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SJIIITfI ON NEGHOES
CHAT WITH TIIE SECRETARY OX
QIESTIOXS REIaATIXG TO
THE SOITH.
WONDERFUL DEVE' nPMENT.
THE tOSW GEORGIA AND I'XIOX
...SOLDIERS AS IMMI-
HANTS.
THE NEGRO AND HIS FUTURE.
Doesn't Sees- Soeiul Ktiiu-llty. mill
Very Much ".'refers to Flock:
by Himself.
(Copyrighted, 1195, by F. G. Carpenter.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — Hon.
Hoke Smitm.sscretary of the interior,
has made a number of visits to
Georgia during the past few weeks.
His eyes have been opened by the
Atlanta exposition, and he overflows
with enthusiasm about the South
and its wonderful development. He
thinks that Georgia Is the conning
El Dorado of the' United States, and
he paints its prospects in such glow
ing terms 'that they make you think
of the Indian chief of that name
who smeared his body with oil and
then sprinkled it with gold dust so
that he became an animated golden
statue. This chief took his baths
in a sacred lake, which was bedded
in gold and emeralds, and by his ex
travagances made his country a syn
onym for the golden goal of all for
tune hunters. Well, Hoke Smith
thinks this goal is now located in
Georgia. I called upon him at the
interior department yesterday, and
was straightaway admitted to his
sanctum sanctorum. I waited
there a few moments while
he disposed of such dignitar
ies as a congressman or two,
an Indian chief, Buffalo Bill and de
partment chiefs, and then, with a
single question, formed the siphon
which brought out enthusiastic in
formation about the South from the
secretary's mouth in a steady
stream. My question was as to
whether the exposition showed that
the South was advancing.and wheth
er there was any chance there for a
poor man to make a fortune. The
secretary replied:
"The South is full of possibilities.
From now on it will grow like Jo
nah's gourd. It will become an ag
ricultural and industrial empire,
and it is only on the edge of its
development. I believe the lands
upon the Southern Appalachian
chain form some of the best fields
for investment today. There is ro
place where a man can make money
quicker or surer. There is no land
more healthy. Take the upper part
of Georgia. The lands there are
nearer heaven and the *..ky than
most other agricultural parts of the
Union. The air which blows over
them is loaded with ozone, and the
average height is about 1,090 feet
above the sea. Atlanta is 1,100 feet
higher than Washington, and it has
a better climate than you have here.
It is warmer in the winter and
cooler in the summer, and I have
never suffered there from the heat
as I have here at the capital."
GOLD IN THE GROUND.
"The climate may be all right, Mr.
Secretary," said I, "but I have heard
the land is not. They say the soil is
worn out, and I have heard wicked
people say that the only things that
could be raised upon it were sheol
and Christmas trees."
"That is not true," replied Secre
tary Smith, indignantly. "We have
millions of acres of good lands, and
the worn-out lands need only a lit
tle cultivation and care to bring
them up. It is out of those very
lands that poor men can make for
tunes. All that they need ls sub
soiling and cultivation, and with the
addition of a little manure they can
be made to blossom like the rose.
These lands you can now buy at
from five to ten dollars an acre. Aft
er they have been cultivated a few
years they become worth from twen
ty-five ' to thirty dollars an acre.
Take the man who has $1,500 to in
vest. He can buy 100 acres for $1,000
and have $500 to stock his place and
to help him along for a year or so.
He will put a part of his land in
wheat and oats and another part in
grass for his stock. The third por
tion he can put down in cotton,
which will bring him in all the cash
he needs from year to year. The
profits of his farming will pay all
his expenses and give him a surplus.
At the end of five years his 100 acres,
if he uses it rightly, will be worth
s3,ooo instead of $1,000, and he ought
to be at least $5,000 richer than when
he bought the farm. There are men
who are doing this in Georgia today.
A great many are making money
off of fruit. There is no such land
in the world for peaches, apples and
grapes. We sent hundreds of car
loads of our peaches to New York
this year. The high altitude makes
them sweeter and juicier than the
average peach, and when they come
to they drive the others out of the
market. We are producing grapes
which make good wine, and the state
is changing in that the people are
now diversifying their crops."
