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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Dav Dreams,

II you have a particular piece Of
work to do, get it done. Don't wait
for the mood to strike you.
Don't dream! There are more pre-
cious hours wasted in day dreams
than any Of us would care to think
about if we counted them.
The queer thing about day dreams
Is that so few of them ever amount
to anything. The dreamer is only
semiconscious when building his air
castles, so, as rule, they have no
practical foundation.
While you are at work, keep your
mind on what you are doing, and do
not let it wander off to what you
would like to be doing. Only by keep
ing your mind on what you are doing
now can you bring it fresh and keen
to the things you like doing best when
the time for doing them comes. Think
Ing too much about even great happi-
ness takes the ledge" off it.
The best time for day dreams is
after you have gone to bed.-New
York American
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
THE DEvILFIsH.
He Is Not Man Eater, but a Gently
Reared Monster.

He Is Not Man Eater, but Gently
Reared Monster.
Contrary to popular belief, the devil
fish is not a man eater. according to
an official publication issued by the
Smithsonian institution. Washington,
after an authoritative study of the sub
ject by DR.. Theodore Gill. associate in
zoology IN the national museum. The
food Of the devilfishes," he says, 80
far from being large animals and oc-
caS1onally a man or so, as has been al
legged, appears to be chiefly the small
crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans
and young or small fishes. Rarely does
one prey on large fishes"
DR.. Gill says that in a number of re-
spects the young devilfish grows up
under nursing and training remarkably
like that Of human being. 1t is nour-
lshed, for instance, from its mothers
milk. 1t is popularity of the devil
fish, he adds, that, instead Of laying
many thousands or millions of eggs, it
normally has only single young one
at birth. A baby devilfish is some
times as broad as FIVE feet and weighs
twenty pounds or more.
DR.. Gill adds that devilishes move
about from place to place in a sort Of
submarine fight. speeding themselves
along by flaps Of the long winglike
fns
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
THE HONEYMOON PARADE.
Wedding Custom In One Town When
the Train Is Late.


| A small city, which need not be To-
Gated more particularly than that it is
somewhere east of Boston, has it's own
peculiar way of speeding the newly
married on their honeymoon.
/ For one thing, every one goes to the
station to see the couple depart This
Is done in many small places. The
showering of rice or confetti and the
| throwing of the old shoe take place.
not at the home of the bride, but at the
station. To that extent the city re-
ferred to is not unusual
But in this city train schedules fire.
quently go awry, and when they do
the unusual happens. The wedding, Of
course, has been celebrated on time,
and the reception has taken as much
time as such things usually take. The
departure from the brides home is
made in due season to catch the train
II it is on time.
The wedding guests rush to the sta
ton, where all other inhabitants hav-
bled already. 1t is free show which
no one would miss.
The carriage bearing the newly mar
ried pair is drawn by white horses and
decorated with white ribbons. Custom
demands this, and no one has yet had
the temerity to do otherwise.
The carriage arrives at the station,
and it is learned that the train is so
many minutes or so many hours late.
Usually the measure is in hours.
The carriage doesn't wait 1t goes
parading. 1t drives around and around
prescribed route, from every point of
which the driver can get due notice of
the approach of the train.
The crowd remains patiently at the
station. Other curious persons station
themselves at points along the route
just to see the wedding coach pass.
Sometimes two or three carriages,
drawn by white horses and decorated
in white, swing steadily around this
hymeneal circuit. 1t seems like an
endless procession. 1t is not unsual
for wedding pair to spend the first
five hours Of their honeymoon just rid
ing round and round waiting for the
train.
When the screech of the locomotive
finally is heard the driver continues to
swing up to the platform just as the
train comes to STOP Then the bride
and bridegroom make mad rush for
their car amid a shower of rice and
confetti and old shoes. The honeymoon
M rade ia ovor-Eychanpn
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
BEARDED LADIES.
A Partisan Snowman Says They Are
Quite Numerous

