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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-24

We left San Fernando in rain
storm on Aug 18th. We arrived at
Santa Anna at o'clock in the even
ing, having made only ten miles
during the day. The fact that we
carried 100 rounds of amul.ition
in our belts, haversack and can
teen and blanket roll and gun, a
pretty heavy load, made our march
a slow one. We slept in the church
all that night. and in the morning
we .hiked (walked) it to Arayat, a
distance of about five miles. It
was still raining and it kept raining
until Aug. Goth. Talk about rain.
why Arayat was flooded all over
and the banks of the Rio Grande
were overf1owed. They must have
had a lot of rain up in the noun
tains.
ION Aug. 30th we received or
ders to try and get through to San
Isidro to join General Funston. Co.
D Of the Third Infantry, and 20
men from Co. q of the I'D Infantry
and 40 mounted scouts of the ed
Infantry left Arayat at 2 o'clock in
the morning, and we crossed the
river on ferry. AS soon as we
got to the other side we were in the
water up to our knees. We made
about five miles in the water up to
our waists, and at times and some
times little deeper.
about nine O'Clock we heard
volley firing over in the swamps
and as luck would have it we had to
return to Arayat. We got back at
six O'Clock in the evening and we're
all pretty we'll tired out. We left
Arayat on Sept. Sd in two large
cascoes (big boats) bound for Ca
umpit, which is along the railroad.
We arrived there at 6 o'clock in the
evening, after being in the boat
just eight hours The next morn
ing we arrived at San Fernando,
and we were glad to get home once
more.
''Three natives will be hung in
Apalit next week and we have one
here in San Fernando WHO'S soon to
stretch hemp. Their crimes against
the law is murder in each case.
manila has changed consider
able since the volunteers left the
Islands. She is now flourishing
city and is kept nice and clear.
Business there is rushing and the
natives are glad that the ULited
States has taken charge of the Is
lands / am satisfied that the Ia
galos will give up as soon as Nc
Kinley is reelected and that an era
of prosperity will dawn on the
Philippines, and that natives will
realize what is meant by civilization.
You will probably remember
Parker, who came to Redwood Falls
with F. L. Peterson. He is a SER
CANT in Co. K of this regiment.
II have had the fever and chills
this week and my baud is unsteady.
making it difficult for me to write
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-24

A safe and quick cure forl Cholera,
Diarrhoea, ETC., safe for children or
adults, Mull's lightning Specific. Keep
it handy. 25c I'm
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-24

E. c. PATTERSON c. G. JOHNSON,
General Manager. travelling collector.
MATHEWS PATTERSON. Attorneys.
NlHE MATHEWS & PATTERSON
= Law AND COLLECTION AGENCY
Marshall and Redwood Falls, MINI.
Redwood Falls once, C. q. JOHNSON, Mgr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-24
PHYSICIANS.

A B. HALVES, NJ. D.,
IA. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON,
REDWOOD FALLS MINI.
Country calls promptly attended to.
once and Residence on Washington ave-,
corner 4th, opposite r. M. ISham lumber yard
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-24
DENTIST.

L. DENTIST
Successor to E. L. HAYES.
Will visit adjoining towns on NJ + st. l.
road the first ten days of each month.
once in Once Block,
REDWOOD FALLS. MINN
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
2 This Cat Was Intelligent.

Cats are not usually given credit
for as high an order Of intelligence as
that Of q dog, yet they sometimes
show wonderful cleverness. In Brigh-
ton, England, is q cat that holds Is
sfre-brigade medal. After its mistress
had retired one evening nl &, the cat went to
her door and scratched to be let in.
So soon as the, door was opened, the
cat Immediately turned and walked
downstairs. Her mistress knew that
the &: eat wished her to follow, and upon
doing so she discovered that table
cloth in the sitting room had caught
fire from some sparks in the CRATE.
The engine came and exiting uished the
flames, and the fire department. pre-
scented the medal which the cat now
wears around its neck.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13

