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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
FARMERS INSURANCE.

Pursuant to call the annual meeting
of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insur-
ance company, Of the town Of Vail,
was held in the opera house, Redwood
Falls, Saturday, Nov. 25th, with fair
representation present.
The meeting was called to order by
President Lankard, who briefly out
lined the work for the year. Remarks
touching upon the early history of the
company and the advantages derived
therefrom were made by j. N. Jones,
T. L. Gilbert and others.
On motion the following report was
submitted and adopted:
Policies in force at beg of yr. ZIG s.0l..2l co
Policies issued during year, 68 5j.795 30
Policies cancelled during year, S.626 co
Policies in force at date, go 246, $50 on
Additions to policies during year 1854 %
Reductions TO policies during year 3.7V 20
Total amount insured up to date 251. 454 90
Reed for member ship during year So IS
Reed from assessment T9 63
Total receipts for the year 383 ~
Losses incurred dCring year. 208 457 33
Unpaid bills carried over from last yr "A 81
Losses paid during year 2s2 W
All other expenditures III y
Total expenditures 3H OF
Balance on hand " 81
After considerable discussion it was
voted that the company assume all
risks of fire caused by threshing en-
gines.
On motion it was agreed net to in
sure threshing machines hereafter.
On motion the Board of Directors
was authorized to elect two soliciting
agents at large for the county.
On motion the secretary was au-
thorized to procure a desk, not to ex-
coed $40.
On motion the following members
were elected directors for the ensuing
year: j. r. Lankard, T. L. Gilbert,
Thos. Barber, Thos. March, John
! Longbotton. Martin Bredvold and A.
D. Stewart.
On motion meeting adjourned sub
iect to call of secretary.
At the Directors meeting held i'm
mediatelv after adjournment of the
general meeting, the Board organized
by electing J. R. Lankard president;
A. D Stewart secretary, and T. D.
Barber treasurer.
A. D. STEWART, Secretary.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

The Vice Presidents Daughters.
Two of Vice President Stevenson's
daughters are at Wellesley college in
Massachusetts,. Miss Julia is Especial"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
ApM1RAI, c1TsTop1o DI MELLo.

ADMIRAL CUSTCDIO DI MELLO.
since Peixoto's agents bought new navy
at New York with which to engage the
insurgent feet at Rio Janeiro.
Mello is believed to favor the restora-
ton of monarchy in Brazil. He has
shelled Rio Janeiro on several occasions,
but his gunAers were poor marksmen,
and little damage was done.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
CALL AND SETTLE.

DARTIEs KNOWING THEMSELVES IN
= debted to me must cal ! and settle before
Dec LIST. have. large number Of small bills
on my books which will be placed In proper
hands at that time. G. w. VAUGHN 8tf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
New York,s Fine AQUARIUM.

What is hoped will some time prove
one of the finest aquariums in the world
is now being stocked with the wonders
of the deep in Castle Garden, New York.
The old fortress, an historic landmark,
serves for the inclosure. In the center
is a circular pool 40 feet in diameter,
where will be placed whale and dol
phin or two to keep him company.
Round about the central pool are six
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
1t Will PAY

You to call at Lefngwell's dental
Office and have your teeth fixed. I
make artificial teeth, best grade, for
So per set. All other work at reduced
prices. Every job is guaranteed to
give satisfaction or no pay.
T.. M. LEFF1NGwELL,
154t Redwood Falls, MINI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
LOANS.

N am prepared to make loans on decided
= property. Call and see me. C. W. Everett.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
BUREAU OF IMPORTATION.

