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The Redwood gazette., 1895-12-26

Cnolf steam machinery. nOrSe6, etc.
The two have purchased half section
of hard wood timber, and will work at
the tract with a large crew of men
this winter. The timber will be han
died for numbering purposes. They
will probably return to Redwood
Falls in May or June, prepared to
carry on their threshing work for the
harvest of 1896. The Moons expect
to spend their future winters in Wis
eonsin and their summers here.
J. II. Myers, who was sent to the
st. Peter asylum about two years ago,
and afterwards released on the sup
position that he was cured, left his
home on the Kuenzli farm, a mile west
of Marion Johnson's, in Sheridan, last
Tuesday. He was seen in North Red
wood on Tuesday afternoon, and to
parties there he stated that he was go
ing to walk to Rochester because he
did not want to go back to the st.
Peter asylum. Shortly afterwards he
was seen walking down the railroad
tracks and that was the last seen of
him. Myers was q bachelor. He was
owing number Of parties here and
during the past week, or since the
news Of his departure became public,
they have levied on everything be-
longing to him.
The Redwood gazette., 1895-12-26


All of the old residents of Redwood
Falls and surrounding country will
remember L. E. Russell, the inventor
of force pump that sold like hot
cakes Immediately after the manufac-
turing of the same. They were the
first thing of the kind in the market
at that time and the fact that about
every pump in the State prior to that
time would freeze upin cold weather
made the Russell force pump house,
hold word, and welcomed in poetry
and prose. L. E. Russell is now in
Hillsboro, New Hampshire, where he
has just invented and secured a pat
ent for sweep power labor saving
machine. There is no pully, gear,
belt or crank connected with it, but
it is simply connected with q combi-
nation Of levers and weights. They
can be used for pumping water. bail
ing hay or cotton, cutting feed, saw
ing or splitting wood, pulling stumps,
or drilling wells of stone, and can be
made to retail at $40 each. Many an
old time Redwood youngster, who
committed Russell's pump poetry to
memory will wonder, when he sees
this, just what kind of q poetic effu-
sion Russell will originate to sell his
new invention.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
Amerlca's Army OF Tramns.

An interesting lecture on "The
Tramp" was given by Professor, j. j.
McCook, of Trinity College, the other
evening i'll Parker Memorial Hall,
Boston. In part he said:
"The army OF tramps in this coun-
Try numbers nbont &c, 900 male per-
sons, eleven-twelfths OF them under
fifty years old, that is, in the prime of
life. Five-siXths OF them are able
bodied, three-iifths have trades or &C.
equations requiring skill and more than
nine-tenths of them can read md write
The political economist marks that
this body of adult males bears no pub
lie burdens, while it costs the country,
by the most careful and conservative
computation, from SIS, 900, 600 to SO,
600, 900; not so very much in q coun-
try like ours; but it is one.half moro
than our Indian Department costs us,
nearly one-half the cost of our navy
and more than onc-ffth that of.our
army. These idle men ARE withdrawn
from family ties and have most de-
moralizing effect upon the commune
ties that they infest. They are q
source of the spread of two contagious
diseases, which should be checked as
far rs possible by the regulation of
law. Only nineteen of tho forty-four
States of the Union have tramp laws.
There is not n tramp law west of tho
first tier of the trans Mississippi States.
nor in any Southern States except
North Carolina. Alabama and Mis-.
sissippi. The penalty for being a
tramp ranges from three days in jail
to five years in States prison, and
there is IN endless variety of fines.
Opinions are divided as to the advan-
tageousness IF Offering lodging to
tramps at the public expense. In
many instances it hns been found
practically impossible to get any work
out OF tramps. AS to the remedy for
the tramp evil, opinions are divided.
The labor colony is certainly one OF
the foremost i'll the opinion of the
authorities of many foreign countries.
l would recommend definite decision
whether we shall continue IN our pres
ent way. If we do, then, for oil pub
lie lodgings given the tramp require
labor in return. Let the different
counties and towns work together n.
much rs possible Call upon individ-
ual initiative and private bcnevolenct
| as far rs possible
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
: Birth of the II ng OF Rome.

