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The Lamar register., 1902-01-15

Better good statue of bad man
than bad statue of good one. The
good artist can idealize the character
of the one. but no bad artist can make
the others virtues lovable.
The Lamar register., 1902-01-15

Now that the German crown prince
Is broken down with hard work the
time is ripe for princes to agitate for
an eight-hour day
The Lamar register., 1902-01-15

crowd of theater-goers in Rome
got into fight over a new play and
many were wounded. Therefore 1t is
admitted that the play is big sue
cess.
The Lamar register., 1902-01-15

1t is good to be loved by ones fellow
man when there is not too many of
him.
The Lamar register., 1902-01-15

Dreyfus has quarreled with his law
yer. What was the fee?
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

of the laboratory. Here, at one end of a
hall something over 300 feet in length
are the six permanent dynamos. their
accompanying engines aggregating over
LOCO horsepower, which will furnish
current for light. motive power, and
experimental service. These dynamos
have their own place at the far end of
the power room. where the song of
the piston" still waiting to be trans
lated into English will not disturb the
routine of experimental work to which
the remainder of the room is devoted
The actual experimental work-that is
But what is the actual meaning of the
experiments to be conducted In this
enormous laboratory? What, in short,
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

Strenuous in the extreme, but COM
bined strenuousness without any indi-
viduality save as whole, and as a
whole it certainly is in a class alone.
All blare and glare, and rapidity. You
could not distinguish the faults or the
false moves. If there were any, any
more than the personal charms or ex-
cellence of the performers. You missed
the oldtime clown with his stale jokes
and Quips, and the fair equestrian OF
fifty. or thereabouts. who was the hero
inc pro tenn of all the youths of six
teen who witnessed her perilous feats,
but you had, instead host of clowns
and an army of equestrians, automa-
toms, a perfect organization, NAM
moth one of glittering generalities.
It's the same with everything Ameri-
can, their hotels in New York, for in
stance, are sumptuous, very palaces,
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

more modern laboratory machinery Nor
is it difficult to recall, even in this coun-
try, many instances where educational
institutions are cut off from half their
usefulness by heavy investments in
buildings made almost obsolete by un-
foreseen modern requirements. but which
cannot be destroyed without decided
qualms of the financial conscience. In
building its new laboratory. in word,
the institute has combined not only the
past of the Germany institutions, and
the present of the American industrial,
plant, but the problematical future that
may demand an arrangement quite I'M
foreseen and different from anything nov
in existence.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

brothel, and the Americans must gloat
and revel in things morbid. for there, on
the front page. besides the headlines
aforesaid, is a large photograph OF the
room where the disgusting affair occur
red; there are the bedclothes; the blood
stains; tnat dotted line indicates pre-
cisely how the murderer escaped, and
there lies the corpse! And upon the
next page and the next page are all the
horrible details, done mostly in head
lines. Elevating. moral, the true Eur-
pose OF a journal, is it not? And that
is served up to the children for break
fast! Those other startling headlines,
what are they about? Let me see: One
page announces the death of some mil
lionafre's pet dog the other is about the
elopement of a butchers wife with the
candlemaker's clerk. and there are the
photographs and the dotted lines of the
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

any given factory to the laboratory of
the institute. transport it by machinery
into the lecture hall, use 1t TO illustrate
lecture, carry ii back into the power
house. set 1t up on a metal floor, espe-
cially provided for such experiments,
take 1t to pieces and examine it in de-
tail. and finally put 1t together once
more and send it back to the factory.
The new laboratory is to be named
the lgustus Lowell Laboratory of
Electrical Engineering. in honor OF the
services nhich the late Augustus Low
ell rendered to the institute. 1t is di
vided into five important working parts
the power room and main laboratory,
closely akin to the big commercial insti-
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

~ URING the summer what prom
ises to be in many important
- respects the finest laboratory
of electrical engineering in
the world has been going up in
the Back Bay district of this city;
wide, one-story brick structure, the
interest of which does not stop with the
students of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, for whom it is primarily
constructed, but includes every person
interested in the opening OF the struggle
between the United States and Germany
for the primacy of modern education.
This struggle, about which Americans
are likely to hear a great deal during the
next two years. when plans now being
formulated in various scientific centers
are more fully under way, starts with a
generally admitted German supremacy.
In electrical engineering the German
Empire, with its splendid laboratories at
Carlsruhe. Darmstadt and Charlotten-
burg, to say nothing of the great labora-
tory now being planned at AK la Cha
pelle. is the worlds center for exact,
scientific work. Neither France nor
Great Britain has anything to compare
with these great German institutions,
and the Reichsanstalt, the imperial
physicotechnical institution at Char
lottenburg, is the court of last resort for
the whole civilized world in all matters
pertaining to the standards Of measure
mcnt for the various electrical pro-
cesses That an American institution Is
to have laboratory equal and probably |
superior TO any of its German rivals is |
therefore matter of no little moment.
The history of the new American lab |
oratory is typical of the difference be-
tween American and German methods. |
Germany moves slowly toward any ulti |
mate accomplishment. The German,
one might say, smokes his cumbersome |
pipe, meditates an achievement, |
and builds the result, whether labor |
atory or a system of philosophy, so |
that neither a stone nor |
sentence can easily be altered under q
long period of years. The American, on |
the other hand, smokes short briar |
pipe and builds while he smokes; and |
IL time and tide call for change is cheer
fully willing to rebuild the following
year. He goes for inspiration to the
actual workshop where the exigencies
Of the worlds work compel constant
adoption OF the latest and most inI-
proved methods. Here in Boston. there
fore, the newest educational laboratory
In the country is more closely related
10 the big electrical testing departments I
at Pittsburg and Schenectady than to
he Reichsarstalt. But 1t will be supe-
-ior to these great industrial centers in
hat 1t will add the two essential fea-
-ures of the German laboratory--a room
devoted to the maintenance and investi-
CATION of the ultimate standards of cleo
rical measurement, and series of lab
for special work.
The German student is apt to know
more about the minute process of spe-
cial research than the latest improve
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

based upon study of the facilities
which the Germans place at the
disposal of special research work
ers; the standardizing room, which
is intended to equal or surpass the fa
nous Reichsanstalt; the lecture room,
unquestionably the most complete in
in the world, and. finally. the work
shop, where the mechanicians of the in
stitute will repair and, indeed, manu-
facture great part of the laboratory
apparatus. These rooms, grouped in a
single large building, covering some
10000 square feet of land and one story
in height are so lighted by seventy sky
lights that each has the steady, we'll
diffused light of an artists studio.
The power room Is naturally the heart
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

there is an army of walters at your
beck. the tables are loaded with cut
glass. and splendid silver, the music is
good. but there's too much of it, the
menus are works of art, the appetizer
is divine-there, they really do excel,
for the products of the American bar
are satisfying, glorious, fit for the gods;
vive the American bar!-and your ex-
pectations are wrought up to high
point, the meal is going to be worthy
OF gourmet of olden Rome. But the
food tastes fiat, there is bewildering
variety, like at the circus. Bah, you
leave the table unsatisfied, with bad
taste in your mouth, and positively hun
CRY. In sheer self defense you hasten
to the bar / wonder IL their cooking
is not responsible for the high percen-
tage of drunkenness there.
$50 with their newspapers. They sell
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

you dozen, yes two dozen pages for
penny. They are almost filled with
advertisements, glaring, inartistic ones
at that. and half the reading matter be-
sides, 1 am told, advertises some one or
something at so much per line. But
that is their commercialism. Leaving
all that aside. what have we? GlarIng
headlines, half page high, and photo
graphs that may have cost fortune to
procure, and funny (O page. done
mostly in yellow. too idiotic even to
amuse children-perhaps 1t is gotten up
for the delectation of the inmates of
their numerous insane asylums. But
what are these headlines and full-page
photographs about? A war somewhere? :?
Some great invention? A change Of
ministry? No, dear reader, none of
these. But there has teen committed
a most revolving murder in some noted
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

percentage of energy can be handed on to
the next stage you will OF course get
more illumination for the same quantity
of coal. There is but one way to gain
this economy-namely, to study every
step of the process. to investigate every
bit of machinery-in short, TO test con-
stantly every bit of mechanism involved
from the beginning of the operation to
the end. There is no modern scheme of
electrical transportation. heating or IL
Eliminating into which this testing does
not enter, and the fact, indeed. is equal
ly true of the countless processes by
which electricity enters into the making
of various manufactured products: even.
for example, in the bleaching of your
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

