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Guessing at Issues
The current Washington dispatches and
published Interviews with public men are
full of predictions as to what will be the
issue or issues in the next congressional
and, ultimately, of the presidential cam
paign of 1904. These predictions, very
positively made, differ greatly from each
other. Senator Foraker, in his elaborate
•peeeh at the republican state convention
of Ohio the other day, emphatically de
clared that, for the Ohio campaign, at
least, questions of the hour are those re
lating to our insular and commercial in
terests, the opening and expansion of the
oversea markets. The leading repub
lican journals in the country are divided
as to the coming issues, the extreme pro
tectionist element strongly protesting
against any reopening of the tariff ques
tion and many of them warning the party
leaders and the president not to revive
the discussion of the pigeon-holed
reciprocity treaties and to reject every
effort to introduce any more such treaties.
The democratic positon is mixed, although
Just now the dominant note is for reviving
the old shibboleth, "tariff for revenue
only," while there is a distinct staccato
movement which sounds like anti-imper
ialism and free silver and anti-trust.
It Is possible that the issues will be de
termined, not by individual party leader
predictions, but by the developments in
the new congress which meets next De
cember. It Is certain that the president
will call the attention of congress to the
urgency of intelligent legislation for the
dependencies and this involves a discus
sion of the reports on civil government,
insular tariff, insular currency system and
other insular questions and our relations
to Cuba. There Is also no doubt that
the subject of reciprocity and future reve
nue policy will come up for discussion. If
the president, in his annual message, re
peats the recommendation of reciprocity
"which he made in his inaugural address,
that subject is likely to occupy a con
siderable portion of his time. Many re
publicans see that, if the extreme protec
tionists are allowed to smother
reciprocity as a party policy, one, at least,
to which the party has very positively
committed itself, the democrats will have
an opportunity to exploit that policy and
tariff revision in an effective way, if they
have the prudence to gag their free
trade bawlers.
The canal question will inevitably come
up, as a new treaty will be presented to
the senate and the Panama canal people
"Will make a strong effort to have that
route substituted for Nicaragua. There
■will be a reopening of the Chinese ex
clusion matter as the exclusion law ex
pires next year and the Pacific coast peo
ple are going to make a big fight for re
enactment. We all know what an im
mense amount of valuable time has, in
past years, been consumed on this sub
ject. The San Francisco papers are al
ready sounding the tocsin and calling for
the defense of white labor against that of
the "yellow horde." It is possible that
the free silver group may make some
noise and some overcautious sound money
men may oppose any proposition to
strengthen the gold standard law and pro
vide for the country a more elastic cur
rency, but there is not likely to be any
protracted and desperate battle on that
subject as the country has very generally
made up its mind to get out of the freak
business.
It is evident from what has been said
that there are several issues of very great
Importance to the nation which will come
Up in the next congress. Nothing can ex
clude from consideration, of course, the
questions which demand solution as to our
insular dependencies, and as to our enor
mously increasing foreign trade. It
Bounds like the babble of infants for the
Home Market Club to say we ought to be
satisfied with the domestic market. The
protests of extreme protectionists against
reciprocity as a sound business method of
retaining and increasing our foreign
trade, sound like the utterances of tyroes
In the business world. The good business
sense of the progressive element sees
positive business success in the system,
at a time when Europe menaces us with
tariff retaliation, which, if continued, will
•work injury to us.
The first session of the new congress
will set the pace and bring most promin
ently out the issue of coming campaigns
unless something entirely unlooked for in
tervenes to absorb public attention.
Talking of simplicity and economy in
municioai administration, why not let
Tom Brown do it all? Up to date he has
relieved the mayor of much fatiguing
cerebration, has taken over from the city
clerk the most difficult part of his labors
—that of distributing circus tickets, and
has now relieved the city engineer of the
enerous duty of issuing permits for the
occupation of sidewalks and streets. Tom
graduated from a newspaper office and no
amount of work seems to strain him.
The Course of Business
Another fiscal year for the United States
closes to-day. The trade balances are
greatly in our favor and they empha
size strongly our prosperity. One hun
dred years ago John Adams was president
of the United States and railroads and
telegraph wires were unheard of. In
ten decades we find that the country has
200,000 nrlles of railroad, telegraph and
telephone wires in every corner and
electric railways on all sides. And we
find one more important fact —we close
the fiscal year to-day with the record
broken for exports , $1,500,000,000 to our
credit, the highest point ever recorded.
It is a great total of business done with
nations across the seas. We thought we
were doing well eleven years ago, under
all the circumstances, when we exported
$694,133,804 in the fiscal year of 18S9. Ten
years later we rather boasted of our
prosperity when in 1899 the export trade
reached a total of $1,130,629,075. But what
shall we say for the magnificent record
of the year now closed?
Of this great total Europe took a little
more than a trillion. Asia bought $50,000,
--000 of us in spite of war and fanaticism.
Oceanica, which no longer includes
Hawaii, took $36,000,000 and Africa took
$26,000,000.
