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and skill in putting that knowledge
to account; and that psychology is
the source of inspiration of diplomacy.
The writer adds, an Intelligent, and
when occasion demands, unscrupulous
use of the insight psychology gives
into the workings of the brain and
soul, is the triumph of diplomacy.
Mayhap there is good reason for
speaking of diplomacy as black art.
But perhaps that would better refer
to the old diplomacy. In these days
when questions of state have refer
ence to nation and not the sovereign
as an individual, when the newspaper
special correspondent does his best to
keep his paper and country informed
of every move in the game of nations,
there has come necessarily a great
change in the work of, the diplomat
and no little change in methods. We
are told the diplomats mission to-day
is to soothe, to pour oil on troubled
waters-not to carry out personal am
bition of a grasping monarch.
more open and sincere than European; !;
Russian diplomacy the very opposite,
Russian diplomacy apparently suave
and conciliatory, but in reality press
ing Russian advantage by means OF
spying and secret agents and bribery,
pressing on with unscrupulousness
and tremendous energy.
BY contrast to the Slav, John Bull
seemed very blunt and unskillful, but
at present holds his own. A distinct
ly French view Of the case France was
in not long ago when both England
and Germany were trying to make
up" is this: 1T appeared that Ger
many was vehemently flirting with the
republic, not for her beaux yeux, but
for hatred of England, and that Eng
land threw herself into our arms,
moved not SO much by just appre-
citation of our charms as by hatred of
Germany. There was moment when
France found herself in the eminently
disagreeable position of an unfortun-
ate man standing between two women
who are foes. and each of whom wants
to throw pint Of vitriol In the face
of the other"
The well understood policy Of the
kaiser to keep nation and nation from
any excessive friendliness the one
with the other, his struggles to pre-
vent alliances making for formidable
strength, have not met with success
In every instance. We have men,
toned the removal Of Frances isola-
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stitutions or clothing bureaus for aid.
Mrs. Ryan calls that person her friend
who tells her Of such people in need.
There Is q score of families, rem
nants Of broken-down aristocracy,
whose sole support lies in the fine
needle-wo which Mrs. Ryan gives to
women otherwise untitled for the bur
den of self-support.
Over in the south corner Of the sit
ting-room there Is big chest with
many drawers, each carrying some alb
breviated label. In this chest are kept
exquisite alter linens, the making of
which has been the liberal support of
families in need. AS fast as these
supplies are accumulated they are
sent out to poor missions or heavily
mortgaged parishes where the people
are unable to contribute such things.
There is another chest full Of baby
things, and, dearest Of all to the heart
of Mrs. Ryan, a well-filled medicine
chest.
81 don't believe you look we'll" said
Mrs. Ryan to little needlewoman re-
turning a package Of fine linen one
day. How do you feel? Do you ever
cough?" And in the end the woman
went away with three bottles of hypo-
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GOPHER GOSSIP.

st. Paul-St. Paul Lodge No. 2,
knights of Pythias, holds its annual
memorial services.
st. Paul-The confectionery store of
Miss Minnie Namere, 153 Cleveland
avenue, was damaged by fire at II
o'clock at night.
Mankato-The state summer school
opened in this city today with a very
large attendance. and with President
c. H. Cooper as conductor. 1t is like
ly that the attendance will equal that
Of last year, when it exceeded 600.
ST. Paul-The sum of $25,124.90 was
paid into the state treasury by the
Security Trust company as the inheri-
man estate, st. Paul. There are five
heirs, each of them receiving a fifth
of the estate.
Hibbing-By a fall of ore in the
Webb mine, Louis Kililander, aged
forty, and Albin Belle, aged twenty
two, both Austrians, were smothered
to death. The men were employed on
the first level, and when the captain of
the crew made his rounds he discov-
cred that the timbering behind the
men had broken and the ore caved in
upon them. Rescue parties Immediate
ly started to dig the men out, but
both were dead when found.
Spring Park-While attempting to
extinguish a fire which had started in
a smokehouse on her property, Mrs.
Frederick Coates was seriously burned.
The fire started while a number of
hams and bacon sides were being
cured, and Mrs. Coates, who was at
home alone, started to fight the flames
single-handed. She saved the build
ing from destruction, but was burned
about the head and face.
Mankato-Harold Johnson was SEN
fenced to the state reformatory at St.
Cloud for his part in the theft of three
tubs of butter from the Amboy cream
cry. He was jointly indicted with
Otto Peterson for the offense and
pleaded guilty. while Peterson was
tried and the jury disagreed. This
winds up the criminal business Of the
term.