"You used to raise nothing but
cotton?"
"Yes. But we are now raising all
of our own corn, and we make our
the doctors
approve of Scott's
Emulsion. For whom? For
men and women who are weak,
when they should be strong
for babies and children who
are thin, when they should be
fat ; for all who get no nourish
ment from their food. Poor
blood is starved blood. Con
sumption and Scrofula never
come without this starvation.
And nothing is better for
starved blood than cod-liver
oil. Scott's Emulsion is
rod-liver oil with the fish-fat
taste taken out. . •' - •Y. •
. Two "Mies, 50 cents and .00 7
gCOiT -St UOWNS, New York
| -THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: StJNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1895.-.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
own pork Instead of buying it of the
big packing companies of the North.
I have just, gotten a, case of hams
from Georgia whiah I expect to use
on my Washington table. They are,
I thfmk, equal to the Smlthfleld
hams, and they were made on the
highlands of North Georgia, and
cured with smoke from hickory and
oak."
"How about South Georgia?"
"It is equally fertile, but as you
get down nearer Florida you have
differerit kind of crops. In the north
ern portion of the state, wheat, oats,
barley and corn can- be cultivated
with good results. The cotton belt
begins a little down, and as you get
near the Florida line you find that
oranges can be grown at a profit.
Other kinds of fruit can be cultivated
almost anywhere.and there is scarce
ly a crop of any kind which cannot
raised in some portion of the state."
"You speak only of Georgia. How
is the rest of the South?"
"I believe the South is growing
generally. I do not know the other
states so well as Georgia. I think
Georgia is the best state of the South.
I know every inch of it, and I can
'speak better about it than I can
about the other states."
•NORTHERN IMMIGRATION.
"If what you say is true, why don't
the South encourage immigration?
Why is it that the West gets all
the emigrants?"
"The tide of emigration has been
toward the West on account of the
public lands and the railroads. The
big Western roads have had large
tracts of land to sell, and they have
discriminated in favor of that sec
tion. This is now somewhat changed.
The public lands of the West have
been largely taken up, and our
Southern railroads are helping us.
As to our not wanting immigrants,
that- is not true. We are now doing
all we can to get them. Ex-Gov.
Northern is now at the head of an
immigration bureau for Georgia, and
he is pushing the interests .of the
state in all parts of the world. Col
onies are being formed all over
Georgia, and we are bringing people
there from Germany and ' Switzer
land. One scheme is to organize a
colony of Union soldiers in the
southern part of the state. Hun
dreds of thousands of acres have
been set apart for it, and I am told
about 10,000 old soldiers from Indiana
and Illinois are going to settle upon
these lands."
BETTER KEEP AWAY.
"How about the condition of these
immigrants when the get there ? How
do you treat them? Will they be
your equals socially and politically?
Can they vote as they please?"
"Yes," replied Secretary Smith.
"We will be glad to welcome* them
and to fraternize with them. They
can vote as they like, and no one will
disturb them. As to social equality,
any respectable man will be. treated
well in Georgia, and the hospitality
of the South will be thrown open to
him. Of course we draw the line on
the negro. If a man asks negroes to
his house and to his dinner table,'
and makes his friendships entirely
among them; if he visits the houses
of negroes and fraternizes with them
as his social equals, you- can't ex
pect this to be overlooked."' "
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
"How about the negro problem, Mr.
Secretary?"
"I don't think there is any negro
problem," replied the secretary^ the
interior. "Such a problems as there
seemed to be has settled itself, and it
would, never have existed had it not
been for the sectional utterances of
the North, and for a small party of a
certain class of whites — and that not
the most respectable class the
South. The negroes and the -whites
are perfectly harmonious in the
South. . The white people are willing
and anxious to do all they can to
better the moral and intellectual
condition of the negro, and they are
doing it. The negro is rapidly ad
vancing. He is acquiring property,
and he makes a good citizen."
"Does he show any inclination to
ward emigration? Does he want to
go back to Africa?"
"No; he is. doing well, and he is
perfectly satisfied."
"How about his political rights?"
"He votes with the best class of the
whites. They are his friends, and he
knows it. Cleveland's first election
showed him that his rights were as
safe under a Democratic as under
a Republican administration. The
result is the negro vote is divided
between the parties, and ' he now
votes as he pleases."
THE SOLID SOUTH.
"How about the solid South, Mr.
Secretary? Will it always be solid?
Is it always to be an empire belong
ing to the Democratic; party?"
. "As long as the differences be
tween the Democratic and Republi
can parties continue, and these two
parties remain the leading ones in
the United States, I do not see how
it can be otherwise. The interests
of the South are against the policy
and principles of the Republican
party. They lie in the direction of a
low tariff. As long as the Repub
lican party represents protection the
South will be solid."
"Speaking again about the negro,
Mr. Secretary; what is to be his so
cial future?"
"It will be along the lines of his
own race," replied Mr. Smith.
"Neither he nor the white man wants
to mix their blood. They do not de
sire to come together on the lines of
social equality. There is a large
class of negroes, in fact, who want
no social or marital alliances with
the whites. They pride themselves
upon their pure African blood and
the keeping it pure. They do not
want the whites in their churches,
nor their schools, and some of their
churches will not allow white
preachers in their pulpits. This is
the case with the African Methodist
church. As to white teachers in the
negro schools, when I was on the
school board of Atlanta I advocated
that none but negro teachers be em
ployed in negro schools. I did not
think it right that a bright white
girl should compete with the edu
cated negro for such . places. ' I
thought the chances were in favor
of the whites.and that it would be
better for the development of the ne
groes to have teachers of their own
color. .The result is that we now
have none but negroes teaching in
the negro schools." •
MAHOGANY RACE UNDESIR-
ABLE. ;
"But, Mr Secretary, can you keep
the races apart? As the colored peo
ple grow in wealth arid education,
will. they not come together? Will
there not be a union of the races in
the future, a grand mahogany of- the
white and the black?" -.-.-•- -.
"A debased mahogany, I should
j say," "replied the secretary. "No, I
*7- ■,>:.;* V. V*"*
I do not think that' will -'ever come to
, pas*. The races will keep apart. It
; Is better for both that they should
I do so.".' 7;7'77' - ■,' 7
."Will there ever be a social equal
ity?" tYYY *""'
"No, I think not. I don't think it
best for either race."
"You say they are now kept apart
in the churches and in the schools'
of the South?"
"Yes; it is their desire, as well as
ours."
"How about the railroad cars?"
. '.'There are separate cars for the
negroes on some of the Southern
railroads, but the whites are not per
mitted to enter the negro cars, and
can be ordered out just as the ne
groes can be ordered out of the
white cars."
KINGDOM OP MILLS. •<*
"How about the manufactures of
the South? Are they increasing?
"Yes, indeed," replied Secretary
Smith. "The country ._ is growing
very rapidly in a manufacturing
way. Cotton factories are springing.
up everywhere, and I understand
that some of them are making as.
high as 20 per cent a year. There is
no reason why the South should not
manufacture all its own cotton in-
stead of exporting it to New En-
gland and Europe. There is a dif
ference of 7 per cent on the value of
the cotton as baled and sold in"
the Georgia markets and its value in
Liverpool, and this 7 per cent alone
would make enough of a margin to
pay for its manufacture in Georgia.
The difference of half a cent a pound
of profit in the value of cotton would
make 5 per cent, and in these days
when capital is going begging that
is a fair profit, to say nothing of the
15 and 20 per cent which some of
the factories say they are making." >
THE SOUTH IS BRAINY.
"The South, Mr. Secretary, seems
to be giving us a large amount of
our American literature today. Many
of the authors and authoresses are
from th© South, and, compared with
the North, it furnishes a larger num
ber. Why is it?" _^
"I suppose it is because the South
has devoted itself more to education
al and professional lines than to
business ones. I don't believe tthere
is any difference in the intellectual
caliber of the people. But the North
has thrown its force into business.
