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Jermane. COMPLAINTS S u b s c r i b e r s w i l l p l e a s e n o t i f y t h e Office i n e v e r y c a s e w h e r e t h e i r p a - p e r s a r e n o t D e l i v e r e d P r o m p t l y , o r w h e n t h e c o l l e c t i o n s a r e n o t p r o m p t l y m a d e . CONTINUED All papers a r e continued until a n ex - plicit order is received for discontinuance, and until all arrearages are paid. i* THE DisTRAuaHT OPPOSITION On Friday night the democratic leaders a t Washington will assemble an d make another effort to discover "where they are a t , " an d t o "ge t together" on a cam paign policy. It -will be well for them t o read care fully the tribute paid to the republican ad ministration by President-elect Palma of the Cuban republic, yesterday, an d con t r a s t i t with their ow n reiterated m i s - representations of th e acts and purposes of the republican party touching Cuba. I n accordance with th e honorable program our troops have been ordered to evacuate the island during the next six weeks, and the whole civilized world will marvel, for there is no t a nation on th e earth to - day -which would have similarly spent it s blood and treasure to free a people op pressed, an d spend other millions start ing them i n their new national life under t h e i r ow n flag. Our democratic fellow citizens have been predicting for the last t h r e e years t h a t t h e government intended to keep ou r troops in Cuba an d forcibly annex th e island. Le t t h e m make what they can o u t of the facts. If W a t t e r s o n is to direct the democratic p a r t y policy, judging by his speech on Monday, t h e democrats will make " a n t i - imperialism" their "paramount issue," with t h e Philippines a s a secondary issue. If we a r e to judge by the recent action of t h e democratic house caucus, th e party proposes t o go afield with "sympathy with t h e B o e r s " for the issue. There are symp toms, too, of attempting t o make a n issue out of the republican proposition to have a committee investigate election methods i n t h e states t o gage th e ex er t e n t of illegal disfranchisement, with a view t o securing j u s t representation in congress. Watterson's abuse of the presi dent, a s the promoter of militarism, is a revival of the foolish charges against the late President McKinley. Th e basis of t h i s explosion "was the. general army staff hill i n t h e hands of th e senate military committee, which proposes t o do for th e a r m y what t h e navy h a s h a d for some t i m e an d t o it s advantage in securing effective organization for service. This general staff bill simply m a k es provision for a n advisory military board composed of officers detailed from the army t o study and prepare plans for th e officers wh o give t h e orders. This work cannot be effectively done in the already overworked" adjutant-general's office. Ye t t h e demo c r a t s point t o this eminently advan tageous proposition a s embodying a de - sign t o ride roughshod over the traditions of civil liberty! Leaving this ridiculous bogey t o expire by ,Its ow n limitations, th e "sympathy w i t h - t h e - B o e r s " issue, democratically {proposed, ma y be considered a s fore doomed. N o such issue ca n possibly stand. The sympathy with th e Boers i n t h e i r heroic struggle i s n o t confined t o t h e democratic party. I t is equally a sym p a t hy of t h e republican party, and, a s it was a republican administration which formally addressed th e British govern m e n t with a tender of the services of the United States t o ac t a s intermediary be tween t h e Boers and the British govern ment, i t is evident t h a t the full, possible duty has been done in this m a t t e r by the republican party. Great Britain politely declined th e proffer of ou r good offices, and that government holds exactly th e same position to-day. Our government, it is true, might declare wa r against Great Britain and force a bloody war over the Boers, bu t neither th e president nor congress would take t h a t step. It is t o b e regretted t h a t the democrats choose t o occupy themselves with such petty business a s t h a t referred to. Th e republicans would vastly prefer t o meet 9, foeman, worthy of their steel. Even the (Philippines " i s s u e " is fading before the progress o* t h e military operations, which a r e confined now t o th e suppres sion of sporadic bands of guerrillas, while tongress is preparing a full-fledged civil government t o suit t h e needs of the peo ple who will participate i n it. The United States ha s n o notion of scuttling, out of the archipelago. Many millions of Ameri can capital wait t o go in and develop t h e valuable resources of the islands a s soon as franchises ca n be obtained, an d ou r government will set another example of good faith in keeping it s promises made in December, 1898, t o give t o the Filipinos good government and protection of th e liberties an d property of th e people an d promoting their welfare i n every way. This i t is doing. Meantime the democratic proceedings on Friday night will be of interest, no doubt. Yesterday th e first abandoned lands were certified to the state forestry board as unfit for agricultural purposes an d suitable for forestry administration. The lands are situated in Cook county and the former owners have no t seen fit t o pa y taxes on them. This is but a feeble be ginning for a state forestry system, bu t great things m a y grow ou t of it. - STILL THEY COME Settlers continue t o pour into the n o r t h west in steady streams. Although this is about th e eighth year of th e present wave of migration it promises to give Minnesota and the two Dakotas more set tlers t h a n any previous year. The num ber will doubtless g o above 100,000. I t is a movement which should be of the great est interest t o all . Every inhabitant added to the population of the northwest m a k e s i t more prosperous, makes it s lands more valuable, it s trade richer, it s political' influence more powerful. I t Is certain