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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-07-24

One member from Portland was a
main spoke In the wheel of the last
legislature and Is responsible for good
many things that will be charged up to
the Republican party next year, and
he can probably do very little to repair
the damage. IL Is not certain that he
Ii now In the state. The house he was
connected with failed at Portland
recently. He emigrated from Europe
some ten years ago, and came from San
Francisco to Portland after learning to
speak English and gaining smatterlng
Of slum city politics. With but a COM
paratlvely short residence in Oregon
and little prominence in lodge mat
ters he turns up as the leading star ac.
tor In the combination that domina
the last legislature, and probably did
more than all others combined to Sc
cure the $4,000 for the state militia.
This recently amalgamated and now
bankrupt foreigner had more influence
In carrying important measures over
the governors veto than the oldest Ore
gonIan In either house. He was him
self the seat Of government. Whatever
had the consent Of this MultnOmah
king went whether Il had merit or not.
This recent importation was terror to
mossbaoks aud probably added more to
the taxes Of the people and the bad
s..ielllng record OF the house than any
man in IT, IL Is not an envlable record.
But this frlghtful example should serve
the people Of Oregon as an index of the
way they are travelling. This state
seems 10 be suffering from two condi-
tions. A great many people seem still
10 DO living In the primitive conditions
which prevailed here twenty years ago,
when there was but little legislation,
small appropriations and al. were reas-
onably honest. Then every man who
went 10 the legislature was his own
clerk aud when he attended q night
sesslon carried a coal oil lamp under
his arm from his lodging house 10 the
chamber. The science
of looting the treasury under
he guIse OF government had
,ot been reduced 10 fine art. II
'lerk wAs employed he was a compe-
ent person aud he was paid for actual
srvlce. Face powders, frlzzies, aud
,neulshlng eyes had not become an in-
lspenslble part Of the machinery ofthe
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
DO you C0UcH7
NJ Then Take Or. sTAFF0RDs COMPOUND
u Wild ChcTTQ BalSam.

The very best thing in the world for Coughs,
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Hacking
Cough, Difficult Breathing, Whooping
Cough, and all irritations of the Throat and
Air Passages. (Sate, Sure, Quickly Large
Bottles, so Gents. Sold by all Dealers in
Medicines. RYAN DRUG CO., ST. PAUL.
Fl. M. Hitchcock & Go.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

that Orlando Gray, living near here,
has purchased lot in that city and
will erect dwelling in the spring.
He intends to move his family>there
next fall. Mr.. Gray intends to make
Springfield his permanent abode.
Fakes are reported going through
the country selling steel ranges and
taking notes from farmers for $50 to
$40, payable at some future time. We
wish to warn our readers not to sign
such contracts as the range may cost
you twice what it is worth.
Married, Wednesday, Nov. %. VIM.
Otto, town of Sherman,to Miss Amelia
Fenske, of Evan, at the home of the
brides parents, by Rev. S. Dueber, OF
the Lutheran church of Sleepy Eye.
A large body Of friends and relatives
were present. After the marriage rites
were performed a reception was held
and all INDUCED in the merry dance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

See special sales at Miss Samples
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
IN AND AROUND DELHI.

E. House and wife go to Cottonwood
to spend Thanksgiving.
Great bargains in the last invoice
of goods at E. Atkinson's.
Hugh Cumming IS having very
severe time with rheumatism.
The young people enjoyed a social
hop at T. Kings on Monday night.
The Ladies Aid had very pleasant
time at their oyster supper Friday ev-
ening.
A number of the people around
town are getting coal from the Red
wood mine.
A gloom has fallen over our com
munity on learning of the sad death
of Mr.. Hays.
VIM. Pomeroy and Lena Engeman
were married on Monday, and have
started for their home in Montana.
Ice is about eight inches thick on
the Minnesota river and quite guam
tity is being brought to town on &C.
count of the scarcity of soft water.
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BLIFFINS' BATH.

