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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-16
Independent

Independent
Swan Peterson sold two carloads
of fine corn-fed steers to O. o. Tin
nesand last week.
Miss Rachel Hauck passed through
town on Wednesday on her way from
Wood Lake to Seaforth.
Mrs. Ed. Duncan spent several
days the fore part of the week visit
ing with her parents near Morton.
Miss Emma johnson graduated
from Willmar Lutheran Seminary
last week, being valedictorian of the
class.
w. A. Hauck, John Longbottom
and George johnson passed through
here Wednesday on their way to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-16

Mrs. Hazel Gilbert is sewing at
Walnut Grove.
Miss Ruth Hicks went to visit at
Owatonna few days.
Miss Grace VanDorsten is spend
ing a few days at the j. H. McKague
home,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-16

WANTED-Two or three unfurn-
ished rooms suitable for light house
keeping. Apply at this Office. 1927.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-16

attained clothes making the only you'll find here and moder
these suits perfect of all that smart artistic and
The can't lining better
d workmanship
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
CUT1cuRA CURED HIM.

Eczema Came ON Legs and Ankles
canadian Chief OF Police Could
Not Wear Shoes Because of bad
Scaling and Itching.
II have been successfully cured of
dry eczema. I was inspecting the re-
moval of noxious weeds from the edge
Of river and was constantly In the
dust from the weeds. At night /
cleansed my limbs, but felt prickly
sensation. l paid no attention to II
for two years, but I noticed a scum
on my legs like fish scales. I did not
attend to it until it came to be too
itchy and sore and began getting two
running sores. My ankles were all sore
and scabby and l could not wear shoes.
! had to use carpet and felt slippers
for weeks. got cake Of the Cuti-
cura Soap and some Cuticura Oint-
ment In less than fen days could
put on my boots and in less than three
weeks was free from the COMPOUNDED
itching. Capt. George P. Bliss. Chief
of Police, Morris, Manitoba, March 20,
1907, and Sept. "A, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. Of Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
After the Show

A well dressed man, said to be an
Englishman, has been arrested in Mont
martre, Paris, on charge of rendering
bad half-sovereigns for dinners and en-
tertainments. Which reminds us of the
story about the touring company which
had been doing very bad business in
1.-THE smalls" While the proprietor and
sole responsible manager was standing
outside the temporary theater (the Corn
Exchange), very small boy with very
large melon arrived and proposed to bar
ter the fruit for seat in the gallery
The bargain was duly concluded, and
the scene now changes to the interior Of
the theater after the performance:
'Boy," says the manager severely, that
melon was rotten'' "That's all right"
returns the youthful critic, 80 was yer
show. 81 london Globe.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
TOOK OWN KNIVES AND FORKS.
Custom of Table Manners in England
Even as Late as 1860.


Even at so late period as the restora-.
ton, 1860, according to the London
Chronicle, it was the custom for guests,
to take their own knives and forks to an.
English banquet. Pepys records that he.
did this when he went to the lord may
or's feast in the Guild hall In the pre-
vious reign the lord chamberlain had.
found it necessary to issue regulations
for the benefit of officers invited to dine.
at the royal table. They were required to
wear clean boots, not to be half drunk on
their arrival, not to drink more than one
goblet to every two dishes, not to throw
the bones under the table nor to lici.
their fingers.
The Stuarts undoubtedly did much to-
refine English table manners, for it was
one of the points admired in Mary Queen
of Scots that the customs she intro
duced from France made her court and
royal banquets more exquisite and gen.
teel than those of her rival, Queen Eliza
beth. AS forks came into use the old
time Importance of the table napkin be-
gan to wane. From being a necessity it
became luxury, on the fastidious use
of which etiquette has at various times
placed strange values.
Under the third empire in France, st.
Beuve brought disgrace upon himself be-
cause at breakfast at the Tuileries he
careiessly opened his napkin and placed
it ovel his two knees. To this he added
the crime of cutting his egg in two at
the middle Court etiquette prescribed
that the half folded napkin should lie on
the left knee and the top of the egg was
to be merely broken with the edge OF me
spoon and drained with tip of the spoon.
For his failings in these respects st.
Beuve's name was struck off the imperial
visiting list
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
PROPER TIME TO LAUGH.

