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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

I"oyster cocktail is not decorated
with rcd cherries and bitters.
Perhaps the president went down
to defeat in the tennis match with
the Bishop of London because Of the
clerical handicap on tennis court
language.
/ The Rev u DR.. Days prOtracted sill
ence concerning, Standard Oil methods
is indicative OF q lot of thinking on
the part of the Syracuse gentleman /.
The Boston Globe tells of team
ster whose horse picked up" stone
lin its hoof, and when the horseshoer
removed 1t the stone was diamond
worth $50. That's another prosper
ity story" A fifty dollar diamond
wouldn't have much effect on a
horses hoof.
John y. Rockefeller has been drawn
on grand jury in New York. Il is
safe to say that the jury will no!
run amuck" If John Is able to hold
1t back.
| The first bear that collidcd with
President Roosevelt doubtless go. all
that the president would have been
pleased to hand to the Oklahoma
constitution.
| lt.x..
SO much time mourning over the loss
of borrowing power" that they arc
Ineglecting to look after their car
trying power.
While Secretary Taft is in Japan
talking peace, President Roosevelt is
denouncing 'milksops" and urging a
bigger navy and better preparedness
for fighting.
| Copper has fallen off several cents
a pound. and 1t is easier than ever for
some church members to make n
noise like contribution when the
basket comes around.
st Louis Is soon to have some bal
loon races, but IL is doubtful II any
,of the gas bags ever get up In the
air as far as that free .bridge seems
to be at the present moment.
Philadelphia is talking of paving
with wood around the new city hall.
The election returns in Philadelphia
point to an enormous visible supply
of blockhead material.
II may yet come to pass that the
country will realize the need of a
new cabinet official who shall be
known as secretary of the depart
,ment of sociability and banqueting."
The mere fact that there are no
newspaper correspondents with the
presidential hunting party does NOT
prevent the newspapers from print
sing plenty of stun about the hunt.
Rev. Robert Macarthur of New York
lsays OF Mr.. Rockefeller. "He can
|calmly wait for the unprejudiced
judgment OF pOsterity. Isn't 1t apt
TO be warm and tiresome wait?
Parties or countries desiring visits
from cabinet officers would do well
to place orders at once. The Wash
ington supply of cabinet and execu-
tive officials Is already very small.
Senator Platt issues notice that he
rs better fitted than ever for hard
work In Washington. This is notice
lthat the express companies will not
lay down to the parcels pos. adyo-
Gates.
District Attorney Jerome was very
much more active in prosecuting for
iioel the upstate editor who attacked
MIN, that he has been in prosecutInp
the insurance thieves and grafters
The Metropolitan company OF New
iork mas gone into bankruptcy. due
10 high financing" The manager.
|oI the company were great on "pre.
serving the national honor" a few
years ago. 40"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Pilot Nichols surely has the right
to appeal from the big stick to the
square deal. +"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Among the ta4utnphs Of medical
art to which the next generation
will direct the hack pointing finger
of pride is the marvellous recovery
cf the sf,srSiyxcd Rogers. st.
Louis Times. =
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

The question is. will the president
call the peace congress before he
holds up congress for four more bat
ltleships.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Railroad borrowers are spending
so much time mourning over the loss
of borrowing power" that they arc
neglecting to look after their car
rying power.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

While Secretary Taft is in Japan
talking peace, President Roosevelt is
ldenouncing "milksops" and urging a
bigger navy and better preparedness
for fighting.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

The "Milksop Class" is the latest
presidential organization Some Of
these days the "Over Chesties" will
be organized with a rush.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Every time Tom Johnson issues a
challenge. Mr.. Burton lodges and
tightens up the ropes on his congress
|sional safety net.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Copper has fallen off several cents
pound. and 1t is easier than ever for
some church members to make n
noise like a contribution when the
basket comes around.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Philadelphia is talking of paving
with wood around the new city hall.
The election returns in Philadelphia
point to an enormous visible supply
of blockhead material.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22


Pilot Nichols surely has the right
to appeal from the big stick" to the
square deal. "
lis IL not about time to turn up the
blaze in the heater under the immun-
'ity bathtub?
The Metropolitan Street Railway of
New York seems to have been very
.effectually Lemuel Eli plugged.
The Buffalo Times exclaims: Buff
falo will supplant Pittsburg." II the
Times is wise it will be more spe-
cifc.
The question is, will the president
call the peace congress before he
holds up congress for four more bat
tleships.
Every time Tom Johnson issues a
challenge. Mr. Burton lodges and
tightens up the ropes on his congress
sional safety net
The fight several gentlemen are
putting up for control of a great rail-
road is an indication that the pick
ings are pretty good yet.
The "Milksop Class is the latest
presidential organization Some OF
these days the over Chesties" will
be organized with a rush.
Merely that history may be kept
straight, we stop the press TO an
nounce that 1t was DeSota who dis
covered the Mississippi river.
Merely to head on agitation and
discussion It is heraby stated that the
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Merely that history may be kept
straight, we stop the press TO an
nounce that II was DeSota who dis
covered the Mississippi river.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

The fight several gentlemen are
putting up for control OF great rail-
road is an indication that the pick
lings are pretty good yet.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

st. Louis is soon to have some bal
loon races, but 1t is doubtful, II any
of the gas bags ever get up In the
air as far as that free .bridge seems
to be at the present moment.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Inc truth about the famous, In
aianapals luncheon seems to be that
e'e never were any cocktails. -
New York Sun.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Merely to head on agitation and
discussion It is herAby stated that the
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Noting that Tennesse man named
Corn is a candidate for office tht
Fort Worth Record observes: HI
must have had his ear to th'
lground !" or course; and he Ger
ltainly Is q colonel.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

II may yet come to pass that the
country will realize the need of a
new cabinet official who shall be
known as secretary of the depart
,ment Of sociability and banqueting."
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

Mississippi river newspapers are
'dee-lighted with the presidents re-
marks in favor OF river. Improvement
But It must be remembered that the
president was also going to eat the
beef trust blood raw.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

District Attorney Jerome was YER
much more active in prosecuting 10
libel the upstate editor who attacke
MN, that he has been in prosecutln
the insurance thieves and grafters
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

There is no truth In the rumor that
Mr.. Rockefeller is building yacht
to defend the America cup. Mr..
Rockefeller is Just now seeking to
build enough life preservers for his
oil company.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22

"What has become of that Jap
anese se'ov,1f,' asks "a contem
pcrary. It is being exhibited dali,
on the western chautauQua circuit
by it's custodian ard cwncr. Captain
Richmond Pearson Hobson. Kan
s,s City Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24

all concerned in marrying him to his death knowingly
participated. These opinions posterty long shared.
But now it is quite possible to reach another
clusion. That there was conspiracy is evident
even from the facts set down by those hostile to
Grandier. On the other hand, it is as unnecessary
it is incredible to believe that the plotters in
cuded everyone instrumental in fixing the
happy cure the crime of witchcraft.
Bearing in mind the discoveries of recent years
in the twin fields of physiology and psychology, it
seems evident that the conspirators were actually
limited in number to Mgnon, Barre, Lsubardemont,
and few of their intimates. In Lauts iemont's
case, indeed, there is for supposlg that
he more dupe than knave, and is therefore to
be placed in the category as the superstitious
monks and townspeople on whom Mignon and Barre
so successfully imposed AS to the possessed, the
mother superior and her nuns,-they may and
all be included in a third group the unwilling
tools of Mignons vengeance. In fine, it is not only
possible but entirely reasonable to regard Mignon
as a seventeenth century forerunner of Mesmer,
Elotson Esdaile, Braid Charcot, and the present
day exponents of hyypnotism; and the nuns as his
helpless sub jects, obeying his every command
with the fidelity observable to-day in the patients of
the Sapetere and other centers of hypnotic practice
The business of this view is borne out by the facts
recorded by contemporary annalists, of which it has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24
The Most Repulsive People

THE average height of six grown Bushmen was
i found to be four feet nine inches and their wo-
men have the same stature not lower is usual
The build is SLIM and the limbs are lean to the point
of emaciation. The amount of fat under the skin is
extremely small in both sexes; and this causes the
skin itself to be dry leather not unlike morocco
and to fall in heavy folds about the body and
at the joints Moreover weak development of hair
corresponds to this lack of strength in the skin The
single hairs are rolled tightly up, and form felted
knots like peppercorns, mpartng a disgusting
NANCY appearance to the head On the lean limbs
the cords of muscle often project under the slack
skin like those of mummieS.
As for the face, its broad forehead slight prom
nence of the cheek bones and lateral broadening of
the lower jaw, give it marked rectangular outline
The eyes often placed rather oblquely, and the
depressed at the root but turned up the tip
The mouth is wide, the lips moderately everted
the whole region of the jaws projects, and the chin
is soping; that the lower part of the face often
takes quite the shape of muzzle The look is shy
and savage.
The Bushmen are steadily making themselves
scarce, and doomed soon to vanish from the
EARTH being ground to pieces between Bantus on
the north, Kairs the east and 1atterly whites on
the south. This process has been going for CEN
tures, and accounts in part for their ugness Their
strongest and bravest men have been killed in war;
and the least ugly of the women seized for slavery
while the masses have been driven to less and less
desirable lands where shortage of food and other
privations awaited them. They live by the chase
and have developed astonishing 1eetness of foot
and keenness of vision in tracking and running down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24

here been possible to give only the baldest outline
The nuns of Loudun were, as has been said, mostly
likelihood, temperamentally unstable, sensitive high
strung, nervous. The seclusion of their lives, the
monotonous routine of their every day occupations
and the possibilities afforded for dangerous, morbid
introspection, could not but have baneful effect
such natures, leading inevitably to actual in
sanity or to hysteria. That the possessed
hystercal is abundantly shown by the descriptions
their historians give of the character of their
WILSON'S, contortions, etc. and by the references to
the anesthetc, or nonsensitive spots their bod
les. Now, we know, the convent at Loudun had
been IN existence for only few years before Mgnon
became its father confeSSor, and SO, may believe
it fell out that he appeared the precisely
when sufficient time had elapsed for environment
and heredity to do their deadly work and provoke
epidemic of hysteria.
In those benighted times such attacks were popu-
larly ascrbed to possession by evil spirits. The hys
tercal the chronicles tell us, explained their
condition to Mignon by informing him that, shortly
haunted by the ghost of their former confessor,
Father Moussaut. Here Mignon found his oppor-
tunty. Picture him gently rebuking the hysteric
nuns adnonishing them that such good man as
Father Moussaut would return to torment
those who had been in his charge, and insisting
that the source of their must be sought else
where in, say some evil disposed person hostile
to Father Moussauts successor, and hoping, through
thus affecting them, to bring the convent into dis
repute and in this way strike deadly blow at it's
new father confessor Who might be this evil dis
posed person? Who, in truth, save Urban Grandier!
Picture Mignon, then, observing that his sugges-
ton had taken root in the mind of two of the most
emotional and impressonabe, the mother superior
and Sister Claire. Then would follow a course of
lessons designed to aid the suggestion to blossom
into open accusation. And presently Mignon would
make the discovery that the mother superior and
Sister Claire would, when in the hysterica1 state,
bindly obey any command he might make, cease
from their commissions, respond intelgently and at
his will to questions put to them, their con-
WILSON'S lapse even into seeming dementia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24

dina1 believed in the enchantment, anyone denying
it would be held guilty of lese majesty divine and
human.
Under these circumstances Grandier was doomed
from the outset But he made desperate struggle,
and his opponents were driven to sore straits to
bolster up their The devils persisted in speak
ing bad Latin and continually failed to meet tests
which they themselves had suggested. Sometimes
their failures only too plainly the result OF
human intervention. For instance, the mother supe-
riors devil promised that given night and in the
church of the Holy Cross, he would lift Laubarde-
monts cap from his head and keep it suspended IN
mid air while the commissioner intoned a miSerere
When the time for the fulhlment of this
promise two of the spectators noticed that Laubarde
mont had taken to seat himself at goodly dis
lance from the other participants Quietly leaving
the church, these medieval detectives made their
way to the roof, where they found man in the act
of dropping a long horsehar line, to which was at
tached small hook, through hole directly over
the spot where Laubardemont was sitting. The
culprit fled, and that night another failure was re-
But such fascos avaed nothing to Gran
der Neither did it avail him that before sentence
finally passed, Sister Claire, broken in body
and mind Sobbingly affirmed his innocence, pro-
testing that she did not know what she saying
when she accused him; that the mother superior,
after two hours of agonizing torture self imposed
fell on her knees before Laubardemont made a
similar admission, and passing into the convent
orchard, tried to hang herself The commissioner
and his colleagues remained obdurate averring that
these confessions were in themselves evidence of
witchcraft, since they could be prompted only by
the desire of the devils to their master from
his just fate In August, 1884, Grandier's doom
was pronounced. He was to be put to the torture
strangled, and burned This judgment carried
out to the letter, save that when the executioner
approached to strangle him the ropes binding him
to the stake oosened and he fell forward among the
flames, perishing miserably
1t only remains to analyze this medieval tragedy
in the light of modern knowledge To the people
of his own generation Grander was either wizard
most foul, the victim of dastardly plot in which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24

DESPITE the wonderful diffusion of knowledge
through the modern press, there are probably
few people who could tell OR even know
where to learn, which is the ugliest people on
earth and which the handsomest. Yet these ex-
tremes of appearance quite ascertainable, and
moreover dernonstrable for deny the
extreme of uginess to the Bushnan, while the con-
to the Italians, with the Austrians close second
The Bushman is far from being plain homey;
he is positively hateful in his repusve hideousness
One cannot very well pity him, for his frghtfuness
tend to go out of mind. Any help here is hope
less; for he does not have single redeeming
feature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24

Asian has commonly consorted with her European
mate, because he had the wealth that commanded
this service; but she has also found him comely,
while male native could aspire to nothing high
white wife
But among European peoples, which one should
be granted the palm for beauty? No one perhaps,
but certainly two: the Northern Italians and the
Austrians, with preference for the former In
both cases, excellence is owing more to stock
admixture, this time of the blond northern type
with the brunette southern one, which have COM
bined in these two central regions of Europe while
Northern Germany distinctly inferior in looks
In the Austrian blonde there is a Monaghan
strain, which plainly observable farther eastward
in Hungary
The Worlds Greatest Beauties
NATURALLY the Austrian shows dominance of
IN the blond elements, just the north Italian
does of the brunette. The most beautiful feature in
the latters face is the eyes, which large and dark
under evenly curved upper eyeid with long black
eyelashes and narrow, straight finely cut eyebrows
Besides supremacy in this supreme human feature,
the eye the Italian boasts of narrow, straight nose
SOFT shapely mouth with full yet tender lips,
abundant black, lightly curled hair and an ovate
contour tapering toward the chin. 1t is evident
that this description is based upon the female SEX
and doubtless the male reader would not have it
otherwise AS for the figure it must suffice here to
state in general that it exces in no less degree than
the face; and it is for this complete beauty that
the Italian model is confessedly the best in the
world
AS for the Austrians, they reve1 in the beautiful
white skin of their northern sisters and at the
time in those various tones of brown in hair and
eyes which make a mean between the Teutonc blue
and the Romance black. But more, this skin has
also elasticity which affords charm commoner
and finer in Austria than elsewhere; and there is the
famous dimple in the chin, to which, when smile
rpples over the face, dmples either cheek con-
sort. Here Also as in Northern Italy, many figures
of perfect beauty can be found, and the Austrian
model is consequently in great demand.
The American woman has not yet been appraised
for beauty either of feature or of FORM for in fact
she has not yet appeared, nor can she until
widely varied elements from north south, east and
west in Europe have been fused into national type
more composite than known before. And
then she should be a sumner!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24
By Edmund Buckley

their game; but African game now grows
every year before advancing agriculture and
the Bushman must soon vanish with that bush from
which appropriately he took his name.
Almost as ugly these African unfortunates
the VeddahS in the mountainous interior of Ceylon
and the Australians. A glance at the map will show
that each of these peoples occupy pocket of land,
the ends of great continents whittier they have been
pushed, and where they have been isolated from
healthful admixture and intercourse with other
stocks
The superiority of the European race to all others
in point of bodily and facial beauty is marked and
demonstrable is that of it's mental capacity and
of its achievements Of course everyone has heard
from the modern w1seacre, who claims with
that, because Chinese like themselves and
redskins like themselves and Africans like them
selves, therefore each of these peoples have good
claim to beauty Europeans, who also, of course,
like themselves This sounds liberal, and seems to
accord with the Elective viewpoint of science; but
none the less, it happens to be wrong People very
naturally suppose that what is unknown to them
does not exist and therefore that there is no
absolute standard for human beauty. But this
ignorance springs from notorious lack in our
education, which negects art both its science and
history, in favor of literature and music, both of
which would readily be conceded to have standards
binding on all peoples. And why not art, then?
Ali Prefer the Europeans
n BORROWER, the actual fact is that races other
1V4 than the European really prefer that race, as
shown by their readiness to marry into it. This
ably of the Africans resident in the United States
and is just as true of the Bantus Gin Africa, the
uOIiSOHdIlS, Inc ISuSklIS, anu tne MdldyS ana
small wonder is it that the square faced African,
angular faced redskn, and round faced Monaghan
should feel and ackno,!'edge the superior beauty
possessed by the oval faced European. All the
pottery and all the basketry made by all the peoples
upon earth show the proper prediction for
the oval form, what strictly should be called the
ovate form,-the shape that is, of the egg, of the
European face, and of the universal vase. Such
contour affords that variety in unity there of
curvature) which is the very life of art, it is also
the very spice of life.
Also the native mother of the Eurasan European
The Washington herald., 1907-02-02
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