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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
OF UNTOLD VALUE.
The Information Contained in This
Citizens Statement Is
Priceless.

The hale, the hearty, the strong
can afford to toss this paper to one
side impatiently when they read the
following, but any person in Redwood
Falls who has suffered hours of tor
ture caused by kidney complaint will
stand in his own light if he does not
follow the valuable advice offered
here.
A. V. Fedderly of E. Fourth St..
Redwood Falls. Mimi, says: 1 had
been sufferer for a number of
years from constant dull pain
through my back and over my left
kidney. Often when working, l
would be taken with dizzy spells
which gradually became more fire.
quent. Two years ago these be-
came so acute that | was obliged to
give up work and last winter suf-
fered intensely. Hearing of Doan's
Kidney Pills. procured box at
Hitchcock & Co.'S drug store and be-
gan taking them as directed. | have
not had single dizzy spell since and
give Doan's Kidney Pills the credit
for my cure"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster ilburn Co. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
Breeding New Potatoes.

Work along the line Of breeding
new varieties of potatoes has been
much extended since it has been
taken up as special work at the
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment
Station, University of Minnesota.
In 1908 about $500 Seeding pota-
toes were set out from seed boils
produced the year before, Last fall
the best of these seedlings were
saved, number of them being prom
Using. Last spring large num-
Der were again set out.
Just at present extensive work is
going on in the crossing of varieties
which are most likely to produce
improved varieties, and, since the
potato is difficult to cross, at the
same time the flower and factors
that influence the vigor of the flow
ers. or their parts, are being studied
so that some means may be found
by which varieties which cannot
now be produced to set seed may be
crossed.
Importations from Mexico, South
America. England, Scotland, Ger
many and other parts of Europe are
being used in this breeding work.
Lack of space forbids the pointing
out of special features of the many
other lines of experimental work
with the potato now going on at the
station. Only visit to the grounds
and a study Of the new potato bull
letin can give one an adequate idea
of the present extent of the work
and of its value to the Minnesota
potato grower.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04

every position he had ever held and
also because he was Endorsed by
Teddy" The most serious fault
up to date has been the retention of
Ballenger in the cabinet, as the fell
low should have been kicked out as
soon as the President found
he had rescinded any of the orders
withdrawing the timber lands of the
west from the reach of the timber
trust.
He has not accomplished all this
paper hoped he might on the pend
ing tariff bill, however that bill is
not law yet and this paper does
not propose to howl just because
Frank Day and the papers which fol-
low him are shouting. In the main,
the Minnesota representatives are
standing by the interests of the peo-
pie as we understand them and they
have not as yet complained that
Taft has done either too much or
too little to aid them. The Gazette
is waiting to hear from them, as
they are on the ground and know, as
it cannot, just how much has been
ommitted that could have been done
by the president. In other words,
it is waiting until the record has
been made up before it begins to
criticise on something it is very i'm
perfectly advised upon.
In the meantime it believes its
space can be better used to boom
Redwood county lands. AS one lev
el-headed real estate man said: eff
the papers, instead of jumping on to
Taft would advertise to the world
our crop prospects and advantages,
they would do good bit more good
than they are now" The Gazette
is inclined to think he is right and
as we can inform ourselves on that
subject by talking to the scores Of
prosperous farmers who are going
to turn abundant crops into cash in
the next few weeks, it proposes to
wait for the other until it is in as
good position to express an opinion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
MINNESOTA VS.. WASHINGTON.

