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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
LODGE Ell ECTIONS HELD
Secret Societies Choose Officers For
Coming Year.

Coming Ycar.
At their last meeting Rural Camp,
M. w. A., of Milford, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Fred RoHof, consul;
Fred Scar, advisor; Andrew Backer,
banker; 81. J. Meyer, clerk; Robt.
Albrecht, Waterman; IF. Wandersee,
sentry; Fred Meyer, escort; DR.. G.. B.
Weiser, physician; Ed. Hengel, man
iager.
q st. John Court, No. 698, C. o. f.,
held its election Thursday evening.
The officers: Andrew J. Eckstein, chief
ranger; Christ Filzen, vice chief ranger;
VIM. G. Haubrich, financial secretary;
Thos. Kretsch, recording secretary;
DIR. ]. p. Graf, treasurer; VIM. J..
Julius, Hubert Berg, John Schneider,
trustees; Vim. Hue1skahm, flag bearer:
DR.. E. w. Bayley, medical examiner.
st. Anne Court: No. 389, w. G. o.
F., chose the following officers Thurs
day afternoon: Mrs. Christine M. Eek
stein, chief ranger; Mrs. r. Graf,
vice chief ranger; Mrs. Amalia Clas-
sen, recording secretary; Miss Mary
Filzen, financial secretary; Miss Ida
Ochs, treasurer; Mrs. Mic Berg, Mrs.
Anne Andring, Mrs. F. Keute, trustees;
DR.. E. w. Bayley, medical examiner;
Mrs. Christine M. Eekstein, delegate
to national convention; Mrs. A. Ochs,
alternate. 3e-.@ ..-s1.-
New U1m Lodge, No. S., 10. Q. F.;
John G. Gronau, N. G.; John Muhs,
V. G.; Geo. Jacobs, secretary; Frank
Friedman, treasurer; G. Arndt,
trustee. @
Flandrau Camp, No. 1,542, M. W.
A.: AL. Olson, consul; A. F. Otto
meyer, advisor; Herman Held, clerk;
81. D. Beussmann, banker; Mic Heinen,
escort; August Teidemann, watchman;
John Schriefer, sentry; G. B. Weiser,
physician; L. B. Krook, manager.
Orient Chapter, No. 60, o. e. s.:
Mrs. Maggie A. Henningsen, w. M;
Adolph Nellie, w. p; Mrs. Sarah
Weiser, A. M; Ida Hauenstein, Sec.
Mrs. Ida Schoergge, Treas; Mrs.
Luella Mueller, Conductress; Mathilda
Nellie, Associate Conductress.
Reuter- Lodge, No. 80, Sons of Her
man: Dietrich Rooster; president;
Geo. Altman, vice president; Jos.
Flor, secretary; Fred Pfaender, treas
urer; Albert Ring, trustee; Dietrich
Rooster, delegate to state convention;
Fred Pfaender, alternate.
Harmony Camp, No. 2,Oe7, NJ. W.
A.: Edgar Small, v, c.; Louis
Spreng, W. A.; Otto r. Kohn, E. B.;
urhoy+ Dove r1o,,l-. ~, -. r .. j..
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
JAY Cookies go. p. ]. Account.y

When jay Cooke was in business
there always stood upon his ledger an
account called the 20. 2. J. Account" "
At each semiannual closing of the
books of Jay Cooke & Co Il tenth OF
the FIRMS profits were passed to this
account ami thence distributed in char
ity ana in the advancement of religious
teaching. \ great deal of money-a
tenth, in fact. of all that the firm
earned during its long life-was thus
devoted to benevOlence. The account
was called 20. p. j." because these let
ters stand for "Old Patriarch Jacob
ard Jacob. as all Christians know. was
the inspired originator of the system
CT giving tithes to Sod. When the firm
Of jay Cooke Il Co failed-NIr. Cooke
has since recovered his fortunes molly
its h4ad said: How wise we were to
give a tenth Of our profits always to
%. T. j. Otherwise all that money
would have been lost too. Philadel-
phia Record
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
Generai Booth a veectarlon.

Few people are aware that General
Booth, head and founder of the Saliva.
tion Army. is pronounced vegetarian.
In years he has eaten neither fish. flesh
nor eggs, says the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune. Even butter. milk or
vegetables cooked with fat are denied.
His diet is solely upon cereals. boiled
rice being largely his sustenance. He
occasionally eats rice for breakfast.
dinner and supper and then enters
upon the same diet the next day.
A member Of the army said recently.
General Booth believes in his body.
Yet meats and strong drinks he heart
lily despises He will not smoke. be.
cause he realizes that he has a nervous
system that must be protected. He
will not drink. partly from principle
and partly because he realizes that for
every stimulation there is an equal and
consequent reaction. He is a vegetarian
not merely because he believes that
primitive mankind-Adam and Eve OF
the Bible-were vegetarians. but be-
cause. after a long practical trial. he
finds himself far younger than hin
years while the mortal parts of mosr
men, who laugh at what they call bis
are like John Browns body
-a-moldering in the grave"
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
Venezuela.

Venezuela has a larger area than the
combined areas of the great states of
Texas. Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana. Oklahoma and
Arkansas. In figures its area amOun4Ss
TO about 100000 square miles. The.
population is 100000 less than that of
Massachusetts. In 1891 it was 1928
527. The capital. Caracas, has 10000
inhabitants, MaracaibO $4,000. La
Guayra $4,000 and Barcelona about 49,
600. About one person out of every~
hundred is pure white while the 9th
ers are descendants of black slaves,
mulattOcs, etc. and Indians.
The republic has three zones ~ hot.
temperate and cool-according to the
elevation of the land. The lowlands in
the northwest are very torrid. Here
great quantities of coffee and cacao are
raised, which form the largest agricul-
tural exports of the country. The ca
Gao is sent mainly to France. Germany
and Spain and the coffee. which aver
ages yearly crop of $4,000 tons. to the
inited States. = National Geographic
Maga1inc
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
Flight of Eirds.

Interesting facts as to flight of birds
have resulted from long series Of %
seryations. whose general results have
recently been published.
An eagle was observed by Hergessall
Of ShasSburg 10 fly at height of 5000
feet
y lark was detected at an altitude Of
LOCO feet. Aeronauts have encountered
crows as high rs 1000 feet from lie
earth.
These. however. are exceptional al
titudes for birds to attain. As a rule
1900 feet seems to be the limit.
The German OrnithnlnoicnI snniatu
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
AMERICAN IDEALS.
A Sarcastic Fren shman's Verdict of
Us and Our Methods.

Us and Our Methods.
A disgruntled Frenchman, who must
have recently come in contact with a
number of boastful American tourists,
draws this rather amusing pen picture
of the people of the United States:
"When we talk of France, they always
say, oh. but you should see America! !
They reckon up their buildings by the
cubic acre, and the greatest artistic
beauty Of an edifce is the number of
stories it has. They take out their
guidebook and study the exact meas
urements and weight of stone. Oh
they say, it is not as big as Waldorf
Astoria or the White House. And
they are happy. The American has
only one superlative, exactly the same
in art and literature as in industry. 1t
is 'biggestr The biggest picture. the
biggest book, the biggest machine.
dare say they would really like to have
the biggest stomachs TO eat the biggest
dinners, for they have the biggest feet
to cover the most ground
"The highest ideal the American can
imagine is the biggest automatic ma
chine. and he is always talking of it
and trying to invent it, just as he is al
ways trying to initiate a machine in
his way of living. He would like to
run the human heart and mind by ma
chinery, and he treats his head like an
electric accumulator, and his nerves
are so many wires down which he
sends currents to develop physical en-
ergy. He has an idea that man must
push his brain to its maximum of work
at the highest pressure, only to create
machinery. To do this he fills his head
with cogwheels. which he sets going
at such Il rate he can never stop them,
and they 90 on turning and turning,
even when he has no more work to do.
He goes off with such a rattle that he
cannot stop the machine until it breaks
him down. He has given up real eat
ing long ago and in ten minutes finishes
off a meal it would take a Frenchman
two hours to get through, and as his
teeth are bad he stops them all with
gold. He has trained himself to work
until eating is nuisance, so he in
vents tablOids and can carry a pound
Of beefsteak and a loaf of bread in his
pocket.
In America liberty is a mOcEery and
a myth. Slave driving is
the natural instinct of the American
He must always be driving somebody
Everybody has a boss and for that rea-
'On wants to boss everybody beneath
him. The only idea the American has
# civilization is huge ore hesta where
III the world plays the tune while he
waves the wand. The tune does not
natter much if the time is quick
cOnaut.
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
The Tyranny of Dent.


