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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-03

Our customers say THAI
our prices are a little bet
ter than they have beert
paying for first quality
goods at some other places.
We invite comparison, and
would be pleased to show
you any of our popular
leaders in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-03
WABASSO.
From The Standard

VIM. REM of Lamberton has pur-
chased the Stacker saloon.
The Wanda creamery paid patrons
25 cents for butter fat last month.
Miss Nora Tradewell of Winthrop has
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-03
Spring Medicine

There is no other season when good
medicine 10 so much needed as in the
Spring.
The blood is impure, weak and
impoverished-a condition indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality,
loss Of appetite, lack Of strength, and
want of animation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-03
Good Health
to the
Children

Children especially arefond Of dainties,
and the housekeeper must look carefully
to their food.
As good cake can be made only with
good eggs, SO also cake that is health
ful as well as dainty must be raised with
pure and perfect baking powder.
Royal Baking Powder is indispensable
in the preparation Of the highest quality
Of food. It imparts that peculiar light
ness, sweetness and flavor noticed in the
finest cake, biscuit, doughnuts, crusts, ETC..
and what is more important, renders the
food wholesome and agreeable to young
and old.
aoyAt sAxna Co, NEW yoek.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-03
Teas, COffeeS
Shelf Goods.

Fresh and Dried Fruits,
Hams, Bacon, Cured Fish,
Etc, Everything new and
fresh. Don't forget our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31
b y S a r a h G r. a N d
Author of THE Heavenly Twins" Etc.

able servants is the attitude Of brutal coster-
monger toward an exhausted donkey, their language
corresponding and their tongues taking the place
of the stick Tongue threshers their victims call
them
Even 70 many estimable the maid how
ever long and we'll she may have served them, IS
never this our sister" until they commit her to
the earth and have no fear of her ever rising up
again to make any demand upon them. And yet
the demands of a valuable servant in return for
wears of conscientious devotion pathetically
small and few! | have known common politeness,
kindly consideration, smile of appreciation,
word of thanks suffice for years. And one is
quicker to understand, reader to synpathize more
prone to make allowance for the shortcomings of
her mistress, than good maid.
That servants are not what they should be is in
many only too true; but that mistresSes also
in just as many cases are not what they should be,
is equally true. No doubt there is a great deal of
bad material for domestic service in the market just
now material out of which the best mistresses could
make nothing toerable; but that has always been
the case, and for the same reason. The Servant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31
III APPINES in TIL E Nj a KIN @

OF all our msery-naking propensities, one
| ] of the worst IS the ordinary attitude
of the ordinary mistress OF a house
hold toward her servants, those dear, good kind,
unselhsh friends who stand by 50 Loyalty IN sick
ness and trouble, who spend their strength to make
life pleasant for US, placing our interests often
before their own and upon whose unseltlsh Devotion
all the comfort and we'll being of our homes depends
We hear OF the Servant Question continually from
the mistress point of view, but the same question
from the point of view of the servant-the Mistress
Question: in fact--has not, that know OF, ever
been very fairly discussed yet any observant per-
son might easily discover that there IS line hed
for inquiry to explore on that side OF the subject
Women glad enough to take advantage OF any
social change which makes for the Improvement
Of their own position-particularly do they welcome
the greater liberty and respect which some few
devoted women have for them-but they
would fain keep these new privileges to themselves.
They expect the stranger within their gates, the
maid servant, to he content to remain where She
was in feudal times; indeed, the treatment of ser
wants BY many mistresses is still feudal-not in
tie matter of cutting, perhaps; there penalties
for cutting nowadays; the modern equivalent of
the fashionable women is language. There are
women of position whose attitude toward respect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31