March came in that oventful year
of 1911; and when the morning of
the twentieth dnwned nil Paris was in
the streets. For like wildire spread
the rumor: There is baby at the
Tuileries Every hour tho crowd
grew denser. AT open windows, along
the streets, in the great garden of tho
Tuileries, people waited expectant,
listening for the voice of the .cannons
OF the Invalid Soldiers Hons to SsSil
whether the baby was boy or Il Rffl.
OF course every ono hoped it was a
boy, for that meant an heir to the
throne of France their future EN-
peror.
At the first boom a mighty silence
fell upon tie listening city. Every
one stopped, intent, anxious. One
two-three, they counted. Boom,
boom went the guns up to nineteen
-twenty--twenty- one. The silence
was intense, the anxiety profound.
Twenty-Five! There came u mighty
cheer, roar from thousands and
thousands of throats. Flats were
flung aloft people cried with Joy, and
danced and Rugged each other, and
cared no more to count, though the
guns doomed away until the full salute
of one hundred and one wns fired. For
that twenty-seccond boom told the
story-the baby at the Tuileries was a
boy.
Then, out of the cheering, came q
mighty shout: "Long live the En-
peror Long live the Empress
Long live the King of Rome!" For
that was to be the title of this baby
prince, whose mother was I'm Empr s&s,
whose father was greater than g King.
st. Nicholas.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
4 Test OF Hypnoiism.

Some experiments in hypnotism
which DR.. Luys, the Trench ply
stefan, was recently permitted to try
before the Societe dc Diologic i'll
Paris, have raised doubt rs to The
Gcnuineness of the new science. Dr.
Luys is confirmed hypnotist, and
has made many experiments.
When the time for the public ex-
periments before the French society
came DR.. Luys had subject who had
lost the little finger Of his left hand.
The man was put i'll trance and then
this hand was spread out on table.
DIR. Luys took pin and stuck it in
tho table at the place where the miss
ing finger would have been. He re-
peated the experiment several times,
using pins, needles and knives, and
each time the patient pulled away his
hand and groaned as though in pain.
just SO long rs DIR. Luys hal the man
IN hand the experiments were highly
successful. Some of the other ply
sicians present objected to his an.
nouncing just what he was going to
do before each experiment. DIR. Luys
turned the patient over to them.
They laid his hand under the table,
held newspaper in front of his face
so that he could not see what was
being done, and then made several
jabs with steel pen at the spot where
the little finger should be. Each time
the patient groaned aud pulled his
hand away. Then one of the ply
sicians argued that if the patient was
shamming it would he easy enough
for him to know just when the pen
was stuck in the table, rs the scratch
ing noise it made was distinctly aud
ible.
So it was quietly agreed to simply
put the pen within q fraction OF an
inch of the table. This was done, the
newspaper still being held before the
mans eyes, and he never made move.
Not n groan nor an attempt to pull
the hand away followed the expert.
ment. DIR. Luys was amazed, but at.
tempted no explanation Fran.
cisco Chronicle.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
International S.amps

Postmaster General Bissell has re.
ceiyed from the French Government q
request to enter into an agreement
with that country whereby they could
send letter from there with o pre-.
paid reply. They would, of course,
agree to accept a similar plan on the
part OF the United States. With the
request of France is submitted "let.
ter sheet with :. paid reply" recently
issued by the postal administration OF
that country fer circulation III it's do
mestic service. The "paid reply" let
ter 1s somewhat similar to the ''reply
paid" international postal card. In
the international service the letter
would cost ten cents for the original
and reply, and in the domestic service
it costs six cents for the whole letter.
The United States is not asked to use
the letter in its domestic service, but
simply to receive and recognize the
prepaid reply SO it could be sent back
to France.
Mr.. Bissell is in favor of an internn
tional stamp, and it is expected that il
short time he will decide as to the
merits of the plan. Washington Post
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
Queer Adventures OF a l.al.