Some Vaudeville Jokelets Which
Age Cannot wfther.
Vaudeville Is known as the laugh
trust" but not for the reason enc
might think 1t gets the phrase be-
cause there are certain definite num-
Der OF devices in its category of acts
that control the laughs Of Its audi
ences. The same old things are always
good for a laugh in vaudeville. Ac-
cording to the Bohemian, new de-
vice, a new bit of business" q new
joke are all regarded as dangerous by
the performers. The following table
details some of the times at which a
vaudeville audience regularly laughs:
When a comedian walks with a
mincing step and speaks in falsetto
voice.
When a German comedian opens his
coat and discloses a green waistcoat.
When a. comedy acrobat falls down
repeatedly.
When performer asks the orches-
ira leader II he Is a married man.
WACA n ple1Ch-ldCS COmculdu says
something about chicken.
When a performer starts to rise
from a chair and the drummer pulls
4 resined piece of cord SO that the
performer thinks his clothes have
ripped.
When the drummer suddenly beats
the drum during comedians song
and the latter stops and looks in his
direction.
When a tramp comedian turns
around and discloses purple patch
DIT several pearl buttons or a target
sewed on the sect Of his trousers,
When the funny member Of the
troupe Of instrumentalists interrupts
the progress of melody by sounding
= discordant note on his trombone.
When clown of team of aero
bats poises himself to do a presuma-
bly, difficult feat and suddenly changes
his mind and walks away without do.
Ing it.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
THE LITTLE Boys NIGHTMARE.

l had a nawful dream las night: / drempt
tn SchOolhouse bell
Come runnin after me an give nawful
fiendsh yell,
An that it chased me through the town
an out acroSt tn crick
An then 1t stopped an yelled at me: "You
think you're mighty slick
But III be comm after you another day
fore long,
An when do 1 think that you will sing
another song"
/ drempt the schoolhouse glared at me;
its windows looked like eyes
An that the big doors was mouth or
most tremendous size,
An that it rolled it's window eyes an
CRASHED its big door teeth
An shook it's front-stair chin that swung
an wObbled underneath
An growled: 'All right for you, my boy.
But you can't get away.
I'll have you back inside o. me first thing
you know some day."
An all the words in all the world jumped
out of all the books sst
An come a-runnin' after me with most
bloodthirsty looks
All of them had their letters wrong, which
made them look real queer.
Tn big fve-syllabul ones, too, was scat
tered far an near.
An all Of them kept chatterin' as long as
rs in sight:
''You got to come back to tn school an
learn to spell us right
An then a lot of 2-and-2s come from tn
Schoolhouse door
An kept a-singin' all tn time about how
they made 4,
An Long Division hobbed up an made a
face at me,
An some one kept a-cryin': Cant you
find that G. c. DPS
TIL joggerphy jumped up at me and
scared me half to death
By tellin' me to bound the lands an never
stop for breath.
SO woke up an pinched myself to see If
/ was here,
But all today I've gone around an felt
extremely queer.
walked a-past tn schoolhouse an ii
looked about tn same,
But something somewhere muttered, an
] thought it called my name. =,
Aw, what's tn good o. havin' any old
vacation? Say!
1t spoils it all to know you've got to go TO
Chicago Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

B. M. Foster and T. A. Dees return
I'd home from Cheniere au Tigre, al
Island south of Abbeville, a Houston
Posts Lake Charles (La.) correspond
snt says. Great myriads Of large mes
guitoes caused the party to return
home at once. Mr.. Foster is authority
Cor the statement that many head Of
sattle are being killed by the pests
and that the people of the island
would suffer like fate If they ven
tured out. Day and night the inhab
ltants are compelled to fight constantly
against the little pests, and what small
farm work is done on the island ha.
been sadly neglected.
Mr.. Foster says that the cattle or
The island can usually be found ii
herds of about 100 each. but the mos
Quitoes have caused the animals tt
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
Saved by the Court.