Minneapolis-The Mclaughlin Bros.
have scored another series of wins in
the Paris horse show, cable from
the French capitol yesterday saying
that their entries have won every first
place. Mclaughlin Bros. have been
very successful at Paris shows and
their last triumphs are only portion
of the blue ribbons carried away by
the company from Paris.
st. Paul-Judge Finehout sentenced
a saloonkeeper to fifteen days in the
workhouse without the option OF fine.
Cambrige, Mass.-Among the schol-
arship awards announced at Harvard
university is Price Greenieaf scholar
ship to Laurie Void of st. Paul.
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For so long Edward of England ap-
peared to the world prince of Wales,
leader of fashion and royalty holding
out the scepter to numberless fair
women, the world had got to consider
him social arbiter rather than any
thing more serious. But now Edward
Of England rises above the old level,
we find the leader of fashion and So
cial arbiter showing unmistakable
talents in the gentle art of diplomacy
or the black art, as it is sometimes
styled. An enthusiastic foreign cor
respondent declares King Edward will
certainly go down in history as lie
Roi Diplomat.
The latest stroke of diplomacy is
shown in the Anglo-Russian friendli-
ness-which causes much concern in
Berlin. The Anglo-French entente
was victory in which the king had
good share of credit. At Algeciras
the English felt pretty well satisfied
with results. And the marriage of
English princess and Spanish king has
added not little to King Edward s
list of triumphs.
It is said King Edward is moved to
cement the bonds of friendship be-
tween England and Russia by a spirit
of chivalry, that he pities the weak.
ness Of his nephew, the czar, and
would give him support. But it were
we'll also for England, Russo-Eng-
lish entente. England and Russia are
in pretty close quarters down near
the frontier of India. in Persia also
and China. Whatever the lack of cor
dial relation between the two coun-
tries, has been the fault of st. Peters
burg, foxy Russian diplomacy not ap.
pearing to understand anything but
ulterior motives in overtures from
Great Britain, holding England an en-.
emy, her supreme object to thwart the
national aspirations of Russia. But
Russian diplomacy may learn in the
course of time aboveboard dealing has
its advantages.
| "a Diplomat" writing in the North
American Review, says among the
qualities indispensable to good diplo
matist are knowledge Of human nature
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KNOWN Throughout THE METROPOLIS FOR
HER GENEROSITY TO THE UNFORTUNATE

Of months, and come around here to.
morrow morning at ten o'clock. l am
going to put some things aside and
wait for you. Good-by, and God bless
you!"
If you wandered into the big sit.
ting-room any day you would hear
many talks like that.
Mrs. Ryan Is a great traveller, and
owing to the Ill health Of one Of her
boys, who has been compelled to spend
so much of his life in arid lands of
the southwest, she frequently takes the
six-days' journey from New York to
the Painted Desert in Arizona. During
these trips she always travels in her
private car "Pere Marquette" which
includes in it's furnishings a conse-
Grated altar and all the fittings for the
celebration of mass. At such services
her car is always thrown open to any
in the villages who may wish to at
tend.
It was because of her sons ill-health
and necessitated stay in the southwest
that Mrs. Ryan interested herself in
the missions to- the Indians. She has
built IL churches throughout the
southwest and she has done much for
tuberculosis sufferers in that region.
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M RHHV RE5LDEWCE

There are tent villages outside Of
Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa and score Of
other desirable places where con-
sumptives find Natures cure, which
has been furnished and supported by
Mrs. Ryan for afflicted men and wom-
en- whose means made such measures
impossible.
If Mrs. Ryan hears of boy or girl
who has shown any talent and has
not the means Of developing it, her
handsome, motherly face brightens
with one Of her happy smiles as she
says: 81 am. so glad / can do this
little thing for some other mothers
boy" 1t is always "a little thing"
that Mrs. Ryan does, whether II be to
build a church, a hospital, school.
or help the i'll in body or mind. It's
always ga little thing for the hands
which give million dollars a year
for good work to spend long hours
making baby clothes for some little
one whose mother finds life a poorly
fed, overworked, back-breaking prob
lem. It's "a little thing" to take q
worn-out shop girl away from her
drudgery for month or two of rest
and comfort where Gods air is pure
and undefiled. It's little thing" to
send some young boy with a hard
cough and red spots on his cheek bones
out into the eternal sunshine Of the
southwest for new lease of life. It's
ga little thing" to go out personally
and hunt employment for the support
er of some family, to provide COM
forts and necessities for families in
want, to make employment for men
and women untitled for the RESPONSE
bilities which have fallen upon them.