Robert Ammen, nineteen years old,
had queer experience in the Arctic
seas last season, and he has asked the
Superior Court to compel Cap tain L.
w. Newth to pay him SjO0o in conse-
quenc. Young Ammen has brought
the suit through his mother, Mrs
Belle Ammen, whD acts rs his guar
dian.
According TO the complaint Ammen
shipped rs II green hand on ths wha!-
ing vessel Jeanette III March. 1923.
Captain Newth made him -Isbin boy. !,
and they sailed away 10 the Siberian
Seas. Two months later, off East
Cape, Siberia, the captain took on
board an Indian squaw, who WINS am
bilious to be II passenger and sail tho
Northern seas. AS she was down.fA
the books as IL tirst-class cabin pas
senger, Ammon had to carry duff and
canned salmon daily to her he,d1uart-
ers. His feelings were greatly shocked
at the way she flung the food about
and acted generally.
To add to his distress Captain
Newth mnrooned him aud dying
sailor named Joe White on one of the
Herschell Islands. White WAS sick
and Of no account on board nu active
whaler, so he was set on shore with
young Ammen to nurse him. Ammeu
claims that they were left with insult
ficiert supplies and no medicine.
White soon died. Ammcn dug n
grave for him in the frozen ground,
md then sat down to wait till the
whaler hove in sight to pick him up.
In the course of time he got away, but
il was narrow escape.
Mrs. Ammen believes that her son
was badly treated, and she asks dam
ages accordingly. San Francisco Elk
aminer
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
A Japanese Trick,

The cute Japanese played a pretty
trick to find out the condition of the
Chinese fleet that was SO knocked
around by the Japs at the naval bat.
tie of the Yalu River. The Chinese
fleet was anchored at Wei-Hai. Wei.
The Japanese warship Yoshino- Kahn
reprinted and then hoisted the Chi.
nese colors and started for Wei-Hai-
Wei, pursued by Japanese man-of.
war. The pursuing vessel frod sew
eral shells at tho disguised steamer
and the people in Wei-Hai- Wei, do.
ceived by the strategy, signaled the
flying steamer to enter the port. She
availed herself of the invitation long
enough to ascertain that the Chen
Yuen, Fing-Yuen, Tsing-Yuen, Chi.
Yuen, KwangP Ping, Chen-Tung, Chen
PA, Chen-Nan and Chen-Pop were
lying at anchor within and then she
fled. The ruso was discovered rs she
was leaving the harbor and several
shots were sent after her, but not one
struck her. st. Louis Star-Sayings.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22

ThGh,ews from the Coolgardie gold
II FIX, 49, Australia is tragic. From nil
accol. t|tho new FL Dorado must be
another Death Valley. Not only pros
pectors in the vicinity, hut even
miners in the camp itself have died of
thirst. Artesinn behring's have failed to
furnish any result, and the men work
ing ID temperature of 100 in the
shade are compelled to depend for
supplies on camel trains across the
desert. There is railroad that comes
within hundred miles of the camp,
and if the mines hold out there will
probably be pipe line eventually to
carry water, but there seems to be
nothing at Coolgardie calculated to
lure the honest miner away from Cali.
forum, even with hydraulicking here
still subjected to some difficulties.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Every man is supposed to know his
own business, but it is hard for his
friends to believe it.
Method is like packing things in n
box; good packer will get i'll half as
much again as bad one.
The crank may have wheel in his
head, but the thing is to put spoke
in it before he does any harm.
1t is not SO much what the world
consumes, but what tho world wastes,
that causes emptiness and want.
Under the shadow of gratitude
turks resentment-the resentment of
mourning obligations undischarged.
1t is the man who has to live on
corn bread Mt homo who finds the
most fault with the pie when he
travels.
Love Mt sight 81 not considered
nearly so good u security, i'll the mat
rimonial market, as love twelve
months after date.
Some men claim that they get so
they cart write on account of cramp
in the fingers The most usual reason.
is cramp of the brain.
There is SO much of the martyr i'll
woman that she doesn't mind n little
abuse for the comfort she gets in tell
ing her best friend about it.
The girl makes tho greatest obiec-
lion to any public demonstration of
Affection before marriage; the man
makes the objection afterward.
When man goes dead broke then
is the time he is nearly always the
most in need OF money. When blow
ing himself rccklessly man should
think of that.
There nre three kinds of people in
the world, tho wills, the won'ts and
the can'ts. The first accomplish
everything, the second oppose every
thing, the thir,l fail i'll everything. =
The South-W
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
A Turtle III a Prison.

