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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN E. SCHMAHL.
THURSDAY, DEC. 80, 1897.
NO HURRY TO QUIT.
Is What Mr.. Sinclair Tells the St.
Paul People.
From Wednesdays Pioneer Press.


The call which the First Presbyteri-
an church extended to Rev. John Sin
clair of Redwood Falls two weeks ago
has not yet reached the reverend gen.
tleman, and in First Presbyterian
church circles there is much perplex-
ity thereat. By the elders of the First
church the call for a time was sup
posed to have been lost, but it has
since been discovered that it is in the
hands of Rev. J. G. Robinson of White
Bear, clerk of st. Paul presbytery.
After the congregational meeting of
the First church at which unani
nous call was made out to Mr.. Sin
clair and signed by fifteen members
in the name of the congregation, the
call was sent, according to Presby
terrain form, to the clerk of the St.
Paul presbytery, the congregation of
the First church believing that with
in two days the call would be in the
hands of Mr.. Sinclair in Redwood
Falls. The elders of the First church
waited and waited for the response of
Mr.. Sinclair and none came. They
made inquiry at last and found from
Mr.. Sinclair that though he had heard
of such call having been made he
had received no official notification of
it and was waiting for such notifca-
ton from the st. Paul presbytery.
1t transpires that the clerk of the
st. Paul presbytery believed that the
First church would notify Mr.. Sin
clair and the latter would thereupon
call meeting Of the Mankato presby-
terry, in which he resides, and ask for
translation from the Mankato to the
st. Paul presbytery. when, at the first
regular meeting of St. Paul presbytery
on Jan. Ii the call would be put into
his hand. The minister at Redwood
Falls is more conservative in his inter-
probation of Presbyterian law, it would
appear, than the clerk of St. Paul
presbytery, and refuses to cut himself
loose from his flock at Redwood Falls
until the call has been put into his
hands by the St. Paul presbytery. His
argument is that he has no call. The
call is apparently in the Golfers of the
St. Paul presbytery on the frozen
banks of White Bear Lake. The
clerk of st. Paul presbytery cannot,
it appears, without calling meeting
of the presbytery, forward the call to
Mr.. Sinclair, and Mr.. Sinclair prefers
to remain where be is until the call is
forwarded in regular Presbyterian
form. He reasons that if he got to-
gether meeting of his own presby-
terry and was transferred to St. Paul
presbytery, that presbytery would be
under no obligations to put the call
into his hands, when the call, though
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30
Something to Know.

1t may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor-
ing the tired out nervous system to a
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tone to the nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates the liver
and kidneys, and aids these organs IN
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improve the appetite,
aids digestion, and is pronounced by
those who have tried it as the very best
purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold
for SO cents or ST. per bottle at Hitch
cock & Co.'s drug store. 2
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30
PAY FOR PROTECTION.
What the State and County Gov.
eminent Demands of You.

Last week the personal property tax
list for this city was published, except
page of the city book which was
unintentionally overlooked. This
week the page is published, together
with several other towns:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30
Notice..

We shall close our books January
LIST, 1898. All accounts due us at
that time will be placed with our COL
lector. If you are indebted to us,
please call before that time and settle.
Colt SOUTHw1CK & ANGEL.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30

The c.. & n. w. will sell excursion
tickets on Dec. %, "a and Is and 81,
1897, and Jan. LIST, 1898, good to return
Jan. 4th, to all points within 200 miles
of selling station, at one and one-th1rd
for the round trip. 1885,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30

For Christmas and New Years holt
days the M. & St. L. r. r. will sell
tickets at rate of one and one-third fare
for the round trip to points within dis
lance of 200 miles. Tickets will be sold
Dec "a, Is and 81, 1897, and Jan. lst,
1898, good for return passage to and in
Guiding Jan. 4th, 1898. 1885,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
HER BICYCLE SURPRISE.
1t Didn't Pan Out Quite the Way thu
Young Woman Expected.

1t Didn't Pan Out Quite the Way the
Young Woman Expected.
"Our pretty gran daughter, said
old Farmer Grout, dryly, according
to the New York World, doomed her
cute checkered boomers yesterday,
hoped a-straddle of her bicycle and
rode away out here into the country
to surprise her gran'ma and me. We
were quite a good deal surprised, too,
when she scooted up to the house, and
l guess we showed it. If l hadn't been
lookin' out of the barn door and hol-
Tered just in time reckon her gran'ma
whose eyesight amt quite as good as
mine, would have scalded her pretty
badly with the dipper of b'illin' water
that she grabbed up when she saw
what she thought was q new kind
of agent comm to the door. And then,
while the young lady's gran'ma was
haulin' her into the other room to tear
the boomers off from her, / was ISlst
lin the bicycle out to the woodshed,
and loolxin around for the axe. And
while / was knockin' the blamed con-
traption into a tangle of twisted wires
and wigglin' rubber rather guess her
gran'ma was spankin' her with deft-
ness born of long practice A little
later the young lady, very red-eyed
and weepy and clad in one of her
gran'mas old dresses, which didn't fit
her within a mile and a quarter, was
bein' hauled back to town in her nice
old gran'pa's market wagon. 1 don't
know for certain, but Irather guess
that the next time she attempts to sur
prise her grandparents she will stand
off as far as possible and holler at 'em
through one of them speakin' horns
that Mister Edison has lately invent
ed"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
Poultry for Profit.

II rightly handled, hens will lay from
$50 to ITS eggs year, and as our aver
age price for the year is about 20 cents
a dozen lele in New England, our hens
should produce from S3.12 to $3.S7
worth of eggs alone, says Farm Poul-
try. Sell her to market before she
mouths, and you add so cents more to
the gross income, making 1892 to $4.S7
for each hen. Deduct $1.25 for cost Of
food, and we have the comfortable
profit of $3.50 to So for each hen. Keep
in mind that it is the winter eggs that
pay the profit, and it is the pullets that
we must look to for eggs in the winter
In order to get. pullets to lay in the
fall, and have them produce goodly
supply Of eggs all winter, they must be
early Matched and rightly handled. The
late maturing and late laying pullets
Of this year means late breeding birds
next spring, consequently more late
Matched chickens to mature late next
autumn, and not begin to lay until an
other winter, one season tapping over
and crowding another, those late ma
turing birds producing the bulk of
their eggs at time when everybody's
hens are laying, and eggs can hardly be
sold at a price at which they pay any
profit. The converse of this is equally
true. Early Matched pullets, got to
laying before cold weather, and kept
laying, will be abundantly broody in
March, which enables another supply
Of early Matched chickens, the pullets
Of which will be laying before cold
weather comes on, and freely all
through the winter, giving us another
generation of early brooders and more
early-hatched chickens. The whole
story of profitable poultry raising can
be summed up in three short rules:
First, hatch the chickens early; second,
keep them growing, so the pullets shall
come to laying maturity before cold
weather; third. keep them laying by
good care and good food. When say
hatch the chickens early, do not
mean too early. The first OF April is
the best time to hatch chickens for
fall and winter layers.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
PARIS ETIQUETTE.
Afternoon Tea tho Society Function
Most In Evidence.

Most In Evidence.
The time was when 1t was not con-
sidered good form in Paris for a lady
to have her address engraved on her
card. says Paris letter in Harper's
Bazaar, and the story Is told OF the wife
of one Of our ambassadors who was
obliged to keep one servant busy with
nothing but hunting up the addresses
of the people who had left cards on
her, in Tout Paris and the Livre Bleu.
Now it is perfectly good form, and the
general custom to have ones address
on her card; the day one sees less
often. 1t is perfectly proper in Paris
for man who meets O. woman at q
dinner to leave card upon her,
upon her or not. If the woman wishes
to continue his acquaintance she sends
him her card with her day ON 1t, or a
card for some special function. Moth
ing of this kind is ever pushing; it is
simply etiquette, but it depends on
ones innate delicacy and good taste to
use etiquette SO that friendship follows
in its train.
In Paris the stranger or newcomer
always makes the first call. There
must be uniformity in custom, so the
American colony has adopted French
rules for visiting. A newcomer leaves
her card first on old acquaintance.
New ones invite her to their houses.
and she goes without expecting card
first. Nearly all formal invitations
among Americans in Paris are en-
graved in French-a thing that Ameri-
cans sometimes pronounce an affecta-
ton, but they forget how extremely
uncomfortable it would be If all for
eigners going to live in New York, for
instance, should insist on having invi-
tations issued in their own language.
An invitation received in French
should be answered in French. After
noon tea might almost be called the
society function in Paris most in evil
dence. And afternoon teas are charm
ing there, for men have the leisure to
go to them. And formal teas are
nearly always accompanied by delight
full music. Many a beautiful songster
of the opera stage has first been heard
in little circle of connoisseurs and
music-lovers in Paris salon. After
noon tea in private salons on days at
home in Paris is generally served in
two ways. If the hostess has some
one to pour for her she has her din
ing-room table set with plates at each
place, beside each of which is knife
and fork Scenes or mullins or sand
witches, or all of these, plum cake or
sponge cake or light tea cakes or little
cakes are all served, but rarely bon
bons or coated almonds or any such
things, which properly belong to des-
sert at dinner and have nothing to do
with tea.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
Value of Butter That Keeps.

A speaker at a Manitoba institute
said: Let me mention what are the
essential qualities in butter which peo-
pie are willing to pay high price for.
1t Is not correct to say the value OF
butter depends on the quantity Of fat
1t contains, because you can have but
ter which is not salable for 3 cents a
pound and contains just as much fat
as another butter which sells for %
cents pound. 1t is that sort of thing
we call flavor that fixes the value. 1t
is not the nourishing properties: it is
the satisfying properties. So flavor is
the most important quality Of butter.
The flavor Of Canadian butter when
fresh made is superior to the flavor of
Danish butter when fresh made-not
merely equal to it. We have been mod
est as people, and have said nothing,
while the Danes have been getting the
English papers to write up their butter
because it is fashionable to do so. We
have suffered, also, because the flavor
was not nearly so good in our butter
when it reached the English market
as 1t was when made. Danish butter
gets to the British consumer without
any deterioration, so that it is just
as good when it arrives in Eng
land as 1t was in the Danish
creamery. If we can do what they do
get the butter from the place it is made
to the place it is eaten without spelling
in transit-we can out-do them in the
price obtained.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19

will be crumbly, not \ soft mush. The
second feed, just after the middle Of the
forenoon, is the coarse oatmeal men
toned above; early in the afternoon. a
light feed of cracked wheat Is given
them, and towards night feed Of
whole wheat or cracked corn, one on
one day. the other the next. Twice a
week we have fresh meat butchers
trimmings). cooked and chopped fine,
which is mixed with the coarse oatmeal
for the second feeding. We have also
bone cutter, and on two days in the
week the chicks have a good time
wrestling or tumbling over each other
in their eagerness to get the fresh-cut
bone, the cut-bone taking the place Of
one of the regular feeds.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
VARIETIES.

A store in Chicago announces: "Pick-
les and New York papers"
From the intensity of the labor riots
at Hamburg there must be a good deal
at steak.-Chicago Tribune.
On statistics furnished by the phar-
macists it is estimated that there are
in Paris alone at least $4,000 victims of
the morphine habit.
Mother-You must never put off till
tomorrow what you can just as we'll
do today. Freddie-Then let me finish
that pie -Fliegende Batter.
Cabbage is said to be cure for in
toxication. Natives of Egypt eat
Boiled cabbage before their other food
il they intend to drink wine after din
ner.
A musical bicycle is one OF the latest
inventions. The motion of the vehicle
grinds out the tunes, and the wheel
man whirls along to the strains of live
ly harmony.
An ostrich will never go straight to
its nest, but always approaches it with
many windings and detours, in order,
II possible, to conceal the locality from
observation.
The Empress of Japan writes poetry
and keeps a diary, which was recently
published, with some of her verses.
She is greatly interested in the wo-
man question.
A Chicago man put his lantern into
an oil tank at street-railway power
house the other night to see whether
the supply was running low or not,
with fatal results.
The groom tainted twice at fashion.
ionable wedding in Lexington, KY.
and forgot the ring. but otherwise.
local paper says. the marriage was
pretty affair in pink and white.
Doctor-You want some strengthen.
ing medicine. sir. Mr.. Mulligan lem.
phatically)-Oi do that, docthor. Shure
my wolfe is much stronger that OF am
an she bates me onmercifully!-
Fun.
There is sign in front of George
town (Md) store that reads as follows
Born with : brain within a brain
can kure every kind of misery in
short time with only the best erbs t.
be used"
A beard On the side of a house a
Forbes. Mo-, was removed the othe.
day by the owner. as it appeared warp
ed. He found a hive in the wall ant
l25 pounds Of honey. The bees h@
entered through a knot hole.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
Food for Chicks.

A poultry writer gives the following
as his practice: The chief food fer the
first six weeks is coarse oat meal,
slightly moistened with sweet milk if
we have it. and waste bread from ho-
tells and restaurants, which Is thor
oughly dried and ground to coarse
crumbs in bone mill. Fresh water
and grit must be provided. When six
weeks old the chickens are separated
from their mothers, and put on the
same grass fields. We usually feed
them but four times day, giving them
instead = the crumbs in the morning.
feed of mixed meal. which is equal
paris of cornmeal. ground oats. shorts,
fancy middlings Tor red dog. as It is
cai1ed in some localities). To this we
add about 10 per cent Tor one scoopful
in 10) of meat. meal. or beef scraps.
This mixture Is moistened with sweet
milk or water, care being taken that
1t is only so much moistened that 1t
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19

jersey COWS. lue
third step in dairy farming is first
class Jersey bull, deeply bred in but
ter lines. These three things constitute
the plant. The next step and the most
important Of all, in successfully dairy
farming, is real live farmer. who un-
derstands mis- business and has bust
ness sense enough to work the plant
for all there Is in 1t. 1t has been pretty
thoroughly demonstrated during the
past three years that there is no oc-
cupation open to the farmer that will
give better or surer results than
dairying. II properly kept. the yield
from the cows Is constant and never
failing. Dry location and hard times
may change conditions to some extent,
but as compared with grain-raising and
other objects to which the farm may be
devoted sdairying has been thoroughly
proven to be the money making rae
tor and the source from which most en-
enlargement and satisfaction comes. II
Is not imperative that the stock for
business purpose be pure In blood, LOT
this in many instances would bar Its
use by dairymen Of moderate means
who could not afford the high prices
which first-class thoroughbred Jerseys
command, for while 1t has been salts
factorily demonstrated that the COW OF
cure origin carefully bred through well
tested strains, is about sure to perpet-
uate her qualities to her offspring, II
she be mated with judgment 1t Is quite
within the possibilities to breed a class
of cows of humber descent that will re-
turn as much dairy profit. Purity OF
blood is a feature that interests the
professional breeder more than the
man who looks to the yield Of his cows
from their udder product as means Of
livelihood or of profitably advancing
his chosen business. There are many
grade Jersey cows that fill the ranks Of
dairy herds in different parts of the
country that reflect great credit upon
the breed and their yield would put to
shame that of hundreds of their sis
tiers more royalty bred. Such cows
bred to bull pure in blood, descend
ing in lineage noted for rich milk and
butter yields, will keep the farm sup
piled with great butter stock that can
not be accomplished in any other way
as economically or with as much profit.
-Ex.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
Meant Business.

The little bumblebees, according to
a correspondent of the London Spec
tator, have a persistent but gentle way
of making their business known. He
writes: When camping for the day in
a 1ir wood, my sister became aware of
two of these soft little creatures buzz
zing round and round the skirt of her
dress in such determined and spirited
way that we felt they meant business,
and not mischief My sister drew her
skirt away, when the bees instantly
made for tiny hole in the bank, evil
IDENTIFY their house door. Their gentle,
persistent manner of making their
meaning known to us was most strik~
ing.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
Cattle In Utah.

The total number of cattle in the
state last spring, according to the as
sessment rolls Of the various counties,
was 1876, 404 head, which were valued
for taxation purposes at $2,204,36S. In
numbers these figures indicate de-
crease from 1895 Of 1908 cattle, but
in value the returns show an increase
of $S6,913 for the lesser number listed
in 1896. The average value per head
last year was SLIPS, while that of 1895
was 1896. In 1894 the several counties
of the state returned for taxation 1885,
355 cattle which were worth on an av-
erage, according to the officials of that
time, about 5000 head. During the
year there have been sold for delivery
out of the state close upon 10000 cat
tie. OF these the markets caught in the
vicinity of 10000. The remaining 49,
900 were disposed among the states as
follows: Wyoming, 1900; Montana,
1000; Nebraska, 5000; Kansas, 1000;
North Dakota, 5000; Colorado, $500;
Missouri, 1900; Idaho, 1900; British Co.
lumbia, 5000; various, 5000; total 49,
600. The consumption within the state
has been hard to get at in the absence
of records to refer to. From the infor-
maton bearing upon the subject which
has been secured the number killed
for use within the state and territory
Immediately adjacent which it supplies
has been estimated as running between
35 900 and 40000.-Salt Lake Tribune
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19

Henri de Laband, who had lost his
whole fortune, had asked the directors
for aid, and had received it. A thou
sand francs! Certainly, the bank would
grant him that.
On the morrow Esther appeared
alone at the green table.
He has lost her, toov the employees
whispered.
A SHOT ANSWERED HER.
She changed check for 1000 france.
: in case she should lose the 1 1000 francs,
and he would come to call for her.
Dear Henri is so peculiar" she
murmured.
She staked 100. francs and won. She
let the gain stand and won. again.
How happy Henri will be-" And thus
she won five times in success on.
"She will break the bank, lie spec
tators whispered to one anotner. She
heard nothing. She thought of Henri.
Again Esther won. The bankkeeper
tossed over 10000 francs to her. She
did not notice this. How strangely
Henri had acted. Where could he have
procured the money, after having lost
everything on the previous day? He
<8ld her he had found the check among
lis papers. Perhaps he had pawned
his diamonds. Dear Henrii Again she
won.
The bankkeeper looked at her fur
iously ant Gkevo& $1,000 francs in
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
Rivals In the May.

There has been a rivalry between
dancing clubs at Anderson, Ind, in
the matter of long waltzes Probab-
ly all records in the state have been
broken by Hugh Hays and Miss Mil
Ter waltzing one hour and thirty-fve
minutes. Pearl Lee and others fell
from exhaustion.