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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

The farmers of Minnesota who use
Saltwater binding twine are in luck
this season in being on the right side
of a corner in the sisal market. At
present prices raw sisal would cost
as much as the farmers have con-
tracted to pay for the manufactured
article, but thanks to the foresight
of Manager sWolfer, the state has
enough on hand to fill its contracts
without having to buy for this sea-
son, SO that the Minnesota farmer is
getting his Irvine made for nothing,
paying only the wholesale price of
the fiber it is made from.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Taxpayers who were inclined to
vince last month over the amount
they were required to dig up for
taxes might do worse-for instance.
if they lived in Japan they would be
required to pay around ten per cent
on real property valuation, from ten
to twenty per cent on income if they
had one, and for all imported articles
duties that make Uncle Sam s. sched-
ule look pretty small. Yet the pa
triotic Japs keep smiling under the
governments assurances that the
war taxes will only last thirty years.
A japanese editor declares that the
people Of Japan are performing the
financial miracle Of giving up 80 per
cent of their net income without
sayi ing a word about it. That is not
the way Americans pay taxes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
The Telephone Girl.

Vernon. Tex, Call: The telephone
girl sits still in her chair and listens
to voices from everywhere. She
hears all the gossip, she learns all
the news, she knows who is happy
and who has the blues; she knows all
our joys, she knows every girl who
is chasing the boys: she knows OF
our troubles, she knows Of our strife,
she knows every man who talks
mean to his wife; she knows every
time we are out with the boys, she
hears the excuses each fellow en-
ploys; she knows every woman who
has dark past, she knows every man
who is inclined to be fast; in fact,
there's secret beneath each saucy
curl of that quiet, demure looking
telephone girl. If the telephone
girl told US all that she knows it
would turn half our friends into Bit
terest foes; she could SOW the small
wind that would soon be a gale, en-
gulf us in trouble and land us in
Jail; she could let go a story which,
gaining in force, would cause half
our wives to sue tor divorce; she
could get all our churches mixed up
in fight and turn all our days into
sorrowing night; in fact. she could
keep the whole town in a stew If
she'd tell tenth part of the things
that she knew. Oh, brother, now
doesn't it make your head whirl
when you think what you owe to the
telephone girl
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
Weston, 0cedn-tO- Ocean Walker,

Said recently: when you feel
down and out, feel there is no use
living, just take your bad thoughts
with you and walk them off. Before
you have walked a mile things will
look roster Just try it, Have
you noticed the increase in walking
of late in every community? Many
attribute to it the comfort which
Aliens Foot-Ease, the antiseptic
powder to be shaken into the shoes.
gives to the millions now using it.
AS Weston has said, 1T has real
merit" Il cures tired, aching feet
while you walk. 10000 testimonials.
Order 25c package today Of any
druggist and be ready to forget you
have feet. A trial package Of AL
lens Foot-Ease sent free. Address
Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09


Count Zeppelin's experiences with
his airship, which he was unable to
guide to the port he started for, at
fords another proof of the fact that
was brought out by the exploit of
Darius Green-that it is a good deal
easier to go up in the air than to
come down again safely. The popu-
lar song, Il don't know where I'm
going but Pm on my way" ought
to be a favorite one with most of
the aviators.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Emperor Williams financial straits
must attract fresh human sympathy
for this very human monarch. I'm
able to stretch his meager four mil
lions a year around his living ex-
penses he strikes brother monarch
for a loan. Francis Joseph asks
coldly, "Where's that million | let
you have last year," What wife of
like experience cannot shed tears of
fellow feeling for the nonplussed
war lord? What man does not feel
the ice between himself and the
melt at the thought of Will
liam Hohenzollern standing off the
butcher. At such time one could
almost call him Bill" When last
year the kaiser was called down for
talking too much the world first be-
gan to view him as truly a brother,
a man with weaknesses like our own.
The thought Of the man bleaching
his last years straw hat for lack of
oroJ;t with Tho boIoor6ocbor cooy,,c,
like finishing touch to his popular
ity.-Lincoln Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

