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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-03-03

noon l put another pumpkin enera
and be fore it was light the next morn
ing 1 took repeating rife and hid in
some bushes probably fifty PAGES from
where it lay. A little after daybreak
a bear walked out of the woods and
started to paw the pumpkin around on
the ground. Pretty soon a smaller
bear ran out and tried to take the
pumpkin away, and the big bear
grabbed the pumpkin in its paws and
made for the woods. The little one
chased him and drove him back, and
while they were quarreling l banged
away three times and killed both of
them"
Eleven years ago last April" said
James Pratt, II found what no Pocono
hunter ever did before or since. was
hunting wild cats on Scrub Oak ridge,
and wasn't thinking of bear at all,
when saw an enormous she bear steal
ing through the scrub oaks. l shot her
twice with buckshot, and although she
was wounded badly she kept up until she
reached her nest, where she soon died.
Her nest was on the barren, with hard
eral bushels of grass and leaves, and
in it found four cubs, all nicely COW
cred up. l raised them all, and in the
fall sold them"
"a year or so before the war;" said
Abner landlord, -four of us were
peeling bark on Lewis mountain.
Early one June morning pack-ped-
dler stal ted up the wood road on his
way to the Dutch Flats. Half an hour
later we set out for the bark-peeling,
and on our way up we heard the ped
dler yelling murder. In a moment we
saw him running down the hill with
bear close behind him. Before he
got to us his toe caught in root and he
stumbled to his knees. His pack went
over his head and struck against a
stump and flew open, and pins and
needles, hooks and eyes and suspend.
ers few in every direction. The fright
but instead of looking after his pack he
ran past US and kept yelling murder.
The bear kept chasing him, and when
it came along we knocked it down
with our axes and soon killed it. Then
one of us ran after the peddler, and it
| was half an hour before we could
make him believe that the bear was
| dead"
81 had hog once that always fol.
lowed me all over the place and into
the woods" said Henry Norris. "One
fall went up in Dark Hollow to set a
bear trap, and when l got in the
woods found the hog at my heels
While was setting the trap the hog
wandered away, and when l got ready
to start for home heard it squealing
| up on the side of the hill In two
minutes it came running down through
the woods right toward the trap. A
bear was after it. The hog leaped
over the trap just as the bear was 60
ing to strike, it and the bear got caught
in the trap and the hog went squealing
down the hill. Then l went home, got
my rifle, and shot the bear. "-Cresco
| pa Cor N. Y. Tribune.
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LONDON SMOKE
Will Make the Great City an impossible
Abiding Place.

Will Make the Great City an impossible
Abiding Place.
If the abatement of the metropolitan
smoke nuisance should be found to be
impracticable, it is pretty safe to say
that one of the consequences will be
that every body whose circumstances
admit of it will cease to include Lon
don as among possible places of per.
manent residence. All who have a
proper regard for their health and COM
fort will sedulously shun it for at least
eight or nine months in the year, and
If they are wise will select one of the
to spend the time which they have hith-
erto been in the habit of spending in
the capital.
AS for the London suburbs, they are
nearly as badly off with respect to fogs
as the city itself, and when there is a
fog they might, so far as facility and
rapidity of conveyance are concerned,
as we'll be fifty miles away in the coun-
try. Even for those who are obliged
to be in town frequently, Brighton, at
any rate, is almost as near to the city,
if distance is computed by the time it
takes to cover it instead of in miles,
as many of the localities which are
we'll within the dark city of smoke.
There, during nearly the whole of the
time that London has been in darkness,
the sun has been brightly shining, and
an atmosphere as free from contamina-
ton as the most fastidious could wish
for has been uninterruptedly inhaled.
No doubt constant railway travelling
has its draw backs and dangers. But if
we have only a choice between two
evils, it is always policy to choose the
less, and in this case constant railway
travelling is indisputably smaller evil
than the constant breathing of the
chemical elements of which London
fog is composed. An exodus on large
scale from inland London to London.
on the.Sea has been proceeding for
many years, and it may be confidently
predicted that, unless the question of
the smoke nuisance is taken up in ear.
nest by the government and the legis.
lature, it will proceed on still larger
scale in the future.
Nobody will remain in the capital in
autumn, winter or spring who can get
away from it, or who has not natural
taste for sulphur and carbon as inhal-
ants, and rooted preference for death
by asphyxia as compared with any
other mode of joining the majority
London World.
