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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

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''Where are all your people,
Scattered about in the woods
''IIow many children have you?'
Il don't know egzacl1iy. but wife she
lows to count lem befo long"
''Aret hey mostly boys or mostly
girls?"
Don't know as to that; but they air
putty badly mixed"
''IIow old is your oldest?'
about fifteen years older than the
youngest
"Well. how old is the youngest?"
"Wall, he want bon till after the red
cow fell off n the bluff -
when did she fall off?''
ooh. bout six months befo' my young
est chill was bornd.''
''Ah, you are quite character
''So's a goat"
''My dear sir, am lost and should
like you to tell me where am
Here you are.
Eyes, that's a fact, and what l want
is to know how to get away from
| here"
hnuc away, VI 1csAu W 1lOSS anu
walk"
''Come, tell me -
Don't wanter come; ruther set whar
am
you'll force me to lose my patience
after awhile
Lose all you want to; they are safe
round here
"Will you tell me or will you not,
how, by looking on the ground or in
: any other way can find the Fort Smith
road?''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15
Eyes, by goin' to it.
"Ah, but how can go to it?'
aRv r.ifin. 0r xrallyins,

y
I'm half inclined to get down there
and shake you.'
: "Wush you would Amt shuck none
sense had the. chills. Like to shake
with the cAills-does me such power
o. good to stretch"
II didn't think that such human
being as you are could be found living
on this EARTH
''Wall. amt Twin none too peart at
present, but you jest wait till black
haws gifts ripe
.'Do you know where the Fort Smith
road can be found?'' I asked, plead
ingly.
He looked up innocently and an
swered:
Eyes: fust in one place an then in
another
l turned away Disguised. and had
not gone far when | heard the old fell
low tiddling a frolicllsome tune and I
fancied that it was his way Of laughing
at his own drollery.
Believing that i should soon come
upon some unmistalsen mark of civiliza-
ton and hoping that might then meet
some one civil enough to answer a ques-
ton, continued to ride. but evening
came with its dismal whisperings and
still the forest was trackless. The sun
went down in curdled threat. and soon
a dark cloud overspread the sky. l de-
nouncei myself in the unmeasured
terms Of anger for not having choked
directions out of that brainless travesty
on human life. Rain. slow rain that
meant an all-night assignment. began
to fall and | was just about to dismount
and feel around for hollow tree when
l saw a weak light fumbling it's way
through the gloom. With thrill OF
thankfu}ness / rode toward it, and soon
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15
Fun at Aunt Hetty's.

Mother-I did not know that Aunt
Hetty was having her house reprinted,
or l wouldn't have sent you children
there to spend the day.
Young Hopeful-Oh, we had nice
time. Aunt Hetty didn't bother us at
all, she was so busy with the worl1men.
We went upstairs all by ourselves, and
played keepin' geological garden.
''What did you do for animals?'
eve hadn't an cept Aunt Hetty's
Fido, and the canary, and the cat, but
we painted them six different cofQrs. -
Good News
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

4 Western UnlOn Telegraph 20.
agent has been in Sleepy Eye looking
up the matter of running CONNER
ciai wire into that town. The Dis
patch claims that he wants the earth
in the way of office rent, etc, Tree.
Just why Redwood Falls is not enti-
tied to such wire is more than we
can see. We certainly do more tele-
graphing than our neighbor,and 1.-THE
office wasNlocated in the center OF the
city, instead of mile out towards the
Cottonwood, the telegraph would be
used still more. 1t is time that the
Western Union should be doing some
thing for this city, and inasmuch as
we cannot obtain any thing nova
days without asking for the same it Is
time that we get together and resolve
for and demand commercial wire.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

The Marshall News Messenger
thinks Redwood Falls is getting high
toned since becoming city and get
ting water works. Bro Whitney
should just drop down in on our city
and learn the reason for that peculiar
tone he attributes to us. We are pro-
crossing rapidly and our future is as
bright as star Of the first magnitude
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15
Ignorant CITY Folks.

City Niece (reprovingly)-Uncle Way.
back, why do you pour your coffee into
the saucer before drinking it?
Uncle Wayback = To cool it. The
more air surface you give it, the quicker
it cools. Guess these ERE city school.
don't teach much science, do they?-N
Y. Weekly.
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He Had Observed 1t.

