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S, Q. I. STAPLES, Bmlncss Manager. THOf. H. PROWSB Editor. It is authoritatively announced that the extra session of congress will con vene on March 15. The government proposes showing Pulitzer and other yellow journalists that they cannot libel its officers with impunity. China has established a navy de partment. Greater and greater grows the impediment of the United States, Mr. Hobson! Our big fleet has returned from its cruise around the world. Every American heartily welcomes it and its boys in blue. Now that the war department has notified recruiting officers to enlist no more men another protest from Calamity Howler Hobson is in order. The steamer Tango Maru brings news from the orient that the Japanese government is about to prohibit its subjects from emigrating to the United States. Welcome news. The duke of the Abruzzi is going into the Himalaya mountains. Let us hope that Miss Elkins will forget the snob and marry some respectable citizen of the United States. Tim Sullivan, the bighearted Tam znanyite, gives thousand's of dollars annually to the poor. And yet there are people who deride him because he nixes a little politics with his philan thropy. Duluth is experiencing a deal of trouble in deciding what weight should constitute a fair load for a horse to Haul up its hilly streets. One way of settling this perplexing problem would be to cut down the hills' Mr. Taft has been made a master Mason "at sight," the ceremony oc cupying thirty-five minutes. This is like taking a fellow who dees not know Mow to box the compass and making him a captain of a vessel. Every member of the Duluth Women's Label league has pledged Herself to see that her male acquaint ances smoke union label tobacco and cigars. You can depend upon it that the ladies will make good. Abraham Lincoln's head is to ap pear on the new one-cent pieces which will shortly be minted. But why not put him on the twenty-dollar gold pieces9 He was no copperhead and his word was as good as gold. Jas. J. Hill is about to carry out his promise to build another railway across western Canada. It will run from Winnipeg to Brandon across a fertile country and will prove of incal culable benefit in opening up the ter ritory It is claimed by the Russian police that Grand Duke Vladimir, who died last week, was involved in a con spiracy to dethrone his nephew, the czar. To the discovery of this plot was probably due the sudden drop ping off of old Vlad. That "great boon to the country," denatured alcohol, appears to have fallen by the wayside. At any rate it has not, as claimed for it, revolution ized heating and lighting facilities or even cut down the price of gasoline. Is Mr. Rockefeller in the game? The house sundry civil appropria tion bill includes in its provisions the sum of $33,638,000 for the continuation of work on the Panama. This looks like an enormous amount to the ordi nary mortal, but it will all be, re turned, with interest, in due course of time. Mankato's Ministerial association is greatly opposed tojbhe dances which are occasionally given by the high school students of that place and has appointed a committee to investigate the matter. Wherein lies the harmful ness of such dances we are unable to see. To prohibit them would be to de prive the young people of *nuch pleasant recreation. .i& Jfc JiiJfc *&Jfe&t&4[ivB&Jito8i It is announced that President Roosevelt will visit Duluth previous to his departure for Africa. He prob ably dpems it wise to practice on the bears of the Zenith city before tack ling the hippopotami, rhinoceri and cannibali of the African swamps and jungles. There are certainly some good qualities in queens, not in all of them to be sure, but at least in Queen Helena of Italy, who, with her private funds, will build a town near the ill fated city of Messina. The new com munity will start with a thousand in habitants. It is expected that thousands of foreigners who returned to their homes during the so-called panic will be back to the northwest within a month. They should be dissuaded from their pur pose. There are thousands of men in this country now who are unable to find employment. King Alfonso of Spain will arbi trate a dispute between Germany and England pertaining to the boundaries of a bay in Africa. From what we have read of Fonsy we should hardly think he was capable of umpiring a croquet game leave alone deciding a question of national boundaries. The wholesalers and commission men of the twin cities are opposing the passage of a bill to compel the sell ing of vegetables by weight. They claim it would be too much trouble to empty the apples from the barrels. Brainerd Dispatch. And pray, in what year of our Lord was the apple metamorphosed into a vegetable? A copy of the seventh anniversary number of the Seattle Sunday Times has been received. It contains 188 pages and is dedicated to the Seattle Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition. Much valuable