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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

Madison people Weakened up to a
genuine surprise the morning after
their recent city election. In the
first ward, supposed to be the
strongest license ward in the city,
E. L. Stromswold was prevailed up
on to allow his name to go on as a
no-license candidate and was elected.
This made tie in the council and
the Independent says its effect will
be to make Madison a no-license
city. Madison made failure of it's
first attempt at no-license, but the
Independent says that since Attorney
General Young has shown how to
put the lid on and keep it on, it is
not likely that the failure will be re-
peated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
TRIED TO BE NIcE.
But Fannie Made an Awful Mess Of 1t
With the Old Lady.

But Fannie Made an Awful Mess Of 1t
With the Old Lady.
"When Fannie is bent upon pleasing"
sighed Fannies younger sister. ''she
can certainly make a horrible mess of
things. Last Sunday Charlie Evans,
having arrived at the point where he
felt he wanted his family's opinion Of
me, invited us both up to take tea
with his mother. The minute | laid
eyes on his mother l knew Fannie
would get in trouble-she simply can't
help getting nervously foolish when
there's religious person around.
Charles mother kissed us and, ad-
dressing herself to Fannie as the elder.
said something about our being very
sweet to come and see a daughterless
old woman. Whereat Fannie looked
at Charlie and his two brothers and
replied feelingly that it must be a ter
rible disappointment to have only
them. Mrs. Evans, to rectify my SIS
ter's misrepresentation, told us proudly
that she had three more sons, not pres
emit
by this time Fannie realized that
she had made bad beginning and
leaped further in with the supposition
that the other three were off having a
good time instead of moping at home.
The older lady drew herself up and
said severely:
My three sons are in heaven, Miss
Barnes
"'Oh, how awfulp came Fannie's
ready gasp.
"'No, not awful at ALL! and Mrs.
Evans was positively glaring at us. i
feel that they were specially blessed
in being allowed to pass thus early to
their Lord. They died as little chill
dren.'
"'Dear me. how glad you must have
beenv blurted out flustered Fannie.
by this time had kicked hole in
her ankle, and that quieted her for
awhile She might have kept still for
the rest of the evening had not her pet
subject, the higher education Of wo-
man, come up for the old lady's disap-
prevail Then Fannie made hand
spring into the conversation by re-
marking that when we had more edu-
Gated mothers there would be less In
FAINT mortality.
And mind zon- Fannie was really
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
Thai $38,OOOO,OOO.

ED. GAZETTE: In a recent discus
sion of revenue matters in Congress
Representative Murdoch of Kansas
reminded the house of the $38, O0O,-
600 loaned by the government to the
states at the close of Jackson's adj
ministration and suggested that
demand be made for its return.
Largely by means of sales Of pub
lie lands the United States was out of
debt in 1886 with $38, 100000 in the
treasury beyond its probable needs.
This amount was loaned to 81
states, according to their repre-
sentation in congress, of which the
state of New York received $4,000
600 and loaned it on farm mortgages
and devoted the interest to the crea-
ton of fund for common schools.
At that time there were no free
schools, no high schools. Every
family had to pay for the education
of their own children. The idea
that property could and should pay
for the education of the rising gen.
Grafton was growing but it was
many years before the owners of
the property saw that it was both a
duty and necessity to adopt the
free school system. Once afoot, the
principle has gone ahead by leaps
and bounds until the primitive sys-
tenn of sixty or seventy years ago is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

Governor Johnson is receiving
more commentator than blame for
yetoing the bill establishing the
Cass Lake Normal schools. His po-
sition that the state already has nor
NAL schools is well taken, and from
the comments made on the measure,
it would appear that Cass Lake has
little to commend it as proper To-
cation for a normal school. Now if
Gov. Johnson will veto the rotten
measure railroaded through both
branches of the legislature, provid-
ing for the payment to senators and
representative of two years pay a
year and a half before the end of
their terms, and the bill giving to
city clubs the special privilege to sell
liquors without license, it will go
far toward making his third term
the most popular of all. The COM
bine now in control of our state leg
islature needs the ak all right.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
The Minnesota legislature has left

