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MINNESOTA 11

HISTORICAL" SOCIETY. I '•*

Austin, Mower County, Minnesota, Wednesday, January 20,1909. ' Terms—$1.50 Per Annum, In Advance

EDITORIALS.

THE federal commission for the re­form of farm life is struggling consci­entiously to find a reason for being alive.

IF the price of oil was marked up on account of the $29,000,000 fine that will never be paid, the octopus caught folks both coming and going.

THE president favors four new bat­tle ships. It will not be the fault of Mr. Roosevelt if the Taft administra­tion is troubled with anything in the nature of naval unpreparedness.

A bill has been introduced in the state legislature imposing a fine of ten dollars for every failure to vote at a primary or a general election. Not BO bad. Easy money all right.

Ex LABOR COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS shows in a supplementary report to the legislature that his department has been conducted neither in the interest of the state nor in the interest of labor, but in the interest of the state Democratic machine. We have no doubt of it.

THK Western Fruit Jobbers associa­tion at its recent meeting went on re­cord as in a fight to stay against the express and equipment companies, which shall not stop short of their utter extermination. There is abundant reason for complaint.

WILLIAM C. BROWN'S election as head of the New York Central system proves that industrial romance is even more powerful now tban it was in less material days. President Brown was once a section hand receiving one dol­lar and a quarter a day.

ntain a combination, that they fix „ ri^es and that Burgeons I'eee for oper­ations are extort|bnato. Ah, there.

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THE letter in which Senator Tillman requested that reight of the best quar­ter sections of Oregon land be held in reserve for him, was written, just four days before he announced in the senate that he had not undertaken to buy any land in the West. He proposed in this letter, to use his influence as senator to force the government to institute a suit which would make it easy for him personally to obtain some of the land. This letter purely pertaining to Mr. Tillman's personal and private business was sent m a franked envelope. No wonder the galled jades in congress are wincing. • v

IT is well to bear In mind that all unemployed persons are not deserving of help or even of sympathy. Recently New York charitable institutions in­vited five thousand men in the bread line to apply to them for work, but only one hundred, and^hi^;|ix accept­ed the invitation. Prosperity will not cure laziness. -

THE State of Rhode Island has an official inspector of scythestones. Here is a hint to Governor Johnson to re­commend to the legislature the crea­tion of another department for Minne­sota. If Rhode Island can afford a scythe stone inspector Minnesota ought to have one. Governor Johnson made a serious omission in not mentioning this in his 30,000 word prolix message.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has the con­fidence of the people, which congress lacks. Hence the more the secret ser> vice matter is stirred up by congress­men who are simply seeking to protect their own members from exposure the worse for them. It results in further discrediting of a congress already in disfavor with the people.

A Massachusetts statute now in the courts commences as follows: "Who­ever operates an automobile or motor­cycle on any public or private way laid out under authority of law recklessly or while under the influence of liquor etc.*' The courts are to interpret the meaning of a road laid out recklessly or while under the influence of liquor. The Bay state evidently has rivals to Bome of our Minnesota lawmakers.

THE United States Senate last week earned its full day's pay by passing a bill appropriating fifty thousand dol­lars for the purpose of acquiring all private holdings in the Sequoia and General Grant national parks, Califor­nia, in which the big trees and other wonders are located. But probably Speaker Cannon will forbid his House to take similar action and there you are.

SECRETARY of Agriculture Wilson answers the question why eggs have soared to present figures as follows: In the first place, the American people eat a great many eggs, and in the sec: ond place there are not enough people keeping chickens and producing eggs. The price is due to the law of supply and demand. If twice as many eggs were produced in the United States they would be cheaper in the market. That is easy.

