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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-02

Mr.. VIM. Parker left Tuesday for
Wisconsin.
Dan McCorquodale of Echo was a
Delhi caller last Friday.
Miss Helen Borg was a Redwood
Falls visitor on Monday.
Willis Holder of Redwood Falls
spent Sunday with Delhi friends.
Lewis Star and family of Iowa, are
visiting at the home of Fred Star.
Miss Tenia Leslie visited with
= friends at Redwood Falls last week.
Joe Gaffney and sister Anna are
visiting with relatives in Minneapo-
lis.
Mrs. T. A. Anderson is visiting
with Redwood Falls friends this
week.
A baby girl arrived at the home of
Albert Peterson on Thursday of last
week.
Mr.. Robert Cummings Of Cotton
wood is visiting with relatives and
friends here.
Mr.. Otto ..Bramsche left last Fri
day for visit with relatives at Man
kato and st. Paul.
Miss Sarah Stewart spent few
days with relatives and friends in
Redwood Falls last week.
Mr.. Elmor Lagerstrom returned
on Saturday evening from a visit
with Minneapolis relatives.
Mr. Robert Oliver of Sackatche-
wan, Canada, is visiting at the home
of his sister, Mrs. VIM. Steele.
DR.. Cresswell entertained the
members of his Sunday school class
on Friday evening of last week.
Miss Alice Piersol was among the
guests from here who attended the
Swenson-Elliot wedding on Dec. Is.
Mrs. George Wright of Ireton,
Iowa, arrived Sunday morning to
visit at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John Stewart.
j. L. Borg and family, j. A. Lager
strom and family, and Emil Borg
spent New Years day at the home
of C. O. Borg in Redwood Falls.
The Christmas tree festivities at
both the Presbyterian and Norwe-
gian Lutheran churches were ex-
ceedingly good, both churches being
crowded.
A musical club was organized on
Friday evening of last week and
short meeting of the club will be
held after prayer meeting Wednes-
day evening. All invited to attend.
The ladies missionary society will
hold an old time social at the hall
Friday evening, Jan. 4th. Anyone
appearing in modern dress will be
fined five cents at the door. An old
fashioned spelling match will be in
dulged in later in the evening ANY
one refusing to take part in this will
be fined five cents. All kinds of old
fashioned games will be played thru
out the evening. Come and help the
ladies make this a success in the
oroo1 old focb;o,ooJ NOV,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-02
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Calendars

We have ordered a splendid line of
samples and will call on you as soon as they
arrive. We do not pay the heavy expense
of travelling statesmen and are able to do the
work cheaper, as wOrkmen i'm cities demand
high wages. We thereby give you the low
est possible prices.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-02

Visit our bargain annex d ring
the great sale at F. w. Philbrick &
Cos.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-02
GALES.

Roy Gilbert and wife spent Christ
mas at VIM. Persons.
Mrs. G. L. Gilbert came on the
9th to spend the holidays with her
daughter, Mrs. Harry Wilson and
many friends.
Mrs. S. P. Hicks served delicious
dinner on Christmas to thirty-two of
her family and invited guests.
Miss Ethel Plummer accompanied
Ruth Hicks home to spend their two
weeks vacation.
The Methodist church celebrated
the eve of Dec. Oath, with a Christ
mas gathering, many being present.
Gifts were distributed to friends
from off a tastefully decorated
Christmas ladder. and the whole pro-
ceedings terminated in a very sue
cessful evening.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-02
DIES FROM LOSS OF BLOOD.

