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The Coconino sun., 1909-09-10
DR. COOK FINDS NORTH POLE
American at Last Lands at North Pole and Returns Comments of Citizens on the Discovery.

and unalded and recently made an authentic announcement to that affect. Beyond a mere sentiment there is no especial scientific bene- fits to be derived from the discov- cry. Yet it is an interesting dis covery after all these years of ex- petitions, loss of lives and hard ships.
 Since it is of general interest many people have been interviewed concerning it and might have given the following interesting inter- views:
 Dr. Henry Cooper: "l regret very much to learn that Dr. Cook has at last discovered the hiding place of the north pole. for these expeditions were splendid summer reading. l know Dr. Cook well and am sure if he found the north pole he would mention it" Wm. Robbins: l am really much pleased that Cook or whatever his name is has discovered the north pole but really. have been so busy lately that l did not know it had been lost.
 Mr. Pinchot: Bully! we will call it the N. P. National forest. "
 Wm. Beeson: "l am sure it is too far away to affect the wood business here anyhow"
 Paul Coffin: 1 am delighted. Nothing has pleased me so much since the last race matinee. l thought at first it might have been the pole l lost in the first heat. But later have been advised of its true character and understand that it had no Mark K" on it so it could not possibly belong to me. "
 Mayor Keller: "Dr. Cook should be highly complemented on not con- tracting frigidis feetis in his long walk. Little things like this al- ways help to build up place. /"
 Julius Herman: 'I desire to ex- press my heartfelt thanks to Dr. Cook; for a long time was much depressed and had grave fear that it might forever be lost. ." Walter Wellman. twho long ago discovered the value of the lost pole as an advertising scheme) This proves exclusively that was right and l regret very much that my typewriter got out of repair just at the time it did, since l fully expected discovering it some after noon after office hours and had an article all written to that affect. Adam Molenpah: "I ain't sur prised a bit: I knew the place right where it could be found, but Bab- bitt Bros. wouldn't let me go and I couldn't leave this weather all alone; yep"
 H. R. Heckathorn: ''The dis overy may be all right, l don't know; l don't like the roads in that direction anyhow"
 Jim Hance: 'I don't know Dr. Cook; l don't think he ever lived here-which end of the pole was in the ground and who put the durned thing up anyhow"
 Clyde Thompson" l haven't heard much about north poles yet, but if 1 didn't have to go to school ] I'd go and see some of them some time.
 John Allen Esq: Since the north pole is so seldom discovered, | would suggest we celebrate the event properly with a badger fight"
 Bill Alsop: Tt may be a fine pole all right but you'd ought to have seen the barber pole l owned back in Kansas once; I---".
The Coconino sun., 1909-09-10
A Master of Spanish.

Miss Gracia Fernandez. the charming lady who taught Spanish in the Northren Arizona Normal school during the summer session, departed Saturday for Tempe to teach in the normal at that place the coming term. This is Miss Fernandez third year as a member of the faculty of the Tempe Nor nal. which is an indication of the esteem in which she is held by that institution.
 Miss Fernandez is truly a master of the Spanish language, which is the most virile, if the expression may be used. of the daughters of the Latin tongue, and which also reflects the character and achieve ments of a people once welding a world-power. The pupils at the summer session of our normal have therefore been exceedingly fortu- nate in having for their Spanish teacher one who has lived in Span- ish-speaking countries. and as re- suit acquired a rare fluency in the liquid tongue of Cervantes. Miss Fernandez is of Spanish percentage. and in her own personality at once betrays the artistic bent of the Spanish character. and it does not take the Spanish scholar long to discover that she is we'll versed in the classics of Spanish literature, its lyrical and dramatic poetry, in which there is such a wealth of treasures in the highest forms of poetic and artistic manifestations.
 Truly the study of Spanish under such teacher is its own reward.
 What will probably be the first divorce suit of it's kind ever before the courts in this part of the terri tory will be that of Naomi Sippi. a full blooded Apache Indian woman, against Myron Sippi. of equal y aristocratic blood. which was filed in Globe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
GERMANY Is A MODEL

