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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
OFFERED HIM TWO WIVES.
King Cetewayo Appreciated tho Tenor
Singing Of stOld Dog Tray

King Cetewayo Appreciated tho Tenor's
Singing Of .sOld Dog Tray.
There is much in name, or at least
I think so,'' said Albert Gerard Theirs,
the tenor, who once sang for old Cete-
wayo, king Of the Zulus. Mr.. Gerard
Theirs several years ago bore the Teu-
tonic cognomen Of Thesis and had it
changedto Theirs. His fame spread, and
his middle name was welded to his SUR
name with q hyphen.
8 am more French than German, 3
he continued, land my vocal method is
not at all German. Many people i'm
agine that German vocalist is mas
ter Of the cultural, and that is one rea-
son why had my name changed. have
no prejudice against the German meth
cd, only I prefer the French method of
singing. People who were introduced to
me used to ask if was German. AS
speak French and not German, con-
cluded to change my name to Theirs.
My wife. is an American, but she has
lived SO long in Paris that she speaks
French like native and has nothing
German in her appearance or manners y
''Did you sing in French to King
Cetewayo?'' =
"No; I sang in English. The old
Zulu was in captivity when saw him
in Africa. Twas singing in Cape Colony
in my boyhood days with an English
opera company, and after it stranded
visited the dethroned African monarch.
The English kept him guarded at a
farmhouse, but allowed him privileges.
I sang several operatic airs for him, but
they did not please him, and in despair
I tried odd Dog Tray He liked it,
and when told the story he said dog
was faithful and wished me to sing it
again. Then he embarrassed me exceed
ingly by presenting me with two of his
wives. Each was more than six feet in
height and black as the ace of spades. I
declined his royal offer, although he de-
clared the wives would not be missed. -
New York Commercial.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
NECESSARY FL 1-TERY.

The Experiences Of = Young Woman who
Tried Plain Speaking For week. #
It was the first afternoon Of the olub
meeting, and the girl who prides her.
self on the earnestness Of her aims and
objects in life came into the room with
the light Of a noble resolve clarifying
her countenance.
I've been reading the loveliest book
in the world, girls, 4 she exclaimed en-
Enthusiastically, and henceforth shall
never fatter or deceive any body! The
author says that tiattery is the worst Of
sins and that - ..
Tell us your experiences nextweek, =
interrupted the sarcastic maiden grim
". They II be a lot more interesting
than an account Of the books preach
ings, and besides But the earnest
girl had flown off in Indignation, and
she was decidedly meek and crestfallen
when next the club members met.
< "You needn't laugh she remarked
to the sarcastic maiden, who was grin
ming expectantly, for I believe what
the book said was true, only we're not
sufficiently developed to live by such an
elevated standard. You know, I said I
should never hatter nybody again all
my -: Well, that was last week.
Now n gong to flatter everybody.
I've ha es2cuggn of plain speaking to
last m: VI. ! s. ;,ue. Last. Monday told
mamma s>.s xves getting crows feet
when I knew she wanted me to say she
wasn't. Next day Mamie asked me how
old thought she looked, and told her
honestly. Mamma hasn't got over being
vexed yet. and, as for Mamie, don't
suppose she'll ever speak to me again.
Wednesday our pastor called and
wanted my honest opinion of his last
sermon. I told him, and he was awfully
hurt. Friday told my dressmaker that
I considered her awfully careless with
nice material, and she left the house in
anger, with my new dress half done
and not a soul among us who knows
how to finish it. Other dressmakers
won't, you know, SO what shall do?
''That's the way things have gone
all week. Now I'm going to say love-
~ things on principle again, whether
they're true or not You girls do look
perfectly stunning" she continued
sweetly as her listeners sighed sympa-
thetically. II do think we have the
prettiest set of girls in the city in our
club and the nicest.' .,
And then she wondered that they
didn't really seem grateful for the COM
pliment. "They acted just as if they
didn't think meant it," she told her
chum afterward.- Chicago Times Her
aid.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
YOUNG MEMS CHANCES.
Best Avenues to Success Are Found Out
side Our Largest Cities.