The U. S. Brewers association,
recently in session at Atlantic City,
devoted considerable time to discus
sing ways and means for reforming
the saloons of this country. The
people have taken hand in reform
ing several thousands of them re-
Gently in way that the brew
ers do not approve Of, and the peo-
pie are pretty hard proposition to
buck against.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Representative Volstead has an
nounced his intention to again in
troduce his bill providing for govern
ment supervision of the issuance of
stocks and bonds of railroads en-
gagged in interstate commerce,
which was introduced and failed of
passage last congress. The measure
is an important one, providing as it
did for the approval of the inter-
state commission before such secur-
tiles can be issued.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Columbia University specialists
have taken pains to correct popu-
lar notion that cancer is commune
cable by contact. One of them
writes that you can breathe cancer,
wallow in cancer, handle cancer with
cut hands, and not be in the least
danger of contracting the disease,
simply because cancer is not a germ
disease.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Ex-Mayor Smith. 'de Bobs" of
St. Paul, after nearly fifty years Of
Office holding, warns young men
against entering politics as a pro-
fession. Good advice, but it will do
little good. Men will work harder
for an apparently easy political job
than they could be induced to do
for any other reward
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

1t is reported that Minneapolis is
soon to absorb another able country
editor-Rude of the Dawson Sentl-
nel-and that Theodore Christianson.
a graduate of the academic and law
departments of the State University,
is to succeed him. 1t will take a
bright man to fill Rude's shoes, and
we are glad to learn that the Senti-
mel is to have we'll equipped man as
editor
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

The late H. H. Rogers. standard
oil multi-millionaire, missed great
opportunity twhen he dictated his
will. He is entitled to credit for
dispensing during his lifetime
number of benefactions without
publicity. notably through Booker
Washington for the benefit of the
colored race, and there was reason
for expecting that in deyising his
immense wealth for distribution af-
ter death he would lay up his treas
ure where they would do maximum
of good. The reading of the will
shows that all of his immense estate
exceptea few minor requests to indi-
viduals and interests in his native
town. will be divided between the
members of his family. in trust,
so that Mrs. Rogers will have no
power to be the almoner of her hus-
bands wealth in the same way that
Mrs. Sage is making her husbands
winnings in Wall street a power for
good. Keeping in mind what has
been done with inherited millions by
the scions of other millionaires, the
prospect of the Rogers millions ever
doing much good is not encouraging.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
Seeks Data About the Minnesota River.

A Washington special states that
Representative Davis has written the
Minnesota River Valley league to
supply him at once with data Of the
commercial value of the proposed
improvement to the Minnesota river
from Fort Smelling to Big Stone
Lake, Trade bodies in St. Paul and
Minneapolis will be asked to cooper
ate, so the engineering board, in
Washington. now reviewing the sur
veys and favorable recommendation
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

The Candy News man would speed
the day when old Dobbin is given a
rest and every farmer and his family
may joyously go chug-chugging
through the landscape in the best
benzine buggy in the land. This
will put the farmer next to all the
conveniences of city life without its
heavy tax on nerves and pocketbook
and absence of country air and So
cial freedom.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Oar S. Hall of Renville county is
likely to get his old job as Indian
agent at White Earth again, for a
season, the Indians having asked for
his return to manage the distribu-
ton of the allotments for the tribe.
Congressman Stevenson has recon-
mended his appointment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
BETTER ROADS AND FEWER WEEDS.