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In The PRESENCE Of fAIER FAMlLlAos
posed the marriage. now yield, how.
ever, and will give you my consent"
"Me? me?" asked Jones, punching
himself with his reserve thumb in the
vest. "Did you say me?"
"Yes, you, Jones. You are mistaken
in supposing that the professor desires
to marry Fannie"
IVA, dot wash great mistake. All
wants dis house in is dose pianos to
tune"
where is she?" exclaimed Jones.
"Let me see her at once"
Certainly, MIR. Jones; but she is
spending the day out at her uncle's be.
yond Harlem bridge. have ordered a
carriage and will go and see her. YOU
have no idea how glad Fannie will be
TO hear that l have at last given my
consent"
Jones was not as bewildercd as one
might suppose at the sudden turn Of
things. His previous opinion that nc
female could refuse him was now fully
confirmed. He suddenly became very
dignifed and important and talked
about educating Fannie up to his stand
ard.
A few minutes later closed carriage
drove up and before poor Jones could
fully comprehend the situation he wasi1
custody in Bloomingdale asylum. There
was no hesitation, on the part Of the
officials, in combining Jones, as an in.
mate had recently escaped and they
supposed Jones was the fugitive idiot
He was released as soon as his friends
heard of the affair, but next day he
disappeared from New York. The
story had leaked out and nothing could
induce him to remain and stand the
ridicule to which he would be sub
jected. His present post Office address
is not known. ALEX Z. SWEET.
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~ in love. This was his normal condi-
ton. He was moreover so completely
eaten up with vanity that he firmly be-
lieved that every female who looked at
him loved him for himself alone with
undying affection. There are several
such partially demented persons in
every community.
At the time of which we write, Jones
was very much astonished and be-
wildered at the conduct of Miss Fannie
Smith, one of the bellies of Harlem,
which is the northern suburb, SO to
speak, of Gotham. Jones had smiled
on Fannie, but she refused to listen
to his suit. Fannie was about eight.
cen years Of age. She was a very
Intelligent young lady. She took an in
terest in politics, she loved music and
poetry, she understood all about reli-
gion, and was we'll up in the tariff ques-
ton. There was only one thing about
which she was absolutely Indifferent,
and that was Jones. AS far as is known
she never expressed any opinion about
him except that he was "a very nice
young man."
Jones, as the reader mIy have in
ferred, was bounteously provided with
lack of common sense. He could not
believe it possible that he was not al
ways uppermost in Fannie's thoughts
He was too vain for that. He did not
believe it possible that any female could
resist his winning smile for any length
of time.
He followed her everywhere. When
the poor girl walked out she did not
know whether it was her shadow or
Thomas Jefferson Jones that followed
at her heels. If she looked out of the
window, she saw standing on the op-
posite side of the street, Jones, with his
arms folded. He became a permanent
feature of the landscape in the vicinity
Of the Smith mansion. If she looked
around the theater she was sure to sec
him right behind her, looking at her
with most loving glance. AS she paid
no attention whatever to him, his next
strategic move was to write her a
twelve-page love letter, to which he
added postscript to the effect that she
should make an earnest effort to prove
herself worthy of his love. lie was now
in the delirium tremens stage of his in
fatuation.
After several weeks had rolled away
without Jones receiving any answer to
his effusion, horrible suspicion that
perchance his affection was not fully
reciprocated began to dawn in his
breast He then jumped at the con-
clusion that he had rival. He played
the role Of detective for a week before
he discovered clcw.
Opposite to the Smith mansion was a
German boarding house. Jones noticed
that middle-aged man, wearing spec
tacles and long hair, frequently looked
across the street at the Smith mansion.
One day he saw this same man coming
out OF the said Smith mansion.
Now, Herr Specht was an unfortunate
man who taught music and tuned pianos
for living. He was the most harmless
and timid of men. He almost bounded
out of his chair at hearing tremendous
knock at the door.
Come in," squealsed Herr Specht.
Jones stalked into the room, grand,
gloomy and peculiar, with folded arms,
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NOVEL TREATMENT.
Gastric Ulcer Cured by fT.e Use of Die
of Ice Cream.

Gastric Ulcer Cured by tT,e Use Of a Diet
of Ice Cre,m.
