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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

The Methodist ministers of Mime
sEpOlis have administered what they
'zao doubt consider a singing rebuke
tho Chancellor Day of Syracuse univer-
sSity for denouncing the president and
referring to his recent message as
1.-THE ut6erance Of disordered mind. -
but Chancellor Day probably cares as
much for the opinions of the Mime
.&pois ministers as he does for the
presidents message.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

The Review congra tulates the Sleepy
Eye Herald on having reached an
other milepost in it's long and useful
career. The Herald is a peoples
paper and deserves to succeed.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

Joel Heatwole, the Mortified politi-
clan and editor, is preparing to enter
the gubernatorial lists. That means
the beginning Of gum-shoe campaign
a gum shoe campaign will end.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

The Princeton Union is of the opin-
ion that the state of Minnesota is
heavily indebted to j. F. Jacobson,
in fact owes him the governship. On
the contrary, the state of Minnesota
doesn't owe anybody an Office, and
there is not one of US but what owes a
whole lot to Minnesota.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

A fit of moral epilepsy has over
taken the country and while the spasm
lasts the patient seems to be willing to
endure anything in the line of cures
from the scolding Roosevelt to con-
fscation, from prohibition to the Rev.
VIM. Sunday.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

The Review would like to have some
one explain what good comes to a
high school Or it's pupils from having
basket ball team chasing around
the country night after night scrapping
for championship honors.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

It is reported that Tom Shevlin has
come out for jacobson. The Lac qui
Parle man should remember the old
saying, "Beware of the Greeks bear
ing gifts
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

A Nebraska judge has decided that
a sideboard is saloon. The first
thing we know one of these judicial
sharps will be declaring that a hip
pocket is a distillery.- Minneapolis
Journal.
Yes, and that picnic basket is a
brewery. st. Peter Free Press.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

The government of Japan, finding
that the se.f-imposed burden of ma
tionalized railroads is likely to prove
too heavy, is considering a project to
lease the roads for a period of years
to a private company or syndicate
which will pay the government a GER
tain percentage Of profits and at the
same time undertake improvements
and extensions under given schedule.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

Robert Downing, the actor, has de-
cided to quit the stage to become an
evangelist. Conversion the alleged
reason. Bigger pay probably the real
reason.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

The Royal Neighbors got into quite
scrap in their convention in ST. Paul
last week. Quite neighborly thing
to do.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18

John r. Walsh, the aged Chicago
hnancier, whe tried to be both banker
and promoter at the same time and
who in the effort allowed several mil
lion dollars of other peoples money
to slip out of his possession, is now
doomed to serve @ term Of five years
In the government prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. This is the
most convincing lesson taught the
disciples of frenzied finance since the
revolt against their methods began.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-18
CODDLING CRIMINALS.

Those charitable workers in Penn
sylvania, who would like to have all
novices in crime given the choice be-
tween term in prison or enlistment
in the regular army have more bene-
violence than common sense, says the
ST. Paul Dispatch. A regular army,
composed of burglars, highwaymen
and such offenders. would be danger
GUS to the peace and safety of the
American people, but would not fill
amy foreign enemy with much fear. If
che soldiers uniform were to become
the garb of convict, in some cases,
it would soon be so in all, for there
you'd be no more voluntary recruits.
The great fault of many charitable
people is that they lose sight of the
beneficial results of suffering for mis-
deeds, not only as means of reform
dng the offender but also as a deter
Sent, warning others not to initiate the
ofense. ftsmay be very unpleasant to
spend time In jail, but it ought to be-.
NJ the life OF a prisoner is made not
only heaithful, but agreeable, be will
want to come back to prison again,
after he has been at liberty awhile.
Jail ceases TO have much Gifts terrors,
If it means warmth and shelter, whole
some food, little Or no work, some re-
creation and plenty of idleness. 1t is
not surprising that prisoners come back
SO their old rooms repeatedly. The
result of SO much overdone charity is
shat only a. small proportion of pris-
Oners lead honest lives after their
Germs of incarceration are expired. If
they had been made miserable, instead
OF happy. in Jail they would not be so
ready to take a chance of returning
thither, by committing a new offense.
The visionary penolog;st, whose head
Is often soft, as we'll as his heart, stub
foornly refuses to take any account OF
these facts. On the contrary, after the
pampering and petting method has
been a sad failure, with a constant in
crease in all kinds of crime in this
country, he can only propose new
ways of coddling the criminals.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05

Leone, and the knowledge of it was
advanced further stage when in the
fifteenth century Portuguese explor-
ers, including Vasco da Cana, rounded
the cape. In Africa, exploration has
followed the flow of the great rivers.
and will ever be associated with such
names as Livingstone, Mungo Park,
Bruce, Baker, Stanley, Spoke,
Schweinfurt, Du Chaillu, Serpa Pinto.
Wissmann and Donaldson. The Niger
had its course determined in the early
part of the nineteenth century. ITO
day" says geographical expert, "the
Nile has been scientifically explored
for its entire length of 3.40O miles; the
Niger, with the exception of small
portion of its middle course, for $500
miles; the Zambesi for 1900 miles;
and the Congo, which in volume is ex-
ceeded only by the Amazon, for near
ly 5000 miles" In Africa, where vast
areas are still dark" for geography
the politician has sometimes followed,
has now and then accompanied the ex-
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no SURPLUS FUNDS THERE.
6eggar Satisfied with Evidence of
Poverty in Sight.

