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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-04-30

idmn,enIut1en bsIftn tDdre es n,ir /
reht unb billig, lpenn lie iirb aud Dis
5itiren lieBen. Grit bie 6err{haften
llnb bann bas Oien1tperfpnul
,Gebr riGtig!4 pflihtete ibm Der
grminfter Bel.
rDas lit bod nniinnig!,a rief bet
MaiDr aug. vOas gebt rint!"
usyaf1en Gie bic Mngelegenbeit dlS
einen Shera auf,1 ftii5terte Ct ibm ins
Sbr, ,,es lit bic. bette Mrt, aus nieler
Ibtmpflinen Gage beraus5ufomiItel!.
Nebmen Sic ben 9orlhlag inDeoerst1
liA an
',gaiemals! gIaubeu Sic, sum
6enfer, bdB mid Sbr p1tbos otptl1s
qen pirb, Sic Mecbte ber Gaftfreunbs
f1aft al perlebeng Nein. nein! Niht
nm alle Diamanten Der Mtlt!'
,Wenn aber bic Mebr3ubl Sbrtr
syreilnbe es tpiinf9t2 Moh tnebr,
tpenn lie barduf befteben2"
rDas tperben lie niht tbun, iDcrlt
iie aud nur eir1en sunfen geiiinoen
Wenfhenberftanb befiben.1
rgDir f0nnen uns ia iiberaeuoen.
W2eine 6errert," fubr Der grminiifer,
5ih an Sic. GGite penbenb, fort, bic
ibm unb benz Maior in bas 8.olios
tbefssiramer sefolgt iparen. sd
fpre1e niht obne reberlegung eine
8eIdufbisung aug; aber i'd fage
sSbnen nit elmer nnumgGnsliden
lleber3eusung, baB mir ben Dianans
ten finben tperben. aber nidt Bel ei.
mem Dienfboten, fonbern BET etrenl
Der @Gffe bes Derrn galbecotf. SD
ftene biefe 8e6auptung ohne ums
Iatpeife auf. SIRE gbre erforbert es,
bob Sic auf cine fofortige poaItdnbige
l1nteriuhung bringen."
Mlle Mntpefenben saben TIRE 3us
Thinning.
sd mtfde mid ni6t EN-" fagte
Der Mdior unb itedte bic 2dnbe in bic
Safde.
grlaubniB nehme ih bic Weranttpors
tung auf MIDI eripiberte Dunbar:
sSn bie}em Mugenblid traten5afus
litf9 unb feline gnfelin Elm. Der Mte
fam in feiner langlamen, mtlttdri@
1den Weife nGber. Gr trug ben aopf
aufreht, Die cine 6anb ftedte atpif9en
stpei RnDpfen feines Hodes an Der
8ruit. bic anbere ftiibte fth auf Sls
gas Mrr, su Der er fpra9. Gie belt
ben aopf aefentt, als borte lie s,r.
Srobbem fiiblte fie, ipie lie entIesli4
blaB tpurbe. Der S9reden ihrer gea
gentpGrtigen Gage unb bie Mbnung
bon etipas gntfebli1em mahten i6r
8lut in ben Mbern erftarren.
sd bpffe, bob Sic benz @retie ipes
nigftens biefe priifung eriparen iper.
ben," faste Der Maior lebbaft, als er
bas riibrenbe Bib Der perIonifiSirten
Wiirbe llnb Der 1tnT6ulb fab. rGr
fab an Der Sdfel, als Der Qllarm ers
tDnte, er 1T ni1t einmal in bic Ndbe
meines 2immers gefommen, unb dlts
Berbem lit ct blinb.1 j,
.gr ippbl, aber feline Sienft6oten
iinp niht blinb," anttportete bic Gr.
eellena unb trat auf @aFultti9 All,
Dem Ct in mDali9fter seiir5e ben Be-
i9luB Der @dite mtttbeilte.
Olga fubr 5ufammen; ibr @roBs
batter iebod beipabrte feline llnerI9iits
terli9e Rube.
.MuB i9 anne6n,en, baB Sic ernits
Daft fpre6en2" kaete er ruhtg.
Soma ernftbaft!"
.Sie finb niht Der 9err bes 6auIe1
- ipD 1T biefer9"
n9ier," rief Der Mdipr nd6er tres
tenb. sd fann Sbnen ni6t faseH.
ipie ttef betiimmert ih BIN -"
Gin Solbat, Elm Gbrennonn, folIs
te ni6ts slt bereuen baben. Wirb nit
Sbrer grlaubniB uns biels Ghanbe
sugefiigt9"
sd allein bin fir biefe i'm Mamen
bieier 6erren gefaRte MaBresel perz
ontDortli6, " tpdrf Ounban elm. ..biefe
8erren finb ebenfo Gdite, tuie Sic.
CJOrtIebunu foIst.)
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-04-30
Is. e a b itef.

ngei biefer aludli9en @elegenbeit,
Derebrte Irau galbecoit, iaqte Sal
fulitfh in feinem b0fliden 5one, ols
er nit Der 6ausbertin nn1 berfl
Iriibitiid cine promenabe rna1te,
stann ih mir bas Bergniiasn, mid
beilte init Sbren gGiten an bie 9afel
Su ftben, niht Derfagen."
..Dds lift bns liebensipiirbigife
aDmpfimtilt, bas iA 1eute se6ort
bnbe, eripiberte bie 6aus1trrin. Sd
lptrbe ben Befebl gebsn, baB S6nen
IN Mdb 5u freitler Hethten referpirt
.1pi1b.
ss8 Diin{ den DurhIduht baB in an
nj 4d@el ferpire21 fragts purter Be-
nm hiet aIs tr@elegenbeit fanb, nit
eIletls 0errn oAne 3eugen 3u ipreS
Rsins mtins Gntslin ipirb fi4
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-04-30

Die frehe B0noe!! SD bofft, bdB
man iie bur11nhen ipirn, {dgte@dlss
fulitf1 DDll Gntriiitune.
,2prb Betterton," fubr ber 4err
fort, liam gernbe rebt, als iie bic
Sreppe beruntereilte, unb ber Mdns
itanb oben, Inn iih 3u iiber3eugen, ob
ibr bic Gluht getungerl lei.
Olga fiibrte ibren 0robbater biz
an bic Gbiir feines 3immers, iDp tie
ibn fteben lieb, iinb begub 1iA gu ben
iibrisen Danter.
parfer ertpartete Ieinen 9errn I'm
3immer.
.llnsefdidter Menfb.. fliiiterte
5afIulitf6. dls Barrier binter ihm bic
3inln1ertbur fhloB ,inb i'm gum
2ebnituhl fiibrte. r9abe ih Sbnen
niht geiagt, bdB Sic porfdtia fein
miii1en, ipeiI bic 2eitilng gefhlohen
tpar9 Wie famen sic 1icht duf ben
Ginfal, bic Drdbte bnrd5ufhnei@
beng
.Gs iparen teine Ordbte ba. SD
bate mid erff iiberaeugt."
.6te iinb ebenfo bunm, ipie Sbre
ssrau, nnb bas min nint ipenig 5dgen.
Sic tpiffen bod, bnb Der 0erba1t anf
sssbre 5rau fdllt, Die 5uerft iiber bic
6aupttreppe unb bann iiber bic 6tnz
tertreppe 1ia ipesIhleiden tpollte."
,Mb, ipeib man basg"
,esebsr tpeiB es. unb sic bat man
audi bemerft. Sic 1inb mir Elm netses
paar, nnb eine 70 belifdte Mngelegenz
belt ipoIltsn sic erleoisen9"
.Sole Der 6enfer bas Meib! So
babe ss eeabnt, bab lie uns Su 9runD.
rihten nirb," fluebte Barter,
,llno bod baben sic ibr ben DID
manten iiberseben9"
sd babe i'm ibr aber audi tpiebtr
abgenomnten, fliiiterte Barfer.
:. ,Weil sic glauben, bdb sic es bell
Ter rmahen tperben. Tiff! Md4en Sic
bas Seniter bier gu, Barter. es siebt!
Muberbem lit es audi su ho9, ffs bab
sic ben @prung tpagen fDnnten. Ser
Maior lit ein portreffli6er S9iiBe
unb berfeblt nien,dls fetn 3tel. 11nb
uutit lUilltlCIl Slt pett 2ylub utu1t
bur9fhpimmen, obne baB man Sic
Ieben tpiirbe."
Barrier fab ben Mlten bon Der Seite
an. @aHulttitb bate ben Gebanfenz
nana bes @inbrehers gang senau err
ratben.
SD fam es mir tpobl benfen, bab
sic fib bon bem Oinge niht trennen
ipollen," fubr Der Mlte 10 leiIe fort,
bab man feline Wprte faum apet
S6ritte tpett bDren tpnnte, robDobl
es in meinen 6Gnben fiherer lit, als
in sSbren, tpie sic ipobt tpi1en. sic
tperben iebo6 se3iptnsen fetn. es mir
All geben. Sn eineen Minuten ipirb
man Sic bifitiren. Oas 0ing 1T au
eroB gum 8erfhlitden; ndn tpirb es
alio Bel sSbnen finben, un6Sie ipdren
bann auf itnmer berloren. 8e6hten
Sic es Biz gum leBten Woment, aber
tpenn bieier lebte Moment fommt,
miiiIen sic es mir seben."
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-04-30

