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CIRCULATION
OF THE
MINNEAPOLIS
JOURNAL
Average for XI XX A
October 3133 V
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
Nov. 20 51,172
Nov. 21.. 51,372
Nov. 22 51,690
Nov. 23 54,380
N0v.25 51,210
Nov. 26... 51,078
Nov. 27.... 51,202
The above is 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
88th day of November, 1901.
C. A. TULLER,
Notary Public, Hennepin County.
■X The Insulted Commissioners
The county commissioners have been in
sulted.
A few days ago a petition signed by W.
G. Nye, C. ' W. Gardner, S. H. Hall, E. F.
Smith, H. A. Marshall. Charles S. Cairns,
P. Keutzbach, Jr., George P. Wilson, S. G.
Palmer, J. P. Thompson, E. L. Estabrook,
F. B. Lathrop, Walter L. Badger, Thomas
F. Wallace, Jr., James Paige, W. L. Bige
low, T. N. Marston, F. J. Janney, H. G.
Hicks, A. Euland, A. F. Gale, J. R. King
man, L. R. Larson, J. M. Norris,- A. H.
Young and S. H. Chase, was presented to
the board suggesting the propriety of de
parting from the custom too long honored
ln the observance and adopting the plan
of advertising for bids for county printing.
They asked that . the blank books which
the county Is about .to order for use in
1302 be ordered from the lowest respon
sible bidder, and that, in order to make
sure of getting the most favorable terms,
bids be advertised for and opened in pub
lic at a stated time.
This, according to a local item ln .this
Issue, was where the Insult comes ln. We
are very certain that none of the gentle
men whose names are appended to this
petition have any wish to insult the com
missioners, but they do wish to have this
public work done In a businesslike manner
and as economically as possible.
~ They offered this petition first, because
there is evidence to show that favoritism
has been displayed heretofore in awarding
these printing.contracts; that a few print
ers have been getting the lion's share of
the work. Last year the county expended
$32,829.50 for ; blank books and printing,
which included the newspaper publication
of proceedings, the tax lists, etc., and,
Including the newspapers, $28,933.09 went
to seven firms, leaving about $3,000 to be
distributed among all the others. That
rather unequal distribution of public
work, would not, however, be of great im
portance, since it can be easily understood
bow seven firms might make the lowest
bids and get all the work, if it were not
for the fact that the tax payers' league
recently secured bids on a. number of
principal items of supplies included in that
$32,229.50, .taking care to require the same
grade of material, workmanship, etc., and
received bids from responsible firms which
averaged from 25 to 50 per cent less than
the county bad paid for the same goods.
One printer, according to statements of
the Tax Payers' league, admitted that he
had received $21 per book for certain
books used by the county for which be
would be glad to get $15 from private in
dividuals. •
Having these facts before them the peti
tioners very mildly, suggested to the com
missioners the propriety of advertising for
bids and opening them ln the public so
.that the transactions migh ultimately be
liable to no criticism whatever. But this
is where the commissioners took offense.
Instead of adopting the suggestion, in
stead of conceding the propriety of doing
business in that way, a way which is more
likely to protect them from criticism of
their official acts, they have chosen to say
that .'they will ignore the petition of the
tax payers and petitioners and pursue the
same course they have followed hereto
fore.
It will be noticed that among the peo
ple who signed this petition are the names
of men active in politics in this county.
Some of them are what are known as
workers in the trenches politically. Pos
sibly the . commissioners think they can
afford to ignore a reasonable request of
this kind, but It is dead certain that every
repeated Instance of this sort of thing is
tying millstones to the neck of the repub
lican, party in Hennepin. The petitioners
asked nothing unreasonable, on the con
trary what they ask is so reasonable and
proper that it ought never to have been
necessary 'to request it at all, and the
commissioners will excite no sympathy for
themselves by their pretense of wounded
honor. The general public is much more
interested in having the public business
-
done in a businesslike way than It Is In
the assumed indignation of the commis
sioners on account of this petition.
The rural carrier who has feared that
the extension of the classified civil serv
ice to Include him will make it necessary
for him to pass an examination in Latin,
chlrography, spelling, geography and
transportation methods may now rest in
peace. It Is announced that the carriers
will be chosen for manifest fitness for the
work from the vicinage of the route he is
to serve.
As the democrats of Minnesota are no
toriously in favor of the trusts, the at
titude of the St. Paul Globe on the rail
way merger will at once restore that pa
per to the good graces of the people it has
so many times disappointed.
Thanksgiving Day
If we were all only parts of a mechanism
moved by blind and unintelligent forces,
and a personal God were eliminated en
tirely from the universe, humanity being
a development out of a thing entirely un
known, the Idea of thanksgiving and rec
ognition of a God would be incongruous.
That Is what the so-called highest science
of the century, recently closed, offered
to humanity as the solution of the prob
lems of life- Humanity has refused to
accept theories of absolute fatalism and
of blind mechanics and continues to seek
after a more rational solution, and finds
It in the Father God, a reality, a provider,
responsive to the cries and needs of his
children.
The term Thanksgiving Day Implies
home and good cheer and emphatically the
rendering of thanks to the Almighty
Father. It has become with us a national
holiday. The president, in his proclama
tion, exhorts the people to assemble in
their places of worship and return thanks
to the good God who has again crowned
the year with blessing. The threatened
drought was shorn of its severest menace
and throughout the length and breadth
of the land, even in the drought belt,
there is enough and to spare. The head
of the nation was stricken down by the
bloody hand of anarchy and the nation
has been plunged in grief, but the foul
spirit which rose and slew that lllus
trous man was stayed from plunging the
country into a scene of wholesale mas
sacre. The one victim died vicariously.
