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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-12-30

DELrll.
Mrs. George Steele Of Hibbing is
here visiting.
Robert Cummings Of Cottonwood
is here visiting.
Harry Holt is home from the Ag-
ricultural school.
Teddy Tibbets has been sick the
past week with mumps.
Miss May Stewart returned to
Minneapolis on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marstadt left for
Sleepy Eye On Tuesday.
David McCorquodale left Saturday
for Echo to spend few days.
Mrs. McCumber and Miss Phoebe
spent Christmas in Minneapolis.
Miss Ida Gloss of Cordova is the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Bramsche.
w. Parker left last Tuesday
Tuesday for Sault ST. Marie, Mich.
liver Mattson left for Texas and
other southern points, land seeking.
Henry Vogland left the fore part
of last week for the woods in Michi-
gan.
Mrs. D. House and son of Mime
apolis was visiting friends here last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marstadt of Mime
apolis are visiting at the Moldestad
home.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Till
bury on Saturday, Dec. 19th,. a
daughter.
Mrs. Joe Gray of Cottonwood
spent Monday with Mrs. Archie
Stewart.
Miss Belle McCorquodale of Echo
! spent Christmas the guest of Mrs.
Ed. Rucker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis and children
of Menagha are visiting with Mrs.
Lewis parents.
The Rev. Collins of Scotland occu-
pied the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church on Sunday last.
Mrs. ]. L. Borg entertained the
ladies aid society of the Lutheran
church on Tuesday, Dec. 29th.
Fred and Arthur Scott of st. Paul
and Miss Anna McDougal of Orion
Vile are home for the holidays.
DR.. Francis returned home on
Thursday from St. Barnabas hospi-
tai, Minneapolis, with his son David
Ernest Lagerstrom returned to
Minneapolis on Tuesday morning,
after several days visit with home
folks.
Mrs. Tenia A. Anderson has been
laid up with tonsilitis several days
and J. L. Stewart is reported on the
sick list.
Chas, Tramm moved last week
from the Pomroy farm to the Peter
son farm north of what is known as
the old GILES farm.
D. R. MeCorquodale purchased a
building in North Redwood and had
it moved here last week for an office
at the stock yards.
Miss Sophia Miller returned to
Minneapolis on Monday, after spend
ing Christmas with her mother, Mrs.
Holt in Swedes Forest.
Knute Knutson is home on his va
cation from the National Business
College, Minneapolis, and Carl
Francis from West Concord.
The Misses Helga and Agnes john
son of Belview and Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Olson of Sacred Heart are
guests at the Helgenson home.
Rev. w. w. Hendry will occupy
the pulpit of the Presbyterian church
on Sunday, Jan. Sd. and every even
ing during the week of prayer, also
ho boro
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-12-30

/ will have a few cars of hard
maple wood in a few days which
can deliver direct from car. sawed
or not as wished.
satisfaction guaranteed,
Phone No. A,
C. w. CUNNINGHAM,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-12-30
BUSY WORK for
LITTLE FOLKS

And kindergarten occupa-
tons for home and school.
Many helps to occupy the
attention and give early
training and skill for useful
occupations.
Sewing Cards and Boxes
Drawing Stensils
Picture Drawing and Color
Books
Water Colors and Colored
Crayons
Drawing States
Black Boards
Scroll Saw Outfits
Dissected Maps
Building and Letter Blocks
Linen Primers and Toy
Books
Educational Games
Printing Outfits
at
Hitchcock's Drug Store
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
THE LEGISLATURE TONIGHT.

