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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
Easter Facts.

The observance of Easter was not
instituted until some 800 years after
the death of Christ. The name was
taken from the ancient Anglo-Saxon
goddess of spring, Ostern, or Eastre,
whose festival was celebrated about
the time of the Christian Easter. No
celebration was arranged by the Jew
ish Christians at all, but on the 14th
day of the month, Immediately follow
ing the vernal equinox, which was the
day on which the old Jewish feast of
ish Christians celebrated the death Of
Christ, to them the paschal lamb,
Christ having died, according to their
chronology. on the date of the cele
bration Of the Jewish Passover. The
celebration of the Jewish Christians
was therefore for the death and not
the resurrection Of Christ. The gen.
tile Christians, however. were not
bound by any Of the Jewish traditions.
Sunday being the Lords day to them.
they therefore celebrated the resur-
rection of Christ on the Sunday follow
ing the 14th day Of the moon of March,
the day on which Christ died The
Jewish Christians thus celebrated the
18th day Of the month, irrespective of
the day of the week, and the gentle
Christians celebrated a Sunday, IRE
spective of the day of the month. If
this confusion had not been resolved
by the proper ecclesiastical authori-
ties we might have been celebrating
the day at the present time according
to our individual religious predilec-
lions.
The early church was torn with bit
ter disSensionS regarding this conflict
of custom as to the celebration of
Easter. Various attempts were made
to fix a stable day which would be OBJ
served by the church as a whole, but
they all failed. Finally, at the council
Of Nice. A. d. 325, the question was
settled once for ALL and the date now
observed throughout the Christian
world was established Easter day
was then fixed as the first Sunday aft
err that full moon which happens on
or next after March 81. If the full
moon happens on Sunday the follow
ing Sunday is Easter
In France the year began with
Easter Sunday until the year 1864, the
date of Shakespeare's birth. when
Charles TX. fixed Jan. 1 as the first
day Of the year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

Commenting on a reported case
where two young toughs had turned
in and threshed their old father be-
cause the sire had refused to let the
boys take the team and drive over
bad roads to Redwood Falls, the
Vesta Censor hints that the father is
getting his come-uppance for spar
ing the rod in bringing up those
boys. Harvey says that if those
kids had been brought up..under the
same roof that sheltered the Censor
man, the course of hickory sprouts
exercised every Monday morning
before breakfast for the meanness
the boys committed on Sunday would
have left marks Of respect on their
person and in their hearts when they
grew into manhood. Harvey further
intimates that he practices what he
breaches, that his boys get what is
coming to them where it will do
them most good, and offers a writ
ten guarantee that they will never
lick him when they are grown up.
1t is apparent that the Censor man
knows how to censor kiddies all
right
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
A CROSS ON HIS BACK.
It Was Made With Chalk, but Was
Too Heavy to Carry,

Too Heavy to Carry.
There is story Of an envious tailor
current with the French peasantry.
He fancied that his neighbor. who re-
ceived pension for the loss of an arm
incurred while fighting for his coun-
try, was better off than himself. Both
men went to pay their rent on the
same day.
"Thats a lucky man," said the tailor
to the landlord. HE gets well paid
for his arm
"But who would be willing to part
with an arm. even if he were paid for
it?' said the landlord.
81 would" declared the tailor.
"You"' cried the landlord. "Why,
man, you wouldn't be willing to bear
anything of the sort, no matter how
much you were paid for it,
81 wish some one would try me-"
"Now, see here" said the landlord,
who had studied human nature, "I'll
tell you what-if you'll wear even so
much as a chalk mark on your back
I'll remit your rent as long as you
wear it on your coat so it can be seen,
the condition being that you tell no
one why it is there"
Agreed" said the tailor eagerly.
THAT'S an easy way to pay rent"
So the chalk mark in the form of a
cross was made on the back Of his
coat. and the delighted tailor sailed
forth upon the street
Strangers and acquaintance hailed
him to tell him Of the mark on his
back. Jokes were made at his ex-
pense, children laughed and pointed at
him and his wife annoyed him with
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
farmer.

Representative Bendixen has heard
from his constituents on his referen-
dunn at the March town meeting in re-
gard to the bill creating the office of
county assessor. When it comes to
having property assessed by a disin-
terested stranger or nonresident,
the voters of practically all the town
ships declare they want the good old
way continued. In theory the change
would seem to be more fair. but vox
populi has spoken against it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

The tender to ex- President Elliott
of the honor of representing the
United States at the court of St.
James would indicate that President
Taft takes no stock in the current
idea of the age limit. DR.. Elliott is
rs years old and is still in vigorous
health, but when notified of Presi-
dent Taft's desire in his behalf, eX-
pressed disinclination to accept
the honor. The grand old man has
honors enough and should be relieved
of the responsibilities imposed by
such an appointment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
Were We Right, After All !?

Chicago Post: 1t has been re-
marked somewhere, sometime, that
the whirlgig of time brings strange
changes. 1t does.
Nearly fifty years ago this country
was on the verge of war with Eng
land because the American warshlp
San Jacinto had taken from the
British ship Trent, two commission
ers of the Confederacy, Messrs. Ma
son and Slidell. Great Britain con-
tended that this act was violation
of the rights Of neutral power, and
this country, acquiescing. surrender
ed the two prisoners, with an eX-
preston of regret. AS Lowell put
it in the Biglow Papers:
We give the critters back, John,
Cause Abram thought twas right.
Twarn't your bullyin' clack John,
Provokin US to fight.
This week in Washington, the
state department gave out the text
of the conference between the lead
maritime powers of the world upon
controversies not now governed by
international law. In section Al,
this agreement provides that action,
such as our seamen took in the
Trent case, shall, hereafter, be per-
missable and right. To this odd re-
yersal of position. both the British
commissioners and our own assented.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

Keeping everlastingly att" may
usually bring success in most lines
of endeavor, but that the practice
does not enable every one to be al
ways at his best is feelingly stated
by the editor of the Mankato Free
Press. What is true for the editor
of the daily paper is more emphatic
ally so for the average man-of-all
work who has to keep a country
weekly going, and who supplies the
demand for copy for his compositors
in odd moments when he is not
hustling for the needful to pay his
bills or trying to attend to some of
the multifarious duties that fall to
his lot. The Free Press scribe OBJ
serves that mo man who spends
1865 days in the year writing for a
daily newspaper, who has given his
youth and the prime of his manhood
to that incessant grind, pouring his
strength. his enthusiasm. his dreams
and his ideals into the insatiate hop
per which feeds the press, need to
be told that there are days, and en-
tire weeks, when his poor little con-
tributions to the pleasure and appe-
tite of the great public lack sparkle,
interest, logic. strength, ginger. No
one is so we'll aware of the fact ashe.
No one feels it so keenly. The read
err has a simple remedy-he need
not read the 'tiresome stuff on the
same old themes But the writer
can find no such surcease from sor-
row. His tooth may be aching, his
head throbbing, his heart heavy,
woes may be nesting in his breast
while worry and apprehension beset
him from without; in all the world
nothing may seem to him new or in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
Easter Customs.

In Russia it is considered no crime
to be found intoxicated during Easter
week, even the policemen being often
under the mellowing influence of
vodka
Egg racing is a favorite amusement
of Russian, German and French chill
dren. The eggs are rolled down a hill,
the prize going to the child whose egg
rolls the greatest number of races
without damage to its shell. In Ger
many tracks are made of twigs, down
which each egg may roll without inter-
ference from any other one, and the
boy whose egg arrives unbroken at the
foot of the hill collects toll from his
opponent whose egg is cracked.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

The unsavory special legislation
for the fashionable clubs of the
large cities is liable to strike a snag
in the senate. The senators are
hearing from their constituents in
no uncertain way, and the noted
evangelist, Gypsy Smith, helped in
framing up a protest against the bill
voted by an audience of 5000 people
last Wednesday evening. So that it
is apparent that a large element of
both city and country denizens are
up in arms against a measure that
does not seem morally defensable.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
Sound In the Air.

A writer in the Strand Magazine de-
scribes the establishment he expert
enced when riding over London in a
balloon at a height of more than half
a mile he heard the deafening roar of
the great city beneath him rs it could
not be heard when on the ground. The
noise, even at that height. was so
harsh and intense as to be painful TO
the ear How perfect a sound con
ductor the air is was shown when the
balloon drifted far over the city to n
wooded part of the country. where the
murmur of the leaves moved by the
wind. half mile below, was distinct
ly heard.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

The legislature is not adding to
it's reputation by entertaining a bill
to reduce the salary Of Gov. John
son. Following the defeat of legis-
lation for the popular election of i.
S. senators, it looks as though the
solons are paving the way to perpet-
uate the hold of Gov. Johnson's fol-
lowers on the gubernatorial office.
Such puny politics do not strength
en- the waning hold of the Rep ublic
an party organization in this state.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

The conviction of Col. Cooper and
son Robin for Staying Senator Car
mack of Tennessee was better than
had been expected of a Southern
jury and court, and may be taken
as hopeful sign of the dying out of
the lawless fire-eating spirit that
was once supposed to prevail in that
part of the Union. The regretable
display of the followers of the two
convicts with display of millions
of dollars by their bondsmen is not
so laudable, and the statement that
the father and son have gone on a
foreign tour tour pending the ap-
peal from the result of the trial, is
proper matter for criticism. But
the unanimity of the jury from the
first, with only one dissenter to be
brought around to the terms of the
of the verdict as rendered, leaves
very little doubt as to the fact that
the assassination was a cowardly
and unprovoked act of retaliation
for an editors plain speaking.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

Representative Volstead has taken
an active part in having the Payne
tariff bill amended so as to retain
the tariff protection on barley. To
take off the tariff would benefit the
brewers without increasing the size
of the "steins" in which the barley
juice is dispensed to the wayfaring
men who use it, and probably knock
out a few cents bushel on the
market price for the American
farmer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

questions and with conjugal familiari-
ty told him he was fool. The usual
ly amiable man grew surly and mo-
rose; he Stunned men, women and
children and frequented back streets
Before the week was up the tailor
found himself embroiled in a quarrel
with his best friend, his wife had
threatened to leave his house, and he
considered himself miserable and ill
used.
Finally one night he took off his
coat and rubbed out the chalk mark
and said: There. l would not wear
that cross on my back another week,
no, not if l could have all the money
there is in PariS!'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

The re-apportionment bill went in
to the basket of the state senate.
The bill was fair one, but it put
six senators out of a job, and that
meant it's death in that body. There
will be no re-apportionment until
after the 1910 census, and it may
be some time after.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

The opening of the Cheyenne res
ervatiop west of the Missouri is like
ly to be followed by extensions of
the Minneapolis & St. Louis. the
Northwestern and Milwaukee rail-
road systems westward. South Da-
kota is counting on a record year
for railroad building.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
WAR PERIOD RELICS.

The Gazette is under obligations
to Mrs. Alvin Duncan of this city
for the loan of couple of relics of
the Lincoln period of the country's
history. One of these is a copy Of
the Daily Life of Milwaukee and the
other tattered copy Of the Leaven-
worth Times. The papers carried
our memory back to little school
house in Wisconsin where we heard
S. M. Booth, venerable and long
haired abolitionist of those days,
lecture on his trial and imprisonment
on account of his pernicious activity
in helping slaves get safe to Canada
oyer the underground railroad and
for his persistent activity as an agi-
tator. Booths name appears as the
editor of the Daily Life, and natur-
ally its editorials are anti-slavery to
to the core. But the news features
and market reports are of more in
terest than the editorials, notwith-
standing that the paper is dated
December &c, 1868. and the news
consequently somewhat old. At that
time General Meade was in command
on the Potomac and Gems. Grant
and Sherman were operating at
Chattanooga, where Gen. Schofeld
was about to be succeeded by Gen.
Rosecrans.
Some items of the market report
may be of interest. The wholesale
price of coffee at that time was
from IS to As cents, heavy sheeting
4Oc, prints IA to 20 cents. sugar TIC,
butter 18c, eggs 22c, -four "a to IS,
hides &c, common boards SIG per M,
clear siding $40. tobacco 40 to IS
cents. whiskey CSC, teas 75c to $1.65,
etc.
The Leavenworth paper was dated
April II, 1862, and its most interest
ing war article is scathing criticism
of the Manassas fiasco, when Nc
Clellan's forces were humbugged
and held at bay by a show of
wooden cannon and bogus fortifica-
tons for nine long months. The
Kansas paper is locally interesting
to the writer for the reason that his
first essay as lonesome and home
sick boy looking for job in a print
ing office was at Leaven-
worth, in 1867, soon after
the close of the war, where it was
afterward his privilege to see Gener-
ais Sherman, Grant and Sheridan.
on the occasion of their official visits
to the military post near that city.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
scott S
a1ayllsii0n
=, -

of Cd Liver Oil with Hypo-
pf -phites should always be
k t in the house for the
fo wing reasons:
f Because, if any member
OF Re family has q hard cold,
it III cure it.
S oad-Because, if the chill
d. a are delicate and sickly, it
WI make them strong andwell.
,ird-Because, if the father
or mother is losing flesh and
becoming thin and emaciated,
it will build them up and give
them flesh and strength.
Fourth Because it is the
standard remedy in all throat
and lung affections.
No household should be with
out it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Z, 1909.

Iowa champions of re-submission
have struck snag in the state SEN
ate, and like the anti-saloon forces
in this state, will have to take their
case up again at the next election
for the legislature.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
Careful For Others,

NO" said the candid kleptomaniac:
"when I'm arrested for differing /
never give my real name. 1t would
compromise too many people,"
Indeed. And what is your manner"
inquired the magistrate
"John Smith. "-Philadelphia Ledger
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

teresting or important but the
presses are waiting, and in the line
his successor is waiting so the
copy must be ready though the
skies of his own private little heaven
are falling as he writes"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

Such a decision would have stirred
two nations to their depths in the
eos. We'd like to hear Hosea Big
low make few remarks about it
even now.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07

Send this advertisement together with name
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four cents to cover postage and we will send
you Complete Handy Atlas of the World"
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-07
New Process For Making Paper.

A chemical discovery, which is ex-
pected to make wood pulp and paper
products many times more plentiful
and much cheaper than they are at
present, was announced Friday at
the state university. The discoverer
is DIR. George B. Frankforter, dean
Of the college Of chemistry, who has
worked on the process for more
than twelve years.
The discovery makes possible the
manufacture of paper from fir trees,
sawdust and waste timber. The
pulp for paper at present is made
only from spruce. The supply of
fir is one hundred times greater
than the supply of spruce, and DR..
Frankforter and those associated
with him say the new pulp process
will be more economical.
AS proof of the value of his dis
covery. DR.. Frankforter shows a
table recording his experiment with
one cord Of fir wood. The wood cost
him $3.50 and from it he obtained
wood pulp worth 500. turpentine
worth 1.60, and by-products of a
lesser value. The waste that is now
burned or thrown away. DR.. Frank
forter says. can be used as we'll as
the fresh cut wood.
St. Peter Free Press: 1t is not to
the credit of our law makers first to
pass big appropriation and after
wards appoint committee to find
out what the money is to be used
for. But this is what actually seems
to have taken place. According to
a resolution introduced last Tuesday
a committee is to investigate that
very point. In that $2,250,000 pris-
on appropriation there is an item
for a $81 900 chapel and for $4,000
for residences for the warden and
his deputy, but it now comes to light
that nothing was included for the
much talked of factory for the man.
ufacture of farm machinery. Near
ly everybody voted for the bill with
out, it would appear. really knowing
what they were voting for. 1t now
appears that the proposed new state
prison merely provides for more
room under palatial roof, without
regard for original object of those
induced to support the bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-04
Building Sites
Offered Woodmen
Douglas Street Location for Big Sky
scraper Considered Likely by
Realty Dealers.

The Woodmen will be able to find a good
location for their new fifteen or seventeen
story building which the order has author
ICED. Every choice corner in the business
section Of Omaha, which is not already
occupied by a tall building has been Of
fered them.
Choice of a location will not be made
until Thursday at least. As matters look
now, Douglas street has the call, since
between Seventeenth and Nineteenth there
are several entirely available sites, pro-
vided a price can be agreed upon.
Real estate transfers Friday reached the
total of $780, s1. the highest for a single
day in some time. This was in part be-
cause formal record was made of the
transfer at Sixteenth and Harvey of the
George syndicate property to the City Ma
tional Bank Building company and the pur-
chase by the Georges of the Her Amer
for s275, 900 and sl25. 600 respectively.
The latter property has been in the hands
Of the Georges for some time and extern
sive repairs have been made. 1t is now
planned to alter the second story of the
building by changing the apartments into
bushes rooms, not necessarily offices, but
room for people engaged in small business
operations.
Another transfer of some size is the sale
by j. b. Kuony to the Nebraska Furniture
and Carpet company OF the three-story
brick building at the northwest corner of
Dodge and Fourteenth for 1000.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-04
FRIENDS" OF WOMEN FINED
Three More Men in Police Court for
Making Living Off inmates of
Burnt District.

Three more fines OF SIS and costs each
have been imposed by Police Judge Craw-
ford on men who were charged with being
Migrants who lived off the earnings of
women. They gave the names OF Harry
Fishman. 21O6 California street; ]. Fox,
rwenty-first and California streets, and
Frank Burns, Sioux City.
In connection with the arrest OF Fox and
Fishman by Detectives Ferris and Dunn
the police used a letter purporting to come
from the father OF a young woman alleged
to have been induced to leave her husband
In New York and come to Omaha with the
men. The woman, who is said to be an
inmate OF a resort at POS Dodge street, de-
MES the story and says she just left a
New York man with whom she had been
living. She has not been arrested.
Mabel Myers, the Sioux City woman SEN
fenced to ten days in jail in connection
with the police h~oundup OF red light char
acteTs, has been released. Judge Crawford
revoked the sentence and discharged her,
as she is said to be III with p~eritonitis and
needs hospital attention.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-04
Farmers Cry
for More Help
Ten Thousand Jobs Waiting Men in
Nebraska and as Many More
in Kansas.

Ten thousand Jobs are awaiting men on
the farms Of Nebraska and fully as many
in Kansas declared w. E. Harper, en-
ployment secretary of the Young Mems
Christian association. There are 5000
places awaiting men practically all the
year round in this state and at this time
OF the year the number is doubled.
w ave placed fifty young men on
farms in tho last month and could locate
many times that number more II the men
were forthcoming. Meantime Kansas Is
sending up a loud cry for harvest hands.
The railroads have made no rates and do
not seem likely to. 1t is probable, how
ever. that the roads and state labor agen-
cies will have to do something strenuous
before long in order that the crops shall be
moved from the fields.
The college student-talk to the contrary
Observation-Disclosures make a good harvest
hand. He makes good, that is. when some
discrimination is shown in sending able
bodied students. Some athletes can out
work nearly any professional farm laborer.
Omaha could easily be made a big dis
tributing point for farm help by the ex-
pendlture of q little money and some
brains. What would be needed at once is
a sort OF correspondence system with the
employment secretaries OF colleges, and
particularly eastern colleges. Western in
situations are working better in this re-
spect."