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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20


Chicago, attorneys for James Reddick,
uments and all of the diary are in the
Russian language.
The diary and a letter from her
mother received through a go-between
more than year ago show De Ray
lan's real family name to have been
Taletsky. Her given name is not
shown by any of the documents. The
diary covers a period between the years
1885 and 1892, the year Of her arrival
as refugee in Chicago.
The first phase of her life traced in
her journal, many pages of which in
dictate that she was n drunkard. gam
bier and profane roue, depicts her as
schoolgirl. Her mother had placed
her In government school for girls In
Kiev, Russia, where the Taletsky fam
lily home was situated, and between
the ages of fifteen and sixteen years
she was to graduate. Somewhere
around this period her mother, who had
been we'll to do before, suddenly ac-
quired 25D,0 rubles about $125,o
Nicolai discovered the existence of
this sum and became suspicious con-
corning n. In some way she found
that 1t had been settled on her mother
as trustee by some member of the no
biiity, to be conserved in the interest
OF NicolaI. This discovery mnde the
young girl curious as to the reasons for
the settlement and caused her to wish
for her father. to find from him what
mystery surrounded her origin. Nico-
lai writes of various interviews with,
her mother, In which the latter refused
to give information.
As the time of the graduation from
the girls school drew near the girl con
ceived a Napoleonic scheme to force
her mother to pay her a considerable
sum OF money or at least to divulge
the information she sought so eagerly.
or both. She had her inspiration in two
statutes of Russia, one making it
crime. punishable by Imprisonment. to
gain entrance 10y any means for hoy
law regulating compulsory military
service, which made it a serious crime
to hide the sex of q male child.
The completeness of Detail with
which the sixteen-year-old girl set
about to prove herself boy shows
her to have possessed originality and
IMAGINATION 10 Tue point OF genus.
No detail was left uncompleted. Sc
fore she made known to any one her
purpose she made final and convincing
arrangements to provide for evidence
In case her sex was questioned.
She had been watched over from ear
~ childhood by French governess.
Louise Rataue, about nine years her
senior. .,,ccting to take her gov
crnass into her confidence, she said.
according - ..le diary:
Louise. ;oI've seen me in the house
here posing as girl, when in fact all
the time Lave been boy. The pur-
pose of my mother in Disgusting me in
this way was to procure this money
that has come to her"
She convinced Louise OF the truth OF
her statement, and they entered into
compact, according to the diary. to
ave KIev together and enter on n
mpalgn the purpose of which should
be to force the mother to give up the
information and the money. Nicolai
told the governess she long had been
secretly in love with her and would
marry her as soon as the money was
obtained.
The preparation FOR the assuming of
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20

c. Gautz died at Red Hill, in
Wood county, at the age of SO years.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20
LONG I.ive tle KING,

is the popular cry throughout Euro
pean countries; while in America, the
cry of the present day is Long live
Or. Kings New Discovery, King of
Throat and Lung Remedies!" of
which Mrs. Julia Ryder Paine, of
Truro, Mass, says: "1t never fails
to give immediate relief and to
quickly cure cough or cold" Mrs.
Peine's opinion is shared by a ma
jorliy of the inhabitants of this coun-
try. New Discovery cures weak
lungs and sore throats after all 9TH
er remedies have failed; and for
coughs and colds it's the proven rem
edy.s Guaranteed by Frank G. Bland,
druggist. soc and $500. Trial
bottle free
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20

she came to New York The captain
Of the ship grew interested in Ms
strange passenger and became sus
picioUs of Nicolars sex. He had IN.
quarrel with the stewardess TOR
maintaining Nicolai was man. II
nalIy he made let OF GO francs Ma
the stewnrless. the test to he mae
by the captain. lie interviewed Nice
lai privately and then sought out n;
once the stewardcss and paid the wa
ger, admitting he had lost.
Arrived In Worcester. Eicolai tailed
things over with Wilson. the banker.
and decided she had best 70 TO Gil
cago. Mr. Wilsou gave her n letter Of
Introduction 10 French grocer whose
name is blurred IN the diary.
Here the strange diary ends. Mccall
eventually became secretary to the
Russian courul general In Chicago.
holding tho position for thirteen years,
until. overcome u tuberculosis. she
went to Arizona. There upon her death
he undertaken discovered her true sex.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20

