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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11
Minneapolis Is Noau
Head OF Navigation

Navigation on the Mississippi river,
was opened to Minneapolis last Tuesday,
when the water was turned into the new
high dam, provided with locks OF size
sufficient to admit the largest river
steamer on the "Father of Waters" On
that day the government steamer Dan
delion made the trip from St. Paul to
Minneapolis. Thus the Twin Cities are
connected by water navigation as well
as by rail and trolley line.
Before the 1917 season has closed there
will be busy freight traffic on the
Mississippi river, meeting the demands
of the Twin Cities for coal and carrying
grain and iron ore to St. Louis from these
cities, according to present indications.
The Minneapolis municipal docks are
practically ready to receive traffic, and
a boatload of plows, the first big conslgn-
ment of freight that has come up the
Mississippi river in many years, has been
loaded at Moline for MINNEAPOLIS, to
initiate the expected big movement.
{ The Dandelion, on her initial trip be-
tween the Twin Cities, carried beside
Col. E. H. Schulz, government engineer,
a large number of city officials OF St..
Paul, who were met at the Minneapolis
dock by delegations of municipal
officers, members of the Civic and Com
merce association and other citizens,
who gave the boat and the visitors a
hearty welcome.
With the assured success of navigation
on the Mississippi there is no reason why
water transportation could not be re-
sumed on a large scale on the Minnesota.
1t will come; there is no question on that
score
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11
Mollison Does HIS Worst.

Company A is gone, the oldest military
company in the state having been moved
from New Ulm to Luverne. Major
Brady, U. S. A., disbursing officer for the
National Guard in this state, arrived
Monday and at once began checking out
the state property, preparatory to
moving it to it's new location.
In the meantime Colonel Mollison has
vented his spite on. New Ulm. When
Mollison was elected commander Of the
Second Regiment this city had three
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11
Petroleum Y. Nusby

- During the Civil War the famous
"Nasby Letters" attracted probably
more attention than any other one thing,
outside of the war itself. 1t was freely
admitted that they had much to do with
the success of the Union in that war.
George Sewell Boutwell,, secretary of the
treasury under President Grant, made
the statement in a speech in Cooper
Union, New York City, that the success
of the federal government in that war
was due to three causes, the army, the
navy, and the Nasty letters
The Nasty letters we're written by
David R. Locke, who for many years dur
in the war and after, was editor of the
Toledo, Ohio, Blade. Locke, like Arte-
mus Ward, began his newspaper and
literary career in Ohio as journeyman
printer.
MI. Locke was a native of New York,
and at the age Of II years he was ap-
prenticed to the printers trade at Court
land, in that state After serving seven
years he became journeyman printer,
and travelled widely, as all journeymen
printers did in those days. After time
= he became the editor and publisher OF a
small paper, Jeffersonian, at Findlay,
Ohio, and was struggling along with that
paper when the war broke out and he
began the publication of the Nasty
letters. They Immediately caught the
fancy of the public and were widely
copied. They gave the Findlay paper
great prestige, and few years later he
was employed by the Toledo Blade, and
soon thereafter became owner OF that
newspaper. 1t is now owned and edited
by his son, Robinson Locke.
The principal feature Of the Nasty
letters was to heap ridicule upon those
northerners who sympathized with the
Southern Confederacy.
During the Civil war those who under
took to escape the draft were to cross
the line into Canada. Writing fictitious
ay from "Brest, Kanada, August the
goth, 1852" Nasty began his letter in
this characteristic fashion.
~After more advenchers than wood
ill book, I am here in Kanada, safe
under the protestin' tail Of the British
Lion, where no draftin' OFFICER can modest
nor make me afraid. Halleloogy!'
Boutwell, was not the only one among
the leading men of the period to express
appreciation of Petroleum V. Nasty S
service. The grave and learned Charles
Summer was at one time constrained to
say that the letters from the "Confedrit
x Roads (which is in the Stait wv
Kentucky" were among the influences
and agencies most helpful to the North at
a critical period Of the war. Perhaps
the most striking illustration Of the
value placed upon these productions is
to be found in the refusal of Governor
Brough OF Ohio to appoint him captain
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11
The Open Forum
o., <
MOLLISON AS SOLDIER.
(Continued)i

Editor of the Review:
During , our second encampment at
Sparta, Wisconsin, under Col. Buschers,
Mollison was not present. Things went
along nicely with the trouble maker
absent from the Regiment, as all officers
seemed anxious to get together and have
harmony; added to that Col. 'Buschers
was sick most of the time, and those
opposed to him nevertheless treated him
courteously, as they had no ringleader
to the contrary.
Another year passed and in the year
1915 our third encampment was held at
Lake City under Colonel Buschers, and
again, the enemy was met.
There had beenEno Wavering in Colonel
Buschers' ideals and no relaxing of
efforts in dealing with the enemy, but
somehow Mollison at this time modified
his actions, assumed cunningness and
commenced to show some sociability,
and yet thru his actions showing that it
was hard task to swallow such bitter
pill.
It must be admitted that Mollison
and the bunch sympathized with Colonel
Buschers, because he was sick officer
at that time and Mollison was evidently
trying to work up ''stand-in' with the
officers of Co. "A' who were in his
battalion at that time, and in many ways
tried to show himself as good fellow,
as his former adherents seemed to want
to put stop to the bikering.
Almost another year passed bringing
us up to the night of the New Ulm
Armory dedication in the year 1916.
Here we have Gen. Wood, Major Pfaen-
der, Major Duane, Major Mollison and
Col. Buschers in a private conference,
when it was decided that owing to the ill
health of Col. Buschers he was to be
placed on the retired list and relieved
of his command, thereby losing an officer
who was kind and brave soldier and
one who was acknowledged as one of the
best scholars in military training in the
state
A vacancy for Colonel now existed
and another battle amongst the officers
of the Second Infantry was brewing,
Everybody wanted to be Colonel, with
the exception Of Major Pfaender. The
conservative officers of the Regiment
wanted to have Major Pfaender for
Colonel but after considering the matter
he refused for he had cleaner and more
sincere views OF the situation, as he had
four years in observing the results created
J by soreness among the officers Of the
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

A recent copy of Every Week has
page Of the pictures Of Women Bankers
of the country. This state is represented
by Fairfax woman, regarding whom the
editor of the magazine says: Mime
sofa, the sovereign state that produces
everything imaginable except the letter
j., presents as her candidate for the page,
Mrs. E. F. Sell, of Fairfax, president OF
the National bank of that city"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

Of a company which he had raised, on
the ground that he could do more for
the Union cause with his pen than in
the field"
The Nasty letters, however, have no
special charm for the reader Of these
times. Like the Artemus Ward letters
from Bladinsville, ASSOCIATED from the
events which inspired them, they are
without much appeal. But they struck
notes between the early sixties and the
early seventies that found responsive
chords in the public breast.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

Minnesota people. Prof. John Phelsn
of the State Agricultural College, Am
herst, Massachusetts, is among the leaders
in thought and action on the field of rural
education.
Program is Interesting.
The program contains among num-
Der of highly interesting topics, the
following: Course Of study work for
rural schools, discussion as to proper
training for rural teachers, and series Of
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

talks and discussions on current problems
by the above named authorities. The
Mankato Normal, thru its rural training
department, its Country Life Club, its
Indian Lake district practice school, and
other purely rural school activities, IS
doing much in helring to solve the rural
school problers, and it now offers an
opportunitvto the rural school works
to lend their aid in furthering this inn.
portant work.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

A week ago the coal producers made
an agreement with the federal authorities
at Washington to reduce the price Of
coal. Now comes an announcement
that the rent of Minneapolis heated
apartment houses is to be raised to meet
the increased price of fuel. How do the
landlords figure it? Can someone tell?
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

Six million farmers are congregated in
St. Paul this week, according to a
dispatch in Mondays Mankato Free
Press. Quite bunch of agriculturalists
to get together in one Minnesota city.
The compositor and proof-reader must
have been playing joke.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08
Crazy CALCULATING.

Edgar H. Bruton of Moultrie, Ca,
who until recently regarded himself
as mathematical genius, has consult.
ed specialists In Atlanta to determine
f he cannot stop calculating. He suf-
sers from an ailment which he refers
20 as acute and chronic calculation,
and as a result of which his head hurts,
ne talks constantly to himself and his
nervousness increases daily.
Mr.. Bruton became so mathematical
that he counted how many steps he
took in any direction, how many times
he opened and closed his eyes in q
given time and how many strokes he
took when shaving. At first he required
sos strokes of the razor to do the last
mentioned performance, and when he
cut the strokes down to 300 and whit
tied his chin down to nothing he began
Investigating himself with the aid of
physicians. He now estimates that he
will be cured by spring, during which
time he will open and shut his eyes 49,.
37S,97S, 67s, 9s7, 1854, 567, 65s, 493 times.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08
New Ground. for Divorce.

There have recently been furnished
~ an English novelist new grounds for
divorce, namely, "incompatability of
furniture" This is not so slight as 1t
seems, for, though the day has gone by
when woman can torment her hus.
aand with the "tidy," "the lambre.
luin" and the 'antimacassar," there
are other means to the same end.
There is, for instance, the futurist
t0Otstool-a small affair of gaudy tint
hat leers aggressively upward If he
.ooks thoughtfully down; that has, If
ne should be wild enough to desire to
'est his slippered foot upon it, mass
# hard, silk, would-be fruit sewed lust
where it will interfere on the top.
Ever this footstool is placed where he
will be sure to stumble over it in the
lark. Then there is the hand-painted
n oils Chinese bed of wood, or the
photo Of the mutual friend he can't en-.
lure, or for his dresser drawer the
silk tie case she made him when she
Knows he likes to hang his tie up-but
ook around little for yourself-and
charity begins at home.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08
Ansedots Of the Autoer.t.

A southern woman tells about din.
ing In Boston once, when next to her
sat q homely little old gentleman, who
wanted to know how she passed the
time In the country with her old ia
tner. swell. we read" "What did
you read?" Chiefly The Autocrat Of
the Breakfast Table," Don't you
get tired Of it7' "Oh, no. When we
get to the end, we simply turn back to
the beginning" The old gentleman
chuckled. and made remark implying
that the "Autocrat" was no great thing
among books. and the lady was rather
surprised at his disparaging air. After
dinner she demanded of her hostess
the name Of the unappreciative old
gentleman. and was told that It was
Doctor Holmes.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08

boy in the street and accosted him by:
"Hello, Old Sport!" The child said
10" and passed on.
The next day the minister came into
the grandfather's store where the lit
tie fellow was with his grandparent
Seeing the minister he said to him:
"'Lo Ole 'Port!" The grandfather
heard the boy thus accost the clergy.
man and reproved him for his seeming
disrespect of the cloth, when the little
chap defended himself right manfully
by replying: "'E call me ole port"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08

They started out disguised as Chi.
nese merchants. Two of their prayer
wheel covers concealed surveying in.
struments, which were taken out for
use when the coast was clear; and
hastily hidden when native appeared.
Meanwhile March industrio1sly twirled
his wheel, piously murmuring his devo.
lions, so that no questions would be
asked; for the Oriental will never in.
terrupt the prayers of the faithful.
Nothing but tough physical fiber.
and high courage could have taken
them over the arid sands, and the al.
most inaccessible mountain peaks and
gorges. but one day they arrived with.
In sight of the wonderful walled civ
of Lhasa. Its splendid roofs and tur.
rets rose on a series of hills to an
enormous height, crowned by the beau.
tiful palace of the grand lama.
Now" said Blake, "we've seen
Lhasa, and are still alive, let us turn
back at once"
But Stirling, the younger man, and
March were for trying to go nearer.
Blake firmly refused, and it was ar.
ranged he should wait for them at a
point some ten miles back. He took
all the records Of the survey, and If
they did not appear In two weeks. he
was to so on to Darjeeling, and again
wait.
The two men went on, and toward
night We're within a few rods of the
great gate surmounted by its curious
cap-shaped dome, and tapering tower.
A band of pilgrims were going in, and
they managed to enter with them. But
the next instant they were seized and
imprisoned. For two days they were
logged in the public square. The third
day Stirling was executed. March
knew 1t was his turn next. He was
turning his prayer wheel, having in the
interval put up an earnest prayer In
his own tongue, when a buddhist monk
paused. and spoke to him. He asked
u he would like to join the brother
hood. He said he would, and that day
"~S AAOSAoSS0S anu WCuL u i've l0 the
monastery. 1t seemed miracle to
March, but all he could even find out
was that he had been Chosen" He
soon found 1t would be certain death
to try to escape. And so the days
heightened into years, and the years
went on.
Esther sat alone in the dreary house.
The day was dying, snow flakes had
begun to float down, and there was no
IRE on the hearth. There was scarce.
~ food enough in the house for an.
other day, but she did not mean that
anyone should know. The front door
bell rang. She rose slowly and opened
the door. A thin, bronzed man stood
there whom she did not know. He
took her in his arms, and cried: "Es.
ther!" Then she knew.
After he had told her of his life In
China, he added: THAT night your
voice came to me with such thrill.
I said l will get aMax-xes will make
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08

regarded as mild form of mania
In small town where the closer con.
tact with our neighbors, It would seem
ought to breed stronger love and
tolerance it more often happens that
criticism magnifies their peculiarities
and exaggerates their faults. So it
was that Esther's stubborn belief that
March would return. in the face of all
reasonable proof to the contrary grew
in the minds of the townspeople from
mania to insanity; and when an in.
innate friend told another intimate
friend that Esther Marvin had said
she sent Howard March wireless"
then it began to be whispered about in
confidence that an insane asylum
might not be remote possibility.
Careful parents began to withdraw
their daughters from the school. The
attendance gradually dwindled till one
day Esther with kind of dull despair
closed the schOolrOom, and sat down
to wonder what next she could do, for
the little money which had of late been
coming In was lessening fast. She
could not understand why the school
after years Of prosperity had failed.
Not for one instant did she dream of
the real cause. Her faith in the re.
turn Of the man she loved, and her be.
lief that she would yet reach him with
her own wireless was to her so true
and convincing she could not quite un.
derstand why it should be utterly pre-.
pOsterOus to others.
But what of Howard March? These
are the facts, as they afterward came
to the surface. The expedition met
with failure on the island where they
had expected to start the tea planta.
ton. They were told of better opportun.
tiles In the southern Chinese territory,
80 they went there, secured some land,
and started their project. Not under.
standing we'll the tea culture, again
they failed, and all of the men but
Howard March decided to return. He
had picked Up enough Ct the Chinese
language to peak It quite veil. and he
wtshed to expaoss further, and to see
OVAAASSuAu8 Va 4uulds 4OE uS u6U 1OE
years been interested In the study Of
occult things, and the dreamy atmos.
phere Of the Orient had strengthened
the desire. But stronger than this was
the love Of adventure. So passing
from Calcutta he one day found him.
self in Darjeeling on the borders Of
the forbidden Land" Tibet, that
strange country, whose mysterious,
marvellous capital is ruled by the
Dalai Lama" vice-regent Of Buddha
on earth, upon whose countenance no
stranger may look and live.
March had been warned that 1t was
not only foolish but fatal to try to
penetrate much further into Tibet: but
one day he fell in with two English.
men who had been commissioned by
the British government to survey as
Tar as possible into the interior. March
stirred to enthusiasm by their project,
asked to Join them, and was gladly &C.
cepted.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08
BRIDE OF AN AUSTRIAN PRINCE
Popular Washington Belle Is the Lat.
est to Figure In an Interna.
tional Romance.

The latest international romance al
Washington, which eliminated recent.
~ by the marriage of Miss Catherine
Britton Of that city to Prince Alfred
III Observation-Disclosures of the
Austro-Hungarian embassy, has had q
suficient element of mystery to de.
light capital gossips. From no less q
source than the august imperial head
OF the united kingdoms, it appears,
came the opposition to the marriage
OF the young prince, bearer of one of
the proudest names of the Viennese
court. to the American girl who was
mot born" The recent death O.
Francis Joseph, and the accession te
the throne of the young archduke. who
had not so very long ago made a love
match himself, changed the tide of for.
tune for the young pair in America.
The prince is twenty-seven and his
bride is twenty-four. Immediately
upon his arrival in Washington a wear
or two ago he began to pay her atten.
tion. There were rumors of a mar.
rage. then the young prince was sud.
denly detached from the embassy al
washington and assigned to San Fran.
cisco for the compilation of consula,
report there. There was reason, and
this was said to be imperial displeas.
ure at Vienna. The new American
princess shortly after the outbreak Of
the war went to Paris as q war nurse
with Miss Mona McAdoo, daughter Of
the secretary Of the treasury. She
has been a very popular belle in Wash
ington society.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08

ing very valuable. was hoping my
luck would turn"
The passerby, after taking a few
steps toward the gutter, slipped dia-
mond ring off his finger, stopped and
held up the ring, pretending to have
found it.
"What do you think of that" said
the astonfshed finder of things. "Say,
mister, I'll give you hundred for it,"
mot for sale," and the passerby put
the ring back on his finger and walked
away.-Indianapolis News.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08
Photograph Station Announcer.

The invention by which names OF
stations are to be announced auto
matically by monograph on the Liver
pool tramways will no doubt have q
future If the name can be uttered in
such way as to be ineligible. The
defect of the monograph has always
been the metallic twang which OBJ
scured the most familiar words and
voices. Was it not a photograph oper.
at0r In one Of o. Henry's stories who
promised to give his Celebrated imi-
tation of Sousa march being exca.
waited from tin mine?'-London OBJ
server.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-08
FIossed in the Public Square.

of the coast Of China. It meant a
great opening for him, and Esther told
him he must go. He urged an imme-
date marriage as he must sail in three
weeks If he accepted. But her mother
strongly opposed the hurried wedding.
Judge Marvin had been dead only n few
weeks, and she felt that her daughter
was now being torn from her. Esther
assured her mother she would remain
with her, but as she still kept the same
attitude, March was for giving up the
expedition, when Esther prevailed up
on him to 60.
1--WE can wait, DEAR" she said. ut
: will only be about three months before
you are back"
Il hope 1t will not be longer" he an
;swered, "but we can never set an ex-
act time, and sometimes we may get
away so far from post Office, you may
not hear from me in weeks"
Il shall always know you are think
Ing Of me, and are coming back to me"
she said.
always think that, dearest. It will
always be true"
Howard March did not return In
three months, but she heard regularly
from him. Sometimes the letters were
short, but when they halted, and he
had more leisure. they were long, filled
with accounts Of his travels. and al.
ways breathing a devotion which
seemed to increase rather than lessen
BY absence. After about eight months
the letters ceased. The last one had
told Of starting on trip into wild,
6nexpIored country, and as the weeks
went by without any tidings Esther
concluded March was still beyond any
means of communication. But when
the weeks heightened into months, and
the months into years with never a
word from him she knew not what to
think. Those who had known him had
settled 1t that either he had been killed
BY savages, or had chosen to remain
away. Esther would not accept either
Of these conclusions. She was firm In
her belief that he would return.
Esther's persistent belief in the re-
turn Of Howard March began to bl