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New Ulm review., 1900-07-04
Where They Celebrate.

The question of where and how to eel.
citrate the Fourth OF July is quite easily
answered so far as this particular local..
ty is concerned. While this city has not
arranged for any: special celebration
many ways have been provided by which
those Of our people who do not care to
60 away from home may be entertained.
The Lutheran congregation will picnic
at College bill, the address being deliy-
cred by Prof. Schaller and the music be-.
ing furnished by the Concordia band.
There will also be games and various
kinds of amusements. Free transporta-
tion will be furnished to all from the In
dian monument to the picnic grounds.
At Schmucker's Tivoli there will be a
general celebration during the entire
day and in the evening dances will be
given at the different halls in the city.
The various societies of the Catholic
church will unite in a general celebra-
tion In Catholic park at which addresses
will be delivered by Rev. Sandmeyer and
others and the usual program of games
and sports has been arranged.
A grand celebration will be given at
Jorgen Fladmo's place on the shores Of
Lake Omsrud in the town of Hanska.
The program includes speeches by Rev.
Skaret of Hanska, and Rev. Fossum of
Luverne.
y For Hanska there will be an old time
celebration on the shores of Lake Linden
one-half mile west of Hsnska station at
which Judge Andrews and Einar Ho1-
dale, of this city, will be the orators and
s. D. Peterson president of the day.
There will be full program. of sports
and dancing both afternoon aud evening.
In the town of Cottonwood the Sun
day School of the Evangelical church
will give program in the church be-
ginning at $3.50 in the forenoon and
closing with picnic in Haman's grove.
Perhaps the most pretentiors celebra-
tion in this immediate vicirity will be
had at Springfield where there will be a
ball game between teams from this citv
and Jeffers for purse of $75, balloon
ascension, music by the St. Peter band,
and an oration by Hon. w. A. Funk
of Mankato.
Although born rather late the celebra-
ton at Sleepy Eye promises to be a
pretty healthy child and includes a ball
game between Sleepy Eye and Fort
Ridgely, bicycle races, horse races, grand
industrial parade, and addresses by Rev.
John Goergen aud Fl. G. Hess.
Taken all together the patriotic citi-
zens of Brown county will today find
plenty of opportunity to exuberate and
it is safe to say that no one need LACK
for an opportunity to enthuse. ::<..:
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04
Hope and Memory.
DOROTHEA HAUENSTEIN.


Hope may be defined as the bright
star OF youth; memory the solace of old
age.
Memory presides over yesterday to-
day is ruled by reason, to o.morrow is un-
der the sway of hope.
There is a natural hopefulness in ev-
cry one.
Hopefulness is an especially human
characteristic. Animals live in the pres
ent. No beast nor bird :rles to improve
his conditions, or to make bis to morrow
better than bis to-day. Man does i'm
prove, and this power of improvement
is the condition of his progress, both in
dividual and social. Hope may often de-
ceive US, but without it man could never
have risen out of the savage state.
Without hope there is no culture, DO
civilization, no progress in wealth, art,
science, literature.
Inspiration and hope furnish the Sc
cret springs of civilization. All things
useful and beautiful were once only
hopes and ideas.
The human secret of progress is
"Forgetting things behind, reaching out
to those BEFORE
A youth starts out in the world. He
finds that in order to succeed he has to
struggle; he finds the world nothing but
field, upon which great and noble bat
ties must be fought and victories won.
What is it that seems to urge him on
with his difficult task2- Nothing but his
own bright hope. =. 5" W." e.
In the midst of the strife it IS memory
which recalls the pleasant hours OF child
hood, when he used to fly his Kite, 90
fishing and run races. But these are
past and hope lures him on with singing
birds and springing flowers, reminds him
that he has deeds to perform, and pict-
ures for him nothing but love and Joy
in the future. He mourns for. the past
but pushes on and finally discovers that
hope is . key which opens the door to
AMBITION and aspiration while memory
of former failures, on the contrary, is
like q bolt that sternly bars the gate to
youthful ambitions and closes IN the
realities of life. s.. s.s3s
Fear Of evil may keep men from 90
ing backward, but only hope Of some
thing better can carry them on.
Hope is balanced by caution. Hope
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04
Co. a at Home Again

II 3 #
With the exception Of three 81 four
of its members who stopped of in the
twin cities Co. "A and the 2nd regiment
band returned from It's ten days il camp
at Lake City Saturday evening via the
M. & st. Z. That New Ulm takes pride
in its soldier boys was amply evidenced
by the large crowd which gathered at
the depot to witness their return.
"It was," said Col. Bobleter, sthe
most successful encampment the regi-
ment has ever had, Notwithstanding the
excessive heat, and Co. A acquitted It.
self very creditably indeed. There were
456 officers and men IN attendance,wh1ch
is rs per cent of the paper strength of
the regiment and Is the largest number
that has answered to roll call at any en-
camrment in the history of the regi-
ment.'' #.. t.
Speaking of the action of the city
government of Lake City in refusing to
take any steps tor the. comfort of the
regiment, he further said: -.
"Lake City no longer seems to care for
the encampments and the mayor openly
stated that if it were left to vote of
the citizens no more would be held
there, which statement may or may not
be true, but it is certain that the city alb
solutely refused to even sprinkle the
street leading to the camp grounds and
we were compelled to 60 out and borrow
sprinkler from sa ent,rprising nursery
man and ourselves sprinkle the grounds,
in and around the camp. This we did
not mind so much, but feel that the city
should have certainly kept the street
leading directly to the city in a p,esable
condition."
The grounds occupied for encampment
purposes are held by the state under
thirty year lease and if not used for that
time Will revert to the syndicate from
which it was secured. The state now has
considerable property there in the way
of buildings, etc., but this should not be
permitted to stand in the way of the re-
moval of the permanent encampment
from city where 1t IS evidently not
wanted' and where the troops of the Ma
tional Guard are not accorded that cour-
teous treatment which they should and
must receive.
1t is perhaps too early to suggest def
mite action in the matter, but the REVIEW
believes that if a change shall be decid-
ed upon in the future no more appropri-
ate location can be found than the CITY
| of New Ulm, and it IS moral certainty
that il the encampment shall be brought
to this city the troops will receive that
proper care and courtesy which has evil
IDENTITY been denied at Lake City.
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04
BY the Pistol Route.

friday evening at about 6 go, F. w.
Gommel, a patient at St. Alexander's
hospital, shot himself through the head
with 38 calibre revolver, causing in
ST. mt death. Gommel had been an in
mate of the hospital for many years in
the ward for old people and was, as
nearly rs can be determined, about 80
years old. He had resided n his city
for many yeals and at one time held the
position of city marshal. His wife mys-
teriously disappeared in 1881 and it was
expected that his effects when searched
would give some clue to her action, but
nothing was found except letter ad-
dressed to Capt. Burg in which it was
claimed that the action of the cyclone
relief committee of 1881 had driven her
insane and while in that condition she
had wandered away.
The report of the revolver was heard
by Sister Superior Flavia who, immedi-
ately called chief of police Klause and
the door of Gommel's room was broken
open and the unfortunate old man found
sitting fully dressed IN a chair by the
window in which position he had evi-
IDENTIFY been when the fatal shot was fred.
Coroner Rothenburg was telephoned for
aud upon his arrival Saturday morning
it was decided that an inquest was not
necessary.
In drawer of the table in the old
mans room Was found the following
letter, written in German:
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04

-.g " a. - ~
Wolfgang Reichel, aged IS years, died
at his home on Broadway Sunday, the
cause of death being prolonged attack
of Ia grippe resulting IN cardiac paraly-
sis. Deceased was Bohemian and had
resided in this city about Is years. His
wife died some three years ago and, SO
far as can be learned, he was without
relatives in this city. The remains were
cared for BY Undertaken saveIein and
the burial was in the Catholic cemetary
yesterday.
Mrs. Charles Albrecht and children o1
st. Paul are visiting this week with the
family Of Col. Pfaender.
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04

While returning from Sleepy Eye last
Friday evening John Wild met with
painful accident which resulted in
sprained wrist which will keep him laid
up for several days. He was, in compa-
ny with party Of friends, driving home
after having attended funeral, when
their conveyance tipped over and the en-
tire party were thrown out, Mr.. Wild be-
ing the only one who sustained injury.
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04
County Valuations.

Tile assess Ell valuatio OF iae real es-
t'e and personal property, as re armed
to he county ant,tor Of tn. var,nrs
towns is Is fol Ows:
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04
AN EXPLANATION.

