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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10

marked by the. state of Minnesota. In
accordance with legislative enact
ment, E. T. Champlin, Matthias Hall
and L.,W. Collins, participants in the
Wood Lake fight, left the Twin Cities
Monday for Wood Lake, where they
will officially locate the scene of the
battle, which has been called the
Waterloo Of the Sioux.
The battle of Wood Lake was fought
Sept. %, 1862, by command under
General Sibley, consisting of com.
panies from the Sixth and Seventh
Minnesota regiments, paroled pri.
soners of the Third Minnesota infan.
try, and company of the Tenth
Minnesota infantry. General Sibley's
command marched from Fort Ridgely
Sept. 10, in pursuit Of Little Crows
band of Indians, who had been parti
cipatlng in series of frighsful mas
sacres.
At O'Clock on the morning of thu
23d the Indians attacked Sibley's com.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10

The Atlanta Constitution tells the
story of a man and a woman, which is
interesting because of the lesson it car
ries, and because the man and woman
are types, the woman altogether OF too
common type, and the man Of type
that is not common enough.
The man was a manufacturer, en-
ploying more than two hundred men.
He had risen from the ranks, and was
an employe before he became an en-
ployer. A little past his prime, and
after he had become wealthy, he mar
ried the woman. She was much young
er than himself, and was devoted to
society and display. Her natural
charm and her talent fer leadership
carried her to the top of the "set"
which controlled the 'society" OF the
town in which she lived.
Meanwhile her husband, giving little
thought to these matters, but through
pride in his wife's beauty and attain
ments supplying her with the financial
ammunition needed to carry on her
campaigns, kept on in his plain way,
adding more stories to his fortune,
and developing his business.
Then, very likely because his wife
deemed it necessary to her position in
society, he decided to build mansion
which should overshadow everything
of the sort in that neighborhood.
When the handsome building was com.
pleted, OF course there had to be a
house-warmlng, and here comes in the
feature that makes the common story
uncommon.
The fashionable wife planned, WITH
great enthusiasm and JOY, an elabor-
ate reception, which would bring into
the new homeIthe socially-elect OF the
town.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10
A RICH MANS HOUSE-WARMIrG
AND THE LESSONTT TEACHES.

Greatly to her surprise, her husband
baked, and baked hard.
He said the house-warming was GO
ing to be given to the two hundred en-
ployes that had served him SO long
and so faithfully. He didn't care any,
thing about the social y elect; they
had done nothing for him, and he owed
them nothing. But his employees had
done much for him, and he wanted to
recognize it.
'sThe people who helped to build my
fortune" he said, "and who made
possible this extravagant house, are
my friends. The house-warming will
be reception to the men and women
whose labor has laid the foundation
for your Injuries and your social sue
cess, as well as my commercial promi-
nence."
Let a veil drop over that fashion
able wife's dismay and horror. It is
enough to say that the house
warming was postponed, upon one pre-.
text or another, for two years, during
which she tried in vain to sway him to
her way of thinking, and to substitute
her fashionable friends for his useful
ones. But she failed. He was ada
mant, and when the house was finally
thrown open the reception was given
to the two hundred and more EMPLOYEES
who had, as he said, laid the founda'
ton of his wife's luxuries and his owr
business success.
And it was a great success, too
Those employees swear by their en-
ployer, and you couldn't get up .
strike among them if you tried. The
brotherhood of man and the proper
relations of employer and employees
would be more quickly realized ifthert
were more such incidents.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10

The pessimist doesn't often enjoy the
novelty of having somebody pay him
compliment and make excuses for
his being, but it happened the other
day, when Ambassador Bryce, upon
whose intelligence and integrity the
American people have learned to rely,
made a speech in which he found uses
even for the pessimist.
But of course when you come to
think OF it you find that the pessimist,
disagreeable as he is to have about
and to talk with, does some good,
though he gets little. credit, for it and
little benefit out of it.
1.-THE pessimist is too prone to seek
out the disagreeable things in life, the
optimist is too likely to gloss them
over or to overlook them entirely.
The optimist is cheerful and COM
panionable soul, and it wouldn't be
possible to exist without him. He
makes little of the bad things and
much of the fine things, and his happy
philosophy makes many hard spot
in life easier to get over.
But if we were all optimists, we
wouldn't get on very rapidly, if we got
on at all. It is the fellow who points
out the bad things that need correction
who starts reform movements, and
though his task is not pleasant one
and his figure not a cheerful feature O.
the landscape, he is nevertheless use
full. The optimist would go arount
the bad things or cover them up, an6
let them work their deadly duty. Tht
pessimist pokes right into them, show.
up their very worst smells and tastes
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10
THE USEFUL SIDE OF THE
DISAGREEABLE PESSlMISI.

and forces US, much against our Will,
to root them out and replace them VIII
good things.
The poor fellow gets little applause
for it, except from his own kind, Dnt
he seems to take a kind of melancholy
pleasure in it, and it is splendid
thing that some of US are constitutes
that way. IF we were all optimists the
bad things would overwhelm US while.
we were trying to overlook them ana
to forget about it..
STILL there are very few that are
either consistent, pessimists or con-
sistent optimists. A consistent optl-
mist could see no evil anywhere, and
consistent pessimist could see noth--
ing else but evil.
Most of us live somewhere between
the two poles ofphilosophy, and there
is happy medium to which all or US
can attain if we will. That would con-
sist of pointing out the bad things,
not because We like to point out bad
things but because they need pointing
out; and of approaching and pralslng
the good things without trying to be-
lieve and to make others believe that
life contains nothing but good things
In economics the extreme radical IS
likely to be pessimist, and the ex-
IRENE conservative is likely to be an
optimist. Both have their uses, but
it would be. intensely uncomfortable if
all of us we're radical pessimists, and
desperately dangerous if all of US were
conservative optimists. There would
be no progress in either event.
Duluth Herald.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10
ARMY HALF A MILLION STRONG
Germany has Vast Force Available
for the Field.

The total present strength OF the
German army, including the Bavari-
an contingent, is 5S5, 1915 men.
There are Is, lib officers able TO take
the field, including 1893 generals, SIC
commanding officers, 2,230 officers Of
high rank, 6,236 captains, 4,737 lieu.
tenants and 16,842 sub-lieutenants.
There are 1855 army surgeons, 687
veterinary surgeons, 2,286 paymasters
and two inspectors of military bands.
The nen-commissioned officers, all Of
whom have re-enlisted, number "a, 712.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10

The Pioneer Press in commenting
editorially on the unwilling of the
Schiller monument in st. Paul pays
the following tribute to the genius and
democracy of the great German drama
tist and poet:
sSchiller embodied in a peculiar
way the spirit and intellectual breadth
Of the German people. He touched in
his lyrics and in his dramas the chords
that vibrate in the German soul, chords
which find a quick response in the
soul of.every people OF Teutonic blood.
He upheld the torch not merely of the
German national spirit bat that OF
universal liberty; of the freedom of
the individual from the tyranny of
Journalism. Interpreting the elemental
aspirations of the Teuton and his
deeper feelings, he has spoken a uni
versal language. For while none but
those who have been bred to the Ger
man idiom and who have been bred in
the German spirit can probably APP
preciate to the full the glory of his
lyrical and dramatic genius, he has
taken rank with the universal poets
who are the possession of no one
land, but who have inspired peoples
of every Western tongue.
Sand with this poetic gift, as in the
case of the more stupendous genius Of
Goethe, was combined in Schiller a
rare logical power and broad
scholarship which made him peculiarly
typical of the German race. In fac
the breadth of his genius, the ranl
that he still holds as a philosopher
and critic, and which in his day hi
held as a historian, set him almos
apart among the great poets, will
only Goethe as, his companion. Blu
after all, it is not because of the yer
satility of his genius, but because hi
sang the passions of the Teutoni,
heart, a song which all Anglo-Saxon
can understood, and because his spiri
is the spirit Of the German people il
America, that the monument memoria
in St. Paul is appropriate.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10
NEW ULM CLUB PLAYS FAST BALL
Two Fine Games Played on the
Local Diamond With Mankato
and Sleepy Eye.