The Minnesota legislature has left
no room for doubt as to its position
on the saloon question. Last
Wednesday it put the quietus to
Elmer Adams bill giving cities of
less than 10000 population the same
right as villages of voting on the
question of issuing liquor licenses.
The democrats with only one excep-
ton voted with the alleged republi-
can LEADERS" to indefinitely post
pone the bill. Representative Dali
zell said that the republicans should
get together and not be swayed by
populists of the ninth district, which
brought out the retort from Repre-
sentative Saugstad that the leaders
had voted with the democrats on all
temperance measures, and if the
rest of the Republicans were to fol-
low the leaders" there would be
no Republican party in the legisla-
ture. 1t was announced at the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

If the bill before the legislature
authorizing teachers who attend the
sessions of the state teachers asso-
citation each year to draw full pay
for three days becomes a law, it is
expected to largely increase the at
tendance at. the next meeting, at
Minneapolis, Oct. % to 80. The
change of date is a decided innova-
ton, but teachers have found that
attending the meeting during the
Christmas holidays seriously inter-
fered with their holiday plans, and
hence the attendance has been some
what limited. According to the
Journal, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
and Michigan already have provi-
sions for teachers attending without
loss of pay and as a consequence at
tendance has increased four-fold.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

Hutchinson Leader: 1t is becom-
ing apparent to all people residing
in towns in which the question Of IL
censing saloons is an issue that there
is urgent need of a different law
from the one now on the statute
books for dealing with this question.
That it engenders i'll feeling and
bitterness among toWns-people is a
fact that will be vouchsafed by the
people in every community in which
it is raised and the law should at
least prevent it's becoming an issue
in communities year after year. If
we are not to have county option,
then the law should be framed like
the county seat law, which was
drawn with a recognition of the fact
it was not just to property interests
nor we'll for the people of the coun-
ty to have the question of removal
eternally in the air. So the county
seat law allows the question of
changing a county seat 10 be sub
mitted only once every five years
and then a three-ffths vote is re-
quired to carry. Some such pro-
visions in the Minnesota liquor laws
would be a blessing to the state. An
annual wrangle over the saloon ques-
ton is bad thing for any commun-
ity. Once settled it ought to be set
led for some considerable period. 1t
is said that New Zealand, country
to which we have gone for some of
our best laws, takes this method of
dealing with the license question.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

A Renville exchange understands
that Brother Whetston of the Frank
lin Tribune willie soon remove his
newspaper plant to one of the thriv-
ing towns of Montana. This will be
a decided loss to Franklin, which
town is not liable to have as bright
a writer as Whetston to help develop
its prosperity. Editor Whetston is
equipped to make good as a news
paper paragrapher in a much larger
town and here's hoping he will land
where dollars and appreciation will
ONE his way.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

The common people of the state
would like to get al the real facts
concerning the school book trust.
On the floor of the state senate it
was recently stated that it ives queer
indeed, when a law was proposed
seeking to reduce the price of school
books from so to 125 per cent
throughout the state. that many
county and school superintendent
should rush to oppose the measure.
The senator wondered what influence
was behind these men who should
have the interests of the people, and
particularly of the children of the
poor people at heart He stated
that if it was question of different
books it would be different. But
when Minnesota paid that much
more for the same books as is now
being paid in Kansas, it was certain
ly time for people to wake up, and
inquire into the influence behind
their school managers and instruc-
fO1,C
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
MansfeId's Lonely Meals.