AN EXPLANATION.
-. No one snal! dare blame the St,
!: Alexander hospital SISTERS for my
death. II was m7 aff1icron winch
made lie ,ru.a1an.e,
j.. VIM. Gaunlal.
The remain5 were TAKEN 10 Bueuger's
undertaking. rooms anu the burial took
place in the city cemetery Saturday af-
tefnoon.
New Ulm review., 1900-07-04

*Figures for. Stately and Hanska ere
| based on last assessment, assessors from
those towns not having made their re-
| turns. .~
, 1900-12-13

Chicago. Dec. S.-Most of the tele-
graph operators on lines of the Atchl-
son, Topeka x Santa Fe system went
on strike late yesterday in support of
the strike inaugurated on the Gulf,
Colorado Il Santa Fe Thursday.
President L. p. Ripley of the Atchi-
son road, when he learned of the strike
of the main line operators, said:
This action was taken" he contin-
ued, Notwithstanding the fact that the
company made a contract with the OPP
orators in service on the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fee proper July l, and
with those in service on the lines west
of Albuquerque, November 18th last,
under the terms of which they bound
themselves, through their organization,
to give the company thirty days notice
of any dissatisfaction"
Denver, Colo, Dec. 9.-The following
order inaugurated the great telegraph
ers' strike in Denver:
Galveston, Tex, Dec. s. 1900
Cease work at once, all operators of
Santa Fe system, until such time as
ordered to resume by me. Train dis
patchers members of the order will
do likewise.
MARTIN NJ. DOLPHIN"
, 1900-12-13
HAWAII PLANTERS
WANT NEGROES

Honolulu. Nov. 3O.-Statistics of i'm
migration for the past few months
show that there is n considerable
movement of Orientals away form the
islands During the past three months
the departures for Japanese for Japan
have exceeded the arrivals by owe 200
and over 400 more Chinese have zone
home than have come here.
The steamship Aoransi from Victor
this week brought the first lot of labor
eres that have been received for some
time. Only eighty We're in the lot, but
1t is understood that more will come
If these make a favorable report. The
question of getting negro labor from
the South American states is being
warmly discussed. There is great op-
position 10 importing negroes in some
quarters. Delegate Wilcox has de
clared himself as strongly opposed TO it
and he will work against 1t. He de-
clares that if negroes are brought here
1t means the end of the Hawaiian race.
II city has just passed through the
heaviest rainstOrm experienced in
many years. Five and n half inches of
rain fell in twelve hours on the night
of November 18th, and tie result was
some large floods in the residence dis
tricts.
The bark ST. Catherine arrived day
before yesterday from san Francisco,
having been thirty days in making the
trip. As n result of the slow journey
she lost 100 hogs which We're over
come by heat and died on the way.
The brig w. q. Irwin and %barkentine
Planter have also arrived after equal
ly long trips. All the vessels report an
absence of trade winds.
Hawaii has celebrated for the last
time. probably, the day known to Ha-
waiian history as Independence Day,
1t is the 2Sth of November, on which
date twenty-seven years ago. England
and France entered into n mutual trea-
ty recognizing the Hawaiian nation
and agreeing to respect it as %independ-
ent. This followed after the cession
of the islands to Great Britain, upon
demand made by Lord George Paulet
and the subsequent restoration of the
monarchy by Admiral Thomas. When
the Legislature meets 1t will probably
abolish the Holiday.
, 1900-12-13
REMARKABLE EXTENSION OF
RURAL FREE MAIL DELIVERY

covering G6,S42 square miles, divided
among forty-four states and %terrltor.
les. and serving n population of 1901.
524. The number of applications pend.
ing at that date and awaiting action
or under investigation was more han
2.1OO-nearly enough to double the OK.
listing r~ervice-end every day brings
more. The close of the present fiscal
year will see about 1890 routes in Oh.
Grafton, carrying the mail daily to the
doors of not less than 3,50O.000 resi-.
dents of the rural districts.
1T thus appears that rural free de.
livery can be extended practically over
the whole country at on annual cost Of
less than $14,00O,0OO. AS the appro.
priation for the current fiscal year for
this purpose is 81 100000, an addition.
al outlay of S12, 10000, unless unfor.
seen demands should come, would sub
stantially take the mail every day to
every door in the land.
ut Is recommended that the appro.
priation for rural free delivery for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1901, be
not less than S3,500,OO0."
The following recommendations for
legislation by Congress are made:
That an act be passed to punish per.
sons who by force attempt to enter a
car or apartment in a car used for the
distribution of mail, or who may as
sault a railway mail clerk while in the
discharge of his duties as such.
That n statute be enacted providing
for the compulsory separation by pub
fishers of second-class mail matter.
While the majority of the publishers
have shown n willingness TO undertake
this work Mt the request of the special
officer I'm charge of it, a few are un-
willing to cooperate with the govern.
ment in this matter, which OK.
pense TO the department and facilitates
dispatch of mail.
That the interstate commerce law be
amended to prohibit common carriers.
to-wit, telegraph and express compan.
les, or any of their employees, from aid
ing or abetting in the green goods or
lottery swindles, or any other scheme
carried on partly by mail and partly by
common carrier. n which is in VIC
lation of the postal laws.
That a statute be enacted authoriz.
ing postofiice inspectors TO take out
search warrants whenever the same
may be necessary in the prosecution OF
their official duties.
That an appropriation be made fol
the purpose of constructing lookoutS
in postofiices wherever, in the opinion
of the postmaster general, they may be
needed.
That provision be made for the pay
ment of incidental expenses incurred
by local officers or others in the arrest
detention and keeping of prisoners
charged with violations of the posta
laws until such prisoners can be trans
ferred 20 the custody of n United State'
marshal.
, 1900-12-13

