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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
THE PRESIDENTS VISIT.

President Roosevelt's Day is the most significant
there 4 deep meaning in the compliment which the
President gives to this city and the West in making
n special trip to emphasize the high sentiment of the
Exposition, but there is a meaning even deeper in
the enthusiasm manifested by the people in his jour
ney and visit. The President arrives in ST. Louis
today in response to a common and hearty appeal.
Though the honor which he confers is great, yet the
tribute which he receives is even greater.
In the large aspect of affairs, the visit conveys
the interest which the United States Government
takes, at home and throughput the world, in all
policies tending toward the preservation Of peace,
the expansion OF freedom, the dissemination of
knowledge and the propagation of cardinal prin-
ciples.
For all of these conditions and theories of life
the Exposition stands; for these purposes it was
created; for the realization of these ambitions the
United States Government participated. 1t is but
natural that, just before the close, the President
should come and thus stimulate the ideals of the
time and particularly Of this country.
The United States exhibition at the Worlds Fair
is the best university which ever has been provided
for the public. 1t is complete, instructive and in
spring. Had there been nothing else on the grounds,
the value to every visitor would have been enor-
nous. During these seven months it has been a
pleasure for the Exposition management, the Com.
missoners and representatives Of the States and
Territories, and the people Of st. Louis, to guide
visitors to the United States display.
President Roosevelts visit to-day is esteemed
in St. Louis a special honor. The President is as
sured of the general feeling. He is also assured Of
the respect of the people of this part of the country
and of their patriotic impulse. The significance of
his visit is understood everywhere. In return for
the official compliment the public pays him the
tribute of genuine American welcome.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
FRANCIS DAY, THURSDAY, DEC. /.

Thursday, December j, should be a great &C.
casion at the Fair. On that day, thousands upon
thousands of men and women and children who
have seen the rise. the full glory and the last days
OF the great Exposition will have opportunity to
present some measure Of complimentary tribute to
the man who has been at its head since the very
beginnings.
Francis Day is to be the last day of the Fair,
and, be the weather fair or foul, it will be a great
day. There can be no wind so biting, no cloud so
low as to keep away the crowds that will assemble,
not only to see the conclusion Of a momentous en-
terprise, but to pay a fine compliment to the energy.
foresight, skill and capacity for organization that.
embodied in President Francis, have led the way
to the enormous success that has attended all phases
OF the greatest of e3positions.
Many records have been established by the
crowds that have come together within the Fairs
gates, but each Of these will be endangered by the
outpouring that will say to the head of the Ex-
position, In these last hours of its existence, that he
has done his great work well and that his own peo-
pie are glad to testify to the fact.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
"a LITTLE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE

Writers of fiction during the last twelve
or eighteen months have seemed to touch
almost every fantastic and highly mag
NATIVE side Of life. We have had the
tale of adventure on land and sea. n
problem novels on almost every problem
that the ingenuity Of the American mind
can conceive. After all this intense strug-
gle for that which is startling and un-
natural, 1t is a pleasure to find so pure
and so pleasing a story OF simple. healthy,
normal life as is set forth in Marion Fos-
ter Washburne's "A Little Fountain of
Life"
The plot is new and immensely interest
ing. Marie Osgood, 4 beautiful young
girl, has the misfortune to be the daugh-
ter of parents who. in the phenomenal
growth Of Chicago. became wealthy and
able to live much more pretentiously than
their crlture warranted. AS a result her
social ambitions are checked. Plan after
plan, concocted in long night watches and
laid before her father with trembling d.
plomacy, met with the same opposition.
He saw plainly his own unfitness for the
social world. and even to please his
daughter. of whom he was undentably
fond, he could not be prevailed upon to
parade his deficiencies. To him her social
opportunity was a matter of no impor-
tance and he refused her requests as. in
her younger days he would have refused
an extra supply Of candy.
Notwithstanding these difficulties, the
girl was at first something OF a success.
She wa too pretty. too inoffensive. and
too rich to fail utterly. Many 4 youth
meeting her at some gathering, where
she was almost always in the charge Of
a friends mother instead OF her own
for upon Mrs. Osgood's evening compan-
ionship Mr.. Osgood laid heavy claims
many q youth dreamt afterward OF her
fair and delicate face, and :onsed to see
1t again. A few even progressed so far
as to win from her. with unexpected ease,
an invitation to call.
Two years after Marie left boarding
school found her languishing. Doctors
were consulted to no avail. She seemed
destined to pass into that chronic state
Of nothing is the matter, yet 1 am not
strong" when Doctor Avery was called.
A glance at the girl, a moment spent in
surveying the books on the table, the dec
o~rations on the wall, and the pillows
against which Marie reposed, and the doc
tor had diagnosed the case. Harmless
powders and plenty of exercise failed. The
father was called to the doctors office.
The treatment from that time on was
changed. II am proposing q course OF
treatment said he. that shall be as
much educative as medicinal. l am pro-
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REMEMBER THE HOSPITALS.

