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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
HOT WEATHER STORIES.
Some Champion Liars Relate Their FL
Derlences.

Some Champion Liars Relate Their Ex-
perlences.
There were several men on the train
region who told wonderful stories OF
the heat of the alkali plains I noticed
a contemptuous expression on the face
Of an old settler who was listening as
if he didn't wholly believe all he had
heard, and finally he took turn in the
conversation. Said he:
''Gentlemen, your talk is all child's
play. Heat! I give you my word OF
honor that when my wife wants to boil
eggs she just put them into pan OF
cold water on the roof, and in three
minutes by the clock, them eggs are
boiled"
There was silence for a moment, then
a thin voice piped up.
"Where does she get the cold water?''
Before this sumner could be disposed
of, another man took hand in the con.
tab
''Me and my wife don't keer for billed
eggs-we prefer 'em baked. When my
wife sets the table, for breakfast she
spreads out a row of eggs on the win
der sill and in two jiffys they're baked
ready to eat The only trouble is they're
likely to be done"
There was spell of thinking; then a
long, lean man with a caved-in chest
said, in a whistling kind of voice:
That's why I'm leaving the coun-
try" ~.
''On account of the heat3" 1 sug-
yested. -.
Eyes. Bein' natchually tender-heart-
ID, I don't like to live where baked
chickens walks around with the feathers
IN. That's all hare agin the climate
{ never heard of but one place that was
botter." $780,. ~ s.. RI
That wound up the discussion and
the last speaker remained champion of
the crowd.-Cetroit Free Press. ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
1T WAS THE CAT.
But the Admiral Didn't Know 1t Till Too
Lat

Huo ohio al 'i"h AAho" ~ LII L w
Late.
At recent meeting in one of the
principal hotels in this city of officers
who served in the rebellion, after those
in the army had told of hair breadth
escapes from the willy and bloodthirsty
Indians of the wild and woolly west.
the funniest one in the entire list was
the experience of an admiral whose
flagship lay some years ago off the har.
Dor of San Francisco.
The gentleman who told the story
served under the old sea dog at the time,
and enjoyed good laugh while relat-
ing it.
Admiral - had at the head of his
culinary department a French steward
celebrated for The many different kinds
IF dishes he served. For some reason
the cook, and was by no means averse
to showing his spite whenever an op
portunity offered. Everything went
along smoothly, however. until one day
when the British consul and other dis
tinguished personages were present at a
dinner given on board by the admiral.
The Frenchman, who had all along
borne quietly the insults and abuse,
decided at this meal to get even with
the admiral. Before preparing dinner
he had gone ashore and hired boat
man to come alongside the ship and re
main close to the gangway ladder. In
the course of the feast, when a dish
which he had specially prepared for the
occasion had been eaten, he poked his
head through the doorway and asked
his superior officer how he relished that
dish.
The admiral, who, as we'll as his
guests, was much pleased, replied that
it was the finest specimen of the cult
nary art ever set on his able, and want
ed to know what it was.
Oh" replied the cook, cit was only
your me-ouw, me-ouw, curse you"
He had prepared the admirals pet
pussy in artistic style. The cook made
for the gangway and was rowed off to
the city. He never came back, and
thereafter the admiral was never known
to find fault with his cook.-St. Louis
Ren,1hlic
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
Vinegar Not a Necessity.

It is encouraging to note that the
public is finding out that vinegar is by
no means SO necessary substance as
has been supposed, and that one. can
easily dispense with this harmful acid
with its wriggling multitudes of cells.
Good vinegar always contains these
creatures as soon as it. becomes
a little old. Lemon juice is now
being adopted by caterers in some Of
the finest hotels in the large cities, as
an agreeable substitute for vinegar.
Lemon juice is a food rather than a
poison, and it also possesses far more
delicate flavor than the acetic acid of
<negar, with its varied impurities and
products of fermentive processes, to say
nothing of the wriggling creatures
which always accompany the acid when
obtained by the fermentation Of cider
or other fruit iuices.-Good Health.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
Jeunce Immediately mounted the