The New Ulm Regulars are putting
up pretty good article of ball these
days. During the week they lost one
game and won one, but in each they
did work that entitled them to the en-
thusiastic plaudits of the local fans.
Thursdays game was of course the
most interesting and exciting. It was
played before crowd of nearly fifteen
hundred people and the opposition was
nothing to sneeze at.
Mueller and Krost constituted the
battery for New Ulm and Miller and
Mccall for Mankato. The first and
only score for New Ulm was made in
the second inning, when PEI fferreached
first on scratch hit, second and third
on<a wild throw by Mccall and home
on sacrifice. In the ninth inning
with three men on bases and only one
man outfit looked as if the boys might
make q few runs and win the game,
but bant by the man at the plate re-
suited in a triple play and retired the
side. The Leather-Pounders made all
Of their runs in the third inning when
with two singles, a double and several
errors on the part of the locals they
succeeded in tallying three times. After
that it was a, steady string of goose
eggs. The score by innings follows:
New Ulm OlOO o o @ 0 OIL
Leather FOUNDERS 0 0 3 0 0 o o o Ga
On Sunday the Regulars were to
have played Fairfax, but, circumstan.
ces arising to prevent, a game was ar.
ranged with Sleepy Eye. Pfeiffer did
the twir.ing for New Ulm while Fob
pitched for Sleepy Eye, the game be.
ing a steady one throughout but with.
out any startling features. New Uln
won, the score by innings being as
follows:
New Ulm 001O1 DOL o.;
Sleepy Eye 90 0 20 0 ] 0 0 o.
While waiting for the New Ulm
Sleepy Eye game Sunday afternoon
the Stenewalls tackled team from st
George and defeated them to the tun.
Of to 2.
Next Sunday the Regulars will e
to Fairfax. On the local grounds tn,
Stonewalls will cross bats with tn,
Hanska Giants.
i A game at Hanska on Sunday be
tween the Hanska and Grogan club
resulted in q victory for Hanska
Score, to 3.
| Lamberton scored and Tracy 3 il
a ten-inning game at,Lamberton on th
Fourth.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10

Springfield defeated st. James in a
well played game at Comfrey on the
Fourth. Score, to 2.
The Springfield players went to ST.
Peter Sunday afternoon and were
treated to whitewash. A score of 2
to tells the story of their defeat.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10

The rank and file numbers 500, 664
men. They consist of 1881 frst-class
privates, 54,90S privates, 5000 hospi-
tai assistants, 8,377 re-enlisted men,
427, 464 ordinary soldiers, 5,494 arti-
sans, and II, 1874 bandsmen, trumpeters,
buglers and drummers.
The army horses number ITO, 493, ex-
elusive of the horses belonging to the
officers. In 1904 the horses numbered
105, 1856; thus, in three years the mum.
Der of horses has increased by 1858.
A kind old gentleman, seeing q
small boy who was carrying lot Of
newspapers under his arm, said
''Don't all those papers make you
tired, my boy?"
"Naw, I don't read 'em," replied
the lad.-Canadian Courier.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-10
LOCATE WOOD LAKE BATTLE FIELD
Commission Will Mark Off the
Ground of the Decisive
Fight of 1862.

Wood Lake battlefield in Yellow
Medicine county, the scene of deci-
sive conflict in the Indian outbreak of
1862, is to be located, surveyed and
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
COTTON BUSINESS LIGHT.
Exchange Crippled by Telegrdpb
IStrike-.Sneet We'll Off.

