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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-02-18

The fellow who says "let the wom-
en- decide the suffrage question" hits
the point squarely, and it is what we
have thought many times. Let the
women go to the polls and decide the
question whether or not they want the
ballot.-Granite Falls Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-02-18
Hazol-Menthol Plasters

Effectively relieve pain. The soothing eff
fects of Menthol are quickly felt in Back
ache. Rheumatism, Sciatica and other
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Samples mailed upon request, &c. stamps.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-02-18

Bring your shoes to the old Gale
news stand in King building, where /
will do your repairing in first class
manner. Robert Hoppenrath. 2O-tf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Why the Miser Hoarded.
From the London Tit-Bits.

From the London T1t-Bits.
Judge not" is the moral that may be
deduced from the life and death of a
man who died recently in Vienna, leav-
ing 100000 crowns to found a. hospital
for children. He was known to the
world as Joseph Spitzberger, the miser,
and his life seemed to justify the name.
For many years he lived in miserable
room in a poor street in the suburbs of
Vienna. The room had no means either
of heat or light. To keep warm when
he was not at work he visited the
museums and art galleries, and to save
expense of light he went to bed when 1t
grew dark. He mended his own clothes.
and his whole wardrobe consisted of one
suit and one shirt. says the Vienna cor
respondent Of the London Standard.
During his last years he lived literally
on dry bread and tea, freshly made only
once week. and he drank this decoction
without milk or sugar. To all remon-
strances of his friends he replied: Your
pleasure is to spend, mine is to save.
Leave me to my pleasure; it Is all for a
good purpose.
He never married. and, with the eXcep-
ton of few small legacies to relatives,
he bequeathed his whole fortune for the
accomplishment of the design to which
his life had been devoted-the founding
of the children's hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Stone r FAIRFAX, 1912 New York Avenue.
A RIVER AND A CITY.
How the Missouri Ruined Rockport
and May Revive It.
Isville Courier-JOurnal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
Many stories have been told of the &C.
centricities Of the Missouri river and how
that fretful stream has made and unmade
towns by it's peculiar methods Of chang
ing its channel
A dispatch from Omaha tells an inter-
esting story of the rise and fall Of Rock
port, once promising western town.
Rockport, according to the story, was in
existence before Fort Dearborn was built;
before Chicago was thought of; before
Council Bluffs, Kansas City and Leaven-
worth We're put on the map. steamboats,
which only whistled at Omaha stopped
at Rockport for supplies" Military ex-
petitions made headquarters there, in
dustries sprang up and Rockport appar-
emily had the makingS of a metropolis.
About seventy-five years ago, however,
the Missouri river decided to move. 1t
did not exactly pick up it's bed and walk
but 1t switched its channel and took a
short cut across the country leaving
Rockport high and dry five miles away.
The town was literally ruined. The trad
ing posts were moved away. The stores,
hotels and small industries quit business
gradually and the citizens moved to
other localities. Many of the residences
were taken to farms in the surrounding
country and eventually Rockport was en-
tirely deserted.
Now, the Omaha dispatch relates, the
river has shifted again. but the change
was made gradually and not in single
night, as was the case three-quarterS of
century ago. For some years past the
Missouri has been eating its way slowly
back to the deserted wharves at Rock
port. 1t has been swallowing up corn
fields and farms and has resisted all eff
forts to stop it. though the government
built ripraps and the farmers constructed
dikes The river is now within $50 yards
of the decaying docks. and it is believed
that in few weeks steamboats, will be
landing once more at Rockport. Rehabili
tation Of the town already has begun
and, in the language of the enthusiastic
correspondent. "by Christmas time the
wharf again will be on the river bank
and Rockport will be resurrected by the
same force which killed 1t seventy-flve
years ago."
1t would be remarkable, indeed, If
Rockport should come back after an
absence of many years from the map.
Should it take on new life it will do well
to make arrangements to get a railroad
and thereby assure itself as a continuing
city. The Missouri river might move
suddenly some time, as it did before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
GLASS WITH KINGS MARK.
Precious Relic Was Stolen, But a
Substitute Was Found.
From BlackwoOd' Magazine.

From BlackWOOu MagaZlHe
Mrs Andrew Lang tells of a Frenchman
in whose chateau was a window on which
Henry " had once scratched the inscr1p-
ton .'Dieu garde de mai ma me Ce % de
Septembre, 1539-Henry.' The inscription,
when NJ Eudeal first saw it, was in two
lines of big. clumsy letters.
Two years later, being again in the
neighborhood, he revisited the chateau,
when he was aStonished to find that the
Inscription was now in three lines, with
the letters much more nearly uniform.
After some effort he got hold OF the Sc
cret.
For forty years the inscription on the
window had been the guides pride and
pleasure until in one fatal moment of IN
attention on his part an Englishman had
cut the pane of glass out of Its setting
and walked away with IL in his pocket
The poor guide hurried TO tell his mas
ter what had befallen him. The owner
of the chateau assured him that the acci-
dent was of no consequence and could
soon be put right. And SO 1t was. piece
of glass of the same tone as the other
panes was procured and fastened lightly
in it's place. The guide received orders
to turn his back so as to allow the visitors
to read the inscription. or, II they wished,
to steal it.
But it was necessary for the man to per-
ceive i'm the nick of time what was going
on, and only consent to shut his eyes on
the receipt of handsome tip. the amount
fixed beforehand. two-thirds OF which was
to go to his master.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11

of Dr. Routh. the famous president of
Magdalen College. oxford. who lived into
his hundredth year. And today Earl Nell
son. the NeStor of the house of lords,
keeps his eighty-ninth birthday.
If there is any slackness in this country
il is to be found in the rising generation,
not in our old men. Earl Roberts puts
our youth to shame by the splendid vigor
and persistence Of his services to the
cause of national defense.
Lord Halsbury, for all his eighty-siX
years. is one of the strongest forces i'm
his party in his green old age: his ardor
for combat has rather deepened than de-
creased. Our greatest figure in literature
is Thomas Hardy, who at seventy-twc
can yet produce poetry that will live.
The contrast with the eighteenth cen.
fury is certainly extraordinary. Then. In
the days of Pitt and Fox. men were
counted old at forty and sank to vale
tudinarianism at that age. Now they re.
tain their health and strength and are
young at ninety. This does not sugges,
any loss of vigor in the race.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
EIGHTY ACRES OF PARKS
TO COME FROM FORTS
District Surveyor Working on
Plans to Beautify Old
Military Spots.

Recently the Office of the surveyor of
the District completed the mapping of
the ground which is included within the
wartime Notifications known as Fort Du-
pont and Fort Davis. AS links in the
chain of forts that encircle the city dur
ing the civil war, they occupy the brow
Of the hill that overiooks the city on the
east, a short distance south of the line of
Pennsylvania avenue, as it is extended
across the Eastern branch The work
that has been done under the direction
of the District surveyor. Mr.. Hazen. is in
accordance with a provision Of law
passed at the last session of Congress di-
recting that the land be acquired to be
used as public parks.
Following the usual course i'm such mat
ters, the land will be valued by com.
mission appointed by the court. In this
way some eighty acres will be added to
the park area of the city, as it is esti-
mated the site of each of these military
Notifications contains between thirty and
forty acres. 1t is also provided that the
two parks shall be connected by an ave-
nue. 100 feet wide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Unused Wealth.
,m the Chicago Journal.


Voltaire, a wise old man who lived
many years ago, said that the prosperity
of a country is in inverse ratio to it's nat
ural advantages. A recent consular re-
port on the resources of Colombia gives
point to the epigram.
Colombia contains $4,000 square miles
"a little more than the combined area of
France Germany and England. For a
comparison closer home. Colombia is
larger than Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and louisiana
ColonNbfa's climate, thanks to her loca-
ton and her mountains, varies from the
hottest tropics to that of the cool tenn
perate zone Her agricultural possible
ties are hardly guessed.
Colombia has a mineral wealth which
only the United States can rival. Colom-
bia has gold, silver. platinum, copper,
iron, zinc. lead, COAL Oil and asphalt. She
has iron ore equal to that of the Mesabi
range in Minnesota, and iron deposits
overlaid by coal and underlaid by lime
stone.
Yet Colombia has population Of only
eight or nine to the square mile, and poor
at that. She has fewer people than little
haf-drowned Holland. The white man
has been in Colombia three hundred and
fifty years; he has been in Illinois about
a hundred years: but Illinois has 80 per
cent larger population, and 500 per cent
more wealth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
The Source Of Lies.
by DIR. FRANK CRANE.

Against thieves and robbers" old Bill
Cantrell used to say, I'VE have defense;
bolts. locks and bars; but against liars
we have no defense
OF almost any crime the disgusting
part is the cheating involved. Plain muir
der and highway robbery are not SO bad
when there have been no false pretenses.
The most distressing person to have to
do with is that one upon whose word
you cannot depend. Our faith in one an
other is the cement of society; when that
cement will not hold. the house tumbles
The liar is the arch enemy Of mankind.
1t might be advisable to let housebreak-
ers and assassins go, and hang the liars;
only it might come to pass that there
would be no one left to pull the rope.
One who tells you what is not so is
not necessarily a liar. for the fables of
Aesop, the tales of Kipling and the par
ables of Jesus are even more deeply true
than things that are So They mislead
nobody. blind and betray no soul, but
their fiction is light and verify.
The lies of art are no lies.
So also there are the necessary and be-
coming lies of decency and love. OF de-
cency, where we conceal that which is
guise a fact that would be cruel.
That lie is real lie that tends to Gre
ate false impression.
This kind springs from cOwardice van
| ity or malice. So that. after all, the. test
of lie is the quality of purpose in it.
| The lie of cowardice is what We tell for
| fear of the facts: as when a man has
stolen money, and denies that he has
stolen, for fear Of contempt and punish
ment.
! The lie of vanity is what We say to
produce a better opinion Of ourselves
than that to which We are entitled, as,
when one pretends he is rich or wise,
when he is poor and ignorant.
The lie of malice Is the falsehoOd that
| is told in order to bring harm to some
! one.
The history of ecclesiasticism, Of pol
| itics and of society is full Of these lies.
| To avoid being liar 1t is not needful
| to be always careful to state but the
facts. There is but one thing needful; it
| is to see that our intention is clean of
cowardice, vanity and malice.
| When these three poisons are not in
you. you cannot lie II you try.
| When they are in you even the truth
you utter is false.
| What joy it Is to meet one who never
seeks to make others think of him more
highly than they ought to think! Humil-
| ity Is the quintessence of truthfulness.
| And when you fal in with the man
i who is unafraid. who never stoOps to sub
stitute expediency for truth, it is like
| finding a wide and leafy tree in a desert
| tolerable sands.
| And the lie of malice is a squeezed out
! drop of venom from mean soul. If you
keep your heart free from these three
things-cowardice, vanity and malice-you
need fear neither God nor man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
DAY OF YOUNG OLD MEN.
Hard Workers Far Past the Three
score and Ten.
From the london pally MalI

From the London Daily Mail.
This is pre-eminently tie age of young
old men," IL has been said by a student
of modern England. and il is certainly
wonderful We look around TO note how
much of the most energetic work in this
country is being accomplished by those
who have already exceeded the Biblical
span.
Lord Strathcona. whose activity in busi-
ness continues undated and whose appe-
tite for hard mental exertion is as insa-
table as of DID, kept his ninety-second
birthday yesterday. Lord Wemyss. though
lis ninety-fourth birthday fell last sun
Gay. still follows modern politics with all
the zest of youth and is a redoubtable
antagonist with his pen.
Dr. Atkinson. the master of Clare Col
iege. Cambridge. was ninety-three yes
terday and is fast approaching the record
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
TWO HIGH PRICES PAID.
E and G Street Properties Both
Bring Large Figures Per Foot.

The announcement made during the
week of the price said to have been paid
for the property at the southwest corner
of 18th and f streets northwest created
a good deal of interest, although it is the
Judgment of those who are familiar with
property values that $50 per square foot
was a special price for special piece of
property. The size of the lot, compris-
ing, as it does. only /, 155 square feet, is
rather exceptional.
\ few days ago ST per square foot is
said to have been paid for the property
east the southeast corner of 10Th and G
streets. But the area of the ground is
1880 square feet, with frontage of
twenty-five feet and depth of about
one hundred feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
HAvEMEYER TRACT SOLD.
Property Embraces Overlook Inn and
Two Hundred Acres.

