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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-12-27
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago. Dec. "a heat-Dec..
74Ac; May. TBc. Corn-Dec., 41hc;
May. 43Ac. Oats-Dec., 33%c: May.
35 nc. Pork-Jan.. $16.35: May. 1855.
Butter-Creameries. 22031c; diaries.
20@27c. Eggs-21@24c. Poultry
Turkeys. 11Q12c; chickens. &c:
springs, &c.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-12-27
MARKET QUOTATIONS..
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Dec. 24.-Wheat-Dec.,
76hc; May, 1911 @79Kc; July, SOAc.
On track-No. / hard, 79Ac; No. /
Northern, 7S%c; No. 2 Northern, 76%
@76Bc; No. 3 spring, 73@74c.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-12-27
MACON SIGNS DECREE.
Appoints a Commission to Revise tho
Laws of Cuba.

Havana. Dec. 2~6.-Governor Magoon
has signed the long awaited decree APP
pointing a commission to revise the
laws of Cuba. This commission will
submit to the provisional governor the
draft of an electoral law. new pro-
~visional and municipal laws. a law de-
ining the organization and functions
of the judiciary, a civil service law and
also will treat on such other subjects
Of great interest as may be referred
to 1t by the provisional governor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-12-27
KILLED In RACE WAR
ESTIMATED THAT Fifteen PER-
SONS ARE DEAD IN kEMPER
COUNTY, MISS.

Several Companies Of State Troops
Hurried to the. Scene Of the Dis.
turbanee.
Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 26.-With the
number Of dead placed by a conserva-
tive estimate at fifteen the racial trou,
BILE prevailing throughout Kemper
county, Miss. has reached a most
acute stage and unless quickly checked
a race war of serious proportions, 1t
is feared, will result.
After quiet had been restored at
Wahalak. where the fret outbreak oc-
Cured Monday, and shortly after the
departure Of the troops sent to quell
the disturbance, rioting broke out
afresh at Scooba, FIVE miles south Of
the latter place, and during the past
twenty-four hours five negroes are re.
ported to have been killed. OF this
latter clash reports are conflicting,
some reports placing the number of
killed and wounded at a score. Troops
were Immediately ordered to the
scene from Meridian.
At Wahalak five negroes were killed
before the arrival of the troops.
At Crawford, Miss, Conductor r. N.
Harrison of the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road was shot and fatally wounded by
a negro. The negro, in turn. was shot
by Harrison and before he could es-
cape was killed by a posse. Three
companions who were with the negro
fed to the woods. One OF these was
later captured and shot to death. The
others are being pursued.
A negro became involved in an al
tercation with two white men aboard
a train near Artesia, Miss. and when
the station was reached vas taken
from the train and killed.
The troops sent to Scooba are com
posed Of a company of infantry and a
battery OF artillery. Besides the troops
an organized party of forty men from
Columbus are on the to assist
in quelling the riot. In a dispatch to
Governor Vardaman Sheriff Trout OF
Kemper county described the situation
as critical.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-12-27
SAFEBLOWERS FIRE BARN.
Five Hundred Horses and Mules Per
ish in Flames.

Atlanta. Ca, Dec. 26.-Five hundred
horses and mules were burned In Har-
per Bros livery stables during the
morning. The loss is about 100000.
The fire was started by safeblowers.
who blew the safe In the office. the
shock of the explosion overturning a
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-12-27
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

taneously one minute after sunset,
while the full moon is rushing UP the
sky at the pace OF q champion comet.
That wonderful sea that suddenly
opens and swallows up the ship Those
snow-clad mountains, over which the
shadow Of the hero passes like a
threatening crowd. The grand old
chateau. trembling in the wind. What
need, viii ask the opera goer of the
future. of your Turner'S and your
COrots, when for prices ranging from a
shilling upwards, we can have a dozen
pictures such as these rolled up and
down before Us every evening. But,
perhaps, the most daring hope of all
was the dream that came to Herr
Wagner that his opera singers his
grouped choruSes would eventually
satisfy the craving of the public for
nigh class statuary. am not quite
sure the general public does care much
for statuary. I do not know whether
the Idea has ever occurred to the an
archist, but were I myself organizing
secret committee meetings for unhOly
to meet in that section of the local
museum devoted to statuary. I can
conceive Of no place where we should
be freer from prying eyes and listen
ing ears. A select few, however, do
appreciate statuary and such, am in
clined to think, will not be weaned
from their passion by the contempla-
ton of the opera singer in his or her
various quaint costumes, ana even IL
the tenor always satisfied our ideal Of
Apollo and the soprano were always
as sylph-like as she is described in the
Hbretto, even then I should doubt the
average operate chorus being regarded
by the connoiseur as q cheap and
pleasant substitute for a bas-relief
from the Elgin marbles. The great
thing required Of the operate chorus is
experience. The young and giddy-
pated the chorus master has no use
for. The sober, honest, industrious
lady or gentleman with a knowledge
of music is very properly his ideal.
The chorus always fascinates me. /
watch it while it is on the stage in
preference to following the principals
What I admire about it chiefly is its
unity. The whole village dresses alike.
In wicked worldly villages there is a
rivalry, competition, leading to
heartburn and Jealousy. One lady
comes out suddenly. on fsay a bank
holiday, in a fetching blue that con-
quers every male heart. Next hOli-
day her rival cuts her out with a green
hat. In the operate village it must
be that the Girls gather together be-
forehHnd to arrange this thing. There
ia probably meeting called. THE
dear counts wedding" announces the
chairwoman. you viii be all pleased
to hear, has been fixed for the four
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

With the second volume of Avery's
History of the United States. published
by the BurroW Brothers company Of
Cieevlano, Ohio, comes the announce
ment that this beautiful, thorough and
complete work is to be extended to
fifteen volumes. It was the intention
to confne the history to twelve vol
umes- The announcement is made.
however, that I'll old subscribers viii
get the added volumes without extra
charge
The second volume sustains well the
promise and high standard of the first.
1t treats Of TIE colonial period com
prised in the period between 1900 and
1860 with q surprising number of old
prints, maps portraits and official doc
uments reproduced with the most
pafnsta king accuracy.
Tne following facts concerning the
inspiration that gave rise to this stu
pendous work is interesting
TT appears that nearly a score of
years ago Charles William Burrows
conceived a plan for a history of the
! United States, and outlined it to DR.
/ Troy McKendree avery, even then
an author of note. DIR. Avery entered
upon the work with enthusiasm, but
tho time limit of eight years length
ened TO eighteen. This circumstance
has been an advantage to the public.
It's disadvantage to the publisher is
that it brought Avery's History of the
United States intrs competition with
several works produced during the past
TWO years. some OF which appear to
have been hastily thrown together and
no one of which in any one feature ap-
proaches the Avery book. So far as
competition with the work of others is
concerned, we do not think DIR. Avery
has anything to fear. Those who are
competent to judge will recognize &.
master hand and brain in the clear.
vivid and vigorous language in which
the authors conclusion are presented. 3"
The Rochester Herald says: I'VE
81 dismiss rnnGiF finu a
the work without a specific instance
Some months ago the writer was asked
for a list of Indian Reservations. He
expressed confidence in his ability to
answer. feeling certain that the in
formation could be found in any one
of a score of cyclopedias, histories
gazetteers, books on Indians and the
like with which his shelves are bur
dened. To use an expressive phrase,
he found himself up tree. The in
formation. was nowhere to be found.
He was very much astonished and
needless to say, exceedingly pleased to
discover in AverYs History a full
mage map with the location of reser-
vations printed in colors, and in the
appendix all the statistical information
desired. If that is one of promoter
Burrows notions, why. we take off our
hat and wish him the luck he de-
serves"
From a typographical standpoint
the Burrows History is perfect. 1t
is printed ON a good quality of paper,
the type is large and clear. the ar
rangemeht is artistic. The whole book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

one hundred and forty men. all
armed with powerful instruments,
well organized, and most OF Jhena
looking we'll fed, com bine to make IL
impossible for a single note OF that
poor woman's voice to be heard above
their din. I see her standing there,
opening and shutting her mouth, get
ting redder and redder i'm the face.
She is singing, one feels sure of it, one
could hear her if only those one hum
dred and forty men would ease up for
a minute! She makes one mighty, SUI
prene effort above the banging of
the drums the blare of the trumpets,
the shrieking of the strings, that last
despairing note is distinctly heard
She has won. but the victory has cost
her dear. She sinks down fainting on
the stage and is carried off by supers.
ChiValrOus indignation has made it
difficult for me to keep my seat watch
ing the unequal contest My instinct
was to leap the barrier, hurl the bald
headed chief of her enemies from his
high chair and lay about me with the
trombone or the Observation-Disclosures
might have come the easier to my
snatch. You cowardly lot of DULLES"
] have wanted to cry, "are you not
ashamed OF yourselves A hundred
and forty of you against one and that
one a still beautiful and compare
lively speaking youngish lady. Be
quiet FOR moment, can't you, and
give the poor girl chance" A lady
of my acquaintance says that sitting
out "a Wagnerian opera seems to her.
like listening to a singer accompanied
by four orchestras playing different
tunes at the same time AS L have
said. there are times when Wagner
carries me along with him. when [
eXult i'm the crash and whir of his
cOntending harmonies. But. alas.
there are those other moods those
after dinner moods-when my desire
IS for something distinctly resembling
tune. Still, there are other com
posers of grand opera besides Wag-
ner- I grant, with the late Herr Wac
ner. that so far as music is concerned
opera can supply us with all we can
need.
But it was also Wagner's argument
that grand opera could supply us with
acting. and there 1 am compelled to
disagree with him. Wagner tnougbt
that the arts of acting and singing
could be combined. I have seen artists
the great man had trained himself. AS
singers they left nothing to be desired
but the acting i'm grand opera has
never vet impressed mo- Wagner new
er succeeded lin avoiding the operate
convention and nobody else ever will
When the operate lover meets his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

Many women have habit when
tired, of settling down. relaxing and
falling into a heap so to speak. As a
matter of fact this. instead of resting
one. increases the feeling of fatigue.
It may seem a bit odd. but the raising
of ones figure and the sitting erect.
with head back and chest out. when
one is, to use the common expression.
tired to death" " viii de more to rest
one. even when on car or walking.
than any other method.
One should never "huddle" into a
heap, or allow oneself to arch ones
back and depress ones chest. if one
wishes to produce the best result with
whatever figure she may be blessed,
CT cursed. There is in these modern
days such variety IN gowning that the
worst figure may be so robed or con-
ceaIed as to appear not unattra ctfve,
while the beautiful figure may be
shown in its fullest perfection.-Ex-
change
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10
The Kansas chess trophy Gun.

The state chess championship for the
between Messrs. Harvey and Thompson,
70 be held in Topeka March T. The play
ers VIII choose for the opening and play
Until one or the other has won three
sainies: and the first winning three games
WI WIN the match, Draw games are not
20 count G. b Hoffman of Enterprise
VIII act as referee. Announcements will
be made later as to the place and ar
Iahgenents will be made to admit those
who desire to attend the pIav
The following game is one ia which w
w Harvey of Topeka secured victory
from Doctor Emanuel Lasker at the state
tournament in Topeka;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

substitute for it anything more nat
/, ural. When you are singing at the
/ top of your voice, YOU don't want
heavy woman hanging round your
neck. w hen you are killing a man
and WarbIing about it at the same
time, you don't want him foOling
around you defending himself You
want him to have a little reasonable
patience and to wait in his proper
place till you have finished telling him,
or rather telling the crowd how much
you haze and despise him. When the
proper time cOmeS-and if he is where
You expect to find him while thinking
of your upper C-yOu Will hit him
sword, and then he can die to his own
particular tune. If you have been
severely wounded in battle or in any
sort of row, and have got to sing a
long ballad before you finally expire
you don't want to have to think how
man would really behave who knew
he had only got a few minutes to live
and was feeling bad about it. The
chances are that he would not want to
sing at all
The woman who really loved him
would not encourage him to sing. She
would want him to keep quiet while
she moved herself about a bit in casa
there was anything that could be done
for him. IF blOOdthristy mob is climb
ing the stairs after YOU. YOU do not
want to stand upright with your arms
stretched cut good Is inches from
That door, while you go over at some
length, the varied incidents leading up
to the annoyance. If your desire were
TO act naturally you would push against
that door for all YOU were worth. and
yell for somebody to bring you a chest
OF drawers and bedstead-things like
mat, TO pile up against it. If you were
q king, and were giving a party, you
would not want your guests to fix YOU
up al the other end of the room and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

sweetheart he puts her in d corner and,
turning his back upon her, comes
down to the footlights and tells the
audience how he adores her. When
he has finished, he, in his turn, retires
into the corner and she comes down
and tells the audience that she is sim
ply mad about him. Overcome with
joy at finding she really cares for him.
he comes down right and says that
this is the happiest moment of his life:
and She stands left" twelve feet
away from him, and has the PRESENT.
ment that all this sort of thing is
much too good to last They 20 off
togther backwards, side by side. If
there is any love-making, such as
understand by the term, it is done
off" This is not my idea of acting
But do not see how you are going to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10


teenth, at eleven O'Clock in the morn
ing- The entire village will be as
sembled at ten-thirty to await the re-
turn OF the bridal cortege from the
church and offer its fluctuations. Mar
ried ladies will, of course, come ac-
eompanied by their husbands I'm
married ladies' must each bring a
male partner as near their own
helght as possible Fortunately, IN
TINS village, the number of males is
exactly equal to that of the females, so
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

leave YOU there. with nobody to talk to
but Your own wife, While. they turned
their backs upon you, and had a long
and complicated dance all to themselves.
You would want to be in it: you would
want to let them know that you We're
king. In acting. all these little points
have to be considered. In opera, every
thing is rightly sacrificed to musical
necessity. I have seen the young, en-
thusiastic opera singer who thought
that he or she could act and sing at the
same time. The experienced artist takes
the centre Of the stage and husbands his
resources Whether he is supposed to
be indignant because somebody has kill
ed his mother. or cheerful because he is
going out to fig his countrys foes,
who are only waiting till he has finish
ed singing before attacking the town.
he leaves it to the composer to make
clear
Also it was Herr Wagner's idea that
the back cloth would leave the opera
goer Indifferent to the picture gallery
The castle on the rock, accessible only
by balloon i'm which every window
lights up simultaneously and fnstan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

The Rev. Washington GLADDEN., whose
book THE New Idolatry,'' recently pub
liShed. contains his famous utterance
on tainted money, has been an appTeci-
ative reader Of Peter Rosegger's Il. n.
r. L" a book which puFports to be an
account of the New Testament written
from memory, by a peasant prisoner
awaiting the carrying out OF a sentence
of death DR.. GLADDEN. writes Of the
book: Il have found in it not a little
deep insight and clear Interpretation.
The authors imagination has had Tree
range, and he has presented to US many
pictures of great vividness. and has
thrown light on many Of the acts ana
words of Jesus. It is utterly reverent
and devout, and while it helps US to
realize the human Christ it takes moth
ing from his essential d1vineness-
Herbert Quick, whose new novel,
Double Trouble is a popular sue
cess of the season, belongs to the Co
terie of writer's who are making Iowa
famous. He was brought up on the
prairie when it really was prairie, and
lived as the prairie boys lived in those
days when almost everybody farmeo
and the simple life was generally prae-
ticed. Teaching school carried him
into the law and the law into politics.
as a Democrat among hopelessly Re
publican surroundings. Once he was
mayor of Sioux City, and many peO-
pie say that he was good one. AL
ways Mr.. Quick looked on life as
thing to be depicted. everything ne
did or saw seemed to him merely inn
preston preceding expression. Until
recently his busy public life made the
possibility of expression rather linz
tied. But now he has bought a cabin
by the gulf at Palmetto Beach, Ala
bama. and is devoting himself entirely
to literary work. Previous to Double
Trouble" he was known as the author
of a delightful book of fairy tales, I'm
the Fairyland of America" and a Wig
orous novel of commercial life,
aladdin & Co." The fruit of long in
terest IN hypnotism appears in his
new story in humorous form.
Besides Wallace Twins cat the
Sign of the Dollar" Fox, Duhield e
Co.'S books that are reprinting srs
Letters of Henrik Ibsen," Harry era
hams misrepresentation Men" and
More misrepresentation Men" Mrs.
Payne Whitney's Verses for Jock and
Joan" and Kenyon Cox's "Old Mas
ters and New"
Ibsen, in the collection of his letters.
just issued by Fox, Duffieid & Co., re-
veals himself as consistently uncom-
planning in adversely. Only where his
art is concerned does pride show
through his persistent reserve. When
to admit that Brand" was poetry,
Ibsen made the now memorable and
spirited declaration, as famous in its
way as DR.. Johnson's celebrated letter
to Lord Chesterfield. MY book is
poetry; and if it is not. then it win
be. The conception of poetry shall
be made to conform to my book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

Wagner was that grand
opera-the music-drama, as he
called it-included, and there
fore did away with the necesl-
ty for, all other arts. Music III
all it's branches, of course, IL PROVIDES
so much viii concede to the late Herr
Wagner There are times, confess
when my musical yearnings might shock
the late Herr Wagner-times when 1
feel unequal to following three distinct
themes at one and the same instant
Listen whispers the Wagnerlan en-
thusiast to me, the cornet has now tlle
Brunnhilda motive. 1t seems 20 ~ -
my then state of depraVity, is II Ine
coruet had even more than this the mat
ter with him. 1.-THE second NlOllhs,
continues the Wagnerian enthusiasts,
are carrying on the Wolah lHeIug.
That they are carrying on goes WIN
out saying; the players faces ~ aIe
streaming with persplrdlLo!l. - ~
brass" explains my frlend-hls ODJeSt
is to cultivate my ear is accoulpet HS ms
the singers" I should have SAID, crown
ing them. There are occasions WIlell
i can rave about Wagner with the pes
of them. High-class moods come 10 an
of us The difference between the ledlly
class man and us common place "ol Ma
day men is the difference between, say
the eagle and the barnyard chicken
am the BARNARD chicken 1 nave my
wings. There are ecstatlc monellt9
when I feel I want to spurn the soiulu
earth and soar into the realms OF art
do fly a little, but my body is heaEy'
and I only get as far as the fence. Al
ter a while / find it lonesome sitting on
the fence, and I hop down again ahlous
my fellows. Listening 20 WaSllel' ~
Ing such temporary Philistinic mood
my sense of fair play is outraged. A
lone, lorn woman stands upon the stage
trying to make herself heard. she mas
to do this sort of thing for her INlhs,
maybe an invalid mother-you llsel
brothers and sisters-are dependent upon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

The state tournament and exhibition by
Doctor Lasker were very. successful and
aroused much interest in the game. Kan
sas players secured one win and three
draws from the champion, which is a re-
markedly good showing. compared with
exhibitions held at other places. At Kan
sas City he was met by the best players
there and did not lose a game and only
allowed three draws