The nation was spared and warned.
How many more warnings will be neces
sary to keep this nation within the sav
ing and beneficent plan of God?
This is a day, the day, for beneficence, —
the kind which the Persian proverb says
"when it takes root, it sends forth
branches beyond the sky." It is a day for
the actualization of that altruism of which
old Omar Khayyam sang:
Know well that a hundred holy temples of
Mecca have not the value of a heart: Leave
there thy Kaaba with Its holy stone from
Paradise, and go thou rather to find a heart.
The entire world shall be populous with the
benefits of that action of thine which saves
one soul from despair. A thousand chains
broken by thee are less than to have chained
to thee by sweetness the heart of a free man.
And .we may even charge our hearts
to remember the Turkish saying: "Do
good and throw it into the sea; though
the fishes may not know it, God will." So
shall the day return benlsons to our
own hearts. There is duty, nay, priv
ilege, first, and then the light of the true
Joy of the day will rejoice our eyes and
make our hearts glad. We shall drink to
the radiant eyes of those we love best and
feel the brimming happiness of our souls,
if we shall do somewhat to have the needy
lie down in safety and the poorest feed
on the bounty of nature.
Now that Police Lieutenant- Krumweide
has defined his position, ladies who at
tend balls and parties will be careful to
return to their homes before "after
hours."
Megaarden's Downfall
Rarely has a public official received such j
an excoriation as that Deputy Public Ex
aminer Koerner administers to Sheriff
Phil Megaarden of Hennepin county in
summing up the results of his investiga
tion of the bad state of affairs prevailing
in the sheriff's office. The worst of it is
that the sheriff seems to deserve all that
he gets. It is with mingled feelings of
sorrow and indignation that we peruse
this convincing evidence of betrayal of
public trust.
Phil Megaarden has many friends in
this community who would have risked
much on his reputation for honesty and
faithful public service, but the office that
has in one way or another ruined so many
of his predecessors proved too great a
temptation for him.
There is no other course 'for the govern
or to pursue than immediately to take
steps toward Megaarden's removal from
office. It remains for the courts to de
cide whether Mr. Megaarden is criminally
guilty. There can no longer be any doubt
of his unfitness for the office. -
This sad downfall should be a lesson to
other officeholders and should lead to the
immediate abolition of that fatally fasci
nating temptationthe system of paying
the sheriff by fees. The fees should all go
to the county, and. the sheriff should re
ceive a regular salary.
It is estimated that during the present
open season 2,000; deer and 200 moose have
been killed in Minnesota. As this is rather
less than more than the number killed in
other years we are reminded that the
northern forests must shelter an immense
number of deer and moose.
Disobeyed Orders
The collision of two trains on the Wa
bash road last night near Seneca produced
a most horrible spectacle when the day
dawned this morning. (Burning cars, loco
motives twisted out of shape and hissing
a horrible .requiem over the dead and
wounded and mangled who lay in great
groups along the track; groans and
shrieks of the tortured ones and a throng
of silent rescuers seeking to save any
who might survive the awful cataclysm.
The collision took place on a straight
track where each engineer ought to have
been able to see the other for some dis
tance. The first reports give the fright
ful mortality of one hundred persons, and
fifty wounded. It is to be hoped these
figures will be greatly reduced.
What was the matter? It is pretty
clearly stated that the horror was due to
the neglect of the crew of the express
train to stop at the usual meeting point,
according to orders. Disobedience of or
ders was, therefore, the cause of the
catastrophe. It was preventable. There
have been cases where such collisions
have occurred through the fault of the
train dispatcher, who has made a mistake.
A train dispatcher's mistake, It must be
admitted, Is often made because he is
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required to work, too many hours , out of
the twenty-four and becomes physically
exhausted. He is often - taxed beyond
human endurance. The employing com
pany, under such conditions, is to blame.
There does not appear to have been any
train dispatcher's mistake ln the ; Wabash
"accident." It was a case of, negligence
of orders, pure and simple. Disobedience
to orders, to put It more correctly. Dis
obedience to orders is getting to be alto
gether too frequent in these days, not
only on railways but in every department
of human activity. Disobedience seems
especially harmful on a railway, be
cause the consequences, generally tragi
cal, are immediate and terrible. But dis
obedience to orders is harmful under any
circumstances in the ultimate results.
The citizens of every community are un
der orders which they are expected to
Obey and obey promptly, without shirking
or evasion. Every Individual is bound to
obey 'the laws, local, state and national.
Disobedience is undeniably demoraliz
ing and injurious to the individual dis
obeying and to the community whose
well-being depends upon the obedience to
the laws. Defiant disobedience works
catastrophe to communities and disasters
are entailed upon a community as fearful,
morally speaking, as a head-on collision
on a railway due to disobedience of or
ders.
If there was more obedience to orders in
this country, beginning in the home where
parental authority is so often despised
and ignored in these days, there would be
less lawlessness in every community.
There would be fewer head-on collisions,
morally speaking.
It' Is time for the United States to in
tervene In •Colombia. Troops of the con
tending factions have so far forgotten the
rules of South American warfare that they
have taken to killing and wounding each
other in battle.
