how it was-that
Jim want hurt much, but was side
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road, but planted with shade trees
enough to give seclusion. The carriage
entrance is on one side, while shorter
foot walk on the other side gives ready
access and exit. In the rear of the
dwelling the more formal and regular
planting may be orchard trees, with the
more symmetrical growers along the
carriage way, to harmonic the two
kinds of paintings. These may be the
more regular forms of pear and cherry
trees; and the orchard is laid out in the
more ornamental hexagonal planting.
The barn is farther in the rear, but
easily reached from road and dwelling,
or a separate farm road may be placed
farther to the left.
- Fig. 2, another similar plan is
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schedule they could all run on, and
there want no danger of any thing hap
pening.
TON Bixby was sittin' by the bed
| at the time, and when Jim spoke, he
winks at Tom, and Tom he grins. You
; know Tonne used to be news
butcher on Nineteen, and now he'd run
min store in the city. Well, he's been
jammed up in collision some time be-
fore, and was now about recovered
only lame, SO that he went slumpin'
along like flat-wheeler. To give him
something to do, the sisters had put
him in charge of the door, to show Wis
itors in and around.
1--WE told Tom about it, says Jim to
me, and if one of them comes while
another is here, he will keep her back
by sayin' that they are fixin' to dissect
me-or something like that
Saw your leg off," says Tom, grin
min some more.
"'And we have got it all put up about
the different degrees of relationship
Jim goes on, winkin' ag'in. But I
didn't understand the signals, and l
told him so.
"'The Sisters of Hope has rule
says he, that man can't have no Ia
dies visit him, unless they are akin to
him.
Well says I, much as 1 know
about this hospital, l never heard no
such rule as that
Tom told me, says Jim.
And Tom, he spoke up perfectly
solemn and said: That's right, what he
says. l ought to know, being as am
doorkeeper, and have to turn the gals
away every day
"'We've got regular list Jim says,
of just how many will go of each kind
of relation, because it wouldn't do for a
man to have nineteen sisters, or twenty
three cousins, or any thing like that,
for fear the public would ketch on.
See?'
"'The first lot will be sisters says
Tom very quick; and then comes cous-
ins and sisters-in-law, and then aunts,
and
"That'll be enough says Jim.
"'But if it amt Tom goes on, grin
MIN like he had just stuck a jaw-hawk-
err with an armful of prize packages,
there is plenty of other kinds of female
relatives: wives and mothers-course
those amt availabl more than onct-
and great-aunts, and grandmothers, and
mothers-in-law-'
land daughters says l, joinin' in,
cause thought it was just kind of
game to keep Jim's spirits up; and Jim
he laughed and was very clipper about
it.
''Then l come away. But heard aft
erwards how the scheme turned out.
you see Tom was putin the thing
up on Jim. There wasn't no rule about
lady visitors like what he said, but he
had made it up jest to put Jim in the
hole.
''Pretty soon the girls begun to come
first those that lived in the city, and
afterwards those from the country
and Tom would take 'em confidentially
into the waiting-room and tell 'em how
glad Jim would be, only they must pre-
tend to be some relative of his, else the
sisters wouldn't let 'em in. Of course
they was all willin' enough-and when
they came to where Jim was, he would
introjooce them to any of the Sisters of
Hope that was about, as his cousins or
sisters or what relation was down for
that number on the list. | have an idea
that them Sisters of Hope must have been
thinkin' that Jim's ancestry run long
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"COMPANY is COMlNGI"

Bend your knees at worry'S shrine
In intense devotion,
Set the house from cellar to
Attic in commotion.
Cram tho engine, get up steam,
Set the wheels a-humming.
Make them whirl and whir and whfz,
Company is coming"
Raise a dust in every room,
Set the atoms flying,
Scold the children, rout the cat
In the corner lying.
Rap those restless baby hands
On the window drumming,
Every window must be cloan,
Company is Coming"
Leave no object IN the house
In conditio normal
Make the very cradle look
Prim, and stiff, and formal.
AT the oven scorch your face,
Have the stove just booming"
Fix up" something good to eat"
Company is coming"'
Cram the engine, keep up steam,
Keep the VIII els a-humming.
Scrub and scour, and bake and stew,
Company is coming
Labor till nervous" pulse
In your head is drumming
Till you ache from head to foot,
Company is coming"
When your guests arrive it will
Make their pleasure double
To perceive you put yourself
To a world of trouble.
Then although you feel you've done
More than you were able,
Fail not to apologize
For your house and table.
This is he spitality-
That the wheels be humming,
Rest and comfort banished when
"Comrany is comingn'
dartha G. Sperbeck in Good Housekeeping