Two old Hebrew besgars were trav-
cling together through the residence
section Of Pittsburg not long ago. In
quest of contributions toward theis
joint capital.
Presently they passed a handsome
residence, from which sweet sounds
of music issued. 1t was likes turn and
hopefully he assembled the steps to the
front door, eagerly watched by Jake,
who expected quite handsome addi-
ton to their funds.
His CONSERVATION was great conse-
quently when he beheld Ike returning
crestfallen and empty-handed.
Anxiously running to meet him, he
said: well, key. how did you make
out with the good people?"
"Ach, Jakey," replied Ike, there
was no use asking in there, because
they are very poor people themselves.
Just think-two lovely ladies playing
on one piano!"-Judge's Library.
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Africa as Known in 1900.

1t took 500 or 500 years more to
trace out the general features of the
seas, islands and continents. The
chief steps in this advance. which in
cluded the brilliant exploit of Magel-
Ian. whose ship. the Victoria. first cir
cumnavigated the globe, were the dis
covery of the Americas and of Aus
tralia. and the partial exploration of
Africa and Siberia. Columbus reached
San Salvador in 1892, and his sue
ceeding voyages revealed Jamaica,
Trinidad and the Orinoco. Amerigo
Vespucci coasted down the continent
of South America in 1901, and Magel-
Ian discovered Patagonia and Terre
del Fuego in 1920 Mexico was added
to the map III 1913 by Grijalva and
California visited in 1882 by Cortez
For 800 years thereafter the work of
exploring the Americas proceeded by
leaps and bounds, yet in 1900 more
than half of their territories remain
geographically unknown. The whole
region west 81 the Mississippi was
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05
AREA STILL UNEMPLOYED.
Vast Extent of Unknown Territory in
Northern Asia.

THE great territory of northern Asia,
l out of which Chinghis Khan
emerged with his Tartar-Mongols in
the thirteenth century to be the terror
of Europe. has resisted the geograph-
ical investigator longest of all. From
Marco Polo to Prjevalsky and Sven
Hedin, succession of explorers has
been at work in this still mysterious
section of the earth's surface, rem
dered all the more inaccessible by
strange languages, stranger customs.
and rooted distrust of the foreigner"
1t was the Russians who were first
showed the way from Europe to the
Pacific. for after Yermak had reached
Sibir in 1879, the successive stages of
their advance could not but end in the
regions of the Amur, the Sea of Ok
hotsk. Kamschatka and Behring
straits. Central and southern Asia
have been actively explored for two
centuries past, yet there are still I'M
known areas of considerable extent in
Burma, Thibet and China.
Australia, now the home of civ
ilized people living below the equator,
is of peculiar interest to Americans.
Prior to the sixteenth century this i'm
mense continent, with its population
of over 100000 was totally unknown
to the world. The Spanish, following
in the wake of Magellan, were the
first to sight it; the Dutch explored its
coast lines. and after the voyage of
Capt. Cook in the latter end of the
eighteenth century. the English took
up the work of colonizing and explor-
ing what was originally called New
Holland" Even in 1900 it was an un-
known waste, peopled by savages in
teresting to the anthropologist and
supporting flora and fauna of consider
able value for the purposes of descrip-
tive natural history. But by and by
settlers appeared and few populous
cities and towns sprang up. Thanks
to the efforts of men like Wentworth,
Evans, Sturt, Burke. Willis, Warbur-
ton, Forest and Giles, large part of
the interior has been explored.
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Truth and
Quality

appeal to the Well-Informed in every
walk Of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best Of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
swcetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as q laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05
. In Your Youth.