t h a t within th e present decade the population of Minnesota and t h e t wo Dakotas will be increased by a million people. How much t h a t means appears when i t is recalled that th e combined population of the Dakotas i s considerable less than that number now. The great land companies and individu als who are so largely responsible for the direction of this population movement t o the northwest ar e making good profits out of their foresight, bu t they are doing the states and t h e people more good t h a n they ar e doing themselves. Without in - telligent an d persistent private effort, stimulated by th e prospect of gain, th e vacant lands of. the Dakotas and Minne sota would not now be sought a s they a r e and th e whole region would be backward in it s development. In th e retirement of General Otis th e country loses th e services of a faithful man. H e was, perhaps, the most perfect type in the army of the officer who scrup ulously adheres to the l e t t er of his orders, adopts them a s his own opinions and car ries them ou t t o th e minutest detail. Scrupulous performance of duty, without fear o r favor, ha s distinguished General Otis a t all times. Th e machine soldier is in a sense a faithful slave. A man of more initiative might have succeeded bet ter in dealing with the Filipinos than Otis did. Bu t when he go t hi s orders from Washington, after th e outbreak of Feb. 4, 1899, h e went steadily ahead in th e work of crushing th e insurgents, and probably conducted th e military opera tions which speedily resulted in t h e col lapse of Aguinaldo's army an d govern ment, a s well a s any one else could have done under th e circumstances. A TRADE WORTH CULTIVATING Those St. Paul manufacturers who ar e arranging t o establish a permanent ex hibit of their goods in Winnipeg, largely with the purpose of keeping in touch with t h e large American element that is now pouring into western Canada, a r e wise i n their generation, and their Minneapolis competitors would do well t o take a simi lar step. Th e extent of th e American movement into western Canada is not ap preciated, by ou r .people, neither is it s profound significance understood. Th e following official Canadian figures show how large a part of the total immigration into that section is American an d howmunicipal rapidly it s proportion of the whole move ment i s growing: Year. Total number. Americans. 1896 4,196 4!) 189S 27,857 2,61?, lt-00 37,600 . o,7.*l 1901 44,000 18,000 The official estimate for 1902 is from 35,000 t o 75,000 from th e United States. The former figure is probably .nearer th e truth, but , a t an y rate, this year more people are. going into western Canada from the United States than from any oth country or region. The native Canadian naturally ha s a certain prejudice in favor of Canadian made goods, other things being equal, but this new American population will have a distinct prejudice in favor of American goods. Th e Canadian tariff is no t so high a s t o make i t ou t of th e question for Minneapolis manufacturers and job bers t o go after this trade. On some a r - ticles, i t i s t r u e , the tariff is practically prohibitory, bu t th e success of American manufacturers of agricultural machinery points t h e way for others t o establish, a good trade with t h e new country. THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION - - - The periods of heaviest immigration t o t h i s country from Europe coincide with the periods of ou r prosperity an d with periods of business an d industrial de - pression i n Europe. T h e larger immigra tion of last year, which has continued into the present year, is due t o the depression existing in Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia, chiefly. Th e German immi gration, formerly directed chiefly t o this country, is now going t o a considerable extent t o South America. I t Is said t h a t in southern Brazil there are n o less t h a n 300,000 German settlers and in Argentina there ar e many. The statistics published b y th e Ne w York Journal of Commerce show that, during J a n u a r y an d February, usually months of decreased immigration, there were 15,000 steerage passengers more than during t h e same months last year, t h e movement being largely from Austria Hungary, w i th Russia second an d Ger many an d Italy contributing strongly. New York i s th e e n t r y p o r t of 83 pe r cent of all th e steerage an d third-class passengers, and the record shows t h a t , for the eight m o n t h s o'f th e fiscal year (up to March 1) t h e arrivals there numbered 226,581 a s compared with 195,274 during the corresponding months of t h e previous year. F o r the calendar year 1901, the a r - rivals from all points i n Europe num bered 438,868, a s compared with 403,491 in 1900. Of t h e 1901 arrivals, 120,000 t o 130,- 000 were from Italy and Portugal, chiefly from Italy, however. The present t e rm of our prosperity brought us, Jn 1899, after a t e r m of diminished immigration grow ing out of t h e crisis of 1893, 312,000 immi grants a s compared w i th 229,299 in 1898. In 1900, the total Increased t o 449,000,. and although t h e r e w as a: falling off t o some extent i n 1901, t h e -present year bids fair to approximate in immigration figures to the big year 1891, when the record shows a total of arrivals a t al l ou r ports of 560,319. This was a "boom" period, to be followed in 1893 by th e bitterness of a commercial panic. j There was a time when Americans wel comed all immigrants in sight with great gratification. Even John Chinaman was at first, received with jo y an d se t to building ou r railways. W e have drawn the bars on John while w e are admitting a class of European immigrants who ar e not half a s serviceable to th e country a s he. No other Immigrants unless paupers, insane or notoriously criminal, ar e ex - cluded. We have absorbed millions from abroad and are assimilating them and w e have room- for many more millions an d will still have land for millions more when ou r arid an d semi-arid areas ar e subjected t o irrigation