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7 THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
- FRTDAY, JANUARY 28. 1902.
CURIOUS LEGENDS OF
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
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Kirunge
grnds that
enl-tiee I(
veil" are i
mighty mii
moment, .t
fnrn hr s f a
path? I
"the solst ic
»un" ?
The verj
tells how the winds o
their breathing to iis’
ot the angels. and wh
"Peace on Earth’ tile mighty seas be-
rarr.r placid and th'-ir waves so gentle
tv,.-:• t).e halcyon bird- bullded their
n..sirs thereon and reared their little
ritics without thought of danger. In
jungle, forest .anti mysterious prairie
haunts the fierce bear’.* grew kind and
were, for once, at peace with all the
weriri. The simple fish in the streams
rr*J'• iced.’* says a devout old writer:
••the l.e's sane in the hlv
long.” At midnight *“
in their stall!
wise and the :
quietly aln g.”
That night the creatu
talked with their brethrt
"Oh. little town of Bethlehem,^ cr
I that of his friend—
I It came upon the midnight clear,
I That glorious song of old.
Many another familiar song, or poem,
or story, will . otne to mind to gladden
you. ami the Christinas spirit will fill
l your heart. And may It be said of you
I —what the great mauler of Christmas
literature .-aid of the reformed Scrooge.
"No man on earth knew how to keep
i Christmas so heartily and well."—E. A.
j Matthews in St. Louis Globe-Demo-
I crat.
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■tp In process
ail night
tie knelt
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and never
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light.”
of the air
f the field,
otten that
c present
owed the
en, hoarse-
the cow.
•Where?" belie
"In Be
?e ox in his b.a
lehem.’ bleaied the
And ever since that
first Christmas night the creatures
have kepi watch and good children
can hf or them talking, if they but lis
ten aright. Have we not nil seen the
beautiful, world-beloved picture called
"Holy Night.” where the wise cow
looks down on the Blessed Babe, and
the oilier animals watch Ihe happy
mother at* she shows him to the wise
men ?
The Worship of Odin.
Many of our Christmas observances
r.tbe traced back to the old worship
or Odin, the names being changed and
turned to a purer faith. In early days
ihe jovial Yuletlde was a season long-
dr.iwn-out. and the revel lasted from
Christmas evo to Twelfth Night. Fes
tivities began with the gathering of the
Christmas greens, evergreen boughs
and bay leaves, the holly, with its
f Mining leaves and bright red berries:
fie mistletoe, or "golden-rayed plant,”
which promised so much bliss.to senti
mental or fun-loving youth, caught un-
’he witchery of its kissing charm.
Bringing in the Yule log was a Joy
ful ceremony. Amid shouting and
laughter, the huge log was drawn
through the foroct,- saluted by every
wayfarer io insure good fortune, and,
after a rollicking Yule song and a toast
to merry Christmas, the massive wood
blazed merrily in the great fireplace,
tvhlle the happy crowd danced about
end watched it burn away all dissen
sions, wrongs and hoart aches.
1 The wassail eup was another prec
ious offering. We read of It first when
Bowens, daughter of King Hengist.
knelt down before the eonquorer. King
Yartlgern, and, presenting a mighty
< up of wine, cried out. “Wassheli, O
king!” The Christmas tree came to us
from the north of Europe- Once it was
the symbol of spring—now it typifies
the new life. L.iden with golden fruit
and radiant with light, the tree of
childhood has taken-'root, and now lifts
Its gay branches tinder every sky.
flourishing alike amid Norwegian
snows and beneath Ttnlinn suns. In Ger-
m.in fatherland and American new
homes.
One legend of Christmas eve warns
thn-e who have not a good conscience
to stay Indoors that night, for wild
hunters are then abroad who turn into
fierce wolves and devour had folks. On
Pi Stephen’s day. December 2(5, a
■ 'range custom was once popular. Tt
was called "the burial of the wren”—
n irties of boys, singing a mteer rhyme,
'••'■led contributions from door to door.
Tho lender carried a small evergreen
tree with a dead bird fastened to It,
and this was the rhyme:
T''i> wren, the wren, the king of birds.
Was caught on St. Stephen’s day in
‘ the fire.
Tp with tlie kettle and down with the
pan,
A penny or two to bury the wren.
Your pocket full of money, your cellar
full of beer.
I w'sh you a Merry Christmas and
Tlappv New Tear.
Day After Christmas.
Tin- fu t week day after Christmas
1s a legal holiday in ICngland. It is
known as Boxing day. and is reallv
more enjoyed than the more sacred
<'nv itself. Another singular custom
was celebrated early on the morning of
December 23 by a. wholesale spanking
of the children. It was called Childer
mas to make them remember the sad
story of the slaughter of the inno
cents.
I lately heard a pale-faced little girl
env: "I don’t believe in Santa Claus
any more, and I know who tills mv
stockings." Oh. what a sad confes
sion for such a tiny child. When chil
dren have lost faith in a real flosh-
and-blood Jolly Santa Claus, who rides !
k ever roof tops, hitches his reindeer to
■k the chimney, and descends with over-
K* flowing pack to (111 the gaping stoek-
R- ings. they should be told the story of
Ip their patron saint and the origin of the
* many wonderful myths they have heard
t about him.