The lure of the orchards is calling
many farmer from a quarter Sec
ton in Minnesota to buy five or
ten acre tract in Washington under
the belief that when he once gets
his orchard started all he will have
to do is to watch the fruit grow and
pull in golden buckets.
Except for fruit. land is more pro-
ductive here than there where much
of it must be transformed from a
desert by irrigation. To a farmer
who has never tried irrigation we
suggest that to find out whether he
would like it or not he had better
get on rubber boots and wade around
with a shovel in some slough close
home and dig and putter around all
day for weeks at time. He will
accomplish two things-if he digs
long enough he can drain the pesky
slough, and then he will know how
much nicer and sweeter life with
rubber boots and a shovel or hoe is
than it is to ride a corn cultivator
and see the golden corn grow into
money.
And the orchard +! That he be-
lieves will be clear joy. But let him
get an old cart and fix up a sprayer
on it and squirt poison on young box
elders or fruit trees if he has them
on his farm by the week. By that
time he will never be reconciled to
hitch on to his mower or rake and
put..up as nutritious hay as was ever
grown.
One think, brethren. is strangely
true. While every man who has
ever prospected in the apple country
or pear belt of the Pacific North
west is told by everybody that mon
ey just rolls in to them, he can buy
about any place he looks at if he has
the price, and will be urged to do so.
Strange, if life is such an unending
joy in the market gardens and fruit
ranches Of the west. The fact is
that only about one man in one hun
dred ever did amount to a pinch of
snuff as berry or fruit raiser. The
average farmer of Redwood county
would be about as much out Of place
on fruit ranch as monkey at q
dress reception. And don't forget
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04


that against our sometimes cold Win
ter weather they haye dust and 9TH
err disagreeable features that are not
being as frankly advertised. If you
must try it, hold on to your Redwood
farm and rent for two or three sea-
sons before you trade off something
you have made your living on for
something else that some one tells
you will make your fortune. Go
slow and safe until you know more
about it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE RtPUBlI-
CAN PARTY.

Quite a number of our subscribers
have been inquiring as to how this
paper stood toward President Taft.
The attitude of this paper is this:
1t is Republican, because in the
main that party suits it better than
any other does. If the time shall
come when some other party as a
whole comes nearer it's ideas it will
leave the party and not until then.
1t was for Taft for president be-
cause he had made a fine record in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04

German forestry is remarkable in
three ways-it has always led in
scientific thoroughness and now it is
working out results with an exact
ness almost equal to that of the
laboratory; it has applied this scien-
tific knowledge with the greatest
technical success; and it has solved
the problem of securing through a
long series of years an increasing
forest output and increasing profits
at the same time.
Starting with forests which were
in as bad shape as many of our own
cutover areas. Germany raised the
average yield of wood per acre from
twenty cubic feet in 1880 to seventy
five cubic feet in 1908. During the
same period it trebled the proper
ton of saw timber secured from the
average cut, which means, in other
words, that through the practice of
forestry the timber lands Of Ger
many are of three times better quail
ity today than when no system was
used. In little over half a century
it increased the money returns from
an average acre of forest seven fold
and today the forests are in better
condition than ever before.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
Farm Lands at a Bargain.

The lands belonging to the Isaac
johnson estate, comprising the east
half Of section "a and 80 acres in
section q, Sheridan township, are
offered for sale at a very reasonable
valuation. Fairly good improve
ments on the half section. and near
" all lands in crop this year. Apply
to ]. C. Johnson, Seaforth. tt.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
Robt. Hoppenrath
the German Shoemaker

is still repairing shoes at the
Heilman & belong shoe store.
Maybe you have old shoes
which would serve you we'll if
they were only repaired.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
The Secret Out.

What made my lovely complexion: l do
not like to tell. for it was medicine, but the
incest woman ever took, 1t was Lanes
Family Medicine that did it, This is a
pleasant herb tea which acts favorably on
the stomach and bowels, purifying the blood
and cleansing the skin like magic. 1t cures
headache sand backache. Druggists and
dealers sell it, 25 cts 9
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
A Woman's Opinion of Carrie Nation.

