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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25
WORLD'S-I9OA-FAIR
THE VENEZUELAN CRISIS.

GermanyS action in continuing the bombardment
of Fort San Carlos under existing conditions is neces-
sarily puzzling 10 the United States Government and
causes the Venezuelan situation to assume an aspect
warranting American apprehension of serious compli-
cations in the near future.
Venezuela is not ~lcgitimately subject to armed as
sault from Germany at the present time. Her Gov
eminent has yielded to the pressure of the allied
Powers and has consented to conditions which prom
isad to bring about a settlement of her difficulties by
peaceful negotiation. American Minister Bowen, in
the capacity of Commissioner for Venezuela, is now
in Washington authorized to satisfy the demands of
the Powers holding claims against the little Republic.
1t is strange. therefore, that Germany should make
war on Venezuela with affairs in such shape. The
silence of the German Government, which explained
such silence by the statement that it had then no Of
fetal information of the commandment, must be re
GREETED. The justified belief is that the three Ger
man warships participating in the attack on a Ven
ezuelan fort would not dare follow n line of action so
radical save under the cleareSt knowledge of German
policy. 1t is inconceiyahle that they are acting 9th
erwise than under instructions from Berlin.
President Castro's declaration, 1T is war now"
emphasizes the gravity of the crisis. A moment seems
approaching when the United States Government
must move with extreme definiteness TO procure from
Germany an official statement which shall authorita-
lively ~enlighten this Government as to German inten-
tons. Naturally, great caution must be exercised be
fore deciding upon this step. Once decided upon, the
administration at Washington must be prepared to
accept the logical consequences in the event of Ger
many's failure TO make a satisfactory explanation. y
few days patient waiting, based on the hope of n ces-
sation of hostilities under orders from Berlin. would,
therefore, seem 10 be wise on the part Of this Govern
ment. At the same time it will he advantageous for
Germany to remember that American patience is not
based upon timidity. Now, as always. the United
States Government stands ready to maintain It's
right to first consideration in the affairs of the West
ern Hemisphere and TO protect the smaller American
Republics from European aggression.
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LESS pEMONSTRATIVE But REAL.

Has public interest lost its keen edge for Doodle
Prosecutions? Lessening of surprised curiosity was
inevitable. The tcnsity Of wonder and excitement
must sooner or later give way 10 calm contemplation
just rs when the plIygoer, after straining forward,
absorbed in the dramatic motive, settles back in his
seat for comfortable attention.
For Il long period over n year Doodle has occu-
pied the stage center. In the city's history there
have been few tenser scenes than those announced
by rumhIiug> from 1hr Grand Jury room when the
monstrous legislative frauds became known. and he
gun win The MeyStnnurS tIiai, The town could
scarce trust lis OWE eyes and ears. As conviction
followed conviction and the fabric "r the startling
tale developed. and millionaire. boss. and business
man were caught in the laws mcshes. the whole ma
ton Joined the audience and marveled with us.
But, like all welI-oricred dramas, The thing must
have Its cllmaxes. and interest must rise and fall
apace. TO rest the eye now and then the curtain de-
scends. With the arrival of the holidays we hreathed
a sigh Of relief as the -Four Courts stage was dark
cncd and Doodle dismissed from our minds.
Kelly's trial for perjury marks the opening of an
other act: and although we are no longer startled at
revelations, rs At first, the dramas successive stages
are followed with no less real appreciation. Thor"
will Yet he more curtains. ana acts yet to come which
undoubtedly will rcawaken our first enthusiasm. We
shall receive the Supreme Courts decisions with in
tereSt undated.
ST. Louis has already begun to experience the re
lief which comes from the knowledge of duty well
done ard the realization that corruption has been
thoroughly ~dispelled from Mt least the vital depart
mcnts Of its government. 1t matters little when the
keen edge Of interest is dulled for the spectacular
features Of the renovation. st. Louis has been
stirred to it's depths. That something called civic
morality has been called into life ard activity, and it
will not soon slumber.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25