And then there was the time you
took Her to the county fair. You wore
that new 1898 suit; had Dewey Mum
gers best roadster and rubber-tired
rig and new whip with red ribbon
tied around 1t. She wore a white
dress with a blue sash. and string
OF blue glass beads about her neck.
Mind those entries In your daily ex-
pense" book-candy. 10 cents pea
nuts. cents; merry-go-round tickets.
Is cents; side show. 20 cents; weiner-
wurst sandwiches. 20 cents; lemonade,
10 cents; ice cream, 20 cents; shoot
ing gallery. 10 cents; tintypes-you've
got 'em yet, you sitting and she stand
ing with her hand on your shoulder
so cents. Gee, but you thought you
blew yourself that day. didn't you?
Los Angeles Express.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05

Service in the medical department
of the army has been made more at
tractive by two measures passed at the
recent session of congress. The num-
Der of medical officers in the lower
ranks has been raised to 300. making
a total of 444 in the department The
officer is promoted to the rank Of cap
tain within three years of enlistment,
instead of five, will become a major in
a comparatively short time, and will
reach the rank of lieutenant colonel, IL
not that of colonel, before retirement.
This increased rapidity of promotion,
with CORRESPONDENCE greater jurisdic-
ton over the health of the soldiers.
must appeal to physicians who desire
to serve their country. Then. too, the
increase In pay makes 1t possible for a
physician to enlist without doing in
justice to his family The young doc
tor will receive a salary of $4,000 a
year at the beginning, rising at each
rank till he receives $4,000 as colonel.
An increase of ten per cent. in salary
is made every FIVE years for 20 years,
but the maximum pay of colonies is
$1,000 and of majors $4,000. In addi-
ton, the government provides house.
with necessary heat and light, and fur
nishes horses when they are needed.
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purely scientific and eliminated in the
dash for the north pole" In 1927,
with the aid of sledges. Parry reached
50 degrees As minutes. Nearly SO
years later Markham raised this rec
ord to SO degrees 20 minutes. In 1888.
as member of the Greedy expedition,
Lieut.. Lockwood succeeded at SO de-
grees "a minutes in coming within
$50 miles of the pole. The year 1895
marked the attainment of Sc degrees
IA minutes by hansen, who had
adopted the drift" method of attack.
The Abruzzi expedition came in 1900.
when Cagni raised the figures to SO
degrees 33 minutes.
"Farthest north" is now 200 miles
from the pole. 1t was attained by
Commander Robert z. Peary in his
last expedition of 1866. Leaving civ
ilization in the Roosevelt, Peary spent
three weeks in boring through the mar
row ice-swept channel between Green
land and America. only to have his
ship driven ashore into winter quar-
tiers at Cape Sheridan. In a subse-
quent sledge trip over the ice. the ex-
plorer was cut off from his support
ing parties. The final dash. with eight
men and six teams of dogs, enabled
him to reach 81 degrees 6 minutes,
where the condition of the ice and
lack of food compelled immediate re-
turn.
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At a famous ball given at the Lux
embourg, Nine. Taillieu wore Greek
costume, caught up at the side. San
dals on her feet showed magnificent
diamond rings on the toes of each foot
How dreadfully uncomfortable 1t must
be to walk in rings, even diamond
rings! But IL this fancy dress BALI
rig must be adopted by our fashion
plated women, why not have Indian
toe rings brought into vogue at once?
have seen some lovely ones, explains
a writer in the Boston Globe. but they
were kept in collectors cabinet, al
though one of the most artistic has
been made over to fit the finger of an
ardent admirer of Oriental art.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05

Emperor William of Germany came
into possession in 1899 of the ruins OF
the ancient feudal castle of Hohkonigs-
burg, near Schlettstadt, in Lower Al
SAGE. He commissioned an antiquary
to restore 1t to its condition before 1t
was destroyed in the eighteenth CEN
fury. The completion of the work was
celebrated the other day by medieval
ceremonies in the presence of the en-
peror and empress. The town, with its
10000 inhabitants, was gaily decorated
In honor of the occasion. and the 800
people who took part In the feudal
pageant were highly commended by
the emperor. The restoration of such
castles is worth while, because they
remind one of how far the world has
progressed toward the ideal condi-
tons. The highways of Europe are no
longer infested with robbers. and the
feudal lords have long ceased making
forays upon their neighbors.
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- EARY'S new expedition to the
n T. north pole opens up an inter
esting field of thought, writes
Edmund Noble in the Boston
Sunday Herald. 1t emphasizes
some of the inconsistencies of
human achievement. This is an age
of scientific marvels. Nan has har-
messed nature to do his bidding, and is
daily discovering new forces or new
ways of utilizing them. After pene-
trating TO the depths of the sea, he is
already aspiring to the dominion of
the air. He weighs planets and suns
in his balances. and writes down their
composition in the unerring formulas
of the chemical laboratory. His tele-
scopes and prisms fetch exact infor-
nation from the very confines of the
universe" He has not yet completed
the survey of his own planet. The
night skies have become to him as
an open book, yet there are worlds
at his very elbow which the most re-
cent geographical science is compelled
to class as unknown"
This delay in mapping the earth
is less surprising when it is remem-
bered that geographical science could
begin only at late stage in the evo-
luton of man. For its very POSSIBLE
ity, systematic exploration of the
planet needed highly civilized peo-
pies, good at conquering, as well as in
trade and travel. The earliest pro-
moters of geographical knowledge
were thus peoples like the Babyloni-
ans. Assyrians, Egyptians, Phoeni-
clans and Greeks. None of them knew
the shape of the planet on which they
lived; many of them believed it to be
a fiat plane. diversified by hills and
valleys; some pictured the territory
of their known world as surrounded
at distance by a wide river called
ocean.
Five hundred years B. C. this nu-
cleus of culture, from which modern
civilization was to come forth. COM
prised a patch of territory considera-
Wy oiuailCi tndu tuC Oullcu otdtco,
reaching from the confines of the Per-
sian empire on the east to Spain and
the coast of Africa on the west, the
whole bounded to the north by the
"Hyperboreans." The subsequent ex-
pansion of these limits up to the be-
ginning of the Christian era was main
ly the work of the Greeks, the Cartha-
ginians and the Latins. The known
world" Of the Roman empire reached
from Britain to India and China. Ger
many had then come into view, and
Scandinavia was outlined. The north
ern fringe of Africa had widened
somewhat. but the ancients continued
to style northern Asia as "Schythian."
by 1000 A. d. Iceland and Greenland
were talked about; Russia" had TAX
en- the place of "Sarmatia;" Mongolia
and Manchuria found mention on the
maps; and there were recorded 'land.
falls" on the coasts of North America.
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The STAFF Of Life.

