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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
IT WAS GENUINE.
The Signature OF william Shakes
peare That Admiral Luce Had.

The Signature OF William Shakes
peare That Admiral Luce Had.
At the time Of the New Orleans ex
position, in the winter Of 1885, Ad-
miral Luce was in command of the
north Atlantic squadron and was sent
down there to add to the gayety of
nations, which no other old seadog
could do better than he. Upon his re-
turn the flagship was anchored IN New
York bay, where it was visited by
many people. One day party came
aboard which included among others
a very pretty girl and very d1gnified
Luce was entertaining them in his
cabin he asked the pretty girl if she
would like to see an original sautograph
Of William Shakespeare.
At this the dignihed and learned
Englishman pricked up his ears and
remarked that he had made a study Of
the autographs Of Shakespeare and
example in America. Admiral Luce re-
piled that he was very positive his was
authentic and that it's genuineness had
never been questioned. This made the
Britisher quite mad, and he delivered
lecture on the fraudulent autographs
and manuscripts that were brought
over to America and exhibited as orig
inals.
"Well,' replied the admiral, 81 am
convinced that my autograph Of Will
liam Shakespeare is genuine, and
am going to have the pleasure of show
ing it to this young lady, Whereup-
on he went to his desk, took out his
visitors book, turned back few pages
and then pointed out the signature
William Shakespeare, mayor Of New
Orleans, Jan. -, 1886" The English
man gave painful gasp and RETIRED
Chicago Record.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
NOT MUCH or AN EATER.
It Took, So He sntd, Very little to
Satisfy Him.

1t Took, So He sntd, Very little to
Satisfy Him.
Captain B. W Morgan, every inch a
Welshman himself, likes to tell this
story when there is another Welshman
in hearing: He went home to dinner
one day and found a paper hanger at
work In the house. He asked the time,
and Captain Morgan told him 1t was
noon.
II guess I'll knock off and go home
to dinner then,' the paper hanger re-
marked
"Stay and eat with u.s." the captain
said, and the invitation was accepted.
Captain Morgan was attentive to his
guest during the meal He had q
prodigious appetite. The captain help
ed him to roast beef several times, un-
til at last he had some curiosity to see
Just how much the fellow would eat
without crying enough. The game was
growing quite interesting when the fell
low began to show signs Of quitting
"Will you have some Of : the plum
pudding?" the captain asked him to re-
vive his failing appetite.
mo, thanks he replied. 1--WE had
enough, think"
'Oh, take a small piece of the pud-
ding?' the captain urged. cts genu-
inc English plum pudding and home
made at that"
"Well, don't mind trying it," he
said.
The captain helped him to a section
of the pudding weighing about a
pound, and he ate it with much relish.
Then he showed his chair away from
the table and leaned back for an after
dinner chat.
I'm not much of an eater,s he said,
not noticing the smile on the captains
face. ut takes very little to satisfy
me. Say, you ought to see the Welsh
eat"
Are they hearty eaters?" asked the
captain.
Hearty eaters?' repeated the fell
low. "Say, they eat like lot of hogs"
-Pittsburg News.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
HENRY RANG OFF.
But When He Got Home That Night
There Was Trouble.

But When He Got Home That Night
There Was Trouble.
Apropos of nothing in particular-un-
less it be electricity-I heard a drug
gist tell Of little occurrence In his
shop the other day.
He was alone and putting up pre-
scription behind his large partition
screen when a stylishly dressed wo-
man entered and asked with some ex-
element for the telephone.
He ensconced her In front Of it and
returned to his work.
She took off her gloves, rang up
''centraP' and began:
"2179 - street. Yes, yes. Mr. Hen
ry Weeker. Yes, yes. He's at No.
- Beekman street. Yes. Oh, is that
Mr.. WeekerT'
Then her voice hardened.
Henry, why did you tell me you
went to Philadelphia Thursday :?
What? No, you did not l know bet
ter. Don't you stand there and lie to
me like that! No, l won't! What do
I care for the girl In the telephone Of
fee! You just attend to me and let
her alone! I'm In a drug store. They're
not listening at all. I want an expla-
nation. No, indeed, will not wait
till you come home tonight! BY that
time you'll have Matched up a fine sto-
ry and brought up couple Of brutes
to swear to it. Mrs. Wallace says her
husband saw you at the club Thurs
day night and that you were going
out to play poker all night. Oh, no, he
isn't. He's very nice man, and am
much obliged to him. You wouldn't
dare do anything of the kind! What?
You won't eh? Well, you'll talk when
you get home! Here, wait a moment.
Don't shut off,
But the seance was over, and she
paid her Is cents and stalked out with
flashing eyes that BODIED Ill for the
lively Henry.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
AUGUST FLOWER.

