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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-28
WINTHROP CENTER.

A very pleasing Christmas cantata was
given, Friday evening. at the church by
the young people and children Of the Sun
day school About "a participated in the
exercises and rendered their parts with
credit to themselves and to those who
had them in training. After the enter
tainment the heavily laden trees were
stripped of their contents and the many
gifts distributed.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. l. Clough Of Portland.
are spending their Christmas vacation
with Mr. Clough's parents at the Center.
Miss Winnifred Briggs has gone to
Mansfield, Mass. where she has a position
as teacher in the public schools.
BOLTON HILL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Cunningham of
Bolton Hill, entertained a large party
of friends and neighbors at their home
on Christmas eve. Music was FUR
nished by Judson Robbins, Ernest Cum
ningham and Mrs. Everett Cunning
ham, All went away we'll pleased.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-06-24

item of expense. A warrant was
issued, however. Mr. Howard in
structed Attorney Harriott to file
an affidavit of prejudice, and ask for
a change of venue. Another attor-
ney at Wabasso advised the justice
to pay no attention to Mr.. Howard
that he had no right in the prem
ises.
Seeing that it was the intention
to hang Mr.. Anderson without
benefit of clergy" Mr.. Howard drove
to Wabasso and Immediately ordered
all further proceedings dropped,
under threat of arresting several
people connected with the whole
system OF persecution. He went to
the council and told the members it
must stop, and they must insist
upon it. To the marshal he impart-
ed information that he was largely
to blame for the whole affair, and
that he, too, must see that the per-
secution was stopped. Further,
Sunday ball playing would have to
stop near Mr.. Anderson s premises,
and he must be allowed to 60 unmo-
Tested. Still further, Macomber
was obliged to give $500 bonds to
keep the peace for a period of six
months, and if another threat was
made the time would be continued
with effective action from another
source. Still more. Mr.. Howard
required those who had commenced
the trouble to pay to pay the costs
OF bonding Macomber, including
witness fees of Mr.. Anderson and
wife.
The Northwestern agent at Wabas-
so was ordered to desist under
threat OF being reported to the COM
pany, and he came to his senses
very suddenly.
When Mr.. Howard brought the
prosecutors to their senses the at
torney for them notified him that he
had lost many votes by his proper
discharge of his duties. Mr.. How
ard told the attorney that he only
got six votes in Wabasso the last
time he ran and he guessed he
woulc get more the next. At any
rate be proposed to do his duty. no
matter whether ne received a sim
gle vote.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-06-24

document is libelous per Sc there
is only left tor the jury to determine
the amount of the damages.
But not satisfied with this, ball
games have been arranged on Sun
day afternoons, and these games
played near Mr., Anderson S house,
50 that the crowd could lean against
the latter and when enthusiastic,
stamp against the building or on
the porch, and shout themselves
hodrse. Mr.. Anderson bore this
ignomy with silence until June IA,
when his infant child, feeble and
sick, needed sleep. He asked the
crowd to desist. and his request
was followed by jeers and taunts,
one of the number taking it upon
himself to win an alleged purse of
500 for any person who would
thrash Mr.. Anderson, and tell him
that if he was looking for trouble he
could have it there and then, follow
ing this up by walking towards Mr..
Anderson. The latter refused trou-
BILE. The next morning he went to
the livery to get team ito come to
Redwood Falls to consult the coun-
ty attorney. The attempted assail-
ant of the day before, Macomber,
told him he could get no team there,
and then started for an attack. Mr..
Anderson pulled a revolver and
told him to stand back. Backing
towards his place of business Mr..
Anderson kept Macomber at a dis
lance with the revolver drawn un-
til he reached the latter safely.
This was nuts for Mr.. Ander-
SON. S enemies. Complaint was
made against him for assault, and
for carrying weapons, with the view
of having him put under bonds to
keep the peace, throw away his
means of protection, or bind him to
the grand jury. One justice re-
fused the warrant. Mr.. Anderson
came to Redwood Falls and COM
municated his acts, and other in
formation to County Attorney How
ard. The latter Immediately mott
fed the other justice at Wabasso
that no warrant was to be issued,
and that in case one was issued the
county would not stand single
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-06-24

document is libelous per Sc there
is only left tor the jury to determine
the amount of the damages.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-06-24
WITHOUT BENE-
FIT OF 6LERGy.'
Organized Systemic Of Persecution Against
w. A. Anderson, WahaSS0
Grain Buyer.
Prosecutors "W0uld Hang Him Without
Jury, "WithOut Benefit Of
y"-0bjected To.