Bread continues to be the stan Of
life, and American wheat furnishes
the -four that mkaes the best bread.
This is to be borne in mind as an i'm
portant economic fact. 1t is brought
to public attention by a report of Spe-
cial Agent Davis of the department Of
commerce and labor, who has been
looking up the matter in England,
where he finds that high-grade Ameri-
can -four is much finer than the Eng
lish article, and he attributes this to
the superior quality of our wheat.
After giving some interesting informa-
ton as to the various ways in which
the English people utilize flour, he
notes the wide extent of the practice
of getting supplies from the bakeshops
instead of making the bread at home.
Agent Davis adds 1T is to this baking
trade that our American hard-wheat
fiours naturally appeal. Probably more
than one-half England's population are
users of bakers bread regularly. and
bread Is used as food to an extent
greater by one-third than in the United
States" From all indications the old
world will have moderate wheat
crop this year. With the bumper
yield promised here it is evident that
the United States will be again in po-
sition to furnish British and other
consumers with first-class foodstuffs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05
sELF .oELusIoN
Many People Deceived by Coffee.

We like to defend our indulgencies
and habits even though we may be
convinced of their actual harmful
ness.
A man can convince himself that
whisky is good for him on cold morn
ing, or beer on a hot summer day
when he wants the whisky or beer.
It's the same with coffee. Thousands
of people suffer headaches and nerv-
business year after year but try to
persuade themselves the cause Is not
coffee-because they like coffee.
while yet a child commenced us
ing coffee and continued it." writes q
Wis. man, until I was regular cof-
fee flend. l drank 1t every morning
and in consequence had q binding
headache nearly every afternoon.
my folks thought 1t was coffee that
allied me, but liked 1t and would not
admit it was the cause of my trouble,
SO 1 stuck to coffee and the headaches
stuck to me.
Finally, the folks stopped buying
coffee and brought home some Postum.
They made it right directions on
pkg.) and told me to see what differ-
ence it would make with my head, and
during the first week on Postum my
old affliction did not bother me once.
From that day to this we have used
nothing but Postum in place Of cot
fee-headaches are thing of the past
opd fho xuboIo 70 vx,iIv 10 IN 6uo health %
Postum looks good, smells good,
tastes good. Is good, and does good to
the whole body" There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. Read The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above Ietter7 A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-05

Dr. Wiley. government chemist,
made a speech at the National Bakers
association in Atlantic City the other
day. in which he gave that body some
excellent advice as to the making Of
bread. but when he asserted that ANY
thing that isn't fit to eat when raw
isn't fit TO eat when cooked" wasn't he
overdrawing it little? What about
potatoes? And green corn? And
shelled beans? Is the doctor in the
habit of eating them raw?
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BRINGING GOLD FROM KLoNDIKE.
Estimated That More Than $50 ,oo0, 900
Will Be Sent to Seattle.

Gold from the candle-lit clefts of
placer mines in the Tananua and
Nazina districts, from Gold Bar creek
in the Klondike and from the thou
sands of lays" on winter diggings
in the Nome district, dug out by hand
and cleaned up at the end of the
sluice boxes in the good oldfashioned
'sour dough" way, was not brought to
Seattle last spring, but is coming by