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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02
H. M. HITCHCOCK & Co.
REDWOOD FALLS, MIMI.

A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs Chas. Walters, residing on the J.
P. Cooper farm, south of the city, last
Friday.
Attorney W. ]. Mcleod was in
Tracy over Sunday, looking up mat
ter in connection with some real estate
near that city.
A few more of those fine Italian
bees for sale at half price. Three col
onies for $50. Also, few pure bred
Pekin ducks. First come first served.
Apply to VIM. Crouley. 3-3t
Atelegram was received here Tues
day evening, notifying County Super
intendent Race of the death of his aged
mother at Falkton, S. D., which occur
red early in the afternoon of that day.
The deceased was native of Yorkshire
England, and came with her husband
to Philadelphia soon after her mar
rage. Here three children were born
to them, two of whom are still living
w. H. Race of Falkton, and s. J. Race
of this place. The deceased enjoyed a
vigorous old age up to within few
years ago, when with declining health
she returned to pass her last days with
her two sons. After an extended So
journ with the family of S. J. Race, the
latter accompanied his mother on visit
to w. H. Race'sat Falkton, last spring.
Here the mother remained until her
death, dying aftera short illness, at the
age of 81 years. On account of bad rail-
road connections, Mr.. Race was unable
to reach Falkton in time for the funeral
services. ,.s- a .......~- . 3 s...--. ...
The weekly crop bulletin for the
week ending Monday, August %, fol-
lows: The temperature was below
the normal till the last of the week,
with the northern portion dry. Show
ers we're general in other portions on
the 18th, and showers scattered irregu-
larly on other days in first half Of the
week. Wheat harvest is progressing.
in the Red River Valley, being about
half done in northern counties, while
only the latest fields are uncut further
south. Dat harvest is on in the north
ern half of the State. Across the MID
die of the State, stacking has gone on
as rapidly as showers have permitted,
and in southern counties most of the
wheat, oats and barley is in stack. It
is said that considerable grain has
been put in stack too damp, and that
in consequence threshing will be de-
layed longer than if there were only
the usual sweating to be gone through.
Threshing from the shock is being
done when weather permits, with the
yield and quality much lower than
was expected before harvest. It
is thought that much wheat
has never recovered from the frosts of
May and June, which may account for
the shrunken grain. In favored spots
oats are good. Potatoes are good in
some places, but the yield is general
ly disappointing. Corn continues to
do we'll Notwithstanding the cool
weather. but warmer weather will be
needed to mature it before frost. Fall
blowing is begun in southern counties.
A very light frost occurred at scat
tered points on the morning of the
10Th, but no damage resulted.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN T. SCHMAHL.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 2. 1897.
CHICAGO E. Northwestern Railway.

LOCAL TIME CARD, REDWOOD FALLS.
In effect Dec Goth, 1896. Subject to change.
DEPARTURES OF TRAINS.
No. SO. daily except Sunday 1885 p. m.
For Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona,
and east; also for Tracy, Marshall, Water
town. Huron and Pierre. Parlor car, Kasota
to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Sleeper, Man
kato to Chicago.
No. Ga, daily except Sunday. 49,. .4:45 p, m.
Connects at Sleepy Eye with trains east and
west between Kasota and Tracy.
ARRIVAL OF TRAINS.
No 81, daily except Sunday ......9:2O a, m
From local points.
No, IS, daily except Sunday $50. Ais p. m
From Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona
and all points east and west.
w. B. KNISKERN. H. G. GARvIN,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agt, Gen. Agent,
Chicago. WinOna, Mimi
H. L. BEECHER, Agent, Redwood Falls, MINI
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
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MINNEAPOLIS & St. Louis Railway.

MINNEAPOLIS & St. Louis Railway. "a
Time of arrival and departure of mail and
express trains from Redwood, in effect April
21st. 1890:
Passenger train going east leaves at IL AZ P. NJ
do do do west do 1:48 p. M
Accommodation do east do 6:30P. n
do do west do 6:35 A. n
Daily except Sundays.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

already ceased-to have any specific sig
MITIGATION. / am not Unitarian myself
but may be permitted to say that from
my point of view there is logical and his
toric warrant for the statement of one of
Professor Howison's interlocutors-that
Unitarianism is not Christianity.
upon one other matter | have a word to
offer. Professor Howison makes much of
the doctrine of the Divine Personality
This is an anthropomorphic phrase which
for my own part am not able to under
stand. Personality furnishes us with our
highest conception of life, and therefore
we attribute the qualities of personality to
the lower manifested in and through the
universe But such procedure is, philo-
sophicalIy considered, impossible. The
course OF thought has been slowly elimi-
mating all lower human elements from the
conception of Deity; it will end by elimi-
mating all human elements whatsoever.