"Down at the prison at Yuma con-
vict No. TIT has four legs, n neck un-
like that of any other convict, neither
speaks nor does bit of work, and has
a back as hard as piece of iron. He
has friend in every one about the
prison, from Superintendent Gates
down." said gentleman recently who
visited the Territorial Penltentiary.
"You ask what sort of human being
No. TT can be? Why, nothing but a
big desert turtle, which some years
ago made his appearance inside the
wells and has located permanently.
"These great awkward creatures are
about half the size of full grown sen
turtle. Their home Is on the desert
or among the mountains. They have
been known to travel hundreds OF
miles. The ono at the prison is of
average size and very tame. Convict
Ut always attracts attention from Wis
itors, and is likely to be met with in
any quarter of the grounds.
81 am told that the Indians con-
slider the flesh of the desert turtle n
delicacy. Convict TIT will not, how.
ever. suffer fate like that. When he
passes in his checks he will be buried
along with the convicts who have gone
before and lie sleeping in the prison,
cemetery. Tucson (Arizona) Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22

The increased exports Of wheat from
Argentine and India arc by some er-
roneously attributed to tho introduce
ton of labor-saving machinery into
those countries. 1t is we'll known fact,
states the San Francisco Chronicle,
that little or no improved farming ma
chinery is employed in India, and no
great use of it is made in Argentine.
The large supplies of wheat from
those countries are chiefly drawn forth
by the premium on gold, which oper-
ates as stimulus to the expectation
of agricultural products. The fnct is
so well understood that no argument
is required to support the assertion,
still there are monometallists and
Others, who have not given the subject
the study it deserves, who maintain
that the exceedingly low prices of
wheat now ruling are caused by Ill
dian and Argentine competition, n
competition which would cease in the
case of the former country and be
greatly diminished from the latter il
the appreciation of gold were stopped
and bimetallism resumed by the
world.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
A RAINBOW IN THE SKY.

rs hard to tell what's comm TO this country
but It's plnin
Il we don't have amy SUNSHINE we must be re-
signed To rain;
The times is out o joint, nm the sons; comes
with the sigh,
Gut I reckon there's rainbow That's
a-reachin' round the sky!
SO, never mind the blowln'
Or the storm that's swcepin' by;
You kin almost sec the glowin'
or that rainbow in the sky.
rs hard to tell what's comm to thi, coun-
try, Int il seems
sill happy with lis sngin' birds an all il;
rippllu' strcams;
The times is topsy-turycy, an The storm i;
howln' nigh;
Gu! T reckon therc'sT rainbow tina. ;
;:-rcachin' round the Sky.
No use inropinin'
When the roses droop IN die;
Son kin almost see tho siiinin'
OF that rainbow In the sky.
Atlanta Constitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
sTRANcEE ruAN r1crloN.

A certain member OF the Michigan
Legislature hns n word that is not
nearly rs good as his bond, albert, his
word goes to the miraculous rather
than to tho malicious, so that lie
really does moro good by talking than
if he didn't talk. The other day II
fellow member who didn't know his
peculiarities heard him tell some.
thing, and shortly after he met an
other member who knew him from 81
long time back.
"By the way" said the imaginative
members new friend, "Mr. Blank told
me n strange thing awhile ago
"Ah, was the immedinte response,
''what was it, the truth?''-Detroit
Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22

War is being waged IN England
against the use of the word scientist. "
The Duke of Argyll, Sir John Lub.
book, Lord Rayleigh, Lord Kelvin
and Professor Huxley unreservedly
condemn the word Sir John Lubbock
proposes philosopher instead
Lords Rayleigh and Kelvin prefer
naturalist" Professor Huxley thinks
that scientist" must be about as
pleasing ms "electrocution" to any
one who respects the English langu.
age. Grant Allen, while Disappearing
OF the word, thinks it is pedantry to
object to new word when it is USED
by majority of persons; after the
camels of 'altruism" and SOCIOLOGY. .
-"scientist" is comparatively a gnat
Alfred Wallace alone is not disturbed
by the word; he describes it rs use
full, and argues that, since VIC hay,
biologist, geologist, chemist, physi
cist and specialist, we might MS vel
use scientist" and he further asks
"What is there to use instead?'
Science Gossip says the word was frs
invented and used by Whewell in hi
PHILOSOPHY of the Inductive Sciences
! in 1910.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22

Citizens of Wheeling, w. Va,
started to bore for oil or gas, eff they
had to go to China" and reached IL
depth Of 400 feet without tapping
either. At That depth it cost SO foot
to drill. The Government geological
survey took great interest in the
Wheeling bore, but Frank Lesbos
Weekly learns that no great results
have been shown.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
NO SIGN OF REGRET.