Jeunce Immediately mounted the
stairs; a pathetic little figure which
Miss Mary resolutely turned her eyes
away from. Then she went into the
yard and broke strong switch from a
tree, and was returning resolutely to
execute her threat when a servant came
in at the gate.
Miss Kate told me to give You this"
she said, extending her hand. "She
says she forgot to tell you when she
gave your purse back that she bor-
rowed two dollars out of it for herself,
as she'd left her purse at home"
Miss Mary had only confused recol-
lection Of what followed. She knew
the switch was hastily thrown away,
and she was quickly up. in her own
room, where she found Jeunce in the
middle of the floor looking very little
without his coat and apron. What fol-
lowed she has never told in detail, but
from that day forward Jeunce was
pampcred beyond the lot of most chill
dren.
ITO think" she says, that should
have absolutely forced the child to ad-
compel him to tell three stories!''
But he has had it more than made up
to him since, for when he was i'll with
fever the next summer he was nursed
and tended as if he had been rich
mans son, and it was funny to see the
little black imp in the midst of the fair
white linen, and quite a wonder, as
some one said, that he didn't smut the
sheets!
The fastidious NIilly was made to give
him hot bath twice day, and he had
brought to him, and books read to him
by the hour until he got we'll again,
and took his place in the household as
one of it's most useful appendages.
Certainly his high ideal of truth was
not impaired. Miss Mary dwelt so on
her regret at having forced him into
telling stories that he was immensely
impressed by the Importance of truth;
and used to come behind her and wills.
per a correction in her ear if she made
the least deviation from exact accuracy
of statement.
He always stood behind her chair at
meals, and on one occasion, when there
were guests to dinner, Miss Mary rec
commended the ham as of her own cur
ing, and was startled by Jeunce's whis-
pering solemnly in her ear:
'No, faint, Miss May. 1tcome from
de stO'.''
Her mistake had been an unconscious
one, but even such were not allowed to
pass by this merciless champion of
truth.
Jeunce is the comfort of her house
now, and his punctilious accuracy may
always be relied on. Miss Mary could
probably give him message to deliver
in foreign language, with successful
results. Certainly he said "early
specimen of repousse' as well as you or
l could have done it.-Julia Magruder,
in Youths Companion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
ASPHALT OF ANCIENT TIMES.
Used by Egyptians Thirty Centuries Ago
How 1t Evolves.

Used by Egyptians Thirty Centuries Ago
How 1t Evolves.
This stuff called asphalt with which
the streets arc paved is very curious"
said scientist recently. sit was used
in very ancient times. Egyptian build
ings more than thirty centuries old are
serted that it was employed in the con-
struction of the tower of Babel One
ingenious crank named DEyrinis wrote
an elaborate essay one hundred and
fifty years ago attempting to prove
that Noah's ark was coated with
asphalt to make it waterproof. The
asphalt which covers the avenues of
this city to-day was formed millions of
years ago by the decomposition of veg
etable matter beneath the surface of
the earth. In the carboniferous epoch
there were conditions of warmth and
moisture which produced a luxuriance
of vegetation. Plants, gigantic ferns
being most common, grew at an aston
ishing rate, their decay being followed
by generation after generation of their
successors. Thus were formed vast
beds of decomposed material. which be-
came variously metamorphosed by
chemical processes. According to the
conditions governing they were trans
formed into deposits of coal, petroleum
or bitumen, the last being what we call
asphalt. Probably the vegetable beds
which were changed into bitumen were
laid down in the bottoms of rivers and
lakes, where they were covered up by
sand or clay and underwent the process
Of decomposition while moistened by
water, but without contact with air.
One spot where this occurred was in
the neighborhood of the Dead sea,
whence formerly great quantities of
asphalt were obtained. Very little is
got from there now, the most impor-
tant source of supply in the world be-
ing a wonderful lake in Trinidad.
Asphalt is often found combined with
limestone-a very curious mixture of
the vegetable and the mineral. 1t is
believed that this has been brought
about by hot vapors from decomposing
vegetable beds passing through the
porous rock and leaving the bisumen
behind "-Washington Star.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
Accurately Gauged.

Customer-That "boy's tool chest I
bought of you was a. fraud. The tools
didn't last week.
Dealer-Eh? You must have been
using them yourself?
''Of course" -.t
''T;lose tools were intended for boys,
not men. They would have lasted your
boy d year at least" go.
Huh! / handled them more care
fully than a boy would" g.. ~. -
''No doubt. But you used them a
week. A boy would have tired of
them in two days and f."-Gooo
News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
Rrhrnud GazrM.
5 JAMES AIKEN, Publisher.
REDWOOD FALLS. - = MINI.
THE OL-EASHlONED WAY.


You kin talk about yore anthems, 3
An yore airiss an SIGH,
An yore modern choir singin
That you think so awful rich; $500
But you orter heerd us youngsters,
In the times now far away,
A-singin o the OF tunes,
In the oil fashioned way.
There was some of us sung treble,
An few OF us sung bass,
An the tide o song flowed smoothly,
With its comp nimcnt o grace.
There was spirit in the music
An akinder- solemn sway,
In singin' o the OIL tunes
In the ol-fashioned way.
The gals would lead the singh.
An the boys would all jinc in,
I'LL the volume OF their voices
Battered down the walls o sin,
An ust to tell the preacher
Twas as good to sing as pray,
When the people sang the Oh tunes
In the ol-fashioned way.
! remember OFT o. standin
In my homespun pantaloons-
On my face, the bronze an freclilcs
OF the suns O youthful Junes-
Thinkin' that no atrthly singer
Ever chanted SIGH "a lay
As the OF tunes we was singin'
In the oN-faShioned way.
How long again to hear EN-
Flown forth from soul to SoulI r,
With the treble high an meller,
An the bass smighty roll;
But the times is very diT'rcnt,
An the music heerd to-day,
Amt the singin' O. the oil tunes
In the Of fashioned way
Little screechin' by woman,
Little rumblin' by man;
Then the organ tweedle, twaddle,
Jest the empty space to span;
An eff you should ever think it
'Tisn't proper fur to say
That you want to hear the oil tunes
In the Of fashioned way.
But think that some bright mornin'
When the tolls of life are DER
An the sun of heav'n ariSin'
Glads with light the happy shore,
l shall hear the angel chorus
In the realms of endless day
a singin' o the OIL tunes
In the l'fashioned, way.
Paul L.eDunbar, in Chicago News
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
A Puzzlinr Ouestion.

Frances -four years old) Mamma.
Mamma-Why is it, dear? -.
"You never saw me before was born,
did you. ..
''No, Love" - ..-...s
'"Then how did you know it was me?"
Brooklyn Life. r.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
A SalubriOus State.

us this a healthy portion of the
''Well, should say it is. There has
been nobody hung about here in three
months. Texas SiftingA
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
AN ESSAY ON CATS,
The Small Boy Makes Some Interesting
Observations.

''-'.AA
Observations.
A small boy in one of the Detroit
schools recently handed in this compo-
sition on cats: "Cats have four legs and
nine lives. Why they are five legs
short don't kno at this time CESS I
can find out tho when 1 die. l think
cats wood be gould deel funnyer if
they had nine legs and five lives, don't
you?i Cats have tales which they rap
round thare feat when they set down
so as to hold them together. kno a
bob-taled cat that is ashamed to set
down in public tall. 1 CESS it is
afrade its feat will SKATER. Thare are
Tom cats and Puss cats, which the Tom
cat is more massive and has a more
sounding voice, in the midnight
darkly when all elts is still.
Cats cries like babies sometime,
but you cannot Civ them parrygorick to
quiet thare nervus sistems like you can
babies We have a baby at our house
that 1 CESS has drinked about foar
quarts of parryg orick and every mite it
cries just the ssame~ for more l CESS
that baby must hav the parrygorick
habit. Young cats are very frisky
and they will play all day because they
don't hav no .skool to go to. gessI
would like to be a young cat till was
growed up to be a man: Cats eat milk
and mice regular and the canary for
dezart. Cats are very clean animals,
but meyer thought it was very clean
to spit on their hands and wash thare
faces in the manner in.,whlch they do.
l guess l have wrote all I kno about
cats. p Seats has lectrisity in thare
backs and they can BIO up thare tales
asshiss as a fiji brush when they ire
froshus."-Detroit Free Press. ? J
=. Qualities AttrIbnteth to the Topaz.
~fhe name of tn, precious, stone in
serted in the ring Of Gyges has not
been preserved, but it is probable that
it was the topaz, whose wonders Phil
ostrates fscohnssl ina. the life of APP
ollonins, The, .ancients called it the
goid 0h,agnet,n ana st was accredited
with the power of j 4 attracting that
metal. indicating auriferous veins and
discovering treasures. Heliodorus, in
his story of Thesgenes and Charicles,
says that the topaz saves from fire all
who wear it, and that 'Charicles was
preserved by topaz from the fiery
vengeance Of Arsaces, queen. of Eth
opia. The topaz now is supposed to
symbolic the virtues faith, justice,
temperance, genNeness and clemency.
Jewellers Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04

Canned goods-Try the Sun Brand
Peaches, Cherries, Pears and
other fruits and Tomatoes, Corn
and vegetables and meats in
variety.
A nice lot of French cream candies
inst received.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04

Garden Seeds, fresh and sure to
grow.
Fruits-Fresh Bananas, Oranges.
Lemons Dates, and Apples.
observation-disclosures, Potatoes Cab.
bage, Squashes etc.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04