Forest experts of all nationalities
agree that Germany is in an en-.
Yiable position as regards her lumber
supply. No nation in the world makes
more thorough utilization of its for.
est resources.
The German empire has approx
mately 100000 acres of forest, OF
which 3l.9 per cent belongs to the
state. Many years ago that country
awakened to the necessity of apply
ing the same methods of business
economy to the management of its
forest lands that are applied to its
operations in trade, and the result i:
that Germany's practice of forestry
has served as model for all Other
countries.
German forestry is remarkable in
three ways-it has always led in
scientific thoroughness and now it is
working out results with an eXactness
almost equal to that of the labora
tory; it has applied this scientific
knowledge with the greatest technical
suCCcsS, anu III HAS SOlNeu Uue pIOU
lem of securing through long serie;
of years an increasing forest output
and increasing profits at the same
time.
Starting with forests which were ii
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 proportion
of saw timber secured from the aver
age cut, which means, in other words
that through the practice of forestry
the timber lands of Germany are OF
three times better quality today thar
when no system was used.
In little over half a century il
increased the money returns from al
average acre of forest seven fold, ant
today the forests are in better con
dition than ever before.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
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WEAK men FREE
Send Name and Address Today-you
Can Have II Free and Be Strong
and viuorOus,

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without any additional help or medicine
that 1 think every man who wishes
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quickly and quietly. should have a
copy. So l have determined to send a
copy of the prescription free of charge.
in plain, ordinary sealed envelope, to
any man who will write me for it,
This prescription comes from a ply
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men, and / am convinced it is the sur
est-acting combination for the cure of
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discouraged with repeated failures may
stop dragging himself with harmful
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

Tt was in 1896 that his connection
with his fathers work ceased, and on
the urgent representations of promi
nent citizens throughout the country
he inaugurated the new movement
which developed into the Volunteers
I of America. 1t has been repeatedly
stated and is still believed by many
that the cause of General and Mrs
Ballington Booths leaving the Saliva
tion Army was simply family quar-
rel. This, however, General Booth en-
phatically denies, adding emphasis to
his denial by stating that nothing
could be further from the facts.
er and son were those of deep-seated
principles and nothing else. Upon
this statement both agree and when
General William Booth visited the I'm
tied States two years ago, he said
nothing had panied him more than the
demonstrations put upon the motives
of mis- reparation from his son in their
life work. Under the energetic, prudent
and capable leadership of General and
Mrs. Booth, the work is now represent
ed in over 100 cities in the United
States by some 500 commanding Off
GERS, who address congregations aggre-
eating nearly four millions of people
during the year. Besides the evangel-
zeal effort thus put forth, in many of
the largest cities philanthropical and So
Geological branches of the work have
been established, notably the Volnn.
teers of America hospitals and the
Volunteer Prison league, which, from
its inception, has been under the spe-
cial guidance of Mrs. Booth
There are certain well -deined
PRINCIPLES of conduct to which Presi-
dent Booth attributed much of his
success in life, and he formulates
them as follows: Abstemious habits
love of truth and Justice. He has
never used liquor or tobacco in any
shape or form, nor has he ever expert
enced the fascination of games of
chance. Although the engrossing
nature of his public work has pre-
vented him from giving any attention
to 'sports" ne is by no means a
gloomy recluse, his bright genial tenn
permanent winning him friends wher-
ever he goes. On the platform he is
eloquent and forceful in speech and
the success with which he moves large
audiences of widely different charac-
ter from humor to pathos is one of
the best evidences of his ability in
this direction. He is very fond of
music and singing and has composed
a number of hymns, several of which
are constantly sung in all parts of the
world, and of which the most famous,
no doubt is, "The Cross Is Not Great
er Than His Grace"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
GENERAL DARLINGTON BOOTH

Where the greater emergency ex-
lists, there should the greater remedy
be found" is the adage which inspired
General Ballington Booth, the subject
of today's biographical sketch, to start
the Volunteers of America thirteen
years ago, with the aid of Mrs Maud
Ballington Booth. Selecting for the
field of operation the extreme southern
portion of New York City, where are
herded together not only the denziens
of slumdom, but that vast and in
creasing army of mechanics who keep
in perpetual motion the while of ten
thousand wheels, General Booth, who
had been actively associated with the
Salvation army, withdrew from the
great institution founded by his father
General William Booth, and organized
the work which helped so many desti-
tute and helpless poor, tiding them
over temporary difficulty.
General Ballington Booth is the third
son of General William Booth, head of
the Salvation Army of the world, who
iCSChOiy SClCDld CCQ CiSuUicUH III
day. When he founded the Volunteers
of America ne and Mrs. Booth in
tended that it should be a national
movement devoted to philanthropic
effort, and the record of the work
shows how unsparingly they have con-
centrated their energies toward the
naturalization of their original idea
General Booth came to the United
States in 1888 after a successful term
in Australasia as administrative head
of large evangelistic body, in some
respects resembling the Volunteers of
America. His object in settling in
America was to take command of the
branch of the work of which his ia
Their was head in the United States.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
ONE CAUSE OF DIVORCES

Statistics obtained in the United
States census bureau 60 to show that
nineteen per cent of all the divorces
granted in this country during tine
two decades between 1887 and 1906
inclusive. Inasmuch as the present
divorce rate is about one in every
dozen marriages we get proportion
of one home in sixty-one wrecked by
drink. The detailed figures are as
follows: Drunkenness was the sole
cause of divorce in 36,516 cases OIL
SO per cent. 1t was direct cause
in combination with others in 1875
cases, or l.9. 1t was an indirect OF
contributory cause in l30,2S7 cases, OF
1873 per cent. The bureau admits that
these figures are not inclusive, repre-
senting only the more fragrant and
palpable instances, and that larger per-
centages would really be more accu.
rate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
CHRISTIANITY AND BUSINESS

Can the principles of Christianity be
successfully applied in the conduct OF
business? asks The Minneapolis Jour.
nal. Is it possible to buy and sell
goods, to barter and trade, without
violating the golden rule? The ex,
perience of the Christian Business as.
ISOLATION, which has operated, in Lon
don, green grocer's shop, a boot re-
pairing shop, and laundry, and two
farms near by, is not as yet con-
elusive. 1t is true that the association
has had to close up the green gro
GERS shop because competition is SC
keen, and our Christian principles will
not permit us to resort to the cut
ting practices adopted by our competi.
tors" But the boot shop and the
laundry, as well as the two farms, are
still being operated "on Christian
principles"
We cannot but think that this Eng
lish experiment has been given UP
for insufficient reasons. Competition
even when it is very keen, is by nc
means necessarily un- Christian. There
is honest, fair competition in many
lines of business. What is needed III
business is more of that sort of com.
petition and less of the unfair, under
handed, un-Christian sort. Cutting
prices to get business may be per
fectly justifable expedient. Although
Christ drove the money changers from
the temple, it was not because theil
traffic was essentially wrong, but be-
cause they chose the wrong place fol
it.
The Christian Business association
may be able to conduct it's farms
without prices, but success in agricul
ture in contrast with failure in bust
ness will not, therefore, condemn bust
ness as vocation impossible to q
sincere Christian. In short, one feels
inclined to view with considerable
doubt the associations claim that il
has demonstrated the impossibility Of
selling green groceries con Christian
principles The doubt engendered is
as to whether these principles are
indeed Christian, or whether they are
not rather a set of supersensitive and
super refined principles wrongfully as
cribed to the gentle Galilean.
This is subject in which Brother
Thayer of this city is deeply inter:
ested. This gentleman has frequently
asked the questions: Can man dc
business under our present system and
still be Christian? or words to that
effect Brother Thayer is of the opinion
that strenuonsity of competition
in these piping days when every mar
chaseth hard after the dollars is APT
to drive the teachings of Christ out
of the rear door of the gigantic mer
camille establishments and permit the
devil to remain in charge of the count
ing ROOM
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
WILL COMPLETE THE TASK

With the close of the canvass last
evening, the subscriptions to the Ia
dies seminary fund amounted to more
than twenty seven thousand dollars
There should be no difficulty experience
ed in raising the small balance that
is necessary to bring the fund up to
the required $4,000 These subscriptions
should be obtained by tomorrow even
ing. No committee has worked more
faithfully than that which has So
licited for the ladies' seminary. Their
labors have not been in vain. That
the $4,000 will be raised goes with
out the saying. The liberality and
generosity of the enterprising citizens
of Mankato is well known, and they
accomplish things, once they set them
selves to a task.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
An APPEAL FOR FREE TRANSPORTATION

The National Liberal immigration
league has just issued an appeal on
behalf of free transportation. This ap-
peal is framed in the following lang
uage: "While our congested eastern
cities are overrun with thousands of
sturdy laborers without employment
and often without bread, need for
these same laborers is felt in other
parts. There is a bureau of informa-
tion in Washington which can furnish
to almost every one of the unemployed
the names of several firms where their
work is needed. Were they to go to
such localities, it would be a benefit
both to them and to, their employers.
but they lack the means to pay the
travelling expenses, and generally are
suspicious ofnany offers of employers
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

his life, he names in derision, Rubber
necks." That is the New Workers.
name for us when we come seeking
wisdom in New York
He calls all of his country, outside
of New York, provincial and the
piteous thing about that is: he honest
ly believes it. If it were not for our
mourning his condition, we might with
undimmed joy accept the compliment,
for it is not in the metropolis but in
the provinces that the morality, tine
same enthusiasm and the patriotism
of country lodge. 1t is the women
of the provinces who make it So"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
WHO WILL BE CENSOR