Quite Numerous.
An Englishwoman who confesses to
a mild mania for attending the street
fairs common in and around Paris
says that she is always impressed by
the extraordinary number of bearded
ladies among the attractions.
II was inclined to think that they
were fakes" she says in the London
Gentlewoman, ''but when 1 discovered
that they were quite genuine my sur
prise at this wonderful supply of
phenomena grew stronger And when
a few days ago l saw at the fair in
the Avenue d'Orleans lady exhibited
with long flowing beard l could no
longer withhold my curiosity.
81 applied for information to a gen.
tleman well known in the Snowman
world and who acts as kind of agent
to the people owning shows, supply
ing them with the necessary goods,
human and otherwise. This gentle
man appeared surprised at my ques-
ton.
Bearded ladiesv he exclaimed. 4
can find as many as / like. You have
no idea how many women, If they
liked, could rival men as regards
whiskers and mustaches. But they
are not anxious to enter into that
kind of competition
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
THE REAL B0WERY.
Swiftly Passing, 1t Has Never Been
Wholly Revealed.

The real Bowery has never been
written up, and probably it never will
be, because it is swiftly passing Hun
dreds of attempts have been made by
those who have not even penetrated
the surface of it's reserve. It's heart
and soul-for the Bowery has both, as
well as reServe-are a sealed book to
the writer's It is a Sargasso sea lit
tered with derelicts of all worlds, drift
ing back and forth with the endless
ebb and flow of the tide, while all
about them is the ceaseless activity Of
commerce, Of development, moving
onward and upward despite the cease
less cross current, which no literary
mariner, cruising in these uncharted
waters, can understand.
Those who know it best and have
some skill in writing as well as some
understanding are so overwhelmed by
its endless complications, its infnity
Of contradictions, it's astonishing good
ness and it's frightful depravity, the
battling mystery Of it's wonderful hui
manness and its fantastic mystery.
that they do not dare attempt to write
even what they know. Only one man
in all literature could have interpreted
the Bowery-and Balzac is dead.
Most of us know the Bowery through
fugitive newspaper sketches and fear
some lurid melodramas. The sketches
present certain phases more or less in
diligently, but the melodramas are
weird burlesques, unworthy even of
being scoffed at, so far as any consid-
Grafton of truth is concerned. But
these cheap melodramas, endlessly re-
peated, have built up fiction that has
come to be accepted as the reality
Everybody's Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Different STYLES.
How Meredith and Browning Might
neserine the canA lne;denf

How Meredith and Browning Might
Describe the Same Incident.
If browning and George Meredith
were describing the same act they
might both be obscure, but their OBJ
securities would be entirely different
Suppose. for instance, they were de-
scribing even SO prosaic and material
an act as man being knocked down
stairs by another man to whom he
had given the lie. Meredith's descrip-
ton would refer to something which
an ordinary observer would not see or
at least could not descrilA It might
be a sudden sense Of anarchy in the
ton and stunned serenity in that of
the object of the assault
He might write: "Wainwoods men
vary in veracity' brought the baronet's
arm up. He felt the doors of his brain
burst and Wildwood a swift rushing
Of himself through air, accompanied
with clarity as of the annihilated"
Meredith, in other words, would
speak queerly because he was describ-
ing queer mental experiences. But
Browning might simply be describing
the material incident of the man being
knocked downstairs, and his descrip-
ton would run:
What then? 'tYou lie" and doormat be-
low stairs
Takes bump from back
This is not subtlety. but merely
kind of insane iftness-Gilbert K
CheSterton
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
GOOD BUSINESS.
The Thrifty Young Man Found . Prof
table Investment,

table Investment.
A millionaire, hoping to encourage
his young son in ways of thrift, prom
ised to give him per cent a month in
terest upon any money that he might
save out of his allowance and deposit
in the paternal treasury. The young
man was getting f5 week for pocket
money and promised to show his ap-
probation of his fathers affectionate
offer. He began to make deposits
without delay and kept the practice up
with remarkable regularity.
The old gentleman noticed presently
that the deposits exceeded the whole
of the boys allowance, but accounted
for this by supposing that he had
saved some money previously. Besides
this, he received money frequently
from his mother. So the fond parent
cejoiced in the saving disposition that
his son was displaying.
This continued until the boys de-
posits assumed such dimensions as to
demand an explanation. 1t then turned
out that most of the money he had
been depositing had been borrowed.
Inasmuch as he was drawing interest
on his deposits at 2 per cent per month
and was paying only 10 per cent per
year for them he had found the bust
ness decidedly attractive and profitable
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
One Reason.

