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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-10-15
OKU REPORTS.
(scripps News Associatioc)

TOXIC, Oct. 15.--Oku reports four
officers killed, 81 wounded and two
in the engagements of Octo-
ber 10 and II.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-10-15
KUR0PATKIN SAID
TO BE WOUNDED
WILL CALL PEACE
CONFERENCE.
(Scripps News Association.)

(Scripps News Association.)
BERLIN, Oct. 15.-The Tageblatt
declares on high diplomatic author
ity that Roosevelt intends to invite
the powers to an International peace
conference before the American elec-
tions and complete the arrangements
afterwards.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-10-15
ROME, Oct. l5.--A report from To-
kio states that kuropatkin has been
wounded. The Italia nilitaire has a
dispatch from hukden stating that
the garrison there is departing for
Harbin.

and then General Bilderling to sue
ceed him in the event of his being
disabled.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-10-15
LADY CURzON
IS NO BETTER

(Scripps News Association.)
LONDON. Oct. 15.-Lady Curzon
passed a fair night and this morning
her condition is unchanged.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
A FARMERS RAILWAY.

The movement of crops formerly a prob
lem. but railways and trolley lines almost to
the farmers doors now provide transportation
But difficulties arise. such as confronted the
wheat growers of Ramsey County ~ d.
These farmers hauled their grain-often n dis
tance Of twenty-five mes-to DEVILS Lake the
county seat. through which the Great Northern
Railway passed. 1t kept the farmers hauling
grain all winter. They asked James J. HILL
president OF the Great Northern Railroad to
build branch line from DEVILS Lake up
through their section Mr. Hill said he could
not build Six Of the largest farmers met at
schoolhouse. One of them was Joseph Kelly
who owned nine hundred acres OF land and who
hauled his wheat fifteen miles to Devirs Lake
MI Kelly said: III the Great Northern won't
build. we will build" And the farmers built a
railroad twenty-five miles long
They asked every farmer who hauled grain to
Devils Lake to subscribe. Some subscribed
$25. others 500. They raised $5OOOO They
sent a farmer to Duluth to buy Ties and another
to st. Paul to buy old rails. land promoter
was building a small branch line out OF DEVILS
Lake to the south and they got him to survey
the road They hired section hands to lay the
track: but they needed money They
bought land along the line and laid out three
towns. sold the lots. and used the money to buy
An old engine. q day coach and four box cars
from the 0reat Northern Railway.
1oea tos ROAD wAs seA<ted u vU stop Tar
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
PLAYS THAT HAVE LASTED.

The pIavs that have lasted valuable to US
literature and as documents TeChniC never
has kept a play alive through the centuries.
Terhnic alone is machinery, and improve
an machinery year by year. Outside of their
literature many of ShakeSpeare's plays are
docune of hourly life and manners In the
days of Elizabeth. and If you interested in
Knowing what life WAS in town and country
before and during the Restoration. read Wych-
erIey Congreve. Beaumont and Fletcher, You
will find there the small human document you
won't get out of history. per Sc. So Sheridan
reproduces the social Georgian era. Oscar Wilde
the late Victorian. and in France I~ayedan.
Hervieu and CapuS are giving the Paris and
France of the twentieth century for future gen.
eratsons to reproduce for themselves II they
wish.
feel myself very strongly the particular
value-a value which. rightly OF wrongly.
can't help feeling inestimable a modern play
OF rejecting absolutely and truthfuliy the Iife
and environment about every class. every
kind. every emotion. every motive. every occu-
patton. every business. every idleness Never
was lie % varied. 30 complex what . choice.
theol Take what strikes you most In ths hope
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
GOOD FRUIT FROM EVIL SEED.

It Is singular fact that the land Of witch
craft-where superstition and cruelty reached
its climax In Americas now regarded as the
garden spot OF liberal thought intellectual de-
velopment and the best i'm our native literature
Salem ITSELF which was the seat of the high
court which passed it's unjust judgments and
promulgated its cruel verdicts. later gave US
the greatest romancer in history. for not far
from 1.-The witch house. stands Hawthorne's
birthplace. Haverhill. Boston and Cambridge
hard by. gave us Whittier soul as free from
superstition and cruelty ever graeed the
earth; Emerson. whose thoughts have led men
On and ever upward away from the fears and
fanatiCisms Of man, and Holmes. who was the
poet Of good cheer. the soul Of that religion
which finds its creed In "iove to God and love to
man."
And about this same region Longfellow and
Thoreau and Agassiz and Alcott were at home.
Possibly these towering characters. who stand
the embodiment. Of the best In American life
and letters. were the products of the same soil
that which stained history with witch
craft as the natural result of the revulson Of
sentiment Extremes beget extremes. If So
have more patience with witchcraft.
IL it the seed whence sprang the men and
the works that made Boston famous a lit
erary hub" and gave TO this country its best
literature and the most humane religion, then
even witchcraft, with all its barbarities,
not In vain.-tFour Track News
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
GAINsBoRoUGHs QUARREL.

