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The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

In the mysterious distance there hanxs a
dreamy haze
Under the influence Of some rare fantasy.
some dream inspired by a poppy plucked
from a fairy's -arden. one might have q
vision picturing the beauty of Puget Sound.
Here boisterous waters come to q rest
and down to the brink wooded nature comes
smiling to show her charms.
No lake country can compare with it. No
painter can catch its tints. stealing it from
the Orient
At her forge Seattle stands hammering.
building warships. and the noise is ringing.
but it dies away in the sweet laughter Of
playful waters.
The little towns along the shores, set in
eternal green, catch their reflection in the
mirroring deeps and firt with the image or
their own loveliness.
Commerce will come and seize them by
the throat and choke their beauty to death;
man will smite those pink cheeks and
wrinkle them with care. Even now he Is
impatient and says:
''Oh that little place? 1t don't amount to
anything now. but by the next time you
come out they will be booming. Look at
those trees.
Amt that a fine place for saw mill?"
Above everything. monarch Of all grand
eur. is Mount Rainier, the white ghost OF an
other world.
"Ah!' said a Chicago man, eff some fellow
should buy that mountain and store the
crater full of beef. he could run a corner on
the universe Of meat and make the packing
houses Sick
Nothing save an earthquake and total OBJ
liberation can keep Seattle from becoming
one OF the great cities Of America.
To contemplate its resources is like trying
to estimate the number OF gallons in the
sea.
There Is soon to be a reunion of the man
that built the city of Fair Haven. The
panic scattered him throughout the country.
but an effort will be made to get him to-
gether.
don't zee why that~on this occasion so
mu,h trouble should be borrowed. All they
have 10 do is to summon Colonel William
Liehtfoct Visscher. He built the town.
He chopped down an enormous tree, start
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
RECENT COMMENT.
Cremation Of the Dead.

Municipal Anairs
Cremation merely reaches in shorter period the same
burial Fleshy parts of the corpse decom-
in the earth in five ten years; during the whole
period decomposition they constitute nothing but
of carrion. Bones which takes centuries
crumble urceremoniousy carted from cemetery
another when necessity eonels their removal and in
the horror of death after they have ceased be
identified and claimed II they converted. with the
fcsh into ashes in hour they insured against
The volume and weight of bodies reduced
the process cremation 95 per cent. II ashes
placed in the of cemetery, occasion
ally the dead would leave room for the liv
ing their intact bodies demand Two hundred city
required to bury in the od-fashioned way
the 70 that annually die In Greater New York
We probably could than 80 Of these precious
ashes of the 10000 placed in urn cemeteries.
preserved in nicies of Columbarium srewn the
of river. As cemeteries exempt from taxa
ton the municipality would derive income from the
which the living then would and from the I'M
provements they would make upon them.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
WORLD'S-19O4-FAlR.
A MoMENToUs CHRISTMAS.


The Christmas idea, with all its train of assoeia-
tions, legends and romances, though annually da-
grammed paragraphed prosed, poetized, done around
the borders with holly wreaths, and cast upon the
American people in bewildering bulk and volumi
Mostly nevertheless comes again freshly and diuses
cheer throughout the length and breadth Of the land
1t is no less evergreen than its symbol.
Almost four centuries ago Mr.. Thomas Tusser, the
poet who, as doubtless every one thought was at a
loss for topic, formulated and handed to posteri
ty an injunction which he had received from his fore
fathers, and which had been obeyed for a time
whereof the memory of runneth not to the con-
trary has been obeyed, and will be till the end of
time:
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once year.
This year, the greatest in history, Christmas
cheer will be commensurate with our happy condi-
ton the worlds premier nation and its most for
tunate people.
It must be hoped that the universal spirit of
and good will may infuse itself into the Venezuelan
tangle to produce amty and relieve the depression
Of nations
Dewey and his fleet have been instructed to carry
out their Christmas plans and make the holidays a
season of festivity and mirth. Let the German and
English fleets do likewise. Nothing so much as
Christmas demonstrates the folly and futility of
A whole-souled celebration by the fleets and their
home countries should go far assuage hostile minds
and mollify the strain and tension Of international
difficulties.
Peace and arbitration would be consummation
most devoutly to be wished and the best and Httest
Christmas present for the whole earth. War on the
eve Of the commemoration Of His birth who brought
the message Of peace to mankind would be sad re-
Election upon the Christianity and civilization of
Twentieth Century nations. May the blessings of
peace fall in due season.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
To marry beautiful woman for the mere
love of her beauty is to undertake to dwell
in a country that has temperature of 100
in the shade without being provided with
clothes that will enable you to stand a win
ter of 80 below zero when it comes
Bcauty makes woman particularly at
tractive to man.
For this reason the love of a man is more
sensual. more jealous. than that of a wom-
an, which is more affectionate. more conf1d-
ing and more faithful
AS rule. the passion of a.husband goes
on diminishing as tnat of his wife goes on
increasing.
man exacts OF his wife her first love- q
woman exacts of her husband his last.
Only the select few can manage their
matrimonial affairs with such clever dpIo-
macy as TO make these different elements OF
happiness and sources Of danger work to-
ge;her with success.
Married people would 1--we more happily to-
sether II they could now and then forget
that they are tied together for life.
Any little scene that may help them for
get it should be enacted by them.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