There may be two reasons for a
thing, both equally true, and it may
be the height of folly to attribute the
effect to both. A gentleman to whom
art was strange thing asked a friend
to whom the ways of It's votaries were
more familiar:
"Why does Conneray stand off and
half shut his eyes when he looks at
the pictures he is painting? l was in
his studio the other day, and he made
me do it too"
.That's simply explained" replied
the other. did you ever try to look
at them near to, with your eyes wide
open? Well, don't. You can't stand
it."-Youth's Companion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Eoolino the Qous.

In a certain part of Scotland, ac-
cording to Dean Ramsey, the shep-
herds used to take their collies with
them to church. The dogs behaved
well during the sermon, but began to
be restless during the last psalm and
saluted the final blessing with joyful
barks. In one church the congrega-
ton resolved to stop this unseemly
detail, so when a strange minister was
about to pronounce the blessing all re-
NAMED seated instead Of rising, as he
expected. He hesitated and paused
till an old shepherd cried: "Say ava,
sir! We'rc a. sittin' to cheat the
dowgSw
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
MEMS CLOTHES.
Not What They Used to Be In the
Days Of Elizabeth,

Days Of Elizabeth.
Most men nowadays do not get
much pleasure from dress and scarce
ly notice the changes Of fashion in
mems clothes. They are vaguely
aware that hat looks odd when it's
shape is old fashioned, and they &C.
cept the hat of the moment because
they do not wish to look odd them
selves. But this is merely negative
interest. They are also apt to be con.
temptuous Of women's greater inter-
est In the fashions, as If it were a
mark Of frivolity.
This is an ignorant mistake. Dress
is or ought to be an art, and therefore,
1T only minor art, it is a more seri-
GUS matter than any of the games to
which many men give so much time
and pains. Besides, men have only be-
come Indifferent to their clothes in
modern times.
In the heroic age of Elizabeth they
made themselves as smart as pea
cocks. Great soldiers and poets then
took pains to be in the height of the
fashion, and fashions changed with
some violence and rapidity In the
eighteenth century, too, which we do
not think of as a time of effeminacy
and when men were wanting neither
In enterprise nor in seriousness, they
were as splendid and extravagant in
their dress as women.-LoHdon Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
ereakfastinq With Whistler.

The was a foreign painter who used
to breakfast at Chelsea, and when
Mr.. Carr asked him if he had been
there lately he replied: "Oh, no; not
now so much. He ask me leetle
while ago to breakfast, and go. My
cab fare, two shilling, 'arf crown. l
arrive, very nice. Goldfish In bowl,
very pretty But breakfast egg,
one toast-ro more! Oh. no. Ny cab
fare, two shilling, art crown. For
me no morer'-London Telegraph.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Another Wav

A well known London physician was
Invited out to the country for some
shooting; but, although he tried sew
eral times. he could not hit a single
rabbit.
I'm very unlucky," he exclaimed.
Tive killed nothing all day"
"Never mind" said his host. "Write
the rabbits one of your prescriptions"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Didn't Wait For 1t.

A couple of Scotch ministers were
taking dinner together one summer day
In a little manse in the highlands. II
was the Sabbath day, the weather was
beautiful, apd the bubbling streams
were full of trout and the woods full
Of summer birds. One turned to the
other and said:
"Mon, don't We often feel tempted on
these beautiful Sundays to go out fish.
ing?"
INA, na," said the other. 81 never
feel tempted l just gang"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Tit For Tat.

First Teacher-You told me to re-
mind you to punish Willie Thompson
this morning for impudence. Second
Teacher--Tll do it tomorrow I'm
called before the school board today
for observation-disclosures.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
The Better Part.