There is a story underlying these great
figures of trade, of a country's expansion,
that may well compel the attention of
thoughtful American citizens who love
country more than political creed, who
recognize that as a nation we are pros
perous. These figures were not realized
under a policy of chance; they are
rather the natural result of conservative
administration, of policies that are not
of the destructive sort.
Mr. Morgan has said this week that
barring one thing there is nothing that
can prevent this country's prosperity for
a quarter of a century to come. The pos
sible disturbing factor that he named
was trade unionism. We do not under
stand from Mr. Morgan's remarks that he
is an enemy of labor, although many of
radical mind will so construe his senti
ments. It seems the more reasonable
construction to infer that Mr. Morgan
fears that labor may act contrary to wis
dom and interrupt prosperity by unwise
action.
The American workingman who is en
joying prosperity and steady work need
only to look to England to find ground
for Mr. Morgan's utterances. The reason
in part that the United States leads the
world in production to-day is because
the workingmen of this country have
chosen to join hands with capital instead
of joining hands against capital. Let
this be the rule of American labor and
we will be prosperous for a quarter cen
tury to come, because with our natural
resources and energy we can undersell
all nations.
The week has brought no unfavorable
news as to production. An excellent
wheat harvest seems assured. Corn is
somewhat slow but there is time with
favorable weather to mature a two billion
crop. The railroads are promised steady
earnings at high-water levels. The job
bers and the manufacturers seem to have
before them another year the promise of
good times. If the American people
ever had cause to be thankful it is now,
when within her borders there can live
seventy millions of people with enough
to eat and wear and leave a large surplus
of money for deposit in the bank.
With a threatened shortage of harvest
field laborers it has been suggested that
an effort be made to get some of the
Chippewa Indians from the Minnesota res
ervations to try their hands in the fields.
The government is continually endeavor
ing to instruct them in agriculture, and it
might not be a bad scheme for Captain
Mercer to organize an employment agency
and provide a few of his wards with jobs
and a few farmers with laborers. It is not
likely that many of the bucks would take
kindly to the experiment, but some might
and would surely profit thereby. In work
that he likes the Indian does well. While,
as a rule, he is a failure as a chopper in
a lumber camp, he is a valuable man on
the drive.
The reduction of the visible supply of
rubber trees accessible to market has led
to the planting of rubber tree forests.
This work has been undertaken in Mexico,
and is recommended for the Philippines.
J. Orton Kerby, who has thoroughly ex
amined the rubber forests of South Amer
ica, says that he looks to the Philippines
to supply the demand. The climatic con
ditions in those islands are well adapted
to the rubber tree, and the cost of trans
portation to the United States far less
than from the forests in the interior of
Brazil.
Windom's Prophecy
The Journal publishes elsewhere
to-day a summary of the report on trans
portation made in 1874 by Senator Wil
liam Windom as chairman of the United
States senate special committee on trans
portation routes to the seaboard. Some of
the recommendations made in that report
still have a live interest, especially those
relative to the Improvement of the
Mississippi and great lakes waterways. It
is remarkable that Senator Windom was
able, twenty-seven years ago, to grasp the
main features of the transportation prob
lem of to-day. Though continent-wide
ownership of railways and community-of
interest schemes were then unknown, the
great senator's statements of the condi
tions of the problem as it then existed
show that he clearly foresaw the present
relation of the railroads to each other and
the public.
The hauling down by Americans of the
British flag raised over the Canadian
customs building at Skaguay seems to
have been altogether unjustified. Though
the Canadians have been more' than ar
rogant in their boundary encroachments
near Skaguay, the British ensign was in
its proper place over the office occupied
by the Canadian representative and the
pulling down of the flag is an insult for
which the government may have to make
amends.
With such an absurd religious imposture
as Mormonism prospering and making
converts in large numbers and with "thou
sands of people ready to give up every
thing to follow that colossal old humbug,
THE MINITEAPQLIS JOURNAL.
"Elijah" Dowie; with other thousands of
our people ready to embrace without re
flection every occult fad or outlandish
cult that is proposed, it is natural to ask
whether our present systems of educa
tion are doing what they should to dis
cipline the minds of their pupils. Proper
ly educated men and women, if they are
of the right material to begin with, would
not be the easy victims of whatever im
postor or lunatic they may meet.
The Mayor's Proclamation
Mayor Ames' Fourth of July proclama
tion is real funny. It is one of the
blessings of this present local adminis
tration that it has no editor—such un
consciously humorous things come from
the mayor's lips when he talks and from
his pen when he writes.
Consider his Fourth of July proclama
tion. It begins with a reference to the
"re-occurrance" of Independence Day. Pos
sibly the mayor meant recurrence.
Further along we are told that women
and children have been frightened "and
that as a result frequent serious results
have followed."
In another place the mayor tells us that
he intends to "restrict" the ''promiscuous"
use of firearms and all kinds of fireworks.
Again we are told that the citizens who
get fireworks permits from the mayor will
not "be amenable to the law." We always
thought the mayor considered himself
above the law.
Hurry up with another proclamation,'
gentle doctor, we fain would smile some
more.
