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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1904-10-07

Temperance est une feur du
ciel qui dome ses parfums d la
terre.
-Une larme est une perle hu-
mide tomb6e dun 6crin cache.
lie v1eillard RESEMBLE d un
vieu1 mid pref a cheoir a bas de
|larbre.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1904-10-07

Au cercle:
"A propos, mon cher, ami,
venez diner avec moi? Je vous
inserts sur ma liste.
En- quel honneur?
-Je viens d'obtenir mon divor-
CO, ct j'enterre &c soir-la ma vie
de. mari.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1904-10-07
Prof. COLLINS,

NEW YORK MEDICAL INSTITUTE
no Quest 34e rue, NewsYOrk.
Decrivez votre maladie lie mieux que
vous pouvez; ct il vous repondra tout de
suite ct vous dira qu'es-ce que vous deve2
faire pour guerir.
La consultation ne co0te rien. Les + e.
iicaments avec tous les renseignements
sont evoyes par Express er Amerique, au
Canada e. au Mexique.
>>Tout lie monde a lie privilege de con-
suffer lie Prof. COLLINS, tout lie monde
est bien recu par lui. ON PARLE FRAN
Gals. PERSONNE NE DEVRA1T He
SITTER A YALLER.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1904-10-07

Calino, G ssistant q un marriage,
f6licite la jeu ne mariee oui epouse
I'M officer d'infanterie ue marine.
-Une bien belle arme, madame.
ct IL ajoute, ayec son a-propos
coutumier:
-Et puts, on y meurt beaucoup CO
qui assure un rapide avancement.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1904-10-07

Entoyez-nous vos commandes
d'Impression.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
NIP BLACKMAlL PLOT.
Chicago Mi11ionaires Threatened in
Letters Inform Police Who
Make Capture.

Chicago, Oct. 24-Millionaires Of
Chicago recently have been annoyed by
a mysterious letter writer asking for
fabulous amounts under threats of
death, who is at last thought to have
been captured. Locked up at the Cen
trail police station is Roger Mcdonald,
% years of age, and living at 1478 Ros-
coe street, who is charged with being
the author of the letters. Through a
decoy package placed in a hole at the
northwest corner of Irving Park boule-
ward and Leavitt street by Central sta
ton detectives, Friday night Mcdonald
was caught. He vigorously denies that
he is the author of the letters, but the
police compared his handwriting with
the letters sent to the prominent Chi
cagoans and Chief O'Neil announced
that it was Identical. Among those who
received the mysterious letters was Har-
low NJ. Higinbotham, James S. Kirk
and Milton W. Kirk. Millionaire Hig-
inbotham had received the third threat
ening letter, in which it stated that I'M
less $12 800 was placed in a hole dug al
Irving Park boulevard and Leavitt
street, his mansion would be blown uI
by dynamite.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT.
Machine Plunges from Bridge and
Driver Is Killed - His Com
panion Badly Injured.

Rockford Ill, Oct. 22.-George A. Ben
nett, one of the most prominent citi-
zens of Marengo, ILL.,, was killed in an
automobile accident at Harmony, six
miles southeast Of Marengo, Friday
afternoon Robert Willard, his cousin,
who accompanied him, was SO severely
injured that his recovery is doubtful
During the ride Mr.. Bennett touched
a lever with the intention of stopping
the automobile, but in his confusion
caught the wrong one and turned the
machine sharply to one side and over
a small bridge, the drop being about
ten feet The machine toppled over on
the men. Mr.. Bennett was unconscious
when removed and lived only about one
hour. Mr. Willard was horribly man.
gled about the head and chest. Bott
victims of the accident are among the
most widely known residents of the
county. Mr. Bennett was for man,
years supreme secretary of the Patron!
of Industry. He entered the United
States mail service some years ago ant
at the time of his death was rural rout,
inspector for northern Illinois.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
DEATH IN PLACE OF TRYsT.
Woman Goes to Meet Lover and Is
Confronted by His Son Fatal
Fight Follows.

Peoria, Ill, Oct. 22.-Mrs. Nellie
Thomason, wife of a formerly prominent
real estate dealer in this city, died at
Lacon Thursday night as the result Of
injuries received in sensational en-
counter with Richard and Jennie Hig-
gins, children of John G. Higgins, a
prominent member of the board of SUI
pervisors of Peoria county The Higgins
children intercepted a letter written to
their father by Mrs. Thomason, it is
said, in which she is said to have asked
him to meet her at the station of the
Rock Island road in this city. Higgins
was at st. Louis, and his son opened the
letter. The missive asked Higgins to
be in the waiting room. When Mrs.
Thomson arrived she was confronted
by young Higgins and his sister. Some
time later the woman asked e. A. Brant,
the ticket agent, to assist her to the
train. He did so, and when she was
gone he found the floor of the waiting
room covered with blood. The woman
fingered in great agony at her home in
Lacon until Thursday night, when she
died
Higgins is under arrest on state war
rant charging him with murder. Mrs.
Thomson had lain in a comatose, con-
dition since Wednesday night, rallying
enough to speak word or two at times.
Her body presented horrible appear
ance. Her lip was severed, both eyes
were blackened, one shoulder was dis
placed and her back was covered with
bruises, evidently inflicted with a boot
or heavy instrument
The attack on Mrs. Thomason oc-
Cured Saturday noon. Young Higgins
is "a years old and his sister is 20 years
old. Higgins wept when placed in jail.
eve had been trying for years to break
up the relations between my father and
this woman" he said when we got
that letter my sister and went down to
see if we could not make arrangements
with her. We met her in the waiting
room. [ went up to her and touched her
on the shoulder. Mrs. Thomason, be-
lieve,' | said. She turned quickly and
said: oh, it's you, is it?' and drew out
her hatpin. then struck her sharply
on the side of the face and knocked her
over chair. My sister then pulled me
away and told me that I would be ar
rested-that we could not do anything
with her. That's all there was to It.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
every truly YnI1rs
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
'sTo the Secretary of War"
Jury Fails to Agree.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct 22.-After
being out since five o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, the jury in the bribery case
against ex-Mayor Ames came into court
Friday morning and announced that it
could not agree. Judge Harrison there
upon discharged the jury. DR.. Ames was
indicted for receiving money from
women. After the jury had been dis.
charged Judge Harrison made an order
that the fourth trial of the case be begun
at once, witness having previously been
summoned, when it became evident that
the jury could not agree.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
Football Scores.

Games on Saturday: University Of
Chicago defeated Northwestern, 80 to O..
Michigan won from West Virginia by
score of 100 to 0. Harvard defeated the
Carlisle Indians by a score Of IL to O.
Wisconsin overwhelmed Drake by a
score of 81 to 0. Yale lost to West Point.
The score, II to 6, was a surprise to all.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26

Q. g ~ w. X r.
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS EAST.
Pass. No. 504 eek. SUM new line, 3:42 a m
. No "A eek. SUM old line, 5:45 m
D." No SOP DAILY new line, $3.50 p m
- NO. % Dai1y) old line 1856 p M
g No. Il Elk. SUM newlin :55 p NJ
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS WEST.
- No. Is eek. SUM new1 line, 1852 m
a. No. % (Dailyl old line, 100 p M
&c No. 509Dailyl new line, 1:08 m
' No. q eek. Srn.) old line, $40 pm
#" No. sol DAILY new line, 1913 a m
Trains Nos.5O4 and SOB have sleep ping cars
between Mankato and Chicago and chair
cars between NIankato and Minneapolis.
Dining cars between Winona and Tracy
and MankatO and Minneapolis.
Trains Nos.50 and sol have sleeping cars
between Minneapolis and Redfeld, S. D
Further information inquire of III. L
BeeCher, gent.
&. G. Johnson, {. A. Cairns
Cen Ag't Winona. G.P. A, Chicago.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
Suicide Of County Official

Bloomington, ILL.,, Oct. 21.-Matthew
Cunningham, county recorder, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head. A representative of a bonding
company arrived to investigate an al
legged shortage of $4SS.65 in the accounts
with the county.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
Renominated.