treatment. Th e percentage of Immigrants wh o take naturally t o the land t o extract the wealth from it, is, however, diminishing. A large percentage of them go to the cities and towns for work and contribute to th e urban population congestion. But in this respect we have no t reached th e danger point in this country. There is land for the landless and sure reward for all who choose to settle upon it and work it in - telligently. In referring to the Charter Union's plan of adopting th e present city charter a s a home rule constitution, T h e J o u r - n a l neglected to mention th e important fact that it is intended t o amend it so t h a t municipal elections shall be separate from th e general elections. Th e im the portance of this amendment is plain. I t will make possible and probable th e gradual alteration of th e charter by amendment from time to time, an d i t will tend t o take municipal affairs out of regular party politics, though with no such results in that way, probably, a s could b e hoped for. A GOOD AUTHORITY ON CUBA T h e J o u r n a l attaches much impor tance t o former Senator W . D. W a s h - burn's view of th e business conditions prevailing in Cuba, arrived a t after a personal investigation in the Island. Mr. Washburn thinks that a concession of 50 p er cent in th e duty on Cuban sugar is necessary t o restore prosperity t o t h e sugar industry of that island. H e r e - m a r k s that while we have done much t o improve th e physical and governmental conditions in Cuba during our occupation we have done nothing t o improve t h e economic conditions, betterment in which is dependent upon reciprocity with th e United States. Reciprocity will b e good for both the United States and Cuba, and will injure neither ountry. I t i s most un fortunate that It ha s become a sort of cat's paw for both factions in congress. It is no t broad statesmanship t o keep Cuba ou t of he r du e because a certain narrow statesmanship i s willing t o g r a n t it, o r because certain porcine interests favor i t while opposing all other forms of reciprocity. Cuba may be unfortunate in her friends, bu t w e a r e unable t o see why she should be sacrificed t o spite them. Governor Van Saint should be very care ful t o select the right sort of men for the Minnesota commission a t th e St. Louis exposition. They will have a large amount of money to expend and a very important service to perform. They should be men who will view th e choice of assistants purely in the light of merit. The m a t t e r of th e choice of a superintendent is es - pecially important. Unless disinterested commissioners ar e appointed th e state may no t have th e right man In this- im- portant place. It 3hould profit by past experience. ' - " " 1 T T T T T . . . n i i n i i i J i n n i T r i i l l i l The Nonpareil |Wan i l m n i , m . . . . . . . , T T T T r T ~ . rxTKjriitiil.IMIII C h i l d r e n ' s V e r s e , No. 2The. G i d e o n s G o l m l l n . j h t . It was a Gideous Gobulin! - f * . He tjlimbed the Gumbo Tree, And made the Hideous Faces "''- " At Katherine tn d Me. - . - - He tucked his Mouth behind his ear And pulled his nose awry r . His other ear hung limp and loose v And Katherine sald^ "O, My!" And then he tried to frighten' us " By loudly saying "Boo!" But Katherine bravely looked a t him And sternly said, "O, you!!''* C a s u a l l y O b s e r v e d . The war department wouia like to retire General Miles to a padded cell on .the army ration, did not the democratic party need a hew Moses so badly. Dr. Blxby is making a personally conducted tour of Nebraska and finds much to stand up for. He refuses, however, to stand for thehave celluloid doughnut and India rubber pie atbe the Nebraska hotel. V V "Lobsters I Have Met," by, M. Champney McChampney Bill & McSnorter $1.75. This handbook of society in New York city Is in valuable to all who are nerving themselves to get into our set. . One of the later dime novel heroes is Fred Fearnot. who has run through a series of 167 books meeting with adventures that astound and embarrass the mind. When "the kid" is keeping quiet it is a safe guess that he is following the bloody career of F . F. Chicago boasts a parrot who uses golf language, causing the neighbors to pull down opeu windows. A revivalist who combines religious work with the selling of oil lauds is excitiug the disgust of the Congregationalist published in Boston. Well, anyhow, Pcultney Bigelow has a warm friend in the German emperor. Wheat is down to 70, but a lot of farmers are so prosperous and well fixed this year that they can easily afford to wait until it is in the fifties before selling their last year's crop. MINNESOTA POLITICS W o r k o f F . F i e n d , E s q . , F o i l e d . While grindinz out a poem on the Whang doodle yesterday, this column was brought to pause by a hot yellow fire in the light well next door. Having gone through several fires in the last ten years, nearly every newspaper writer or setter In 'Minneapolis is prepared to drop suddenly and forcibly out of whatever window may present itself and t o stay outside until the Fire Fiend has had its game out. There was the usual racket of talk, type writing machines and boys playing tag yes terday, when a sudden silence all over the building lasting about two seconds, followed by a rapid overturning of chairs and pattering of feet attracted attention. An unattached, uninterested voice said, "There's a fire." That was enough, and everybody moved, some of the boys putting on their cuffs, and others unscrewing their typewriters. A calm and collected genius turned on the iron shutters, hut not before a glimpse into the light well showed a window full of flames roaring like a high-priced tailor over last season's bill. About this time several large, coarse fire men appeared, and with no politics about it whatever ruined the whole event from an art istlo point of view by turning the Mississippi river into the flames, which promptly went out. After that nothing was left but the talking, the six or eight people who had discovered the flames being