IN THE STATE

Austin Conley. whose wages were
attached and then released, has
brought suit against Justice of the
Peace Ruttencutter and his bonds
men at Parkersburg for $4,000 dam
ages.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20
DE RAVLAN'S DIARY.
Mystery Of Russian Man-Woman
Finally Solved.
FOOLED M. PoBEDoNosTzEFF

Remarkable Story Revealed In Memoirs
of Ex-seeretary to Cars Consul In
Chicago, Whose Sex Was Not Dis
covered Until Her Death.
The life secret of Nicolai de Raglan,
for years secretary to the Russian con
sui at Chicago, who, after masquerad-
Ing as man for eighteen years, was
found after her death in Arizona in
December, 1906, to have been wo-
man, has been revealed. The story,
never before published, containing her
reason for starting ont on career Of
deception that proved her one of tho
most accomplished actresses in the
world and disclosing Russian scar
dal that has been hidden for years, IS
contained in her diary and private cor
respondence recently discovered by I'll
chael FeinberS. clerk in the law Of
fee of Gardner. Stern & Anderson 81
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20

A Parkersburg man claims TO have
Travelled from San Francisco to
Wheeling on passenger trains for
$3.50 He was with friend who
had a ticket and borrowed his
friends hat check.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-20

The Mississippi Wire Glass Com
pany, OF Morgantown. has leased
$500 acres of land and expects to
produce the natural gas for its own
fuel.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26

farmhands and all the supemumeraries necessary
to the conduct of any enterprise need more money
to pay the increased cost imposed upon them by
the prosperity the country is now enjoying. linen,
too high prices are not local. They extend the
length and breadth of the land though probably
not in just as exaggerated form in Salt Lake
In the discussion preceding the calling OF the
grand jury, there was lot of talk as to who was
responsible Retailers pleaded innocence at first,
and laid the onus upon the wholesalers and COM
mission men. and when the latter replied it was
retort that the retailers demanded excessive mar
gins between the cost and selling prices. Of course,
the denial of the accusations on the part of each
party in the dispute called for proofs and if proofs
we're submitted they might furnish evidence against
them both. So they got together, talked the mat
ter over and joined forces to lay all the blame
on the farmer Poor plutocrat farmer, the scape-
goat of all the evils of a vicious system of tnance
High prices are not peculiar to one commodity
or to one class OF commodities; everything not l1n-
tied by law is higher-coal, wheat, wages, paper;
everything, with conspicuous exception-cop-
per- Copper is not as low it may yet 60 A few
months ago there was an immense demand for cop
per- and the price went up and up and yet up;
then the demand ceased and it went down again.
In the crash good many feeces were taken. The
rise was not legitimate, and the fall was no more
So The fuctuation is part of the system which
makes economic conditions largely to suit the dc
mands of stock market operators and patrons OF
high finance. Salt Lake merchants are as much
controlled by the stock jobbers as local consumers
are by local merchants Whence the very positive
inference that local conditions are not altogether
controlled by local men.
In the solution of the problem of high prices
there is more than mere local issue to be reached
by grand jury inquisition An illegal combination
in restraint of trade may be found and few
small-fry trustlet magnates punished but the real
cure for the extorton will be found only when the
nation enacts laws based on the proposition that
the greatest good to the greatest number is unat-
tainable as long one man control wealth
sufficient to make 100000 men rich and at the
time it to extract from that 100000 men
the last penny by skful manipulation of supply
and demand.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
DON'T EXHIBIT LEARNING.