Mirf dIIss meg, mas bid befdp.rt.
unb batf e nod 10 ftol5en Mertb;
Betpdhrt bir 81 ieber 3eit
yfur eitltn G4ds: periOnIi1ttit.
Das billigits gi1en betommt MN
ouf g ber poii: eir gOuDsrt tojiet i, nur +
rnsiunf ~" s4AS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
HOW THEY VOTED IN 1896.

From the Washington Post.
 The discussion of possibilities for the democratic nomination next year has led to recent inquiries about how the differ ent men voted at the election of 1896 Fol lowing is list made up by man well informed on party matters:
 Grover Cleveland of New Jersey Palmer and Buckner.
 David B. Hill of New York, Palmer and Buckner.
 Alton B. Parker of New York, Bryan and sewell.
 Arthur P. German of Maryland. Bryan and sewell.
 David R. Francis of Missouri. Palmer and Buckner.
 Richard P. olney of Massachusetts, Pal mer and Buckner.
 William C. Whitney of New York. Nc. Kinley and Hobart.
 Carter Harrison of Illinois, Bryan and Sewel.
 Edwin R. Shepard of New York Palmer and Buckner.
 Tom L. Johnson of Ohio. Bryan and Sewell
 Henry watterson of Kentucky, Palmer and Buckner.
 It will thus be seen that if the above estimate of the voting in 1896 Is true, the only eastern democrats who did not cut the Chicago ticket were Judge Parker and Senator German. It will be recalled tha. Senator German raised the money with which Bryan started his campaign ir New York when he came east to be noti. fled at Madison Square Garden, but was cold-shouldered by Bryan. because Mrs Bryan was convinced that the support oi the Marylander was not sincere. After freezing German out Mir. and Mrs Bryar went to see Hill, and asked him to come out for the ticket He refused, and from that day to this Hill has been regarded by Bryan with the deepest feeling of hos tility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Temperance Banquet.