Anthropomorphic theism, even in is
highest and present form, is thus only
stage-a stage which will presently be
outprown -
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(Grant) again and he showed me the nice
stateroom that had fallen to his lot and
said:
This is great luxury and what did
not expect, and l am indebted to you for
it. The prospect of ever being able to re-
ciprocate is certainly remote, but strange
things happen in this world and there is
no knowing
With these prophetic words on his lips
Ulysses S. Grant sailed. Four years he
vegetated on his Missouri farm. He was
always a dreamer and always mystery.
He failed to make success of farming
and went to Galena, Illinois, where he at
tempted TO carry on the leather business
with his father. He was clerk and shop
keeper, and delivered with his own hands
the goods that he sold. When he had
leisure he chopped wood for his own
kitchen-stove.
The Government of the United States.
when the Civil War broke out, did not &C
cept his offer to take commission in the
army. Mcclellan declined to give him a
place on his staff. He recruited an Hi
nois regiment and the Governor of that
State made him colonel in command of
the regiment which he had brought into
existence. Then he became a brigadier-
general of volunteers, and soon after, as
General Barnes phrases it, this leather
dealer who did his own wash and split his
own wood, this listless. sluggish, ineffec-
tive citizen upon his own motion, was per-
mitted to capture Fort Henry and Fort
Donelson with 1000 prisoners"
Amid the singular annals and reverses
of those who have figured in the worlds
history as conquerors, there is no circ1m-
stance more striking than that of the
man who. ten years later, was the greatest
of modern generals, coming into San
Francisco pennlless and hungry and hop
ing, at the best. to be able to get in some
way to New York in the steerage of Pa
citic Mail steamer, the full account OF
which is automatically given in the fore
going. 1t ranks with the fact indicated
by Ulysses S. Grant when he is reported
to have said, recalling his early military
training, II had no fondness for military
duty and went into the army because l
thought would prefer that to the tan
ming business"
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it accords TO all others. It will not regard
miracles as an evidence OF Christianity
though it may find in Christianity an evil
dence of miracles. But whatever it may
take away from the Gospels it will not fail
to leave there the plain record of the Man
who of all men says most clearly that love
and not hate is the essence of the natural
order in human life.
II think that DR.. Howison is right in
combining his faith with mis- philosophy.
Whatever a man believes he must believe
with all his might, and each thing which
is true is the truest thing in the universe.
Everything which one believes is mex
tricably connected with everything else,
and every belief will influence cond uct.
1t must sooner or later all work itself out
into action. 1 cannot sympathize with
those who put their religious belief into
one casket, their scientific knowledge into
another and their philosophy into third,
and keep each Theoretically sealed from
the others. When these caskets are
opened each one will be found empty, the
parable of the single talent giving the
clew to the cause of this. What one has
ceased to believe is minor matter. The
question Is, w nat Is MS positive 1altn
How does he stand related to the natural
order of the universe? For as his faith is
so will his life be.
'But cannot quite follow DR.. Howison
in the method by which he seems to
reach solution of the problem OF life.
The only solution l know of Is that of
doing each day and each hour the best
thing that one knows, and thus on TO the
end, whatever be the number of the
worlds traversed. This is an empirical
answer and the art Of life lies in finding
out day By day what is best. Logic alone
can solve no problems of life. 1t can Civ.
back as answer only what you put in it as
assump tions. Logic is the name for &C
curate workings of the mind In qualita-
tive ways, as mathematics represents its
quantitative efforts. Together logic and
mathematics constitute reason. and rea-
son is powerless without experience. With
nothing it can do nothing. 1t is not an
independent source of truth. Reason
takes what is given it and brings out the
included results. The subject-matter,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
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most carefully recorded testimony; fourth.
on the acknowledged difficulty of sitting
the evidence forthcoming from the
early days of Christianity; fifth, on the
well-known mythoreic tendency OF the
human mind in certain stages OF culture,
and sixth, on the gradual disappearance
of the miraculous with the progress of
knowledge and the development of scien-
tific habit of thought. And say that IN
the light of these considerations the bal
ance of probability must in every case be
as infinity to one against an alleged mira
Gle. The onus OF proof thus resting with
the defenders of the miraculous is heavy
one indeed, and in view of the real issues
involved in the problem one can only
smile at the ingenious inaptitude of the
argument about the rain and the grapes,
which find set forth by an interviewer
as the utterance of one of Professor Howl
sons clerical antagonists. Moreover, it
does not seem to occur to the orthodox
apologist that for evidential purposes a
miracle, even if proved, would be value
less Theological discussion of the rela-
ton of doctrine to the supernatural at
testation of doctrine in Christian revela-
ton is habitually characterized by the
fault known as reasoning in circle.