e -" - . e -
beasts showing all signs Of exhilara-
ton. $%$< a.- ~ sa5a S4ha9 5slst%& 4 6s'
While the animals are having good
time the dark-skinned natives appear.
Some of the monkeys escape. but the
others are too joyful to mistrust
anything, and appear to take the ne
groes fol. larger species of their own
family. The negroes catch one or two
and begin to pet them and lead them
away. The monkeys take the hands
of other monkeys and form line of
ten or a dozen monkeys, being led by
a negro. They are led in this man
ner some distance away. where the
negroes have been hiding and have
cages awaiting them. always on the
outer edge of a negro village.
For two or three days little of the
liquid is given the monkeys to recon-
Gle them by degrees to their captiv-
ity. The men feed and tame them and
take them down into the city and to
the wharfs to sell them. and, as the
Brazilian lives in a land where foou1
and drink are easily found, he lives
very cheaply, so by selling monkey
for rs cents he makes q HANDSOME
profit.
He has even less trouble catching
parrots in many traps and raising
them, SO he can be said to live lazy
mans life. Cincinnati Commercials
Tribune.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
INGENIOUS BOATMEN. I.
stone-Worl<er. Out II Oregon Devise
= Boat Which Pulls Itself
49, 81 Upstream. ss* 49,

n St. Nicholas p ancis Ellington
Leupp describes an ingenious device
by which certain Oregon stone-work-
Iers| save themselves s deal 81 zunneees-
sary labor 81
Doubulessa nearly every boy with e
taste for out-of-d DOR sports, he says,
has made q boat, which the wind or
the current would cause TO aoat over
the surface Of q; pond. q have seen
some lads rig up RATS on which they
could themselves ride down swift
flowing creek; and I knew one, even,
who was clever enough to build q
complete little steamboat. He could
light a lamp under the q little boiler,
and the steam would form. and the
piston would work, and the wheels
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
CAPTURING MONKEYS.
The Manner In which the Bra.ilisn
Negro Takes Advantage Of
Jocko's Appetite. .el &

Once, while was a cabin boy on a
merchant ship, we stopped for several
days at Rio Janeiro, which gave me a
splendid chance to look around that
very interesting South American city.
But, being a true American boy, I
didn't think anything there was las
good as my home in New York. ex-
cept the. monkeys and the parrots.
About a dozen peddlers swarmed
about the wharfs selling monkeys and
parrots to the many travellers who
came and went from that port. They
had SO many young monkeys and sold
them n so eheaply 4 paid IS cents for
a little monkey and five cents for a
young parrot) that my curiosity made
me ask: DO they raise them"
which question greatly amused q
dark-skinned old Brazilian who spoke
very good English. He then told me
how these people got the immense
number Of monkeys they brought to
the dwharfs. -asEa I'll 4af6 Vii. fE& fz5i
The natives make fermented liquid,
one of the ingredients of which u is
sour milk from cocoanuts, of which
the monkeys are very fond. They
take this beer to parts Of the forest
frequented by monkeys and set it on
the ground in big calabashes, as the
vessels are called, and then hide. AS
soon as. the monkey sees and tastes
this enticing liquid he utters loud
cries Of joy, calling his companions.
Then they begin q ''jamboree," the
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
BOAT PULLING ITSELF UPSTREAM.


much power. There it would be made
fast again, until the rope could be dis
engaged from the cylinder and coiled,
ready for use when needed. Then the
man would cut loose seize his paddle
Or pole, and work away till the next
rapid was reached, when he would
start off with his rope and repeat the
opera ton described above.
This process is WearisoMe with q
heavy stone boat but it struck me. as
u watched it. that 9 bright boy could
adapt It to q toy scow and get q deal
of amusement out Of it. H the experi-
ment did nothing more, it would at
least be q lesson in the art which
every mechanic must learnof max
ing the forces OF nature his servants,
and compelling them 70 do for him
what would otherwise require . good
deal OF labor at his hands. 81
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
INSECTS IN WINTER.
Many show Wonderful Instinct In
Caring for Their Eggs During al
the Cold Months.