In the old days the council used often to
have difficulties over pictures sent to the ex-
hibition, especially with members Of the Acad-
emy. The most famous instance Is the quar-
rel with Gainsborough in 1IS4 over the hang
ing of the portraits Of the royal princesseS. II
began in 1888, when Gainsborough presented
his compliments to "the Committee Of Gentle
appointed to hang the pictures OF the
Royal Exhibition" and begged leave to hint to
sent for this exhibition (being smaller than
three-quarters) hung above the line along
with full-lengths. he never more. while he
breathes will send another picture to the ex-
hibiton. This he swears by God" A sketch
of how the pictures were to be hung and a
friendly letter to Newton. the secretary, ac-
companied this imperious epistle- No Official
cognzance appears to have been taken OF the
letter. and the pictures were hung as he de-
sired. Next year. however. brought a similar
letter. not forcibly worded. II Is true. hut
ging pardon for giving much trouble. he
says that "as he has painted the picture Of
the Prncesses (the three eldest daughters Of
George lid In so tender a light that, notwith-
standing he approves of the established line
for strong effects he cannot possibly consent
to have 1t placed higher than five feet and
half because the likeness and work of the
picture will not be any higher: therefore
at a word he will not trouble the gentlemen
rest Of his pictures back again." This seems
to have been 100 much for the council Who
decided that his pictures should be taken down
and delivered to his order. Under the circum-
stances their action is hardly be wondered
at Nor is ii, perhaps. a matter for surprise
that Gainshorough never sent a picture again
Fred A. Eaton, in Scribncr's
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
BIRTH RATE OF CELEBRITIES.

steady fall in the birth rate OF men OF tai
ent is met with in going from New England
westward While in New England out of every
loo.o0O births hfty-four those of men Of
talent. I'm New-York that number falls 10 thir-
ty-foVr; in Ohio to nineteen. In Indiana to
eleven, in Illinois to ten. i'm Missouri to six
in Kansas to two in Colorado to one.
In the case of such Western States az KAN
sas Colorado. Nebraska. Minnesota and the
Dakotas the extreme pauctty OF men Of talent
is in part explained by two facts: a lack Of
suitable means OF education for the present
generation and an abnormal proportion Of
young people among the native born
But If we remain within the zone which was
hi'fd by settlers la the eighteenth In the be-
ginning or the nineteenth century. and which
htludes such States as Ohio. Kentucky Ten
nessee. Indiana and Illinois, that explanation
Ialis. ana there remains the fact OF dispro-
portion o! from about three to one betwee,
the East and the West In the present birth rate
of men of talent
greater material prosperity. has more and
larger cities and has offered to the present
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
Concerning Celebrities.
Mostly in Regard to
Extra cts from the November Magazines. Mo
People of Prominence.

generation better educational opportunities
than many OF it's Eastern neighbors. The State
of Ohio is comparable in area to the State Of
Maine. In 1910 the population of Ohio was
larger than that of Maine. In 1926 there were
in Ohio five universities and colleges (Ohio
University, Miami University. Franklin Col
lege, Kenyon College and Western Reserve
University. against two in Maine (Bowdoin
College and Colby University Twenty years
later there were in Ohio eight times the num-
ber Of colleges and universities then found In
Maine. yet the present birth rate of celebrities
Is more than twice as great in Maine as In
Ohio-(Gustave Mchaud. in The Century.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
IDENTIFIED BY A CARICATURE.

