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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

The famous Emma Goldman has
been engaged to give two lectures in
New Ulm the latter part of March.
One of the lectures will be in English,
the other in German.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05
AN APPEAL TO BRYAN.

For choice English, rare humor and
much in the way of accepted truth,
adroitly expressed the following ad-
dition to the Bryan literature Of the
day would be hard to equal. It is
from the pen Of an editorial writer on
the New York Sun:
''Nay William, but thou art a poor
candidate! 'Tis true thou art pleas
ing and an engaging soul; aye, and
of good weight; but thou art no candi-
date.
"Nature never cast thee in that
honest and generous mould that thou
shOuldst candidate in it. IT'S none of
thy calling.
''Thou knowest nothing, William,
or almost nothing, of the art of Lying:
or Of her subtle sister art, Imposture.
Thou art all frankness and of a chaste
transparency. Nay, and thou art
honest, too! Never has thy hand
slipped into the treasury, thence to
fitch the peoples money to promote
thy personal profit. Dost thou pre-
tend, William, that thou couldst buy
the Grand Army with wealth that was
not thine own? For thee the Grand
Army would stay unbought, even if it
swore to vote for Bryan.
"Thou goest about diffusing thy
good will: exposing all mankind to
the contagion of thy amiability and
spreading everywhere thy unuttered
doctrine of universal fraternity. Go
to, William; thou art humbug of a
candidate.
''How shall a man pretend to caEdi-
dacy that has never been proficient in
sequestrating the public property to
his private uses; a man that can shake
the everlasting hills with the trumpet
of another, while with his own he can
not produce the simulacrum of an in
discretion? William, as candidate
thou art fake!
"Thou art the Secretary of War,
William, and already they dub thee
the Secretary of Peace. Your mouth,
William, is the cupboard of gayety
rather than the arsenal of strife the
people have SO long adored. Whittier
canst thou attain with thy crude in
genuousness? How set a6re mems
imagination SO that thou shalt swell
prodigious with qualities of which
thou never hadst one and so gain the
Nobel prize when thou hadst dis
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05
A NEW AND ORIGINAL
VIEW OF GOV. JOHNSON.

Someone in communication to the
New York Times has undertaken to
draw for us "a new picture of Governor
Johnson.
So different is it from that going the
rounds of the press that many of the
governors admirers may be inclined
to question and even Indignantly dis
pute the likeness.
But knowing johnson as we'll as we
do we cannot help but feel that the au-
thor of the picture has ''caught the
very features of his subject and given
us portrait honest in its every Inca
ment.
The governor, he makes clear, is
not profound. He has not made an
exhaustive study of public questions.
He is not an orator. He is not ag-
gressive. He has done we'll in public
office. He has Obtained credit for
many achievements to which others
have contributed more than he.
''These questions as the Mime
apolis Journal says, 'to the unthink-
ing Johnsonophile, may sound like
knocks. But read IN their connec-
ton, they are estimates of the man,
fair and unprejudiced. The governor
is not profound. But how many Of
our presidents have been? On what
subject was Cleveland an authority?
Where does one find in the speeches of
Roosevelt exhaustive analysis? 1t IS
not to be found in the writings of any
of our presidents. It is we'll that it IS
not there. We do not need or want
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

presidents who put scholarship before
humanity. We need the living, breath
ing, palpitating man in the White
House.
johnson has been praised for some
things to which others have contribu-
ted more than he. This is the expert
ence of all presidents. 1t is the power
of being able to absorb the products
of other brains and mold them into
serviceable regulations for the benefit
OF the public that marks the great pre-
sident.
'Governor johnson is not an ora
tor. But there are few men in the coun-
try who can give a better account Of
themselves before an audience. The
Minnesota governor can talk faster for
two hours and make more friends and
fewer enemies, advance more plausi-
BILE ideas and skip more hard nuts
than any other man in politics today.
In short, without being hero OR a
profound public man, the Minnesota
governor is, as a candidate, resource
full, human and quick, just the kind of
man who makes a good run. In Office
he is quiet, modest, ready and depend
able. One of his most charming char
acteristics is his handling of patron
age. 1t is the point at which most po-
liticians fall down. 1t is the point at
which johnson rises to his BEST
Viewed IN this light, the light thrown
on it by the journal, the picture be.
comes a thing true to life and zone of
the most convincing Johnson argu.
mentS extant.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05
STORIES THAT PLEASE

