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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-05
THE CITY
SHORT ITEMS CAZETTED.

Max Knopf has purchased a por-
ton of the interest in the store OF r.
E. Ring & Co.
Stanley Bissell left Monday for Min
neapolis where he resumes his colegl-
ate course in the Minnesota U.
Mrs. Horace Baldwin and Miss c.
Gil Baldwin returned from their ex-
tended visit in Minneapolis last Mon
day.
Miss Mikkelson, who has been the
guest of Miss Ella Laird for several
weeks past, returned to her home in
Mankato last Saturday.
Miss Hurd, who has been clerking
in The Fair store for some time past,
left for her home in Mankato last
week. Miss Maud Gibson takes her
place.
Miss Emily Wilson will take a
course in the Mankato Normal school
during the next few years. She will
commence with the fall term that op-
ened last Monday.
E. c.. Greene is now in charge OF
the Winona Lumber Co.'S lumber
yard at this place. MIR. Greene IS
thoroughly conversant with lumber
and is an agreeable gentleman to tran
sact business with.
Renville county has population OF
22,79s, according to the 1895 census
Renville is the largest town with a
population of 72O, Olivia next with
7l8, Morton has 6O2. The town OF
Flora has a population Of. 753.
J.E. Dayton of Gaylord, a broth Or
to Arthur Dayton, and E. D. Dayton,
their father, who makes his home be-
tween Redwood Falls and Gaylord,
came up from the latter place last
Saturday to be present at the wedding
of Arthur.
Ralph n. O'Hara, representing F.
M. Lytzen & Co., the popular whole
sale cigar house of St. Paul, was in
the city over Sunday. Mr.. OHara is
related to the O'Haras of this city
Lytzen & Co. make several brands of
popular cigars that will be placed on
sale here.
Parties desiring furniture should
consult home dealers before going
elsewhere or writing for prices, and
always be sure that the foreign man
gives as good goods as the local deal,
or, who must sustain his reputation
Both Redwood houses are able to ill
orders at the lowest prices.
Charlie Thompson and Mrs. Thomp'
son returned last week from Southern
Minnesota and Northern Iowa. Mrs
Thompson has been visiting with bel
parents at Preston, Iowa, for severa
weeks. CD. is engaged as travelling
agent for the Standard Sewing Ma.
chine Co. and is considered one of the
best sewing machine men on the staff
of that company.
Henry Lee Beecher' and Miss Har-
riet J.. Beecher leave tomorrow fol
Boston to attend the national conven.
ton of railroad ticket sellers to be
held in that city. Mr.. Beecher aud
Miss Beecher will join party making
up special train ut Chicago. They
will OPP at Niagara Falls, Saratoga,
Lake Champlain, Lake George. the
White Mountains and all other places
of interest along the line. The party
travel in Wagner compartment vesti-
bule cars and everything is free. Mr.
and Miss Beecher will be absent for
some time.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
Bad Drinking Water.

Too much stress cannot be put upon
the necessity of pure drinking water.
Not only is it important for villages
and cities, but too often the location
of the we'll on farm has been mat.
ter of Indifference. Either from care
lessness or ignorance it has been made
where 1t will take surface drainage or
from some underground fissure re.
ceive water from the barn or, worso
yet, seepage from the kitchen slops or
other house drainage.
The following sad experience affords
a warming: Mishawaka, little vii.
lage near South Bend, Ind, had been
visited annually by contagious disease
causing many deaths. Three months
ago an epidemic OF diphtheria broke
out, which quickly spread over the
entire village. aud caused a number OF
deaths. Workmen engaged on IN
electric plant were obliged to shut oil
the water yesterday and drain the
reservoir from which the water mains
Of Mishawaka are supplied. The bed
OF tho pit was found covered with
dead fish, snakes, eels. cats. dogs. aud
other animals. The workmen who at
tempted to clean the pit were over.
come.
All OF the water usel in Mishawaka
was drawn through this mass of de.
caying animal matter. Farm, Field
aud Fireside.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
Woolcn Manufacturers in Danger.