A drill sergeant of II volunteer rcgi-
ment in drillinga squad whom he was
instructing in the funeral exercise,
said, "Now, lads, L want to see how
well you can do it. I'm going to walk
through the ranks, and 1 wish you 10
suppose I'm the corpse"
Ho ordered the squad to rest on
their arms reversed, and stand at
ease. Then ho walked through the
ranks, and addressed them us follows ::
"Your arms arc all right and your
feet arc all right, but there is one
thing wanting, my lads; you hadn't
that look of regret on your face that
you ought to have when corpse
walks past. "-Yit Bits.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22

what ana broken waster. Blu.
there is one thing won't do, and
that's ask help from her. She'd give
it, if / sought for it; she'd call me
back rs her husband if she knew me
to be alive; she'd share with me will.
ingly whit is, perhaps, after all,
legally mine to share. But no. She's
good woman, and I'm what they call
in the States u mean man. Yes.
mighty mean, and down Mt heel, not
at all white; but I've madc my bed,
and won't remnl.e it even if | have
the chance. Things are mncomforta-
bic, hut l guess they won't drag ont
much longer"
He snt heavily down on the wet
waysidc turf. his legs dangling over
the ditch. ''ren years; ten terrors
for me- Ten years for her thinking
herself my widow Shes had the
chance to marry again | heard all
about it. Leslie asked her, the only
man | WAS jealous Of before ( won hcr
tor myself. She likes him / know
she always did; and for him she's the
only woman in the world. But She
wouldn't marry him for all that.
though nc could have given her love.
title, more wealth, yes, everything n
woman could want.
A crunching noise made the tramp
turn his glance. y smart carriage
with n pair of ponies was coming up
round turn of the west road. \ wo-
man was driving; II man in livery Snt
Ian 4 al F,t
ute with starting eyes; then turned
away and with bowed head faced the
ditch. "Oh, my Cod" he murmured,
and clinchad his hands till the nails
drew blood
The noise OF The wheels ccnscl and
there was the sound OF rustling skirts.
The tramp also noticed the faint smell
of scalskin, but lie kept his back rcso-
lutely immovGble.
>U;corgc."
The tramp did not stir. A trcm-
bling hand WIS placed on his wet
shoulder.
"cieorsc, look NJ. I know it is
you"
"Woman, go away. You are max
ing mistake"
"Look me in The face and repeat
that
FL will rot. l cant"
She slipped down 10 seat beside
him on the soddcn turf, and the groom
at the ponies head felt his jaw drop
down through wonder.
"Oh, Louise, why can't you pass me
By? l only came for peep. /
didn't intend you to see mc-Go6
knows didn't. It's NIL yours now
and III not take fraction away iron
you. | have chosen my path like the
sconndrci that WIS. and I must lloe,
along it, 1t isn't lit that should
turn back now"
Net you must stay. now that I ha-e
found you
I tell you J. cannot. You would rot
ask me if you knew what have BEN,
how vilely have sinncd against you.
Don't shake your head; it is true. II
you won't credit that, listen"
She threw her arms abont his shoul-
ders, pressing him iiorcely to her
breast.
Dear" she said, lyon have como
back TO me. l know that; I dc not
want to know any more"
The tramp tried to pluck himself
from the embrace, without avail.
Then he lay against her furs and
shuddered, but made no more resist
nnce.
Louise Carr had taken back her
husband. i Black and White.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
A SENSIBLE OLD LADY.

A recently published book on rail-
way systems contains this new version
OF the old story of an aged lady's first
journey by rail. AS the train was
pitched down an embankment, and she
crewled from beneath the wreckage,
she asked passenger, sis this Siam
ford?"
"No, madam" replied the man,
who was pinned down by piece Of
timber, "this is not Stamford; it's Il
catastr ophe! !"
"Oh!" cried the Indy. "Then hadn't
oughter got off here. The Amusing
journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
Jnpan's Debt 10 Germany.

Emperor William, of Germany, re.
ceived in audience Count Aoki, the
Japanese Minister, who presented his
Majesty with the insignia of the Order
of the Chrysanthemun, bestowed upon
the Emperor by tho Mikako in recog.
milton of the services rendered to the
Japanese army by tho instructions
given by German officers to the Japan
ese officers. New York Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-22
Friend-"What is that?"
SOLD.

Lady" My father this is between
ourselves--called on your landlady tc
make inquiries about you"
Gent lin rage)-"You mustn't be.
lieve word she says; the old has
tells q pack of lies every time sh,
opens her mouth"
Lady-"Indeed? thank You fol
the information. The fact is. sh,
praised you up to the skies. "-Flieg
ende Blaetter.