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PUBLISH BP BTBST FRIDAY•
THOS. DOVER V, PUBL18HBK.
The 2 cent a mile rate bill goes
into effect May 1st.
Since Mr. Roosevelt fell out with
the interests a political prophet pre­
dicts that Mr. Bryan will carry every
state in 1908.
Cubans call Taft, "the jolly man
What some Ohio Republicans call
him, cao not be printed in a family
newspaper.
Mr. Bailey's endorsement of Mr.
Bryan raises thn suspicion that Stan­
dard Oil would prefer him to a Roos­
evelt Republican.
Senator Bedford voted against the
salary grab this week. This is an
other sin that will be laid up
against him by the hot air factory.
The legislature will adjourn next
Tuesday. There are still many
important bills pending and the
solons will have to hurry to pass
all that should be passed.
Washington Notes
Events "out in the country" are
being carefully watched from the
White House, for it is recognized that
the fight for the next Presidential
nomination is alieady on and from
this time forward there will be a suc­
cession of plots and counter-plots,
the more exasperating and harder to
fight from the fact that it will be
bushwhacking and not fighting in
the open. It is generally recognized
by the old politicians that the Presi­
dent is more popular anywhere in the
country than he is in Washington.
This does not mean among the resi­
dent population of Washington, for
that has no vote and dees not count.
But the political population that is as­
sembled on Capitol Hill for the
most of each year is by no means
friendly as a whole to the Presi­
dent, and the most difficult thing
in the coming struggle will be to
pick out friengs from foes and
know who is really devoted to the
President and the policies repre­
sented by him. The men of affairs
who are friends of the President are
being closely questioned as to the
sentiment of the country whenever
they come to Washingon from out
of town, and the concensus of opin­
ion gleaned in this way may per­
haps be.safely.taken^as a fair indica­
tion of the general sentiment. The
reports are that the President is
stronger in almost all parts of the
country with the voting population
than he has ever been before. At
the same tim* it is recognized that
he is going to have the Republican
machine to fight in many of the
stronger states, and this will mean
an immense amount of work. Re­
ports that reach the White House
are not all favorable to Secretary
Taft in Ohio. Of course the light
from JJhis side has scarcely begun
there yet, but one of the best pol­
iticians in the country who has
just come back to Washington
from a visit at Columbus, says
that Foraker is bound to win the
state fight. And this, if it is- true,
will be a serious handicap to his
aspirations for the nomination. It
will not mean Jhis certain defeat,
but it will point strongly that way.
Of course the President has said
that he is not backing Taft or any
other man personally. All he wants
is someone that is independent of
corporate influence and free and
willing to carry out the so-called
Roosevelt policies. Of course if it
is not Taft, it mignt be Hughes or it
might be Root, though this is un­
likely, or it might be some one else.
Or it might be President Roosevelt
himself. He has said that he does
not want the nomination again and
he has repeated it so often that he
must be tired of saying it. But the
sentiment of the country seems to
be pointing strongly toward forcing
the domination on him whether he
wants it or not and there may be a
cyclone that he cannot withstand.
One thing is certain, and that is
that the states are getting rapidly
into line for the light and a number
of the staunchiest political leaders
have said that they are ready to
pledge the several delegations to
the President if he wants them him­
self and they may be able to hold
them in line for the man of his
^choice.
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UNCLE BV*
Come, Gentle Spring.
Come, Spring! Come, Spring! You timid
thing,
Come with your sun and dew
My winter suit is almost gone.
My light one, good as new!
Frills.
People used to ask about your an'
cestors. Now they want to know the
name of your banker.
Yesterday I saw a man In an 986
business suit eating a ten-cent lunch
in a hash house. I suppose he couldn't
eat the suit.
A great many people who try to
strike the iron when it is hot miss the
iron and strike their fingers.
The fat man who thinks he can
skate because he could twenty years
ago, finds that he has to break the ice
all over again.
It Is a blamed sight easier to in­
herit money than to keep it.
A woman who marries a dyspeptic
certainly proves her love.
Men who three weeks ago were
weeping because the ice crop was go­
ing to be short, may now turn their
attention to lamentations over the
shortage of next summer's peach
crop.
The man who can make money out
of poetry has missed his calling. He
should have been a promoter.
Don't be too hard on the giggly girl.
There is not enough giggling by half
In this world.
Yes, dear, their union was a howling
success—and it weighed nine pounds.
The only man who hasn't broken
his New Year resolutions by this time
is the man who didn't resolve.
Steam your money! Heat expands!
When hearts are trumps, some men
want a whole fist full.
A boil on the back of the neck (of
the other fellow) is a great joke.
Now that rubber has gone up in
price, I hope the aroma of two-for-a
nickel cigars will improve.
The poorer the joke, the longer the
introduction!
Harbingers.
When mother lets Willie slide down the
stair
And whoop with a merry ring,
It is easy enough for the landlord to
guess
His tenants will move next spring!
A man may be able to compose
great music and fall down utterly at
composing the baby.
It should be an easy matter for the
real estate dealer to sell a sea-sick
man inland property.
A drug store beauty should be kept
in a cool place!
Give or Take.
Found.—On the train coming from
High Point Wednesday night we
fotmd an elegant leather glove, which
fits us to the skin of an onion. If the
gentleman who lost this will kindly
send us the fellow we will have an
elegant pair, or if he will call at our
office he can recover his loss without
any cost whatever.—Rindleman (N.
C.) Times.
Advice.
We must not believe all we hear,
Nor half what we know, as a rule.
The friend we love best is the one
Who never tells tales out of school!
A Straight Tip.
Any one who can attend an extra
good entertainment and sit and shuck
peanuts or carry on a conversation
through the most enjoyable parts of
the programme ought to stay at home
with the family cat—it would greatly
please those of the audience who care
to listen.—Fife Lake (Mich.) Monitor.
Coward.
There Is something wrong with the
chap—
His brain is an empty funnel—
Who refrains from kissing a girl
Enroute through a railroad tunnel!
Had Their Measure.
A young married couple came out ol
the house the other morning and were
speeding down the street. He was
dressed to kill and she, with a hairpin
in her mouth, was doing her best to
pull on a pair of refractory gloves.
"Why don't you dress in the house?"
he growled, continuing: "I would as
soon see a woman put on her stock­
ings on the street as her gloves."
"Most men would," she said, sweetly,
and then the silence was so Intense
that you could hear a gumdrop.—
Colorado Exchange.
Mr. Wise Man.
He didn't know much about angels.
But knew what one "angel" liked best
He bought her a box of "assorted"
Whenever he took the car west.
He bought her a box of assorted,
All packed with the daintiest art—
And Cupid just tagged her as "TAKEN"
By one who knew courting by heart!
Village Blacksmiths in Trouble.
One of our blacksmiths broke the
leg of a horse he was shoeing the
other day, in the effort to lift the foot
from the ground, and I am told that
suit will be instituted by the owner for
damages.
J. O. Mills, while shoeing a team of
mules last week for J. C. Jackson, was
thrown
by
ligaments
one of them and had the
of
his arm torn loose.—-Ap-
pomattox (Va.) Ttaes.
To My Lady Love.
rhere is no rose without its thorn—
The price is something fierce per stem—
love you. dear, but thorns are thorns
When I drop 'round to pay for them!
PULLING TOGETHER
HOME MERCHANT3 8HOULD PA­
TRONIZE EACH OTHER.
Do Not Let It Escape by Unnecesaar*
lly Sending It to tho City—Sat an
Example to Others,
The community that will pull to­
gether, that will work as one man
for the general interests, will And an
abundance of prosperity.
And working together means the
spending of the dollars of the com­
munity within the community. Nor
does it mean only that the farmer, the
mechanic, the .doctor, the preacher,
the editor must spend their money at
home, but it means also that the
merchant must do the same thing. It
means that you, Mr. Dry Goods Mer­
chant, must patronize your neighbor,
Mr. Furniture Dealer, when you want
furniture. It means that you, Mr.
Furniture Dealer, must patronize your
neighbor, Mr. Dry Goods Merchant,
when you want dry goods. It means
that the groceryman must patronize
the home Implement dealer when he
wants a new wagon, and the imple­
ment dealer must buy his groceries
in the home town. It means that
whether Mr. Butcher, Mr. Grocery
man, Mr. Dry Goods Merchant, Mr.
Furniture Dealer, Mr. Hardware Man,
&
HWOWSRE
or whoever it may be, that intends to
erect a new building they should buy
the material for that building ai
home of their neighbor, Mr. Building
Material Man.
And let us speak a word for Mr.
Printer Man also. He is a part ol
this community he contributes to its
prosperity he advertises it, and he is
entitled to his place in the circle
through which the community's dol­
lars are to circulate. When you, Mr.
Merchant, want printing of any kind,
give the job to the home printer.
The dollar that you spend with him
he will again spend with you, and
both will make a profit on it. It is
but fair that he have this, his legltl
mate portion of the home trade.. He
is as much a part of the community
as yourself, and as much entitled to
your support as you are entitled to
the support of the farmer, the me­
chanic, the preacher, the doctor.
The battle against the mail-order
octupu«Mg»n never be a successful
one unless all interests are aotively
engaged in it. It can never be suc­
cessful so long as the merchant wants
it preached but does not want to prac­
tice it himself. The merchant who
sends his saving account to the city
bank for safe keeping is not entitled
to the support of the community
whose money he takes from it. The
merchant who will not patronize his
brother merchants, who makes his
visits to the city an excuse for buy­
ing his own household supplies, sup­
plies that are not carried on his own
shelves, of the city merchants, is not
entitled to the support of the com­
munity. Such a merchant wants to
preach but not practice home trade.
He wants to do with the community's
dollars just what he condemns In
others—send them away from the
community. He would bankrupt the
community for selfish interests.
There are few, if any, such mer­
chants as this in this or other com­
munities, but if there are any here it
is not for their benefit that this pa­
per is preaching home trade to its
readers.
We hear much of the strength of
trusts and combinations. In what
does their strength lie? To a large
extent in the fact that they control
the trade in the commodities in which
they are dealing. They make every
dollar they spend an interest earn­
ing dollar. Let us form a little trust
of our own. Let all of us, merchant,
farmer, doctor, mechanic, preacher,
editor, spend our dollars at home,
keep them at home, and we have or­
ganized a trust of our own that will
bring to each of us our share of earn­
ings on the capital invested.
This is not a hard problem to figure
out for ourselves. The farmer, let
us say, wants a dollar's worth of
sugar. He buys it of the home gro­
ceryman, and th£ groceryman makes
a
&fj\
KEEP DOLLAR GOING 'ROUND
profit. The groceryman buys
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-fry*v s\. v.
Ma
ssse
The keen blade of trade reciprocity will divide the dollars of the com­
munity among the home people. Keeping the dollars at home will build
saving accounts at the bank and make for general prosperity. Sending
them to the city mail-order house will bring bankruptcy and ruin to all
except the city.
a dol­
lar's worth of dry goods, and the dry
goods merchant
makes a
profit. The
dry goods merchant patronizes the
dentist, and the dentist makes a
profit, and the dentist buys butter and
produce from the farmer and the
farmer makeB a profit. So as the
dollar goes around and around a com­
munity each man into whose keeping
it comes makes a profit on the han­
dling of it, and the dollar grows into
two. But what would have happened
had the farmer taken that dollar to
buy his groceries of the mail-order
house, or the groceryman sent it to
the city for his dry goods? The
trust organization of the community
would have been broken, that dollar
would have ceased to earn profits for
the people of. the community, but
would have began earning dollars for
the city into which it was sent.
It is the dollar that Is spent at
home that makes the savings deposits
of the home bank grow that in­
creases the wealth of the community,
and decreases the tax rate. Buying
at home means saving the commun­
ity, but, Mr. Merchant, do not preach
this trade at home doctrine unless
you practice it. You must buy your
stock of merchandise in the city to
be sure, but aside from what is spent
for your stock of merchandise see
to it that every dollar it is possible
to keep at home remains in the com­
munity. Keep them circulating
among your neighbors, and they will
make money for you as well as for
them they will build the home com­
munity, and make of it a prosperous
community in which your business
will grow, and your town holdings
will grow in value at the same time
the farmer's acres grow in value. The
home trade problem is a many sided
one, and the home merchant's side of
the problem is not the least of them.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
REASON FOR ALL THINGS.
Customs That Now Seem Peculiar Had
Origin in Wisdom.
If you are patient enough to ferret
it out you will find that there is a rea­
son for every little idiosyncrasy we
have, for every queer thing we do.
Take, for example, the wearing of
widows' caps. Why do widows cover
their heads with these curious little
arrangements of maline, crepe and
lace? It is a custom handed down to
us from the Romans, who shaved their
heads when they mourned the loss of
a dear one. This idea was all right
for men who did not mind appearing
without a single spear of hair on their
heads, but of course it was most un­
attractive for women. No one, not
even a Roman matron, liked to be
seen bald-headed, so the women of
the Tiber devised a little cap to hide
their baldness, and thus the custom
has come down to us, even though
heads are no longer shaved as a sign
of mourning.
The reason that bells are tolled for
the dead is that years ago, wlien toll­
ing was first established, the people
'thought that the sound of the bells
frightened away evil spirits who hov­
ered near the dead.
Why do men, and women, too, wear
.'bows on the left side of their hats?
The reason is simple enough. When
the head covering built upon the order
of hats of to-day was first introduced
It was ornamented with a ribbon which
went around the crown and hung down
in two ends on the left side, reaching
below the shoulder. These ends were
a sort of anchor, or safety line, and
were put there expressly to be seized
when a sudden gust of wind threaten­
ed to blow the hat away. The ribbons
were put on the left side because, as a
general thing, the left hand was more
apt to be free than the right. Eventu­
ally these ribbons were knotted in a
fetching bow with flowing ends, and
then they, were cut off quite close to
the hat, so that they form a very
small and stiff bow knot.
It is always the custom to throw old
shoes after a bride and this queer
custom came into vogue when parents
were in the habit of using their slip­
pers to keep their girls obedient and
good. Now the slipper is not really
intended for the bride, bqt for the
bridegroom, who is supposed to use
it for the same purpose the mother
and father of olden times did.
Failures are, with heroic minds, the
stepping stones of success.--
life
Don't neglect your cough*
Statistics show that in New York City
alone over 200 people die every week from
consumption.
And most of these consumptives might
be living now if they had not neglected the
warning cough.
Poetic Editor.
You know how quickly Scott9J
Emulsion enables you to throw off a
cough or cold.
ALL DRUGGlSTSt 80e. AND $1.00.
The rain stays not with us long
sunlight soon makes bright apologies
tor it, and holds a torch to the old sldered fashionable to
world as she plunges through space toothpicks suspended round the neck
-Atlanta Constitution.
Timely Warning Against "Mail
Order" Cream Separators
The "Farm Implement News" of Chicago quotes the fol
lowiog good advice to dairy farmers from a lecture by Prof.
C. E. Lee of the Uoiversity of Illinois State Experiment
Station:
"I am not at liberty to give my preference, for I am not
selling separators —if I were to name a separator manufac­
turer, either to ycu here in public or in piivate, I would lose
my position—but there is one thing I desire to warn you
farmers against and that is buying hand separators from the
'mail order' houses." Don't do it—you will regret it. The
machines do not give results and they do not last. Our de­
partment receives hundreds of inquiries as to 'What's the
matter with my separator? It doesn't do this or it doesn't do
that,' and
1 tell you, gentlemen, that in every instance when
we ask them to name their se»arator it is a 'mail order house
machine and almost worthlees when it was new."
Don't waste your money in a trashy separator, made
"cheap" to sell "cheap," that is going to WASTE instead of
SAVE for you EVERY TIME you put milk through it, and
which would be VERY DEAR EVEN AS A GIFT.
DE LAVAL Cream Separators are NOT that kind. A
DE LAVAL catalogue is to be had for the asking.
SMITH IMPLEMENT CO.
AGENTS, WORTHINGTON, MINN.
a a
WALL PAPER
A large assortment of the Latest
Patterns and Newest Designs at
Old Fashioned Toothpicks.
Several centuries ago It was eon-
a
chain-
ANDERSON & BENSON'S pj
FURNITURE STORE
W E O N E A I N
FARM LOANS
Befote you make your Loans you will
do well to consult me. I can loan you
money on easy terms and at a low rate
of interest.
THOROUGHBRED STOCK
Breeder of the Mewing
PercHeron Horses
SHropsHire Sheep
Breeding animals for sale at all times.
G. W. PATTERSON
Albertus' Clothing Store
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silver
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WORTHINGTON, MINN
Practical Painter* Sign Writer
Estimates Furnished. WORTHINGTON, MINN SOT A.
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