n WOMAN UpiIIiOH vi SdfIiC NotlON.
The Chautauqua brought to us the
renowned Mrs. Carry A. Nation.
whom we were all curious to see
and hear. Some of the W. C. L. u.
ladies felt that as she is fighting the
same evils we are Though in a quiet
err way) that they ought to show
her the civility Of a call when she
came to the city. They found her
at the hotel, glad indeed to see some
friendly faces, as she was in entire
ignorance as to where the Chautau-
qua tent stood, and how she could
reach it. They arranged that for
her, and then she urged them to go
on the platform with her-so it
would seem that the brave Carry is
still subject to attacks of genuine
difidence.
She honestly believes it to be right
and lawful and pleasing to God to
smash everything that tends to evil.
She did considerable smashing while
in England and paid many fines, vet
the religious press of that law abid-
ing country spoke quite fayorably
of her and credited her with being
not only exceedingly Jealous. but al
so extremely sensible.
During her stay in London she
went forth one day to see the king,
and while standing with thousands
of others waiting for Edward VII to
pass on his way to open Parliament,
she Qike the busy bee) improved
the shining hour by haranguing the
crowd on the evils of smoking and
the unfairness of poisoning the at
mosphere which others breathe.
Challenging them to give her rea-
son for practicing it, and the best
they could find was that cit helped
pass the time away" A very lame
excuse for smoking a weed that
poisons the blood. dulls the brains.
blackens the lungs. weakens the ac-
ton Of the heart and is the cause of
disease.
We think that God must have CIV
en- the little woman special protect
ing care or she would not have lived
through so much hardship and vio-
lence. Imprisoned 81 times. some
times in ground cell with water
standing on parts of the floor, some
times up under the roof with burn
ing sun above and almost no venti-
lation, sometimes with rats and var
min for company. Once her hand
was broken, and she was handcuffed.
She has been pelted with eggs and
stones, whipped by hired prostitutes
and clad in coarse uniform. and did
the routine work OF the institution,
though faint and weary. We hope
that the hardest part of her work is
over and passed.
When Mrs. Nation introduced her
autobiographies and hatchets, it
seemed at first belittling and mer-
cenary, though after due considera-
ton it appeared natural and right.
Through her books she can reach
great numbers of people whom she
can never meet personally, and they,
by reading of her efforts, may be
encouraged to labor for some good
cause. The wearing of the hatchets
also shows prohibition principles
and may hearten the wearer to do
more for the cause. The small pro-
fit made on them goes to the support
of home in Kansas City. Kans.,
that is wholly dedicated as a Home
for Drunkard's Wives and Mothers. ;"
Mrs. Nation made first payment
of S., 500 on it. being money she had
made in lecturing. The home is full
and additions are needed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-04
REDWOOD COUNTY FARM LANDS.

REDWOOD COUNTY fARM lANDS.
The young type writer first copies
over and over the words Nov is the
time for all good men to come to the
aid of their party" and when he can
hit this sentence up in good form
and time, he or she is ready for an
engagement.
To the man with real estate the
thought should be, Nov is the time
to boom Minnesota dirt" especially
in Redwood county. Not for years
has the prospect been fairer for a
bumper crop of everything. Wheat,
oats, barley, hay, potatoes, and es-
pecially that king crop of all, corn,
is coming better than ever before.
And it would be richer crop if it
were not that most of US try to farm
too much. Were land worth, or
rather if it brought what it is worth,
500 per acre, and our farmers were
forced to farm intensively instead of
extensively, we would equal Iowa or
Illinois. We fall down because we
do not select seed with the care they
do there. We next fail because we
let too many weeds stay in the hill
and, worst of all, we do not pillow
deep enough as rule. A great deal
of the land, and especially rented
land, is being plowed now down to
where it has been stirred up and
farmed over for the past twenty
years. In the older states it is the
rule to bring up at least some of the
sub soil every time the pillow is put
into it. A bunch of weeds adorns
about every hill of corn and the fields
are yellow with mustard and are be-
ginning to show patches of the quack
grass. Potatoes are planted as
rule in some patch where it has not
been convenient to put other crops.
There are notable exceptions about
the county, and wherever you find
a man who keeps his field clean, who
works his ground thoroughly, who
mixes his farming and, above all,
who puts all his manure on his fields
you will find prosperous farmers
who are making money.
OIL. Dornberg has just been down
in the corn belt of Illinois where
land is selling at S25O an acre and 1t
is his honest opinion that with the
same intensive, clean and careful
farming our yield will be nearly
equal to theirs and on land that can
be bought at less than $50 per acre.
We beat them all out on wheat and
potatoes and can equal them in
everything but fruit. The first and
quickest way to boom your neigh
borhood is to clean up your farms.
The next is to let your friends and
relatives in the east know your
yields and land will double in price
in the next five years. Just stay by
old Redwood county and Minnesota
and let others pay $1,000 per acre for
fruit lands if they want to.
Woodruff County news., 1909-03-11
Fifth Capitol Bill Introduced.