1 . A child's disappointment might not
1 be so keen if ii knew that a St. Nich- I
oUis really lived once upon a time; I
that he was a bishop of the early
church: that he loved children, and I
the fame of his wondrous goodness to
them was known far and wide. ITe not
only did good by stealth and blushed
: > find it fame, but positively hated to
be found out and thanked. This is
wlty. it Is said, he never can be seen,
no matter how you watch on Christ
mas eve His practice or entering
old my tli of Hertha, a goddess of the
north. When feasts were hold in her
honor tin altar of stones was erected
m tlie family hall, and on it were piled
great evergreen boughs. Through the
dense smoke of the burning branches
’.he goddess would descend and irtflu-
■ rcc the fortunes of her worshipers bv
.im*, ting the flames From this altar,
or "Bertha's stone." wc
ly wotd. "hearthstone."
Other Beautiful Legends.
Many more and beautiful legends wc
ic,aM as :i,c blessed day draws near.
'I here was a famous hawthorn bush in
■* :l cid Rr.glish churchyard tlint always
bloomed or. Christmas day. It was tile
Hart' eit St. Joseph, and every year a
branch of the snowy blossoms'
rented to the King in honor o
sen. In Poland peasants still believe
‘hat on Christmas night the heavens
ate opened, and if you are only good
enough you can see angels ascending
and descending thereon. In Sweden
tile children scatter crumbs for a
< kriMir.as least for the birds, and it is !
sani that the feathered folk assemble ■
lrom all over the country as a token
oi their thanksgiving
in classic Oxford, these ceremonies,
grave and gay, are strietlv observed in
this dawn of the twentieth centurv.
just as when they had their origin
hundreds of years age. Then y onle !o
the great town of London and go about
with Dickens to see Sc-ooge and the
ghosts of Christmas pa*;, * and
to come—see the Christmas markets
•with the enticing viands, look in a- the
humble home of the Crairhitt familv
see their roast goose and smell -heir
plum pudding, and smile wr'r Ti"--
Tim when lie prays. "Good bless us
every one." Then cross the wild At
lantic and listen to "The Bird'- Christ
l mas Carol" to the poem of good Phil-
Ma lips Brooks.
A Missouri Woman on
Probationary Marriage
It would be interesting to know how
tin- swift. sweeping, denunciatory pro
test against the "damnable heresy” of
! her book, which advocates probationary
[marriage, has affected Mrs. KIsie
I Clews Parsons. If she sough; notorie-
I ty she achieved her purpose. And to
j achieve a purpose takes courage. Even
I a moral degenerate, that has been ha
bitually hedged by tile compelling
ways of gentle living, upheld by educa
tional forces and surrounded by the
I conventions of a respectable society,
I must realize that it takes courage to
I promulgate measures so radically at
variance with the established order of
centuries. Or it may be that Mrs.
I Parsons is simply a searcher after
truth. In which case she Is at least
entitled to respect, for it does not ap-
j pear that the lady is an exponent of
j her theory. That is where her courage
would probably fail her.
Truth is of a variable quality.
! Sometimes it shines with the radiance
of a brilliant star, and the ways of life
flow toward it in a perfect and un
shaken comprehension. Even though
I clouds Intervene, the knowledge that
it is thero reigns supreme. It shines
alike for the brilliant and the simple.
And again, truth Is hidden under lay-
| ers of moral dogmas, and there are
I myrind conceptions as to its nature.
Ethical surmises present it first in' this
‘ guise and then in that. The clever
logician establishes his premises, the
seer rends the veil, the astrologer scans
the stars, the geologist^ reads strange
things In the rocks, the prophet walks
i with God. the moralist deals dead plat-
' itudes. and the divine quickens them
with the spirit of-the Lord Jesus. The
metaphysician analyzes the mind, the
physician disSccts the organism, the
scientist hunts for first principles,
and the naturalist attunes his ear and
understanding to the divine harmony
of nature, and all, all. work with cease
less activity that each may add his
little molecule to the sum total of the
truth of the ages.
The wise and the brilliant are active
agents in elucidating, exemplifying and
making luminous the truth. The world’s
greatest majority are passive, acquies
cent" followers. They bow their heads
to llie oracle. Established truth, cus
toms, conventions are accepted by
weak and strong alike. And the mar*
riage custom, though there is recogni
tion of Its flaws, of its limitations, is
the dlvinest thing that man has evolv
ed. The decalogue, the new command
ment. all the cardinal virtues, the po
tential possibilities of spiritual devel
opment are wrapped up in the consum
mation and the prosecution of the
marriage vows.
A few have made the married state
a prototype of heaven, the majority are
relatively happy, many are indifferent,
questioning, and some fail lamentably.
The failure of men and women to veri
fy the purposes and promises of mar
riage has led to a protest by some
against the supposed inefficiency of
the institution itself. The great and
ingenious mind of man has never been
able to present any feasible plan to
usurp it. And Mrs. Parsons’ immoral
suggestion brings a blush to the cheek
of a modest womanhood and fills the
spirit of matrimony with unspeakable
Indignation.
“One Heart for Mine.”
The tone of the nation and the great
throbbing .heart of humanity will be
kept sweet and pure by the old senti
ment “By God's road, one heart for
mine, one woman for me.” God made.
Adam his Eve. But the monogamous.
Intention was perverted by lust and ig
norance. by lust and refinement, by
barbaric tribes and by cultured and
polished nations. Enlightenment was
slow, but little by little, age by age.
morality spread, the spirit of the gen
tle Naznrene was provided, truth
struggled to be free, and to-day God’s
first Intention is the prevailing custom.
And this custom rests solidly on the
geat integral human demand for clean
ness and purity, for virtue and respect
ability. on the sweet and holy belief in
a. chaste love. The stamp of divinity
is upon the unshakable edifice. The
fanciful vagaries of reformers and rev-
olutiolsts fall about it like dead and
parched leaves, and they no more jar
the structure than paper pellets could
have kept the Japanese out of Mukden.
