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VOLUME NO 50. stock Qorppfete. therefore, call early. Why We've Got £Yef}thing: Here's Part of 'Em, Sleds, Hobby Horses, To) Furniture, Merry-go-Rounds, Ferris Wheels, Dolk the prettiest you evei safvv, Climbing Monkeys^ Climbing Milleis, Brownies' Ladders, Toy Watches, Migic Lanterns, Walking Chinamen, Bicyclists Games of all kind's, Kitchen Sets, Expiess Wagons. Singing Cinaiy Birds in Ciges, Iron Toys and Banks take a Circus Poster To Enumerate Them All. CUT Acceptable Gifts for the men. ALL RECORDS BROKEN! We do not claim everything, but we do claim to have broken all records in New Ulm for Christmas Toys and other o-oods "We also claim that everything is new—nothing carried over from last year, and that we are selling just as low as anyone in the market. What we want of you is to come around and get our prices. Others may quote you low figures, but we want to show you what you aie getting for your money. There's often lots of difference in the goods, you know. 1 TTKNTIOJST! And here's a thing we want to call your attention to. Our opening day brought with it rush for goods, and many nice thiao-s were laid away. We have lots left yet, however,—in fact an endless quantity. In oidei to avoid disappointment Music Bove», Toy Dishes, Tiunks, Hot An Toys, bteam Engines, Trams run by steam, Blackboards, Writing Desks, Noah's Aik-, Toy Pianos, Picture Books, Steini Ships, Doll Beds and Hammocks, Laundry Sets, Doll Carriages, Dancing*Minstrels. and Performing Acrobats, Musical Tops, Guns, Ten Pins and Tool Chests, Bagatelles and Houses that Jack Built. It would How About These? Its hard to satisfy the children, but just as hard to please the grown folks. However, we think we hare provided tor them Let us give you a pointer. You will worry around for days, wondering what to buy, when if you would only call around, we will offer you suggestions that will make you wonder why you never thought of them before. Beautiful Booklets and MUSICAL Instruments of the finest quality and of every description Carload of Trees Arrived To-Day. seeuFe youi5 trimmings and ornaments. ALWIITS DRU STORE. *L. We Purchased More Wisely Than We Thought. You iwon't need te be told this after you've seen what we've got Having done this you will be our best advertisers. We cand idly claim that theie is no stock better or larger than ours 'and we know we h*ve been careful in the selection of our 'novelties. Besides they're cheap. We know we marked them close and it seems a little closer than other dealers have rauiked theirs. Ruon Wha we've Got Filled with the Finest PERFUME. Low prices is what you're all after .this year and oa Perfume we are ready to discount anybody. And then there's ALBUMS, equally cheap but the finest manufacture, DOLLS, dressed beatifully in Fine Silk—they make admirable gifts. TOILET CASES, Dressing Casses, Work Baskets, Comb and i^ake yeu* piek at o^ee and Brush Cases, Cuff and Cella Boxes, Photograph Cases, Celluloid Book Marksand Handkerchief Gases, CIGARS by the box make also vMfe !*v H#t£?.. mj»&3&£& J^kaufLi-kJ^Sj*. Strikes are industrial wars like in wars between nations, the best disciplined army with plenty of ammunition wins the battle. The necessity «»f a large re serve fund becomes more important from day to day. It is power and not justice that wins. When to strike, and when not to strike must be determined by cool heads and experience, sympathetic hearts and pleas for justice are poor coun selors in time of battle. Trades unions neither court, nor do they favor any strikes. They should be the last resor* alter all attempts in favor of concilia tion and arbitration have proved futile. A. Strasstr, in the American Federation 1st, New Yoik. I can imagine that an emergency might arise that would justify a strike, but generally speaking, nothing more than a temporary victory can possibly be achieved in this way at best. Strikes widen the breach between capital and labor, and no matter which side is worst ed, it is sore over its defeat and will re taliate with vengeance at the first oppor tunity. It is in study and education and the wise use of the power that is placed in theii hands, through the ballot,that work ingmen must hope for relief from the conditions of which they justly complain —General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor. A man who will encourage men to strike in a time when thousands of bis craft are out of employment, when the business of the country is paralyzed, when men are begging for bread, and a strike means certain defeat for those who participate, displays poor judgment and is unfit te be a counselor and leader of a labor organization. The lesson of the A. R. U. strifce is that the employe must respect public sentiment and the law. Also that when you have a quarrel with one man you cannot make illotht is suf fer. Sentiment vill be against you, and sure defeat ill be the result —Grand "Master Sai^uit of the Locomotne Fue- A Better Plan of Teaching. In a recent number of the Boston "Transcript a correspondent dnec's at tention to the fact that school methods and school cuincula are still very poor ly adju&ted to the needs of pupils The educational system, considered as a body of teachers organized under superintend ents, trustees, commissioners, etc., ith tax laws, fine school buildings, books, apparatus and the like, has had in the last half century a magnificent develop ment. There has been money to spend, and it has puichased a large equipment But the large development of the machinery of education, under State ad ministration, has tended very naturally to crystalize the crude methods of former times—methods suitable enough, perhaps, for adults, according to the ideas of those times, but clearly not suited to all ages and classes of students for all time. Progress in pedagogy has accordingly been slow, and people wonder why their children go to school so long and learn so little. Private schools as well as public schools hare in many cases been slow to adapt ways and means to the varying neGds of their different clases. The correspondent of the "Transcript" shows that the "higher branches" taught in the high school are not necessarily more difficult than the subjects taught in the grammar schools. Parts of arith metic, for example, are harder than the elements of algebra or geometry. Geog raphy, as commonly taught in the gram mar school", is as difficult as the elements of botany and physics. Latin, which was not too much for the Roman boy of six, is not inherently too difficult for young children—certainly not more than English grammar in the higher grades. "We shall find,'' says the writer, "that Latin does not present embarrassing difficulties, if we do not require of our grammar school pupils more technical Latin grammar than Cicero knew." Of course, a teacher may by his method make Latin a "dead language," as be dees German, French and even English, but that is not the fault of the Latin. The point, however, to be kept in view is that some subjects now taught in the ugb. schools eeuld be taught as well in the grammar schools it is a mere ques tion of carriculum-making. The Boston school committee accordingly com mended for introducing Latin, modern languages end algebra in the grammar The "barrenness" of the ordinary grammar school curriculum is criticised. For six long years the pupil is kept at little else than arithmetic, geography, history of the United Stales, physiology and grammar. This monotony of intel lectual diet is exceedingly tiresome ard deadens interest. "The present curricul um is overcrowded," says the defender of present arrangements, "and there no room for more studies." Very true, if the list is not to be overhauled and reformed. But a better conception of the amount of time a pupil should give to his various studies and better ways of teaching will make the required room. To begin with, much is now taught in arithmetic and geography that is of little practical value. The time given to these subjects can he cut down. Technical grammar may be omitted ex cept in the two highest grades. In the lower grades training in speech and writing may be given in actual practice in speaking and writing in the school room. Good English is not learned by children from books on grammar. As for the study of English grammar in the higher grades, "the study of Latin," says the Transcript's correspondent, "would throw light on English grammar and English, grammar on Latin grammar to an extent to make both more interesting and shorten the time otherwise necessary for both. In like manner algebra would give the pupil a ne-v point of view from which to study a number tf topics in arithmetic. A much-needed reform is to dispense with "readers" altogether, and stop teaching seprately subjects that can be taught together. Says the writer, very forcibly "Reading, composition, spelling and penmanship should not be taught as separate braches, but largely, if not wholly, in connection with what may be called the 'thought studies' of the cur riculum—geography, history, arithmetic, science, literature, etc. There is no need of a regular special hour in school for reading, njr is there any with vastly greatei interest by reading about the same topics which he is studying in the 'thought studies' than by reading «sctool readers.' He ought to read on history, on geography, on natural history and on literature He ought not only to 'learn t3 read,' but he ought at the same time 'lead tq learn.' In this way the reading would 'help him al mg' in these other studies to an extent which would save moat, if not all, the time now devoted to aimless reading, disconnected from the other &chool studies." The problem of learning'more a shorter time is to be solved, it is clear, not by merely adding or subtracting, but by co-ordinating and directing all the various lines of work in the school-room to the accomplishment of the subjects the educator has in view. Baltimore Sun. A Hew Method of Catching Tram Robbers In addition to the means of protection already suggested, let me mention an other, and that is the use of dogs trained to follow men, and whilb on this subject let me correct a misapprehensioc, pre valent throughout the North, that these dogs are bloodhounds. I doubt if there aie half a dozen bloodhounds in the United States, or that any had been used in the pursuit of fugitives, except in the fable of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The dogs used are the ordinary foxhounds these will follow a trail, but they will not at tack the fugitive. They only indicate his route of flight, so that parties follow ing them on horseback cancome up with him. Most of the penitentiaries in the South keep these dogs, as do the man agers of convict farms and camps. The Cuban bloodhound is a fierce, intractable dog, and I have never known of its use in pursuing a fugitive, nor are they use ful as hunting dogs. The English blood hound, on the contrary, is a noble dog, gentle, sagacious and affectionate. In the famous picture by Landseer, called "Dignity and Impudence" he is well portrayed, and though it is said that in the olden time he was used in England to track human beings, he is now not called on for that purpose. Tour readers are doubtless familiar with Walter Scott's story of the pursuit of Sir William Wal lace by one of these dogs, and the man ner in which he escaped. I have used both the Cuban and the English blood hound in hunting, and while the former was generally worthless for this purpose the latter was valuable. The hounds now used for tracking men, when properly trained, will take and follow a trail twenty-four noun old* and in some eaees even a colder one. If, in those parts of thecountry, when robberies'of trains oc~ our most frequently, a couple of good dogs could be kept at each of certain selected stations, even if the distance be*f8l tweensnch points were hundreds of miles, wherever a train is held up the dogsp eonld be summoned by wire, and in a hours they could be on the trail of the^s robbers. The expense entailed on the* railroad companies in carrying out this Jt, plan would be comparatively light, and *J the experiment mightjrove a success From "Brigandage on our Railroads" by the United States Commissioner of Rail roads, Hon. Wade Hampton, in North American Review for December. The Evils of Amateur Actings To what degree tlje modern fad of amateur acting may be said to influence the characters of the women who have taken it up, it may not be difficult, but it may be distinctly distasteful (to them) to state. Amateur acting carried to the point at which it at present rests, is, in my opinion, a very demoralizing amuse ment, fashion, pursuit, whatever one wills to call it. In the first place, it unques tionably alienates, if it does not divorce, a womap from what we are justly con demned to call the realities of life. It robs her of the savoring salt, and bestows upon her instead the unsanative sugar. It confers upon her a rather tropically flavored fictional existence, a«d takes from her the real throe, and throb, and pulse, and pleasure of a true and unsen timentalized state of being. It takes from her the bloom of her best preroga tives, and renders her back nothing in their plaee, save the excitial excitements of an applause, that is too often totally insincere as well as totally unmerited— an atmosphere that is false, and a code of manners that is ill-built on some kind of insecure foundation called by some one the "freemasonry of art!" and it leaves her glorying in a nondescript phase of self-adornment, which, for lack of the courage to christen it demi-mon daine, ire impertinently designose as "actress-like." From "Women and Amateur Acting," by Fanny Aymar Mathews in North American Review for December. Olubs and the Homes. It is announced as one of the evidences of the emancipation of women in Eng land that not only have they entered the political arena and become conspicious in many business* avocations hitherto monopolized by men, but they have at tained a larger measure of social freedom by establishing their own particular clubs. Here their male friends may come only by special invitation, and here they themselves smoke and drink and gamble without let, hindrance or interruption. No reasonable objection can be raised against that emancipation of woman which grants her larger liberty and bet ter opportunities in* choosing her way in life. If she wishes to be independent of any one's support, it she feels within her the strength and the desire te carve out her own fortune or if necessity and circumstances force her to rely upon her own efforts in securing a livelihood, not only should not a straw be laid in her way, but she ought to be encouraged in every possible manner. Different, how ever, is it with the removal of those soc ial barriers which induce her to forsake the home life and abandon its pleasures and comforts for the meretricious attrac tions of the ciub-room. The atmosphere of the club is not conducive io domestic happiness, either for man or woman. The multiplication of clubs for men is a fact rather to bedeplored than commend ed. They tend to wean a man away from his home and many a family wreck can be traced directly to. their influences. It were better by far if the social emancipation of women, either in Eng land or in the United States—where, in some cities, clubs for women are also be. ginning to spring np—had manifested itself to diminish the number of men's clubs, instead of endeavoring to "go and do likewise."—Washington Times. ... IfSfculAlwe. "Do you rectify mistakes here?" asked a gentlemen, as he stepped into a drug store. "Yes sir, we do, if the patient is still alive,** replied the urban* clerk. Never was a druggist celled upon to an swer such a question, after selling a bot tle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. Do not be hopeless although you are thin and pale. L* spite of a dry hairing cough, night sweats and slight spitting of blood, you need not fill a con sumptive^ grave. 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