Arraigning New York, caustically
for lack of old-fashioned goodness OF
even decency, Booth Harrington, play
wrigha, author and cosmopolite, de-
clares in current magazine that the
woman of the farm, town and small
city now is the intellectual censor OF
that nation and adds: SIN her hands
the nations moral health will remain
sound" For its ethics, or lack OF
them, and its provincialism New York's
type is mercilessly fayed and cauter-
lied, also ridiculed.
'..The ethical and intellectual censor,
ship of the United States" he says
"lies with the woman of the province
the Country Girl she might proudly
prefer to be called. the censorship is
where it should be-in the hands of
Molly Stark. While it remains there
the nations moral health will remain
sound. When it passes elsewhere it
will be time to emigrate-for the cnil-
dren's sake.
GA theatrical manager of my ac-
quaintance will sometimes say of a
play, 1T won't do for Chillicothe, Ohio
/ don't want it, He declares that
Chillicothe gives his productions an
audience of wider culture and keener
intelligence than he finds in New York
Chillicothe, he asserts, still cares fol-
Shakespeare, and he goes ON to say
that Chillicothe knows who Shakes
peare was, which, in his opinion, Broad
way does not. 'Chillicothe', says this
manager, has time to think. Broad
way, he observes, will often crowd to
an indecent performance: Chillicothe
will not ;-the women of Chillicothe
won't let it. And the plays that he
rejects because they won't do for Chill,
licothe, Ohio are the salacious plays
the cheap, the decadent and the stu
pid.
"Certain influences detrimental tc
the. growth of particularly dur.
large cities, and the most potent is
boulevardism, or the concentration OF
the residents whole interest in the
passing events of his own locality. II
may be defined as neighborhood alb
sorption without the neighborhood's re.
lation to the rest of the universe. Thus
the boulevardier is gossip in little
the loafer of the court house fence.
"Outside of the orient, Paris-of all
great cities-most limits itself to it.
self; after Paris, New York. The
New Yorker, like the Partisan, has
little real interest in anything that
does not affect what lies within his
own field of vision. The New Workers.
ignorance of the United States is no.
torious. He is mere burgner and his
town is walled town. Within the
walls, he keeps to his own guild, his
own daily walk; he is suspicious and
will not even take the air of an even
ing save in the company of tried
friends: he knows little of his own
town.
1t is only the stranger within mis-
gates-the tourist from Chillicothe
who studies the mint, the Metropolitan
museum and the Navy Yard. Last
year rumor was floated that ma.
tive of Manhattan had visited Bed
loes Island: personally I cannot be-
lieve it. The New Yorker is provin.
cial even in his own province. Nay, he
scorns a wider knowledge of it, and
the investigators real travellers who
acquire more information about New
York in week than the native in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
to advance these expenses on their

to advance these expenses on their
wages.
If the bureau of information could
give to unemployed laborers trans
portation to where their labor is in
demand, thousands of them would be
saved from want, and they would, on
the other hand, benefit the country
through their labor. Immigrants ar
irving here could also be directed where
they have relatives or where their
labor is needed, but they cannot af-
ford to pay the cost of transportation
to those localities.
Free transportation will greatly con-
tribute to the solution of this prob
lem. The Argentine Republic furnishes
immigrants with one weeks hospitality
and with free railroad transportation
to any part of that country. Other
South American governments offer SIM
liar inducements. What such repub-
lies, with their scanty means, are do
ing, our country, the wealthiest in the
world, can certainly accomplish. The
burden which such a provision would
entail upon the federal treasury would
be more than compensated by the
benefit which it would bring about.
We request all organizations and in
dividuals that are in favor of meas
ure for the proper distribution of i'm
migrants, to send resolutions or letters
to that effect to their state and fed
eral representatives., and to kindly no.
tify the league when they do so.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30
Was a Normal Graduate.

Announcement is made of the death
of Miss Clara Haugen, nineteen years
of age, which occurred on Saturday,
July "a, at her home in Edgerton,
MINI. Miss Haugen graduated from
the fve-year advanced course at the
Mankato normal school last November,
and has since taught in the high school
at Echo, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

There are whole lot of men who
are very busy trying to "save the ma
ton" that could aid their country more
effectively by answering promptly the
call of the grain fields.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

The Duluth News Tribune declares
that any person who will carry a
gun contrary to law is an undesirable
citizen. ~
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

Tammany is not making noise like
one who would rejoice over Theodore
Rooseyelt's election as mayor of New
York
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

This is Governor Johnson's birthday
He is forty-eight years old.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30

The Minnesota Baptist summer as
sembly has opened it's session at Round
Lake. The program will continue two
weeks. a