Best Avenues to Success Are Found Out
side Our Largest Cities.
Business conditions of the great cit
les are not favorable to young men, .
writes Edward W. Box in The Ladies'
Home Journal. advising young men
about to begin :leir careers against GO
ing to the big cities. 1T is said,," he
continues, that competition develops
men. It does unquestionably. But to
cope with present competition as it ex-
lists in the centers calls for vast
amount Of experience. That experience
man must have back Of him before he
can enter the competing arena. But
how can better acquire that experience
than where there is constant need of it?'
How better, my young friend? By serv-
ing long pprenticeship in some city
smaller than the greatest. The large
cities are today poor places in which to
learn the rudiments of business com
petition, for while the young man is
learning the experienced man swallows
him up. But that is experience per.
sists the young man. It is, but a more
severe kind than there is need OLA
kind which, once INDUCED in, does not
leave pleasant remembrance Compe-
tition in smaller city may be just as
keen proportionately; but, what is all
important to the young man starting
out, tho risks are not so great, the ex-
perience is not apt to be so costly
should he fail to succeed It is a true
saying that man before he succeeds in
business must expect to measure his
height on the ground time or two
But it is not necessary that in his first
knockdown he should be knocked out
"But there is another and more inn
portant fact which the young man
away from the large cities does not
realize. 1t is that the number of posi-
BILE positions in the large cities is not
increasing, despite the reiterated asser-
lions constantly made to the contrary
The very opposite is the truth. Various
causes explain this-higher taxes, high
er prices Of lots, or lack of building
room, labor strikes and lower cost of
production. The manufacturing inter-
ests of this country are constantly tend
ing toward the smaller cities and away
from the centers And this means fewer
positions, since only in rare instances
does the executive branch Of business
call for a larger number Of employees
than does the manufacturing side.
Strange as the change of current may
seem, it is nevertheless fact that the
young man who today leaves a good
sized city of actual manufacturing adj
vantages turns his back on what in a
few years will be one of the industrial
beehives of America.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
Eaton Hall.

Among the many famous and beauti-
full seats Of the nobility Of England ID
Eaton Hall, but few seem to know Of
the vast extent Of this splendid home Of
the Duke and Duchess Of Westminster.
So numerous are the rooms that 60
suits are set apart for visitors alone,
but it is only on the occasion Of q royal
visit that the true size Of this beautiful
hall is shown. When the duke and
duchess are alone or have only s small
house party, they prefer to occupy q
house which Is attached to the hall
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
IMPROVEMENTS IN PISTOLS
They Have Lowered In Price and In
creased In Reliability. ~

They Have Lowered In Price and In
creased In Reliability. ~
"There has been more progress made
in the revolver trade in the past ten
years." explained Connecticut revolv-
er manufacturer to aSWashington Star
reporter, ethan in any other line of
trade that I know of. There was a
time when even the old fashioned sin.
gle barreled pistol could not be manu-
factured to sell for less than 81, or even
more. That time has gone, and the sim
gle barreled pistol is a thing of the past.
In it's place came the revolver, which
is now made in all sizes, from vest
pocket revolver to that which is carried
in a holster. The prices have kept on
going down as the revolvers have i'm
proved in manufacture, so that now a
perfect working and reliable revolver
can be bought at retail as low as 81,
and even the best makes for 81 or So.
''The self cooking and hammerless
revolver, which five years ago sold at
retail at $40 and $12, can now be
bought by the carload as low as So or
So, and the better goods at from 81 to
Sc. In these arms the best steel is used.
The German revolver, which was the
only one which ever seriously competed
with those Of American make, has about
run out its race and is never offered
any more except in country stores,
where it is bought by boys. 1t is clum-
sier made and heavier than the Ameri-
can revolver and no more compares
with the latter than than does the Eng
lish line Of revolvers, which at one
time were very freely sold in this coun-
try. Likewise the American rife and
shotgun have outdistanced all other
makes, though the German cheap shot
guns still find good market with those
who do not care to put much money in
q gun. The American double barreled
shotgun, which sells at retail for about
$1a, is a much cheaper gun in the long
run than the German make, which sells
at from SIS to Sc, as all Of those who
have had experience with them discov-
cred long ago. .
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
What wrestlers Should Eat.


The Japanese wrestlers are race OF
giants; they often weigh from ID to %
stone. At the Imperial hotel in Tokyo
once they brought their champion wres.
tier to my room. He was prodigious in
size and as fat and fair as a baby. He
was Hercules in strength, but looked
like an overgrown cherub Of Correggio.
"What do you eat?'' asked.
''Rice, nothing but rice" 49,
"Why not eat meat?'' .-..
'Meat is weakening. Beef is 70 pei
cent water. Rice is 80 per cent food. ]
ate lean beefsteak once and my strength
left me. The other man ate rice and
threw me down" {. T.
My courier said: ''This wrestler is
the champion of Japan. No one can
throw him. ''-Pearson's Weekly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM,
The Duration of Life Varies According to
Circumstances.

The Duration of Life Varies According to
Circumstances.
Among the long lived in the animal
and reptiles, although even in the lower
animals the duration of life varies i'm
mensely, according to the species. Of
fish, the carp are especially long lived.
Among birds, some Of the parrot spe-
cies are supposed to live over 100 years.
The swan, the raven, the eagle, are also
credited with great length of life.
In the mammalia, the elephant at
tains the greatest age. It grows for 25
to 80 years and is said to live from 100
to $50 years and even longer. We have
no accurate means of ascertaining the
whales age. A lion is said to have lived
70years in the Tower, but there is no ev-
idence that he attains any thing like that
age in the natural state. Forty years is
recorded by naturalists as the extreme
age. The camel may attain the age Of
so. It eats little and drinks less. The
horse is comparatively short lived ami
NAL, but it is we'll known fact that
when he does little work and passes the
greater part Of his days in pasture he
may attain to about 40 years of life,
but when horse is hard worked and
fed, moreover, upon beans, oats and
other ossifying foods his days are much
shorter
In the vegetable kingdom the yew at
tains great age. Those at Fountains alb
hey are about 1900 years old. Two
orange trees at Rome, planted respect
lively by St. Dominic and Thomas
Aquinas, are said to be from 500 to 600
years old, and there are records of trop-
ical trees that, counting by their rings,
are supposed to have attained the age
of 800 to 1000 years. -Nineteenth Gen.
f171'V
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
A Curious Epitaph,

The following epitaph is copied from
tomb in the vicinity Of Port Royal,
Jamaica:
Here lieth the body Of Louis Caldy.
Esq, a native of Montpelier, in France,
which country he left on account Of the
revocation. He was swallowed up by
the earthquake which occurred at that
place in 1922, but by the great provi-
dence Of God was, by a second shock,
flung into the sea, where he continued
swimming till rescued by boat and
lived 40 years afterward - Nuggets. 3
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
Bright Valet.

Valet Ito officers danced - My lieu
tenant has sent me to bring you this
bouquet Of forest flowers plucked by
his own hands. f III So
Fiancee Oh, how poetic! And how
long it must have taken to gather them
let-Indeed, miss, it took me near
y three hours So iegende Blatter
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
Patience.

Patience is a most necessary qualifi-
cation for business. Many man would
rather you heard his story than granted
his request. You must seem to hear
the unreasonable demands Of the petu-
liant unmoved and the tedious details
Of the dull untired That is the least
price that man must pay for Z IS
station. New York Ledger.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27

In the northern parts Of China there
are many villages which are almost de-
serted in winter, the inhabitants going
south, where they live by begging.
They form regular guilds and literally
compel shopkeepers to help them by
threatening to cause q riot IN front Of
their stores. which Chinese merchants
abhOr s5y 5i55 s2 Is
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27

Warming pans containing perfume are
now used to heat the beds Of guests at
English country houses.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27

The oldest shaped county among the
5000 which 60 to make up the separate
divisions Of the various states is War.
rem county, Tenn It lies in the center
of the st1te and 81 q nesr 8 perfect cir
Gle O. any division az land could la
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27

The public debt Of France is the lar
gest in the world and amounts to about
IS, 900. 600, 600. ss.5
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27
Mixed English.

American and English tourists who
visited Ischl, in Austria, recently were
confronted with the following notice on
a signboard over the door of one Of the
hostelries Of the place, "To the gentle
mans Englanders and Americaners, here
you become asses. - Upon inquiry it
was learned that the purport of the sin
gular sign was that the proprietor of the
place had donkeys to let which were
used for excursions into the neighboring
mountains. A much travelled cobbler,
who protested TO be able to master the
English Language, was responsible for
the unique wording Of the sign. He had
translated the German sentence, AN
die Herren Highlander und Amerikaner,
hier bekommt ihr Esel, y the latter four
words meaning there you can hire
asses. " 81 stie
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-27

-Four fifths Of the world q supply Of
Gloves comes from Zanzibar and Psmba,
Africa s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-20

tempt to identify the trusts with cap
ital." which we find not only in the
Sun, but in the examination of the
officers of the sugar trust, is a part
of their reckless defiance of reason
and of fact. Any man who has amassed
ill-gotten gains can cry out when the
law pinches him that capital" is be-
ing injured. but the restoration of cap
ital to it's rightful owner, by taking it
from a wrongful possessor, does not in
jure, but helps both capital and indus
try.
So far, not an argument that will
hold water has been constructed in
favor of the trust. The best that can
be said of it is to let it's case go by
default and claim, as the Sun does,
that 1t ought to be tolerated and en-
couraged because it exists as a factor
in the modern Industrial stage. That
same theory would have prevented any
exercise Of Legislative power by the
people over common carriers, and
would have made railways and railway
pools today the arbiters of the fate of
every man in the country. That same
argument would laud the death breed
ing tenement houses of a great city,
which rise exactly as the trust does,
out Of the greed of amassed capital.
1t assumes, in other words, that every
social tendency and every industrial
growth which rises in society found
ed on the desire to accumulate, and
not restrained by a careful desire in
each individual to preserve the equal
rights of his fellow, is necessarily
beneficent thing. 1t asserts that all the
germs which find Judgment in the hui
man body, both malefic and beneficent,
ought to be allowed to do their per-
feet work, because they are a part Of
natures growth. 1t says that human
rapacity never needs to feel the re-
straining hand of law, and that power
however obtained, will always be ex-
ercised temperately and wisely. We
think it due to the eminent ability Of
the Sun that it should furnish us some
better argument than this for it's cham
piOnShip of the trust
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-20
LUNATTCS At LARGE.

While Mr.. Sovereign Is lighting the
fires of civil conflict and Private Dali
zell is declaring war on the allied
powers of Europe, question Of real
economic interest Is obscured by the
smoke and din and carnage. The posi-
ton Of Mr.. Dalzell is not a new one.
1t is a good many years since the
world was startled by the law Of pop
ulation and food supply which he now
lays down. If it be true, as is alleged,
that population increases in geometric
ratio while food supplies increase only
tcal progression, and that a war or a
famine or a pestilence Is necessary
once in while to strike a. balance, then
civilization has not accomplished so
very much after ALL This is the law
as it was originally laid down and is
the law which Dalzell adopts with es-
pecial stress laid upon war as the rem
edy. Civilization regards war as the
expedient Of dire necessity, not a kind
ly provision of nature to wipe out sur
plus population. It is evident that col
lective civilization or Mr.. DalzeIl, one
or the other must be wrong Under
all the circumstances it would appear
that the warlike private will have to
stand up and be counted as the out
voted minority.
Since history began there have been
wars and plaques, and they have wiped
out of existence great masses Of men,
but it does not follow as necessary
conclusion that but for them popula-
ton would have already caught up
with and distanced the food supply.
To admit it is to confess that man is
not so very much better off now than
when he used a stone axe and lived in
a hole. Where there is famine it is
due to local causes. Where there is
apparent shortage of food supplies, it
is due to an unnatural congestion of
commercial centers. The tendency to
crowd into cities presents a more
acute danger than the law of popula-
ton cited by Dalzell If the peril
which he parades exists, it is human
nature and not Mother Nature that is
to blame. Moreover, war, which it is
true might allay the symptoms, is not
tho ropoo6u
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-20
HALL AS SURGEON.
White House Appointment That May
Not Suit Mckinley.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The secre-
tary Of war has detailed Mai. w. r.
Hall, surgeon, to succeed DR.. Reilly,
as resident and attending surgeon to
the president. DR.. Reilly. who has
been the presidents physician fer two
terms, is now IN Europe with his in
valid wife. He will be ordered to Fort
Wayne, Michigan, upon his return.
Whether this order will meet with
the approval of the President McKin-
ley, remains to be seen. The presi-
dent-elect has an invalid wife. and will
probably order the detail of a ply
sictan satisfactory to himself, and par
ticularly satisfactory to Mrs McKin-
ley.
An employee of the White house, re-
ferring to this detail, narrated an in
teresting "reminiscences, saying: "Dr.
j. H. Baxter, chief medical purveyor
of the army. was the family physician
of Congressman Garfield and became
his medical adviser when Garfield be-
came president. In fact he was es-
teemed so highly by President Gar
field, that, on June 80, 1881, President
Garfield ordered the appointment Of
Dr. Baxter to be surgeon general Of the
army, in place Of Gen. Barnes, who
was to be retired Before the COM
mission was signed, Garfield was shot
by the assassin, Guiteau, and Baxter
was not appointed surgeon general for
three or four years afterward Presi-
dent Arthur appointed another man.
But. as soon as DR.. Baxter heard that
Garfield was shot, he fastened to the
White house to take charge of the
case. He knew that Garfield would
want him. But when DR.. Baxter got
there, he was too late. Secretary Of
War Lincoln had selected DR.. Bliss.
and DR.. Baxter was not even permitted
to be consulting physician in the case"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-20
A WEAK ARGUMENT.

Our esteemed contemporary, the New
York Sun, is nothing if not combative:
so that we are particularly surprised
to find it advancing in behalf of the
trusts, whose cause it has ardently
espoused, an argument that is summed
up in Pope's famous saying: whatever
is, is right" According to the logic
Of the Sun in this particular, which is
a direct opposite to it's logic in almost
every other particular, we ought to
maintain, with reference to these great
industrial combinations, an attitude of
non-resistance. They are justified be-
cause they are. If they ought not to
be, they would disappear. Not other
wise can we interpret a recent editorial
article comparing trusts with machines.
We quote from it the following
The trust, a device for Industrial economy
SO effective as to partake Of the nature of
mechanical invention, has aroused the an
tagonism that once sought to bar the prog
ress Of machinery; and from the nature of
mans intelligence, the trust may be counted
upon to withstand like its prototvpe the of
forts for its destruction.
Reason must suppose that the trust this
recent development of commercial science and
cooperation, will result. machinery has
resulted, in a vastly increased number of
laborers, better paid and more comfortably
circumstanced; in other words, in greater
community of richer men.
There is no more reason for clubbing
the trust machine, evolved by society
and put into shape by inventive genius
than there was for characterizing SIM
ilarly, in their time, aggregations Of in
dividuals who were called pirates
These men banded themselves together
in defiance of law for the acquisition
of property. They were vastly success
full as long as they were not interfered
WITH and might, in similar language,
have resented bitterly the opposition
and oppression of the state. The at
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-20
WAS SCALDED TO DEATH.
Painful Accident to the Child of a
West Side Family

On Monday afternoon at the residence
of Mrs F. H. Morgan, 1854 West Isabel
street, the tWo-year-odd child of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Robinson, Of LAT West
Winifred street, met with a horrible
death. It fell head first into a boiler
of boiling water and was so badv
scalded that it died In a few hours after
wards Monday morning Mrs. Robinson
went to the home Of Mrs. Morgan to do
some washing. About noon she remov-
ed the boiler from the stove and placed
it upon the floor. Her child. which
she had taken with her, was playing on
the floor, and while she went into an
other room the child fell into the boil
ing water. Mrs. Morgan heard the child
scream and going to see what the
trouble was, found the infant half-sub-
merged in the boiler, it's feet protrudine
The child was removed as quickly as
possible and doctor sent for. but If
was more than an hour before DR.. ReaI
rea ched the house. The hands and up-
per portion Of the childs body were
horribly scalded and disfgured. but II
survived until nearly o'clock in the
evening. DR.. Bealc states that the in
FAINT might have survived the scalds if
it had not inhaled the steam and
water. The latter contained a large
quantity of a washing powder.