Trading on the New York Cotton Exchange vas
badly crippled yesterday by the telesrapherss
strike not more than One-fourth OF the normal
business being transacted Scarcely any news vas
received from the Gulf States in the Of ethics
market quotations or bulletins OF weather condi@
tions upon which the local market depends for its
trading The only line in operation was the leased
wire to New Orleans. and the constant interrup~
ton of the service that wire gave rise to tho
belief that it being used by the Western CHlor'
for the transmission OF general commercial mes
sages Communication with Savannah Augusta.
Atlanta Charlotte. Charleston Memphis. Mo0ila
and Galveston was completely cut on, and ths
trading here was practically dependent upon ths
quotations from Liverpool
On the Produce Exchange also, where very few
telegraph operators were on duty. much delay vas
experienced In the receiving and transmission OF
messages necessary for the carrying on or busi-
ness The operators employed on the leased wires
In the offices Of Stock Exchange members con-
tnued at work yesterday. and although the str1Ae
Is on at the offices Of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies. In Broad street Wners
messages sent from the floor OF the Exchange ars
usually hl-d no serious Inconvenience was causea
to the business Of the Stock Exchange
The messenger boys in the downtown ot1ces vene
on strike Yesterday afternoon. They strike every
now and then and yesterday, as usual, their en-
tertainment committees caused some coumotloh
IN the streets by their attempted persuasion OK
their fellows who were desfrous OF continuing az
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
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Puri6es the breath
A superior dentifrice
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the Offices and there has been no disorder upon
their part
Both sides to-day expressed confidence in the
outcome. The Western Union officials declare
they have IL per cent of the regular force at
work, but the strikers dispute this statement
Albany. Aug 13.-The greater number of mes
senger boys employed by the Western Union anu
Postal Telegraph companies Joined the ranks OF
the striking operators to-day Mr. Mead, man
agef of the Western Union, said that his COM
pany was in fairly good shape He said tha'
fifteen of the thirty operators on the day iorce
were at their keys
Superintendent Kaufman, of the Postal Iele-
eraph Company said that four of his operators
were out on strike. The operators employed by
the stock brokers are working as usual
Philadelphia, Aug. 13-From the point OF view
of the commercial telegraph companies the strike
situation in this city has improved somewhat
since yesterday. The Western Union officials
say they have practically full force of opera
tors at work and that there is little delay In
the transmission of messages. While the Postal
company is still badly hampered, 1t reports the
conditions better than yesterday This company
had only five men at work yesterday afternoon.
but there were twenty at their keys to-day
Some of the operators who were vacation are
returning to work The strikers have the main
offices of the two companies plcketed
Cleveland Aug. 13.-Offlcials Of the western
Union Telegraph Company announced to-day
that they had twenty-five operators at work in
their main office here and that recruits
were constantly arriving Superintendent Col
fins of the Postal company said that his company
had about one quarter of it's usual force He
added that patrons of the company were doubt
less using the mails to a large extent. and as o
result all business offered was being handled
with a fair degree of promptness
The strike was complicated here to-day by the
striking of messenger boys in many branch Of
fees, and later many boys at the main offices
of the Western Union and Postal struck They
demand higher wages and shorter hours.
TBy Telegraph to The TribuneI
Omaha. Aug. 13-Conditions in the tele-
graph service in Omaha and throughout Ne
braska slightly better to-day than Monday.
though business Is delayed The Western
Union has two-thirds of its force at work. while
the Postal has 30 per cent of its men. Because
of the great falling off In the volume of busi-
ness the force at work in the local offices is
sufficient, and messages accumulated during the
day are cleared before midnight.
Because of the strike among the messengers
no delivery service is being attempted, the tele-
phone being used for that purpore.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
NEWS SERVICE BETTER.
Three of Main associated Press
Circuits WOrhing

Chicago. Aug I3.-The Associated Press
opened three Of it's main leased wire circuits out
of Chicago at o'clock this morning. On the
big trunk line from New York to Chicago. taking
In Philadelphia Baltimore, Washington, Pitts
burg Cleveland and Detroit. only Toledo was
missing when the wire opened. The circuit to
indianapolis. Columbus and Louisville was
working to-day to those three cities. The
northern circuit. covering Milwaukee. St Paul.
Minneapolis. Duluth and Superior. opened
with the regular staff of press operators copying
at all those cities. The southern circuit was
opened from Louisville to Nashville. Birning
ham. Chattanooga and Memphis.
The circuit TO Kansas City and the Pacific
Coast not set up. the cities on those cir uits
being served with news reports over the regular
commercial wires.
At 11:3O a. m. the second Associated Press
north wire from Chicago 10 Milwaukee. St Paul
and Minneapolis opened.
Pittsburg. Aug. 13-At the office OF The Asso-
ciated Press here to-day being re-
ceived from all sections and the report to the
state papers was going forward usual
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
START OF THE STRIKE.
San Francisco photographers Walked
Ont on June 21.

