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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-02-13
FARMESR INSTITUTE
AT ARGYE

A farmers institute will be held at
Argyle on Thursday Feb. Goth.
There will be two sessions, one in
the forenoon at 1000 and the other
at l:30 p. m. All the farmers who
possibly can should take advantage
of these meetings as they mean
much for their prosperity and wei.
fare.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-02-13

The Norwegian Lutheran Ladies'
Aid Society will meet at the home
of Mrs. J. S. Hilleboe. on THURSDAY
afternoon. February 20.
Born:-A line baby girl was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Westman on
Sunday last. Mother and child are
getting along fine. ~.*
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-02-13

had some talk with some farmers
who had become dissatisfied. They
had been farming there for 20 years
and had permitted the land to be-
come weedy and thus Improbable
and consequently discouraged and
we're talking of selling the land for
what they could get and going to
the Canadian northwest to begin
afresh. The speaker had told them
they ought to be ashamed of
such conditions. They had been
guilty of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

feloniously and with malice afore~
thought did eat and digest and assimi-
late the same. Gripp, dye see, was
hungry. In order to reach the coveted
sausage he committed burglary. Some
men break through with infinite palms.
taking and steal diamonds worth for
tunes, but Gripp humbly burgled ms
way to sausage. Twas all the same
in the eyes of the law. 1t was crime
against property, and the same local
court which sought to make a man or
the bag-thief by imprisoning him for
three years aimed at the philanthropic
elevation of the sausage thief through
the merciful medium of n sentence of
five years Imprisonment. At this rate
crimes against property-even rela-
lively small crimes against eon'9ara-
lively petty property-will ceftai' : be
discouraged.
Rather than run such risks starving
men will hereafter beg, and be sent to
the chaing gang; or, better still, will
escape punishment by allowing them
selves to starve to death in a peace
able and orderly manner without pro-
test. as BELTS good citizens.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
LENIENCY

T y some of our local courts either the
word "leniency" has been estranged
n from its meaning or modern puni-
tive processes are developing a merci
lessness that makes even a slight abate-
ment of ferocity look like 'leniency.
A Judge recently told an offender that
three years in prison might make a
man of him" The same judge made a
similar remark few days later when
imposing a fifteen-year sentence This
philanthropic optimism which bids a
man condemned TO a decade and hall
of servile toll or of brain racking idle
ness cheer up, because the ordeal is for
his good, and twill make a man of him,
reminds us of the tender mercy of
Judge Jeffreys who, at the Bloody AS
sizes" sentenced a man to be hanged
for sheep stealing and expressed the
hope that it would be a lesson to him.
In another case the judge addressed a
prisoner in a kindly tone, and in an out
burst of beneVolence said: You have
certainly been unfortunate The mis-
fortune consisted in the fact that the
culprit had been making a good record
at honorable employment, but that his
highly civilized employers had dis
charged him upon hearing that he was
Attempting to outlive a record that was
not good. -Four years ago he had been
sent to Folsom and had served u year
there.
1T is one of the cruclties of our
modern society that a man can't be for
given for past offenses when he tries to
amend" added the sympathetic judge.
You have been truthful and straight
forward. So [ will be lenient" And
the leniency took the angelically benev-
olent form of three years imprison-
lnent at Folsom. The crime for which
this penance was imposed was not a
crime against anybody's person. It
would indeed be an aggravated case OF
assault that would be punished by d
three years term. 1t was crime
against property. The offender had
stolen two bundles of sacks worth S1.50
He thought that he needed the money
because he imagined that he would like
to buy something to eat, and he was
not allowed to earn the price of it.
Another instance of the vigorous ma
ture of the justice meted out to of
Tenders against property is the case OF
Gripp the sausage stealer. Gripp stole
n sausage. NAY. it is believed that he
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
CALIFORNIA