Detroit, Mich, Oct. 81. Congress
man Alfred Lucking has been renom-
mated by the democrats of the First
congressional district.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
Democratic Nominees Endorse,

New York, Oct. 21.-Letters were
sent Thursday to Messrs. Hearst. Sui
ger, Towne, Baker and Laughlin. nomi-
nees for congress on the democratic
ticket in this city, officially notifying
them that they also have been nominated
by the peoples party.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

dragon, and nowhere ever in the world
was ever seen a dragon so terrible as
she. Then she caused messages to
be sent to all the princes Of the earth.
and all the kings, and all the knights,
and all the mobiles of great degree, and
she said in this message that whomsO-
ever, be he king or prince or noble.
should come and kiss her on the mouth
whilst she was in the form Of the
dragon, then he should be king over
her dOminiOns, and rule with her on
the throne
Now upon another day the Princess
Tamara was in a room in her castle
combing her hair-black, like the
highland into the castle came a man
who had ridden from great ship
somewhere. And he had heard Of
the marvellous beauty Of the Princess
Tamara, and he would have her to
wife. Now in the mirror where she
was cOmbing her hair she saw the
image of this man, and she asked OF
him if he were knight, and he said,
Nay, | am no knight. but only
sailor come from a ship
Then she told him to return to his
fellows and cause them to make
knight of him, for he was fair of favor.
and man such as might reign as king
in her dominions
Then he returned to his ship. and
his companions made knight of him.
But before he had gone from the
castle, the Princess Tamara had SAID
that he should find her upon his re-
turn i'll shape like a dragon. but that
he was to have no fear, he was to
come to her and kiss her upon the
mouth, however dreadful might be the
appearance which she should assume.
Now, when the man returned to the
castle, after he had been made knight
by his fellows, he rode upon a pal
frey, and he was attended by his
SqWres and his retainers, and a great
cavalcade OF others who had come
from far countries by ship with him.
And he rode into the castle ward.
and there he saw a dragon Of many
yards of length, and of aspect most
fearsome, and he knew that the
Princess had done what she had told.
and that she had taken form of dragon
to fright him.
He would have kissed her on the
mouth, as she had said, but his pal
Trey took fright and reared terribly.
and threw the knight to the ground.
Then the Princess, thinking that he
was afeared of the kiss of the dragon,
let cry a sacrifice, and the knight and
his horse and his cavalcade were
thrown into the river thousand feet
below
And the Princess reigned alone, and
never came man who would dare kiss
the dragon on the mouth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17
Danger, Lurking Under the Most Exquisite
Beatty, Characteristic of
Their Charm
Their Charm

ground of this little understood
method, the women of Russia are as
happy as any women in the world,
and they face their difficulties and
troubles as cheerfully as do the wo-
men anywhere.
The Russian woman of the upper
class is devoted to- her schools OF
education in the arts of lace-making
and rug-weaving. Hundreds of thou
sands of roubles are given by these
women every year to these schools
and the hospitals and charities in
which they are interested.
In Finland alone with a population
Of 100000, there are more than half
a million children in the schools.
everybody reads and writes, and the
literature Of the country, as illus
trated best in the marvellous epic of
the Kalevala, IS among the greatest
of the Northern literatures.
The Russian woman, too, is highly
educated III business affairs. She
practically manages the estates, and in
a country where the husbands are al
most permanently absent from home
in some sort of service for the State,
she must care for the children and
the property Such an education can
not fall far short of being useful in
| the highest degree, and in this, if in
nothing else, the woman of Russia
| holds prominent place in the social
economy.
Considered from the viewpoint Of
the artist, the women of Russia are
among the most beautiful in the
world. In certain provinces, like
Georgia and the Caucasus, where they
go constantly heavily veiled, there is
always the suggestion of the Oriental
beauty. In the places where there is
greater freedom Of dress, the traveller
sees the type of Russian beauty which
is displayed in pictures.
There is always the beauty of per
| fectly cut features, which are cameo
Ike in their regularity. There is. the
firm, full mouth, and the great. calm
dark eyes, and the hair Of ebony black
which is so dark that it shows touches
of almost indigo in certain lights The
skin, in most Of the Russian countries,
| is OF alabaster whiteness, and this
rarely fushes as does the skin Of the
women Of the West.
! Briefly, the Russian woman Of what
ever class impresses the observer as
one who could sing love songs or the
songs which send men to battle, or use
a dagger or a lutte indiscriminately
| They are picturesque, theatrical, dan
gerouS and consoling to a degree
found nowhere else.
In the social life Of St. Petersburg
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

