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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-24

While Minnesota's direct primary law
requires every voter if challenged to swear
that he voted at the last election for the
party whose ticket he asks for at the pri-
maries and that he intends to vote for
that party at the final election. Maryland
has direct primary law that goes to the
other extreme. A voter can ask for any
ticket he chooses, is not subject to chal-
lenge, and so far from being bound tp
vote for the party at the election whose
candidates he helps to choose is supposed
to be Informed by the judges that hesis
under no such obligation. It might as
we'll be that way, for in any event an in
dependent voter is likely to disregard his
assurances of intention on the ground
that he swore only to purpose, and that
his purpose had changed Pioneer Press.
That labor can be successfully organ
lied and successfully handled when strik-
ing for its own interests is demonstrated
in the great coal strike. Now, that the
men have held out until the country is
crying out with the oppression and the
operators of the mines are putting non
union men to work there comes the an
nouncement that the union men of the
railroads refuse to handle the coal that
is mined by men who do not belong to
the union. This puts another condition
to the strike and will so complicate it
that there seems to be nothing left for
the operators to do but to pay the half
cent that the men want and let them go
to work. The oppression has become SO
wide spread that it has reached into the
very homes of tbs people of this city and
if the strike keeps up and even if it does
not there are thousands of poor people
who are going to suffer for fuel with
which to keep their homes warm this
winter, and on top of this scarcity of coal
there comes the promise of an old-time
Minnesota winter. 1t begins to look as
though we were up against it in good
shape for the time being. a... 7
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-24
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Enar Hoidale Of the legal firm of
Hoidale & Somsen, of New Ulm was
nominated on Tuesday by the Democrats
for the Office Of county attorney Of Brown
county. Mr.. Hoidaie is bright and
promising attorney and his election is
almost certainty Mankato Review.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
CHlLDREN'S EYESIGHT.
Considerations Worth Attention bx
Those in Charge of Schools.

Those in Charge of Schools.
Civilization has its drawbacks An
expert oculist connected with a London
hospital was asked the other day what
was the cause and cure for the largo
amount OF defective eyesight among
young people. His answer is: The
cause, in my humble opinion, is the
present condition of the education laws
No sooner are the children of the low.
er classes pushed away from their
mothers breasts than the school hoard
offlcer swoops down upon them and car
ries them off to the badly lighted and
worse ventilated schOolrOom, where for
about five hours per diem they strain
their eyes in the endeavor to read small
print and learn smattering of French
painting and the 'ologies, embroidery
and the grammar of music.
Even the kindergarten has been so
prostituted that the children are sweat
ed TO turn out artistic mats of iptri.
cate design 10 the ruin of their eyes and
the delight of their teachers. In early
life the TUNES of the eye are to a Ger.
tain extent yielding, while the muscu-
lar movements associated in the act of
accommodating for near vision have
not yet become purely automatic.
Hence unnecessary strain often takes
place, and the shape of the eye becomes
garduaily altered, accompanied. of
course, by defective vision. Teach chill
dren their letters, IL necessary, while
they are young by means of large cant
tails, placed at some distance from IN.
eye, not nearer than four or five feet.
teach them what you like by means of
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26

conversation, pictures and natur,, !,
jects; but would not allow child =
whom 1 was interested to UNDERGO ~
ular schooling until at least Z or 3 vass
Of age. Under this plan, 1t is true NJ
should lose our infant prodigies h..
then they never would be missed. =
our days Of overpressure these h.
words of wisdom.
1t is not the fact, we are told th..
short-sightedness is on the increase. T.
is oftener detected and remedied. Lon.
sight and its frequently accompanying
squint account, 1t is said, for 80 per
cent of the spectacle wearers. It ia
practically stationary after four or five
years of age. Short sight, on the other
hand, unless corrected by suitable
glasses, and sometimes even then
tends to increase up to Is or 16. "Manv
board schools, having first ruined the
sight Of the children, instruct their
teachers to test the sight at frequent
intervals by means Of the test types.
and notify the parents Of those ha-ing
defective sight to take them to an oph.
thalmic hospital. This, Of course, is thu
least they can do" Considering how
much good eyesight is worth, it's woe.
full waste to sacrifice 1t even to produce
infant prodigies.-London Telegraph.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
A Delicate Position.

