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I THE JOURNAL LUCIAN IWIFT, j J. S. McLAIN, MANAGER. EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Payable to The Journal Printing Co. Delivered by Mall. One copy, one month $0.35 One copy, three months 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 One copy, one month 35 cents Single copy 2 cents CIRCULATION OF THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL Average for RTI ft October 31331* 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 Nov. 11 51,268 Nov. 12 51,318 Nov. 13 51,381 Nov. 14 51,160 Nov. 15 51,511 Nov. 16 54,438 Nov. 18... 51,242 Nov. 19 51,154 The above is a true and correct statement Of the circulation of The Minneapolis Journal for da.Les mentioned. KINGSLEY T. BOARDMAN, Manager Circulation. Sworn and subscribed to before me this SOth. day of November, 1901. C. A. TULLEIt, Notary Public, Hennepin County. A True Definition President |Search, in his opening ad* &ress before the Washington Reciprocity Convention yesterday, said: "The reciprocity which is wanted to day is a reciprocity that means some thing and promises something in the shape of tangible advantages for our commerce, cot merely expressions of kind sentiment toward all the business world, but an ac tual giving and taking of concessions that ■will open wider for us the markets of the •world and broaden the distribution of our products." This is the doctrine of reci procity tersely stated and there can be no misconstruction of the terms. If this principle is definitely adopted, our for eign trade would not only show no dim inution but it would enormously increase. A little group of doctrinaries tell us that this is a very vicious principle indeed; that it is nothing but "democratic free trade," that it is little short of treason to discuss it; that it is to be placed un der the ban. Nevertheless there is a very strong impulsion toward the doctrine, notably since the late President McKin ley, in his last public speech, very earnestly advocated it and clearly demon strated that the time has arrived for the practical application of the policy. When it is considered that we can produce in eight months all the cotton goods which we can consume in twelve months, it may readily be perceived that we have need of a much larger outlet for the surplus prod uct that at present exists in the home market. The same may be shown of other lines of industry, and it is also demonstrable that there is more trade available at present in the West Indies and in South America than there is in china. Here we find that Chile imports cotton goods valued at $4,213,330, but the United States sends there only $210,038; Brazil takes $12,021,499 worth, of which we contribute but 1 per cent; Great Britain, to whom we sell ihe raw cotton, sells Brazil $9,000,000 worth of cotton goods; Germany $2,000,000. We only sell in the West Indies and South America 20 per cent of the cotton goods taken in those countries. These figures are not very satisfactory, of course. We ought to command those Spanish-American markets. The oppor tunities all over the earth are surely for us increasing. Our home market must be expanded to take in the whole world. "We must retain the exceptional man hood of the republic," says Governor elect Cummins of lowa. "It is at once a cause and effect." Yes. The fine type of manhood that has been developed in America is both the effect of republican institutions and the potential cause of their maintenance. Deeper than any legis lation for the benefit of the nation lies that education that ■will continue to give us men for citizens. As long as we have strong and free men, we shall be able to met and solve every problem and over come every danger. Policies Outlined The annual banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce last night, as usual, furnished an opportunity for the delivery of some heliocentric speeches. Some o£ the greatest speeches upon economics and finance have been uttered on this occasion. It was here, in the midst of a speech upon the properutilizationof silver.thatour own lamented Windom dropped dead. Natural ly the trend of the speeches last night was toward the questions uppermost in the public mind, the problems which press for solution. Governor Cummins of lowa went straight to the point -when he declared that the time had come when not only our relations with things external to the country must receive robust attention and solution, but it is imperatively demanded that close regard must be given to the effectuation and promotion of laws intend ed to control the relations which our people bear to each other. We are to day without definite solution of the ques tion between labor and capital, which de mand federal control in the broadest sense of the term. We have, indeed, ar rived at such maturity that the shameless degree of lawlessness and insubordination to authority in every degree must for na tional honor's sake be met and controlled by national law, which must guard every citizen, in his right to contract his labor at his own price and protect labor organiza tions in the exercise of all their le gitimate rights. There has been a total change in labor-capital conditions of late years and capitalistic combination Jb destined to be met by vast labor combina tion end regulation of the relations of these two bo that they Trill work har moniously, is the problem to be solved and the solution cannot be adjourned much longer. Governor Cummins, in treating of rec iprocity, warmly advocated the principle it actualizes "without surrendering a homo market for a foreign market of equal extent." The governor makes the same reservation which minim izes the force of so many dec larations on this subject. It is not proposed to measure out reciprocity by millegrams, centigrams, kilograms, hectograms, etc. The idea of McKinley was to give and get in no niggardly way, knowing that the hand of the liberal sow eth liberally and reapeth liberally every time. There is no great gain, in rec iprocating as to articles not produced in this country, for nearly every one of these is now on the free list. Secretary Hay in his speech declared for the expansion of our commercial in terests in every possible direction through the agency of reciprocity "mutually ad vantageous to ourselves and to our neigh bors," whioh is the keynote to success. The profit must be mutual or it is not desirable. It cannot be. Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, who represents the young south, delivered a strong expansion and reciprocity speech. McLaurin has broken with the bourbon democracy and recognizes the true mean ing for the future of the south of the mar velous industrial and commercial expan sion of that section during the past twen ty years. It is noteceable that tho Manufacturers' club of Philadelphia and some other bodies of the kind, are resort ing to violent declarations against "the attempt to revive tariff agitation as a ■menace to our continued prosperity." This is aimed at the growing sentiment favoring reciprocity. The gentlemen who are afraid of such "menace" should re member that for four years past the ex isting tariff law has contained a pro vision for concessions of duties to the extent of 20 per cent maximum to» any nation willing to make trade concessions to us. This provision of the Dingley tariff has not ruined any industry or abated our prosperity. The liberal effectuation of such policy would strengthen, not impair our wholesome prosperity. Andl now it is the New York Post that is celebrating its proud old age. The Post i« 100 years old. But it is only in years that it is a centenarian. It has none of the mental or physical characteristcs of a human centenarian. It daily proves that a newspaper does not need to age with its years, but may ever keep abreast of the times and be perennially in its prime. While eschewing the sensationalism and lack of discretion which are so often fis taken for the marks of modern journalism, the Post has unostentatiously but very emphatically been in the front rank. It is not given to large headlines, but it often publishes exclusively some of the most important news of the day. Its editorials and its literary and foreign correspondence features stamp it as a paper of the highest quality. A Subsidy Eye-Opsner President Schwab of the steel trust is talking a<bout a scheme for consolidating the ship building companies of the United States. We hope Mr. Schwab will keep on talking about this scheme. Every time he talks about it he will drive a nail into the coffin of the ship subsidy grab. The people are not going to subsidize a trust. What Mr. Schwab says reminds them that a trust may foe formed after a sub sidy law is passed. Then the American people would be in the grotesque attitude of paying a subsidy to one trust while distressing themselves with the great problem of curbing the power of the trusts. With the one hand they would be strengthening a trust; with the other they would be trying to weaken trusts. The trusts are doing very well. By no stretch of the imagination can they be classed as infant industries. If the cap tains of American industry chose to do so .they could fly the American flag on 20,000 --ton steamers on all of the seven seas to morrow. They need no governmental help. We must not allow ourselves to be de ceived, under the guise of patriotism, into adding the national treasury to the sources that contribute to private for tunes already the most colossal the world has ever known. "Wake up, John Bull!" shouts the Eng lish Review of Reviews. John opened his mouth yesterday and gobbled the con tract for the American cable from San Francisco to Honolulu. Beaten but Not Dispirited The spirit at the university is of the light kind. At the rooters' mass meet ing, held yesterday, there was more enthu siasm evinced than at any time since the meeting held just before the lowa game —this in spite of ,the sad defeat of last Saturday. Such a spirit should encour age the team to do its best and redeem Madison at Chicago and Champaign. A team that becomes discouraged after one defeat, no matter how severe,! and that is supported only in the hour of victory, is in a desperate plight. But at the University of Minnesota neither the players nor the rooters are discouraged. The same is largely true of admirers of the eleven outside the uni versity. It grieved them to see the team fail to do its best in the critical game of the season, but they are not "quitters," and they hope to see their good opinion justified on Saturday and Thanksgiving. Another good sign is that the old play ers are now out instructing Dr. Williams' men in individual play. Owing to some misunderstanding, so it appears. Dr. Wil liams has been without assistance from old players in the details of coaching. In consequence the eleven shows a lack cf finished playing which, in the aggregate, amounts to a good deal in determining the issue of a game. The alumni football men of the university comprise some of the best players and instructors in the west, and if they had been working with the eleven all the season, as the alumni of other universities support their players, the eleven would have been in much bet ter shape for the Wisconsin game. It is manifestly impossible for one coach to look after a squad of forty, or even an eleven, to the extent of giVing each player the attention he should receive. It is to be hoped that the old players will respond I to Dr. Williams' invitation to come out and help him. There is not much left to do this year, but the presence of the vet erans on ,the field next year ■will go far towards strengthening the team and pro moting a hearty support of It. The governor of Minnesota is getting to be quite an important personage. The railway magnates are Bending him rush telegrams. They might even consent to honor his card with a "show the gentle man up" if he should call on them. Legal Defense Not Hopeless One of the ablest lawyers in the state, speaking yesterday of the legal phase of Mr. Hill's big railroad consolidation scheme, said: "It is a well established principle of court law that that may not be done by indirection which cannot be accomplished by direct methods." In other words the courts will consider the intent of the law, especially when great public interests are involved. Mr. Hill has been defeated once in his attempt to consolidate the Great Northern and .the Northern Pacific by direct meth ods. The court said that the constitution al and statutory provisions