Training for Loyalty Is the Beginning of the
Teaching Of the Women Of the
Cars Donnfnions

1T is said that there is no morality
i'll Russia-that it is rather an TN
morality which does duty for what we
consider morality. 1t has been said
that the Russian, taken by and large,
knows absolutely nothing Of the moral
code as we believe it exists.
in appearance, perhaps, this is
true, but deeper than the appearances
lies the fact that the Russian woman
is just like her sisters the world over
from Beacon Hill to the wilds Of the
Gold Coast They are wise, self-sac-
rifcing, loyal, true-as they consider
truth.
1T has been said that morality is a
question of geography. What would
be considered immoral in Madison
avenue is a mere effervescence Of en-
thusiasm on the Nevski Prospekt, and
contrariwise, there are things done in
Chicago and Cincinnati which would
be thought the height of immortality
in Tobolsk or St. Petersburg.
1T all depends upon the point Of
view, but it is still true that in the
present difficulties the women of Rus
sla are showing just the same sort Of
spirit that the women of America
would show should the United States
be plunged into war. They are giving
UP their husbands and lovers, and
their fathers and brothers, that they
NAV 90 TO FIGHT in the battles of +ha
Little Father Of all the Russas.
The women of Russia are the
mothers Of Russia, and when you
come to understand that. you will
know something of the Spartan cour-
age with which they face the troubles
that come to them That is all there
is to be said about it"
Early travellers in Russia, particu-
larly the Englishmen who went there
to observe the customs, have written
much concerning the treatment which
the. women receive, but that, too, is
merely question Of the point OF
view
In the days before the emancipation,
marriages were arranged by the faith
er, if he was free, or by the feudal
baron or his steward Women had
little to say about the chOice-nothing
method of selling the bride continued
up through the middle classes, only
in less degree, and many gruesome
tales have come out of Russia, which
go to show that the marriages some
times ended in tragedy.
But for all that, and with the back
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

and Moscow, and in the great cities
OF Siberia and the far north, the wo-
man holds the same relative position
that she does elsewhere in the world.
Among the more highly educated
classes she is a leader of fashion and
art just as she is in Boston or Paris
or Vienna. She holds her court with
a grace born of gentle blood, and she
dlspenses her smiles and favors as
do her sisters in the other capitals.
She is born linguist, just as is
every Russian, and it is no unusual
thing to find the women Of the middle
classes, and even in the lower classes,
able to speak six or seven languages,
to say nothing Of many Dialects
This is particularly true in the
Caucasus, where the East and West
meet 1t was here that the Princess
Tamara lived on the summit of
mountain, in a castle which she built
for herself, and which may still be
seen by the traveller on the Georgian
Road. Her story is the ultimate story
Of the Russian woman spirit-the
spirit Of lurking danger, under smiles
of the most incredible beauty.
1t was said of her that to this castle
came her lovers, in a never-ending
stream. She was Of resistless beauty,
and from the East and from the West
came the Princes to sue for her hand.
When her fancy tired of them they
were hurled from the cliffs into the
raging stream, a thousand feet below.
This story has been the inspiration
Of numberless poets of Russia, and the
world over, for that matter. Lemont-
off has made this castle the setting for
his great play and he says, as nearly
as can be translated:
Witness, thou star of midnight. wit
ness, sun,
Rising and setting, King upon his
Nor Shah Of golden Persia e'er did
kiss
A face so bright, so beautiful as this:
No houri III the noontide heat did lave
"a form SO perfect in the fountains
wave,
And lovers hand, since Eden's days.
| trow,
Meier smoothed the wrinkles from 50
fair a brow"
This is the spirit Of the Russian wo-
man. She is beautiful-and danger
ous-b but she is the same woman the
world over, for she Loyalty gives up all
that she loves best in order that the
dOminions of the Little Father in the
Holy City Of Moscow may be saved
to the Fatherland, and that they may
increase and become the realization
of her Dreams
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

she dwelt, and there came to her
suitors from the farthest ends of the
earth, to sue for the hand of Tamara,
the princess who dwelt III the castle
high in the mountain tops where meet
the East and the West. A great road
has been built which leads to the
castle, and along this road journeyed
the suitOrs who would have her for
Wlte--klngs and princes and knights
of high degree. But the Princess
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