malignant wastefulness by which 1t al
tempts to reduce its owner TO bankruptcy,
the Observation-Disclosures concoctions II turns
cut. and yet the wild panic its departure
causes. scientists have placed the Cook IN
a class all by itself, called Genus Miserablis
Goorstayus.
This Latin phrase signifies that we are up
against it either way, and while We may be
wretched wit a Cook, we are m:Seraoie
without one.
In looks the Cook Is a most formidable
creature. although it differs greatly in dlf-
ferent localities. In the South It is black.
In the North it is generally Swede' or
Dutch. but whichever one you choose ana
take home for Il household pet you Will WISH
YOU had taken the other.
The habits of the Cook are so curious ana
inexplicable as to battle human understand
ing. for although deathless fame and the
gratitude Of the entire race awaits the man
or woman who first finds out some way 10
keep a Cook, no one has ever been aoIe 10
discover any method of appealing TO th!S
strange creature.
The expedient of calling it help ana
treating 1t as a member of the family has
been tried in vain, and some devoted mas
culine Students, in the ardor of their IN
vestigations, have even experimental win
kissing and caressing the Cook when II
was Young and comely. but even TINS mas
not been universally successful
az the Cook is not amenabie to Kindness.
some scientists have suggested that per
haps rough treatment and harsh words
might avail in tanning it, but nobody has
vet been found sufficiently foolhardy to sass
the Cook.
So far az can be ascertained, the COOK
has two Unsuitable passions in lie. one Is
In giving Warming mysterious peiiutun,
ance which consists in it's appearing before
its mistress. with its bonnet and shawl on,
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True Emancipation of Woman: MAXORELL

The activity of women will be as lnnis-
ueus3ble to nations and their success es thai
Of men. But l see other consequences
Women. being no longer dependent upon
mon. people nIll be no more concernet about
the private life Of an unmarried man than
they are now about that OF an unmarried
woman.
A woman who has committed indiscretions
vii! rot be called a woman with & past, out
may be one with experience.
it IS even just possible that men Will feel
more fattered To be chosen by them. They
VIII repeat the word Of Balzac that a won-
an loves anv first man that makes love 10
her. and that there is nothing in this 10
make a man feel proud; and Aiphonse harr
goes as far as Ninno de lEnc!os when he
saws that the only love that a mar may
feel fattered and even proud TO possess IS
that of a woman of experience"
Another thing. and n very important point
Woman, in this future system. will be SO
busy with her occupations as a bread-wln-
ner that she Will have very little TO devote
TO love.
woman lives by love and for love- will
bo thought an absurdity. She will come
across love in her way through life. She
VIII stop or pass on, according to her fancy
just as man does at present.
She will not be taught early that woman
was born to be a mother. and that she has
Cp!SAihlIN h''P AANA NA - 5SNN
der so as to bring down a man.
For that matter. 1t is just possible that, IN
those days, It will be a woman who will
propose to men.
I should not regret to see 1t for the sake
Of the happiness of mankind. because l
maintain that woman Is a far keener fnd!-
vidual than man, and that a woman is
much better able to choose the right hus-
band than a man the right wife.
OF course. the frivolous woman. the doll.
will have ceased to exist, and the woman
will cease to be considered what she is in
Turkey and Persia-an instrument of pleas
ure.
The author assures us that when his sys-
TEN is put into practice 1t will work SO we'll
that society will discover that 1t has reached
n climax-the advent of happy and perfect
civilization. y
Wen. If it does. all 1 can care is that what
consoles me for getting old is the thought
that / shall not be there to see it.
Copyright. 1903. by w. r. Hearst. Great Britain
Rights deserved.
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little by little. without shock, she should
learn without establishment.
1t IS innocence that disarms women and
hands them over defcHseless TO the most
odious and revolving attempts to corrupt
them.
When we suppose nowadays that q girl
knows too much of the mysteries of love
We think she is depraved: hUt degradation
does not come from The knoWlads" OF Ger
tain things. ii comes from the mysterious
and unhealthy way in which that know
edge IS sometimes impaired.
If the truth was told openly. in fun dag
light. all she should know OF the role nature
has given her 10 play. she would not be tie
PRAYED.
When a young airl shall have received
from a rational society an education that
| will enable her to live independently by her
work and to behave to the best Of interests,
what will she do.
Well, she will do exactly what men 90.
| The rich ones will manage their own for
! tune. and will engage in pursuits, civil, po-
lit'cal and intellectual.
They will embrace professions, be writers,
lawyers. artists. doctors. professors, and
so on.
All the careers will he open to them. In
humber stations OF life. she will be clerk,
shop-woman. workwoman, servant or Ia
borer.
In fact. no woman will be prevented from
tIittlIllE Il IdIFtl - i.A'H NV lAo' 'I'
trGe, and by so doing no intellectual force
will be lost to society.
For instance. we have lately heard, in Eu-
rope. of a young American girl passing 4
brilliant examination for naval engineering,
who presented the model of a ship far su-
perior to anything known up TO date. With
the new system a woman Will not he pre-
vented from building ships for the state be-
cause she is Il woman.
This will not only be justice to women, but
justice to society. which has a right TO ben
eft by the genius of all It's members, wheth-
err they be men or women.
Now, let us examine what will become OF
society If all these transformations and po-
litical functions will be exercised by men
and women alike, women Will be members
of Parliament. of chambers of commerce.
of literary and scientific academies. and
will sit by the side OF men. as in America,
at schools and colleges, girls sit by the side
of boys. On this account America will be
the first country to get quickly reconct!ed 10
the new state Of things.
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WRITTEN o THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
This IS 4 very serious subject. and 1 feel
sure that l need not apologize for treating
It with all the earnestness of which 1 am
capable.
l have just digested Il most Interesting
book by NJ. Novirow. entitled "LAffran-
chisement De IA Femme and l should like
10 give vou the gist of it.
In a society organized in conformity with
the nature of things. woman Will be brought
up, from infancy. with the same object in
view as man, that is to say, in order to
learn how To live 10y her work. And So 1t
should be, since work is the universal law
Of biology.
Every living creature, from the Invisible
microhe TO the most powerful animal. works
INCREASINGLY to adhere its existence. Work
being the law of nature. to remain idle Is
TO resist that law and to be immoral.
Women must become an independent eco
homie unity. There is nothing revolutionary
in ibis. on the contrary, it is a most con-
sentative idea.
Tho leisure class does not represent one
thouSundth part of society, and 999 out Of
every 1903 women have. or should have, to
work to support themselves or help TO sup
port their families.
From time i~mmcInorial. women rave
worked in families. In manufactures, offices,
IN the fields. either as mistress of houses,
as helps. or as servants.
II woman has to be recognized as an in
dependent economic unity. her education
should enable her 10 earn her living. and
whether she gets married or not, she ought
always to be ready to support herself with
out the help of man.
knowledge of every description should be
placed at her disposal by the State as well
as at the disposal Of man.
This is not all. Not only should she re-
caive an education enabling her to make a
livelihood. but also one, enabling her to d.
rect her steps in life in the right direction.
She should be told the mysteries of life and
the role she il called upon to play in life.
In our times. the ideal young girl is the
one who knows nothing.
This ideal is absolutely false. and creates
the greatest source of danger in existence
that stares women in the face. This ideal
was created by the monstrous ssllishness
of man who reserved to himself the satis-
faction. the pleasure tonly a rake's pleas
ure) of teaching her in one moment what
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25
HUSTLE ~HOSTEIRIES.

Capital will be amply justified in doubling our nor
rooms, small in proportion TO the city's size and popu-
lation as compared with the capacity of New York,
Chicago. Boston and other cities.
During 1908 and 1904 ST. Louis will be the con-
vention city of the United States. There will be if
teen great gatherings this year, including the Good
next year one hundred and fifty conventions, in all
many thousands Of delegates alone, will come to our
doors.
Yet from the hotel mans point Of view the con-
~ventions and the Worlds Fair are but insignificant
facts as compared with the indications of increased
normal demand. We require at the present moment
several additional hotels within easy access to the
downtown center. One great hotel will not suffice,
nor will two. After the Fair and the conventions
have gone their way such hotels cannot fail to thrive.
In two years we shall have achieved an enormous
growth as the result of social, Industrial and COM
mercial conditions pertaining to ourselves, and as the
result of our relations with a surrounding country
that is veritabiy booming and teeming with an in
fux of population, wealth and commerce. In that
time the increased demand for hotels would exist,
Fair or no Fair. The West and the Southwest our
impetus in manufactures, our trade with Mexico and
many other growing factors are greater than the
Fair from the hotel standpoint.
But in one sense the Fair means the making of
ct Louis. The Columbian Exposition made a great
International metropolis Of q big Illinois town. To us
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25
RECENT EMIT.
G1N!S
Paying for the Durbar.

Harpers Weekly.
That gorgeous and perfectly useless celebration, the
Delhi Durbar, has come to an end. And the bill has come
in. 1t is said to be over ten million dollars. or, roughly.
thirty million rupees. AS Iudyard KiplNng remarked on a
similar occasion, the one person conspicuous by his alb
sence was the starving ryot. who pays the bill. Let us.
for a moment, look at the matter from his point of view.
He IS, as KiplinS says, starving. Not merely at the present
juncture, during the Durbar. but chemically, as a steady
thing. And there are close on three hundred Of him. with
incomes of a few cents n day, to feed 4 whole family. Or.
rather, not to feed them-to leave them uufed. 1t is use
less to say that. of the ten millions fooled away at Delhi.
only about four millions came out of the Golfers of the
British Indian Government, while the rest was paid by
native Princes. The starving ryot paid that. too. These
native Princes are merely ornamental drones, who do
whatever they are told. and spend their money giving
champagne dinners 10 British Indian officials. for which
they get decorations and stars. Said decorations and stars
also paid for by the starving ryot. There is no very marked
condition OF famine in any part of India at this moment.
SO far as we know; only several hundred millions Of
wretches half starved. with their women and children also
half starved.
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Studies in Natural History: DOROTHY DIX.

ard hay on It's horns. and uttering various
angry and d~isjointed cries.
The other is a sacred Joy It feels in
smashing fine china and glass. The mere
sound of shivering Sevres and cut-giass fills
the Cook with such unholy joy that II gives
it the appearance of having been on a jag.
The chief popularity of the Cook Is the
number of relatives it possesses, most of
them being on the police force. Family af-
lection seems to also be developed in this
animal TO an almost abnormal extent. fOr
It thinks nothing Of leaving dinner burnf
ing on the stove to go to attend the funeral
of its cousins cousins stepchild. l..
TIL most marked characteristic OF tho
Cook is its cruelty. As has been said, it
Stays every year more people than war.
railroad wrecks and pestilence combined.
but it does not kill swiftly.
Like the cat, it plays with Its victim be-
fore killing him. poisoning him by slow de-
grees with doughnuts. pies, fried steak,
etc. These induce dyspepsia and the poor
creatures die in great agony.
Although the Cock is the least domestic
animal in the world. SO greatly Is 1t es-
teemed as a household pet that the ma
Jority Of Well-to-do women spend their lives
in the pursuit of one. This chase is an ex-
citing ana interesting one. and the method
of capturing a Cook is worth noting.
Cooks herd in LARS called Employment
Agencies. to which the women repair armed
with their pocketbooks and certificates OF
character from previous Cooks.
Here, by means of an artfully set trap.
such as denying the number of their chill
dren, saying they never have company and
allow followers. the woman frequently sue
ceeds in cajoling one to go home with her,
but she never succeeds in keeping 1t long.
TINS makes the pursuit of the Cook a peren-
NAL pastime.
No other country in the world has such
ferocious and unmanageable Cooks as
America. Indeed. so fearsome are they that
the majority of the inhabitants have fled
from their depredations and taken refuge
in hotels and b~oarding-houses.
Copyright, 1903. BY W. r. Hearst. Great Britain
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25

Il tin horn and a clarinet. There are a dozen other
forms of cultured enjoyment in which lie quite as
much OF beauty, emotion and intelligence; which quite
as well repay concentrated attention. But If one in
sists On mingling with music fanciers, he or she has no
right to make mistakes about the laws which differ
eniiate the fashionable human spectacle of opera
from the syinphony's elaboration toward ideal music
expression. opera stops halfway between the war
Whoop ana the ultimate. 1t can 20 no further. Some
peoples of earth need yet no thriller beyond the war
WhoOp: some persons i'll America need none beyond
opera. 1t is nobody's business except their own. But
if they 20 in FOR music rs culture they must realize
that the orchestra can be developed ana enriched un-
H. When the human ear is enough sllarpened, it shall
have Il thousand Instruments. each OF different voice
and each singing a melody in harmony with the other
melodies.
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. - -
; TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS.