A supreme court judge tells this story
about a famous character around the
minor courts. Tall, gaunt and gawky, he
had a fund of ready Irish wit and a dig
nifty of presence and carriage which,
combined with booming bass voice,
was humorous in itself All the judges
knew him and were lenient with his in
fractions of court rules.
The character, whc was a lawyer of
the shyster class, was defending a case
in court, one day before a justice who
was particularly fond of him. He went
to luncheon with his client. When court
resumed after luncheon it was evident
that he had enjoyed his midday meal.
Realizing the situation, the justice leaned
over and said:
This case is postponed until tomor-
row. The counsel for the defense is IN
no condition to proceed with it."
The lawyer rose to his feet unsteadlly
and gazed earnestly at the court. Then
his deep voice doomed out: Your hon,
or, have known you. man. boy and
child, for thirty years-on the binch and
off the binch-and it is the first time in all
thase years l have known you to make
a rulin' in accordance with the Jacks"
Then he sat Cosmopolitan Mag
aZine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

Conee,s Weight ON Old

Conee's Weight ON Old Age
When prominent men realize the in
furious effects of coffee and the change
in health that Postum can bring, they
are glad to lend their testimony for
the benefit of Others
A superintendent of public schools,
in North Carolina says:
Z MY mother, since her early child
hood, was an inveterate coffee drinker-
and had been troubled with her heart
for a number of years. and complained
of that weak all over feeling and sick
stomach.
Some time ago. was making an
official visit to distant part Of the
country and took dinner with one of
the merchants of the place. | noticed
somewhat peculiar favour of the cot
fee, and asked him concerning it. He
replied that it was Postum.
II was so pleased with it, that after
the meal was over, I bought pack
age to carry home with me, and had.
wife prepare some for the next meal
The whole family liked it so well. that
We discontinued coffee and used
Postum entirely.
Il had really been at times very
anxious concerning my mothers con-
dition, but we noticed that after using
Postum for short time, she felt SO
much better than she did prior to its
use, and had little trouble with her
heart and no sick stomach; that the
headaches were not so frequent ana
her general condition much improved.
This continued until she was as we'll
and hearty as the rest of US.
81 know Postum has benefited N.Y.
self and the other members of the fam
ily. but not in so marked degree as
in the case of my mother, as she was a
victim of long standing"
Read The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs.
There's Reason.
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
PAPERS b 4np PEOPL

They demand it because of the competition with which
they meet from their sisters who not as rich az
themselves. They don't want these to equal them In
splendor and in elegance.
Those who will hold out longest in this mad chase
will day awaken to the fact that In spite Of all
women but limitations and And then they
will take their money which they waste on almost
inconceivable Injuries to adorn themselves outwardy
will spend 1t travel and other things which
will enrich their intellect and will make them more at
tractive women and not lay figures.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
Triumph of a Former Waitress.

There is rejoicing in the New York
Metropolitan opera camp over the en-
gagement of Mile. Marie Dalna, who has
just signed a contract to sing next winter
in the GATH azzaza-Dippe forces.
Marie Delna has been one of the leading
contralto singers at the Grand Opera
house and the Opera Comique in Paris
for decade and is universally popular.
Her career had romantic beginning.
She was waitress in an inn kept by
her father at Meudon, near Paris, when
her voice attracted the attention of an
artist who was spending the summer at
the inn. He interested influential mu-
her debut in '.The Trojans' at the Opera
Comique after only two years study and
since then she has had uninterrupted
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

, when the Indians owned the whole coun-
try and before Gen. Oglethorpe brought
his first shipload of immigrants to the
state.
when the first settlers came into
northern Georgia they found Indians
working the mines, in crude way, Of
course, the precious metal being used for
personal adornment. The country was
so wild and the settlers so widely scat
tered and few that little effort was made
for many years afterward to develop
these mines. It was only comparatively
recently that people began to wake up
to the fact that there was gold in the old
red Georgia hills. Many fortunes have
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
GOLD DOWN I'm GEORGIA.
Mines Said to Be as Rich as Those
Colorado or California.

1T is not generally known that in
northern Georgia there are gold mines
as rich as any in Colorado or Califor-
MA said Benjamin Bentham of Allan
ia. Ca, according to the Washington
Post.
1T is a fact, nevertheless asserted
Mr.. Bentham. For in a large region
around Dablonegos, Ca, there are more
than dozen gold mines in the hills that
today are producing handsome dividends.
Some OF these mines were in existence
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
Dancing in London High Society.

The Woman Of the World, London
publication, says that one of the features
of the social season in the metropolis mas
been change in ballroom dancing. The
cotillon was essayed as an experiment,
and its popularity assures it's continu-
ance. Russian and Danish dances have
also found favor, and interest in old his
torical measures has bee nrevived. This
causes Woman of the World to remark:
This points to something far more than
has been hitherto associated with our
ballroom dancing. Henceforth it seems
likely to be fuller of color, to be more
strongly tinged with gayety, while at
the same time the rampageous romp has
had its day and ceased to be-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
The Aeroplane Raffles.

will he the aerial highwayman.. The
monopIane will soon whizz over the 49,
story buildings carrying the midnight
thief in a fashion to make the second
story man. turn pale with envy. What
is porch climbing then compared to the
airships maneuverers along the roof, or
at the sixteenth floor window = Boston
Herald
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

The killing of a balloon trapeze per-
former, at Coffeyville, Kansas, by the
dropping of bag of sand from his own
airship, as he was hanging below it on
a rope, illustrates what is liable to
occur when dirigibles and aeroplanes are
fying about overhead. Then there
viii be laws prohibiting air travellers
from throwing things overheard, and
compelling them to see that everything
is fast and in no danger of dropping dur
ing sudden lurcheS.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
A Premfum ON Folly.

Uncle Hiram, who wears whiskers
and lives in comic weeklies, will be
delighted with the latest news from
New York. A man in the metropolis
has invented device which enables
one to blow out the gas without fear
Of the consequences. BY a mechanism
too complicated to describe, the gas,
when blown out, automatically shuts
itself off. So perfect is the contriv-
ance, according to the inventor, that
even the gas bill ceases to run.
Hiram, the comics tells us, has never
been able to understand why NEEDLE
some people should interfere with his
simple, homely diversions. Blowing
out the gas, he has always maintained,
is one Of those personal privileges
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

All alone in the Monroe county jail at
Wilkes Barre, Pa. William Atwell
Murderer Charles Grether, who killed
Adam Strunk and was hanged at the
jail for the crime, and this with his
loneliness is rapidly undermining his
health. He is serving a six-months'
sentence for setting fire TO the woods
and still has five months to serve. For
the last couple of weeks he has been
the only prisoner there, and is now so
badly frightened that he cannot sleep at
night
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

sppi the undoubted balance of power matter under
what the national administration at Washington
exists In the years that have passed population
and our material wealth have not enjoyed that repre-
sentation to which they entitled and furthermore
our leaders have been content to follow in email
measure leadership OF who relatively
small constituencies and smaller commonweaths 1t Is
time that the great northwest should come into its
own and by the force OF its energy the ability of its
sons and the cooperation of its various constituent
parts influence for good not only to its
particular prosperity. but to that of the country at
large, to which every element invites 1t.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
flock together for protection, and he

flock together for protection, and he
saw one big herd with fully 10000 AMI
mails punched and believing with
pain. The cattle, he says, keep NOV
ing to the windward to keep the pests
off as much as possible. Occasionally
one will become exhausted and fall be-
hind, or a COW will stop to help its
calf, only to meet hasty death. Some
animals Mr.. Foster saw have actually
been smothered to death by the great
swarms of mosquitoes.
No one who has not witnessed con-
ditions on the island is able to form
any idea of what the people and stock
have suffered" concluded Mr.. Foster.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