Tonight the legislative session will
really begin. All that has been done
was merely preliminary. Until tonight
the two legislative chambers had moth
Ing to work upon. Presumably the
committees will have taken action on
some of the bills introduced a week
ago and will be ready to report. A
large batch of additional bills will be
introduced tonight and referred.
An important point to be settled re-
lates to the power OF a committee to
hold a bill, and IL will doubtless come
mp at t%onight's session. Action look
ing to the exclusion of lobbyists from
tho legislative floors, in accordance
with the suggestions by the Governor,
should also be taken without delay.
There should be no trifing with this
matter. The attention of the whole
State is focused upon 1t, and the sin
certify of the majority will be measured
by what shall be done.
Notwithstanding the avowed discon-
tent OF certain Senators at the ap-
pointments made by the Governor,
there is little likelihood that any of
them will be held up" The Senate
majority is not counting a rupture with
the executive at the beginning of his
administration, and is not foolish
enough to assume an u%ntenable po-
sition, from which 1t would be forced
to retreat. A cordial cooperation of
Governor and Legislature in the work
credit of the Legislature.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
THE ELECTION OF UNITED STATES
SENATORS.

Provision is made in the United
States Constitution for two methods of
amending that instrument. One is
by a vote of t%wo-thirds of both
houses of Congress, to be ratified
BY the legislatures of three-fourths Of
the States; the other by the calling
of a convention for the purpose on
the application of the legislatures Of
tgo-thirds of the States, the result to
tie ratified by the legislatures of three
fourths OF the States or by conventions
in three- fourths of the States.
The movement begun several years
ago for the amendment of the Consti-
tuition so that United States Senators
shall be elected by a direct vote of the
PEOPLE, instead of by the legislatures of
their respective States, has been sew
era times blocked by the Senate under
the first method. and now the pro-
nloters of the change are intent on
trying the alternative method. Thir-
teen State legislatures have already
formally applied for a constitutional
convention for the submission of the
proposed amendment, the last being
that of New Jersey, whose resolution
has just beer presented by Senator
Kean.
Not all the State legislatures meet
every year., and 1t may be a couple of
years before the necessary two-thirds
will be procured, but the demand for
the change is growing, even in unex-
pected quarters, and those most inter
ested are confident that they will at
least secure the call for the convention.
In that case the Senate may not deem
ii wise to refuse to acquiesce.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
Taft,s Bow TO Hughes.

Secretary Taft's letter may be called a
ruse by politicians, but its spirit is too adj
nirable for a construction which places 1t
among ~canvassing tricks. When good
faith, courteous regard for an opponents
rights and thought of party interests Will
explain the action, why go to the pains
OF hunting for a selfish cunning? Mr.. TAFT
has lone these things before. The gum
shoe method has never been laid to his
account. 1t is. entirely in the line of his
life that he should take high ground In a
contest with Governor Hughes.
For selfish purposes there Is not a great
deal in the inference that the letter in
vites the New York delegation to make
Taft the second choice. Before New York
reaches a second choice Taft will be either
nominated or defeated-at least, no con-
trary prediction can now be made. All
the favorite sons are in the lists to beat
Taft. II they cannot present a combina-
ton capable of beating him he will be
nominated quickly; If they can he will be
quickly defeated.
Taft does not misunderstood that phase
of the competition. He may be confident
Of nomination, and prefer good party feel
ing in New York next fall to the chances
of a factional embodiment now. Political
Gcumen of that description is not repre-
hensible. The letter on Its face is sports
manlike,'' and there is no reason for put
ting it on a lower level.-Philadeiphla
Ledger.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
TO RESTORE THE cANTEEN.

1t is not a very inspiring example Of
courage that the House committee on
military affairs is giving in the method
it has devised for restoring the army
canteen, though IL no doubt considers
the fact of daring to tackle the ques-
ton at all is an act of bravery in view
of approaching new Congress elections
n the storm that is bound to be
raised. The proposal is to accomplish
the restoration through a paragraph in
the appropriation bill and have 1t
passed in committee of the whole,
avoiding a call of the yeas and nays.
But better this way han non at all.
It has been established by the most
overwhelming evidence that the aboli-
ton of the canteen. into which Con-
gress was bulldozed by well-meaning
but ignorant zealots, has increased all
the evils the theorists expected to
eradicate by it. Every consideration
demands it's restoration. 1t should be
done openly and boldly as a duty.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
D1cK1NsoN's FORFEITED PLEDGE.

The text of the letter from Secretary
OF State Dickinson to Governor Stokes.
before the latter reappointed him to
office, In which Dickinson pledged him
self to a vindication in the courts from
the serious charges made by Mayor
Pagan, of Jersey City, or to resign If
the charges were proven true, Is repro
duced by the Trenton correspondent of
the Herald. It was upon the strength
Of the positive IRAN contained in
this letter that Dickinson was reap
pointed. In the letter Dickinson says:
II deny, without the slightest reserva-
ton, each and every one of the insinua-
lions, charges or accusations therein
contained against me or my character,
and / take his opportunity of further
stating that / shall at once take pro-
ceedings to sue the author of that let
ter for the libel it contains upon me,
in order that the courts may determine
the truth Of the charges contained
therein. These charges are so baseless
that 1 say to you if reappointed to my
present position and confirmed, 1 shall
at once resign if the accusations are
proven true"
Dickinson did begin suit, and his first
witness gave such damaging testimony
that Dickinson withdrew the suit with
the promise that he would renew 1t
Immediately after the election in No
vember. A request by the Governor for
him to keep his pledge and resign was
refused. And the suit has never been
renewed. Evidently Dickinson has no
intention to bring action again. He
makes no defense. which Is virtually a
plea of non vult. And still he holds on
to the Office of Secretary of State Of
New Jersey.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
EXEMPTION FOR NEW FORESTS,

A system of forest reserve is to be
established in Massachusetts for the
purpose of giving lumber men an OBJ
ject lesson in scientific forestry, That
has been the principal function of the
New Jersey Forestry Commission 1t
is proposed in Massachusetts to give
exemption from taxation to land own
ers on certain conditions. The land
owner must plant at least two thou
sand seedlings per acre.
Wild lands in New Jersey are moder-
ately taxed. as they yield no income,
and their forests are necessary to
conserve the rainfall and prevent
floods. The Massachusetts idea of tax
exemptions for those who plant trees
and create a new forest growth, re-
placing that which is destroyed. is so
good that if practicable it should be
adopted for this State,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
COLOR AS MEMORY AID.

Many systems have been devised by
means of which the memory may be
strengthened, but when put to the test
by those most in need of such aids they
almost always seem to fail. A young
Greek girl named Uranie, barely 20
years of age, has recently been per-
picking the. Paris savants by a pine
nomenal memory for figures, letters
and names. These she holds firmly in
memory, according to her wi state
ment, by associating them with diff
ferent colors.
One is black, two is luminous yellow,
three is of gold, foul chestnut, five
blue, six dark yellow, seven marine
blue. eight pearl gray, nine bistre and
zero white. Names come to her mind
as the dominating tint in a complex
color. Mademoiselle Uranie has no
theory to explain her extraordinary
faculty. She has been since childhood
q brilliant student of mathematics, In
which she holds several French diplo-
mas. The French Society of An
t%hropology has just had a meeting TO
observe her remarkable feats of
memory, which are regarded as quite
apart from anything bordering on the
occult, and wholly due to a naturally
good mind greatly strengthened by a
close application to mathematics. but
this does not explain the color system
by which the young Greek girl holds
facts and figures in memory.-Phiiadel
phia Record.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
BETTER BUILDING REGULATIONS.

The recommendations by Superin-
tendent O'Rourke, of the building de-
partment, in his annual report are in
the line of greater efficiency. The
building code needs thorough revision
and there should be more ~concentra-
ton of authority. Civil service rules
should strictly govern the appointment
of subordinates In the department.
The authority given to the Common
Council to grant permits for altera-
tions n additions to frame buildings
in the fire limits has been shamefully
abused in the past. Political pull
has prevailed in all such cases. The
authority should be placed with he
building department, subject to appeal
TO the Council committee. Then all
the reasons pro and con can be sub
mitted.
The superintendent calls attention
also to the evil of speculative build
ing that a grown up in late years.
A new and s~tricter building code can
be devised to deal with that. The inn
portance of the adoption of a better
system of building inspection cannot
be too much enlarged upon.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Herr Munsterburg, a brother of Profess
sor Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard Uni
Xersity, is among those named to be deco
rated on the anniversary Of the first coro-
nation of the King of Prussia as German
Emperor.
Emperor William, through the German
Consul-General in New York, announces
that on his birthday, January q, he will
present q fine edition Of German folk songs
to the leading German singing societies of
the country.
Owen Wister. author, ranchman and
critic of American scholarships, who has
decided to wage battle against the po-
litical system in Philadelphia, Is a personal
friend of President Roosevelt, who calls
him Dan"
1t would be hard to find two men moro
different in their way than the two
Jameses of Kentucky, Ollie NJ. James, n
Democrat, and Addison Davis James, q
Republican. Ollie is a lewyer, and Ad-
olson a doctor. Representative Ollie James
is a man of immense frame, big voice
and spirited, characteristic of the law
yer; Representative Addison James is
quiet and u~nassuming, like the modest
doctor that he is.
William Henry Schoheld. professor of
comparative literature at Harvard Univer-
city, who was chosen last May to be
visiting professor at the University of
Berlin for the academic year of 1913,
delivered the last of his fifty lectures YES
terday. At the conclusion DR.. Brandt,
director of the English Seminary of the
University Of Berlin, presented Profess
scr Schoield with a collection of beauti-
fully bound books in return for the pro-
fessor's gift of a rare edition of Chaucer
TO the seminary. DR.. Brandt also alluded
to the noticeable enthusiasm of the Amer,-
can people for high ideals.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
The Next President.

What should be the qualities of the
twenty-slxth president of the united
States?
He should be in full accord with the peo-
pie in the work which they, under the
leadership of President Roosevelt, have
undertaken. the conservative work which,
though called destructive, aims to secure
to the American people their birthrlght OF
freedom Of opportunity without which
there can be preserved no other freedom.
He should be a constructive statesman
whose large view includes and whose eff
icient powers master the business of a
great nation, a leader far-seeing, conserv-
ing, yet progressive.
He should be a statesman Of interna-
tiunal scope and a ~diplomatist. The day
has gone by when our relations with the
outer world were defensive merely. We
have taken upon. ourselves, or there have
been thrust upon us, the responsibilities
Of a great power, and the future opens
to us charged with grave issues. In the
Pacific we are already pledged to no pas
slve part.
Jurist, administrator. diplomat, enlight-
ened constructive statesman, William
Howard Taft may well offer himself for
the suffrage of his countrymen. The po-
litical wisdom of the Republican party
will recognize his claim.
The party is fortunate mat comes pc
fore the people with such a leader, the
nation fortunate that finds ready to It's
hand such a servant.
His courageous and generous Identified
ton of himself with the policies and labors
of President Roosevelt has been brought
as a charge against him.. 1t is said by
those who AVE hated the President and
all his works that William Howard Taft
has but weakly echoed the voice of an
other.
The American people know better than
that. They know that it takes a brave, a
strong and a true man to speak as Taft
has spoken of Theodore Roosevelt. And
in those spoken words they wisely hear
the pledge Of a brave, a strong and a
true man to carry on the work, which is
Lot merely the work of Theodore Roose-
welt. but the work OF the American democ-
racy, to which the people have set their
irrevocable will.-Chicago Post.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27

Assessed personal property valuation
in New York city does not indicate
anything like hard times. The total
figures run up to a billion and a quar-
ter dollars and the decrease from last
year was less than a quarter Of a mil
lion. The recent financial trouble, it
should be remarked, mostly affected
the owners of personal property, and,
judging by the s%hrinkage Of stock n
bond values in the market, the de-
crease of assessed valuation might be
expected to be more than a hundred
million dollars. The truth is that per-
sonalty in New York, as elsewhere, is
very greatly underassessed. There is
yet a margin of hundreds of millions
that is not assessed for taxes.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
OUR GROWING PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The steady growth of the Newark
Free Public Library is gratifyingly
shown in a report by Librarian Dana
last week. During 1907 as many as
G95, 0T6 books were taken out, which was
10 per cent. greater thar in the previous
year, and nearly 100 per cent. greater
than when the library was in the West
Park street building. Last year also
the library received and catalogued
1912 volumes. There are now five
branch libraries and 432 libraries in
nfty-two school buildings. There are
forty-hve centres for distribution of
books. There are now 124,5S4 volumes
in the library, not including 10000 pub
lie documents and many other publica-
lions not catalogued as books. Final
~, thore are 100, 900 classified pictures,
many of which are mounted or in
frames.
Splendid management has character
lied Newark's public library ever since
ii was created out of the assets of the
cid Newark Library Association, a pri-
yate enterprise familiar to the former
generation of Newarkers. The library
has a a normal growth, fostered by
progressive and, al the same time. CON
sentative care. AS it has grown ii has
spread the habit OF reading and the
taste for good literature in the com
munity and its silent influence is felt
in every walk of social life. Any men
ton Of the public library must nee
essarily include a tribute to Librarian
Sahn Cotton Dana, who has done Sc
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
VIEWS OF EDITOR 5.
parker. Attack ON nrxan.

Judge Parker is ungrateful. Mr.. Bryan
did his best for the ticket in 1904, but
could not accomplish the impossible. His
followers would not longer follow. They
were advised Of what his true feelings
were as respects the agencies which had
brought about Judge Parker's nominal
ton. Months before the convention he
had declared himself publicly. The Hearst
men wanted his support, and considered
that they had a right to it, but he made
it known that his choice was Senator
Cockrell, OF Missouri, a friend of silver and
a resident of a section remote from Wall
Street. Judge Parker, fortunately for his
self-respect and peace of mind, will never
be able to see his candidacy as others see
1t. 1t was tainted with every absurdity
under the shining sun, and met the fate
1t richly deserved. The presidency was as
far beyond his reach in the circumstances
that existed as the sun itself in the sky
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
IN I
WASN'T Missing Anything.

The other night a Germantown citizen
wanted to get some article from the store
room, n as he started in quest of 1t
his good wife told him that the room was
dark and that he had better strike a
light before going in too far. Pretty
soon the wife heard a dull thud as If
somebody was falling, and then a noise
that sounded decidedly cussy.
What in the world are you doing,
John?" She called, running up the stairs.
Haven't you struck a light YETI"
mo, sweetheart" was the g%rouehy re-
spouse of the old man, but that is about
the only thing in this Internal room that
1 haven't struck up to the present time"
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
Mr.. Horace Carr.


He called her on the telephone,
n told her from afar,
In what was his politest tone:
I'm Mr.. Horace Carr"
"Too bad!" the gentle maid replied,
In accents that were jolly.
'But if you want to take a ride,
Why don't you catch the trolley?"
II fear you do not understand"
He said, and gave a jar
To the receiver in his hand
I'm Mr.. Horace CART"
Indeed. ! deeply sympathize
With you," she said. with laughter.
81 think you would be very wise
To take the train hereafter"
BEG pardon, Miss" he said again,
"l'Tis merry that you are.
I'd like to call today at 10
You see, I'm Mr.. Carr"
I'm sorry for you," so she said.
I'm grieved at your narration.
But I'm not the directing head
OF lines Of transportation"
I'm Mr.. Horace Carr he cried
Into the telephone.
THAT statement will not be denied"
Game back her mocking tone.
I'm Mr.. Carr! I'm Mr.. CARR
He desperately shouted.
"Then catch another where you are!"
She petulantly pouted.
At last, by spelling out each word,
He told her what he meant
Gin truth, this incident occurred
just as we represent).
He came; he called; he came again
An ancient horse-car brought him.
He kept on coming there-and then
He was her Carlisle caught him!
Wilbur Nesbit, in Harper's Magazine.