An excellent suggestion on road
improvement is advanced by the
Rock County Herald, which calls at
tention to the waste of good land en-
tailed by making roadways sixty feet
wide when only ten feet and usually
half of that is ordinarily passable
for vehicles. AS the Herald argues,
the tendency in cities and progress
sive towns today is to reduce the
roadbed to actual needs and boule-
ward or turf the balance on either
side of avenues or streets, in the in
terest of economy, good roads and
beauty. Luverne has already
worked to this plan with the most
satisfactory results, and now the
Herald is advocating that if streets
thirty feet in width are wide enough
to accommodate the traffic in a city,
roads of this width certainly ought
to besamply large enough to accom-
modate the much lighter traffic on
our country roads. With land stead
lily increasing in value, beyond
doubt every farmer would be willing
to purchase at a fair price the strip
of land eighteen feet wide on two
sides of his farm, and to move his
fence, if he has one, out to the new
line.
There are one thousand miles of
public roadway in Rock county and
if the reduction of the width of the
roadway suggested were made it
would add approximately 1850 pro-
ducing acres to the farms in the
county. At $50 per acre, which is
low price for agricultural land in
Rock county, this land would bring
1925, 900. This money should, Of
course, be converted into road inn
provement fund and would give 1925
for the improvement Of every mile
of road in the county. With this
sum it would probably be possible to
rebuild in a permanent manner all
Of the roads in the county and in a
large measure solve the problem of
good roads, and moreover, thereaf-
ter greatly reduce the taxation for
improvements. In this way the
purchaser Of the land would derive
two-fold benefit by the addition thus
made to his farm-from the crops
that could be grown on the land,
and from the saying in his taxes for
road purposes. "
Redwood county has almost twice
the area of Rock county with only
twelve townships), and consequently
the above argument, carried to its
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

The peddlers license law passed by
the last session of the legislature has
been held unconstitutional by the
district court at Winona. The law
was pushed by the retail dealers and
was intended to put peddlers out of
business. but in making exceptions
so as to permit merchants to carry
on their order taking it is the opinion
of the court that the law is defect
i've. F. R. Mudeking was charged
with peddling without license, and
began habeas corpus proceedings,
which resulted in Judge Snow order
ing his discharge, holding that the
act violates the constitution of Min
nesota, and so far as it relates to
peddlers, is of no effect, and there
fore the detention of Mudeking is il
legal. Judge Snow holds the act I'M
constitutional because it eXempts
from license all those who sell ar
ticles which they themselves grow
or produce, and because it exempts
permanent merchants who solicit
orders for the sale of their goods in
the county in which they reside and
in adjoining counties from license,
while all other persons offering
goods for sale for future or present
delivery must have a license.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
BY JAMES AIKEN

An Ohio woman who claimed that
she saw George Washington. when
a child, died the first of this month
at the age of lis years, and her
longevity is attributed to a daily di-
ct of onions. After lis years of on
ions the old girl ought to be glad to
die
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

There is really some basis for the
suggestion advanced by the Adrian
Democrat, that it is much easier for
a father to support ten children
when they are young than it is for
ten grown up children to support
one father when he is old.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

of Major Skunk may be convinced
that the expense involved will be
more than offset by the benefits ac-
cruing from the improvement.
Mr.. Davis has conferred with his
colleagues, Messrs. Volstead and
Hammond. who are locally interest
ed, and the three will press the mat
ter before the engineering board.
The Minnesota river supplies 40 per
cent of the water for the Mississippi
river. Nearly one million acres of
land in southern Minnesota are con-
verted into marshes by overfiows
from the Minnesota. The improve
ment proposed will reclaim the land.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

Pioneer Press: With hall at
Omaha actually lighted up by 1000
incandescent lamps, kept in a BRILL
ant. steady glow by a wireless cur
rent from a plant five miles away
with electricians prodding the navy
department for permission to install
a wireless apparatus which shall pro-
pei its warships, anywhere on the
Atlantic, by currents in Washington
and with others offering to run rail
road trains in the same manner,
without wires surely we are on the
eve Of tremendous doing in the
wireless" way. What must be the
effect Of these inventions on the de-
velopment of the water power of the
country? If that power can be
transmitted for long distances with
out wires, it would seem that the
cost of utilizing it must be very con-
siderably reduced.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

logical conclusion, would mean "a
diversion of eight or nine thousand
acres in Redwood county, from the
growing of weeds to the production
of valuable crops.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09

editor.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
LOFTY VINEYARDS.
Those of Cinque Terre, on Coast of
Italy, on High Precipices.