DR.. HERSHEY reports IT. the American
Medical News, three cases of gastric
ulcer in which recovery had followed
the use of diet of ice cream. This
novel method of treatment was sug'
gested to him by the experience of
patient, woman of thirty five, who had
for three months suffered from symp.
toms of gastric ulcer. She had hema.
temesis and severe pain, and could re.
tain nothing until by chance she one
day took small quantity of ice cream.
She had lost twenty-five pounds in
weight. AS all ordinary methods of
dieting had failed, and digested food
administered by the rcctum was re-
jected, the patient at her own desire
was allowed ice cream and told to take
as much of it as she could. Her severe
symptoms at once began to subside,
and at the end of two months, during
which from one to three quarts Of ice
cream were taken daily. she had gained
twenty-four pounds in weight Solid
nourishment was gradually added to
I'LL ulCV, dilN SllC LAttlAS SOluPlCCC IT,
covery. Dr. HERSHEY had a similar ex-
perience with two other patients, in one
of whom there were symptoms of per-
foration and local peritonitis, and he is
naturally inclined to think highly of
the mode Of treatment and to recon-
mend it's use in similar cases. He be-
lieves that the ice cream in those cases
is beneficial because of the local anes.
thetic action Of the cold permitting di.
gestion to go on without pain, while at
the same time sufficient material for di-
gestion and nourishment is supplied 10
the cream. But he insists that every
care must be taken to insure the abso-
lutte purity and freshness Of the ice
cream, and for this purpose he recon-.
mends that only that which is made at
home should be used in such cases.
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WONDERFUL NIGHTS.
An Experience in the Land of Mysterious
Egypt.

Egypt.
Nights there were. too, full of enchant-
ment-such nights as Cleopatra once
outwatched on some wave-washed AL.
eXandrian terrace - when the moon,
burning with a white fire unknown to
the north, hung over her own perfect
image in the water; or when the sky,
"clad in the beauty of a thousand
stars was mirrowed on the still river
below, and we seemed to float through
a starry world. In the crystal-clear air
the great consultations famed with
unwonted splendor; above Orion blazed;
the Hyades and Pleiades glittered like
diamond 6bulae in nights dark cloak;
Campus great lamp burned with
mellow light; Berenice's shining locks
hung on the vault like votive offering;
Cassiopeia queened it in her silver
chair, while Gemini's twin beacons
flared and paled.
Under such sky, from the terraces
OF the AleSandrian museum, King Ptol.
emy's astronomers watched these
cleaning worlds in their ordered
march through space, seeing in each
planet a divine chorister in the infinite
symphony and hearing family the pre-
lude of the celestial harmony centuries
before it Numbered in Galileo's ears as
he stood at midnight on the brown Tus-
can tower among the olives.
Most precious of all these expert
ences, says writer in Scribner, is the
remembrance of the hours spent on
deck at what the Arabs call 1.-THE time
of evening prayer" when the sun
dipped behind the Lybyan chain and
Mustapha's fire rose in pale yellow
flame against the violet water. The
mountain tops still glowed, the desert
was ashes of roses, the high bank
turned to bitumen, the sky to molten
gold, and darkly silhouetted against its
splendor, frieze Of living bronze
against a golden wall, the ever charm.
ing figures of the Egyptian PASTORAL
Canephorae, on their stately march;
Chloe, 1.-the and slender, driving home
her sheep; Daphais herding his goats;
the cleaners of Virgil; the husbandmcn
of Theocritus; the loves and nymphs Of
Anacreon-passed before us in the gla-
mours of the evening light, every low
browed profile outlined in sharpest re-
lief against the glowing west.
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room, and what he said; that he was
probably an escaped lunatic Of the
Bloomingdale asylum. which is in the
immediate vicinity.
eyes," responded Smith, "the poor
devil is loony, and as you say, we must
humor him or he will become frantic.
What we want to do now is by hook or
by crook to get him back into the
asylum"
"Ya. va, dot wash splendid itea to
get him dot lunatic asylum in"
Returning to the parlor, Fannie's
father took both Of Jones' hands and
said:
MY dear Jones, my daughter, Fam
ME, reciprocates your affection. She
has long loved you in secret, but op'
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BABY'S LETTER..

Only Q makebelieve letter,
Pencil marks, crooked and queer,
Droll curlvcueS and fantastic
Zigzags mixed up, out of gear.
