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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-12-09
The Real Bdne of
The Rural Schools
Death to Many A Might Have
Been Successful School

Neighborhood squabbles are the
bane of many small school districts.
Sometimes it is the location of the
school house-the most influential
family wants it where it will be con-
venient for their children, never mind
the rest of the district. Sometimes
it is the selection of a teacher-there
is a niece or a sister-in-law who
wants school.
1t is common experience that in
larger districts those troubles do not
appear. Personal considerations cut
less figure in larger territory. In
the common school distict, proposed
by the education commission, cover
ing each county outside Of the indie
pendent districts, there won't be room
for personal pickering. The district
will outgrow it.
Where there is now complaint that
one or two families run a district,
there is also complaint that the 9TH
ers can get no redress. In the larg-
er district there is a place for public
sentiment to make itself felt. If there
should be one obstinate member of a
common school board, there would
quite certainly be majority of fair
and unbiased men and women.
No common school district will ever
waste it's energies in quarreling over
the selection of a school site for the
Coon Hollow folks or the choice of
a teacher for school No. Z.
Another thing common school
board will develop a valuable ex-
perience in school management. The
common school district will be always
building, always buying supplies, al
ways learning how to do things to the
best advantage. The little district
builds once in generation, buys a
set of charts once-usually the wrong
set-buys furniture once The local
board has no experience to go by and
the experience it acquires is of lit
tie value because it never has to do
the same thing again. In the COM
mon school district the members of
the board will acquire just that sort
of experience.
In the unorganized district in st.
Louis county, which is very much like
what one of these common school
ri ctricts will ha tho poapo0ap,op+ ;c
so successful that g number of local
districts are being dissolved volun-
tarily to get the b. tier management
which the big district is able to offer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-12-09
New War Tax Now
Doing Business
Federal Government to Replenish Ma.
tional Treasury by Selling Revenue
Stamps for Many Purposes
LAW NOW IN EFFECT
Luxuries And Necessities And Many
Legal Documents Must Pay
Their Share of Revenue

The special international revenue
measure recently passed by congress
will go into effect December l. 1t
imposes a tax on large number of
business transactions evidenced by
written agreements to which stamps
will be attached and cancelled as was
done in the case of the Spanish war
tax.
After December 1 every bill Of lad
ing issued by railway company, big
or small, must have one cent rev.
enue stamp attached by the consignor.
Parlor car seats and sleeping car
berths are taxable one cent each.
Telephone and telegraph messages are
to be taxed one cent each where the
toll is Is cents or over. Insurance
policies must bear stamps amounting
to one half cent on each dollar of
premium. The policy holder must pay
it in addition to the premium.
Following are a few noteworthy
provisions of the law.
Promissory notes, and for each re-
newal of same for a sum not exceed
ing $4,000, 2 cents. For each addi-
tional part thereof, in excess of $500,
2 cents.
Protest of any note, bill of exchange,
acceptance, check or draft, rs cents.
Bonds, debentures or certificates of
indebtedness, issued on and after the
first day of December, 1914, 5 cents on
each $4,000 of face value, or frac-
ton thereof.
Certificates of stock, on each orig
inal issue, cents on each $4,000 of
face value or fraction thereof.
Deed or conveyance or real estate
if the consideration exceeds $4,000
and does not exceed $500, so cents.
For each $4,000 additional, or frac-
tional part thereof, in excess of $500,
so cents.
Certificates required by law (not
otherwise specified), 10 cents.
Entry of goods or merchandise at
any custom house for consumption or
warehousing, not to exceed $4,000 in
value, 25 cents; exceeding $4,000
and not exceeding $4,000, so cents;
exceeding $4,000 in value, $1.00.
Entry for withdrawal of goods or
merchandise from customs bonded
warehouse, so cents.
Power of attorney or proxy for vot-
ing at election of corporate officers,
10 cents
Power of attorney of any nature
except for corporate officers, 25 cents.
Persons affixing stamps are required
to cancel it by writing or stamping
his initials and the date.
The law also provides that bonds
for indemnifying persons or corpora
tons bear stamp. Employees of the
Company are requested to see that
such bonds have proper stamp (50c)
attached to the document in every
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-20
The Burlington Free Press
NOW