The publisher OF THE American Wine
Press after visit in Italy writes from
Florence:
''The steepest vineyards I'm all Europe. il
not In all the world. are situated on tie
northwest coast OF Italy. have seen
grape vines growing in many countries
and in many queer places. but nowhere
have 1 ever seen vineyards located Ike
those on the seacoast between Leyanto
and SpezZia.
The vines in some places along the
Rhine grow on very steep hilsidss. but
nothing TO compare with those growing on
the lofty Italian cliffs. You can now and
then get a good glimpse Of these vine
yards while riding in the train from Genoa
10 Pisa, which follows the coast almost
all the way The trouble is that tunnels
succeed each other in rapid succession,
thus continually breaking off the view Of
the sea and OF the rocky coast.
After leaving Levanto, a small town
situated on a semicircular bay. and going
through long tunnel. you soon come to
what are called the villages OF the CinQue
Terre. Each village is separated from the
other by lofty cliffs. The vines cover the
face Of these bold cliffs, which are al
most Perpendicular. As such places can
difficulty Of working the vineyard and
OF gathering the crop OF grapes can easily
be imagined.
Almost as striking are those places
where the vines are trained upon wire
across the gOrges made by the streams
which cut the rocky coast This whole
region Is probably unique in its yiticulture
only men like the Italian peasant farm
ers, who love the vine and its luscious
fruit. would go TO so much labor and
trouble as 20 plant vineyards on the face
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
AT OLD POINT COMFORT.

fortress Monroe. Va. Nov. 97.-In antici-
patton OF President Tafts visit 10 Norfolk
last week. many people registered al the
Hotei Chamberlin. making this hotel their
headquarters and going over 70 Norfolk for
the Festivities. Delegates 10 the Deeper
waterways Association maee things lively
during their visit at the Hotel Chamberlln
James Ross. head Of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Is enjoying life at the Hotel
Chamberlin. Mr.. Ross and his guegts. VIII,
are enjoying his hospitality here. accompa-
nieo him on his private car Republic arriv-
ing the hrst Of the week A progress din
ner party Of unusual beauty and many
novel features was given by Mr.. and Mrs.
George r. Adams AZ the Hotel chamberlin
last Sunday night 10 twenty-four guests
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
NOT FAIR GAME.

The citizens OF Caribou are enrsg.o o,.o.
the actions OF a hunter who recentl,, enc,
a pet deer Of the neighborbood Dur,ns
the forest fires last summer Am ep,n1o,e
Of the Portage Mil Companv cant,,ro,, =.
lawn, which he brought 20 ais hona ana
hao cared FOR since. The fawn grew, nm
around the doOryard and became tbor'
oughiy tame. IL would travel about a..
town. calling on the neighbors alec. - 80
turning 10 It's home for the night. n Was
the pet Of the community. On Nopda,, =
huhtef dfiNing through tie town saw the
deer in the street and shot A. sTba a.
dignation OF the citizens was sometbing
fierce. and II was only through the co,,n,
sci of tie wiser ones that the SLAYER es-
capped bodily harm--ffouitOn Pionser.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
SPIDERS OF SCIENCE.

