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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-23

vibrations to 400 millions, the In
visible ultraviolet rays go as high
as 1900 billion vibrations, the mira
rec as low as 300 billions. And just
as science has already proved that the
ultraviolet rays kill microbes or may
cause the death Of experimentors
tx-ray experimenters for example) so
is the infra-rouge ray more terrible
still.
The Lady Henriette" has jrst re-
turned to the harbor at Havre, having
on board General de Castelnau OF the
general staff (war college) Monnand-
ant Ferrie, In charge of the Eiffel
tower wireless station, and Captain
Cloitre, representing the minister OF
the navy. And in spite OF strict or
ders, the information has leaked out
that the yacht, equipped with tiny
wireless apparatus, after proceeding
some forty miles to sea, succeeded In
firing several mines, with marvellous
precision at the distance OF fourteen
miles.
For the successful operation of the
new force In producing explosions, it
Is at the present stage necessary to
know the distance between the wire
less apparatus and the object to be at
tackled. One must also know the ex-
act thickness of the metal surround
ing the explosive. for the Fray, tuned
properly to begin with, appears to
change its quality If the metal is OF
q differest thickness than that upon
which the calculation was based Two
bombs in metal castings of different
thickness, the two placed a short
distance apart In actual test, showed
one exploded and the other intact.
The services of spies, 1t Is said, will
be more in demand than ever among
the great nations. no battleship, fort
ress or arsenal being safe once the
information required by as Fray oper-
ator has become known to the enemy
It is claimed-though Ulivi himself
will say little on the subject-that a
spark more than two incnss long can
be produced on the interior of met
al vessel containing an explosive, by
means of the small wireless outfit
aboard the Lady Henriette. 1t is
also claimed that nail, or the pres
ence of any other similar piece of
metal, in wooden casks is sufficient
to produce the spark Lastly it is re-
ported that an effort is being made
to SO arrange the keyboard" of the
new ray that It can be turned UP or
down and so sweep the seas of all
Ibattleships within a certain radius.
regardless of exact distances and
metal thickness being unknown.
The new discovery has such fan
tastic appeal to the imagination that
it is difficult to weed truth from
rumor, but the fact that the terrible
power has been discovered, offered
to the French war office, and that a
reasonable amount of success has been
met with In actual tests. Is generally
acknowledged
It is also known that Professor
Branley, who experimental with wire
less telegraphy before Marconi com
mercialized 1t. is now working with
the new ray and has been for some
Years past.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-23

ton" the administrators currency
program as set forth in the Glass
Owens bill was the chief matter Of
Importance which came UP today be-
fore the annual convention OF the In
diana Bankers Association. George
M. Reynolds, prominent Chicago bank.
er, was expected to urge the adoption
with certain amendments.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-23
Heft Arrives at Yale.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept % -'rhs
cooperative process of manufacture q
a winning football team for anoth =
link was forged today by the an
nouncement that Puge Heffelsnger
would arrive the first of the week Il
assist
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-23

offered prize of $4,000 in cash for
the best mile of road and the commits
sion will inspect the result.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
THE DEAD HAND

rs one himself, or is he those who
have gone before him ?" "And
men are only dead names," said
Monsieur Beaucaire.
If we are living our own lives why
not live them and let considerable
amount of trash that is not needed go
by? What does it matter that it may
have been needed at one time? 1t is
for us to decide whether or not we are
benefited by it. If not, get rid of it.
The men whom we admire are they
who were bigger than their fathers.
These men took life as an earnest
thing and went at it to live it earnest
ly, according to what of truth they
could make out. Problems rolled at
their feet and they solved them their
own way, regardless of what had been
done. The thing was for them to do
and they did it. This is being men;
this is living our own lives.
In mourning those who are dead
there is much of the past senseless-
ness, little of the present intelligence.
Silent and hidden grief is always the
most reverent, always the most heart
touching.
As relic of a barbarous past we
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