Happiness in matrimony is more solid
when it is founded on friendship through
thick and thin than when it is merely on
love.
In love. moment of bliss is nothing: it Is
only the morrow which purifies and sanctf-
fies it.
How many married couples would be hap
py If they would only think of the morrow:
The husband who knows how to always
keep something in store for his wife has
solved the great problem of happiness In
matrimonial life.
Cupid introduces men and women into that
inclosure which Is called matrimony, ana
then discreetly and almost Immediately re-
tires
What pity 1t is he does not make their
acquaintance later in order to remain with
them forever
Marriages would be very much happier IL
women preferred marrying men who love
them to those whom they love-
Ma'rimony would be glorious institution
II women should take as much care of
themselves for their husbands as they do
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

smallest misunderstanding with their be-
loved will make them suffer untold agonies
Their lives are one succession OF alternate
happiness and misery; they are always ei-
ther walking on the very tops OF ,ne noun
tains of delight. over the clouds. or cropping
their way through the darkest abysses Of
despair.
Their emotions are so strong that they
must have some physical outlet
They blush. turn pale. feel oppressed they
sjSh. they cry, they get violent palpitations
of the heart; their whole body ID shaken by
the work going on in the laboratory o1 their
soul
One cannot help but notice that this senti-
mental exaltatfon is only partial
Passionate persons are only sensitive in
ANYTHING that concerns the object or their
passion: in everything else they are indiffer-
ent and unfeeling.
Nothing so dries up the heart as uncon-
troilable passions.
All very ambitious people. all passionate
gamblers are able to sacrifice everything.
family. friends and honor on the altar OF
their passion.
Moliere's Harpagon gets violently excned
hearing Of anything that concerns his
money. but he cares absolutely nothing for
the happiness of his children.
The will-power is partially paralyZed. ths
passionate person Wills no longer; ne Is no
longer capable of forming his decisions at
the dictation of reason.
Ii Is not that he is forced to judge
wrongly.
There are passionate persons who are per-
fectlv aware of the defects and shortcor-
tnRs of the person they love or of the good
qualities of those they hate: but they nave
no strength to will.
Their will-power is paralyzed. IN so Tar
that they do not act according TO the dc
tates of sound sense. and just on account
of this inner conflict their acts are charac-
terized by extreme violence-they are con-
tinuaIIy subject to terrible mental explo-
sicns
A mother no matter how timid she may
he knows no such thing as personal dan
ger If her child is in peril. Hate and desire
for revenge give the murderer the strength
of ten men.
All passionate feelings strengthen activ-
ity while they paralyze will.
Everything is done on impulse
Persons will do things In the heat OF pas
sion that they could never even think Of in
their normal condition.
Passion will make the hero coward and
the weakling a hero.
1t makes us altogether different persons,
who have none of our original tastes, char
acter plans or ideas, and who possess pow
ers unsupported by US.
Copvright, 1902 by W. p. Hearst. Great Brit
ain rights reserved.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
NV%%% . . . %%> . . . .
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY IN ST. IOlJIS.