Wedding presents are frequently dis
tinguished for their uselessness, and
gift making at any time Is always
attended with some danger, but there
Is contractor in Toronto who real.
ICES that the most generous intentions
are likely to turn out disastrously.
This Is how it came about:
A faithful Irish employee announced
his desire to take months vacation
In order to visit his brother In the
West. He had worked so well and
steadily that his employer not only
granted the request, but made him
present of a new valise. The night
before Tim was to leave he received
the gift accompanied by few appre-
ciative words.
Tim stared at the valise for mo-
ment and then asked:
What am | to do with thOtw
"Why, put your clothes in 1t when
you go away, of course" answered the
contractor
PUT me clothes In It, Is it?' SAID
Tim. "An' phwat will Oh wear II VI
put me clothes in thot?"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
CHAPTER XXI-Continued

Ralph left the kings presence full of
gratitude and hope. But he had
charged himself with another duty, a
more perilous one as.the event proved.
In his intercourse " it'll the disaffected, it
had come to Ralph's knowledge that
the chancel lor- archbishop was an object
OF intense and widespread hatred; and
remembering the ties of blood, and the
obligation OF some acts OF kindness, he
conceived it to be his duty with what
delicacy he could, to give the great man
warning OF the threats muttered against
him, and to p'ead with him for concili-
alton.
All human passion concentrates it.
self on human objects, and the wrath
of the peae antry, although the product
of evil institutions rather than special
" evil men, had fastened itself on a
few great officials, of whom Sudbury
was the chief. He had become in the
popular imagination a sort OF monster,
in whom was incarnate all the heart
lessness and cruelty, all the chicanery
and greed from which poor men suf-
Iereu. AS TIE SudTuldH VI tic sTedt zeal
and chief Of the kings officers, held
vaguely responsible for everything that
went amiss, excessive taxation, futile
expenditure, miscarriage of the ware,
Indifference to the just complaints Of
the people, he was obnoxious enough !;
but to crown the misdeeds heaped in
discriminatory on his responsibility,
he was the representative of type
daily becoming more odious, the world
ly prelate, who meddled with public
affairs to the neglect of his spiritual
duties. The worldly prelate was the
special aversion OF Wycliffe, and the
invectives of his poor priests spread far
and wide the personal odium against
the chancellor rs the most conspicuous
example of the class.
SO to Lambeth Rail phi went to move
the chancellor His brother Reginald
warned him of the fruitlessness OF his
mission, but in what he considered to
be his duty Ralph was not to be dis
suaded, and the result was he had to
spend ZONE weeks more in prison. this
time at Marshalsea, being charged with
being privy to the designs of traitors.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
The Teacher Rebuked.

According to Representative Little
field, it was preachers small boy VINO
got into a fight with another youngster.
AS the latter was going home with one
black eyes the minister met him.
MY lad" said the preacher. you
have been fighting"
Yes, SIR was the reply.
Don't you know it is wicked to fight!
will go home and pray for you"
You had better go home and pray
for your own boy" was the indignant
reply. "He has two black eyes.
Washington Post.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
CHAPTER XIII.