IDENTIFIED BY A CARICATURE-
No very strenuous effort had been made to
find Tweed. but it became known at last that
he somewhere in Spanish territory. AS
early September 80 Mast cartooned the
"Eoss'' a tiger. appearing from cave
marked Spain" Now. suddenly, came an
other report-a cable-that one "Twid' (Tweed)
had been identified and captured at Vigo.
Spain. on the charge Of kidnapping two Amer
ican children"
This seemed curious statement. for what
ever may have been the Boss'S sins. he had
not been given to child stealing. Then came
further news. and the mystery was explained.
Tweed had been identified and arrested at Vigo
through the cartoon "TweedIe-dee and Tiden-
dunn drawn by Thomas Mast The "street
gamins''-to the Spanish office who did not read
English-were two children being forcibly ab-
Quoted by the big man of the stripes and club
The printing on the dead wall they judged to
be the story of his crime. Perhaps they could
even spell out the word reward in an upper
corner.
Absurd as II all was. the Identification was
fawless. Tweed. on board the steamer Frank
lin. came back to America to die When his
baggage examined II was found that he
had preserved every cartoon Mast had drawn
Of him, save the few final ones published after
his escape. one of which had placed him again
behind prison bars. On October ''Harper's"
republished this picture with the story Of the
Boss's capture. The pictorial drama was COM
plete.-tAlbert Bigelow Paine. in Pearsons
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

While the principle Of non-intervention formed
an integral part Of the political philosophy of
was profoundly impressed upon them by the
narrowness OF their escape from being drawn
by the alliance with France. into the vortex Of
the European conflicts that grew out of the
French Revolution. Even before American in
dependence was acknowledged by Great Britain
American statesmen scented the dangers that
lurked in a possible implication I'm European
brols. You are afraid" said Richard Oswald
to John Adams. "of being made the tool of the
powers OF Europe" Indeed I am" said
Adams. what powers?" inquired Oswald. "Al
of them." replied Adams. 'It Is obvious that
all the powers Of Europe will be continually
man9uvrtng with us to work US into their real
or imaginary balances of power. But I
think that 1t ought to be rule not to med
Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

any farmer at any place. Last year the road
made its expenses. it hauled 6UtsD bushels of
wheat. This year. with the railroad at hand,
the farmers planted more wheat. and the road
will haul 2.0ElOtO bushels
/ went to Starkweather the largest town laid
out by the farmers their road Two years
ago. the site was flax field I found IL a bus
tling place. with thirty stores and houses. itO
people. a SchOolhOuSe that cost Sluuto. three
elevators with a capacity of 2.IOOO bushels,
three banks a newspaper and churCh--QSaac
f.. Marrosson In The Worlds Work
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

school Of Russian authorA Those Of their sue
cessors who are really popular to-day, like
Maxim Cork. receive. It is bell ieved, much
higher prices. Cork, by the way. has a rival
In novelist who has just arisen, and Is at
tracting much attention in his own country.
The name Of this writer. from whom will
doubtless hear more before very long. is Gleb
Ouspensky
German readers taking an interest In the
novels of Mr.. George Moore A translation OF
Esther Waters has already appeared in the
land Of the Kaiser and German versions OF
Evelyn Innes" and "Sister Teresa" are pres
emily to be published. In passing into Ger
many. these books will take new titles, PRO
fame Love- and Sacred Love-" They do not
strike US as at all felicitous.
In some ''pre-ambulatory remarks" written
for his volume. 1.-The Road in Tuscany,
soon to be published by the Macmillans. Mr..
Maurice Hewlett claims novelty for the
manner in which he has treated his subject He
has eschewed the railroad. the palaces and mu-
seums of the average guidebooks. and taken as
his model the old road books of our grand
fathers time. which made the milestones their
first object. the turnpkes their second and the
inns their third. "The pretensions of this book.
he says. ito be a companion of Tuscan travel
and leisurely, sentenriOuS commentary upon
the country, are based upon two convictions:
First that you do not get to know country by
seeing the great towns of it: second. that. let
the fine arts monuments and institutions he as
fine as you please, the best product of n coun-
try will always be the people of it. who them
selves produce those other pleasant spectacles
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
THE TYPICAL AMERICAN.

In the many attacks made upon President
Roosevelt there Is one thought which has come
again and again into my mind. knowing him
| do. Every nation, or rather every historic
race, has certain attributes, in addition to the
great and more obvious virtues which 1t be-
ieves to be peculiarly its own and In which
il takes an especial pride. We of the United
States like to think Of the typical American
as a brave man and an honest man. very hu-
man. with vain pretence to infallbity. We
would have him simple in his home life. demo-
cratic in his ways. with the highest education
that the world can give, kind to the weak.
te hder and loyal and true. never quarrelsome.
but never afraid to fight, with strong. sane
sense of humor and with strain Of adventure
in the blood which we shall never cease to
love until those ancestors Of ours who con-
quered a continent have drifted good deal
further into the past than is the case to-day
These are the qualities which all men admire
and respect and which, thus combined. we like
to think peculiarly American AS enumerate
them I describe Theodore Roosevelt. The use
to which he has put these qualities OF heart
and character. we'll as the fine abilities
which are also his. is cut pretty deep into the
history Of our last twenty-five years. whether
in the Commission Of the Civil Service. In the
Police Commission. in the Navy Department
in she Spanish war. at Albany. or In the White
House-(Henry Cabot Lodge, N McClure'a
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
THE SNOWFLAKE.