It has been dealing with material
things, and the South, not so thick-
ly settled, and scattered over planta
tions, has ruin' more to literature. A
larger number of our Southern men
go into the professions than do the
men of -thel North, and a great num
ber are practicing these professions
in the Northern cities. Have you
ever thought of the number of South
ern physicians in New York city?
Their name is legion, and proportion-
ately ithey surpass the number from
the- North."
"How about the unemployed in the
South, Mr. Secretary?* Are there
many men who cannot get work?
Is there much suffering from pov
erty?"
"No, I think there is nonesuch as
you have to the Northern cities.
There is no suffering and no pauper
ism to speak of. We all have enough
to eat and drink."
SILVER VS. SCRIPT.
"How about the silver question?
You have, been making speeches
throughout the South upon it."-
"Yes, I have made some," replied
Secretary Smith. "The silver ssnti-'
ment of , the South .has been exag
gerated. The better sentiment of the
'people is in favor of sound money.
It is the easier for them to see the
dangers of any inflated,., currency
through their experience with . Con
federate! money. When the war be
gan all of our notes were 'good for
face value, as we thought the Con
federate states government would be
able to pay them in gold. But as
th*. war went on, and it became im
possible for the treasury to give
something of the actual value for
them, they depreciated and fell.. Alt
first the reduction was small, but
it steadily increased until men paid
$500 for a saucer of ice cream or for
a cigar. I had in my audiences men
who possessed large amounts of
money. It represented , to many of
theim actual losses. It is, of course,
worth nothing now, and it was not
hard to draw the comparison be
tween it and free silver. Another
example I used was that of a Ger
man, who lived in my state, and
who coined on his own account gold
when this Confederate worthless
money was circulating. • I showed
them that his stamp upon the gold
gave it circulation because it was
gold, and that, though he is dead,
his. coins, are still worth their face
value."
"How about the Nicaragua carnal?
That would be of great value to the
South, would it not?"
"Yes," replied the secretary. "But
I don't think I ought to give any
expression upon it until we get the
report of the commission that was
sent down there to investigate its
practicability. This is the only ques
tion. If it is mechanically possible,
without too great an expense, it
should by all means be built. It
would be of immense value not only
to the South, but to the whole coun
try."
—Frank G. Carpenter.
Sorry He Spoke,
Indianapolis Journal.
"Come to think of it," said the ob
servant boarder, "I never have seen any
one smile on a bicycle."
'i?ultu.we,ail sm'le on th« bicycle girl."
said the Cheerful' Idiot, and the ob
servant boarder was sorry he spoke.
Inventoried.
Inventoried.
New York World.- . ' .
T-£!.?~save' you seen muol* of Miss
White since you came?
He— Quite a good deal; I saw her in
the surf this morning and at the ball
last night. ....
-**-»-.
The Distinction.
The Distinction.
New York World.
♦*,JessT7^rhat the difference between
the religious and the civil marriage?
Bess— At one you promise to "love
honor and obey," At the other to be
only "civil."
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Probably the most interesting figure**
in musical circles today is Tgnace>lj£.
Paderewski, the world-famous pian-i^^
who again makes a tour in this ccyjf-i
--ty this season, giving eighty concepts.:
for which he will, it said, receive Ah&
snug sum of $100,000 from his America^
manager, J.. C. Fryer, of New Y^:
Everywhere the largest theaters jara '
being engaged for his appearance "find,*
it is doubtful if any artist who- his-.
visited this country has aroused s**<lh
enthusiasm or has drawn the brilllaatTl
MARY LYLE SMITH."
(The First Woman Flutist in America.)
audiences which will greet him from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, as he de
lights them with his superb playing.