a little boy once asked his father
II the house flies went south for the
winter, like the birds: and then his
father told him long story about
different insects and what became OF
Them during the cold months.
He told the boy that when the au-
4amn comes the death knel of mil
hons Of flies has sounded. They do
not prepare for winter as many
other Insects do. The majority die,
and their little bodies are blown away
BY the passing breeze. "A few hardy
4ies will linger in the cracks in the
walls, creep under the door frames or
into crevicesa in the woodwork and
some naturalists believe that these
few lingering flies are the parents Of
tho multitude that appear in the
warm days of June, for they lay thou
sands of eggs.
Katydids, grasshoppers, crickets
Aand beetles are killed, by the frost,
and the eggs which they hide in the
ground or conceal in the bark of
trees furnish the supply for the next
year. These hatch out in the warm
days of spring. e. go -'@''s
Beetles exhibit a wonderful in
stinct in caring for their eggs during
winter. Among some species the eggs
arc rolled in balls of material suit
. able for food, and then the balls are
packed away in a nest until the in
FAINT beetle,wakes up and eats it's way
out. s'" .1' = g. ~ J. 8
Then there are sexton" beetles,
which deposit their eggs in the bodies
OF dead birds or field mice, after
which they set to work and perform
the proper rites of burial, heaping
: the earth upon the body Of the dead.
The young beetle, when Matched from
the egg, finds a store of food awaiting
its arrival in the world. #
1t is said that spiders store away no
food supply in winter quarters Guam
titles of eggs are laid and carefully
sheltered in velvety cobweb sacks that
defy the weather. These sacks may
be found swinging by silken 4 robes
from the goldenrod and milkweed,
and hidden away in crevices and cor
ners of board fences and stone walls.
The little spiders creep from their
cozy sleeping bags which the wise
mother has provided for them, and il
they escape their cannibal brothers
and sisters they enter at once on ca
reer of trapping and hunting. .:,.,s.G.
Bees and wasps Lay up stores for the
winter, the wasps not as carefully as
the bees, but in the center of the cone
shaped nest of the paper making
wasps may be found goodly stores Of
honey. ' .@..,. r. Il.
The thrifty ant deserves much sym
pathy, in that it is dainty morsel for
spiders, beetles, crickets and other in
sect hunters. A few ants may survive
and feed on accumulated stores dur
ing the winter, but it is chiefly the
eggs and cocoons hidden away in the
secure underground chambers of the
ant hill that furnish the ant popula-l
ton of the following summer.
The ans care of its young; the
management of it's slaves, and the
tiny insect cows which they capture
and from which the honeydew is
MIXED, all would furnish a tale as in
teresting as the customs of any wan
dering tribes of the desert or. any lost
nation of darkest African. Y. Trib-
une. g
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
His Patience was Exhausted. IL.
7 Little four year-old Willie had been

Little four ear-old Willie had been
told repeatedly that he must never
ask for anything at the table, but
should wait patiently till he was
served. One day while dining at q
neigh bor's with his mother the little
fellow was accidentally overlooked
Patience finally ceased to be q virtue,
and il IN audi whisper he said:
Mamma, do little boys go TO Heaven.
when they starye to- death e.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
Those Loving Girls,

:Maude---7How do you like my latest
photo? Ss 4 M $ e b 5s..@ 5s
's@ Clara OH it's just too awfully
lovely for any thing. 81 sss,,
Maude-Do you think it does me
justice? ss s
2 Clara Justice is no name for it,
dear; it is positively merciful to you.
Chicago Daily News. IS. ss5s=
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
Evidently Wanderinr. &

Mrs. Jones Oh, doctorl Is my hus-
band still IRA ii onal z
DR.. DosemE xtremely 50. When .
told him your mot er was coming to-
morrow he smile Judge.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13

Thoroughbred.
u kzrS.I "A 8; - " q, l..s =
Mamma

81 Mamma, I've found out my dogs
pedigree. 3
Ss ''What is it, dear ~ So
Uncle Jim's hired man says he's q
full looded mongrel! Harper's Ba-
gar. = 81.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
Al suburbanT CIocIx.. j

Caller Land sakes! How.late it is.
Mrs. Suburb oh, you mustn't go
by that clock. It's two hours fast.
Caller-Why don you set it right?
Mrs. Suburb Horrors, no! Don't
touch it. That's the clock my hus-
band catches trains by.-N, y.
Weekly.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
out 81 Sight.

