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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

tries; we want place to sell our grain
and our lumber. 1t is that tariff which
keeps us poor"
That is it. l have heard the same
sentiments expressed in Canada prac-
tically from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic, and if annexation ever comes it
will be because love of the dollar has
outgrown the love for England. 1t will
not be because they love England less.
but because they love the dollar more
Will the American immigrant te
Canada influence a sentiment for an
nexation? Will he grow homesick:
Will he wish for the old flag to fly
over his school house and his home?
The chances are that he will not unless
the desire be born of love for the dollar.
Canada will give him as good govern
ment as he has ever known; it will give
him as many liberties, as many oppOr-
tunities for himself and family in the
way of education and refinement, and as
many or more privileges than he knew
in the States. But when he sells his
wheat for few cents less per bushel,
and his cattle for trifle less per pound
than he knows his old neighbor in the
States is getting his love for the dollar
may, we say, kindle within him a senti-
ment for annexation. Surrounded as he
is by immigrants from every nation
over which flag of civilization flies,
and who care no more for the union jack
than they do for the yellow banner Of
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quent mingling of yankee blood with
Dutch, of which Oliver Wendell
Holmes was an earlier example. Both
the Van Rensselaers and the Wendells
were Dutch families of Albany. The
Brooks connection is wholly English
in origin.
Typical was the age OF the young
man. He was graduated from high
school three years ago and was to have
graduated from Harvard next June,
but the "three years course" is as
convenient for blue-blooded bride
grooms in a hurry as for poor students.
BY dint of keeping tutor at his ell
bow all the time the young man was
able to get his ~sixty points" and grad
uate last year. 1t seems to be the set
tied custom in wealthy society at pres
ent for youths to get married before, or
as soon as, they cast their first bal
lots.
The wedding over and the festivities
that It called for, Newport again
dropped. The slump in Wall street
this year has hurt it badly. MsceI-
ianeous company has hurt it more
Fashion almost shrieks the informa-
ton that ten negroes were seen at the
Sunday evening concert at the Casino
last week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
The Larger Life.

am quite clear that one of our
worst failures is at the point where,
having resolved like angels, we drop
back into the old mattcr-of-fact life
and do just what we uld before, be-
cause we have always done it, and be-
cause everybody does it, and because
our fathers and mothers did it; all
which may be the very reason why
we should not do it. There is
no station of life, and no place of ones
home, where, if he want to enlarge
his life in caring for people outside
himself, he may not start on career
of enlargement which shall extend in
definitely. And we shall find the am.
swer to our question to be that the
man who enters upon infinite purposes
lives the infinite life. He enlarges his
life by every experience Of life
Phillips Brooks.
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whom he dickered as the agent OF his
uncle in London, man as silent as him.
self. The London uncle lived at cost
of about $4,000 a year in modest club,
bachelor, scarcely on nodding terms
with his fellow members. The nephew
lived as solitary life in New York.
One day the old man died, and was
little missed and seldom remarked IN
til it turned out that the death duties
upon his estate in England alone indi
Gated some 100000 in that country,
while in New York the estate was also
enormously productive to the tax col
lector, under the collateral inheri-
lance" law Young Smith suddenly
blossomed into public notice as one OF
the ten richest men of America, fac
tor of importance in the ownership of
more than one great railroad.
Mr. Smith had no notion Of remain
ing silent if money could talk for him.
He bought house wherein to give cost
ly bachelor entertainments; he hired
the DreXel yacht; he bought a riding
academy and turned it over to his
friends for a gymnasium; he bought
picture for $50, and presented 1t to
the Metropolitan museum; he benefited
a girls college in Lake Forest, ILL.,.
where the London Smith had been a
bank president; he gave $4,000 worth of
"favors" at single dinner.
He is a fine-looking fellow, well pre-
served, as he has always lived careful
ly. He has native dignity to bear his
for Mrs. Chauncey, she is a beauty of
no common mold, a Kentucky girl Her
sister is Lady Newborough; she herself
after her four years struggle to save
the life Of her first husband-he died of
consumption-has often been Slated
to wear title.
That Of Mrs. Silent Jim Smith," il
she takes it and wears it, will bring in
these days, when money talks, about as
much power as any in the peerage.
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sort of robbery of the very poor. pol
ICY" as played in New York, is not
gambling. 1t is simply Skin game, :
where the player does not have
even one-twentieth part of chance to
get even.
Another is Bob" Ammon. He was the
head of the syndicate OF crooks who
managed the Franklin syndicate" a
get-rich-quick scheme that drew its
profits by the million. A manager" a
poor, foolish fellow, was put up as the
responsible person and went to Sing
Sing, but Ammon, though one of the
sharpest lawyers that ever drew
breath, followed him in the end. Now
he's making brushes for the state.
l don't know that I should say that
"Sam" Parks, the walking delegate
is another of the group, for the lawyers
are still fighting over his case. He is
still the agent of the Housesmith's
union, in spite Of the evidence convict
ing him of extorting brides from en-
ployers for his own pocket, in spite of
the fact that upon a salary of $48 a
week he was living in a style usually
meaning $4,000 a year. But he has at
least been in Sing Sing and worn the
striped suit. no matter how his case
turns out
OWEN LANGDON
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
RELIGIOUS TRUTHS.