The surprise of the day in the Sen ate came in the introduction or an other State Capitol bill by Senator DeRositt, which provides for de- molishing both the old and new state houses, the sale of the 63 acres or state property at the new Capitol site and the remodeling and reconstruc- tion of the old Capitol on the present site of West Markham street The bill is unique in it's provisions, ana Senator DeRositt, the author and others believe it will be the logical solution of the State Capitol problem IL will, if passed, give the people oI Arkansas a new State Capitol on the site of the old Capitol and pro vides for using the material in poth buildings in the construction of the new. It also provides for the worK- ing of 300 convicts on the work ana carries an appropriation of $75O,00o
 The bill was introduced in the Senate about 11:30 and Senator De- Rositt after it's first reading, asked that the rules be suspended and the bill read second time. which mo- tion was adopted and the bill was then referred to the State Capitol committee.
 When asked if he intended to with draw Senate Bill No. 156 Senator De Rositt replied that he did not intend to do so at this time.
 In addition to the introduction of the new State Capitol bill the Senate passed Senator Henderson's bill, No. 13, increasing the powers of the rail way commission, aud also Senator Rush's bill, No. 20o, for compulsory education in Arkansas.
 Only one item of business aside from this was transacted. Two Of the Senate pages are on the sick list and a resolution was presented for the appointment of temporary page to serve until their return. The reso- lutior was opposed unless the sick pages were stricken from the pay roll ddrlng the time the temporary page was serving. On roll call the resoiu- tion was adopted by vote of IA to l3.
Woodruff County news., 1909-03-11
With The Legislators
Would Revise Assessing system.

Would Revise Assessing System.
 MT. Brawner introduced an impor- tant measure, being the bill provid- ing for a revision of the state asses sing system. The bill is known as the Assessors Bill" having been cor dially endorsed by the State Asses sors' Association.
 There was a lively round over the pistol carrying bill by Senator Rob ertson. The bill is designed to pro hibit the carrying of any concealed weapons, but members of the House, including the speaker, were of the opinion that the bill is little better than the present law, unless amend ed so as to place the burden of proof upon the defendant, where he is charged with carrying pistol and seeks to evade conviction by show ing that the said weapon is such as is used in the army and navy. The bill was finally placed back on It's second reading for amendment.
 The bill authorizing Jefferson coun- ty to lease right of way for foot ana vehicle traffic over bridge to be located near Pine Bluff was unanl- mously passed. There was large contingent of Jefferson county and Pine Bluff citizens in this city urg- ing the passage of the bill. MT. Mil Ter. who has been i'll for some time from humps, came to the capitol also to speak in behalf of the bill, al though hardly able to travel. It is believed the passage of the bill will mean much to the city of Pine Bluff and the county at large as there is much assurance that with this right of way privilege granted the Rock Island railway will eventually con struct a bridge over the Arkansas riy- CT near Pine Bluff on it's proposed extension south from the main line near LOnoke.
Woodruff County news., 1909-03-11
IN THE HOUSE.
Bills Passed.

