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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-20
INSURGENTS GIVEN
THE CHILLY MITT

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec 90
An Arctic Brightness pervades the
White House these days toward the
class of representatives and senators
commonly termed insurgents. Warm
and balmy as the air may be outside
a genuine Cook-Peary atmosphere is
in evidence in the executive mansion
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hundred words. !"

nunufGu WUTUS.
go and find out for yourself, was
the answer The representative of the
newspaper went to Atlantic City and
shortly returned sadder and wiser
man. Miss Adams had declined the
front page.
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when the avowed opponents of the
Organization" show up.
One of the first of the insurgents to
experience the cold storage treatment
was Senator LaFollIxte of Wisconsin,
who, upon his arrival for the opening
of the session of congress called at the
White House to pay his respects to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-20

PAGE 8 WILL INTEREST EVERY
VOTER. READ FACTS FROM THE
CITY TAX ROLLS BEFORE YOU
VOTE,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-20
This
Week s
The Final Rush

The agitation for buying
early" this holiday season has
evidently been successful if We
may jndge by the business We
have done this past 10 DAYS. AMI
we want to thank our friends
who have done a lot of their
grocery buying early. If you
haven't done all that you could
do up to the present won't Won
plan at least a part of II for
this week. It's to your advant-
age as much as ours-better
service.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28

Who Killed the Baby?
Baby Bremerman of Washington was
killed by poisonous gas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Keeping Warm Inside.

This is a true story worth while.
want to retell the story briefly and with
/, out comment, because it needs no moral.
1t carries its own preachment.
This is the story:
It was a freezing wind that dashed itself
against the federal building In Chicago
and pred its way through the double
plate glass windows. rafting the sash
as If some giant fingers shook them.
The Judge on the bench was Judge Ken
esaw Landslide judge who imposed the
biggest fine in history on the Standard
OIL company.
Thee prisoner at the bar changed as
white SLAYER" was Matthew Aronson
When Aronson was called up for SEN
tence on a plea of guilty he was sorry
sight. His lips were still blue from the
cold of the Jail corridors, whence he was
brought. His tattered trousers tapped
about a pair OF badly worn shoes, and his
hands were red with frost.
Have you anything to say before SEN
tence should be passed on your"
Aronson with trembling lip told hard
luck story about being discharged a.
travelling man in Winnipeg because he
was too old. There he met a woman who
proposed thew should go to Chicago to-
gether to find work.
When the couple arrived in Chicago
Aronson failed to secure employment
overcoat, and in order to keep from starv-
ing he accepted money from the woman
He did not know how she was earning
the money until he was arrested. Tech
nicaly, he. admitted. he was guilty of
violating the immigration law. but he
was really guiltless However ne would
take his medicine like man.
IT believe your story" said the court
land will impose the minimum sentence
60 days in the house of correction
But
AS the deputy marshal was about to
lead Aronson back to the Jail Judge Lam
dis suddenly asked
"Aronson. where Is your overcoat?'
your honor. pawned 1t when I first
came to the city"
"Bailiff," said the Judge, "get mine and
give it to him."
"And now. gentlemen said the court
to the lawyers, "let us go on with the
next case
The afternoon of that day, when Judge
Lands adjourned his court, he boarded
the street car without an overcoat. And
when someone asked where his top coat
was Lands answered.
Note the beauty OF the answer that
went with the beautiful story
II used. it to light fire to keep warm
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Living as Jesus Would.