A man in rags is not half so pitiable
as a character in rags.-Wellspring.
Prayer may not bring money, but it
power to keep from sin and to be con-
tent with Gods will, whatever else He
may send.-George Eliot.
Let patience have her perfect
work and bring forth celestial fruits.
Trust to God to weave your little
thread into web, though the pattern
show not yet.-George Macdonald.
The sins by which Gods spirit is or
dinarily grieved are the sins Of small
things-laxities in keeping the tenn
per, slight neglect of duty, lightness,
sharpness of dealing.-Horace Bush
nell.
Accident does very little toward the
production of any great result in life.
Though sometimes what is called "a
happy hit may be made by bold
venture, the common highway OF
steady industry and application is the
only safe road to travel.-Samuel
Smiles.
Guard within yourself that treasure,
kindness. Know how to give without
hesitation how to lose without regret,
how to acquire without meanress.
Know how to replace in your heart, by
the happiness of those you love, the
happiness that may be wanting in
yourself.--F. w Faber.
Do your best loyalty and cheerfully
and suffer yourself to feel no anxiety
or fear. Your times are in Gods
hands He has assigned you your
place. He will direct your paths. He
will accept your efforts if they be
faithful. He will bless your aims il
they be for your SOULS good.-Freder-
lex w. Farrar
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
WHAT WOULD WE DO?