Senate Bill No. 191 (Toney}, to pro. vide board of commissioners 10 build Q bridge for highway purposes across the Arkansas river at point at or near Pine Bluy. Explained by MT. Miller. Vote, 73 to O.
 Senate Bill No. POS Oogan), to vali- date the ordinance of the city council of Mena granting a franchise to H. w. Cardwell. Vote, GA to l.
 Senate Bill No. 122 (Holland) amending section 3905 of Kirby's Di- gest so that the word time" is strick- en from the provision that the time wages of all balorers and mechanics" shall under certain conditions be ex- empt from legal process. MT. Hogan and MT. Rowe explained the measure. Vote, 67 to 2.
 House Bill No 102 (Holt of Hemp stead), providing that shares of stock in any joint corporation may not be less than $5 instead of $25 each. Vote, 59 to 8.
 House Bill No. (Estes), making the certificates of a United States collector of internal revenue sufficient evidence of violation of anti-liquor laws in liquor cases. Vote, 75 to l.
 Bills Introduced.
 House Bill No. 238 (Rowe), prohib- iting the making or publishing of false statements concerning the stock of any company, directed at statements, concerning "watered" stock, and pro- viding a fine of $1,000 and from one to five years in the penitentiary for violation. Read twice and referred to judiciary committee.
 House Bill No. 239 (Ard) prohibit ing the manufacture of coca cola or celery cola in Arkansas, and making it misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of from $25 to $100, for any viola tion.
 House Bill No. 243 (Granger), {, amending section 70S7 of Kirby's Di- gest so that all lands sold at tax sales shall be purchased by collectors for the state.
 House Bill No PA (Hamilton of Ouachita), amending section 1909 and repeating section 1610 of Kirbys Di- gest, relating to the carrying of con cealed weapons.
 House Bill No. 250 (HursD amend ing the act prohibiting the sale of liquor within five miles of the Univer- sity of Arkansas so that any person who buys for himself or anyone else, or who is in any way interested in the purchase or illegal traffic of liquor un- der the provisions of this act, shall be punished and held guilty as others. Read twice.
 House Bill No 251 (Johnson, by re- To of p1re,- sellville as state capitol commissioner to take the place of the late commits siCner, w. B. Alexander of Pine Bluff; ; making he governor an ex-off1cio member of the commission; discharg- ing George R. Mann as architect of the new capitol; authorizing the com mission to employ a new architect, and appropriating $500,000 to be used in the completion of the capitol. Read twice and referred to state capitol committed
Woodruff County news., 1909-03-11
Cans Bill Passes House.

The Gam bill, providing for statu- tory statewide prohibition, passed the House Monday afternoon by vote of 53 to 27. The bill passed about 3:20 o'clock, and it's passage was fol- lowed by a demonstration lasting sev eral minutes. So great was the dem- onstration and general confusion which followed that the House aban- doned an attempt to continue fur ther business and adjourned until Tuesday morning.
 The passage of the bill followed three days of the hardest fighting the legislature has seen this session. It also followed the rejection of .he Simpson substitute bill providing tor submission of the question of state wide prohibition to tue people at a special election, which was turned down by a vote of A to 8 at the close of the morning session.
 The last day of the prohibition fight in the House was witnessed by as many spectators as could crowd into the House chamber. Every inch, almost, of available floor space on the floor of the House, in the lobby and in the gallery, was filled. A hundred UT IHOTe WOllleu were pu lH6 floor of the House, seated among the representatives. General applause and cheering for several minutes fol. lowed the announcement of the vote on the Gam measure, and women and men prominently connected with the prohibition movement in Arkansas circulated among the representatives on the floor and congratulated them on the victory
 Af4er more than two hours of hot debate, the House voted to reject the Simpson substitute bill, providing for submission of the question of state wide prohibition to the people at a special election in July, the vote on rejection being A to 30. Immediately following this the motion to recon sider that vote and lay on the table was made by MT. Thompson of In dependence, resulting in vote of 4S to 29 in favor of tabling further con sideration OK the substitute. This brings the House up to the considera tion of the adoption of the Gam bill providing for statutory statewide prohibition.