information is con tained in its pages and its illustra tions are profuse. Throughout it is a masterpiece of the journalist's and printer's art. The Cubans have already begun to show their ingratitude to the United States by introducing in their house of representatives a bill to prohibit foreigners from holding property. Of course other countries besides the United States would be affected by the enactment Of such a law, but the mea sure is apparently aimed at Ameri cans. A decision handed down by the Illinois supreme court on Friday holds that it has no power to compel May6r Busse of Chcago to close the saloons on Sundays. This is a severe setback to the crusaders who attempted to en force the so-called Sunday law. Why the supreme court has no power in the premises is not stated in the press dis patch. Great Britain is considering a re forestation scheme, recommended by a parliamentary commission, and will in all probability put it into practice within a very short time. The propo sition is to plant 9,000,000 acres of land to various kinds of treesto start tihem from the seed. It will take eighty years for the trees to mature and an expenditure of $10,000,000 per year during that period will be neces sary to carry out the project. The plan is a good one, for it will not only assist in solving the problem of the unemployed, which has now become of the first importance to Great Britain, but will enrich the country^to the extent of millions of dollars. i i An article by Lynn Haines in La Follette's Weekly tells of the success ful fight Hon. James A. Peterson waged against the corporation-con trolled aldermen" who aspired to re election to the city council of Minne apolis last fall. The preiss oT Minne apolis never did take kindly ^to Mr. Peterson and the outside world heard but little of the warfare he conducted against "the gang," as he terms them. But the fact remains that, through his efforts, seven of the alder men he opposed failed to pass muster at the polls. James A. Peterson is a good fighter and he is always found fighting on the rigbi side, and he never knows when he is whipped. His ag gressive honesty has kept him in the background, but the day is coming when the people of Minneapolis will recognize his worth and ability. %r *7.*Vr M.MM.MM J3LM*Jf9M3f lNij In a forceful editorial the Duluth News-Tribune demands that the com mittee to investigate the charges pre ferred by ex-Labor Commissioner Williams extends the scope of its in vestigations to include all the depart ments of the state governmentap pointive as well as elective, republican as well as democratic. There can be no question as to the correctness of the position taken by the News-Trib une when it says: "At best it is high time that a state law should prohibit the pernicious ac tivity in politics of department em ployes. The state does not pay them to do that sort of work, and every man in any department who spends any of his time in advocating the political preferment of any man or party should be liable both to lose his office and pay a good round fine. "The public has a right to know to what extent both parties are guilty in this regard, and to what extent the public service is handicapped as a consequence. If the republicans fear this, they are not on the square if they do not favor such a law, they do not deserve to control the offices. "More than this, the state law should go at least as far as the national in prohibiting the levying upon state employes any form of political assessment. No man's official position should depend either upon his ability as a politician, the time and money he contributes to cam paigns, nor his vote-getting qualities, or any cause beyond his fitness for his job and the proper performance of its duties." The following excerpt from the last number of the Western Publisher is true in every particular and well worth perusal: "Every community has a human ass that kicks at everything. He feels called of God and commissioned of man to kick at everything in the com munity. Such a kicker has his mis sion. He does some good in the world, but it is after he is dead. The knocker or kicker builds up nothing. He is a parasite upon the community, feeding upon the rights and interests of others. But there is a cheerful thought connected with the kicker He soon kicks himself clear out of the community. Give him a little time and he will kick himself to death. There is no person less respected in the community than the kicker. 