against the consolidation of these two companies within the state of Minnesota were valid and a complete bar to the then proposed plan. Now it is intended to bring about the aame result, but in another way. The 1 direct method failed"; the question is whether it can be done by indirection. Governor Van Sant's prompt and cour ageous action is attracting serious atten tion in New York, where the promoters of this consolidation scheme are endeav oring .to carry out their plans. Public sentiment throughout the northwest has responded very promptly and emphati cally in support of the governor's action, and while there is reason to hope that the consolidation plan may be defeated in the courts, it is apparent that public senti ment against this undertaking will not be satisfied by failure there, but will in sist upon the employment of all .the power of the people through their legislatures in preventing the establishment of the threatened monopoly of transportation fa cilities. The promoters of .this undertak ing know well enough that they are antag onizing public sentiment as well as defy ing public law. They have no right, there fore, to complain if their resort to pecu liar methods in order to evade public sentiment and public law are met with peculiarly vigorous legislation. In the present temper of the people of the north western states the probabilities are that failure to prevent .this consolidation in the courts, if that should be the result, will be followed by legislation which will make the consolidation exceedingly un profitable. One consideration which contributes largely to this sentiment is the imminent danger that not only will this consolida tion include the railroad lines already gathered in, but that it is very likely to bring under the same control, in the same way, the Candian Pacific, and with it the "Soo." While the consolidation of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific might not be as disastrous as some have feared, the gathering in of the "Soo" would produce a situation which every business man in Minnesota, and, particu larly in Minneapolis and St. Paul, can fully appreciate. And if the consolida tors can grab 34,000 miles of railroad they •can easily pick up five or six thousand more in order to make their monopoly complete. The railroad consolidation scheme, and the action of Governor Van Sant with re spect to it, adds strongly to the probabil ity of an extra session of the legislature. The governor has indicated his purpose not only to appeal to the courts, but is all probability to the legislature also. It is assumed that the promoters of the great railroad consolidation scheme have had- able legal advice. Nevertheless, it is well known that legal advice is often influenced by the interests and purposes of those advised. Able lawyers have been known to give opinions sustaining the plans and purposes of their clients when there was reason to believe that if the clients had desired opinions to a contrary effect they could have had them from the same men. This is due not so much to the failure of j lawyers to be honest with them selves as to the liability of human judgment to be influenced byconsiderations apart from the actual facts in the case. For instance, William M. Evarts Is said to have given an opinion to railroad clients, prior to the passage of the inter state commerce law, and to the attempt of the state governments to regulate. rail road rates, to the effect that neither the federal nor any state government could ever fix or change or regulate any railroad tariff; that such charges were entirely in the nature of private rights and could not be touched by federal or state authority. Everybody knoips that rates have been fixed, regulated and changed by state and federal authority for years. Some eminent lawyers may have said that the proposed scheme of railroad consolidation cannot be prevented by the state of Min nesota. They may be mistaken. At any rate, it is worth while to find out. The movement for the enlargement of Fort Snelling and its elevation in rank among the important military posts of the country is one of those undertakings that equally interest both Minneapolis and St. Paul and can be entered upon with little prospect that one city will benefit from it at the expense of the other. It is one of those undertakings in which the whole weight of both cities can be thrown in the balance in favor of the common good. The addition of two batteries of artillery to the garrison and the expenditure of a large sum for buildings and improvements mean much to the business interests of both cities. There is no good reason why Fort Snelling should not be made an im portant army center and there are many convincing reasons why it should be. Any tariff alteration is bound to hurt some interests, temporarily, at least, how ever much good it may do others. The protective tariff policy of this government was not adopted until a majority of the business interests of the country became convinced that it wsa to their interest to have such a policy. In the old nullifica tion days in South Carolina the protective policy was undoubtedly opposed to the business interests of South Carolina, but they had to give way before the interests of a majority of the people. Circum stances have so changed that the business interests of South Carolina are now for protection. So it is not strange that in a convention in which pretty much all th« delegates ostensibly favor reciprocity ea an abstract policy, each wishes to have it applied so that some other person will get the benefit of the experience. The coa- : THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUKNAL. tradictory views brought out In the Wash ington, convention yesterday are sug* gestive o( the great practical difficulties that must be overcomo in framing a rec iprocity policy that will suit a majority of the business interests of the country. MINNESOTA POLITICS All eyes are on Governor Van Sant. He holds the center of the stage, and bids fair to keep it for some time. The governor's action did not have a polit ical motive, but it has a deep political signifi cance and effect. The governor will be sup ported in his attitude by all the people, re gardless of party, and if he makes a good fight he