free to mention that fact, and the parties who had been burned out in the Great Tribune Fire of 1889 easily obtaining en audience when they told how they had escapes by walking a telegraph wire, using a paper file for a balancing pole. Fires look very simple and amusing after they are out, but when they are in, the best place to be is out, and that's where we Init tend to be unless chained down by the man aging editor. . ',,-- A. J.: Russell. A LAWLESS POLICY Nothing bu t th e fixed Indifference of Americans a s _ a whole t o what their governments an d their officials do prevents an outburst of popular wrath at th e lawlessness of Mayor Ames' ne w policy regarding certain groups of vicious women. So far a s this policy i s concerned Mayor Ames is a Minneapolis dictator. H e ha s usurped the functions of th e council an d the legislature, has made a law of his own and intends t o use th e city's police m a - chinery to" enforce it . Aside from th e essential futility and immorality of th e policy the usurpation of power manifested in it s adoption ought t o be enough to arouse the pubic. The ta x th e mayor proposes to levy on these women i s no t for th e public treas ury, an d i t is too much for th e services of the medical inspectors employed. I t i s not levied- under any authorization of law of any kind. On the contrary, i t i s levied by th e implied threat t o enforce law. Summed up, th e mayor's attitude and policy come t o this: Submit to my law, pay the tax I levy, or I will enforce th e public laws to your grief. You are in my power and you know it. A correspondent of T h e J o u r n a l , in a communication published elsewhere, brings this point ou t a t -length. Th e mayor, h e well shows, i s violating law t o enforce hi s own revenue-raising rule. The mayor seems to think t h a t his office makes M m absolute ruler an d autocratic lawmaker of Minneapolis. " I a m mayor and I a m going t o ru n this thing a s I please" is hi s reasoning. Th e chief-of police, taking the cue from h is brother, in telligently and'politely remarks t h a t th e police will handle the m a t t e r without the assistance of a "lot of d d, old women." The Ames wideopen policy is evolving along expected lines. From disregard o law and failure t o enforce it, i t now pro ceeds: t o arrogate to itself the lawmaking function and enforce it by a threat to en force th e disregarded law. T h e J o u r n a l publishes to-day another letter which adds still more m a t ter t o the accumulating evidence against Poultney Bigelow a s a careless slanderer. W h a t John Goodnow may have* done o r been before h e was appointed consul gen eral t o Shanghai, is no t no w i n point. Bigelow attacked him a s consul, an d i n doing s o utterly perverted th e facts. As a consul general there is a n abundance of evidence that Goodnow has" been a n un qualified success. So utterly erroneous w as Bigelow in e v e r y respect that even in the detail of the insult offered t o Good now in t h e English club by his predeces sor, h e totally misrepresented t h e effect of t h e ihciient, which wa s wholly to Goodnow's advantage instead of hi s dis advantage. . A F T E R M A T H He who for love has undergone ~ The worse that can befall Is happier thousand-fold than olie ' Who never loved a t nil. . . " A grape within his soul has reigned ~" Which nothing else can bring. Thank God for all that I have gained By that high suffering! -- liord Houghton. AMUSEMENTS F o y e r Clint.. Marguerite Sylva, supported by Nixon and Zimmerman's big company of comedians and dingers, will give the last 'performance of "Miss Bob White" at the Metropolitan to night. Miss Baphne Pollard, a little 7-year-old comedienne, will play Corporal Lance in "A Galiety Girl" a t the Metropolitan to-morrow night, by the Pollard Juvenile Opera compa ny. From criticisms of this company's per formances in other cities it as gathered that Miss Daphne is a whole show by herself. The enormous success that Viola Allen has achieved during the past three years, first as Glory Quayle in "The Christian" and during the past year as .Dolores de Mendoz-a In "I n the Palace of the King," has been wonderful. Miss Allen's stellar honors have been fairly won. Her appearance here the first half of next week will be' one of the events of the season. Two new songs which Andrew Mack has written for his new play, "Tom Moore," will prove a source of interest to the many admir ers of the sweet-voiced comedian. One of the most promising is a number entitled "Sweet Love," of which great thingns are expected. It will be heard at the Metropolitan for thehas first time the latter part of next week. "Are You a Buffalo?" attracted a large au dience last evening a t the Bijou. Al H. Wilson, the golden-voiced singer, will be the attraction a t the Bijou next week, presenting "The Watch on the Rhine," a ro mantic comedy-drama by Sidney R. Ellis. The play is produced with a full complement of beautiful scenery, showing pictures of fa mous points on the Rhine, the Schloss of. Heidelberg and other places famed in song and story. During the action Mr. Wilson will sing six new songs, each a gem of exquisite melody and sure to become popular. They are entitled "Love Is All in All," "My Little Fraulein," "In Tyrol," "The Tea Kettle Song," "When Parading" and "A Song of Home." The' company fin support of Mr. Wilson is claimed to be above the average and thoroughly capable and satisfactory. T H E L U C K O F A G R E E N H O R N Boston Herald. Down on the Wenham golf course, a few weeks ago, a new member was playing around the links for the first time. It, was really his flrpt serious effort to play golf. He made a pretty good strike-off from an elevated tee across a 'valley to th e top of ia hill about seventy-five yards beyond. Thinking to have a little practice across tho valley, he struck his ball back toward the green beside the tee whence he had previously struck off. The ball sailed gracefully over the hill, and, to his inexpressible surprise, the player heard it go "kerchunk" into the hole on the.jsreen. He had struck a