come as the symbol of Life-in-Death,
Shed from the brink Of yon heaven austere;
I change to compassionate dew In breath
Breathe me once-and you find tear!
edith M. Thomas. In Harper's Bazar.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

it, too. Having kneaded the bread. M. LoubPt
returned by special train to Paris and went on
saving France.-(Vance Thompson. in Every
bOdy's Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
KING EDWARD AT MARIENBAD.

Then there was a mad rush to a certain
point: even the long line Of those who pa
tiently awaited their turn at the spring was
broken. Somebody Of emnence approached
Looking very much like a prosperous Hebraic
Wall Street banker. the King Of England went
by with remarkably spry gait for a man Of
threescore.
You look after him with the rest, and II
you are very curious you Join In the throngng
crowd that dogs his movements The King
Is very popular. The poor Polish Jews fairly
worship him. for he is said to be sympathetic
AS II the earth contained bomb throwing
assassins. the King OF Great Britain and EN-
peror OF the Indies comes down every morning
OF his two weeks sojourn at O'Clock pre-
cisely. His valet hands him glass; a glass
tube and red napkin He starts to drink to
walk. to talk and II the day is fine. to laugh
Such hearty. unaffected laugh you do not
hear often from the lungs Of young man.
Everything amuses him. He has forgotten af-
fairs OF state. forgotten. too. tedious ceremo-
niaL He wears a ioose-flttng flannel or tweed
and sports an Alpine stalker upon his imperial
brow. When he stops several thousand people
stop; when he pauses to pay pretty shop
girl in the Colonnade compliment. a gratified
murmur is heard in the vast mob. He has
done popular thing and that girl is marked
for life--(James Huneker. In The Metropolitan
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

THE TUREANED MISTRESS OF A KENTUCKY
KITCHEN
THE BLUE GRASS COOK BOOK.
Introduction by John Fox. Jr Six hundred
tried recipes from Southern housekeepers-
Illustrated $3.50 net
BABES IN T0YLAND.
delightful chiIds book. founded on tho
popular play Of the same name. BY Glen
Marlborough and Anna Alice Chaplin With
charming full page pictures in color. $3.50
net
M1SREPRESENTATIV MEN
BY Harry Graham. Col ID. Streamer."
Pleasantly satirical verses ON celebrities
from Adam down to President Roosevelt.
s1.OO.
THE "FUSSERS" BOOK.
BY Anna Archibald and Georgina Jones'
Pictures by Florence wyman. A book OF
rules for beaux and ladies' men. IS cents
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
An old nativity play. Edited BY Prof.
Charles Mills Gayley- s10O.
HERBERT SPENCER
last word on Spencer. by Josiah Royce
s125 net
THE CANTERBURY TALES.
prose version. for modern readers. By
Percy MacKaye- With splendid pictures In
color by Walter Appleton Clark $3.50 net
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New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
THE BLUE GRASS COOK BOOK.

Introduction by John Fox Jr. Six hundred
tried recipes from Southern houSekeepera
Illustrated $3.50 net
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
A DOMESTIC RULER

The private secretary OF President Ioubet
told me of one of his frequent visits to his
mother 1t was between two stormy sessions
or the Chamber of Deputies I suppose the
destiny OF France hung In the balance for in
fact the destiny Of France always does hang
In the balance. In the peaceful Interval Lou
bet slipped down to Marsanne and walked ont
10 the iarm The good dame was In the huge.
brick -foored kitchen kneading the bread for
the fortnightiy baking. She flung her doughy
arms around his neck and kissed him.
Really. mother" said the President '.you
should give this heavy work"
And trust some slatternly maidr cried the
old dame mo. no-but l admit il Is not SO
easy as II used to be-
We'll. to-day you must trust me-. her son
said: so sit down and fold your hands and
talk to me-"
He took on his coat rolled mp his sleeves and
kneahed the bread while the good mother told
him the news and gossip OF the farm. This
Is the sort OF thing that Emile Loubet would
do quite naturally. Lincoln might have dom
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
THE CANTERBURY TALES.

prose version. for modern readers. By
Percy MacKaye- With splendid pictures In
color by Walter Appleton Clark $3.50 net
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
MISREPRESENTATIVE MEN.
THE 'FUSSER'S" BOOK.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

An. old nativity play. Edit
Charles Mills Gayley. $100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-17

Bids Farewell to ARTILLERY Brigade at
Belgprod.