$50 far as Professor Howison suggested
definition of Christianity is concerned, |
can only say that-waiving for the mo-
ment any question of agreement or dis
agreement with the terms OF his amended
declaration of faith view with distrust
any attempt to force new meanings into
old phraseology. Of course it may be
urged that we have each one of US per-
feet right to define Christianity. or any
thing else in accordance with our theories;
but what ultimately do we gain by this
time of intellectual exertion? / dare say
that could so interpret the thirty nine
articles of the English church in such
way that might logically justify myself
in appending my signature to them. But
the question, surely, is not what l can
make them mean to myself, but what they
were intended and are properly to be
taken to mean. BY the time we have, all
of US. undertaken to give our own deini-
tions of Christianity, the word Christian
ity will have ceased-eyen if it has not
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caImness and liberation on those who
'storming at the gates of sense are much
troubled over the little happenings OF this
too little world. The world with its joys,
its sorrows. its sufferings and its sins is
only a succession of experiences. The
dawn of creation never was the everlast-
ing darkness, never will be. For him is
all eternity Hence it is natural that our
own philosopher should bear the kindest,
tenderest eyes 1 ever saw with something
in them widely helpful, encouraging and
uplifting
For in these eyes is tie impress OF the
search for truth. To search for truth is
the best we can do. The highest philoso-
ply is sadly and ab-urdly human and the
perfect truth is but for Thee alone.
Professor Henry Hudson, occupying the
chair of English literature. did not feel
inclined TO go into lengthy discussion OF
the recent controversy between Professor
Howison and DR.. Harris, or their ortho-
dox clerical critics, but he spoke candidly
and to the purpose few words on some
of the essential points as follows:
al am, of course, in full agreement with
Professor Howison in his ethical criticism
of the great evangelical dogma OF the
atonement-a dogma which conceive to
be doubly disastrous in its bearings upon
character as tending first, to sap the sense
OF individual responsibility, and second,
to foster the belief in the forgiveness of
SIM So far. too, as am able TO follow the
printed reports of his arguments | find
myself at one with him on the question OF
the so-called supernatural elements in the
Christian creed. l am not let me say dis
tinctly, at all concerned to defend the
popular thesis that miracle-using the
word as meaning an occurrence not to be
accounted Tor by our limited knowl-
edge of the processes of nature-never
could happen, and therefore never
did happen. The problem, take it,
is not thus 10 be settled on purely a
priori grounds. But / insist. first. on
the anteced ent improbability of any de-
parture from the normal course of things;
second. on the consequent need for the
clearest proof of any such alleged depart
ure; third, on the VIGOROUSLY uncertain
character of even the best-intentioned and
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I front and along the streets where the
numerous commission-houses handle the
country products. In this locality there
is to be found ar actual demon stra ton of
the way some hundreds of families live
without the expenditure of single cent
for their food. Most of the production of
the market, gardens. vineyards and or
ehards destined for this market is brought
by the low-draught, stern wheeled steam-
ers that ply the bayous and upper waters
of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers,
and these unload their cargoes mostly at
Washington and Jackson street piers. At
times these immense structures are piled
deep with packages from the farm, and in
handling them, which is done in the
greatest haste possible, some portion OF
their contents is sure TO be empted upon
the ground, the fotsam and jetsam of
the produce trade.
But it Is rarely that any portion of
this scattering vegetable merchandise is
wasted. There is always some women or
men with baskets who are permitted,
upon the supposition of their extreme
poverty, to gather up the estray vegetable.
and very rare it is that they leave the
wharf until their baskets are filled to the
top.
Most of these gatherers are of foreign
BIRTH and very large majority of them
are Italians This thrifty race. by en-
forced experience in their own land, have
reduced the econ omy of living to its finest
point. They emigrate to this country
ignorant of its language or its laws, but
with habits of industry and thrift which
strike the average American with amaze
ment Their chief ambition is to own
their own homes. The rule of large fami-
lies prevails, and each one is employed in
some industry that will either produce
money or else in an avocation that will
save expenditure. The rapid accumula-
lations OF the Italian is thus accounted
for.
But the wharves are not the only places
where the stray fruit and vegetable is
gathered in. A hundred boys perambu-
late the streets where the commission
men abound, with a sack over their
shoulders, who, with trained eye, per-
ceive in the roadway the object OF their
search. No matter what it may be- to-
mato or squash, in it goes into the mouth
of the receptacle, to be sorted later when
the days work is done. The amount thus
lost to the producer is great, many thou
sands OF dollars a month, but it is not
wasted and reappears at some humble
table as delightful salad covered with
plenty OF olive oil and washed down by
fresh pressed claret.
