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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1909)
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The observance and spirit of the day have not changed very greatly in tho onrush of the centuries. We might go back across tho long stretch of years between the day wo live in and t.to day when tho Homans inter changed their social visits nnd their good wishes and both gave and received their strenae, and be tween tho then and the now the identity of feel ing, emotion nnd sentiment concerning this day Is readily discovered. So many sentiments crowd themselves Into New Year's day and all aro mostly children in tho way in which tho day appears to theni nnd in tho simple feelings and emotions by which it Is observed. Tho greeting: "A Happy New Year!" pushes up through the hard strata of tlie year, nnd the simple emotions, which make the whole world kin, bring friend nenrcr to friend and melt life to gether into n richer affection, and good will bo comes tho keynoto of llfo on this day. drudges are dropped, resentments dissolved, and tlie uverngo man with tho averngo endowment of affection for his fellows finds it almost impossible to vltallzo any of his hatreds through the cmot Inn-laden mo ments of New Year's day. Tho personal life has many things to say to itself; It Is nt once a clos ing of accounts nnd tho opening of a new enreor. Old things pass away and all things seem to be como new. The things that might have been nnd have not becomo nro forgotten In the new hopes and aspirations and ambitions which spring up in the heart ou tho first day of tho year. Of course, nobody will ever bo what the hopes and faith of the day project for tho individual llfo. Is hardly In tuno with tho modern spirit when The mobt ardent believer in tho better day, tho life is thought of as u corporate business and this COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE FARMS THOUSANDS ARE GROWING RICH. WHAT PRESIDENT TAI-T AND OTHERS THINK OF CANADA. Another Fat Year for tho Canadian Went. most sanguine urchltect of the i Ichor fortune yet to be will fall short of tho ideal that controls his imagination. Hut the very fact that the day stirs these noble impulses and floods tho prospective days with the glow of hope is in Itself an assur ance that the year shall be rich In the gifts and the good will of the gods. Another 'iir! another year! Tlin IiktoiisIiic rush of tlniu sweep1 ont Wlirlin'il In flu Kiugps, itlMHiipcur Man's Iiojiuh ami lours foicvrr cone! Oh. no! forbear thut Idle tnlo! Tho hour demands another strain. IXimimlfl IiIkIi thoughts that cannot niuill. And strength to uompier nnd retain. 'Tlx mldnlKht from tho clnrk hlite l.v Tho Httirs, which now lnolc down on oirtl . Have iiecn ten tliousiinil centuries II v. And Ktven to counties changes tilrth. Shine on! shine on! With yon I tread The march of ni?cs. nrlw of IIkIiM A lsust eellp.se o'er you may sprond To me, to inc. there comes no iiIkIiK Tho sentiment that phrases Itself In the quite depressing words: Tho world Ih very rvll. Thu times aro wenrltiK late. NEWTFM RC'oi.tJ'rroN ror vouno worvTts.N- niiiM Hemember ran. KKc'OLXJTrOIV YOUNG MEK L1 111 )T s mm JV&V O'C? JX&JZfr ?,V &AZW0SM WWV ive t"&-v SXT i TRIKK up tho band, here conies tho good resolution. Let tho whistles blow their heads off, let tho bolls ring out, let tho fog horn on the lake front shatter tho at mosphere to atoms, let tho similar gladsomo noises be let looso upon the vibrant ozone even In tho uttermost corners of our beautiful city. For the good refio'ution is marching forward. Only a few days moro and wo will bask in Its splendid presence. Llko tho vlllago drum mnjor It comes proudly prancing toward us through tho week. Get a seat early and avoid the crowd If you would be hold It In Its glory. Keep your eyes glued to the splendid spectncle. keep your ears open for the lofty sounds, for It will not bo long in passim. It's safo to say that If all the high resolves that go into effect on Now Year's day had half the endurance of a Marathon runner the millennium would coino so fast that we'd havo to enact now speed laws to keep it from melting tho asphalt. If good resolutions were salt mac korel what n universal thirst would spread abroad! Human expcrlunro secnis to indi cate that progress In any lino Is nec essarily gradual. Take the nying ma chine, for instance. At present tho scientists engaged in tho development of thlu Interesting