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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-08

sunday selling. The Jury ascertained
upon complaint that the mayor com
pehed al other raloons In The town III
ciose on sunday, while hc Kept his own
open and did an enor.'
nous business. e
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-08
SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION

Duluth, MINI, Oct G.--rcn build.
ihgs ~ Carlton. thirty miles from Dr..
lnh' burned today and only tho assist.
ance tf thc tlfe apparatus from Clc
lnet six miles distant. saved The VIM
lags from destruction Loss IA x50gl
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-08

Much speculation pravaiis al "a
whether q nor Lord Curzon. on his
return to England will re.enter the
/ 9Honse ct Commons and will offer him.
seh as the representative Of anv con.
Ialtuency at the fourthcominp eenar.I
elections He Is d very forcefuI IAN,
ait ana ms presence in the House of
commons means rs much to hia
lftends as to his foes. ri NAV be. 80.
membered thar when he was anpainta1
Ncefoy OF India and elevated ~ tbo
peerage, ne particularly insisted upop
'havlRs an Irish barony To admit M
fsiS returning to the House OF Com
mons The act Of union between emo.
fann ana Ireland. passed 100 vesra
ago expressly provides that "anv pnr.
soh hoiding pcerage Of Ireland shall
not be disqualified thereby from serv.
5Rg any county, city, or horough ~
Great Britain in the iiousa 81 Cam. |
mons unless he shall have been nre. |
siouihy elected as 9 representative |
peer 10 SIT IN the House Of Lords OF
nc united Kingdom But SO long as
~ SITS IN the House Of Commons hp |
'annot claim privilege OF peernre or
~ elected representative peer of
feiand. and he IS liable 10 be gued
hdictdf, ana tried ae commoner far
ny offense with which he NAV be
Tho Unionists have an evor.
majority among the repre.,
ehtative peers of Ireland and also
mohg The non representative PEERS If
ne Emerald Isle n would DO within
helr power should vacancy occur
mong the representative peers IN 90. /,
ore me election Of Lord Curgon 10 fl,
! ana unless he happened to be 4 !
lcmDcr OF the House Of Commons ~
IS 'ime' lo would have no opportun. !
y OF escaping the unwclcNmc honor /
"a would be debarred the re,naindar !,
ms lie from figuring in the House /,
commons Lord Palmerston ro. {,
aihed % the emil Of his days--ie was !
ng past eighty when he died Ia mem.
" q the House of Commons. The onIy
cmner 81 that chamber to wear tho
'usf of the Garter, and throuxhont
career he was obliged To observe II
utmost vigilance ID prevent bis Il,
es from driving him out Of the House Il,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-08
SEEK MURDERER BESIDE GRAVE
Detectives MngIc With the Mourners
at a Funeral.

among me mourners gathered To
PAY their respects to the remains IF
hrthur Morris.Aof asa Hamilton atrcet
were tnree detectives Ia plain clothes.
wno nnohlruslvely tovK their places
~ was believed BY them that Red's,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-08

strength tonic that brings rich.
red blood Makes you strong, healthy
and active That's what HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 50 cents.
lea Or Tablets. r. g Schuh & sons
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-08
The MAYORS MONOPOLY.

wheeling w. VA oct. &. MAYOR
FRANK Mllhorn, Of Dillonyale, Ohio.
nas been Indicted twenty. I'VE times
by the Belmont Conp+ y 49, !, J. Il, IL. w.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Fortunes in Church SfeeDIes.

It is the opinion of Rev. DIR. Forbes,
Secretary of the Board of Extension
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church,
that enough money has been expended,
or 1t may be said wasted. in huiIding
steepies, to pay off all the church debts
OF the country. Besides, he SAYS,
steeples are a relic of barbarism. and
money used in their construction can
be more usefully expended. a good
many people will hardly agree with
the reverend doctor in his opinion that
church steeples are useless or serve no
good end. Grace and beauty are lent
TO thousands of otherwise common
place looking towns and cities by the
spires rising here and there from their
midst Everything cannot be strictly
unitarian, and if a thing serves to
please the eyes and senses of hundreds
or thousands of people, it is far from
being useless.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
ENVIRONMENT A MOULDER OF
CHARACTER.
BY Ii. S. BIGELoM.

The other day | saw group of boys
carefully scanning a theatre poster
The picture showed a man in the act
of plunging a dagger in the throat of
woman. The boys did not run or
scream. But their eyes were big and
the intensity of their faces showed
that the horror of the picture was not
lost upon them. Near by were two
younger children playing together in
the gutter. Their faces were smeared
with the mud made by the dish water
running over the sidewalk, and the
children were amusing themselves
floating cigar stumps in the disgusting
pool.
Rejecting upon that sad sight there
came to mind other childhood scenes,
There stood out in memory little lake
that nestled among the hills where
sweet-breathed cattle browsed and
where the branches of great trees were
mirrored in crystal waters. There
were the boathouse and the swimming
hole and the spring-board; and there
were summer nights, too, when the
leaves were still and stars were bright
and the spirit Of the child looked up in
silent wonder.
In the race of life, in the contest of
physical endurance, in the moral tests
that come, that child has not a fair
chance who has sprung out of the mud
of the streets.
To know the breath of ilacs and the
rustic of autumn leaves, TO be up with
the lark, to wet ones feet in the dew
Of the pasture, to go to bed with the
song of the poor-will- these men,
cries are like guardian angels.
The children whose horizon is a
brick wall, who must play on cobble
stones and go swimming in the canal
and be chased by the police, if they do
not grow up to be ideal citizens, shall
we, of holier memories, sit in judg-
ment upon them? Shall we not remem-
Der their bonds?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
THEATRE TRUST MAR.
THE LNDOMITABLE BELASCO CIV
ING THE SHOW COMBINE A
FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE.
Threatened with Extinction. He Has
Organized an Opposition Which
Has Attracted Some of the Bright
est Of the Theatrical Stars.

David Belasco for number of
years has been waging a war against
the theatrical trust. He has beer
assisted in years past by Minnie. Mad
dern Fiske, the wife of Harrison Grey
Fiske, owner and editor of the Dram
attic Mirror This year the Shubert
Brothers broke off ali business rela
tons with Klaw and Erlanger, the
moving spirits of the theatre trust,and
now a combination with a capital OF
81 100000, of Belasco, Harrison Grey
Fiske, John c. Fisher, Frank L. Per
ley and the Shubert Brothers has been
formed, acquiring about thirty thea
tres, extending from Boston to StLou
is, in which they might produce theat
rical productions without the dictum
of the trusts
David Belasco, ever since his sever
| ance Of relations with the trust has
| made strenuous efforts to acquire 6
| theatre in the nations capital, as ht
| has found that the cosmopolitan M
ture of its people assists him greatly
in determining whether new produc
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
MON UMENT TO MARY WASHINGTON.
A Story on BaLzac.

The French alienist, Esquirol, ON
being asked by student, is there any
sure test by which the sane can be
distinguished from the insane? invited
his questioner to dine with him and
observe. When the student entered
the dining room two other guests were
present one an elegantly
and apparently highly educated man,
while the other was somewhat I'M
couth, noisy and extremely con-
ceited. AS the pupil bid his host
good night, he remarked: THE prob
lem is very simple after all; the quiet,
well-dressed gentleman is certainly
distinguished in some line, but the
other is evidently a lunatic, and
ought to be locked up at once"
Smiling at his pupil, Esquirol told him
that he was wrong. 'The quiet we'll
dressed man." he said, who talks so
nationally, has for years labored under
the delusion that he is God, the
Father, while the other is M. Honore
de Balzac, the greatest French writer
of the day."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
REAL HEART OF THINGS.
Its Found Not in the Great Cities
But in Country Homes.

Its Found Not in the Great Cities s
But in Country Homes.
in time the great cities may be-
come dominant, but it will be many
years hence, and / would be sorry
should / live to see the day." said
James D. Hill, President of the Great
Northern railroad. 1.-THE national well
fare depends upon the prosperity of
the farm lands, the mining districts,
the lumber camps-not on the growth
of big cities. The agricultural inter-
ests in particular represent the great
est strength of the country, and viii
for many years to come.
Yet men stand appalled, at the spec
tacle of a metropolis. Let us take
New York, as our most striking ex-
ample-where the visitor gapes at the
crowded markets, the endless traffic,
the hurrying throngs, the skyscrapers,
the roaring factories, the hustle of
commerce, all the urban reek and
riot, and needless of what lies behind,
the hidden motor power, cries:
"Here is the heart of things; here is
the pulse of the national life; here the
life blood of the nation centers, life
blood which, flowing through the veins
of commerce, gives vigor to all the
land" New York, the heart of the
country? Rather New York the par
asite-the blood sucker.
A Giant Exhibition.
At best, New York is but monster
exhibit of the products of mines,
farms, cattle ranges, mills and factor
les, and of the rural homes where gen.
ius is born, nourished and inspired.
What more speaking symbol of these
things than the citys skyline. In it
self that skyline of marvellous archi-
lecture, save as it excites wonder, ad-
miration and sense of enterprise and
activity amounts to nothing. What il
signifies in each ascention and depres-
sion is the comparative values of the
country's material resources.
Concisely, it represents capital, la
Dor and raw material. OF these three
| the city produces not one-in appreci
/ able quantity. The raw material, the
men to handle it, the gold to buy and
sell the finished product, come out OF
the ground and from the open spaces
New York, Chicago, st. Louis, OF
any other city, has its inception in the
open country, and it's existence is and
ever will be dependent upon the latter
| None recognizes this more quickly
than the city man. He knows from
| experience that the city suffers first
| last and most from any national dis
| aster. To go no further back than the
| coal strike of three winters ago-NeW
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Worse Than Tobacco Cigarettes

London is reported to be in the throes
of new vice-a vice which is not only
getting society into a turmoil, but is
also attracting the attention Of the
medical fraternity. 1t is the tea-leaf
cigarette habit-one in which women
are becoming the chief adopts, and
which they find great difficulty in over
coming. Once the taste for the new
weed" is acquired, it is said the SEN
sation of smoking tea cigarettes is
quite pleasant. Dizziness is caused by
constant smoking and the victims
clutch madly for invisible and
imaginary objects to support them
selves. They finally drop in an ex-
hausted and stupefied condition, and
then follows that wild state Of dream
land said to be as varied as that caused
by powerful narcotics.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Prehistoric Sculpture.

An idea Of the small brain capacity
of primitive man can be gathered
from a crude stone head, now on ex-
hibition, which was recently found
in a field at Moriches, Long Island.
The head, while crude In its work
manship, is pronounced by ethnolo-
giSts as doubtless true to nature
a representation Of some savage and
prehistoric people who lived ages ago.
Inc head is not particularly pleas
ing DIT OF sculpture, as it calls up a
vision OF men and women with small
brain development and huge repulsive
jaws but degree above the other
animals.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

York faced for weeks a coal famine
that paralyZed her activities and al
most killed her poor Manufacturers
could not secure enough fuel to run
their plants and women on the least
side"paid ten cents for as much coal
as would fill a quart pail. The suf-
fering in this city was out of all pro-
portion to that of the rest of the coun-
try.
All food products come from the
outside. New York uses three million
eggs every day, aud beef arrives in
whole train loads daily. The city must
go to the country for its building ma
terials, for wool. cotton. everything
that is needed to run its factories,
stores and banks.
Dependent on the Country.
The reckless expenditures of the
city dweller are continually giving rise
to the question, where does the mon
ey come fromT From the country,
Of course. Every wildcat scheme
that is Matched in New York, from
Wall Street to Madison Square. in
augurates its proceedings by send
ing circulars into the country, to
catch the dollars of the farmer
The operations of the stock ex-
change are all based on the condi-
ton of the country. A short wheat
crop, a slump in the production of
grain, or the prospect of one, turns the
floor OF the Exchange into a pahde-
mon1um. Year by year the eyes of the
moneyed interests are turned to the
earth, fguratively speaking, and the
keenest minds of the metropolis are
specializing as to what success the
farmer is going to have with his crops.
The results of that speculation involve
millions of dollars. All the country
knows what happens in New York
when the cotton crop fails. The beef
strike last year caused meat to van
ish from million family dining
tables in New York city. In summer
eggs at 35c a dozen are too expensive
as an article of diet for more than half
the city's population.
Material and money she gets from
the outside; and rarely, indeed, does
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Eoosing the Dogs of War.

But 1t is now war to the knife be-
tween the two forces, trust and anti
trust, thrust and antitrust Wheth-
er the trust will be successful and
absorb the Independents, remains to
be seen. Probably not, so long as it
has to deal with men who know their
actor proteges, know the method of the
trust, know how to produce a play
with unsurpassed taste and know that
the American people will pay admis-
sion to witness an Incompatible pro-
duction all the more willingly because
of the herculean efforts made to pre-
sent it to them. Belasco, in the new
combination which he has organized
seems to have gotten his knife we'll il
between the ribs of his antagonist anG
is beginning already to twist it yigor
ously.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

tons will be a success or not. In Sep
TENDER, however, announcement was
made that he, in communion with the
Shubert Brothers, had acquired con-
troll of the Lafayette Theatre in Wash
ington, and also had taken up a go
year lease on the ground on which the
theatre is built, giving them absolute
possession Of the property.
A Famous Theatre Site.
Lafayette Theatre is a comparative
ly modern playhouse, and occupies the
site on which formerly stood the Sew
ard mansion, in which Secretary Sew
ard of Lincoln's cabinet lived when
an attempt was made to assassinate
him the same night President Lin
coin was shot. In later years the
house was occupied by Secretary
Blaine.
Last year David Belasco found all
theatres in the national capital with
closely barred doors. He was arrang-
ing to make the initial production of
sAdrea," Mrs. Leslie Carriers latest
success. and found no building in
Washington suitable for a conversion
into theatre. except Convention Hall
probably the largest auditorium south
of New York, and in years previous
used for an ice palace, for six day BIZ
cycle races, athletic meetings, and
other institutions requiring great
space. This had a hall some $50 feet
in length by 125 feet in width, with 9
roof carried on huge semi-circular ar
ches rising to height of nearly fifty
feet above the floor. Such a barn as
this Mr.. Belasco in a few days con
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Cities Not self-Dependent.

Not only is she dependent upon the
open spaces for men, material and
money, but even for trade. As COM
pared to the amount of money spent
in this city by out of town buyers, the
sum expended by its own inhabitants
dwindles into insignfcance. In recog-
milton of this, the Merchants Associa-
ton of New York annually arranges
with railroads for cheap transporta-
ton, and with hotels for rock bottom
rates, and runs excursions to gather
in the out-of-town buyers.
During the month of August over
400 buyers from the south and west
were in New York, and during Septem-
Der this number largely increased.
Reckoning under the average of past
years each merchant spent more than
$4,000, and thus through the efforts
of the Merchants Association alone
more than 500, 100000 is left in the
city each year. But this is merely a
fraction of the trade which the city
receives from the rest of the country
"A conservative estimate places the
gross income at $1,25O,000, 200.
Each American city is clearing
house for the rural or mining district
surrounding it, and New York the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
VARY. MOTHER OF WASHINGTON
Handsome Monument Erected by
Patriotic Citizens.

RaTrIOIIC N1ItZCnSs
THE monument of Mary Washing
ton the mother of George Washing
ton. stands on the western side of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, almost und-
er the shadow of Marye's Heights,
of bloody Civil War memory. Mary
Washington died of cancer, August %,
1899. 1t was in April that year, that
Washington rode from Mount Vernon,
to say farewell-a final farewell
to his mother before starting for New
York to be inaugurated first PreSt-
dent of the United States. In a let
ter to his sister Betty Washington,
who lived in fredericksburg, Wash
ington wrote. after learning of his
Fredericksburg I took my final leave
Of my mother, never expecting to see
her more"
Neglected Tomb.
For a hundred years the grave OF
this good woman lay unprotected. on
what had been part of the farm of her
| daughter Betty Washington, but
which became a common of the city
| Of Fredericksburg. For half a CEN
| fury the grave was marked by little
! stone slab, but this disintegrated,
and disappeared. Various fruitless
efforts were made to build a monu-
ment, and in 1880 a New York bank
er, Silas e. Burroughs, offered to give
an elaborate monument. The corner
stone was laid with imposing cere-
monies by President Andrew Jackson,
but Burroughs met with financial re-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Money Scent Like Water.

The regulations of the District of
Columbia to protect theatre patrons
against the danger of fire, are ex-
tremely rigorous, and it was these
that the trust used as a weapon to
thwart Belasco i'm his endeayor to
have this last production first appear
in Washington as have other plays,
which are known as general successes.
The burden Of expense for this work
did not fall upon the owners of Con-
vention Hall, but upon Mr.. Belasco,
who paid, i'm order to make this hall
into modern ire-proof theatre, an
amount aggregating nearly $4,000.
The present theatrical combine or
trust had first conducted a legiti-
mate booking syndicate, charging for
the service five per cent.of the prof
its. an enterprise advantageous alike
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Even The People From The Country

DR.. John Ell. Girdner, an eminent
New York physician. said recently:
"Build a wall around New YORK city
iIlow no new men to enter, and Ia fifty
years the city win depOpulate itself.
This city makes too many demands
upon those who live and work In It.
Thousands drop out each month 1t is
the fresh country people Hooking mere
day by day that furnish the brains,
sinews and pluck to carry the metrop-
oils to it's destiny. Its success In the
past has been due to this out-of-toWn
element and viii continue to be.
Men, men, men," is the constant
cry that New York sends out over the
country and the response is adequate
eager and satisfying. 1t is in this fact
that assurance of the city's still
greater advance lies. Capital flow.
ing in from the country made Wal
street by-word to all the world
Material drawn from the coun'
try has made her the greatest man
ufacturing town in the United States
Men attracted from the country
have made her financial mistress OF
the western hemisphere.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

she even produce the men to handle
them. A glance at biographies Will
show that her captains OF INDUSTRY,
merchant princes, men OF art pfoIes-
sions, laborers, are country Dre0, from
A. r. Stewart Ito go no furtner DacK)
To the RockefelIers, Clewes, Depews.
and all the rest of the present day
leaders.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

to actor and manager. The success
of this plan opened larger vista of
profit, and the securing of all the thea
tres in the country has led to the de-
struction of competition with the two
formidable exceptions noted In the
other theatres the manager has be
come the ''janitor," while the syndicate
dictates prices, attractions, and other
fpaturpS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

main clearing house for the whole
country. All the mighty spectacle of
commerce is merely the dramatic and
gorgeously staged representation Of
the nations money, material and men,
which build up the metropolitan mech
anism and set it in motion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
From Life,

yerted into a tnedern playhouse
! through the magic totich of gold,
which he has found to be the most Of
fensive and defensive weapon against
the combine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

Look at Your address label OF, The
Gazette, and If arrears are due, see
to RENEWAL before the fact is forgot
ten. Do 1t noao.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13

for moment. This detection right at the most
critical moment in Freedoms history in years
was too amazing to be grasped quickly by the
minds of those present.
The distracted Buffum banged away down
stairs, lavishing anathema all his townsnen col
lectvely and individually being willing to stand
and CAB whilst mans property is burnin' up
His aunts and lamens, dying away in the distance,
were not to be endured.
Come along, men!' roarcd the first selectman,
turning to his proletariat. 1--WE can't waste time
arguin' with hogs when neighbours house is
fire. Time enough to attend to hogs when we've
done duty" He rushed out of the hall swing
ing his his head to call his people on,
and the assembled voters of Freedom went dumping
after him-all except the stubborn and surly men,
bers of Hcca Number One. They remained
massed around their foreman.
Wild turnult in the yard
''No, won't bother to tug that tub way down
there. Leave er!' they heard the first selectman
shout in reply to rumble of wheels and the squalls
of excited voices. They've broke 1.-THE land
piruts!-so they jest said Well make bucket
brigade"
The shouts, the clatter of feet, died away. Only
the sullen ding dong of the Methodist bell
reminded those who still remained in town hall
that, the rural newsletter would have it that