The sky was not clear when the great
storm burst; it was thickly overcast,
dark and troubled. The signs of what
was to come were there, il only they
could have been rightly interpreted.
But they we're hung out in vain, fool
ishly laughed to scorn, perversely mis-
understood, pridefully flouted and dis
regarded.
The clouds were dark, it was true,
but clouds equally dark had gathered
before and passed quietly away without
breaking in tempest. There was no
cause for alarm or extraordinary pre-
caution.
1t seems incredible now that men
should have been 90 blind and improv.
ident.
1t was natural enough to mistake the
beginning of insurrection for the final
fling of passing irritation at an un-
popular tax. The wisest OF us might
have made the same blunder before the
event. That the poll tax, the subsidy
OF three greats, as it was called, should
be unpopular was not at all surprising
or abnormal. 1t was only what might
have been expected. No new tax ever
IL popular. st is a common usage, T"
says the quaint translator of Froissart !;
"none is gladde to pay or to opyn their
purses if they may lette it," Many re-
fused outright to pay the January in
stallment Of the tax. The government
referred this naturally enough to the
ordinary motive, repugnance to. open
the purse, repugnance especially
strong when the impost is OF new
kind. They did not see and we can
not fairly hold them foolish above the
ordinary run of governments for not
seeing-that it was not the weight of
this particular impost in itself that the
people felt; that this impost was the
last straw that made the sum of their
burdens intolerable, and thus became
a symbol against which was directed
all the pent-up and accumulated hatred
of long series of years of suffering.
They failed to see this, and they failed
even to see until too late the advantage
that they gave to the leaders of the
discontinued peasants IN providing
them with y grievance that was COM
mon, however slight, and thus furnish
ing rallying cry, the force of which
could be felt by all.
The payment of the January INSTALL
ment was slack, but the ruling powers
opposed firm front to this, expecting
the resistance to collapse, as it had coll
lapsed before, when a solid body OF
organized men was opposed to loose,
incoherent assemblages of reluctant
atoms. A certain period of grace was
allowed, and then the collectors pro-
ceeded to distrain. But the front oil
the resistance was also firm. The
sheriff s officers we're resisted. Numer.
Gus riots occurred all over the country
when the distress warrants were put in
execution. In Essex the resistance
was especially obstinate. The govern.
ment resolved to make an example Of
Essex. A commission under the pres
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
WEATHER AND MORALS.

Prof. Dexter Has Some Experiments
Showing Effect Of Wind and Storm,
Wind and storm have great and d.
rect influence upon morals. says Prof.
Dexter Of the University Of Illinois,
in the Popular Science Monthly. He
has carefully tabulated long series
Of experiments, and finds that when
the wind does blow harder than four
miles an hour, children stay from
school in three times as great mum.
bers, more policemen are of duty,
more errors are made by bank clerks,
and more people die. He discovers also
that women and children are more sus.
ceptible to storm and calm than men.
and that fewer serious crimes are CON-
mitted during calm days, and he inter-
prets his statistics in this way: dur
ing calms," he says, "thOse life phe-
nomena which are due to depleted vi
tally are excessive, and those which
are due to excessive vitality are def
cient In number" In explanation Of
this state Of affairs are two general n.y.
pOtheses. The first is based upon the
general facts bearing upon ventilation.
and the second upon those Of atnos-
pheric electricity. The first would only
be applicable to the conditions Of large
cities, while the second would be valid
for any spot on the earth's surface.
II the normal proportions Of oxygen
are to be maintained in the immediate
vicinity Of great combustion Of oxy-
gen. fresh air must by some means be
brought in to take the place Of that the
normal mixture Of which has been dis
tributed. We are quite familiar with
these facts in their bearing upon the
ventilation Of buildings, but there is no
difference except that Of magnitude be-
tween a building In which the air Is
being robbed Of its oxygen through
combustion and city In which the
same process Is going ."-Harper's
Weekly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-06-26
Gentle Hint to His Flock.

The following announcement appear
ed the other day in a Buckinghamshire'
England, paper: 1.-The vicar regrets 10
have to inform his parishioners that III
consequence of his advanced age, II VIII
not be possible for him to visit the resi-
dents on the hilltops. He will still Dc
able to perform all the Sunday church
duty. If at any time II should please
God to send him pony and carriage ~
will give him great pleasure to resume
his former course of visiting"
Some people are mean enough 10 pu'
Bible with counterfeit money.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-28
FERDINAND NOTES

Mr.. P. Kirby, father of Mrs. P. T.
Lewis, is up from Vineland on visit.
Frank Eastman, of Westlake, has
made arrangements to haul 80 cords OF
wood to town.
W. W. Kincaid took a load of geese
and turkeys to Lewiston, returning last
Monday. The load netted him 1915
Matt Fuchs is back from his trip to
the lower country.
N. G. Bicknell was called by phone to
Nezperce on business.
John Schinkosky has rented his
fathers farm. Mr.. S. will take life a
little easier now and intends visiting
his old home in Kansas next summer.
F. NJ Mason has the carpenters at
work completing his new residence. 1t
viii be one of the finest buildings on
the prairie when finished.
Oren Eastman says he will put up a
blacksmith shop here this winter. to be
In readiness Tor spring work.
Oliver and Miss Blanche Trueblood
are taking music lessoHs now. Mrs.
Prefer has a class of ni.fs at present.
A literary society has been organized
at the Pine Grove school house, three
miles west of here. Ferdinand will or.
ganize society abont Dec. 1st.
the Eifel store will auction off some
OF its bulky merchandise ON Saturday,
ta Claus.
PoPULfeF
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-28