Governors and the Merger; Tooles'
Strong Position
If Governor Toole of Montana is as
good in act as in his written opinion of
the great railway merger,' Governor Van
Sant has at least one vigorous guberna
torial ally in his battle against the dan
gerous and unlawful consolidation. In
his reply to Governor Van Sant's invita
tion to co-operate and confer regarding
the course to be pursued Governor Toole
does not devote space to saying nothing.
He does not use words to conceal
thoughts. Governor Toole does not allow
himself to be diverted by a discussion of
the probable good or bad results of the
consolidation. He stands on the consti
tution and the laws of Montana, which he
is sworn to uphold. They prohibit the
consolidation of competing or parallel
lines of railroad. Moreover, the laws of
Montana are more sweeping on this sub
ject than are those of Minnesota, and
Governor Toole boldly points to them,
saying:
But, aside from prohibiting the consolida
tion of parallel or competing lines, our statute
provides that every person, corporation, stock
company or association of persons In this
state, who directly or Indirectly combine or:
form what is known as a trust, or tend to
create a monopoly in the manufacture, sale
or transportation of any articles. Is punish
able by Imprisonment in the state prison for
not exceeding five years, or by a fine not ex
ceeding $10,000, or both. Every corporation
violating the provision of this section forfeits
to the state all Its property and franchises,
and in the case of a foreign corporation, It Is
prohibited, from carrying on business in the
state.. ■ ■.:>•:, ' - -'v
If the merger can somehow wriggle by
the spirit of the Minnesota law and the
Montana constitution, how can it hope to
surmount this triple-plated Montana law
If Governor Toole and Attorney General
Donovan stand by their guns, as the
governor says they will?
Fines, imprisonment and forfeiture Of
franchises are the grim penalties Mon
tana corporations must face if they choose
to disobey the law, and foreign corpora
tions who violate it are prohibited from
carrying on business in the state.
Railway presidents who know of this
law may well confer as to how they can
effect consolidation without violating
state laws. Railway employes are loyal,
but the service of the two great trans
continental railroads through Montana
would soon be reduced to chaos if the
Montana authorities took to arresting
officials of the consolidated roads.
Governor Toole's letter contains in
struction for some of Governor Van Sant's
critics who have been telling him that
the Northern Securities company has
evaded the law successfully and that he is
wasting time in quarreling with it. Says
the governor of Montana:
It may be claimed by counsel representing
the Northern Securities company that the
scheme embodied in its organization is a suc
cessful evasion of our constitution and laws,
but until the court of last resort has sanc
tioned such a combination and Its purpose,
no euch contingency ought to be accepted for
a moment.
That is precisely Governor Van Sant's
position.
Governor Geer of Oregon deals in gen
eralities in his reply, shows that his
state is railroad ridden and says that he
Is not sure that the consolidation is not
a good thing. He does not decline to at
tend a conference, but says It must be on
the Pacific coast. Governor White -of
North Dakota is somewhat stronger in
his statements, but his letter Is not of
the ringing kind the governor of that
state might be expected to write.
Teachers' Club and Entertain
ment Course
The Minneapolis Teachers' Club has for
four years offered to the public each sea
son an entertainment course that . has
been notable for the high quality, variety
and atractlveness of its numbers. This
year's course has already begun, Lorado
Taft, the sculptor, having opened it on
Nov. 18, with a lecture entitled "A
Glimpse of a Sculptor's Studio," and on
Nov. 22. H. Whitney Tew gave a song re
cital.
There remain nine numbers in the
course. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfleld Zeisler
gives a piano recital on the evening of
Dec. 4, and after her come lectures by
Sir Robert Ball, the great English as
tronomer, John Henry Barrows, president
of Oberlin university, and Professor
George H. Vincent of Chicago university;
Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker, the dramatic re
citer; the Kneisel quartet of the Boston
symphony orcestra, and Madam Schumann-
Heink. The club uses the Lyceum the
ater for its entertainments.
The course is bo intrinsically good that
It is sure of generous patronage, but the
patrons will find an additional pleasure, in
their knowledge that the proceeds are de
voted to the most worthy and helpful pur
pose. They are used to support hospital
privileges for the exclusive use of seri
ously sick teachers. Last year 1767.90 was
spent in this work. Ther is almost at-.
ways one, and 'sometimes* there are sev
eral sick teachers at the' hospital. v The
privilege thus opened to the sick is of the
greatest value. Only those who have been
sick away from home or in such* a place
that the right kind of care is impossible,
can appreciate what it means. -;'-
i The club could not carry on this grand
work were it not for the profits of the
entertainment" course; its dues of $1 a
year, from its 600 odd members, barely
sufficing for the expense of some of its
other activities. ' The club holds bi
monthly meetings for the " discussion of
subjects of interest to teachers; it main
tains a public affairs committee which acts
in conjunction with a similar committee
from the Commercial Club, and it cor
dially welcomes new teachers by means of
annual receptions.
The club has been an important social
factor in more ways than one. It has cre
ated an esprit de corps among the teach
ers and has been the means of benefiting
them in a number of ways. It was at this
club's request that the board of education
instituted the teachers' pension fund, and
the entertainment course. It gives each
year is a public benefactor in that it
brings to the city distinguished lecturers^
musicians and other celebrities who might
not otherwise appear here. Moreover,
admittance to these lectures Is so rea
sonable that persons of limited means are
able to attend the whole course.
The "Journal takes pleasure in
commending the Teachers' Club for its
public and philanthropic work, for its
benefits to its members and for its serv
ices in providing so excellent an enter
tainment course. ' ••- -;
The Nonpareil Man
Little Side Issues.
De Saulles, the Yale quarterback who has
been lying In the Massachusetts General hos
pital, between the doctors and the concus
sion of the brain, is better, and it is thought
that he will pull through all right if they do
not tell him the. score. . 1 .. -
Kansas City grated so on one individual that
he hired a hypnotist to put him asleep for
six days.
Yale bet 25 cents on her eleven, and now
wants her damaged quarterback.
Mr. Kruger, now of Amsterd—n, has made
another of those unpleasant, . harsh remarks,
viz., that "the struggle in South Africa has
Just begun." When Mr. Chamberlain read It
he threw his monocle.
Is the small boy afraid of the Turkey?
Gnaw!! -' •'•'•":
This is a pretty good time of year to insult
the poor widow by sending around a ton of
coal and a turkey. ■'■■•' >
Overparticular people complain of having
to ride on the brake beams of the Como-Har
riet cars at 5 p. m. There is a pretty good
sidewalk out that wav, too. -
: The Holland submarine boat stayed under
water fifteen hours without casualty. Now
let's anchor Addlcks and Quay down there for
a similar time and note results. -.
General Wood has just bought, for the
United States, the San Juan battlefield, Includ
ing the blockhouse, San Juan hill and the
Bloody Bend. He paid $15,000 for it, which Is
much cheaper than It was when Teddy Roose
velt rushed up and took It in the very eyes
of The astonished Spanish army. .:''
The bombardments of Colon and of Itasca
county, Minn., are the .principal war features
of the year. ;.-.,'; ; : uc\ \,'"'" "" ""*
Mr. Morgan has bought the $25,000 psalter
printed by Faust and #c*oeffor in 1459.-There
Is only one more valuable book in the world,
Mr. Morgan's bank book.'
Trouble in' the ) Exchange Room.
The Leisure Hour Club was holding a. ses
sion in the ' exchange-room the other after
noon, considering the tariff as an issue, .when
the Peewee Protective Association tried to
holl its general meeting. The reports of the
officers of the association were. of a gloomy
character Hardly had the body organized,
said the secretary,- before a Peewee with long
flowing Yale locks came down the hall, drag
ging nearly three yards of pootry on the' floor
behind him. He seemed to feel that It was
somebody's, duty to read this, and the secre
tary, who had it ln hand, looked like a man
who was carrying a weight.
The harsh, unfeeling laughter of the Leisure
Hour Club at this" juncture caused some diffi
culty, which might have grown acute had
not the janitor, noting > that: the tempera
ture was low, opened all the windows to wash
them, thus letting in about four barrels of
climate that had just dropped into town from
Hudson's bay. General Interest in this new
brand of weather checked the growing trou
ble. ■ ,:••:
The Peewee treasurer reported that he had
been called on to negotiate a loan of 32 cents
to a Peewee not a member of the association
who wanted to buy stamps to send his manu
script to New York again. The applicant com
plained that the. manuscript had been nearly
worn out In the United States mails and he
wanted a resolution passed by the association
addressed to the United States government,
complaining of the wear and tear of manu
script in the mails.
Seventeen Peewees, who had never done
anything vicious themselves, but who had
aunts or other relatives who had had poems in
Godey's Lady's Book in 1843, called in to
Jolly the association along and to laugh about
It and ask Peewee questions that filled the
board of control with gloomy forebodings.
A Peewee known as "The Baltimore Oriole"
because she had an aunt living in Maryland,
wanted to recite her "pieces" aloud before the
society, and nearly caused a split in the
organization.
At this point the Leisure Hour Club broke I
out with recitations beginning "Kee-ur-few
shahll not-ter R-r-r-eeng to-night" and "Me
60s, R-r-r-oger!" And In the riot that en
sued the exchange-room was cleared by the
police.
Intervention.
O'er the bloody field at Colon
The fight raged to and fro; ....
The casualties were fearful....
For a man had stubbed his toe.
And the busy army surgeons
His left leg cut from him,
AUd found too late the casualty
Was on his starboard limb.
Then the wily Uncle Samuel
Took part in that fierce fray,
And all the Caribbean islands
He towed up north a way. . /- -
—A. J. Russell.
STRONG WORDS THESE
i
! "Dally Drift" in Lincoln, Neb., Journal.
! Next to Irl M. Hicks' "Word and Works,"
the biggest fool publication in this country
is the Metaphysical Magazine, edited by j
Leander Edmund Whipple. The November
number contains an astrological forecast of
national events by an ass who signs himself
Julius Erlckson, and who cUlms to have pre
dicted the assassination of President McKin
ley; from studying the stars. Ac.coiding to
Erlckson the administration of President
Roosevelt will be marked by the rule of
Saturn as overseer of the Job, Uranus coming
In a close second. Mars exhiojts a ■ promi
nence which Indicates a vigorous foreign pol
icy and a disposition on the part of the
president to keep the guns of the nation from
getting rusty. And so, from the various posi
tions of the planets at the time the president
took the oath of office. Inference after infer
ence is drawn, all of which Indicate that the;
best thing to be done with Julius Erlckson
is to lock him up before he becomes violent/.