The following account of the death
OF the little grandson of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Winter of this city is
taken from the Wilmot Republican:
Ralph Teas, the ten year old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Teas of Lee
township, was operated on Wednes-
day morning by Drs. Harris and
Wilson for appendicitis, DIR. Karn of
Ortonville, who had been called in
consultation few days previous, be-
ing present and assisting.
The appendix, which was found to
be three inches long, had kinked up
on itself and filled with intestical
contents. A few hours after the op-
Grafton the little fellow pulled a
loose tooth from his mouth and hand
ed it to his father, who was seated at
his bed side. From this there was a
slight bleeding all the afternoon,
but nothing was thought of it, and
he swallowed the blood. The follow
ing morning he began to vomit, and
grew rapidly worse, too much blood
having been lost to respond to stimu-
lation, and he died at 7 o'clock
Thursday evening. All was done
that possibly could be. competent
nurse being in attendance through
out his illness.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-09
CHAPTER VIII. 4 Call from "the Party"

About a month after the Chicago and Fredonia bill was smothered In committee there appeared upon the threshold of my office. in the admins tration building of the Ramsay com pany. a man whom at first glance you might have taken for an exhorted or a collector for some pious enterprise. But if you had made study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that glaze of oily. apologetic appeal Behind thin screen of short gray beard lay a heavy loose mouth. cruel and strong; above it. great beak and a pair of pale green eyes. intensely alive They were in startling contrast 10 the apparent de- crepItude of the stopped shamhling body. far too small for its covering of decent but somewhat rusty black.
 Senator Dunkirk.- said I. rising and advancing to greet the justly fear ed leader of my party. I knew there was an intimate connection between this visit and the death of his pet project thought it safe to assume that he had somehow stumbled upon woodruf-s tunneIings. and with that veIltrained nose of his had smelIed out their origin. But [ need not have diSquieted myself. tIi not then know how softly Woodruff moved. sending 10 warnings ahead. and Ieay- ing no trail behind.
 For several minutes the senator and I both felt for each other In the dark Ia which we EsaG ~s4@--S<Ry hid He was the first 10 give up and reveal himself in the open ~But I to not wish to waste your time and my own. MT SayIer.- he said. T have come to see you about the threstenea spit fn the party You gre. perhaps. sur. prised that I shQuld have come to
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gard Tor conservatism" the "boys" were glad because I had rich wife and rich brother-in-law. The boys" always cheer when man with money develops political aspirations.
 did not see Woodruff until went down to the capital to begin my in itiation. came upon him there, in the lobby of the Capital City hotel As we talked for moment like bare iy acquainted strangers saying noth- ing that might not have been repeated broadcast. his look was asking: How did you manage to trap Dunkirk into doing it?" l never told him the secret, and so never tore out the foun- dation of his belief in me as a po- litical wizard. It is by such judicious use of their few strokes of good luck that successful men get their glamour of the superhuman. In the eyes of the average man, who is lazy or in termittent, the result of plain. inces- sant, unintermittent work is amaz- ing enough. All that is needed to make him cry: "Genius!" is little luck adroitly exploited.
 I left Woodruff to join Dunkirk. Who is that chap over there-Dr. Woodruff" I asked him.
 Woodruff" replied the senator. "Oh. a lobbyist He does good deal for Roebuck believe. An honest fel- low--for that kind-they tell me. It's always we'll to be civil to them"
 Dunkirk's Initiation" of me into the duties of my office wiped away my last lingering sense of double, or. at least, doubtful, dealing He told me nothing that was not calculated to mislead me. And he was so glib and so frank and So sympathetic that, had not known the whole machine From the inside, I should have been his dupe.
 It is not pleasant to suspect that, in some particular instance, one of your fellowmen takes you for simple-mind- ed fool. To know you are being so regarded, not In one instance, but In general. Is the highest degree exas- perating, no matter how well your vanity is under control.
 Perhaps should not have been able to play my part and deceive my de- ceiyer had l been steadily at head quarters. As it was, l went there little and then gave orders. apparent ly contenting myself with the credit for what other men were doing in my name. In fact, so obvious did I make my neglect as chairman that the party press commented on it and covertly criticized me. Dunkirk mildly re- preached me for lack of interest. He did not know-indeed, he never knew that his chief Lieutenant, Thurston. in charge at headquarters. had gone over to "the enemy" and was Wood. ruff's right-hand man. And it is not necessary for me to say where Wood. ruff got the orders he transmitted to Thurston.
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come from? The big corporations are the only source-who else could or would give largely enough? And it is necessary and just that they should be repaid. But they are no longer con- tent with moderate and prudent re- wards for their patriotism. They make bigger and bigger, and more and more unreasonable demands on us, and so undermine our popularity for the people can't be blinded wholly to what's going on. And thus. year by year. it takes more and more money to keep us in control"
 You seem to have forgotten my point" said I. smiling. 'Why should you be kept in control? If you go out, the others come in. They blus- ter and threaten, in order 10 get them selves in: but. once they're elected. they discover that it wasn't the peo- ple's woes they were shouting about. but their own. And soon they are docile conservatives tapping away at the trough. with notbing dangerous in them but their appetites"