Mr.. Crimsonbeak 7zT hat artist spent
three days painting the picture Of q
goat. I never saw a Y thing artistic ii
asgoat. fist5sss. Il
Mrs. Crimson bea k You didn't z? q Do
you member that goat that ate up
my beautiful hand -worked pillow cush-
5ion? Wash tlt here something artistic
in him 35i Es s<g83
i. Mss. Yes, dear. there was; but I couldn't
see it, you know. ~ onkers States
man. Isl Be-. IL & '.stfsS]3s9Ss
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
!. ROPE WINDING ITSELF AROUND
IS AXLE i&}$45}as$ l

would revolVe, just as in a big vessel
that carries passengers and freight.
The trouble with all these; toy boats,
however, IS that they will 60 only one
way Having made their trip, they
have to be toilsomely dragged back by
hand to be started again in the same
direction. :sG5s
t5l While travelling in Oregon, some
time ago, I discovered q boat which
seemed to me the most b ingenious
thing Of its kind I had ever seen. It
was built by some stoneworkers 81 to
convey their stone from the quarry
well up toward the head Of a small
river, down to the mouth. The stream
is everywhere so shallow that it can
be forded without danger; but it is
broken at intervals by stretches of
rapids, or rifles" as they are called
in that neig hborhood, often extending
as far as $50 feet. The men built q
hat-bot toned boat, which they loaded
with stone,l and it carried its cargo
down the stream admirably. But then
arose. the problem, how to get it back
when it had been emptied.i It was too
heavy to haul up the stream by hand.
Where the water was comparatively
smooth there was no trouble, because
one man could ride on the scow and
make his way along with a paddle
and a pole; but the difficulty was to
get it up the rapids. The best OF
boatmen could not hope to propel it
against so powerful a current, and up
hill at that. i=.a.>s. ..s
How do you suppose they accom-
plished the task, finally?
By making the boat work it's own
passage. !>l;..
They made two large paddle-wheels,
which they placed one on each side OF
the scow, and joined them by a thin
but strong piece of wood, in the shape
Of cylinder. This turned with the
wheels, and served the double pur-
pose of an axle and ? windlass. Each
end of the cylinder, near where it
Joined the wheels, played in a socket
somewhat like the rowlock used with
an oar, only stationary, and mounted
on the top of triangular truss. To
the cyllnler was fastened a rope
about 200 feet long. When the boat
reached the. bottom Of a rapid, it
would be made fast to the shore.
Then the man in charge of the boat
would ford the stream ana mount the
opposite bank, taking with him the
rope in coil, and paying it gradually
out as he walked, so as to, keep it al:
ways taut. At the head of the rapid,
or a trif1e beyond, he would fasten the
further end of the rope to a tree. The
moorings Of the boat would be loosed,
and the current left to do the rest
without assistance. The paddle
wheels, unable to resist the force OF
the water flowing against their sunk
en- blades, would slowly revolve, and,
of course, every revolution Of the
wheels would; cause the rope to wind
itself around the axle. With each
turn Of the rope the boat would neces-
sarily be drawn forward and up the
stream; so, by the effect OF the con-
5tinued winding, it would gradually
rise and rise till it reached the place
where the current ceased to exert SO
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
stone Blind.

