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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-08
Charlie

M. E. church 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon, Rev. G. w. Lutz, pastor of
the Methodist church at Austin, and
an old friend of the deceased and
his family, conducting the services
and paying the last tribute to a
minister who had done his work well !.
DR.. Givler assisted, and the trium-
plant note in his opening prayer was
peculiarly fitting for the cd hero of
the cross who had entered into his
reward. The services at the church
and cemetery were largely attended.
The deceased was member Of
the Odd Fellows lodge and a big
delegation of Redwood Odd Fellows
escorted the remains from the resi-
dence to the church and from the
church to the cemetery.
The last of direct family Of Van
Dolahs- father, mother and eight
children, of which Thomas Thomp-
son VanDolah was the youngest,
passed to the God that gave them
life when this venerable gentleman
passed away. Born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, on Nov. 18th, 1888, he was one
Of eight children of cabinet MAX
er. Young Van Dolah attended the
common schools Of Cincinnati until
he was Is years old. That age found
him in frail health and DIR. Clark of
that city asked him to join his party
in a great overland trip to the Pa
cifc coast. This was but two years
after the gold craze of '49, and
young VanDolah eagerly jumped at
the chance, arriving in Sacramento
in the fall of that year. He COM
menced work as teamster and then
drifted into mining, and when he
returned to his old home in Gin
cinnati, by way of the isthmus Of
Panama and New York four years
later he was the possessor of COM
Portable sum Of this worlds goods.
1t was then that the young man
desired to continue his education
and at Hiram, Ohio, he betook him
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-08
FOR THIS We GO DEM.
Redwood Falls Newspaperman Meets
Oil Inspector J. A. MCDermOtt
and Turns Democratic.
Negotiations Opened as Early as Last
January Closed on Night of July
Both at North Redwood.

One of the two gentlemen of this
city who have been holding the
promissory notes of our esteemed
contemporary ever since it passed
into its present hands, was consider
ably surprised one day early last
week to have the owner of that
paper accost him with the state
ment:
Figure up the prin cipal and in
terest on what | owe you, and | will
be around and pay you in a day or
two; the windfall has happened"
And yet the holder of that indebt-
edness need not have been surprised
had he watched the events of the
past seven months very carefully.
AS early as last January ]. A. Nc
Dermott, state oil inspector under
the present Democratic administra-
ton, was negotiating for that news
paper plant, or so much of it as
would force the editor to join the
Democratic ranks in the campaign
of this year. Letters passed between
Mr. McDermott and his lieutenants in
this city and from week to week the
editor of that paper was strung
along.
When the Republican state con-
vention was called for Duluth he
was told to be present end to make
capital of anything that he could
see capital that would create the
impression that there was something
wrong in the Republican party and
its nominee, and from the time that
he received his instructions he had a
very hard time lodging about to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-08

keep from saying a good word for
the man whom he was afraid might
be the nominee Of the Republican
party.
When the convention was held the
owner and editor of our contempt
rary was present engaged in knocking
local candidate that won out, but
his mission was more particularly to
get the ammunition that he had been
instructed to obtain. In the even
ing after Mr.. Cole was nominated
for governor Thos. Shevlin of Min
neapolis gave a dinner party to the
Hennepin delegation, some 20 of
whom had supported ]. F. jacobson
up to the last ballot. That was his
ammunition and he returned home
and wrote the criticism on Mr..
Shevlin's dinner party to which that
editor was not invited.
That was to be his grounds for
bolt, providing the oil Inspector
came forth with the goods. Three
weeks ago last Monday the editor
and owner of that sheet, becoming
nervous over not hearing from the
proper Democratic authorities, made
visit to North Redwood to confer
with an officer Of the Democratic
committee, but no satisfaction was
forthcoming from that direction,
and on Friday morning, July 9th,
the editor went to St. Paul and put
it up carte blanche that some
thing must happen or there would
be a revolution in the temporary
position of his paper.
Monday afternoon, July Goth,
made its appearance, and with it
the willy oil Inspector, who seems
to have charge of the newspaper end
Of the state machine. The editor
and the oil Inspector met for a
moment in front of the Hotel Foun-
tain, long enough to fix meeting
place for North Redwood that night,
and to agree upon the editor getting
a carriage to take the two to the
meeting place after dark. And the
two went there alone. just what
occurred, or what passed on the
way, is known only to the two, but
at North Redwood they were met
by Mr., George w. Vaughn, an out
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-08
BIG TREE BOUNTY.
Redwood County Draws Nearly $4,000
from the State for Growing Trees.