1t is easy to ridicule the movement OF
those young people of Cleveland, o., who
undertook to live for two weeks as Jesus
would IL he were face to face with mod
ern problems.
or the 1900 who pledged themselves none
fully succeeded.
But the fortnight of Jealous striving
toward an ideal was an experiment In
concrete righteousness that was well
worth while.
To err is human.
None of these young people attained
perfection. Some, starting out with hon
est hearts, early fell by the wayside
Others persevered, stumbled on and did
the best they could. Two-score of these
followers of the Christ told in a meeting
how. the effort had frightened and en-
nobled their lives
It is easy to say, 1.-THE ideal was too
high"
All ideals are too high for human reali-
cation. When an ideal is realized 1t is
no longer an ideal. When one ideal is
reached another and higher ideal takes
its place.
And thus does each new version lure
to brighter worlds and point the way.
The movement was successful 1t richly
paid the young men and women who
tried 1t.
The movement was helpful. Hundreds
have lived nobler and purer lives because
of It,
Ever striving toward an ideal. every ef-
fort for self-betterment richly pays tho
Individual and the community. Cleveland
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Is a better city today because the moral
standard has been raised.
Even individual disappointment In well
doing has its important lessons. Disap-
polntment reveals the weak spots in char
acter.
The vital thing in this Cleveland exper-
iment is this
In trying to live as Jesus would under
like surroundings a call was made upon
the finest and best that was In these
yosng people. They were crying to re-
spond to the loftiest demand that can be
made upon human beings.
And whatever happens under that high
call men and women are made better and
happier by earnest response to such
call e
We all have our dreams
But there are few of us who deliberately
go out to make our dreams come true.
That was the very thing the Cleveland
young people tried to do. They tried
to do great things, not dream them all
day long.
Let us who are content to dream and
hope and who are too cowardly to put
our dreams to the test be slow to criti-
else.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Is Woman Old at Forty?

A Chicago young womans club has
drawn the line of membership at 40 years
of age When member crosses that line
she becomes an honorary member only
Is a woman old at 40?
These Chicago women have partly an
swered that question. They fought val
iantly against being declared old, but they
were outvoted.
Whether or not woman is old at 40
depends
1t depends upon the woman. Some are
old at 30, others are young at 90. 1t is
not true that a woman is las old as she
looks" for some mature danes, by ways
that are cute and tricks that are wise
make themselves look like girls.
A bright old lady of 10 was asked her
age. She promptly replied, 49, After
ward she added, 1.-THE house 1 live in is
older than that"
Age is a thing of the spirit. not of the
flesh. To renew the spirit is to renew the
youth. Loss Of spirit Is loss of life. Old
age is loss of spirit.
That woman who has lost the zest of
life, whose youthful spirit has been
dulled. is old, whatever her years.
At 40 a woman should be at her best.
She has learned by actual experience the
things of life that are worth while. She
has had the chance to profit by her mis-
takes
If woman ever learns the philosophy
of life she has learned it at 40. She has
discovered the difference between the real
and the artificial, aud only the real en-
cages her attention.
The woman at 40 has found that certain
things are bound to happen and that she
cannot help their happening. And II she
has learned wisdom she has made up her
mind to take things as they come.
The woman of 40 should learn to look
for tho best of life. If she looks for the
best she will find it. If she looks for the
worst she will find that-and grow old
grleving about 1t.
The woman who is determined to keep
the fine edge of youthful endeavor and
the fine flush of youthful enthusiasm will
do It, She may be so or 90 or 70 years of
age, but a gray-haired, youthful optimist.
No, a woman is not old at 40-unless she
tries to be.
And the recipe for youthfulness is not
dress, nor stays, nor cosmetics. nor
wrinkle eradcators. 1t goes deeper.
She keeps young in soul.
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eminent to the civilization of the F'ilipi-
nos than to the work of making good
men and women in America.
Now
Every child in this republic deserves
to have a decent and healthful environ
ment, a good common school education
and a fair chance to make himself a
good citizen. Else the republic is not OPP
portunity.
And
When society neglects to provide that
much for the child and the child turns
out badly it is the fault of society.
In the face of this responsibility the
state has done scarcely anything. The
juvenile court was a beginning.
But the day will come-is coming-when
the home and the child will be the chief
concern of politics. The day is coming
when political platforms will declare for
the welfare of the home and the boys and
girls in the home!
The children's bureau is an entering
wedge.
The state, which depends upon the
home should not leave to the voluntary,
desultory and ineffective work of private
charity that which is its own chief con-
Germ.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28

Every company represented by us is specialist
in its line and when you place policy with US it is
written in company which insures exclusively
against the class of loss for which you desire protec-
ton Casualty insurance in an exclusively casualty
company. Boiler insurance in an exclusively boiler
nsuring company Bonds in an exclusively surety
company. Plate Glass insurance in an exclusively
plate glass company. Fire insurance in a company
noted for its prompt and liberal adjustments.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Some Plain Words.