The cultivation OF certain species Of spi-
defs solely for the fine threads which they
weave has an important bearing uDon the
work Of The astronomer.
No substitute for the SPIDERS thread has
the micrOmcter uAed for determininp the
positions and motions Of the stars not only
because Of the remarkable nneness of the
ties
The threads OF certain spiders raised for
astronomical purposes Withstand changes
In temperature, 40 that often in measurfo ne.
sun spots they are uniniured when the 0eat
n so great that the lenses of tho micrOme-
ter eyepieces are cracked. These snider
lines are only One-ffth to one-seventh of "A
th0usandth Of an inch In diameter com
pared with which the threads OF the sIlI-
worm are large and clumsy. -Iiarper's
Weekly
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Mauor-Elect Mccarthy Turns
Dozen Union Labor Men.
IRr rel,rraph % DC TrIhun.. }


San Francisco. Nov. 2s.-Mayor-eiect p.
H. Mccarthy promises 10 be an unpopular
man among the union labor politicians
who worked hard 10 elect him. He was ex-
pected 10 divide the fat plums OF local
Offices among the union labor leaders. bus
instead he seems To be selecting most OF
his staff from business and professional
men.
Mccarthy has just returned from rest
a. PasO Rohles hot springs. A horde OF
hungry Office seekers were awaiting his ar
rival. hut most OF them viii be doomed TO
disappointment. on the police commis-
sion. one Of the important local bodies.
Mccarthy VIII retain LeSsett. but IL is
understood ne viii appoint ". NJ. McNevin.
q real estate dealer. and Louis Bloch. a
wholesale liquor dealer. These men are
supported by many big corporations and
influential business men and have no anilia-
tions with the Union Labor party Nc
Carthy has confded 90 his friends that he
proposes 10 surprise the critics who de-
olsred he would an the Offices at his dis
possl with union labor politicians. eager
for spoils.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28

IN the burning OF the coast passenger
steamer St. CroiS this week near Santa
Monica great loss of life was prevented by
the ooo'nsss and good judgment of Cap
tain Frederick Warner. Instead Of rush
ing The vessel toward the shore. which was
ihree miles away, he stopped the steamer.
transferred all the passengers ta small
hosts and carried them safely 10 shore
Warner was criticised harshly ~ the time
az the General Slocum disaster because he
ssser'ed the great loss OF life could have
teen avoided by stopping the steamer and
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
CARPET CLEANING.
PUBLIC NOTICES.
CATsKILL AQUEDUCT.

CATSkILL AQUEDUCT
Contract 62
SHALED BIDS will be received by the Board
OF Water Supply. In Room 80. 2g9 Broadva =
New York. until II A. NJ. on December . IaOa
for Contract 81 for the construction of seven t7i
steel pipe siphOns consisting OF riveted steel
she'll 9 feet inches nominal inside diameter
enyeloped with concrete and lined with Portland
cement mortar. aggregating about miles. also
several stretches OF aqueduct in open cut ana on
embankment, OF cut-and cover aqueduct aRgra-
eating about 5000 feet The work Is located in
the towns Of Olive. Ulster County; New Windsor
Orange County; PhillipstGwn. Putnam County,
and COrtlandt Westchester County, New York
At the above time and place the bids will ba
publicly opened and read. Pamphlets containing
Information for bidders. and pamphlets OF cun-
tract drawings be obtained at Room 9OS AZ
the above address by deposting the sum OF Ten
dollars $40 for each pamphlet. For further
particulars see Information for Bidders
JOHN A. BENSE.I. President
CHARLES ~. CHADWICK
CHARLES A. SHAW,
Commissioners of the Board OF Water SUNNY
J. WALDO SMITH. Chief Engineer.
THOMAS HASSl1IT. Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
DESTINATION.

SO Biigsins Is going TO take a trip in his
own aerOplaney'
Yes" answered the man who Ia baht
ally dolorous.
DO you know whore he will land2'
No | fear that depends more or less on
the kind Of a life he has led on this earth.''
Washington Star.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28

Salvation Army officers in Los Angeles
report a great increase in the number of
unemployed throughout the southern
counties. They are turning away one
hundred men nightly because Of lack Of
accommodations. This large number of
idle men is probably due TO the influx of
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
HOBO ARIsTocRAcy.

But your leisure class I'm America seems
rather small"
'oh, I don't know. Look al the park yon-
Ger There are about manv as the
benches VII accommodate" :" - Louisville
Courier Journal