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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-12-31

German Lutheran-One nile north of Albee-
preaching every Sunday 10 a. IN. Rev. Nitschke
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

A legal representative of the Mil
waukee railroad having intimated
to the Minneapolis common council
that if the city insisted on the Mil
waukee abolishing certain grade
crossings in Minneapolis the road
would proceed to run its through
trains by way of Hastings, the men,
bers of the council have announced
that the bluff will not work. Some
of those Milwaukee crossings at
Minneapolis should have been aboI-
ished long ago and many smaller
cities would not be so indulgent
with the railroad companies as Min
neapolis has been, at the cost Of a
number of lives, one of the victims
having been former resident of
this city.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

Good farms in the Mohawk val
ley in New York state forty years
ago were worth from 500 to $3.50
per acre; now many are sold at
from S25 to $50.
"What we must come to-and the
signs of the times indicate that we
cannot make head in that direction
too rapidly-is the smaller farm,
with more intensive agriculture.
We support, in round numbers,
ninety millions of people on three
million square miles of land. We
should be able to support $50 per
square mile as easily as 80; and then
we> should have but a fraction of
the density Of population of Den
mark, with 167 inhabitants per
square mile, Holland with 44S, or
our own state of Rhode Island 407
in 1900. But the education of a
whole people in right methods of
tillage is stupendous task. 1t took
England nearly fifty years to do
this, with powerful agencies at COM
mand and with a control over her
farmers through leasehold condi-
lions that no one in this country
possesses. She has raised her aver
age wheat yield from II and Is to
upwards of 80 bushels per acre. If
it should take US fifty years, we
would by that time probobly have
doubled our population also, and
barley kept pace with our necessi-
ties. But we. have not yet accom-
plished the mere preliminaries of
such process.
"You can intelligently advise
father whether it is to the boys
interest to leave a farming COM
munity where the chances are that
in five or ten years he can own
farm and be worth $4,000 to $780,
900 by intelligently farming the
land, or whether he should go to
the great cities and become the
future motorman or streetcar con-
ductor.
"Our real concern is not so much
to sage the home market from the
lnroads of the foreigner as to keep
it from destruction by an enlarged
city life, a crowded artisan popula-
ton clamoring for food and a for
eign demand for the product of
their wages limited to fields where
the competition of all the world
must be met and overcome"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

President Taft has the saving
grace of a hearty appreciation OF
humor, as shown by his recent let
ter to the national convention OF
American humorists, in which he
said that "Humor is like the buffer
between two heavy railroad cars.
1t relieves the jolts in life. 1t is a
shock absorber. 1t makes the jour-
ney through the years easier and
brightens the pathway all along the
route. We Americans could not
get along without humor." The
Taft smile is evidently no affecta-
ton, but the outward sign of an
inward condition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

When Governor Johnson went on
the operating table at Rochester
last Wednesday, considerations of
politics were all forgotten by the
people of Minnesota, who were as
one in their hope that the governor
would ultimately emerge from the
ordeal a strong man, which he has
not been for many months. The
surgeons who witnessed the opera
ton say that he will undoubtedly
be much healthier man if all goes
well, but at this writing say that
the governors physical condition
was very serious indeed, and it is
probable that any further postpone
ment of the operation would have
meant the early death of the dis
tinguished subject.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

Queer thing, this tariff business.
Bob Dunn having called attention
in the Princeton Union to the fact
that the farmers are protected"
by a tariff of 25 cents a bushel on
potatoes, the Pioneer Press tariff
expert hunts up the market price at
Princeton on given date and finds
it was 80 to 40 cents per bushel,
and also finds that the price was 40
to As cents on the same date at
Winnipeg and "a to 60 cents in To-
ronto, neither of which cities enjoy
the blessings of that Is cent protec-
ton. Guess it is no josh about the
tariff being local issue.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

Some one has been investigating
the ages of the veterans of the civil
war at the time of their enlistment,
and finds that over a million in the
union army enlisted at Is years or
younger, and that the backbone of
the army of that period was under
q years at the time of enlistment.
The statement seems surprising; but
the muster rolls of the war depart
ment are said to show that it is
true. 1t suggests. among other
things, that community cannot be
too particular about the influences
which surround the young men who
are the real power in shaping the
destinies of the country as we'll as
in fighting it's battles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22
WHO WANTS 1T?
W. c. T. U.
Marvellous Results After Century of He
r0iC Agitation.

