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Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11
Among Our Neighb0rS.
Sifted out by Ludwig S. Dale.

A number OF our nelghbOrs re-
port troubles this week. Gambling
is rife in St. Cloud, tramps are
pestering Fergus Falls and Apple
ton, and Glenwood is suffering
from an epidemic of bad eggs. We
sympathize the most with Glen
wood. You ought to know what is
coming to you if you gamble. and
you can get rid of the tramp by
putting him to work for the city;
but you never know when you are
going to knock the cover off of
miniature fertilizing plant. We
cannot think of a sufficiently severe
punishment for the man who will
knowingly place these producers of
bad odors and profanity on the
market. He ought to be obliged to
eat all the bad eggs found in his
case when he brings it to market.
That would probably take him
away from this earth via the air
route, but we do not believe his
departure would be mourned very
much.
Speaking about henfruit, here
after the eggs served on the North
! ern Pacific diners will have stamped
on the shells the date on which they
we've laid. Which leads the editor
of the Midway News to remark:
Good. Next will be a law regu-
lating the manner Of dating eggs.
Then will come the State Egg In
spection Commission, and then the
local egg inspectors, the hen in
spectors, and, finally, no doubt, the
political cock O. the walk. New
departures on the part of great COR
porations are always freighted with
wonderful possibilities"
A policeman saw car No. III
speeding down Washington avenue
in Minneapolis at rate of 40 miles
an hour one day last week Of
course he couldn't stop it, but he
looked up the number and found
Mayor McElligott of Appleton to be
the owner, and that the car was of
the high-powered speed kind. All
of which causes Homer Sigler of
the Appleton Press to explode as
follows:
$50, that's the way our citizens
behave when they are out of our
sight. But in this case we believe
some mistake has been made. While
Mac may not be able to prove an
alibi for himself, we think the ma
chine can escape on the plea of mis-
taken identity. The idea of calling
our mayors automobile ''high-
powered speed car! Any man
with decrepit velocipede,
mouse trap and a lady's hustle, and
a Waterbury watch for motor,
and a little ingenuity could make
q car that would give Mac the dust.
The Appleton Press will not fly to
the defense of any of our citizens
when they are in wrong, and we
are not claiming in this instance
that the accused is not moralIv
guilty Of being a speed bug we
are not presuming to interpret a
mans secret longings and ambi-
tions; but we do maintain with all
the vehemence our gallowses will
stand that McElligott is innocent of
this specific charge because the
thing is a physical impossibility.
Why. Mac couldn't get up speed
enough to alarm a lame duck. !"
Appleton has had good deal of
trouble of late with its grating DO
lice force. Finally Village Mar
shall johnson resigned, and now the
council has appointed a Bishop to
take his place. He ought to be
able to keep the town straight.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

'"Train up servant In the way she
should Co." says the philosopher Of
folly, land the first chance she gets
she Roes.rD-Cleveland Leader,
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11
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CEntered December 5, 1909. Al Willmar
Minnesota, a. second class matter, unde
act OF NJ arch 3, 1879.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
SERMONS IN SHORT METER.

No man can save man without suffering
with men.
1t is hard work growing saints in the
soil of the pit.
No man has a large mission who neglects
the little ministries.
You can measure any mans aspiration
by his perspiration.
Religious forms easily become Baskets in
which faith is buried.
When a man is officially wabbly he il
usually theologically rigid.
Real prayers and real mountains always
put a pick In your mind.
This is a goddess world whenever the
divine is all In the past tense.
Greatness of character rises in willing
ness to make small beginnings.
You will not help the man who is look
ing to you by looking at yourself.
There's nothing a lazy man enjoys bet
ter than designing Busy signs.
The worst fools are those who worship
a God in the hope of fooling Him.
Some men use the beam in their eye 20
pick out the mote in their brothers.
Too many measure their moral sound
ness by the amount of sound they make
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Washington Herald: An Omaha minis
ter was run down recently by one street
car and three automobiles, but escaped
unhurt. Satan probably has no use what
ever for that style of minister.
st. Louis Republic: Though there are
more tha 1900, 600 members of Christian
churches in the United States 1t would be
gratifying IL the ministers and the home
missionaries could give assurance that
there are that many devout Christians
among us.
Washington Star: A prominent English
clergyman is coming to this country In
search of ideas. 1t may occur to the Brit
ish public that it has had enough books
on Americas social system and that it is
about time to send over a few engineers
to get some Information about airships
and other modern inventions.
New York World: New York's loss by
the death of Father Ducey is more that
of a public man than a priest. For a
quarter of a century he made st. Leo's
a forum as well as a church, and his sec
ular influence reached far beyond his par
ish, extending into politics, society and
philanthropy. His was one of the pulpits,
of which New York has had many, which
attracted hearers from other denomina-
tons. A considerable Protestant follow
ing held him in esteem, and the whole
city had reason to acknowledge the sin
certify of his hostility to financial and po-
litical corruption, whether the method
were those of Tweed or of the newer order
of corporation rascality.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

subordinatiOn Of voluntary attention
the reverse Of the true process of
education. Perhaps the deepest mean
ing of education is to secure an en-
ergy which emancipates itself from
haphazard impulses and unassorted
knowledge. This general statement of
both a condition and a theory of edu-
cation is true in principle and appli-
cation. We will agree that we are not
trained as we might be in the steady
concentration of the significant which
marks the best mental work. But the
question arises whether there are not
many aud useful kinds of work which
call for quickness of perception, pre-
cision of stroke and celebrity of action.
Some men would insist that they are
the rarest and highest kinds of work.
The American on his native heath
is likely to show such a mind and the
temperament that goes with it. If he
is sometimes superficial, he sometimes
sees far ahead in situations where he
would be worthless II he could not see
ahead. He can sometimes act with
celebrity when slowness would be disas-
ter. He can often adopt a new way
when the old way would be a dead
loss. We do not need Improvement in
concentrating for prolonged periods
on the essential and significant. But
we must be somewhat unwilling to OBJ
tain consecutive attention at the cost
of alertness.
After all, DR.. Muensterberg may
have only stumbled as he struck the
difference between the executant mind
and the absorbent mind. These two
minds are born in all countries. DR..
Muensterberg must agree that nations
do not train one to be the other, but
do the best at hand, in school and in
life, to develop each.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Canada and Mexico.

Though Canada is closer than Mex
leo to American social and commercial
interests, the southern neighbor has
had a greater charm for American
travellers and students. We read more
about Mexico, but know more about
Canada. Fresh information is now
being stimulated by the elections in
Mexico and by the exchange of visits
between the presidents of the two
northern republics. Though Mexico
has no disposition to be Americanized,
the American curiosity continues to be
alive when anything happens among
the seniors.
Mexico has improved commercially
since the ~rulership, the reign one
could really say Of Diaz, brought and
fixed stable Industrial conditions.
Railroads have multiplied until the
records credit the republic with 25,-
600 miles. Diaz has promoted rail-
roads from a military as much as from
a commercial viewpoint. The main
lines are designed so that any part of
the country may be swiftly covered
with troops. The "well-calculated,
judiciOusly exercised tyranny" of
Diaz has made peace and stimulated
the growth of wealth. An industrial
era tends to perpetuate itself and Mex
leo now holds itself steady almost
without use of the military.
Proud of his own and his country's
reputation. the Mexican likes to have
Libraries, art galleries and learned so.
c%ieties. He likes a government that
spends money for such things. The
leading Mexicans are, like Diaz, not
quite pure Spanish, but have a touch
OF native blood. There is no middle
class. AS one writer says, the people
are divided into those who do manual
work and those who do not. The
former are all gentlemen and the lat.
ter all laborers. ANY occupation
that cannOt be conducted in a frock.
coat and silk hat is beneath the mar
of social position" The lower class
is neither industrious nor educated
Consequently the wealth and export,
still consist chiefly of mineral prod
ucts.
In our conception the progress
OF Mexico is slow. though it is tn,
boast and ambition Of the Diaz regim,
to be wealthy and enlightened. Witt
much effort on both sides the United
States and Mexico have gathered small
profit from the intercourse, while
Canada and the United States withou
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Training Attention.

In spite of it's c~ensorious flavor the
series of inquiries into the American
mind and habits made by DR.. Muen-
sterberg of Harvard continues to be
interesting and instructive. DR..
MueHsterberg oes rot at any point
quite see the real fertility OF the Amer
lean striving. Still, he hits effectively
at some of the things hat we ought to
know.
A passage on concentrated atten-
tiOn particularly deserves careful
reading. He says hat the foreigner
who studies the American character
will always be impressed by the inn
pulse for self-assertion, self-perfection
and self-realization which gives mean
ing and significance to the race. This
I foreigner will at the same time feel
the lack of thoroughness, the super
hciality Of the work. 1t is the exulta-
ton Of involuntary attention and the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
A Superfluous Signature.

Governor Conner Of Alabama has signed
the income tax resolution which passed the
Alabama legislature, with only two votes
against it, and by a unanimous vote in the
senate. This gives Alabama the honor Of
being the first state in line for this great
reform.-The Commoner.
Alabama, unquestionably, has the
honor of being the first state to ratify
the income tax amendment to the con-
stitution submitted by the recent con-
gress, but there is good reason to con-
tend hat the approval Of the resolu-
ton by gubernatorial signature is su-
perfluous. The method of amendment
is prescribed in the constitution, itself,
and nowhere does the constitution i'm
dictate that the executive, either of
state or nation. has any part in the
procedure.
1t is rue that the resolution adopted
by congress submitting the amendment
was signed by the president, and APP
proved by him, and it has likewise
been the practice of many states, both
in ratifying amendments to the federal
constitution and in submitting amend
ments to their own state constitutions,
to send the resolution to the governor
for his action in the same manner as
other legislative measures. In the
matter of presidential signature the
question has never come to a direct
judicial test, but in the matter of the
~gubernatorial signature 1t has been ad-
Indicated in several states, including
our own. Governor DIETRICH a few
years ago undertook to veto a resolu-
ton for a proposed amendment to the
constitution of Nebraska, but our SUI
preme court decided that the gov
ernor's action was entirely without au-
thority, and hat a resolution passing
the legislature by the requisite ma
jorty was all hat was necessary to
submit a constitutional amendment for
popular ratification, irrespective of the
attitude of the governor toward it.
When the president signs a resolu-
ton of congress submitting an amend
adds his signature to the resolution Of
ratification, 40 apparent harm is done
even though the signature Is superfu-
GUS. But should the governor Of a
state try to block ratification by with
holding his signature from a resolu-
ton duly passed by the legislature the
question would be raised, and this sit
uation is by no means excluded from
the probabilities. Because Alabama
is the first state to ratify the pending
amendment, and has done 1t in a par
ticular way, is not conclusive that the
other states must do identically the
same.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
The Point of View.

Nothing could illustrate more strik-
ingly the individual divergence in
point of view than the reception ae-
corded the recent decision Of the
United States circuit court adverse to
the action of the Interstate Commerce
commission moving the railway basing
line for through rates from the Mis-
sissippi to the Missouri river. While
st. Louis and st. Paul are exulting
over it as a victory for the people,
Kansas City is lameDting another sur
render to the railroads. Denver seems
to be more than half pleased as against
Omaha demonstrating and demanding
appeal to the court of last resort. Chi
cago sits ~complacently as if playing to
win on either side, and the farther
east discusses the decision coldly and
dispassionacely as a d-isinterested spec
tator.
AS a local issue the tariff pales into
insignifcance beside the question of
transportation rates. Every city and
town that borders ON the ocean, or is
washed by a navigable river, is frantic
for the improvement of our waterways,
while the land-locked marts in the in
terror are Indifferent, or at least slow,
to respond. The railroads are natu-
rally operated with a view to tra1k3
and railway managers with eyes and
ears alert to the demands of traffic
centers must be pounded to turn
around to the possibilities of a new
source of tonnage. The country has
been growing with marvellous rapidity,
but the inertia of business sticks in
the old grooves and the railroads are
reluctant to admit that conditions have
changed, and that railroad bases must
be readjusted. 1t is all in the point
Of view as between the railroad man
ayers and the shippers, and again as
between one set of shippers in one row
of towns and another set Of shippers
in another row of towns.
But the country is too big to be long
held back by any disposition to cling
to traditions. All these various points
of view will have to be reconciled and
harmonized-voluntarily if possible
by compulsion if must be.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
One Effect of Prosperity.

From the talk about reducing the
effective strength of the army the fact
develops that, irrespective of any de-
liberate order for reduction, the army
is likely to fall short of its nominal
numbers by reason of difficulty in Sc
curing recruits and filling the ranks
depleted by e%xpirations of enlistments.
1t has been the observation of mill
tary officers, and fully borne out by
the records, that recruits for the army
come fairly easy in times Of Industrial
stress, when men are out of work and
discouraged, but suffer, as from a fam
inc, when the country is enveloped in
prosperity and the demand for labor
at good wages is brisk and unsatisfed.
The army does not offer sufficient in
ducement to attract a man who has a
trade at which he can work for Amer
lean wages any time he pleases, and
at the same time enjoy the privileges
of being his boss outside OF work
ing hours. When the prosperity wave
is on 1t takes all the persuasion that
can be brought into requisition, with
promises of bounty. prizes and other
concessions, to get recruits at all, and
at hat recruits outside of ~re-enlist-
ments are of questionable character,
hard 10 hold and contributing largely
to the desertions.
In the nature of. things, then, the
/ arrpnu a. 1iEa1u m no padnaaA nv nrAav
of General Prosperity rather than by
any order of the commander-in-chief
to stop recruiting. Should there be a
call TO arms the patriotism of the cOun-
try would respond as it always has
done. yet not because of the financial
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

much stated effort and great deal
of quarrelsome talk have worked up a
heavy trade and have an assured view
Of a prosperous future in neighborly
exchange. Il is no doubt true that
Toronto owns more American securi-
ties than all Mexico combined could
count.
Still, though Canada's lately opened
coal mines and wheat prairies are Of
more value to us than the metals and
coffee plantations of Mexico, the latter
country has a picturesqueaess, an elo-
quence and a quixotism which give It
a l~ivelier attraction to the outsider.
As Diaz approaches his eighth term
with a sort of melodramatic welcome
to Taft, W. wonder what the future of
the two republics will be.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.

He-You know, Clara, about the diamond
engagement ring l want to give you, dia-
monds have gone up So j.
She-Oh, you dear boyl How sweet of
you to want to make sacrifices to prova
your love!-Baltimore American.
"Bliggins used to say he admired a cling.
ing woman. Did he marry oneP'
Yes. She hangs on to every cent Of his
salary. Washington Star.
Yes said Clarence, II proposed 20 her
on shipboard while the steamer was going
twenty knots an hour"
What was her answer?'
We'll, it was brief, but it was-er-at the
rate of about sixty 'nots' a minute. Chi
cago Tribune.
Mother-How dared you let him kiss
Daughter-I didn't mamma. l told him
that If he kissed me he'd have to do II
without my c~onsent.-Boston Transcript,
Hubby, I haven't had a new dress for
Times are slow with me, my dear. Bet
ter go In for literature and pretend to be
superior to the fashions ."-LOuisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
'It was Charles Reade. wasn't i, who
wrote: Nothing is so terrible as a fool?'"
Yes, but he was wrong, / live next
door to the newly married couple. If Chares
could see them he would at once ADMIT
that two fools are even more terrible
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Judge Person-You mean TO say that
this physical wreck gave you a black eyer
The Lady-Yes, but he wasn't a physical
wreck until he gave me the black eye.-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
whats the matter?"
I'm in the soup
"HOW's that?'
GLADYS says there IS an obstacle to our
marriage"
"Pshaw, that's no reason for saying you
are In the SOUP"
But she says it is insuperabIe. "-HOus-
ton Post,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Airships in War.

Rheims and it's phenomenal exhibit
tions of travel in the air, timed exactly
with Count iZeppelin's spectacular
visit to Berlin, give seriousness to the
thought of what the new art will do
for military science. Two magazine
writers, said to be well informed, pre-
dict that a half dozen a~irships, cost
ing not ~one-quarter of the sum in
vested in n Dreadnought, could
easily destroy any battleships now
afloat. In changing the art of war
from the old form of matching armed
populations to the modern one of
hurting one fighting machine against
another, which is the naval system,
the world has simply reached in a
normal a the airship. War be-
comes a struggle of intellect, and the
controlling factor is progress in the
mechanic arts.
As to battle on land, the prediction
is that war on land must end. No
branch Of the land service can contend
with this new power, which can starve
or annihilate an army of any number,
with slight risk to itself. 1t can in
every conceivable situation select it's
own tactics with a certainty of sue
cess. The yellow peril is removed, be-
cause for the present even Japan can
not muster for the latest
method of fighting. Millions of pop
~ulatiOn and a national gift of personal
bravery are beside the question. Rus
STA, Japan and China, all allied, might
not be a match for Belgium and would
not know how to prepare a campaign.
To reach that stage of military
science may be a task of decades, but
the progress made since the Langley
attempt and since the st. Louis
Worlds fair offered an immense cash
prize in the hope of producing an as
tonishing spectacle, suggests that the
crucial point has been passed and the
perfection of the aerial warship is
only a matter of detail. One thing is
sure, the airship is the absorbing prob
lem OF the world as long as it's capabil-
ity In peace and war is unmeasured
with reasonable certainty.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
IMPORTED and AMERICAN

sibly, Mr.. Hartman took an indigestible
railroad into his system.
The late Rev. Thomas j. Ducey Of 81.
Leo's church, New York, was a rare char
acter, both as priest and man. Rich ia
worldly goods, a fashionable dresser and a
host whose invitations were coveted, his
hardest blows were directed at the ricn,
and most of his own means were given to
the poor. Unique among his deliverances
in press and pulpit was the "Millionaires'
Lords Prayer" which reads: My Father.
who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom has come on earth; Thy will
be done-in heaven; my will be done here.
Give me this day all the income l want.
Give ne my debts in violence against hui
manity, in foreclosures against my debit
ors. Deliver us this day from all the "isms"
that destroy our power to enslave human
ity. Mine is the kingdom and the powers
and Thine be the glory, forever. Amen.''
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
T H TAKE MY HAND.
Author Unknown.

AuliOI OIhHoWIs
I am so tired, Father; all the way
The path has grown more difficult ana
steep;
I grope and stumble as the shadows
creep
Closer about me, and the light Of day
Fades into darkness over all the land;
Quick tears brim my eyes, ! cannot see
Thy face, in tender skies, bent over mes
1 am so helpless, Father, take my hand.
Clinging to Thee 1 will not fear the night,
Though it be long, and though the way
be hard,
With no bright glimpses Of Thy golden
starred,
Fair heavens. Though / see no light,
If / may feel my hand held close In Thine,
Father, / will be brave, and bear the pam
OF this long night of sOrrUvV, TIL again
Shall dawn the morning in this soul OF
mine.
Yea, even though the weary night shall
last
THROUGH all my earthly years, yet will l
keep
My hand In Thine, nor murmur, Lord nor
weep,
II Thou wilt IN the darkness hold me fast.
Until my tourney through the ShadOW iand
is over. and / shall behold the light
OF that fair city where there Is no night,
And enter IN re sin holding Thy dear and.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Ice forms every night in the region where
Walter Wellman
An unfeeling Judge rules that Jack Binns
has outlived his wireless fame and may be
pulled off as a moving picture without Civ
ing him a mortgage on the nickelodean till.
That modern magazines fill a sphere of
more or less usefulness is to be inferred
from a thrilling article in a current number
on "The Wisdom OF Travelling with the Cy-
clone"
Historic Mole St. Nicholas. famed as a
foundry Of war stories eleven years ago,
has broken loose again. A cyclone per-
formed an extensive surgical operation on
the mole.
The genius who will devise a means Of
canning the present surplus of hot air and
distributing the product at suitable times.
next winter will find a place at the head
of the captains of industry class-also a
fortune.
Governor Frank w. Benson OF Oregon is
not especially fond OF his office as chief
executive, and will not be a candidate for
denomination. He desires to return to the
office Of secretary of state, which he filled
prior to his elevation to the gubernatorial
chair to succeed Governor Chamberlain,
who was elected to the United States
senate.
When President Taft becomes the guest
Of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Sep
ember IA, 1t is expected that about 1900
persons Will dine with him, and that 100
persons will be given seats in the bal
cony Of Mechanics hall. The occasion will
celebrate the consolidation Of the Mer-
chants association, the Chamber Of Com
merce and the Associated Board OF Trade,
In the long roll of humane, sympathetic
photographers whose outgivings shed luster
on the American press, only one has been
found so unfeeling as to suggest that, pos