Indemnity From the Starving:.
• -•;•• Cleveland Leader.
; Nine hundred thousand persons are on the
verge of starvation in two provinces of China.
And yet the civilised powers of the world in
sisted upon the payment of en' Indemnity
which is certain to be wrung from the pocs
people, .•"■'. j"''Tf4 "V^ '""'. "''" ."V1
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Many best laid plans were made to "gang
agley" by Governor Van Sant's recent bound
Into popular favor. :lr: i' --' ;. *
One of them, I am r^llaoly Informed, had to
do with the ever vaulting ambition of • the
present mayor. of Minneapolis. The doctor
has always wanted to be governor of Minne
sota. He loves the glitter of state office, nnd
his highest ambition is to be surrounded with
a be-gilded staff. Since his famous race
against McGill, he has looked with, longing
eye on the state house. He realized that there
was strong opposition to Van Sant in many
quarters, and ln common with several other
gentlemen in various parts of the state, hoped
to be the beneficiary of this feeling. He was
laying his plans to capture Hennepin county's
delegation by a still hunt, when the gov
ernor electrified the country by his attack on
the railway consolidation. This at once put
the Winona man at top of the heap. There
Is no longer any talk of retiring Van Sant.
If the governor steers his course straight he
will not encounter even a ripple.
Mayor Ames has political sense enough to
realize this .fact. He had been outwardly a
candidate for congress, for various reasons.
One was his bitter hostility to Fletcher, and
another was his ambition to represent Minne
apolis at the nation's capitol, which he has
cherished as an alternative to running for
governor. Knowing that all was not lovely
between the Fletcher people and the state
administration, he hoped by running for con
gress a while to club Fletcher into supporting
him for governor.
That dream is over, and for the present, at
least, the mayor Is a bona fide candidate for
congress.
Many jof his henchmen refuse to believe
this. Some of. them, members of the police
department and other dependents, are spread
ing the story that he Intends to be a candidate
for mayor again. Perhaps he will, a few
months hence, but that is not his mind to
day. His followers want him to run for
mayor, and they will leave no stone unturnel
to change his determination. If he does not
run, their goose is cooked, and they know it.
The doctor would; like to oblige them, but
just now he is bent on "beating old Fletch,"
I as he tastefully puts it.
Senator Clapp ■ left for Washington last
evening, where he will enter upon his du
ties at once. He takes with him as his pri
vate ' secretary, Chauncey E. Richardson of
Duluth, a well known young, republican who
j has been city clerk, and Mayor Hugo's private
secretary.
—C. B. C.
X. W. PRESS AND THE GREAT
MERGER
j Hlllsboro, N. D., Times—The public will
heartily approve the purpose of Governor
Van Sant of Minnesota to fight to the last
ditch against the endeavor of the Northern
Securities company v to consolidate the con
trol of the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railroads in the northwest.
Langdon, N. D., Republican—Jim Hill may
be a great financier and a power in the finan
cial world, but .when the people take a no
tion to go after 'him he won't be half so big
when they get through.
Bismarck Palladium—Governor Van Sant of
Minnesota is tackling a big job when he goes
after the big railroad combination and his
, end will probably be like that of Attorney
General Monnet of Ohio, who went after the
Standard Oil combine. The combine still ex
ists, but the attorney general has passed into
history. ."
Verndale Sun—Governor Van Sant ; has
shown himself to be a fearless governor. He
proposes to stop the consolidation of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads
in Minnesota, to the detriment of the people,
if it takes an extra session of the legislature
to help do it..
Winona Independent— seems to be appar
ent, to most observers that the state of Min
nesota does not know what kind of a fight it
will have to make, if any, or whether the
alleged railroad combine will show fight or
expose' itself to legal attack ln any way.
Litchfield Independent The governor says
that he will leave nothing undone that is
within his power, to prevent the consumma
tion of this scheme of consolidation. May he
be successful. •
Starbuck Times—Governor . Van Sant, by
his prompt and energetic action in opposing
the projected consolidation of certain parallel
and competing, lines of railroads in this state,
during the past week, has done more to pop
ularize and " make himself solid " with the
masses than all he has accomplished other
than this during his present term of office to
date. " -. : :
Hawley Herald—The governor is on his
right mettle, and we hope to see him come
out victorious. It is about time these con
solidations, combinations,' trusts, gambling
fraternities, or whatever you feel like nam
ing them, received a frost.
'Bralnerd Tribune Governor Van Want's bold
stand against the big railroad octopus sent
a cold shiver among the money kings of Wall
street, and has electrified the entire north
west. Governor Van Sant has a big fight on
his.hands, but he is a good fighter, and the
people are with him to the finish.
Moorhead Independent—Governor Van Sant
has taken the initiative in the matter and
has the support of nine-tenths of the people
of Minnesota in his efforts to protect their
rights.- He will be supported by the legisla
ture and the legal fight will be conducted by
Attorney General Douglas.
Hinckley —Governor Van Sant has
struck a gait in the railway consolidation
matter which, if kept up, will land him in
the gubernatorial chair for a second term.
If tho governor is in earnest he will have
the united support of the people regardless
of politics. .
Lakeside Press— railroad Interests of
Minnesota exert an Influence politically by
no means to be despised, and In his flat
footed, unequivocal attitude of opposition to
these Interests; Governor Van Sant shows
himself. possessed of a spirit which will be
remembered by the people of Minnesota
whether or not he is able to checkmate James
J. Hill and his associates.
Albert Lea Tribune—Governor Van Sant has
set the whole financial world to wagging by
the promptness with which he made prepara
tions for contesting the consolidation of the
two great transcontinental railway lines that
traverse this state, and if the law is ade
quate, he will stop the move, and in doing
so, he will be acting strictly according to
the interests of the state.
Crookston Times (dem.) — number of
Journals throughout the state who have with
held their support from Governor Van Sant
In the stand which he has taken as to the
new railway combine Is very small, for which
the people of the state need not wait till Thurs
day to give thanks: The governor has taken
the only position possible to a man who in
tends to conserve the interests of the people
of the state.
Northfield Notwithstanding all the
carping criticism that has been showered on
Governor Van Sant, and we admit that some
of it was deserved, when the crisis comes
that threatens the prosperity of the state, he
has proved the friend of the people. He has
boldly declared that he will fight the pro- i
posed consolidation of the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific by every means in
his power, and if the "present laws are not
adequate, will convene the legislature to
enact new ones.
. Fergus Falls Journal— seems to be the
impression that the Northern Securities com
pany has a perfect right to hold stock in as
many roads as it sees fit to buy. It Is cited
that the big life insurance companies own
large blocks of stock in competing and par
allel lines, and If they have a right to do so,
the Northern Securities company has the
same right. . »' .. -i
AMUSEMENTS
Foyer' Chat.
A packed house greeted the performance of
"Way Down East" at the Metropolitan this
afternoon, and the indications are good for a
complete sell out for to-night's performance.
There .will be but three more performances
after to-night,. including the matinee Satur
day.
"Sweet Clover" will bloom for those who
like the quiet, homely drama at the Metro
politan the first half of next week, with Ade
laide Thurston, a Minnesota girl, as the
bright particular blossom. As the sweet clo
ver has rescued many a barren spot of land,
so this jj"Sweet Clover" is said to have res
cued the drama from a barrenness of conven
tionality. . "-■'.'. „->', -v." :"- '-■•'- -•
The Nordica sale has been on at the Lyceum
to-day and the take has been unusually large,
all indications pointing to a complete sell-out
for this 'engagement, and those who wish to
secure good seats for Monday evening should
reserve them to-day.
Something unique.. Is the great oak swinging
seat used in.'the first act of "Her Lord and,
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1901.
AFTEKTHE CUIRTAIM gELia
•*• •BY CfcJLIN S • CfcJLXXWS
Copyright, 1901, by A. S. Richardson.
If Bradley Evans had not been so deeply
In love, he would certainly have been angry.
The curtain had just fallen on the Thanks
giving matinee, and the stage' hands were al
ready clearing the stage for the feast which
Manager Evans had ordered for his company.
That astute gentleman had personally su
perintended the preparations and arranged
every detail.
The stage was to be set with a dull oak
Interior, ablaze with electricity overhead, in
the flies and at the footlights, with the front
of the house In darkness to heighten the bril
liancy of the improved dining room. Gor
geous chrysanthemums he had ordered from
New York for the centerpiece, and the menu
was the very best that the leading caterer of
the small New England city could furnish.
Evans had just stepped Into the leading
man's dressing room for the assurance that
his personal appearance was in keeping with
the festal occasion before presenting himself
to the young woman in whose honor the din
ner was being given, Miss Ella Ransom. He
had meant to be careful as to speech before
that dinner, and afterward, when the com
pany was trying to amuse itself until the
evening performance and to forget the folks
gathered round home firesides, -he would have
a. little chat with her. alone in her dressing
room and put the momentous question.
Surely this little act of thoughtfulDess would
pave the way. He knew in a general way that
she was a New England girl and that Thanks
giving day was to such as she the all im
portant festival. The theatrical Instinct in
Evans was so strong that even his own love
story had to be worked up to the proper cli
max. But Miss Ransom with true womanly
contrariety set all his fine plans at naught.
When he entered the star's dressing room
in response to a muffled "Come," instead of
facing a handsomely gowned and smiling girl,
as he had anticipated, he saw a forlorn figure
curled up on the sofa. Miss Ransom still
wore the frock used in the last act, and as
she straightened up she made a futile effort
to hido her grief with a lace trimmed bit of
cambric. All the graceful little speeches
which Evans had been conning for hours
failed him at this critical moment. He forgot,
the flower decked table on the stage and the
actors who by this time must be hurrying
from their dressing rooms to the scene of the
festivities. He knew only that Ella was in
trouble and —he loved her.
"My dear girl, what has happened?"
"Alas for the cleverly worded proposal that
was never to be spoken! The tone, the ges
ture and the love light in his eyes told their
own tale, and Miss Ransom understood. That
Is why a few mjnutes later she was sobbing
out her little heartache in his arms and in
coherently pouring the cause thereof Into
his ear.
"Oh, it was lovely of you, perfectly dear,
to think of this plan for.my Thanksgiving!
But you did not know how close you were
bringing me to-day to my old home. It's just
ten miles from here, Upper Daltcu, and I
haven't seen it for five years."
"Why didn't you tell me this, and instead
of the dinuer we'd have ridden there between
the matinee and night performance?" asked
Evans, gently, smoothing the golden head
resting on his shoulder. It was nature's own
tint. There was something genuine and wo
manly about Ella Ransom. He had recog
nized this from the first.