1t was Thanksgiving day, but Blifins
had nothing to be thankful for, or rather
it wasn't like Blif6ns to be thankful for
anything, so after going over his ac-
counts in the morning he left his Office
with the same immovable expression of
countenance and the same steely look in
his gray eyes. Blifins was in the chat
tel mortgage business, and as he emerged
from his dingy Office he was turning over
in his mind how much Widow O'Hara
owed him and how he would sell her
furniture on the morrow if the money
was not forthcoming, which was ex-
tremely unlikely, since three of the Wild
owls children were down with the mea-
sles and the mothers scanty earnings
had gone to pay the doctors fees.
Blifins chuckled. Oh, these doctors,
and the measles, and the scarlet fever,
and the other ailments children are prone
to are boon to the chattel mortgage
shark! And Blifins knew how to squeeze
people, for he had grown old in the &C.
cupation. How he liked to get the
widows and children and bedridden
workingmen in his withered old arms!
It was not the philanthropic embrace,
such as the poet Whitman, with his
humanitarian doctrines, concelved-no,
indeed-it was more like the embrace Of
the iron virgin, driving the pointed nails
into the heart and brain of the victim.
How it came to pass no one knows.
Perhaps because it was yet two hours be-
fore mealtime. Perhaps it was for the
reason that time hung heavily, since he
could not transact business, owing to
the stupid custom of setting aside day
for general feasting- as if the majority
of mankind had anything to be merry
overt At that very moment Bliffins was
asking himself: Were people merry be-
cause there is sickness in the world;
were they light hearted because the other
days Of the year were all one grind;
were they happy because the few know
ing ones secured all the worldly accu.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
GALES.

Annie Carney's school closed last
Friday.
Miss Carney is attending the Tracy
school.
H.A. Croft is very sick with typhoid
fever.
Mrs. GIN. DeGroat had quilting
party last Thursday.
Mr.. Hicks lost valuable horse lost
week.
Messrs. Hicks and Carney are feed
ing a fine lot of cattle and hogs.
We are having fine weather again.
The Ladies Aid society cleared $31
at their recent social.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nichols, of Amiret.
visited S. S. Gale and wife over last
Sunday.
Dora Kramer fell on the ice recent
ly and cut quite cash in her fore
head.
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mutations. leaving to tho others the task
Of striving without success, working
with meager results and hoping against
hope?
It might have been that the mere
novelty Of the idea appealed to Blifins
like an inspiration-if such sentiment
could move his withered old heart and
dusty brain. At any rate. he paused be-
fore Turkish bath, hesitated moment.
entered, was given key. and in few
moments in the seclusion OF a dressing
room was divesting his shriveled figure
of its rusty raiment AS he stalked out
with the towel wrapped about his loins
he was met by the attendant.
Right this way. sir" said the latter,
and Blifins followed him into a room
where the temperature at first seemed
uncomfortable.
Isn't this pretty warm?" asked Blif-
fms as he sank into couch.
Mot at ALL You'll have it warmer
than this before you're through" said
the attendant, with grin. 1t flashed
across Blif6ns' mind that the man had q
particularly vi.lainous cast Of counte-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
UNDERTAKING
To California Without Chanue.

To California Without Change.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis Rail
way has inaugurated Tourist Pull
man Car service from St. Paul and
Minneapolis to San Francisco, Lath-
rop, Los Angeles, and intermediate
points, via Kansas City, Denver, Salt
Lake, Ogden and Sacramento. The
car is attached to train leaving St.
Paul $50, Minneapolis. 1925 a. M,
each Thursday, and through car will
also start from Albert Lea, Mimi, each
Tuesday, via Des Moines and Omaha.
The berths are completely furnished,
and the car is provided with colored
porter, who gives you the same atten-
ton as though you we're in palace
sleeper. There is also provideda cook
ing range, which is at the service of
all patrons, as well as two commodi-
Gus layatories. These excursions are
known as the Phillips-Albert Lea
Route personally conducted excur-
sions,and are gaining wide popularity.
Second class tickets are accepted for
transportation, and the charge made
for through accommodations is but
$3.50 per double berth, which can be
shared by two persons, should they
desire to occupy the same berth. Res
ervations should be made several days
in advance, and communications adj
dressed to nearest ticket agent, or G.
M. Pratt, General Ticket and Passeng
3er Agent, .Albert Lea Route" Min
neapolis, Mimi. Jan. '94.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
MORGAN MOVEMENTS

Judge Kinman was in New Ulm
Tuesday on business.
Attorney Fowler and Sheriff Bleth-
en-, of Redwood Falls, were in town
Saturday.
On Tuesday, December 5, the Cath
Ollie church celebrates the Solemnity
of the Immaculate Conception of the
Blessed Virgin. This is Holy Day
of obligation. Divine services will be
held in St. Henry's church at Sheridan.
Messrs. MS. Tolman, HE. Grabow,
A. L. Robinson, o. Gerstmann and III.
G. Ferguson attended meeting of
the A. O. U. w. lodge at Franklin,
Saturday evening. An oyster supper
was served, and a dance held.
We see by the Springfield Advance
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
BELvlEw AND IT'S BORDER.

An inch of snow fell here last Mon
day.
G.. H. Kravik was in Redwood Falls
last Monday on business.
Insurance Agent Frank l. Gleason
was in the city last Monday on bust
ness.
w. S. Clayson is back at his post
with Ole Hanson & Co. for the holiday
period.
Matthias Jensen and family, of
Wood Lake, are visiting with the
Hegdahls.
Remember the ball given by the
Belview Cornet band at Frommes'
hall this evening.
Citizens not having place to at
tend worship last Sunday INDUCED in
a rabbit hunt along the Minnesota.
Malcolm McNiven, collecting for the
Mccormick Cow in town last Mon
day and reports collections very poor.
Commissioners Pease left for Mime
apolis last Monday on matters con-
nected with the Belview bridge across
the Minnesota.
Nearly all of the $500 bonus nee
essary to insure the construction OF
the mill at this point has been signed
for, and the mill is go.
A wandering mercantile dealer with
a"snide" bankrupt stock came to town
last week, and was made much of by
our local paper, the notice properly
paid for, but last Sunday the afore-
said merchant took his departure for
other points where his wares will not
be so we'll known.
Prof. Thurber, the eminent pugilist
scientist, Graeco-Roman, catch-as-
catch can wrestler, and Prof. O. Rourke
another wrestling scientist, had a
friendly wrestling contest in Frommes'
hall last Tuesday evening. Prof
Thurber is talking of having little
glove contest with Champion Corbett
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deed pleasant company for Thanksgiving

deed pleasant company for Thanksgiving
day!
Nor was that all! Beelzebub himself
was there, and never had his horns
seemed so high or his tail so long! He
frisked around merrily, his eyes gleam-
ing like Goals and his tail whisking like
a whipcord, cracking now and then as
his antics became more marked.
II don't like it," gasped Blifins Let
me get out"
mo. no, Blif We've got you now
and we are going to give you a little
foretaste of what will come when you
have presently shuffled eff this mortal
coil. This is nothing to what it will be
them
This is pretty warm" moaned Blif-
fms argumentatively.
''Ah, but you wait. When you are
dancing gayly upon the live Goals, with
sulphur flames shooting up around you.
then you'll understand what a torrid
temperature is like. have a nice, pleas
ant furnace especially prepared for you,
and you shall have it all to yourself"
"But don't want it all to myself, T"
groaned Blifins
you'll get used to it. Come alcng
now"
what, nowr' shrieked Blifins.
Eyes, now"
but don't want to die now. can't
won't. I'm not prepared. I've been
an old sinner Let me live. and I'll re-
pent."
"Oh, you'll repent? How many lies
have you toldT'
But l won't tell any more. I'll re-
form; I'll go to church; I'll put 10 cents
in the contribution box every Sunday;
ZIP
Its too late. Blifins.
mercy. r.
Have you ever had mercy on the
widows and children? Come on, now. :"
He prodded the unfortunate man with
his pitchfork and lifted him up as easily
as if he had been bale of hay. Blifins
uttered piercing shrek of despair.
and
"All right. sir: Ready for the mas
sage treatment now, sirr'
It was the attendant who spoke. Blif-
fms rubbed his eyes as he woke up and
stared in bewilderment.
why, where is Bah! I'm fool!"
"You went to- sleep. sir We gave it
to you pretty warm, sir.
Il should think you did!" muttered
Blifins.
Did Blifins emerge from his Turkish
bath that day changed man? Did he
cancel at once the debts of all his unfor-
tunate creditors? Did he send every one
turkey post haste with the compli-
ments of the season? Did he dispatch a
wagon load of provisions and garments
to every charitable institution that the
lame and the halt, the young and the
aged might be fed and clothed? Not
Blif6ns! His heart wasn't of that kind.
He was consistent to the end in his char
acter. He squeezed them harder than
everl
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
NORTH REDWOOD