will gain thousands of friends and silence his enemies. It will be an immense card for him if he wins. Even if he fails, people will give him credit for doing the best he can. Men can do no more. The governor's good nature and propensity to "jolly" have given an impression that he lacks backbone. He does avoid unnecessary friction with people, but when something is really at stake the governor's backbone is actually protuberant. He Is not going to let go of the issue he has raised till the last ditch is reached. The railroad interests have sworn the gov ernor's political death. There is no doubt of that. They rather favored him as against John Lind last year, thinking he would be more pliable. They have found Van Sant fully as hard to get along with as his predecessor, and disappointment in him has caused them to swear revenge. They will plot his undoing. Railroad, influence seems to be waning in Minnesota polities. It seems better to have the railroads against a candidate than for him, for the enemy of the railroads in poli tics is regarded by the people as their friend. Beyond question Governor Van Sant is stronger politically now than he has evei bean, and if he makes no false step he will be "high man" in Minnesota politics. Here is one on Frank A. Day. He said in an editorial Monday evening in the Fairmont Sentinel: We wish John Lind was in the governor's chair long enough to indite a letter to the attorney general instructing him as to his duties in regard to the recent Great Northern- Northern Pacific railway consolidation scheme. The ex-governor would speak in no uncertain tones. Governor Van Saut's Winona interview evi dently had not reached the Sentinel office. When he reads it, Mr. Day will have to admit that all wisdom and honor does not lie within the democratic party. James A. Peterson brands the story that he is using his congressional candidacy as a stalking horse to get the district attorney ship as an unmitigated fake. It was hardly necessary, except for the fact that such stories fly faster than the truth, and might be believed by some not informed as to the situation. Mr. Peterson could have had the district attorneyship months ago, if that had been his quarry, but he has no aspirations in that direction. Frank M. Nye and John H. Steele, both candidates for district attorney, are friends of Peterson, and were invited to the little gathering in Marshal Grimshaw's office the other evening. Hiram F. Stevens says he would not ac cept the federal judgeship which will prob ably be created this winter. Mr. Stevens said yesterday: [ The acceptance of such a position would be out of the Question. Even if there was a chance of my securing such a position I don't see how I could afford to accept the place. The position pays only $5,000 a year and I have not arrived at that degTee of af fluence where I could abandon my practice for the honor of a judseship. —C. B. C. AMUSEMENTS Foyer Chat. Another big house last night indicates that "The Burgomaster" is in for a big week's run at the Metropolitan. The music is catchy, the line bright beyond that of the ordinary comic opera libretto, and the stage pictures exceedingly handsome. There is a song used in " 'Way Down East," which is to be seen at the Metropolitan all next week, which is said to be nearly 400 years old. It is sung by tHe constable, a quaint old character, and its popularity is so great that everybody is singing the refrain, which runs thus: —All bound round with a woolen string A great big net, with a great big brim- All bound round with a woolen string. The authorship of the song has been traced to one Thomas Tusser, a poet who flourished about 1515. Again last evening was "The Irish Pawn brokers," which is being given at the Bijou j the current week, greeted by a large audience. I The play does not lay claim to a plot of | any .great merit, but there is sufficient for al! | purposes, and the many laughable scenes. j situations and climaxes are consistently fitted j together. j "Barbara Frietchie," the great Clyde Fitch | play, with the talented actress Miss Frances i Gaunt in the loading role, will be seen at the | Bijou Thanksgiving week. The play is highly flavored with the tempestuous times of the civil war. The picturesque costumes worn I by the American women during the civil war are faithfully reproduced. A FIGHT TO A FIMSH St. Cloud Journal Press—The line has been drawn by the governor. It will be a fight, the warmest and most aggressive evtr wit nessed in the state. On one side are the people of Minnesota, with Governor Van Sant at their head. On the other is the strongest; corporation in the world. It "has a paid up capital stock of $400,000,000. It has the ablest men in the country in command. It will have the brightest lawyers that money can em ploy, it has some of the biggest papers in i the state, both republican and democratic, and it has shrewd political manipulators. This is not a political question. It is a business proposition. The proposed consolida tion is clearly in violation of the law. The! press and the people have a duty to perform. ! The governor of the state has shown that < he has the courage to do his duty. He is the ■ first official in the country to take an open j stand against this violation of the law by the, most powerful of corporations. Inspired by | his example it becomes the paramount duty j of the ne-R-spapers and the people, regardless | c/ political affiliations, to stand by Governor I Van Sant on this proposition, and if an extra 1 session of the legislature is necessary, the i legislature will also be expected to support I the people and the governor by enacting what- i ever additional legislation may be neces-1 sary. It is a fight to the finish. Austin Register—The governor sees danger in the gigantic railroad trust, ani does not propose, if he can help it, that It shall throttle the business interests of the north west by destroying railway competition. The people will be with him in the light. NO "COONS" IN IDAHO San Francisco Argonaut. When coon songs were all the rage in Lon don, Leslie Stuart, the composer of the music of "Floroclora," decided to try his talent In composing ragtime music for the London music halls. "I s?oon mastered the new time to my own satisfaction," said Mr. Stuart the other day, "but I was all at sea fcr titles and subjects for my first song. I secured a map of the United States and found that Idaho was by far the best rhym ing state, so in a few days "My Girl From Idaho," was ready to be sung. I sent to a popular singer In the music halls, and the audience that heard it first seemed to like it. The next day the following message was sent to the theater and later turned over to me. It was signed 'An Idaho American,' and read: 'You blasted Englishmen, don't you know there isn't a coon in all the state of Idaho? But there arc girls in Idaho. They can't shuffle their feet; they can't all sing. But they can shoot, and Lord, how they'd like to have you for a target.' " ROOSEVRI/T KNEW HI>I Shortly after President Roosevelt entered the White House, a politician called upon ■him, with reference to appointments. AfTer the preliminary expressions of high esteem, unbounded admiration, and eternal loyalty, he began to disclose his business. "I want to speak to you about Mr. Blank, who holds a small office down in my district " The politician didn't finish his sentence. "What!" exclaimed Roosevelt, interrupting him; "is that infernal scoundrel still in that place? I I had some knowledge cf him When 1 was a civil service commissioner." The politician acknowledged that Mr. Blank was still t&ere, and then turned the subject. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEK 20, 1901. The Nonpareil Man A Little Journey to the Home of Larry Ho. Before a poet is really born Into the world, heaven gets very busy and the wise angels are up to their eyes In work. Larry Ho set up his first cry In the world at Hastings, Minn. There was no great celebration in Dakota county over the event, but the heav enly scene shifters tossed out several planets like great jewels in the sky and a sickle moon hung low down in the west. Hundreds of flowers also burst Into bloom and a few nightingales and other song birds opened a large burst of melody and poured It out on the startled air. Hastings boasts a wonderfully twisted wag on bridge ami an old distillery. In the shad ow of these public institutions Larry Ho grew to young manhood. He graduated at the Hastings high school with honors, after hav ing soundly threshed "Stubby" Morris, the bully of the seventh grade, and after having written a poem on the marriage of J. Y. Jackson, our popular grocer, and Miss Stella E. Hardlnger, verse which gave him no little local renown. At the age of 22 Larry Ho set out for the great metropolis to seek his fortune. After doing the attlc-and-a-crust act, as all real poets do, he "was offered a lucrative position" on one of our great metropolitan dailies. Here his genius for lyrical expression burst into full blaze. But there -were a lot of rude, coarse Indians at work on the paper, and they set out to club the poet's budding genius into a battered tomato can. This was before the days of the "Peewee Protective Association," and there was no one to take the poet's part. His lyre was nearly silenced. It is a matter of literary history that the Quarterly Hubbed Keats to death. Larry Ho escaped this fate, but he did leave the paper and become secretary of the third district democratic congressional campaign committee in the campaign of 1900. The object of this committee was to pound to a pulp the con gressional aspirations of one Joel Heatwole of Northfleld, a printer. Mr. Heatwole won out on the show-down, but his friends did not forget to remember Larry Ho. "When the poet had been recommended for some minor sub consulate in Holland by Senator Clapp, who knew and loved him, these third district peo ple rose superior to petty personal considera tions and compelled the senator to withdraw his recommendation.. Here the poet,would again have been drag ging on bottom had he not risen superior to his environment and obtained a position on another great metropolitan daily where the interrupted current of his life began to flow in less rocky channels. From this time on his budding aspirations toward song burst into full flower. It was during these days that he wrote those lyrical sonnets of the soul that have warmed so many hearts and made us all proud to own a true poet born on Minnesota soil. Is this not wholly true yet? Xous verrons cc que nous verrons. Little Side Is*nes. The only pleasure the coal man gets is in the perusal of the Klondike weather reports cold comfort! Now will those wild-eyed Minnesotans be good9—Lincoln Journal. Yes, doc! If the governor does not watch out, James J. and Pierpont will have his steamboat line Toot, toot! A "spite fence fight" may be entertaining to the neighbors, but let the lawyers get into the game and the amusement for the parties concerned rapidly evaporates. The skating season opened with six boys drowned. The worst way to test thin ice is for the boy who can't swim to skate on it. A Teachers' Federation Bulletin has been ! started at Chicago with a "Solmen Thought" j department of which Miss Goggin is editor. ■ The professional teacher often does inspirt solemn thought. The difficulty of making war in wet weather !is well known. The rainy season has called off the fighting in Colombia. It is repulsive | to the feelings to slay one's fellow man in j a rainstorm. The toot of the Gov. Van Sant as It steamed up the river resounded in Wall street. The governors of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and ] Washington talk of getting together and re marking to one another that '-it is a long time between railway consolidations, when we are not seen first." "Tetatatanus" is getting to be more easily induced than appendicitis. Out Where the Fun Is. A late dispatch from Mandan, N. D., says j that the relations between the Glen TJllin I Advocate and the New Salem Wacht am Mis j souri are somewhat strained. The Advocate j man, after announcing that he is proud of the | fact that he graduated from the South Dakota Reform school, where he was sent when he j was "a hardened criminal, aged 8 years, for I some little offense that did not amount to . anything," goes on to remark: "It would have! been a blessing indeed if at some "time In his youth the creature that pollutes the atmosphere with his beer-poisoned breath in New Salem, could have become an inmate of a reform school, because then, he might now be a man instead of the disgraceful caricature |of a human being that he now is. Why, his | very presence in a prison would be a con j lamination of the worst sort for a criminal of j the most degrading type." Gentlemen! Gen tlemen !! The Lake City Republican exposes the glor ies of the sky and earth in his delightful city | in the following wide open manner: "Pretty fires climbed their serpentine way up the distant bluffs the other night. The new ] crescent moon hung in the west, and the stars shone with unusual splendor and in un-! usual numbers. It all presented a scene of: indescribable night-splendor, accentuated, as we gazed, by a brilliant meteor which flung itself out of the nortHeast, nor haited In its flery course until the western horizon had been reached. Awe-inspiring it certainly was' as one gazed upon all these splendors of the night." At the Catholic fair at Beardsley Miss Stella Stephens won the fur collarette and Fred Bordeaux the gold watch. Miss Maud Norris ; was voted the handsomest girl, and Dick! Cunningham was considered the homeliest man present Thursday night, with Pat Coyne k close second. If a real exciting fair is wanted a voting contest to ascertain the I homeliest girl is what Is needed. Charles Campbell, wheat buyer at the Farmer's elevator, at Clinton, met with a serious and painful accident while putting up a stove at the elevator office. The chimney would noi draw properly, so Charlie went up on the roof to apply a mustard plaster to the chimney, and in some manner lost hi 3 bal ance and fell, pulling the chimney down on top of him. When Mr. Campbell alighted on the rich, black soil about a thousand of brick jumped on him while he was down and nearly pounded him to death before the police could get them off. —A. J. Russell. A REAL GHOST A pathetic incident is related in connection with a biograph scene, which was exhibited in Detroit, Mich., last March. A view made at the occupation of Pekin was flashed across the screen. It represented a detachment of the Fourteenth United States infantry enter ing the gates of the Chinese capital. As the last file of soldiers seemed literally stepping out of the frame onto the stage, there rose a scream from a woman, who sat in front. "My God!" she cried, hysterically, "there is my dead brother, Allen, marching with the soldiers." Allen McGaskill had mysteriously disappeared some years before. Subsequently Mrs. Booth, the sister, wrote to the war department, and learned that it really was her brother whose presentment she so strangely had been confronted with. TO THE POINT An Insurance officer, who claims to be the only man in the business who ever talked business to J. Pierpont Morgan, remarked the other day: "I could more easily see the hundred hardest men in San Francisco than do it again. Never mind how I did it. I walked in on Morgan at tb© office one day and stated my business. 'How did you get in here?' said he. "I walked in," eald L 'Well, walk out," said he. I did." | Copyright, 1901, by Curran Richard Greenley. "Yassir, dey hain't nuthin' hia ekal dis side ob Gawd's ightnln' ef he want ter go, but"— Jim leaned over confidentially—"he's de debbil'a own for tempeh, en I'm mi-hty feared he gwine ter bolt, what wld all dem brass ban's en shoutin's, en ef he do dey hain't nobody kin hoi' him, lessen it be Miss Jess, en she hain't in dat game nowise." Jim sighed apprehensively as he rubbed down the satin coat of the favorite—clean limbed, dark bay, an aristocrat of the aristo crats, breeding in every line of the arching neck, deep chest and mighty limbs, true son of the great Hindoo. The eyes showed a wicked little rim of white. "See dem eyes, Mas' Charley? He been a-showln' dem whites all day, en it's Gawd's truf dat hain't no peace flag. Lawd Tie'p de nlggah wht's gwine ter ride him!" I left the stalls and started up toward the judges' stand, considerably worried. It was only "niggah talk," true, but Jim knew the Bay Prince better than any one on the place He did not know that on this race depended the old squire's^Aome, and if lost it would mean beggary. I shut my eyes, and it. all came before me—the rolling, golden splendor of the wheat fields, the cool' shadows of the beechen boughs across the long avenue that led up to the quaint qld home, with its colonial pillared verandas, and the graystone- walls where the guelder roses climbed and the thrushes sang through the summer days; the old squire, white haired and stately, and the little figure that always hovered close to his side, my Jess, my wife to be, somewhere in the future. Losses, debts, mortgages, one by one had accumulated, until the hour had come when the flower of Bel Air stables must either prove their salvation or their ruin. He had always been a wicked colt, vouchsafing his friendship fne but Jess, whom he would follow like ;. It has passed into tradition How one r afternoon, when the temper of man and climbed with the mercury, the devil in Prince broke out rampant. The stall I new into bits as those mighty heels thrashed to the right and left: down came the door, and he was free to work his will. The men scrambled widly to places of safety* each shouting orders to the other. Little Pete, the satellite of Jim, had been stealing a nap in the corner of the barn, and when the j alarm came no one thought of him until the j raging beast 'swept toward the spot where 'he lay. A prolonged cry went up from the negroes, as, powerless to reach the child, they saw him seized by the shoulder and swung upward, and then, from somewhere, came a clear, low whistle, sweet as a thrush's note. The horse paused, his fine ears alert, still as carved bronze. Again it came, and the horrified negroes saw the little mistress standing In the doorway. "Prince, Prince, drop him and come here, sir." And to the astonishment of Pete, whom terror had stricken to silence, he was dropped to the floor with a dull thud, and Bay Prince walked, gently nickering, to where Jess stood, with her hands full of sugar. I looked toward'the grand stand, but could not see Jess anywhere. It was almost time for the race, and the excitement was rising, to fever heat Up in the judges' stand a little knot of men were holding an animated dis- Daily New York Letter Mr. Whitney's Horses. Nov. 20.—William C. Whitney -will not buy the Rancocas stock farm from Mrs. Lillian Barnes Allien, for it Is not for sale. But he has acquired control of the property for a I term of years and intends making an experi ment which will determine whether a New Jersey farm can turn out a racing thorough bred of as high a class as those of Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Whitney believes he can | make his plan a success. He will accordingly bring up from Kentucky the stud he has main tained at La Belle and domicile it at Ranco cas. The stud includes the great Hamburg, the imported stallion. Meddler, also Lissak, ■ Jean Beraud, Loki, Ballyhoo Bey, and others; ! the noted mares Lady Reel, Ballyhoo, Kildeer, Black Venus and a number of other valuable yearlings. "Mr. Lorillard and I talked over the possi bilities of Rancocas farm many times," Mr. Whitney said, "and both of us were of the opinion that it could turn out as great horses as any place in the United States. We under stood the advantages of the blue-grass regions ! of Tennessee and Kentucky, and admit that , it has cut a bigger figure in turf history than J Now Jersey, but we thought that New Jersey I had not had a fair trial. | "I would be perfectly contented to leave 'my stud !n Kentucky if Kentucky were closer to New York. The objection to La Belle farm is that it is so far away I cannot see my ! stallions- and mares more than once a year. j A man as focd of his horses as I wants to see j them oftener than that. Rancocas is close j by. I can run over there almost any day and make the trip comfortably. "I think I will be able to show Rancocas : grass is :as nutritious as blue grass. Mr. j Lorillard cultivated grass in a scientific way, ; and Rancocas produces the best in New Jer ! sey. If we find after a fair trial that Ranco j cas cannot turn out high-class winners, we will have to change." Benedict's Wonderful Fall. Report of an accident to Commodore E. C. I Benedict from which he suffered no injury, I i comes from. Cape Charles, Va., where he is I hunting with former President Cleveland. It : is said that the commodore climbed a tree I after a 'possum and fell, but saved himself by grabbing a lower branch in his flight and dropping to the ground in safety. i The accident is said to have occurred while Mr. Cleveland, John S. Wise and A. A. Ander son of this city and Spencer Borden of Fall River were out duck shooting. Commodore j Benedict, who does not shoot, organized a I 'possum hunt. Sad Case in High Life. The daughter of one of the richest residents of Mont Claire, H. J., and once.a noted belle, was a prisoner in the first precinct court of New-ark charged with being a professional beggar. With her, also under arrest and charged with the same offense, was her hus band, Joseph L. Farnesham, who, although carefully dressed with an obvious attempt at style, showed in his face deep lines, which told of care and privation. "I did beg, your honor," said the prisoner, , meeting Judge Lambert' 3 gaze without flinch j ing. "I did It for this dear girl's sake, to i give her food and shelter. Gladly would I have worked, but I could find nothing to do." Meanwhile the parents of the young wife had reached the court and notified the Judge of their willingness to provide for her. So : the charge against Mrs. Farnesham was not , pressed, while the husband was sentenced to , thirty days in jail. No sooner had the judge announced this de cision than the loyal wife sprang forward, crying: "If my husband is guilty, if begging be a crime, then I am guilty too." • She insisted on going to jail with her hus band and was carried away only when, ex hausted and fainting. Low Consults With Platt. Senator Thomas C. Platt, head of the re publican machine, has accepted an invitation j from Mayor-elect Seth Low to visit the latter ' at his residence next Thursday morning for the purpose of receiving the thanks of Mr. Low for assistance rendered to the fusion candidate by the regular republican organ ization. Mr. Low in speaking of his coming confer ence with Mr. Platt said that he should con sult with the republican leader as to various matters affecting the welfare of the city and its future administration. Croker Defends Himself. Squire Croker talked to-day at the Demo cratic Club to the newspaper reporters. His subjects were various. He denied that he had worn knickerbockers while playing golf with O. H. P. Belmont and then discussed clergymen. "Haven't they always had it in for me?" he asked. "They and the reform slanderers attacked me all during the campaign. They called me a common thief; said I had i«w Wken*tke>DEl\BY w«cs' I^IJN- VT'CVtif^K-UfCBAUp- CI^ENLEYJ eusslon, Judging from their gestures. I strolled up to them. "I say it Is against all precedent!" a short man in a checked suit was vociferating. "It makes no difference about his name. How do you know if any of them own the names they carry?" said another, and old Colonel Sylvester clinched the subject. "It is merely a matter of pounds. We know the horse and his owner. Let him ride!" "What is it all about?" I questioned an* the colonel replied: "Squlro Montgomery's Jockey has disap peared. He was to have ridden Bay Prince in this race. There Is a boy down there that claims he knows the horse, but he will not give his name. There has been some little objection, therefore, to allowing him to mount." He turned to the others. "Have I your consent, gentlemen?" At the word he waved his hand, and the bor at the weighing block picked up his saddle and stepped on the scales. Ten minutes later they were in :ine below the stand—sorrel and bay, chestnut and gray; but, peerless among them all, the son of Hin doo fretted and pawed, rolling his eyes, that now showed the "battlefiag" more than ever. His foes were worthy of his best stride—Zin gara, the red mare, queen of the Blackman. stables; Fleur-de-lis of Bannockburn, with, the honors of the Tennessee Derby still fresh; Black Rover, Walpunrls, The Thunderer, Malcontent and His Highness, a great red 1 brute from the famous Cbanton stud. Quivering, electric, with the scent of battle in their flaring nostrils, as the tense muscle 3 rose and fell in cords in the mighty flanks! The gorgeous little figures sitting low down in the saddles settled themselves as the red flag fell. "Go!" and awax down the stretch flew a prism of red, yellow, green and purple, blending in the Kentucky sunlight, around the white ribbon of track. The first quarter passed, and the bunch closed up, ne<-k and neck, shoulder to shoulder. Another quarter and one fell behind. Black Rover was in the lead. Around the turn and down the home stretch and Bay Prince had crept to Black Rover's shoulder. Now It was neck and neck, and a wild yell went up from S,O>X) throats as black and bay were nose and nose. Twenty yards, and the red Jacket lay down, in the saddle. They were near enough Tor the Judge's eyes to see the flash of the great bay's eyes as he gathered himself and with .a mighty effort landed under the wire Just a nose ahead of the black. And then pandemo nium broke loose. Men clambered down from, everywhere. Up went the numbers —Bay Prince first, Black Rover second and Zingara third. It was all over, and the Derby had gone down into history. In the midst of it a little figure all in its gay scarlet satins dropped from the saddle and was half carried by Jim to the weighing block. "You go 'way, Mas' Charley. Dis heah boy ain't nowise fitten ter talk." Jim had for once forgotten his "raisin" " in his anxiety to bar me out, but I brushed him aside and saw my Jess In her close tailor suit standing ju3t inside the door. The scarlet Jacket and cap lay \<pon Jim's cot, and my darling's pretty face rivaled them in color. There was one shamefaced moment, and then the little head went proudly up. "I did it for papa and Bel Air!" And Jim went off chuckling to himself a3 I drew tie door close behind me. earned an honest dollar, and made me re sponsible for every crime committed in the city. Now, I want to tell them and all the people of New York that I defy them, and I hereby challenge them to prove their charges. When they said I had no business and never earned an honest dollar, they lied. I have two different kinds of business, honest, legitimate business, and every dollar I have I earned honesty. They know it, too, and that makes their lies all the worse. "Ain't it funny?*' Mr. Croker resumed, "this reformer talk about opening the sa loons on Sunday? The papers are full of it. The preachers, the fusionists, the whole reform crowd are for opening the saloons on Sunday, and the newspapers haven't a word to say against it. Good Lord, suppose Tam many tried that thing; suppose Tammany came out for Sunday opening, what an up roar there would be. The newspapers, the pulpits, and the reformers would pound ua off the earth." New Era in Xew York: Politics. While Senator Platt says he cannot com mend too highly State Senator Stranahan, ■whom President Roosevelt has selected for collector of the port to succeed Collector Bid well next April, the appointment of Strana han signalizes the arrival of a new era in New York politics. It is not too much to say that it carries that' significance. Thomas C. Platt is still leader of th« state repub lican organization, and still a member of the United States senate. Moreover, he continues to be consulted in regard to public policies affecting the state. Governor Odell continues to breakfast and confer with him. But Mr. Platt's authority is not what it once was. Even when President McKtnley was alive, he was unable to prevent the appointment of an assistant secretary of war, to whom he objected on political grounds. Although he made Odell governor, he has been unable to control him, and in one Instance Odell has openly defied his authority. No other office of the state is so representative of the party leader as.the collectorship. of the port. When Collector Erhardt became objectionable to Senator Platt in the Harrison administra tion, his retirement followed. Mr. Bidwell is Mr. Platt's man, but the senator has been unable to keep him In the office, and Senator Stranahan has been appointed, an organiza tion man, Indeed, to whom Mr. Platt can raise no objection,, but who nevertheless was the legislator on whom Roosavnlt leaned the most when he was governor. Stranahan is Roosevelt's choice, not Platt's. Here, then, we had a republican president and a repub lican governor who are willing to confer with Platt, but who are as likely as not to go counter to his wishes. Odell Is undoubt edly aa much pleased with Stranahan's ap pointment as Platt is grieved over Btdwell's retirement. Then the election of Setli Low puts another man into high office on whom the republican leader cannot depend for obedience. With Roosevelt as president. Root as secretary of war, Odell as governor and Low as mayor, a new chapter In the history of New York politics is being written, and a new leadership has appeared. This does not necessarily mean the retirement of Senator Platt, but it does mean that his authority la the party has been much abridged. ANOTHER VIEW OF IT ■ 1 * Walt Mason. Good old Henry W. Longfellow, vtHo nM» rowly escaped being a poet, sings in enthus iastic strains about the village chestnut tree, and the smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hande; and the muscles of his brawny arms are strong Iron bands. The poet speaks of the blacksmith and his honest ! toil la the patronizing way which is com mon to all people who have a soft snsnw when talking of those who get their living by hard knocks. It Is easy to imagine Mr. Longfellow calling at the village blacksmith shop, dodg ing around to keep the red hot sparks out of his whiskers, watching the honest workman being hoisted through the roof by a mule he is shoeing; and then to see him go to his quiet study and write those affecting lines, picturing the smith as a man to be envied. It is the same old thing; the wealthy preach ing to the busted, and cracking up the labor ing man's dollar as being worth far more than the vuluptuous bank account of the capl« MM; THANKSGIVING Lord, for th« "erring thought Not Into. evil wrought; Lord, for the wicked -will Betrayed and , baffled :still; For ; the heart from itself kept-* Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were ' Broken to our blind, prayer; For, pain, death, sorrow, sent \ Unto our chastisement; T' For all loss of seeming good—* ! S Quickenl our gratitude. > 1 -W. •D. UewvOs. ;