Between Thanksgiving Day and the Christmas
holidays, a season when happiness pervades the
home, 1t Is but right that charity should warm the
heart to a regard for suffering and to an apprecia-
ton Of philanthropy. There are two sides to life,
the happy and the unhappy side, and the former has
to share its blessings to ameliorate the circum-
stances Of the latter.
II u this idea which has popularized the work of
the St Louis Hospital Saturday and Sunday As
eociation. TIE occasion in each year when collec.
ions are taken up at the Office buildings downtown
and In the churches of all denominations throughout
the city Is looked forward to for months as a public
a6air. Everybody seems to share the opinion that
. certain amount should be set aside yearly for this
fund.
The association has made arrangements to make
the collections next Saturday and Sunday. The
ladies' who will act as agents in the office buildings
ana theaters have been appointed; and. as usual,
they are not only willing to serve to the best of
fheir ability, but are eagerly interested in the work
and are DESTROYS to collect a larger fund than in
any previous year.
Everybody ought to contribute. He ought to
figure not on how little he can give, but how much.
There Is a whole week in which to prepare, and it is
hoped that that thought will enable everybody to
reward graciously the devoted women by contribut-
Ing literally.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
RECENT COMMENT.
Death and Thirst in Manchuria.


From Frederick Palmer's with kuroki in Manchuria."
If you descended the slope into that field of kowliang
which hid our soldiers, you found yourself in the situa-
ton Of a botanist who is studying a single flower in
stead Of one who observes a landscape. You found blood
and men ripening grain. The wounded were in the farm
houses: the dead were being burned by weary details.
The heat was the steady heat Of the season when the
milk of the corn is turning to flour. The rows between
the kowliang were like the closed cabin Of a catboat
which rests on a CLASSY surface in a midday sun. Over
head the tassels now and then would move a little
with a milky-w5arm but relatively cool breeze, as tanta-
lizingiy out Of reach as heaven itself. To lift your head
was to be taught humility by the bullets.
As the line crept forward, there were only stalks
ahead of it and stalks behind IT, and the guide Of its
advance was the enemy's fire. The guns roared like
thunder-an infantryman could count the reports from
friendly mouths as an Offset to the shrapnel bursts that
clipped through the kowliang like hail. Details went and
came with water, water. water-a Chinese we'll, a ditch,
anything that was wet. Sanitary regulations passed into
limbo in the supreme hour OF a great battle. The suf-
ferers must drink, and a canteen full seemed only a
swallow. If l appear to indulge in figures of speech, l
ask you to take three days to crawl three miles through
a Kansas cornfeld in August, being shot at all the
time. When you have done that on eight sen a day,
probably you will think that the land conquered be-
longs to you, regardless OF title deeds.
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fact OF present-day import in this country. Con-
slider the eloquence Of these figures in their relation
to st. Louis: About 100000 families, approximately
one million persons, emigrated through this
gateway to the Southwest in the period embracing
the halves of the years 1903-04; and esti-
mates for the year 190405 place the number far
higher. New influences are added to those which
induce population southwestward The great Fair
has been potent to this end. The vast increase in
foreign immigration stimulates the western trend.
The congestion caused by one million immigrants
seeks an outlet in the current of the many who for
sake the crowded East and the cold Northwest. In
c~identally it is worth noticing that it is not the i'm
migrant but rather the established and progressive
citizen who is moving out of the congestion. The
emigrants passing through the gateway to the new
territory are homeseekers with the ability to ac-
quire homes and the character to make progressive
communities. They spell vigor, push, power. The
sudden influx Of population is pcrceptible in the life
of the cities and towns and rural territory generally
throughout the region. Business has followed the
tide Of population and millions upon millions of dol
lars are pouring into the process Of development.
Railroad building is going on upon a scale never be-
fore known, and staple industries are assuming e1-
panded proportions. These conditions react directly
upon st. Louis. Even had there been a boom, even