Meanwhile, your honor, you seem to
have meant well and if you will only do
some of these things you tried to say
you would do, and thereby lessen the
htdeousness of the great anniversary, you
shall have credit for your good deeds
done in the flesh.
It is as difficult to manage a J. J. Hill
newspaper as a J. J. Hill railroad when
the old man is around. Gossip on news
paper row ascribes the recent resignation
of Managing Editor Fenwick of the St.
Paul Globe, to an indiscreet but well de
served criticism of a prominent citizen.
The p. c. saw Mr. Hill and Mr. Fenwick
saw his finish. Moral, but the Globe staff
has the moral down fine.
The New York Times, Avhich is controlled
by a man of southern origin, takes the
stand that the frequently reiterated state
ment that the southern white understands
the negro better than anyone else and may
therefore be relied upon to settle the
negro problem in his own way, is wholly
erroneous. In the course of a long and
scholarly editorial it is maintained that
the southern white neither understands
nor sympathizes with the negro, and that
as long as he continues to maintain the
hostile attitude he now occupies there is
little hope of a solution of the problem
emanating from him.
From Lakes to Ocean
A dispatch from Albany, N. V., revives
the subject of constructing a ship canal
from Lake Erie to the Hudson river via
the Erie canal route or via Lake Ontario,
Oswego and the Mohawk valley to the
Hudson tidewater. It appears that the
state engineer of New York has been in
communication with some western engi
neers, who had letters of introduction
from Secretary Hay and who desired in
formation on the subject of the 1,000-ton
barge canal which has been proposed in
New York as a substitute for the old and
inadequate Erie canal. These two engi
neers, whose names are not given, ex
pressed the belief that the United States
would have to construct a ship canal
from Lake Erie to the Hudson to accom
modate the enormous and growing traffic
of the northwest.
This subject has been ttreshed over
many times. There has been much talk
and the government has had costly sur
veys made of the various routes and re
ports have appeared, but nothing definite
has been done, while Canada, in the mean
time has continued to carry out her am
bitious scheme for constructing a deep
outlet to Montreal and the sea. New York
frittered away $9,000,000 on a trifling
deepening of the Erie, and her state en
gineer, Mr. Bond, has an elaborate scheme
for spending $55,000,000 for deepening the
Erie, the Oswego and the Champlain
canals a few feet more, and running
barges on them by electric propulsion,
the barges to be 150 feet long by 25 wide,
with a draft of ten feet.
This arrangement has been opposed
strenuously in New York because of the
expense. It is not likely to be actualized.
It is not likely that the elaborate plan
for an American ship canal from the lakes
to the Hudson tidewater will be actual
ized very soon. The reason is that it is
very probable that, before it is actually
undertaken, the Canadian plan to give all
lake ports an outlet to the sea, so that
vessels can load at Duluth, Chicago and
Buffalo and proceed to European ports
without transshipment of cargo, will have
materialized. The Georgian Bay canal
scheme, which gives vessels a short cut
off from Lake Huron to Montreal via
French river, Lake Nipissing, the Ottawa
river and the St. Lawrence to Montreal,
is in a fair way to be carried out, and, as
it will cheapen grain rates by at least a
cent and a half a bushel, as compared with
the Buffalo route, it will command enor
mous traffic, especially as the water route
from Montreal to Liverpool is 450 miles
shorter than the route from New York to
Liverpool,
Last year nearly 26,000,000 tons of
freight passed through the Sault Ste.
Marie canal. This is an index of the bus
iness from the northwest,"and it is rap
idly increasing. If we are to have a ship
canal on this side of the line, we should
proceed to construct it at the earliest op
portunity, but there is no probability of
such celerity. It is more probable that
our Canadian neighbors will help us to a
deep -water route to the sea within their
own boundaries.
Some recent wars seem to have in
creased the knowledge of European mil
itary authorities who thought they knew
it all some years ago. Lord Wolseley
once, with the cephalic enlargement that
followed victory Jn some insignificant
wars, gave it out as his final judgment
that the American civil war was a mere
bloody fight between large armed mobs.
Wolseley now admits that the United
States army is the finest in the world.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago, has been
bitterly attacked but his letter to the new
Fire Marshal Musham conveying notice
of the latter'a appointment . to succeed
Denis Swenie contains some straight talk.
"I have but one condition to impose,"
writes the mayor, "that you keep politics
MINNEAPOLIS AND THE RAILROADS
The Biggest Question Which This City Has to Solve at This Time—
Every Man Who Has a Business or Owns Real Estate
Vitally Interested.
To the Editor of The Journal.
I want to congratulate our city en at last
having an organization that has taken up"
the questions of the city's welfare with the
energy and oarnestness the conditions de
mand. I have read with a great deal of satis
faction, the reports of the various commit
tees of the Commercial Club at the meeting
a few nights since, and wish to especially
congratulate the club for accomplishing the
exposure of the Kettle-Curlew, etc., mining
swindle, and for the promise of financial and
business benefits to all our citizens by a
fair adjustment of insurance and freight
rates, and the proper recognition of this
city by the railroads that obtain so large v
share of their business here.