dovlco nro In n po sition to assert that many of their problems nro nlready solved. Thoy can got up Into tho air without tho aid of dynamlto nnd they can como down again with practically no effort. Of courso thoro nro other difficulties and doubtless the nuswer Is In alio book somewhere If thoy can only find it. The prnctico of resolving presents n similar aspect. It Is not entirely perfect nt present. Hut considering tho fow years slnco Adam Inaugurated tho outdoor sleeping fad and became grandpa to the humnn raco it is not surprising that somo details are still to be worked out. Tho forming of tho resolution has been beautifully work ed out, till almost any one, tho merest novice, can resolve. The date, too, has been firmly fixed as on the first of January. Tho chief difficulty that still remains has to do with keeping the resolution onco it is made. Some thing Uko keeping your aeroplane right sldo up onco you have estab lished a neighborly relation with the stars. Probably several years will elapso beforo the custom of resolving reaches perfection and In the mean time it might bo well to adopt a makeshift for the present unattain able. It .would seem ns If the difficulty might bo minimized by moro attention to the subjects taken for resolving purposes. It Is well to use care In se lecting our resolutions, and because of tho proximity of January 1, a few suggestions may not bo out of place. For a young womnn Try this one. "I hereby resolve with earnestness to no longer Insist on grandma wearing French heels." Thoro aro several ad vantageous features to this resolution. To begin with It la humane. Just think of forcing tho poor old lady to teeter down the street with little church steeples under her sole leath er! I lor silver locks bob under her dignified black bonnet and at every to bo overromo such us tho, tendency on tho pnrt of tho machine, to select i. .. . t mm numlni' ua own lino aim piuuu " -" ----- ., .l. M,i,inB. i-nnch Pin down. Hut those problems are minor painful step she whispers Ouch. Fit upon you! Shnmey! grandma Is not so young ns she onco was and tho penitential efficiency of n iiunlnti 13 greatly enhanced by tho shoving forward of the font as uccom- I pllshed by tho French hcol. Command the old lady to do n cake-walk onco an hour around tho dining room table If you will, but let her do It In com fortable shoes. Another Item In favor I of trying this resolution Is tho fact that j on have probably never asked grand ma to wear any kind of shoes j film didn't like, mi It should be that ' mm h easli-r to keep to your resolu tion not to do so. I or a young man "I resolve from this day inner again to nmciku n plpo In church. This sample Is highly recommended. Tho practice ngalnst which you Issue tho edict of banish ment is reprehensible In the highest degree. Smoking, while of course It might bo a solace to you during tho sermon, could not but annoy your neighbors and fellow worshipers. The men envy you, leading to countless domestic difficulties for them. The preacher is unable to see whether all the deacons nro awake or not by tho hazo from your plpo. Moreover, Just as a distinguished statesman once of ficially declared that tho odor of cigarettes annoyed him there nro those to whom the smell of u plpo Is a nuisance and tho offertory collector might be ono of these. Resides, you would probably be thrown out or Ar rested or something For men who ride much In street cares "henceforth I will not mind the feathers." This Is one requiring con siderable care but If strictly adhered to will bo found of grent assistance In your dally life. When depending from a strap and resting your toes on somo neighbor's a long stiff quill suddenly Jabs you In tho noso giving to that fen hire tho rich red that which nnother class of resolvlsts have already re quired, do not releaso your temper. Smllo and pretend you llko It. O'.'t times you can make yourself believe It, after due practice, of courso. Hut tho principal ndvantago to bo cited In this resolution's favor Is that "you might just as well." So long as tho fashion romains tho same you will havo your dally communion with tho tall feathers of an ostrich or of a roor.ter and If you resolvo not to rnlnd, hotf much moro placid tho temper! For nny ono who does not ralso chickens "I hereby resolvo and de termine not to eat any moro strictly fresh eggs for several weeks to como." This Is In somo respects tho prizo resolution. Its advantages aro many, but all tho others are over shadowed by this one you can't get nny to eat. In splto of all tho teacher may do the pupil will not learn unless he himself studies. You cannot make successful use of those sample resolu tions without effort on your part. Hut you should find ono among them which can bo kept with tho minimum of struggle. If yors havo no choice or you are skeptical as to your ability, try tho laat one. uiodorn sptilt takes account of Us own enlarged and enlarging kingdom. Not the most nodulous and believing prophet u generation ngo could have lon-cust the world wo know and ure porleotly at homo with today. Hul wer I.ytton in his short book. "The Coining Race," endeavored to fell the story and achievement or mankind In thu dny that was shortly to bo, but his seeming impossible woild has boon more than re allzud In our own dny. The hair has not been told Tho groat unto of tho day is the large grasp human llfo possesses over its own career and destiny, tho glowing confidence that this old yet over renewing world is solving Its own piobloms, nnd, undo! the guiding of that I'lovldeuce which Hope's well-known linos so beautifully expioss: All nuturu Is hut nrt. tinUnnuu In thee; All chance, dlieetlon. nhh-li Ihou ennui not All (Uncord, lumnnuN, not understood; All partial evil, unhirHiil pod, is working for the day of u perfectly ordoied and peifectly ndjusted civilization Tho greater power man is accumulating and employing over his own bodily llfo, his mastery of tho secretB or life which have been hid fioni tho foundation of the world, tho realization that man himself Is his own providence in a viihtly Inrger degree than hitherto he has dieamed of. and that the 'greater things" the great est of all Teachers foiotold ages ago that ho should bo endowed with competence to do these ho is doing In this very day with n miraculous confidence and a mighty fallli. lie has disco red that Ills own commission ov lr life, over tho happiness and hoalth and the fmltngo or the lire thai now is, as will as of that which Is to come, Is a vastly Iniger commis sion than the world hitherto has dreamed or. Ho Is finding out that Providence Is a partnership and thai no man may be a nlooplng pntlner In (he business of living without the penally or losing tho wry thing that lire Is a world or potencies convened Into achieve ment. This Is the note, surely, as civi lization faces tho year 1010 the note of competency, the iiense of added powers to life, the feeling that tho gi eater things ure coming on tho oat Hi, and that man Is us ing tho key to unlock tho treasure house of his own life with a aure rioKs and a wisdom that glvo prom ise of a vastly better, richer, Jnster universe than ho hns yet known. Another nolo of our time Is tho fact that IKo mirrors ItseU In such a wonderful wny nnd tho things and forces that mako for the hot ter day to be are known and read of all men. Wo live In the open, nnd no man may become champion of any oauso and keep the world In Ignorance of the character of tho enuso and tho nature of his eham plonshlp. No man to dny may hide his light under a bushel. It is a tell tale world, and, moro than any past tlmo, the world today hns a Juster Henso of valuos nnd knows both the things that nro saving It and tho things also that threaten and endanger it. Public servlco was never so responsible as It Is to-day, because civilization nover hnd tho nlmost miraculous power of analyzing nnd testing vtho vnluo of public service as In this present year. Public llfo Is an open book, and the most impossible of nil Im pohsiblo things today Is that any national or International movement should bo misunderstood or misin terpreted by tho world's best mind And what Is truo of public move merits Is true of public men. No public man can deceive his constit uents to-day, for his constituents nro the world. And the strong man today Is the rnaD who frankly rec ognizes this. 8tartllng Figures, Tho lives of all tho fcr,G00,000 residents of the United States aro worth 1250,000.000,000. Unnecessary deaths every year cost In capitalized earnings, J 1,000, 000,000. Workmen's Illness annually co3ta In wages 1500,000,000. Caro of the sick and dead every year costs fICO.000,000. Tuberculosis taxes tho nation ! Our Caiiiutlaii neighbors to the north ato again rejoicing ocr an iibitudatil Inmost, and loporls fioin tollable luuucos go to show that the tolal yield of P.UHi will bo fur above that of any other year. 11 Is eniliuatod that 7I0U.000.000 . ill this oar go lulo the pockets of tho Western fm incut iroin wheal alone, another fiiii.niHi.lMO from oatit ami barley, while returns fumi oilier oropn and from stock will add $10, 000,000 more. Is It any wonder then that tho lurmnis of tho Canadian West are happy? ThouMinila of Aiucilcnn funnem have nettled In tho above mentioned provinces during tho past year; men who know Iho West and lis possibili ties, and who also know perhaps bet tor than any other people, the best methods for piofltnhlo funning. President Tuft said recently In speaking of Canada: "Wo have boon going ahead no rap Idly in our nun country that our bonds have been somewhat swelled with the idea that wo aro carrying on our shoiil durn nil the progress thuic la In the world. Wo havo not boon conscious that there Is on the north n young country and a young nation that Is looking forward, as It well may, to a groat national future. They have 7,000,000 people, but tho country Is still hardly scratched." Jas, .1. Hill speaking before the Canndlan Club of Winnipeg u fow days ago said: "I go back for nil years, when I oaino West from Canada. At that tlmo Cnnada had no North-West. A young boy or man who desired to oarvo his own way had to cross the lino, nnd today It may sutpilse you one out of every live children born In Canada lives In tho United Htutes. Now you aro playing tho return match, and the North-West Is getting people from the United Status very rapidly. Wo brought 100 landsookers, mainly from Iowa and Southern Mlnnosntu, last night out of St. Paul, going to tho North-West. Now, those people have all the way from live, ton to twenty thousand dollars each, and thoy will make as much progiess on the land In one year as any one man coming from tho Continent of ICuropo can make, do ing the best ho can, in ten, fifteen, or twenty years." It Is evident from tho welcomo given American settlors In Canada that the Canadian peopln uppreclato them. Writing from Southern Alborla recently an American runner says: "Wo are giving them some new Ideas about being good fuimeni, nnd they aro giving us somo new Ideas about being good citizens. Thoy have a law against taking liquor Into tho Indian Reservation. One or our fel lows was caught on a reservation with a bolllo on him. and It cost hlin 550. One or the Canadian Mounted Police round him, and lot mo toll you, tlroy find everyone who tries to go up against the laws or the country. "On Saturday night, every bar-room Is closed, at exactly 7 o'clock. Why? Ilecnuso It Is the law. and It's tho snmo with every other law. Thoro Isn't u bad man In tho whole district, nnd a woman can como homo rrom town to tho farm at midnight if slio wants to, alone. That's Canada's Idea how to run u frontier; they havo cor talnly taught us a lot. "On tho other hand, we nro running their farms for them better than any other clnss of farmers. I guess I can say this without boasting, and tho CnandianB appreciate us. Wo turn out to celebrate Dominion Day; thoy nro glad to havo us help to farm tho country; they know how to govern; we know how to work." Another farmer, from Minnesota, I who settled in Central Saskatchewan ' some years ngo, has tho following to say about tho country: "My wife and I havo dono well enough since wo camo from tho Stntes; wo can llvonnyway. Wo camo In tho spring of 1901 with tho first carload of settlers effects unloaded in these parts and built tho first shanty between Sas katoon nnd Lumsden. Wo brought with our car of settlers effects tho sum ot ?1800 In cash, to-day wo nro worth $40,000. Wo 'proved up' one of tho finest farms In Western Canada and bought 320 acres at $3 per acre. Wo took good crops off tho land for four yenrs, at tho end of which wo had 18000 worth of Improvements In tho wny of buildings, etc., and had planted three acres of trees. Two yenrs ago wo got such a good offer that wo sold our land at ?15 per aero. From tho above you will see that wo havo not dono badly since our ar rival." Prof. Thomas Shaw of St, Paul, Min nesota, with a number of other well known editors of American farm Jour nals, toured Western Canada recently, nnd In an Interview nt Winnipeg said in part: "With regard to tho settlement of the West I should say that It Is only well begun, I havo estimated that In Manitoba one-tenth of the land has been broken, In Saskatchewan onc- J thirtieth nnd in Alberta, one-hundred i grown successfully up to tho shtleth parallel and In tho onrs to como your vacant laud will bo taken nt a rate of which .oti lime at present no oon 1 cepiioit We h to ohoukIi people In ( tho United utntoH alone, who want ' homes, to tnl.e up this Iniul. "What jou inn,! do in Werlnru ('un mlii In to rnlo more live sioi It. Whim t .Miu ure doing what ou ought to do lu this reguiil, (ho laud which Is now ' selling for Jjo per into will be worth ft out ?r0 to fliio pro aero. It Is toi good laud us (hat w hit It Is xolllug for tuote than fl00 per nolo In tho corn belt. i would rather rtU-o entile In West ern Canada tlinii In tin1 coin boll of the United Slates. You can gel your rood cheaper nnd tho olltualo Is bet tor for (lie purpose Wo hao a boi ler inai hot, but .Miur market will im prove fabler than your farmers will pioduoo (ho supplies. Winter wheat can be grown In one half of the conn try lluiiiir.li which I hae passed, and alfalfa and one of the vnilnllcs of clover In (luce fourths of It. Tho fat met a do mil believe Ibis, but II Is truo." Kooning onto with wheat produc tion, the growth or lallwaya li'in been quite as wonderful, nnd Iho whole country fumi Winnipeg to the Rocky Mounlnliis will noon bo a not-work or tt unit mid brunch Hues. Three groat luiiitu'onlluoutnl linos mo pushing coimtTiictlnu In every dlieetlon. and at each nld'ug tltt grain elevator In to bo round. Manitoba being tho (list nettled pi evince, has now an ele vator capacity of iipwauhi of :iii,O00,OQi bushels, Siisltal chowan 20,000,00, and Albeitn about 7,01)0.000, while Mm ca pacity of elevators at Foil William and Port Arthur, on the (I rent hakim, Is upwards or 20,000.000 more. Within tho pinvlucca or Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta thoro arc flour nnd outment mills with n com blued capacity of 25,000 barrels per day, and situated along some fnmout' water powers In Now Ontario, there uto linger mills than will bo found any whore id tho i'ralilo Provinces. Last year the wheat crop totaled over 100,000.000 bushels. This year the crop will yield :t0,0(il),000 more. A recent HUinmnry shown that on the 1st of .Innunry, t!i0!, tlio surveyed lands of the three western provinces, tolnlcd I It 1,000,(11)0 acres, of which about :i2, 000,000 havo boon given us subsidies to railways, 11,000,000 disposed or In oth or ways and HS.OOO.OO given by the Canadian (level ninent as free home steads, being 2.10,000 liomesleadn ol Kill aoies each. Of Mils enormous ler illory, Mi Is pi nimbly under crop nl tho pi ononl Mine less than 11,000. 000 an os; what the rosultH will bo when wide awake soltleui have taken advantng" or Canada's offer and uro cultivating the fertile pralrlo lands, one can scarcely linngliio. Just Like Him. Howell Do you think that Dr. Row ell will make much or u locord lu thu legislation? Powell Sine; the first thing he will try In do will bo to pot form an operation on Iho foot of tho calendar. Mr. Wlimlmv'N Sniitlilnir Hynip. I urilili'lri'ii ti'i'liliiu. a fliiiallHiKUliiH, ii-iliieea In lli!imUiiii,ulluy.(4ilii,i hi i wli.il U'llu uiumIhuI. The man who inn maintain a lepu liillon lot wisdom lu the presence ill a Miuth Just out of college Is a wonder. Iz-win' Hinile Hinder Mmiidit 5c cq;nr I in iclc to ,iti-f the Miiol.cr. Don't wouy and ouil have nothing to worry you Salts and Castor fk J bad stuff never cure. Xrll only makes bowcla move be cause it irritates and sweats them, like poking finger in your eye. Thcbc3t Bowel Medicine is CaBcarets. Every Salts and Castor Oil user should get a box of CASCARETS and try them just once. You II ee. KM ( t r'JIIIH OPT. mull It with yonr ii'ldr-s to miTlliitt Kririmly "o . ClilCHKii, III , hihI rn-rlvp it ImiiilMjiiiti winvenir t;ul'l Hon lln KKKK A LlRlit or a Close Shave NO STROPPING NO HONING aaffrBpjffiyVl Vrfe KNOWN THE WORLD OVKK Jl.000.000.000. annually. Typhoid fever coats 1350,000,000 i and soventy-flfth. I nra satisfied that Malaria costs J200.000.000. I lc all three provinces grain can bo KleH PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clfanara J! Uaatlflta Oi ht!t. rrr.riv.tofl a Ivmriani grovlh. Haver ylU to KMtor Owy It-Ur to Ita Youthful pv?lor. Cult a-alp d I mat i ft hair Mlfoz yr.atxHIOat rnnr1U ,fr,!."uM.; Thompson's Eye Watsr BROWN'S Bronchial Troches A preparation cf ttjprl'r mart? forravfnz Cougfii, Itoaruncu and Iniution ci ihrojti of great benefit in Ujhz TrouM, Uronehttlj and Aith-nru. Vif Itnm optatta cr ny harmful Incrradbnt. Prlf. 25 canti, SO cant and 1 1,00 par box. Sample mailed bn requeai. J' ' RWOWW H SON, Tln.on. Maaa. m