if st. Louis capital had plunged on Worlds Fair
preparations, the prosperity around and about and
tributary to the city is of a character which would
overwhelmingly nullify any local stI:ngency. ST
Louis is in better financial and industrial condition
than it was when it set about its great international
enterprise. Even 4 larger and better prosperity
awaits it. 1t has suffered nothing while it has
gained much by the Fair.
Great st. Louis dates from now. A metamor-
phoss has taken place and a new spirit of progress
is upon the town. We have come into the front
rank Of cities of world-importance We have thrown
off the old guise of a big town deep hidden in the
interior, to be clothed with a new and highly trained
metropOlitanism. st. Louis is on the lip of the
world. The name stands for American civilization;
the greatness of the Occident, the power, the spirit,
the fruition of the Western idea. Contemplating
the growth, development, the new and distinctly
cosmopolite tone which have resulted from the Won
derful experience of the year, and gazing into a flu
ture bigger with possibility than that Of any other
city, yes, without exception.-and considering the
limitless inherent power Of the vast tributary re
gions just now beginning to expend their vitality
toward our upbuilding and solidity and strength,
every st. Louisan must be an optimist for st. Louis.
No citizen who thinks can be less. for indeed the
moment of entrance into a new metropolitan epoch
is here.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
LITERARY GOSSIP.

In "Huldah" the MACEDONIAN sisters havs
kept mainly TO the domestic side or life IN
a little cattle town of tho Texas Pan
handle. But for themselves. the more
strenuous aspects OF that life still attract
them. They have spent this summer and
fall upon the New Mexican ranch OF
young Morley. the football player. who Is
the first graduate coach that Columbia
has had. and whose vigorous policy Is
bringing his team rapidly TO the fore.
Where did 7 learn to buck the line"'
the young host responded to his guests
inauiries.o one the first evening Of their stay.
Right out here in this brush. Smashing
through cedar. pinon and juniper scrua
after wild steers; and it's where you ladies'
will learn a lot about life and It's Difficult
ties. II you'll axe your medicine and take
it straight"
The authors of "Huldah." familiar with
the open plains Of Texas. where one may
ride all day with the horizon line sweep
ing its circle unbroken around one. found
the high. wild. rocky mountain climbing
of New Mexico truly hot work. They de-
clare that they did everything on horse
back short of riding Up t side OF a tall
pine tree and riding down the other, they
feel that they have earned the reward Of
him who stays with his ony who
takes his medicine straight. and are
bringing that reward home in the shape OF
much health and sarnered literary mate
rial.
A new series OF "reminiscences. from the
pen of the Honorable Andrew D. White.
begin in the December Century. and cover
I:. s-=-@.1- e. Ca-,a-v
from 1897 TO 1902. with much Of special in
terest touching h personality OF the Ger
mar Emperor. In his first chapters. Mr..
White has told OF his presentation at the
German court. the difficulties OF an Amer
lean Ambassador in procuring a suitable
residence. the embittered feeling in Ger
many against America in 1897. and during
the Spanish war. the policy OF the United
States in regard to the open door, in
China. and the cooperation of Emperor
William and the German Government IN
President McKinley's policy. Ambassador
Whites personal relations with the Span
ish Ambassador and his difficulties during
the Spanish-American War. and other mat
tiers Of much interest.
Mr.. Kipling Is apparently a devoted ad-
AAi "a AK
writing an enthusiastic story about It In
''Traff,cs and Discoveries" he has written
a letter to Mr.. F1lson Young. which that
gentleman has Just published in his new
book. 1.-The Complete Motorist." The novel
Is. is impressed by the real value Of the
automobile. He says, for example, that
in front of each one of the thirty-seven
public houses which he passes going west
ward twenty-odd miles from his home. he
used to find at least two unattended
horses. Now there are fewer beasts out
side" he says. and those within are not
so sodden. They keep one ear up the
road; they set down their tankards; they
leap from the bar: they u to their
horses heads. They break. IL 1t be but
for an instant. the habit Of ages What
has wrought this change in our midst?
Tracts? Blue ribbons? The Fifth Stand
I'D? hat YOU not be the Herewith. 1t
is the car-the unexpected car around the
corner"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
ABOLISH EXCISE FEES.