nRESIDENT WHEELER of the
T. University of California said in
Il an address: california is unique.
This narrow. sun-kissed strip of the
primal creation of the Deity, being
hemmed in by the Sierras and the great
desert on one side. and the greatest
ocean on the other, is subject for the
rest of the country to misunderstand
and misinterpret.' This is an aesthetic,
dignified and reserved way of saying
that the eastern papers. when they
print articles about California. some
times lie like Ananias. When they
don't do that. they suppress the truth
which is just as bad The leading New
York dailies have special correspond
ents in London, Paris and Berlin. If
California were in South Africa or in
the heart of Europe we would be over
run with New York correspondents.
But we are only in the United States,
Besides. that Pacific coast is threaten
ing Atlantic supremacy"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
TAFT'S NEW" CLOTHES

w HEN Bill Taft makes his bow as
w Republican candidate for the
presidency he will wear political
clothes which in cut and texture will
bear little resemblance to the toggery
of Republicanism a decade ago. The
wardrobe of the Republican candidate
has been recruited (shall we say0 with
a free and prehensile hand from that
of the Neighbor across the Fence. Here
a little and there a little has been the
motto of Republican sartorial acquisi-
tion and the Republican candidate who
the suffrage of the people will have a
distinctly Organized general aspect
although his name will be Taft. In an
other column we have explained this
approximation. Mr.. Bryan does not
need to hunt far for an old clo' man
with Taft ready and willing to don
whatever he thinks Mr.. Bryan may be
able TO spare when Mr.. Bryan isn't
looking. And Mr.. Bryan won't miss
the duds. He has such a splendid out
fit of Jeffersonian Democracy, a ward
robe so thoroughly replenished from
the first principles of Americanism.
that he does not need to beg, borrow
or steal his political outfit and if the
Republicans think their man will look
better in a Bryan suit than in the con-
ventional garments of Republicanism
let them help themselves. Imitation
is the sincerest flattery. and if the Re-
publican candidate is to be merely an
advertisement for Bryan the distin-
guished standard bearer of triumphant
Democracy should not complainant
won't
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

HIHE following statement appears in
a morning paper: 1.-The English
II use bank notes for almost all pur-
poses. Gold is little seen in Europe -
On the contrary, the English use gold
and silver for nearly all purposes, and
the traveller will see more gold in Eng
land in active circulation than ever he
has seen in his life before, unless he
has lived in California. But the
Scotch, with whom as usual the Eng
lish seem to be confounded by our
friend, use paper money to an extent
that almost rivals that of the eastern
United States. The Scotch are be-
levers in banking, and Scotsmen in
vented modern notwithstanding even
the Bank of England and our American
monetary and banking system. Being
believers in banking, the Scots are not
scared by bank notes, but encourage
them. The lowest paper money in cir
culation in England represents twenty
five American dollars. The lowest pa
per money in Scotland is a one pound
note, which corresponds to our five dol
lar bill. Thus the Scots, who resemble
Americans in great many particulars
for the simple reason that Scottish in
stitutions, being democratic, have been
borrowed more freely in America than
English institutions, resemble us much
more closely than the English in the
matter of currency. The English do
NOT use bank notes for almost all pur-
poses. They use gold for almost all
purposes. having two common gold
ccins, the half sovereign and the
sovereign. The half sovereign is worth
about two and a half dollars. In Scot
land paper money is commoner than
in any other English speaking country
excepting the United States, which
Scotland in many particulars resembles
far more closely than does any other
English speaking country-or any other
country in the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
MERCY FOR MERCILESS?

HI HE word clemency in conjunction
with d blood-dyed name like
Il Harry Orchard is absurd. The
idea of cemency in conjunction with
the hendish personality of the creature
who bears that name outrages the
generally accepted standards of even
handed justice. At the same time the
plea for clemency bears out the sug-
gestion that the predictions of organ
lied labor concerning Orchard will be
fulfilled, These predictions We're that
he would never be executed. The case
of Orchard is unique in criminal an
nails He has repeatedly confessed the
crime with which he is charged and
scores of other crimes. He has an
nounced his readiness to meet his fate,
his desire that he he made to pay the
penalty he has incurred. The imagina-
tions of Edgar Allan Poe and the
French school of novelists never
evolved fictional plots more fantastic
ally flendish, moro diabolically desper-
ate than the true stories of actual life
and death in which Orchard appears
the most sinister figure of embodied
crime that has polluted the world since
Satan first invented sin. Clemency for
Orchard would break even the record
established by Longfellow, who asked
for a pardon for the devil on the
ground that he was "a son of mystery,
who labors for some good by us not
understood" Orchard is a revolving
monster of crime. For years his men,
tai processes have been crimnally di-
rected. A student of mentation would
say of him, HE thinks in terms of
murder" And there are those who
would extend to this hatitual criminal
judicial clemency! There is too much
mud and blood in the quality" Of this
fantastic kind of mercy
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
JUST TO BE A BOY AGAIN