John L. Souhwk editor of the Burlington Free Press in 1914
From Editorial Burlington Free Press Oct. s. 1910
MIR Dillingham; voted Smoot, the Mormon
the United States Senate holding that the charge of
lygamy against him. We do Pouty
has taken public position legal aspects of this whole que
ton length but do know that he with the
the people of any
utilization between Vermont Senator and Mormon Senator
who apologies for Mormon poygamy"
From Editorial, Burlington Free Press, Is, 1914
Whaever position take with reference the
dacy of this that the present campaign, Vermont
in the position of condoning pat
ing, countenancng Lorime Smoot, the Mormon
United States Senator
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-20
ROOSEVELT ENDORSES HIM
Will Run as Independent But Not Republican
State Convention to be Held Soon

meeting of progessives from all parts of Vermont
at the Hotel Vermont last evening The political situation
discussed regards the pary candidate for United States Sen
and overwhelming majority of the So present de-
cared in favor of G. A. Prouty of Newport
The meeting informed by Dr. H. Nelson jackson and
later by Mr. Prouty that interview held Oyster Bay with
Colonel Roosevelt the Colonel stated that he would
Pouy candidate for United States Senator from Vermont
Mr. Pouy appeared before the meeting and declared his po
son. He will independent and will accept the
nation of the Progressive party for the Senate He further stated
that he had been asked by republican he would accept
inaon from the republican party and had answered
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-20
JUSTICE FOR SENATOR sMOOT


JUSTICE FOR SENATOR SMOOT
Whcn the struggle began four years United
people with that universal disposition 60 contrary
legal requirements and hold that guilty of charge
until innocent took for granted that he had consored
with than wife and should accordingly be compelled to
shake the the upper branch of Congress from his
"Investigaon Of the facts the pursued at great
length with infinite led Senator Dillingham; we'll
other members of the United States Senate conclude
of his religious belief and the prejudice prevailing
against him rather than account of violation of poygamy
which another \ermonter Senator Edmunds, nsru
very largely having spread the national statutes.
In spite of these facts the of the majority of the
committee took the ground that Senator Smoo should be
ed though Barrow who presented the majority report
admitted himself that Smoo poygamist though
apostle of the Mormon Church.
Senator Dillingham; who joined in the minority report and
who had carefully studied all the the took the safe
ground that under Constitution guaranteed
gous liberty his religious practices conformity
reflection will show that this the only safe
ground take under National Constitution and gni
this the that finally prevailed in the Senate
president Roosevelt has written letter to Senator Knox
of Pennsyvan formerly member of his cabinet commencing
him his speech support Senator Smoot and Senator Dill
ngham spoke hours his usual able and brilliant
also by his colleagues for his
helping induce justice to Smoo the
Of unfavorabe report by majority of the committee
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-20
HOLD SUGAR FEAST
VermOnterS in District Dine on
States Product
THIRD TERMS CRITICISED
Commissioner PrOuty Says They
Prefer Killing Beasts to
Feeding the Hungry

at is only when you find a who would rather kill rhi
than give hungry dinner that you find
who a third term
So asserted Judge Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at maple party given by the Vermont State AS
of the District National Rifles Armory
For it looked if he going to make political
address, but he Immediately changed the subject speaking
totally different vein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-20
THEN

John L. Southwick editor of the Free Press in 1907
EDITORIAL from Burlington Free Press, June 22, 1907
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02
Cardinal Gibbons Advice.