The large parcel Of land known as the
Havemeyer tract on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. extended, east of the Eastern branch,
has been transferred by William B. Dun
can, jr.. to Tyrrel r. Biddle. The prop
erty includes the Overlook Inn and some
200 acres of land.
No announcement has been made of the
plans of the new owner, but the trustee,
the National Savings and Trust Com
pany, has power to subdivide the prop
erty into lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
To Connect by Driveway.

AS the first of what may now be called
the sites of these old Notifications to be
acquired for public use, the present pro-
cedure has an interest quite outside of
that which regards only an increase in
the number of public recreation places,
for such use of the old-time Notifications
that occupied the commanding position
along the brow of the hills that encircle
the city is in accordance with a plan that
has met with general favor and that pro-
poses to connect the entire system by a
driveway.
The preservation of these old sites is
desirable where it is possible to effect it,
and where they can be made of public
service. but at any rate a connecting
driveway will not only pass along historic
ground. but will provide a means of con-
Meeting the streets and avenues that
radiate from the city as a center.
1t is recognized that in this way a de-
feet in the system of highways will be
corrected. and that communication be-
tween all parts of the District will be
greatly facilitated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Frank About Frank.
rom the Marquette, Kan, Tribune.

T
Frank Waller was a unique character,
An honest comment on his life is difficult
to make in a newspaper. We do not want
to say an unkind word about him. He
put nothing into this life and got nothing
out of it, His boarded wealth brought him
an early grave and he could take none
of it with him. He was honest as he saw
honesty, obeyed the laws of the land
when it cost him nothing: neighbored
with no one; trusted no one; got all he
could, and kept all he got
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Expressed the Wrong Way.

From the New York Nail
The lecturer arose and said impressive
ly: Every time l see young man COM
ing out of saloon l want to go right
up to that young man and say, Turn
right around, young man; you're going
the wrong way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Postcard Correspondence.

From Judge.
Patron Ito very slow waiter-Bring me
some salad, please. And you might just
send me a postcard every now and then
while you're away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
A Rank Jest.

From the Boston Transcript.
Marks-Jones tells me he saw you yes
terday eating in a lunch wagon.
Parks-Yet; / was dining a Ia carte.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11

Come on. Mamie. There's no use argu-
in with her. She kin make twice as bad
faces as you kin.'-Life.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-01
llV-VER-LAx FOR
SICK HEADACHE

IT IS YOUR INACTIVE LIVER AND
cLOCCED BOWELS. LIN-vER-LAx
IS THE PAasAcEA FOR ALL LIVER
TROUBLES AND CONSTIPATION
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-01
Nice Ponies.

One Of the Office men visited the fan
grounds the other day and found very
interesting horse show. Mr.. Ed Fulton
showed us around the stables, where
quite numbered fine horses are housed.
Most Of these were two-year-olds, owned
by w. J. Beauchamp, Will Webster,
Walter DeBow, Guy Lee, Mr.. Corum,
Tito Lannom and others. and mind
you there is some horsehesh there too.
There were colts Of Bonnie, Rex, Irasci-
BILE Squirrel, Alfred g., and some hand
some ones. These horses are now being
and trained for exhibition at
the fair this fall, and a fine horse show
they viii make. OF course the stables
will be filIed with race stock at the fair
but these win make fine additions,
and already it is safe bet that we are
10 have fine horse show.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-01
Announcements.


MII.NER.--We are authorized 10 announce r. b.
lBob) Miner as a candidate for Register Of
0bion County, subject 20 the action q the
Democratic primary election Saturday Decem,
Der 6. 1913.
WILKERSON-We are authorized to annouuce
VT. WiIkerson 4 candidafs for Register Of
obion County. subject to the action Of the
Democratic primary election Saturday. Deem
Der &, 1913.
For Sheriff.
CIovER-We are authorized TO announce ]. L.
0im Eate3 Glover a candi6ate for sheriff Of
Obion County subject 20 Tic acfioa Of the
Democratic pfimarsselection Saturday. Decen-
Der s. 1915.
For County Court Clerk.
TA1LEX-We are authorized 70 announce c. S.
Taliey a candidate for reelection 70 the Office
the primary election. Saturday. Dec. 6, 1913.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-01
Cost Of Unimproved Rod.