'Just to be child again." sighed the mil
"Knowing not that woe exists free from
every care;
lust to be a child again, filled with boyish
glee,
Free from all the ills hear. and from sor-
rows free"
Round the corner lay boy. fretting in his
bed.
"Gee! wish was man." dismally he
said:
somehow
Had the scarlet fever last--got the measles
now.
eyes. I've had the chicken-pox and the
jaundice too;
s,nose I'll have the mumps tho next-al-
ways something new.
when you're sick there amt no fun. cause
you feel so bad;
when you're well you go to school-Gee,
but life is sadl
"Just to be a boy" the man murmured,
with a sigh;
"Free to frolic as ! pleased. all things yet
to try. 49,,
All. how small mems triumphs are! What
price we pay
For the little that we get as we scheme
awayl" 49,,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

Forestry is a constantly increasing
source of revenue to the government oil
British India. In Great Britain the
period of tentative inquiry into the sub
iect of afforestation has ended and that
Of actual demonstration has begun
Even in the United States, which was
once the greatest timber country on
earth and may with Intelligent manage
ment assume that leadership, the move
ment for the intelligent study of forestry
anC for the practical application of that
study in the reforestation of some
areas and the afforestatiOn of others
a period of indifference has been sue
ceeded by one of intelligent interest
and great activity.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Daily Naval Report

WASHINGTON, March 20.-The fol-
lowing navy orders have been issued:
Lieut.. J. e. Walker. to the naval
station at Guantanamo, Cuba, sailing
from New York OH or about March n.
Surgeon K. Ohnesorg, from the naval
hospital, Philadelphia, Pa, to the navy
yard at League Island, Pa, I'm connec-
tion with fitting out the New Hamp-
shire and on board that vessel when
commissioned.
Warrant Machinist e. J. Cutherell,
retired, placed on the retired list from
March IL.
Movements Of Navy Vessels
The Mezinscot is at Portsmouth.
Tho Mayflower has left Norfolk for
New Orleans.
The Iroquois has left Honolulu for
The Eagle has left Santiago for
Guantanamo.
The Chicago has left Rio Janeiro for
Bahia.
The New Hampshire has been ordered
placed in commission at the navy yard
at League Island, Pa.
Navy Notes
Richard C. Holiday, chief of the
bureau of yards and docks, has recon-
mended the acceptance of the bid of the
williams Engineering and Contract
company of New York. to complete the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
INGENIOUS

Mrs. Artless-The Bloughbys have,
grandfather's clock that's been In the
family more than one hundred and nfty
years.
have it year ago.
Mrs. Artless-Oh, no; but you see 1t
was stolen nearly fifty. years ago and
Mrs. Bloughby tells me it was by the
merest chance they discovered it last
week in a second hand store.-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

One of the saddest circumstances at
tending the death of Sir Nicholas
O'Conor. British ambassador to Tur-
key, is the indefatigable persistence
with which his name is being misspelled
by newspaper and magazine biograph-
ers. That extra IN was the bane OF
O'Conor's life, and some people think
that he took kindly to Turkey-Where
he was stationed for ten years-because
the Turk did not use Roman letters
and therefore if the unspeakable'
misspeIled his name Sir Nicholas was
happily unconscious of it,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

An international congress on the ed
ucation of the family will be held in
Brussels in 1910. Fathers and mothers
who are attempting to educate their
families need not suspend their efforts
until the congress meets. Without the
EXPERT advice of this deliberative body
it is of course hard for amateur parents
to manage their families on expert and
professional lines. But they must do
the best they can, and trust to the wis
dom of the congress to suggest meth
DDS of making up for shortcomings.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
First Catch Your Income

There are three great sources of
worry in this world-sickness trouble
and debt. The first two no man can
avoid. The third nearly all men run
into, and have the life bounded out of
them until they learn one of the most
important lessons man can learn-that
of living within the income. Leaving
aside the few good and many specious
reasons that a man may give for liv-
ing beyond bis weekly monthly or
yearly income. the fact remains that
when people are determined to make
both ends meet they can do it,-Orange
County Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Dangerous Enough

Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the
governments bureau of ordnance,
talked of martial inventions at re-
cent dinner In Washington.
MANY of these inventors" he said,
with their automatic torpedoes, their
new explosives and what not, fail to
take into account the danger to the
users of their inventions. They are
like the farmer and the bull.
"A farmer was driving bull along a
fairly busy country road.
""That's a dangerous looking bull
you have there, friend a milknlan
said.
:" oh, no. said the farmer; he's just
as civil as a sheep. lie wouldn't hurt
anybody, unless, maybe women ana
children and suchlike.' New York
Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Roasters Roasted

1t is the custom of many people to
come around to the editors sanctum
and. on every matter of public interest
in which those in an official capacity
have not acted i'm the manner in which
they believe they should have. to ask,
why don't you roast them? That
query is put up TO the editor more, per-
haps, than any other that comes his
way. why don't ou roast them?'
But the fellow who asks the question
will be the one who will yell loudest II
ever the opportunity comes his way TO
be Berkeley Reporter.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
State Press Echoes
Spirltus Frumenti 2

On railroad train that was speeding west
Sat a woman, weary alone, depressed
She was blessed with friends and had once
had wealth
Which was spent in a fruitless search for
health.
From a medicine case. which she kept at
her side.
She dosed herself steadily. through the long
ride.
-Escondido Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
It's Only Lack

The Idaho World, referring to an en-
terprise engaged in by one of it's ener-
getic fellow citizens, says: "Mr. Henry
has located a townsite on a fiat near
the mine. and has the lots all surveyed
and r.arked. The new town now lacks
only the houses to make it complete.'-
Ventura Daily Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

The Los Anc~les girl who lay quietly
in her little bed while burglar ran
sacked the house would have screamed
al sight of a mouse cavorting around
the floor. But-mice don't carry &C.
VOlVers
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

Twenty thousand Bibles will make a
fine gift for the men of Fighting Bob's
big feet. A great many of them will
now have two Bibles The California
copy will make nice souvenir Of a
memorable visit.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Highly Efficient

The fleet is understood to be in high
state of efficiency, and the ships COM
posing 1t are believed to have made
the best known record in Workmanship
during the last year or two. No longer
can it be said that the Pacific is at the
mercy of any possible adversity.-Po-
mona Progress.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Echo Talks Back

The editor of the evening paper GER
tainly has a mean disposition. A few
days ago we took the trouble to DEFEND
him from an attack by an Oakland man
who criticised his editorial English, and
now he repays our disinterested kind
ness by criticising the constr .,ction of a
news item that appeared in the Echo.
We don't particularly mind, however,
for we were never so touchy' about
grammar as - neighbor is about his.
We are like the German in the story
who, being criticised for his pronuncia-
ton, replied with dignity, II shpeak so
der peobles understand me init. "-Bak-
ersfeld Morning Echo.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
What Boots IL?

Our esteemed friend. Adolph Butz, is
hereby informed that his classified ad-
vertisement for dozen laying hens. for
their keep is declined with thanks, as
we will not lend our assistance to any
such effort to belttle the industry that
has helped make Orange county ia :
nous. Besides. Mr.. Butz has just sold
a 2-year-old colt for $500 and he should
be quite able and willing to buy all the
hens he may need.-Santa Ana Evening
Blade.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
MS SPA r. K 81
MN FRor1 a <Nl
|NNLDVE WIRE T !
That Old 1--WE"

Naturalized American citizens whose
forefathers Through no fault OF the
citizens) were on the wrong side dur
ing the War of the Revolution will
sympathize with the Frenchman in
story that has Travelled across the At
lantie. He is a resident of England,
where his children have been born and
are being brought up. Not long ago
one of the young hopefuls on his re-
turn homo from his history class re-
marked to 1.-The old man.
Papa, we licked you most awfully
at the battle of Waterloo, didn't we|'
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Daylight Ahead

Chancellor Day remarks that he often
gets people by the ears, sometimes be-
cause other peoples ears are too long,
sometimes because his own are too
long. There is hope for the chancellor
yet.-San Bernardino Evening Index.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

William Jennings Bryan can no longer
be called Boy orator, but he will still
be one of the youngest presidents ever
naugurated.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
No Danaer!

The Newcastle, Pa, man who COM
mitted suicide rather than be elected
to the city council. evidently took the
knocks on officeholders too seriously.
Let us hope that none of the candi-
dates for the Fullerton city council
will commit SO rash an act.-Fullerton
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

Brooklyn dry dock. Their bid was $764,-
400 The dock was Is per cent COM
pleted when a former contract was de-
clared forfeited.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Popular Signs

The most trustworthy of all the
signs of returning confidence" are
these: $$$$SsS.-Long Beach Daily Tele-
graph.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
obi Profanum

A court has decided that to assign a
person to the hot hereafter is not pro-
family. True, judge, but it listens bad
in the parlor.-Redlands Daily Review.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Old Fashioned Courtesy

Massachusetts! There she stands.-
Boston Globe.
Take a chair!-San Berhardino Even
ing Index.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Society Note

c. G. Hamilton. the Swedish mining
and oil man, continues to pass his time
restlessly in the county jail.-Bakers-
field Californian.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
First to Burst

1t is strange that expeditions will 20
to the expense of going to Egypt to
hunt ruins when there is the Foraker
boom in this country.-Grass Valley
Morning Union
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
BIOGRAPHY of Sailing Vessel

1S32-Isaac Israel Hayes, who reached
the highest latitude ever attained by a
sailing vessel. born in Pennsylvania'
Died in New York, December II, 1851
Fresno Herald
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
Parsimonious

Abraham Ruef seems to entertain the
impression that he was to have immun-
ity for telling as little truth as possible.
Pasadena Daily News.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21

REMARKABLE volume has
just been issued In the
United States public health
and marine hospital service.
1t deals with the subject OF
the milk supply of the cities
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
GOLD IN ENGLAND

HHE following statement appears in
a morning paper: 1.-THE English
Il use bank notes for almost all pur-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-12-29

so delighted with your wedding gift,
It was so original Amy never did
care for costly things; these simple.
unique gifts always pleased her. OF
course. my main object is to see the
dear child, but shall not go tonight
unless Aunt Rebecca Winter is on tho
train. II for any reason she waits
over until tomorrow / shall wait
also"
"Ah," sighed the colonel very softly
not stirring 9 muscle OF his politely
attentive face; and does Aunt Re
beccs expect to go on the train?"
"They told me at the Pullman once
that she had the drawing-room, the
stateroom and two sections. or course,
she has her maid with her and
Archl-"
Does ne go too?" the colonel
asked, his eyes narrowing q little
Yes, she's taking him to Calf
fornia; he doesn't seem well enough,
she thinks. TO go to school, so he Is
to have a tutor out there. I'm a lit
tie afraid Aunt Rehecca mollycoddles
the boy -
Aunt Rebecca never struck me as
a mollycoddler. I always considered
her a tolerably cynical old Spartan.
But do you mean there is any doubt
OF their going? Awfully good OF yo1
TO wait 20 see II they don't go, but rtn
sure Aunt Rebecca wouldn't want you
10 sscrifiee your section"
Mrs. Melville lifted shapely hans
in a Deisartlan gesture OF arrest; her
smiling words were the last the col
onel had expected "HIush, dear Ber
lie: Aunt Rebecoa doesn't know ! am
going. don't want her to know un
iil We are on the train"
"Oh. | see. a suiprise?" But be did
aot see and, with quiet inteptness
he watched the color raddle Mrs Mel
gille's smooth cheeks
Hardly" returned the lady The
truth is. Bertie Melville aud are
worried about Aunt Rebecca She va
fear has faNen under the influence Of