YOU take nv advice, Hiram, YOU will give most of
your wages your wife for her to put IN the savln $
bank with her own savns. She's longer head
than YOU when it comes to money affairs That
Robson estate is a fake, Hiram III 60 back TO
where | belong a great deal happier II you Will
promise me never, never to waste another cent on
it. Hiram. Promise me, Blrdle!'
you see when Puffer cOurtin me he told
me that his first wife used to call him Birdie and
me calm him that in the cabinet done lot toward
maxim firm his faith that was her speerlt. Then
ne says:
want to make sure that you are RELY and
truly a speerit. and | will believe it and be guided
by your advice if you will answer few questions
to prove your identity to me- How old am l.
.Sixty-three the third day O next March
What is my present wife's full name?
Susan Adaline and you were married to her
on the fifth of May and she viii be sixty years Old
the tenth of June.
WONDERFUL saws he. There can't no one
make me believe that there's such thing
speerits after this
Now, Birdie says l, if you will go and set
down in that chair the other side O the room L
will mater lie in full for you.
He went and set down and stepped out o the
door in the back O the cabinet and walked across
the floor with a kind of wavin' dancin' motion.
with nv arms over my head and my white dra
peries f1oatin' out behind me in the dim light, L
kind O. teetered and hoated along until l come to
into it and from there into my own rooms. Madam
Antonio she slipped into the cabinet the minute |
slipped out of it and turned the gas on strong and
said to Putfer:
8 You see am still here and your wife has gone
'When Putfer come into our rooms a quarter OF
an hour later | putin miXn o bread to
rise, and l says: Where you been?
Been to one o the most ConvIncin' mater liza
tons l ever went to in my life, says he boldly.
don't mind te1lin' you, Susan, that I've been
talkin to my wife. | know you won't bleeve 1t;
but its a fact and she has told me things that
makes me Eillin to up TO YOU that YOU were
right in thnlin' that that estate in England IS
fake
That so?' says |, cool as cowcunber. I'm
glad of it. Hiram.
didn't hand me over a two-dollar bill and say: 1
reckon you might well put that TO your account
in the savin's bank, Susan
He never fooled away another dollar on the
estate in England projec' after that, and there's
above two hundred dollars in the savin's bank to
his credit but it's in my As for Madam
Antonia she lit out between two days few days
later and l never saw the poor little critter no
more. And Puffer don't know to this day how
lit'rally he talked to his wife that night in the
madam's cabinet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31

happier!' Then he says: Where are you! and
she kind O. Jared him by sayin; I'm in Purgatory.
[ reckon that fetched the interview to sudden end
But Pufer didn't to feel that way about
calm UP lane Lamson, her that had been his
first | was purity sure in my mind that L
knew lust what he wanted to talk to her about.
For wears an years he has believed that he was
one O the heirs to great estate IN England worth
millions and millions. It's the great Robson
estate and his mother was Robson. He's had
letters from LAWYERS who was sure they could estab
Esh his claim, and | reckon he has spent a good
hundred dollars altogether, and the more ne spends
the surer he is that he's got millions in his grasp
made UP my mind long ago that it was all a piece
O. humbuggery. That estate in England way o
feecin' money out o greenhorns is old as the hills
an only Anticipated folks ready to jump at
bait O. that sort. | was sure that Putter wanted
to consult his first about that estate. He'd been
talkn' lot about it of late, and had even limited
that he might take the savin's of fifteen years and
% to England hissef to look after his and
perfect his rights hsself. He just as sure that
estate was there as he was that he was Twin. SO
| SAYS to Madam Antonio:
g Did YOU call up Puffer's first for him?
6 No; but | to, says She
Now she was OWN me good-slzed wash bill
and couple O. dollars for pie and doughnuts and
her bus ness had been bad of late, and | knowed
she was behind in her rent and would soon be
movin' on. So l says right out to her
L.ookee here, Madam Antonio although you
NAM
YOU and me understands each other very well by
this time You know that | know that your Won
derfu powers are all bosh, 50 you won't hurt your
reputation with none by fallin' in with what
| mean to propose, for you amt got no rePPyta-
ton to lose along that line. | want you to go
ahead and give Puffer his private settin IN your
cabinet only | want it to be me instid q You IN
the cabinet
Oh my! says She
It's what l want, says I. You an Runnn
Water and Little Evy and WhisPerin' Wind and
Queen Catharine and all the others that's been IN
the cabinet Of late kin just keep out for once and
let me have chance. ! give you my word that
III never breathe word of it to anyone while YOU
are here and III call my account a'gn you square
You wouldn't give me away to Mr. Puter
would you? says she.
Hes the last person I'd ever tell says l.
"Wel1 the upshot Of it all was that she agreed
to it all Pufer to have his settln' with her
that very night at eight o'clock. Now | reckon It
would of tckled YOU to of seen at eight o'clock
that night settin' in that cabinet IN o them
long loose flown white robes I'd washed and done
up with my own hands. was there when Putter
come into the room A minute or two later Madam
Antonio put out all the lights but just candle IN
a fer corner and it shed dim, ghostly light. Then
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31


