The Redwood gazette., 1915-09-22


tive and productive undertaking such as
restoring to the people the unproductive
estates of the English nobility, or irrigat-
ing all our western deserts and controlling
and utilizing the Mississippi and it's chief
tributaries howl would go up
from nation Of indignant taxpayers -
Mankato Review.
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The soil and climate of Minnesota are
very prolific. They raise large crops of
many kinds, including republican candi-
dates for governor. Faribault Pilot.
Every boy or girl has it within their
power to make life success if they Just
want to-ordinary brains and extraordi-
nary application will do the business
Minneota Mascot
The czar of Russia has announced that
Russian army. This new head of the Rus
ought to be-in the rear.-Faribault Pilot
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Falling plaster from the dome is a cause
of CONSERVATION at the Capitol. If it were
some capitols we should Immediately sus-
pect that a grating contractor had used
frogs hair as binding material.-St.
Paul Dispatch.
Henry Ford, the great manufacturer,
Edison, the marvellous inventor, Cardinal
Gibbons, the great churchman, all agree
that Americans are in poor business trav-
cling on belligerent ships when others may
be used. And this sets the terrorist press
frantic Falls Herald.
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Jokes or criticism of those who go into
the citizen camps to acquire rudimentary
knowledge of tactics and drill come with
bad grace from anybody who believes this
to be sthe home Of the free" and who
wishes it to continue to -Wheelock's
Weekly.
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Poverty costs high. 1t is not merely the
cost of pauper departments. It is the loss
of productive capacity of the unsuccess-
full. The state can afford to pay good mon
ey for any educational process that takes
a slow-witted person and turns him into
a good worker.-Winona Herald.
To thwack a child over the head because
he does not get his lesson, is about as wise
as it would be to rap a watch with ham,
mer because it does not keep good time.
AS our worthy, semi-virtuous contempo-
rary, Life" remarks: Education by as
sault and battery is getting sadly out of
style-New Ulm Review.
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How can you convince woman that her
fruit cake is not the best at the State
Fair? asks the Pioneer Press Of Saturday.
We don't know how, but would risk a
guess that when it might be done would
be about the same time you could convince
man that he preferred custard pie to
apple pie.-Little Falls Transcript.
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Our excellent friend Of the Marietta
News hands one to the fellow who discon-
tinues his paper without paying for it. He
says: "Our idea of a whole hog with
sausage meat for brains is the fellow who
read his home paper for years without
paying and then swears he never ordered
it. WOW! Dawson Sentinel
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Whether the garden spot of Mime
sofa is located in the northern or southern
portion of the state is Of slight impor-
tance to the fact that it is somewhere
within the state. The only quarrel should
be in keeping it there and in making the
spot big enough one to take in the whole
state-Little Falls Transcript.
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The State Fair management is clearly
entitled to much credit for the success of
the great state exhibit of products from
the farm and factories of Minnesota but
the management is also due for a roast
that will singe the hair. One of the most
prominent exhibits was that of Chicago
mail order house, and it had active agents
giving out catalogues filled with glitter
ing promises. The State Fair is supposed
to be means of advertising Minnesota
and an inspiration for further progress
and Development Cloud Journal Press.
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If.
If the folks in the world were as good as
the world what wonderful world it
would bel
If the people would smile like the sun in
the sky. if the people would laugh