Before the appointment of the new Excise Com
missioner is made. and while that Office is under
consideration, it should be distinctly understood by
all parties and by the public that the correct and
only proper course for the Legislature is to put the
once on a salary basis, abolishing the fees.
1t is an absurdity that the Excise Commissioner
should receive in fees a sum equal to three or four
times the salary Of the Governor of the State. There
b no valid reason why the Office should be retained
on the fee basis. while there is every reason for
making it a salaried office.
With its enormous fees now 1t is a great political
'plum"-the chief plum" in fact, within executive
disposal. 1t is a political consideration too I'M
portant- Too much politics is made to reyolve
around it-too much that Is purely political and
partisan.
Let the Office be placed upon the salary basis
and the administration Of its functions for the bene-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
Woman q Human Being.

ave- bONJ o
In Shakespeares time a woman's existence, in the eye
OF the law, was merged in that of her husband. A man
could say OF his wife: 'She is my goods. my chattels.
she Is my house, my household stuff. my field. my barn,
my horse, my OK. my anything" The very presents
which he gave her were still his property. He could
beat her. He could deprive her Of the guardianship
Of her children. 1t was not until the end of the seven
teeEth century that the law secured to her a right to
the separate use OF her property, and not until the mid
die Of the nineteenth century that the legislation Of
Great Britain and America began to recognize and pro-
tect her as q person, entitled to work and receive wages,
to dispose of her own earnings, to have an equal share
with her husband in the guardianship OF their children.
Surely, 1t is an immense gain IN justice that a woman
should be treated as a human being.
This gain is most evident, of course, in those ma
tons which are leading the march OF civilization. But
I think we can see traces Of 1t elsewhere. The abolition
of child-marriage and the practical extinction of the
suffice in India, the decline of the cruelty significant
fashion OF "foot-binding' in China. the beginning of
the education of girls in Egypt. are hints that even the
heather world is learning to believe that woman may
have a claim to Justice.
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fit and protection of the municipality be made the
first consideration attaching thereto.
The fee system is out of date. Experience DEM
o~nstratcs that public officers as a rule better sub
serve public interests when their compensation is
fixed and certain. The fee system does not con-
duce to the best service, but its influence is in the
opposite direction.
The Excise Commissicnership is one of the most
important offices touching the business OF the city
and the conditions surrounding its exercise should
be determined and controlled solely with regard to
its highest usefulness.
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Books Received.

