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'"* '"*-' j-Vjj- -^)} n -^-- -W-CIVJI- w - m v'Ty",,fV-i j ff?*T " ^7 Vt!"% "-V"^"1*'."'-'S*J ''^J^: THE JOURNAL LUCIAN SWIFT, M A N A G E R . U" - - J. S. McLAlN, EDITOR. ass- ^ SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Payable to The Journal Printing Co. Delh erea by Mall. One copy, one month $0 85 One copy, three months 1-00 One copy, si i months 2 00 One copy, one year 4.00 Saturday Eve. edition, 20 to 26 pages. 1.50 Delivered by Carrier. One copy, one week 8 cents One cppy, one month 35 cents Single copy 2 cents THE MINNEAPOLIS s JOUBSTAE. U S * j FRIDAY EVEMNG, IHI HI |i uiinrt'Miij^n,jmimpniiii'j|iy,|||g| tji ^ -U* yjmmmiu^4 i). ft ., .-^ - $ M. Justersnd^ the New French Ambaiiador to the United Spates Jean Orlen Antoine Jules Jusserand is all there is of the name of the Frenchman who is to succeed Jules Cambon as French ambassador to the United States. He has many qual- ifications for the place, Includingwhich is getting to be es- sential in ministers and ambassadors to the United States an American wife. Mf. Herbert, the lately'appointed British ambassador, has a British wife, and M. Jusserand, -with Ms American wife, nee Miss Richards, win have just as much "pull" at Washington as Mr. Herbert. M. Jusserand speaks English fluently and has written a number* of books on Eng- lish, subjects. His "La Vie Nomade et les Routes d'Angleterre au XIV Slecle" was "crowned" by the French academy. He is. besides b#ing ^distinguished man of letters, a devotee of out* door sports arid has been prominently associated with the moveraent-for their'development in France, * - At present M. Jusserand is the French'mihlstSr at Copen- hagen. - He is "in hie 4t|th,yeaT and has'teee^ ixr the public^ servipe of Fijag.ce ""since 1$7$, when he' Wjls attached to the French. cansiflateSn Londoiu He has since-.heldi'a mi-naber of offices, including the counsellorship of the French embassy in London, to which h& was appointed in 1S67. He was deco- rated with the cross of the Legion of Honor in and was pro- moted to be an officer in 1892. He has been stationed at Copenhagen since February, 1899, No FLOUR TRUST The Minneapolis Journal has a gcreat deal to say about the trusts that have their headquarters in New Jersey, but has any one heard it so much as peep about the Minneapolis flour trust?War- renJRegistef. What is the flour trust? Did you ever see it or -see ^any evidence of its exist ence? Or do you infer that there must be such a trust from the fact that the cash sales of wheat in Minneapolis, the Wheat bought by the millers, are at prices 2 or 3 cents higher than" the mar ket speculative price?Minneapolis Jour nal. On the market page of the same issue of The Journal that contained the fore going we find the following quotations: Minneapolis, first patents, $3.90 to $4. New York, Minnesota patents, $3.85 to $4. The schedule freight on flour from Min neapolis to New York is 2% cents a hun dred pounds, or 67 ecnts a barrel. Under ordinary conditions, the price of a product at terminal markets is the price at point pf production, plus the cost of transportation. If, therefore, the New York market makes the price, the price of Minnesota patents here, under normal conditions, would be about $3 23 to $3.33 Will The Journal kindly explain why the price Of flour is the same to consumers l living in the shadow of the mills in Min neapolis that it is to those 2.000 miles away, if there be no understanding, com bination or other arrangement among the makers of flour to make the home price that of the terminal market? If it is not la trust, it works mightily like one.St. Paul Dispatch. In the first place, the price of flour is pot the same to consumers in the shadow of the mills of Minneapolis as it is 2,000 miles away. Minneapolis first patents at $8.90 to $4 in Minneapolis is a very dif- ferent proposition from Minnesota pat- ents at $3.85 to $4 in New York, because Minnesota, patents does not mean first patents at all. The quotation on Min nesota patents In the Associated Press re 'port from New York is simply an aver- age of cash sales on all northwestern flour, and reported simply to Indicate the average price and the tendency of the market. Minnesota patents are not nec- essarily Minneapolis flours. They may come from any part of the northwestern spring wheat district, and represent the average flour of al lgrades. Minneapolis first patents usually range in New York (torn 30 to 60 or 70 cents above the Min- nesota patents there. When the Minne- apolis mills sell first patents in New York the price is made daily by wire, and when first patents range from $3.85 to $3 95 In Minneapolis, the same flour is sold in New York at from $4 25 to $4 55. Minne- i sota patents at the same time are re- ported at from $3.80 to $4 in New York. This^ answers the question of the Dis- patch because it shows that the wholesale prices in New York are in proportion to the retail prices in Minneapolis, freight included, on the same grade of goods. Another evidence that there is no flour trust is the fact that one of the big Min- neapolis milling companies recently suc- ceeded in getting hold of practically all the old wheat, although its competitors require old wheat in their business, and are-to that extent placed at a disadvan- tage temporarily in the trade competi- tion which exists, and which is as lively between them as it is between any other rival establishments in this city engaged In the same line of business. If there was a trust there would have been no object in one company mouopolizing the old wheat supply. Furthermore, if there is a flour trust Why do the millers spend as much money as they do annually in advertising their particular brands and competing in this way with each other? Contrary to the conclusion of our con- temporary flpwn the river, the flour busi- ness doesn't work like a trust at all. their own living and follow their own ways in the hills. The work that had been- done by draught animals, the men, and even the women, took upon themselves. Plows are drawn by from twelve to fourteen men,, men drag wagons loaded with produce to town. The poor people live on bread and water and such wild fruits and roots as they can gather. They will not even wear leather shoes, but make their foot-covering of binding twine. Their farms are neglected and their fine cattle will not survive the cold and storms of the coming winter. Realizing that tho climate of Canada is not adapted to their mode of life they wish to move and are looking for a loca- tion In the United States, but nobody wants them. This wretched failure of what was once thought a promising colonization scheme shows the dangers to which countries that are making special efforts to encourage immigration are subject. The wiser polioy is to be content with Immigration worit among only desirable people, as a few of them are worth many of the others. Can- ada is already realizing that the real prob- lem in immigration is to keep out rather than get in. It has become tired of taking people the United States rejects and is about to discriminate as carefully as we do as to the personal 'fitness of immi- grants. The office of judge of election is one of the most important in our political sys- tem, whether at the primary as now con- ducted or at the regular election. The chances for the election frauds are mul tiplied by the primary system and hence the necessity for special care on the part of every honest Judge and cleric to see that the work is done honestly. Several candidates, whether with reason or not we cannot say, complained that they were counted out at the last primary either through fraud or incompetence. The pen- alties for frauds committed by flectio n judges and clerks are not too severe. THE STATE FAIR for the policy that might be* pursued by the Inhabitants of the islands." This is interesting. It is certainly not ^a master of record that the antl-imperiai- Ists, either collectively or individually, "be- sought and advised the lnsurrectos to sur- render and lay down their arms. Their resolutions and manifestos throughout, {he war were stimulative of hostility to the United States ion the part of the lnsur- rectos. Whether Mr. Boutwell desired or not, that the anti-imperialists should be responsible, by advice or otherwise, for aiding and giving comfort to the Filipinos in arms against the United States, they did incur responsibility for their utter- ances which gave the lnsurrectos false liopes. Utterances of Atkinson and others were reproduced in the Philippines and circulated among the natives to lead them to believe that they had the earnest sup- port of a powerful element in the United States. The Filipinos perfectly under- stood that there was an organization in this country opposing our government's every act in putting down the Insurrec- tion. It held, as Mr. Boutwell intimates, that we had no right to be in the islands and we should, without delay, abandon the attempt to remain there. That of itself was directly construable by the na- tives as rather strong prodding to "drive the Americans into the sea." The anti- imperialists, so-called, are talking the same way to-day, whatever Mr. Boutwell may say about It. Only last Thursday at Ashfield, Mass., at a meeting presided over by Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard university, and attended by many antl-ixnperlalists, iiouis Ehrleh. a promi- nent Colorado anti-imperialist, in the course of his remarks, said: "When, in a few decades, the story of our times shall be impartially set down, the historian, In the characterization of our late lamented president, will tell ct his kindly, sunny dispositionof his ca pacity in winning and holding friends, of his sweetness and devotion in the do mestic relations, of his having died like a hero and then, unfortunately, he will be constrained to add that the foulest stain on the pages of our history was his signature of the 'benevolent assimilation' proclamation of December, 1898. That document deliberately proclaimed to the Filipinos: 'We have bought you and We shall impose our sovereignty upon you American United Fruit company and the American market. Now the United Fruit company has gobbled the company that was exporting to England and the Ja- maicans and English find themselves put- ting up $120,000 a year to help an Ameri- can trust get Its-goods to market. Since they are practically, owned and supported by an American trust the Jamaicans nat- urally conclude tha^4fcey might as well enter the American union. Claus Spreckles will start a sugar re-' finery in Canada. The Canadian tariff is getting to be merely an arrangement by which one set of American capitalists can work Canadian trade more advantageous- ly than the others. The .Canadians seem, to be up against the necessity of buying American goods made in Canada or Amer- ican goods made in the United States. The Canadian can take his choice and the American capitalist takes the profits. The Journal's State Fair and In . . , * * . i ^ 4., + *., in .ff^ivoiv' * you resist we will shoot you down.' dustrlal edition to-day will effectively / , . _ _ _ , - * - , The existing situation on the republican side ought to be worth a good deal to the democrats as an indication of the wise course for them to pursue with respect to the mayoralty. It remains to be seen whether they have the political sense to take advantage of it. THE CRAZY DOUKHOBORS - Before the Americans discovered Can- ada, which was about A. D., 1900, the citizen?, or rather, subjects, of that epun- try were greatly disturbed because of their fewness. When Sir Wilfrid Laur- ler came into power in 1897 he made haste to increase the number of his. people. He didn't care much about the quality, what he wanted was numbers. So there were brought to Manitoba from Russian perse- cution 5,000 Doukhobors, fanatical re- ligionists of a distorted Mennonite or Quaker type. Since settling in Manitoba they have become even more fanatical than when they arrived. Their religious dementia, for such it is, has reached such a stage now that they are a great annoyance as well as concern to their neighbors. Can- ada would probably pay twjce as much to get rid of them as it paid five years ago i j g e t t n e m . The influx of better settlers 'lined Americans found out the good of western Canada makes a few thousand settlers of an inferior type of no value to the country. It was known when the Doukhobors came that they were opposed' to military service and it was promised that such service woVld not be required of them. Since, landing in Manitoba they have be- come vegetarians. Nobody objected to that, but the outgrowths of their vegetar- ianism are fantastic. From refusing to kill any animal or use animal flesh for food they passed on to the rejection of all animal products, not only for food but for clothing, and then to the conclusion that man has no right to exercise dominion over any of God's creatures. fcThereupon they relieved animals of burden, horses and oxen, of their labors and freed them serve to call attention to the prosperity of Minneapolis and the northwest and the magnitude and excellence of the state fair, which will be the Mecca of the peo- ple of Minnesota next week. The state fair has become a remarkable institution. In years of prosperity and years of stringency it has steadily moved forward to better things. We think it is safe to say that there -has been no year for seven or eight when it could not be said of the latest fair that it was the best of all. This advance has been sym- metrical. It has not been confined to one of the many elements that are required to make up a successful state fair. As a week of amusement and diversion the fair of next week will be better than ever. As a display of the Immense, varied "and remarkably excellent agricultural products of Minnesota it is without a peer among its predecessors. The exhibitions of fine live stock will be the largest and best in the history of the institution. The as- semblage of the products of manufacture will be by far the most satisfactory we have ever had. Of late years the fair management has more than ever endeavored to make the fair instructive and helpful to the people of Minnesota. Take, for example, the demonstration of good roads making, which Is to continue throughout the week, and the good roads convention which is to Inaugurate the demonstration. There is scarcely any one thing the rural districts of Minnesota need more than good roads. What greater work, then, can the state fair do than to teach the people how to make good roads? Take the cattle ex- hibits. The special attention given to them and the special efforts made to interest the breeders' associations, are resulting in great good to Minnesota.- They are giving us a better grade of live stock and they have attracted the attention of stock- men to Minnesota as a state that pro- vides suitable environment and conditions for cattle raising. The social aspect of the fair is not its least. It has come to pass that the Min- nesota State Fair is a great annual con- vention of the people of Minnesota, west- era Wisconsin, northern Iowa, the two Dakotas and even of Manitoba. Friends meet again, families are reunited, new acquaintances are made, city people meet country people, new purposes are born of contact with others, people are broadened, educated and uplifted. Thank God. they resistedt It was by such hysterical fealty to the cause of the lnsurrectos that the latter came to regard the so-called anti-imper- ialists as their devoted friends. They were stimulated to resist the United States government by these appeals from this country" to resist. They had the prayers and blessings of Boutwell, Atkin- son and all the other American sympa- thizers with the Filipino revolt. Porto Rico, among the other West Indian islands, may be compared to a lit- tle colored boy with a melon, surrounded by a group of his fellows without meldhs. Porto Rico's melon is American pros- perity. The European papers don't like Presi- dent Roosevelt's talk about the Monroe doctrine. Well, President Roosevelt is in a much better position to talk about it than President Cleveland was to- en- force it. The American navy is No. 3 in the list of the world's navies 4o-day. Only France and Great Britain haye more powerful navies. ' The Western Union Telegraph company has decided to dispense)with boy messen- gers in Chicago and replace them with girls. Thus goes the tough "kid" with his "Say, fellow, Is dis here fer you," de- part. But maybe Chicago -will get -what is worse, the tough little girl, instead. To ride one horse eighty-two miles In something over six hours is an impressive demonstration of what horse nature will stand, but it is horr||le cruelty to kill horses in that way. ! . . i i m i i - " - ' i i m m m y M The Nonpareil Man Casually Observed. Thg- church attendance" figures of the Chicago Record Herald show that woman is only 2 per cent more spiritual than man. Is this the resulgpf bargain Fridays and "special drives-^** A - - The potato which *$fasyIn$reality the. crime of 1901 is d^ipA'Tr v e w * ln PrlP* this year. J ?, i '^J' / Fears are expressed in the navy de partment that Adn^lffKjrowninshield will be half way up the* Allegheny mountains before discovering the proximity of the continent. The new electric three-rail line from Chicago to Elgin is by its ,own power welded to the rails and cannot leave the tr&ck, ,"The suburban, cow should take no tice and get herself Welded to the pas ture. *" POOR MEMORIES A little friction has occurred between Colonel Edward Atkinson, the aggressive anti-imperialist ' - and protagonist of the Philippine lnsurrectos, and Hon. Geoge S. Boutwell, one of the most zealous lead- ers in the New England Anti-Imperialist league. Colonel Atkinson, in his recently puUlished^jstatement of "The Cost of War and Warfare from 1898 to 1902," used lan- guage which wo"ld place the anti-impe- rialists hi the attitude of active counsel- lors of the Filipino lnsurrectos, advising them to lay down their arms and surren- der, "trusting to the honor of the Amer- ican people to restore to them their right of Independence/' Mr. Boutwell objects to this statement, and, In a note to Colonel Atkinson, said: "That phrase seems to include In the statement'the anti-imperialist leagues. As fa/ras I have knowledge, the leagues have not taken any action in regard to the course to be pursued by the Inhabitants of the Philippine islands. As, far as I have knowledge, it has been the custom MORRIS TRIES AGAIN Congressman Page Morris has written Congressman Loren Fletcher an amusing letter, wherein he points to the bill before the Cuban congress to appropriate money for the relief of the sugar planters as a vindication of himself and others who fa- vored the psuedo-reciproclty or rebate plan as against the real reciprocity asked for by President Roosevelt. Congressman Morris reasons this way: We insurgents wanted to appropriate money out of the American treasury for the benefit of the Cubans. Now the Cuban congress is appropriat- ing money for the benefit of Its own peo- ple. Therefore we, the insurgents, are right. There are too many holes in this syl- logism for us to follow it through.' We prefer to ask why the Cuban con- gress Is appropriating money for the re- lief of the planters. Is it not because we denied them a market for their products and therefore made artificial relief neces- sary? If Mr. Morris and Mr. Fletcher had voted right and had worked for genuine reciprocity with a good margin of reduc- tion in tariff duties the Cuban planter would not be a beggar to-day. The planters knew what they wanted. They didn't ask subsidies or bounties or alms from their government or any other. All they asked was reciprocity, a chance to make a living. What Cubans favor the rebate plan? We have not heard of one. They didn't want charity. They wanted a chance to work for a living. There is a great difference here. It Is the differ^ ence between the beggar and the self-re- specting victim of hard luck. The former begrs for money, the latter begs for a chance to make money. Mr. