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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23

Cling outskirts CT q city, the smoke OF
mills, the gleam Of the Platte river, and
a network Of iron rails, bright and
shining, as the train ran shrieking into
the labyrinth of its destination.
"This is Denver, and I'll look out for
you as we'll as l cam" the lad said to
her.
II won't be no BURDEN" she said,
brightly. II have twenty dollars yet,
and that's sight of money"
The train halted to let the eastward
bound express pass; there was an air
of excitement in the car, passengers
getting ready to depart, gathering up
luggage and wraps and some watching
the newcomers and the rows of strange
faces on the outward bound train:
The door of the car slammed sudden
ly, and big-bearded man, with eager
blue eyes, came down the aisle, look
ing sharply from right to left. He had
left Denver on the express to meet this
train. His glance fell on the tiny black
figure.
"Why, Aunt Hannahy he cried, with
a break in his voice.
She put out her trembling hands and
fell into the big arms, tears streaming
down the wrinkled face:
Il knowed Providence would let me
find you, SAM" she said, brokenly, and
no one smiled when the big man sat
down beside her and with gentle hand
wiped her tears away.
why, I've sent John twenty dollars
| a month fo,. Eya ro f~,. IA
angrily. as she told him why she ran
away, land he said you couldn't write
for you had stroke and was helpless,
and I've written to you often and sent
you money. It's hard for than to call
his own brother villain"
I'VE won't, SAM" she said, gently.
| We'll just forglt it. And won't be
burden to We fur l kin work yit, and
fur years to come.''
"Worlz, indeed! Don't I owe you
everything? And my wife has longed
for you to come. There are so few dear
old aunts in this country, they're
priced, tell you. Why, it is as good as
royal coat of arms to have dear,
handsome old woman like you for re-
| lation."
Then he found out who sent the tele-
gram and paid the lad, who blushed
like girl and did not want to take it.
81 suppose you want a job said the
big man. well, l can give you one.
I'm in the food commission business,
Give you something light. Lots of your
sort, poor lad, out here. All the refer
ence l want is that little act of kind
ness to Aunt Hannah. Here's the
depot, Aunt Hannah, and you won't see
the bears and tnjuns and buffaloes you
were talking about, but the prettiest
and sunniest city you ever set your dear
eyes on
He picked up the carpet-bag, faded
and old-fashioned, not bit ashamed of
| it, though it looked as if Noah might
have carried it into the ark.
They said good-by, and the last seen
of her was her happy old face beaming
from a carriage window as she rolled
away to what all knew would be a
happy home for the rest of her life
Farm and Fireside.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Snake Rattles.

An erroneous idea in regard to rattle
snakes is that the rattles indicate the
age of the snake. The rattles, however,
are not increased from the end as is
commonly supposed, but new one is
formed at the base of the others every
time the snake sheds it's skin, as it does
several times year. These rattles are
constantly being broken and knocked
off in fighting, travelling, or even in
rafting, and when greatly enraged the
rattles have tendency to wear out and
the end one drops off, according to the
frequency with which they are used.
Sometimes comparatively small snake
will have from fifteen to eighteen rat
ties, and six or seven foot rattlesnake
will have only four or five. With all
their ferocity and viciousness these
snakes have as much individuality as
human beings, and while some of them
are constantly rafting and threaten
ing, others are comparatively quiet.
In confinement rattlesnases lose their
rsttles rapidly, many having the num-
Der of their rattles reduced to three o.
four.--N. Y. Times
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
VALUED MEMENTOES.
Reminders of the Craft of Honored An
cestOrs.

Reminders of the Craft of HOnOred An
cestors.
The stranger in Ant3erp, wandering
through the narrow, crooked lanes of
the old quarter, will suddenly find him
self in little open square--the Place
du Vendredi' It Is paved with rough
cobblestones and heaped with old fur
niture, beside which white-capped jew
ish women sit crying their wares. One
side of the square is shut in by mas
sive building of stone, whose grave and
stately presence contracts oddly with
the squalor and noise below. This is
the Haus Plantin- Moretus, which is
preserved as a specimen of the dwell
ing and workshop of great Flemish
craftsman nearly four centuries ago.
Christopher Plantin and afterward his
son-in-law Johann Moretus acquired
great wealth and fame as printers, and
held foremost place among the proud
burghers of Antwerp. Their descend.
ants have kept the house just as they
left it. 1t is built like French pail
ace, around the four sides of au old gar
den in which even the tulips take on
somber shades. A vine planted by
Moretus covers the walls and quaint
stone stairways. Here, too, are an
cient carved settees of oak in which
the old burgher sat when the day S
work was done.
Inside are great shops, with the presses
and type in the cases as the journey
men laid them down three centuries
ago. Here are specimens of the famous
books printed by Moretus; piles of
books upon the shelves ready for sale,
while those who bought and those who
sold them have been dust for centu-
ries. The apartments of the family are
unchanged. Portraits hang upon the
walls. One grows familiar with the
stout, stern old Water Plantin and his
prim wife, and his daughter, Frau Mar
tina Moretus, with her sly, coquettis h
face. Here is the very table at which
they ate in the stately banqueting hail.
hung with priceless Spanish leather.
The old workman surrounded himself
with a grave, solid splendor. Even his
narrow bed is draped with tapestry
fit for king; but his leather apron
hangs beside the diplomas given him by
sovereigns.
Here is a lesson which the American
who runs may read He may be as rich
as this great family, but what has he
done with his carpenter or blacksmith
ancestors? Does he keep their leather
aprons, or any records of the honest
labor which earned his wealth? Or
does he parade some mythical count or
baron in place of the Woodworking
grandfather whom he has hidden out of
sight?-Youth's Companion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
HOW WOMEN SPOIL 1T,
Your Brilliant Conversation Marred by
Their previousuoss

AouH SohScEsdtlOh NldFFeu ny
Their nervousness"
One of the meanest of converse tional
tricks is a favorite one with women. A
fellow has something real nice and clever
to say; he is rounding up nicely to it,
when some chit of woman takes a
gasp and says: ''Oh, yes! l know what
you mean," and by lingo, says it. OF
course she gets all the credit. do hate
a woman like that. She is the kind Of
woman who says: "Ah, yes!" and then
goes off into poetic illustration of the
fact you have ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
nice and dreamy that she never could
have said by herself. 1 hate that sort
of woman, making herself seem so
clever and bright and poetic and all
that from your brains.
She laughs before you have got your
funny story out, and says: Eyes, isn't
it funny?" 1t makes it so easy for you
to go on, that does. Actually. some
times she will finish it for you. That is
the kind of woman hate, too She is
always coming in with Eyes, but, -
and upsetting what you have said, or
else hauling out another side of it that
you didn't mean to have brought up.
1 hate women like that. I say let wom-
en- learn to cook and sew frills, not
talk like idiots.
There is another woman must not
forget to mention. She has genius for
just one thing. She will dislocate any
conversation by coming in with some
insane, irrelevant speech that leaves
you sprawling. Your ideas will be sail
ing beautifully and she will make re-
mark that settles dead calm. Every
body will be with you, and in she will
put her word, and the whole thing is
gone to pieces. Oh. hate women like
that, aud there are SO many Of them
Washington Post;
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
THE RUNAWAY.
How Aunt Hannah Sought and
Found Peace.

Would they put her in the asylum"
she wondered, ''if they caught ber?'
Folks would surely think she was crazy
and looked back timorously at the old
familiarsccne Far behind her stretched
the meadow, a symphony Of olive and
green in the late fall Here and there
by sunken bowlder stood Soldierly
goldenrod, or berry bushes clothed now
in scarlet and gold. At intervals in the
long slope stood solitary trees, where
futtering brittle leaves fell in the gen
tie chill air. In summer time she re-
membered we'll the haymakers in the
shade, and the jug with ginger water
she made for the men was kept there
to be cool.
She seemed, as she sat there, to re-
member everything. The house was
all right, she was sure of that; the KEY
was under the kitchen doormat, the
fire was out in tho stove and the cat
locked in the barn.
She held her work-hardened palm to
her side, painting little, for it was a
good bit of walk across the meadow,
and she was eighty years old on her
last birthday. The cows feeding looked
homelike and pleasant.
'Good-by, Critters" she said, aloud;
''many's the time I've druv' We home
an MIXED We, an allus let we eat by
the way, nor never hurried we as the
boys done"
With a farewell glance she went on
again, smoothing as she walked the
scattered locks of gray hair falling un-
der the pumpkin hood, and keeping her
scant black gown out of reach of briers.
Across another field. then on through a
leafy lane where the wood was hauled
in winter, there through a gap in a
stump fence, with its great, branching
arms like a petrified octopus, to the
dusty higrroad.
Not soul in sight in the coming twi-
light. John, the children and the
scolding wife who made her so unhap-
Ply, would not be home for an hour yet,
for it was long drive to East Mills.
Down the steep hill went the brave
little figure, followed by an odd shadow
of itself in the waning light, aud by
tiny stones that rolled so swiftly they
passed her often, and made her look be-
hind with start to see if pursuer
was coming.
They'd put me in an asylum, sure, :"
she murmured wildly, as she trudged
along.
At the foot of the hill she sat down
upon an old log and waited for the
train. Across the road, guarded by a
big sign: Look out for the engine"
ran two parallel iron rails. that were to
be her road when the big monster
should come painting around the curve.
At last the dull rumble sounded. a
shrill whistle. and she hurried to the
track, waving her shawl to signal
This, in the conductors vernac ular,
was a crossroads station, where he
was used to watch for people waving
articles frantically. The train stopped
and this passenger was helped aboard.
He noticed she was a bright-eyed old
lady, very neat and precise.
"How fur?" he asked.
"Bostn.''
"Git there in the mornin," he said,
standing waiting for the money, as she
opened quee. little reticule where,
wrapped in clean cotton handker-
chief, under her knitting, was her
purse with her savings Of long years
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Sensible Idea.

A Manhattan avenue lady said to her
little daughter:
"This is your grandfather's birthday,
Mamie. You must pray that he will
live to an old age"
mo. ma, he is old enough already
I'll just pray for him TO grow younger
instead of older. "-Texas Siftings.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23

We must not only look ahead but w
must 60 ahead.
The man who loves only the faultless
Is Usually stuck on himself
We forget all about the beauty and
fragrance of the rose when we find
q bee In It.
Death and time end where eternity
begins.
Happiness is only possibility.
A smile Is the same in all languages.
Some men act without thinking; more
think without acting.
Satan keeps his Office open day and
night.
1t is difficult sometimes to determine
between broken heart and torpid
liver.-Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
The Point of View.

Patient-The examination seems to
have delighted you, doctor. judge
from your happy countenance that you
can save my life.
DR.. Sawbones-I cannot promise you
that; but we must perform a number OF
most interesting operations on you.
Puck
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Growing Misfortune.

Excited 1ndividual-Officcr, I've been
robbed. ] left paper parcel, contain
ing FIVE poems, on that seat, and now
it's gone!
Oficer-Well, you can write 'em over
ag'in, can't you?
Excited Individual-Yes; but there
was sandwich in the parcel too.-Puck.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
AN EVERLASTING PROBLEM.
Something to Look Forward To

Willie-That was an awfully funny
story you told pa the other night in the
library. | stood outside the door an
almost split myself laughing.
The Colonel-You young rascal you
had no right to listen. You didn't re-
peat that story, did you?
Willie-You'll just find out when you
see mOther.-Judge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Fine RecOrd.