By the longing for the high and the
good, for something beyond this life, we
recognize the existence of the soul. The
longing of the heart for its mate is the
instinctive idea that demonstrates that
somewhere in the universe there is
somewhat to satisfy that demand. It
corroborates God’s plan as instituted
in the Garden of Eden. It is the buoy
ant hope of finding its other half that
illuminates the face' of youth and
makes all the days of their wait
ing.
Many Marry Without Love.
It is true that many people do not
marry for love. Martin Luther con
fessed that ho married to tease the
Pope. Reasons of State and of con
venience, confounding passion with
love, error in judgment, sentimental ,1
emotions of the human heart—anger,
affection, distrust. Justice. surprise
hate, resentment, jov. gladness and
turning them ail into the gold of pure
love.
The most beautiful thing on earth is
a Christian home presided over by a
symmetrically disciplined man and wo
man. And still we may be—only at
"the cock crowing and morning star"
of this prototype of heaven.
And yet. says that same old sophist,
how about the scores of men and wo
men whose instinct of natural selec
tion has failed them? Ought they
embrace tile means of escape in some
manner akin to Mrs. Parson’s plan
or shall they remain in legalized sin
and rest under God's condemnation
This introduces introspection and ha
bankrupted many marriages that
would have otherwise been happy and
God-like. But if the insidious foe con-
quors is self-effacement and self-
abnegation to count for nothing? Is
the nobility that hides an empty heart
under weli-wrought deeds of duty to
count for nothing? Do moral excellen
ey and Christian character and ex
alted fortitude go unnoticed? May
this not be the straight and narrow
way that leads to the foot of- God's
throne?
The old-fashioned way of living and
loving and giving in marriage is not
to be improved upon. It is not the
institution, but the constituency, that
is at fault.—Lily Herald Frost in the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
PNEUMONIA SCOURGE
NEVADA GOLD HUNTERS.
THE CONCORDAT OF 1901
The text of the Concordat of 1801
between the Pope and the French Re
public, a short document, considering
the issues involved, is as follows:
The Government of the republic ac
knowledges that the Catholic, Apostol
leal, and Roman religion is the religion
of the great majority of French citi
zens. His holiness, in like manner, ac
knowledges that this same religion has
derived, and is likely to derive, the
greatest splendor from the establish
ment of the Catholic worship
France, and from its being openly pro
fessed by the consuls of the republic.
This mutual acknowledment being
made, in consequence, as well for the
good of religion as for the maintenance
of interior tranquillity, they have
agreed as follows:
1. The Roman Catholic Apostolical
religion shall be freely exercised in
France. Its service shall be publicly-
performed, conformably to the regula
tions of police which the Government
shall judge necessary for the public
tranquillity.
2. There shall be made by- the Holy-
See. in concert with the Government,
a new division of French dioceses.
3. His holiness shall declare to the
titular French bishops that he expects
from them, with the firmest confidence,
every sacrifice for the sake of peace
and unity-—even that of their sees.
After this exhortation, if they should
refuse the sacrifice commanded for the
good of the church (a refusal, never
theless. which his holiness by no means
expects), the sees of the new division?
shall be governed by bishops appointed
as follows:
4. Within three months after pub
lication of his holiness’, bull, the chief
consul shall nominate to the archbish
oprics and bishoprics of the new di
vision. His holiness shall confer can
onical institution, according to the
forms established for France before the
change of Government (i. e., the revo
lution).
6. The nomination of the bishoprics
which become vacant in future shall
likewise belong to the chief consul, and
canonical institutions shall be admin
istered by the Holy See, conformably
to the preceding article.
6. The bishops, before they enter
upon their functions, shall take, before
the chief consul, the oath of fidelity
which was in use before the revolu
tion. expressed in the following words:
"I swear and promise to God, upon the
holy- evangelists, to preserve obedience
and fidelity to the Government estab
lished Constitution of the French Re
public. I likewise promise to carry on
no correspondence, to be present at no
conversation, to form no connection,
whether within the territories of the
republic or without, which may in any
degree disturb the jiublic tranquillity:
and if in my diocese or elsewhere I
discover that anything is going for
ward to the prejudice of the State. I
will immediately communicate to the
Government all the information I pos
sess.”
7. Ecclesiastics of the second order
shall take the same oath before' the
civil authorities appointed by the Gov
ernment.
8. The following formula of prayer
shall he recited at the end of divine
service in all the Catholic churches of
France: "Domine. salvam fac repub
licans. Domine. salvost. fac .Consules.”
3. The bishops shall make a new di
vision of the parishes in their dmca^es.
which, however, shall not take effect
till after it is ratified by the Govern
ment.
10. The bishops shall have the ap
pointment of the vicars-general. Their
choice shall only fall on persons ap
proved by the Government.
11. The bishops may have a chapter
in their cathedral and a seminary for
the diocese, without the Government
being obliged to-endow them.
12. All the metropolitan, cathedral,
parochial and other churches, which
have not been alienated, necessary to
public worship, shall be placed at the
disnosal of the bishops.
13. His holiness, for the sake of
peace and the hannv re-establishment
There's a terrible little fellow who
seems to have been appointed by the
Spirits of the Desert to keep ward and
watch over the golden treasure burned
in the barren hills of bleak Nevada,
says a Goldfield letter in the New
York Sun. He is the Pneumococcus.
The treasure hunters are slowly- best
ing him. but the little demon is exact
ing a heavy payment for the gold they
take away.
Pneumonia is the scourge of Gold
field. Deaths in the mining camp run
into the washerwoman's shanty.