. From The Republic, January "a. 1s7s
. 1t was estimated that the building
. Of telephone lines. the FIRST general
. system proposed in st. Louis. would
. cost $3.50 a mile.
. Comptroller Adreon received from 4
. the National Bank Note Company =,
. the steel plates on which were printed I
. the city's "brown-back'' money, is 4
. sued during panic times. Tho plates 4
. were to be destroyed,
. r. Graham Frost reopened his con-
. test for the seat occupied by L. S. 4
. Metcaife In Congress.
. Henry Clay Meek died at his home. 4
= No. 22O3 Morgan street He was a son 4
. of Thomas j. Meek. q veteran news 4
. paper man.
. At an entertainment given by Doc 4
. tor Thomas O'Reilly. Henry Shaw 4
read a paper on The Rose" Others Z
. who took part were Miss Julia Ben 4
. kendorf. Miss Bessie Barnett. Miss 4
q Cora Carpenter. Miss Lizzie Priest, 4
. Mrs. Pauline Massey, Mrs. Irwin q. 4
. smith, Doctor j. P. kingley. Father I
Power, Doctor 7. Papin. p. H Gro 4
y min. Father Tobin, Father Brennan, I
. Judge Jones and NJ. B. O'Reilly. Z
= A festival was given at st. Peters Z
. Catholic Church In Kirkwood, tho Z
Reverend Father Doherty pastor. 1t Z
. was under the direction OF Thomas 4
= E. Sherman, p. F. Keleher. William 4
. Finke, W. II. II. Russell, John A.. 4
. Scholten. E. ]. Tillman, T. F. O'Shea, 4
. VIII Casey, E. c. Keevtl. Jules Casey. Z
. Thomas ]. Gibbons. Gerald Grimm. 4
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A Destructive Year.
Leslie'S Weekly

Leslies Weekly.
While the year 1902 was a year of peace among the ma
tons. always excepting South America, it bids fair to go
down in the annals of the race as ono that witnessed a
greater destruction of human life than has been wrought
by some long and wasting wars. To the subterranean and
mysterious forces of Mother Earth most of these calami-
ties have been due. 1t is estimated that we have TO charge
her unusual restlessness with As, 800 lives lost through vol
canic eruptions and earthquakes. Her tOrnadoes hurled iS5
human beings out of existence. and cyclones added 80
more to the list, while other storms in great numbers, but
OF less dignity in name. placed 100 to the direct account OF
violent winds. Floods swept 3#o persons from life. tidal
waves drowned ITO, and waterspouts destroyed 10. To all
of this We must add 23 lives charged to the destructive
force of avalanches and suowslides, ard we have a total
of 5L07S-an astounding mortality from these agencies of
destruction in a year.
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Getting Together.
The independent.

The TnutDenUent.
Since the separation of the Northern and Southern
Methodist churches in 1874 no more significant event has
occurred looking toward their reunion than the meeting OF
the eleven commissioners from each church in Nashville,
Tenn, last week for the purpose of arranging a common
hymnai. Bishops Goodsell Northern) and Hess tSoutherD
presided, and it is reported that the discussions OF the body
were marked by more amiabinty of temper than II the
members had all been of one church. The final meeting OF
the commission will begin July 9. near Boston. Meanwhile
500 is the number of hymns fixed upon for the new book,
of which nearly half have already been selected, including
thirty-two entirely new ones. such as kipling's Recession
al" But it is believed that of the 2S hymns written by
Charles Wesley. less than one-third will be retained. which
would be a large fraction.
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The decision OF the United States Supreme Court
declaring certain Dakota divorce laws invalid re
emphasizes the need fer uniform marriage-and-d i-
'"rre legislation among the States. Already are
heard cialhoTs for Il United States law In secure the
liable III the near future unless the States frame and
enact uniform laws. For the central Government 10
control the status of married persons and Divorces
would be n distinct cncroachment upon State prerog-
atives. The way TO avoid it is to make it needless.