bunch. Among the practical subjects
discussed at their meeting last week
were the organizing of land clearing
companies, the organizing of conlmur-
tiles to stand behind the deserving
farmer in the matter of credit, the
forming of community cooperative
land clearing organizations, the coun-
ty bond plan of assisting the farmer
in clearing his land, and the cheap dis
tribution of dynamite for stump blow
ing. just what they need up north.
Austin Transcript.
The chances are good that the mid
dleman will get the rebate that the
courts have ordered restored to the
Minnesota shippers. But if such ex-
cess rates are in good faith restored
to the rightful owners, as must be the
Intent of the court, can the result
aimed at-restoring the money to the
man who actually paid it-be accom-
plished, and is the real owner likely
to be found Little Fork Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
THE CREED OF cARELEssNEss

TIFTY girls burned to death be-
cause some one carelessly threw
= away lighted match or CT
garette stub.
Fifty lives stopped long before they
had completed their usefulness, long
before their part in Gods great drama
had been played.
Countless heartaches for parents
and friends, loss to the world of all
the fun and love and happiness of fifty
girl-hearts.
And all because some insignificant
smoker of cigarettes was careless
chose the quick and easy way of dis
carding what he no longer had any
use for.
Somewhere in the great law of
compensation which governs the uni
verse is to be found recompense.
But who shall say how or where?
In the meantime, what of the care
lessness of the future-of all the
thoughtless acts each of us will do.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

meager salary compelled him to
board at third-rate hotels.-Princeton
Union.
Minnesota is really doing so much
road work this year that the roads are
in poor condition. In making graded
roads it is difficult to finish them so
that they will not be rough atathe out
set, but all this work is laying the
foundation for good system of roads,
and the next few years will witness
some wonderful changes for the bet
ter in the roads of this state
Browns Valley Tribune.
Dear rural friends, swat a man if
he calls you farmer! You are no
longer farmers. You are 1Agrono-
mists," A-gron-o-mists- When you
stir up the hired man with a stick, you
are intoxicating agronomical expedi-
tion.-Le Seuer News.
The big red clover coming into
bloom makes a pretty sight through
the country. Besides its beauty it
makes splendid crop, as this cutting
will be used for hay, which is an ideal
feed for dairy stock, and the second
cutting brings forth seed that means
almost its weights in dollars Milaca
Times.
The Northern Minnesota Develop
ment association is certainly live
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

have mourning dresses and Grape on
the hats. Nothing can be more sense
less or in poorer taste. We have SUI
fered; we have had our heart strings
pulled; we have gone down into the
shadow of the valley. But it is not for
us. with our civilized refinement, to
parade our distress before others, to
burden the weeping old world with our
tears, to load the air with our lament
alton. The wolf of sorrow is to be
hidden under our cloak that he may
eat at our vitals and none be the wis
err.
What is there of tribute to the dead
in putting a .sband on the hat -
Nothing. What is there of tribute to
the dead or thanks to the living in
putting card in the paper? Moth
ing.
DESTINATIONS funerals are barbarous.
The desire to display affection for the
dead is a savage instinct. He who
lived is dead, has gone on, is waiting.
This body, this poor clay carcass, is
nothing. 1t can neither be honored
nor insulted The one-time inhabitant
was your friend or something more,
and all that is bright and fresh and
clear concerning him should be cher
ished with hottest regard. In the secret
of your heart lean ever toward the
dead memory. Fondle it, make it
sweet and sacred. And keep it so.
is littleness, commences is
Something there is about the thought
of one whom "we have loved long
since and lost a while" that makes one
wish to keep mostly this thought to
ones self. The customs of past age,
not matching the conceptions of now,
cannot be tolerated by sane minds.
Those rites and ceremonies that have
grown obnoxious must be crowded out.
There are silly indulgences in dress
and foolish desires to meet and salts
~ the demands in fads that should be
routed out. But these services over
the dead are so close to US all, so much
A part of our deeper life, and the de-
sire for getting rid of them is so
strong in the minds of many that this
evil should be first expelled.
To dwell with fond remembrance
upon those who have not died, "but
N the path we mortals tread got some
few, trifing steps ahead, and nearer
to the end" is to pay the lost ones all
The honor and reverence they desire
Or can be willing to accept.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
A RAILROAD SQUARE DEAL

A RAILKOAD SQUARE DEAL
@OLONEL Roosevelt returns to
I the square deal, when, discuss
ing the railroad rate problem,
he says, "The living wage and the
living rate are interdependent." Rail-
roads should be allowed to raise their
rates where investigation shows these
to be unremunerative. Certainly there
is no justice in demanding that rail-
roads raise wages, and at the same
time calmly dismissing their plea for
higher rates that they may pay the
wages.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has more than once told the rail-
roads that, if they had to make inn
provements, they must go out and
borrow the money to do it. No one
has yet suggested that the railroads
should borrow money to increase wag-
es, but it comes to the same thing. If
railroads that are not now paying
dividends are required by public opin-
ion to increase wages, they have no
way to get the new wage fund but by
borrowing. They cannot take the
money out of the stockholders by
passing the dividend, because there is
no dividend to pass and the general
borrowing limit has been reached.
The case of the Erie Railroad is in
point. This road raised wages a few
years ago. President Underwood, now
faced with another demand, asks what
is going to be done about the Erie
stockholders. They get nothing. The
Erie employees have Jared much bet
ter than the. Erie owners. Can the
Erie, or any other railroad, stand the
progressive wage demands, even if
just, without some help from the pub
lie in the way of increased earnings
Evidently the two propositions must
sooner or later be considered together.
They are one proposition.
Possibly this time has now come.
The railroads since 1908 have been
knocking at the door of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, asking that
their case be heard. It has never
been heard. The Commission has re-
fused all offers of proof that rates
must be increased, but has gone deep
" into problems of block signals,
safety devices and other improve
ments that would cost the railroads
hundreds Of millions. It isn't busi-
ness to divorce two propositions as in
terdependent as these The Commits
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

ious county fairs throughout the state
to advertise Canada. This is the limit
of nerve. Al request to the Pine
River fair has been turned down and
every fair in the state should adopt
the same attitude Pine River Senti-
mel.
"A saloonless United States in
1920" is the goal mapped out by the
leaders in Christian Endeavor work in
session at Los Angeles recently.
While such conditions are surely COM
ing, it will be some years before Billy
Hamm will be out of politics in Min
nesota or stock in his big brewery
kicked about the streets for want of
buyers.-Blue Earth Post.
1t is suggested that telephone and
mail box should be part Of the
equipment of every rural school.
There are occasions when telephone
is almost necessity. Norman Coun-
ty Index.
Seven thousand democrats have
been launched into postoffice positions
since March A, 1913. Yet still the lean
and hungry ones lean up at the pie
counter and cry to the postmaster
general: "Prithee, prithee, why so
slow ?'-Little Falls Transcript.
Alvah Eastman's friends are deter
mined that he shall go to Congress
from the new Sixth district. If the
boys can persuade Alvah to get in he
will run like scared deer Princeton
Union.
One hundred dollar an acre land is
now reality in Lyon county and
from now will be a more common
price than heretofore. And why not?
Minnesota land is every whit as good
as northern Iowa land which has been
bringing that price for years past
Cottonwood Current.
What Minnesota needs more than
any other thing at the present time is
the application of economy. Taxes
are constantly increasing and the poor
mans burden is becoming heavier all
the while. A commission form of gov
eminent might tend to lift this burden.
At any rate, it is a proposition well
worthy the consideration of the peo-
pie. 1t will do no harm to give the
matter more than a passing thought.
The state officials are doing their best
to keep the expense within bounds.
The Legislature should take on the
garment of econonny.-Mankato Free
Press.
One fellow who lobbied in Washing
ton testifes that he was paid $50 a
day. A lobbyist who will work for
such small compensation is mighty
cheap skate, and it is no surprise that
the senators deny ever being ap-
preached by him. No self-respecting
senator could be expected to admit
that he associated with chap whose
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