Father Tuck's Annual" Stories and poems
by Nora Chesson. Annie Matheson. II. NJ. Burn
side. NJ. A. Hoyer. Grace c. Floyd and tbs
editor. etc. illustrated by Z. Brundase. HiIda
Cowham, A. Dixon. NJ. Bowley. D. F. Mac
Pherson. A. E. Joseph. May Sandheim. eto.
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. LTD. New
York.
Animal Friends" Published by Raphael
Tuck & Sons, Ltd. New York.
Tales From Longfellow." Told BY Doris
Hayman. illustrated by Frances Brundase and
NJ. Eowley. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons.
Ltd. New York.
Folly for the wise" BY Carolyn Wells
With illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn.
Gustav verbeek. Fanny Y. Cory and Oliver
HerTord. Published by the BobbsMerrm Com
pany. Indianapolis.
Tn. Mast. His Period and His Picturea~
By Albert Bigelow Paine. Published by tbs
Company. New York.
Lyrics Of Life and Love-" BY william
Stanley Braithwaite. Published by Herbert b
Turner & Co.. Boston Price. 81 net
Professor Lovdahi." Translated from the.
Norwegian of Alexander Kieiland by Rebec>a
Blair Flandrau. Published by Herbert 3. rur-
ner & Co. Boston. Price. SIS.
The Story of 4 Lie and Other Tales" By
Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Herbert
B. Turner & Co, Boston. Price. S1.1.
'Gilhooieyisms." BY Lord Gilhooley. Erred
erick a. Seymour.) Pictures By T. Fleming.
Published by Frederick A. Stokes d Co. New
York. For sale by Philip Roeder.
Bright Days IN Sunny Lands" with Illus
~trations. BY A. Van Doren Honeyman. Pub
lished by Honeyman 6 Co.. Plainield. n. ].
Price. $1.76.
''The Younger American Poets.s By Jsssis
B. Rittenhouse. illustrated with portraits Pub
lished by Little. Brown & Co.. Boston Pr!os
$3.50.
The Girl and the Kaiser" By Pauline Brad
ford Mackie. with drawings and decoradons
by John Cecil Clay. Published by the Boobs-
Merrill Co.. Indianapolis.
kitty Of the Roses" BY Ralph Henry Bar
bour. with illustrations by Frederick J. Won
Rapp. Published by J. B. Lippincots Co., Phila-
delphia-
"Poketown People" OF. Parallels In Black
By Ella Middleton Tybout. Published BY J. b
Lippincott, Philadelphia Price, $50.
Japanese Life In Town and Country" BY
George William Knox. Published by q. P. Put
nam's Sons. New York. For sale By z. T.
lett. St Louis.
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its appearance in the Century. and the
novel is now published, with illustrations
by Mr.. ". J. Awkward. Th first part of
Mr.. London's first full-fiedged novel is
alive with the spirit of adventure. the
salt breath OF the sea. and the atmosphere
OF a world where a man is what he can
do with his hands and his will. Maud
Brewster. rescued from shipwreck. puts
to the test the young manhood that has
grown up in Humphrey Van Weydel
since Wolf" Larsen undertook 10 batter
the rich, bookish young Californian into
a man. Thu love OF a manly man and a
womanly woman. written with vigor,
based on a virile view OF life. and full of
romance. make the best kind Of novel.
Published by Macmillan.
Delightful Dodd" is the new novel by
Elliott Flower. author Of The Spoilsmen'
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY In ST. LOUIS.

. From The Republic. Nov. q, 1873.
. The Trades Assembly held an ex-
. ecutive meeting in Turner Hall.
q Labor questions in general and the
. situation IN st. Louis In particu-
q lar were discussed.
. The Sketch Club held a well-at-
. tended meeting at its headquarters.
q The subject illustrated vas The
q Courtship of Miles Standish."
q The Ancient Order of Hfbernians
q gave its annual ball in st. Patrick's
. Hall. The ten divisions OF the So
. ciety in st. Louis were present In
. a body. The hall was crowded
. with the knights, their families and
. their friends. Dancing and music
. were the diversions. Refreshments
q were served
= The third annual ball Of the He
. brew Relief Association was given
. In Harmonic Hall. Four hundred
. tickets were sold. aggresating 81
q co.. About half of those who bought
. tickets attended. The function was
. one of the gayest ever given BY the
. Hebrews of St Louis.
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Barcelona. Spain: Cannes Nice. Monte
Carlo and San Reno. Italy; Palermo. Cir
CENT?. Syracuse and Taormina, Sicily:
Zone. Assist. Perugia. Siena, Torcello
and Venice, Italy: the Passion Play Of
1900: some ~potentates OF Europe: Havana
Cuba: and. lastly. of Orizaba- City of Mex
leo, Chapultepec. Guadalupe. Puebia ard
other places in Mexico. 1t contains a wide
range of the most pleasant reading and Is
full of instruction and interest. Published
by Honeymen e. Co., PIainfeld. n. ].