'He has but few real friends, and they are ashamed to have his name mentioned in connection with theirs." a ""Four hundred people recently lost their lives in Mexico from a fire brought about by the explosion of a moving picture apparatus and many casualties, less disastrous in effect, have resulted from a like cause in the United States. Hence it behooves the proper authorities everywhere to take cognizance of this new danger and to adopt and enforce protective measures. Municipalities in various parts of the country are considering the best means of safeguarding life in such instances, and among them is the city of Duluth, which is preparing an ordinance de signed to remedy the evil. Dr. Wiley has thrown another scare into the country by declaring that where cans are coated with impure tin antimony is sometimes found in their contents. Antimony! If we remember rightly antimony is in some instances used as an emetic. So let us not, be alarmed over this discovery of Dr. Wiley's, for the ingredient will not long remain with us even though we take it into our systems. However, it may be a source of inconvenience, especially if we should be seated in church when it decides to tear itself away from our company. Senator D. E. Sundberg of Kennedy has instituted an action against the five largest express companies doing business ,in Minnesota* upon the grounds that their rates are excessive and that the revenues received annual ly are in excess of the valuation of the capital stock of the respective com panies. The action is brought before the interstate commerce commission. There is not the scintilla of a doubt that the express companies* charge ex orbitant rates. Some very good advice, embodied in resolutions, was offered at the an nual negro conference held at Tuske gee, Ala., last week, which was at tended by over a thousand delegates. "Stick to the farm and avoid the curse of the citiestheir hardships and difficulties," was one of the |ad monitions, and it is advice that nay be profitably followed by whites as well as negroes. TBUJBSDAY* FEBRUARY *5,'*V9 REFLECTS OV THEIR 'iNTEHIOBNCE. 1 Tomorrow, we understand, the bill which provides for the appointment of county superintendents of instruction will be up for discussion in the house. The bill should be recommended for indefinite postponement by a majority so large that it will not be heard from for the remainder of the session. The voters of each county are perfectly competent to choose their superinten dent of schools without the interven tion of any board. Occasionally an unfit person may succeed in being elected to the office of superintendent, but the mistake is speedily rectified by the voters. County superinten dents, in point of efficiency, will com pare favorably with other county officers. Because an accidental and visionary state superintendent of pub lic instruction recommends a change in the manner of choosing county super intendents is no reason why level headed, intelligent legislators should be governed by his suggestions. What assurances have the voters of any county thatvthe proposed appointing board (it is proposed to have a board of five individuals appoint the super intendent in each county) will not be influenced by personal, political or even mercenary motives in the choos ing of a superintendent? Is the pro posed board not liable to err, or is it to be presumed that the judgment of its members is infallible? Can the people no longer be trusted to select their public servants? We have yet to read a single convincing argument in favor of making the office of county superintendent of schools appointive. The onljr argument that can be ad vanced in favor of the measure is an insult to the intelligence of the voters that they are not competent to choose a school superintendent. A reduction in the duty on news print paper from six to two dollars per ton, the placing on the free list of ground wood, and the establishment of a duty of one-twelfth cent per pound on mechanically ground wood pulp has been recommended to the house by the special committee appointed to in vestigate these matters. This looks all right on its face, but whether, if enacted into law, publishers will benefit thereby remains to be seen. It will be remembered that the denatured alcohol bill also looked good on its face. Ben Pearl, manager of the Western Union Telegraph company at Salina, Kansas, says that the Lincoln log cabin is bogusthat the cabin in which Lincoln was born was burned prior to 1825. I was born in Hodgen ville, Kentucky, in 1854," says he, "and my father was born there. My father told me that as long back as he could remember, about 1825, there was no cabin on the Lincoln farm." If this is true Ben has shattered, by dis closing his knowledge, one of the na tion's idols. Gestures. "It 'will help actors in gesturing cor rectly," said a playwright, "to lemem ber that all gesticulation is an inher itance from our simian ancestors We show abhorrence best by the same movements with which we would re pel a Tvet dog We show affection by the movements with which we would receive a loved physical object We move our heads from side to side to signify 'no' because that was the way our monkey ancestors avoided a prof fered and undesirable morsel of food. We nod for 'yes' because that was the way our monkey forbears reached for an acceptable morsel" A Hypocrite. Little WillieSay, pa, what is a hyp ocrite? PaA hypocrite, my son, is a man who publicly thanks the Lord for his success and then gets mad ev ery