The Minneapolis Fresh Air Fund
needs just $4,000 to enable it to keep
its promise made to many city chill
dren and their worn-out mothers. 1t
may be possible that this old state of
ours hasn't 5000 people who would
each give a single dollar, but we are
not ready to believe it yet.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
POISONING THE CHILD MIND

1 II
~ NE of the recent discoveries in
III the art of healing is the ther-
apeutic value of suggestion.
That is to say, the physician, by sug-
costing to the patient, particularly
the patient suffering from nervous
disorder, sane and helpful thoughts
about himself, can work a cure better
often times than by the use of drugs.
The force of mental suggestion is so
great that many fads, and even new
religions, have arisen which are based
upon it.
If the influence of good suggestion
be so great, the influence of bad sug-
gestion is even greater.
l wish to call attention to one form
of character poisoning of which par
ents are frequently guilty.
Perhaps the worst misfortune that
can happen person is to be infested
with germs of fear, to lack decision
and self-confdence to be prey to
the terrors of morbidity and doubt of
self. Who can tell the mortal pain,
shame and self-torture Of the innum-
cradle victims of chronic fear?
Frequently parents are responsible
for this. A boy, for instance, devel-
ops some Unborn trait of hayward
ness; he is untruthful, will not apply
himself, is careless, disobedient, or
persists in keeping bad company; the
parent naturally tells him of his fault,
and, as it seems to do no good, drops
into constant practice of scolding.
Over and over the boy is reminded
that he is "bad,". that he will never
amount to anything, and so on. This
finally filters in the child's subcon-
seriousness, and then the irretrievable
damage; for when he comes to believe
in his sub-mind that he is bad, he is
bad.
Why not try to find the cause of
your child's defects and remove it?
When you know that blame and re-
proof do no good, why go on?
We do not realize that it is a crime
to say to any child, under any circum-
stances, that he is bad, weak or vi
cious. When you do that you are
planting seed of damage in his
mind.
Many woman has been wrecked
because her life was poisoned when
she was child by unceasing mental
suggestions from her mother that she
was naughty, wicked, unreliable or
untruthful.
Many man is weak failure in the
struggles of mature life simply be-
cause the cult of failure was carefully
instilled into him by his parents.
Dwell upon and encourage the good
that is in your child. Ignore his de-
fects as far as possible. Learn how
to shut your eyes. Above all, do not
tell him he is wicked. Show him his
faults, but never in public, but in sac
red intimacy. Show him the conse-
quences of wrongdoing; but enlist his
aid in opposing his bad traits. Per-
sistently suggest to him that he is
good, brave, strong, and truthful. In
after life this belief of yours in him
win tone up his self-respect and give
him strength in his hours of crisis
Frank Crane.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS

Thousands of harvest hands are be-
ing called for IN the west and there
would be q large response among COLI
ege boys If the farmers would erect
awnings over grain feIds-Red Wing
Republican.
Canadian government agents are
endeavoring to purchase space 1t var
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
"A ROSE TO THE LIvING

"A AOSE III HE L1NING
N HANY falter by the wayside for
HM lack of encouragement.
Their work may be good, and
others may appreciate it, but they say
nothing. And the worker does not
know that they appreciate.
Moments of depression come to all,
when self-distrust may all but over
come courage.
A word of tribute, at such q time,
viii mean new courage and new
start.
After your friends are gone, you
win say lots of pretty things about
them.
But these kind words viii not pene-
trate even to the grass roots in the
mounds that cover their dead ears.
Say the nice things now.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

The old wall of femininity 81 have
nothing to wear" is becoming literally
true Only the present-day woman
casually remarks 81 should worry
and Sits her skirt a little farther to-
ward the waist line.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