Baltimore, May 2.-In signed
statement to the Anti-Saloon League
Cardinal Gibbons today expressed the
hope that Charles county will &c
"dry" at the special election on May
Is. The statement is as follows:
II believe that the right of the
people to determine by the opera
ton of local option law whether
saloons shall or shall not be closed
within their respective communities is
in harmony with the American prin-
ciples of self government, and / con-
Sfatalate the people of Charles conn-
ty in that they will have the right
to settle this question: by ballot on
May IS next, and, realizing the dam
age which has been done by the liquor
traffic in this country, | sincerely
trust that at the coming election they
will Danish forever the licensed sa-
loon, as | believe that it will be to
the best interests of their people.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02
Russian Justice Slow

st. Petersburg, May 2.-The slow
speed gear under which the Supreme
Court of the United States sometimes
operates can scarcely compare in ef-
fectiveness with that attached to the
wheels of justice in Russia. The SEN
ate, which is the Supreme Court Of
the Empire, after celebrating on the
question for thirteen years has just
decided that q Jew named VaXman
may establish a photograph gallery
at Kholm.
1t was in 1901 that the photograph
er, who was conducting a studio in
Krasnostav Poland, asked the COVER
nor's permission to start q branch
shop in the neighboring town of
Kholm. The governor refused, on the
ground that Kholm was "an important
strategical and religious center where
Jew would be out of place"
Vaxman appealed to the Senate, and
both he and the governor filed volum
inous briefs in support of their re-
spective contentious. According to the
belated decision, the governor acted
illegally, and a mandate was issued
permitting Vaxman to begin business
in Kholm at his pleasure.
Court officials sent to serve the pa
pers, however, have been unable to
locate the photographer who long ago
moved from Krasnostav. Folks there
do not even know whether he is alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02

wove our most famous historical lie
the story of George Washington and
the hatchet. l was going to say the
cherry tree-but maybe there was {
cherry tree"
Professor Hart said the Rev. Weems
was net through when he finished
that one. He told lot more anec-
dotes about Washington, all just as
true as the one he began with.
The speaker organized an Ananias
club of his own-a list of historical
liars. The professor put three preach
ers in 1.-THE Rev. H. II. Spalding,
the Rev. Richard Peters and the Rev.
William Gordon, who wrote "The His
tory of the Revolution"
81 wish that the Rev. Peters was
still alive to write the history of
Roosevelt what chance!" exclaimed
Professor Hart.
All other liars he put in the list
were the historians James F. Skunk,
editor of the Easton Argus, who found
the Cotton Mather letter, and H. Mid
dleton Miller, who furnished prom
inent periodical with the Mecklenbure
Declaration of Independence. Among
the lesser lights he placed Roy Carrie
ton Tree, Colonel A. c. Deul, John
Joselyn, Marcus Whitman and James
Beckwith.
1t was announced that James Nor
timer Montgomery had been chosen
president of the national organization
of the Sons of the Revolution. Rob
ert Oliphant, vice president, presided.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02
Some Liars.

New York, May 2.-"Our two great
est historical liars were Captain John
Smith and the Rev. Mason Locke
Weems," said Professor Albert Bush
nell Hart of Harvard at the ban
uuet of the Sons of the Revolution
at Delmonico's. He continued to
shatter traditions, saying:
"Captain Smith gave us the story
of his rescue by Pocahontas. 1t was
all untrue-a lie. The Rev. Weems
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02
THE ROCKEFELLERS.

pricked thin cui of the Rookie
Teller the reod
children
of
in their constitution.
brutality of cloak o.
religion.
Mexico,
in like the Roke
The spirit of gentle charity and
hepfun which constitutes religion, lacking the
in the Standard Oil oppressors.
said the demonstrations him have Frustrated the ed
something affect his feelings, and it
his with realization
received the the world which his life
sionh
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02
The Press Guarantees Circulation Greater
than the Combined Circulation of any
Other Three Imperial Valley Papers
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD.