There were two meals which Mans
field always ate alone-breakfas and
the light repast of broth and oysters
late in the afternoon. An empty stom-
ach attacked his nerves and set his
temper on edge. In the mornin@ he
was IN no convenient mood until he
had the invariable coffee and bacon.
After somewhat rigid abstinence
during the balance of the day and
evening the fatigue Of performance
edged his nerves till his midnight sup
per, which. with a troop of friends
about him, warmed him into the sun
NEST huror of the day. A book or
play was the companion of his solita-
ry meaIs.-Paul Wilstach in e--ihnnr's.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

In a speech in congress recently.
Congressman Davis stated the, lum-
Der tariff position from the peoples
standpoint in nutshell: 1.-The uni
form reduction of 81 per thousand
upon all grades of lumber, in my
ju lgment, will not produce the de-
sired results. The Dingley bill fixes
rates from 81 to 81 per thousand,
the smaller rate being on unfinished
rough lumber or board. About 80
per cent of lumber consumption is
of the planed unfinished product.
While the duty on rough lumber is
reduced from 81 to 81 per thousand,
the duty on finished lumber is left
so high as to be almost prohibitive.
The consumer will remain entirely
dependent on domestic supplies. A
uniform tariff of 81 per thousand
upon all grades will be much pre-
ferable to the proposed duties. 1t
would be better still if all grades of
lumber were placed on the free list"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

pendent as a hired servant. It is
hopeless to scold about foolish pride
that makes so many girls willing to
take up any other line Of work rath-
err than house service, for as long as
society frowns on working girls
there will some too weak to ignore
the fact and take up any honest
work that offers. as Madam Frem-
stad did.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IA, 1909.

The legislature having passed the
bill to provide for commission plan
for all cities desiring to adopt that
system, we presume that consider
able number of larger towns will
avail themselves of this business like
manner of administering municipal
affairs. Commenting on the pas
sage of the act, the Pioneer Press
sagely observes that it is too bad
that the cities are not able to recip-
rocate by doing something for the
improvement of the legislature.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

Some newspaper Photographer hay
ing discovered last week that the
famous opera diva, Madam Frem-
stad. once did service as maid" or
hired girl in private family while
struggling to obtain her musical ed
ucation, that lady, in an interview,
not only pleads guilty but shows her
to fashionable and con-
ventional ideas by saying emphatic
ally that she is proud of the fact.
And every right thinking man and
woman will honor her for not being
ashamed of her willingness to work
with her hands at whatever she
could find to do in order to over
come the handicap of poverty and
be self-supporting. How much bet
ter would it be if young women
everywhere could be recognized as
being. entitled to just as much re-
spect when working in the kitchen
for wages as when doing it as mis-
tress of their own homes. Elderly
people can look back to the time
when the hired girl was not only an
important member of most families.
but was treated like the other men,
bers, in due season graduating out
of the family to become the wife of
some honest man and occasionally
electing to remain single and indie
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

like it. as we place Tail on a @ to
distinguish it from an O. So the first
two letters of our A B C's were orig
inally an OK and a house and gave
the name of all of the twenty-six let
tiers which we call our alphabet" -
New York Herald
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
The One Universal Preventive.
O. B. TURRELL.

Duluth News Tribune
1t is at the approach of gentle
springtime when every household
needs to buckle ON the armor of
protection against germ diseases.
The experience of all the world and
all climates has proved that this ar
NOR is formed of those two most
simple compenents fresh air and
cleanliness.
One of the enemies to health that
should be most vigorously and un-
ceasingly fought is the house fly.
This little beast is the most persis-
tent, insidious and interchangeable
spreader of disease known to the
bacteriologist.
To our readers we commend the
following from a medical journal.
Spring is coming. In our homes
the house fly, the dirty fly, the ty-
phoid and cholera infantum fly will
soon swarm in thousands and mil
lions unless precautions are taken.
The house fly, which we were taught
in our childhood to treat with kind
ness, has been exposed.
Its habits are filthy. 1t breeds
in stables and garbage pals and car
ries the filth it revels in and tracks
it across the sugar. the butter and
the beefsteak. 1t paddles its horrid
feet, gllmmed with the vilest rotting
matter, in the baby's milk.
1.-THE doctors have declared war
on the house fly. 1t probably dis
seminates every disease. 1t is a
nuisance. 1t must be exterminated
1t can be driven out of every city.
I'm an age of knowledge. screens
and cheap disinfectants there is no
excuse for files in any household.
Clean up your premises and report
to the health department your neigh
Dor who does not. Get rid of the
breeding places Of flies and you will
get rid of flies.
There is no family so poor it can
not afford to screen It's home.
Screens will turn away all flies. as
well as mosquitoes. The unscreened
house, in other words. is danger
Gus thing, and screens on windows
and outside doors are an excellent
investment from several points of
view"
In every plague spot on earth; in
the Panama canal zone, in the Phil
ippines, in Cuba, in our own home
cities when threatened with plaques.
the one effective precaution and
remedy has been cleanliness.
The streets, the alleys, the cellars
and homes have been cleaned.
Marshes and all stagnant pools have
been drained or filled. The one re-
quirement has been to "clean up"
So it must always be and every
householder should profit by this
larger experience and do his part.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