What is the charm Sank Centre
uses to draw Give" newspaper men
to her? A. M. Welles is to be sue
ceeded by our old friend Asa Wallace.
Sank Centre receives our sympathy
and our congratulations. LIE Roi est
mort; vive LIE Roi.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

Thoreau once wrote the following
which still holds good: If man were
to place himself in an attitude to bear
manfully the greatest evil that could
be inflicted on him, he would suddenly
find that there was no evil to bear.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

The English publication sketch"
says ''fan is short for fanciers of base
ball." Now just "fawncy anything
like that, by Gawge."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

sion has but recently taken some notice
of its own Inconsistency, and Indicated
that it will hear the appeal of the rail
roads on its merits-M Minneapolis
Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

DIR. Dumas wants to get out of pri-
son. We have an idea there are many
present associates of this worthy M.
D. who have the same desire.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

Frank Day will speak at the Edi-
torial Meet on Leading the Donkey
Why not on LED by the Donkey" we'd
like to know.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29

The LeSueur News gives an extra
rush of advertising as an excuse for
being trifie late last week. Gosh!
faint possible!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-29
ADVERTISING RATE CARD

Display per Inch Column Measure
Space less than 10 inches. .12 to 15c
Space over that amount. $1,000. 10c
Ads from Electros, special discount.
Other than ordinary display, addition
al charge for extra composition.
Reasonable discount to large yearly
contractors.
READING NOTICES
All church notices and entertainments
where an admission is charged will
be classed as local advertising.
Church notices and lodge announce
ments PERTAINING to services and
meetings will be donated.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-04

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20

once asked the same question of the
great MordeCai Brown. He averred
that the point was covered in the
rule book. | handed him the book
and asked him to kindly show me
where it was He looked and looked.
but never found it, and had to give
up the case except to remark that
he knew well enough it was a balk
all right, and so it is everywhere con-
strued.
BY the way, it is worth noting that
balk does not entitle the batter ever
to his base but only such runners as
are already on base. With no runner
on a pitcher may make all the balks
he likes and nothing will happen.
1t is perfectly possible, though. for a
pitcher to have very puZziing way
of throwing either to home or to a
base without one being able to tell for
certain just where he is going to
throw, and that without committing a
balk This is easier for left handed
men than for right handlers; but
have seen the latter kind who could
so twist and distOrt their bodies at
the waist. after starting a seeming de-
livery to the plate. that they were able
to completely fool the first base run
ner into starting for second. and who
then succeeded in wrenChing their left
foot around SO as to thrust it straight
out toward first base after all and to
squarely face that sack before COM
PEELED to turn the ball loose In case
like this the pitcher has gone through,
| seemingly, with the motion so far to-
ward a plate delivery that the runner
has not thought it possible for him TO
change and get it to first base in
stead. Yet the pitcher has succeeded
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
RULES AND
PLAYS IN BASEBALL
NO. 2.
BY j. w. Heisman.

this is true, "all right, all right" it
has always puzzled me immensely
why they don't go on and include here
another way Of violating good pitch
ing manners that umpires will every
where be shocked over, but which is
not stated in the rule book anywhere.
Ii is this: If you get in the pitchers
box without the ball in your possess
sion you are committing a balk by
that mere fact alone, and whether
you NAVE any motion to pitch" or
not
I ONCE asked the lamented Harry
Pulliam, then president of the
National League, how he could con-
strue this a balk when there was
nothing specific in the rule book
about 1t, and he replied that he sim
ply construed such an act as PRIMA
FAC1E evidence of an intention to
commit a balk. regret to have to
say that in my opinion this is no
answer at all, for the simple reason
that no pitcher ever has an INTEN
TION of committing a balk.
Just to hear what he would say,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Mack and McGraw Will Set New
Record if They Land This Year

John MGrw heading
plotting
all modern
nobody baseball succeeded
corralcd the number the Athletics
FredC Chance managing
with other big
@ a that mark.
York 1904
1905 and then back 1911 and 1912 Mack work has been
landed n 1902 Three
he grabbed another and then 1910 and 1871 repeated