THIS tyranny of debt, which is the
offspring of false pride, makes its CON
quests over those who have large in
comes as well rs those with small.
Only the other day there was buried
in one of ChicagOs cemeteries man
who for ten years had a salary of over
$4,000 per year. Yet that man was al
ways in debt While he had an in
come Of $500 he was trying to live on
the scale of those who had a $1,000 in
come. When he was appointed a gen
eral superintendent of large corpora |
tiOn, at $3.50 per month salary, he i'm
mediately moved his family into a
new neighborhood and tried to assOci- /
ate with ChicagO's millionaires. That
man, when he died. did not own the
home he lived in. He did not even own
the bed on which he died. Every parti-
Gle of real estate held in his name was
plastered over with mortgages. Last
fall he even allowed his life insurance
policy to lapse because he could not af-
ford TO pay the few hundred dollars
necessary to keep it up, though he had
l salary of $4,000 per year. So we find
-oday that many a man who lives in
/ fine mansion is in the merciless clutch
If debt. The financial curse of this
lge is that mutitudes of people. on
recount of false pride and pernicious
are eking out a misera-
de existence. These people may move
II the best society, so called. yet they
ire far poorer than the humble clerk ,
With a paltry salary of $40 a week I
Who saves at least one-tenth of his in
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
A wen DRESSED vnlain.

Willful Debt is often a well dressed
villain who pretends to be an honest
man. In olden times if a man could
not pay his debts he was looked upon
IN the same sense as a thief and sent
to Jail Under the old Roman law.
after spending a certain time in jail. if
he was still unable to pay his creditors,
he was sold into slavery and had to
pass his life as serf. Some one might
say that such condition is very hard
and unjust. and so it is. But. in many
cases, when Il man will deliberately
enter a store and run up a heavy bill,
which he has no intention of paying,
he is just as much a robber as the
sneak thief who rushes into the bakery
and steals a loaf of bread, and he
should have little mercy shown to him.
The debtor not only steals the grocery
mans goods, but he steals his time and
his service.
Many a man who for years has dc
liberately run up all the debts he can
is today walking around our streets
claiming that in the sight of the law
he is honest After deliberately swim
ding all the men he could he puts the
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
compensationa of Pastors.

In the ministry service and salary
are not coequal terms. The high office
was not created for the advantage Of
the holder, and the calling is degraded
into a mere profession when it is made
the subject of money equivalents. The
work Of the ministry is more especial
ly in the realm of the moral and spir-
itual and therefore can never be ''finan-
cially compensated in any exhaustive
commercial sense" Nevertheless the
minister adapted by conduct and learn
ing to his high calling ordinarily does
have and should have a salary proper
tionate to the demands of the field he
is tilling and compensations far more
satisfying and worthy of consideration
than salaries.-Century.
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
Reeds Picture of DinaIev.

st. Clair Mckelway, editor of the
Erooklyn Eagle, once asked Thomas B.
Reed why he made Nelson Dingley
chairman of ways and means. He re-
piled: Some men would like to sit in a
sumptuous parlor with a young, lovely
and coQuettish girl and be petted by
her. You and | wouldn't do it, but we
would like it. Now Dingley in prefer
ence to doing that would be happier
sitting on the bottom Of an upturned
bucket in the darkest corner of a deep
cellar, at midnight, with only the light
of a stump candle by which to cipher
out on rough brown paper the proper
schedules for tariff bill. That is why
l wanted him for chairman of ways
and means"
Gaming at Monte Carlo.
Sir Hiram Maxim has been investi-
eating Monte Carlo. Quoting the words
of NJ. Blanc, the organizer of the bank,
''rouge gague quelque-fois. noir SOU
vent, mais blanc toujours." he says that
in the long run the best of systems can
do little more than reduce the loss
which is eventually inevitable owing to
the heavy percentage in favor of the
bank. The official guidebooks of Mon
te Carlo represent the average relations
between the bank and the player as
about siXty-oEc to sixty and that the
annual winnings of tho bank are about
$5000,O00. This would indicate that
about S1S5000,000 was taken to the
hank pvpI.v vaor ard $50 OO0 O0O 1r,o,,
back from the bank. Sir Hiram was
naturally staggered by the magnitude
of these figures and looked into the
matter. He concluded that the amount
staked each year was about S5,5OOOOO
and that the bank. instead of winning
the guidebOOk's IL per cent, kept about
30 per cent of the money. In other
words. the chances against the player
coming out even are about ten to one.
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
A Pertinent Question.

In closing l would like to ask nv
hearers pertinent question--Is not
the chief reason why you are unwilling
TO publicly profess Christ because you
have not been living right with your
fellow men and trying to pay your hon
est debts: DR.. Wilbur Chapman.
think it was. once told this incident in
il great evangelistic meeting. For some
weeks there was among the audience
to whom he had been preaching a man
who would not confess Christ. DR..
Chapman could not understand why
But one night this man came to his
hotel room and said: Doctor. is there
help for me? | am defaulter
stole 50 many thousand dollars from
my employers many years ago. They
have never found it out. What shal;
l dO?" DR.. Chapman told the man to
90 back to his old employers and to
confess, and fully confess. what he
had done. Then Dr. Chapman told
that man TO give up all his property
to liquidate part of the debt and to
pledge himself to pay back the balance
40 SUM tt' AAN NOulAA. Al-t llldu ulN rs +
he advised. In trying to undo the past
wrong he removed the obstacle which
Lad kept him from realizing that Christ
was real Y to forgive him. Ny friends /.
is the awful realization that you have I
been fins 9cially unjust to your fellow /
men keeping you away from the lote
of Christ? VIII you not try to undo .
that wrong? VIII you not follow the
command of Paul who tells us to owe
10 man anything" the same Paul who
tells US to press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling OF God in
Christ Jesus?'
1t may only take small speck of
dust in tie eye to blind the sight and
shut out the light of the noontide sun
1t may only take one bill which we
refuse to pay to our neighbor to shut
out all the glories Of heaven. Pau.
loes not ask of us an impossiblity. but
he does demand that we. one and all.
should not only love God with all our
souls, but also love our fellow men
enough to be financially just to them
IS well as mercifui
Copyright, 1903. by Louis Klopsch.l
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
Drowned in the Baths.

Gicamond. Va, eb. 1S-Niss Mary
Kincaid, a well-known and very hand
some young woman. was drowned in
the baths in the Hot Springs. Miss
kincaid was learning to swim and was
dressed in bathing suit when found
Il is believed that she ventured out
too far.
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20

Jus 1T udu ieIl IN his WlIe
10. - enters the bankruptcy
rt .s The judge to free him
SO financial obligations
NOW. ca" rot what the bankrup; y
co1rt say in such cases, no homes,
D.@ ei-ht of God or man. c...i
ever ,ily freed from financial
debl di .at debt is paid. 1t is Il
~ rs to pay what he owes
mas, v the bin was contracted.
g. signs Of Zacch1us' real
Coz. as VIII he turned to the
Saviour and said, Behold Lord. the
Laif of my goods | give to the poor.
ara f la~a taken anything from any
i--aa lfT fl'se accusation | restore to
HIM fourio,G." In other words he said.
II have cheated any man out of his
/ just dues, / an ready not only to re-
store to him the full amount of money
taken. but / will restore to him double
aAd treble and quadruple that which
have taken" And no man. in the sight
of God. can be a Christian until he first
signifies his intention to repay to the
utmost of his ability all the money
borrowed by him and to cancel his full
obligations to every one Of his financial
creditors. You cannot love God and
at the same time signify a willingness
to cheat your fellow men.
1t is told of Daniel Webster that
James T. Field, the famous publisher.
when a young clerk, was sent to col
lect bill from the great constitutional
lawyer. Mr.. Webster turned to him /
and said: Young man, have no mon |
ey. l never can pay my debts. What
is the good of your coming around and |
bOthering me? See, here is my money
drawer; there is nothing in it," With
that Mr.. Webster opened the drawer,
and, 10. revealed within was a big roll
of banknOtesl Mr. Websters face light
ed up with a look of great surprise.
"Well, wellr' he said. There is some
money. l wonder where it came from?
Young man. help yourself" With thar
Mr. Webster turned his back upon
young Field and buried his face in
lawbOOk. Mr.. Field helped himself,
signed u receipt and left the room, and
Mr.. Webster did not look up for one
moment to see what he was doing.
Daniel Webster may have been a great
statesman, but he was not a business
man. He had no more right to ignore
his creditors like that than he had to
sell his vote in the United States sen
ate. And before God ard man we have
no right to run up a lot of bills which
we have no intention of canceling.
"Owe no man anything" wrote the
greatest preacher who ever lived That
means pay your butcher and baker
bills and rent just as faithfully as you
ought to pay for your church pew or {
your dues to the missionary societies. ;
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20