opening of the legislature that the
Republican members would see to
it that Gov. johnson would get a
severe jolt as a popular idol, but as
a matter of fact the governor today
stands good deal higher in popular
respect than the legislative body
Iooc
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
SCOTS
Emulsion

the oil is emulsifed and made
easy to take easy to digest
and easy to be absorbed in to
the body-and is the most
natural and useful fatty food to
feed and nourish the wasted
body that is known in medicine
today.
Nothing can be found to take
its place. fyou are rundown
you should take it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14

succeeded by complete educational
system, furnished free by the state,
to fit the young people for all the
avocations of life.
O. B. TURRELL.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-14
Doctors

Say lake Goa LIUef Wl0they
undoubtedly mean SCOTS
Emulsion.
1t would be just as sensible
for them to prescribe Quinine
in its crude form as to pre-
scribe Cod Liver Oil in its
natural state. In
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
TWOPREACHERS
KNIFE H|NKLE

There were all of the 81 varieties
of fun at the meeting of the min
isterial association yesterday after
noon when an effort was made to
secure an eleventh hour indorse-
ment for J. Grant Hinkle for
mayor. The majority of the min
listers present were in favor of the
action, but Dr. e. l.. House OF
the Westminster Congregational
church and Dean Alfred Lockwood
of All Saints raised their voices in
a strong protest against the action,
and in a short time it was evident
that If the majority, did not give in
there would be i'll feeling in the
association far removed from the
brotherly love supposed to reign
over the meetings.
Both Rev. House and Dean Lock
wood are Fassett men and both
were interested in the Federated
clubs and teh action of that body.
The argument was made that
Hinkle was the one man in the
race whose position on the saloon
question was agreeable to church
teaching, but the opponents
seemed to incline to the belief that
Hinkle was over Jealous. DR..
House was one of the men who
was responsible for Billy Sunday in
Spokane and was one of Sunday
| firmest supporters while he was
her, but when it came to backing
the Sunday doctrine against poll.
tics. DR.. House chose the politics
1t was an odd combination. The
majority in favor of the indorse'
ment gave in rather than start a
quarrel with DR.. House, Dean Lock
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
LIQUOR DEALS
DOUBLE BLOW

Old and weak, his limbs shaking
feebly under his weight and crop
ing his way half blindly about
among the police court furniture,
John Landeryou, an aged man,
mounted the stand before Judge
Mann this afternoon to testify
against his son Asa, a physical
wreck from drunkenness.
ASA has been drinking steadily
for months. What little money he
has earned he has spent for liquor
and he has given nothing to the
support of his wife and three chill
dren who are~fiving with me- MUIR
INJURED the old man as tears filed
his eyes.
Though John Landeryou is old
and feeble, his son is still more
haggard and worn in appearance,
all because of drink.
you have just got where you
are no good to yourself nor any
body else. The best thing can do
for you is to bring vow up sh"r-
will sentence you to 10 days in the
city Jail and fine YOU 80 ana
costs" said the judge in summing
up Landeryou's case.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
CONTINUED from page u

