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...Union on "The United States of the World" this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Stead has been for some time one of the most prominent advocates of peace in England, having been a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, and a firm disbeliever in the English-Boer war. He was also among the most prominent delegates at the recent National Peace and Arbitration Conference, held in New York City, last week. While there he spoke before the Society for Ethical Culture on "Peace Movement," and delivered addresses before the peace meetings in the Broadway Tabernacle, the Labor Meeting...
...Shulamite" is Deborah Krillet, the young wife of a sternly religious old Boer farmer, who demands patriarchal obedience from his household and enforces it with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future...
Ireland, "The Anglo-Boer Conflict...
...informal meetings in the Living Room of the Union sometime during this month. Mr. Barnes, who is well known as a correspondent to various periodicals, and as a writer of books on the navy, gave a talk in the Union two years ago on "Side Lights on the Boer...
General Ben., J. Viljoen, late of the army of the South African Republic, will give a talk at 7.30 o'clock this evening in the Living Room of the Union, on "The Anglo-Boer War." The talk will be open only to members of the Union...