A travelling man. who happened to be
driving through the sparsely settled
country of Western Kansas met far
mer hauling a load of water. ''Where
do you get your water he asked.
up the road about seven miles, the
farmer replied. And you haul water
seven miles for your family anu stock?"
Yep Well, why in the name of
sense don't you dig we'll, asked the
traveller. Because it is. Just as far
one way as the other. .
A tall man, impatiently pacing the
platform OF wayside station, accos-
ted a red-haired boy.
"S-s-say," he said, 'td-d-do y-you
know ha-ha-how late this train is2"
The boy grinned but made no reply.
The man suffered out something about
red-headed kids in general and passed
into the station.
Astranger, overhearing the one-sided
convers alton, asked the boy why he
hadn't answered the big man.
'D-d-d we wanter see me g-g-get me
fa-fa-face punched?" stammered the
boy. 'sD-d-dat big g-g-guy'd tink I
was mo-mo-mocking him.
William r. Travers, the famous
stammering New York wit, once met
at dinner a pompous Englishman who
was "doing" the States. He had let
tiers a-plenty attesting his Importance
letters from Gladstone, Dixie, Sails
bury and Churchill. He had talked
every body tired before the dinner be-
gan, and Travers saw visions of a bad
meal when he discovered the English
man to be his neighbor at table. There
was never stop to the fellows tongue.
When the oysters we're brought on he
began: Snow, it is a question whether
or not the oyster has brains; scientists
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

dispute the idea = ssT-t-t-they GER
tainly have some, retorted Travers.
'sYour proof, SIR challenged the
Bri.on, eager for argument. aW-ah-
ah-why, sir. the o-o-oyster knows
h-hah-how to shut up
There were two diplomats in the
house gallery in Washington the other
day, and as they went out one said to
the other, quite apropos of nothing,
''My dear colleague, do you remember
what Voltaire said-sdoctors are peo
pie who pour drugs, of which they
know little, into a body, of which they
know less?'''
His companion laughed. DO you
remember he asked, what coun-
tryman of Voltaire's, very distin-
guished physici an, said to a patient
who had a slight attack of indigestion
and was convinced that he was dying
of heart disease?-'I haven't as yet
made the diagnosis, but do not alarm
yourself needlessly, for we will be able
to discover everything at the au-
topsy!'"
Then they both laughed. They had
been listening to a man expounding
scheme for currency reform.
William II. Crane, the actor, was
once asked how it was that he never
attempted serious Shakespearean
roles.
| a'But [ did once, 2 replied the come
dian. Years ago in the West I
played Hamlet. -
''Did you, indeed?" said an admirer
and friend. Didn't you have a great
success? Didn'tothe audience cali you
before the curtain?''
''Call mel" roared Crane. 'sWhy,
man. they dared me!''
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

tracted half thy people and set them
at each others throats? How, in
deed?
"Why, William, thou canst not make
even concession to the dishonest
pretence of insidious privilege but
thou puttest thy big foot in it. Thou
wouldst abate injunctions, forsooth,
to assuage the severity of the demands
of ascetic labor? Nay, but thou art
no actor. They are not deceived.
Thou canst deceive none. "Honey,' y
they matter, sin his mouth; but hand
cuffs in his fool but honest HEARTH
'sIndeed, William, thou nightly
distressest us. Get thee to the Bench,
William. Brother Fuller, canst thou
not be persuaded to make place for
this our William? And thou, Brother
Grover, will thou not relax thy merci-
less advice
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

The president S message may not be
as dignified as some people would like
to have had it., but there is certainly no
mistaking its meaning. The blows
come straight from the shoulder and
there are no gloves.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05
Official Paper of New Ulm.

The verdict ia the Thaw case, by
which Thaw is declared not guilty Of
the crime charged in the Indictment on
the ground that he was insane at the
time the crime was committed, is one
that should occasion neither surprise
nor alarm.
According to the evidence adduced
at the trial it would be impossible, if
you secured New York from one end
to the other to find jury that would
convict.
Equally so, would it be impossible,
under the strict reading of the law to
have jury that could acquit.
The evidence showed that Thaw shot
White and intended to kill.
Under the statute the commission of
such an act, unless performed in self
defense, constituted a crime.
Thaw came in contact with skunk
that had annoyedshim for some time,
and he did what any other man would
have done under similar circum stances
The killed the skunk.
But the law says he should have got
out of its way.
He, shot down a 5two-faced scoundrel,
"a moral pervert, menace to the COM
enunity, a. brute rwho deserved ;. to be
shot and who, in time, certainly would
have been shot, even had heI.avoided
the punishment administered by Thaw.
But the law says ''thou shalt not
kill"
That Thaw was sane at the time he
committed his crime, just as sane as
he is today Or ever will be, there is
little reason to doubt.
But the taking of the law into his
own hands, by person in full possess
sion OF his senses, is in itself, legally
If not morally, an act ia violation of
law.
The insanity plea, therefor, was the
only one by which Thaw could hope
10 get jury to do what it really want
ed to do.
By availing himself of this plea,
Thaw goes to an asylum for the Grim
inal insane, Notwithstanding the fact
chat within year he has been pro-
nounced sane by lunacy commission
of the same kind that will have to pass
upon his condition within the next
few months.
The position in which he is placed
seems absurd, anl still more SO is the
contention of the Judge that Thaw is
menace to society if permitted to run
at large.
Thaw is not q man entirely without
the spark Of goodness. The mere fact
shat he could appreciate the provoca-
aion kindled by White showed that.
If confinement does any good, he
will emerge from Matteawan hospital
a far better man than he ever was be-
tore.
He will not be going around with
chip on his shoulder trying to invite
tragedies such as were enacted on that
a1bS1uI ny III III W. dUlSOH S4udES
Garden. s.
The self-sacrificing wife who has been
true to him and herself throughout his
Srying ordeal will longer be moles-
ted by Stanford Whites, and together
they will be able and satisfied to lead
a better and happier life.
Law is not always justice, but there
is little reason to believe that the
shortcomings of the former have
soured the lives of either.
We are an admirer of J. f. Jacob
sen but believe that if his friends in
sist on him making the race for COVER
nor this year the head of the ticket
will again be slaughtered. -Lamberton
Star.
You know it.
The president is not one of those
who don't know how to foot their own
horns.
How'd you like to be king-in
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

The president is not one of those
who don't know how to toot their own
horns.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

Don't miss the Poultry Show,
February 10th to 18th. B0esch
Building, New Ulm, Mimi. Ad-
mission lOc.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

How'd you like to be king-in
? ortugal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05
KNIFE WOUND NEAR HEART
Howard COWles Receives One in
Saloon BraWl at COurtland.
Halfbreed Companion Who Gave
1t to Elm is Now In Jail at
St. Peter.
Will Have His Hearing Tomorrow
ON a Charge of Assault.

A report came from CORTLAND We'd
nesday evening of a saloon brawl in
which Fred Williamson, halfbreed,
struck his companion, Howard Cowles,
with knife and inflicted a Slight
flesh wound just over the heart.
The wound is not serious, but it was
inflicted with hostile intent, and there
fore constitutes an assault.
who had worked together as wood
choppers on Dan Williams farm near
Cambria the greater part of the
winter, but when they got into the
CORTLAND saloon Wednesday after
noon they imbibed too much and be-
gan to quarrel.
Immigration was the subject under
discussion, and Williamson, being a
halfbreed, evidently thought that his
views, as those of the most genuinely
American of the bunch, should not be
disputed.
At any rate his Indian blood as
serted itself and he struck Cowles with
knife.
Cowles made no resistance, as he
had nothing with which to defend
himself, and it is undoubtedly lucky
for both that he didn't. Had he had
a knife in his own hand it would UNI
doubleday have been a fight to a
finish.
AS it was, standers-by interfered
and Williamson was promptly placed
unde arrest.
Cowles, the injured man, agreed to
the arrest at the time, but it is
doubtful now if he will appear against
Williamson as a willing witness at the
hearing in st. Peter tomorrow.
Such men usually have their own
way of settling disputes and Cowles
evidently is no exception to the rule.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