There is growing feeling in the
wooden industry that something must
be done, and at once, to protect tho
domestic manufacturer from the un.
equal competition of foreign makers.
The spring business is in terrible
condition the foreign manufacturer
has obtained the larger portion oil the
orders placed ON worstel goods, and
the outlook for the next fall season is
dismal indeei for the domesti, manu-
facturer as his competitor will be in
far better condition to control this
trade. There is apparently protec-
ton of fifty per cent, but in reality,
through frauds and deceptions, tho
protection is far below this percent
age-there is no protection IN 1T.
Congress meets in December, ani ef-
forts should be. aud must be. made to
correct the monstrous evils OF the
existing tariff which is rapidly stran.
Cling the domestic manufacturer.
Something must be done. and done
quickly, if the wooden industry oil this
country il to be saved from extinc-
tion. Textile Manufacturers Journal
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,

Camphor and gun cotton are the
chief constituents of celluloid goods.
A Geneva firm is manufacturing
Photographic CLOCKS, which call the
hour instead of striking it.
DR.. Alexander states that several re-
cent cases of typhoid fever have been
traced to the eating of watercress
which has grown in polluted water.
According to the Commander-in.
Chief of India $4,000 out of 70, 900
men composing the army have been
sent to the hospital within two years.
A Pennsylvania inventor has pro-
duced an explosive which in recent
tests proved five per cent. moro pow
erful than dynamite. 1t is safe from
concussion and explodes with fuse.
DR.. Lawrie. of Hyderabad, India,
says that there are no parasites in the
blood in malaria, and that the Italian
investigators have mistaken the nu-
clei of the white cells in the blood for
microbes.
The London County Council are
considering a proposal to tunnel un.
der the Thames, from Rotherhite to
Shadwell, and will be asked to take
steps to ascertain the nature of the
bed Of the river.
It is we'll known that where solu-
tion of sulphate of iron has been used
for spraying potatoes there is q
stronger growth of vine, which COR
roborates the claim that iron in small
proportions deepens the color of
plants.
% sAcetylene. the brilliant new gas, can
be easily liquified and stored until
needed. When it is to be used the
pressure is lessened, and it becomes
gaseous again. 1t gives more than
ten times the light OF coal gas Ddrned
IN the best burners.
The Committee for the Study of
Glaciers, which was appointed at the
meeting of the international Congress
of Biologists of Zurich, has recently
made some interesting discoveries.
The glaciers of New Zealand have been
carefully explored and mapped out.
1t has been found that the rate of
movement of the New Zealand glaciers
averages 1912 inches per diem. From
observations in the valleys containing
large glaciers it is concluded that the
ice has passed at four different levels
in its descent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
About Keeping Shoes.

I have before me pair of shoes
one, save for the shape OF tho foot
having destroyed the stiff outlines of
newness, looking as if it might have
just left the store; the other shoe
looks as if even tramp might pars it
by with contempt. Yet they are
mates.
One has been cleaned, .ho other has
not, is all the difference yet neither
has ever been "blacked;" )" the shoes
have never been worn with rubbers,
yet when cleaned the leather is soft
and pliable as one could wish; yet
with all the spick and spauness they
are half worn out. How is it done?
Have three small, clean cloths,
basin of water, a bottle of cosmoline.
vaseline, petroleum jelly, or whatever
name you like to cali it, it is all the
same, and a clean shoe polishing or
<ioth brush.
The shoes should be wiped us free
of mud as possible before drying and
should be hung in warm current of
air, say two or three feet above reg
lister or stove-pipe, not underneath
the kitchen range, where they will be
scorched on top and wet underneath.
When they are perfectly dry wipe
the mud stains off with damp cloth,
be sure to get them all off; then rub
hard with dry cloth, then polish
with the brush, being careful about
the stitching and around the sole. 1t
is best to do only part at time, say
first the vamp, one side, then tho
other, not forgetting the heel.
Unless your shoes have been badly
scuffed aud rotted by bad shoe dress
ing they will look almost like new.
Now rub cosmoline over them with o
clean cloth and rub it well in; use it
literally. for too little will only de.
stroy the polish, while plenty Of COS.
moline improves it, The whole shoe
should be carefully done, even among
lhe buttons and buttonholes, and
presto, your shoes are soft and pliable.
black, and just polished enough to
look we'll; will not stain your under
,lothes or fingers when putting them
on, and little water will do them nc
harm.
Try it once, and You will never
want to do it any other way.-Phila'
delphia Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
Gigantic Petriiled Oysters,