(ThlS little poem was written by a volln,
artist for one who had passed through deer
waters of affection and who received grea
consolation from these lines.)
What would we do without His hand
To lead US day by day,
Without His listening ear to hear
His children when they pray?
What would we do without Himself.
Without His changeless love,
Without that joy and rest and peace.
That cometh from above?
What would we do when sorrow comes,
And we no longer sing,
Could we not all our burdens,
70 our gracious Saviour bring?
What would We DO did We not feel
His loving, watchful care?
Oh, to die and end it all,
Might be cur earnest prayer
What would we do, what could we do,
How empty life would be.
If we had never known that One
Who died for you and me?
To whom l wonder could we go,
What church, what creed, what form,
Would ever take the place of Him,
A shelter in the storm?
No. indeed, there is none other,
Let us have no anxious fears,
For we know that if we trust Him,
He will one day dry our tears.
So We'll praise Him through life's journey
Till we reach the glory land,
Then We'll see with clearer vision,
How He kept us IN His hand.
e. c. Caswell, in N. Y. Observer.
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| Spain from q sentimental point, with
neighbors from Sweden, from Denmark,
from Russia, from Finland, from Aus
trla, from everywhere save least of all
England, it would be easy to spread this
sentiment for annexation when anneXa
ton means dollars.
There is yet another element which is
doing it's small part to spread the an
nexation sentiment. That element is
the Canadians who come to the States
to live, and there are thousandSSof them
in 1900 the total number of native
born Canadians residing in the United
States was 1,049,0 900, or nearly one to
five of the people in Canada. They find
more ready employment, larger Oppor-
tunitieS for financial advancement here
than at home, and, as rule being of the
younger element, are prone even to exag-
gerate the difference when reporting to
friends in Canada. A clerk in Toronto
store said to me this summer:
81 get but six dollars week here, and
have to work three nights each week,
while I have a brother clerking in a
store in Cincinnati who gets s12 a week
without any night work. an going
over there to live this fall"
An old gentleman, resident of a little
village in northern Ontario, told me OF
a young friend he had in Chicago.
'He is brick mason he said, "and
he is making five and six dollars day
over there, while over here he never got
better than $780,
He was comparing city conditions
with those of the country, but he didn't
know it, and was advising his young
friends to go to the States for better
wages. He was true to his homeland.
he would die under the protection of the
union jack, but time had carried him
past the day of the love of the dollar.
The younger element have not outgrown
it. The tales of fabulous wealth across
the boundary line to the south are hav-
ing an effect on those left at home.
There is trade balance of 100000
in our favor annually in our commercial
dealings with Canada. We sold to her
| last year $125, 100000 worth of our pro-
ducts, and we bought of her $55, 100000
worth Of her raw materials. These fig
ures do not, by any means, represent the
ratio in which Canada produces and con-
sumes. The figures would be practically
the other way if they did. The Ameri-
can customs officer prevents her ship
ping her products into this country
wiShout the payment of duty, while the
customs officer of free-trade England
does not, so she ships to England But
her own customs officers levy tribute on
the importations from England in the
same way they do On the importations
from the States, though in a slightly
less degree, SO she buys from the
States. The customs officer along the
boundary between this nation and our
northern neighbor is not favorite
with the people of that nation, and if
there is no other means of d,smissing
him they may, may we say again, in
time favor annexation as a last resort.
But it will be an annexation sentiment
born of the love of the dollar.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON
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on the ground floor in the Manitoba
wheat belt, and to-day they are indie
pendently wealthy l visited at the
home of one of them year or SO ago.
He owned $500 acres of land, had it
well improved and we'll stocked, and
had that year harvested $500 bushels
of wheat. These families were but
the advance guard of the invading
army that was to come. At the end Of
the fiscal year 1902 the Americans in
western Canada numbered 77,000 a
third of whom crossed the border that
year. The official figures for the past
year are not yet available, but the
railway count gives the number of i'm
migrants from the United States at
about $4,000 people.
One has but to visit the western Ca
madam plains to make it easy to be-
lieve these figures. New towns are
going up everywhere; cities of tents
are to be seen near every land Office,
and in them are Americans. Not ex-
clusively, to be sure, but predominant.
From Calgary north to Edmonton, in
the line of railway has close beside it
It's city of tents overf1owing with emf
grants seeking locations 1t is into
this section, more than others, that the
Americans are going. There are whole
villages of them, villages more typi-
cally American than many TO be found
in our own northwestern states. An
immigration official at Calgary, Mr..
Wren, said to me: Next year we shall
make it 100000 or better from the
States. You don't need them as we do,
and they are as much at home here as
they are south Of the boundary line"
But are they as much at home there
as they were in the States?
In this country we hear the state
ment: Canada will soon be a part of
the United States The statement is
made by those who are not frequent
visitors to Canada. Cross the line and
ask the first Canadian you meet if he
wants to be annexed. His mo" will
come so quickly as to stagger you, but
the chances are he will add, ''hut they
ought to rear down the tariff wall be-
tween the two countries"
1t is in that sentence that one may
find an undercurrent of annexation
sentiment all through Canada. They
are faithful to England; hats come off
to the union jack as quickly in Canada
as in England, but they see across that
Invisible line which separates the two
countries an opportunity for financial
betterment, market for their enor-
NOUS natural resources The love of
the dollar is strong in all peoples, and
1t may be that some day what is now
but an undercurrent so weak as to be
almost imperceptible save by magma
ton may become a raging torrent
moving with such force as to sweep
Canada into the union despite her re-
gard for the mother land
I've have the best government in
the world, we do not want to be an
nexed," said Alex Macdonald, an old
Scotch merchant of Winnipeg, to me,
but we do want this nonsensical tariff
barrier removed between the two coun-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

HOu, LOT WOOm
money didn't talk
efectually.
One of them is
Albert Patrick, who
poisoned Million
aire Rice, of Texas,
the hero of a crime
romance like one
of Gaboriau's. His
plot was one of the
most skillful ever
devised by a GRIM
inal. Yet there he
is, condemned to
die.
Another is "A1"
Adams, the policy
k i n g. He has
gained Sc 900, 900
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way-and he is the earl of Innnes in
the English peerage besides wearing
the prouder title. He is vastly
wealthy, in which respect he differs
from the conditions Of the other two
dukes who now claim American wives
at the time of their marriage.
after all" English detractors of the
Saturday Review type say, "the Amer
leans have married only two dukes"
AS there are only % in all England,
besides the dukes royal, and of these
some are very old, the American girls
in carrying off one-eleventh in spite
of a 3,000-mile handicap have not done
SO badly!
Miss GoeIet has been for some years
the most talked about American heir
ess in British circles and has been re-
ported engaged to as many as half a
dozen peers in turn. Some years ago.
before that plain American citizen. her
father, died, she was sought by the
present duke OF Manchester, who had
at that time rather d gay reputation.
but mas since subsidized into a model
husband under the management of his
duchess, formerly Miss Zimmerman. of
Cincinnati. Mr.. Goelet is said to have
blocked that match by the quiet re-
mark that he would rather see HIS
daughter dead than wed to such a man
The Goelets were then cruising in
English waters in Mrs. Langtrv's
yacht, the White Ladye," chartered
for the purpose. and were the hosts of
the prince of Wales. now the king.
Marriages and Hints of Engagements
Another American girl has made a
match abroad that brings her noA
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

S | o a n Chauncey
will p r e S e n t | y
marry the enor-
mously wealthy
man who is known
d o w n t o w n as
Silent Jim Smith"
and uptown as
Mr.. J. H e nry
Smith," a social
aspirant vouched
for by Mrs. Astor
and other unim-
peachable leaders.
To middle age
Smith lived prac-
tically unknown,
except to w all
cfroof hralyorc with
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

laer Thayer, CT
B o S t o n, a n d
Gladys Brooks, of
the Long Island
family of MOrti-
mer BroOkses.
Thayer is a fine
old B O S t o n i a D
name, borne by
Thayer hall, Har-
ward college, and
by other good
m o n u NJ e nts of
wealth well spent.
The evan Rensse-
laer" in the young
mans name is a
foEon of the fire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
1 HE american invasion

=f1X@E one which is assuming such
proportions as to cause the
Canadians to think seriously of what
the end may be. 1t is an invasion both
of people and products.
Across the borders of the central and
western states our farmers are flock
ing to the free lands of the northwest
i'll much the same way as they focked
to these western states but a few
years ago. But few days ago an old
Canadian in Ontario explained the rea-
son of this to me:
These men who are now crossing
the border went into your western
states but few years ago with moth
ing" he said. They took homesteads
which the government offered them
free of charge; they have improved
them and cultivated them; the coun-
try has developed until to-day they can
dispose of the holdings which came to
them as gift from their government
and have only to move across the bor-
der to get new farms again on the
same terms upon which they got their
first ones'
Seven years ago there were compar-
atively no Americans in western Cana
da. Manitoba had probably dozen
families from the states. They got in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