New line of boys clothing at Gold
stones.
! ]. NJ. Wolbert, Atty at Law, Notary
Public, Real estate Agent and Justice OF
the Peace, Cottonwood, Idaho.
Highest cash price paid for spring
calves or young cows with calves. Call
on or write to SHAW & NEIaHBoR,
! Westlake, Ida.
W. ]. Smith will have public sale in
this town on December ID, 1902, prep
aratory to his removal, to Colorado.
/ Mr.. Smith does not like to leave fisis
country but he thinks change of eli
mate will benefit his health. We pre-
1 dict that it will not be long before he Is
back among his old friends.
| Dick Upton came in Wednesday
from Salmon river with band Of eighty
horses belonging to VIM. Rookie. The
horses will be shipped to eastern mar
kets in the near future. Dick says that
he lost about forty of the herd before he
crossed the river. 1t appears that the
/ horses stampeded and the number lost
escaped to their accustomed range.
They will be brought in later.
We were slightly premature in our
announcement of the wedding of VIM.
Hanley and Miss Anna Dieckman last
week, as the nuptIals we're not cele,
brated until Tuesday of this week.
We were misiuformed, but no serious
injury resulted. Billy squared himself
with the boys, who are all his friends,
and received their good wishes and con-
gratulations in return. The remarks
we made last week were ahead OF time,
so they are hereby appropriated for this
| issue. "a
Prospectors are returning daily from
| Thunder Mountain. They all say the
camp is good one and that they are
going back. According to all reports
about 250 men will remain in the camp
during the winter. All those who have
gone to Thunder mountain and have re-
turned with adverse reports as to the
prosperity and stability of the camp are
classed by a majority of those we have
interviewed as knockers and ''sore
heads, who never in their lives saw
what they thought was good camp.
The H. & H. Hardware Co. are build
ing new warehouse back of their store.
which viii be soxS9 feet in dimension
and covered with rustic and rooted with
paroid. 1t will be equipped with
travelling crane for moving heavy freight
to all parts of the building Press.
This company is enc of the most en-
terprising and progressive concerns in
the county. You can always get what
you want, at the right price, in their
mammoth store at Grangeville. Read
their ad. elsewhere in this issue.
A petition is circulating among the
taxpayers of this village asking the
trustees to increase the amount origi-
nally appropriated for public improve
ments in order that the work on the
new court house may be proceeded with
pending the arrival OF money for the
bonds issued for that purpose. 1t is the
proper thing to do, and the petition
should be signed by every taxpayer in
the village in order that our town may
be enabled to keep faith with the people
of the county who voted the county seat
here,-Free Press.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-28
Ladies Goldstone's ad. will interest