It's "a little thing" to educate ambi-
tious boys and girls, and to do all these
little things, with just one stipula-
ton: "You won't say anything about
it, except sometimes remember me in
little prayer"
In the big public subscriptions
where donors names are advertised
for what they have done, Mrs Thom-
as F. Ryan's~ name is never seen.
Avoiding always publicity, she is the
same quiet, retiring, great-hearted
woman who came to New York the
girl wife Of Tom Ryan, a clerk with
nothing but a baby and genius for
making money, "a years ago. There
are women In the old Jesuit parish on
Sixteenth street who still remember
the sympathetic little woman who
lived there a quarter Of a century ago,
and who helped many an unfortunate
from the earnings Thomas Ryan
brought home on Saturday night.
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place of honor there, and on the walls
are few good engravings. This hall
Is like those found in all the fine
old southern mansions. On the first
floor are the library, drawing-room
and smoking hall.
But 1t Is up wide staircase to the
second floor that one must go to find
room about 20 feet square, furnished
with chintz-covered chairs, hung with
pictures, such as have long since been
consigned to the fashionable and
wealthy to dusty attic corners, and
strewn with sewing tables, chests, a
tea table and music box. Everything
Is old-fashioned, with one exception,
and that is an up-to-date desk, with a
telephone attachment, which stands
unobtrusively in corner. This Is the
room, with it's windows filled with
red geraniums the year round, where
Mrs. Ryan plans her good works,
which the wealth of her husband exc
cutes.
There is never an idle moment when
Mrs. Ryan is in that sitting-room of
hers. No visitor is so important, no
I
conversation so interesting, as to alb
sorb her entire attention. She has
sympathy for the comfort and in
terests of the friends who go to her
there, but always begins the visit
with:
"You won't mind my going on with
my knitting, will you?"
Not yery long ago. when Cardinal
Gibbons called upon Mrs. Ryan, his
eminence was shown to the sitting-room
where Mrs. Ryan was busy, between
telephone calls, knitting baby's pink
and white sack. After formal salu-
tation to the churchman, her fine
white fingers began to ply the yarn
in the weave again,
"You will pardon my doing this,
your eminence," smiled Mrs Ryan,
"but if l worked only when alone some
babies wouldn't be as warm as like
them to be-"
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phosphites, which would have cost her
as many dollars.
Mrs. Ryans life has not been with
out cloud and bitter grief. Death and
long illness have weighed heavily on
the mother-heart, and that great flood
of sympathy given her by nature is
ever wide to fellow sufferer. Long
and intimate acquaintance with illness
has given her practical knowledge,
and she knows more about medicine
than many a man with a license. Two
of her boys have been stricken down
with lung trouble, and the great white
plague holds greater terrors for her
than any other physical affection. She
has given of her financial and personal
aid toward the cure of those afflicted
with this disease.
81 am more afraid of a sneeze than
of sprain, and a cough than broken
bone," she said one day. "Oh, just
can't talk about it. 1t breaks my heart
to think of the flower of the manhood
and young motherhood Of our country
being cut down by this terrible curse
When I think of other mothers who
have seen their young sons lie down
in their youth before their life work
had begun, victims of this disease, 1
long to do something, anything, to help
find cure for 1t ALL"
A tear dropped on the ivory knit
ting needles and the usually placid
features of the kindly face set in an
expression of suffering.
A ring of the telephone bell and the
knitting was put aside.
'Oh, is that you, Mary? Now, don't
assume that coldly polite manner and
say nice things about appreciation and
all that business. It's purely a busi-
ness deal. You are not fit to work,
and you know you are not Suppose
you die, who'll take care of the
mother?
"Oh. oh, oh, that cough! Now, look
here, little friend of mine, you do as
I ask, or you will make me very, very
unhappy. What good would any
money of mine do me II I thought
people am interested in and like
would die rather than let me help
them? Now, look here, you go up into
the mountains until you get well and
strong again, and then you can come
back and pay me back, If you want to,
some day. Let me look out for things
for awhile
Lose your position? Good thing!
I'll get you better one. Now, am
busy knitting. You tell your chief to-
night you won't be there for q couple
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a slim purse to others. She gives
from a richer purse, that's all.
Old-fashioned as Mrs. Ryan is, she
Is woman combining all the business
qualities and foresight demanded by
the times. She Is woman of affairs,
yet her home life comes first.
A glimpse into the favorite residence
of Mrs Ryan-the old Minturn house,
on the northwest corner Of Fifth ave-
nue. and Twelfth streets a mental
bath after the glitter and glare and
garnishness one usually meets in the
homes Of the rich, declares writer
In the New York Times. You enter
through high-ceilinged hall, draped
with soft garnet hangings. A paint
ing OF the master of the house has a
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tion and would now call attention TO
the fact that the recent premier Of
England, Balfour, succeeded in gain
ing for England the friendly attitude
of the circle of nations about Ger
many. With Germany and England
hostile it is of import indeed that the
states on Germany's frontier should
have friendly leaning toward the en-
emy. Germany to-day is the isolated
nation, her two friends the sultan and
the pope.