 ''Precisely-their capacities" said he.
 "A starved man has to practice eat ing long. long time before he can equal the performances of a trained glutton." I suggested.
 His facial response to my good-humor- ed rsillery was feeble indeed And 1t soon died in look of depression that made him seem even older and more decrepit than was his won't. The same story, wherever go" said he sadly. The business interests re- fuse to see their peril And when I. in my zeal. persist, they-severai of them. Sayler. have grinned at me and reminded me that the legislature to be elected next fall will choose rsy successori As if my own selfish in terests were all have in mind. I am old and feeble. on the verge of the grave. Do you think. Mr. Sayler. that I would continue In public life If it were not for what conceive 10 be my duty to ny party7 I have toll ed too long for IT,
 Your record speaks for Itself. sen stor.- I put in. politely but pointedIy-
 You are very dIscourssing. Say Ter he said foriornly -Bgt refuse to be dIEosragsd The party needs you, and I have come fo do my duty. and I ron't leave vhhoat doing it-
 T have nothing 10 do wfth the cou- rsny's political eontri1ztlcas." said |
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Tt was Woodruff who did it. We had hard time getting him off Bow ker and Woodruif's younger brother were playing cards one day, and Bow ker accused him of cheating. Young Woodruff drew-perhaps they both drew at the same time. At any rate. Bowker shot first and killed his man -he got off on the plea of selfdefense. 1t was two years before Bowker and Doc met-in the lobby of the Palmer house. happened to be there. was talking to friend when suddenly I felt as if something awful was about Ko happen. l started up, and saw Bowker just rising from a table at the far end of the room. shan't ever forget his look-l.ke bird charmed ,by snake. His lips were aiar and .wrinkled as if his blood had fled away inside of him, and his throat was ex- banding and contracting"
 Roebuck wiped beads of sweat from his forehead. Tt was Doc Woodruff walking slowly toward him, with a wicked smile on his face, and that scar-you noticed the scar?"
 I nodded.
 Well, you can imagine how that scar stood out. He came slowly on. nobody able to move a muscle to stop him. When he was about ten feet from Bowker and as near me as you Rre now, Bowker gave 8 kind of shud. der and scream of fright, drew his pistol, and fired. The bullet clipped Woodruff's ear. Quick as that" Roebuck snapped his f1ngers-"Doc drew, and sent a bullet into his heart. He fell forward across the table and his pistol crashed on the marble floor. Doc looked at him, gave cold sort of laugh, like jeer and curse, and walked out into the street. When he met policeman he said: I've killed Dick Bowker. Here's my gun. Lock me up'-perfectly cool, just as he talked to us tonight"
 And you got him off?"
 "Yes. I hated to do it. too, for Dick was one of my best friends. But Doc was too useful to us. In his line he's without an equal"
 How did he get that scar?" said I.
 Nobody knows. He left here when he was boy to avoid being sent to the reformatory. When he turned up, after a dozen years, he said he had been doctor, but didn't say where or how. And he had that scar. One day a man asked him how he got it. He picked up bottle. and, with his pleas ant laugh, broke 1t over the fellows jaw. About like that said he. Peo- pie don't ask him questions"
 He's my man." said I.
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you. when you have been so many years out of politics. but think you will understand. as I explain myself. You know MT. Roebuck?"
 T can't say that l know him." I replied. He is not an. easy man to know--indeed, who is ?''..
 "A very able man: in some re spects a great man." Dunkirk went on. But. like so many of our great men of business, he cannot appreciate politics-the difficulties of the man in public life whose persuasion and com promise must be used, authority al most never. And, because have re- sisted some of his impossible demands, he has declared war on the party. He has raised up in 1t faction head |. ed by your old enemy, Dominick. I need not tell you what brute, what beast he is, the representative of all that is abhorrent in politics"
 "A faction headed by Dominick couldn't be very formidable" I sug- gested.
 But Dominick isn't the nominal leader" replied Dunkirk. "Roebuck is far too shrewd for that. No, he has put forward as the decoy my col league, Croffut-perhaps you know him? If so. needn't tell you what vain. shallow, venal fellow he is, with his gift of gab that fools the peo- pie"
 T know him." said I, in, tone which did not deny the accuracy of Dunkirk's description.
 Their object" continued the sena- tor, Ifs to buy the control of the par ty machinery away from those who now manage 1t in the interests of con- servatism and fair dealing. If they succeed the only business interest that will be considered in this state will be the Power trust. And we shall have Dominick, the ignorant brute, lashed on by Roebuck's appe- tites, until the people will rise in fury and elect the opposition-and you know what 1t is."
 What you say is most interesting" said I, but I confess I haven't imag- ination enough to conceive condi- tion of affairs in which anybody with the price couldn't get what he want ed by paying for it. Perhaps the bnsi- ness interests would gain by change
 -the other crowd might be less ex- pensive. Certainly the demands of our party's machine have become in tolerable'' .e
 Tt astonishes me. MT. Sayler, to hear you say that-you, who have been in politics" he protested. taken aback by my hardly disguised attack upon him-for he was in reality party" and machine" Surely, you understand the situation We must have money to maintain our organ ization, and to run our campaign. Our workers can't live on air; and. to speak of only one other factor. there are thousands and thousands of our voters, honest fellows, too, who must be paid to come to the polls. They wouldn't vote against us for any sum: but. unless we pay them for the day lost in the fields. they stay at home. Now, where does our money
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-09
CHAPTER VII,
Ryqones.