Things have been doing out in
Wabasso since the prosecution of
the liquor dealers for keeping open
on Sunday. The evidence leading
up to the arrest of the dealers was
furnished by a number of citizens of
Wabasso. who were opposed to the
open violation of the excise laws,
and among the number was W. A.
Anderson, agent for the Great
Western Elevator Co., who appears
to be a successful buyer for the
company.
Since the imposition of the fines
Wabasso has been torn into factions
and the faction befriending the
liquor interests, with the dealers as
prominent leaders, have been MAX
ing war upon the other faction, Mr..
Anderson being used as a target
for the whole proceedings. An in
tensely libelous petition or commun-
ication was drawn up and signed
bv number of friends of the deal
ers, together with some of the deal
ers, asking the Great Western Ele-
vator Co. to remove Mr.. Anderson.
This petition applied various libel
Gus epithets to the gentleman, and
wound up by asking the company
to remove "this thing and substi-
tute "a man" in his place. The
company returned the petition to
Mr.. Anderson, expressing implicit
confidence in him, and advising GER
tain proceedings, with a result, that
a suit for SANDER or libel will be
commenced against every signer of
the petition, and inasmuch as the
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
Books and Authors
BY ACCIDENT

John Ruskin tells us in 'Deucalion' that
ne was, forced to write on art by the pub
lie abuse of Turner, whose genius he
eXtravagantly admired and resented any
adverse criticism of that artist as wicked
IN the, extreme. Ruskin predicted that
turner would one day take his place be-
side Shakspere and Bacon in the annals
or light in England, the first unsealing.
humanity, the second unsealing the priu-
clples OF nature, and Turner, coming third,
as unseallng to human gaze the aspect OF
nature Under the Turner inspirat ton
Ruskln wrote many Of the sublimest pas
sages In Modern Painters" When Rus
Kin was older and more thoughtful and eX-
perlenced he admitted that his nature
knowledge of the laws Of art led him to
see faults in Turner to which he was once
blind. Yet it is a subieckssof Scongratula :
ton that Ruskin was diverted from being
a dull mineralogist or geologist, writing
prolix scientific treaties, by his devotion
to turner's art of portraying skies and
water. The greatest art critic known to
English literature would have been lost
had not Ruskin thought that Turner's art
needed a champion and defender. Reading
-Ruskin's magnificent descriptions OF
nature and his incisive criticisms of me
diaeval and modern art, it is difficult to
realize that he occupied himself before he
was 22 years old, constructing a mineralo-
glcal dictionary. Accident has changed
the llfe-WOrk of many others besides Rus
kin, but very rarely have there been added
to the affluence of English literature such
splendid results as in the case Of Ruskin
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
The President Defends Himself.

President Rooseyelts letter to Mr.. Clark
Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitu-
tioi is good reading for those still nu-
merous persons who contend for the old
American doctrine of equality-equality
Of opportunity, equality before the law.
The president stands on such strong
ground in his southern appointments that
it is easy for him to make a superb de-
fense OF his course merely by referring to
his appointments. The president shows
conclusively that he has not been prompted
in his appointments in the south by any
love of the negro; not one in a hundred OF
his appointments have been negroes in a
region where they are about a third Of
the population. Here and there he has
appointed capable negroes to Office with
out, regard for the color of their skins. In
making his argument for appointment Of
meritorious men without regard to race,
the president stands on stronger ground
than any of his predecessors could have
occupied, for he is able to show that re-
,peatedly, in the search for the best man
for an office, he has appointed democrats.
The president has reason to be amazed
that his appointments should have been
so bitterly attacked, and to feel that on
the strength of what he has done he has
the right to claim the support of an good
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
MONDAY EVENING,
can trust; with the British trust It wal
life and death.