ball seventy-five yards and landed it in the hole. Probably few players ever did such a thing, and this player says he does not expect ever to do It again if he plays golf for a quarter of 'a century. It was "the luck of a greenhorn." S A T I S F A C T O R Y EXCUSES A eirl absent from school for Ixalf.u day brought the following satisfactory excuse: '''Miss teecherMy dotter's absents yesterdey was unavoidable. Her shoes had to be half soled and she had a sore throte. Her konsti tushun is dellklt and if she i s absent any more you can knew that it is en acount o'f unavodabel sickness or something else." A boy absent for half a day laid the following explanation on his master's desk: "Dear sir, please excuse Henry. He went to grandpapa's funeral with ine this forenoon. I have been promising him for several weeks' that he might if he was good, and he has been very good, so I kept'my word." D I S A P P O I N T E D Baltimore Sun. A little girl had a quarrel a t school with a little Jewish *lrl and, when she got home, she denounced the Jews. Her mother said, reprovingly: "My.dear, you must not talk in that way. The Jews were God's chosen peo ple. Our Jjord himself was a Jew." After a moment's deep thought the child replied, in a tone of horror and rezret: "Oh, mama. I didn't know that. I'm so sorryr I always thought he was a n Episcopalian." * John Lind does not want to run for gov ernor. Three campaigns and two years in office have satisfied him. - - He is willing to run for congress from the fifth .district, and if he can have his way, as he usually does, that is the position he will occupy on the democratic ticket this fall. This has been surmised a good many times since Mr. Lind's removal to Minneapolis. The report was giveti currency in this column months, ago. It is no longer guesswork, how ever. Though the ex-governor has/ preserved the silence of a Sphinx, and has taken great care to guard his intentions from public knowledge there are several little leaks through which the information has( come to waiting ears. Tho governorship has no charms for Mr.him Lind. He ran for a second term in 1900 against his wishes and judgment, and though, once in the campaign, he fought hard to win, and was disappointed at the result, he wasfound rejoiced to be relieved from the cares of theweight office. It wae not the office that he cared for, but the honor of a political triumph. The only thing that could induce him to enter the contest this fall would be to wipe out the bitter defeat of two years ago. As events shaped themselves, however, it would hard work for a man of 'Mr. Lind's princi ples to make a campaign against Van Sant. The present governor's bid for popular sup port is his hostile attitude toward railway combination. The candidate against him would be known as the merger candidate, whether justly or not. He would have the support of the railway interests, and, while this is not to be despised, it is also a handi cap with a great share of the voters. Even should he win, there would be no new honor in it for Governor Lind. It would mean a six months' campaign and two years in office to the entire neglect of his private business. A congressional career is particularly tempting just now. Mr. Lind is said to be persuaded that if he runs in this district he can be- elected. This, too, with only a seven weeks' campaign, practically confined to the city of Minneapolis. Once in congress, his ability and prestige, added to his former ex perience at the capital,' would make him at once a leader of the democratic minority. In all probability he would be the most com manding figure on the democratic side of the house, and would have inflitely better oppor tunities to take the lead on national ques tions than in the governor's chair. A con gressional career would put him in line for his ambition's goal, the United States senate. The ex-governor is known to have a particu lar desire to measure swords with Senator Knute Nelson, and if the political wheel of fortune should so turn by 1907 as to give the democrats a chance' at the Minnesota legisla ture, Mr. Lind would be the standard bearer in the fight against Senator Nelson's're-elec- tion. No better news than, this could "he brought to Minnesota republicansoutside Hennepin county. They confidently feel that with Lind off the state ticket, success will be easy. The governorship, however, is not entirely ban ished from his mind. His final decision will depend on the way the republican state con vention conducts itself. A bitter struggle for the governorship would mean party dissension and democratic opportunity, and In sUch a case Mr. Lind might be prevailed on to con sider his candidacy a duty. It is currently reported that he prefers to run against Van Sant. This is natural, a s If he runs he pre fers to beat the man who defeated him in 1900. However, if Van Sant is renominated by ac clamation, as seems probable, and the party rallies around him for re-election, it will be rather a slim prospect for the democracy. Mr. Lind's best friends say that in such a case they would not fejl like urging him to accept a fourth nomination. ' L. A. Rosing, private secretary to Governor Lind, is willing to be his he'ir apparent. While democratic leaders are still talking Lln.I for governor, Rosing's name has been mentioned in some quarters, and1 apparently it is not distasteful to the ch?irman of the state committee. The populist attitude toward fusion does not please the democracy, at least that portion of that has profited by union with the popu list' forces. X. P. Olson, former assistant labor commissioner, says in the Anoka Free Press: We are in receipt of an advance sheet of "populist address" issued by State Chairman Victor E. Lawson, by direction of the state committee. Its sole purpose seems to be to advise populists to stand aloof from democ racyto avoid fusion. This means that, in the eyes of our populist friends, the mainte nance of a third party name and organiza tion is of more importance than the bringing about of political reforms, which everybody knows cannot be accomplished without the combining of all the reform forces. Captain C. C. Whitney has some interest ing gossip in his latest letter to the' Marshall News-Messenger. He predicts the nomination of Van Sant and says that his opponents have as motives "diEsapointments in securing fdr themselves or their friends official positions, or have a kindly feeling for, or an unwar ranted fear of, corporate influence." This he believes, is chiefly confined to'the three large cities, and the country is almost -iolid for the governor, including mauy democrats and populists. State Auditor Dunn, he says, is slated for the governorship, two years hence. His rewheels lations with Governor Van Sant are amicable, and there is a cordial understanding between them. "Mr. Dunn asserts that the governor's administration has been meritorious, that he has been honest, zealous and courageous in sejtvlng and promoting the welfare of the state and the people, and that he merits and will receive the nomination, and will be elected to succeed himself. All this he em phatically avers, though admitting that he not been In full accord with some of tho governor's views." This Is authoritative, as Captain Whitney is in a position to speak for the state auditor. He is dependent on that official, and not on the governor, for his official position. Captain Whitney also gives currency to the report that L. A. Rosing will be the democratic candidate for governor. Senator Lowell E. Jepson has 'filed his certificate of candidacy for renomination, be ing the first formal entry into the senatorial field in Hennepin county. His chances In' the forty-fourth district are regarded as the best. The only opponent for the nomination is Frank S. Lane. Now that the boundary lines have been changed, the district is believed to tbe safely republican. Reports from the Todd, Wadena and Hub bard district Indicate that a rival combina tion is after the scalps, of-Senator Jones and Representatives Babcock and O'Neil. Colonel E. B. Wood of Long Prairie is the candi date for this combination for the senate, while Colonel G. A. Whitney of Wadena and Edconviction Hines of Park' Rapids have joined forces as candidates for the house. Senator Jones may not desire a, renomination'owing to ill health. The Gary Graphic says: In view of the fact that all other candidates seem willing to-drop out if Senator Myran is still in the race, it is about time for Ole to put us wise as to his intentions. The great mental strain on the other "probabili ties" must be enervating in the extreme. Senator Myran, much to the regret of his friends, persists in his refusal to be a can? dldate. Owing t o the state ot his health he cannot remain in this climate winters. He is understood, to be favorable to Dr. Watson of Red Lake Falls for the senate. The Willmar Republican Gazette says: . S t a t e Senator Miller, of Luverne, has many friends who would like to see him named as the republican candidate to succeed Governor Smith, .who Is not a candidate for re-election, It is said. - The senator is a brainy man, and as honest as the day, and enjoys an en viable reputation as a friend of the people. t They say the second district is going to support Colonel Everett of Fairmont for clerk of the supreme court. All that Is said of Senator Miller is true, but, he.-Is..not a candidate. - - t , . Congressman Eddy's absence In Europe Is worrying his constituents. The Ortonvllle Herald-Star observes: The rumor .that Congressman Eddy had mysteriously disappeared from Washington has been run down, arid It appears that Mr.' Eddy is now in Norway In the interest of some colonization scheme. He was granted a thirty days' leave of absence, and has now had this leave extended to sixty days. This is on the word of the veracious newspaper correspondent, bu t Mr. Eddy's constltvents will want some further evidence before bey -will consent to believe that he would aba do his'duties in the midst of an important and busy session of congress and absent himself for two months in looking after private af fairs. - Mr. Bryan iflf presidentof the Tillage coun cil a t Two Harbors ' C. B. C. JOE HARPER'S WILL **. 4* *..- -j By JOHN HAMBLIN . a Copyright, 1902, by the S. S. McClure Com pany. Joe Harper was ah old bachelor. He owned and worked a little farm aud kept house for himself, and he had little desire for the com pany of others. It was said of him that ho never was known to laugh, and anything in the way of a Joke flung at him as he plodded his way to town or back home again was ut terly thrown away. Of course everybody held up to contempt or ridicule. He had been living thus for ten years when, one day, in a hollow tree on his own farm he a great heap of money. There was such that he had to borrow a neighbor's horse and wagon to convey it to the bank in the town. He tried to be very secret about it, but the matter became the gossip of the county. Neither Joe nor the banker would tell what the sum was, but people who took a look at the hollow three estimated it at $30,000. Those who didn't take a look placed the figpres at $75,000 and also added a lot of jewelry to the find. It was passing strange what a change took place in public opinion. The old bachelor had callers by the ecore, and each caller warmiy "THERE WAS SUCH WEIGHT THAT H E HAD TO BORROW A NEIGHBOR'S HORSE AND WAGON." congratulated him. Instead of being guyed by the passers-by, as he worked in his fields, men climbed the fences to shake hands with him and invite him to ma"ke investments. In the years past even the homeliest old maids had declared that they would drown themselves sooner than,marry such a "poke" of a man. Things were different now. At least half a dozen old maids and three or four widows began sending in custard pies and jellies and currant wine and giving their opinion that Mr. Joseph Harper would show off. with the best of them if he only had a wife to give him hints and suggestions. Joe did not come out of his shell very far, but it was afterward remembered by a good many that he had something like a twinkle in his eye as he shook hands with his numerous well-wishers. Unknown