sit is surprising fact" says Prof.
Houlton, "that in my travels in all parts
OF the world, for the last ten years,
have met more people having used
Green's August Flower than any other
r'medy, for dyspepsia, deranged liver
and stomach, and for constipation find
for tourists and statesmen, or for persons
filing office POSITIONS, where headaches
and general bad feelings from irregular
habits exist, that Green's August Flower
IS grand remedy. It does not injure
the system by frequent use, and is ex-
.cellent for sour stomachs and indiges-
ton. Sample bottles free at Eckstein's
drug store. Sold by dealers in all evil
ned countries.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
BOOK BINDER,Y.

The public's attention Is called to the
fact that now have in operation a com
plete and up-to-date book bindery il the
Volksblatt Building. Am prepared to
bind books, blanks, magazines, periodi-
calls and the like on short notice. Best
of workmanship, due to long years of
experience. We guarantee satisfaction
and prices that will compete with any.
Bring your loose books and magazines
to US, and we will return them 10 v01.
neatly and strongly bound.
MAX Eyer.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
OutapeeEed the Swallow,

A swallow is considered one of the
swiftest Of flying birds, and it was
thought until a short time ago that no
insect could escape it.
4 naturalist tells of an exciting
chase he saw between a swallow and
a dragon fly. which is among the swift
est of insects.
The insect flew with incredible speed
and wheeled and lodged with such
ease that the swallow, despite it's ut
most efforts, completely failed to over
take and capture it,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
THE BIRDS PETITION.
Deep in leafy woodland bowers,
Bright with underground of flowers.

Deep in leafy woodland bowers,
Bright with underground of fowers,
Der the dappled mead and pool
And in tangled lanes most cool,
Pipe the throstle, finch and Lark
From the dewy dawn to dark,
And they pipe and never tire
Songs az sweet as loves desire. 2: :.
OFT to me they seem to sing, =
On the branch or on the wing:
'tlf you leave us space and sky,
Room to nest and sing and fly,
We will pipe for your delight,
Pipe and make the days more br!! hit,
But In narrow cage confined
Song Is slain by joy unkind.
-Honor, then, our wide domain,
Break not little hearts with pain;
God who made the merry day
Gave to us our roundelay,
And like honey laden bee,
Or like wild winds made us free,
Leave, then, leave LIS to our song,
Woods and meads and flowers among"
Charles Lusted in Gentleman's Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26

Modern Me2lciae, says that goats
milk, contrary to the general impress.
sions, differs from cows milk not in
being more digestible, but in being
less digestih1e and less nutritious, al
though It contains a larger amount Of
solid matter than cows milk. It b
indeed the most indigestible of all
milk. ~.-s-. -
Coats milk has a peculiar and un-
pleasant odnr and favor, due to mrcic
acid Or birctne. It contains an excess
of fat and is therefore altogether too
rich for an infants diet
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
Glove Cutting.

The cutters Of the great glove houses
at Brussels and in France earn even
higher wages than the cutters of the
most fashionable tailors in London
and New York. So difficult is this art
OF cutting gloves that most of the prin-
cipal cutters are known to the trade
by name and by fame, and the pecul-
lar knives which they use in the busi-
ness are so highly priced that they are
handed down from generation to gen.
GRAFTON as heirlooms. -ssx,..s. .
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
The Long Lived EIeuhant.

