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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-28
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEM-.
BLY, VOTES TO REuNlTE
WITH cUMRERLANps.
PRESBYTERIEs TO VOTE
The Question Of Basis for the Union
Of the Two Divisions Of the Church
Will Be Referred to the Members
Before Final Action Is Taken.

Buffalo. N. Y, May 27 The Pres
byterian general assembly of the Unit
ed States today declared in fav-
or of uniting with the Cum berland
Presbyterian church by a vote so nearly
unanimous that it was not counted.
Resolutions Recommend Union.
The resolutions-a s-adopted included not
only favorable action on the report but
recommended that steps be taken to
secure a union of the churches and
to make plain the position of the
church.
Presbyteries Will Vote.
The question of the proposed basis
of union will now go to the Presby-
teries and If it is approved by a vote
of two-thirds of them the necessary
steps will be taken at the next gener-
al assembly to effect the union.
DR.. F. F. Stoltz, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church of Ottumwa today
expressed himself as highly gratifled
with the action Of the general assem-
bly, of the church Of which he is a
member. "This action should have
pCcu Lthou edlo dSO, odiu III. oIoiLH
"and is the best thing for the church
that could possibly have been done
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church includes membership of
about 100000 members. 1t was es.
tablished in 1910 by secession from the
general church by party which did
not agree with the majority of the
members of the denomination regard
ing the education Of ministers. Later
on some few doctrinal differences
crept into the breach between the two
denominations but none have occurred
that cannot be arranged in a satisfac.
tory manner to both That this is the
opinion of nearly all the members of
the general church of the United
States is apparent by the overwhelm-
ing majority in favor of the union.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-28
TALK OVER ILLINOIS SITUATION
Senator cuIlom and Representative
Foss Confer With President.

Washington, D. c., May 27. - Sen
ator Cullom and Representative Foss
Of Illinois had talks with the President
yesterday on the Illinois political sit
uation. Both express the confidence
that while no material change in the
situation apparently had taken place
since the convention took recess, a
satisfactory solution Of the problem
would be reached.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-28
PEORIA SECURES A FRANCHISE
Marion Team of the Central Leagues
Transferred.

Marion, Ind, May 27. The Marion
baseball team Of the Central baseball
league has been transferred to Peoria,
Ill. The deal was consummated yester-
day in the latter city by G. w. Halder-
man, the owner Of the team and fran
chise. He retains all of his interests
and will be represented in Peoria by
Manager Jack Grim.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-28
ACCUSATIONS ARE REPEATED.
sherc'iffe Makes Affidavit in Tom Den
nison Case.

y Des Moines, May 27. The Tom
y Dennison requisition case may 90
's over until tomorrow. An affidavit
y from ShercIiffe furnished the gov
= ernor today strongly duplicates
Dennison and the Iatter's attor-
" neys ask for time to file an affidav-
y 1t from Dennison.
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-28

Washington, D. c., May 27. -
Minister Griscom cables the state
department from Toxic that the
Japanese have captured Kin Chou
= and are marching southward.
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-28

: *At
London, May 27. - The Japan =
csc legation has received the fol-
lowing frcm Toxic: "kin Chou
= and all the heights in the vicln-
ity have been taken and our troops .
" are pushing the Russians towards :
Y Port Arthur"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