A telegram had been thrust under my door-"I must see you. Don't fail to stop of here on your way back. Answer. Carlotta."
 Again she was at the station in her phaeton. Her first look. long before was near enough for speech, showed me how her mood had changed; but she waited until we were clear of the town. Forgive me-" she then said 1n the abrupt, direct manner which was the expression of her greatest charm. her absolute honesty. I've got the meanest temper in the world. but It don't last. and as soon as you were gone I was ashamed of myself" {"
 "I don't understand why you are making these apologies" said I, "aud don't understand why you were angry"
 That's what 1t means to be a man" she replied. Your letter about your mother made me furious You hadn't ever urged me to hurry up the wed ding on your own account. And your letter made me feel as If, while you personally didn't care whether we ever married or not. still for your mothers sake you were willing to to sacrifice yourself"
 Let me see my letter" said l. 'T tore 1t Into a thousand pieces" said she. But don't mean that you veally wrote just that You didn't. But you made me jealous of your mother. and my temper got hold of me. and then I read the reanest kind of things into and under and all round every word And-Tm sorry"
 could find nothing to say. I saw my freedom slipping from me. I watched it. sick al heart; yet. on the other hand. neither tried nor wished to detain it, though could easily have made q renewal of our en- gagement impossible. have no ex. pIanation for this conflict of emotions and motives.
 Don't make 1t so hard for ne" she went on. q never before in my life told anybody was sorry for anything. and I thought I never would But I em sorry. and-we1I have The wedding the first day of August"
 Still found nothing % say. IL was 20 painfully obvious that. true 10 her training. she had not given and was not giving a thought to the state of my mind and feelings. What she wished. that she Vould do-the rest did not interest her.
 Are yCH satisfied. my lort?- she oemsnded- Have l humbled myself suHcienilyy-
 You haven't humtIsd yourself at siL~ said L You have only humbled me"
 She 5ii not pause on my remark ioug enough to see whzt it meant Nov that It's all settled she said. eayiv. T don't mind telling you that I began 10 make my preparations 70 bs 5zrrfei oa fhe f7rst of August- when. ao yoa thiukE~
 ~When-~ I sasd-
 The perT day I sos yuar nasty let fer. putting us seccnd 10 yaur uoth- sr- And she lsuxhea. and wzs srfII sxzghInE, vke1 sks added. So, you
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-09
ou will have to see MT. Ramsay. as