Representative Parsons of New York
has introduced a bill in Congress provid-
ing for a department of the Interior TO
be called the children'ss bureau
The bureau is to investigate and report
concerning the welfare OF children and
child life.
Thank goodness.
Government is finally waking up to
the fact that such matters as infant
mortality, the birth rate, physical de-
generacy, orphanage, Juvenile courts.
child desertion, illegitimacy, dangers and
diseases of children of the poor-matters
pertaining to the home and children-are
as important as matters of finance and
tariff.
Take a leaf from the juvenile court Of
Judge Lindsey of Denver, one of the best
friends of childhood.
almost every day some young criminal
in my court says: The old man skipped
out and left ma to care for u.s.. or IS
hoys arrested for stealing brass from rail-
roads two-thirds had been deserted by
their fathers"
Note the heart cry OF this Judge:
1T am more interested in saving those
bovs who stole brass from the railroads
than IN regulation Of railroad rates"
The Judge Is right. The real problem
of government today are those or child
future. What avails law or economic
prosperity II we go on rearing young
criminals who break the law and hinder
prosperity?
This is a hard saying, but 1t is true:
Today more attention is paid by gov
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
RESPECT FOR LAW.
Wholesomey Powerful in the United
States.

Take the star performer of our recent
| storm and stress period-the railroad re-
bate, that darling of the muckraker.
When all is said and done it is rather
hard to work ourselves into a state Of
real honest indignation over the man who
took rebates 10 years ago. There were,
to be sure, laws against rebating; but so
there were laws against fishing on Sun
day. Relating was almost necessary,
probably in some lines, literally neces-
sary. The laws against rebating had not
yet become the crystalzation of the hab
it and thought of society The heart and
focused on them.
But when they are focused then those
laws become in very truth the rulers of
the game, says the March Appleton's.
The small players have to play accord
ing to the rules. The public feeling of un-
rest and of resentment toward the big
boys is that some of them seem to have
been quite willing to get around the rules.
and that does not seem fair. For the
whole theory OF the American republic.
the whole theory of respect for law and
the sanctity of the law is that we will let
men play the game on their honor that
we will not fill the field with a multitude
of policemen and soldiers and detectives,
but will make the rules known, and trust
largely to the players to play the game
like real sportsmen and to live up to the
Tules. The more you think of 1t the more
you will realize that the American ma
ton works on that principle.
OF course the day when everyone plays
according to the rules will be long time
coming. But there is a great deal more
of 1t here and now that we always give
credit for The great majority of bus
mess men do play according to the rules.
and so, we believe, do most railroad men
and most managers of trusts. In short.
from a pretty wide experience with all
kinds of men, we think that respect for
law is wholesomely powerful In the United
States. The Black Hand and the Night
Riders are dreadful and abnormal: but
when our excited friends pour out tons
of good printers ink In telling us of '.The
Trouble With the United States and
1.-THE American Dlsrespect for Law" we
feel like telling them to get up on a Hill
and take good, wide look.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Fair Warming to Kansas Hunters.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Kansas hunters who have been shoot
ing along the Nebraska line say
that just over the boundary in Bill Bry-
ans state certain farmer has grown
most awful tired of having his farm
tramped over by hunters. and he has
hung UP this Sign. on . couple of barrel
stavesi
Notist Trespassera VIII be perseouted
to the full sxtsnt Of nongrul dogs
which ain't nsvsr Ssen overiy soshabul
to strangers and enc dubbehbarl shotgun
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On Choosing a Wife.