of Roxburghe, who
came from Eng
land in her train
to see the yacht
race, and has for
gotten to go back,
did not surprise
society.
r OK b u rghe is
only a S C o t S
duke, :" as English
m a t C b making
mammaS carefully
explain; but he is
a fine, manly fell
low, tall and hand
S o N e, onl y %
y e a r S o ! d.
younger than Miss
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
SRlGShnaSS.

Selfishness is a plant which brings
forth bitter fruit. Generosity. kind
ness, nobleness, charity, love, friend
ship and other virtues do not grow
upon it.--Wellspring.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

wealth, but t b e
m i S t r e sship of
riches that would
be extraordinary
even in Pittsburg
or Cleveland.
S h e is Utic a
Welles, daughter
of Dr.. S t u a r t
WelleS, an Ameri-
can physician living
in London, and her
fance is Thomas
Beecham, grand
son of the Thomas
Beecham, still liv-
ing, who founded
the vast Beecham's
pills business.
The pill Beech
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
A Conceited Coincidence

There is nothing SO unmanageable
as conceited Conscience says
Beecher. The Pharisee had one. and
he his many successors. 1t exists in
a case where self-approval is so enor-
mously inflated that the one en-
zrenched behind it cannot see over to
discover the disapproval of God or
man.-Philadelphi Young People.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
SOCIETY OF GOTHAM
Marriages and Rumors of Marriages
That Are of Interest.
NEWPORT Is LOSING FAVOR.
1t Is Getting Too Democratic to Suit
the Tastes of the Swell Set
Passing of a Tame
Summer.

New York.-A typical Newport we'd
ding was that of Eugene Van Rensse-
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More Marriage Rumor..

AS to marriage rumors, there is one
that the charming widow of Samuel
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called, are an offshoot of the proud
Reauchamp n2me. which is pronounced
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30

Eut Money Doesn't TaIk-AIways.
There is little group of other silent
men in beautiful village up the Hud-
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The Duke and the Heiress.
The announcement of the engage
ment of Miss May Goelet and the duke
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Another American girl has made a
match abroad that brings her nor
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-06-04

Mrs. Lewis Lint returned Thursday to
her home at Hopeville, after visiting a
few days in this city at the home of her
sisters, Mrs. L. d. Miller and H. j. Lam
dis.
Mrs. Geo. w. Carmean and little
daughter came over from kellerton
Friday to spend a few days at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Evans
in this city.
Mrs. w. f. Ghormley who has been
| absent for several weeks on an extend
| ed visit through the south and east in
company with Mr.. Ghormley, returned
home Friday.
Mrs. Will H. Atha and children, of
Charlton, came last Thursday to visit
a week in this city with her sister, Mrs.
0. E. Tullis and parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Green Parsons.
( Mrs. j. i. Gardner went to Van Vert
Friday to visit a few days, her
little granddaughter, lnez Skidmore,
who has been visiting in this city re
/, turning with her.
Miss Bertha Rhoades, of Mt. Ayr
who has been visiting relatives in Gar
| ucIl 1tONc, CAME lucSudy lOE Il SllOEt
visit with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. N. G. Rhoades.
Miss lola Bruner, who is one of the
best teachers in the East Des Moines
schools, came Friday evening to spend
the summer vacation at the home Of hel
parents in Eden township.
Mrs. NJ. G. Ledgerwood, who has beer
visiting at the home of her son, Post
master Ledgerwood, in this city, left
Thursday to visit relatives at Van Vert
Corydon and Kirksville, Mo.
Miss Mabel Homer, of Lamont, who
recently returned from Chicago where
she was attending a school of elocution
came Saturday to Leon to visit a few
days with relatives and friends.