The present telegraph strike virtually started in
San Francisco far back June q. when. a
$3.50 p m. the 25O operators employed by the West
Union and Postal Telegraph Company in Oak
land and San Francisco left the keys and walked
OF the office. Previously there had been
threats by the Western Union operators OF that
city, the strike set for between June "a and 2S
having been averted. IT supposed at the time.
June 20. largely through the Intervention OF
Charles p Nel. the United States Labor Commits
sioner.
The ostensible cause of the action on the part
of the $50 operators June II dissatisfaction
with President Clowry's letter TO Mr.. Neill. the
operators insisting that their demands for 25 per
increase in wages be granted President Small
of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union announced
at the time that the union purposed to carry
guerilla warfare and call series of local strikes
in the various cities until Congress should meet.
Mr. Small practically repudiated the Neill settle
ment.
IL was on June "a that the strike spread appar-
entity to this city On that day reinstat atement was
refused nine Western Union operators. alleged TO
have been discharged by the company for belong
Ing to the union.
After June 2S when William Main. a Western
Union operator. was discharged alleged ''wirs
spy of the union. the Chicago strike outlook be-
came threatsnins and negotiations. conferences.
threats. charges and counter charges of bad faith
followed. On August z. echo OF the San
Francisco incident. the entire force of Western
Union operators In Los Angeles walked out. and
the present phase began.
Mrs. Sadie Nichols. who union men say. served
the company by carrying messages in handbags
to the postoffice in the San Francisco strike.
planned of certain operators. who displaced.
Following Mr.. Smalrs charges. the same day. that
union telegraphers in San Francisco had been dis
eliminated against, the trouble reopened.
The Los Angeles strike rapidly spread TO Chicago
on August 3. when the Western Union operators
went out The next day the operators I'm leading
cities of the West and South were involved, and
Ry Ynfd p1 nnda
over four thousand operators out in fifty diff
ferent cities all the country.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
HOUSING OF OPERATIVES LEGAL.

The striking teIegraphers will not be able %
interfere with the Western Union in the housing
Of its operators for whom cots have been fuT-
nished so that they may be exempt from lnterler-
ence in any way reporter for The Tribune "
told at the Health Department that there couls
be no interference on its part Should the West-
ern Union violate the sanitary code II wouid %
another question
So long as the Western Unicn maintains sdl-
tary conditions there will be possibility OF intsT
ference from the Health Department ANY person
NAV have any number OF guests IN any roOiH.
without violating the law. The operators II W.
said at the Health Department. come under 'H'
designation OF guests
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14

to New York were being handled rapidly os an
automatic telegraph instrument
Several branch offices of the Postal Company
throughout the city closed The Postai
and Western Union operators at Worcester are
ont The Associated Press service was mann
tained except at Augusta, Me; WaterVliie' ME-
Lowell Mass and Providence.
At a special meeting tonight of the Boston
local of the Commercial Telegraphers Union
the following resolutions were passed:
Whereas 1t is reported that several newspapers
IN this civ have leased wires for their press mat
tor which wires they evidently intend to use DUR
ing the present strike, be it hereby
Racofved That no union man work these wires
unless the said newspapers sign contract with
The union for at least year and under union
conditions Be it further
P.solved That these operators must not WORK
those wires if they are leased of the western
Union or Postal companies.
Toronto Ont Aug. 13.-The telegraph strlke
axtended to Toronto this morning, when about
fftv Great Western operators walked out In
sympathy with the operators IN the ohlteu
States. About half dozen operators, with the
chief, are left.