In review of European diplomacy
one name stands out quite by itself,
that of Bismarck; and the term Bis
marckian diplomacy. To-day we are
called upon to observe the bankruptcy
of Bismarckian diplomacy.
At tho close of the Franco-Prussian
war Bisu,arckian diplomacy came to
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"And whose baby are you working
so hard tc clothe?" asked the card
inal.
''Oh, poor dear little girl who will
appreciate it," and then the subject
was changed, but not the thoughts of
Mrs. Ryan.
A few friends who have been in the
sitting-room many times can tell of
dozens Of packages of baby clothes
made by the nimble fingers Of the
rich Mrs. Ryan. And besides, she
keeps a corps Of sewers making chill.
dren's garments. which are delivered
to her residence and by her given in
person to that most unfortunate of all
the classes, the proud poor who will
not ask at the doors of charitable in
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Day in and day out she sits and
knits and knits and knits, with q
steadfastness of purpose that ruled
the fingers Of Mime. Jacobin. But the
stitches she takes are not the record
OF evil destinies. They mean succor
for the sick and heavy-laden, work
for idle hands, bread for the hungry,
enlightenment for the untutored.
Gentle, sympathetic, intensely pious,
a home-lover and a home-maker, is
this woman-this mother in the old
fashioned meaning Of the word, the
wife of Thomas Fortune Ryan.
The characteristics of Thomas Ryan,
money-making prince and Wall street
baron, in a way also rule in the life
of Mrs. Ryan, builder of churches,
hospitals and schools, and the little
known but enthusiastic cooperator in
every move making for the betterment
of the human kind. 1t has been said
of her husband that he has had fin
ger in every big financial pie in the
last decade. She has had hand in
nearly every philanthropical work in
New York, Virginia, the District OF
Columbia and the southwest in that
time. She is now giving away more
than 100000 year.
This woman, Of whom the world
knows practically nothing, has built
more churches, hospitals and schools
and endowed more places for the wor-
ship of God than perhaps any other
living person. She gave $1,000,00C
last year alone to the churches and
schools of Virginia, her native state
Publicity is Mrs. Ryan's bette noir
To give without ostentation is the only
way to give, according to her belief
There Is no difference between Mrs
Ryan Of 80 years ago and the Mrs
Ryan Of to-day. 1t was Of no moment
to the public then what she did or did
not do. She cannot understand why
it should be interested now. She
counts herself as doing no more than
the wife of poor man who gives Of
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these were given as the object of the
alliance: "The first is the mainten.
ance of peace-the greatest of all
British interests. / believe
that our alliance will make not for
war, but for the maintenance of peace,
and I think we may venture to say
that if Great Britain and Japan desire
peace shall be preserved In the far
east, peace will not be broken. Now
for the second object. 1t Is the main
tenance Of the independence and in
tegrity Of China and the preservation
of what we usually speak Of as the
open door, The third obtect-anu,
tual defense against unproyoksd at.
tack"
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Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, One OF the
Most PhiIanfhropic, She Is One OF
The Most Wealthy, New York Women
Who Devote Their Dives TO Doins Good
TO Others.
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SPENDS A MILLION DOLLARS YEARLY ON
HER VARIOUS CHARITABLE SCHEMES.

Wife of Wall Street Baron, She Lives Plainly,
Builds Churches. Helps Hospitals, and Spends
All Her Spare Moments Making Baby Clothes
for the Poor-Gves Without Ostenfafion, and to
All Who Are Worthy and Unfortunate.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1906-04-12
He PREDICTS
STATEHOOD

senator William Warner who Waa
IN Kansas city for the eieeilon Tues.
siAy. rsturned 10 Washington ~ednos,
day Before l@sine he gave out The
g0llnwiug inferyiem 20 reporter fof
TIE Kansas CITY star
"lt wAs = good election TIE vic.
tori IN Kansas CITY Was = triumph
for las and order. insurins % every
interest here a sQtarc deal ii Nas
nug atfirtiY partisan triumph, hut
. victory ioF tn0se who want the city
AnaieA administered for tie best 10.
lsfesik of at
= am Folug sack 81 Washington
said senator Wamef "A heilese that
statehood uiil l~ given oklahoma
and tie Indian Territory befoga tbe
expiration 81 this tsfm q Consfess
/ don't knae Ia lgst shat Shape lt
alll saae. bat am Hm 10 my con.
eietlou tisAt ] MAtetoaa hlll Will pAss
admitting pklalouA and thc Indian
Territory e tis unlou
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Commercial Club VIII
Get Rid of All De-
linquents

TIE commefclsleiub net lass night.
Tls sesl00 Mas not loae cite, a
thege Wah nnt naneil business "a trans.
act Tie most important lgstn re.
lated 10 tlsoss msmbem ula8 are aelin.
aaeul SECRETARY glarleworfh rad
"a lisf of nlaeiee8 az q xt0m Lad
pQt paid their dues fas more tllau
three nontns lass faa Their n
lInqasncies range from sls g tiit.
teen months
4 Nas A. let proposed fo efpsi all
% iuQusiaiA ~ oiea After consider
allie iiswassion II tln subject how
sfss 4 m8ltuH made IS G 7. ANefy
Nas carried. b. which ias asiim4aents
wiii - siFen another week in Uhici
q paf up fleif back haes a com.
miftss q vhieh 81 Aftm is elAir
msn aas appointed "a zee TIE aciin.
4ueHt mea bcfs aua unss them to pas
up
As soon aa the iisi Is prepared. The
Chlaiiaiu proposes Co pfInt a list of
tfose meu Nha are memhem a. ths
c'ub The Is Zone 81 Oklahoma
Ctf Tulsa Ard Mnskese. and it
ought % u done here. 81 that tie
people mas knpe TIE uames ~ fl1ss
vta are eafgine for the uphaBd.ne
~ the c.tg
A motion vas made aud earnad that
TIE transportation % tie deiesafes 60
the 81 Louis convention b. paid bg
ths club
oH motiaa 0f 4 s. E Amos fsso.
lutlon was passed asking TIE mer.
chants % nflse % take advertising
ln am proposition that las uet -.
ceiFsd the endorsement of tie secFo
tas and ths advertising COMMITTEES.
Ths u q role THAT u enforced ii 0k.
hhuma CITY and d saves TIE mer.
chants tllere hundreds ~ dollars a..
nuallY which theY might others s.
spsut 'n fake Advertising schemes
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WAS SUICIDE
NOT MURDER

otis little returned illis morning
from Eufaula, whefe he took his and
n. 4. nideoiours hloodlonnds n ~.
sposAe 20 request from tbs oficee
tlsFe. who Wlallad 40 track tlss Aasas
Sins ii y iianietle After gise affair
Rad leeu Investigated b pcpeff Bud
Lednettsr and ot1ers hosefef and
after fhe bloodlleauds lad ialiei %
nna ans trail the coUcipsion WAS
reached tllAt HafAstte had not ~ %
m0raered. Bat thai he cunmltied
sales.le
Hls bids vAs found al the sell in
his t0ck fAfa Tie curb WaA hlgis,
and ghg tssiy lsanea over chs earh
TIE n8lles llsd gone thWuah ilse
head. from jos, tack q thc ear and
fnom Gloss range TIE san eAs D2t
iaand. buf o. j. sagmlsed that 4 frli
into tao muN Iie wAief sill tr
drained az mlen il n expected thar
tils s1icAg glspofY aiii ~ hssf.e 0at
hg ths Hnssng q glle revolver
Hufdetls. sho Was alaaf % feas
ola. pas 3 vtii.tode merchant and
hanAer Ha cArfied saa @u IL ilfs
Insurance tip8uo ~ whlet liad trgu
taken out bat few months ESQ ne
lgasfs a wlie. bat 30 family
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viii Pave South
Wilson Street

fHe rfaFe.fs aaHfs III south WHe
a street astueeH iHnais aad Cars.
dan ateaaes me taA morning in
tHe CauHonai eab foans ana deeid.
r4 e. aresHt the contract of Stackoy
N Company NJ Hafte,s5fe tor paving
Tic contract W5i5be eHed Monday
aa8 tho auai Wofa w bo begun rs
sn a tHt material aH8 tools arrive
31s contract Hres i8F t1e paving IS
~ - pef aluau gani for yfrHed
mes paving % a concrete faluda
tm The curb aIIl cost 81 cents per
wagHF taat BE- Ni hs made 81 ce.
meat The east % tbe paving ins
clHie te putting 0f flo street on
aa=gradt Ths ai.l bs paid ZOE by the
rtg however aHi the amount sill. bs
deducted aam fhe entire contract tfe
remainder being mid hg tne pmptrtY
owners.
81 A. fad tbe engineer vbo has
heen employed 81 the clty tH take
charge # tHe Wafk was here lfom
MmkWee t0 attand tue meeting