Kenedy's Biscuit in fresh packages.
Nice Sugar cured Hams and Dried
Beef, Pork and Beans, etc.
Salt fish of all kinds, from the best
packers.
Cofees-Try our Prime Mocha.
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y
that money, and every time you say you
didn't you tell wicked lie. Now tell
me at once, what did you do with it?
Tell me this minute-do you hear?''
"l-I-put it out in de barn." said
Jeunce, timidly, at last.
Then come and show me where it
is" said Miss Mary, rising.
The little culprit followed her, and
they walked in silence to the barn; and
when they entered it Miss Mary
ordered him to get the money. He be-
gan to search for it understheshay, but
after quite a long time looked up and
said 2 "a q g = y >avas 81
Miss May, forgot l put it in the
greenhouse. 1900
Very WELL" said Miss Mary; ''take
me there and get it for me-"
In the greenhouse the same thing
happened-a longsand fruitlessz search.
"Jeunce," said Miss Mary, you have
not told me the truth yet. i can't have
child that lies and steals insmy house.
l must send you away" e.
A pitiful look came into Jeunce's face,
and he said, timidly: IN ss May, love
you" So i I swE
This was too much for Miss Mary.
She feared that in spite of herself she
would soften, apdthe child,s persistent
denial was SO bold and obstinate that
she determined to be firm.
II will give you: one more chance. u
said Miss Mary, land if you don't tell
me this time will have to whip you u
The child came SO close to her that
he could whisper in her ear, and in a
frightened voice said:
Its in the parlor."
Miss Mary thought she had gotat the
heart Of, the thing at last, and led the
way quickly back to the house. But
here the same experience was enacted.
The search was fruitless.
''Go up into my room, Jeunce, and
take off your jacket" she said. II will
come in a few minutes"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-06
APIea for Pardon.

Jake Johnson of this city has received a
letter from John Wesley Hardin, who has
been in the penitentiary for fourteen years,
serving. 4 twenty-five years term, in which
was petition addressed to Governor Hogg
asking that Hardin be pardoned. The letter
preferred the request that Mr.. johnson
would interest himself in getting the sig
natures of influential business men to the
petition, and promise if the prisoner was
released and permitted to return to his
family, from which he had been separated
so long, that he would so long as he lived
lead an upright and honorable life. MIR.
johnson at once took the petition in hand
and in q short time had the signatures of
Judge r, Z. Beckham, Judge Harris,
County Attorney Gillespie, County Clesk,
King, District Clerk Taylor, Sheriff Ridk
ardson, Capt NJ. B. Lloyd, Col William
Harrison, Capt. E. B. Harold and long
list of heleading citizens.
Petitions similar to this one are II
circulation in different cities, and hey
will be presented to Governor Hogg about
the 18th of the present month. Hardin
was convicted in one of the lower counties,
having been captured in Florida, after a
long hunt by detectives. lie was indicted
for murder and other crimes, all of them
growing out of a deadly feud existing be-
tween two factions in South Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-06
She viii Be Kept at Home.

For weeks and months past there has
been almost daily seen upon the streets of
Fort Worth, begging from passers-by a
crippled girl, being so deformed as to neces-
state walking on her knees, and of course
this mode of locomotiou was difficult, dan
gerous and slow, especially dangerous at
street crossings, and almost daily narrow
escapes from instant death have been wit
messed caused by her bold efforts to cross
in e olt OF some rapidly moving vehicle-or
eve6 street car. The girl, or woman. for
she las Z husband somewhere. has been
repeatedly warned TO remain in one place if
she was compelled to beg, or else she would
be compelled to so to the poor farm. where
she could be cared for, or to remain at
home, out to these warnings she paid but
little heed. Yesterday Sheriff Richardson
and Officer Peyton Maddox went before
sGsstsity Judge Harris and reported the case,
and the judge ordered that the girls mother
be notified to keep her of the street, and
that if she was unable to care for her prop
erly the county would do so. Armed with
this authority Officer Maddox aud 4 GA
zETTE reporter visited the mothers resi-
dence IN the eastern portion of the city, and
acquainted her with the facts. The mother
Mrs. Mary Stone, replied that she would
prefer keeping her daughter at home, and
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-06
THE COURTS.
An Epitome OF the business Dispatched by
the Tribunals of Tsr-ant County.

An Epitome OF the business Dispatched by
the Tribunals of Tarrant County.
FoRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT CoURT-HoN. N. A.
sTEDSiAN, JUDGE.
Lyman Dana vs.. J. W. House, plaintiffs
motion for a new trial overruled, to which
he excerpts and gives notice of appeal.
CLIO. Merchants National Bank vs. Bate
man Bros. Defendant T. Z. Ross motion
for new trial overruled. to which he ex-
cepts and gives notice OF appeal.
1886. j. B. Brown VS.. j. G. Brown, re-
ceiver. plaintiff recovered 81 IL the orig
inal trial and being dissatisfied with the
verdict moved for "a new trial, which was
denied by the court, plaintiff excepted and
gave notice ofappeal.
ASH. j. d. Beauchamp VS.. Fort Worth
and New Orleans Railway Co.; plaintiffs
motion for a new trial overruled, to which
he excepted and gave notice of appeal.
$3.50. Chas. Martin Us. J. Is. Watkins ct
al; DEFENDANTS motion for new trial
granted.
The jury in the case of Ledbetter VS..
Page, suit for defamation of character, re-
turned verdict of 81 for the plaintiff I'm
der our statute regulating the costs in suits
of that character each party will be obliged
to pay his own incurred in the course of
the litigation.
SUITS FILED.
E. Happy ct al. VS.. Fort Worth Light and
rover company. sui IUf ududSSS 10
plaintiffs property situated on Ash street,
by reason of the proximity of defendants
side-tracl, which is alleged to cut off means
of ingress and egress 20 and from the prem
ises Plaintiff asks for $1,000.
SEVENTEENTH DESTRUCTION. r. E. BECK
HAM, JUDGE.
613+ A. a. Green, Jr., vs.. o. NJ. Towner
ct al, dismissed as to defendant, Towner;
Judgment for plaintiff against j. A. Evans
for Sl064 90.
6732. A. a. Green. Jr, vs.. j. A. Evans,
judgment for plaintiff for $71S.17.
6747. B. c.. Wells vs.. Henry Weille s. Co.,
ct al, injunction suit, dismissed by plaintiff
at cost of plaintiff.
COUNTY CoURT-HoN. W D. HARRIS, JUDGE.
II. II. Butler VS.. Fort Worth and Denver
Railway Company, suit for $1,000 Tor dam
age to property; jury awarded plaintiff
$500.
The case of Champion & Standicter VS..
a. j. Anderson, suit on account, was I'M
finished when court adjourned.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-06
DUN'S REPORT.
ON THE WHOLE, BUSINESS is
SOME BETTER.
The Low Price of Cotton is the Only Bad
FeRture in the South-Money
is Plentiful

New YORK Feb. 5.-R G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review Of Trade viii tomorrow
say: In spite of much dpllneS and COM
plant in some important branches. trade is
gradually charging. The East does not get
the full benefit because Western business
is largely met by Western distributing
ceuteTS, and that alone IS increasing heavily.
Southern trade, which is largely met by
distribution from the East, is usually dull:
but The West Is steadily increasing orders
for manufactured products, and will likely
buy more largely in five months than ever
before
Eastern consumption is also fairly up to
the maximum as labor is well employed
The strincency at the South owing to over
production in cotton and hurtfui specula-
tion IN the past is at present the only force
retarding general improvement. Exports
OF merchandise continue TO greatly exceed
last wear for the five months, at New York
about IS per cent, while in the value of i'm
ports the increase is very slight Reports
Of business from cities are 4 shade more
favorable. There is IN abundance of money
and tendency of prices is lower.
Wheat fell to 99asc here. but recovered
over lie. ard after sales Of 80, 000, 600 bushels
IS 1c lower than = week ago. Corn closed
only sc higher after sales of 1900, GOO
bushels, and oats &c higher, but at port
products are a shade lower. Cotton Lice
lower for spot, and February sold below &c
Receipts continue enormous. Oil has fallen
&c, but coffee IS 4 fraction stronger. In
lead trade is moderate, and tin is IN
changed. Silver has fallen to about the
lowest price ever quoted, Il. SOD per ounce,
recovering slightly to 4L62d. Coal is ex-
ceedingly duh.
The boot and shoe business is getting
better with more orders but in some cases
prices are shaded little. More activity is
seen IN dry goods and large number OF
Western buyers are doing fair business.
The demand for spring goods is growing
but ciothiers are stirl in the dark Cottons
are affected by poor Southern trade but
prices on some prints and sheetings have
been advanced, and orders for knit goods
are fully as large as year ago.
Business failures throughout the country
during the last seven days number 3l9
compared with 297 last week For the
corresponding week last year the figures
were S06.