Auditor Tompkins completed his
list of tabulating the Redwood coun-
ty applicants for tree bounty under
the state law last Friday morning,
and according to the tabulation
there are 329 farmers of Redwood
county who are asking bounty on
9302 acres of growing trees.
Redwood county is one of the
counties of the state to which a
great deal of money is paid for tree
bounty-in fact, much more than in
most of the other counties of the
state, and if the full allotment of
$3.50 per acre is paid by the state
auditor this year the tree growers
of the county will receive So, 791.25.
The county has been receiving
more rural school money than any
other county in the state during the
past five years, and with the farm
ers keeping up a continuous growth
of their groves, and new groves be-
ing cultivated from year to year,
the money brought into the county
from the state thru the rural schools
and tree bounty acts is we'll worth
contesting for, and in addition the
benefit to the tree growers is great
in the improvement of the value of
their land.
1t is contended that number of
applicants for tree bounty do not
fully comply with the law. If this
is the case it can be stated honestly
that there are a number of growing
groves in the county for which ap-
plications for bounty have not been
made, and it is more than likely
that if all the acreage was included
the amount paid to Redwood county
farmers would be a great deal
larger.
Auditor Tompkins has sent in his
compilation to the state auditor and
the latter official will undoubtedly
send out checks for the county as
soon as his staff can issue them.
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self, where he entered the Christian
college of that place, and he was
classmate of the late President
James A. Garfield, they passing thru
that educational institution together.
Four years were required for the
work and in about 1853 he came to
Belle Plaine, this state, where he
spent few years dealing in real
estate and then he commenced the
great pioneer work in the Christian
missionary field in Minnesota, spend
ing several years at that work, and
spending all of his own money, with
the exception of Is cents paid him
in collections, and in 1862 he organ
lied the first Christian church con-
vention ever held in Minnesota. That
same year he was ordained as
minister of the church and from
that time forward until 1867 he was
state evangelist of Minnesota, with
headquarters at Rochester.
Rev. VanDolah then assumed the
pastorate of the churches at Pleas
ant Grove and Marion, which he
had previously organized, and he
remained in charge Of those two
churches for about seven years.
Then three years were given to the
church at Pickwick, Winona county,
and in 1877, his eyes failing in their
sight, he went on to his farm in
Olmstead county, where he re-
manned for six years, when he came
to Redwood Falls and served as
pastor of the Christian congrega-
ton of this place until 1888. From
here he went to Morton and worked
for year and half, during which
time he built the church there, and
here it may be well to state that
while he preached here he built the
church at Olivia and established the
church at Candy. From Morton he
went to Eagle Lake, where he served
for one year and was then recalled
to Morton, where he renewed his.
II y OF M
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-08
CALLED BY HIS MASTER
Rev. Thomas Thompson vanDoIah, the
Veteran Minister, Called to His
Final Rest.
Passed Away at 2 o'clock Last Friday
Morning, After Months of Wait
ing for the End.