0ALIFORNIA'S GREEN FRUIT CROP
- sent east on the 1892 crop brought S., O0O.
OOO. Ii you want to know how to raise fruit
there, address California Bureau of lnforma-
ton, Room l138 Guaranty Loan But ding,
Minneapolis, MINI. S-Ist
ds5,OoO, 900 WORTH OF CALIFORNIA FRUIT
% was sold east this year. II you want to
know where raised. and how to travel cheap
reau of Information, Room 1888 Guaranty
Loan Building, Minneapolis, Mimi. 8-I2t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

FOR SALE
or CORDS OF THE VERY BEST COTTON
o. wood wood for sale at my farm in
Flora, Renville county. first house west of
Delhi bridge. Will sell cheap. Henry Cook.
0UR COMPRESSED YEAST Is LIKED
~ wherever it is tried. Get it at Ackmann's.
T WILL EXCHANGE A LARGE COAL
i heater for small one or will sell cheap.
LIFT 1T. STEGNER.
DIGS FOR SALE. INQUIRE OF W.D.M MAR
Z tin, Redwood Falls, MINI. Stf
TOR SALE CHEAP FOR CASH OR WILL
= exchange for other stock, one thorough
bred Shropshire Ram: also, one high grade
Shropshire Ram. Call on or address VIM
Bros, Redwood Falls, Mimi
WOOD FOR SALE-ALL KINDS OF DRY
w cord wood, delivered in town or at
North Redwood. Prices low. Leave orders
with } M. Dunningron. ct 81. COssENrINE.
WANTED
YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. WHY
L work for low wages when in q few months
you can get thorough education in Teleora-
ply by practical teacher. and ON the lowest
terms apply personally or by letter to Gates
School of Telegraphy. No. 1909 Washington
Ave. South, Minneapolis. Yours truly
GATES SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

It is important, and to the interest Of the
holder Of any Of the above policies. to report
the same to the above address.
All OF the above, IL issued, were issued
without authority, and are OF no protection
to the holder.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
EIGHT MEN TO HANG.
The Big Gaiiows Erected at ehesfertoy,
MARYLAND

Inc Zig GaiiOWs Erected at Cfestertown
Maryland.
Preparations are being made at Ches-
tertoWn, Md, to execute the eight men
condemned for the murder DR.. J. IL.
Hill, OF Wilmington, In that State. The
execution is set for January IS. and it is
understood that Gov. Brown will not in.
terfere.
Tie gallows has already been erected
Tor one of the most wholesale baneings
known in the history of crime. The
galiows is twenty feet long and eight
feet wide. The main beam is six by
eight inches There are four traps four:
aud one-half feet each, and on each trap
two OF the men to be hanged will stand.
The lower part of the scaffold will be
entirely open. Besides the usual officials
the Sheriff says twenty spectators can
see the execution. The prisoners have
abandoned all hope of interference and
are preparing for death. They are seen
daily by colored clergymen, and Bishop
Wayman, of Baltimore, has visited them.
Charles Brooks, one of the condemned.
recently wrote to his sister asking her to
visit him before he went on the .excur.
sion. The prisoners appear to be un.
disturbed as the fatal day approaches.
several OF them still loudly protest their
innocence of the crime.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
ExToRTloN IN MOORISH COURTS.
No Mercy Shown To Prisoners Who Ar,
Not Supplied With Wealth.

40 Mercy Shown to- Prisoners Who Are
Not Supplied With Wealth.
The notion of suiting the punishment
to the crime, however it may have
found favor with the great medieval
sultans of Cordova. does not occur to
the Marcquine officials of to-day, says
a writer in the Nineteenth Century. A
Moorish law court is parody of all
that Europeans mean by justice.
Extortion is the main object of the
judges, and the contempt for suffering
is absolute. The rich may escape with
whole skins, but those without palm
OIL have scant mercy. For instance,
the mere accusation of paltry theft, if
made from some favored quarter, will
bring on the accused the ordinary pun
ishment for such conduct. This
consists. in breaking the ankle
bones and pitching the sufferer into
the nearest lake or ditch, whence his
relatives may or may not remove him.
As there are no surgeons and no medl-
cal appliances, the bones can not be
set, and reunite so as to leave the toes
turned inward directly facing each
other
At Tangier I have several times seen
one of these poor creatures possibly
quite innocent of the offense attributed
TO him-hobbling over the cobbled
alleys, while the passers-by nudged
each other and muttered, Thief. In
the prisons men and women, chained
together night and day, under every
circumstance of indescribable filth and
horror, wait until their friends, who
bring them all the feed they get, are
able or willing to offer bride sufficient
for their release. [ might go on with
many details, but want to merely in
dictate the one paramount fact of the
absence of all system, principle, order
or responsibility among the so-called
government officials who sell justice or
injustice in the name of Muley Hassan,
a1d who are sure to find favor In his
eyes SO long as they keep the CHI erifan
Golfers well filled
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
HOW PEOPLE USED TO LIVE.