A twisted up tumble OF puzzles
The Old Nick himself couldn't read,
But there's laughter and tears,
Hopes, yearning and fears,
For some loving heart in the screed.
Each quaint line of ruboishy nothing.
Jagged and all turned awry,
Tells to the eye of some mother,
A tale for laugh or cry.
Each cute little upstroke or downstroke,
That dot, and this dash over here,
Bent this way and that,
Make some heart pit-a-pat
With the thrill Of smile or q tear.
Beneath the blue sky OF heaven,
No science, religion or art,
No poet no painter or preacher,
Can thrill the love strings of the heart
Like the pencil marks, criSS-crossed and
crooked,
Some upright, and others that nod,
Sweet babyhood's scrawl,
Meaning nothing at all
But containing q letter from God.
ALI Cougar, in Peoria Ql) Transcript.
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Mr.. Sweet did the one on the water
tank, knowing that could reach him
with bullet the minute he undertook
to make himself scarce. From his
actions l judged that the bear was
angry about something, but couldn't
see what he was dancing around, and
| kept my rifle aimed at him, so as to
fire the instant l saw that he was go
ing to leave the open for the brush
The bear kept hopping in circle,
quickly jumped to one side every little
while and appeared to be getting
madden and madden All of sudden
the bear waddled away a few yards. l
had a bead on him, and 1 was almost
ready to pull the trigger, when the
bear stopped. wanted to see what he
was going to do next, and so didn't
shoot He paved in the dirt a spell
and then he picked up round stone,
bigger than his head. He took the
stone in his paws, Rugged it to his
brislket and walked on his hind feet
toward the spot where I'd first seen
him. When he got to the spot he
walked around it couple of
times, and then he raised the
stone as high as he could and
threw it on the ground. The bear then
danced around the stone for two or
three minutes, when he suddenly
turned tail and took bee line for the
brush. Seeing that he was going to
leave for good, banged away at him
and brought him to a stop, finishing
him with another bullet. l was anx-
ious to find out why the bear had
thrown the stone on the ground, and so
got stick and rolled it over. Under
the stone lay dead rattlesnake, coiled
up and as fiat as founder"
THAT reminds me-" said Lenk
Houghton, ''of bear l saw playing
with pumpkin one Sunday morning
up on Cromwell's hill. was working
for farmer up there, and in the fall
we fed pumpkins to the cows in lot
next to piece of woods One of the
pumpkins hadn't been cracked, and
that morning 1 saw a bear march out
OF the woods and begin to play with it
like kitten with a ball of yarn. When
it had cuffed the pumpkin around for
awhile the bear tossed the big vegeta-
BILE SO high that it broke into pieces
when it came down, and the bear then
disappeared in the woods That after
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and a MISUNDERSTANDING but l.
have-come" sort of glare in his eyes.
INIT whom hat l dot pleasure to
speak?" said Specht, placing chair be-
tween himself and the visitor.
Thomas jefferson JONES'" Numbered
the visitor. Confess, scoundrel, that
you love Fannie" continued Jones,
scowling furiously.
''Who ish den dot?"
Don't come that game"
"Vot games?" "a
"You love Fannie Smith. Don't deny
It. | know everything"
"Smith2 Oh, va, know dot fami-
lies"
"Then you love Miss Smith,
Poor Specht! He believed that he
had lunatic to deal with, and he was
not far from the truth. He had heard
that the only way to get along with a
lunatic was to concede everything and
to contradict him in nothing, otherwise
the maniac might rend him to pieces.
Acting on this plan, Herr Specht, who
still held the chair between himself and
the intruder, said:
II loafs her very much"
Come with me-" said Jones. II
withdraw from the canvass in your ia
vor. I'll make you both happy"
With fear and trembling, poor Specht
accompanied Jones across the street,
and they were admitted into the parlor
Of the Smith mansion. Old man Smith,
retired lumber dealer, entered. lie
was slightly acquainted with the young
man.
'Mr. Smith, I withdraw"
II didn't know that youowere an ap-
plicant for any Office" replied Smith,
somewhat dazed.
mo, sir. resign my claim on your
daughter
"Your claim on my daughter?'
Eyes, Mr.. Smith, intended to educate
your daughter up to my standard, bu:
that's all passed now. resign in favor
of this piano bangor" said Jones, with
sheer.