FROM The Republic. December o. 1877.
Inc nrst hop given by the Carr
v fiace Guards, in which c. p Wal
y prioge was a noncommissioned Off
= Ger. took place at Mahlers Hall. The
y anair was in charge of the COMPANY
. officers. Captain D. NJ Frost. Lieu
. tenants P. A. CARROT, G. A. Priest
= Jr.. and C. II. Stone; Sergeants and
y Corporals ID. 1. keeler. F. T. Knox.
= Cyrus p. Walbridge, C. H. Rippey, ].
. S. Beck. j. N. Gray. E. A. Warren.
. Otto Raddatz, N. s. wolcott. III. w
. Brand. John Hanthorn and W. E.
q Carney
. The Pho Nous Club of Christian
. Brothers College gave an entertain
= ment at the college hall, Eighth and
. Gra:iot streets
y Railroads refused to receive empty
WHISKY barrels for shipment, owing to
= rent seizures by Internal Reve-
q nue. Collectors.
y party of sportsmen went to San
. doval, ILL.,. for hunting expedition TO
. last through the holidays. In. the
. party were c. S. Gone, J. d. Phillips.
= Charles Parsons and John Williams.
= Other railway officials were to ioin
. them later.
. Spiritualists prosecuted Doctor F.
. A. Hunton. claiming that his seances
. insulted their faith
= General 10 Shelby of SedaIia. Mo,
. discussed with st. Louis friends the
. possibility of war with Mexico, grow
. ing ont of incessant border fights
= then in progress. and in some of
which United States and Mexican
= Government troops took hand
= General Shelby greatly admired Pres
ident Diaz and thought that the lat
ter would be able to hold the Mexi-
. cans in check.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
siberia Lacks Medical science.
Strand Magazine.

= ; :
Epidemics frequent, during visit smallpox
raging chiefly however amongst the native popula
ton. Lprosy the Yakutes ia prevalent here
Central Asia, while the suffer chiefly from
bronchitis and dphthera which fail to make their
appearance with the return of spring. And yet this
hotbed of pestilence there Government nrmary.
provision Whatsoever made for the sick. Miskie-
vtch young medical student and himself an exile
attending the community efficiently circumstances
would permit. but almost total lack Of medical and
surgical appliances rendered his task hopeless one
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

how ugly or how immoral the object of
their hate Is but the passion dies in the
same moment. when they for some reason
stop creating false Images In their minds.
This Is characteristic OF all passionate
persons: they are victims Of an illusion:
they are deceived by their own thoughts.
but the very moment they are made to see
things or persons as they really are. their
feelings collapse and they fall from their
dizzy heights.
Especially is this 30 with persons who are
in love.
However perfect their beloved Is. he or
she never comes up to the creature Of their
ina Rination. and when they realize that
they have been deceiving themselves. II Is
an almost fatal shock to them.
In this respect they are like children. who
In their play give their imaginations full
swing.
stendhal has very appropriately called
this interior creation capitalization.
In the salt mines Of 6alzburg," he says,
you may throw a branch Of a tree down
into the deserted depths OF the mine and
two. three months later you may pick 1t up
all covered with the most brilliant crystals.
Every stem will be outlined with rows
of dazzling, pseudodamonds. that have
made the original naked branch absolutely
unrecogniZabie.'
1t h for this same reason that most peo-
Pile love anything that Is enveioped in mys-
terry.
l will even go so far as to say that ii is
impossible passionately to love a person in
whom we see nothing mysterious AID whose
character gives us no enigmas to solve.
We may be very fond OF a frank, sincere
person whose character We know as well
as we know our own. but the feeling that
he calls forth will never become passion.
The intense love must have a mystery to
solve its object must provide food for. our
imagination. 1t must give US chance TO
create.
On the other side. the mystery must not
be too deep, It must not seem impossible to
solve, there must be some light to guide us.
We must seem to get just little nearer
to solution every day, without ever being
able to solve 1t entirely
This is the reason why woman, no matter
how homely she is. can always inspire pas
sion. simply because she is woman, and be-
cause there will always be something in her
that is unfathomable to men.
The third symptom OF pa ssion is this: You
will in all passionate beings find an unusual
capacity for intense emotion.
They are always either radiantly happy
or extremely depressed.
The merest triie Is enough to influence
their mind.
In people who are in love the smallest
success will cause extreme joy, while the
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
A City of Adventure: OPIE READ.

snecia! Correspondence Of The Sunday Republc.
Seattle. Wash. Dec. 1s.-In this town
there are great many Japs.
They come over in the japan Current.
But 1t makes no difference as to a mans
nationality
He soon becomes infected with the Wash
ington fever and is an enthusiast.
If the rain is pouring. he will say: You
ought to have been here last week"
II you slip on a hillside and fall they tell
YOU that is the original fall of man.
On the train. approaching the Sound coun-
try. some one. pointing to a mountain. re-
marked the spIend5r OF the view.
Yes" spoke up a Bellngham Bay man,
but you ought to have seen 1t before the
panic of ninety-three.'
Seq tile is tumble and a flounce OF nature
and push and hustle Of man.
1t does not crawl upon hillsides-it leaps
In many respects It is still a city of ad-
venture. the rising and failing crust of vol
cano commercialism. but In places solid
bottom has been found. and thereupon has
been erected great and enduring palaces OF
trade.
ture," said the editor of a religious weekly
review. devoted mainly to real estate specu-
lations. but they will come in time.
Music. OF course. keeps sort OF pace
with traie. and / reckon We have the most
progressive dancchouses in the world
Music? Why, down below the Dead Line
you can get any tune you call for"
What business are you in to-day. Bill?"
was asked of a rran who dropped upon q
chair at a hotel.
Business? Well. since my saw mill burnt
down I've been preaching. and in the mean
time catching few salmon"
DO you still own that big building over
there?"
NO; some fellow came along an dsaid 1t
belonged to him. and didn't want to argue
with him."
And during ali the struggle Of man. the
swift shiftir-s of fortunes. robbery and
murder below the Dead Line. roses are
blooming on the hills.
The rain is gentle and the air Is soft, and
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

votes in favor of the lighting bill. Somebody must
explain to the public why he and others who had op-
posed the measure suddenly changed in favor of it.
He draws himself to his full dignity. and with hand
on his patriotic breast. coughs slightly and decaims:
We have but hearkened to the voice of the people
ind yielded ourselves the supreme will. Our pnr-
pose is the peoples veal; to serve is our endeavor
And Mr.. Kelly never cracked a smile.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

: The Metropolitan Elevated Rapid Transit Company
evidently proposes to live up to it's title It's fran
chse bin is the fifth be introduced in the Municipal
Assembly. containing the rishts-of-way descriptions
of nearly all tie preceding four. If they keep acom
ing the competitors may give the city good system
good terms.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

Mayor Golden Rule Jones Of Toledo does not re-
turn the bows of ladies by lifting his hat: says he
doesn't believe in it. Really, he need not give himself
any further concern about the point: the ladies' will
take care that he is not troubled in future.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

Clayton will have TO adopt for its seal in
the archaeological doctors prove that soil in
which the implement was found is Gy0o0 years old.
Perhaps though Clayton seeks TO be included in the
Worlds Fair boundaries.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

The New York Timess declaration that it contains
.all the news that's fit to print suggests. possibly
silent partnership with Town Topics. which utiiizes
the other sort r
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1902
CIRCULATION DURING NovEM FIR.

". B. Carr. Business Manager Of the St Louis Re
public being duly that the actual number Of
full complete copies OF the Daily and Sunday Re
public printed during the month of November 1902 all in
regular editions per schedule below:
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21
Good for Adults Only.
Town Topics.


Neggs: And for insomnia is-T
Physician facetiouey): AN d-fashoned remedy to
count five hundred
Noggs: Very good but our baby can't count.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

And said W. B. Carr further says that the number
copies reported unsold during the month
Of November 6T per cent.
W. B.. CARR.
Sworn and subscribed before this soth day Of
November, 1902
J. F. PARISH.
Notary Public, City Of St. Louis, Mo.
Ny term expires April rs. 1905
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-06
Latter's Government Wants
Railroad Manager Fired
Ambassador White Scouts
Possibility Of War

Berlin Dec Sly Yesterday the German cruiser Gazee
dered sail Immediately Venezuela The intends to
send other smaller ships reinforce the present German
squadron the caribbean The additions to Germany naval
force there will be sufficient give suspicious the
people of the United States that Germany medates anything beyond
the collection of claims due German The German govern
ment desires beyond anything else in this matter avoid disturbing
the government people the United States German newspapers
much alike that easy infer their uerance
gested by the government remarkable thing the fact that there
single unnd expression towards the United States OF
this newspaper Even the dispatch from Washington
York newspaper effect persons of Importance in the
navy departments consider between Germany and the
United States inevitable has been reproduced everywhere throughout
Germany but treated with increduliy
Want Railway Manager Expelled.
Caracas 3e Venezuelan government has request
Berlin that Herr Knoop of the German railway be dis
charged 1t believed Knoop will be expelled Traffic the
railway continues be suspended 1t be said upon
cent authority that Gernay contemplated naval demonstration
against certain Venezuelan ports will be postponed until the termna
ton of the present revolution against President Castro
White Scouts Rmors
Berlin Dec 31The foreign office authorizes the Aocia
ted Press that there truth whatever in the dis
patches from Caracas saying that the German minister left the Venez
ue capital after heated exchange of words with President Castro
The charge daare Herr Baazzi still his post and
continuing negotiations President There has been
any question of breaking off diplomatic relations with Venezuela
The minister Venezuela, Dr. 0. SchmdtLeda, who
has been vacation here his way the Caracas foreign
again and soey reeraes the statement that Germany does
not contemplate territorial acquisitions Venezuela Replying
Germay the United States regarding the formers
plans connection with Venezuela the foreign office has received
from Secretary Hay expressing full satisfaction with Ger
many position The Tageblatt prints doubeead cable from
Washington setting forth that the principal military and naval
hores there consider between the United States and Germany
later inevitable United States Ambassador Andrew D.
informed the German newspaper who called at the
bassv Yesterday reports possibility of between
United States and Germany the hnnest kind of sensa
tonal nonsense
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-06
CUBAN RAILROAD TARIFF CUT.
Decrease of twenty-five Per Cent. Or
dered by Gen. Wood.

Havana, Dec. 31-A decree reducing
the railroad tariff on sugar and tobac-
co an average of rs per cent. will De
issued by Governor General Wood to-
day. Cuban planters have long pro
tested against the alleged excessive
rates on these products from points of
the interior to seaports.
The return of General Maxine Co
mez to Havana did not produce the big
demonstration which had been predict
ed. Although Gen. Gomez was well
coined by six bandsso of music, less en-
thusiasm was shown than in the Maso
manifestations. Maso's following had
arranged demonstration in opposi-
ton to the one given Gomez but this
was prohibited by the authorities, who
feared trouble Preparations for the
election to be held today are proceed
ing quietly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-06
NEWS NOTES

AT Oskaloosa, Kas, William Klus-
mire, the wife murderer, was sent
enced to so years in the penitentiary.
Several cases of smallpox were dis
covered in the Illinois state institu-
ton for the feeble-minded at Lincoln
by DR.. Egan, secretary of the state
board of health.
At Kansas City, Robert Scott of JOY,
ILL.,, aged 70, a wealthy farmer, stopped
on his way to California and has not
been seen since Thursday.
Mrs. Sadie Coleman Muir, daughter
of the late Senator Mcpherson of New
Jersey, is dead in New York. Mrs
Muir's husband is DR.. Joseph Muir,
United States consul at Stockholm
Nancy Reeder and John Edwards
were struck and instantly killed at
New Castle, Ind, by an eastbound
Pennsylvania train at Grand Crossing
Both the bodies were horribly
mangled.
At indianapolis Eliza Bennett, p
years old, shot and fatally wounded
their home. The boy shot in defense
of lis mother who had been struck
and abused by bishop.
London papers comment upon the
gravity of the German-Venezuelan dis
pute. They are generally agreed that
Germany is not anxious to provoke
complications and will be careful not
to ruff1e American susceptibilities
Official announcement has been
made of an increase in wages of che
trainmen nd switchmen on the Balti-
more G Ohio railroad. The increase
will average about per cent. and wa
made without request from employees
At Lincoln articles of incorporation
of the recognized Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy railway company were