"Of all the Masonic bodies in the United States to legislate against wine the grard commandery of Knights Templar of Call ifornia was the last that thought would take the teetotal side" said an old Mason. "California Is great wine pro- ducing state and the product of the vine yards Is looked upon generally as very innocent-almost as innocent as milk or coffee. But the grand commandery has voted no wine
 'The action was taken to carry out the recommendation made by retiring Grand Commander w. Frank Pierce There was not dissenting vote against the move.
 "The innovation has been introduced, 1t Is said, so that the order on the Pacific coast might fall in line with the general movement of the same kind in the east No other reason Is given. but 1t Is said that the Grand Lodge of Masons, at its annual meeting next October, will take the same decisive action and order that all banquets given under the name of any Masonic lodge of California be strictly temperance. This stand has never before been taken by the order on the Pacific
 Some temperance fanatics in Masonry have an idea that total abstinence is in- cluded in Masonic principles but there is nothing of the sort in any principles that I know about Temperance Is one of the cardinal virtues but total abstinence Is an entirely different matter. However the California brethren concluded, no doubt, that total abstinence was the only safe guard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
LEARN FRoM wAsHINeToN.

From the New York World.
 Policemen at Washington are busy these days handing little cards to various visi- tors and other people. The persons who get the cards arc such as have been seen to spit on sidewalks or in railway stations or public buildings. After a few days there will be arrests Instead of cards. Fines of g to s5 will follow the arrests. Tobacco-chewing approximations will get the limit Confidence Is expressed by the police that the splitting habit will not survive the month at the national capital.
 Nothing succeeds like meaning busi- ness. Since New York has sent higher up" policeman to London to learn how to handle the street traffic. why not send one to Washington to learn how to make an anti-spitting ordinance mean what 1t says7 And along with the Investigating officer it might be worth while to send a city magistrate or two, with view to learning whether or not to draw a line of favor on the whining first offender" :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
nIrmInaham,s RIa Prize.

Birmingham has entertained many large delegate bodies, some of them na- tional in extent, but 1t Is safe to say that the largest and most important body that has ever selected this city for its meeting place Is the general confer enoe of the Methodist Eplscoupa1 church, South. The committee appointed by the last general conference to choose the city for the next meeting met in Nashville yesterday and voted in favor of Birming- ham. Hotel accommodations were eon- sidered in connection with the various cities that asked for the general confer ence.
 If the Methodists were to meet here this year the hotels could accommodate them But the general conference does not meet until May, 1906. and by that time Birmingham will probably have one or two sky-scraping hotels in addi- tion to those that are here now.
 General conference means great crowd. Delegates and visitors number never less than 600 souls. All honor to Presiding Elder J. D. Simpson and the others who succeeded in convincing the committee that Birmingham was the right place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
TUsKEoEE.
From the Montreal Star.

From the Montreal Star.
 Andrew Carnegie has presented the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute with $600,O00, the only condition he makes being that suitable provision shall be made out of the fund for Booker Wash ington and his family during his own and wife's life. Judging by the past of the Tuskegee institute this Is one of the very best of MT. Carnegies public benefac- tionsn for Booker Washington has achieved greater practical results with less money than were ever achieved by any white man on the continnt. He has in him the instincts of a statesman, an educationalist and a philanthropist, and he has indicated the only lines upon which 1t seems possible to work with any hope of success for the elevation of the negro race in the United States He does not trouble himself about race griev- ances. and evidently believes that with the aid of practical education the colored people of the United States can do more to improve their own condition than their white friends are ever likely to do for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
THINGS SEEN AND DONE
 IN THE EXPOSITION CITY

Arts building yesterday. The ambassadors were dumped town in the road in front of the reviewing stand and told to ''get out of the way" by the police. I had the honor of assisting his eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, to climb fence three feet high. and all the dignitaries who were not tough enough to sit through the parade escaped to the 'refreshment tent" in the same manner.
 No carriages were provided for the cor respondents, secret service men and photographers from the Presidents train. They footed 1t across lots to the police station in the exposition grounds. ex- plained their plight and finally reached the reviewing stand only to be told that no place had been reserved for them. Eventually they found seats on an ad- joining stand.
 The refreshment tent was raided before any of the Presidents party reached 1t. Secretary Root got half tumbler of whisky (straight) and a pink cake; one of the Italian attaches thanked me heart- fly for a tumbler of Scotch, and then privately threw it under the table.
 I understand that the Presidents por-' ton of this repast was a cup of cold cof- fee and a broken sandwich-after eating which, and after four hours in the cold wind he went to the open Liberal Arts building and made a speech, uncovered, to a noisy mob of ''Aissourians as Hosts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Railway Over the Andes.

