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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17
St. Paul

C'est avec regret ct surprise que
nous avons appris la s6rieuse ma
ladie de notre estim6 Docteur Phi.
Roy. II y a quelques jours seule~
ment lie Docteur faisalt lui-meme
une operation des plus importan-
tes a lh6pital St Joseph, ct lie jour
meme dams l'apres midi, il Staff eur
la meme table deportation, sous les
SONS du DR. Swestzer pour un cas-
d~'appendice.
La popularit6 du Docteur Roy
ct la haute estime que ses nom
breux amis ct parents ont pour lui,
ont etc demontr6s en- cette occasion,
par les nombreuses visites, ct les
sollicitudes prodigues, ct tous sont
sincerement anxieux pour I'm
prompt reimbursement.
LIE Docteur a quite l'hopital la
semaine derniere ct termine SO
convalescence chez lui, il est q es-
perez que Sc forte constitution ct
les bons soins, permettront blentot
all Docteur de retourner d ga NOM
breuse clientele ainsi qua ses amis
qui tous, lui souhaitent une promp-
to guerison.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17
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Condolences

A la derniere s6ance r6gullere
du cercle Ste Anne Rranche No 2e
de ~. s. @. F. Catalogues DIES
Etats- Unis les resolutions de Con
dol6ances suiyantes ont 6t6 adop-
t6E.
Attendu: Que Dieu don't les de.
crets sont impenetrables a appele
a Luz Albert Dumas fills bien al
ms de Sr. Laura Dumas Pr6siden-
te du cercle Ste Anne, petlt-f fills de
Sr Vltaline Bernard ct neveu DIES
Srs Antoinette ct Rachel Bernard;
MI Arcand p6re tres regrett6 de
Sr Henriette Gagn6, ct a Sr Philo.
meme Violat une smur tres affec-
tionn6e il etc
R6solu: Que tous les membres
du cercle Ste Anne ofrent a toutes
ces spurs d6sol6es, leurs plus sin
ceres sympathies dams leurs 6preu-
yes respectives ct de plus.
R6soIu: Qu'une copie de ces
resolution soft envoyee a chacune
de ces Smurs afHig6es ct une a
"lECHo DE L'oUEsT" pour publica.
tion.
Ana5tasie Page
Secr6taire
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17
La Laicisation des JurOns

Cest probablement la seule lai-
cisation qui peut avolr son bon CO.
te. LIE gouvernement du Bloc, en-
France, fnira.t-il par lelciser les
jurons? II faut sly attendre, sill
veut atre loglque IN tout. Voici q
ce propos n amusante reHexion
dun journal f%rancais:
En- son recent discours du ban
quet Brisson, NJ. Clemenceau, sans
metre malice, assurement, a pro-
nonce ces quatre petits mots: pour
l'amour de Dieu."
VOLTA qui d6montre, couclut lie
spirjtuel Jules Lermina, aquel de-
gre la langue frarcalse est impr6-
gn6e du vocsbuleire r7l1gieux.
Tn cure disait IN jonr, en- rifnt;
"Je maine pas qu'on disc: Nom
de Dieu! ct p)ourtant, Ga me fait
p}aistr. parce que celia prouve
qn'on ne l'oublie pas
LIE fait est quill nous serait
beaucoup plus difhcile dc nous
ecrier: "Nom de la justice 6manen-
tel on Tom ere de IL selection
neturelle!"
LIE confess7ur de Henri ~, qui
s'appelait Cotton, await convert son
royal p6nitent a dire 'Jsrnlcoton'
au lieu de "Jarnidieu."
Louis XIV Jurait Par la sam
bleu;' les Angla1s dissent "By Jo-
We" ct les Italiens "Per Bacco."
Done, ls1cisous nos lurons:"Jar-
III Cailleux ne serait pas NAL.
Mieux vaudralt peut-6tre ne
point ]urer. Mais c'est 81 commode:
dams les grades occasions.
LIE plus ,ieux cure &c France
Went de MOURN. Ii await plus de
quatre.virgt-dix-neuf ans ct gou-
velnait la parolsse de Chatel, &c.
rard, dams lYonne. II ny await
plus, au village, I'm seul habitant
qui matt etc beptis6 pal lui.
Quelques mols moore ct lie dl-
gna homme etalt entenaire....
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17
ECHO DE L'OUEST