Paderewski owes his public career in
a large measure to ' Mme. Modjeska,
who met him at an Italian watering
place one season while he was an un
known instructor, in a German con
servatory, and having heard him play
one evening for a few friends urged
him to become a concert artist. At
first he doubted his. ability, but 'at
length determined to follow the advice
of his! distigulshed country woman, and
giving up his positron at the conserve
atory he went to Vienna, where 'he
became a pupil of Leschetizky and
with whom he studied for a long time,
rapidly becoming an accomplished vir
tuoso. His present tour will extend
from Nov. 4 to the end of May. *'!?■
• • • . -m
Few young women have shown a
greater aptitude for business than has
Miss Anna Millar, whose portrait ap
pears in the music column this morn
ing, and who Is the manager of the
Theodore Thomas Orchestra of Chica
go. Miss Millar is a Muscatine, lowa,
girl and has been associated for some
time with the orchestra and has proved
herself on© of the best agents that has
ever undertaken the handling of a large
musical organization. Last year Miss
Millar accompanied the orchestra on
the road and the tact which she man
ifested in looking after the comfort of
the orchestra while it was on the road
made the trip one of the pleasantest
that it has ever undertaken, and
she readily proved herself a manager
of rare ability. This season her work
is in a different 1 in?, and when was
proposed to give a series of concerts
in New York with the orchestra Miss
Millar went to New York to see if a
guarantee could be arranged, and it
was long .'before \ the plucky -" young!
woman had secured 514,000 for a series i
of concerts with which Mr. Thomas
will delight his many friends in New
York later in the season. Miss Millar's !
' duties as might be supposed are varied
■ and -necessitate a great deal of corresr
?pondence and the reception of an end-
less string of callers who are constant
(ly dropping into her office, even though
'it is away up on the top of the Audi
. torium tower, and with this mass of
' Work she finds much time to devote to
a, splendid thoroughbred horse of which
.she is. extremely fond, and she is con
sidered one of the most graceful horse
women in the city. Miss Millar is an
- admirable type of so called new woman
without her usual pert and tiresome '
freshness. 7 . •
• • *
Musicians have felt for some Ume
Musicians have felt for some. Ume
the lack of a musical magazine or re
view, whose criticisms and opinions on
all musical matters would not be in
fluenced by the business office of the
publication. There are a number of
MISS ANN A MILLER.
excellent publications devoted to music,
but their influence is more or less im-
paired by. unmistakable evidences cv
! cry little while of business office in
fluence in their notices of musicians,
their performances or composition. The
• daily press, with very few exceptions,
• and these are confined to the Eastern
cities entlrely.have no defined influence
■as critics in musical matters, since'
, either their opinions are tinged with
;a* financial coloring produced by ad
i vertising or the lack of .7 it, or . else
j written by a reporter who does not
know a symphony from a cantata, and
who thinks it's the best band which
makes the most noise, and who, fur
thermore, does not know whether to
credit the overture to William Tell
to Rossini or Paganini. So' there has
been no high general standard to ap
peal to. Happily this will not be longer
said, since the appearance of a mod
est-looking magazine early this month,
a new publication called by the some
what general name of "The Looker-
On," devoted to music, drama and lit
erature. Supposing it to be another
of those five-cent magazines which are
deluging the reading, or rather skim
ming public, just now, one was hardly
prepared to find among its articles
able critiques from such men as Hen- !
ry T. Finck, H. E. Krehbiel, William j
F. Apthorp and' others whose names I
have long been associated with the j
best critical work done along musical
lines in the United States so far. The
Looker-On has not come wholly like a
thunder clap from a clear sky, for it
was rumored from the East that the
gentlemen mentioned had been con- :
templating such a review. The* new |
magazine is a beauty from a typo- '<
graphical standpoint, and is printed j
on heavy linen paper with broad mar- L
gin»3, which are ornamented with dam- [
ty little etchings which are . suggested;',
by the text of the article. It is gener- I
ously illustrated, with a fine sketch of j
Paderewski and tinted half-tones of the
brothers •De Reszue, Plancon, Melba |
and other famous singers. "The Look
er-On" opens with a splendid article
by j Henry T. Finck, "Paderewski and
His Art," a finely written study of
the art and "achievement of the great
pianist. "The Italian Opera" corner
in for a most interesting review of its
growth and development by William
F. Apthorp. H. E. Krehbiel presents
in. his usually delightful way an article
on "Singers Then and Now," in which
the favorites of other days are re
called as he pay's tribute to the splen
did talents of the favorites of today.