Rev. Thomas Thompson VanDolah,
for years missionary in the cause
of the Christian church, closed his
eyes forever on this world at 2
o'clock last Friday morning, days
after expressing to his wife and
daughters that he believed that his
work for Jesus Christ on this side of
the ocean had come to close, and
that his Redeemer was calling him
for the work or rest in that great
haven beyond.
A trouble Of the heart was the
cause of death. The veteran min
ister's noble heart had long been
affected, and for nine months prior
to his death he was obliged to give
up any attempt at outdoor life and
gradually witness the dissolution Of
those earthly ties. For nearly three
months before the end came he
passed into semi-unconscious state.
and just few hours before that
time he spoke the above words to
his wife and daughters, and gave to
them those loving messages to his
children far away, and to those pres
ent, that he would have them re-
member that turnout all eternity
as quietly as he passed into the
unconscious state, he as quietly
yielded up his life for the life be-
yond on last Friday morning.
The funeral occurred from the
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01

in the middle west and was absent
from Washington about three weeks,
covering at least $500 miles.
Benjamin Harrison was also presi-
dental traveller. He made tour of
the country that was much more ex-
tended than that made by President
Cleveland. 1t was memorable tour in
many ways. In the first place 1t serv-
ed to reveal the president to his fellow
countrymen as one of the most tact
full, eloquent and forceful speakers Of
the day. Again. it worked a marvellous
change in popular opinion in regard to
presidential travelling. For the Arst
time the people became reconciled to
the idea and accepted as a matter of
course that which had been criticised
SO numerically in the early post bel
lum days.
But 1t was Mr.. Mckinley who was
responsible for the full development OF
the presidential tour as 1t is now
known. He conducted 1t purely on
nonpartisan lines, appearing simply as
the chief executive of a great people
DESTROYS of closer acquaintance with
those who had made him such. He
travelled more miles than all Of his
predecessors combined. making three
long tours and several minor ones. His
long tour OF the SOutn contributed
greatly to the healing of sectional diff
ferences and met the approval OF men
of all political creeds.
Mr.. Roosevelt has proved himself to
be the champion presidential tourist.
lie has taken, all told. no less than
forty trips since entering the White
House. and IL he had been obliged to
pay for them out of his own pocket
they would have cost him about $11s.-
600. 1t is the fact that these expenses
have been borne by the railroads that
| is so unpalatable to the president and
to the American public. Mr.. Roosevelt
believes that 1T is his duty as chief
executive to travel about the country
and come in contact with it's people.
He realizes that the public owns him
! for the time being, and he recognizes
| its right to monopolize a certain amount
| Of his time and attention in any man.
| ner that it elects. He was averse to
continuing the practice of accepting
| fayors from the railroad companies.
and he thought that congress should
/! find way out of the difficulty.
| And there were comparatively few
| in congress that dissented-
GEORGE, II. PIcA1A
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01

THE Great Commoner of of Liberty In Three
LandCaed Real Author Of Declaration of independence

hath" which occurs in the Declara-
ton. Jefferson never in his life used
that archaic verb ending, but Paine
employed 1t habitually.
Third.-The ideas of the origin of
government and the right to rebel
against it are peculiarly those of
Paine. The belief that men derive GER
tain inherent rights from their Crea-
tor Is also one often expressed by
Paine. Jefferson shared these notions
in a way. but never affirmed them in
this fashion. while Paine did.
Fourth.-The original draft Of the
Declaration censured George III. be-
cause he had fostered the slave trade
in the colonies, and thus Christian
king" had condoned a thing that was
a reproach to "infidel'' countries. This
paragraph was stricken out because 1T
displeased southern members. Jeffer-
son could scarcely have written that
passage. 1t is not like him. He was
mildly against slavery in later days,
but he would not have made such a
savage thrust as this. He was more
suave and diplomatic. But Paine had
already attacked slavery in the Penn
sylvania Magazine He always opposed
it and was a man without policy when
it came to a question of principle. The
use of the words Christian" and "in-
fidel," with the sarcastic reflection on
christian" kings, is like Paine.
Fifth.-Another passage in the origi-
nal draft contained the words Scotch
and foreign mercenaries." This Of
Tended some Scotch members. and the
words Scotch and" were striker out.
Now, Paine was known to be hostile to
the Scotch, while Jefferson was fond
of them, having had Scotch tutors
Moreover. Jefferson in writing about
the incident could not even quote the
passage correctly, for he refers to ii
as Scotch and other foreign auXilia-
ries" He thus misauotes one word
and injects "other," which is highly
significant. for Jefferson, having been
born in Virginia would think Of the
Scotch as foreigners and therefore
would use the word other" but the
author of the passage did not regard
the Scotch as foreign. for he had writ
ten Scotch and foreign mercenaries.'
This TALES with Paine, for he was al
Englishman, and Scotland and England
were under one government.
Sixth--Although the whole struggle
between the mother country and the
colonies had been precipitated over thu
stamp act" and the cry of mo taxa
ton without representation" the Dec
laration only makes one slight refer
| ence to the matter of taxation. No pc
culiarity of Jefferson could account 70
this significant silence. but Paine al
ways belittled the matter oftaxation ant
thought it an unworthy and mercenar,
issue, unfit to be dignified in SO great /;
/ struggle. .-
| Seventh.-The references to God In TIL
/ ~
stantly made similar references
throughout his political writings, whil
such illusions in Jefferson's politica
| papers are exceedingly scarce.
| Paines services to America canno
| be overrated. In his first work as as
| sistant editor of the Pennsylvani;
| Magazine he outlined several reform
that did not become popular until near
| ly a century later. Among these wer
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01