| Small Wages and Low Prices Prevalent
During the Early Part of This Century.
Areport of the Department Of Agricul-
ture, comparing the cost of living early
| in this century with what it is now, ex-
| hibits wildly the contrast between the
poverty of primitive agriculture and
the progress in civilization and wealth
resulting from high development of all
The possibilities of land and labor in
rural and industrial arts and industries.
| The small wages paid in those days are
as surprising as the low prices of CON-
| modities of all sorts.
Game was abundant early in the GEN.
| !ury, and therefore cheap. Venison
cost only three and half cents a
pound. Bear meat was only slightly
| higher. Pigeons were in extraordinary
abundance, selling at little more than
cent apiece. Elderly readers will re-
member the flight of fiocks of pigeons
| which darkened the skies even as late
as fifty years ago. Shad were very
cheap, costing only four cents each.
Owing to the plentiful supply of game,
| tanned skins were low in price. A
deerskin fetched about one dollar and
seventeen cents, while a bearskin was
worth from one to two dollars. Milk
sold for two cents quart, and butter
for thirteen cents pound. Apples
were from twelve and half to twenty
five cents bushel, but by 1928 they
| had reached fifty cents.
Farm wages were only about one.
third of what they are now, ranging
from thirty three to fifty cents day.
i From four to five dollars a month was
the usual compensation of well-grown
lads. One hundred years ago, the re-
enumeration of boy for doing "chores, y
such as cutting wood and foddering
horses, for one year, was ordinarily
five dollars. The use of a pair of oxen
for day cost twenty five cents, while
| the use of COW for one year cost three
dollars. It cost fifty cents to make a
pair of shoes. The price of pair of
moccasons was twenty.seven cents.
Board was only one dollar week.
That was the day of individual and
isolated effort, antedating the era of ag-
| gregation in factories, classification and
division of labor, and invention of la.
bor-saving processes and appliances.
Prices of farm products fuctuated
greatly, according to local scarcity,
which could not be mitigated by distri-
button from regions ofplenty. If there
were big crops, they could not be sold;
if partial failures, there was almost
nothing to sell. Every locality, in its
industries and products, existed for
and by itself, having no relation with
other communities therefore the sur
plus production of each farm was small,
the inducement to produce being want.
ing, and there was very little money tc
purchase anything more than the bare
necessaries. The industrious family
had an abundance of everything it coulo
grow, such clothing as the loom of the
household could produce, such furni,
trlre as could be made On the place OF
in the neighborhood, and little else.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
The Pope Incensed.

A dispatch from Rome says: The Holy
Father is greatly incensed at the opposi-
ton displayed against Mgr. Satolli and q
peaceful and moderate solution of the
school question in the United States.
The Pope has already on several occa.
sions given expression to his feelings on
the subject with considerable warmth
Speaking recently to one of his conf
dants he is reported to have said: "They
(Satolli's opponents) want to force the
Holy See to retreat but the Pope viii
not be repulsed. +" An influential Cardi
nal, speaking on this subject, remarked
"The monarchial era of the administra.
ton of ecclesiastical affairs is passing
away and is being succeeded by the pop.
ular and democratic era. The diffusion
Of American ideas has in no small de.
gree contributed to this result, the conse
Fences of which are incalculable as re-
CARDS the development of European civil
cation
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
Distribution AT HOMESTEAD