"What’d you do with those shares I
gave you a year ago?" he asked.
“Oh, I dunno." she answered, be
tween strokes of the iron. "I fink
they're up there in that see-gar box
on the shelf, but I ain’t sure.”
The former owner of the shares
reached up and drugged the box down.
There they were, sure enough, stuffed
in between half a dozen candle ends,
a ball of string and a rusty case knife.
The washerwoman’s debtor counted
them out. Then he grinned.
“The Joke’s on me,” he said. "They
are worth $12,130 this minute.”
And they were.
There was a young fellow who used
The World’s Tiniest Republic
Facts About San Marino.
Ten miles inland from the
atic seacoast of Italy, and entire!
THE REAL RAISULI.
from sixty to one hundred a month, to clean out cuspidors and sweep up
Call it an average of eighty and you at the Montezuma Club. He saved
have a yearly death rate of 6 per cent, t what he earned and bought minin
A very large majority of these deaths I shares. He's said to
are due to pneumonia, a few to ty- [
phoid.
Thq outside world hears little of it j
save when some well known man
passes away, such as ex-Governor I
Hunt, of Idaho, who succumbed here
to the scourge of the camp. Most of
the victims are homeless and friend
less adventurers.-. No fuss Is made
over theVti. They are simply taken out
and buried in the most Godforsaken |
cemetery in all the world.
In most of tho victims life goes out
like a snuffed candle. So swiftly death
rides on the wings of the Pneumococ
cus that they call it black pneumonia
down here. But it’s only old fash
ioned pneumonia working the more
swiftly that it has such fertile soil in
which to plant its seeds. It is inten
sive farming. Death the farmer.
The hardships of this coaliess, over
crowded mining camp weaken consti
tutions so that when disease comes
it meets little resistance. In four sa
loons late last nig'nt the Sun corre
spondent counted sixty-eight men
asleep on the floor. Some were drunk
and some were merely exhausted with
toil and had no other place where they
could sleep.
Out of tiie kindness of their hearts
the bartenders let them sleep where
they lay. Occasionally a man with a
mop would approach one of the sleep
ers and poke him into semi-wakeful
ness.
"Hey. Bill.” he would say, "roll over
till I mop beneath yc.”
The sleeper would obey orders, re
turning to' slumber the next instant,
,while the mop continued its work un
der the next man and the whirl of the
roulette ball, the popping of many
corks and tlje volleys of profanity in
many tongues blended for the sium-
bercr's lullaby. It is men of this sort
that are dying like sheep in Goldfield.
They are shipping two or three of them
out on every, train, others they bury
in nameless graves, the hospital is fuii
and the undertaker cheerful.
The newcomer wonders why there is
a graveyard so near the middle of the
town. This is the story of how it hap
pened, related by one of the oldest in
habitants of the Goldfield settlement:
"When I first blew in here nobody
had ever cashed in A few days later
some fellow croaked- He'd no money,
no friends, no name that anybody knew
of.
"So a few of us thought it was up
to us to plant him.. I was on the com
mittee to pick out a cemetery site. We
found a place out .on the desert about
a mile from town. Then we gave a
man $5 to dig the grave.
‘‘Jake Murnan was the fellow wc
picked for the job. Jake was drunk
and broke. He hated to let his jag die,
so a five-spot looked big to him.
"I took him out and showed,him the
place and Jake came back to get a
shovel and a pick. On the way back he
comes on a hole, 6 by S foot, that some
prospector had made and bein’ some
tired he figures that this is just as
sightly a place for a grave as the one
we picked out. so he digs it right there
in that prospector's excavation.
"•When we come to bury the stranger
we sees Jake has made a break, but
we was too busy to bother about it.. So
we plants him right there.
“Course, the next one was put right
next to him and so it grew up into a
fine young cemetery. Pretty soon we
gets 200 bodies planted there.
So we calls a halt and starts an
other cemetery further out. But Jake
is responsible for the first one.”
But it’s little Goldfield cares for the
man who fails. They are rushing in
every day to take-his place. -There's
gold out there in the desert and the
lucky ones will g'et it. If you live, you
live: if you die, you die, says fatalistic
Goldfield.
If a man were to recount all the tales
he hears down here- of men who go to
bed
thousands
the possessor of a.singularly active im
agination. But a great many of these
yarns are true and capable of demon
stration. For example:
Walter Williams and Charles D.
Taylor, the men who located the Red
•XpP and the Jumbo mines, were so
strapped a few months ago that when
they sat down in a Goldfield saloon to
play slough they had to use beans for
chips and the bank had to cash in to
furnish them with supper. Now Taylor
is worth toward half a million and
has gone back to Nova Scotia to see
his old folks, for the first time in
ten years.
Henry Weber, who has just sold his
interest in the Grand Bend Extension
for $1,250,000. came to Tonopab not
long ago on the soft side of a freight
car truck. From Tonopah he walked
to Goldfield.
He’s now interested in the Wonder
district, and has just ordered an au
tomobile. specially designed to* make
Ixty miles an hour over the desert.
ost republic and what is claimed to be
the oldest State in the world—'t/he
Republic of San Marino. Its area is
but thirty-eight square miles and its
population at the last census was but
11,002. yet its history dates dimly back
tu its founding in the third century
after Christ by a Dalmatian monk
named Martinus. Somehow—by a mir
acle it would seem—the little republic
has escaped the stress and turmoil of
the succeeding centuries, escaped even
the hand of Napoleon in the years
when he made and remade the map of
be worth $50,000 | Er0 P® at his imperial will. Yet per-
todav. haps strangest of all is that it should
You may hear these tales all night j have retained its separate identity de-
long this bitter weather around the i spite the movement for national unity
Mulai Ahmed ben Mohammed er-
, . . Raisuli is a man of about 10 years of
Acirt- a „ e He j 0 p v pirth sprung from one
rounded by Italian soil, lies the small! t „ h , e most aristocratic families in Ma-
, [ rocco and is a shereef. or direct de
scendant of the prophet, through Mu-
hotel stoves of Goldfield and the per
sons who tell them give every evidence
that they are true.