One hundred years ago alcoholic
liquor was the universal beverage
OF the people of America. With its
menace to the physical, mental and
moral nature of mankind almost
wholly unknown by the great mass
OF the people. it was the common
drink of statesmen, elector, priest.
educator, merchant and wage earn
err. Drunkenness and the inevitable
degradation which follows the drink
habit was widespread and any one
would have been reckoned insane
who would then have prophesied
that the time would come when in
toxicating drinks woald be tabooed
alike by business, church, society
and science, and the abolition of the
trade in liquor achieved in vast sec
tons of the land. But this once
inconcelvable prophecy has become
realized common place in the
United States.
To-day there are nine whole states
which have outlaWed the liquor traf-
fc from their respective borders,
with a total population of 16, 301 900,
and a total area of ATT, 459 square
miles, the last six states of which
have been added within the last
three years. In addition to these
nine Prohibition states, there are to-
day 375 cities under prohibitory law
with a population ranging from
5, 900 up to $4,000 each, while two
thirds of all the rural or country
districts of the remaining states
have excluded the saloon under To-
cal prohibition privilege.
State Prohibition is believed to be
certain within the next five years
in the fourteen states of Texas,
Florida, South Carolina,
Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Nebras-
ka Oregon, Indiana, West Virginia,
Vermont, New Hampshire and Vir-
ginia, while increasing agitation is
on in the rest.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22
BY JAMES AIKEN

An exchange argues at some
length that men of wealth are not
doing their whole duty to the COM
munity where they have made their
money by simply paying their taxes,
and few of them are even willing
to do that. 1t concludes with the
statement that it is not an act of
charity, but the performance of a
simple duty for the man who has
made money to pass little of it on
for the benefit of the community,
even though he never expects to see
a dollar of his contribution back.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

1t is gratifying to learn that the
state fair this year had the largest
attendance in it's history and would
have been 100000 ahead had not
the cost of the new grand stand
exceeded the state appropriation by
$75, 900. Perhaps it is only a coin
cidence that the twoabest years in
point of attendance that the state
fair has had, last year and this, have
also been distinguished by the man.
agement advertising in all of the
principal weeklies of the state in
stead of pouring the bulk of their
advertising appropriation into the
laps of the city publishers, as had
been done in former years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22
The Long Bow man of the Min

The Long Bow man of the Min.
neapolis Journal protests against
recent article in Jewish paper,
which insists that a correct inter-
probation of the story of the crea-
ton in Genesis would substitute the
lunar month for what is given as
years in the authorized version.
The Journal critic thinks that 1.-The
attempt to tamper with Methuse-
labs well-worn record of 969 years
comes with i'll grace from savants
of his own nationality. The claim
lis made that in those times the word
"year" was often used in the place
of month";" so that Methuselah'
did not in fact get much beyond
eighty Of our years before his
estate was forced to pay tribute to
the undertakers' combine. This
robs the story of Methuselah's life
of all that romantic interest with
which we have all invested it. Think
of living till all the trees fell down
and all the skyscrapers were con-
demned by the building Inspector.
Think of the pleasure of seeing the
99-year leases run out, leaving the
buildings on Methuselah's property.
But all this is changed if Methuselah
had only a miserable eighty-year
lease of life. Anybody can run by
that record with a little attention
diet and exercise"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

The removal of three county com.
missioners in Beltrami county last
week by Gov. Johnson, is an in
stance of the accountability of these
public officials Of interest to every
taxpayer. The commissioners were
not removed for any overt act COM
mitted but for negligence in that
they had permitted obligations to
be incurred against the county which
required the levying of a higher
rate of taxes than permitted by law
and had failed to examine the books
of the county auditor and county
treasurer as required by law. Com
plant having been made to the
public examiner. Deputy Examiner
Kahn went through the records and
called the attention Of the grand
jury to the conditions and that bodv
indicted three commissioners and
the county auditor. The latter Off
cial was found to be less blame.
worthy than the commissioners and
so far has not yet been removed
from office. The case will have
tendency to remind county COM
missioners that they cannot shirk
their responsibility for excessive
taxation, and on the other hand.
will suggest to the average tax
payer that county commissioners are
restricted by law from being too
liberal in granting al that is asked
of them in the way of appropria-
tons for roads, bridges, etc.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

The venerable Cardinal Gibbons is
sceptical about suppressing intern
perance by legislation, and says that
reform must come from within and
not from without. But prohibition
lists will probably agree with the
cardinal when he concludes with the
statement that there is no vice like
that of intemperance and no vice
that is followed by such dire results.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

Secretary Wilson still clings to the
idea that denatured alcohol will be
the fuel of the future, in spite of
the failure of the movement in that
direction a few years ago. He is
advocating the growth of a Russian
variety of the tuber which will yield
at the rate of 400 bushels per acre
and produce alcohol at the rate of a
gallon for every bushel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

Editor Eggensperger OF the Han
ska Herald was brought before the
probate judge Of Brown county last
week, and after examination. adj
judged insane and taken to St.
Peter. We hope the examiners were
not prejudiced by the fact that the
unfortunate man had been trying
to make a living by publishing a
paper in town like Hanska.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22
Two of Gov. JOhnsOn's Stories.

The Youths Companion for Sept
9th contains an article from the per
of Gov. j. A. Johnson on 1.-THE
Country Editor" written in Johr
AS lucid style. In his article he
works in the following jokes:
THE country printing office is
prolific of ludicrous situations, and
many laugh has been provoked at
the expense of the editor or re-
porter uncertain of his facts. Some
fifteen years ago newcomer from
Iowa started Democratic paper in
little town in Southern Minnesota.
A campaign was in progress, and a
one-legged man, habitually attired
in blue suit, was the candidate for
register of deeds. 1t was easy to
think of him as a veteran of the
civil war, and the local paper of
which | speak published vigorous
eulogy of the old soldier, urging
the election of the deserving vet
eran who left limb on southern
battlefield"
THE chagrin of the editor may
be imagined when his Republican
contemporary came out the next
week with the statement that the
candidate had never been soldier,
and that his leg was taken off by
cider-press in Pennsylvania ten
years after the war had closed.
1.-The story is told that soon after
Chief Justice Chase assumed the
gubernatorial chair in Ohio he is
sued his proclamation appointing a
Thanksgiving day. To make sure
of being orthodox, the governor
composed his proclamation almost
entirely of passages from the Bible,
which he did not designate as quo
tations, assuming that every one
would recognize and admire the fit
ness of the words, as we'll as his
taste in selection.
1.-The proclamation meeting the
eye of a Democratic editor, he
pounced upon it at once, and de-
clared that he had read it before.
He could not say exactly where, but
he would take his oath that it was
a downright plagiarism from begin
ming to end. That would have been
a pretty fair joke, but the next day
a Republican editor came out vail
antly in defense of the governor,
pronounced the charge libelous, and
challenged any man living to pro-
luce one single line of the procla-
nation that had app cared in print
before"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22
]. J. Hill to the Bankers.

Speechessare apt to be dry read
ing and the average newspaper read
er learns to skip them. j. j. Hills
talk before the national banker
convention was a plea to them to
use their influence in urging farmers
to better their methods and encour-
age their boys to stay on the farms.
Here are "a few extracts from the
speech which are calculated to make
people think, at least:
1.-The public is now to some extent
awake to the relative value of the
different occupations as sources Of
wealth. The farm is our main reli-
ance. Every other activity depends
upon that The farms of this coun-
try are now adding annually over
eight billion dollars to our assets;
total which, unlike that of manufac-
turing and other industries, repre-
sents not value conferred by human
labor upon some material already
existing, but value actually created
out of elemental things. This is the
annual miracle of the earth; quite
as wonderful as if a new planet
should appear in space each twelve
month. 1t is the mother of every
form of human industry. Our till
able area may be made to support
millions of people greatly multiplied
after the last bit of mineral has been
extracted from the earth. and mans
ingenuity in fashioning tools and
fabrics has passed its limit.
Last year the value of our total
exports classified as foodstuffs, eth
er crude or partly or wholly manu-
featured, and food animals, amount
ed to $438, 100000. We imported of
the same classifications nearly $780,
100000. The idea that we feed the
world is being corrected; and unless
we can increase the agricultural
population and their product, the
question of a source of food supply
at home will soon supersede the
question of a market for our own
products abroad.
Every one of the great nations
of antiquity guided it's foreign rela-
lions and directed it's invasions and
conquests with view to obtaining
an adequate food supply. That was
the value of Egypt to the Roman
empire: That determined her polio
les in the east. Spain in her great
ness secured the world for the food
which her own soil had ceased to
yield. With the decline of agricul-
ture every one of these nations lost
its leadership and either disappeared
or remains mere name.
The consumers of bread through
out the world increase by probably
four to five millions every year. In
our own country we shall require
from 100000 to 100000 bu-
shells more each recurring year
for seed and home consumption.
The domestic supply cannot be main
tanned by present methods. Not
only is the cultivation of the soil be-
ing neglected but it is also notorious
y Ineffective. Our wheat product
per acre from the older lands falls {
steadily. Our national average is (
ess than half that of England or
Germany, both of which have soil in
erior to our own. Only by bring
ng rich new land under cultivation
AVE we prevented the fall from be-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-22

Tonight! tonight! tonight! New!
New! New! What? Why the pro-
gram at the Redw God Dream.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
GREENvILLE MAYOR
IMPOSES HEAVY FINES

Greenville, June Especial. 1.-TWO
cases of violation of the prohibition
law were tried before Mayor C. E.
Hamilton this morning.
One, ]. G. Campbell, a white. man,
was charged with selling whiskey. and
there were three cases against him.
He was convicted in all of them and
In the first was fined 500. in the Sec
ond, 500 and sixty days in the third.
500 and sixty days.
The other case was against a negro
by the name OF Cone. His case was
postponed until next Tuesday.
Campbell has appealed his case to
the Circuit Court.
Whenever there fs a violation of the
prohibitory statutes in this county and
the evidence is suflcient there Is al
ways a conviction. whether the jury
are men who voted against the law
or not.
The rains during the past ten days
have done much damage, not only to
the crops in the bottom land but were
very destructive to the oat crop Many
farmers have lost as much as half of
their crop after they were cut They
never had sufficient dry weather to cure
them.
In some parts Of the county there
was considerable hail and 1t hurt the
young corn and cotton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
ROBERTs-PURCELL.
Georgia Man WEEDS Prominent Girl of
Alabama.


Alabama.
Columbia. June 5.-(special.l--This
morning in the Presbyterian Church,
this city, by the Rev. e. M. Craig, of
Dothan. Miss Frances Blanche Purcell
was married to DR.. Charles Wesley
Roberts. of Douglas, Ca.
Promptly at $3.50 o'clock the famil-
lar notes of Mendelssohn's march were
sounded, the organ being played by
Miss Florrie Purcell, accompanied with
violin played by Mrs. Abernathy.
The officiating minister entered from
the pastors study and took his stand
before pyramid of flowers and palms
and almost under a lovely evergreen
arch on which was inscribed with
beautiful white flowers Good Luck"
The ushers. Messrs Sam Dunwoody.
John Craps, Robert Purcell and
Thurman Afford entered in pairs down
the center aisle followed by Miss
Charlie Purcell. the maid of honor, and
sister of the bride, attired in a beau
tiful suit of delicate green carrying
white carnations.
The groom and his best man, Mr
Archie Roberts, entered from the pas
tors study and met the bride at the
altar leaning on the arm of her father.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.. Ham
ilton G. Purcell. a prominent citizen
of charming personality and many
beautiful graces. She wore q beauti-
full tailor made suit of delicate green
and cvarried white and pink carna-
tions
DIR. Roberts is a prominent young
physician of Douglas, Ga, and Is tho
representative of his association to the
American Medical Association to con-
vene in Atlantic City. N. j.. next week.
The bridal party left for Atlanta
and the North and will visit New
York, Niagara Falls. Atlantic City and
other cities. returning by steamer to
Savannah and about July 1 will be
at home in Douglas, Ga.
Among the out of town guests were
Mr.. Archie Roberts, of Douglas; Mrs.
r. P. Williams, of Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. Eugene Murphree, of Troy; Mrs
r. l.. wilbur and Mrs. A. s. de
Vlanning, of North Carolina.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
CARTER IS ENDORSED
CAPTAIN HOBSON CALLS ON PREsI-
DENT TAFT.
The Alabama COngressman Puts In n
Good Word for the Birmingham
POstmaster-Als0 Makes
Other RecOmmen Nations.

Washington. June Especial. y
Representative Richmond Pearson Hob
son of Alabama. called at the White
House this morning and put in good
word with the President for Postmas-
ter Carter of Birmingham, who is
strongly endorsed for re-appolntment
by Representative Underwood and
prominent business men.
The President did not indicate what
action he would take. At Greensboro
Captain Hobson wants retained in Of
fee Major l.. w. Lawson and 1t is
said that this will likely be done. Cap
tan Hobson also recommended to the
President the appointment of oliver
Rutherford of Utah, Ala. as Census Su-
pervisor in his Congressional district.
The President said he was not ready
to take up any census matters at this
time as he is hopeful that Congress will
pass the census bill at this session. If
it does not do So the President will
direct the new director of the census
to go ahead with the work and the
matter of appointments will then be
considered. Alfred ]. Stofer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
Ca.aIas IL Norraea.

Mobile, June Especial. )--Sherfff
Frank Cazalas this morning received
ofhcial notice of the finding of the Su-
preme Court removing him from ONCE,
and he turned over the office to Cor
oner Hirshfeld. who assumed charge
until successor IL named to I'LL the
unexpired term.
The order from the State recites the
finding Of the court and demands Of the
Sheriff that he turn over his ONCE to
the Coroner. The oreer also recites
that the costs of the trial devolve upon
the defendant and proceedings will be
instituted for their collection.
Coroner Hirshfieid swore in all of
the deputies Of Cazalas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
EXPENSES NOT WANTED.

Washington, June 5.-President Taft
today sent for Representative Tawney
Chairman of the House Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS and Representative
Cushman, of Washington. and told them
he did not wish to have an appropria'
ton made for his travelling expenses
under the impression that he would
make a trip to Alaska.
The President said Mrs. Tafts health
was such that she probably would not
be able to make the trip with him I'M
I'll after navigation had closed In Alas
kan waters. The President said thai
he did not think Mrs Taft's illness
would interfere with his trip to the
Seattle exposition, although he could
not even determine that at this time.