"The Boards Which Shakespeare
Trod" is an interesting story of the
Garrick theater and play-going Lon
don of the olden time. Louis C. Elson
traces the "Beginnings of Music" in
an instructive way. In addition to
these leading articles are valuable book
reviews, observations, sketches of lo
cal and foreign events, which contrib
ute to commending at once "The Look
er-On"to those interested in music mat
ters as a magazine which has come be
cause it was needed, and should be sup
ported liberally because of its high ,
worth as a critical review. "The Look
er-On" will be published monthly by
Whittingham and Atherton, 8 Broad
street. New York; 20 cents per num- :
ber; $2 per year.
LOCAL NOTES.
On Monday evening a musical and
literary entertainment will be given in
South St. Paul for the benefit of the
South St. Paul chapel. The pro
gramme will be: "Lustpiel," Kela Be
la, Miss Katherine Collins, Ludwig
Moch; "Sweetest Story," P. L Hoff
man; "Spring's Awakening," Dudley
Buck, Miss Katherine Watkins;
Spring Song," Mendelssohn, G L
Danz; selected, John F. Gehan; select
ed, Miss Annie Collins and Mr Hoff
man; "A Fashionable School Girl"
anonymous. Miss May Shlnners; "Par
adise Square," Lahl, Miss Annie Col
.fes: a,,Vr£zurka-" Mr* Blumenthal;
For All Eternity," Mascheronl, A. G
Zenzius; violin obligato, Mr. Danz; se
lected. Miss Collins, Mr. Danz, Mr
Blumenthal. The train via the Great
Western road will leave this city at
LX.' returning at 10:30 p. m., * upon
which the regular motor fairs will be
accepted.
The opera, "Jolly Students," by Sup
p *.-wllLbeJriven by th» Mozart club
under the direction of Prof. William
Warner at Turner hall Sunday evening.
Oct. 27. Danz s orchestra, consisting of
twenty first-class musicians, will give
a concert of six numbers before the op
era commences. This in itself, as ev
erybody knows, will be a treat. It will
be remembered that this organization.
the Mozart club, rendered the "Czar
and Zimmermann," about four months
ago, as well as .any professional com
pany, that ever visited this city. They
have been working hard under Prof
Maenner in order that they may add
to their laurels by rendering "Jolly
Students even better than they did the
Czar and Zimmermann." Lovers of
good music will not miss this oppor
tunity of hearing well rendered Suppe's
best opera. ■
A sacred concert will be given in St
Marys church on Tuesday - evening*'
Nov. 5, under the auspices of St. Mary's
choir, assisted by Mrs. Daniel F ' De
Wolf, of St. Paul, and Mrs. William N.
Porteous, of Minneapolis. The sacred
. THIS HAND HOLDS MILLIONS EVERY DAY.
(It Is So Sensitive Thatl, Its Possessor
He Handles More. Money Than Any
~ ' '• •"'' "'*•■>*.•-.■•.,,.</.-:> *•---■•
This is the hand of a slender, brown- |
This is the hand of a slender, brown-
eyed, . pale-faced young man down in I
the subtreasury building on , Wall '
street. It is a hand that has handled I
money enough to make the wealth of i
the Rothschilds appear beggarly by !
comparison. The owner of the hand j
is Wesley D. Hawkins, and it is his {
I duty to count all the large bills that i
I pass through the subtreasury building. j
I Daily his sensitive finger tips slip I
lightly across greenbacks enough to {
ransom a king. Not one million dol- j
lars daily, nor two, nor three, but six '
or eight millions are counted in his [
: day's labor. Not only this, but he can I
i tell a counterfeit with his eyes shut j
; merely by the texture of the paper. i
: He has been tried time and again. !
[•But. a counterfeit bill among the vast |
j piles of currency and blindfold him. !
. He will count away steadily until -he I
! comes to it. A single passage of his I
j fingers across it will tell him of its
nature. It will probably be impossi- j
I ble for you or 'I to tell a new dollar bill •
from a blank sheet of paper, to say j
nothing of a counterfeit one...
The hand of Mr. "Hawkins "does not '
seem to differ materially -from other i
men's hands as . far as the picture >
goes; but take hold of it and you will
find that it is as ooft and moist as that
of a baby. The finger tips appear to !
be full of nerves and are well calcu- j
lated to detect differences in texture
and thickness in anything he may take ;
hold of.
When Mr. Hawkins comes to work j
in the morning he takes off his coat and ■
, goes into his little wire cage. Then a .'
workman wearing a white apron comes '
in and deposits several huge packages •
on the desk. . Greenbacks? Yes, mill- I
ions of . dollars. When Mr. Hawkins !
sits down he is buried in them. They !
tower above his head in large cubes. J
And oh, the pathos of it! to see a
man toiling his life away and wearing !
his rands away on greenbacks for a '
few paltry dollars daily. There is a '
concert last season under the direction
of Miss Elsie M. Shawe, assisted by
Miss Katherine Richards Gordon, Miss
Florence Lamprey, and the Philhar
monic quartette, marked a new depar
ture from the ordinary church concert,
and elicited much praise from the mv-
sical people generally and was well re- |
ceived by the people of St. Paul. The
public press, too, commented most fay-
orably on its artistic merits.
Miss Myrta Lura Mason, of Washing-
ton, D. C, has been engaged to give
an entertainment presenting the Mv-
sique Characteristique of Germany,
England, Ireland, Africa, Bosnia,
Egypt, Hindoostan and America, Tues-
day evening, Nov". 5. Miss Mason has
made a distinct place for herself in the
musical world by the interpretation of
national music as representing the in-
ncr life and spirit of a people.
Miss Georgene Macauley, who recent-
ly came here from Quebec, and is a
pupil of Sgr. d'Auria, of Florence,
Italy, is meeting with success in se- j
curing pupils. She is a young lady of
wide musical culture and has sung I
with great acceptance in several of |
the churches since her arrival here. I
Miss Macauley is at Dyer's on Tues- i
days and Thursdays.
The Schubert club has arranged with I
George W. Ferguson, the well* known
Chicago baritone, for a concert at '
Ford's on Nov. 11. He will be assisted i
by Miss Katharine Jewell Everts, the
well known dramatic reader, who has j
appeared in the Twin Cities . and has i
won an enviable reputation for artistic
work. 7> ■ ■ * . -* _-_.-
The Musik Verein, under the direc
tion of their leader, Claude .Madden,'
will give a concert about Nov. 22, in
which they will have the assistance
of Miss Villa Whitney White, whose
charming presentation of the German
leider at the Schubert clob recitals last
year was an enjoyable feature.
The Danz Sunday afternoon concerts !
in Minneapolis will be resumed Sun- •
day, Nov. 24, when a fine programme !
will be presented. Director Danz has !
not as yet arranged all details of I
the season's concerts, but they will be ;
of, a very high class. -. . j
The Schubert club opening concert of ,
the season was largely attended and |
a splendid programme was rendered, .
The club .will make a special effort I
toward raising funds for a permanent •
location for the club and its many and I
growing interests. - :
/ Miss Sans Souci and Mr. Onet ap- |
peared last night in a concert at Sioux '
Falls, S. D., in which they had the as- I
sistance of Mrs. Nettie Fuller Snyder, j
who Is well known In the music circles
of this city. -..:-.• ',-._-. ..I
J. Warren Andrews, the well known ■
organist of the Plymouth church, Mm- i
neapolis, will have a studio at Dyer's !
this, season, 'devoting one afternoon ' :
(Monday) of each week to his St. Paul ! 1
pupils. „7- ,7. • . ... . ■„. I ;
The open lesson r given by Mr. Mur- I '
dock's pupils* on Wednesday evening L
was a complete success. The evening f
was devoted to Hayden,. and a choice '
programme was rendered.
Messrs. Madden and Straka will I*
shortly present a Bach concert for two i
violins, upon which they have been at 1
work for some time past. ,|
The Seibert concert season will open I ;
at Conover hall on Sunday, Nov., 17,
when a fine programme will .be pre- '
sented. - * ' — 7 - - "I,
m
Retort niNccM-ri <••■-•_.
Retort Dl-ncoitrteoTis. :j
New York Journal. j
New York Journal.
Mistress— l don't want you to wave J
* Can Tell a Counterfeit by Touch, and
Other Man in New York City.'
j heroism about it, too, to everybody
j but Mr. Hawkins. To the observer
those packages represent dilirious and
I hysterical wealth. How can Mr. Haw-
I kins keep from going crazy when,
! after he has counted a few million
j dollars, they are carted away to the
j vault again and he has an opportunity
' to think of his day's salary.
To Mr. Hawkins, however, these
• bales of bills are as so. much blank
I paper; in fact, all the employes of
i the building regard them as such.
, As Mr. Hawkins pulls off his coat and
, the bales are brought in, he asks. tha
I man from the vault:
"Big day today, I .suppose?"
"No," replies the man, "only two
I and a half or three."
j Not two. and a half dollars, nor hun«
| dreds of dollars, not even thousands,
I but two and a half or three millions.
: Half a million dollars more or less
; does not matter. That is an estimate
; that ia close enough. The man who
j carts the bales of green goods around**
i the building is merely a man of mus- 1)
I cle, but he Is fully as case hardened
• as Mr. Hawkins. .......
i Somehow the clink and glitter of the i
j huge gold heaps in the vaults are not
j as seductive as these soft and feath
: cry thousand dollar bills that flit
; through Mr. Hawkins' hands. They
fall before him in a sort of green and "
gray snow. Occasionally a honey
; meaning bride comes to the grating
; and gazes on Mr. Hawkins with a
j sort of awe. Then she is taken away
. to look at the piles of .gold in the
.' vaults, but somehow she cannot for
! get Mr. Hawkins and his thousand
; dollar bills.
| For Mr. Hawkins is a married man
. and lead,3 a happy and peaceful life,
I but it Is hard for an ordinary man with
I only a modicum of greenbacks at his
: command to see how he avoids that
I most terrible of nightmares— dream-
ing that you have lots of money and "
waking to find that you have not.
so much company. You have more
callers in a day than I have in a
week.
Domestic— Well, mum, perhaps if
you d try to be a little more agreea
ble you'd have as many friends as I
have.
«=3».
The TailorJs Mistake.
The Tailoi->s "mxtalve.
Chicago Post.
"John!" There were tears in her
eyes as she spoke.
"Yes. my dear."
"I think it's just too mean for any-
thing." J
"What is. Mary?'!
With an effort she choked back a sob.
My bloomers," she said.
"What about them?" he asked
"I sent them to your tailor to ba
cleaned, she explained, "and— and— "
. "Well, what did he dor'
"He— he— en them." .
And. she tearfully held up a pair of
creased bloomers for his inspection.
NO N f WHATEVER.
New York Wo 77.
New York World.
He laughed, supposing it was fun
They at the plumber poke,
Until the pipes burst In his home
\- hen he found it was no joke.
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Darkies Vse the Kola \nt io living
Sohriety mi-l Doctors Say It
; Sobriety and Doctor*' Say It
Cures IHpxmnania.
' :7 • Cnrcs ' Ui-i.«omani:i,
A learned physician v,*as recently
A learned physician was recently
asked what, .in his* opinion, was the
effective ingredient In the so-called
gold-cure for inebriates and answered:
"The secret has been well kept, but
from observations and reading 1 be-
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cure." He Is not alone in that opinion.
_ British consuls report that natives of-
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the fruit when intoxicated to produce
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Dr. J. V. Shoemaker, of Philadel
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Dr. L. "E. aUoanet. of Paris, writes,
"Wherever tried Kola has been found
a most- marked remedy in cases of con
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for Intoxicants." ." '
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