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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

k@ most pedantiC StrictneSs OF ON
k4639AI good Prussians. We Americans
SSXSJ have a native dislike of law in
the form of an notwithstanding police
club. And still, when you come over from
Antwerp to clean, beautiful and modern
Dusseldorf and your eyes wander about the
lovely square in front of the railway sta
ton, you feel some of the benefits of Ger
man, rather of Prussian severity.
Beautiful cities. such as Dusseldorf, will
hardly be had where the citizens do as
they like. as we really do in Ne York or
Chicago. There is a certain civic house
keeping Of the highest order in Germany
that we Americans are unable at present
to attain to. We love to do as we please,
Therefore our squares, b~oulevards, parks
and streets cannot look as splendid as
they do in the orderly German cities Of
the Dusseldorf type. With all its marvel
Gus cleanliness, Dusseldorf presents what
! might call a modern romantic German
spirit. The poetry Of the place still lin
gers. France may be artistic, but Ger
many is romantic.
From Dusseldorf an interesting little ex-
cursion was made down to Kaiserswerth
where the great Protestant Deaconess in
s~titution of world-fame is located. went
there principally to visit the institution
named, but also 10 see the ruins Of Charlie
magne's castle, built in 500, The old castle
lies on the Rhine, of course! Much his
tory attaches to this spot. ~Barbarossa
dwelt here. Heinrich ", who suffered
such cruel indignities at Canossa at the
hands OF a pontiff, was as a little boy
here stolen from his mother by the arch
bishop of Cologne, a fierce, but astute
man, and was brought up under that pref.
ate's severe charge, the mother in grief
having dOnned the veil. But the bishop
Of Bremen outwitted his brother prelate
and stole the boy-ruler from him, not to
the young rulers good, for the kindly in
diligence proved to be the ruin OF those
principles Of firmnes and character the
bishop Of Cologne had sought TO instill.
To Us Americans, I'm a land without these
antique memories and historical associa-
tions from thousands Of years, the feeling
that rushes In on US as we wander among
old castles and old churches is Overwhelm-
ing. History, once an irksome school les
son, begins to live and move and have a
meaning.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

As we went on to Passau, on the Dan
ube, a mail clerk on the railroad stepped
into our compartment. When we arrived
In Passau about meal time the kind young
man asked himself to lunch in our com
pany In his easy Bavarian manner and at
his own cost, Of course. The hours he was
at liberty, before going Oh duty, he gave
70 US, showing us all about beautiful
Passau, on the glorious Danube. When |
then Invited him to afternoon coffee In an
old-time inn and -emphatically told him he
was my guest, for coin and for company,
he seemed almost surprised Such things
strike US prosaic Americans as extraor-
dihary and, it must be confessed, as very
pretty examples Of kindness that we do
well to nurture more than we do.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22

The Rhine is the greatest water-highway
Of European history. II you simply love
beautiful scenery, a passage from Cologne,
the city Of the mighty Gothic cathedral, 10
Mainz remains a memory Of indescribable
loneliness. Is the Rhine more beautiful
than our broad, sunny Mississippi? Does
IL equal our grand. majestic Hudson and
can II at all compare with the tremendous
glories OF the Columbia from The Dalles
to beautiful Portland? I was actually a lit
tie nervous As " the outcome Of my com
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
OCEAN STEAMERS.
CLARk'S CRUISES
OF THE CLEVELAND"
(Hamburg-AmeTican Line)
~ 1900 tons, brand new,
Hupsrbly fitted.
NOUN d The WORLD

II ON New York October 10, 1908; from
San Fancisco Feb. s.. 1910. nearly four
months, costing only 1850 n UP. In.
Guiding all expenses afloat and ashore.
PEATUREBG-MAdeira, Egypt
In1ia, csglon. Burma, Java, BoFneo. Phil
tppineH Japan. An unusual chance "
visit unusually attractive places.
18th Annual Orient CFuEEs, Eeb. 8, IOs
by North German LiUyd $ y. "GrOsser
Kurfuerst, 20 days, including - days
Egypt and Palestine. $500 Up.
FRANE Q. CLARK. TINES BLDG, n. \.
W. Z. Book, l5a4 RarnRm st. Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-22
V

U S S e d o r +. Sometimes the
American traveller in Germany
murmers within him at the al
most pedantic strictness of Our
good Prussians. We Americans
have a native dislike of law in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
WHAT KIND OF ROADS.

The cost per mile of the roads to
be constructed under the state appro-
priation of $5,OOO,OOO is now the most
important question before the good
roads commission of Maryland.
The problem is whether to build
many miles of cheap roads or fewer
miles of expensive roads. As the com.
mission is anxious to build good roads,
and as many miles as possible, the
question promises to be a knotty one.
The members of the commission have
discussed the question informally, and
as yet there does not seem to be any
decided opinion one way or the other.
The commissioners say they also are
studying the suggestions made to them
on this point by interested citizens in
different parts of the state.
There are three kinds of construc-
ton which the commission might adopt
on the general run of the roads. In
special instances the situation will
make certain choice impera tive, but
this is thought to be only a slight per.
centage of the construction work.
The model road will cost from ST.
900 to $4,000 mile and require 500
to $500 a mile annually to maintain.
This kind of road is constructed ac-
cording to the latest methods and of
the best materials, and is supposed to
outlive its builders several times over.
The cheap roads, which are believed
by some residents of the counties to be
serviceable, can be constructed at a
cost of from $500 to $4,000 a mile
and require an annual expenditure of
from S35 to $50 mile annually. The
material for this road depends upon
the locality, and if good stone is near
by 1T can be used at low cost. Drain
age and cuts and other engineering
work are restricted by the low expen-
diture.
The third kind of road is the me-
dlum between the two. This will cost
about $4,000 or $1,000 mile and re-
qulre $50 and 500 each year to main
tain. 1t is estimated by those in favor
OF this kind of road that all of the
necessary engineering can be done with
in this figure.
On turnpikes which have been pur-
chased by the commission it is esti-
mated that a comparatively less
amount will have to be expended. MANY
OF these roads being in good condition
at present and needing only a topdress.
ing and proper drainage and grading.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
leads TO the belief, that be will come
aesrsy, lltbt, kind b1 actiqn he
dtara hhan may seem probable in ths'
light of Mr. Aldrichs present course.
JURORS For THE JUNE TERM
They Will Serve the District Court;
Grand and Petit.
light of N

The following Jurors were yesterday
chosen to serve at the June term of
the district court:
Grand Jury-A. NJ. Brush, Shelby
Ed. Cousandier, Mankato; William
Mead, Sterling; Frank f. Goodrich, Me
do; H. H. Leavitt, Garden City; IL. A.
Alleman Mankato; James OConnor,
Beaufort; A. c. Barney, Mankato;
Gcttfried Kruse, Mankato; A. c. Oct
laff, Mankato; George E. Brett, Man
kato; Alba Lewis, Mankato; Eiklns
Willard, Mankato; Andrew Flo, Man
kato; Edward Jones, Cambria; A. L.
Cummins, Eagle Lake; Ralph Healy
Beaufort; A. L. Veigel, Mankato town
ship; Fred Habeck, Danville; John
Bestman, McPherson; Adolph Lille
Mankato; c. H. Peterson, Garden City
P. McAllen, Rapidan. a4s
Petit Jury-Robert Duffield, Garden
City; T. c. Peart, Mankato; George Fl
Barnard, Good Thunder; William f
Peters, Rapidan; Ericlz Shaw, Butter
nut Valley; John r. Owens. Butternut
Valley; George Buckholtz, Medic; Pau
Detlaff, Mankato; Charles O'Connor
Mcpherson: r. 7. Jones, MankatO; JOIN
Shea, st. Clair; c. j. Schwarz, Pleasant
Mound; Carl A. Gustafson, Mankato
Carl T. Harbo, Cambria; Philip Duff
| Beauford Peter Kinzie, Mankato
John Peterson, Lincoln; John Brysvold
Sterling; Ransom Barr, South Bend
Charles n. Fuller, Lime; Fred NJ
Schwartz, Amboy; Edward Schumacher
Mankato; John Hall, LeRay; n. p. Al
ward, Vernon Center; Herman Haase
Mankato; Hugh Edwards, Lake Crys
tai; Dave Walters, Lake Crystal
Charles Woodhall, Ceresco; George d
Strong, Amboy; J. A. Morris, Sterling
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
"ThE OLD MANS DAY"

The Baltimore Sun believes the time
has come when the 'old man. who has
shaved from young manhood to the lean
and slippered pantaloon stage, ought to
be awarded his due need of raise. He
has effaced himself too long, doing his
duty as matter of course and spurn-
ing commentator therefor. 1t is time
to force him into the limelight and ex-
hibit him iii all his excellence We do
not think there ought to be fathers
day. any more than a mothers day
But we feel deep down in our hearts
that mother and the children ought
to try to be good to the 'sold man.
every day in the year. He spends his
life in their service The least return
they can make is to recognize that
father, with all his frailties and limi.
tations, is useful factor in civiliza
ton and in the domestic economy. We
revere the mothers of the nation. We
insist that the virtues of the fathers
shall receive due recognition. They
may eat onions, they may wear plain
clothes, they may not know that more
than one fork is desirable for dim
ner course, but they are the salt of the
earth. We lift our voices in behalf
OF this downtrodden creature.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
CATALOGUE HOUSES TO GET BUSY.

The New Richmond Republican says
it is not given to throwing unnecessary
scares, but it becomes our bounden
duty to spread the note of warning
sounded at the lumbermen's convention
in Minneapolis by w. II. Darling of
Oklahoma. And that is that one of
the big mail order houses, in Chicago
has in training in a school of sales
manship fourteen hundred bright young
men, who are to be turned loose on
the country, principally In the rural
districts, early i'll May, and they are
going out after business, hammer and
tongs.
They are prepared to do business,
and this is their proposition. They
are to be guaranteed their expenses,
but their salary will be in the form
of commission and it will depend
solely upon the amount of their sales.
They will go out with wagons and will
visit every town and hamlet and will
be filled to the brim with arguments
for the farmer; they will be prepared
to organize and visit debating soce-
ties, Sunday school classes, sewing cir
cles and quilting bees, which shall be
instructed in the ul-saving benef-
cence of the great catalogue house and
its catalogue.
Commenting on the. proposition, The
Prescott Tribune had this to say:
IF this be SO, it is time the local
merchants were up and doing to COM
bat the move. And the only way to
do so is not to sit around the stove
and rail at catalogue houses and their
dupes, but to meet the enemy with
their own weapons. Advertise! Ed
ucate the, farmers Ito the fact that
their vital interest lies in the pros.
perity of the rural towns. The pres
ent year may be the crisis of the fight
and the future of the country towns
and the surrounding rural districts de-
ponds on the retailers wide awakeness
and ability to get their wares to the
rural consumers notice"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
HAPPY AND SENSIBLE SUGGESTION.


Mel Nelson, the florist, made q
happy and sensible suggestion to the
Civic Improvement league Monday
everying when he advocated plan
for the permanent Identification OF
Slbley park. Granted that Nature has
performed wonderful service for the
park, there is yet opportunity for the
mind and hand of man to do the
work that will add to it's beauty.
Mr.. Nelson has had great deal
OF experience in landscape gardening
and he has prepared plan for the
Identification of the park which should
be adopted by either the council or a
park commission. The latter could be
appointed by the mayor wit hthe sane
ton OF the aldermen. There is one
thing apparent, no great amount of
money should be expended on that
park until some definite plan of beau
LITIGATION is decided upon. There has
been enough money wasted there in
haphazard work.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
PLEASED WITH THE EXPERIMENT.

The Houston Post says: Houston
begins another term of commission
government with the most tiattering
prospects for even greater municipal
victories than have been won in the
past, and when it's record is made up
two wears hence we believe the system
will be so firmly established in the re-
spect and confidence of the people that
the future will be absolutely secure.
Thus while Houston's enterprising
citizens are engrossed with building
great houses, expanding and extend
ing their trade and carrying forward
the Greater Houston movement, a
common sense honest, economical NUM-
cipal board will be carrying on the
public work SO as to symmetrize the
city's upbuilding.s
1t is always Il pleasure to call pub
lie attention to Houston's remarkable
progress under the commission form of
government. Not, indeed, to crafty
a desire to boast, but to impress upon
other municipalities throughout the
country that the municipal problems
which vex them may be greatly sim
plifed by following Houston's example.
The plan in a nutshell is: The aboli-
ton of ward politics and through a
system of power united with response
bility the securing of dollars worth
of labor or material for every dollar
expended
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
PAPA RAISED AN OBJECTION.

= There is weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth among the students
of the Eau Claire high school. The
Junior ''prom"-as it is called in high
society-will not take place in June
of this year. Papa has placed his
seal of disapproval on this particular
social function-because why? The
drain upon papa's pocketbook was be-
coming so intense that he could not
stand for another pull-or, as the boys
would say, the touch" The line must
be drawn sooner or later-and the
sooner the better-for dads" purse,
1t is said i'll Eau Claire that during
the past two years considerable trouble
has been aroused over the fact that
the junior classes generally went IN
the hole" as a result of the party, and
there was trouble in settling up the
bills, this condition of affairs result
inc from doing things on too large and
extensive a scale. When the present
Junior class began making preparations
for the annual prom some of the
parents of the members objected to the
school board, and the school board, to
settle the matter, had the question
submitted to the parents of all the
class members, and when a large ma
iority voted against the ball the board
forbid the class holding the prom.
Those Eau Claire parents acted
wisely. They are entitled to a long
credit mark for putting stop to a
niece of extravaganza. Their example
should be followed by parents of high
school students in other cities, and
with the cooperation of boards of edu-
cation put quietus on Junior ''proms,'
and like costly and expensive society
affairs which are a heavy expense to
MANY fathers and mothers.
The Free Press is pleased to say tnat
the Mankato high school faculty has
used its influence to keep the junior
event within reasonable expense
bounds This year the class has a
fund which was obtained through an
entertainment that will meet all bills
incurred in the giving of their func-
ton. Economy should be the watch
ward of students in schools and col
leges. Education is costly III any
event.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
MEMORY OF JAMES MONROE.

James Monroe an American states.
man and fifth president of the United
States, was born April %, 1853, in
Westmoreland county, Virginia. He en-
joyed the advantage of classical
school and later he went to William
and Mary College, which he left after
two years study to join the Cont.
mental army. He was commissioned
lieutenant, and was active in the
Hudson river affairs. He was wound
ed in the battle of Trenton, where he
distinguished himself by capturing a
British battery with small de.
tachment. He accepted an appoint
ment as aide de-camp to Lord Stir.
ling, ranking as major. He fought at
the battles of Brandywine, German.
town and Monmouth, and before the
close of the war he returned to Vir-
GINA to study law under Thomas JEFF
ferson, then governor of the state
When the British invaded Virginia he
organized the state militia and was
appointed military commissioner of the
state. AT the age OF JWenty-Chre
years, he was appointed to the Vir
GINA assembly. by the executive coun
ell, and in 1888 was elected mem
Der of the Continental congress, where
he remained for three years.
He took an active part in the
movement for framing sai new con
stitution. ~ He joined with PatricI
Henry and Aother states rights men il
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
WAS TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL.
Fred Deef the Victim of Nervous Dis
order Last Night.

From MONDAYS Dafv
Fred Deef, while conversing with his
daughter last night at l:3O O'Clock at
their home at ll9 South Fifth street,
was taken suddenly ill. The young lady
had just concluded writing a letter for
her father when she observed that he
was sick. She fastened to neighbors
and telephoned for doctor. The young
lady was quite frightened as she believed
her father was dying. The attending
physician stated today that Mr.. Deef's
illness was due to nervous disorder
He has not been in good health for some
time.
Deef conducts farm in Decoria
but of late has been living i'll the city
doing carpenter work. Rumors that
Deef took poison with suicidal intent
do not seem to be borne out by The
facts. Some little excitement wa;
caused in the neighborhood, however.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
- 81 FE 10y = So IS AZ ft
/ opposing the ratification He. feared

1 & 81 l
opposing the ratification He. feared
the power and. encroachmentsi OF the
federal government. He was after
wards sent by Washington as minis
ter to France, where he was received
with singular enthusiasm by the Rev
dictionary government. He was, how
ever, soon recalled for having too de-
cided French sympathies.
On his return in 1873 he was elected
governor of Virginia, and IN lSO3
he was sent as envoy extraordinary by
Jefferson to negotiate the Louisiana
purchase, which vast territory he Sc
cured for $l5,OO0,000 He was minis
ter to Great Britain i'll lSO3-S, where
he negotiated treaty that proved SO
unacceptable to the United States that
he was for time extremely unpopu-
lar. He returned to Virginia, but was
again elected governor in 1911, and
the same year was appointed secretary
of state by President Madison, com
bining in his duties also the func-
tions of secretary of war. In 1916 his
eminent services We're rewarded by
election to the presidency by the de-
mocratic party, and he made himself
very popular The acquisition of 'Flori-
da from Spain, and the settlement OF
the vexing question respecting the eX-
tension of slavery by the NIissouri
compromise, by which, after the re-
ception of Missouri as slave state
the institution was prohibited above
the line of latitude thirty-six degrees
thirty, helped to secure his reelection
in 1920.
His most popular acts were probably
the recognition of the independence
of Mexico and the South American re-
publics and the PRONUNCIATION of what
has since been the Monroe Doctrine "
in which he declared the American pol
icy of neither entangling ourselves
fering the powers of the Old World
to interfere with the affairs of the
New" and that ''any attempt to ex'
tend their system to any portion OF
this hemisphere would be dangerous
to our peace and safety" In 1925 he
retired to his seat at Oak Hill, Lou
don county, Virginia, but he still con-
tinued in the public service. After
being twice president, he acted as
Justice of the peace, a visitor of the
University of Virginia, and member
of the state convention; but pro-
fuse hospitality and generosity caused
him to be overwhelmed with debt
and he found refuge with his relatives
in New York, where he died i'll 1881
like his predecessors, Adams and JEFF
ferson-on the fourth of July.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
MUST REDEEM PARTY PLEDGE.

President Taft is determined that a
republican house and senate shall re-
deem the party pledge for a proper
revision of the tariff. The president
has made the fact known to Senator
Aldrich that he is not favorably i'm
pressed with the bill that has been
prepared by the chairman of the SEN
ate finance committee which is to be
laid before the upper house
1t is Mr.. Taft who has pledged him.
self and the republican party to an
''honest" revision and for revision
mainly downward Those who have
talked with Mr.. Taft about the tariff
since the Aldrich bill was presented to
the senate know that, while the presi-
dent is concerned about the revenues,
his principal concern is with the sched-
ules themselves and with the rates of
duty to be imposed upon imports.
The president is going over the sen
ate and house proposals paragraph by
paragraph. He is much more interest
ed in seeing redeemed the promises of
a reduction of taxes on the necessaries
of life than he is in a discussion of
revenues or of any other phase of the
problem. OF the greatest Importance
in the presidents mind today is to
have congress keep the tariff pledges
he has made. gar
Mr.. Taft is still depending on Mr..
Aldrich to procure. the enactment of
such a bill as the finance committee
chairman knows that the president
would approve. In the fact of the
senate bill Mr.. Taft has not given up
hope that Mr.. Aldrich will do what is
expected of him. 1t remains to be
seen whether thee presidents reliance
has been properly placed. s..'a
The president fatty declines. to say
what he will do if the bill does not
come up to his expectations. Several
of his recent visitors have been daring
enough to question him upon this
point and Mr.. Taft has said to them
in substance: "That is my concern
must decide that question when l
am faced by the condition. 1 have al
ways kept my pledges" -
Mr. Taft is none the less formidable
because he does not say what he will
do if congress refuses to enact the
sort of tariff law that he has led 1.-THE
ultimate consumer to believe will be
enacted. He is resefvingH his last ar
guments and forms of pressure, which
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30

At Portland, Me, the first CONNER
cial wireless telephone system in the
world was opened to the public, four
out of thirty stations which are to
connect the city with the islands in
Gasco Bay being in commission The
first message was one of congratula
ton from Mayor Clifford to A F.
Collins, the inventor of the system,
who was at Cape Elizabeth, across the
bay. Heretofore telephone connection
between these two points has been i'm
possible, owing to the. rocky bottom
of the bay and the sswife tides. Over
400 messages were sent the first day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30

Fairfax; one, Graeeviiie; one, Howard
Lake; two, Mechanics Ats, St. Paul;
one, Ortonville;. two, South Side high
school, Minneapolis; one from Still
water and eleven from schools outside
of Minnesota. 1T will be observed that
the majority of those students who
fell down We're from Minneapolis and
st. Paul high school; also that many
came from high schools outside of the
state.