I, How the States and counties are put.
ting money in the pockets Of the farm.
ers by investing IN the Improvement Of
public roads is shown by statement
i just issued by the Office ofPublic Roads
Of the Department OF Agriculture.
Definite cases are cited in support Of the
argument that where bad roads prevail
farmers are forced to move their crops
mot when the market price as favorable,
but when the roads are favorable.
Two farmers living in separate
counties but an equal distance from the
cotton market, learned by telephone
that cotton had advanced in price 81. 90
per bale. The farmer living on bad
road responded BY hauling one bale Of
cotton, which was all he could get over
the unimproved road while the other
farmer was able to haul four bales owing
to favorable road conditions. The rise
in price gained profit OF 81 to one man
and 81 to his neighbor
II Is shown in the statement that it is
common for the farmer to find that he
cannot haul hisproduct to market when
prices are highest because the roads are
impossible. When the roads become
passable, the time for market has large
ly passed and produce is compelled to
move in masses, which frequently gIuts
the market and breaks the prices.
Excessive fluctuations in market prices
are seldom due to over production. They
frequently take place in regions where
the local production does not equal the
annual consumption. There are counties
rich in agricultural possibilities, bur
dened with bad roads, where the annual |
income shipments Of food-stuffs, exceed
the outgoing shipments in the ratio Of
four to one. Many such counties with
roads could not only become
but could ship products
10 other counties.
A farmer ia Sullivan County, Tenn,
} few miles from Bristol, had 100
bushels Of Irish potatoes which he In
ended TO market during the winter Of
L907-190S. Owing to bad roads. be was
Unable 10 haul the potatoes at all, and
hey rotted 10 the cellar. Nevertheless,
he price Of potatoes at Bristol went as
ligh Is 81 40 per bushel in the mean
ime. A Bristol merchant stated that
Turing the winter as many as ten car
Dads Of farm produce, including wheat,
'otatoes and other supplies, were daily
hipped in to feed not only Bristol. but
he adjacent territory.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-01
Attention, Confederate Veterans.

The canap and Company E will NEE
at the encampment Of 7Sd Regiment
Uniform Rank OF the Woodmen Of the
World at the park near Samburg and
have old Soldiers Day" on Sunday,
August Is, 1913 Program is made OUT
for you for that date. AS the exercises
will commence on the morning Of the
10th, 1t is thought best to report at the
camp on the 18th. w. q. MassengilI
as commander viii have charge Of War
rem Mcdonald Camp, No. 1856, U.C.v.,
and Captain Hugh Mcdonald will be in
command OF Company e.
On the first Monday ia September
there will bea call meeting OF Warren
Mcdonald Camp to elect delegates to
the State reunion at Nashville Oct. j
and 2, 1918, and to elect quartermaster
and transportation agent and to appoint
all Unnecessary committees on arrange
ment, etc.
r. w. POWELL, Adit.
Union City, Tenn, July rs, 1918.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-01
Charlie TAYLOR.

| The promotion OF Chas. G. Taylor
from the Office Of commercial agent Of
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad at Memphis
to the responsible position Of assistant
general freight agent Of the company
with headquarters in Memphis will be
a source OF much qualification to bis
many friends and former co-Iaborers in
Jackson.
The Mobile 4 Ohio Railroad has not,
we dare say, more efficient or more
capable official than Charlie Taylor.
Certainly there is not one who mani-
tests askeener interest in the welfare and
progress Of the company, and the fact
that he has been steadily promoted is a
natural sequence to his untiring efforts
and faithful service.
He began as agent OF the M. & 0.
road at Falcon Station some twenty
years ago; shortly thereafter he came
to jackson as clerk in the local freight
Office; then he was promoted to the
agency at Union City, and in a few
years came back to Jackson as freight
agent; next he was appointed commer-
cial agent at jackson. then commercial
agent with headquarters in Memphis. |
and his latest appointment. that OF as