Washington, Dec. 1O.-Postmaster
General Charles Emory Smith has Is
sued his annual report for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1900. The show
ing made is one gratifying to the adj
ministration, and in n great measure a
matter of pride to all citizens of the
United States to whom the great
strides made in the Postal Department
have placed the United States system
in the front rank in the nations in the
postal union. The report says:
1.-THE financial operations of h de-
partment for the last fiscal year are
shown briefly in the following state
ment:
Revenues and Expenditures- Il, =,
Ordinary postal revenue .sloo's ss' i'o'fi
Receipts from money-order - o.
business ......-.....-.--'''' if'''ih'
Total receipts from all o., --o 90
sources ...-........- .Sioz, oof'o'''E7
Total expenditures for the
year lV'''fV'NVi''
Excess of expenditures over
receipts . ..................S 5.3S5,6SS.IU
"From this statement 1t will be oh
served that the have now
passed the hundred million mark; also,
that while the expenditures We're over
six millions greater than for the pre-
vious fiscal year, the deficit for the
year 1S99-19O0 was but S5,3S5,6sS, be-
ing S1,225 ,0SS less than that of the pre-
vious year.
1.-THE following is an estimate of the
revenues and expenditures of the pos
tai service, which has been transmit
ted to the secretary of the treasury,
for the fiscal year ending June 30
1902:
Total postal revenue for 1900. 800, 354, $500
Add ~ per cent. for estimat-
ed Increase year ending June u
80, l9Ol ho'o'osS'V
Estimated revenue for 1901 Sic, 031, 172,0i
Add 6 per cent. for estimated
1902. 6,6O1. s7o.N
Estimated revenue for 1902. SIG, 6Ss, O42.O OK
Estimated expenditure for
l5U2. . lzl'Z'o'Sf''V
Deficiency for 1902. esti-
mated 4,bSi, SViV
"The extraordinary extension OF
rural free delivery during the last two
years has proved to be the most salient
significant and fa~r-reaching feature OF
postal development in recent times.
I'VE are now carrying the postotficc
to the door of 100000 of people
massed in towns and cities. The task
before us is the more complicated worR
of carrying the postofiice TO the door OF
about 21,000.0O0 scattered over 1000,
600 square miles of territory.
July /. 1899, there We're 391 rura'
delivery routes in operation, under al
appropriation of S450,OOO, this number
was increased to 1,214. July /, 1900
the appropriation of 81, 100000 became
available and November 18th, 2,61+
routes had been located and establish
eu, 81 1879 miles in aggregate length
, 1900-12-13

Washington, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Mary j.,
Mclean, the mother of John II. Me
Lean of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
mother-in-law of Admiral Dewey, died
mt her residence ut 1870 o'clock this
morning of acute heart affection. She
had been i'll since Friday.
AT the bedside of Mrs. Mclean when
the end came We're her daughters, Mrs.
Dewey and Mrs. Ludlow, wife of Rear
Admiral Nicoll Ludlow; her son, John
X, Mclean, and Admiral Dewey.
Mrs. Mclean was "A native of Ken
lucky, but previous to coming to
Washington several years g she
spent most of her life in Cincinnati.
She was the widow of the late Wash
ington Mclean, proprietor of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. Mrs. Mclean was
in her seventy-second year.
, 1900-12-13