On Choosing Wire.
"A OTHING is better established by
IN human experience than that, other
L things being equal. wife will
make or mar mans whole life.
Therefore the wisdom of careful
ehoice.
Firstly, as the preachers say
DO not expect to find a perfect wife.
AS the Irishman put it, she has never
been born and her mother is dead. Even
could you find the perfect wife she would
Soon become imperfect by association
with you.
But If you will permit plain speaking
there are some things that may be con-
bidered in the choice of wife.
Let us take the matter negatively.
Do not marry for mere beauty. Beauty
bf face and form are nothing without
beauty of character. If you can get both,
well, but external beauty without beau
fifnl inner spirit may prove a snare. Van
)ty is the weakness of external beauty
Ind vanity in wife Is menace to mari
tal happiness.
Do not marry for money.
II other essential qualities go with it.
money is no drawback. But money can
= >ot buy domestic happiness. and 1t may
pc the means of much strife Select n
wife who Is prudent and thrifty and she
will help you make your fortune.
Do not marry foolish woman.
A silly, superficial wife may easily ruin
The prospects of home There are many
ifficulties-especially in the earlier
bhases-of married life that require large
tonlmon sense and good judgment. The
Foolish woman Is a poor partner.
no, mi 1or-r4r q 10 mo nm
An indolent lounging girl is apt to
make a shiftless. slouchy wife whose
household will always be in disorder
Nothing so takes the heart out of a man
hs lazy wife.
Do not marry an unhealthy woman.
Marriage makes demands on physical
strength. The sickly, nervous girl is
likely to develop invalid wife, hus-
bands greatest handicap. No man has
, right to make a drudge of his wife,
but he cannot hope to succeed If his help
meet develops chronic illness.
Let us put the whole matter affirma-
fixely.
Choose a wife who Is wise, Industrious
healthy; wife who will help, wife
who will be kindly and patient, wife
who will grow in comradeship, wife
who will be gentle and generous and
sympathetic, and last but not least
wife who will be affectionate.
Commonplace qualities?
Surely. Nothing is said of brlliancy
Or social graces or ability to dress, or
conversational requirements.
These gifts are worth while If accom-
panied by the substantial qualities of
Gifehood. motherhood, womanhood.
Choose We.
Who Killed the Rahvo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Well Named.

From Eyerybody's Magazine.
In recent trial of 'bootlegger' in
western Kentucky witness testified that
he had purchased some squirrel whisky
from the defendant.
Squirrel whisky questioned the court
Eyes, you know, that kind that makes
you talk nutty and want to climb trees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
DHc0RD,S VITAL
III RE ORATHVE

Restores Mems Vitality.
Price 81. At all druggists. Always ON
hand mt Collier Drug Co., 100 North
goth street. Mail orders solicited.
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OA AOAhNAAH9 A1HH q
AS of December 81, 1908.

inside of me the spirit of charity that
life In a big city tends to freeze"
And who shall say the Judge was not
warm that day both outside and inside?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28

which amt loaded with sofy-pillers: dam
il amt getin' tired of this hell raisin'
on my property.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN A. NYE
Copyright, 1909 By American Press Association

The Bremerman family was poor. 1t
used a cheap gas stove which leaked and
poisoned the family. All recovered except
the baby.
Investigation showed that the poisonous
gas was carbon monoxide. 1t was not
coal gas, the merchantable gas, at all.
1t was a mixture of 20 per cent coal gas
with product known as carbureted wa
ter gas.
You see, it is cheaper to make gas of
water than out of coal. So long as no
one makes objection the water gas serves
the same purpose as coal gas-and the
gas company gets bigger dividends.
But
The mixture of the two gases produces
a percentage of carbon monoxide, one Of
the most deadly gases known to chemists.
So that the people Of washington are
receiving through the gas pipes into their
homes a deadly poison. This poison does
not ''asphyxiate" people, as doesN coal
gas 1t strikes them down suddenly when
they get Whit of It. If the people hap
pen to be poor, like the Bremermans, and
there is leak in the pipes or the stove,
there is a tragedy.
Well
Who killed the Bremerman baby?
The Washington Gas Light company
contracted with the Bremermans to give
them pure coal gas. Presumably they
have been cut off.
Now, IL after making the contract the
gas light company substituted a cheaper
product which was poisonous, common
sense would suggest that the gas COM
pany killed the baby.
The department of justice says no.
It says there Is no liability on the part
Of the company for the results of Its car
bon monoxide. II the poison killed the
Rremerman baby-why, It must have been
a mysterious dispensation of Divine Prov
idence.
Because, say the lawyers, Congress did
not say the company should not make
and sell this poison (sic), therefore-why
therefore the company had the undoubted
right to poison Bremerman's baby
But nevertheless. say the lawyers, tho
company did not kill the baby
Who, then, did kill the child?
The parents, because their cheap gas
overloaded, or the company that botehed
the stove in the making, or the gas filters
or Congress-?
Who killed Bremerman's baby?
The name of its murderer is Greed.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-23
MURDERER UNDER ARREST
Man Who Killed August Bayer Of
Herman, Minn., Captured.