According to Aristotle, Button and
Culver, the elephant may live for two
centuries. After his victory over Po-
rus, Alexander consecrated to the sun
an elephant that had fought for the
Indian monarch and gave it the name
of Ajax. Then, having attached an in
scrpttDn, he set it at liberty. The ami
NAL was found 800 years later, making
its age easily somewhere between three
and four centuries.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
Derided.

An Austin cotored waiter told Rosa
ton man at hotel thnt ID eastern
Texas q white man had married a ne.
gro woman.
'eWas he not deridedW asked the
Bostanian in the classic speech Of the
''Hub of Cn1turh:'
He was, sab" beamed the negrqa
Day rade4 him out o. town Oh a mik q
4-HoneehoId Words.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
EVERYBODY Bays So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most Won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try box
OF G. c. G. to-day; 10, Is, SO cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
Yet 1T Is So.

1t is terribly hard for boy to be-
lieFe in the veracity Of hts father when
he hears him declare that no one ia
truly happy and conteDted unless he
has work to do.-Atchison Globe.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26

RraIH tag b largely tls result ofspeo:
pie not wtahtng to asnn that they eat
100 muehs-Detfoat Journal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26

The best evidence Of merit is the COR.
dial recognition Of 1t whenever and
wherever 1T may be found:-Bovee.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
TO quit tobacco easily and forever be mag,
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
BAG, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran.
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26
Meat Market.
Geo. Schnoberich, Prop.

Fresh and Salt Meats, Hams, Sausages,
etc. .-....
Herring, Fresh Fish and Oysters il
Season.
Highest prices paid for hogs, cattle,
wool and hides.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-26

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarsts
candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
Zoe. 25c. If c. c. C. fail, druggists refund money.
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

graphically. The common voting develops
public conscience Switzerland unites in
its blood an astonishing number of antag-
onisms, but everyone allows that these have
been leveled by the referendum and that
legislation by the people has brought us all
to feel as one people.
Prof. Louis Waurin, Professor of Sociol-
ogy in the University of Geneva, Switzer-
land.
The cantonal and municipal application
of the referendum, the right of popular in
itiative and, above all, the introduction of
proportional representation, are eloquent
elements of political Righteousness at Ge-
neva.
Hon. Numa Droz, President Swiss Re
public, economist and author.
Under the influence of the referendum
profound change has come over the spirit
both of parliament and people. The idea of
employer and employed, of sender and sent,
which lies at the root of the representative
system, become an absolute reality. The
people still choose their representatives to
make their laws, but they reserve the right
of sanction. The craftsman carries out the
work to his own satisfaction; the employer
who gave the order is of different opinion
and sends it back to be altered. 1t is per-
fectly simple, each has done his duty within
the limits assigned to him; there is no
ground for quarrel. The legislator is not
discredited he is only in the position of
deputy whose bill is not passed. There is
no question of resigning. If here and there
a measure is rejected, others are passed;
there is clearly no want of confidence.
Moreover, after rejecting law, it is quite
common to re-elect the same representa-
tives.
The people have generally shown them
selves wiser than the meddling politicians,
who have tried to draw them into sytem-
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

teresting Of all the projects for political and
social advance, now 80 much discussed, is
the old Swiss republics expedient of direct
legislation. It will not cure all the evils
that we suffer from nor provide all the new
things that we want; but it certainly
makes way for liberty 1t is a pretty good
test of its usefulness that it would have o
direct remedial effect upon the most enor-
nous of the political abuses of the day-the
use of political bodies for private money
making ends. When, through the re-sub-
mission of any project of legislation to the
people, it becomes useless to purchase a
State legislature or a board of aldermen, or
a committee of either house Of Congress,
there must certainly result drying up of
the most prolific source of corruption and
decentralization in American politics. But
this would be only an immediate effect.
The ultimate consequences Of requiring the
whole community to educate themselves
upon questions of politics and legislation, in
order to vote intelligently, are too large in
benefcent influence to be more than in di-
Gated at this time. With frequent referen-
dums, under direct legislation as a part of
our institutions, the whole people of both
sexes would come to realize that govern
ment is everybody's business, and must not
be left TO a professional class composed of
few interested persons. Then,
and not until then, shall we approach the
state Of the true republic such as the school
books tell children we are"
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