can trust; with the British trust 1t was
life and death.
The tobacco trust Is evidently one Of
those organizations which can not be
shaken by tariff legislation. Although an
American company, 1t controls the trade
OF some foreign countries much more
completely than it does that Of the United
States. In other words. it is the universal
tobacco maker: foreign competition does
not exist with 1t. because 1t is the for
eign producer as well as the domestic.
The realization Of this fact suggests
that trusts may yet be In two ways pow
erful Jewelers. OF international differences
and prejudices. In the first place, they
unite the great business interests Of the
world when they become international;
and that VIII inevitably lead to joint ac-
tion by the governments Of the world to
control them. At present. commercial
wars are largely along national lines, the
interests Of each nation being as much
bound up in the success of its traders
as in other times in the success of its
armies. But when the traders get to-
gether and form a sort Of universal en-
pire of business, the governments Of the
world will have to form a universal league
to curb the trusts II not to hght for pres
ervation Of political from industrial gov
ernment. e...t -
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
trace SUiCIDEn
American Medicine

/ Race suicide is the phrase coined .hv
President Roosevelt to indicate the less
ened natality or birthrate of the more cd
ucated classes. President Eliot has pub
lished the statistics Of the number Of
children of certain properly selected grad
yates of Harvard college, and finds the
suggestion that in all probability the in
tellectual and educated classes of the com
munity are not reproducing themselves.
The growth of the fashion of Intentional
childlessness is rightly and righteous|y
condemned by President Roosevelt; those
guilty OF it are, in truth, Criminals against
the race. But this is the crime that
increases in all old, rich, and hence in
creasingly selfish and corrupt nations. The
difficulty lies in getting the remedy, any
remedy proposed, into effective action. All
the statistics and arguments in the world
will not make the individual parents have
more children when the debasing inf1u-
ences of luxury and selfishness become
active in over-urbanized civilized life.
There are three causes, however, that, if
not fundamental, are at least powerful in
influencing the birthrate. The first is the
postponement OF marriage until so late In
life that numerous children are irnpossi-
bic; the second is the murder of children
before birth, and the third the license
allowed the unfit to marry. 1t, therefore,
behooves society, and especially the law
makers to learn and to discourage the
causes of delayed marriages; to prevent
the awful waste of life at present SO great
due to abortions and stillbirths; and, more
important still, to refuse the right of mar
riage to the hopelessly diseased and unfit,
1.-THE insane, paupefs, criminals, drunkards,
IDIOTS etc. The rights OF the unborn are
lsuperior to the pleasures of the living and
the rights of all the living are higher than
those OF a few. ST SO sss
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
Metropolltan-Harry Reresford in "TF
! Wrong Mr.. Wright IS

That to stutter is to conquer has been
no stage tradition. But that Harry Beres-
ford evoked enthusiasm last night at the
Metropolitan by his suffering version OF
the leading part in stThe Wrong Mr..
Wright may not be doubted. Mr.. Beres-
ford was applauded in crescendo. He was
called before the curtain to say, bashfully
yet without a stutter, that he hoped to
make another visit next year.
: This hope should he. realized For Mr..
.Beresford, practically unknown in the
northwest, is a diverter eminently effec-
tive. In. Roland Reeds. old play last night
Mr.. Beresford boldly changed the excel
lent methods of Mr. Reed, and changed
them, at most points, for the better. The
frequent stutter made convufsing inno-
walton SO spontaneous and genuine it
seemed, SO fertile it was in choice blum
ders a Ia Madame sPartington. Affluent in
facial argument, varied and virile in his
conceptions, Mr.. Beresford fell behind, Mr..
Reed chiefly in an excess Of low comedy
athletics. But the new :. Seymour Sites
made the whole production one Of the
drollest laughed at here within the pres
ent season. "Siszts
The support did well, excepting Miss
Annen Leonard, Il the end -of- the century
detective. In place, Of the dainty man
nishness of Miss Isadore Rush. Miss Leon
ard has most indiscreetly substituted q
harsh-voiced and, leering sSapphicisn.
Z. &; III. b. Curry.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02

The Cannon Falls Commercial club has
issued call for a meeting of the repre-
sentatives Of the various municipalities of
Minnesota to form a state. municipal
league for mutual advantage and improve
ment. The idea is a good one, and we
can see no reason why it should not hear
good fruit. In view of the fact that the
call suggests among other things, that the
different cities and villages of the state
work together for cheaper freight rates,
not many Of the delegates are likely to
travel on passes, but that fact ought not
to prevent the gathering of goodly con-
vention. The fact that Mr.. Rosing, demo-
cratic candidate for governor last fall, is
fathering the movement is pretty good
proof that it will be pushed to a success
full conclusion, If there is any public spirit
in the municipalities that responds to the
Cannon Falls appeal ~7 &
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02

citizens who wish not only a high stand
ard Of federal services but a fair and
equitable dealing with the south as well as
with the north, and q policy Of consistent
Justice and good will toward all men,
The presidents letter shows that while
he would not treat mere color as a perma-
nent bar to holding office, he would not
treat 1t as comforting a right to hold Of
fice. In other words, the president feels
that he has conceded much to local race
feeling in making his appointments, but
that he cannot and will not support a gem
eral system that bars out from office a
man Of dark skin. Is that not right
position? Will not our southern friends
concede that the president speaks well?
The last sentence Of the presidents let
ter Is one OF refreshing vigor and courage.
II am concerned at the stand thus taken
by many southern papers" he says. but
am n2t in the least; angry, and still less
will this attitude have the effect Of max
Ing me swerve one hairs breadth to one
side or the other from the course have
marked out-the course I have consist
entity followed in the past and shall con-
sistently follow in the future
In this letter those persons who have
so persistently represented the president
as the champion of social equality be-
tween the two races will find little encour-
agement. The president is not a negro
philist, which he is accused Of being; nei-
ther is he a negro hater, which so many
who blame him are. He is an American,
ne IS standing for good old American doc.
tr1ne and in opposition to caste
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
Copyright, 1903. by John Kendrick Bangs.
v.-MR. HOMES SKATERS AN
ALIBI.

Yielding to the solicitation of my friends
/ opened up a bureau OF information in one
of the conspicuous office buildings of
Cimmeria. This advertised in the news
papers, stating that was ready at any
time to undertake the solution of any
or all mysteries. For little while there
was no business of any Importance on
my books, but at last a case did come up
which filled me, at least, with great
deal Of interest. 1t was gusty night IN
the latter part Of March. / was just about
to lock up my office and start for the
club, when a sharp rap on the outer door
struck viciOusly upon my ear.
Come in,' cried turning the electric
light so that it's Illumination concentrated
itself upon the doorway, leaving me in
comparative darkness.
4, The door opened with a jerk and there,
peering into the room with piercing eye.
that seemed to gather everything before
it in at a glance, stood a gaunt, W1ry
woman, whose face had more of the quail
tiles Of the hatchet than Of the olive
branch. -. So
"shylock Homes in?'' she demanded, in
a rasping voice that would have driven
a better man than myself to drink II he
had had to listen to 1t for a life time.
II am Shylock Homes, madam said
I, rising and offering the lady chair.
'"rhanks-rve no time to Set she an
swered. 'It's business I'm after, not ci-
Witty. Are you all you're said to be, or
just plain fraud. like all other men?"
THAT is leading question, madame,
replied warily. Il can't say that I'm all
Ina said to be, because there are people
who assert that am a freak, the posi-
bility Of which you intimate. judge
however, from the vivid whiteness OF my
conscience, which never troubles me in
the slightest degree. that am not "a fakir
T =, 10 c1Y r.
solve the mystery Of Self, must decline
the commission, since I have no wish tt
elucidate myself for the benefit of any.
BODY 49,. l., .@=,.. Sd -
':Humph!" she retorted. ''You have 3
certain amount of sagacity, after all. :
had an idea you might be one of these
trance idiots who go off into a. spasm ant
| take money for telling people what the,
see in their dreams e... -. d.
:"You do me wrong" said I, with shor
| laugh, merely, to show that, however un
usual her method Of approaching me, I die
| not intend to take offense. Look
added, turning the electric light full upol
my own face. do look like a .fraud?''
| mo, you DON'T she answered shortly
you've got a tolerably decent face. Ra
ther :snealzy eyes, perhaps, but on tn
whole you look SNUG enough to be a Sun
day school superintendent. I think cal
| trust you.'' >.-'-.-' s.: 80 .s
/ THANK you," said I. "And now, d
sit down and tell me what I can do fo
| you.'' -.' H.. q ..
With an i'll grace the lady took the pro
fered chair this time, opened her reticul
and took out a card ..- .....
Mr.. Shylock Homes" said she, "I'm
! bitterly deceived woman-or, at least, Ir
beginning to think so. and 1 want you t
find out the truth. Here is my card.''
l took the pasteboard, and glancing a
1t casually, was astounded to see who m
visitor was. The card read as follows:
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
NEW BOOKS.

A SON OF DESTINY. The Story of Andrew
Jackson. BY Mary c. Francis. New York:
The Federal Book company. Price, $1.5O.
The author of this book has made very
readable story, based on the life of Jack
son, yet the idolatry Of the man rather
impairs the value of her work. Jackson
was not faultless and his democracy was
at variance with democratic principles Of
to-day in several particulars. IIe struck
down notification and made war on the
United States bank chiefly because the
wings championed it, and, by the removal
of the deposits to state banks, who loaned
it to spectators when the crash came
the government could not get its money.
There is a very graphic description of
Jackson's duel with Dickinson and the
account Of the battle of New Orleans and
the details of Jackson's presidential life,
the Mrs. Eaton scandal and other Incl
dents. are wrought into the story skilfully.
The noted men and women Of the period
also figure in the ensemble. There are
included some correspondence and docu-
ments inaccessible to former biographers
Of Jackson.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
- ytfSs.- * -. e.
AT THE THEATERS
BlJou-s'At the Old Cross Roads,"

BiIou-"At the Old Cross Roads,"
eat the Old Cross Roads Hal Reid's
melodrama which has returned to the
Bijou this week, Is hot, as the program
announces it to be, a "story of to-day;
but more or less correct picture Of con-
ditions in the south in ante bellum times,
when the negro was Still enslaved. There
is nothing in the play itself to indicate it's
modernity; yet nothing in it's costuning
or the manner of It's production to CON
serve the illusion of time. Anachronisms
fare so, frequent that toEe enumerate them
is the fault of the producer; not Of the
lauthor. ...-~ - .-. ---e-r ~ rs .a
AT the Old Cross Roads is a dramatic
exposition of the evils of miscegenation.
It. is an effective melodrama; its char
aeters well drawn and it's situations nicely
contrived; and it carries with it an OBJ
vious moral without being didactic.cS In
| this play. as in the other products Of his
pen, Hal Reid has needed the admonition
given to him in his earlier days by an
eastern critic to- flake his audience into
his confidence He seldom utilizes the
element of surprise His plots, though al
ways involved, are invariably obvious
OCCASIONALLY this trait leads him into exag-
geratfoI1, but, after sEall, a melodrama
without exaggeration would be like the
4 play of eIIsmlstp' with the part Of, the
prince omitted. @5 80"
\ This playwright, as fbe writer has fire.
quently observed, ,possesses a fine appre-
ciationtof the value of stage climax axes. The
strongest scene of the present; play comes
in the last act, where Parepa, a white
slave and the mother Of her master S
child, is on trial before a coroner's jury,
for% the murder of her husband. She adj
nlits the crime and then asks to be given
a whip, found besidei the body of the dead
man. A moment later the heavy lash
sings through the. air. and deseends with
force upon the shoulders of the coroner.
:''What would you fo?' she cries, "if a
man had done that?"
Damn you, I'd kill him." Kisses the Of
lfcial .:> %' =.
f'Thats just what I did," retorts the
woman and draws aside a veil from her
fact, displaying an. ugly red welt upon
one cheek. = 49,, " g. :... gs
The incident is essentially dramatic and
highly effective. s..... sq.=
,"At the Old Cross Roads, has been seer
here before, but never so we'll acted as
it was; yesterday. Miss Estha Williams
, still plays Parepa, and gives an intelligent
impersonation of the supposed octoroon
The other roles are all in capable hands
James M. Brophy is good as Doc Kerr
. a Mississippi river gambler; and Harry L
Dunkinson is genuinely funny as the rag
muffin tramp, afterwards transformed in
to a sort of modern Claude Duval, .witl
apocryplal castles in Spain and a spurious
title assumed for the purpose of winning
young woman's hand. The Bachelor quar-
tette sings several selections in good styl
and a song and dance speciality con
! tributed by Miss Loaise Valentine, in tn
: role Of Young ~Aississipp' was enjoye'
: hugely by yesterdays audience.