''By the way, Johnson" said the man
who was looking over the new Chicago
Directory, "have you noticed how the
Johnsons lead the Smiths this year?"
''Hum-yes. replied young Mr.. John.
son, somewhat embarrassed. Il expect
to-er-to lead one of the Smiths to the
altar next week myself. ''-Chicage
rNrihune
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KNOWS \ GOOD Thing

Col, James H. Davidson, in a per-
sonal letter to the GAZETTE, ordering
axtra copies of last weeks paper, re-
marks:
Il think your article on the Glltillan
farm is very good indeed, and the
whole is quite creditable. 1t ought to
he quite an immigration pamphlet for
Redwood county.
JAMES H. DAVIDSON.
Tho GAZETTE has few more copies
Of last weeks issue left and persons
desiring to obtain themscan do SO by
calling at this otficet
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

Champagne dinners come high, un-
less you don't have to pay for the
champagne.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

We have made a careful examina-
ton of Jay Gould's will and codicils
with view to applying our cryptic
gram to it and thus ciphering out a
small bequest to us, but the strictest
examination proves our cryptogram
worthless. Jaw was cruel, ave, cruel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15
the senate

A solid stone wall is the background
to the caption of the Rock County
Herald. 1t is illustrative of the dura-
bility of one of the neatest and best
local papers in Southwestern Mime
sofa.
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rOv WeStend-COl11dn he StODo
The Conscientious Friend.

Gus De Smith-You have not congrat-
ulated me on my approaching marriage.
Col. Ierger-You see, l can't con-
scientiously extend any congratulations
to you, since am not acquainted with
the young lady you are about to marry.
On the other hand, knowing you init
mately, l cannot conscientiously con-
graduate your future wife.-Texas
SiftinuS
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I'm LOST AND ALMOST DROWNED"
ming to sort of fence halted and
houted lusty ''hcllo"'
A door was slowly dragged open. A
! mans voice cried:
''Wall:"
MY dear sir, I'm lost and almost
drowned. Have you a dog in the
yard?"
''Yas. What'll you give me for him?'
"GraGiors alive. don't want him.
"Nu. er do |, much.
But do want to get out of this
rain"
':Thas's nachul.'
Decidedly. VIII the dog bite me if
l get dawn:'
WALL he mout, as he amt had nuth-
in ter eat sense yistidy.''
but can't you keep him from biting
me?"
Dunno but I mout choke him off if
he grabbed holt
Look here, didn't see you this af-
ternoon?''
| YES reckon you did,
81 thought you We're the same man"
$50 did t.
Say is it possible that you are going
to see me ride away in this rain?''
Don't believe l kin: most too dark"
''Iou are an internal scoundrel, that's
what you are
Wei. you mout be maxim up yo
mind too fast. You amt discovered all
my fine pints yit.''
r 1>o
lieve that such human being as you
existed on the face of the earth
wall. Teller KANT allus tell what
he's ,goin' to trike. No man amt SO
wise that he mouten't larn suthin' the
next day
I'll try you one more time. May l
come into your house?''
IVY. O course. You air puffecl1ly
welcome"
the cabin. where I found gaunt wom-
an and | cont know how many chill
drcn.
I Now IL. go out and take yo' boss
an feed hi1h. and, mann, you skeer the
stranger up I. bit to eat
They gave me the best they had-in-
deed. they insisted upon my taking the
only bed in the house while they slept
upon the floor. In the morning they
fried me a chicken, a great culinary
compliment to a guest in the backwoods
of the south. and when l asked the old
fellow for his bill he looked surprised
'W:y. you don't owe me nuthin he
said AN l don't want you ter try ter
make me take nuthin', nuther.''
| thanked him profusely and had
mounted my horse to ride away, when
it occurred to me that had not secured
the direction to the Fort Smith road.
by the way" asked, (which direc-
ton did you say it was to the Fort
Smith road?'
Didn't say he answsred with his
aggravating drawl.
Are you going to see me ride off this
way, and that. too, after showing me
such l1indness?,'
Chatter see you ride off that way or
some other. reckin.'
An idea struck me and l got down
and went back into the house.
by the way" asked, ''how can l
find the Fort Smith road?''
His manner had undergone a COM
plete change go right out yonder ter
that blasted oak tree, take the path
runnin' ter the right, ride straight
ahead an you'll come to the road.
The crossing of the threshold meant
a world of difference to him. Outside
that cabin, all men were the legitimat
prey of his annoying drollery, but, in
side the house, they were friends whom
The was delighted to serve.
OPIE READ.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15
An Exile from Home.