The man who shot and killed Au-
gust Bayer of Herman, this state,
near Keegans lake, just outside OF
Minneapolis, was apprehended in a
peculiar manner and when arrested
confessed to the crime. He gave his
name as Androic Gombac.
In touring car two detectives had
been securing the outskirts of the
city when the machine broke down.
Going to the home of a farmer nearby
for assistance they were told by the
farmer that he had Just given a man
of the description of the murderer a
ride. The detectives promptly aban-
doned their machine and ran down
the road and from a hill spied their
man just as he was turning into an
other farmhouse. The officers entered
this house and accused the man of
the crime. He made a clean breast
of everything He said robbery was
his only motive and that he had shot
Bayer when he tried to get away from
him. He said he knew the bullet had
hit his victim, but he did not know he
had killed Bayer. He sold his revol-
ver in a pawn shop in this city and
was trying to make his escape by the
highways when oyertaken.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-23
BROKE THE RECORD.
Farmers Institute Is the Largest
Ever Held.

The farmers institute held here on
Thursday had an aggregate attend
ance of over 800, there being little
less than 400 at the morning session,
and considerably over 400 at the after
noon session. The interest manifest
ed in the institute was remarkable,
and it was not only the largest insti-
tute ever held in Morris, but Conduc-
tor Mcconnell informs us that it was
the largest held by the corps this
year.
The success of the institute is a
credit both to the farmers who at
tended and to the corps who conduct
ed the Institute. 1t shows that the
farmers realize the Importance of
learning all they can for the better
ment of their vocation, and it also
shows that the lecturers are able to
say things that appeal to practical
men.
At noon the Morris Improvement
Union furnished free dinner to the
visitors at the Merchants Hotel.
A synopsis of some of the most i'm
portant points made at the meeting
will be published in The Tribune next
week.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-23
knew that my course might be criti-
cised, bit also because of my respect
and admiration for the President.
Very truly yours,
A. J. VoLsTEAD.
No. 3 to Change Time.

Willmar Republican Gazette: Ar
rangements are being made for a ra-
dical change in the running time of
No. 8, the coast train which now
le aves st. Paul at three p. m. and
runs over the Willmar division. Under
the change, which goes into effect
shortly, this train will leave st. Paul
late in the evening (probably about
1O:3O) and will be fast mail train to
the coast cities. 1t is understood the
change gives the railroad company
the handling Of a $4,000 per month
mail contract from Uncle Sam the
mail being picked up from fast mail
train from Chicago and started west
without delay after the arrival in ST..
Paul of the Chicago train. 1t is said
the running time of No. 3 will be cut
down seven hours between st. Paul
and Seattle, which will make the
train ''fyer" indeed.
The change will not be pleasing to
people along the Willmar division,
for No. is popular train under the
present schedule. 1t leaves the cities
at a convenient time and is fast
train over the division. Then, too, it
brings the evening papers to many of
the towns, a convenience which will
be cut off by the change, and bring
the papers to subscribers day later.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-23
President Helps Orphans.

Hundreds of orphans have been
helped by the President of The Indus
trial and Orphans Home at Macon,
Ga, who writes: "We have used
Electric Bitters in this Institution for
nine years. It has proved most ex-
celient medicine for stomach, liver
and kidney troubles. We regard it as
one of the best family medicine on
EARTH" It invigorates the vital or
gans, purifies the blood, aids diges-
tion, creates appetite. To strengthen
and build up thin, pale, weak children
or run down people it has no equal.
Best for female complaints. Only SOC
at ]. R. Kruger.