USSIA is the great stage of living
tragedies. Two centuries ago
Peter the Great, himself almost a saw
age, forced upon his barbarous subjects
a civilization which they were not pre-
pared to assume. By main strength
he dragged Russia into Europe and
made it one of the powers. A gilded
court, even if it had been what it SEEM
ed, could not have comported with such
a people. But even in the court circles
were appalling scenes of Savagery.
Peter abolished the ancient order of
Boyars, the old aristocracy of the land,
and created new mobiles, according to
his whim. Among his generals was a
huge, cOal-black negro, who bore, like
some elephant or lion, the single name
Of Hannibal He was an able soldier,
and Peter, who cared nothing for race,
rewarded him with high honOrs. The
negro married the daughter of a proud
Boyar family. His daughter, likewise,
married a Boyar, one Pouslikin. Their
child, the greatest of Russian poets,
was born in 1899.
Like that of Russian mobiles, war
riors and writer's generally, his carer
was tragic. At the age of eighteen he
ne was so apt a ScnOlaf ana so pre-
possessing in manner that he was APP
pointed an attache Of the minister Of
foreign affairs. At once he began to
write a eat poem portraying the
time of Vladimir, which he completed
three years later. He was born poet.
He absorbed the culture of many ma
tions. In the score of years of his life
the precocious youth had passed
through the progress of centuries which
his poor, numb people had scarcely en-
tered upon.
At twenty three he composed an ode
to Liberty" which he dared not pub
fish, but audaciously circulated in
manuscript. 1t was read by an official
and one wonders that he escaped the
knout or Siberia. Through the inter-
vention of friends he was suddenly re-
moved to a new appointment at Kishe-
new. Here he wrote 1.-The Prisoner of
the Caucasus" and became infatuated
with Byron's style. Byronic odes fol-
lowed, one Of which was on Napoleon"
He learned also to read and appreciate
Shakespeare, and initiated him in a
drama, Boris Goduenoff."
A conspiracy implicated some of his
friends, and he came near throwing
himself with them as mere matter
Of fellowship-for he cared little for
their mad enterprise. Narrowly es-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

Gaping their ruin, hequit the service of
the government, and passed a restless
season of chatting at fate A refined
man of genius, among a -barbarous
people, dreamer of liberty in a des-
pot1Sm, an irrecOncilable compound Of
the African and the European noble,
he had neither nation nor race in which
to find a home
AT the age of twenty mine he pro-
duced his drama of ''Poltawa," among
the characters of which are Charles the
Twelfth of Sweden and Mazeppa. In
this he shows himself a true Russian
and expresses the feeling of the great
Russian people of today
Peace seemed TO come to his turbu-
lent spirit. He fell madly in love. The
object of his passion was Natalia Gou-
chariot, marvelouSly beautiful girl
Pouslikin adored her. They were mar
rfed, but their happiness did not last
Pouslikin became jealous of a young
Dutch noble, the adopted son of the
minister from the Netherlands. DAN
thes, for that was his name, married
the sister of Pouslikin's wife, in an
endeavor to heal the wounds he had
caused. But this was of no avail. The
jealousy of the poet increased, and
passed all bounds. He challenged
D'Anthes to a duel, and fell mortally
wounded. Two days later he died, at
the age Oh InlTCy-6lSnU.
Such~was the career of the greatest
of Russian poets, the idol Of all classes
in the empire. 1t is remarkable that
his works and his life are so little
known in America. Attention has been
recently called to them by foreign cor
respondents, who have told of the mar
rage of his granddaughter, the wife
OF French noble, who would be in
the line of succession to the throne of
Luxembourg today If her ancestry were
not deemed morganatic.
Pouslikin was a contemporary Of
Alexander Dumas, who was but three
years his junior, but who survived
him for nearly a quarter of a century;
also of young Lava C'Figaro') the
darling of the Spanish nation, whose
life was ended by suicide long before
the death of the Russian poet.
PouSlikin reminds us of Dumas in
his personality; both possessed the fea-
lures of the negro in a marked de-
gree, and both were men of marvellous
genius. In his tragic life he was more
like Lava. st. Petersburg, Paris and
Madrid each possessed a literary mar
vel of somewhat spectacular char
acter in the first half of the last CEN
fury. Not the least singular fact con-
corning them is that two of the three
were colored men.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

southwark to Smelling bridge will give
ST. Paul driveway of unequaled beau
ty, five miles long, much of it
through the woods, winding in
graceful curves with the sinu-
Gus indentations Of the bluff line
around ravines or spanning thera with
rustic bridges, and commanding, at
every turn, through the screen of
foliage, enchanting gIimpes of the river
scenery. The walks along the tree and
shrub clad hillside look down past
pleasant resting places TO the rivers
edge and to charming hooks and dells
empowered in old forest growths carved
out of the steep rocks by the intersect-
ing ravines. This parkway includes
park of no small dimensions in a Sec
ton of the Summit avenue boulevard
set apart as an annex of Shadow Falls
park.
Meanwhile the now rapid current Of
the Mississippi is about to be trans
formed into a placid lake some three
miles long from near the Minnehaha
creek to a point below the Minneapolis
line by the government dams now be-
ing constructed for navigation pur-
poses. This lake-like stream will become
a popular resort for boating parties.
Thus the Mississippi river boulevard
is not merely a boulevard. 1t is q de-
lightful riverside park; and I venture
to suggest that Riverside park would
be more euphonious and appropriate
name for it than the one now bestowed
upon it.
Will Link Drives.
Moreover, similar parkway, for
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

but the severe financial depression
which followed quickly changed the
public approval into a general con-
demnation of the purchase as a use
less extravaganza.
Would Give the Park Away.
For fourteen years Como park lay
neglected, almost forgotten, in its iso
lation. The public indifference to it
was illustrated by several curious cpl
sodes-one a legislative enactment
passed in 1875, authorizing the city
to cut it into five-acre lots and give
them away as bonuses to industrial
enterprises; the other, the illegal ac~
ton of the city council in 1888, in
authorizing the location Of the work
house on forty acres of the land dedi-
Gated by law to park purposes; and,
still another, the gToteSque vandalism
of the workhouse directors in promptly
proceeding to improve their oppOrtuni-
ties by cutting down twenty acres of
priceless park trees to make room for
a potato patch.
at was not until 1887, when the
park board was created by legislative
enactment. with a bond fund of
$225,000 at its disposal, of which $25.
900 was required to be devoted to the
Improvement of Como park, that the
first steps were taken in that direction.
Prof. w. H. S. Cleveland. a well-known
landscape gardener, was employed to
lay out q system of roadways through
the park. The next few years were
devoted to the construction of the main
roads of his plan, which has since
been considerably improved and ex-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10
ST. PALS BEAUTIFUL PARKS ARE MADE READY FOR SUMMER VISITORS

bridges constructed by the company.
1t is now preparing to build one of
these bridges, a handsome stone arch
structure under which it is to run it's
tracks at the east entrance of the park.
This was one of the conditions on
which the board permitted it to change
it's single loop line Ito the park rail-
road stltion) to a double track through
the block fronting the park entrance.
Another condition was that the COM
pany purchase the block and present 1t
to the city as an addition to Como
park. This also the company has done,
and it has, Furthermore, agreed to con-
tribute $4,000 towards the erection of
new park station on it's new line.
"One of the characteristic features
of Como park is the richness and pro-
fusion of its floral display in some of
it's frequented hooks and corners. This
is partly due no doubt, to the natural
emphasis which that excellent florist,
the park superintendent, is inclined to
give to his favorite art. 1t has not
escaped the criticisms of those who
have borrowed their notions from the
austere canonS of a modern school OF
landscape architects who regard Guilt
waited flowers as an artistic proclamation
of the holy ground consecrated to grass
and trees and shrubbery. Such a rule
is we'll suited to a park like Phalen
park whose rugged wildness can have
no more tasteful treatment than to
maintain it in it's natural state; but
it is hardly suited to the one large
park we have at Como. In park like
that of 425 acres, endowed with such
a wealth of varied natural beauties,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10
8 . 81 90

A THOUGH the st. Paul parks
~ will not attract the public un-
til next month, the approach
of warm weather is already Fastening
the usual spring preparations of Park
superintendent Nussbaumer and his
florists
Among their important tasks at the
beginning of every park season is the
distribution of flowers and foliage
plants. About 10000 plants will be
distributed this spring-S0,0 600 to Como
park; 5000 to the grounds of the pub
lie baths on Harriet island; 5000 to
the parks at Merriam Park; $500 to
Irving park; $500 to Rice park; $500
to Central park 5000 to Langford
park; 5000 to Hampton park; $500 to
Lafayette park; 1000 to Indian Mounds
park; 1900 to Summit park, and 600 to
500 each to a dozen of the smaller
parks.
At least 10000 of these plants are
ANIMALS reproduced from slips" The
slips are cut in the fall before the
frost comes, and are transferred to
small pots in the big nursery at Como
park. During the winter the growing
plants are changed twice into larger
pots. When taken from the dollhouse
10 their summer stations in the parks
all these plants are we'll developed, and
all, except the foliage plants, are
blooming
The first of the perennials to leave
the dollhouse are the $4,000 pansies.
They are transplanted about the first
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

another branch of it will be extended
to the Mississippi river boulevard near
the ground of the Town and Country
club. AS this extensive chain Of in
terurban parkways will link together
four great state institutions-the state
capitol, the state fair grounds, the
state agricultural farm and the state
unlversity-it is proposed to call it
Commonwealth parkway. Parts of 1t
have already been completed-Como
parkway, Midway parkway, and most
of the section through the fair grounds;
while steps are under way for the con-
struction Of the section Of it which
IS TO run through the state farm.
West Side Bluffs Are Wanted.
AS valuable addition to the local
park system the park board has long
deemed 1T highly desirable that the
city should acquire for boulevard pur-
poses strip of land including the
margin and slopes of the bluffs on the
west side of the Mississippi from South
WabaSha street to the city boundary,
to be eventually extended to Mendoza.
But the board has neither the means
or the power to purchase this land,
and, if it had, would be deferred by
the exorbitant prices asked by the
owners of the land.
The number of acres of land and Of
water, respectively, embraced in the
present limits of the parks and park
ways of st. Paul is:
Acres of land in parks. .......... 1853
Acres Of water in parks. .....s...... $50
Total acres in parks. ,213
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

the river boulevard just mentioned. In
its central and side lawns, planted with
trees and Shrubbery, under the care of
the park board Summit Avenue boule-
ward has the framework of a parkway
or the finest character. But it's road
ways, over which the board has no
jurisdiction, are in Wretched condition,
and reflect no credit on the city or on
the owners of the adjacent property
Even with this drawback the boulevard
is the most popular driveway in the
city. 1t has acquired a new import
ance since a portion of the river boule-
ward connecting with 1t has been COM
nleted; and this will be greatly en-
HANGED by the extension of the latter
to Fort Smelling and Minneapolis.
For six or seven years the park
board has been trying to secure the
widening of Lexington avenue from
Summit avenue to Como park as an
uptown approach to the latter. Lex
ington avenue is now eighty feet wide.
1t is proposed to make it 100 feet wide,
but with building line of thirty feet
on each side. 1t is also proposed to
extend the Lexington parkway to it's
intersection with the Mississippi River
boulevard about two miles below the
Smelling bridge. Thus this is one of the
most important of the projected park
ways of the city.
Will Widen Como Avenue.
''The board has also been endeavor-
ing for years to secure the widening
of Como avenue as a downtown ap-
proach to Como park. That portion
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

of the avenue on which there are no
railroad tracks, from Front street to
Como park, has already been widened
to 100 feet, and ornamented with double
rows of trees on each side; its road
space has been converted into a fine
driveway.
But the widening of Como avenue
is part Of larger project Of an in
terurban parkway, or chain of park
ways, extending from the state capitol
through Park and Como avenues,
through Como park and Midway park
way, to the state fair grounds, the
state agricultural farm, and one of
the roads in St. Anthony park, to the
Minneapolis border, where it is ex-
pected the Minneapolis park board will
take measures to continue it to the
campus Of the state university, while
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

Acres of land in parkways. 5000. III
Total acres in parks and park
1T will be interesting to compare
these areas with those Of the like
classes in the Minneapolis park sys-
tenn.
Mime st.
apoliS. Paul
Acres of land in parks. -. $50 S63
Acres of water in parks. 453 $50
Total acres in parks SO3 1918
Acres in parkways. 1900. 945 III
Total acres in parks
and parkways. .1,74S 1880
Thus, so far as the land area of it's
parks is concerned, those Of St. Paul
exceed those of Minneapolis by over
lat per cent"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10
POuS|ikin ! :. of: tn, .'; s'.:,
BY HUBERT NJ SKINNER. j Russian Poet
By HUBERT M. SKINNER.

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

"The noblest Of existing st. Paul
parkways is Summit Avenue boule-
ward, an expansion Of it's fairest resi-
dence street from 100 to 200 feet in
width for distance Of more than two
miles, from Lexington avenue to the
Mississippi river, where it merges into
small park, forming, with the adj
jacent Shadow sails park, a portion of
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-10-28
HORN BLOWING LATEST FAD
"Beauty" Doctors Prescribe 1t For
DeyeIopment of WOman's Chest

'BeHuly DOctOfs Irescr1De IL FOR
Development of Woman's Chest.
The latest fad in beauty culture Is
the blowing of the French horn, says
London cable dispatch to the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
\ medical man seen by representa-
tive could not deny that the French
horn might not have an improving eff
feet ON the feminine form. The blow
ing of musical instruments, he said.
was a wonderful developer to the
chest. 1t was not that the chest itself
was really enlarged. 1t only had
greater capacity of imitation What
really happened was that the muscles
around the chest We're developed and
the bust was thus improved
The doctors instanced one after an
other notable singers whose figures
were exceptionally fine through con-
tinual imitation of the lungs.
He gave one word of warning to
stout ladies' This was that they must
commence horn blowing very gradual
ly or syncOpe might result. He also
said that it would be better if ladies'
could not be seen while practicing,
for the effect of playing on the facial
expression is not good.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-10-28

GENERAL LEES LAST PICTURE AND RE-
CUMBENT FIGURE, WASHINGTON AND LEE
UNIVERSITY.
baby boy Robert. Robert was on hand
in his best clothes waiting for a hug
But the general had been away for
two years. and, seeing Roberts little
playmate, a boy about the same age
he mistook him for his own child and
bestowed upon him the coveted caress-
es, to the great humiliation of the fu-
ture captain and biographer.
One day at Manassas General Lee
reined his horse fifteen feet from
where his son stood. but did not recog
nize him. Captain Lee had been march
ing night and day for four days with
out opportunity to wash himself or ar
range what few garments he wore. He
was blackened with powder sweat. A
member of the generals staff present
ly said to him, General. here is some
one who wants to speak to you" Gen
eral Lee, seeing a much begrimed ar
tilleryman, sponge staff in hand said
"Well, my man, what can | do for
you?' The boy replied, General, don't
you know me?" The soldier then rec
ognized his boys voice and was glad
to find him safe and well.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-10-28
Autos For Aged Parish hiOners.

Declaring that the presence of aged
persons in a congregation inspires the
younger members, the Rev. A. c. Diff
fendorfer, pastor of Grace Methodist
Episcopal church at Plaintield, N. j.,
announces that all old and infirm per-
sons who wish to attend service in the
church will be provided with transpor-
tation free. says the New York Trib-
une. He has arranged for them to be
brought in automobiles and carriages
rs well as in trolley cars and does not
restrict the innovation to members of
his own congregation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-10-28
Autumn MinstreIsy.

I have been listing to the tune
The genial minstrel, Autumn, plays;
And close my eyes to brood on June
And immemorial Mays.
For In the swaying rise and fall
There is encompassed all the mirth
That takes the heart and holds It thrall
In the bloom-ides of the earth,
The long, ecstatic pose, the sweep,
The silvery cadences of theme,
The rapturings that linger deep
In the vast calms of dream
And though know that round me burn
The dying ardors OF the leaf,
Like embers glowing in an urn
My spirit feels no grief,
Caught up 20 heights of clear content
Where virgin vernal visions be-
swept by the mellow ravishment
OF Autumns minstrelsy.
Clinton Scollard In Lippincott's Maga-
zine For November.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-10-28

the Confederacy. Being the youngest
of the generals boys, he was natural
ly favOrite with his father. and tile
soldierly qualities he evinced at an
early age inspired the latter's conf
dence and led to an especially intimate
relationship. The young Lee enlisted
as a private in the Rockbridge artil.
lery and was promoted for conspicu-
GUS bravery to be Il captain. He was
attached to the Army Of Northern Vir-
ginia, his fathers famous command
At the close of the war he sought the
seclusion of farm life and has since
lived in peace and quiet on his eX-
tensive place ut West Point, Va.
The public is familiar with the main
outlines of General Robert e. Lees
career during the civil war. One of
the most interesting things about Cap
tain Lees book is the light it throws
on the private life of the great soldier.
About the first definite remembrance
the author has of his father pertains
to scene on the latters return from
the Mexican war covered with glory.
After pushing his way through the
thrOng of neighbors who gathered to
welcome him he looked around for his