time anybody insinuates that he isn't mainly responsible .for it himself Chicago News. Then He Went. Mr. SapheddeEnthusiasm is a fine thing. Now, I am always being car ried away by enthusiasm Miss Caus- tiqueYes, but the trouble is it doesn't carry you far enough Philadelphia Record. Letting the Cat Out. "What would you do if papa should die, Charlie?" asked the father before a room full of company. "Send away the ugly nurse girl and get the pitty one ag'in!"London Tit Bits. Safety Sandwiches. ParsonOh, Mrs. Hostess, how did you slice this meat in your sandwiches so evenly? Mrs. Hostess (delighted) -Oh, easily! We used my husband's safety razor.Judge. OPINIONS OF EDITORS! One of Jim Bamlln't Yarns. This is said an actual fact to be A Faribault county young lady left this note for the rural mail carrier: "Please leave my male in this box." Bricelyn Sentinel. Knows a Deck When She Sees It. Now the kings of Spain and Italy have met. A short time ago it was the rulers of Great Britain and Germany. That makes four kings, all there are in an honest deck, but not all there are in the European collection.Mary McFadden. It's Dead Easy. When you travel along, easy like, occasionally walking, trotting, pac ing, etc., in order to save yourself, on the road to happiness, it isn't a difficult task to do your duty to man kind and all the other boys and girls. Stillwater Gazette. You're Right, as Usual, Colonel We believe it is the proper thing to allow the western states, especially, to settle their own domestic affairs. It is just as proper for a state to fight for its rights as it is for a set of gov ernment rulers to bring on a conflict without the consent of the people. If the people east like the Japs and Chinamen so well, let them take them. We don't want them here.Lake Crys tal Union. $- People Do Not Demand County Option. Neither the republican party nor the democratic party promised to pass a local option by counties law, and but very few people expected that such a law would be passed by the present legislature. Look up the platforms of both parties and see in what a master ful manner they got around the ques tion In fact it looks as though the voters of the state do not want such a law. If they do why did they not compel one of the old parties to make a stand on that particular question? Madison Independent-Press. $- Let Us Be Consistent. There are some papers in the state that are given to censuring the repub lican party for not supporting the county option bill, and these papers last fall were supporting a man for governor who was known to be antag onistic to such a bill. Now, let us be consistent. Last fall the republican party had a nominee for governor of this state who was in favor of a county option law, and so expressed himself. What was the attitude of the county option people toward this nominee? Why it was anything to defeat him. The republican party is not in any way 'indebted to the county option people after such treatment.Evans ville Enterprise. 4 $- J* Brother Bell on State's Needs. What the northern part of the state needs and is entitled to in all fairness is a redistricting of the state. So far there does not appear to be any fight put up by the members of the* northern part of the state for this important measure. Again the legislature should enact an entirely new law in regard to roads, something in line with the system followed by the Canadian prov inces. Another important matter is a law to destroy noxious weeds, a law that could be enforced by special in spectors appointed for that purpose. While the present noxious weed law is stringent enough, there is much red tape connected with it and town officers refuse to enforce it against their neigh bors.Rosseau Times. $- Col. Ward Pokes Fun at Col Day Col. F. A. Day came down Satur day night last so as to attend church on the Sabbath, and also look after his newspaper work. He returned to St. Paul on the Monday afternoon passenger. It was necessary that the colonel should return to St. Paul on account of the session of the legisla ture As chairman of the state dem ocratic central committee he has the matter of temperance legislation to look after, and it is necessary that he watch the brewers or they might pass a county option bill or foolishly enact some temperance legislation, or make a break with those allies of the minis ters and churches, who were in part nership with them during the past election.Martin County Independent. Settlers Would Not Permit It The Minneapolis Star advocates a pet project of many Minneapolis peo plethe use of the waters of Mille Lacs lake for the twin city water sup ply. These folks forget that there are many dwellers around the lake, that thousands more are coming, and that there will be serious objections to turning the great lake into a sand bed. Prospects are that a great commerce will develop on the lake, and the peo ple in that region and near by will not consent to a project that it is claimed by some will ruin tLe lake. The twin cities can go a little farther, and tap the inexhaustible fountain of pure water known as Lake Superior. That would injure no one and'provide more water than the twin cities will need were they to surpass London in population.Little Falls Herald. Church Topics 4. 