our youth have not yet had. 1t would
furnish means of carrying out the in
junction, We must educate and serve as
preventive to the awful catastrophe, or
we perish
"The initiative and referendum would de-
stroy many of the present evils and make
a way possible for other needed reforms in
city, State and nation. am in favor of both
because delegated responsibility has proved
to large degree failure and because our
representative government has ceased to
represent under changed conditions and the
power of Doodle, and because direct legis-
lation offers way by which we may apply
q bedrock principle of our government,
viz, the rule of the majority. Let us have
the initiative, the referendum, the impera-
tive mandate and everything else necessary
to putting the government into the hands
of the largest number; it is necessary to the
destruction of bossism, undue party power,
lobby power, money power, corporation
power, and any and all power that subverts
human character and the rights of the indi-
vidual man and woman"
BY Gilbert McClurg, editor the Monthly
Bimetallst DENVER:
"When recall the success which has fol-
lowed the introduction of direct legislation
Ill
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its individual wealth.

its individual wealth.
The history of the world abundantly
proves that the law is only a written ex-
preston of the interest of the law-giver.
In a real democracy wherein direct legis-
lation gives into the peoples hands the in
strument of perpetual motion and the path
for constant peaceful revolution lies open
before it, the people will create new forms
and laws not according to precOnceived So
cial theories but according to real wants as
they make themselves felt, and it will make
its will prevail, as in Switzerland, by a
stroke of the pen and no longer by fire.
arms and bloody revolutions.
Hon Theodore Curti, National Councillor
corresponds to United States Senator),
head of group of extreme left in Federal
Assembly, historian, etc
The referendum works well in great
crisis He mistakes who thinks the people
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

spirit could not pervade great state sufll-
GENTLY to make republican government in
it successful; but small and great are rela-
tive terms, and the newspaper and the tele-
graph are making the United States for
political purposes smaller than New Eng
land was when Washington was elected
president. In time all citizens of the repub-
lie will stand in as close touch for political
purposes MS the citizens of town to-day.
Then government will be less and less repre-
sentative and more and more direct"
BY j. st. Loe Strachey, editor of the Lon
don Spectator:
ut is good for all legislatures, as well as
for all men, to be subject to control, and not
to possess unlimited powers The only effec-
tive form of control in the case of legisla-
tive bodies in q democratically governed
country is to be found in poll of the peo-
pie. If and when poll of the people exists
the representatives are under control, and
the Tepresentatiyesare under control, and the
people are able to insure that their rights
have not been misunderstood or ignored.
A poll of the people is also most useful in
deciding contests between the two houses
Of legislature. When servants quarEel as
to which is in the right the master must de-
eide. A poll of the people is the best cor
rective of the evils of unlimited representa-
tive institutions But though the power to
take poll of the people is essential, refer
ence to the popular will ought not, in my
opinion, be taken too often or on trivial
subjects. The master has the final voice,
but he does not expect his servants to worry
him with unimportant details. These must
be settled by his delegates without an appeal
to him"
By B. 0. Flower, founder of the Arena
and ex.editor of The New Time:
'The referendum, initiative and recall
will be to our people at the present time
for moro thon
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

hands of representatives who cannot escape
the danger of defending their own interests
and becoming a new privileged class, or
shall it be the work of the people all to-
gether and express their intelligence, aspi-
rations and demandsl
A parliament can never give to the peo-
pie that feeling of unity which comes with
the referendum. The citizens of Grisons,
which is a confederation of communes, say:
"The referendum has made one people of
us One cannot imagine a more close
communion among people than this act has
brought about in which each participates.
See how the canton of st. Gall has been
solidified by the union of classes, the most
diverse and opposite historically and geo.
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12
GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE.
Direct Legislation The Step Necessary for Its
Restoration.