les Greer, les controller, au lieu de les subir. LIE Canaaien-Fran-
Gals, de meme que tous les autres immigrants, dot en- traversant
la frontiere abandonner sa politique, ct nombre de continues che
res q son occur; mails sa religion. sa langue, ss parents, ses amls'
ses qualities de race ct ramour du pays DIES ancetres, tout celia est
un heritage pr6cieux qu1 dot fructi6er dams Ia terre promise.
Cest un puiesant moyen de lib6ralser les esprHs de son entoura-
votes droites pour la propagation de nos croyances ct de la frater-
mite sociale.
La diffusion de nos qualities nationales dams la sou6t6 est
I'm devoir qui incombe, ct comment y parvenlr 81 ce nest en- gar
dant intact tout &c que nous avons dexcellent?
Pour celia il nous taut l6glise, r6cole ct un college franea1s
dams lie Nord Quest, DIES societies de langue FRANCHISE, puts ensulte,
&c qui est tres important, des conferences fates par nos orateurs
DIES Etats. Unis ct du Canada.
II y en- a d'exeellents parm1 ces dernie's qui ne demanden
pas mieux que de nous visitor, de nous d6rouler nos annales glori-
euses ct de nous redire dams un Language eloquent ct chati6 notre
mission providentielle en- Am6rique ct lid6al auquel tout Cana
diem Francois doit aspirer sill veut SO rendre digne de hautes
destin6ee.
Nous avons, depuis trols cents ans, commence une 6pop6e
qui nateindra son plein d6veioppement que dams les ages futurs;
car nous n'avons pas encore donn5 la pleine mesure de nos capaci-
t6s au Canada, ct encore moins aux Etats Unis.
En- contemplate cette immortelle destin6e DIES n6tres, qui de
nous reculera devant les difficulties de sa realisation? Aucun de
ceux qul c%omprendra sa mission ne falblira, ct il en- restera ASSET
pour mener q bonnie fin le grand nuvre. Vingt-cinq ans ne sont
qu'une 6tape dams la vie dun peuple.
Qn salt 81 lexemple que nous donnerons a nos fr6res du
Canada ne devlendra pas une source dinsplraton pour eux quand
plus tard les hordes 6trangeres auront envahi leur territoire ct
menaceront de r6duire leurs forces all point Oh nous sommes dams
IUnion?
GEO. b. FoRT1N.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17

LIE gouvernement francois Went
de decider que la "pantheonisa-
ton de lola aura lieu ct que ses
ceLdr5s seront transportees sous Ia
Coupole a cote des restcs du mare
chal Lannes. lie gouvernement a
refuse de laisser eulever, a Ia de-
man1e dun parent. la d6pouille du
marechal heGos de l'Empire. IN
suIteur de I'arm6e reposera a cote
dune DIES glolres mllitaires de
France.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17

Mgr In. Begin, archeveque de
Quebec, qui Went de rentrer dun
voyage Ell Europe, sera cree card!-
nal au consls:olre du mols pro,
cham.
Cette nouvelle, qui nous Went de
New. York, est pa,faltement all
thentlque.
Tous les sdmirateurs du grand
archsveque de Quetec Ia r%ecevront
ayec une joie profonde.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-04-17

Berlureau lit SOD journal:
"Les Marocains, depuis le COM
mencement DIES hostllites, accusent
trois cents tues
Alors Berlureau %lnterrompt sa
lecture:
-Accuser ainsi DIES gems qui ne
sont pas Ia pour SO d6fendre, dit-l]
c'est vraiment lache.
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TO ADVERTISERS

he Echo de pOuest Las q larger
circulation than any French paper
published in the Northwest.
Advertisers may at any time
ex sm ne Il subscription lists.
We are also ready to substantiate
this by proper certificates from tbs
SUPERINTENDENT Of mails.
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suit:
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L'EcHo IF L'OUEsr nest pas respon-
sable des idees ct opinions em1ses par
yes correspondents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02

csc government and newspapers began
to announce that Russia was their best
friend and that there could never be
any trouble between them, We believed
those supposedly sincere assurances and
suppressed all utterances in regard to
the Japanese politics. But that was a
great mistake and the cause of our fail
ure.
After the Boxer rebellion in China
our government occupied Manchuria and
displayed great influence in the Far
East. | could notice the change of at
titude toward us of which l made a long
report to the Gar. 1t was a very pecu
liar position and the Gar recommended
me to make a tour through Japan and
the Far East. i was received with great
friendship and new assurances by the
Mihado and his people that pacific rela-
lions between Japan and Russia never
had been as strong as then.
II returned from my trip home and paci-
fled all excited elements, but while doing
that there was trick back of all this
cordial Japanese assurance, but could not
express officially my personal opinion. An
other point was that | could not see a
sufficient cause for war, because we kept
strictly within our obligations, and the
private affairs in Korea, which seemed to
excite some Japanese business interests,
were so insignificant for political trouble
that did not pay them any attention.
1.-THE Japanese government and news
papers continued to be our greatest
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SHELBY MOORE CULLOM by Savoyard

Tecumseh and served Jackson and the
democratic party so long and faithfully
in both houses of Congress, for which he
was chosen ninth vice president of the
United States.
While yet in his teens Palmer became
a citizen of Illinois, and at % he was
called to the bar Soon thereafter he was
judge on the bench, and in 1856 he was
elected to the state senate as an anti
Nebraska democrat, when he parted COM
pany with Douglas and Joined the repub-
lican party. Twice has there been a
prolific exodus from the ranks of the de-
mocracy, and Palmer participated in both
the first, 1S54-55, when such men as
Morton, Julien Trumbull, Boutwell,, our
old friend General Grosvenor, and thou
sands of others Joined with their former
enemies in the anti-slavery crusade. On
all other questions except slavery there
has rarely got together body of men
who held more antagonistic political
views than the convention that nomi-
mated Abraham Lincoln for President in
1850, but slavery was paramount and on
that question they were agreed as to the
principle, though somewhat divided as to
the policy
Palmer, the old democrat was chosen
elector for the state at large on the ticket
of Lincoln, the old whig During the
war he was colonel of a regiment.
brigadier and major general, and saw
much hard service and did much hard
fighting. If the secret political and milf
tary history of Kentucky for the last
Is months of the war were presented to
this epoch, as it really existed, unknown
as 1t was to the general public of that
generation. 1t would fill the people vita
astonishment. A butcher, cruel as Alva,
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KUROPATKIN ON THE JAPS

friends until the very moment war was
declared.
Looking at the American situation
notice the repetition of the Japanese dip
lomatic game before its war with us. The
Japanese government is hastily equipping
it's strategic operations. Who might be is
enemy else than the United States who
from the Japanese view might be a men,
ace for their policiesAin China and Korea
They wish to act Independently in Asia
and fear political CONTROL by the United
States. Japan has also certain feeling
of revenge toward the United States be-
cause after the Chinese war and Boxer
rebellion they acted against the interes 3
of Japan.
Furthermore they think that the Uni
ted States urged them to make a peace
with Russia for which they did not get
such heavy indemnity as they expected
to get after few more victories. The
immigration trouble is and will be merely
an artificial pretence to incite hostility.
"The Americans, according to my opin-
ion ought to be more cauli5its than they
are and take into consideration that they
have TO deal with very s.rong and Sc
rious enemy. The AmcrI.a navy is
equipped very perfectly, but on my view
1t is not sufficient to oeat Japan In ,ile
second place America is trusting too uch
to the pacific assurances of the Japanese
government and rr-ss Whoever thinks
in America that a war between the United
States and Japan is absurd is very much
mistaken or stupid"
Berlin.
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which bore a very small proportion to
the whole, she would make rapid prog
ress. I'm taking up the life of some dis
tinguished preacher she always turned
to the end to see what disease he died
of. If his legs sweled, or If he was
dropsical, she became greatly interested.
IN. B. She was dropsical, too) If he
had fallen off stage-coach; If he had
second wife: If any adventures or
repartees We're recorded previous to his
conversion, Mrs Linnet was pleased.
Then she would glance at the inevitable
diary and letters, and wherever she
saw the words "Zion,' River of Life"
etc, she Immediately committed some
"judicious skipping but if she found
passage presenting any such promising
substantives as smallpox, pony" or
'boots and shoes" her attention was
fixed at once Now, this, l apprehend,
was not altogether Mrs. Linnets fault
The habitual reader of religious biogra-
ply learns by experience that the purely
religious portions are generally dull, and
that they are much the same in differ
ent biographies.
OF the life of Leigh Richmond Mrs.
Linnet would say: THAT is a book I'm
very fond of. He found out all about
that woman at Tutbury as pretended to
live without eating. Stuff and nonsense"
Exactly so. Stuff and nonsense, to be
things that are neither stuff nor nom
sense utterly fail to interest one, owing
to the bald, dull, slovenly style in which
they are presented. Everything good is
not necessarily pleasing in it's form, nor
is it always sure to be fresh man
read the AIRS Poetica" of Horace and
admired it greatly; but later he read
substantially the same thoughts in
Aristotle's .Poetics,'' and was disguised
at Aristotle for his literary theft. He
was not sufficiently acquainted with the
history of literature to know that Aris-
totle wrote first.
In writing the purely religious portion
of a Christians Life" the author
should remember that there is blessed
sameness" in the general religious ex-
perience of truly pious men, and that a
record of the distinctive features is all
that is needed, and certainly all that will
be fresh and readable. When books are
made as much alike nckels, they
are worth hardly nickel apiece. Stella
justly said that Dean Swift could write
well on a broom stick but we find writ
ers who, with a much more promising
subject than a broomstick, manage to
make it infinitely less interesting.
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questioned, could give only the very
general information included in the oft
repeated reply: II don't know nothing
l do not hesitate TO say that the pop
ular mind is as truly, and, in its own
way, much pleased with really art
istic performance as the cultivated mind
is pleased by the contemplation of the
same performance from the most dis
eliminating point of view. There is a
very strong artistic instinct which, like
Dogberry's writing and reading comes
by nature.
Besides. who gave us leave to neglect
the souls of the rich and the cultivated?
IA it is your duty as a Christian worker
to do the most possible good in the
world then what right have you DELHI
erately to discard the thought of helping
that SMALL but not insignificant class
who have taken the pains to acquire
some literary taste? One is grievously
tempted to suspect that the whole thing
quotation from Scripture included-is lit
tie more than a pious excuse for laziness
or incompetency. I'VE don't attempt
to satisfy a cultivated taste because 1t
is so much easier to write without any
reference to it."
THE poor have the gospel preached to
Them" was one of the evidences which
Jesus gave of his Messiahship; but 1t is
taught neither by precept nor by exam
pie; that We are to leave the rich, the
CulllNdleut TIE ana make no
effort to save them. 1t is hard for a
rich man to get to heaven. and the
noble" and learned and influential man
of the world is subject to very peculiar
temptations to live a goddess and self
sufficient life. l am not sure that We
do not need society for the spread of
the gospel among the rich and the cul-
tivated; for they are, so far as personal
efforts for their salvation are concerned,
the most neglected portion of our popu-
lation. But what success has crowned the
efforts of our religious biograpners? The
fashion of ignoring the literary element
of the reading public has had long,
fair and almost unrivalled trial, and if
it were worth much it ought to show
rich fruits. The conspicuous lack of
fruit is no favorable symptom. Some
few writer's have rejected the fashion
and have written religious biographies
with some regard to literary taste; and
those are the books that continue to be
read, and that have done about all the
good that has been done in this direction.
George Eliot tells US that Mrs. Linnet
was a reader of religious biographies;
and as she was in the habit of combining
herself to the purely secular portions
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since Douglas has Illinois had as great
a debater in the Senate as John NJ. Palm
er. He was always a democrat and
a doctrinaire, except on the slavery ques-
ton, and when the negro was freed, then
Palmer, like Chase and Julian, returned
to the democratic fold.
But Palmer was not, and could not be,
a blind partisan When the democratic
party broke pellmell for the populist camp
he refused to follow. He got more abuse
for it than he had been the object of all
his life previously, and minded 1t not in
the least.
He died in 1900 aged four score and three
years, great and an honest man, a pa
triot, and a statesman Buckner, in some
respects even a greater man, yet sur
wives at even a greater age.
Shelby NJ. Cullom was born in 1929,
and the following year his father moved
from Wayne county, in the mountains Of
Kentucky, to Tazewell county, Illinois.
Cullom was reared a whig, and 1t was
quite natural for him to be a republican.
He was a follower of Lincoln, John j.
Hardin, Richard Yates, Dick Oglesby,
Under and other wings, who had also
come from Kentucky. Endowed with ex-
cellent common sense, correct morals and
patient and persistent industry, Shelby NJ.
Cullom would have gone to the front in
any state of the union, and he was es-
pecially adapted to the atmosphere of the
then frontier state of his adoption.
Lyman Trumbull, William J. Bryan's
political mentor, was another Illinois
democrat, who served in the United
States Senate as a member of the republic
can party. He was the author of some
of the worst of the reconstruction meas
ures, 1865. But, originally a democrat,
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and Gross, like other wives:

And cross, like other wives
Upon my SOUL my honest Matt,
l fear she has nine lives.
The man who wrote those lines was no
fool; and l am afraid he was sober
But, leaving the a priori argument let
us look a the facts How many bogra-
phies, written in any age, are now alive?
Many productions in other lines have
defied time thus far and bid fair to live
for ages to come. Poems, oratons songs,
sermons, letters, fables, novels, histories,
dramas, scientific and philosophical
works, satires, essays-n short, almost
all departments of literary effort are bet
ter represented by living, lasting speci-
mems than is this of biography.
OF course, ] do not mean that there are
now in print fewer so-called Biographies
than of the other words just mentioned,
for the modern press is pouring them
forth in overwhelming foods. But the
question is, How much life is in them?'
The proper answer may be suggested by
an autopsy on the bodies of the persons
whose lives these books profess to record,
as it is too often true that the literary
galvanic battery, vulgarly called puff -
is the only known appliance by which
any semblance of life can be got out of
the books. They have nothing in COM
mon with biography, but the name.
geon is worth reading?
In the whole range of ancient litera-
ture Plutarch is one of the few sur
viving biographers and when we add
Tacitus and Suetonius, the list is about
complete. 1t may be confidently pre-
dicted that with all our rage for biog-
raphy the present age will hardly fur
nish many Plutarchs to the literary
world of the fortieth century. In fact,
there is "a plentiful Lack of modern
biographe rs whose works are now
alive. Boswell has established a claim
to long life; but how many more
names can we Gull from the multitude
nous mob? What has become of Wirt's
life of Patrick Henry?
The truth is that great men are not
produced lin schools and nations;"
that they are not "as plenty as black
berries and that the making of great
men to order, and out of moderate ma
terial is rather an uphill business,
and, upon the VIII ole, somewhat shift
less one. To make a book, entitle it
THE Life of the Honorable Mr.. So-and-
So" and say that the Honorable Mr..
So-and-So is a great man, Is easy
enough, to be sure; but most judi
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Family Newspaper War.

From the Indianapolis News.
This is little domestic story with two
characters-father and son.
The gray-haired father as he has been
reading the newspapers day after day
has been impressed with the fact that an
unusually large number of sons of good
families have been going wrong. A
bright idea came into his head the other
day. Since that time until within four
or five days ago he has been clipping ac-
counts of these misdoings out and placing
them each morning beside the plate of
his son at the breakfast table.
Then a bright idea came into the head
of the young man. He found good ma
terial In the daily papers of the misdo-
ings of elderly men, fathers of families.
These he kept together for some days,
and yesterday at breakfast put the bunch
beside the plate of his father. Thus far
honors are easy.
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6N1EY used to call James Buchanan
the old public dictionary" be-
= cause of his 80 years of office
holding, beginning with his service in the
18th Congress and ending with the inaug-
Gration of Abraham Lincoln as President
of the United States He served in
both houses of Congress. He was our
minister to two first class foreign courts
He was secretary of state In the cabinet
of James K. Polk, and he was the 18th
President of the United States.
But during the last 55 years Shelby NJ.
Cullom has held office more than 80 years,
beginning as city attorney of SPRING
field, Ill, and eliminating in service
in the United States Senate longer than
that of any other man who ever held
the commission of Illinois as a member
of that body. From city attorney, Gull
lom went to the legislature, of which
body he was speaker for three terms
1S65-71 In 1875 he was elected governor
of Illinois and was reelected in $780,
resigning in 1883 to succeed David Davis
as a senator in Congress, of which body
he is yet a member after a lapse of a.
quarter of a century, and his present lease
will not expire until 1918. He is enc of
the less than a dozen men who have
been given five terms in the Senate
In the first half of the last century
Kentucky gave to Illinois two citizens.
each of whom became governor of his
adopted state and United States senator
from the same-John NJ. Palmer, a Jack
son democrat, and Shelby M. Cullom, a
Clay whig Palmer was from the heart
of the blue grass the county of Scott
and doubtless got political inspiration
from that grim ole soldier who slew