Travers-Ive just got a letter from
my mother and she wants me to come
up to my native village and pay her a
visit, but SADLY don't see how can.
Dashaway-Can't you get away?
Travers-Oh, yes. But the village
tailor once made me a suit of Clothes
Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

cnanRc In the OackWOOOS. anu Tie
squatter has raked up his few belong
ings and quietly disappeared, or, hav-
ing struck a truce with human prog
ress. he has put aside his long rife and
has yielded to closer relationship with
the plow Like most of the features of
a new nations rudeness he will after
awhile exist only as a tradition. The
lofty historian. in striving to catch the
spirit of great events or seeking to
paint in strong colors the strange con-
ditions of the past, will scarcely notice
the Arkansas squatter, with his COON
skin cap and his pretense of never yield
ing to surprise; but the squatter's wild
music. more and mere toned down per-
haps as the years pass, will whistle and
fiddle it's way from the past to the
future
came upon a genuine squatter not
long ago, while travelling as newspa-
per correspondent. l had been in the
Cherokee nation and had crossed the
Arkansas line when it occurred to me
that didn't know whittier was going
In truth, was lost: and, after wander
ing about in the woods for nearly day,
came to small cabin surrounded by
pole fence. The first survey re-
vealed no sign of life. but a closer look
discovered gaunt old fellow sitti1
the ground with his back against a
rode up to the fence and. some
puzzled as to what form of salut
might be most acceptable to him.
gan to search my stock of cordial
A., 1 ELL
and with a drawl asked:
"Ridin' or Jest a-goin' somewha
| ''Well, had thought of goins
where, but l am simply riding
NO, you amt! you air jest
thar on hoss.''
you are right acknowle 4
then added: How can l stril It
Smith rOati?''
with Il rock, reckon. an if
you was ter git clost enought out
hit it with a sticl1.:'
How can | find the Fort Sus~~l road,
is what mean
''Thcn why didn't you say SOP
l waited for him to give me direc
tions, but he said nothing. Indeed, he
appeared to be nodding.
How can find the road?" asked.
by lookin' fur it. | reckon
but where shall | loolo"
Il rec Son on the ground would be the
best place.
"Oh. come now. You are perplexing.'
''Ias. SO is black bat
''IOu seem to be alone ! said. think
ing that the better plan would be to
propitiate him.
Would be eff it want fur one thing
whats that?''
"Thar's !; dog. round yonder behind
I tho bnuSa -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

There is going to be two lions in
the next Minnesota senate and there
is also gong to be great struggle
for supremacy President Clough, as
the King Lion is likely to ride Mr..
Donnelly during greater portion Of
the senate
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experience in o. K ling candidates
for the postoffice will make it easy for
him to @. X. bills.I

The St. Paul Press club had its pi-
ano broken while moving the same to
the new quarters last week. What
will Peg, Lee and Chant do now?
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some Hope.

''Cholly do you ever intend to quit
smoking cigarettes"
''Deah boy, why should l?'' =
Because if you don't they will kill
you"
well, when they do, deah boy, I'll
quit. Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

At1A<A A<sSAAo ohSO
was the home
of the typical
squatter. There
were squatters
in many other
parts OF the
country. but it
fell to the lot of
t h e Arkansas
squatter to be
made famous by
an a m u S i n g
S t Dry a n d a
piece of rollick-
ing music. The
railroad and the
sawmill h a v e
w rn,1 n I, + a
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\ Thorough Sport.

Pelham Parker - Charlie Meadow
brool1e's horse ran away with him at
the last hunt. and he rode down the
hounds and finally overlook and passed
the fox.
Reggy Westend-Couldn't he stop?
Pelham Parker-That's what the
whipper-ip asked him, but Charlie said
he couldn't think of stopping when he
wasahead Of the game.-Life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

\ worth successor to Senator Davis
Senator Davis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

What's the matter with Hon. p. II.
Kelly for the ney house. His long
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-12-15

jaw Gould was d firm believer in the
principle that charity begins at home.
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THE TYPICAL SQUATTER,
He Gould Easily Have Exhausted
the Patience Of Job.
Outside of His Cabin Everybody Was His
Victim, Once Inside the Guest Bee
came His Friend-The Man
Pictured by Ople Reati.
Especial Letter. ]

xgxayzzSzyW RKANSAS ono,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

II, in your judgement, you think
your beds viii be short, make some
decidedly late beds near the well,
then place several layers of wooden
cloth together thereon, spread tobac-
90 seed about one-tourth Of an inch
thick, cover them over with WOODEN
cloths and soak the whole mass in
warm water and set near the stove
when hot. Moisten with warm water
when the wooden begins to look dry.
In about four or Ave days examin
and you viii perceive white spots
which shows termination. Then mir
ths seed with dry ashes and SOW oyer
the beds. Cover with old gunny
sacks 90 90 to retain all possible
moisture and the heat of the sun. W.
srs trying this plan.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

It took the farmers Of many por-
tions Of the United States years and
years upon top of years to learn that
proper rotation Of crops rests tie
land, but there are lots of Afro-Ameri
canssattempting to farm Florida soil
who have not learned anything
about resting land. II they have they
are giving no attention to the same,
Tor We see them day after day max.
ing ready to put cotton where it
tsied to grow last year and the year
before that.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

Usually Il Is the csse that ! c,,..
vention Is held at q point vh.,.
some favors are shown by the inh.h;
tants of the city or town. Such !.
the case with the state tobacco -.
vention soon to be held. M.
growers of Columbia county havs
promised to treat us royalty if -.
come to Lake City. Besides we win.
be close to the experimental static,
and Director DePass has recentlr
returned from Cuba brim full Of to.
bacco knowledge aud from him Va.
can gain valuable information. We.
have heard of no other place that
has in any way indicated that thew
wish the convention in their MIDI.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

A brief visit to Capt. P. Houstoun,a
farm showed us very plainly that he
is farming for all there is in it. He
has a large number of fine tobacco
beds and they look just as we'll as
ours and that is saying considerable
Already he has set several thousand
and could have drawn several
thousand more from his beds in tho
month of April. In few days he
will have a new tobacco planter at
work on his farm and all large
growers should 60 and watch the
workings thereof.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

1t gives us pleasure to see the way
good and effectual farm work is
going on at the colored experimental
farm one mile south Of Tallahassee
under the efficient management of
the superintendent. Of Profs. Tuker
and Gibbs departments We shall
have more to say in the future.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16
victual Crops Coming,

Down in Escambia county the
farmers have adopted our idea of
mixed crops and the T. U. tells that
the farmers and truckers of this
section are now busily preparing for
early and general crops. For the
former goodly acreage is now show.
ing finely in peas, cabbage, etc., and
in the latter "diversity''is the slogan
Cotton will not be abandoned, but
the acreage will be decreased
The indications are that the county
will make an especially large ani
fine output Of tobacco next fall.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

There is lots of talk in our agri-
cultural exchanges about the use OF
potash on our farms. We are of the
opinion that the field pea has about
the right amount in its make up il
followed up, (twice year for that
matter) year after year, which we
intend to do.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

Have you flowing springs on your
farm that run soft water? Does the
chinquapin, magnolia, poplar, hick
DRY, sweet gum and beech grow ad.
jacent thereto? If 80 these are we'll
recognized indications that your land
close by will grow velvet Vuelta
Aba 10 wrapper leaves.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

The quality and faults of tobacco
can be determined in the field, while
growing, by the treatment it re-
ceives, as it is subj ectei either to too
dry or too wet spells, hail, wind,
rust, sunburn, and the many other
unlooked-for tobacco evils. Tobacco
must have q thrifty growth from the
time the seed comes up in the beds
until it is harvested, and any check
in its growth Injuries the quality, and
quantity, and shows itself when
cured.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