REPRESENTATIVE Charles Miller of Bremer, Iowa, is preparing to sweep what he callB the "doctors trust" off the face of the earth, He has prepared a bill which will fix a Bcale of prices for medical service throughout Iowa and woe to the doctor who dares to charge more.. He asserts that the doctors

OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS. St. Paul Dispatch: Congressman

Tawney is quoted as saying the . coun­try Will be surprised to learn how some of the money appropriated by Congress has been expended. If Mr. Tawney has been in possession of this startling information, it is a fair question to ask why he has not told the country long ago.

Cannon Falls Beacon: The spirit of this grand foray in the congress is purely vindictiveness, because the President has by the power of his great office, and his still greater personality, compelled the Cannons, Paynes, Taw-neys and the senate gang headed by Nelson W. Aldrich to surrender to the will of the people in the restriction of corporate privilege.

Benson Times: Gov. Johnson re­commends the legislature to put grain inspectors under civil service rules. After all the possible democratic ap pointees have been placed, of course! The last legislature provided many officers lor the governor to fill with his retainers, but we hardly believe he will pull the wool over the eyes of the mem­bers this session so easily.

Fairmont Independent: There is a craze on, fanned, nourished and devel­oped by the land men and tbe railroads to get settlers into the dry belt. When the dry years again cume they will be obliged to leave aud lose their years of labor ..It will require ten acres then to sustain a steer during the year. We regret that many good farmers and intelligent people from this county have been led to settle in that country west of the Missouri river and. in the Dakotas.

Winnebago City Enterprise: Con­gress rebuked the President, but the country rebukes Congress for doing it. We believe that the President is right in his stand, and while he may not have been over polite in stating the facts of the case, that doesn't detract a bit from the correctness of his position. The Secret Service has been a great aid to the government in suppressing crime and criminals, and is an institution ne­cessary for the good of the people.

Mankato Free Press: There are men who have but mighty little politi­cal principle. They do not know what political honor means. They will participate in a republican primary and vote the democratic ticket at the general election, and boast of it. It is just such petty business as that which causes all honest party men to demand the repeal of the primary election law or amend it so that perjury and whole­sale lying and chicanery shall not be encouraged among those weaklings who are lost to all sense of decency and honor in politics.

Pioneer Press: Could a vote be tak­en today, on the questions of which tbe house have sought to make an issue with the president, the people would sustain Theodore Roosevelt by a ma­jority larger than that by which they elected him president over Parker. The course of many congressmen is fixing in the memory of their consti­tuents some features of this illtimad controversy which will be used to plague said congressmen when they appeal for re-election in 1910.

Chicago Record Herald: Tawney-s hold upon his congressional district is none too firm as was demonstrated bv the result of the ejection last fall. Ii he doesn't come up with something warm to offset the manner in which the President tobogganed him into the Ananias Club and slapped the 'unde­sirable label on his pulsing brow, his friends say he is liable to defeat two years from now.

Spring Valley Mercury: The St. Paul Dispatch with: the beginning of the year, announced a reduction oF its price to one cent a copy oh= the streets and five cents a . week delivered any­where in the city $2 50 a year where paid by the year in advance. But sub­scribers out in the country they charge $4.00 a year! Why should they deliver the paper to a subscriber in the city for $2 60and charge $4.00 a year to one living,jn the country? There is no reason for the! discrimination, and the subscribers throughout the country will no doubt resent it by refusing to take the Daily Dispatch unless given the same rate that prevails in St. Paul.

Fulda Republican: A writer in the Rock County Herald believes that farm land in that county will soon be selling at $100 per acre and gives some very good reasoning for that belief. It is claimed at that price land for an act­ual home is the very, best investment known, better than money at interest. It is shown that land properly cultivat­ed and diversified farming will pay well at such a price. If Rock County land is worth $100 per acre Murray and Nobles county lands,, will , surely be worth that. ^

Owatonna Journal-Chronicle: Some patrons of the local telephone exchange

are meditating over a change in _ the rates which they have been notified they must hereafter pay, and as is al­ways the case, some are inclined to argue the question before agreeing to a raise Tbe facts in the case are. that the local exchange has run up against the anti pass law, which has been caus­ing grief in so many localities in the Btate. This law not only forbids public service corporations to give passes or franks but also rigidly excludes Any form of special, or apparent special, privilege.