What kind of wines come from Cali
fornia these days?"
THE best French imported; splendid
Rhine wines and case after case of To-
kay from the Austrian emperors own
cellar. California is great state."-
Jury,
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ton Star.
There's nothing without work. you know
Thus spoke the seedy prowler
50 rise prythee, and we'll go
And gaiy work the growler:'
Washington Star
AT the Funcral.-Firat Friend
Eyes, DR. Pellet told him he must take
a rest, but Dick kept right on.' Sec
ond Friend-"But the doctor had his
way, after all. He was correct in his
diagnosis. Boston Transcript.
FROM Washerwoman's Standpoint
Mrs. Con Fiding-"Thesea are my new
diamonds, Bridget. They are blue and
of the first water" Bridget Launderry
-"Shure, mum, who ever heard of blue
in the first water?'-Jeweler's Weekly.
"A Sudden Suspicion.-''Thats a
fine looking dog of yours "You bet!
He's II full-blooded English fox-hound.
/ wouldn't take two hundred-two hun
dred-1 wouldn't take two hundred
cents for him. You the assessor?'-
Chicago Tribune.
Mamma experimenting three-year-
old son, who is tlagrantly disregarding
table etiquette) - IF we were at
another's table should be so ashamed
of you l would not know where to hide
my head" Young Diogenes mot at all
abashed)-"You could put it under the
table. "-Harper's Bazaar.
An Old Fogy Saw-Mill.-"I was
just stopping to see your modus operan-
d. explained the visitor in the saw
mill. eve amt got any," apologized
the sawyer. 1--WE been tryin' to git
the boss to interduce some of the new
tangled inventions, but he says the old
fashioned way is good enough for him."
Detroit Free Press.
"A Matter of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tin boat)-''How many times have
you been overflowed here and lost all
your fences and crops and live stock?"
Mississippi Flood Sufferer ION the roof
Il think this is erbout the 'leventh
time" Then why don't you move
back to the hills?" Move? Thunder'n
lightnin'! That'd cost me mighty nigh
six dollars. Got any tobacker?'-
cago Tribune.
Recognized the Likeness.-Mary,
the nurse girl, comes in from a walk in
the park, carrying the pride of the
family, young gentleman whose age
amounts to some fourteen months.
ooh, ma'am, little George spoke this
afternoon for the first time!' Really!
What did he say?' ''Why, when l was
showing him the animals he made me
stop before the cage of monkeys, and
clapping his little hands several times,
he called out: oh, papa, papa!'"-N.
Y. Herald.
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Cremation Item.

"Your teacher says you are the wor St
boy in the school," said widow, whose
husband had been cremated, to her son
Eyes. ma. know | am a bad boy"
''If your father knew how you are so
misbehaving yourself he would kick the
dust up in his urn."-Texas Siftings.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Freezing Out q Count.

The Count-She ees VARY deestant to
me NOW. nevair go to Eat house, all
because of make very small mees-
take. would say her daughter was a
turtle dove, and I get re wrong word
and call her squab.-Life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Sad stare of ThinRs.

Mrs. O'Rafferty-And how Is Pathrick
this morning, Mrs. Doolihan?
Mrs. Doolihan-He is no better. He
is laid up wild the rumatics. Whin he
goes to Shape he lays awake all night,
and his toes are swelled up as big as a
goose egg, so when he stands up he falls
down Neutrality-suspicious. Siftings.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Store Teeth.

'Be you the dentist man?"
Eyes, sir. What can do for you?"
"Waal, | want tew git pair O teeth
They're all the style out our way"
''Sit down, sir. and I'll take the i'm.
preston of your mouth.
"Ohl you needn't bother measurin'.
Jest pick out pretty good-sized pair.
They hain't fer me, anyhow; they're fer
mOther."-Judge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Sure Thinp.

Bob Taylor-Do you want to know
how to win at horse racing2
Jack Potter-Certainly!
Bob Taylor-Play the horses that
don't-Puck
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
The Proper Caper

"How prudishly Rose keeps her feet
hidden"
"Why not? They should be kept sub
sa."-Life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Don't Mind 1t.

Mistress-Jane, Willie informs me
that you kissed my husband yesterday
Jane-Oh, that's all right ma'am-
I've got used to it now.-Brooklyn Life
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Stern Test,

Mrs Feathers-You think ! paid too
high for that bonnet? Why. it's worth
every cent of thirty dollars!
Feathers-Humph! Take it to pawn
shop and see-PDck.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Fun Enough.

II want to 60 to the funeral Of the
little girl across the street," said little
Molly Fizzletop to her mother.
mo, no, my child" replied Mrs. Fig
zletop "You were at a matinee yester-
day afternoon; last night you were at
concert, and you are going to a chill
dren's party tonight. That is enough
amusement for little girl of twelve
years of age. "-Texas Siftings.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
A Sudden SUSPICION.

'That's fine looking dog of yours. ="
"You bet! He's full-blooded Eng.
lish foxhound. wouldn't take 900
900 wouldn't take 200 cents for him
You the assessor?'-ChicagoT Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23

Th60f1e1 %. C0nd1tI0n1s
Little Jack-Grown folks don't know
everything.
Mother-What's the matter now?
Didn't you Say cigarettes stopped
boys from CROWN, an injured their
nervous systems, an gave 'em heart dis
ease, an dyspepsia, an kidney trouble,
an flabby muscles, an weak back. an
everything?"
Eyes, did, and It's so, too"
"Well, Jimmy McMuggs has been
smokin' cigarettes an cigar stumps an
ole pipes, and chewin' besides. ever
since he was q baby, an to-day re-
membered wot you said shout tobacco
maxim boys weak, and 80 sassed him
an he licked mcleod News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Honesty the Best Policy.

II was robbed last night" said Job
son. Some fellow stole my pocket
book, and really feel sorry for him."
Sorry for him! Why3"
Because he will End himself so deep.
" in debt. boston Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
Asking q Loar

Tramp-Is dis de American Loan an,
Trust Company
Clerk-Yes, sir.
Tramp-Well, I'm an American, an
wish you would loan me fifteen cents
fer about two weeks. I want t. make
payment on bone around tn corner.
Judge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
The Way They Take It.

"Why do you keep the butcher knife
by the side of the water cooler?" asked
a man who was making his first visit tc
Cincinnati of the hotel clerk.
ITO cut the water into slices, sir, v
replied the clerk, with some surprise
Life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23

Laura had to part with my chap
eron, I'm sorry to say.
Flora-Why, dear?
my latest-ah-conquest used to be
her husband. detroit Free Press
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The Fibs of Filtration.

To tell woman you love her without
doing SO. and then to love her without
telling her SO, is the Alpha and Omega
of flirtation.-Once Week.
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Coincidence.

Sunday School Teacher-What is the
conscience?
Bright Boy-It's wot makes you sor-
ry. wen you get found out.-Good
News.
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Half Fare and No Fare.

stranger-l would like to take trip
to Blankville, if
Railroad Oficial-Yes, sir. Clergy.
man, presume. Will give you an
order for a ticket at half fare with
pleasure. We delight to aid the mes.
sengers of the Lord.
Stranger-I am not clergyman.
am member of the state legislature.
Railroad Oficial-Oh! You shall have
a pass, sir.-Puck.
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EXPLAINED at Last.

Teacher-Can anybody tell me why
the multiplication table stops with
twelve?
Son of Superstitious Parent-'Cause
ma says it's unlucky to have thirteen at
table.-Harper's Young People.
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Productive Of Heat.

Glanders-It is said that paper can be
used effectively in keeping a person
warm.
Gazlay-That is very true. I remem-
Der a thirty-day note of mine once kept
me in a sweat for a month.-Jury.
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Consolation

Banks, am suffering the tortures Of
purgatory."
'What's the matter, Rivers?"
'Neuralgia. I'm nearly dead with
It. And tomorrow we move into q
North side fat"
Going to move, are you3 Have you
ever moved beforeT'
Never"
II have. You'll forget all about your
neuralgia, Rivers" -Chicago Tribune.
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A Mystery.

He lat 11:45 p. MIL call on some
young lady every evening.
She (yawning)-Do You? When dc
you sleep-in the daytims7-Brooklyr
Lite.
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Experientia Docet.

Mamma sent me TO get hair brush. "
''What sort of hair brush do you
want2"
II want one with soft back. Life.
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ISeason Enough,

McCorkle-Why do you ask $1,000 for
your house?
McCrackle-H because ! want to get
81, 900 for it.-Detroit Free Press
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After He Had Tumbled.

THAT was a cruel fling" remarked
the novice to his wheel as he recovered
from an unexpected bath in ditch
Chicago Bearings.
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No SfYla About Her

Marguerite-Why did you drop Carrie
Gasket's acquaintance
Mae-Oh, she's too utterly old-fash.
toned. She won't spell her name Gar
olvn,"-Truth.
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An Artist with Horse Sense,

Friend-What on earth are you doing
to that picture?
Great Artist am rubbing a piece OF
raw meat over this rabbit in the fore
ground. Mrs. De Shoddie will be here
this afternoon, and when she sees her
pet dog smell OF that rabbit she'll buy
tn, Y. Weekly.
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A New Hawkshaw.

First Detective-How did you dis
cover that English defaulter's IDENTIFY
Second Detective-l got off a pun and
he was the only man in the crowd who
laughed at it.-Puck.