~ Y SllJE the SkaZkaS or fOlk
stories Of Russia, no woman
~ is said to be more beautiful
than anything in all the
world. In the skazkas this expression
is used only concerning the princesses
and the queens-those marvellous wo-
men who have from time immemoria1
held first place in the historic Ttera-
ture and the legends of every country
on the face Of the earth.
The princesses iii the English fairy
stories were more beautiful than any,
thing, and the queens in all the folk
tales Of literature have been most
wondrously beautiful In the Russian
folk lore the expression of great
beauty is used only concerning the
princesses and queens, though else
where the phrase is held in respect.
and is used indiscriminately as refer
ring to whatever heroine may take
part in the story.
In all the legends relating to early
history Of all the Russias, there is
no story which is held in higher re
gard than the tale of the Princess
Tamara, who reigned over the Geor-
gian State Of the Trans Caucasus in
the twelfth century. Her story holds
a high place in Russian or Georgian
literature, and Lemontoff has made a
play about her that is more thrilling
in its suggestion even than the story
of Ivan the Terrible
Sir John Maundeville in his travels
abroad found references to her ter
rible beauty, and he has written in his
books as to how she slew her suitors.
The legends are not easy in the
translation, but so far as they may be
told in modern English, this is the
story, coated in the mysticism of the
Far East:
The Demon.
Ye shall know, then, that the
Princess Tamara dwelt in a high
mountain place-up against the clouds
where the rains come down, and
where the winds sweep from the crags
of the mountain tops.
1t is told in the countries hereabouts
that she was the most beautiful wo-
man in ali the whole world-nowhere
was ever one more beautiful-not even
Sheba's Queen In the great castle
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17
The Demon Of the Trans-Caucasus

Tamara was a proud princess, and
she would have none of their
the King Of farthest Ind - she
would have none of him, and she
caused to make let a great joust and
tourney, and he was slain.
So that was the end of that King.
Now, upon day, the Princess
Tamara performed a great magic. She
let make herself into the form of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

Il AdlSNdIl
TWO globe trotters-a man and
a woman-after many years
- in Russia, came home to their
own country. Their voyages
and travels in that mysterious land
which dominates the map of Europe
and Asia, took them from Helsing
fors to NladivOstok, and from Batoum
to Port Arthur. From the Caucasus
to the Baltic, and from the Black Sea
to the Gulf Of Tartary, they saw and
studied the manners and the customs
of the people.
When they came home they were
asked what they had seen. Said she,
The men Of Russia are the handsom-
est men in the world" Said he, The
women of Russia are Egyptian
Sphinxes, set in modern days, and
dressed like the ladies of Paris-with
a difference"
But" said one who wished to
know, you must have seen other
things than handsome men and women
who had the mystery Of the Sphinx"
Yes" said the man, we did, but
for interesting things in Russia com
mend me to the women who are ex-
aggerated Circes, combined with
sticks Of dynamite.
The women Of Russia are colder
than ever Gree dreamed of being. But
underneath their calm chilliness, there
is the fierce heart Of the fighting blood
which has come to them through un-
told generations of men who have
hewn their way through battles, muir
ders and sudden deaths.
There is a Russian proverb which
says, Woman's hair is long, but her
wits are short Somehow that ex-
presses the attitude Of the average
Russian, of whatever province he NAV
be, toward the women Of his country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17

answers thus his grieving mother
To the jaws OF death | hasten,
To the open courts Of Kalma,
To the hunting grounds Of Pohya.
"CnmOlested rOams the wicked,
lnavenged my fathers grievance,
Unavenged my mothers tortures.
Unavenged the wrongs | suffer"
Rune XXXV, The Kalevala
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17
Legend Of the Princess Tamara

UTSIDE the Skazkas or folk
stories Of Russia, no woman
is said to be more beautiful
than anything in all the
The St. Louis Republic., 1904-05-11
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