Luverne Herald: The people gen­erally will hold with the President that corrupt congressmen are no better than other lawbreakers and that if there are corrupt members it is to the public good that the secret service|be engaged' to secure their conviction, and that no opposition to this should come from other members of congress than those likely to suffer as a result of the dis­closures. In this, the President will have the support of the people, and bluster as much as it will, congress cannot convince the public that the President is in the wrong.

Princeton Union: What do you think, farmers of Todd county, of put-,, ting an ordinary machine politician like J. W. Olson over a man like Pro­fessor Haecker? pertinently inquires the Long Prairie Leader. Professor Haecker, as almost every intelligent farmer in the state is aware, is the greatest authority on dairy cows and dairying in the northwest. Dean Qlsotf could probably distinguish between an agent of the American Book Trust and a Poland China pig. ' t

Morris Tribune: It is difficult to understand how a man intelligent enough to be elected a member of con­gress could become involved in the con­troversy with the president over the secret service, and how a man with the first principles of honesty could restate7

tbe president's message in such a way as to make it appear as offensive as it does in the resolution passed by con­gress and sent to the president. The members of congress who are especially prominerit in the controversy mu£t either have a poor opinion of the gen­eral intelligence of the people of the country or must be so blinded by pre­judice against the president that it is impossible for them to see their ridicu­lousness.

FARMER BEN'S

I'm glad the country is takin' very little stock in the attacks on President Roosevelt by the insignificant squirt8

in congress. Tawney tried it and gained the applause of some of the other representatives if of no one out­side and then Senator Tillman tried it. But the fact showed up that Tillman while publicly denouncin' in congress a land deal in Oregon waa on the quiet tryin' to get hold of nine quarter sec­tions of the best of the land when it was released and for $2.50 an acre when it was worth any way from $7,000 to $15,000 a quarter. Tillman has run his pitchfork into everybody he don't agree with for a long time and folks are tickl­ed to see him get some of his own me dicine. It ain't consistent for a con­gressman to be really promotin' his own business interests while pretendin' to be a high-minded, disinterested, public-spirited advocate ot the people's interests. The way some of these con­gressmen hav got to be worth a quar­ter to a half million dollars in a few years at Washington is a fright. They don't do it honestly but the voters don't seem to hav grit enuf to cut 'em out.

• • • I can't get that cuttin' out the secret

service off my mind. The more I study it the more infamous and criminal it gets. Here the government detectives were hot on the trail for a lot of the timber and other big thieves from Unele Sam and had all the evidence in line and all ready to take 'em in and send 'em .to the pen where they belong­ed when all to once the House resolu­tion cut 'em out aud the rascals went scot free. It's just like Sheriff Nichol­son had a bunch of criminals all ready to be taken in and all the witnesses ready and then had orders to cut out the prosecution indefinitely. No mat­ter if Nick got permission to get after the same criminals later they had time to spirit away all evidence and wit­nesses agenst 'em and cover their tracks and ~ extricate theirselves' so the law couldn't get at 'em to hurt. That's just the result of the curtailin' of the secret service by congress. As Roose­velt says nobody but criminals proflteed or could profit by it. 1 bet the big rascals and government robbers are grateful to the congressmen who thus pertected 'em.