Mat Eichten has been spending the
past few days with his brother in
Saltwater.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

Geo. W. Rosena:, after months
visit in this vicinity, returned to his
home in Ambrose, North Dakota, on
Wednesday,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05

We are an admirer of j. f. Jacob
sen but believe that if his friends in
sist on him making the race for COVER
nor this year the head of the ticket
will again be slaughtered. -Lamberton
Star.
You know it,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
NEW THEATER OPENED IN
SALT LAKE BY PRIMA DONNA

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 1S.-The
Colonial, Salt Lake City's new $350,OOO
fireproof playhouse, was formally
opened tonight, Madame Lillian Nor
dica being the initial attraction. The
seating capacity of the theater is
nearly 1900. and it was packed with
a fashionable audience.
Previous to the performance con-
gratulatory addresses were delivered
by Governor John c. Cutler, Mayor
Bransford, Calvin Heilig, president, and
John Cort. secretary of the Northwest
ern Theatrical association; Messrs.
Cort and Heilig having a f1fteenyear
lease of the new amusement resort.
The building is of modern construc-
tion and the stage is one of the largest
and most completely equipped In the
United States it's capacity being great
enough for the most elaborate scenic
productions. The interior of the new
playhouse is decorated in white and
gold. 1t will handle the Cort & Heilig
productions.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
OPERA SEASON
OPENS IN EAST
ENORMOUS SUMS EXPENDED
BY PRODUCERS
| Best Judges Refuse to Venture Esti-
mate of the Cost-New York and
Philadelphia Productions
Blaze of Triumph

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-The grand
opera season opened in New York and
Philadelphia last night with a blaze
of triumph, and promises to prove one
of the greatest in the history of either
city.
Both in New York and in Philadel-
phia the opera managers have as
sembled a class of talent seldom to be
found on one stage, including the most
famous singers in the old and new
world.
In point of cost and vocal variety the
seasons opening in both cities exceeds
that of any former year. The outlay
of money in salaries, costumes, scenery,
etc. runs into figures which the best
judges of opera will not venture to es-
innate, declaring it represents the
greatest expenditure of money in the
history of producers.
Hammerstein's Manhattan opera sea-
son began auspiciously last week and
his Philadelphia house opened last
night with Carmen" Mile. Maria
Labia singing the title role.
The season at the Metropolitan, New
York, opened November 16. The bill
for the week is "Aida." die Walkure" 3"
Madam Butterfly" La Traviata" and
ia .Boheme."
Next week at the Manhattan Ham
merstein will present "The Barber of
Seville" Lucia" "The Huguenots. -
Sampson and Delilah," "Thais" and
"Carmen."
In the casts will be such stars as
Nine. Tetrazzini, Mary Garden, Nine.
Mariska -Aldrich, Nine Espinasse,
Nine. Augusta Doria, Mile. Labia,
MN. Parola, Sammarco, De Sigurola,
Zanatello, Dalmores, Dufranne, Vieu-
ellie, Wales and Renaud.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
DARING ROBBERS
| LOOT TWOSTORES
HOLD UP PR0PRIETORS, GET
MONEY FROM TILLS
Masked Men Enter Pharmacy and
Hold Up Occupants = Escape
Although Police Are Mo-
titled at Once