This matter of railroad rates and railroad
headquarters is or vital Importance. The
great centers of the future must of necessity
be railroad centers, and by that I mean the j
headquarters of railroads doing business at
those points. You thus secure not only a
large and desirable class of citizens who
spend their money for living expenses, but
knit ttrem to the city's general interests by
home ties and business investments.
The Next Great City.
The great consolidations and combinations
in various industries am! railroads mean
not only the elimination of competition, but
the building up of a few very large cities,
properly distant from one another. It seems
now as though the cities in the north that
are sure to be thus benefited are New York,
Buffalo, Cleveland. Chicago—and is the name
of the next one Minneapolis? Geographically,
and from the standpoint of past accomplish
ments, It would seem as though we might
hope for that consummation. But future
prospects, rather than past accomplishments,
will decide the question.
Element* iv Our Growth.
The great elements in our growrh to th->
present day have been our lumber, grain and
flour business. Are these industries to grow?
Any one conversant with the lumber situa
tion knows it is locally on the decline, and
ten or twenty years hence little or no lumber
will be manufactured here. How is it with
the grain and flour business. Has that not
reached about the zenith of its growth?
Our millers will tell you they do not expect
to see another large mill built here. The
growth of flour mills in recent years, and for
the future, is in country districts. Climatic
and soil conditions tend constantly to move
the wheat growing belt further north, and our
wheat farms are gradually being changed into
stock farms and diversified products. If,
as seems to be warranted, we cannot expect
these industries to increase our population
or importance, where can we look for growth.
Beautiful parks and surroundings, a fine
library ' and churches, exceptional school
privileges and climatic conditions are in our
favor, but where Is the business to bring
others than those with a competency to our
city, and give us the population and Im
portance we hope for? I believe our growth
depends mainly on increase in railway em
ployes and manufacturing and jobbing. Un
less we can offer some advantage in these
lines. I cannot see a great future for ouir
city. Elimating in the count of railway men
located in each city for the purpose of taking
care of the local business in said city, a close
approximation of the men employed in St.
Paul and Minneapolis to look after general
work of the roads, in the general offices and
shops, is 5,000 in St. Paul and 1,800 in Min
neapolis, and it is probably safe to say this
additional 3,200 men in St. Paul sp/jnd yearly
over $2,000,000. Tne Omana roaa nas rrom
1,200 to 1,500 employes in general offices and
shops in St. Paul. From the report of the
railway committee of the Commercial Club,
absolutely and entirely out of the depart
ment. You are under obligations to none
but youreelf for your appointment. You
are therefore free to run the department
absolutely upon merit." This reads like
good business and good business ia always
good politics.
Captain J. C. Williams has been pro
moted by Mayor Ames to the illustrious
office of dog catcher. Williams is now
saying, "You see it was this way."
The Railroads and the Future
of Minneapolis
Attention is Invited to an article on
this page signed "Manufacturer." It Is
written by one of the most enterprising
as well as conservative business men of
this city. It is written not to create
alarm, but to impress some truths upon
the minds of the business men of Minne
apolis which they cannot afford to be ig
norant of, or to overlook. It 1b offered
also in the hope that it may arouse still
further interest on the part of property
owners generally in the efforts of the
Commercial Club to secure from the rail- i
roads the treatment to which this city, as
the chief commercial and industrial cen- j
ter of the northwest, is fairly entitled.
The people of Minneapolis are proud
of their city and have great faith in its
future. This faith is justified. Natural
advantages of location, the richness of j
the country naturally tributary in a com
mercial way, the character of our popu
lation, the attractiveness and healthful- i
ness of the city as a place of residence, ;
the advantages which it affords education- |
ally—all these and many more considera
tions justify the expectation that Minne
apolis will continue to grow and to en
large the scope of its commercial opera
tions.
The writer of the article referred to
points out the fact, however, that some
new conditions have arisen, some new I
forces are at work upon which the people
of Minneapolis must keep watch, and
which must be met If the outcome is to
be satisfactory to this community.
The "community of interest" plan of
railroad organization is placing it within
the power of railroad combinations in a
greater degree than ever before to make
or mar the future of centers of trade. The
railroads will have the power to make
those cities in the future which they may
see fit to favor, and they may unmake
those which are less fortunate. Hence
the necessity of co-operation on the part
of citizens of communities affected by
railroad influences for the protection and
advancement of their common interests.
A number of Minneapolis business men
have undertaken to secure from certain
railroad companies more favorable con
sideration for Mineapolis than they, are
disposed to grant. This is work that
deserves the sympathy and support of
the entire community. It not only de
serves it, hut no citizen of this com
munity who owns property, or does any
business here, or whose interests are
permanently identified with Minneapolis,
can afford to withhold his earnest sup
port from any well-considered effort to
induce the railroads which have hereto
fore not been disposed to treat this com
munity with fairness to change their pol
icy and maintain a more friendly attitude
toward this community.
This is a matter close to the value of
every kind of property located in Minne
apolis, and to none more than to real
estate. If real estate values in Minneapo
lis are to advance and the demand Is to
be increased, these things must be brought
about by the growth of the jobbing and
I see that road handled over 40,000 more loads
of freight last year in Minneapolis than St.
Paul, on which their freight receipts were
doubtless two million dollars. IB it unrea
sonable or unjust for us to ask them to offset
the two million in excess of freight receipts
from Minneapolis by their share of the two
million now spent in St. Paul?
The Question of Unit's.
In the present situation, we offer no ad
vantages to the jobber and manufacturer
looking for a location, proportioned to our
proximity to the lakes and volumes of busi
ness. The request that we be recognized as
a Mississippi river point in freight rates, and
for- an adjustment of local rates south of
here is reasonable, and should be backed by
the entire shipping interests of this city and
St. Paul, as they are as much interested as
we la the matter. With such concessions,
there could be no question as to our growth.
Every citizen of Minneapolis should lend as
sistance.
I understand our grain men had a com
mittee consisting of the late Charles A. Pills
bury,, and Messrs. Greenleaf and Commons,
working for years, in connection with the in
terstate' commerce commission, to get proper
recognition of the grain business south of
here, and that our grain and flour men now
have-no special criticism to make regarding
roor treatment. .Also that since Chicago
ceased to be a lumber center, because there
is no lumber to be sawed south of here, and
on of our local roads assisted them, our lum
bermen have little cause to complain of dis
crimination in favor of Chicago. Still, these
interests should -do everything in their power
to help the less fortunate manufacturer and
?nerchandise shipper, if they have the inter
est in Minneapolis which I think they have.
The fact that the railroads are in the main
dealing fairjy with them, and suggest if they
do not assist them in fighting local pressure
in favor of less favored shippers, they will
cancel present aramgements, should" have
no influence. They are getting now nothing
but fair treatment, the threat will never be
carried out, and the future welfare of the city
and many of their own investments are at
stake.
Have Waited Too Long.
Our jobbers in many lines report that they
now find St. Louis as active a competitor in
lowa, South Dakota, and in fact all over the
northwest, as Chicago. With the Burlington,
Great Northern and Northern Pacific owned
and controlled by the same parties, and seek
ing the long haul, must we not expect' this
competition to grow more and more serious?
With a rate from the east to Minneapolis
the same as St. Louis, and distributing rates
to the southwest fair and equitable, we need
have no fear, as our rightful territory is
ample. With this assurance, manufacturers
and jobbers will seek this as a suitable lo
cation, and the future greatness of our city
is assured. We have waited too long in de
j manding recognition in every way in their
j power from the railroads doing business here
The favors asked by the railroad committee
of the Commercial club from the Omaha road
seem perhaps large in proportion to the fa
vors that road asks, but we are entitled to
ask all of them, and should have begun years
ago getting one thing at a time, rather than
let the claim against them run to such size
without any sscurity.
A very keen business man, quite largely
interested in real estate, told me recently
that at the first approach of better times in
real estate in this ciy, he should sell every
thing he had in that line, as with the rail
road situation as it is here, he could see no
great future for this city. He is right, unless
all shippers and business interests make a
united and determined stand for the rights
to which we are entitled.
—Manufacturer.
general manufacturing business of the city.,
and that growth will depend upon the
advantages to be offered by Minneapolis
as a slace in which to handle business.
If the railroads continue to discriminate
against Minneapolis, and if, as a result
of the "community of interest" re-organi
zation, our facilities and advantages be
come relatively less than we now enjoy,
all property in this city and all business
will be unfavorably affected. Hence, the
importance of a combined, united and vig
orous ' cull all together.
About the result of such an effort there
can be no doubt. Minneapolis is big
enough and strong enough and her busi
ness is worth enough to the railroads to
make it worth their while to grant all that
she asks.
Hn,n *n Fnll A -ChicaS° telegram tells
How to tall how Geor&e R Lawrence> a
200 Feet photographer who takes
or More. snapshots at the earth from
a platform held up by a
i .balloon, took a fall of 200 feet the other
day and alighted without any serious injury.
It seems that when he was 200 feet from the
ground, the ropes of the netting snapped and
j the balloon went up, while Mr. Lawrence
started at once quite rapidly in the other
direction. He had presence of mind enough
, to use the platform as a parachute and keep
! it level by balancing. When he was forty
feet from the ground the netting also helped
him by catching on some wires, thus breaking
the force of the fall. Mr. Lawrence's account
| of his experience is worth reproducing. He
says:
"I figured that I must try to fall as easily
jas possible. I grasped two sidebars above ths
I platform and held them fast, managing to
j keep my balance, so that the platform acted
; like a parachute. I bent all :ny joints slight
| ly, keeping my muscles stiff. As I ap-
I proached the ground I raised myself on my
j toes and I was :n that position when I struck.
i The platform hit the ground, tilted just a
! little, but almost as flat as when I started to
fall.
"I fell down like a rag, of course, when I
struck, but got up at once and found I hadn't
a bruise except a slight one on my right knee,
which doesn't count. On the way down I
j was not troubled about the outcome. I
J thought of a lot of things, though, and don't
want to do it aga'n."
There is much in this story that will be of
value to the present city administration. If
the political ropes break, the administration
is going to fall about two miles. There is
some fear expressed that the platform now
being constructed by the daily walk and con
versation of the administration is going to
weigh about eight tons and that when it.
strikes the earth, the mourners are going to
scrape up the remains with case knives. Eut
perhaps not. There are many surprises in
politics.
Dr. H. H. Mather of Chicago, while at «ie
top of his swing on the first tee, twisted his
right leg so that the small be ne was broken.
Between golf and football, give us billiards.
An ice trust In Kansas City is snutting
down its plant and raising the price on the
consumers. A cry is going up for a public
ice plant. The trust is often a fool.
Milwaukee proposes to whitewash some of
its asphalt streets for the Elk?' parado. A
variety cf whitewash with froth on it might
please some of the visitors.
A South Dakota pastor refers to dancing as
"activity at the wrong end." The well
rounded man exercises at all ends.
The mayor has decided to permit the
churches to continue to hold services during
good behavior.
You cannot break the laws of this town
with impunity—unless you take out a permit
—T. R. B.
The wheat is getting so sturdy that the
farmers will have to harvest it with axe 3.
Some of the police have been poking the
live gambling wire with the official lath.
There is some talk of the sun petering out
We have recently begun to hope so.
Those little green fruits are simply peaches.
June lias been one great grocers picnic.
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1901.
A CORNER ON ARBUTUS
By LOUISE ROBINSON RHODES.
Copyrighted, 1901, by L. R. Rhodes.
Norvcn, Mich.,
April 20.
Dear Bill—
I have a scheme. Do you want to go
snucks? You know those little pink flowers
folka go daffy over in spring? Well, Sis
says there's heaps growing round here. Trail
ing arbutus they call it. I thought it would
bo a good plan for me to get a few bushels
for you to sell. Sis says she'll help only she
won't believe I'll get bushels. But I will,
though. Say, there's a boy sits right across
the aisle from me who plays hookey every
spring and fall. Goes off in the woods and
stay.3 a week or two hunting and fishing. No
body ever can find him. He shoots deer,
rabbits, squirrels and things aid hap dandy
times fishing. He has a camp kit hid some
where, nobody knows where, and hist goe^
when the fit comes on. When be, comes back
he's good as pie the rest of the v«?ar. He's
looking out of the window now. Wonder if
he's fixing to go soon? Oee, don't I wish
I could sneak with him? But he hain't got
any ma. Sis says she's going to write your
sister pretty soon. The teacher is looking at
me as if I am too still. I've been snefik'ng
this in school. Guess I'll have to stop and do
something to liven things up. If you'll go
snuck3 on the arbutus, let me know. Yours
truly, —Grubs.
Norven, Mich..
April 22.
Mv Dear Geneviev*—
The first warm days of spring are with us
and I feel as if new bln^fl wer« eourstng
through my veins as it is through the arteries
of the great trees around us. I am so much
better, the doctor says, we may not hay to
snend another year among the pines. Dea»
old pines. I shall mis° <hem when we go
Ji'st now they are putting out fender preen
fingers which point lovingly nt the spring
sun. Here and there great patches of add^r
tongues flaunt their brilliant yellow as one
passes.
And, oh. Genevicve, the arbutus will be out
next week. Grosvenor wants me to help him
gather it for sale. You guess how like
sacrilege it seems to sell them, yet ther?
may be a pleasure in sending the b€*«t*fnl
bits of fragrance to brighten other"people's
lives as they once d'd mini. lam learning to
pick up the little bits of pleasure trying to
forget that I ever presumed to long for great
happiness. Write me soon, ai.d tell me all
about yourself and what neoole are doing in
that dear world, "down below." Faithfully
yours, —Marian Ncrthway.
Norven, Mich.,
April 25.
Dear Bill—
The box goes to-night by express. It don't
look such an awful lot, but Sis says it's
awful small bunches they sell for 10 cents,
and not very big for a quarter. Most likely
jour sister will know about how much. Say,
| work Doc Graham to the limit. I guess he
likes arbutus, for I remember he used to
wear it in hip button-hole, and stems as if
he brought Sis some once or twice when sho
was sick last spring. I don't believe Sis
I likes him, fcr she won't ever talk about
j him. Say, the fellow I wrote about is
gone again. We found some dandy fish in a
hrsket on the steps the other morclng. They
were for Sis, a paper said. We suj pose it
him. Say, maybe the old maid over in Pike
street would take some arbutus. She used
to have her yard full of flowers. Don't for
get to stick Doc Graham and perhaps Miss
Marks, who used to be my Sunday school
teacher, would take some if you told her I
got it. The recess bell has rung so, so long.
Grubs.
Norven, Mich.,
April 27.