Men in these days are too prone to exhibit their
learning, and this is repulsive to those really en-
listed in the spread of the gospel of carpenter
Son and his twelve ignorant apostles st. Paul
warns against using human eloquence. The null
titudes of people who read religious papers do not
care about learned discussions on science nor that
other multitude of human beings that never read
anything but light novels and newspapers. The
latter TEEN with errors. 1t is difficult matter to
print paper devoid of mistakes. Only Chicago
editor could do that and then use his assumed per-
lection as an argument. It is a violation of jour
naistic ethics to answer one writer's contentious
by producing in retaliation grammatical mistakes.
An editor who does that assumes infalibility for
himself, and we know that in writing, spelling and
grammar no man is impeccable The writer of the
book of the Machabees apologies for his errors OF
style Perfection is impossible and unnecessary in
an evangelist. 1t has been asserted that a certain
publishing house offered a premium to anyone
who could detect an error in a popular novel by a
prominent author, just issued by it, and so many
were discovered that the firm was forced to with
draw its offer of money prizes We hope this par
agraph viii be read by a few perfect" and proud
writer's who need to peruse it very badly. They
might also mediate on it. 1t would do them no
harm.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
PINS AND NEEDLES.

Census bulletin No. IS tells of some of the
tri1ing details of the business of the country which
are of passing interest 1t tells of pins and needles
and buttons and lead pencils and whole lot of
other little things which people use every day and
without which they would hardly know how to get
along. Nearly twenty billions of pins were pro-
duced in the country in 1905 That many pins,
if placed end to end, would reach something like
100000 miles. But of course nobody would at
tempt to place more than two or three pins in a
row, so that it doesn't make much difference how
far they would extend Along with the pins went
240000,000 needles about three needles for each
man, woman and child in the country, or one needle
for each eighty pins. 1t would be hardly fair to
infer from these figures that eighty persons have
their clothes pinned together where one has them
properly sewed, but the figures show plainly that
a stitch in time saves more than nine In the
needle statistics it is notable that there are no
hand-sewing darning, crochet, tape or knitting
needles made in this country. Buttons 4176,000-
600 of them were made in the same year in TWEEN
ty-one states. More than half of this number were
pearl
The lead pencil industry is big one notwith-
standing there is vast importation from foreign
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26

lection of all the characteristics of Holy Scripture
which distinguish it from any superior literary par
Torrance; the contemptuous negation of the snir
itual character of the church, and the deri-fon
with which the assertion of her inherent authorize
is received; all these are but so many manifest.
tions of the spirit of IawIessness, which is cnsr
giving and will energze with more or less violence
till the coming of "the Iawless one of holy writ
gathers it up for its final and most terrific out
burst. Without going into further detail if nav
be safely said that the present state of s5c.aty
around is strongly marked by the two prlncinars
of sensual indulgence and adherence of Divine
authority Every decent father of a pure dauel-
ter has the right to demand of a professedIg re-,
ligious teacher his cooperation IN the fight he IS
putting up to defend his home and his daugh-er,
honor against the attacks of lecherous and ur-
prncipled libertines The minister of religion who
wantonly destroys the integrity of the faith coming
down to us from the days of our Divine Lord and
Master is not alone, consenting party to the de-
struction of the defenses of the sanctity of home
life, but an active agent in the ruin of souls re-
deemed by the blood of Jesus Christ The inspired
writings and the infalIible testimony of the Chris
tian church bear testimony to the faith once for all
delivered to the world and are witnesses to the
evangelical essentials received from the apostles
of which St. Paul said of any man or an angel
from heaven preach any other gospel than that
We have received let him be aceursed." God grant
that these awful words may haunt these modern
creed makers and opponents of liberalism, till they
be brought to hold fast the form of sound words
and realize the severity of the advice of the same
aDost1e tn Timothy TO "Cburl 1,rofane and vain
speeches; for they grow much toward impiety. and
the speech of these men spreadeth like a cancer
God give them repentance to know the truth
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
DEFEATED ALREADY.

Some iconoclast has brought forth PROPOSE
ton for the creation of national board of public
works, whose duties would be very similar in ma
tional affairs to the duties of boards of public
works of the cities of the nation Now this prop
osition may be a very meritorious one and board
of public works may be just the one thing needed
to bring perfection to our governmental system.
No matter, however, whether it have merit or not,
if the proposition ever gets before the congress,
it is very certain to be defeated by the patriots
at the capitol A national board of public works
would look after the internal improvements car
ried by the government. 1t would probably
direct the expenditure of the money appropriated
by congress for river and harbor improvements"
And these improvements might thereafter consist
of something of more benefit to the people than a
political levee built up out of the federal funds.
Of course, some of the river and harbor improve
ments have actually been improvements but it has
been notorious that the appropriation bill for this
work has been made to for esteemed con-
stituency quite as much for the rivers
A national board of works might stop all this.
1t might even be the kneIl of all river improve
ments because if the patriots were not allowed
to spend the money, they might refuse to appro-
pirate. But the duties of the board have not been
stated. Nor has the constitutionaty of the prop
osition been tested. If, however, the work of the
board would secure close supervision of the ex-
penditure of public funds if it would improve the
rivers in proportion to the money spent on them,
if it would guard the peoples interest in their coal
lands, their timber lands and their public domain,
if it would build roads and teegraphs and rail
roads, if it would do all these things or even only
one of them, then would the iconoclastc theory be
welcomed by long-sufering and gulble public.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
WHOSE INTEREST?

When campaign is getting started, especially
a national campaign there is great deal of talk
and political harangue about protecting certain in
terests Most of this talk is mere buncombe but
it illustrates in a forcible way the lack of united
effort for the public good, which is, or should be-
the desideratum for which everybody should strive.
But instead of the public good, there is the fnan-
cial world which needs careful nursing there is the
manufacturing world which must not be over
looked in the legislation of the land there is the
railroad interest, and the labor interest, and the
mining interest, and the saloon interest, and the
party interest-an these cry out for representa-
ton, these and a thousand others put forward de-
mands, the granting of which would no doubt mill
tate against the interest of the public which, in
the premises, should be paramount.
The people have about reached the conclusion
that all these various interests are competent to
take care of themselves Each is so organized as
to grab its share of the good things in the world
and it doesn't require any legislation to give it an
advantage over the rest OF the country. There has
been altogether too much toadying to the inter
ests. The statute books of Utah and about every
other state are made up Of laws granting to GER
tain interests some special privilege inimical to the
public good. 1t is about the easiest thing In the
world for corporation attorney to make his IN
terest appear as a public benefactor and thus Sc
cure the passage of laws which increase the ca
paeity of corporate greed. Even under the wave
of reform which has swept the country the seeur-
ing of favorable legislation the interests has not
been impossible although in some instances the
insistent public demand for reform has curtailed
the more brazen demands of the interests.
There is only one interest that requires protec-
tion-the public interest, the greatest good to the
greatest number. All others are specious. When
a corporation puts forward a special pleading for
the enactment of certain laws it may be written
down in nine cases out of ten with no fear Of at
tempted contradiction that here is another method
devised by skilled attorney to separate the people
from their money, all to the profit of the advocate
and to the detriment of the people Let there be
few laws in the interest of the public
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
HIGH PRICES.

Recent disclosures of evidence of a combine in
Salt Lake to boost prices of food products have
resulted in the assembling of grand curry, osten-
sbly to inquire if there is in fact such combine
as is inferred to exist from the evidence Whether
an illegal working agreement is operative or not
the fact is patent that food prices are in many
cases excessive. Whether the retailers are com
bined to exact exorbitant profits, whether the
wholesalers and commission men demand too wide
a margin or whether the innocent and downtrod-
den farmer is responsible, if any or ALL it is the
duty of the grand jury to find out. After they
have found out there will probably be one more
addition to the bootless Investigations which have
come so swiftly during the past year or two.
There not many Salt Lake retailers who
make annual pleasure trips to Europe; the whole
salers and commission men are not encircling the
globe to spend their excess wealth, and the
muti-milionaire farmer is at least not ubiquitous
in Utah. No doubt they are making a profit on
the goods they SELL perhaps the percentage in each
case is large, although it may be hardly sufficient
to enable them to pay their legitimate operating
expenses. Rents are higher; taxes are higher on
higher assessments, and the clerks, bookkeepers,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
THE TERMoUNTAN AND COLORADO CATHOLIC: OCTOBER 1917

lands There were 3OS,S5O,O16 wood-encased pen
ellis made here Besides the pencils there were f.
SIG 400 fountain pens, which number will be vastly
increased when the new Salt Lake pen factory en-
ters into the statistics of the census bureau. Ac-
cording to these figures each person ought to have
three pretty good pencils and stub IN his pocket
and every twentieth person ought to have toun-
tain PEN
Measured in dollars, the annual production of
pins and needles, buttons, pencils and fountain
pens is worth something over $20,000,000, and there
are about 10000 wage earners employed.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
TRUST CONTROL.

The Southwestern Oil company of Texas has
retired from business because it couldn't make any
money Inasmuch as the Standard Oil company
is outlawed in the Lone Star state, the announce
ment carries with it bit of surprise But, besides
boosting the Standard from the state, the legisla
ture has enacted a lot of special legislation in the
form of excessive taxes which necessarily must be
added to the cost of oil. As result the Standard
undersell any Texas company in territory from
which it has not been disbarred, and the state of
Texas is enjoying rather unique experience at
trust busting. 1t is an old adage that the devil
should be given his due. In the respect of being
entitled to his due, Standard Oil and his Satanic
majesty may be classed together. The Standard is
pretty bad but it isn't much worse than the legs-
lation enacted to control it, and it cannot be held
responsible for the misguided though well intended
legislation which graces the statute books of grand
old Texas
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26

In the comic supplement of last Sundays pa
pers Buster Brown is made to say in his resolution
at the lower right hand corner of the page, "Roses
do not grow poison ivy, and man who loves
God can't believe in Satan" Thousands of chill
dren read this rot every week. and it shows plainly
what way the world is drifting. But why not make
it palmer and let it read thus: Little boys and
girls also big boys and girls do whatever you feel
like doing, no matter how contemplate it is be-
cause God is too good to punish you, and although
Christ and his apostles, all the prophets of Israel
and the Scriptures say there exist a devil and
hell they are liars" Again why not deny that
there dreadful fends and demons in human
form. Neros child ravishers and murderers
Everyone knows positively that there are such dew
lis. But according to the author of the Buster
Brown comics to believe that they exist is not to
love Godl According to this mans philosophy the
world would be compelled to hate God because of
terrible train wrecks, manged human beings lep-
ers and tortured bodies of all kinds. WE'LL we can
only do very little to nullify such ignorant reason
ing and that little we are glad to do
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26
CARD FROM BISHOP sCANLAN.

feel it my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time time that person bearing the
name and gar5 priest sister, else, is
authorized or permitted 10 solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with tbs
Catholic Church without having from permission
in writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such document he or
she as the case may be- should be regarded by all
. fraud and an imposter. l. SEAMAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-26

The erroneous and ridiculous thought enter
tanned by large number of intelligent human be-
ings that performs all his meritorious actions,
even almsgiving, from selfish motive is mislead-
ing in the extreme and it illustrates to what ex-
tent the reason be deceived by falacious ideas
To assert that the sailor who leaps into the sea to
save his mate or stranger, the dying and thirsty
soldier who shares his last drop of water With,
e0mrade the hero who devotes his life to nursing