The robbery of the Pennsylvania pas
senger train by lone bandit, at point
flfty-two miles west of Harrisburg, sug-
gests that there are lonely spots on all
railroad lines in which highwaymen with
nerve can ply their trade. But after the
deed is done, the problem is to get away.
The chances are more heavily against the
PENNSYLVANIA robber than they would be
against a Montana or Idaho highway
man with vast stretches of unoccuplec
country within easy reach.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

that the world him living and he is going to get
1t by crook The honest workingman need take
the criticism OF the tramp class The hobo
or bum never worked and will He is the fellow
whose motto Is, THE world living" The
honest workingman knows that the world doesn't owe
him living unless he earns It,
The solution of the unemployed problem in the big
cities is in the transportation of who want to work
to places where wanted for work There is a
crying demand for labor in this country. In the fields
west and along the roads Of the west there is
constant cry for In Chicago, New York and
large cities there thousands Of good hard
working men who could ELL this need If they had the
chance The trouble is they haven't the money to get
to the field of employment.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

principles is that womans attraction resides not
her spiritual and intellectual qualities not in
her beauty but in her elegance And by elegance Is
not meant the poeness and the harmony Of her bear
ing and manners but simply the way in which she
appears" the in which she is dressed.
To be beautiful in day and age no longer means
to possess beautiful features Modern language and
modern logic have changed the meaning and notion Of
this Beauty to our modern notions is thing not in
ternal inherent God given, but external thing de-
pendent upon the purse, the tailor and the millner
The artists who devote their lives to making new
fashions and styles for the beautiful sex are rackng
their brains now make up gowns for which they
to charge $780, or hats for $500 They do not plan
such high priced gowns because of their own great
pidy but because Of their patrons extravagance Their
best patrons demand such high priced gowns and hats
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

If the bedbug ever had any apoiogists,
they must desert him now when DR.. Ar
mauer Hansen of Norway holds that
disreputable insect responsible for the
spread of leprosy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
TRAMPs AND BUNS ARE DISTINCT CLASSES
Nv T.r>nnr " Powder

There is big difference between the man
who Is out Of q Job and cannot find one and
the man who never had Job and would not
take one II he could get 1t. tramp is
man willing to work. but forced to go from
place to place In search II it. A bum is
sot, loafer and drone who goes into hys-
terra at the mention OF the word work. A
hobo Ia an individual who goes on the theory
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
EAST MUST NOT DOMINATE THE WEST.

by UOV. JOHN n. JOHuSOn.
1t is time that the West threw OF the
shackles Of the East. We as an integral part
of the American people should cast our inhu-
ence and our votes not only to advance the
material interests of our own particular Sec
ton, but we should be broad enough and big
enough to labor for the common good Of our
common country.
We have in the States west Of the Missis-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30
FEMININE BEAUTY AS NOW INTERPRETED.
BY Marcel Provost.

Mrs. Howard Gould testified recently to the
effect that a truly elegant woman ought not
to wear the same gown twice, no matter how
beautiful or expensive gown 1t may be. The
tendency towards almost inconceivabte ex-
travagance in dress is not surprising in view
of the fact that society lays so much stress
upon appearance rather than upon accom-
plishments One of our first ultra-modern
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

Every man thinks that while others
may be stingy or profigate, he is just
a happy medium.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-30

That Panama earthquake was only
little one. 1t caused some apprehension,
but apparently did no damage. The ca
nal at Panama was undertaken in the
full knowledge that the region is in the
earthquake belt, but also with the con-
viction that less danger is to be appre-
hended there than would have threat
ened had the United States adhered to
the Nicaragua route, for the Nicaragua
route is much longer, and the longer the
route the greater the liability to injury
of the canal by earthquakes.