A bed of petriiied oysters was found
on the top OF big Mountain, just back
of Forkston, Wyoming County. Penn,
a short time since. A. Judson Starke
aud William N. Reynolds. Jr., OF
Lafayette College; amateur geologists
of Tunkhannock, spent day on the
mountain and brought back tine sol
lection Of them. Some OF the speci
mems are of mammoth size, ono meas
uring twenty-five inches long by nine
inches wide, and weighing forty
pounds. The specimens range in all
sizes, from this down 10 the ordinary
edible oyster OF tho present time,
some Of tho specimens show the eye
OF the oyster perfectly. AID in all OF
them the meat is os4ily removed from
tho she'll Tho bed seems to be con
fined 10 U small mound resting on o
broad plateau, ut the extreme top OF
tho mountain, near tho Sullivan
County line. aal Mas hrst unearthed
by workmen in grading railroad
from Lopez 10 tho Jennings brothers
lumber tracts. -philaielphia Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

In the new British Parliament there
aro 131 graduates of Oxford, 110 Of
Cambridge, twenty.four OF London,
thirty-onc of Scotch and twenty of
Irish universities. OF the public
schools Eton is first with 104 men,
bcrs, then comes Harrow with fifty
one; Rugby has only seventeen. The
oldest member is Mr.. Villiers, who
is ninetythree; next comes Sir John
Mowbray, who nominated tho Speak
.er; he is eighty-ono. The youngest
members are Mr.. Richard Cavendish,
the Hon. A. b. Bathurst and Viscount
Milton. all twenty-three, and all be-
longing to families in the peerage.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
OPEN THE DOOR.

Open the door, let in the air,
The winds are sweet and the flowers are
fair;
Joy is abroad in the world to-day.
If our door is wide open he may come this
way.
Open the door.
Open the door, let In the sun,
He hath smile for overY one;
He hath made Of the raindrops gold and
gems,
He may change on. tears to diadems.
Open the door.
Open the door of the soul, let in
Strong, pure thoughts, which shall Danish
sin;
They will grow and bloom with grace
divine,
And their fruit shall be sweetc- than that o
the vine.
Open the door.
Open the door Of the heart, let in
Sympathy sweet for stranger and kin;
1t will make the halls of the heart so fair
That angels may enter unaware.
Open the door.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

The falling of in rural population,
rs shown in the last census, is mostly
within the first hall of the decade,
states the Boston Cultivator. There
has long been tendency from the
farm to the cities, but it is at last
checked, and we believe that the pop
ulation of country towns is now small
or than it is ever likely to be again.
All that is needed is to secure better
roads, thus connecting these rural
towns with their neighboring cities
and with the world at large. There is
already the beginning of u movement
of the wealthy towards the country.
With better means of communication
between town and city. this movemen,
will DO sure to increase aui give to
farm lands in Massachusetts u greater
value than they have had for many
vears
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18


that Jim Carroll's the bravest man
that's fit into the war. Why, when
our Colonel went down in that lass
battle, what does Jim do but run right
back into the face of the enemy, grab
loose horse, git our Colonel onto i'm
an como a-bringin' i'm away, cool as
cucumber. The enemy yelled like
mad when they seen it, an he could a
got permotion then an thar of he'd
"a had it. But he said no, thank
you, Jim did. He said he'd lots ruther
do plain fightin'."
The four years were past-the "plain
fightin' was over. Appromattox was
recent memory, and along all the
roadways trailed dusty and forlorn
figures, their faces turned toward
whatever region they had once called
home. Two men limped painfully
down the valley to the little town
lying peaceful and serene in the even
ing light as though there had been no
such thing as war in all the world.
Purple shadows OF clouds drifted
across the distant hills, and along q
strip of white road on the outskirts of
the town company of small boys with
paper caps and wooden guns were
playing soldier.
"Now, Jim," urged Sile, beseech-
ingly, "don't 60 back on your word.
Remember what you promised, Jim.
Don't ye go an let Minervy git the
stat of you ag'in. Jest think how
you fit into the war, an stan up for
your rights"
81 lowed I would, Sile," replied
Jim, but there was faltering in his
tone as he glanced up the hill toward
the cabin, where thread Of blue
smoke curled softly up into the even.
ing air.
"Now, Jim, eff you give down I'll
be plum ashamed O. ye, that's what /
will. If you let Minervy get the start
O. you oncet more it's goodby to your
chances. An man that fit like you
did, too"
"I'll take keer, Sile," said the hero
of battle and scout. "Tm a-goin' into
store minute to buy something.
an then I'm agoin' up home"
Minervy had the supper nearly
ready in the little cabin, ON the hill.
She was in hurry, because every
thing must be cleared away before
dark. Candles were too scarce to be
wasted, and the tall woman in the
homespun dress had learned all there
was to be learned in the way of pinch
ing economies. She had set the yell
low platter of 'corn pone" on the
table and was turning back again
when figure in the doorway startled
her.
"Minervy, here's the wood You sent
me AFTER" said the meek little man,
and he went across the room and laid
the armful Of wood beside the hearth.
"An' here's that thread an them
piepans.
A grim humor in the utterance
struck her, and she fell back into q
chair, laughing and crying at the same
time, and clapping her worn, brown
hands.
"Well, you waited for 'em to grow,
I reckin," she calculated between
sobs. "But it don't make no diff.
runce, Jim. I'm done scoldin' the
rest o my life. Supper's ready, Jim.
Pm glad you got home j.. fol
supper.
And while she cried. the "bravesi
man who fit in the war" wiped away
the tears from her face with hand as
tender as though it had never handled
gun or been blackened with powder.
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