type in the DAYS when Mrs. Carlyle expended
her brilliant wits in chronicling small beer.
Her letters TEEN with the trouble she had
with her servants; but considering the conditions
she imposed upon them, and the wholly inadequate
remuneration of eight or ten pounds year which
she offered them, the wonder is not that she had
many bad specimens of servant -girlhood TO
contend against but that she ever had good one
at all
Servants have been, in truth, a long suffering
class-all honor to them for itbut they have begun
to realize like the rest of u.s. that 1t IS folly to resign
themselves to evils which might easily be prevented.
Only girls of low order of intelligence can be
expected to submit to the CALLING bondage which
IS imposed upon them in domestic service. Women
seem to think that the flesh and blood of the Young
workers upon whom the whole comfort OF their
lives depends is of a different nature from their
own Only servant" and good enough for
servant" are by means obsolete phrases; and the
girl who has cheerfully toiled, often beyond her
strength, the hvelong day has to sleep at night
a lumpy mattress, not overclean, amid surroundings
any hing but calculated to refresh her. The dear,
delightful dog downstairs, the darling-nuul-
mys own pet differently lodged. An intellI-
get foreman. experimenting the removal oil fur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31

the madam pretended TO go into the cabinet, but
all she done was to squat down back o the curtains
behind it. Pufer had had his orders to take his
place in front O. the cabinet, and when the little
curtain in front O. the opening, which was about
ten inches square, pushed back 1t would be
sign that his first in there and ready to have
a little confab with him. Ever hear anything SO
silly in all the born days of your lifef
9 | never did
"Nor |. After minute or two l pushed back
the curtain. and there | was with my face whitened
with flour and long white veil wrapped around
my head something like turban and falin around
nv shoulders | set on a high stool well back from
the front and the least mite O light shone in The
minute Puffer put his face up to the oPenln IN the
cabinet | SAYS in ghostly whisper that I'd been
practisin' on all day:
- Hiram Puffer, my husband!
"' Are YOU my wife? asst he.
"Wen | come mighty near sayin': You bet |
ami but thought it wouldn't sound very sPlrltooal
so just says: l am and had to clap my hand
over my mouth to keep from gigglin. Then says:
".I am your own wife l am always near you,
Hiram | watch over you every day
You know, of course that that II am
married again? says he.
a. do Hiram and you have good wife, good,
good wife You know that, don't YOU Hiram?
Yes SAYS he she's all right; but | dunno as
it would do to tell her so
No SAYS /, it wouldn't. And she don't tell
YOU how much she RELY thinks of you. But,
Hiram YOU will do we'll to take her advice in most
things. The fact is, Hiram, she is good deal
smarter than you are. We see things in the speert
world palmer than you earthly mortals see EN-,
and since l have become a sPeerit know far more
than you, Hiram
well if l didn't hear that little mischief squatted
down behind the curtains giggle at this, and what
does she do but reach into the cabinet under the
curtains and pinch my ankle | give her little
kick and purCeeded
Hiram says |, YOU done well when You
married the Widder Peters You done better
than she did; but you make yourself worthy
Of her if YOU try. | thought YOU might like to know
that l approve of your second marriage. Your
wife is a very unusual woman
know it, says he but what | want to talk
to YOU about is a business matter Can YOU tell
me if | am ever likely to get anything from the
Robson estates in England?
Not a red cent? says | in a real marsh whisper
One thing l have come from the speerit world for
is to tell YOU not to spend another cent on that
thing. You are being tricked- There amt no
Robson estate in England. It IS all hufnbug
Don't YOU ever ferget that have said 50.
Well he give a kind Of little groan, and says:
You sure, Jane?
Kin spirit lie? says l reproachfuy. If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
New Infection In Mississippi.