My paper says that the new six mil­lion dollar state house over at Madi­son. Wis,, now bein' put up is a botch architecturally. The assembly room ira the one completed- wing was occu­pied for the first time last week and found totally [inadequate* and the peo­ple find that they're up agenst a big mistake to-the tune of $6,000,OOO&lt

looks like the same swindle that was played on Minnesota was bein' knock­ed to the W isconsins. U p to St. Paul we had plans drawn for a $1,500,000' state house complete that ought to hav ben planned to accomodate the wants of the state for half a century but the ta* payers hav ben swindled until nearly five millions hav ben blown in on the buildin* and it don't begin to accomodate the state otlises. For the sake of show the inside was gutted right out for a grand stair way and show and extravagance of no earthly use and the convenience of the officers has to take the back seat. I wouldn't hav a chicken coop built on the plans on which these abortions of state hou­ses are builded.

j see that the Minnesota tax com­mission figgers out that $38,000,000 are raised annually for state and local pub­lic expenses and the people of Minne­sota pay nearly $13,000,000 annually toward the support of the national government. This makes over $50,000,-000 tax money to be got out of'a total population of about two million peo­ple includin' the babies. Our gal Sarah figgers that this will average over $25 a head of the total pop. Just think of the awful load heaped on the shoulders of the tax payers and yet there seems Itobe no idee of retrenchment. A bill 'has already gone into the legis­lature raisin' the salaries of state off­icers and makin' Governor Johnson's annual salary $10,000, and he don't actually earn a tenth of that. It's pull for bigger expense all the time and the officials don't seem to hav any com­punction about makin' expense. Any man could take the same offices and run 'em in a business way and save three quarters of the expense. No wonder there is such wide suspicion of officials when they're so generally ex» travagant.

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ThatPhiladelphy girl who married a Italian musician and didn't find harm­ony comin' out of the deal is suin' for a divorce and givs out advise never to

;marry a musician because his temper

wise but when she goes on and advises never to marry athin man but alwus a fat man and don't marry a man who prides bisself on his good looks but marry an Irishman and he will let you boss him 1 draw the line. 1 admit that this everlastin' sawin' on a fiddle or runnin' the chromatic scale on the trombone might mity easily frazzle a wife's nerves but when it comes to puttin' up all fat men for angelic husbands and all thin men for hard hearts and cold affinity, or when it comes to makin' out that all Irishmen are submissive in dispositioii I deny the allegation. One swaller don't make a summer and one husband don't qualify to draw arrant conclusions re­gard in' thegenns. 1 bet some of the wives are responsible for their hus­bands bein' thin. Maybe if some of em would cook up better vittles the attenuated human frame works might take on flesh flllin' and roundness;

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What under the sun does Governor Johnson's dem board of control think of in payin' seventy dollars an acre for a big tract of land out in the west part of the state for a state jag farm when they're sellin' millions of acres for twenty dollars and hav millions which they own and wouldn't hav to buy. There's a whole lot of good lands that could be bought for less than half what the state is soaked for in the recent buy. It does look strange that other considerations than the in­terests of the public and economy can't hav a straw's weight with officials. Tax payers are justly spicious of all such outrageous deals. 'The best place for a state jag farm is right up in the new parts of the state where there ain't aBaloon within a hundred miles and where the jaggers would hav to get right out and grub stumps. That would bring 'em to their proper food like nothin' else. But $70 an acre for a jag farm is the ..worst kind of a break. FARMER BEN .

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MOWER COUNTY TEACHERS

List of Teachers in Mower Coun­ty,-Minn., Winter Term,

19081909.

District. Name of Teachers Pestoffice UDOLPHO

49..... Lillian Selix Blooming: Prairie 50....Alice McCarthy Austin 60....Ethel Becker Austin <6.... Adelia Pace.. ..Lansing

LANSING 44—Mrs Alta Dibble... Austin 4i.... May Murphy Austin o Jt.Hazel Toilefson Austin 79 Jt.Joy Franklin Austin

101—Alma Meyer Austin 133 MrsAddie Bochford Austiu

LANSING VILLAGE 43—Gertrude Torrens Austin 43—Birdie Phillips Lansing

AUSTIN 26.... Hattie Hagan... Austin 28. ..Floy McKee Austin 29—Grace Adams Austin 55....Ida Olson 4u8tin

128 — Edith Chandler Austin

AUSTIN CITY

Geo. A. Franklin, Supt. Margaret Avery, Drawing. Margaret Zender, Music.

HIGH SCHOOL.

Elizabeth Fish, Prin., German and Latin. Hortense Bobbins, History and Civics. Nellie McCormick, Mathematics. Jennie Teeter, English and Mathematics. Jay F. Knowlton, Manual Training. Leonard Decker, Asst. in Manuel Training. Bena Hanson, Latin and Science. Ethel Beebe. English. William Geer, Science. May Erwin, Domestic Science.

FBANKLIN GRADES. Margaret Beilly,'8th Grade. Almeda Truesdell, 8th Grade. Florence Chaney, 8th grade. Eunice L. Bice, 7th Grade. Olive H. Savage, 7th Grade. Susie I. Moe, 6th Grade. Carrie Peterson, 5th Grade.

WASHINGTON SCHOOL. Harriet Mills, 4th Grade. Alice Corneveauz, 3rd Grade. Elizabeth Kelly, 2nd Grade. Angela Cronon, 1st Grade.

LINCOLN SCHOOL.

Cora G, Smith, Prin., 7th Grade. Jeanette Hall, tith Grade. Clara Torgeson. 5th Grade. Grace Wilson. 4th and 5th Grades, Irene Lansing, 4th Grade. Helen Turner, 3rd Grade. Agnes Buehlfe, 2nd Grade. Lillian Simmer, 1st Grade.

SUMNEB SCHOOL.

"LydaX-. Klnfe, ^dri.V6tb^hd Tth Grades^ . Tanye Burgess, 4th and 5th Grudes. • Nellie Henderson, 3rd and 4th Grade, Marie L'. Page, 1st and 2nd Grades.

WHITTLES SCHGOL. Daisy Maxwell, 3rd and 4th Gradet. Stella Chapman, 1st and 2nd Grades.

WEfeSTEB SCHOOL. Olive Burgess, 1st and 2nd Grades.

LYLE

12....Katie Smith Austin 13.... Blanche Carroll Lyle 14... Delia Monahan Austin 15—Elsie Ostensun.. ..Lyle 54.. ..Maud Vest Austin 57 — Florence Martin Lyle 70....Jennie Taylor..., Austin

L¥L*E VILLAGE 90 Carrie Buddock, Supt Lyle 00—Edith Buddock, Principal Lyle 90....Leona Stephens, 7th and 8th grades. Lyle 90....Erma Wilcox, 5th and 6thgrades. ..Lyle 90. ..Ethel Cobb, 3rd and 4th grades Lyle 90....Alice V. Kodte, primary Lyle

WALTHAM 61... -Lillian Mayland Austin 89—Tena Johnson Austin 93.... MargaretPurcell Waltham

110—Betta Madden Waltham 126—Emma Jensen Rose Creek

WALTHAM VILLAGE. 58—Harriet Hanson VV altham 58—Anna Hanson Waxtham

BED BOCK 37—Eva Strong BJownsdale 39—Minerva: V ermilyeA Brownsdaie 41....Buby Cleveland Austin 4J» ... .Minuie GzanseCi Brownsdaie 68—Stella Murphy Austiu

115 Frances Tidd Austin 116;... Salena Keeler Austin

BBOWNSDALE VILLAGE 38....Sheridan Selix Brownsdaie 38.... Bessie Hillier Brownsdaie 38....Hattie Carlson brownsdaie

WINDOM 22 Flora Gahagan Austin 23....Boss Ames.. Austin 34....Frances Conrad Austiu 40.... Elizabeth Mowells Austin 46.... Mildred Snyder. Austin 78....Marian Coiighliu. Rose Creek H2....Selma Bolf.—.. ..Roso CreoK 88....Genevieve Gahagan.... Austin

133..'..Charlotte Hanson.... .' Austin BOSS CBEEK VILLAGE.

25.... John Hester.... Rose Creek <25—Annette Mnrphjr.... Rose Creek 25....Charlotte Murphy.... ..Hose Creek

NEVADA 9.... Fanny Buck. Austin

10... .Amanda Johnson Lyle 11—Emma Hess. . Hose Creek 56.... Margaret Booney .Hose Creek 87 j... May Gahagan .Hose Creek

104 Lila Loucks..— .Austin . ' SABGEANT V\ •

|»1.. ft JSargeant Sargeant 111... .Edith Boot. .Dexter 113....PearlGordy .Sargeant 114.... OliveLowry...... — .Austin ' SARGEANT VILLAGE 1071...Mabel Tompkins. ...Austin

DBXTEB 78..:.Jessie Lane.... .Dexter 98... -Ina Chase... Dexter

106... .-Elizabeth Murphy. — Austin 108.„..Anna~Probst.... ..........Dexter 121... .Alice Gahagan.. Austin 125....Ida Haseth Dexter 129.... Eva Churchward.... Dexter

DEXTER VILLAGE 86....W V Gilmora............ ........ .'.Dexter 86.... Mane Hensliu ".Dexter

Miss Lowe— Dexter 86....Esther Clark Dexter

• t . MARSHALL 65; .Minnie Hollingsworth Adams 81....Clara Gregg...- — Elkton

103 — Carrie Tiegen Aaams 105.... Gladys French Austin lsJO.... Olive Marsh .it. ..Dexter

ADAMS 6 ; Anna Uglum ...*.... .v?.:........ Adams 7.-..Nellie Hanson...............—. ..Adams

71 — Delia Cummings....'. Adams 72: . .<. Begina Gilligau ............. . . . Adams

- • % ADAMS VILLAGE " * 8.... Peter Skow Adams 8....Amanda Anderson.........;.......Adams 8. ...Catherine Noehl...,.......... ..Adams 8.... Mabel Seeley.V. J... .Adams

PLEASANT VALLEY 47 — Bessie Wakefield 48.... Elsie Pedereon... 51 Jt.Gene Dngan to....Elsie Ludka 75.... Clara Burton 94—Marit Lindelien .

Dexter — ....Grand Meadow

Dexter Grand Meadow

• Grand Meadow Grand Meadow

QBAND MEADOW 20... .Dora Drewes Grand Meadow ci—Emma Bohn Grand Meadow 5£....Bermce Robinson Grand Meadow 69....Mary Lestrud... Grand Meadow

ir4....j£una Jackson Dexter-

GRAND MEADOW VILLAGE 77....Frank Morse Grand Meadow

Gertrude Carver Grand Meadow J4,—Miss Nora berg Grand Meadow*

• • • • Nellie Keenan Grand Meadow <7.... Dora Boble Grand Meadow 77....Irene Warren Crand Meadow K —Hess Mav Odekert Grand Meadow

CLAYTON 74—Lizzie Burns Adams

"""Jf"'1 Johnson Adams ]VH • • • Margaret Conniff G rand Meadow i i""viarne Keifer .Grand Meadow lae....Margaret O'Marrow Elkt a

LODI 67.... Alice Meany Taopi . 80—Moua Sprung LeRoy y6—Agnes Meauy Taopi 1»U....Marion Connolly Aaams

TAOPI VILLAGE 99.... Perry Atwooa Taopi 99 Myrtle Enney Taopi

RACINE 30 Catherine Dean Racine 31... Mabel Dodge , .Kacm^

— ̂ ,eo n i HV j Graud Meado tr' di....Mrs Perle Edwards Racine ob.... WinonQr HoOinaon. (irand Moadow t>4....Matfie Bohn Grand Meadow-bo.... Vela Webber Lansiug

RACINE VILLAGE. 34—Joseph Reishert Rat-inn 34....Cassie Weber , Racine a4.... Emma Sorben ; Racine

FEANKFOED. 16.... Clara Wiseman... Spring Valley

•' ^?re?1e WllUama Spring Valley 1J — Ella bcbrocder Grand Meadow do.... Esther Gahnnger Racine o4 — No school 97 — No school

BENNINGTON. 3....Bertha Fox Adams

18— Hermenia Drewes Ostrandcr Sa.... Margaret Lane Spring Valley a s — i ^ T ^ ; O s t r a n d e r

w,. ' ,. plnmmer Spring Valley 10^—Marie Butler LeRoy lib....Mattie bharen Grand Meadow

LEROY 1 ... L B Norgaarden Ostrander i... .Emma Bailey LeRoy si * • * • ^ary kukens LeRoy 52 ...MaJyHorn...... - LeRoy o».... Agnes Conniff Grand Meadow 03 — badie. Peters Le Roy 7'J—Esther Gilbertson LeRoy

LEROY VILLAGE 5—Leal Headiey, Superintendent....LeRoy ».... Margaret Kemp, frlncipal LeRoy o—Harriet Buckeley, Asst Prin LeRoy 5 - • • • Eva Strom, 8th grade LeBoy 5 Charlotte Diddams, 6 & 7 grades.LeRoy o.... fearl Parks, 4th and 5tli grades..LeRoy •>•••• Agaos Laiigan, 2nd & 3rd grades..LeRoy ;j — .viarie W o.jd, primary LeRoy

TO TAWNEY ET AL. NOTICE.

In its controversy with Mr. Taw-

ward the president and his policies -with an accuracy ponfirmed by every official act and utterance by the gentleman from the "first" since that time. Mr. Tawney in Minnesota and Mr. Tawney in congress are contrast­ing and contradictory characters. In Minnesota, among his constituents, he would fain be a Roosevelt refoi'm-er, but at Washington he is a hostile of the hostiles, a standpatter, and a faithful and obedient servant of cor­porate power. It now develops that two years ago in obedience to the demands of the land grabbers and other kinds of crooks, in congress and out of it, he so framed the appropria­tions bill as to curtail the "usefulness of the "secret service" and hamper the president in his efforts to bring to bar scoundrels in high places who were defrauding the government and stealing the public domain. The members of the congress from Min­nesota will do well to inform them­selves as to public sentiment at home on this controversy with the presi­dent. Mr. Roosevelt is the people's president, and their courageous de­fender from the aggressions of the crook and the grafter whether he be in congress or out of it; and on this 6ne proposition they are not to be de­ceived by any tantrums that may be thrown by members of congress who are only in name representing their constituents. Incidentally Mr. Taw­ney and his sympathizers in the house and their coadjutors in the senate are laying up trouble for the Republican party in 1910, when tbe people will be heard on the present controversy. And in conclusion: the lion in the white house is not to be intimidated by any amount of bray­ing from the other end of Pennsylva­nia avenue.—Cannon Falls Beacon.

PASSING OF MONA VILLAGE.

Another chapter has been enacted in the history of what was once the prosperous village of Mona, and that was the discontinuance of the post-office at that place a few days ago by the post office department at Wash­ington. Mona will soon be numbered among the towns that were, but are not. It was started more than forty years ago, when, what is now the I. C. R. R.,was first built into Mitchell county. It was then the terminus of the'road, and a lively land thriving town sprang up and a large amount' of business was done. A few yeats later the Milwaukee road built through Lyle, and a town was start­ed at that place, still later yet, what : is now the Great Western road was also built through Lyle, and the I. C. R. R. was extended to that place, giv­ing that town three roads and Mona only one. Then, while Mong, was a dry town, Lyle was generally wet, and the thirsty who went as far as r Mona generally went as far as Lyle, > even if some did fall by the wayside. So, taking .it all in all, Mona fell be- s hind in the race. The large creamery £ was burned, one by one her stores r

were, closed, and finally about a year1 a ago the railroad company took their a agent from the place, closed up the depot, and now the last stroke comes —the discontinuance of the post ,of- .. fice.—St. Ansgar Enterprise. , A,