BELGORoD, Russia May 17.-Emperer
Nicholas bid farsweH this morning to the
Thirty-frst Artillery Brigade. which VIII
leave In few daysxfor Manchuria. The
ceremony occurred is4z the midst OF scenes
Of great enthusia sfn,ll to which solemnity
was lent by thes united shout Of the sol
diers, as they passed before their sovereign,
that they were Willing to do their best for
his majesty. a'sei
The journey of the emperor here was IN
the nature of a triumphai procession.
Crowds of peasants stood along the rail-
road track reverently saluting with the SOL
diers guarding the road, the passing I'M
perial train. In anticipation OF his mai
esty's arrival Belgorod was In gala attire.
The railroad station was bright with col
ors and the streets were decorated with
bunting and flags with occasionally trf-
umphal arch stretching across An i'm
mense crowd patiently stood from early
morning awaiting the arrival OF the en-
peror.
When the train stopped alongside the
platform at $50 am q deafening shout OF
welcome arose.
On alighting from the car his majesty
was met by the Grand Duke Sergius
Mfchaelovitch, acting grand master of ord
nance, and then from the crowd Of brilliant
~ uniformed officers on the platform
stepped out the governor OF Koursk. In
which government Belgorod Is situated.
who presented his report
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-17
LIGHT VOTE POLLED.
Baltimore Voting Today on Dock Loan
Ordinance-Apathy.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE. Md. May IA light vote
and predictions for the success of the dock
loan is the result of the early morning can
vass.
There seems to be little interest shown.
especially in the uptown" wards. where 1t
was believed the strength of the support
would come from. East Baltimore did not
roll up the anticipated heavy majority
against the loan. and from the early vote.
even If It is unfavorable to the measure 1t
will be light and quite easy to overcome In
the other neighborhcods
The apathy in wards eleven and twelve
and adjoining districts was not pleasing to
the friends of the mayor.
II do not know why there should be any
opposition TO the dock loan on my account
said Mayor McLane today. 1T Is not
matter of politics whatever 1t is a plan
which appeals to the whole city, and can
not be made a party affair at ALL Reports
which come to me are that it is progressing
well, and those who have made study OF
the situation claim that the loan will have
substantial majority"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-17
BAPTIST WOMEN MEET.
Close Annual Convention With
Spectacular Gathering.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 1.-THE Bap-
fist Women's Home Mission Society closed
its meeting today with a session of as
spectacular character as religious gath
ering could well give. 1t was foreign day,
showing the varied work the society IS do
ing among the foreign populations in our
country.
Some of the foreign-born speakers were
in native costume, Which gave a pleasing
effect. and the Picture made by a group of
children representing a half dozen ma
tionaIities was especially effective
The addresses by the missionaries gained
much from foreign uascent and manner.
Among those who spoke were Pauline Zen,
history; Lora Vetra of Bohemia. Mrs. Edna
Hakfm, Syrian, who gave a fine address,
and Gisela Fleishman!! Hungarian:
Last nights meeting, with it's vigorous
appeals for neW building for the Chicago
Training School BY Rev. Drs. Johnston My
ers and A. X. De, Blois of Chicago, led up
to the adoption II 4 report today in favor
of raising $100.G9b within the next three
years for new building. which will be
named Morris Hall, in memory of the late
preceptress, Mrs. c. b. Morris.
II the past Is any criterion 1t is said the
ladies of the society viii carry this meas
ure through. THIS WIS the first school of
it's Kind in America, and its success led to
the establishment Of others by various de-
nominations. While pledges were not called
for, several thousand dollars were virtually
promised before adjournment. This was In
every respect successful anniversary. The
audience crowded the church
In the afternoon the American Baptist
Missionary Union, the foreign missionary
society of the denomination. with mission
aries in every land, began the sessions of
its ninetieth anniversary. The president,
v. Kfrke Porter. member of Congress from
Pennsylvania, made, the opening address.
The report Of the executive committee
showed receipts of almost $500, and an
increased expenditure over last year of
$50 600.