enlightened and progressive measures cal
culated to preserve justics and foster free
dom can republic save itself from the tyr
amy which blighted the hopes and prom
ises of ancient Rome after the Patricians
crushed the Gracchi. A government may
long retain the name of a republic when all
the essential features of democracy have
vanished.
"The crisis which cOnfronts us, and which
is recognized by all thoughtful and indie
pendent thinkers, imperatively demands the
immediate introduction of direct legislation,
which has already proved so benefcent in
Switzerland. But even il it had never been
introduced, if the experiment were as bold
and untried as the splendid program inau-
gurated by the Fathers of our Republic, it
would none the less be demanded by exist
ing conditions in order to maintain the in
tegrity of free government"
BY Mrs Susanna M. D. Fry, editor the
Union Signal (ChicagO);
"Direct legislation would be the means
of educating the inert mass of our people,
who at nraenut
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

our house regularly occurs most needless
and scandalous method of voting Members
have frequently testified, and it is common
knowledge, that they vote daily for or
against laws concerning which they know
absolutely nothing, Party directs them
more than does principle Members, count
less times, have bought and sold votes, in.
quiring meanwhile, What are you going to
do about it?' To disrupt this continual cor
ruption which enriChes trusts and robs men
I have yet to learn a remedy likely to prove
so effective in securing direct legislation,
which alone may yet effect genuine democ-
racy."
BY Edward H. Clement, editor the Bos-
ton Transcript:
ut seems to me that one of the most in
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

ers Indeed, persons cherishing the faith
in the people and the love of liberty which
Thomas Jefferson entertained cannot op-
pose these ideal republican measures. Those
who distrust public government, whose in
terests are with despotism, who look with
no disfavor upon tyranny if it be cloaked
in some pleasing name, as well as those un-
fortunate persons who go through life echo
ing the shallow catch phrases of those who
are forging chains of bondage for the people,
may be expected to oppose this great re-
form, for tyranny and ignorance are ever
leagued against progress and the dawn.
"Direct legislation meets the imperative
demand of our time and age, as the declara-
tion of independence sounded forward
step and voiced in measure the aspiration
of our fathers at that stage in civilization.
Only by meeting changed conditions with
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

found to put 1t
into practice, and
these means can
be above all no
other than that
the laws shall be
made by the voice
of the people and
not according to
the wishes of the
privileged few.
The political full
crum is wanted
to the social lever
wherewith society
may lift from off
its hinges the old
form of society
with its poverty
of the masses and
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

our government
what l believe
democratic gov
ernment will be
ultimately viz,
something much
nearer the town
meeting than any
form of represent
ative government
which we now
have. The polit-
ical philosophers
of a century and
a half ago be-
lieved that large
republics were inn
possible, because
they believed that
an efficient and
united public
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

VIII Systematic
ally reject pro-
posed laws and
that this Obstruc-
ZIONIST feelin
will prevent their
istin gushing
good laws from
bad ones.
After the prac-
tice of the refer
endum the people
possess a great
tre asury of
k n w | edge. A
great question
now looms all
over the world:
Shall legislation
now and in the
future be in the
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

VINO at present
can scarcely be
urged to an intel
ligent knowledge
of how our gov
ernment is con-
stituted, much
less to a knowl-
edge of its work
ings under pres
ent conditions,
The responsibility
of more direct and
personal partici-
patton in affairs
would be such q
schoolmaster as
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

Some Swiss Authorities ON Direct Legislation.
Hon. Karl Burkli, Councillor of Zurich,
veteran Swiss reformer lin his seventy-sixth
year,, called the Father of the Referendum.
Social reform is condemned to remain in
state of theory until the right means are
The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablutn, An
druggists refund the money lG tt R2IlD 20
cure. %c. The genuine has 4. ID. @. ON