mans store and home with the mie1
and the heavy step of a tyrant and a
master.
Then see Debt call out to a veiled
figure who is standing in the doorway,
He says: "Come in, mother, come in.
You need not be afraid; come in"
Then the female figure throws back the
veil from off her head, and l see that
she is the old hag Pride with a paint
ed, withered, sneering, scornful face.
Then Debt takes Mother Pride through
the aisles of the store and through the
rooms of the young mans home as he
says: Mother, these goods-the will
soon all be mine. Those pictures upon
the walls and those carpets upon the
floor, those dishes in the closets-they
shall soon all be mine, and l will make
the young man drop his life insurance
policy when he dies l will literally
strip his widow of everything. Aha,
that young man did not realize what
keen, shrewd, farseeing, Satanic plan
ner | could be when l told him to in
crease his outgo over his financial in
come | am we'll worthy to be called |
thy child. mother. l carry misery and |
woe wherever l 60" Such is nearly |
always the outcome of every mans |
life when Pride and Debt go hand in
hand and are allowed to sit down by
he domestic fireside.
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20

Debt is not only the offspring of
pride, but is often the parent of a
large family of criminal children. The
study of genealogical tables is among
the most interesting of studies. Ger
tain families nearly always have good
children; you can trace them down
from generation to generation. Other
families nearly always have bad chill
dren; there is apparently something in
their blood that is diseased and con.
taminated. As the waters falling down
the cascades near Duluth show the dis
coloratiOns contracted in passing
through forests of cedar and tamarack
miles away, so the blood of some chill
dren is tainted with criminal tenden
cies, inherited even before they are
born. They are born with propensity
for lying. for stealing. for inebriety.
which they are seldom able to eradi-
cate. But, though those children may
not be able to overcome their evil tend
encies in their own strength. they can
overcome them by the help of super
natural power. which is offered to allI
who are tempted.
Milford chronicle., 1903-02-20
winfuIIy Running Into DeDs.


,glful debt is that kind of debt into
which many allow themselves to run
through useless and sinful extrava-
gances. While the young man is being
financially ground to pieces by the up
per and neither millstones of this kind
of debt what is often the most natural
thing for him to do? ASK that young
collector who. is taking some of his
employers money to win. as he fool.
ishly thinks. a fortune at the gamblers
wheel. He is not at heart a bad young
man. He intends to pay that money
back. He expects to use it only for
little while and then return it with in
terest after he has escaped from the
clutches of merciless debt. Ask that
young embeZzler who has Just felt the
heavy hand Of the law placed upon his
shoulder. Did he ever expect that the
late suppers, the theater tickets and
the attendance at the races would vet
end in a prison cell? No. no He was
led as lamb TO the slaughter bv the
evil worryings of debt. accumulatipg
debt. Ask that wildcat speculator in |
Wall street. Did ne ever think for one
moment that he would lose the estate
confded to him in trustee form when
he began to run into debt? No. nolI
These men are being destroyed by debt
in the same way that the learned Lord
Bacon was led to accept bribes. They /
are being lured to destruction as Rene /
dict Arnold was lured when his debts
drove him to embark in the plot to de-
stroy West Point The bloodhounds of
debt had barked at his heels ever since
his Philadelphia extravagances. and his
debts not only made him a traitor
against his creditors. but at the last
they made him a traitor against his
country
Crookedness. gambling, wildcat spec
ulation and a betrayal of ones best
friends are often found among the NAL
formed offspring Of hideous parent.
Debt But without doubt the greater
number of the children Of this infa-
nous progenitor are those with the IA
tai marks Of perjury stamped. Cain
like, upon their brow. Lying alwavs
'ides upon Debts back once wrote
Benjamin Franklin. "The second vice
IS lying; the frst is running into debt
When a man needlessly and willfuliy
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-15
A FITTING IFibutG
A Citizen of Wausau
Pays a Well-Earned
Tribute.

The public statement of respected
citizen ADDS one more emphatic endorse
ment Of merit to the scores that have
appeared before.
Mr.. Carl Wartmann, of POS Washing
ton ST., with his father, dealer in meat,
poultry, etc, ut the above address, says:
Il was compelled to take medicines a
number of times for my kidneys. l
think that catching cold going in and
out the ice box when | WAS over heated,
may account for the trouble, for when
ever | caught cold it always settled in
my kidneys and caused a lame and ach-
ing back had an attack more pain
full than usual, and procuring Doan's
Kidney Pills at Albers' drug store, |
used about half box. | did not need
to continue the treatment any longer
for my back stopped aching"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
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N. Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-DOAN'S- and
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