These boy scavengers are notable class.
They are wonderfully sharp, and have
been known to ill their sacks at the ex-
pense of the unwatchful merchant. but
they are tolerated as necessary evil and
as an interesting feature of life in great
city.
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"The subtlety of m metaphysical distinc-
tons taxes to the utmost the practical
English language most of us speak. Specu-
lative philosophy, like higher mathemat-
les, which is much the same thing, re-
quires speech OF its own. Besides, as no
TWO thinkers quite agree in philosophical
OUTLOOK each should have an individual
language. For such reasons absolute in
telligibiliiy in metaphysics is impossible,
and the dividing line between arrant non
sense End the noblest efforts of specula-
tive philosophy is often very narrow one,
and one not infrequently crossed. Hence
the kindly tolerance which Professor
Howison and his dog Socks (Socrates)
show for each others philosophy. Thus
Professor Royce's definition of the nature
OF Infinite personality might appeal to an
archangels sense of humor.
Equally confusing TO the lay mind is the
language Of symbolism. All theology re-
solves Itself into figures of speech. Our
ideas as 10 the ultimate nature and pur-
poses OF the Divine Being must be child
lshly inadequate. Language is crystal
llZed from past experiences, and the
unknown transcends experience. Hence
we make use OF symbolic expressions,
without precise meaning, but which carry
a feeling of sacredness we would not de-
fine if We could. These symbols change
in meaning as the minds OF men broaden,
but they are never willingly discarded
We cling to their forms with greater per-
sistence than to the ideas which from
tim 10 time they represent In the prac-
teal experience of preacher one who
uses these symbolic phrases readily passes
as orthodox, whatever the meaning he
may attach to them. One who tries to
carry over their significance into familiar
words is like TO find himself accounted
as hereto. But from such heresies have
sprung all genuine revivals OF religion.
Mysticism is fatal to religion as it is to
other forms of sanity.
Certainly. too, as Alice Rix' observes,
the higher criticism. or the experience
OF the world which higher criticism is
suffered to represent, will pass over all
sorts of Symbolism to get at the truth. 1t
will find no warrant for withholding
from one set of documents the treatment
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IL HAVE not a cent to my name; will
H you allow me to sleep tonight on
H that IoungeY'
''You need not do that" was the an
swer; there is a dollar for your lodgings"
81 am greatly obliged. but 1 will save
the dollar by sleeping on the lounge and
use the dollar Tor my dinner and break
fast"
So this man who was shabby and penni-
less slept on ricketv old lounge in back
Office in San Francisco and (for he had no
place in which to lay his head) the next
morning said he had slept well. He
added, with a pleased look, that he had
saved his dollar. Ten years later this
shabby and penniless man, having
changed his fortunes by his own exertions
and consummate genius, received the sur
render of General Robert E. Lee, for the
shabby man was no other than Ulysses S.
Grant.
The story was told few evenings ago
by General w. H. L. Barnes to an assem-
bage of army and navy officers, active
and retired, representing the regular and
the volunteer service, mostly men whose
boards and hair have become silvered
since they threw their caps in the air,
nearly thirty-two years ago, when Lee
capitulated at Appomattox. The meeting
was one of the California Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, and the occasion was
designated as Grant night" Speech
making was the order Of the evening, and
1t ali referred, to Ulysses S. Grant, whose
portrait, enwreathed with American flags
and crowned with iaurels, was suspended
over the table on which tbs repast was
laid.
The two principal orators were General
W. H. L. Barnes and Bishop Newman,
the one robust and athletic, standing
erectly, his eyes sparkling with good
health and keen enjoyment of the occa-
sion; the other, equally we'll known as an
orator throughout the United States, tall
OF figure, but bowed somewhat by years.
Both had new stories of General Grant,
which have never previously been in
print. Those told by General Barnes
we're local and brought into the consider
alton of the characteristics and exploits of
the great military leader racy touch of
early California. The meeting of the
commandery was held in the Occidental
Hotel, not very far from that Office where
the penniless Grant, dreaming not of
fame, slept to save dollar that he might
have enough to purchase two meals and
avoid going hungry. The occasion and
the locality gave realism to a story which,
were it not sober history, would be justly
considered as allied to Arabian romances
of the days of Al Raschid.
AT the age of 30 years. said General
Barnes, when he (Grant) had attained
the rank of captain and while serving
with battalion of his regiment in Oregon,
he resigned his commission. After his