Drop nickel in the slot at E. II.
Gosper's.
G.. Richardson expects to move into
E. Swans residence.
Mrs. G.. Richardson returned Mon
day from her visit to the cities.
Birum & Anderson shipped car
load of -four to St. Paul yesterday.
Wheat 40 cents. A large amount
of wheat has been sold at the above
price.
G. Roeske will move back to Wis
consin as soon as he can sell his per-
sonal property.
j. Cinchen, the blacksmith, has pur-
chased the Kellis property and now
occupys the same.
e. Ostrander, the wagon maker,
spent couple of weeks visiting with
relatives and friends in Montevideo.
Arrangements have been made to ov
erfiow the millpond so the skating
will be kept good the rest of the sea-
son.
The Union Sunday school is to have
an Xmas tree in the school house and
great preparations are being made for
the occasion.
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AWFUL t1O.
nance, but that may have been Blifins'
fancy, for every one looked like rogue
or fool to him, the latter class FREEDOM
mating.
Bliffins was left alone. for no one else
happened to patronize the bath that
morning. A pleasant feeling stole over
him. His withered limbs seemed to be-
come more supple and the thin blood
to circulate more actively in his veins
He sank into a sort of somnolent medita-
ton, his business transactions still up
permost in his mind. ooh, I'll sell out
the Widow O'Hara tomorrow" he
thought. land make cool hundred by
the transaction. People tell me I'm hard
Bah! I'm good business man, and ev-
cry day I'm growing richer and richer
Money is what makes you feared and
hated. How like to be hated! Isn't it
good to know there is no one in the
world who doesn't despise you'll" The
thought was SO pleasant that he chuckled
more audibly than usual.
Meanwhile the atmosphere had become
more cloudy and the heat more sitting.
Blfins began to feel uncomfortable.
''The temperature is getting pretty
high" he thought.
into the room, as if the attendants were
bent in earnest upon thawing out his dry
old frame. He could hardly see the cell
ing. 'Whewl can't stand thisl" said
Bliffins. Rising, he made his way to the
door and tried to open it. Horrors! It
was locked, but through the glass Blif-
fins could see the villainous attendant.
''Let me out" he shouted.
The attendant only grinned, and his
face seemed more diabolical than ever.
I'm roasting in here!' exclaimed
Blif6ns.
well, roast" said the attendant.
"You won't let me out?"
The man grinned again and turned
away.
''stop! stopl Come backl Oh, I'm
stifing!'
Blifins fell upon the marble floor, his
senses almost DESERVING him. The heat
became more intense, the vapor enter
ing in heavier clouds than ever. He
breathed with difficulty; he gasped; he
struggled. The laughter of the attend
ant seemed to echo in his ears like the
shrieks of 10000 fiends. He thought he
was dying, and his past life foated be.
fore him. a moving phantasmagoria in
the mist. He saw Widow O'Hara.
"You old wretch she exclaimed.
Nov you are getting your deserts. You
would sell me out, would you?"
She shook her fist at him as he covered
there, and her figure was replaced by
others, the ghosts of those whom he had
robbed, many of them children with
faces pinched by hunger, who had arisen
from the grave to confront him. All, il
was a merry procession for Thanksgiv.
ing day, as long as the longest chain
gang of slaves that ever toiled under the
lash in the torrid interior of Africa
And the maledictions they heaped upon
him, their faces distorted with hatred
and their voices quivering with rage
What a noise they made, to be sure
these phantoms! Blif6ns had never i'm
agined that ghosts could shrek and vel
in that fashion. It was pandemoniun
Of sneers, walls, shouts and howls-ex
carnations of endless aversion and out
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