Valley completed its thirteenth year Few
growth their environment in short time
Journal growth been because OF
the the Press carrying The of the valley to prospe
tive
obliged itself hustle keep with
admitted
growing with the growth of the valley, most people admit
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02

Political Announcement.
A. P. Shibley, candidate for coun-
ty superintendent of school, primary
election, August 25.-Adv. Is
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-02
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES

" UNA LODGE, NO. AIS, Benevolent
7 and Protective Order of Elks,
meets every Wednesday evening
at Elks' Hall. Visiting brothers are
heartily welcome. Meeting hour-a
o'clock. r. r.. KNOTS, Exalted Ruler;
!. X. STILLENS. Secretary.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-09

life far more complex than the multipli-
cation table.
Remembering his wager the next even
ing he sauntered into a little Bohemian
cafe where romance and mystery were
known to sprout in profusion. He scarce
ly expected to make his boast good, but
he had nothing better to do, and who
knew but what luck and chance might
reveal a chapter from real life dramatic
enough to rival the romancer's fancy!
As he scanned the cabalistic menu he
was conscious of a pair of dark, piercing
eyes regarding him intently. He turned
his head slightly, his glance met that of
foreigner of distinguished appearance,
and for a moment he thought he saw a
gleam of recognition in the others eyes.
Undoubtedly some one he had met during
his travels, he thought. as his food was
served.
Suddenly he heard furtive footsteps be-
hind him and a little white object fiut-
tered down to his table. He unfolded the
note and read:
Dear Brother: / have seen the emblem
of our brotherhood on your finger. You
are our lost comrade whom it has been
my mission to find. Follow me-"
IF that's a joke, it's a queer one. B"
thought Carlton. But the next moment
he remembered the ruby ring and the
idea came TO him that perhaps this was
the first chapter Of the romance he had
been seeking. The stranger had left his
table and stepped to the door. He re-
garded Carlton with a stern, inscrutable
smile that conveyed a command. He
decided to obey, and as he rose from the
table he surmised dimly that his coming
into possession of the ruby ring had
caused him to be mistaken for the un-
The Washington herald., 1914-04-09

da.edly. fumbIing for words to express
his gratitude. ~.
You mustn't thank met. she cried. II
had to turn traitor to do H. L called the
police-there was nothing else to do. I
Just couldn't bear to have you die like
that"
"who were theyy' mumbied Carlton.
bewiidered-
The Ruby sCircle-guess you call them
Nihilists. Goodbye"
Must It be good-by." Carlton pressed
her hand as they stood trembling and
palpitant at the entrance to the Ruby
Circle HEADQUARTERS.
You don't think I could have done
that" she sobbed, IF I-if DIDN'T"
Early that morning Carlton wrote a
note to his friend at the club which he
ended as follows:
so, you see. win the 500. but have
also won something else that Is worth u
million times more"
Copyright. 1914. BY Henp Barrett champTIin.)
This picture will be shown FIRST time In
city at Empress Thea, fl6 9Th st.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-09

kempt person who had brushed past
him under the lamp post.
The stranger motioned him to follow.
and without a word they stepped from
the cafe and walked to a filthy. disrepu-
table and ill-smelling portion of the city,
Carlton followed his conductor down a
basement stairway from which 1t seemed
the dirt had not been swept in months.
The grim and persistent silence of his
new acquaintance began to impress Carl
ton uncomfortably. At length they
stopped in front of what appeared to
be a blank wall, and the man raped
thrice. II was evidently a signal, for
with a grinding of rusty bolts an open
ing appeared in the wall and Carlton
found himself in an anteroom hung with
heavy curtains. His silent companion
excused himself with the explanation
that he must advise the brotherhood OF
the missing members arrival.
Wonder what sort of trap this is. -
unused Carlton. staring uneasily about
the room. "A thieves den, a NIhilistic
headquarters, Or?
He was staring in bewilderment at a
girl who seemed to have stepped out
from the opposite wall. She was re-
garding him haughtily and with scorn
in her eyes
SO you are only a spy, a cowardly
spy," she sneered "A detective, I sup
pose / suspected it when you followed
me that day. The society will treat you
as you deserve" .-..
A flush had crept into her cheeks and
with scorn blazing in her eyes Carlton
thought she was even more beautiful
than that day when he had pursued and
lost her in the Swiss hills. He extended
The Washington herald., 1914-04-09
THE RUBY
CIRCLE.