The day of the mining camp bad
men is gone forever. Goldfield has
them, it is true, but they are behaving
themselves nowadays, for the man with
a record is no longer a hero. On the
contrary, he is shunned.
There are a score of men now here
who have got their men before now.
but they say as little as possible about
it and stick to faro dealing or barten-
I ding. The bad men are no longer the
bosses of a mining camp.
I The powers that rule are now the
men who own the big properties or
who are putting through big enter
prises or doing engineering work.
These men you will find every morn
ing at the well named Montezuma
Club.
The Montezuma Club is the most
comfortable place in Goldfield. It has
350 members, a pool table, a billiard
table, a bar, all the magazines and two
stoves. Moreover, the stoves are al
ways hot, which is something in Gold
field.
Here you will find of an evening a
crowd of men who have done things
all over the uninhabitable globe. Over
there, playing bridge whist, is a man
who made a fortune taking wood into
Nome.
His partner spent years diving for
pearls in the- South Sea Islands. Play
ing against them is a chap who was
twenty years jn the diamond fields of
the Transvaal. His partner used to
be a Cuban filibuster.
The grizzled veteran reading a maga
zine by the long center table has laid
thousands of miles of railroads tracks
in Mexico. That pair hugging the
nearest stove are swapping talcs about
the old days In Cripple Creek,' while
the slender young man just making
a masse shot spent ten years sealing
in Alaska.
Over in the corner an ex-Governor
of the State of Nevada and a former
sheep herder, now worth $2,000,000,
have their heads together. The man
who just got up from the writing ta
ble is a United States Senator.
With one glance of your eye you
may see thirty college graduates rep
resenting every part of the country.
Yesterday morning a graduate of Ox
ford climbed upon a lunch counter
stool at the Merchants’ Hotel along
side a man whose last regular em
ployment was driving an electric car in
Denver. They both ordered ham and
eggs. ■
As they sat there a chaffeur whose
auto had broken down in the snow
entered, bearing in his arms a huge
can labelled "Gasolene” in letters six
inches high. This he calmly deposited
on ton of the red hot stove.
All hands grabbed for their hats and
edged hurriedly toward the door, while
one braver than the rest grabbed it
huge platter and advanced toward tn
which swept over Italy in the last cen
tury and which, guided by Cavour and
VIctour Emmanuel, came at last to its
day of triumph.
San Marino is a contrast to Mon
aco. the miniature principality where,
two hundred and fifty miles away to
the west as flies the crow, the gaming
tables of Monte Carlo lure and ruin
the gamblers of all the world mid n
scene so graced by nature that it
seems a paradise, not a hall. The lit
tle republic has resisted rich offers for
gambling concessions, the 'little prin
cipality has not. The result Is that
there go to Monaco more than one
million visitors every year, while to
San Marino, only nine miles from the
famous Riviera and sixty miles from
beauteous Florence, there go few visi
ters or . none. In San Marino no one
is permitted to play a game of chance
either in public or in.private, and lock
smiths. so ’t ! s said, are even forbidden
to sell la-chkeys to young men lest
they prove roisterers or gay Lotharios.
It is a close oligarchy, with strange
mediaeval laws and a constitution.
Fines are prescribed for doctors, chem
ists or bloodletters who reveal profes
sional secrets, disturbers of Roman
Catholic services (but not those of
heretics) and for "usurpation of public
esteem” by assuming titles. Imprison
ment for f|fom one to three months is
imposed for profanely using the name
of the Deity or of the Holy Virgin or 1
cursing the founder of the re/mhlic.
To write or speak in favor of dissolv
ing the Council is punishable by ten
years’ penal servitude. , Special li.
censes are required for growing to
bacco. keeping she goats, going up in
balloons or climbing the town walls.
A dozen republics the size of San
Marino could' be mit in New York
without crowding. The “capital." * the
village of San Marino, is perched on
a sheer rock more than two thousand
feet above the sea level and the four
or five other villages are built on the
craggy sides of the mountain. One
part of the town is wholly taken up by
the residences of the nobles, the re
mainder of the •capital being relegated
to the burgesses and peasants. The
principal public building is the Govern
ment palace, which contains the throne
of the. captains regent and among other
pictures a portrait of George Washing
ton with the inscription:
In honor of the founder of the great
est of republics this portrait was do
nated by the citizens of the oldest of
republics.
. There are also several interesting
old churches and a museum in the
cityi
Not the least interesting sight in San
Marino is to see the national army on
parade. The entire army consists of
124 men. Some of the uniforms, with
cocked hats and plumes, are magnifi
cent, and every man struts about with
( ns ferocious and self-satisfied an ex-
® pression as any Prussian veteran. Hon
orary rank in this army, with the right
stove with the evident intention of
braining the chaffeur. The latter : wear the uniforfn. Is as easily oh-
grinned. j tained, as are the titles of the nobility.
ihe
‘It’s
“Fergit it. gents.” said ho.
cheerful accent of the Bowery,
only water.”
Probably the best known had man
pow in Goldfield is Diamondfield Jack
Davis. He has several killings to his
credit.
Up in Tdaho he was several times
convicted of the murder of three sheep
herders and was sentenced to be
hanged. It's a coincidence that the
man to whom he owes his life, ex-
Governor Hunb of Idaho, died here the
other day.-
Diamondfield Jack, like the rest of
his kind, is living quietly these days.
He lias shown only one flash of the
old spirit that brought him so near
the gallows. That was while the
Various titles of nobility are conferred
by the Government of the republic. A
few American citizens have been given
“handles to their names,” says the for
eign correspondent of The Chicago
Chronicle, among them being a den
tist, who received his title of duke in
this manner.
The spirit of caste and other most
undemocratic traditions prevail. The
executive power is tn the hands of two
captains regent, elected in April and
October by the council of sixty. One
of them must always be a nobleman
and the other a burgess—a plain citi
zen. All legislative power is vested in
the council of sixty, which governs the
State in truly paternal style. This
u council of sixty is composed of twenty
paupers' and”waJce^worth^tens of ! rniners were boycotting the Goldfield nobles, twenty burgesses and twenty
sands he would be set down as i Su A n early last fall Peasants. Whenever a vacancy is caus-
down the street and the lad ran into
Diamondfield Jack’s brokerage office.
The crowd followed, pell rnell.
“Diamondfield Jack" grabbed an au
tomatic gun in each hand and faced
the mob.
Get the out of here, you —!”
ed by death the remaining councillors
elect a successor.—Springfield Repub
lican.
Chronic Constipation Cured.
One who suffers from chronic con
stipation is in danger of many serious
- . . ailments. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup
he roared, “or I'll blow ye all to hell!”'! cures chronic constipation, as it aids
The mob stood not upon the order j digestion and stimulates the liver and
of its going. Its flight was panic- bowels, restoring the natural action of
stricken. Probably, almost every man j these organs. Commence taking it to-
in the crowd toted a gun, but they j day and you will feel better at once,
all fled before the terror of the name [ Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not
of Diamondfield Jack. i nauseat or gripe and is very pleasant
For a quarter of an hour the old- I to take. Refuse substitutes. H. J.
time bad- mad strode up and down the
street, a gun in each hand, roaring like
a wounded bull, and calling on the
vanished jiiob to come back and get
killed. But not a soul would oblige
him.
Yet,
Lamar, near Exchange E'ank.
Shakespeare Not Modern Enough.
Frank T. Dowling, one of proud New
York’s city fathers, recently gave his col
leagues the benefit of his experience with
x-ftt considering that there is no law the dramatic schools of the metropolis.
...j, ” /!?.. tncre i- no jaw j j t a jj (, ame a b ou t through an application
Goldfield, Its a fairly orderly place. f r0 m the Board of Education for an ex
it has two churches, a good school
house and a Salvation Army post.
There is also a Turkish bath house and
perimental automobile truck. Dowling at
once took issue against the innovation,
declaring that the new-fangled ideas of
•ur love-
pre
prow
men who do not love your wives
have broken the seventh command
ment and all stand under condemna
tion.” This minister I suppose, would
see the light in Mrs. Parsons' proba
tionary marriage scheme. If you failed
this time, try again. Perhaps your
judgment lias been disciplined, the
senses fallen from your eyes. -Sup
plant natural selection by worldly wis
dom. some affinity by nicely adjusted
tastes and harmonious sensibilities and
perhaps in the eighth or twentieth trial
you may fall upon that rightly anointed
of your affections and thus escape the
condemnation of God s law.
Buot how about tile slaughter of the
innocents, those born in sin? It is
harrowing. It is revolting. Look or
that picture and then on this: Two
hearts titrobbing with a chaste and
pure love. Tile winning of faith nobly
as the thing is high, the high and hon
est capitulation of the one to another.
Tho sanctuary, the compelling sweet
ness of a new home The dearness of
personal experience. Tho patter of lit
tle feet, little pink fingers holding in
their fragie grasp a!! the multitudinous
Tutt’sPills
This popular remedy never (alls to
effectually cure
Dvspepsia, Constipation, Sick
Headache, Biliousness
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Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion
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shall belong forever to them, their heirs
and assigns.
14. The Government shall grant a
suitable emolument to bishops and par
ish priests whose dioceses and parishes
are comprised in the new division.
15. The Goveriiment shall likewise
take measures to enable French Cath-
olicfe who are so inclined to dispose of
their property for the support of re
ligion.
16. His holiness recognizes in the
chief consul of the French Republic
the same rights and prerogatives in
religious matters which the ancient
Government enjoyed.
17. It is agreed between the con
tracting parties that in case any of the
successors of the present chief consul
should not be a Catholic, the rights and
prerogatives mentioned in the forego
ing articles, as well as the nomination
to the bishops - sees, shall be regulated,
with regard to him. by a new conven
tion.
Cured of Lung Trouble.
"It is now eleven years since I had a
narrow escape from consumption.”
writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business
man of Kershaw. S. C. "I had run
down in weight to 135 pounds, and |
coughing was constant, both by day
and by night. Finally I began taking
Dr. King's New Discovery, and con
tinued :his for about six months,
when my cough and lung trouble were
entirely gone and I was restored to mv
normal weight. 170 pounds.” Thou
sands of persons are healed every year.
Guaranteed at ail drug store-. 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
They had just ten cents, and they
wanted a job as badly as it was ever
wanted in these parts.
The mine superintendents gave them
tents and enough money to feed them
and started them in to work. They
worked until they had laid up $30 or.
$40 apiece and they then disappeared.
Two months ago they walked into
Goldfield and sold their claims for
$300,000. but they din’t get their mon
ey until a frotnight or so ago. They
are now trying to get rid of it as soon
as the field will let them. And Gold
field is very helpful to such as they.
In fact, nine out of every ten men
who have made much money overnight
down here have spent it in gambling
and drink, only less rapidly than they
got it.
One night last week an old fellow,
gray And bent and marked by years
of work and hardship, walked into the
Monte Carlo saloon and gambling joint.
He has been around the camp for
more than a year and used to talk
largely about a wonderful claim he had
located, but his kind is plentiful here
abouts and he earned a precarious
livelihood by doing odd jobs.
This time, however, he displayed a
that he intends having his Northern
saloon swept out next week.
MY LETTERS.
My letters! all dead paper, , . . mute
and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my tremulous hands which loose
the string
And let them drop down in my knee to
night
This said he wished to have
me in his sight
Once, as a friend; this fixed a day in
spring
To come and touch my hand ... a
simple thing.
Yet;, I wept for it! this. ... the
paper's light . . .
Said. “Dear. I love thee;” and I sank
and quailed
As if God's future thundered on my past.
This said. “I am thine”—and so its ink
has paled
With lying at my heart that beat too
fast.
And this . . . O Love, thy words
have ill availed,
If what this said I dared repeat at last!
—Elizabeth Barnett Browning.
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Mixed Pickles.
Procrastination and Sloth once ran a
race. Procrstination never started and
Sloth never got there, so the race was
draft for $10,050, which he had received
for his much talked of claim. He
wanted it cashed. The bartender, rec- j declared a dead heat,
ognizing the signature on the draft,
looked up the owner of the joint, who •
gave the prospector the money.
The next morning the old fellow ’
came into the same place and begged
the bartender to give him a drink. He
had gambled away his $10,000 over- !
night.
Or., year ago a Goidflelder went !
broke. Among his creditors was a j
washerwoman to whom he owed $45. |
Despite her protests that it was ail j
right anyhow, lie insisted on giving i
her a hunch of shares in a Goldfield i
mine. As quotations then stood, they '
were next to worthies*.
The other day this same man walked I
Take the dramatic school, for instance,
•where my girl is studying. I wasn’t In
for the scheme at all. but my wife and
daughter kept up such a stream of gib
berish about art and temperament and
all that kind of rot. that I finally con
sented to let her make a trial till she
.found that she couldn't get on the stage
without a- pull, and if she did she would
want to come back home in a short time
anyway. I gave my promise. It was fool
ish. but I couldn’t help it. Now I'm sorry.
They’re teaching Shakespeare in these
schools when they ought to have some
thing modem, something Tip to date, in
place of it. They fill young giris’ heads
with the idea that they are going to
fce great actresses, when they ought to be
learning how to sew and cook. My own
girl keeps me awake half of the night
going through that rigmarole about JnUtf*
Caesar, and sometimes when I’m asleep
she will come into my room and say.
‘Here lies the dead body of Caesar, and I
am Mark Twain!’
“ ‘Mark what?' ” the statesman was
asked.
“Well. Mark something.” he replied. “I
don't know the man.”
“And then again," said the Alderman,
warming up to the subject stn he saw his
auditors were interested to the point of
i enthusiasm—"then again it teaches them
j to say bad words. Why. one night Com
i my daughter's room I heard tins: ‘Get
| out. you damned spot.’ or something like
l that. I ran in there and she was with
her eyes shut.
" ‘What's that you’re saying?' I asked.
1 " ‘Why. papa. I'm practicing Lady Mac-
j heth's speech.’, she said. I told her ‘Lady'
Macbeth, whoever she was. couldn't be
| much of a lady if she used language like
[ that.
"Now, can you beat it? The plays on
: Eighth avenue ain’t good enough foi- her.
j She must go over to Broadway."
Having tints relieved bis mind. Mr.
I Dowling got back to the business in hand.
—Billboard.
i lai Idris, who founded the Mahomet;
Empire of Morroeco and was the first
sovereign of the Idrislte dynasty. Tho
children of Mulai Abd-es-Salam, whoso
i tomb in the Beni Afros tribe is a place
of great sanctity, that the famous bri-
| gand is directly descended, his family
land he himself still holding a share in
• the lands, the rights and privileges
1 which were enjoyed by their renowned,
ancestor. \ branch of the family set-
i tied in Tf tuan. where a fine mbsque
forms a mausoleum for his more recent
i ancestors and is venerated as a place
of pilgrimage.
Possibly it was this holy ancestry
that turned Raisuli from the paths of
virtue, for after having received an
exceiient education in religion and re
ligious law at Tetuan lie took to the
adventurous, lucrative, and. in Mo
rocco. by no means despised, profes
sion of a cattle robber. It is a risky
business and requires courage. You
may just as likely be shot yourself as
shobt any one else, but prestige toll --
in favor of the head of the band, and
a reign of terror of the young Raisuli
ensued. He became celebrated. Ho
was a‘youth or great courage, of the
most prepossessing looks, and he and
his followers earned money easily anti
fast, and spent it still faster. B"ut cat
tle robberies led to other crimes. Mur
ders followed, and it must Vo confessed
that Raisuli’s hands are none too clean
in that respect: hut murder in Mo
rocco cannot be classed with murder In
England. Life is cheap and the dead
arc soon forgotten. By nature he was
and is cruel, and tho profession he had
adopted gave him unlimited scope to
exhibit his cruelty. On one occasion a
shereef who had married his sister
proposed to tako a second wife. Rai
suli’s sister, enraged, fled to her brother
and complained. Notbtag occurred till N
the night of the new marriage, when,
at the height of the festivities. Raisuli
and his men entered his brother-in-
law's house and put to death the young *
bride and her mother.
At length his acts became intoler
able. The whole country round lived
in terror if his raids. The late Sultan
ordered his arrest. His greatest friend
betrayed him: he was seized and sent
to prison in (he dreaded dungeons of
Mogador. Two years later lie was re
leased on the petition of Haj Moham
med Torres, the Sultan’s representative
at Tangier. He came back to his homo .
meaning to live a quiet and peaceful
life, but be found that his friend «in*
had betrayed him had become Gover
nor of Tangier, and confiscated @11 his
property. He applied for its return,
but could not obtain it. He threatened,
but they laughed at. him, and then he
took, to his old profession again and
became a brigand.
He surrounded the villa of Mr. Per-
diearis at niglit and carried off both
the proprietor and his son-in-law. The
American Government sent a fleet to
Tangier, and the whole world watched
the ensuing negotiations. Mr. Perdi-
earis and Mr. Varley were restored to
liberty, but at what a price! Raisuli
demanded and obtained from the Sul
tan the following terms: That ho
should be appointed Governor of all
the districts in the neighborhood of
Tangier: that the existing Governor—•
his former friend, who had betrayed
him—should be deposed: a ransom of
$70,000, the imprisonment of all his
enemies and the release from prison 'of-
all his friends, and other concessions
of less importance. The Sultan sur
rendered. and the’ terms were carried
out.. Raisuli found himself all-powerful
—a hero in the eyes of the Moors, a
menace in those of Europe.
As his influence increased he became
a dgspot. He’squeezed ’the people un
der him and'extorted money from tho
very poorest of the poor. The Magh-
zen lived in terror of him, and let him
know it, with the result that he ignored
its orders and commands, and even tno
treaties with Europe.
At length the European representa
tives could endure it no longer. They
addressed, a fortnight ago, a collective
note to the Moorish minister of foreign
affairs at Fez. demanding that an end
be made 'to the impos-ible state of af
fairs existing in the Tangier districts.
It was almost an ultimatum, for the
bay was full of the warships of Franco
and Spain, present to protect European
interests until the introduction of tho
new police. The Sultan and his viziers
could not understand the purport of
the note. The minister of war was
ordered to proceed to Tangier with all
available forces.
In spite of his celebrity, very few
people have ever seen Raisuli. ,,He has
never been photographed or written
his name in the autograph collector's
album. He has been throughout a sort
of mysterious personage, half saint,
half blackguard, whom every, cour
ageous male tourist has volunteered to
capture and many a still more cour
ageous female tourist to marry.
Special Announcement Regarding the
National Pure Feed and Drug Law.
We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles is not affected
by the National Pure Food and Drug
law, as it contains no opiates or other
harmful drugs, and we recommend it
as a safe remedy for children and
adults. H. J. Lamar, near Exchange
Bank.
upt
k.
The marriage of Loquacity to-Pre-
occupation is ideally happy. She is
never interrupted and he never hears.
Flirtation pointed a gun. which was
a coquette model, at a youth and pulled
the trigger. "She didn’t know it was
loaded.”
Negligence left his coat on the front
steps to find that Slovenliness had
wiped ilia feet on it.
Gossip picked the lock for Backbiting
to go in and steal his neighbor's repu
tation.
Because Insincerity tried to vote for . , w
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NO MILLIONAIRES IN ALASKA.
Washington Correspondent of the Boston
Transcript.
An interesting visitor in Washington
at this time is Wilford B. Hoggctt. for
17 years an officer in the United States
Navy, and since last spring Governor of
Alaska. He is here to submit to'the Se< -
retaries of War and Interior reports of
the northernmost territory, and will lay
before committee of Congress such infor
mation about Alaska as they may wish.*
Governor Hoggatt. while unwilling to dis
cuss in advance thc recommendations
contained in his reports, was willing to
say something today about the weather
of the territory he governs. "In all of
Alaska.” he said, “there is not a million
aire or a semi-millionaire: in faqt. I do
not know of any man who is worth S230.-
000. The stories of fabulous sums made
there in placer mining have been exag
gerated. Money was made, to lie mire,
but when they made it. most of them
left the territory to invest or spend it in
the United States. The Kiondyke region
had 50,000 people in it.five years ago: to
day it has only 7.000. In Alaska $20.01)0.-
000 in gold was taken out this year, as
compared with $11,000,000 Inst year. R. t
this does not moafi that any man is be
coming a mining king. The territory a
pleasant, healthful place to live, r,' n d’ it
has opportunities; but it ha.-- no greater
opportunities than arc to be found in tin-
Stat's.
“Though there are more than five men
to every wottsin. as in all new countries,
we have a social life which is up to thc
average. Copper mining is being de
veloped rapidly: last year we turned out
$500,000 of it; this year. J2.v00.000. With
the extension of railway lines up ioto-tbe
copper territory, which is 400 miles long
and 50 miles wide, the output will he
enhanced, as the Alaska copper fields are
said to be among the most valuable in
the world. Coal mining is another indus
try that is developing rapidly.”
Ready to Address the Jury.
George Small, of Norway. M
painter, used occasionally to look
“the ardent." At one time ho
summoned to testify in a case in c
Being somewhat under the infii
of liquor, his speech was rath.-; t
and, to make matters worse, Im fij
ed his conversation to the attorney
questioning hurt, so the jury ,>n>/vj
not understand half of what he said
Finally the judge turned to him atil
said: “Mr. Witness, speak louder, and
address t^e jury.”
‘Upon what subject Your Honor?"