5nnday and Weekday Announcements. EPISCOPAL. Sunday, February 28, at Grace church, Baldwin school houseSun day school, 10 a. m. holy communion and sermon, 11 a. m. At Hope church, Congregational church, PrincetonHoly communion and sermon, 3 p. m. Rev. Isaac Houlgate, Pastor. CONGREGATIONAL. Preaching services-at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The pastor will ex change with Rev. William R. McClane of Robbinsdale, Minn. Sunday school, 11:45 a. m. Christian Endeav or meeting, 6:30 p. m. church prayer meeting, Thursday evenirg at 7:30. METHODIST. Morning, 10:30, sermon, "Temper ance from the Scientific Standpoint." Considering the new evidence of emi nent scientists and physicians, which shows that the popular notions regard ing moderate drinking to be entirelv false. Evening, 7:30, subject, "We*t or Dry, Which?" Epworth league, 6:30, leader, Claude Briggs Sunday school, 12 m. SWEDISH LUTHERAN. Services will be held in Saron church, Greenbush, next Sunday. February 28, at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Services will be held in Emanuel church, Princeton, next Sunday, Feb ruary 28, at 3 p. m. The Ladies' Aid society of Livonia church, Zimmerman, will hold its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Andrew Berg, this afternoon, February 25, at 2 p. m. All are cor dially invited to attend. The Ladies' Aid society of Emanuel church, Princeton, will hold its regu lar monthly meeting next Thursday, March 4, at the home of Mrs. Wikeen. All are most cordially invited to at tend. Public Auction. On Wednesday, March 3, Stroeter will hold an auction on the farm of Frank Nyquist in Greenbush, 4 miles west of Princeton. Everything must positively be sold as the owner is now employed by the Great North ern Railway company and is therefore compelled to leave the farm. Among other things which will be placed under the hammer are a team of young draft horses, weight about 2,800 lbs.: a mare colt, 2 years old six milk cows coming in three two-year-old heifers: wagon, buggy, farm machinery, cream separator, household furniture, etc. A free lunch will be served at noon. Frank Nyquist, v._ uOwner. M. M. Stroeter, Auctioneer. WEBSTER AND CH0ATE. The Latter a Rapid Fire Maxim, the Former a Thirteen Inch -Gun. "Probably no educational institution in our country has ever graduated two more eminent and eloquent lawyers than old Dartmouth college gave as in Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate," says a writer in Our Dumb Animals "It was my privilege as a member of the Suffolk bar to attend many years ago the trial of one of the most im portant cases of the year in our su preme judicial court at Boston. "On the two sides were arrayed some half a dozen of our most emi nent lawyers. Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate, as it happened, were on the same side "A hostile witness was put on bj the other side, some of whose evidence was of the utmost importance to Web ster and Choate, if it could be ob tained, and Choate undertook the task of obtaining it No man at our bar had more profound skill in cross ex amination, and the questions he put to the witness -nere like the fire of a Maxim gun, but every instance he failed to get the evidence he wanted gnd finally sat down in despair "Then Webster, who had been sitting in his great armchair, apparently about half asleep, as though taking no inter est in the case whatever, slowly arose to his feet, put his great eyes on the hostile itness, asked him in the most serious tone a single question and brought instantly the required answer Then as quietly he sat down and ap parently went about half asleep again It was a scene photographed on my mind, never to be forgotten. "The difference between Webster and Choate cannot better be explained as it rests in mv mind than to com pare Choate to a Maxim gun raining^ bullets of eloquence wherever he chose and Webster to a great gun that can send out a thirteen inch shell to pene trate an ironclad "It was wonderful to listen to Choate I remember a case in which an ordinary lawyer would have sim ply said to the court that he moved a postponement of the case because wit ness So-and-so was sick, but in this case Choate arose and commenced by saying that his important witness was on a bed of sickness and perhaps a bed of death and so went whirling up .almost to the skies on this simple mo tion, to the great interest of everybody that heard him "Our old chief justice, Judge Shaw, one of the greatest lawyers of his time, was a plain, practical man, and looked in his old age as he sat on the bench somewhat like a Chinese idol, and he used to frequently cut off Mr. Choate's eloquence by calling him back: to the plajn facts." 3* .p