Get out of the old ruts and Law of
the cotton rows four feet beween the
rows and grow plant well MANFRED,
every twenty-four inches, and you
will then find out that it does not r..
quire four acres and some land over
to produce a bale of cotton. Dom,
be afraid IT, experiment.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

To the new tobacco growers: plant
sparingly this season, cultivate care
fully and study 'sheaps," by SO doing
RON will win the first skirmish and
next year you will be cooked and
primed, armed and equipped with iu-
telligence, which will enable you to
do battle in the great big tobacco
field in great shape.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

"Here is during-the- war argument
that is 'hard to climb" and it proves
just what we argue week after week,
that we must rely more on our own
resources insteal Of keeping our pork
barrel in Chicago, etc. It comes from
a Texas man and he writes it to
Home and Farm: How we'll we did
then, when forced to rely upon our
own resources, or, rather, the re.
sources of mother earth and her
natural productions, forced from her
willing surface by strong, black
hands, and those hands, guided and
controlled by our dear mothers, wives,
daughters and sisters. And now,
farmers, if women could feed and
clothe their children, their servants
and army, and all from the native
products of the soil, produced at
home, the labor of their own hands,
at such a time and such circum-
stances, why, in heavens name, can not
you great, strong hulks of men do
likewise?''
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

Don't forget to grow some gymp-
son weed around the tobacco land so
that when it is in bloom insert, about
shutdown, few drops of cobalt in
the flower. This method causes
many funeral in the miller family.
Devise every way and means to kill
the miller before the eggs are laid; it
assists wcrrning wonderfully.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16
Something About Beggar Weed.

Having made some tests with this
weed we know it is most excellent
feed for all kinds of stock, but one
great trouble. So many do not seem
to know when to cut. 1t will raise
itself after the land is once seeded
and not cultivated too late, say about
the middle of June.
1t is really hay if it does grow
up in the air. When high up in the
air then it is no longer hay that
amounts to anything.
Last season we cut it at several
stages and found that the best, and
we believe it right time, is Just as it
begins to bloom, then it is from two
and one half to three feet in hight, if
growing on tolerable rich soil. The
cutting done at this hight was done
with scythe and we left from six
to ten inches of stubble, finding
that the lower to the ground the
more woody and tough the stalks
were. BY this method it looks verv
much like clover in every shape and
form, and it smells so. The leaves
do not drop off at all, but the latter
cuttings drop their leaves to a GER
tain extent and the very latest shed
the leaves largely after thoroughly
cured and were of but little or no
value.
In our judgment the reason whv
the early cutting did not shed it's
leaves was because we did not allow
it to lay broadcast as with oats or
crab grass. Not over one hour
elapsed after it was cut, before it
was placed under cover and there al
lowed to cure, and no mould was
noticeable whatever.
As fertilizer / believe it is most
excellent. Combined with cow peas
there is nothing better.
Instead of sending off for high
priced fertilizers more beggar weed
should be grown on played ont land,
for it will grow on most any soil, but
not as large as a rich bottom.
This year we intend to SOW quite o
lot just before the rainy season set.
in. We do not expect great returns.
but the seeds will scatter manure over
the soil at the same time, and the LAND
will be thickly set.
Stop buying northern hay anf
|grow beggar weed, the red clover o
Middle Florida.
i No prospect for q better price /,
lcottOn next fall.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

We believe the day is coming that
the farmers of Middle Florida will
be compelled o.-keep a black book,
just the same as the railroad
and other corporations do. They
keep a record Of the miserable,
unsteady and dishonest workmen
When a man applies for work he
must produce a certificate from his
former employer. With this method
in vogue the laborer will soon find
that his "crooked work" will keep
him out of a lob.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16

Away back in our grand-father's
days occurred the revolutionary war,
and taxation without representation
was the prime cause. Glance at the
way things are going today. Who
pays nearly two-thirds of the taxest
The farmers! No wonder the farm
ers are rising up all along the line.
In the language ofOld Hickory: We
must right things, by the Eternal!