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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13
WILL BUILD NEW
FACTORIES AWAY
FROM BIG CITIES

American corporations have sought
as a rule, to build plants at or near
large cities, where there supposedly
was an ample supply of suitable la
Dor. The census returns show that
one-fourth Of our population is now
centered in cities of 100000 or more
population. But the building factor
les at big cities has not proved alto
gether satisfactory. 1t has been
found that labor union agitators can
exercise more inflamatory influence
in large centers than where plants are
located in the smaller communities.
The large-city plant often finds it diff
fcult to establish close, intimate, per-
sonal relations with its work people,
whereas in a smaller town the execu-
tives who run the principal industries
can do and very often get closer to
their folks and build up harmonious
relationships which outside profess
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r III E CIR E A T
RIVERS PROBLEMS

The Louisiana state board of engin-
GERS has been considering the ques-
ticn &C ccnf':nC, the waters Of the Red
river to the Gulf of Mexico through
the Atchafalaya This can be done
by a comparatively simple engineer
ing operation. The Red enters the
Mississippi through a lagoon from
which the Atchafalaya debouches. It
would not be difficult to provide a
dam and locks to divert the Red COM
pleteIy. But here arises difficulty.
The Atchafalya now carries the waters
Of the Red and also a considerable ov-
erflow from the Mississippi in times
of heavy flood This dam would
throw an additional burden upon the
lower reaches of the Mississippi, some
authorities contending that it would
increase. the crest of high water at
New Orleans as much as three feet
This is considered dangerous.
1t is fact that all of the discussion
over the drainage of this great valley
has not brought out a single feasible
idea acceptable to the engineers eX-
cept the development of the costly
and often inefficient levy system. A
few years ago an engineer offered
daring plan Of setting aside a stretch
of land 10 miles wide from Cairo to
the gulf bordered by low levees into
which the river could be turned at
times of overflow. This land could
be farmed in ordinary years, but
houses and farm buildings would be
erected outside the levee lines. In
times of flood all of the livestock and
the crops could be taken away and the
river could have the right of way as
long as it pleased This looks like a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13

simple solution of a great problem,
and yet it has created no more dis
cussion in the lower valley than if it
related to the canals on Mars.-Neb-
raska State Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13

1t is rumored that a good many
housewives have stopped playing
bridge and are now playing Bridget
Springfield Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13

tomobile plants in small towns than in
Detroit.
1t may not be feasible for millions
of workers to go back to nature" in
the sense of returning to the tilling
of the sell; but it is feasible and de-
sirable to draw millions of industria' I.
workers away from metropolitan c.,
ties and into more rural districts.-s
Forbes Magazine IN. "
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13

This movement away from crowded
industrial centers is to be welcomed.
1t is better for all concerned, for ex
ample, that new cotton mills be built
in Texas than in Falls River, new
wooden mills in the middle-west than
in Lawrence, Mass, and huge new au-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13
2s0liows:

Section |. The power of taxa
pended or contracted away. Taxes
shall be uniform upon the same class
OF subjects, and shall be levied and
cole etsd for public purposes, but
publia bt1rylng grounds. public
aenool houses. public hospitals. acad-.
ssn1lnaries Of learning, all churches,
church property, and houses of wor
ship. institutions of purely public
enarlty, and public property used ex,.,
he exempt from taxation. and there
snay be, exempted from taxation
go9ds wea sn ga appars
sion Of the producer thereof, tools,
implements and machinery and all
real and personal property owned by
county AGRICULTURAL societies and used
FOR holding agricultural fairs. to such
On extent and In such manner as the
5sg!a!ature may, determine. Taxes
ias ay be aBd mDossd 2n noog priy
may be graduated and progressive
and the exemption Of . reasonable
amount OF income from taxation may
Ss provided, and such tazss may be
m Heu OF taxes on any class or
sas;s,s t,, Of personal property as the
that, the, legtslaturs may authorize
municipal corpora lions to levy and
collect assessments for local improve
ments upon property benefited there
Dy WITHOUT regard to a cagh valua-
Lion, and, provided further, that moth
:strued to affect, modify s or repeal any
existing law providing for the taxa
reads"
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sional agitators cannot bedevil. a
location in metropolis also has 9th
err drawbacks.
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The purpose Of sa!d amendment Is to
as1apoWer the legislature to enact laws, to
ss1sh an extent, and In ouch a manner,
az u may determine, exemptIno from
aaxatlon household goods, wearing ap-
psret, agricultural products In the pos
session Of tho producer, tooIs implements
and machinery, and all roa! and personal
property owned by Cot nty agricultural
societies and used for holding asricuitur-
lad fairs; and to authorize the imposition
of graduated and progressive taxes on
incomes, privileged and occue a+ions.
The effect nj tho ansndn~ .t, II adopt
ed vii! be to accomplish the purpose
saEsove Indicated, to-wIt: to authorize the
enactment Of laws by the legislatures:
FIRST: Providing for the exemption
3rom taxation, to such an extent and In
such manner as the legislature may de-
SeEnnine, Of household goods, wearing ap-
goare3s agricultural products In the pos
sessson Of the producer, tools, implements
and machinery, and all real and personal
property owned by county agricultural
societies and used for holding agricuItur-
al fairs.
SECOND: Providing for the imposition
of graduated and progressive taxes on
incomes, privileges and occupationss
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PROPOSED LAW RELATING TO THE
TAXATION OF RAILROAD PROP.
ERTIES. 4ss.,rs. IT..

Chapter 533, Session Laws Of the state
of Minnesota for the year of 1918, pro-
poses an amendment to section 1926, Gen
Serai Statutes Minnesota 1918. and pro-
united to the people of this state for APP
@proVal or rejection at the 1920 general
election Said section now reads as fol-
lows: ...#.
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hands. her face uplifted, her puckered
lips pouring forth the song that had
drawn him to the spot. A sunbonnet
swung from her ARM; her shoes and
stockings lay upon the rock beside half
an armful of wild roses.
A twig dipped back into place as the
P~earlhunter strained his face a little
closer. The song stopped; the girl
whirled her eyes toward the swaying
twig. The man lattened and held his
breath.
But the woodland song was done.
She slid back on the rock and reached
for her stockings and shoes. Such
feet! The rough shoes she picked up
dishonored them. 1t would be giving
the ~Pearlhunter uncertain praise to
say he didn't look. Besides. 1t wouldn't
be true. He did look. 1t is but simple
justice TO him to state. also, that after
the one glance-a glance he could no
more help than the branch could help
flowing-he dragged his eyes away
and held them away till he heard the
girl scramble to her feet on the rock.
AS she gathered up her armload of
wild roses he had leisure to observe
her.
With the mass OF color close TO her
face. II was hard to tell thesone from
the other-the flowers from the face
where the roses left off and the face
began. Her hair hung loose, soft and
~wavy-the kind of hair q roguish shaft
of morning sun can change to spun
gold lips like the song . moment ago
upon them eyes like the little patch
of sky at the bottom of. the pools
eyes that opened wide; that had moth
ing TO conceal.
She was turning to spring to the
bank when the Pearlhunter rose and
quietly stepped through the bushes.
She whirled: and the two stood star
ing at each other across the pool. The
flowers struggled from her arms and
dringled down upon the rocks.
The Pearihunter's eyes were the
first to fall. Dragging off his battered
hat, half awkwardly, he bowed his
head and strove for a word to justify
his Intrusion. But he was slow OF
speech. Words came hard ( him.
After a time, his eyes travelled back
across the pool; past the patch Of sky
at the bottom up the side Of the rock
where her feet had dangfed.
The rock was bare. The girl had
gone.
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have also found Doctor Piesce's
Pleasant Pellets very beneficial and
mild in action.
81 have been through DR.. Pierce,s
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-
tute in Buffalo, N. Y, and have
found everything as represented.
The pictures of their buildings are
genuine."-JoHN w. MCLAIN, No.
1873 Wisconsin Street.
Over fifty years ago DR.. Pierce
manufactured this Discovery"
from roots and barks-a corrective
remedy, the ingredients of which
nature had put in the fields and
forests, for keeping us healthy.
Few families have not at some
time or other used this "Golden
Medical Discovery" for the stomach,
liver or blood. Over twenty-four
million bottles of this tonic and
blood remedy have been sold by
druggists in this country.
Send 10 cents to DR.. PieFce's
Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y.
for trial package of Golden Med
ical Discovery Tablets.
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Fairy Tale
THE BOOSTERS SPEECH.
VNARY GRAHAM BOWER

Cock-a-doodle-do, cock-a-doodle-do,
cock-a-doodle-do," said Mr.. Rooster.
1--WE hear you," said the other hens
and ROSTERS.
Then pay attention, please, to what
] have to say"
"ls it Of any importanceY they
asked.
"Of great Importance" he said.
"WhyT" they inquired.
Because everything ! say is of i'm
~portance," he added proudly as he
strutted about the barnyard.
swell, there might be a difference
Of opinion about that" said Mr.. Red
Top Rooster.
"Yes, there might be a difference Of
opinion" said Miss Fidgety Fashion
able Hen.
"Just as there is a difference Of
opinion as to whether a caterpillar Is
popular or not" said Mrs. White Hen.
"Other caterpillars might say yes. peo-
pie might say no."
ridiculous talk, Mrs. White Hen"
said Mr.. Rooster. I'm surprised at
you"
"You needn't be-" said Mrs. White
Hen.
"You needn't be surprised at any
thing" said Master Pig, who was In
an open shed near the barn. He had
gone there for he had found it cold out
of doors and now he was looking under
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the bars of his shed, putting his head
way out and looking this way and that
with his funny eyes.
He could hear what was going on
and as there was now no food around
he was quite interested.
"Of course he explained. 81
wouldn't be interested II there were
any food around. I'm only a pig and
after'all pigs are pigs and love their
food"
IL heard" said Mrs. White Hen.
'that Pinky Pig was much puzzled the
other day because he found his mother
sitting in front of some pigweed and
not touching II. He couldn't make 1t
out because she said that she was not
Ill.
"Poor Pinky was d~readfully upset
about 1t. though he didn't bother to
think about how upset he was until
after he had eaten ii all himself, but
he did worry then.
"And II seemed that his mother had
eaten so much and there had been so
much of II that she had actually got
ten to the point where she couldn't eat
any more. OF course Pinky was glad
of that for he had a good deal extra to
eat because Of that fact. But for a
time he was much puzzled. Cackle,
cackle. that was funny"
But only natural" said Master Pig
from the shed.
Weren't you going to say some
thing, grunt. grunt?" he added. looking
out of his funny ives at Mr.. Rooster.
~ was" said Mr.. Rooster. But I've
almost forgotten what I was going to
say. Maybe l was going to tell about
the visit Mrs. Christopher Skunk paid
around here last night and of how she
gave her various warnings letting
every n know she would send forth
hat horrible odOr which is her protec-
ton. She always has a series of warn
ings to give firstl
But no. that wasn't what I was go
Ing to say. ! was going to speak about
old automobiles which have always
bothered me and my family.
II heard that when the farmers chill
dren visited the %seashore this sum-
mer they made automobiles in the
sand and sat In the sand seats they
made and pretended to drive the sand
automobiles along.
"rhat made me mad for II was pay.
ing too much attention to the old au-
tomobile and f~iattering Il. But at last
I am happy. for ! hear that automobiles
r very Jealous Of alrplanes. And I
prefer a~irplanes.
"T1i tell you n thing-they can
toot their horns all they like up In the
sky and we will crow and crow and
never pay any attention TO them.
"Ah, I'm glad that airpianes are
making the automobiles Jealous. silly
dust-stirring things.
"Airplanes will be different. n they
stir up q few clouds how much nicer
that will be than stirring up dust. And
we won't he chased from cloud to
cloud as we are from one side Of the
road to the other. for we won't be there
to be chasedl That makes me so
happy. and can't help thinking about
II ov>r and over again. It's worth
hearing over and over again too"
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rOuse1-nad an uncomrortaDie knsc,.
OF seeming to Sc, everything In sight
They were just now fitting furtiveiy
a bit contemptuously, over the tall fig
ure Of the young man facing him.
You're the fellow they call the
Pearlhunter?"
The gray eyes of the man addressed
were blazing; his fingers manifesting
an almost uncomfortable inclination
TO tuck themselves into his palms ;
but he held himself and answered
civilly:
"They do call me that"
"What are you doing in this cabinf"
as II yoursl"
mo difference whether IL Is or
whether 1t isn't. It's no place for river
scum to wash ashore"
A stranger ought to be pretty sure
OF himself before he says a thing like
that. especially when he says 1t the
way the M~an-in-the- Fancy-vest said
IL. He didn't know the P~earlhunter
mot as the river men knew him-or
hO WYNN bdNC IOnSltCItu ~ IOiS iAllt
first. Almost any river man along the
Wabash could have told him that
things would happen. Things did
happen. Still, II probably would have
been just the same anyhow. A wildcat
couldn't have lodged he toil-calloused
fist that stabbed across the candle
light. II caught the intruder fiat in
the mouth and pitched him back
against the door. which slammed to
the wall, and thus saved him from 60
Ing clear to the floor.
He was up I'm a flash. His hand
dropped toward his hip. That is al
ways a dangerous motion to make in
the Flatwoods; never more so than
just then and there. The P~earlhunter
had anticipated such a move. His
own hand reached his hip the fash Of
a second ahead, The two stood cycling
each other. crouched and tense.
There came a scream from the
lron-Gray-Woman. She had risen
from her chair. The Pearlhunter
dared not look, but he saw the eyes of
the man he faced turning irresistibly
toward the sound. With the first
glance a startling change came over
him; his eyes strained; stared; his
hand left his hip and went to his face.
He Strengthened and shrank back
against the cabin door. The Pearl
hunter dared not look around, yet he
knew his mother was coming. With
a step he would not have believed it
possible for her TO take she was be
tween them. her face ablaze with inn
Their before the door Of her den. She
had shed her weakness as a mantle.
The intruder covered his lips moved.
She raised her hand and pointed to
the door. Again he tried to speak.
Her body stiffened; her arm grew
rigid. Like a man compelled to re-
treat before a blaze, he half turned
and backed away.
The Pearlhunter followed him.
trailed him up the bluffs. through the
woods and out to the river road,
where II came down from the north,
right angled east and led away up the
river TO the village.
When he hurried back his mother
was again in her chair, the imperious
outburst over, spent and trembling.
She looked up at him curiously. He
thought she was about to speak. She
hesitated looked down.
II haven't seen him for twenty
years. He's the-the-other man."
The Pearlhunter started; glanced
quickly at her. She was rocking back
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CHAPTER u.


Amazed at the woodcraft that had
enabled the girl to disappear under
HIS very eyes, without SO much as the
CULVER Of a leaf. the Pearlhunter
crossed the branch on the rifle at the
lower edge Of the pool, by springing
from stone TO stone. and went up to
the rock. There lay the flowers In
scattered confusion-a tumbled mass
Of refreshing color; the half ar arm
ful o. pink ana white and red wild
roses. He picked up three-a pink /;
u red; a white-and stood gazing
down upon them. The wools-
mar Is in~stinctively a gentleman. He
did not kncw--he did not try TO know
that the girl watched his every
move from behind q bis oak few
yards up the bank.
Like her-somehow." he muttefed.
sWild RoseI II might be her mime.
A namei wonder What IT. like TO
CO. It.t .fN4 ||"
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and forth. the fingers of her thin
hands lacing and unlacing n%ervously.
The breeze from the door was gut
terIng the candle. He crossed the
floor to close II. As he brought II
around. 1t scraped a small packet
ahead Of 1t along the floor. He picked
II up and. after closing the door. car
ried II to the candle. II vas not big
ger than the length and width of a
mans two thumbs. and was wrapped
In brown paper. He unrolled II. The
first glance. as the folds fell apart and
a bit Of cloth dropped upon the table.
brought a startled exclamation from
him. II was a red mask.
The Iron-G ray-W oman left her
chair and came t. the table. The two
Of them stood staring down upon the
bit Of flaming cloth.
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did not appear to come from any tree.
but from some place down close to the
water Of another poof-anothcr spot
just ahead where the water stopped to
rest.
Parting the bushes with the utmost
caution. he crept up to the edge OF
the pool and peered forth. A woman
"A girl-sar on a fiat rock jutting out
from the opposite bank, her bare feet
swinging In the water, her body bent
slightly back and propped on her
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All Run Down
M0WFeeIsFine
Eaf0nic Ended
HE Troubles

"Eatonic Is the only thing I have
found to stop my heartburn and I
think 1t has been a great Asap In
nervous SPELLS" writes G. G. ysAnson.
An upset stomach may cause hAs
Of suffering all over the body. Dsesxie
helps In such cases by removing the
cause Of the misery. because Y Nfkes
mp and carries ont the excess scsd
n gases, and keeps the digestive e.
gans In natural working ords& A
sablet after meals is all you need Big
box costs only a tribe with druguGsCa
guarantee.
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at times, as a
general tonic.
with excellent re-
suits. One bottle
in the spring. and
one in the fall, is
usually sufficient.
1t has given me
added trengt h
and endurance and
has greatly aided
me in following a
strenuous life. /
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WILD ROSE.

synopsis.-Never having known
his father. and living with his
mother ON a h~ouseboat ON the Wa
bash river. "Pearlhunter-the only
name he has-learns from her a
part Of the story OF her sad life.
The recital Is interrupted by a fear
fuI 1T of coughing. But Pearl
hunter learns how and why his
mother left his father; also that
he has the best blood OF Virginia
in his veins-he. a man without a
name, a freshwater ~pearlhunter In
h Indiana flats OF the Wabash
river.
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BOScHEE'S SYRUP

AHays Irritation, Soothes and Heals
Throat and Lung Inflammation.
The constant Irritation Of q cough
keeps the delicate membrane Of the
throat and lungs In q c~ongested con
dition. Boschee.s Syrup has been a
favorite household remedy for colds.
coughs, bronchitis and especially Cor
lung troubles, In thousands Of homes
all over the world. for the last nifty
four years, giving the patient q good
nights rest. free from coughing. with
easy sxpectOration In the morning. For
sale everywhere.-Adv.
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He Came Close.

Little Joe wished to have his Irish
Mail repaired. A wheel had come Oh.
A neighbor who intended to tx II for
him discovered he had no nut for the
axle, so he sent Joe home fer enc.
Presently Joe returned and said: "Is
this what you wantY" 1t was q nst
njck
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CHAPTER i--continued.

him with feyerish qulckness.
I've lived twenty years without the
world. I'll not 20 back to II now"
"But. mother, II we just keep on this
way, youll-you1"--he hesitated at
the next word finally let 1t fall-"dle."
Diet" she seemed to fondle the
word. "A small thing--to die"
She sat muslng as II she found a
melancholy comfort In the thought.
But l shan't die" she continued,
with a hasty glance up ut his face.
MY cough Is worse today because my
medicine Is gone"
The young man started.
"Your eiecampane gomez"
II took the last OF 1t yesterday"
Mother r.
He went to the cook stove and lifted
the saucer from a small Jar In which
the roots were usually STEPPED. 1t was
empty and dry. There was a great ten
derness In his voice as he came back
and bent over her chair.
"You shall have your elecampane
tea" he said, III the roots are to be
found In the Flatwoods and you shall
sleep tonight In the old cabin up there
under the cool trees"
A ripple of pleased expectation, of
lhaif-ewakened interest, broke the
'drear surface of the weary face-like
a faint glow back of a curtain that
never raises.
He refiled the cup with cool water,
rummaged a spade out of the locker
under the forward deck, and was just
on the point of ieaping to the bank
when he heard her speaking. He
poked his head back inside the cur
tains. and she repeated what she had
Just said:
isn't the Flatwoods where the Wild
Nan lives? Seems to me l once heard
that there is such a man In these
woods"
He felt carelessly along the rusty bit
of the spade with his thumb.
II believe this is the woods"
Maybe he's-I mean-he's not dan
~gerous"
"Dangerousi A gray ghost Of a
man with a pitiful face. They say he
goes through the woods as still as
smoke, and leaves as little trail"
Amlnute later he had leaped ashore.
climbed the bluffs and plunged Into
the deep woods.
The root of the elecampane was
much esteemed as a remedy for
coughs, but II was by no means abun-
dant. No one knew this fact better
than the ~Pearlhunter.
The small stream that feeds the wa
terfnil at Fallen Rock Ia known as
Wolf run. Following up along its
course the Pearlhunter presently came
90 a tiny thread of water that Joined II
from the west-proba5ly the outlet OF
some small pond tucked away among
the hills II Is along the open margins
Of swamps and ponds. and never In
the thick woods, that the eiecampane
Crews. Believing from the warmth
and dizziness of Its water that the tiny
stream came from a pond, rather than
from a spring. the Pearlhunter fol-
flowed Il.
Il had grown so small that the
Pearihunter began to fear II would
disappear altogether. when there came
n break In the forest line Just ahead.
A scramble through a dense fringe OF
hazel. and there II lay--a little pond
In the midst OF a narrow glade In a
pocket Of the hills, a delicate inlay In
the forest.
uM ~sou>rI A. .~.
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Ask Your Neighbor

MILWAUKEE, WIs.-"For the
last twenty years l have used DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery