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What Are You Waiting For?
Do not allow yourself to forget Dennis
Sewell. Do not yield to procrastination.
Of course, you intend to give;
then give now. Here is an op
portunity for real, practical help
fulness, in recognition of the heroic
publio services of a humble private citi
zen, wtio In his death met the noble ter
mination of a brave and useful life. He
left behind him a widow and five children, j
two of them generously adopted. Dennis
Bewell was generous of his means and his
life. It would be a shame in which every
citizen who can afford to give would |
share, if the public fail to care for the
little children and the poor widow. To
five in this cause is not to give for chari
ty—it is to pay the debt that was con
tracted by us all when Dennis Sewell gave
up hid life.
Postmaster Lovejoy seems to be one
of the men who do things. In getting the
postofflce department to install a system
of distribution of mail to branch offices
by means of automobiles, the postmaster
lias scooped his official brethren all over
the country.
Severe, but Just and Necessary
Four freshmen were yesterday sus
pended from the University of Minnesota
for one year, directed to make full rep
aration for their vandalism and sentenced
to receive a public reprimand from Presi
dent Northrop.
The offenses of the callow youths were
twofold. In issuing a cane rush chal
lenge to the sophomoreß they found it
expedient to daub red paint on the fence
enclosing Northrop field and also on the
-walks leading to it.
While we recognize the weight of the
plea that it was indispensable to the
proper publication of the challenge that
red paint should be brought into conjunc
tion with fences and walks, we must af
firm that President Northrop was justified
la instituting a rigid investigation. It
was then that the offenders sinned again
and capitally, granting that their first
offense was but venial. Under a close
questioning they denied all complicity In
the carminization of both the horizontal
and perpindicular surfaces above men
tioned. Afterwards they confessed their
double guilt—as vandals and liare. In a
published statement the secretary of the
faculty says regarding this persistent
lying:
The faculty desires to emphasize its sense
of the terribleness of deliberate lying by stu
dents when called 'before the faculty to tes
tify. The faculty does not require students
to testify against their fellows, but it does
require them not to lie when they do give
testimony.
This offense and Its punishment reminds
us that some college students have a pe
culiar code of "honor" in which lying to a
professor or instructor is not considered as
■within a reasonable definition of lying
in general. It was, perhaps, a recognition
of this fact that prompted the faculty to
let the offenders off With a year's sus
pension instead of expulsion. In a sim
ilar situation outside of college circles
probably none 'of the four youngsters
would have dreamed of lying. Flagrant
thefts are practiced and defended on a
Bimllar theory. Students who boast of
collections of stolen silver unwittingly
contributed by all the hotels or restau
rants they are able to "touch" would be
horrified if they were compared to shop
lifters. But the outside public cannot un
derstand the difference.
This kind of "honor" may be tolerated
in some institutions, but it deserves sum
mary suppression in a atate university—
and seems to be getting it in Minnesota.
The extent of the injury a student may do
to such an institution as the state uni
versity by such fun-making as destroy
ing property and such honor as "lying
persistently," cannot easily be estimated.
The .honest, hard-working, serious-minded
people of the state may not care to tax
themselves to support generously any in
stitution where it is considered the thing
and quite student-like to do acts which
out in Chippewa county or Roseau would
land the offender in the calaboose.
It is well for the great institution of
which we are all so proud that there, has
been so little of this student barbarism
at the University of Minnesota, and it is
well for the continuation of such a record
that the four vain and foolish lads who
were so exultant in their folly and are
now so humble in its expiation will have
a year in which to change their conception
of college life.
Why not let the redoubtable, numerous,
thrifty and industrious Smiths—L. A., who
is the son of A. J., who is county com
missioner; George H., who Is brother of
the latter; Jesse, who is the son of J. H. f
and M. E., whose place on the family tree
is not located—take over all the county's
work? There would be no check on
them, you say? Well, is there one now
with one of the tribe letting contracts to
his son and taking payment himself,
though county commissioner, while an
other relative "inspects" the job?
The Negro's Valueless Vote
The Atlanta Constitution complains that
the negro does not seem to care whether
he votes or not—this because numbers of
negroes are emigrating from Georgia,
where theoretically they are free to vote,
to Mississippi, where they surely cannot
vote.
This is what you might call naif.
A little while ago the complaint in the
south was that the negro wanted to vote.
Certain steps—at first extra-legal—now
legal in several states, were taken to
keep him from voting. After twenty
years of ballot-box stuffing, intimidation,
and false counting, designed to make the
negro's vote of no avail and sequentially
causing him to put but slight value on
the franchise, which has now given place
to the era of exclusion from the right of
suffrage by legislation, the Constitution
complains that the negro doesn't care to
vote.
In brief:
The negro was taught by the whites
that his vote was of no avail.
Now the negro, having learned that his
vote is no avail, has lost interest in it. I
Therefore, let the negro be condemned
as an electoral failure.
But why should the Constitution waste
apace talking about the negro's valuation
of his vote? To all Intents and purpo9ea
he is out of politics in the south, and is
likely to stay out. The south has, pro
visionally at least, settled the negro ques
tion on Its political side, in Its own way,
and the north seems to have acquiesced.
Mayor Ames seems to think that to
question his policy toward disorderly
houses is to question his republicanism.
Well, all right. The mayor can take It
that way if he wants to.
There are few men out of work, yet
Alderman Rand wants the police force
enlarged.
Uneasy China
The scene of the disturbances In China,
reported to the state department at Wash
ington, is in the eastern part of Kwang
tung province in the extreme south of
China. In the southern provinces of
China there have been numerous revolts
against the Manchu dynasty at Peking in
the past, the design being to restore the
former Ming dynasty which was over
thrown by the invading Tartars
some 260 years ago. The upris
ing in Kwangtung appears to be of
that description and, in addition to
this outbreak there are symptoms of re
volt in the Yangtse Klang region, where
the great river has overflowed its banks
for some distance causing the destruction
of human life and property on a large
scale, such visitations being usually at
tributed to the subservience of the govern
ment to foreigners. No doubt every dis
aster of that kind will now be charged to
the yielding of the government to the
terms of the allies.
The situation in China is not very prom
ising, although it is reported that the
emperor Kwang-su is asserting himself
and issuing edicts practically reaffirming
the reforms of 1898, which were quickly
negatived by the dowager empress as head
of the reactionary party, her determina
tion to keep China far in the rear of mod
ern civilzation being indicated by her
warm espousal of the Boxer movement in
1900. It remains to be seen whether the
emperor has the courage to enforce his re
form edicts, with the old harridan of an
empress in close propinquity. As long
as she is alive it is proper to register
doubts on the. subject. The action taken
by the allies was not pacificatory. China
submitted because she had to. The im
position of the big indemnity of some
$320,000,000 will prove an irritant, for the
reason that, although the amount is di
vided into annual installments, the pro
vincial mandarins who will collect the
portion not derived from customs duties,
will squeeze two or three times the amount
out of the people and by impoverishing
them drive them to revolt against the gov
ernment and against foreigners in China.
Bishop Graves, the Episcopal mission
ary bishop of Shanghai, recently stated
that no real improvement can be looked
for until foreign nations consult the In
terests of the Chinese people. This they
have not done, but have declared that they
have no concern with the internal reform
of the empire, which is really the pivot on
which everything hangs. Says the bishop:
To call the present state of things peace,
or to speak of a settlement, is a misuse of
terms. Some temporary arrangement may
be patched up, but it will contain within it
the seeds of future trouble. Everybody
would rejoice at a stable and honorable peace,
but the present seeming peace is not founded
on honesty, nor can it be stable, for it leavas
the forces of reaction, usurpation and cor
ruption in full possession, and, until these
are defeated and dispossessed, they will con
tinue to block all progress, not only so far
as missionary work Is concerned, but in com
merce and in any advance of international
relations beyond the elementary position of
force on our side and fear on theirs.
There is no doubt that this is a true
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
measure of the situation. Russia has not
receded an iota from her position in Man
churia, which she is converting into, a
Russian province, as she has maritime
Manchuria which she appropriated many
years ago, and there is not the slightest
probability that she will withdraw from a
single square inch of the vast territory
stolen from China. Our commercial inter
ests are jeopardized by Russian ascend
ancy in northern China and they are in
jeopardy with a chaotic Chinese interior
and a reactionary party in the seat of
power.
And Lars Porsena Rand pleaded in vain
for the mayor. What a spectacle of sub
lime civic devotion this of the democratic
sixth ward statesman forgetting his par
tisanship end begging for more money
for the republican mayor to spend in en
tertaining! v
The Pacific Cable
The recent announcement of the incor
poration of the Commercial Pacific Cable
company In New York, with the Intention
of laying a deep sea cable 'from San
Francisco to the Philippines, has aroused
Congressman Corliss of Michigan, and Ad
miral Bradford of the navy,both strong ad
vocates of a government-constructed and
government-owned cable to Manila, to
earnest protest against the creation of
a private cable monopoly to the archi
pelago. These gentlemen have bitterly
opposed the granting of a subsidy to any
private company for cable construction,
arguing that rates would be exorbitant,
but Mr. Corliss, noting that the company
now Incorporated does not a&k a subsidy,
says that cheap communication being es
sential to the commerce of the Pacific, it
is possible to hold the cable company
down to 35 cents a word to Manila and
25 cents to Honolulu, and, if such rate
cannot be obtained, the government
should construct the cable.
The British government has arranged
for the laying of a cable from Van
couver, B. C, by way of Fanning island,
Fiji, and Norfolk island to Auckland and
Queensland In Australia, the proposed
tariff being 49 cents a word, and the cable
is expected to be self-supporting in
four years.
We need a Pacific cable as much as
Great Britain does. The cable she will
construct will not give us direct service
and it is essential that an American cable
be laid direct to Manila. The route for
a cable between San Francisco and Hawaii
was surveyed in 1892 and the entire prac
ticability of that portion of the route was
demonstrated, and experts have expressed
the opinion that the other portion of the
route, from Hawaii via Guam to Manila,
is as practicable from a technical and en
gineering standpoint. Estimates have
been made that, if the rate per code word
of an average of eight letters, is placed
at 50 cents from San Francisco to Manila,
the cable need be operated only four
hours daily to put the enterprise on a
sound financial basis. The distance from
San Francisco to Manila is 7,000 miles, while
from Puget Sound to Manila it is (via
Yokohama) 5,954 miles, giving the ad
vantage to the latter route of more than
a thousand miles, besides more frequent
stations, making shorter Hnke between
stations, which will make the cable cost
less. These advantages are T/orthy of
consideration, whether the government or
a private company constructs and oper
ates the proposed cable.
The St. Paul library building is to have
some more business "features." Not con
tent with a clothing end several other
stores underneath, space is to be rented
to a bowling alley on the second floor.
It's a shame that ihe books take up ao
much room.
While you are complaining about the
tax rate reflect how much you have of that
$20,000,000 of personal property which
Alderman Jones say 3 escaped the asses
sors.
To Redeem New York
That much-abused phrase, "the keynote
of the campaign," can be fittingly applied
to the following excerpt from the speech
made by Seth .Low in accepting the nom
ination of the Citizen's Union for mayor
of New York:
The common purpose of this campaign is
to wrest the control of the city from those
who permit one man to govern it from hie
English home, like a second George 111., aDd
to make millions for himself and his friends
out of the control of it, as though this impe
rial city of New York were his private gold
mine.
Did anybody ever explain how Richard
Croker could honestly grow rich in poli
tics while doing nothing else and never
holding lucrative office himself? As Mr.
Liow says, Croker has made millions for
himself and his friends out of his cor
rupt control of the government of New
York. Such a statement is not In the least
extravagant If the people of New York
have left in them any spark of desire or
respect for integrity in office or any hor
ror of the prostitution of municipal gov
ernment to the base and sordid ends of
Croker and his corrupt and servile follow
ers, if they have any desire for a good
name for their city, they will this time
sweep Croker from power once and for all.
In thinking over the work of the board
of tax levy don't forger that the county
commissioners were the only department
that made a substantial reduction In their
portion of the levy as compared with last
year. Alderman Merrill, too, is entitled
to a compliment in connection with the
board's work. At great risk of creating
(powerful political antagonism he did not
hesitate to place himself across the path
of Mayor Ames' extravagant demands for
the police department
A Time for Severity
Balangiga, the vile nest oif treachery in
Samar, where Company C of the Ninth in
fantry was all but annihilated, should be
acquainted with the meaning of the word
retribution. According to the Manila
American the unfortunate soldiers were
butchered "by a murderous uprising of the
ostentatiously' peaceful people among
whom they were living. The
soldiers were not killed in
■battle. They were assassinated by or
with the assistance of tbeir supposed
■friends and their bodies were savagely
mutilated. This is not an act of war but
a crime, which should be punished as such.
By acts of generousity which are not less
than chivalrous our soldiers have proved
to the Filipinos and the world that the
fighting brown men is treated as fairly
as if he were a recognized belligerent.
Now the time has come for an exhibition
of another form of justice—this time re
tributive, not forgiving. Every Tagalog
.: >i y- i■■ jCi.-' ". . : .'■; ••; * L{ Uf, 'jl ill
who :■ had a part .in the ' masaacra. should
speedily be executed, and the hunt of the
ibloodthlrsty sneaks should be kept up
day toy day, /week by week and month 'by
month till the last wretch has,
paid v>■ s the - penalty if .. ■Ma ■:.crime \
with- hLs life. Such r stern-jcv pun"'. 1
ishment should be dealt out that so '
long as the men of Samar recall the mas
sacre of Balangiga they must also recall i
the punishment that followed. ''; '^l:'^'-
rwiV' W a A Bayonne dispatch die
/ tie Dull scribes a bull fight in which
and the the gentlemanly mattadors
JXutn ;t. ■.■'- or picadors, . or. whatever
-. , /,.; they J are in Dago,, went out j
to. meet ■ the : heifer's | natural protector in ,an
automobile. The novelty drew ,an enormous
crowd but the bull would not stand for the
"sport." When he saw the "tommy" on the
track, and detected the smell of gasolene in
the air, he turned tail and flew the ring. Six
other bulls refused to take part in. that kind
of sport and the game had to be called oft, as',
it was nearly church time. Great.' indignation;
was expressed. by the populace who had paid:
to see a fight and several benches were.
wrecked and windows smashed as ". a testl-.j
monial of disregard' for the kind of sport i
presented by the promoters. ',„, "■.',".' j
.| Personally ' one feels ' a strong sense ". of ■.
sympathy with the hero of the stockyards.
With a horse, handicapped as he Is by a de-S'
cadent , Latin mattador, a bull has a fair
chance, but ; when - pitted against" a lot of
machinery with a bucket full of gasolene in
its insides he feels that he is going against j
the. unknown and very naturally and prop- <•
erly shrinks from the encounter. Some day '■
the machine will buck on such work also and j
will throw the picadors, out and then the
machine' and the bull will join drives and j
run over and step on a few of them, just for ■
sport. ..... .;.... ... i .
Walter E. Duryea, the New Yorker who
had the misfortune to break his neck, denies
that he has married a professional nurse. He
says: "Were the choice offered me between
matrimony and a broken neck, I might
hesitate. At present 1 have the broken neck
and that is enough."
The English Imperial Yoemanry show a
disposition not to re-enlist for service in
South Africa. They propose to rest and to
let humanity do its own staggering for a
while.
An automobilist at Buffalo covered a mile in
1:13%. The little girl with the baby carriage
doesn't stand much more show on the streets
now than do the deacon's principles at a hoss
race.
A few years ago a popular "cure" was to
go without breakfast. Now they want you
to eat two breakfasts. Anyhow, they are
erring in the right direction.
The Leisure Hour club usually calls around j
to hold a session in the ofßce of the alleged
busy man the day he returns from his
alleged vacation.
Seth Low has just compared Mr. Croker to
George 111. A good many Tammany sup
porters will ask "Who der deuce was dts
George Tree?"
The Southern Baseball League has finished
"its season without lynching an umpire. Is
that the reason it is called the New South?
Mr. Bryan tells Mr. Roosevelt that he ought
to be satisfied with one term. Mr. Bryan
will take one and be glad to get it.
Miss Helen Stone is held for $100,000 ransom.
These brigands well know that the American
girls are expensive critters.
Correspondents are standing around wait
ing for the president to play football with
a kodak fiend's torture box.
Why not let the college eleven attend the
next anarchist meeting in iU professional
capacity?
Some of the ships' logs seemed to have bar
nacles en them.
AMUSEMENTS
Foyer that.
Surrounded by a company of unusual ex
cellence, magnificent and appropriate scenery,
costumes historically correct, and with atten
tion to the smallest detail, Otis Skinner's re
vival of "Francesca Da Rimini" is conceded
to be one of the greatest dramatic events of
the past few seasons. One cannot readily
recall, any dramatic presentment that has re
ceived such unanimous praise. It is in such
high-class work as is afforded him in the
role of Lauciotto that Mr. Skinner is seen at
his beat.
Still a young man, William Collier has
been fotrunate enough to reach the head of
his profession, while many of those who
started In the race with him are still in the
ranks. As Robert Ridgeway, a Yale stu
dent, in Augustus Thomas' comedy, ','On the
Quiet," Mr. Collier was the great comedy hit
o£ the past season in New York city, where
he presented the play for six months at the
Madison Square. The part is one which of
fers him good opportunity for the display of
his versatility. Mr. Collier will present "On
the Quiet" at the Metropolitan all the com
ing week, opening Sunday evening.
The courtroom scene in "The Xight Before
Christmas" at the Bijou the current week, Is
one of the most realistic scenes of this kind
ever presented on the local stage. A young
man is on trial on a false charge of mur
der, and the presiding judge is his own
father. The young man is found guilty and
his father is compelled to sentence him to
be electrocuted. Scenically the production is
most complete and the performance is well,
worth witnessing. Saturday the only re
maining matinee will occur.
The attraction at the Bijou the 00111111!?
•week, commencing next Sunday afternoon,
will be the successful comedy-drama, "Across
the Pacific," with the popular little comedian,
Harry Clay Blaney. in the leading role, sup
ported by a company numbering nearly sev
enty-five. The action takes place In Mon
tana, in Chinatown, San Francisco, on board
a United States transport about to depart
for the Philippines, and in the Philippines
during the war with Spain. Scenically the
production is promised to be superb and the
producing company will include such well
known players as Orme Caldora, Lester
Franklin, Harry Fenwtck, Thomas Beaty,
Fred Watson, "Chinese" Johnny Williams,
Frank Sanford, Marie Petes, Dorothy King,
Kitty Wolfe, Major Mort Epler and the
Rough Rider band.
AN UNANSWERED RIDDLE
Druggists' Circular.
In 1899 the Missouri Historical society pave
; a historical loan exhibit, to which were con
; trlbuted objects of a general as we-11 as local
I historic interest. During the temporary ab
j seuce of the librarian one day a porter called
j and left an oil painting with the janitor, but
! did not tell the name of the owner nor the
I subject of the picture. On opening it, the
j librarian saw the face ot a man apparently
I about 30 years old, with small brown eyes,
a great deal of curly reddish-brown hair!
high color, straight nose, and a decided ex
pression of scorn on the mouth. Altogether,
a decided air of distinction rests upon the
face. The man is dressed in the --high stock,
white tie and rolling black collar which dis
tinguished portraits painted during the first
quarter of the last century. The picture was
hung during the exhibit with the query at
tached, "Who this gentleman?" and so it
hands on the Historical society's wails to
day. It was never called for, und though
; copied in numerous papers with the request
that It be identified, or claimed, the mys
terious owner has never made himself known,
nor has he parted with the secret of the
stranger's identity. Suggestions have been
offered from time to time, but none of them
has seemed satisfactory, arid the question still
remains, who is this gentleman?
Hints at a Dark Plot,
Washington Post.
Perhaps the managers of the democratic
campaign out in Ohio thought that Uy invit
ing both Hill and Bryan to make speech**
they fixed things so that neither could, ac
cept.
Kn(JKl>tiii«-nl for the Ignorant*
Chicago News.
Free silver is still the leading question,
says Bryan. It is good tor him to keep
us posted this way. '
MINNESOTA POLITICS
The recent address of the populist state j
committee, declaring for an Independent na
tional ticket, hag called forth all sorts of
comment. The Alexandria Post-News de
clared that It was "merely a cop thrown to
the rank and file of the people's party to hold
them as the tools of democracy in Minne
sota."
Victor Luwsou, chairman of the populist
state committee, replies to this thrust lv.hi::
paper, the Willmar Tribune, and some of the
things he says are important as. outlining
the populist policy in the state. Mr. Lawson
cays:
How senseless this accusation is to any
one who knows that fusion is a thing of the
past In Minnesota in the sense that it has
been formerly understood. Anybody but a
politician for revenue only, or a political
editor for postolftce only, would be expected
to know tbat the new law passed last winter
prohibits any dual party names on the ticket.
If the people's party leaders were mere tools
of democracy, they would quietly try to
strangle their own organization and preach
that the best thing for populists to do Is to
join democracy, good or bad. Fusion has
been killed by law in Minnesota; therefore,
it is idle to talk of state fusion. The Post-
News continues: "These men know that to
be a separate nationality a party must be
separate in state and county. A party can
not stop at a national organization and effect
anything. These men do not expect to effect
anything nationally. They simply throw the
national ticket in the air to preserve fusion
in the state." These men, as stewards ap
pointed to care for the interests of their or
ganization, knew that the first requisite for
maintaining their party organization is to
make it independent nationally. What the
party chose to do on local issues did not
matter so much. They might indorse a good
man on the democratic or on the republican
ticket if they thought they were advancing
good local government in that way. The
writer has repeatedly supported republicans
for city offices In Willmar because they rep
resented a moral side of a local issue, and we
have yet to hear any one question his loyalty
to the national policies he advocates on that
account.
While Mr. Lawson is high in the councils
of his party, he is not after the loaves and
fishes, and, therefore, looks at the question
from-a rather higher plane than the average
politician. He may have some trouble in
convincing his colleagues that what they do
on local issues does not matter bo much, if
the populists' co-operate with the democracy
in local matters, they will demand their
share of the honors.
The. Wadena Pioneer Journal says:
The Washington correspondents of the twin
city papers seem to be more or less actively
engaged of late in selecting a Minnesota man
ager for President Roosevelt. It will be
hardly necessary for the president to have a
manager in this state, as to-day every repub
lican is for Roosevelt, and there is no need
to employ artificial means to cultivate a
sentiment in his favor. President Roose
velt probably is as well posted in regard to
the situation as is necessary. In this eon*
nection, however, it may be stated that, un
doubtedly, no man in the state stands closer
to the president than Senator Knute Nelson,
which is pretty strong evidence that he is a
good judge of men.
Edward T. Young of Appleton is an avowed
candidate for congress in the new seventh
district. The announcement was made in
The Journal's news columns yesterday.
Such a statement has been awaited for
some time. Senator Young felt that it was
too early to begin a campaign, but with two
other candidates doing active work already,
it was necessary to make his intentions
known in order to prevent rotes being
pledged to his rivals.
There are enough announced candidates
now in the seventh district to insure one of
the hottest campaigns in the history of the
state. Not one of the three is to be despised
as an antagonist. Eddy, Dowling and Young
are all men of acknowledged qualifications,
personal popularity and ability as campaign
ers. Yet they may have to enlarge their
circle to make room for another.
J. F. Jacobson's friends and admirers are
doing their best to get him into the race,
and may finally prevail upon him. Jacobson
is reluctant to go into a scramble for office,
especially one of cuch magnitude, which
would entail a great expenditure of time and
money. His Lac gui Parle county neighbors
have had hard work for several years to- get
him on the legislative ticket, not on account
of any modesty, but because he begrudged
the time from his business. Should Jacobsou
go after the nomination next summer, the
result would be in doubt until all the votes
were counted.
Senator Young will make a strong bid for
the nomination. • Ho has a certain amount of
strength all "over the district, but especially
In half a dozen counties immediately sur
rounding Swift. It is hard to tell whose
chances he wl!i injure most, Eddy's or Dowl
lng's.
Referring to the rumor that the leaders in
Kandiyohi county have come together on
Young for congress, the St. Cloud Journal-
Press says:
Time was when the leaders might have de-
Bvered the goods, but not next year. When
each citizen, has the chance to ■ register his
choice for candidates, the "leaders" have just
one vote per man. Senator Young is an able
man, but he will not get all the votes in any
county with so popular a candidate against
him as Frank Eddy. And Mike Dowling will
"also ran."
Tbe Mankato Free Prees, Congressman Mc-
Cleary's official mouthpiece, suggests:
Xow that Congressman McCleary has de
clared he is not a gubernatorial candidate for
next year, and would not accept the nomina
tion were it tendered, it is up to those who
would like to get him off the congressional
•track to propose him for something else. But
the people seem to be very well suited with
Mr. McCleary in his present position, and
the congressman is likewise satisfied with it.
The following from the Granite Falls Trib
une is a fair sample of the trend of the state
press on the auditorship question:
There is one man that is never considered
a barnacle to the state ticket, but a tnaseot
Instead. His name is R. C. Dunn, and, if
he elects to succeed himself, there is not a
man from the fresh water pond to the Red
river valley that can be, foolish enough to
cross swords with him.
Just the same, there are two announced
candidates already—Samuel G. Iverson and
Odin O. Halden. —C. B. C.
THE TOBTIRE OF THE SLANGY
MAX
When I fare forth to meet with Mind,
Also with Culture-thought Refined
And Higher Alms * • • when men with
Brows
Exploit philosophies that rouse
My soul to terror, though the while
I grin with comprehensive sm!l?.
Oh, how I long to call their stuff
By Its befitting name of "Gutt."
When brainy women of the club
Swoop, down on me—"aye, there's the rub.
Whether 'tis nobler" in a man
To argue with them. If h« can,
Or make beliere to only grasp
High meaning from the tones that rasp— .
I madly yearn aloud to scoff
And say, "Come off: Great Scott, come off!"
And when with Beauty I am put
To sit and gaze down at my boot
'Ware of the artless wiles that Art
Has taught the maid —how she would start.
To know that while she smartly chats
Of booke and lore. I'm thinking "Rats!"
That more than e'er I yearned for pelf,
I yearn to say, "Gc, chase yourself!"
—Brooklyn Life.
It Will Get Him Yet.
Redfleld (S. D.I Press.
We saw our contemporary start off on a
bicycle carrying a gun in his hand. We bade
him a tearful farewell, when he shouted at
us that "the thing isn't loaded." That set
tled it for us .and we went to the desk and
wrote out a beautiful and tender obituiry,
for we knew that it is always the gun that
Isn't loaded that does the* killing. But soma
way the thing didn't work as usual and he is
still alive. But never mind it will get him
sometime if he keeps it up and then we will
have the obituary ready.
He Preferred to Earn His Money.
Boston Globe (Dem.).
It is said that several times Mr. McKlnley
■was urged to allow his friends to underwrite
some of the stock for big combinations in his
name, but his refusal was absolute. *'I can
not afford to have any relations with the
trusts or combinations of capital," said he,
and be never did. Such a record is worth
more than a ten-acre, block of stock.
The Land Came Ckcap.
Lakefleld Herald—Shouldn't wonder If the I
St. Louis fair coat more than the land whose I
ourcliase it is designed to celebrate. - •
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1901.
f 1 C^^tM^LtJ^H CPA«CHAL'
Copyright, 1901, by Ullian C. Paschal.
"Well, my boy, your catch isn't very big
to-day, is it?"
June Devore was interested in the long
une of boye fiahing on tne pier. She gianceu
uuwn in amusement from under her rumea
parasol, not at the kneeling ngure in knicn
oroocKera, but at the smaii oox, nested in
seaweed, wnere squirmed some two-inch
•Kiilies."
"This isn't catch— bait," came in' pe
culiarly sinotheieu tones irom unaer me gon
Map bent over the wriggling nsh.
A pair of twinKimg, ooyion eyes scanned
vvitn great iuteiest vie oainiy arch or me
coioniai-clad loot oesiue him, witn me naxy
foam of lace billowing aoove, while his
orown fingers busied memseivee with, me
u-anster or the Dait. .:.'..
But the sweet voice above hUn brok« with
pain and piU'.
"Oh, some of them are alive, and they're
such tiny baby-fish. Please put them back
In the water. Woa't you, please?"
Now Frank Truitt had procured the bait
at considerable expense of time and trouble
over in Snark river, some distance inland
from the ocean, so he naturally hesitated.
Seeing this, the girl opened her purse.
"See here," she said with a winning smile,
"I'll give you this If you do. It will buy
enough tally to muke you and all your
friends here ill." And she held a bright coin
down toward the bashfully bowed head, her
pitying eyes still intent on the baby killies
she was trying to save.
Frank's friends were wont to say that his
bump of humor was the most fully developed
on his cranium. Anyhow, at this particular
juncture It strangled his conscience.
"By Jove, it's worth it—such a huge joke
to recount at the club," he thought, as with
apparent reluctance he dropped the innocent
fre3h-water killtea into their supposedly na
tive element.
"The rest, you see, are quite dead," said
he humbly, with the air of a remorseful cul
prit.
"It's too bad, but thank you so much. You
are a nice boy," and for the first time she
looked at him squarely, holding out the coin
once more.
A slender brown, hand reached up and
! grasped the money greedily. Then "the nice
! boy" rose to his feet, unfolding before aer
dismayed eyes as he did go five feet ten of
masculine stature, wbile he doffed the cap
and disclosed a clear-cut, mustaehed face,
whose mirthful eye 3 shot laughing glances
toward her flaming cheeks.
"I beg pardon—but really "
"Oh, I thought—l never dreamed " and
she fled down the pier toward the hotel.
When the last flutter of her white frock
j had disappeared in the crowd along the
! boafd walk he replaced his cap and turned
I the half-dollar affectionately in hia hand,
shaking the while with quiet laughter.
From examining the prize he fell to scru
tinizing the hand which held it. It was fine,
| rather small, but deceptive, as some of his
i college opponents had learned to their sor
row.
Daily New York Letter
Fall of Richard Stilt us.
Oct. 3.—Physicians In charge of the insane
pavilion of Bellevue hospital are deeply in
terested in the case of Richard Saltus, who
was sent there by direction of Magistrate
| Pool, in Jefferson Market court. Saltuß was
j charged with vagrancy. He had been arrested
; while aaleep on a grating near Twenty-third
1 street and Fourth avenue. Poorly clad and
[ apparently half etarved, Saltus told the
! magistrate he was now nothing more than
i a tramp, although once a lawyer of stand
ing and wealth. He gave the name of Henry
j C. Dewitt as a former friend, to whom he
I referred for information concerning his down
i fall.
Henry C. Dewitt is a lawyer with offices
in the Park Row building. He told an ex
traordinary story of the life of Saltus. The
vagrant, he said, is a lineal descendant of
Robert Morris, the financier patriot of revo
lutionary times. He said Saltus was born
in wealth and was graduted from Columbia
College with the class of 1874.
Marconi System Extended.
Gradually all the ocean greyhounds are be
ing equipped with the Marconi system of
wireless telegraphy. It was announced to
day that the I'mbria of theCunard line is fitted
up. The Lucania and the Campania have
had the system working for some time past.
Vat Goodwin's Plans.
Among the intimate friends of Nat C. Good
win there is a rumor that the actor may
never again be seen on the American, stage,
unless it be during a brief tour.
Goodwin is on the other side, with his wife,
Marine Elliott, and a full company of Ameri
can players.
This rumor is corroborated by the fact that
Samuel Hall, a brother of Maxine Elliott
and for a number of years a member of the
Goodwin organization, did not go to London.
His heart yearned for Broadway.
Goodwin always has thought his talents
were not appreciated sufficiently from a flnau
clal viewpoint In America. It is said that
he often complained that, no matter how
expensive or how cheap a company he en
gaged to support him, his business always,
remained about the same, and that his profits
were Invariably small for a company which
played only the first-class houses of the
union.
Goodwin has become convinced that if he
once can establish himself as a favorite with
the English theater-going public, the returns
will be more constant and in greater propor
tion than those on this side.
A College War.
The other night eighteen sophomores, led
by Casper Lane and K. K. Raldlns. dashed
into the main building of the New York Uni-
v\ \ / / -xf
..,;..' :,,'■■-. -..-,■- .. ■ A UTTLH SHORT.
Passenger—What, you can't change & dollar?
Conductor—Sorry, but I Just bought two th*at«r tickets, ,
"It Is a kid's hand." he said in disgust,
"or a woman's; but doctors often have un
der-sized nets—l wonder why?"
The question in biology remained un
solved, for his small nephew ran up with a
catch, exclaiming:
"See, uncle, what kind of fish is this?"
"Blue, with brown splashes in 'em," was
the reply which mystified Frank junior.
"Come, my lad, I promised your mother to
have you at the hotel by 5."
As the little fellow trotted by his side, car
rying proudly aloft hits string of three small
weakflsh, h^s uncle glanced down and said
quizzically:
"My boy, your catch isn't very big to-day,
ia it?"
"More'n you've ■got," was the sturdy reply.
"I doa't know about that," and the man's
eyes softened with a gracious remembrance,
"I caught a great deal to-day."
"What was it?" asked the boy breath
lessly.
"A beautiful view—a glance into wonderful
depths—a woman's soul!"
"I suppose you mean the mermaid," tha
child nodded wisely. He dreamed fairy
visions, too.
But Truitt did not recount his adventure
at th» club that night.
"Hurry, June, dear! Frank i« tramping
the library carpet threadbare in his Impa
tience —and the carr'ag&s are waiting."
Aunt Sara was in high excitement She
hovered over the bride with little motherly
dips, and adjusted the last bit of wedding
finery.
"And to think it's all my doings," ehe
murmured, proudly surveying the girl's
glowing beauty, a rosy Aurora with the filmy
cloids of the white veil about her.
•"I always said you two were made for
each other, and then when at last I did got
you together down at Fern Hllla, you were
ao horrid to Frank. Why, I was almost in
despair. But all's well that ends well. Sow
go—and God bless you!"'
"You are a dear, auntie," the tender lips
pressed the wrinkled face, "and have been a
mother to me, but I think our match was
God's doing, not yours nor mine." And she
floated In her trailing clouds of glory down
the stairs to her lover.
As he looked up and saw her coming some
thing rose in his throat and choked the flat
tering words that would hare risen to his
lipe. A great humility came over him—as it
does to every manly fellow, to follow whom
a woman forsakes all else.
But as the frivolous spray of whitecaps is
a sign of the greatest tumult beneath the
ocean, so with Frank; any deep feeling must
find its way to the surface in a jest. So
close together lie the eolemnities and absurd
ities of life.
As they turned, after the- solemn ceremo
n-y, arm in arm, and passed up the aisle to
the jubilant strains of "Faithful and True."
he whispered into the spray of orange blos
sor;.s that drooped near his left shoulder:
"Well, little wife, your oetch isn't rery big
to-day, is It?"
verslty, on University Heights. Fifteen
freshmen were captured and carried off in
triumph, come clad only la pajamas, others
with coats and trousers turned inside out.
At Park Avenue and One Hundred and
Seventy-seventh street the captives were
mounted upon the platform of the Harlem
railroad station and compelled to make
speeches complimentary to the "sophs."
Meanwhile the freshmen had rallied, and at
9:30 o'clock appeared in force at the railroad
station. The whole neighborhood wag aroused
by the attacks, and fully 500 hundred citi
zens followed the boys on their way to the
university. Six of the boye were painfully
injured. Mounted policemen pursued the bel
ligerent students and finally a truce was de
clared to facilitate the retreat
Hill's Still Hnnt.
Ex-6enator Hill, on the principle that it is
the early bird that catches the worm, i» al
ready on a atlli-hunt to gat control of the
democratic state convention in 1902. Evi
dences of his skilful wire-pulling appear in
different place*. Among other things, he Is
working to secure the election of George M.
Palmer as member of the assembly from
Schoharie county, with the intention of mak
ing him democratic leader of the assembly,
and, it is thought, democratic candidate for
governor next year. Palmer is a strong Hill
man.
Tbe War on Devery.
The Merchants' Association, In a circular
Issued to 14,000 business men in this city, d«
clares that Devery's retention in office Is
injuring the commercial interests of New
York. "The conduct and the utterances of
the deputy chief, who controls the depart
ment, as set forth In the charges filed with
Commissioner Murphy by the Merchants' As
sociation of New York," says the circular,
"disgrace the city and reflect upon every oit
lzen. The recent exposures of police cor
ruption and the protection of vice by police
officials have made a hideous blot upon our
city. That the rank and file of the depart
ment are honest and want to do their duty
is almost certain. Personal interviews have
been had with a large number of policemen,
■who admit that they do not do their duty
because intimidated by dread of punishment
by the higher authorities, their commanders
and others, who make money by permitting
crime. That crime 1b protected by the offi
cials of the department is morally certain.
The business interests or this city come
into direct contact with this widespread sen
timent; repugnance and resentment Is the
frequent expression of visiting merchants.
It is the -work of the Merchants' Association
to resist that which threatens harm to busi
ness and prosperity. Therefore, it seeks to
drive from their positions those police offi
cials who are disgracing the city and endan
gering its prosperity."