Jackson, Miss, September 22.--Roxie and Harriston, located on the main line of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road in the southern part of the state are reported as new points of infection to- night. The summary of the state is as follows Roxle. four positive cases; one suspicious case; one death. Harriston, one case. Hamburg, one new case one sus- picious case; one death and three pa- tients seriously sick. vicksburg, seven new cases; two deaths; total to date, fifty-one cases; seven deaths. Natchez, four new cases; one new focus. Gulfport, two new cases. Nine new, cases reported from Mississippi City. Handsboro or Pearlington One of the new cases at Gulfport is Maj. D. D. Ewing, command ing the first battalion of the Third regi- ment Mississippi National guard, who has been in command of the military quarantine on the gulf coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
tween the employees and employers of the striking draymen.
Ask Change of Schedule.

The attitude of the Arkansas authorities with regard to the admission of the Presi- dential party during the latter part Of October has put the matter in in abey- ance for while. Following the telegram of the Arkansas authorities that they could not give a definite answer until October l Mayor Behrman wired the Pres ident, asking if it was possible to change his itinerary, so that he could go to Ar kansas before coming to New Orleans, thereby avoiding the quarantine complied tions. A message was received from Sec retary Loeb saying that he could not an- swer definitely at the present time. The people of New Orleans are arranging to give the President a great reception when he comes
 The New Orleans parish school board decided tonight to open all the public schools on Monday, October 24 except the lower girls high school, which Is located in the infected district, and the pupils of which come from Algiers and all the ter ritory below Canal street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
Four New Cases In Natchez.

Natchez, Miss, September 22-Four new cases of yellow fever were reported to- day of which two are white. Mrs. J. J. Lambert who had a very severe case, and two colored patients were discharged. Postmaster Walworth is regarded as be- ing in a dangerous condition. The official report gives on new focus today, making a total of sixteen foci forty-seven cases to date, twelve of which are under treat ment.
 Business was suspended this afternoon, the time being devoted to general clean ing up and Immigration. A trained nurse was sent to Hamburg this afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
Southern Railway Co. Schedule in Effect July 2s. 1905.

oS"oou'c TIT EhcCt July Zd, 1SOb. Trains leave Birmingham as foIlows: $40 a. m.-No. 3s, for Atlanta Washing ton,' Baltimore. Philadelphia New York and the East Pull man Drawing Room Sleeping Car. Birmingham to New York. Dining car. Birming- ham to Atlanta. 6:2o a. m.-No. 19, for Montevallo. Ma pesviiie. Selma and way sta- tons.
 1925 p. m.-No. 85. fo~ Columbus, West Point. Winona, Greenwood and Creenville: also Sheffield and Flor ence and North Ala bama points.
 $40 D. m.-No 15, for Cordova. Oakman Corona and way stations also Blossburg 5:45 a. m.-No. 22 for Anniston. Hefin and way stations; also Rome. Ga. $50 p. m.-No. 36. for Atlanta. Charlotte. Richmond. Washington. New York and the East Pullman Sleeping Car Birmingham to Richmond Va
 4:05 p.m.-No. 24 Anniston Atlanta and way stations; also for Jack sonville, and all Florida points also Talladega. Ala P:.ilman sleeping car Birmingham to Brunswick. Ga 10:20 D. m.-No. y7. for Columbus West Point. winona Greenwood and Greenvil's. Pullman Draw ing Room Sleeping Car Bir- mingham to GreenviIle f0:35 D. m.-No. 21, for Selma, Mobile and way stations. Pullman Draw ing Room Sleeping Car Blr- mingnam to Mobile. il 80 D. m.--No. ss, for Atlanta. Anniston and way stations. Pullman Sleeping Car, Birmingham to Atlanta. Sleeping car can bs occupied at Union station s:3o D. m.
 For detailed information and sleeping car reservations amply passenger office Morris Hotel Building. Telephone 3067 Bell and 6l7 Peoples.
 ]. N. HARRISON. Dist. Pass AsA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
eIoomv Situation In Pensacola.