"Oh, you see, 1 wouldn't—bewelcome
there." The sweet lips quivered again, and
Evans felt in duty bound to do what he
Daily New York Letter
The Boer Concentration Cnmps.
Nov. 28.—Rev. Herman D. Van Br.oeckhuy
sen, a "Boer preacher, in addressing a meeting
of sympathizers here, declared the Boers
would never surrender, and then devoted most
of the remainder of his talk to a description
of the concentration camps. He said:
"There are thirty-four of these camps
along the line of the railroad. They are sur
rounded with barbed wire fences ten feet
"high, and outside of those fences armed Brit
ish .soldiers are on guard. The women and
children sleep on the bare ground, in tents
or open barracks. They are allowed one-half
pound of meat, one-quarter of an ounce of
coffee, two ounces of sugar and a little salt
every day. They are practically living skele
tons.
"In England and Wales the average death
rate is 18 in 1,000. In these camps in South
Africa.the death rate was 264 in 1,000, while
the death rate among the children was 433 in
1,000. Unless some remedy is effected there
will be no children left."
The Institutional Church.
- Rev. Dr. Ralnsford of St. George's church,
writes to the Tribune to deny that there has
been a falling off in the attendance, at the
services of his church, which is one of the
most notable of the free and "Institutional"
churches in this city. There is a slight de
cline In attendance, at the evening services,
but an increase at the morning services. "I
admit, sorrowfully," he says, "that the so
called 'Institutional' church, is not reaching
the people as the people ought to be reached,
but there Is no comparison whatever between
Its success of the old time pew owned church
among the working classes of the poor. I do
not hesitate to say that all who are in touch
with the lives of the plain people in our
cities will support my contention here. Multi
tudes of men, both poor and rich, are falling
away from attendance on all churches, and we
will not fit ourselves to win them back by
ignoring this significant fact. Where we fall,"
he adds, "the blame is not to be placed on
the so-called 'institutional' church. That
method of church life Is only an effort to take
the starch out of organization, and to bring
men who believe In God and each other to
gether."
Sad Fate of Agnet Galambes.
"When he begged me with words of love I
left my employment and went with him. I
don't care now what becomes of me."
These words had been wrung from the lips
of a beautiful girl—little more than a child
In the detention penitentiary at Ellis Island.
Her raven tresses, flashing black eyes and I
olive complexion betrayed her gypsy blood.
According to her own story she is a cousin
of Rigo, the violinist with whom the Princess
Chimay, formerly Clara Ward of Detroit,
eloped.
The girl Is Agnes Galambes of Munkacs,
Hungary. She arrived here on Tuesday on
the Zeeland with Joseph Aros, who, by his
own admission and that of the girl, is a de
faulter from the savings bank of Munkacs
for more than $4,000. Both are waiting to be
returned to their native land when the Zee
land sails next week, for, having surrendered '
the money taken from the bank, the board of
inquiry decided that the.two were liable to
become charges on the public.
Last month the- authorities were asked. to
look out for Aros. John Ordoni, a first-class
passenger, corresponded to the description of
the defaulter, and he and Agnes, who was
traveling as Mrs. Ordoni, were taken to Ellis
island to be examined. . The man could show
no passports. Both suspects, however, stoutly
maintained their innocence, and after being
separated they were allowed a night in which
Master," the new play which Kelcey and
Shannon are to present at the Metropolitan
the last half of next week. This seat hangs
from the celling by chains fastened to invisi
ble beams, the mechanism being the invention
of Stage Manager Charles W. Robinson.
Clyde Pitch's great play-, "Barbara Frlet
chle," at the Bijou this week, Is evidently
pleasing theater goers, judging by the at
tendance. The engagement, of this play the
current week at the Bijou marks Its Initial
presentation in this city, and being produced
at popular, prices by an excellent company
and with the original New York scenic equip
ment, it affords an unusual opportunity to
witness a play , which ran with Buccess one
whole season ln New York city.
It Is said to be a remarkably handsome pro-
could to put a stop to that pathetic expres
sion. Then Miss Ransom continued:
, "I—l ran away to *° on the stage, and
father said he'd never forgive me, whether I
became famous or not, and he always keeps
his word. And, oh, I would like to see
mother when I am so near to her!"
"Never mind, dearest," said Evans "I'll
try to take the place of parents and husband
to you. And now we're making an awful
stage wait."
He bent over for final kiss, and when Ella
removed the make-up she succeeded also In
hiding almost every trace of her recent grief
It was a smiling young woman whom he
finally led to the head of the great table
After all, he decided, as he glanced from one
cheerful face to another, he would announce
their engagement at the close of the dinner
and the company should drink their health)
and it would not be such a bad climax.
But again were the plans of Manager Evans
set at naught. With the salad course came
an urgent summons from the box office. Ev
ans rose with mutterings that did not portend
happily for the sender of the message.
When he came back, however, the expres
sion ou his face had undergone a change.
He was smiling in a nervous fashion. No one
noticed two figures which stopped in the
shadow of the wines.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said Evans Im
pressively, "it gives me pleasure to Introduce
two unexpected but most welcome guests to
this board, the father and mother of our lead
ing lady, Mr. and Mrs. Ransom."
A girlish cry that would have brought tho
house to her feet could Ella Ransom have
given it on the stage, and then she. too, was
in the wings with her mother's arms about
her.
When order had been restored and the feast
had progressed to the coffes, old Mr. Ransom
rose and unflinchingly faced the merry crew.
"I ain't much at speechmaklng, but I want
to Bay right now that I've made a mistake.
My forefathers were of old Puritan stock, and
I cant' get over the idea that the stage in a
bad place,' but I gues there's other business
in the world that's worse. Anyhow, it's no
cause for a father to turn against his child,
and I've lost five good years by keeping up
this ill feeling toward my girl. I want to
thank you for the kind way you've treated
her when she's needed the comfort of mother
and father, and if you're round this neighbor
hood next Thanksgiving come out to th.- farm
and have dinner with us. My wife's a master
hand at making pumpkin pies. I guess that's
about all."
When the daughter and handclapping which
followed this speech had subsided, Manager
Evans took the floor, and in words not half
so eloquent as he had rehearsed in private,
but softened by the happy family reunion, he
announced his engagement to Miss Ransom.
While the members of the company had been
making some pretty shrewd guesses on the
subject, they were properly surprised end
congratulatory, and before Deacon Ransom
realized what had happened he was standing
! with the rest drinking champagne to the
! health cf his daughter and his son-in-law to
i be.
When the great day was over and Manager
I Evans had tucked the robes around Deacon
| and Mrs. Ransom for their homeward ride and
I he had taken a last kiss from Ella's happy
lips, he murmured to himself:
"We'll, the stage business worked out rather
I different from the way I had planned it, but
the climax and the picture were not half bad
I after all."
to think the matter over.
The girl to-day admitted that her compan
ion was Aros. She had been living with him
i for more than a year, she said, he having
j enticed her away from a band in which she
[ was then .playing the cymbal. A child was
born and died.
• "I am a cousin of Rigo, the violinist," said
the girl, "he who eloped with the Princess
Chimay. When I was only a child I played in
his orchestra. 'I played the violin and th©
cymbals. Then Rigo went away and I Joined
another band. It was then I met Aros. It is
i all over now and I am sorry. Send me back
I home."
Then, sobbing violently, the child produced
j from the bosom of her dress $2,000 which she
said Arcs had given her and turned It over
to the immigrant officer. Aros, sullen and
defiant at first, broke down -when told that his
companion had confessed. After admitting his
identity he turned over to the authorities
nearly $2,000 more of the bank's funds.
Aros and Agnes were not taken Into custody.
They will be sent back merely as undesirable
immigrants who are liable to become public
charges.
The More Liberal Sunday.
The agitation for a more liberal Sunday law
Is causing divisions and separations among
people who have formerly worked together.
Here, for instance, Is Bishop Doane of Al
bany, who resigns as chairman of the Church
Temperance Society, because he is unable to
endorse the action of the society In opposing
the Sunday sale of liquor. The bishop
recognizes the two sideness of the question.
He is still as jealous as ever ln guarding
the sacredness of the Lord's day, and still
questions the propriety of giving extra privil
eges to people who sell the most dangerous
article of trade. But he says: "It is to be
conceded (1) that the absolute prohibition of
Sunday sale cannot be put Into execution;
(2) that it leads to underhandedness and the
corruption of the police; (3) that it is really
no protection to the sacredness of the Lord's
day, and (4) that the operation of the Raines
law at present is accompanied with evils more
serious than those which it Is intended to
prevent." The advocates of a more liberal
Sunday law on the part of religious people,
like Bishop Doane, are forced to their posi
tion as the result of a choice of evils. The
present agitation of this difficult question
promises to Involve not a little bitterness and
misunderstanding.
Dr. Barren's Sermons. •
One of the publishing houses is issuing
regularly these days the sermons of Dr. Bur
rell, formerly of Westminster church in Min
neapolis. The sermons are coming out In
book form, have been, in fact for several
years, and they are forming a notable addi
tion to the literature of the American pulpit.
Dr. Burrell Is occupying a foremost place ln
New York. His evening congregations ln the
staid old Reformed church at the corner of
Twenty-ninth and Fifth avenue are larger
than ever beforepacked to the very doors
with standing room only as the usual order.
Dr. Burrell changes but little. He Is older
than when he preached in Minneapolis, but
It is only shown in non-essentials—he Is the
same eloquent, active, powerful man, his
personality, in and out of the pulpit. just as
winning, his forcefulness Just as pronounced,
his like and abiding Interest in the events of
the day Just as marked. One of the most loy
al and devoted members of Dr. Burrell's
church Is President Roosevelt, and whenever
he listens ln strenuous silence to hi* pastor,
he listens to a man who has always been In
the strongest and best sense a . strenuous
straightforward exponent of the best things
of modern American life.
duction which Messrs. Spencer and Abern are
using this season in their revival of the suc
cessful play, "M'llss." The company is re
ported to be one of unusual excellence. It Is
headed by Nellie McHenry, a comedienne who
ranks high in her own line of work. Others
in the cast are H. B. Bradley, Frank Dayton,
Ida Rock, Lottie Burke, F. A. Yelvinfton,
L. J, Lorfng, H. B. Barnum and J. D. Crow
ley. . "Mliss is to be presented at the Bijou
next week. ,
A Political Question. •
Indianapolis Journal.
In spite of Mr. Bryan's criticism of Gov
ernor Durbls for not surrendering Governor
Taylor, It may be doubted if even he would
be . willing to ,be tried for a . political offense
by a jury composed of twelve republicans.