One of his club fellows teasinsiy
matched a book from Robert Cartons
hand. @Reading detective yarns. eh?
Don't you know" he asked that such
things never happen in real lifeg Lie
IN reality Is as plain and simple as
the Multiplication table and the alpha
bet"
Cartons mind was still under the spell
Of the noveiists fancy Tell you what
viii do." he said. "I'n wager $500 that
within six weeks viii uncover q situa-
ton in real life just as romantic and
mysterious as anything you ever read in
The other laughed. You are fool,
Carlton. 1 accept"
Carlton pocketed the book and yawned
sleepfly .4Guess I'll go to bed. Good
night" He stepped from the room, smil-
ing at the crazy impulse that had
prompted the wager. II was foolish,
OF course His friend had been right;
such things never happen in real life.
Some one brushed past him as he
stepped to light cigarette under the
gas light at the corner. He caught a
glimpse of q queer face and a ragged,
shrinking figure that shufiied away with
n lurching gait. As he struck match
against the lamp post he saw a shining
object on the sidewalk. He picked IL
up. his eyes liked with fascinated in
tensity on his f1nd. He examined il in
the light of the street lamp and found
q was a circie-shaped jewel consisting
Of three perfectly matched rubies- He
stared at it until he began to attract
the attention OF puzzled passersby. and
then he slipped it into a pocket and pro-
ceeded homeward in a daze.
In his room he took out the ring and
regarded il intently. 1t was q queer
fabric OF the jewelers. fancy-a taIisman,
perhaps, whose history might be traced
through dark and devious paths Of yes
terdays- Cartons eyes fitted dreamily
from the ornament in his hand Where
and when had he seen ring like that?
Slowly a lazy little Swiss village an
ldyllic landscape browsing under an
azure sky, and a girl-the strangest girl
he-had ever seen-disentangled themselves
from the tumble of hazy recollections in
his mind He remembered now: she, the
girl with the big, flashing eyes. untamed
masses of raven curls, and sIlvery, be-
witching laughter, had worn a ring just
like that
Carlton had almost forgotten. but his
memory of her became vivid now as she
tripped across the range of his vision, a
shy, elusive beauty who had given tone
and color and warmth to that drowsy
Swiss landscape. The breeze had snatch
ed a paper from her fingers and he had
pursued and caught IL, and quite in
voluntarily he had seen a cryptic message
pertaining to ''the ruby circle" written
on IT, He had restored the note to her
with an inane remark about the weather,
but she had turned from him with a
laugh and transferred herself into a
sinuous streak that vanished among the
hills.
He had often thought Of her as the
dream girl. and now he wondered how a
ring like the one he had seen on her
singer could have come into the possess
sion of the uncouth character who had
iostled him on the street corner. Be
fore he retired he placed the ring on his
esnger. and his sleep that night was dis
turbed by dreams Of a wonderful girl
and by stray bits of romance from a
The Washington herald., 1914-04-09
THE WAR DAY BY DAY
Fifty Years Ago.
April 1ss4-Te u Minnesota, Lying in Hampton Roads Va,
Was Attacked by the Confederate Torpedo Boat Squhoduein
of Torpedoes in the War Due to tie Confedsaes.
Cwritten szpressly for The Herald.l

an May Z. 1854 The boat. having crew
OF fifty officers and men, was in the great
fleet that carried Gen. Buffers army up
the James. 1t was blown into kindlins
wood.
The torpedo was made of boiler iron.
and contained l.sO0 pounds of powder. II
had been planted for eighteen months. A
battery on shore from which it was fred
was manned by three operators. one of
whom was shot dead by an officer Of the
Jones.
The mechanism had been installed un-
der the supervision of Lieut. Hunter Da-
wilson.
The James was sown with fixed. or con-
tact. mines. One of these had exploded
under the Federal vessel Commodore Bar
ney near the scene of the Jones destruc-
tion, on August ). 1856, but without de-
stroying the ship.
Devices since Forbidden.
Some Of the torpedo devices employed
by the Confederates were Ingenious but
not countenanced by later regulations of
torpedo warfare. One was the so-called