"You will have to see MT. Ramsay. aa usual.'
 He waved his hand. Let me ex. plain. please. Roover is about to re. sign-as you probably know. he's been chairman of the party's state committee for II years I've come to ask you to take his place"
 It was impossible wholly to hide my amazement, my stupefaction. Had he had the shadowiest suspicion of my plans, of the true inwardness of the Croffutt- Dominick movement, he would as readily have offered me his own head. In fact, he was offering me his own head; for, with the money and the other resources at my com. mand, needed only this place of off, cial executive of the party to make me master And here he was. giving me the place. under the delusion that he could use me as he had been using Roover.
 He must have misread my expres. sion, for he went on: Don't refuse on impulse, Sayler. and the others will do everything to make your duties as light as possible.'
 T should not be content to be a mere f1gurehead, as Roover has been" !" I warned him. He had come, in his desperation to try to get the man who combined the advantage of be- ing. as he supposed. Dominicks enemy, and a member of one of the states financially influential families. He had come to cozen me into letting him use me in return for mockeryt of an honor. And I was simply tum- bling him, or rather, permitting him to tumble himself, into the pit he had dug for me. Still. felt that I owed it to myself to give him chance. "If I take the place, I shall fill 1t to the best of my ability"
 Certainly, certainly-we want your ability" Behind his bland cordial mask I saw the spider eyes gleaming and the spider claws twitching as he felt his net quiver under lowering wings. We want you've need you, sayler. We expect you to do your best" -
 My best! What would my "best" have been, had I been only what he thought-dependent upon him for sup plies-surrounded by his lieutenants, hearing nothing but what he chose to tell me, end able to execute only such orders as he gave or approved!
 T am sure we can count on you" he urged.
 T will try it." said I, after a fur ther hesitation that was not altogeth- CT show.
 He did not linger-he wished to give me no chance to change my mind and fly his net. was soon alone, staring dazedly at my windfall and wondering if fortune would ever give me anything without attaching to it that which would make me doubt whether my gift had more of bitter or more of sweet in it.
 s Dunkirk announced the selection of new chairman that very afternoon -as forecast, of course, for there was the formality of my election" by the 63 members of the state commit tee to be gone through. His proposi- tion was well received. The old-line politicians remembered my father; the reformers recalled my fight against Dominick; the business men liked my connection with the Ramsay company, assuring stability and re
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-09
COMING EVENTS.

July 14-Lakewood park, grand picnic and dance under the auspices of the Degel Lion society.
 July 21--Eagles' grove, second an- nual picnic given by the Artizans Canadiens Francais.
 Aug 1--Mr and Mrs John F. Kicks dancing academy, closing reception and dance.
 Sept 14--Hibernian hall. Grand smoker for benefit of Maurice Con- nor.
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see, was determined to marry you"
 T do." said I, dryly. T suppose I ought to feel flattered."
 "No, you oughtn't," she retorted. T simply made up my mind to marry you. And I'll do it. no matter what 1t cost. I get that from father. But I've got mothers disposition, too and that makes me far too good for such a cold. unsentimental. ambitious person as you.'
 Don't you think you're rather rash to confess so frankly-when could still escape?'
 Not at all" was her confident an- swer. T know you, and so know nothing could make you break your word"
 There's some truth in that'-and ]
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TakIna Neeessary PreeautIon.

Taking Necessary PrecautIon.
 Neighbor-No one ever hears you and your husband exchanging words. Do you get along so excellently to- gether? Wife-Not at all; but we discovered that the maid listened at the door. Now we quarrel only on Sunday after moons between three and six, when she's out of the house.-Fliegende Blaetter..
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.(To be continued.J

Before the Day of Tobacco. The smoking of dry colts foot leaves antedated the introduction of tobac. co in England.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-09

And Let the Listeners Worry. 'Tf you would overcome worry" ad. vises pr. Austin Flint. "sing all the time.f