Strikers Suffering and Business of the
Town Depressed.
A special dispatch says: The Home
stead of to day is not the Homestead
thatlt was four months ago. The entire
aspect of the place has changed A
period of inactivity as marked as its for.
mer condition of turbulence, has set in.
The streets are deserted and the major
lily OF the workingmen seen upon its
thoroughfares stand shivering in the lee
of sheltered buildings. Some 1900 per-
sons are receiving relief, over two thirds
OF whom are foreigners.
The business interests of Homestead
have suffered severely, and there has not
been only loss of trade but loss of money
by the business community generally.
There are not enough of new men and
families to make up anything like the
loss, and it will take Homestead six OF
nine months, possibly year, to recover
what she has lost during the past three
months.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
He Got Even,

There were nine of us in the smoking
car, and when we came to compare
notes we discovered that the entire
crowd was to get off at Burksville. 1t
was only village and there was only
one hotel Four or five of the boys
had been there before, and when some
one asked about the hotel he was an
swered:
You might as well prepare to camp
out. The man who owns and runs the
house is the champion iackass of Amer
lea. He's got about fifty of the most
absurd rules and regulations any one
ever heard of, and you've got to abide
by 'em or you can't stay.
But is he personally disagreeable p
lis hyena personally disagreeable !?
The minute you set eyes on him you
will want to knock him down =
why don't the people get rid of
him p
"They have been trying to for the
last ten years, but he is staying for
spite. There ought to be law by
which such old idiots could be
bounced"
We all agreed to tn'all bS ISstsa sHe
ninth man, who sat in seat oy himself,
and didn't enter into the conversation.
Each of us expressed our personal
opinion of the landlord, and bemoaned
the trials and tribulations awaiting us,
but it was understood that we should
have to stop at the hotel, and put up
with the meanness as best we could
When we got off the train eight of us
walked up town together, while the
ninth man went up in vehicle. We
reached the hotel in few minutes.
The office was shut, the windows down,
and lone man was sitting on the steps
All recognized him as our ninth man.
What's the matter here ?" asked one
of the crowd, as he tried the door and
found it locked.
The lone man pointed to written
notice just tackled up On a column, and
we pressed forward to read
"Ihis hotel closed for three days by
order of the champion jackass of Amer
lca"
The ninth man of our crowd was the
owner and landlord of the hotel, and
had heard every word said against him.
We did not plead with him, nor attempt
to palliate our offence. It would
have been breath thrown away We
simply went across the street and
leased a cooper shop for two days, and
bought cheese and crackers at the
grocery.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
The Future United States.

1.-The population of the United States
will increase for many years yet, but
never again in SO great ratio as dur
ing the last century," said Professor
Howard w. Shaw. This country, can
support a population of 800, 100000
much more easily than France can sup
port her 100000 but after we touch
the hundred million figure our increase
will be slow It is cheap homes and
high wages that now attract i'm migra-
ton priced land will soon disap-
pear, and with it will go high wages,
despite the wisdom of statesmen. Then
instead of constant stream of home
seekers pouring into America, a con-
siderable stream will pour out toward
the fertile lands of South America and
Southern Africa Uncle Sam will prob
ably begin the twentieth century with
81, 900, 900; he will do we'll if he ends
it with an increase of 10000, 900. BY
that time-the beginning of the twenty
first century-we will be a homogeneous
people, There will be no longer Irish
Americans and German-Americans, but
everybody will be Americans, pure and
simple The many streams that are
now flowing thitherward from all parts
Of Europe will have been amalgamated
and the result will be one of the best
balanced and most intellectual people
the world has ever known Globe
Democrat.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
Origin of the Tea Plant.