Pensacola. Fla, September 22.-Six new cases of yellow fever and one death, K. L. Williams is the record for today Nineteen cases remain under treatment State Health Officer Porter and his as- sistants take a rather gloomy view of the situation, and say that unless people cooperate with them more than In the past few weeks. 1t will be impossible to stamp out the fever before frost.
 As 1t s they hope to keep the disease checked and are doing everything possible to that end. A number of cases are under surveillance, and several new cases are expected to develop within the next twen- ty-four hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
No Fever In Jackson.

Montgomery September 4z.-Seeretary Hunter of the Mississippi board of health has wired State health Officer Sanders that there is no yellow fever in Jackson Miss, and requests that the Alabama quarantine against that city be removed. pr. Sanders is not here, but Is expected to return tomorrow and he will then rem der decision in the matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
Mrs. WInslow's Soothing Syrup.

The best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows s Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. + BOOTHS the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLO. and is twenty-five cents a bottle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
BANK CLEARlNGS.
6irmingham's Gain Over Last Year Is
 38.8 Per Cent.

New York, September 22-The follow table. compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearin-s at the cities named for the week ended September 21 with the per centage oI increase and decrease as com pared with the corresponding week last year. Totals include clearing |. lfty-two other cities. Canadian totals include clear ings of seven other cities in Canada:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
Bad Day In Vicksburg.

vicksburg Miss, September 22.-With seven new cases and two deaths today's fever report was the worst since the di- sease made its appearance here. Both the deaths were white children a boy and a girl Several well known people are among the new cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
Rural Routes Established.

Washington, September 22.-(SpecIaI)-- Rural routes ordered established Novem- Der 15: Columbia, Houston county route four, population. 416; houses 90; Shorter vile, Henry county, route two, popula- ton, 40; houses, 110.
 Percy c. Ramsay appointed regular Eli Laney substitute rural carrier route one at Davston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
RAILWAY SCHEDULES

showing the arrival and departure q, passenger trains at the union .tat,.. Birmingham:
 tEffective July 2s. 1eO5)
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23

On Oct. lst The Eagle Sa- loon meves up 4 doors to 1909 2nd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23

N.Y. D. Should be w 1EAaCA AyC sown now for
 pasture. We are headquarters for the seed.
 AMZI OGDEN SEED COMPANY. 2o18 First Ave. Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23

orgil Railroad.
 Depart to-
 Macon ...... 6:40 am Savannah .. 4:oo pm Ar Line. l Depart to- Richmcnd :. $40 am Richmond .. 4:10 pm central time. Trains daily except Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23
Seaboar,

Arrive from
 Richmond ..e:25 pm Richmond ..1i:59 am
 All trains run by marked thus e are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23

Totals. =. ...s 66.S19594 2O9 .... s-Not included in totals because con. taining other items than clearlngs. o-Last weeks total.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-23

are headquarters for tn
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-11
The General Assembly is now

The General Assembly is now
organized with all it's old officers
in charge. The Governors mes
sage, teeming with recommen-
dations has been read and the
Senate committees have been
The Governor, in his
message, recommends compul-
sorry education, and he devotes
considerable space to the dispen-
sary, which in our Judgment
needs all the attention he has
given it. He wants something
done to relieve the State from
getting deeper in the mire Of
debt, and gives a general review
of all the departments Of the
government. There is no attempt
at stage posing in this message,
but it is a plain buslness.like
document with a view to making
the tax problem its principal
feature.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-11
No More Stomach Troubles.

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the use Of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1t
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body, the rest restores the stomach to
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J. D. Erskine, of Allenville, Mich,
says, II suffered Heartburn and Stom-
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in-law has had the same trouble and
was not able to eat for six weeks. She
lived entirely on water. After taking
two bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
she was entirely cured. She now eats
heartily and is in good health. am
glad to saw Kodol gave me instant
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Store