Ladies' Goldstone's ad. will interest
you.
"The man with the wood" is the man
with the "top hand' now.
WANTED-To trade lumber for barley.
Apply to Webster & Wright, Cotton
| wood.
Marshal Richardson and Frank Hill
have been engaged the past week in
laying side and cross walks. All the
walks leading to the school house are
nearly completed. - .s. =
Clay Robbins was hurriedly summon
ed from Nezperce by phone Wednesday
evening on account of the serious illness
of his wife. Mrs. Robbins is now
steadily improving.
The CHRONICLE force extends its
thanks to Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Rookie for
one of the finest Thanksgiving dinners
we have ever enjoyed. The st. Albert
is deservedly popular.
Appropriate Thanksgiving exercises
were held at the public school Wednes-
day afternoon. The program was ex-
cellently rendered and thoroughly ap-
preciated by all participants.
The roads are frozen up now and
hauling, though a little rough, is very
good. Quite quantity of wood 10 be-
ing brought to town, but still there is
considerable complaint of shortage in
that line.
Fred Martin has sold to Bird & Bushy
nearly 10000 feet of saw logs at 81 per
thousand. The trees are on the place
Fred recently purchased from Frank
Greer. R. Reynolds will haul the logs
to the mill.
1t is a good idea to begin early to Sc
lect your holiday gifts. Goldstone has
a line that cannot be surpassed on the
prairie. Get your presents early and
get what you want, it will save disap-
poiAtment later on.
The sale of the Jumbo mine is nearly
completed, the price being stated as
$250,000. Frank Brown is now in Spo-
kane and it is expected that the trans
fer of the mine to Patsy Clark will be
accomplished this week.
The boys have had qnite time dur
ing the week playing for turkeys, geese
and ducks. We presume that there
isn't one who is not the owner of two or
more birds. 1t will take the surround
ing country another whole year to stock
up the market again.
Capt. Geo. M. Wolf says he was com
PEELED to dispose of another one of his
nice fat hogs in order TO do justice to his
Thanksgiving celebration. The captain
has good many of the aforesaid hogs
and, what is more, they are all surplus
capital with him-"Velvet," so to spoke.
If you are compelled, or want to stop
in Cottonwood, while on your Journey
to some other place, or, if you have
fodnd out, as many wise men have be-
fore you, that Cottonwood is a good
place to stop, and if you want to get the
best of accommodations while here, go
to the st. Albert Botel.
"Curly, 1.-THE gambler, made a short
stay here during the fore part of the
week, but, as there WasA't anything
extra doing in his lihe, he resumed his
trek to Nezperce. Several of his iik
have been here lately, but as their re-
ception was anything but cereial they
passed on
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-28
- - LOCAL NEWS . -

See Goldstone's new line of shoes.
New line o. Ladies' Cloaks at Gold
stones.
Ladies Belts, 10, Is, and 25 cents at
Goldstone's.
G. S. Stone is building large barn
svn his fine farm near Gresncreek.
The st. Albert hotel is the place for
theer and comfort these cold days.
Judge WolEert's court room has been
tltted With new heating apparatus.
Don't forget the church fair in the
Odd Fellows hall week from today,
Fl you want cranberries for thanks
giving go to Goldstone's and get them.
3 We hear that there will be big dahce
Ahd turkey shoot at Westlake on Christ
mas.
Miss Nora Simpson is staying with
Mr. and Mrs. Bash during the school
tsfm.
Albert Bracket, the fruit tree man,
has been in the city during the past few
days.
Frank Patterson left this morning for
Sites to bring up load of freight for
Brown & Brust.
The Ice man is preparing to "saw
freeze now in anticipation of next
summers monopoly.
Judge Rustemeyer and Constable
NuXoll, of Greencfeek, were in the city
Wednesday on official business.
Appropriate Thanksgiving exercises
were held at the Baptist church yester-
day morning, Rev. Daik, officiating.
Marfied.-In Grangeville, November
Is, Justice j. W. Bonebfake officiating,
Charles Seay and Miss Rosa M. Myers.
John A. Bonner, Of Keuterville, is
another OF our good subscribers who
brought us wood. He has our thanks.
We need more wood.
H. A. James and Ed Malerich last
Monday performed the dangerous Job Of
femodeling the large smokestack on top
Of the Cottonwood house.
An ENJOYABLE Thanksgiving party,
which was well attended, was given at
the sociable home of Mr.. and Mrs. Nick
Adhem, OF Greencreek, last evening.
The best of everything the market af-
fords in our line can always be found at
The st. Albert hotel. A. B. Rookie,
Prop.
Money. Farm loans. Low interest
and long time. Write or call on
j. B. RTE,
Westlake, Id.
According to the Grangeville papers
the celebration that will attend the re-
movaA of the coGnty seat to that place
will put the Glorious Fourth to shame.
Robt. Nugent has been taking the
place of Theo. Thurman in the latter's
barber shop during his absence. Mr..
Thurman is expected home from Spo-
kane today.
NJ. V. Huff this weeb sold in this city
Il 50 gallon barrel of sweet tider which
was made from apples grown on the ofa
Sandell ranch; about miles southeast
ff town All cider connoiseurs pro-
bounced it the best product y its kind
they had ever tasted il the West. That
u only another illustration oF the favor
W Games Prairie fruit.