The Sarceo Indians recently in
formed the Governor-General of
Canada that they did not intend to
work. nor did they believe in it, as it
was unhealthy. The idea is not origi.
nal with them, observes the Trenton
IN. j.. American, but it shows that
the savage mind is not equal to Crap
pling with philosophical problems that
have agitatcd their civilized brethren
for ages.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

1t is we'll known that the thickness
of the layer OF line sand ia altering
besls cannot be reduced beyond q Ger
tain point without endangering the
quality of the water that filters
through. Df. Kurth. ol Bremen. has
found ia examining water filtered
through u layer not sutii ciently thick
that tho numbeF of bacteria was great
Iy increased. owing TO tho rroseneo ot
q special microbe that eoald not be
found Ia the water bel.ro il catered
tho litter. Those microbes must.
therefore. have existed ia the filtor
lag matsrial aai have been developed
by tho passage OF water ihroash II. :
New York bua.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

Charles johnson. OF New York City.
is ono Of the unluckiest men living.
and no il in fair way to be crushed
by circumstances over which no has
NO control. A short timo ago. relates
the Atlanta Constitution. Mr.. johnson
ieli three stories and cracked his skull.
This was bad enough. but when jury
awarded him damages for his injuries
the defendant failed aud he got little
OF nothing. The worst. however, was
still 10 come. He hal employed u
medical expert 10 testify 10 the nature
aud extent VI his wounds. aud beeaa=e
he il unable 10 pay the aaas Zee at
der an order of the court lao u na"
serving three months lss eoatempt ia
Raymond street Jail. II i q peculiar
case, aud should be recorded siaeas
the euriosltIss of justice. Here =
maa Who 10 laneeens. With eoad'
eass. - the verdict shows. and h"'
esuas ths dsfeaslsata have lailesl u
ray him tue amaaat os his lstisHsa'
h mass bs punished lks leIsa.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

An odd step in the movement for
booming local industries, which has
lately started up and attained much
Roadway in the West, has been made
at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, notes
the New York Sun. An or finance has
been passed requiring all poddlers and
hawkers who sell gools not manufac-
tured or produced in the State to pay
license of S10 a day.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
ExportEd Corn
5m ths,twe' 5isca\yyeors
ending June a0:: leaaaad 1905

then, also that labor earned this year
at the rate of IA per cent. less wages
than in 1889. These results, as ap-
piled to the whole country, appear in
the following exhibits:
Census !nvestiea-
of 1891 ton cf 1894
Hands em-
ployed. ;. A, 712, ,e22- 8 per cent .4,57i,24s
Wages
earned 80 2S3 PIG, 500 IA p. c.S1 1868, ,566, ,215
The result of Democratic Admin
istration and free trade fanatic
Congress is that labor was earning
$500. .000,0 900 less this year than IN
1889. We have to shank the moro
conservative Democratic congressman
that the result was not worse. Con-
trast this half decade of Democratic
destruction with the progress OF the
country during three decades OF pro-
lection:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

A writer ia darion aud Forrest says
. wefkmsa 10 his garIrn. shsaessf
he hal oeeaslon ~ aedsile with pots,
oa -, alssfn pulls Que OF the small
leasss aHd eat plscs II u. asserting
that the sorkmea 0a rsilsays aiong
she's uiahaak meats slaa plaal ahoansla
szst ~ iAts a. 4Hsfsaisse meas
ass. All escape pglsyasss
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

England's harvest will be very bad
one, according to the Mark Lane Ex-
press, owing to the severe frost in the
spring, followed by long drought.
All crops are below the average, the
percentages being: Wheat, 75.5 bar
ley, Sl.9; oats, 7S.5; grass and hay,
&c; potatoes, S6.7; beans, 72, and
peas, 75.9.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

1t is proposed to run an aluminium
works in Great Britain by power from
the falls of Foyer, but the "National
Trust for Places of Historic Interest
or Natural Beauty" is fl ghting the pro-
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
creased.