/ A delightful little story Is told of
Prosper Merimee, the French author.
He was once guest at royal hunt,
when hares, pheasants and other
game were driven before the emperor
and his followers, and the servants
picked up the victims Of the sport.
Among all the members Of the hunt
ing party Prosper Merimee alone had
no trophy to display.
sHow does this happen?" asked
some one.
'Where game Is so plenty the merit
of marksman seems to me to lie in
hitting nothing" replied Merimee,
with grave courtesy, $50 l fired be-
tween the birds"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Good Behavior.

Employer-Why were you discharged
from your last place? Applicant-For
good behavior. Employer-What dc
you mean by that? Applicant-They
took three months of my sentence
Cleveland Leader
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
His Wav Out Of II.

ssHe don't give nuthin' to the church
nowY
mo. Somebody told him the Bible
says salvation is free an he says fur
be 1t from him to dispute the Scrip
tures!"- Atlanta Constitution.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Foul.

"Foul tactics" declared the halfback
whats the trouble now?'' demand
ed the referee
81 tried kick for the stomach, but
this fellow blocked it with his head."--
Kansas City Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
Plenty Of Him.

"What sort of man Is Jinks?"
sThe impression you get of links de-
ponds on the circumstances under
which you meet him. II you're there
to collect money you won't like him.
But IL you're there to pay money he
seems a lovely character"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
With strina.

"Do you trust your husband i'm
plicitly?"
"What question! Why, Of course I
do-to a certain extent. Cleveland
Leader.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20

To make luminous paint, mix small
quantity of calcium sulphide with or
binary white paint.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20

It Is best - profit by the madness Of
others. Pliny.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20

Liberty exists IN proportion to whole
some restraint. Webster.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
IumOrS, GOiter, FistuIa. Piles.

treated and cured without pain and without
loss OF blood. This is one of my own discov-
cries. and is really the most scientific and
certainly sure cures of the nineteenth CEN
fury Consultation to those interested, 81. 90.
DIR. REA & CO..
3o4 Tribune Bldg. Minneapolis, Mimi.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03

indeed, If he can stand beneath and
gaze aloft at our triumphantly float
ing flag, and not turn with thank
fulness to contemplation Of the
great privileges, and with serious
thoughts as to the duties and the re-
sponsibilities which that citizenship
casts upon him. In this, the only
great government "of the people, for
the people and by the people," the
duties of an enlightened citizenship
rest with weightier responsibility
than anywhere else on earth. It is
with full sense Of that responsible
ity that I now turn to urge you eon
to it's performance.
l will not pause to enumerate my
conceptions of my duties imposed
by American citizenship, but l want
to proclaim that prominent among,
If not paramount to all others, is our
duty to so live as to inspire oul
neighbors to higher sense Of their
obligation to our flag and to their
fellow man, than they have known
before.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03
EXTENDS INVITATION TO LAND
SEEKERS TO "cOME
AND SEE"

Registration for the opening of the
Standing Rock and Cheyenne Indian
Reservations will continue to Octo-
Der %, inclusive. Bismarck has made
extensive preparations to provide &C
commodations for the many people
who will come to register for these
lands. Incident to making registra-
ton at Bismarck many strangers will
pay Mandan a visit, says the Mandan
News, and the city particularly ex-
tending an invitation at this time
will In due season make special ar
engagements to accommodate and en-.
terrain the visitors, .'s49
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03
What THE OPENING
CONTINUED from page So

do that. The tenant must ask some
other man for a shelter for his wife
and little ones, the wage Garner
must forget himself, and bury his
own individuality, his own freedom
from action in the interest or pleas
ure of his employer before he can
carry bread to his own table, and
the business man must cater to the
public The farm owner can act as
he pleases, think as he pleases and
vote as he thinks best, but the fac
tory hand must consult his employ
er, and abide either the pleasure or
the caprice OF the boss. One is q
free man, and the other is made q
very slave by the chains which needs
of his family have bound him tc
some other man.
Home of the Real American Freeman
Statistics will tell you that Less
than four men out Of every hundred
living in one of our great cities OWL
their own homes, and that at least
ninety of each hundred are wage
earners. With these facts in your
minds, and these figures on the
board before you need I reiterate
that the farm is the home Of tho
only real American freeman, or con
graduate you that whatever your
former conditions have been you are
fortunate indeed in the opportunity
of finding a comparative emancipa
ton by becoming the owner of 16c
fruitful acres; but from the depths
| of a sincere and sympathetic heart
do congratulate you on your good
fortune. Your generous government
has made it possible for you to come
! here and select home, and what
are you doing when you make your
selection? Many a.man who makes
a selection is acting not alone for
J himself, and for his children, but for
his children's children, and many
who may come after them. You, of
this rapidly changing western citi-
tzenship, where whole empires in ex-
tent are peopled in few months
and farms rapidly changing owners,
can hardly believe that awhile ago
Ii visited relative in the good old
state of Virginia, and was told that
i was then standing on land which
my grandfather's grandfather &C.
quired from the provincial govern
ment more than hundred and fifty
years ago, and that tract Of good
land during every intervening hour
from that day to this has been the
home of some of his descendants
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03

Did he select for himself alone, and
did he realize that in making that
selection he was acting for his chill
dren's great grandchildren, and
others who might come after Them
Necessity of Careful Selection.
Very much more depends upon
your selection than you now realize
Will your selection result in good
water for your family and fertile
soil for your tillage? If the soil is
fruitful enough, four days labor each
week may yield you bountiful and
sufficient harvest, but If it is less re.
sponsive to your efforts, and requires
six days to make it respond, you have
by the poorer selection, added fifty
per cent to your burden of toll, rob-
bed yourself of the days needed for
rest and recreation, and added to the
toll of your children and all who may
come after you. 1t is important,
then that the selection be wisely
made.
1t is the policy of the homestead
laws that these lands shall be put
into the keeping of the men who
actually need homes, men who are
real farmers, and intend to continue
so, by following their own plows and
that they shall not be distributed
among mere spectators, men who
are not and do not intend to become
bona fide tillers of the soil, men who
are only seeking the lands to sell
their ACCOMPLISHMENTS before actual
residence, Or to sell their land as
soon as title has been obtained, or
even to hold them themselves as an
investment with no intent to make a
permanent home on them. There
are, all over this broad land of ours
very many home hungry men, who
long for the privilege of obtaining
lands for their own cultivation. They
are holding the handles of a plow
six days in the week with the full
consciousness that nearly or quite
one-half Of the labor, which should
go to make their families more COM
Portable is being performed as a tri-
butte to the man who owns the soil
he is tilling.
Full Meaning Of American Citizen.
ship.
1t is glorious thing to be an
American citizen. 1t was once said
that ITO be "a Roman is greater than
to be king" but we can proudly
and truthfully say that ito be an
American citizen is far greater than
1t ever was to be a Roman" and
especially 50 when one owns 100 acres
of Dakota's fertile, sun.kissed. rain
enriched acres. Such a man must
be stupid, dull and unappreciatiye.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03
Can Accommodate Few Farmers

'Mof1t Register: The registration
is on at Bismarck for the big land
opening and thousands of homeseek-
ers Will visit the capital city. Not.
only Will there be a rush Of home-
steaders, but hundreds Of land buyers
Will take advantage Of the low rates
70 come and look over the bargains
In farm lands on the Slope. We have.
room for a number OF good farmers
IN this region and should be able to
secure a few OF them. t ..
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03
Crops Near Motif

oiof Feitheim, who lives east of
MONT reports crops turning out well
IN Wild Rose township. Wheat is run.
ming Is to 20 bushels, and fax is 60
ing IL to 1e bushels per acre.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-03
BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rev. c. Oertli. Chairman
Rev. VIM. Suckow
Rev. w. G. Menges
Rev. E. &. Oeder
FIR. NJ. Brost, Kuhn. N. D.
Geo. M. Brewer. Chasley. N. D.
Adam Nagel. Lehr. N. D.