to any one but his doctor, Joseph Harper had a weak heart,'and one day he overexerted himself and died at his own door. So far as was known he had not spent a dol lar of ihis find, and as he had no relatives, there was much curiosity as to whether he had made a will or not, and who would come in for his money. A village lawyer soon gratified curiosity a s to a will.. One hadman been made only six- months before the oldothers bachelor's death. More than that, it con cerned a score of people, each one of whom was notified to appear on the day of the funeral and hear the document read. Daily New York Letter H e r H a i r t ' n t b y a. C a r . March 26.Bertha Schilling, 12 years of age, of 49-0 Courtlandt avenue, had an odd experi ence Sunday when she was knocked down by a car and had her hair cut off almost as clean aa if by a pair of scissors. She was crossing Third avenue behind a south-bound car when a north-bound car confronted her. She stepped back to let it pass, but the side of the fender caught iher and threw her heavily to the ground. In falling, her long hair fell across the rail, although her head and body were out of danger. The forward passed over the hair, cutting it off close to the scalp. Part of the scalp was pulled off. The accident was witnessed by a large number of persons, many of whom supposed IJie girl was killed. After the car passed by, a dozen men rushed to her assistance and raised her up. The girl smiled, but burst into tears when she realized that she hadtically lost her hair, of which she was very proud. The severed curls were gathered up and handed to her. With them tucked securely under her arm, she ran home to tell her mother. P r e - E l e c t i b n P r o m i s e s . Despite pre-election promises of reform and prevention of blackmail, the street-cleaning department is as corrupt as ever, according to a statement made by a committee of the Drivers and White Wings' union. It was as serted that not less than $2,500 a week Is col lected by foremen and their agents, the em ployes referred to paying $1 each in order to be sure of retaining their positions. The members ot the committee criticized Commis sioner Woodbury for retaining many Tam many subordinates, who, they asserted, had been bold and more grasping in blackmail ing the men since Woodbury assumed office than they ever were under Mr.. Nagle. Back ing up the statements made by the committee are letters and affidavits of many men em ployed as sweepers ajid drivers. Acting in dependently of the committee, District At torney Jerome has been at work gathering material which he hopes will result in the of a large number of officials. X e w D e v i c e s f o r t l i e A s t o r . Work upon the Hotel Astor, which will oc cupy an entire block, and which will repre sent an outlay of $5,000,000, has begun. When completed, the hotel will take rank as one of the most Imposing structures of the city. The building will be ten stories above the sidewalk and two below. Brand new devices will figure in almost every department of the great hotel. One of them will be an auto matic dish-remover. Waiters at the Hotel Astor will waste no time In carrying dishes from the tables. They will simply transfer the dishes from the tables to the "remover" and, presto! the soiled china wirt be-whisked, automatically to the washing-room. The ho tel will be absolutely fireproof, bu t In every room there will be automatic fire alarm. Mr. V a n d e r b l l t * R P i c t u r e s . It is expected an unusually attractive fea ture of the spring opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, early in May,.will be an ex hibition of the collection of paintings owned by the late William H. Vanderbilt and now at the home of George W. Vanderbilt, Flfty fiist street and F4fth avenue. It Is said the ralntings will be loaned to the museum for a year during the absence of George W. Van derbilt, who, with his wife, sailed to-day on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. There are aeveral hundred pictures in this famous col lection, and it has never been publicly ex hibited. A n I n s o l v e n t C o m p a n y . ' '). Attorney General Davles has brought a suit to wind up as insolvent the German American Real Estate Title Guarantee com pany of 175 Broadway, and Justice Gilder sleeve has appointed John Henry Hammond temporary receiver. The state Insurance de partment, which recently made an inyestl-. gatlon of the affairs of the company, reported thst its capital of $500,000 had been impaired $403,448, or 81.96 per cent within a year. The "WHEAT E L E V A T O R S Castles, o r Titans' houses, or huge fanes Of ancient gods that yet compel men's fear What powers, what pomps, do these betoken - here, Looming aloft upon the plow-seamed plains? Souls of ripe'seasons and spirits of sweet rains Flock hither: and the sinewy, yellow year Heaps their high chambers with Pactolian gear More precious than those golden Lydian grains. No fortresses, nor Semigods' abodes. These are uprai. & to well-feared deities Whose will Is Iron, and whose Bplendld sway Is undisputed now. as when great Rhodes, And.Tyre, and Carthage, flourished serving these. Or Joseph stored Egyptian corn away. , Arthur Upson. - The excitement was Intense, and more peo ple turned out to pay a last, tribute of re spect to Joseph Harper than had ever fol lowed another citizen of the county.