The Chilean congress has passed a bill providing for a railway over the Andes connecting Buenos Ayres with Santiago and Valparaiso. No line at present crosses the long Andean range, and the construction of one will not only shorten the line between Val paraiso and London, but it will pro- mote the building of the transconti- mental railroad which all the Americas hope to see accomplished.
 At present in the summer months mules go in single day from the end of the Chilean railroad to the end of the Argentine railroad, crossing the Andes at an elevation of 13,000 feet, but a tunnel will enable the two repub- lies to lay the connecting link at a considerably less altitude. Work Is be- ing pushed forward on both sides of the Andes, and in short time there will be a rail line from ocean to ocean in South America The length of the new transcontinental line will be about a thousand miles.
 The filling of this gap seems to call for line on each side of the Andes to Panama, for the Andean chain is very lofty and 1t extends in unbroken extent from Panama to Patagonia. There are gaps through which modern engineers can lay lines of rails, but in the long run there will doubtless be north-and- south lines on each side of the great mountain chain of South America. There are peaks in the chain nearly five miles high, and there are volcanoes at frequent intervals all along it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
St. Louls Ls

St. Louis Letter in the New York Sun. N 8 A SORT of advance notice I VA want to give few personal ex-
 periences for the benefit of pros pective visitors to this town.
 The three so-called ''best" hotels charged s1o day. s15 with bath. That is the first pleasant feature of my trip here to see the dedication ceremonies. No. not quite the first. The first was t4e discov- cry at the depot that St Louis has no cabs, either two or four -wheelers. There are few carriages, for which the minl- mum charge is $2.50.
 To get back to the hotels. The buildings are good enough, but the help is untrain- ed and ignorant of it's proper duties. A warm cocktail and cold plates were on my first menu, and the average has been kept up pretty well ever since.
 Poor accommodations at high prices are to be expected at such times. but have yet to see the time when a man couldn't get room in a properly conducted hotel in New York for $5 a day.
 Now, as to St. Louis official guests. The President was probably well treated by his immediate hosts, but the mob would not give him chance to speak, and Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Potter were literally howled down in the Liberal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Railroads in New Fields.

As the railroads become richer, they are inclined to increase their invest ments in various directions, not strict ly connected with transportation. For example, the eastern roads buy coal or iron mines, or, as in the case of the Pennsylvania railroad, they invest largely in steel mills, or provision com panies, or warehouse concerns. Two railroads attempted to buy control of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, and finally they reached the point of compromise where each is assured of a portion of the heavy traffic. The Frisco cut out it's rival. the Atchison,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
WHY AMERICANS EXCEL.

From the London News.
 If the American workman Is, as rule, more efficient-which seems to be admit ted-that cannot be entirely due to race. For the American workman is very often seas. There are English manufacturers who employ English workmen in their American works and are amazed to mo- tice the immediate change in their char acters. They become more alert and hopeful; they have a new spring and en- ergy in their daily work. It is not the climate. It Is the atmosphere of a land where man is more and class is less.
 In the United States every man starts with a better chance. Education Is a reality. Children are kept at school until IS or even 1s The standard of feeding Is better. The majority of workmen own their own houses. Better taught, better fed and better housed, they start with a good handicap ahead of their English brothers. Such a handicap Is easily maintained. Better conditions of life mean an increase of self-respect. Self-re- spect Is the enemy of such vices as gam bling and drinking. Better treated, the workmen of America become better men, Respected as fellow human beings, they rise to the dignity of the part. They be- come better workmen and better citizens
 These travelling workmen seem to have come back with very much the same ad- vice on their lips as the Prince of Wales after his tour around the world. It Is, England, wake up!" While our great offspring across the Atlantic Is develop ing mighty community of free and equal white men, we are slipping further back into the mire of feudalism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
WHY THE DEPARTMENT
 STORE IS SUCCESSFUL