Maud-Do you believe that love is
blind? sSt
Bixby-Well, if he isn't, I don't see
how some people ever manage to mar
ry.-Brooklyn Life.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
a Neixhb0rhoOd iCataatrophe. II

IA Neixhborhood astrop he. Ii @
'Dicky, did Mrs. Dibbs ask you why
we weren't coming over to; spend the
evening p ,...
Eyes, ma, an ! told her y had a
mother invita- ton at y liked better"
Press. fS5S
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
His Error.

Henpeck wish I hadn't bought
that new dictionary now. sz5s1q
Askem-- Why? Does your wife OBJ
ject? 6 ls& u
Henpeck- indeed. She doesn't.
object, but she spends all her time
hunting up new words to scold me
with. Baltimore American.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
Gets.lHimself Disltked.

Miss BlH, has your employer. any
tyrannical habits p 5s #
eyes, indeed; he buys candy and
eats it before my eyes. Chicago
RECORD. 8g} / Is ssg illl sfl Il t3@4,s III I
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
Little Bit on the I

Little Bit on the Top.
There are numerous kinds Of heads,
& Long heads, round heads, and flats;
Some heads are made to carry brains,
And some are but racks for hats.
Chicago Daily News.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
Boys FUNNY TURNOUT.
Illinois Youngster Drives q Trained
Pig Hitched to a Trap Built
for the Purpose.

Here is the picture of funny little
turnout in which a little boy, son
ct John ,Wraight, Of Ashford. ILL.,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-03-23
DEVILS LAKE, RAMSEY COUNTY. NORTH DAKOTA. FRIDAY, MARCH %, 1900.

To the prospective buyer of good
stock, of any class, this show will
be of particular value. He will
here see the best of all classes of
stock grown near him, and COM
pare the merits of the different
herds, and of the different individ-
uals, and if he wishes he can COM
pare the different individuals side
by side. and in this way make the
best selection. Reduced rates of
travel, and for the return of stock,
will be given to those attending.
Membership in the associationwill
be given to all men interested in
stock. upon a3payment of 81 men,
bership fee. The particular value
of the membership lies in its en-.
titling members to the names and
addresses of all breeders of any
particular class of stock and breed
ers can be furnished a list Of all
members who are interested in the
breed of stock that they are own
ing. Write j. A. Power, secretary,
Power, N. D., for further par
ticulars.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-03-23
North Dakota's New Senator

Jerry j. in Minneapolis Journal:
The Washington Times appears
to think that Senator McC lumber
of North Dakota is to become one
of the orators of congress. In a
late issue it said the following very
complimentary things about him:
After being ''seen and not heard"
on the floor of the senate during
the early part of the session,
Senator McCumber seems to have
finally decided that he will here
after take part in the daily dis
cussions. He made a brief but
very creditable speech on the
Puerto Rican bill early last week,
and yesterday he made some re-
marks in opposition to Mr.. Hoar's
amendment to the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, to
provide for the payment of $4,000
and a $4,000 annuity to former
Queen Liluokalani. Soon after
Mr. McCumbe resumed his seat
MI. Beveridge walked over, and,
sitting down near the formers
desk, was for some time engaged
in conversation with him. One of
the older senators noticed this,
and jokingly said: II guess Mr..
Beveridge sees in Mr.. McCumber
a possible rival for the position of
the Demosthenes Of the senate"
The Philadelphia Press of last
Monday morning contained a
column letter from Washington
about the new members Of the
senate, and in the article was a
McCumber paragraph, which I
quote as a companion picture of
the paragraph from the Times:
Senator McCumber, a new man
from North Dakota, has also
entered the arena and shown him
self to be a man Of more than
common ability. He is able to
handle himself very we'll in debate.
He made his first essay the other
day during Senator Foraker's ex-
PLANTATION of the Puerto Rican bill.
The questions he put and his
brief argument showed a clear
mind and a thorough knowledge
of the subject under consideration.
Mr.. McCumber is aboyish- looking
gentleman, with smooth face, and
is frequently mistaken for one of
the senate employees. He is A
years Of age, however, and has
been a member of the legislature
of North Dakota and attorney of
that state.