Dear Bill—
The second box started to-night by express
as I telegraphed you it would, but thought
I would write and tell you I'm glad you
I froze that Smith boy out. Don't suppose his
! flowers were as nice es ours any way. Course
:he knew ycu could lick him, but most likely
he sole out because he's too lazy to do the
■ work. Sis said it want right to coerce him to
Daily New York Letter
BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL,
No. 21 Park Row. New York.
The Hell Gate Legend.
j June 29.— Gate, in the East river at its
j juncture with Long- Island, sound, has been
much in the public prints since the battle
| ship Massachusetts passed through it and
I up through the sound, calling forth from the
! navy department at Washington. an order
j that . such dangerous experiments should be ,
.avoided in the future, because of the likeli-
I hood of serious mishap to a most valuable
1 bit of. floating government property. And yet
Hell Gate is by no means as dangerous a
spot as is generally-credited. It has its in
timidating moments of course, but its legend
ary charm is its chief value. The various
skippers who have regarded the legend of the
, Gate with a sort of awe did not like the
! appearance of the Massachusetts passing
■ through unharmed: possibly they feared the
-legend would be destroyed and every sort of
large craft would soon.be going through the
Gate without fear, or harm. To such the
1 action of the secretary of the navy ; came
' as good news, for it meant that the legend of
Hell Gate was to be preserved and favored by.
official sanction of the national government.
About the most terrifying thing about Hell
; Gate is its name, and yet. when the con
tending tides of the river and of the sound
meet at stated intervals and fight for mastery,
1 then the Gate is a good place to be away
| fr"om. Many a ship has come to grief by get
ting into the Gate at the wrong woment and
many, a swimmer has been drawn down. The
water at the Gate runs through a narrow
channel, rock bound, and while safe enough
for even large .vessels at times other than
when the tides are haying their wrestling
match, the place is a good one to steer clear
of on such occasions. The worst rocks of the
Gate have been blown up m recent years and
the teeth of the monster were accordingly
pulled.
Dangerous Days for Channcey.
A large number of ladies seem to have
banded themselves together for the purpose
of marrying off the junior United States sen
ator from the state 1 of New York. In the
strictest confidence Senator Depew has con
fided to his newspaper friends that he is
i daily receiving a batch of letters from women
who seem to be deeply interested in his
matrimonial plans as announced in the papers
eiRAN. -uonßonuaA jo •ju?snoo sin inoqii.^
; he admits that his mail these days Is literally
filled with the communications of persons
A DAILY THOUGHT
Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass.
The mere material with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared, and fitted to Its
place,
Does but encumber where it seems to enrich
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so
much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
—William Cowper.
Mr*. Tillman as a Balance Wheel.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
In the choice of a wife Senator Tillman was
fortunate enough to get just his opposite.
Nothing could be more placid than the atmos
phere of his home life. His quiet, gentle
wife is just the sort of balance this erratic
and Impulsive statesman needs. Mrs. Till
man does not want her husband to make
enemies, and one can readily Imagine when
in her society how she cautions him by say
ing, "I would not do this, Benjamin," or "I
would not say too much." She is retiring
and unpretending.
The Way of a Man With a Maid.
Nashville Banner.
You can generally tell when a man is talk
ing to a woman over the telephone by the
tone of voice he assumes.
Not a Thing Else.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Mr. McKinley has nothing to do now but
make a good presideat for the entire Ameri
can people.
cell out to you. Ma didn't say anything thea,
though she looked funny. I heard her tall
Sis afterward that she believed every boy
was a primitive man, and that- it was only
by slow evolushon that he became a gentle
man. After a wbils she talked to me in her
room. If that Smith kid has got any mora
arbutus to sell, you might let him, but chas<
him out of your ward any way. Sis is writinj
lo Gene, co you will hear all the news 1
guess. Yours, Grubs.
P. S. The fellow that went is back. H«
helped get this lot of arb. Have ycu stuck
Dot Graham yet?
Norven, Mich-,
April 27.
Dear Gonevieve— .
I enjoyed your little note very much,
though it was quite too short. It was like a
brief call from home friends. How I wish 1
could really have a glimpse of your dear self,
and give you a peep at our Paradise.
Yesterday afternoon I spent gathering ar
butus for Grosvenor. I wandered "oier th«
hills and far away." My path lay along «
track where the red ore glistened like bloo£
from the wounded heart of the range. Tb«
great pines had been cut away to let the
miners steal the iron frame york of the Bill.
A blue jay flitted before me scolding ell th«
way from his nest to the tamarack swamp.
Perhaps I fell a-dreaming as I gathered
my fragrant burden for a sad, deep purple
had settled over the valley before I turned
homeward. A soft darkness had settled over
everything before I entered the town. The
miners were passing like gnomes into the
hills and everything seemed so uncanny that
1 was genuinely startled when someone sud
denly took my basket from me.
It was rtnly a school mate of Grosvenor's,
who had joined me unobserved. He is a de
scendant of the old voyageurs who first ven
tured into this region, and their wild love
of nature breaks out in him occasionally with '
most disastrous effect i pon his edr.eation.
He seems to know that I, too, love the natural
world and has a sense of comradeship. Wh?T
he took my basket, he already had an arm
ful of most perfect blossoms. He had heard
I wanted some.
Well, dear, this letter has lasted far into
the night. My eyes are heavy and I lay down
my pen with the wish that your dreams may
be as sweet as the fragrance of my room.
Faithfully yours,
Marian.
Norven, Mich.,
April 3n.
Well Bill: here goes the last box. We've
cleaned up pretty good out of it all. haven't
we? What are you going to do with your
money? Guess 111 pat mine toward a gun. I
want to go off with the chap I told you of
awfully. Ma says a can-era would be nice,
j then I could take views of this part of the
country to take home with me. Say, did you
know we arc going home next fall? Marian's
a lot better. Gee, but you did stick Doc Gra
ham. Asked you all about Sis, did he? Well,
he needn't have for Sis don't like him any
way. When he came last night she cried.
Ain't girls soft? I wouldn't cry if a fellow
rame to see me that I didn't like. Ma likes
him though, she kissed him once. He's rea!
nice to me so I ain't kicking, but it don't
seem fair to bcther Sis when she ain't real
strong yet. The fellow I said is whistling
for me to go fishing with him, so here goe3.
Grubs.
Norven, Mich.,
May 1.
Dearest Genevieve—
John has come. He does care, and mother
said she gusssed it all along. He did not
dare tel me when I was ill for fear I did
not care and would feel sorry for him. Isn't
be thoughtful? We are to have the quietest
little wedrMng in the early fall, and then I
shall see you for a little while before we go
to Georgia for the winter, for I am Eot to
give up the pines altogether.
This is the haDpiest May day I care ever
known. I cannot write more now, as John
is -waiting for me to go walking. We will
try to find a few last sprays of arbutus.
Lovingly your friend,
Marian.
evidently anx!ous to see him happily mar
ried, he will not consent to publish the let
ters and let the world laugh with him. The
advice handed out to the senator Is In
teresting. Some of the women advise aeainst
his going out of America for a wife, others
say as widows have once been married his
I duty is to marry a single woman and give
her a chance. Meanwhile the senator does
! not seem to be of a mind to run again in
■ double harness and has left for Europe with
i out satisfying any of his correspondents H»
will not be back in New York until Septem
ber.
The "Infnnt Prodlsy" Grow. Tp.
It is mighty seldom that the Infant prodigy
develops into anything besides a mediocre
personage of after life. There have been a
few exceptions, of course, and one of them
will appear on the stage in the fall In the
leading part In "The Christian," which will
have a big revival. It does Dot seem many
years ago that we were matching little Elsie
Leslie play "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in a
quaint manner that won over her audience
immediately. Then she appealed in 'The
Princess and the Pauper." But now to think
of the child appearing in a strong emotional
part such as that of Glory Quayle in "The
Christian" makes most of us search In our
mirrors for the gray hairs, and then care
fully brush over the bald spot that intrudes
on the gaze. Miss Leslie, so it Is now, has
been signed by Messrs. Liebler & Co. for tht
leading woman's part in "The Christian."
the part that was created by Miss Viola Allen,
and when the big production Is started out
in the fall with Edward J. Morgan in the
part of John Storm, the former "Little Lord
Fauntleroy" will go along as the leading
woman. Miss Leslie has lately been playing
some small parts with Joseph Jefferson -mi
in them she has displayed talent of such an
unusual sort, that the engagement came to
her as a natural result.
Rural School In a City.
It is not always the most pleasant duty
to be a schoolmaster in New York city. The
other morning fifteen of the pupils in the
room taught by Max Nudin in the One Hun
dred and Tenth street public school advanced
in a body upon the unfortunate tutor, threw
him to the floor and got even for all th«
times they had been "kept In." One of the
beys, John McCord, the ringleader, is in a
police station, and tie schoolmaster is in a
hospital, as a result of the onslaught.
-N. N. A.
Pierpont Morgan's Newest Relic.
From a New York Letter.
J. Pierpont Morgan has bought for $90,000,
through Wertheimer of London, the cele
brated round table of Sevres porcelain and
bronze, signed Gouthiere, which has been
one of the most highly prized treasures of
the princely house of Rospigliosi at Rome. It
was presented to a former Princess of Ros
pigliosi, who was of French birth, by that
ill-fated and beautiful Princess de Lamballe,
who was put to death by the Paris mob ia
the revolution.
No Chance for Argument.
New York Mail and Express.
A load is removed from the shoulders of
the whole country outside of Ohio. The
Ohio papers have unanimously decided that
the next president will have to be from
that state.
Sarah'i English.
San Francisco Chronicle.
It Is absurd to talk of Bernhardt playinf
Romeo to Maude Adams' Juliet. In the first
plact, the divine Sarah speaks English in a
way that would make Shakspere's bones stir
in their grave.
Grover Amain.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Nothing remains now of third-term possi
bilities except the renomination of Grover
Cleveland.
A Sign.
Baltimore American.
Adellna Patti's day of glory Is over. She
is writing rules of beauty for the excitable
journals.