quently in his hunting trips in the
western United States. Besides
these main guns there will be re.
volvers and knives and smaller
weapons in plenty. The naturalists
will depend mostly on 12-bore
gun.
The native hunters who have
been hired by, Richard Cunning
ham, the official guide, will have to
furnish their own weapons.
Then as to camp supplies:
First OF all come the COLONEL
tents, one big enough for two peo-
pie, ~ feet, 10 and TN feet high.
It is 1Iined inside with turkey twill,
which gives a cosy, home-like ap-
pearance, and it has all sorts of
pockets for holding odds and ends.
Small, valuable articles, such as
hair brushes or razors, would hard
ly be safe in these pockets, because
of the thieving propensities OF the
."boys." The tent has a second can
vas, which protects the occupants
from the elements. and in the heat
of day keeps the tent interior cool
er. Under this second canvas.
known as the fly" the boys"
sleep. sharing the space with their
loads.
The tent is also provided with a
veranda in front, and bath room
laced on at the back.
Other furnishings are four
pound folding table, canvas hang
ing wardrobe, a folding mirror, a
dressing roll replacing the usual
hand dressing case, and green
canvas ground sheet To the tent
poles are attached leather straps,
fitted with brass hooks for guns,
coats and other articles.
For lighting Colonel Roosevelt
will take several windproof 'hurri-
cane" lamps, a mechanical oil lamp
without a chimney, collapsible
candle lamp, and perhaps one or
two reading lamps.
Many of the natives are clever
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
STOPPED BY A SHOT

A shot from Officer Hoods gun
was necessary to stop Fred Hard
man. touch character, who es-
capped from the chain gang a few
days ago, when he came across him
in Union Park last night. Hard
man had beaten the proprietor of
the Golden West bakery out of the
price of three meals and had a rock
In his pocket. presumably for his
defense. should any argument be
: started as to whether or not he
should be given further nourish-
ment
The proprietor of the bakery cor
rallied Hardman behind a door
bearing three strong locks in an at
tempt to hold him till the police ar.
rived. but got out and was leaping
the back fence when Hood spied
him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
T. r. OFF TO PLUNGE INTO
.a . DARK JUNGLE

/ cooks, and can bake bread, or roast
small game or joints with ovens
built in hole IN the ground.
But for other foods and methods
of cooking the Roosevelt party will
take an ingenious cooks box"
The box is 2 feet 6 inches long and
Is inches wide. 1t contains %
pounds of groceries for the day,
large kettle, frying pan with fold
! ing handle, grill with telescoping
handle, and saucepan for boiling
a large pudding or a round of meat.
Inside this pan are a fiat-lidded
kettle, with tea infuser, and also
also two neatly fitting cans for tea
and sugar. Also enamel or alumni
mum plates and dishes and a cooks
fork and spoon. Also nest of five
saucepans with lids, one within the
other, the same handle taking all
five.
Apart from his camping and
hunting outfit, Colonel Roosevelt
will take about % chops" A
chop is box of general provis-
ions, such as timed meat, flour,
jam, bacon, soap and all kinds of
dry goods. Each complete chop
weighs 60 pounds, and is one boys
load.
The medicine case, with its tab
loid remedies and surgical band
ages, Is another very important
item.
Other contrivances which make
for comfort are combined folding
pick and spade for trenching round
the tent in case of rain, folding
metal boot trees. hair clippers and
safety razors, BARRIERS being scarce
in Uganda; a portable weighing
balance, which enables one to give
figures to a skeptical public; a pat
ent pump filter, indispensable
where the water is thick and
muddy; mincing machine; an
alarm clock and a walking stick,
which, at the will of the owner,
can be turned into a stool, upon
which he can sit down to await the
arrival of the big game.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
CAN'T BLUFF THIS
SCHOOL NAM
(By United Press)

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, April g.
Resisting half the population OF
the town, which demands her re-
tirement as teacher of the johann
nesburg school. Miss Katherine F,
Coughlin is today entrenched in
her position more strongly than
ever through action of the other
half of the township coming to her
rescue with a petition asking Kern
county supervisors to retain her.
Recently she found the school.
house doors and windows closed
against her by the schol trustees
She hired hall nearby and opened
school,