Do you know how the tea plant came
to grow? Avery lovely Chinese maiden
loved with all her soul an equally beau
tiful Chinese youth but, alas she had
o rival. However, he plghted his troth
to her, and all went merry as rice and
firecrackers could make it. Just before
the wedding the beauteous youth laid
himself down under tree to take a
nap. He looked like a picture on screen.
His beauty vas too much for the
wicked girl, who also loved him, but
who was not to be his bride. So she
determined to take away some OF his
good looks. His lashes curled on his
cheeks like bang newly done by a
French hairdresser. Going up to him
she Immediately cut them off, When
his own, his true love, saw him after
the accident, she said: Can this be
you p and he said it was. Then he
told of the wicked one, and they both
prayed to the gentlest of Chinese gods
TO finish her up and to make his eye
iashes grow again, and the Chinese god,
being economical, said The ones you
have lost shall not be wasted /; GO and
plant them, and from them shall spring
a tree that shall delight all mankind. .
And they did as he told them, and at
their wedding they had tea from their
own eyelashes. and the wicked one
wept and was beheaded.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
Some Amusing Mistakes.


One of our well-known musical com.
posers was recently conducting. a re.
hearsal of one of his works when, with
characteristic energy, he exclaimed,
Now, gentlemen, Fill up the blowing
fowl" This was intended to be the
signal for the entry of the chorus, Fill
up the flowing bowl" but the laughter
evoked by the ludicrous blunder pre-
vented any practice for some time.
'Linnie, sing us a song, there's a
DEAR" We said but we were hardly
prepared for Linnie's rendering of ou1
old favorite. which began, She wore a
wroth of reases." The second line was
inaudible, if it was sung.
An old gentleman marched into
church one Sunday morning, and found
his favorite seat monopolized by a
stranger. Choking with indignation,
he sputtered, Sir, are you aware that
you are occupying my pie p
What is so fit an emblem of our
feeting life p said an imprisoned ora
tor, las the gaudy iutterby % and he
wondered why his audience was moved
to smiles by the comparison.
my brethern,' touchingly remarked
a clergyman to his congregation, Il have
half-warmed fish in my heart. -
"Half- formed WISH" he intended tc
say.
Il knew that she was an old maid, -
exclaimed young friend to me, ssshe
was so priff and stim." And seeing by
my face that she must have made q
mistake, she hastily corrected herself,
saying, 81 mean slim and priff -
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-07
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.

Life, like the water of the sea. fresh
ems only when it ascends toward heaven.
A Russian can plead infancy for q
long time, as he does not come of age
till he is twenty-six years old.
A little philosophy inclineth mems
minds to atheism but depth in phil
osophy brings mems minds to religion.
! He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper /; but he is more excellent
who can suit his temper to any circum-
stances.
/ 1t is neither wise nor honest to de-
tract from beauty as quality. There
can not be refined soul insensible to
its influences. Beauty is of itself o
power.
1 may be allowed to speak in the
cause of learning, and lament that lib
eral education is the only one which q
polite nation makes Improbable
] The rule holds good that one who
is brave in little things will not fail in
the performance of greater heroics, but
| it is one of those that can not be re-
versed.
If the poor and humble toll that we
may have food, must not the high and
glorious toll for him in return, that he
have light, have guidance, freedom,
Immortality
Truth is the source of every good to
gods and men. He who expects to be
blessed and fortunate in this world
should be partaker of it from the
earliest moment of his life.
Opportunity is in respect to time, in
some sense, as time is in respect to
eternity-it is the small moment, the
exact point, the critical minute, Oh
which every good work depends.
What to do with our troubles and
hindrances is the great problem of life
1t lies with us to make them into vio-
let's in the soul, or into thorns. The
finest parts of the finest souls have been
made of SORROWS
1t is in and through symbols that
man, consciously or unconsciously,
lives, works, and has his being those
ages, moreover, are accounted the
noblest which can the best recognize
svmbolical worth, and prize it the
| highest.
That integrity which lives only in
opinion would starve without it and
4 shat theatrical kind of virtue which re-
quires publicity for Its stage and an ap-
Iplauding world for an audience could
not be depended on in the secrecy of
ksolitude or the retirement Of a desert.