The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-07
t can never be made right.

keen practical judgment to know wha
to start and how and when to start it
A representative that introduces Wis
ionary, impractical measures or res
olutions calling for demagogic lnves
LEGATIONS, soon loses the respect ant
confidence of his colleagues and when
he has reached this condition his use
fullness to his state and constituent!
ceases, and the man who never starts
anything is marked down as an in
competent and soon drops into ra
competent and soon drops into
rather numerous class that are con-
temptuously classified as drawers and
perquisite absorbers.
Not only must man possess that
practibility and insight into public at
fairs that will enable him to start val
liable and essential legislation, but he
must have qualifications that will en-
able him to carry it through, for it
matters not how beneficial proposed
legislation may be, it will never bene-
fit anybody unless it is enacted into
law
A congressman, to be valuable to
his constituency must possess the
ability to start valuable measures and
also push them to completion.
This requires good judgment, keen
discernment, adaptability, likeabillty,
untiring industry, unlimited patience,
unbounded optimism, perfect good ma
ture, never ceasing persistency, firm
ness and determination.
Mr.. Maxfeld, the Republican can.
didate, possesses all these qualifica-
lions and besides he is clear, concise
public speaker, and while this ability
is not absolutely essential, it is a
great aid to a member of the House.
The present member from this dis
trict is now finishing his fourth term
in the House and during this long SER
vice he has not secured the passage
of a single bill to which his name was
attached. He has dreamed dreams,
viewed with alarm, forboded gloomy
forbodings, proclaimed direful disas-
tiers and accomplished nothing affir-
native.
Everything he has done he could
have performed as well in his office in
Little Falls as in Washington.
The Sixth district has been without
a representative for the last eight
wears, and is without one at the pres
ent time, but it has paid the salary
and expenses of prophet OF evil. .
Hand-painted china is valuable; it
is different with girls.
There never was girl that did not
wish that her dearest girl chum was a
boy.
When young lady asks you if you
snore, things are beginning to get
interesting.
A man can neither work in the field
| or travel on the road while he is Sit
ting on the fence.
A girl will purposely buy belt two
inches too small and then piece it out
after she gets it home.
The only way in the world man
can manage woman is to lead her to
believe she is managing him.
Waiting is simply hugging set to
music. Some girls think Waiting is
wicked and are willing to cut out the
music.
If there is any real difference be-
tween bankruptcy and giving your
wife check book, it has never been
discovered.
Call a man "just a plain man" and
he is fattered nightly but call q
woman "just plain woman" and you
start a row.
N. J. Bergheim has filed as the
Democratic candidate for Secretar!
of State and julius Schmahl is savet
from whitewash.
F., 1t is a stand-off whether men gath
er at muddy crossings to watch the
girls cross over them, or whether the
girls walk over muddy crossings be
cause the men are there to watch.
A bachelor merchant who lived il
an Eastern state and who slept in thu
back part of his store, died shor
time ago. He had been dead ten day:
before anybody found it out. HI
didn't advertise.
Secretary Bryan applied to con
gress for liveried footman to at
tend him on his carriage drives ane
his request was granted. Mr.. Bryan
has no advantage over US. We have