Heintz of the Rio Grande Western
says he looks for the population of
Utah to double within n short time, I'M
less something happens to Interfere
with the plans of the roads centering
here.
I'VE have lone everything that
money can do in h way of advertis-
ing and Offering Inducements to colo
~nization,' he declared. I'VE have
sent three agents East to devote them
selves entirely to this propaganda, and
we have inserted an advertisement in
over 1000 eastern papers. The tide
has started already. Settlers are com
ing in by the score, and large quanti-
ties of letters OF inquiry are loading
down Our mail"
The Oregon Short Line has also cut
loose on spending money, devoting es-
pecial attention to Idaho. General
Passenger Agent Burley of the Short
Line said:
I'VE have sent out 100000 copies Of
n booklet on Idaho and returns are be
ginning to come in ON this and IN an
advertisement that we ran in 5000 pa
pers in the East. We expect to bring
10000 people into Utah and Idaho in
the next three years. / haven't a
doubt in the world but what we will do
it"
, 1900-12-13

A regimental physician in the
French army has investigated the Of
feet upon soldiers of regular marching
in disciplined bodies. The uniformity
of the soldiers step causes the indef-
mite repetition Of "A shock of the brain
and bones, and consequently the mode
of motion is far more deleterlous than
an irregular walk. He attributes the
peculiar aches and pains of the men to
the fact that the same parts of the
body receive the series of shocks.
What does the doctor suggest by way
of relief? Experiments have shown that
his plan is eflfcacious. The device is
simple: A rubber heel for all military
boots. The brain-jar and other I'M
favorable sensations are so diminished
as to give the infantrymen n new lease
of activity. The relative efficiency OF
the army may thus be increased by
wha: might be considered an unimpor-
tant change. The scale might be
turned in a long and close contest in
favor of the ru~bber-heeled men. and
the map of Europe altered.
, 1900-12-13

Salt Lake, Utah, Dec. 1O.-Both the
Rio Grande Western and Oregon Short
Line railroads are in the midst of the
most gigantic and determined effort to.
wards colonization even made in the
West. The passenger departments
have literally been given over to the
IL object. General Passenger Agent
, 1900-12-13

A new apartment house in course of
erection on West End avenue and
Seventy-ninth street. New York, will
have attached to it automobile sta
bles for housing the automobiles of
tenants. Facilities for charging the
electric vehicles are provided on the
first floor. and the second floor is in
tended for living apartments for the
vehicle attendants.
, 1900-12-13

The new battleship Maine. building
ut Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia,
is more than one-third completed. II
is expected that she will be launched
on Feb. Is of next year, the third an
niversary of the destruction of the orr
Einal Maine in Havana harbor. On
Feb. IS, 1888. during a driving bliz-
zard, were laid the first %keelplates of
the new battleship.
, 1900-12-13

Kipling's advice to England mot to
hustle the East" applies to home re-
formers. Some months ago a New
England society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals sent to Porto Rico
a large number of circulars. A special
paragraph referred to the cruelty of
using a frosty bit in horses mouths,
and advised warming it carefully. In
asmuch as most of the people had
never seen ice, the advice was some
what misplaced.
, 1900-12-13

DR.. Thomas Wilson, speaking at the
recent meeting of the American Asso-
citation for h Advancement of Science.
argued hat the celebrated theory of
Lombroso. associating certain types of
crime with definite physical charac-
tiers, was based upon untrustworthy
statistics. Doctor wilson thought 1t
would be more correct to say that
crime determines the physical struc-
ture than vice versa, and that en-
vironment is more responsible for
crime than is hereditary character.
, 1900-12-13
ONE THOUSAND TELEGRAPH
OPERATORS OUT ON A STRIKE

At seventeen minutes past 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon the above dispatch
was flashed over the wires into the
city office of the Santa Fe road in Den
YER. A few minutes later the operator
of the company on duty at the office
closed his Geographic key, reached for
his hat and overcOat and walked out.
As the Santa Fe system includes
more than 5000 miles of railway, it
IA estimated hat more than 1000
telegraph operators left their posts in
response to the peremptory order Of
Grand Chief Dolphin. The strike was
almost wholly unexpected by outsid-
ers, as it vas generally believed the
controversy between the operators and
the railway company would be CON
fined to the Texas division. On ac-
count also of the recent contract gov
erning all branches of the road west Of
Albuquerque and requiring employees
to give thirty days notice of n strike,
the announcement that hundreds Of
men had quit their positions was re-
ceived with incredulity. In railway
circles 1t was prophesied last evening
that the strike will be to n finish, and
will be one of the most determined Ia
Dor wars known for years in the West.