- While the house was crowded full after the buriAl at least 200 people who could not get In stood about the yard to learn tbe contents of the will. The first person mentioned in the docu ment was an old maid. Before the find of the treasure she had been In the t/habit of mimicking'the walk of'th'e'bld'Bachelor and had made a great hit. "Miss Lucy Arnold," read the document, "Is to walk twice across the floor and imitate my gait as closely a s possible. She Is then to- be allowed to take a double handful of coins out of the box as a token of my esteem!" It took Lucy five minutes to work up her nerve for the performance,' but she figured that double double. handful of coins would be at least $500, and she went ahead. The next legatee was William Johnson, a farmer's son, who was required to laugh i n a hearty manner for the privilege of takipg one handful of coins. He had always bepn asking old Joe why he didn't laugh. It was a pretty hard job for him to get up a haw! haw! on this occasion, but he finally accom plished It and made a mighty one handed grab. Then the document mentioned Mrs. Scott, wife of Peter Scctt, who was in the habit of puckering up her mouth in a curious way when saying it was the way Joe did when he tried to whistle "Auld Lang Syne." She was to stand up and pucker her mouth for two -minutest by the clock and was then to be awarded with a pint basin full of coins. She hung off, about it for awhile, but her hus band braced her up, and she earned hier coins and got her mouth back to its usual shape again. Then came the turn of Miss Hattie Davis, another old maid. The old bachelor was deaf In the left ear, and he had a rather curious way of jerking up his left hand when spoken to. Miss Davis was in the habit of imitat ing this movement. They will read that she was to stand up and then go through the motion twenty times, and she--was. to be re warded with a!! the coins she could grab with both hands. But for her mother being pres ent to tell her that two big handfuls of money would doubtless bring a suitor for her hand Miss Hattie might have not reaped under the will. A few months before discovering the treas ure Joseph Harper had suffered for several weeks with rheumatism in the hip and had been compelled to drag his right leg as he walked. Young Aaron Geernwood, who was the smart Alec of the neighborhood, had given imitations of the limp for the delecta tion of the neighbors. The will read that he was to limp ten rods and back after "th e Harper style" and would then be allowed to fill one trousers pocket with coins from the box. The young man went through the per formance, but none of the spectators was con vulsed with laughter. There were twenty-two legatees under tho will, and twenty-one of them had to go through some performance in order to inherit. In each and every case the bachelor got even and a little more, though lying in his grave. The twenty-second and last person to be mentioned was the wife of a farmer living five miles away. It appeared that she had once called Joseph in as he was plodding by in a storm and had fed and warmed him. To her was left all his real- estate and per sonal property, amounting to a matter of $6,000, and she was charged to congratulate all the others on what they had received. This charge was never fulfilled. She had not yet risen to carry it out when the TOW began. Joseph Harper had found a box of coins in a hollow tree, but they were bogus quarters and halves and dollars and hidden away by some gang of counterfeiters years before. He had made use of the find to square up old scores. Of course the "legatees" were boiling over with indignation, and of course the "out siders" were tickled to death, and the row did not cease until* doors were unhinged, windows smashed adn fences leveled. There are some still living who speak of the dead with a show of respect, but there are who never hear his name mentioned without exclaiming: . ~ "What! Joe Harper! Why, he was the meanest man who ever died in this whole state!" last annual report of the company put the assets at $1,866,000 and the liabilities a t $1,371,- 000. Since.this annual report the item of borrowed money has been liquidated by a transfer of all t h e equities in real estate owned In fee to the, creditor advancing the moneys represented by the item. This credi tor Is Russell Sage. K u b e l i k S a i l s f o r E n g l a n d . Jan Kubelik ha s galled for England on the Kaiser Wilhelm dier Grosse and will ap pear in London soon after his rrrival there. He will return afterward to Prague to seo his mother. The American season of the youthful violinist -anight have been extended but he was anxious .to keep his London engagements and Mr. Froiiman agreed to give up the concerts contemplated here. No ar rangements have as yet been made for Kute lik's return to this country, but it Is prac settled that he will come back and spend the greater part of next winter here. " A R a k e - O f f " o f f 1 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . The suit of John H. ParKs against John W. Gates for a share in Gates' profits le sultlng from the organisation of the Ameri can Steel and Wire company of Illinois and New Jersey has reached the arguments of counsel before Justice Traux In the supreme court. Counsel for Parks, Austin O. Fox. sRid tlfnt he bad Intended to introluce testimony from William Nelson Cromwell but that -. Mr. Cromwell was busy in Washington and his testimony would probably be ruled out any way. He therefore intended to ask for an interlocutory decree and that under such decree he would seek to introduce tbe evi dence of Mr. Straus of Seiigman & Co., and others, who would tell how much of the profits of the ste-il and wire deal wt s de vided among the promoters. Mr. Guthrie, after slight objections, eald that he would let the request for an inter locutory decree go without objection. He in timated that he did not see how Parks could get any sort of a decree. Mr. Gutherle said that it was absurd to contend that because Mr. Gates and Mr. Parks had once been partners in an enter prise which had resulted in no "promoters profits," Mr. Parks should all through the rest of Mr. Gates' life have a right to claim a share in every profitable investment which Mr. Gates made. He asked for a dismissal of tho complaint with costs. Austin Fox, attorney for Mi. Parks, said that be was satisfied thai thrr had beer, a rakeoff of $11,0000.000 somewhere and that no small part of It had been turned over to the friends and associates of John W. Gates as the share of the GaNia' crown in the prc anoters" profits. Mr. Fox read a numt-er of messages passing between Gates apd Parks and held, that thev showed that Parks was understood to be working all the time in Gates' Interest. , Justice Truax took the papers. si- \ .