The people of the United States
use, on an average, 1000, 900 post.
age stamps of all kinds each and every
day of the year, or total of about
1880, 900, 900 per annum.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
Massachusetts, and New Jersey arr
leading the country in road improve
ment,
Michigan has decided that for judi
cial purposes an oath admins tered by
telephone is binding.

Not one life insurance company is
now doing business in Kansas. The
statutory conditions are SO onerous
that all have Withdrawn.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

Bicycle accidents ara very rars ia
H. Petersburg. huszia. Tor the simple
usason thai tho authorities do not
ALLOW the use of the bicycle in public
except by ri,iers sAa haze given salls-
factory % oei ai pFeiicieaey before .
sstsge beaEi Il sxalaineIs.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
A DELAYED ERRAND.

ELL, OF all the
thingsl Jim Car
roll, hev you got
home at last |"
A red-faced and
angry WON a n
stoo d in til Q
kitchen door, her
sleeves rolled up
and her arms
akimbo. A meek
little man dis.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

The Minnesota census this year pre-
sents ananomaly. Excepting Duluth,
the cities hay vent grown much. but the
farming population has greatly in
nraocal
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

The new woman is pleased to reflect
that there are, according to the CEN
sus, million and half more men
than women in the United States.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18
GROWTH OF CAPITAL INVESTED.

GROWTH OF CAPITAL INVESTED.
1860. ................ .......... 81 ,009, ,s55.715
1871. -. 49,. Ais. 2Os. 769
1880. .............. ......... 2.79o, ,272. SOC
INCREASE OF PERSONS EMPLOYED.
Children
Me-. Women Returned
1860. ,O40, ,949 270.9C7 -.
1870. 1,6l5,59S 323,770 114.62S
1880. ....... .2.019,035 53l. .639 lS! w
1897 -. -. 3.745,2lo S45,4 1zl,los
*Not returned.
TOTAL WAGES PAID.
1860 .... 1878, ,S78 966
1870. .......... ."-."''.'.....'.' o.2'ooaa'ooaao
1SSU. .............s......... 34f 700 90
1880. ..... ....................2, 3,Zio,oz1
COST OF MATERIAL AND VALUE OF PRODUCT.
Cost of Value OF
Material. Proiuct.
1860 .O3l, ,6O5 092 1855, ,s6l,676
1870. 500. :. 2.4Ss,4 ,427, ,242 4.232, 1925. 242
1880 .... 1886. .S23,549 5,369,579.191
1890. 49,. 5,l62. .044,o76 G2,t37 ,2S3
There are two items in The above
tables that stand out in bold relief OF
all others:
Total Number Total
Hands Employed. Wages Paid.
$780,. ..4,712,622 $2,2s3, ,216.529
1880. 80. 80. .....2, ,732,595 947. .953. 19o
Increase in ten years. ,95O,027 81, 1886, ,2627 73i
Nearly two millions of people given
employment in a decade. Two hun
dred thousand pei year This was
protection And the threat of FREQ
trade has thrown us back Ealf dozen
years till labor is less busy now than
it was in 1889, and its earning capa-
city is less by three hundred million
dollars year.
Here the suggestion naturally fol-
lows that our consumption OF goods
must be on the basis of our consump-
ton in 1899, at least rs far rs the
wage earners are concerned, if they
arc in receipt of $500, 100000 less
than in 1889. This being the case,
the effect of our present importations
of foreign goods could only be fairly
ganged by comparing them with our
imports OF 1889. That we are not con-
suming as much as we did from 1899
to 1893 is well known. but IT the de-
mand has fallen back to that of 1889,
then our manufacturers will certainly
have to curtail their output very
shortly. We have, in fact, learned
from representatives of several indus
tries that this is likely to be the
case"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-18

There are two items in the above
tables that stand out IN bold relief OF
all Others: