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- ■-.*. THE JOURNAL LUCIAN IWIFT, I Y«J. S.»UcL-IN, MANAGER. . EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Payable to The Journal Printing; Co. Delivered by Mall. One copy, one month $0.35 One copy, three m0nth5........ 1.00 One copy, six months 2.00 One copy, one year , 4.00 Saturday Eve. edition, 20 to 26 pages.. 1.50 Delivered by carrier - .. One copy, one week 8 cents On^oopy, one month ...35 cents 6Mle copy. 2 cents THE JOURNAL is published every evening:, except Sunday, at 47-40 Fourth Street South, -Journal 3 ail dine, Minneapolis,' Minn. C. J, Billaon, Manager Foreign Adver tising Department, j f NEW YORK OFFICE—B6, 87, S3 Tribune building. ;>< CHICAGO OFFICE— 30S Stock Ex change building. WASHINGTON OFFICE—4S Post build ing. W. W. 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Great Northern. New York City—lmperial, Holland, Murray Hill. Waldorf. Spokane, Wash.— Spokane Hotel. Tacoma. Wash.— Hotel. Seattle, \. ash.—Butler Hotel. Portland, Oregon—Portland Hotel, Perkins Hotel. ' ' CIRCULATION OF THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL Average for PUP>G;ft October vJI^J^VF Nov. 1 51,905 Nov. 2 53,002 Nov. 4 52,052 Nov. 5 51,214 Nov. 6 51,484 Nov. 7 51,220 Nov. 8 51,242 Nov. 9 52,887 The above 1b a true and correct statement of the circulation of The Minneapolis Journal for dates mentioned. KINGSLEY T. BOARDMAN, Manager Circulation. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 11th day of November, 1901. C. A. TULLER, Notary Public, Hennepin County. Turkish Demoralization The French are Jubilant over the suc cess of the naval demonstration which is reported to have brought about a full set tlement by the sultan of all the French demands for indemnity for losses of French citizens in Turkey and for the re pudiation of the quay franchise. The de mands of France aggregated some $8,000, --000 to $10,000,000 and, if the amount has actually been paid in cash, the sultan has been prodding the pashas of the provinces at a lively rate to squeeze the money out of the pocket* of his subjects. The condition of Turkey is represented as frightfully disorderly since the French naval demonstration headed up at Mity lene. The butcheries of Christians in Armenia are proceeding with redoubled fury and, as yet, the powers of the Eu ropean concert have not given any tangi ble evidence that they will take any more Interest In them than they did a few years ago when they calmly looked on 'while the sultan gave his hellish orders to his aubbutchers. It is hinted in the ca blet, however, that the powers have ar rived at a determination to bring the sul tan to the choice of administrative re form or expulsion from Europe. The civlliied world will -watch -with deep in terest for the materialization of this ru mor. There appears to be some founda tion for the report that Crete, now under the control of the power* who placed Prince George of Greece over the island as high commissioner, will be free soon from even nominal Turkish suzerainty «n4 proclaim Its independence. If they now proceed to crowd the sultan with re form demands, the eastern question will be reopened with a loud detonation. The acquiescence of Europe in the French ex pedition looks like the overture to a mar tial opera. In 1799 Napoleon In attempt- Ing to carry out his dream of oriental oonquest marched on Syria keeping time •with the Jubilant song, "Partant pour la Eyrie." The expedition failed. About forty years ago, France sent an army to Syria to protect the Christian Maronites against their persecutors the Druses of Syria, and this -with the consent of the powers. Nothing would please the French people more than the conquest of Syria to-day. They hope that Admiral Cail- lard will remain in the Grecian archi- pelago bo as to land a force at Alexan dretta, Beirut, Acre or Jaffa on the Syrian coast, so as to capture a good slice of Syria for France when the proper time comes. It is certain that the Eu ropean eagles will be ready to pounce upon the Turkish carcass then. It is easy to predict the result of another ef fort to teach reform to Turkey from the proceedings of the conference of the powers held with that intent at Constan tinople in November, December and Janu ary, 1876-77. The conference devised a new constitution and parliament for Tur key -which was promptly rejected by a grand council of Mussulmans and non- Musselmans. Even Lord Salisbury, who had been a steady Turcopbile, was dis gusted and declared that the reform plan "broke down through the utter failure to instil any common sense into the heads of the Turks." That Is true, and it is equal ly true that the same obtuseness and plgheadedness exists In the Turkish makeup to-day. It is also true that, if the sultan Issued another hatt-1-houmayon by order of the powers, neither the sultan nor the j>owers could execute Its reform atory terms unless the sultan himself and the palace clique were gotten out of the way. The Globe thinks it has as much right to claim to be a democrat as Senator Hoar has to be regarded as a republican, and since Hoar has not been read out of his party why should the democracy of the Globe be questioned? Give it up. But is the Globe really democratic? Lodge on Reciprocity la the course of his speech at the din ner of the Middlesex Club at Boston on Saturday night, Senator Lodge paid a splendid tribute to the late President Mc- Kinley as a man of masterly policies and action in the new era upon which the na tion has entered, a "leader and guide in new paths and policies more various and far-reaching than have ever confronted the country except in the days of Wash ington and Lincoln." The Senator then proceeded to advocate the policy of reciprocity, saying that the president i* giving the Subject the most anxious con sideration and that congress "will surely do the same at the coming session. He suggested Cuba as worthy of first consid eration In this connection and declared that a reciprocity treaty with France is most desirable. Senator Lodge has not been a champion of reciprocity of the give-and-take kind, but has rather championed the take-all you-can-and-glve-nothing policy. His high encomiums upon President McKin ley as a statesman whose leadership and guidance are most trustworthy, commits him fully to the trade expansion and rec iprocity clauses of McKinley's Buffalo speech. Senator Lodge has recently been in close consultation with President Roosevelt and, no doubt, in his remarks he reflected the .trend of that Interview. The president committed himself at the outset of his presidential career to the robust furtherance of the policies out lined by McKinley in his Buffalo speech. That speech was against any "narrow and sordid policy." He declared that "only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have." The views of President McKinley on this subject are certainly expressed to some extent in the French treaty negotiated by Mr. Kasson. We are not able, under our present policy of take and-give-nothlng, to make claim upon the French minimum tariff rate. If the senate ratifies the French treaty we will get the full benefit of the minimum tariff rate. The difference between the French minimum and maximum rate averages 16.1 per cent and France gives this rate to every country in Europe except Portugal. In that treaty we do not give France the 20 per cent reduction allowed by the Ding ley tariff, but allow France an average ad valorem reduction of only about 7 per cent. That treaty points the way to true reciprocity, although France is more lib eral than ourselves in its terms. Depend upon it, the disposition in Europe is now one of favoring friends in tariff matters, and, if we would be favored, we shall have either to effect reciprocity treaties of the taKe-and-give kind, or adopt a minimum and maximum tariff, the present Dingley law standing for the maximum tariff, the minimum to be used for nations favoring us. With reciprocity for Cuba, for in stance, there would be a different story to tell of our trade with the island than at present. The war department reports that for the eleven months ending May 31, 1901, of the $60,000,000 of merchandise imported into Cuba, about $26,000,000 came from the United States. Surely our pledges to Cuba of helpfulness and en couragement bind us to the policy of closer commercial relations with the Island. Evidences are not lacking that our Cuban and Philippine wards are profiting by the example set them here at home. In Manila, Buencamino resigned three times in one day. Tillman and McLaurin, at their best, could not do better than this. Secretary of State Tamayo of Cuba put up such a lively fight at a banquet that he had to be jailed. This will win him the admiration of our congressmen who hurl inkstands at each other. Havana has a public works contract scandal that shows that commercialism in politics is well understood there. Mr. Akeley's Munificence Eastern towns and villages that years ago sent their sons and daughters to build up the west are now reaping the reward of their losses. Scores and scores of such towns and villages have been substantial ly remembered by the children who found weaLth in new homes. One of the most generous of these gifts to early homes is that of H. C. Akeley, the Minneapolis lumberman, to the village of Stowe, Vt., ! where he was born. At a cost of $25,000 Mr. Akeley is erecting a city hall and library building which shall be a me morial to the soldiers of Stowe who fought in the civil war. The memorial idea originated with the townspeople. They had in mind merely a' monument. When Mr. Akeley was asked to subscribe he wisely suggested that something should be done for the living. So he gave the village a building that will commemorate its soldiers and benefit the living as well as posterity. The quiet, unostentatious way Mr. Ake ley went about his labor of love is note worthy. Although the project was de cided upon a year ago it has Just come to public notice in Minneapolis. Mr. Akeley's many friends know that his unpretentious giving in this instance is characteristic of the man, and that, also the sound sense shown by his adaptation of the orig inal monument idea is another of his ad mirable traits. Mr. Akeley is one of those reserved men of whom it is doubly true that their acts speak louder .than their words. He would have great difficulty in conveying by language an adequate idea of his. feelings towards his birthplace, and his respect and admiration for the comrades of his youth who went out to battle for the old flag—so many of .them never to return. But in solid brick and stone and by the expenditure of a large sum of money Mr. Akeley has succeeded •very adequately and happily in express ing his deep love for his old town and his attachment to his old friends. Tho narrow-gauge railroad in Minne sota is now a thing of the past. With the widening of the Reno-Preston line of the Milwaukee there remaina not a mile of narrow-gauge railroad in the state, la THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. the early days of railroading narrow gauges were many, but since the adop tion of a standard gauge, a step that was absolutely necessary to the full develop ment of American railroad systems, the narrow-gauge lines have disappeared one by one. It is rather singular that, in one of the oldest and most densely settled parts of the state such a relic of antiquity as a narrow-gauge railroad line should have continued to exist up to the present time. A Useless Sea Coast Tho failure of the Bulgarian govern ment either to enforce Miss Stone's re lease or to arrange for her release upon the payment of the ransom ought to mean trouble for it. The Bulgarian troops have not caught the brigands, but they have succeeded in keeping Consul General Dickinson from carrying to a successful conclusion his negotiations for her sur render. In his efforts to accomplish a most difficult and delicate task Mr. Dick inson seems to have been annoyed and hampered by the self-important govern ment and officials of Bulgaria. There seems to be reason to believe that the brigands are endeavoring to get the money before surrendering Miss Stone, so that they, may have the satisfaction of killing her for all the trouble she has been to them, aS well as to prevent her from giving valuable information con cerning them and their methods. Mr. Dickinson is rightly on his guard' in this matter and praiseworthy in his inexor able determination that the surrender of Miss Stone shall precede the payment of the ransom or that the two shall be sim ultaneous. There can be little doubt that if the Bulgarian officials were not in sympathy with the brigands they would have ef fected Miss Stone's release long ago. It is unfortunate that this semibaxbarous little state has no sea coast that is avail able for argumentative purposes. Our warships cannot enter the Black sea. The Bulgarian is enough of a Turk to ap preciate the arguments that are most effective with the latter. Local Politics It is reDorted that the local democrats are very much encouraged by the local po litical situation and are preparing to make a vigorous campaign next year. They are proceeding upon the theory that a strong, well-selected democratic ticket for city and county offices will stand a good show of success. The democrats have reason to be en couraged. The , political situation local ly, from the republican standpoint, might possibly be worse than it is. It certain ly has never been worse at any tjme with in the past fifteen years. Just look at it. To begin with, there is Ames and all that he stands for. Thousands of repub licans who knew better voted for him simply because he happened to get the republican nomination under a new and untried system of selecting candidates. His administration is a. chapter in re publican politics which the republicans of Minneapolis would be glad to seal up and leave unopened during the next campaign were it poasible to do so. But not only will the Ames administration remain to embarrass the republican party, but the mayor is diligently engaged in building up a sort of Tammany machine, designed to perpetuate his influence in politics, which will not allow mistakes in the last campaign to be forgotten in the ap proaching contest. And, then, there is the county sheriff's office. Developments in that quarter go to show that fhe taxpayers have been de liberately robbed. The facts are recent and are before the public. They need no elaboration here. The administration of the office of clerk of the courts has been characterized by methods which have been extremely ex pensive to the taxpayers of the county, to say the least. A suit for $10,000 for fees collected for work done toy the office force during office hours is pending. It is true that the district court handed down a decision in favor of the clerk, but this has not by any means satisfied the public judgment of the lawful ownership of the money involved. Legal opinion of flrst class quality has not coincided with that of the court in which the opinion was rendered, and the county attorney has promised repeatedly to take an appeal in this case. For reasons best known to himself that appeal has not been taken, and the point is raised now by the defend ant that the time for an appeal has ex pired. Whether it has expired or not is for the courts to decide. If the county clerk is entitled to this money the point should be clearly established end he should have it. If he is not entitled to it, not. only that money but considerable more money of the same character belongs to Hennepin county. The county coroner has been compelled b3 r legal process to reduce the official fees which he sought to collect from the coun ty, and by reason of the action brought against him will be unable hereafter to collect from the county fees which upon the basis of the charges rejected would amount to several hundred dollars in the course of a year. But even that doe 3 not seem to have been sufficient to discourage his ingenuity in devising ways to get hold ot public money. The administration of the county's af fairs by the county commissioners is somewhat more business-like and con ducted with more regard for the interests o fthe tax payers than formerly, but even here .the betterment has been brought about only by the most careful supervision by the bank examiner, and by repeated in terference, through legal process, by the Tax Payers' League. But even that has not been sufficient to protect the county from wicked extravagance in the expendi ture of public money, as, for instance, in the case of the county poor farm, where the expensive plumbing furnishes an il lustration of the apparent disposition of the board to waste the public funds. Un fcrtunately other instances could be cited if it were necessary. These are some of the facts of the sit uation at the approach of an off-year. An organization has recently been formed for the purpose of collecting and classifying information with regard to what the republican party has done for the good of the public in this state, county and city. That is a good thing. But the effort will fail of complete suc cess, if it undertakes to ignore such con spicuous facts as these—what the repub lican party has "not done for the good of the local public. It will do no good to shut our eyes to these facts. The oppo sition will not do so, if we are disposed to ignore them." They must be faced in the next campaign. The object in calling attention to them, at this time Is that the republicans may realize early the abso- lute necessity of selecting for local ] offices,men in whom the public will have at least as much confidence as in those who may be offered in opposition. If such a selection is not made the result must be exceedingly doubtful, even In a naturally strong republican community. In these matters of strictly local concern, and in view of recent experience, the intelligent voter cannot, be expected to determine the choice of local public employes by considerations of national politics. In plain English," it will make no difference with the intelligent voter, and the vitally interested tax payer, whether a candidate for a local administrative office affiliates with one political party or another. And in so-called off-years this condition is more likely to prevail than when politi cal Issues are at stake, as in national contests. • .. .'■. This is a view of the situation which it may not be pleasant for republican leaders to contemplate, but which, nevertheless, exists and must be met in the next cam paign. The sooner the republicans pre pare for it and the more thoroughly they meet it by presenting candidates of unim peachable character and Qualification the less disastrous will be the consequences of these deplorable conditions. [pirnTTTTTTrmTyYTTTTtTTnTT^TTTii.HII 111 inlTO I The Nonpareil Man j t^*IITIIIIiriTTTTT«TTTTmr"" 1'r™""-TTTrTl"*:r° Little Side Inhoch. Seth Low's proud boast is that he went in with flying colors without kissing a baby or attending a cattle show. Between the French and the Harem Wo man's Club, the sultan put in a busy week. Why is it that the sermon seems so long and the football half so short? Vaccination is free in East Boston, and medical interest in it has subsided somewhat in that quarter. San Francisco's new labor mayor is the con ductor of an orchestra. If he can get the city i council on some other note than "do," his management of the official baton will be very acceptable. Yale's 250 th anniversary was a great event, but Idaho has something not quite so mossy. The state's great university is to celebrate its third anniversary soon. A "hot torn," some times called haut temps, is expected. Mrs. Roosevelt did not say anything about the trouble she hae prying that $300 clothing fund out of the president. Congressman Eddy has joined the Elks. The democrats say they are going to dehorn the congressman, but the Glen wood lightfoot has a long start. The boy who has an idea that he can skate on the water is now- giving his parents much sorrow. The Battle Lake paper thinks that that town Is in need of a lawyer. "Wickedness," says the Battle Lake Review, "is sleeping, and it only requires a lawyer to awaken it." Out In the Timber. A state paper that shall be nameless put its foot into an obituary notice thus: "The de ceased leaves nine children, eight of whom are respected "citizens of this state, and the other lives in Missouri." Tbe Carver County Journal has a '"Local Jotting" about "Piper" C. Funk, proprietor of the Carver skunk farm. Notwithstanding hie business, Mr. Funk is said to be in good odor with his neighbors. The Le Sueur News complains bitterly about the youth in the barred shirt who sailed dowu -the street on a $2 per hour livery rig the other day. '"As he struck the main street," says the News, "merchants whom he owed began to glare at him; one clothier who owns the trousers on the youth's bandy legs broke down and wept. The boy is vir tually king of Hot Foot society. He has burned more coal and gas and has spoiled more Sunday dinners in houses where they keep two hired girls than any boy in town. Yet he is absolutely worthless. When he passes 40, if he marries a girl she will keep a boarding-house." This boy has duplicates all over this broad land. Thousands of reputa ble men long to kick him. but refrain out of consideration for hte family. The Alexandria Post-News charges the Citi zen editor with chicken-ranchism. The P.-N. says: "Knewt wants on subscription any number of good sensible iiens, hens that have a repu tation as good mothers, hens that will lay eggs, hatch families and raise the rent. He does not want silk stocking hens that merely strut and flirt with the roosters, nor populist hens that only cackle, he wants the plain, common people or hendom that will work for him until he can do the struting and cackling." At present he seems to be laying for the hens. The Northfield girls have formed a "Sisters of the Gridiron' cooking club. The havoc it is bound to make among the men is shown by the following menu prepared at the last meeting: "Baked beans, brown bread, fried chicken, boiled potatoes, corn, white bread, pickles, apple sauce, pumpkin pie, roll jelly cake, coffee and cider." M—in -!" The Owatonna Journal tells a nice story about Jake Leuthold, "Kasson's popular clothier." Jake, It is said, has an ear that only with difficulty can distinguish between the tones of the whistle of a locomotive and the bellow of a bull. What therefore was the surpris-e of a party of his friends who called at his house a few days ago to see him seated at thu piano and rendering with an effect which would have put Paderewski to the blush a prelude from Chopin. The blow really nearly killed father and before they had recovered he had started up a gay gavotte by Bach Saint-Saens, which he rat tled off In the moat off-hand way imaginable. The friends stood paralyzed and with open mouths at Jake's "execution," his upper register being nearly perfect, when it was discovered that be was operating an "Angelua attachment," one of those patent affairs that "beats the box" by machinery. He had "to buy." —A. J. Russfell. AMUSEMENTS Mantell in "The Lady of Lyom." Bulwer's familiar stage story, "The Lady of Lyons," was told again at the Bijou theater yesterday afternoon by Robert Man tell and his company, the old play attracting a large audience, vhich manifestly found the revival much to its liking. Until yesterday "The Lady of Lyons" had not been seen in Minneapolis since its presentation by a sum mer stock company, three years ago. Its re turn was welcome. I Written in language that is the poetry of prose, devoid of palpable theatric artifice, and telling a preUy love story, Lord Lytton's drama yet owe* its popularity with theater goers, as Mr. Mantell himself explained in a curtain speech, to its "heart interest." All the world loves a lover, and the loves of Claude Melnotte and Pauline Deschappelle are «8 potent to attract attention to-day as they were fifty years ago. While Mr. Mantelt's Claude Melnotte cannot be considered an artistic achievement, It nevertheless goes straight to the hearts of his audience. His Claude lacks the buoyancy of youtli. It is too severe, too positive, but it is undeniably popular. At the close of the fourth act Mr. Mantell was compelled to re spond to a full half dozen curtain calls anfl flnully, to satisfy bis admirers, made a short Mt«s Marie Booth Russell who, In private life, Is Mrs. Mantell. has advanced notably In her art since her appearance here last HUiiMon. Miss Russell has been well fitted by nature to play the capricious beauty of Lyons. She Is the sort of woman who sug- Kt-ats the adjective "handsome." Tall and with expressive features. Miss Russell's very bearing Is that of a woman accustomed to conquest. It may be said of her Pauline that it lacks something of tenderness, but a self assertive woman is seldom a tender woman, and Pauline was certainly self-assertive. Miss Russell reads well—much better than she did a year ago. She has an expressive voice, a sympathetic voice of line timbre and she does not miiuse it. The company in support Is neither better nor worse than the organizations which have surrounded Mr. Mantell in former years. Mark Price, well known in Minneapolis, played Beauseant and made the character sufficiently cold-blooded. Alfred H. Hastings was good as Colonel Damars, and Robert G. .Stowe deserves praise for an excellent bit of work in the small part of Gasper. B. M. Bostwiek has been miscast as M. De* chappelle. He is not tltted for the part either In appearance or ability. Mr. Mantell has set himself a difficult task this week, for during his suiy in Minne apolis he will be seen as Hamlet. Richard 111., Romeo, Othello. Richelieu and Claude Melnotte. "Richard III." was the bill last night and attracted an audience which packed the theater to the doors. 'Richard 111.,"' for years, was the most popular play in which the late Thomas W. Keene appeared, and he was compelled to produce it more frequently than any other piece in his repertory, although, strangely enough, he had no love for the mis shapen king, and declared himself that the role was the least artistic Thing he had ever done. However, the people liked Mr. Keene as Richard, and judginig from the applause ac corded him last night the people also like Mr. Mantell as Richard. Miss Russell was the Lady Anne and again gave evidences of the vast stride forward she has made In the past year. —J. s. Lawrence. Foyer (.'hut. The jolly old "Burgomaster" and his coterie of laugh provokers are headed this way and will appear at the Metropolitan the entire week, beginning next Sunday, bringing with them all the bright musical hits, witty catch phrases and clever specialties now town talk everywhere. H Reeves-Smith and Margaret Robinson appeared at the Metropolitan last night iv the comedy, "A Brace of Partridges." The pro duction will be reviewed In this column to morrow. An entertainment replete with originality and headed by comedians well and favorably known as creators and originators is what is promised next week at the Bijou, when the two American -Macs, popular Irish farceurs, and the dainty comedienne, Mazie Trumbull, will appear in their recent success, "The Irish Pawnbrokers." To-night, at the Bijou, another change in the Mantell bill will take place. "Hamlet" will be presented, with Mr. Mantell in the name part. Tuesday and Wednesday nights "Othello" will be presented, in which he will assume the role of the jealous Moor. For the Wednesday matinee, "Komeo and Juliet" will be the bill, with Mr. Mrntell as Komeo; Thursday night, "Richelieu," with Mr. Man tell as the wily cardinal; Friday night, "Hamlet" will be repeated, and on Saturday afternoon "Lady of Lyons," with Mr. Man tel! as Claude Melnotte, and on Saturday night "Richard III." MINNESOTA POLITICS The three congressmen from the seventh district were in St. Paul last week. All are looking well, and their majorities are growing from day to day. Frank M. Eddy has begun his house-to house campaign. He spends a day or so in a village, tailing on the merchants and shaking hands with everybody. He is hie own spon sor, as he needs no introduction. He says: "How are you? I'm Frank Eddy, candidate for congress. What's your name, please?" Speaker Dowling is doing a large mail order business in political influence. His boom has not taken hold in the southern counties as well <as expected, according to some reports. His strength thus far is mainly in Renville, Yellow Medicine and parts of Chippewa and Lyon. The early filing of his certificate did not help him perceptibly, but Dowling may get his second wind soon, and run like a racehorse. Senator Young is getting over the district in the course of his law business, and is showing considerable strength. He has done very little campaigning for a. month past, but will keep his fences up till the busy season for lawyers is over, next spring, when he will take to the country schoolhouses and cross road stores. A. J. Volstead is still thinking about, it. He is strongly inclined to run, but some of his friends have advised him to keep out until he gets a wider acquaintance. Some want him to try for the district bench, but Judge Gor ham Powers can probably be renominated if he wants it. There was a secret conference of S oath town. ; republican workers Thursday evening, which j is said to have boded no good to Congressman ! Fletcher. It was the first of a series of each : mevtings, held to devise ways and means of j retiring the present congressman. It Is said to have been chiefly in the interest of James A. Peterson. The Appleton Press is trying to put some ginger into democrats and populists of the seventh, aud takes the following cheerful view: Local conditions bid fair to outdo the stud ! led labors of republican reapportioners in the seventh and render it a doubtful district. The I republican nominee must be selected from i among three or more candidates, and the i choice will come after one of the most heated preliminary campaigns in the history of poli tics. When this fight, desperate and tactful as it will be, is ended, the successful candi date ■cannot hope to enter the final contest with a united and .harmonious party behind him. Whoever he Is, he must triumph over brainy, determined men, and many a sting of disappointment and regret, as well as auiinos i Hies developed by the rivalry, will remain to i weaken his candidacy. On the other hand, there is and will be no j difference of opinion among disciples of Jeffer son as to their candidate. The honor will fall to C. A. Fosness of Montevideo. He is a typical man to appear before the people, and, besides having the unanimous support of his party, thousands of ether admirers of his sturdy manhood and fine ability in every } county in the district will rally to his sup i port with voice and vote, and the result of I the next November battle of ballots will be extremely doubtful. Miss "Nnws and Comment" remarks in Uie Duluth News Tribune: If The Minneapolis Journal doesn't look out, Congressman Heatwole will mistake its jolly for the real thing—and be led on to attempt the striking of another popular chord. Certain members of the Hennepin county democratic organization declare themselves in sympathy with William. Baldwin's promine-ia mento, calling for a new election and a new committee. The defeat of last fall has given rise to a feeling that there ought to be older hands at the helm, and some of the old-timers who have kept hands off for several years are beginning to take notice. They have hopes of success for the local ticket next year, and are anxious to have the new organ ization perfected at an early date. H. G. Hays of the Sleepy Eye Dispatch, a leading insurgent, says that Collins Is out of the question as a candidate. He names two men, K. C. Dunn and J. F. Jaeobsoii, as can didates who could beat Lind, but says truly that "neither ara candidates with Governor Van Sant. In the field, as both are in favor of his renomination if he so desires, it but eftlier is available with Van Sant out of the running." But Van Sant is not out of the running. -C. B. C. THE OPEMSG IJAXZ CONCERT Musical Minneapolis went to the Metropoli tan theater yesterday afternoon to give criti cal audience to the new symphony orchestra organized by Frank Danz. The general ver dict was distinctly favorable to Mr. Danz and his musicians. Whiie there seemed to be a preponderance of brass, and while there were some shortcomings likely to be remedied by more rehearsals, the audience on the whole was well satisfied. Mr. Danz has assembled a company of excellent players, and if the public gives him proper encouragement, he promises to give the city one of the finest orchestras in the west. The program covered a wide range of composition. Hearty and sin cere applause was given to each number, and beyond question the public is delighted with the prospect of another season of Danz sym phony concerts, after the hiatus of last year. Miss Mabel Runge appeared to advantage in "Elsa's Dream Song" from "I»hengrin." The quality of her voice, with the sympathetic ac«omipantment of a string orchestra, permit ted a line Interpretation of this beautiful com position. .Not Luvlng Friend*. Crookston Times. It is dollars to ginger cakes that the steel workers who were on strike didn't chip Id towards the purchase of the loving cup thr-t has been presented to President SciLwaJ) c the steel trust. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1901. Copyright, liml, by A. B. Hk-hardson. That was what every one called him. There was nothing striking about Jim. He seemed to reach an uninteresting medium in all things, from his family Circle, where he was fifth of nine children, to the village sports, where he never distinguished himself. He was not tall for his age, like Tim, his oldest brother, who was already a skilled apprentice to the blacksmith at Bergen Mills, nor hud he ever been such a jolly, moon faced brownie as Billy, whom the city folks always stopped, to smile upon with such ex preSflioßa as, ••Now, isn't he the cutest little chap!" or "Palmer Cox ought really to see that boy!' At school .Jim never reached the head of his class nor did he ever drop with a sicken ing thud to its foot. As'his teacher expressed it, he did his work just about three-quarters. When sudden catastrophe forced hU play mates to accept him as a substitute in the bastball nine, he was the object of constant attention at the hands of the captain, and play as hard as he might, that "chesty" in dividual was incessantly calling, "Play ball, Jimmy, play ball!" Kven when the big bobsled went to pieoea on Beemer's hill, and half the boys were taken to the hospital, Jim trudged home afoot, and his mother exclaimed: "Well, thank goodness, it was jeV Jim! If it'd been Tim or Fred, now, he'd 'a' broken a leg, knocked out his teeth or had his back broke for lite; but Jim—" She paused eloquently. As usual, Jim had struck the medium. Three cuts on his face, a (sprained finger and an ugly bruise on one knee completed his injuries, so a physician was not called, and the usual maternal rem edies were administered with earnest ob jurgations to refrain from "bobbing" in the future. But all these things happened when Jim was young, very young, and before a party of capitalists discovered that the lake beyond Bergen'.Mills would make a charming cum mer resort. With the city visitors came a gorgeous carrousel, with superb lions, haugh ty ostriches and glittering chariots. Jim lost all interest in other things, and every spare moment was spent in watching the giddy whirls of the merry-go-round and its patrons. Then came the day of days, when the youth who collected fares on the carrousel an nounced that he was tired of country life and was going back to the city. Dismay was pictured on the face of the proprietor of the carrousel, but joy filled the heart of Jim, who stood by, watching the daily polishing of the golden chariots. And, best of all, it was va cation season! Drawing on a supply of latent energy which he did not dream he poseessed, Jim ap proached the proprietor. "Say, ir you want a boy, I'd like that job. I can rub the animals and the chariots and collect the tickets, and hold on the little ones that's afraid, and—" His list of accomplishments came to an abrupt end. The man studied him with shrewd but not unkindly eyes. "Yes, I've noticed you hanging round here pretty steady, and I guesa you'll do if your folks are willing and wont pull you off to do jobs around home. The uniform will fit you pretty well, too." And so did Jim spring suddenly into the very limelight of Bergen Mills publicity. Be fore the first week had elapsed, he fitted into his nook as naturally as if he had been in the show business all his life. He could lean with easy nonchalance against the rods of the carrousel as it whirled round at a mad pace. He had a name for every animal in the circle. And his mother had cleaned the red and gold uniform and polished the but tons till they looked like new. The dizzy existence he led might have caused it, but, somehow, Jim commenced to dream dreams and to see visions. The chariots were ridden by fairy princesses, dainty crea tures in white frocks, flower-trimmed hats and gay ribbons, who came with the summer visitors. And Jim was always the knight who would some day rescue them, when the ostrich should stretch his long legs and spring from the platform, or the lion, stiffening his tufted tail, should leap straight over the heads of the gaping spectators. Jim would fly after them on his Arabian charger. But when August came panting down, it was not a matter of fairy princesses, but just one princess who rode a lion every afternoon, with a watchful maid seated in the chariot behind her. Jim felt that their positions should be reversed. The colored maid, with a gay turban and carrying a spear, should mount the lion, while the princess, all In spangled white, with glittering wings, should Daily New Yorß Letter Western (Jniublcru Mum Gu. Nov. 11.—Some of the well groomed gentle men who have been conspicuous along Uroad way for the last your years, are preparing to emigrate. They represent the aristocracy of gamblers of the west. They bave done very well during their stay and in addition have had a good time. But since election they have decided to pack up and get out before they are ordered to. The bona fide New York gambler of the type known as the "'square gambler," who regards himself as the legitimate New Yorker, will remain waiting for a:i opening. He is not sorry to see the imported gamblers move, because it will lessen competition and raise the standard of the profession. For the last two years the gambling en terprises have been almost monopolized by the outsiders, who flocked to New York after the Tammany victory of 1897. These men were mainly responsible for the gambling combine, which sublet the privileges of run ning games of chance in pretty much the same manner as the city government iets other privileges. The difference was that, the city secured none of the $3,(MX»,ou'i revenue from the gambling houses, policy shops and pool rooms that the gambling combine an nually controlled. The combine worked under a perfect sys tem. It maintained a staff of collectors, book keepers and spotters so that it could keep track of the business. The tariff on gambling was fixed by an arbitrary schedule. It was as follows: Gambling house, $1,000 opening free: $500 monthly assessment and 2 per cent of the monthly receipts. Pool rooms, $1,000 opening fee; $250 per week assessment. Policy shops, $100 a month for each shop. The estimated number of shops in the boroughs -of Manhattan and Bronx was 4i'O. The rule of assessment was strictly enforced. Fine Old Bureaus. By the breaking open of an old bureau it was discovered that Hazel Graham of this city, 8 years old, is the hiiress to $30,(XK>. She is the daughter of Edward Graham, actor, and Mrs. Kate Graham, an artist. Her grand father, James McKenzie, of Woodside, L. 1., Is a retired civil engineer, who is ac counted wealthy. His second wife died not long ago and as the children by his first wife were well provided for by their father, she made her own daughters her hcir3. On of these daughters was the late Miss Belle McKenzie of Woodside, an elderly spinster, who had a great love for her naif sister's little girl. Hazel. One of the treasures of the dead woman was an old mahogany bureau made in Eng land in 1691. It had always been kopt locked in the lifetime of the spinster and at her death the key could not be found. A family consulxtion was held and it wa3 decided to break It open. This was done th* back falling out and revealing a secret com partment. The first thing that earn* to the eyee of the startled women was the will which made little Miss Hazel her heiress ' Very Enjoyable Oecaalon. Lanky Bob Fltzsimmons and Jack Mc- Aullffe fought to a finish last Tuesday n!ght in the billiard room at Supper's Hotel. In Batn Beach. The fight was not advertised and there were neither gloves nor gate receipts. Mr-Auiiffe was put to sleep in the Urst round, which lasted about ninety seconds. While the "go" was In progress and ex citement was at the highest pitch Yaruni 11., the great dane dog which Is Fitz's con jttaat conipaniou, picked a Quarrel with N'wo, Bit enthroned in the golden chariot. Jim told tha Arabian charger all about it, too, and warned that astute animal to be ready for il to arms at any moment. One day while hurrying back to the car i ousel from dinner ha had worked himself up to a fine pitch of enthusiasm over the thrilling situation when he was roused from his reveries by frightened acreama and the hcuf beats of a galloping horse. He ran into the dusty street, to face a plunging horse. Hanging on to the reins in the phaeton was the colored maid! The princess was not to be seen. Probably she was crouched in terror at tho feet of her servant. Could he do it with the Arabian charger? All this passed through his mind in a flash. The next in stant he was clinging to the bridle of the maddened horse—then darkness! When he woke, he was lying ia a stranga room with a white capped nurse bending over him. She felt his forehead with her cool hand and gave him something to drink, some thing cold and delicious. Next came the doc tor, who asked him many tiresome questions, and his mother, who cried a great deal and said very little, which proceeding puzzled Jim greatly. After they had gono he and tho nurse had a long talk, and then he recalled it all—the princess, the black servant and the plunging horse. And he understood bet ter why his back ached so. Somehow the ache never stopped night or day, and Jim was beginning to weary of it. One day he astonished his nurse by acclaim ing: "Say; I'm kind of sorry I made up ihsi play. 1 thought It would be fun to ride the Arabian charger and save the princess, but it's lasting such a long time." At first the nurse thought he was delirious again, but when she had asked a few ques tions she understood it all. Later In th« day shi paid a visit to the superintendent of the hospital and told him all about the princess, the servant and the Arabian charger. The very next day the princess with her father came to the hospital. She was a serious young maiden, which was well, be cause some day she would have a large estat»> to manage. She listened very quietly while the superintendent and the nurso talked The, latter said, as they rose to leave '.). --room: ••-Now, remember, whatever else you say he must not know that it was only th» colored girl he saved. I think it—it would break his heart." The princess nodded her head wisely and forced back the tears. She did not know v.hy she felt like crying, except that she had seen something like tears in the nurses tyis. and even her father had turned away hia head once or twice during the confer ence. Jim almost, shouted with delight when he saw her. She wore the dress he liked best oT all—white lawn with lace that showed her pretty shoulders and aims, blue ribbons and a rose trimmed hat. They talked it all over, and when she rose to go he said cheerily: "I'll be back to the carrousel very soon. I think the Arabian churger must miss me!" Then the princess lookeu at the nurse and started in bravely: "You aren't soing back to the carrousel— for awhile. My papa is going to take you to town with us— to another—another hospital where they keep boys with hurt backs. There's the loveliest doctor there. 1 know him, and he's going to put your back In a plaster paris case, and I'm coming to see you every single day. It's right close to our house." Jim had grown sfrangrh- quiet, and now he turned to her wistfuHy: "Will I have to stay this—this way very much longer?" The princess took a fresh grip on the flowers she still held. "The doctors hope not, but you won't mind will you, If I come every single day and bring you books and flowera and things?" Jim looked yearningly toward the window and the warm September 3unshine. He under stood now why the nurse had so skillfully parried questions on this subject. Then he turned to the princess. There were tears in her eyes. Could they be for him? He pulled himself together like a young soldier and groped for her hand. ■ No. I shan't mind it—at all." Then the princess forgot ho* stately a story book princess should be. She forgot that her father was president of a bank and that Jim's father was only a fireman tn the Bergen mills. She dropped her flowers and bending over the cot. kissed him proudly. "You're a regular brave prince. .Timmy, and I'm glad I'm your princess, indeed I am." a fine St. Barnard owned by the proprietor. The yelling of the angry men, the clash of beer bottle and billiard cues, mingled with the howls of the Infuriated canines, caused pandemonium. Yiuum 11. was industriously chewing hi? antagonist when Fitzsimmons, having van quished McAuliffe. came to the rescue and dragged his dog from the St, Bernard. The trouble began, it is said, during a game of pool, hi which the two fighters and New ton LSennington, the horseman, were partici pating. McAuliffe. it Is said, was railing at Fitzsimnions, and among other things told him he could not remember the year h« landed at Castle Garden. Fitzsimmons lost hig temper and retort* 1 by telling McAuliffe that he could not whip one side of a yellow dog and that he was the cheapest kind of a -looking glass fighter." This was too much for McAuliffe who de livered a right swing with his billiard cue Fitzsimnions got in an upper cut with a beer bottle, which happened to be within reach and which proved to be a most elective weapon at short range. McAuliffe ia still under a physicians care and a horse doctor is looking alter th«» Su Bernard. Doherty'a Life of Adventure. After being lost, so far as the members of hw family were concerned for eighteen months. John A. Doherty, a young mason and builder of this city, haa been found, or at least his brother. William, of 4SB Seventh avenue, has received information which leads him to believe that DCherty la a British prisoner of war at Ceylon. There Is a Joha A. Doherty a prisoner of war there oa sus picion that he was acting as a spy for the Boera and his description tallies with thai of the young maeon. At the outbreak of the Spanish war Dob«»rty who is 24 years old, enlisted in the Ninth infantry, against the wlahes of his parents and went to Cuba. When he had been ia the regiment only two months hi* mother ac cording to William Doherty, became dwnemed as a result of his going away, and one day fell from a balcony on. the second floor of their home in Seventh avenue and was killed Exactly two months after tfoat his father died of what William Bays was a brofcea heart. John came back from Cuba when the fight ing was over, and taen for the first tima learned of the dtath of his parents. He tried to enlist in a regiment to go to Manila, but did not. pass the physical examination and then tried to get on a transport which was going to the Philippines. In that, too, he failed, but soon after he answered an adver tisement calling for cattlemen to go on a tramp steamer chartered by the British war department to take mules to South Africa and got a Job. So much is known. His brother has learned that John has been arrested as a suspected spy at Capo Town, was now in prison in Ceylon and that the prisoner had expressed a desire to go to his home in New York us soon as the trou&U In Sourh Africa was over It Was a Misdemeanor. Big Stone. S. D., Headlight. Oae of the most Interesting of our ex changes i 8 the Winasboro Wideawake, a Texas-dyed-in-the-wool democratic paper, whose columns throw interesting sidelights on the peoples and opinions of that locality. We notice in the last Issue the following Item. The amount of the bond Indicates th» gravity of the offense: "Val Johnson, the oegro boy who was shot by Frenty Sparks last week, died Sundaj morning. Sparks was immediately arrested on a charge of murder and was firm bond In the sum of $2Su"