Two daring robberies were perpe-
trated last night in what is virtu-
ally the downtown district
The first was the drug store of R. j.
Peck at 800 West Temple street at $3.50
o'clock last night, when two masked
men held up the occupants, and after
securing SIS from the cash register of
the store, made their escape, despite
the fact that the police were notified
and were on the scene within five min
utes after the robbery.
Mr.. Peck, the proprietor of the place,
and George p. Housed of S241s West
Temple street and Harry Tickhauser
of Hope and Court streets, were in the
store at the time the two robbers ap-
peared. Both men had handkerchiefs
tied over their faces and were armed
with revolvers, which they pointed at
the three men and ordered them to
walk to the back of the store
After escorting the proprietor and his
friends into a back room they COM
manded them to throw up their hands,
and Housed, being slow in obeying the
order, was struck across the head by
one of the robbers with his revolver
and knocked down.
While one of the men guarded the
three men the other robber walked
back into the store and opened the
cash register and took all the money
that was in it. He then called to his
companion, and after warning Peck
and his companions to keep quiet, both
men disappeared in the darkness, go
ing west along Temple street.
Police Fail to Find Trace
The robbery was reported to the de-
tective department within a minute af-
ter the men had left the store and De-
tectives Kelley and Pendegast and
Police Surgeon Garrett rushed to the
scene in an automobile. The entire
neighborhood was searched, but no
trace of the robbers was found.
At S:45 o'clock similar robbery was
perpetrated at Eighth and Spring
streets, where V. Campanella, the pro-
prietor of the Monte Vista Wine COM
pany, was held up and robbed of $2S
by a lone robber who gained access TO
the private Office by making a request
for change for a So gold piece
Mr. Campanella was closing his office
for the night when a young, Well
dressed man, about 25 years of age,
walked into the office and asked for
change.
Mr. Campanella had already locked
his safe, but he obligingly opened 1t,
and as he turned to hand the man the
change found himself staring into the
muzzle of a revolver.
He was ordered to stand to one side
and throw up his hands. and as he
obeyed the order the man pulled out
the cash drawer of the safe and emp
tied its contents into his coat pocket.
At that moment a customer came
into the store, and the fellow, ordering
Canpanella to keep quiet, ran from the
Office and boarded a passing south
bound Hooper avenue car and es-
capped.
and two detectives were sent to the
store, but all trace of the robber had
been lost. Mr. Campanella was able to
give a good description of the man,
however, and it is believed that he will
be arrested within twenty-four hours.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
EASTERN

Ray Lamphere denies Mrs. Guinness. al
legged arch-1nurderess of whose death he is
accused. drugged him with fruit; prosecu-
tion declares it has established case without
further witnesses.
starch trust investigated by ways and
means committee at Washington.
Three youths in New Jersey murder aged
grandfather for money; one breaks down
and confesses after funeral.
John ID. Rockefeller, on witness stand IN
New York court, recites history of gradual
but remarkable development of great oil
trust.
Conference held at Hot Springs, Va, with
President-elect Taft, ends in definite decision
to give Senator -Platt's toga to Secretary Of
State Root.
Notorious bank, swlndler, convicted in
New York, dies in Sing Sing prison.
Big fire does considerable damage to door
factory in Memphis.
Fine new fireproof theater opened by
Nine. Nordica in Salt Lake City.
Jurisdictional disputes at American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor's convention in Denver re-
ferred to executive committee.
Opera season opened in New York and
Philadelphia in blaze Of trinmph.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
LOCAL

Child is first to give to Herald fund te
help raise money with which to give poor
children a feast and an entertainment.
Rear Admiral Evans to make his home In
Los Agees. He expects to arrive here last
of next March
Court refuses delay of divorce suit which
counsel for defendant asked because his
client has disappeared.
Automobiles tested to convince court vio-
lators of speed ordinance had driven thelT
machines in excess of limit provided.
Inspector of billboards is not ousted as
had been intended by city council.
Fire commissioner claims fire patrol can
be established by underwriters but that the
latter do not wish a salvage corps.
Grand jury probes into school affairs ano
investigates charges made by Auditor
Mushet that educational board was eX-
travagant
Industrial parade extends more than three
miles long and prosperity of Southern Cali
fornia is shown to be great.
Chief of Police Kern Is dissatisfied WITH
new automobile PATROL and 1t is said TO De
unfit for department business.
"Solid three ignore advice of Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Shaw and aim to rush through
new deal for good roads bonds.
Two robberies occur in downtown district
store and of wine store are held up anc
each robbed.
Bethlehem institute forms classes for pur'
nose of educating Russians.
Woman's clubs at Venice made welcome
by Mrs. Abbot Kinney, the occasion being
the annual gathering of federated clubs
Prisoner, arrested for and transferred tc
custody of Long Beach officers, planned te
break jail