What are you talking about? You
educate my daughter! I guess I can
educate my own daughter" exclaimed
Smith, rather hotly.
"Mishter Smith, would spheak NIT
you leddle private" said Specht.
whats the matter? Does that piano
want tuning again?'' asked Smith.
1T wash something's of dot uttermost
importance"
Mr.. Smith did not know what to
think, but he withdrew into an adjoin-
ing room with Prot. Specht, where the
latter proceeded to explain that Jones
was an escaped lunatic. He told how
the demented creature had come to his
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What Carried Him Away.

Weeping Widow Ito whom the news
is brought of her husbands dcath in the
west)-P-poor James! And-and did
he-boo~hooI-die Of his own free will
and accord?
Pampas Philip (who has brought the
sad tidings)-Well, mum, yaas, he-er
he did die of cord, moight say
Boston News.
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ting across lots toward the railroad
tracks below this station just at dusk
one November day" said Caleb Sweet
when l saw a bear on top of the
water tank, between here and Henry
vile. He was walking around the
edge of the tank, and every little
while he stopped and looked up and
down the railroad l crouched be-
hind fence as soon as l saw the bear,
where l got good sight of him. After
he had walked around the top of the
tank nine or ten times he gazed over
the fields and scratched his right ear
with his hind foot Then he took an
other walk around the tank, and finally
backed down the side next to the rail-
road. How it happened don't know,
but before the bear touched the
ground, the waterpipe dropped, and
stream as big as the pipe could hold
began to pour down on the ties The
bear jumped to one side as though the
rushing water had startled him, but he
didn't run away. He looked at the
spout, and then he went to prancing
around it, acting as if he liked
soon the bear seemed to get the
idea that it was pretty. good chance
for him to take bath, and right
away he began to run back and forth
under the pipe. The stream drenched
him from his nose to his tail, and he
kept dashing through it till he was as
clean as a whistle. While the bear
was taking his bath the track walker
came in sight from the direction of
Cresco He saw the water spouting on
the track. and he Immediately ran to-
ward the tank as fast as he could to
turn it off. He didn't see the bear, and
the bear didn't notice him till he was
pretty close to the tank. When the bear
caught sight of the track walker, how
ever he legged it for the fence
and started to climb over it within
three feet of where l was. had a
beetle that l had been splitting rails
with, and as the bear climbed over l
hauled off and gave him blow on the
head with it that laid him out. He
kicked and tried to come to. but an
other blow fixed him. He had the
cleanest fur l ever saw on bear. BY
that time the track-walker had got the
water stopped, and when l told him
the story he was mad at me for not
soaring the bear away
Porter Seward told the next story.
'One fall" he said, II was hunting on
the barrens between the Buckhill
creek and the middle branch of Broad
heads creek. Thirty or forty rods
away [ saw a bear dancing around
something on the ground, and 1 laid
my rifle across a stump and got be-
hind it. l watched the bear Just as
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In No Hurry.
Mrs. O'F.-Can l have my husband
put in Jail fer slapping me in the mouth?
Magistrate-Certainly; that is assault
and battery.
well, I'll come around in about q
month and make the charge"
"Why not have him arrested at once?"
"Well, you see, when he slapped me l
hit him in the head with rollin' pin,
and he's now in the hospital, and the
doctors says he won't be able to get out
for month, yet."-Life.
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Debtor-No use, sir! I'm teetotally
hustled You can't get blood out OF q
Not the Office lie Wanted.

"What's the matter with GluHlm these
days that he looks so sour?"
Things have gone wrong with him
lately. He has been trying to get up a
benefit club for some time and it was
organized the other night, and they
made him president.
"Well, wasn't that what he wanted?"
mo, he wanted to be treasurer. IN.
v Press
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well, did the train they missed
run off the track and kill lot of peo.
pie" asked Fangle, as Cumso stopped.
mo; but something dreadful really
did happen" "What?' when we
got back to the house there were seven
relatives from the country sitting on
the porch waiting for us. They staid
a month"
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Bingo-While I was matching that
ribbon for you to-day in dry-goods
store, a man came in, threw down a
bomb; there was a terrible explosion,
several people were killed, and barely
escaped with my life.
Mrs. Bingo (anxiously)-You didn't
lose that piece of ribbon, did your
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