Desire for higher standard of living has been stimulated by the great stores exploitation of it's wares, both by its new capacity and facilities for displaying goods and the modern methods of adver- Using them. For three decades the brains and genius of the big stores have been educating people to want things. The little shops that raised such hulla- baloo when the new store came were con- tent to sit and wait until the public thought out the things wanted and came for them. The great stores came and ex- plotted their wares in such manner that people who hadn't thought of wanting the things before came and bought them in ever-increasing quantities People were educated out of their old frugal ways of living. The big stores advertising did not steal away the little stores business-it stimulated new business. Today the little stores live and thrive more than ever be- fore, despite the vast number of large stores"
 To MT. Brady is left the task of dealing with the shoppers time feature of de- partment-store trading. He writes of pfdCllcdi experience gained Dy SOlHB LO various stores in New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. He visited twelve stores. all within one week in November-Dece Der, calling at about the same time of afternoon in each. He went through the same processes of buying a paper of hair pins at one counter (Mr. Brady confesses to a deficient shopping imagination) and a half-yard of Lonsdale muslin at an- other. This is his interesting table of "elapsed time' from his enterings of main doors to final receipts of parcels and change:
 Aa....New York;. minutes 55 seconds B......New York.a... minutes Al seconds C..... Philadelphia .. minutes 20 seconds D..... Brooklyn ...... minutes 30 seconds E.... Brooklyn ...... minutes 40 seconds F.... New York....... minutes
 G..... Philadelphia .. minutes seconds H..... Brooklyn ...... minutes 20 seconds I....... Philadelphia :. minutes 33 seconds J...... Brooklyn ...... minutes 35 seconds K.... New York. ..... 10 minutes
 L..... Philadelphia III minutes 10 seconds
 It would not seem that even popular novelist, whose rapid pen turns out TO- mances while one waits. ought to find much fault with this employment of minutes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Lincoln and the Pullman Berth.

From the Boston Post.
 Once upon time, way back in the eos, there was only one Pullman car. That was known as Car A. It cost s4OOO-some of them cost $40, 900 now Car A ran out of Chicago on the Chicago 6 Alton road George M Pullman had evolved It. When his idea had been put into wood he mounted 1t on sixteen wheels and attach ed 1t to a train. Then he personally sold the right to sleep in 1t for fifty cents a chance-or fifty cents risk, If you pre- fer it, for 1t was about one man out of five who could possibly sleep In Car A of the COS.
 Fifty cents was the price and two in a birth was the rule, as unanswerable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. One night. going out of Chicago, long lean. ugly man, with wart on his cheek, paid George M. Pullman fifty cents, and a half birth was assigned to him. When he got into the car he took off his coat and vest and hung them on a peg, and they fitted the peg about as well as they fitted him. Then he kicked off his boots, which were of surprising length turned into his berth, and. having an easy con- science, was sleeping like healthy baby before the car left the depot
 Along came another passenger and paid his fifty cents. In two minutes he was back at George Pullman.
 There's a man in that berth of mine he said, hotly, land he's about ten feet high. How am going to sleep there, I'd like to know? Go and look at him.
 In went Pullman, mad, too The tall. lank mans knees were under his chin, his arms were stretched across the bed and his feet were stored comfortably for him. Pullman shook him until he awoke, and then told him that if he wanted the whole berth he'd have to pay $t.
 My dear sir" said the tall man, "a contract Is a contract. l have paid fifty cents for half of this berth. and as you see, I'm occupying half of 1t. There's the other half" pointing to a strip about six inches wide.
 Sell that and don't disturb me again"
 And, so saying. the man with the wart on his face turned over and went to sleep once more. That man was Abraham Lin lcoln.