ratus? For answer imagine, say, that
you have coal pile which is to be
transformed into the familiar light of
an electric lamp. Your coal is used pri-
marily to run a boiler which converts
into steam about 70 per cent of the en-
ergy of the original coal. An engine
then hands on some II per cent of this
20 per cent of coal energy to dynamo;
the dynamo turns about 80 per cent OF
this IL per cent into electrical energy;
and only about so per cent of the 92 per
cent of the u per cent of the original
10 is finally delivered to the customer.
And of this the arc or incandescent lamp
converts only some or 6 per cent into
light. There must be waste all along
the line, but If at one stage a greater
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

course they took. Here's the descrip-
tion and the diagram of the dress worn
by Mrs. Nobody at Mrs. Wouldbe's ball.
And that biography and fuiI-page pur-
trait? Why, that Is not the picture OF
the pretty shop girl who suicided yes
terday. that is a portrait and eulogy of
that papers woman reporter who was
first at the morgue after the body had
been prepared for public exhibition.
Where are the editorials. the interest
ing reading, the instruction of the peo-
pie, the molding of public opinion? Ask
me not, for I have never found such
things in an American journal.
"And their men? They work well to-
gether; prodigious undertakings are
carried through by tremendous organi-
zations There is no individuality, all
great machine with interlocking
parts, fitting admirably, but a machine
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

leather.
The exterior simplicity of this latest
addition to the greater American labora
tories Of America has already been
noted 1t rests upon permanent founda-
tions, yet is so simply constructed that
it could be torn down and rebuilt with
out incurring any serious waste of
money. The expenditure has gone just
where the institute authorities believe it
will do the most good not into massive
masonry but into electrical equipment
and perfect accommodation of students.
Some of the German universities are al
ready hampered by buildings too well
built architecturally to be economically
remodeled to accommodate some of the
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

ments in practical electrical mechanism.
On this side of the water the institute
has attempted to encourage this close1
acquaintance by visits of inspection to
the important electrical centers, an ed
ucational example of Mahomet going TO
the mountain. Now the new laboratory
provides a way for bringing the noun
tain to Mahomet. Railroad transpor
tation, big city drays, an electric crane
from the street door to a system of
tracks connecting with the lecture hall.
and, above ALL the modern spirit of CO.
operation between the important tech
nical school and the great manufacture
ing establishment, are combined to ac-
complish the miracle. 1t will be possi-
BILE to take a new dynamo direct from
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

week she knew it perfectly. She was
only three weeks rehearsing it in all
Her success in the role was phenomenal
AS Sir Donald Miss Shelton not only
won her audiences night after night, but
she won t ae actors as well. Miss Law
renee took great interest in her.
IT have a little girl of my own now,"
she often said to Isabel.
Even Walter Clark Bellows, jr., age
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

ality. frank and unassuming She is
slender and graceful, with sweet face.
a delightful smile, n fine suit of hair,
and beautiful hands and feet.
She has been a dancer since babyhood,
and as early as the age of six she sang
character songs at public entertain
ments. She has been faithful student
along other lines as we'll. At the Capt.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

five years, the Tot of "The Little Pill
grims," was impressed, for on the last
night Of the performance he put his
arms about Sir Donald and said sweetly:
II love you, Isabel. and when / get
big am going to make you marchion-
ess."
of a dreamer. She is one Of those for
Miss Shelton is ambitious and nothing
tunate beings gifted with genius and the
happy faculty for work as we'll.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

ISABEL SHELTON, the Sir Donald OF
The Little Pilgrims" produced
i last spring by the Bellows stock
company at the Lafayette Opera
House, is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George B. Shelton, OF 104 Ninth Street
southeast, and has just reached her
fourteenth birthday.
Miss Shelton has a charming person
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

II love tragedy" she declared. TheA
laughing. I'D love to play the villain
and scare everybody"
When asked If her tendencies were
toward Lady Macbeth or Hecate she
laughed more merrily still.
"Hecate gives one the shivers. and
Lady Macbeth reminds one Of an evil
dream" but she did not choose between
them.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
...Isabe1 Shelton a Dancer
Since Babyhood-Sang in
Public at Six Years.....

s.astically. II shall be SO glad when 1
am able to read Virgil"
Miss Shelton's first engagement dur
ing the past winter was at the National
Theater, where she took the role of a
dancing maiden in the production Of
Ben Hur."
When engaged for THE Little Pill
grims" she received her part on Mon
day evening. By Friday Of the same
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

tai Conservatory, where she is a stu
dent, her progress has been excellent.
Fer course, besides embracing the
eighth grade studies CT the grammar
school, includes Latin, French, instru
mental and vocal music. all of which
she has faithfully kept up during her
various engagements.
Latin 1 love-" she declared enthu-
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
By F. W. FITZPATRICK.
MIRROR that reflected our very


~ selves-sometimes powdered,
\ rouged, and gotten-up in the
nearly always vain hope Of be-
foozling our neighbors--as we really ap-
pear to others might not always be
s'flattery to our Senses" but it would
certainly be a most beneficial adjunct
to our toilet paraphernalia, corrective
agency. 1t might prevent us, If we were
at all wise, from assuming disguises 1t
would show us were perfectly transpar-
ent to even the meanest of our fellows.
Yes, such q mirror would be decided
acquisition to all Of US, the wise and
the unwise alike.
have no such magic mirror to offer
you, but / have Just stumbled upon an
intimate critique of Americans by cell
long ago. that was not intended for
Yankee" eyes and may therefore serve
the same purpose. 1t was decidedly in
teresting to me and may prove so to
you The gentleman draws rather a
s'long-bow," but, then, that's the French
of it.
NJ. Andre Fagel. the noted French
writer. visited Barnum's circus. when
It was in Paris some time ago, and de-
scribes the occasion and philosophers
of one of their leading magazines. He
does 1t at great length. Space allows me
but to skim over the surface. The verve
OF the whole thing is great; you cannot
beat a Frenchman for snappy, scintilat-
ing. peppery, albeit good natured, criti-
cism:
- I had to walk in the bracing,
cold, night air." says our critic, ''for a
long time TO allow my nerves and brain
to react slowly. had to be alone. To
thoroughly appreciate the full. the
beatific significance of those words, to
be alone one must be coming from Bar
NUNS circus. To have driven directly
home might have been fatal, and even in
that walk / momentarily expected a
troup of clowns to pounce upon me from
around the next corner. or three rings
OF acrobats and eQuestrians and per-
forming elephants to rise up before me
and perform simultaneously.
I'VE were all tired, our eyes strained,
our brows feyerish, every nerve and
muscle tense. The spectators differed
in garb. in condition, but all of us wore
the same expression of utter bewilder-
ment during that extraordinary per-
formance.
yet 1t was not admiration that kept
establishment. There were no wonderful
individual feats of equestrianism, as OF
old. nothing new. nothing original, SIM
ply mass Of affairs going on in three,
three rings at the same time, grea,
mechanism working in perfect harmony,
. kreat ensemble that dumbfounded, that
accumulated interest. ] can remember
no one particular thing that impressed
me, If there was an accident to any of
the performers-the great feature of ev-
cry other circus-we did not see 1t. the
injured one was Immediately engulfed
IL the mass. swallowed up, and never
a break in the operation of that won
drous machine. Still, the mere mechan- |
icai production of anything kills all art |
that was or might be put into it. That |
circus presented us features. it over
powered one with surfeit of banali- |
ties harmoniously put together. 1t was.
IN fine. an American conception!
"Ah. American. That is the word. And
how typically American was that circus.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19


Inend in and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-03
WILL GREET PRINCE
CATION LEAVE FOR MIL
WAUKE TONIGHT
FULL TEXT OF THE ADDRESS
Audience Is to Be Granted Minnie
sotans Tuesday-Advance Guard
Started Last Night for
Reer City.

The committee of the German-Amer-
lean Central Bund, which will go to
Milwaukee to convey to Prince Henry the
greetings of the German-American citi-
zens of Minnesota, will leave on a spe-
cial car this evening. Gov Van SAINT
and a portion of his staff and a number
of representative German-Americans of
the Twin Cities will accompany the par
ty The committee from the Central
Bund is as follows: H. ]. Nienstedt.
president; Otto Keuffner, H. ]. Had
bruch, A Hanft and julius Moersch
Following is the text of the message
OF greeting which will be presented by
the committee:
Your Royal Highness: In the name Of
the 5000 residents of German descend Of
the city of st. Paul, we extend to you
hearty welcome to our new home.
Millions of hearts through which Ger
man blood pulsates are joined with US
today in this greeting to an illustrious
scion of the house of Hohenzollern, the
representative of the emperor of the Ger
man people and of the German empire.
VIII your royal highness assure his
majesty your brother, that we ever think
of our fatherland with the deepest love,
and that we pray to God to unite our old
father1and and our new home in the firm
bonds of friendship.
The party will arrive in Milwaukee
Tuesday, and on that day will be granted
an audience with the prince
P. J. Gesen and wife left for Mil
Waukee last evening to be present at the
reception, and it is expected that F. w.
Bergmeier, who has been in New York.
will arrive in Milwaukee in time to at
tend.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-03
DIES IN WASHINGTON
MOTHER OF ME1SDAMES D. r. AND
G. p. MOVES PASSES AWAY. =

Mrs. Winthrop S. Gilman, the mother
of Mrs. Daniel r. Noyes and Mrs Charles
T. Noyes, of this city, died at the home
Of Ter daughter, Mrs. r. Davenport, i'll
Wash ington, d. c., yesterday. The ft-
neral service viii be held on Wednesday
at the I.rick Presbyterian church, Ne "
York. OF this church Mr.. and Mrs GIL
man were Cor many years members
For several years, from 1890 to 1889
Mrs. Gilman and her daughter, Miss Alice
Ives Gilman, were residents of St Paul
ana lad many friends here, who will re-
member Mrs. Gilman's charm of person
and character, and her unfailing interest
IN church and charitable work
Mrs Gilman waS the daughter of Rev.
Thomas L'pr.T coz a well known m IS
sionary Ct Illinois. and married in 1884
NJ. Winthrop S. Gilman, then of Alton
Ill. They removed in 1849 to New York,
and most Of their rnarried life was spent
in THAI cHy. where Mr.. Gilman establish
ed tre banking house of Gilman, Sen &
Co. Ar Gilman was prominent in the
Presbyterian church, and widely kno w
in connection with mis- plan for systematic
benevoienec, and as chairman of the
seven million memorial fund committee.
After Mr.. Giman's death, in 1884 Mes.
Gillian hvcG for 4 few years in Colorado
Springs, Gel, and came from thence to
st. Paul. Fer the past three years her
homo has been IL Washington, with her
daughter, Mrs. Davenport.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-03
MILLER HAS DOUBTS
AS TO WISDOM OF SUBMITTING CON
sTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
AT THIS TIME
IT'S EFFECT ON THE TAX CODE
Amy Amendments Proposed VIII lie
Defeated, Says Rock County SEN
ator, and VIII RetHrd Tux
Legislation

A great many of the members or The
legislature do NOT tbi,l- t.,,-,, ,,,,, If a.,
r,,,,,Cei+t-,, - -. ti-
Piopo7i'-oi ~ suomi coil9I-IuIi'l''''
amendments to the people before passing
a tax code Of any kind This argument
viii be used I'm Tho senate debate nm
dCg,hta,7I,- ~ a-,o.[-t- - a.,
ne opponents Oh inc Oii'
VINO 40 not care 10 oppose the neaSu.e
openly would do So on the ground that
the proper procedure is t1 give the pau-
Die d. chance first bv sttbrnittir. con.rf-
tl,ttoraI ,r,,-,,.Ir,.-r+. $50 lI.iIl.
o0i,a''t Nl'li'L' re
ROCK county ueclaIes TINS 70 ne NOT
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-03
LOOK LONG Way AHEAD
ST. PAUL ENDEAVORERS PREPAR-
ING FOR STATE CONVENTION.

President Larson, of the st. Pau,
Christian Endeavor union, has ann0unc-
ed the following executive committee TO
have charge Of the arrangements for the
state con%ention to be held in this city
next OctCNer: J r. Frisby, chairman
M. b. JareN0n, George M. Brack, Alex
ander NIq@EI:
A meeting of this committee has al
ready been held and plans made to keep
the coming convention a live issue before
the endeavorer's of the city Throughout
the spring and summer.
The St Paul union intends by early
and continued effort to insure the entire
success of the state convention of 1902
Below is list of the subcommittee
chairmen, as appointed by the president
Finance, E. j. Veith; entertainments, j.
G. Simonton; decoration, Miss EIearcr
Genshaw; reception, Miss Nina Whit
man; registration, Ira c. Oehler; recrea-
ton, Alex Nicholl; press and advertising,
w. D. Howell; pulpit supply, Rev NJ dr-
dock Mcleod.
Inquiries regarding the convention itself
or the preparations for it may lie ad-
dressed to J. E. Frisby, SCI Grand ave-
nue., or to the unions secretary Miss
Nellie Spencer, SIT Marshall avenue.