opposition to slavery, advocacy OF a |
phase of weman's rights and condem-
nation of the custom of dueling.
He was the first man to write "the
independent states of America" Six
months before the adoption of the
Declaration he set the colonies on fire
for independence by his pamphlet
Common Sense" The copyright of
this he gave to the various states
Though it had an unprecedented sale
up to that time of over 100000 copies.
Paine not only had no money from it,
but paid the expenses of printing He
said he never could feel it right to
make money from his politics or re-
ligion. Yet he was very poor during
most of his life. being at times in ac-
tual want.
After it's publication it's author urged
independence in season and out of sea-
son. 1t was at this time, says the ira
dition, that Paine prepared his draft
of the Declaration and showed it to
few of his close friends like Jefferson
and Franklin. Finally his efforts were
crowned with success.
Paine then shouldered a musket and
went into the army as a common SOL
der. Born a Quaker. he abhorred war
as such and often wrote against 1t, but
to fight for defense and liberty he
thought holy. At one time he risked
his life in going in an open boat down
the river past the enemy's works on
mission for the patriot army.
When the colonists had reached dark
days Paine began the publication Of
1.-The Crisis" to cheer up the soldiers.
He kept on issuing successive num-
bers till the war was over. Some
times he wrote them on a drumhead by
the campfire and printed them on
brown paper when no other sort could
be secured. These pamphlets have
been described as half battles" They
were read at the heads OF the regi-
| ments and aroused the despairing SOL
diers like the peal of trumpet. The
| first one began with the memorable
sentence, These are the times that
| try mems souls" No more stirring
| calls were ever made. They were veri-
! table battle cries OF freedom.
Paine also served for a time as an
| aid to General Greene. He was then
made secretary of the foreign affairs
| committee of congress-, a very i'm
! portant position in that day. The dis
| covery of what he considered perfidy
! on the part of Silas Deane caused Mr..
| Paine to expose that gentleman. and
unfortunately he was considered to
| nave QlVulSeU committee tecret. 1ne
| cutlery against Deane wa caused by
I the fact that Paine tho 1t he was
| betraying his country interests
| which idea was borne ou' Y later de-
| velopments. but Deane's nds raised
| SO much of a disturbanf that Paine
resigned. He was next made clerk Of
the Pennsylvania assembly. He help
| ed write the constitution of that state
| which became a model for others
| When the colonies were practically
bankrupt and Washington was calling
| for money, Paine wrote a fiery letter
| proposing popular subscription
which he headed with his whole years
salary. AS a result an immense sum
for that day was raised and the crisis
was averted.
j At later date, when financial
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01

Bordentown, N. j., and another at
New Rochelle, N. Y. The cottage on
the New Rochelle place is still stand
ing. The farm has been recently sold
and divided up into city lots.
At one time the legislature of Vir
ginia proposed to vote Paine a sum of
money for his services, but notwith-
standing this promise. he published a
pamphlet called Public Good" for the
reason that he believed Virginia was
not treating properly the western ter
ritory that belonged to her and as a
result the gift was not voted. There
are few greater examples of unseltish
devotion to duty than this.
Paine might have settled down now
to enjoy the honor and gratitude of
America, but the French revolution
was coming on, and he hurried to Eu-
rope. Franklin had once said. where
liberty is. there Is my country" Paine
quickly responded, Where liberty Is
not. there is mine" France needed
him, and he heard the call. In the
meantime he had been working on an
invention of a bridge he had made. the
principle OF which was utilized in later
days.
Hurrying to France, he participated
in the first moves OF the revolution.
At one time. with few others, he
issued an address and placarded Paris,
and it stirred that capital as America
had been stirred before. He also had
part in preparing "The Declaration
of Rights" and other documents.
Going to England in connection with
his bridge, he was incensed by Burke S
attack on the French revolution and
wrote reply. the famous Rights OF
Man" This book had the same I'M
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01

the national convention, where he al.
lied himself with the more moderate
party, or Giroldists. He served with
distinction until the proposal to exc
cute the king was brought forward.
This he opposed. though it almost cost
him his own life to do so. He advo-
Gated giving the deposed monarch an
asylum in America. xiii tho mon
archy, but spare the man." he said.
The latter part of Paine's life was
spent in disease and sadness. After his
death his body was taken to England.
and no one knows its resting place even
to this day.
Students of Thomas Paine have calls
ed him the greatest political writer that
ever lived. They have asserted that
he was practically the founder of mod
ern democracy. He has been named
the author hero of the Revolution"
also "the great commoner of man.
kind J. A. EDGERTON.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01
The Presidential Tour and the Railroad Companies

began to make Journeys during their
terms of office until now he would have
been the poorer by very consider
able sum.
> The presidential tour was begun dur
ing the administration of Andrew John
SON. Previous to that the presidents
had remained in Washington during
their terms, only now and then making
short journey in the capacity of pri-
waite citizens. So novel was the idea
of a presidential tour that when Mr..
Johnson made public his plans for
what was afterward called his "swing
around the circle" the entire country
was more or less agitated and discus
sion followed on every side. On the
whole, it may be said that the Ameri-
can public did not take kindly to the
idea at that early day of the practice
The opposition which Mr.. Johnson
encountered in the violation of the
proprieties, as they were understood in
his day, was sufficient to discourage
his immediate successors from follow
ing his example. even though they had
been inclined to travel. General Grant
made no trips about the country, Mr.
Hayes went on a visit to his Ohio
home and returned by way of Detroit,
making several speeches on the home
route. His holiday seems TO have been
very tame ard innocent affair but it
excited a good deal of unfavorable
criticism at the time.
During the few months of General
Garheid's occupation of the White
House he was not out of Washington
1t was at the Pennsylvania railroad
station. whittier he had gone to take a
train for Baltimore, that he fell by the
assassin's bullet. Arthur. who sue
ceeded him, left no record of premedi-
tated tours, his occasional absences
from the capital being due to calls of a
strictly business nature to New York.
1t was Grover Cleveland who made
the first long trip ever planned by an
American president 1t was in the fall
of 1883. during his first term, two years
after his marriage. Johnson's Swing
around the circle was confined to the
region east of the Allegheny mountains
and north of Maryland and West Vir-
ginia. 1t consumed only a few days,
and the total mileage was very small
compared with the distances traversed
by later presidents. Cleveland went
west as far as the Missouri river and
| as far north as St. Paul and Minne-
apolis. He visited all the larger cities
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-01
INTERESTING CAVERN,

A cavern with an arched roof has
been discovered near Frenchpark, Coun-
ty Roscommon, Ireland. From 1t runs
a narrow. well built underground pas
sage to an ancient castle, some quarter
of mile off. On the walls are inscrip-
tions, and at one point in the passage
skeletons and bones and a quantity OF
armor and weapons were heaped to-
gether. There is a tradition that CEN
turtles ago a portion of a Connaught
clan, defeated in battle, hid themselves
in this passage. Their enemies discov-
cred their place Of refuge and blocked
1t up at both ends.