Next week, Louis Gaedy, the tailor,
will tell you how you can make 81.
Albert Leathly and Simon Cohen
have been indicted for disposing Of
chattel mortgaged property.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

Fifteen cents a pound for coffee.
That is what Ackmannn is selling the
new preparation, Pammalt coffee, which
is not an adulteration of cheap coffee.
but substitute which is harmless to
health and pleasant to drink. Try it
at Ackmann's. 14tf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30

DELHI TRAIN TIME TABLE.
East bound passenger, Lv., 11:12 A. M
West bound passenger, 1858 M
West bound freight, 8:l5 M
East bound freight, 1907 M
G. NJ BROWNE. Station Agent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
VILLAGE OFFICERS.

President-Frank Ellington.
Councilmen-John Sherman, John Hillig
Otto Gerstman.
RecOrder-Wm. Kinman.
Treasurer-E. H. Albrecht
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
MORGAN.

MORGA TRAIN TIME TABLE.
Trains going East leave 12:i0P.
- $40 P NJ
Trains going West $50 A. M
:" 5:55 p. M
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-31
PASSOVER CEREMONIES
Queer Symbols That Arc Used-Unleavene
Cakes of Rrexd.

Queer Symbols That Are Used-Unleavened
Cakes of Bread.
1t is still considered sacred duty
among all classes on the night OF the
fourteenth of Nissan, the first month OF
the ecclesiastical year, to tell the story
of the departure from Egypt. The
rabbis. anticipating that an objection
would be raised to the annual repeti-
ton where there happened to be no
children, OF history SO well known,
laid it down that though we might be
all wise men. men of understa nding,
learned in the law. it would still be in
cum bent upon US to relate the exodus
from Egypt"
The book used for this purpose is the
Hagadah (narratlon). OF which the first
edition printed in London is dated
1909: the first edition. with an English
works, by the way, is in the British
museum. 1t is often illustrated with
quaint old-fashioned woodcuts, admira-
bly, suited to the oCdness of the nara
tive. This is written in the Chaidee
dialect, except the numerous passages
from Scripture, which are in the origi-
nal pure He brew. About eight o'clock
in the evening the family and their
friends, and Jewish servants, where
such are employed, assemble around
ia bic on which the various symbols of
the original institutions are arranged.
A shank bone of a shoulder of lamb
represents the paschal lamb, and an
egg roasted hard signifies that the
lamb was to be roasted whole. (Exo-
dus xii. 81. A small basin of sailed
water, in which a sprigg of parsley is
dipped by the dost and given TO each
cele is an emblem of the Red sea.
while pieces of horseradish, covered
with certain CONNECTION of almonds
and apples (Matthew XVI, %, John
xiii. 26). are reminder-the former of
the bitterness of lives while in Egypt
Exodus XIV. the latter of the bricks
and mortar with which we wrought
there.
The wine used is either home made
or pure and absolutely unadulterated
importation, and supposed to be taken
to the extent of four cups-nowadays
sometimes minimized to four sips.
these tour draughts are intended to
illustrate, however fancifully. the four
different expressions all used in Exc
dus vi, 6, :: 4 will bring you out
l will rid you out of their
bondage l will redeem you
1 will take you to me for a
people"
The unleavened cakes of bread used
during the whole OF the eight days of
passover are called matsoth and are
made of wheaton flour. of a round form
about a foot in diameter. perforated all
over, and SO very thin that a pounds
weight contains about nine cakes.
Many families distribute a few of these
fra gile cakes among their kind and af-
fectionate but somewhat simple Chris
tian neighbors, who treasure them as
curiosities. Temple Bar.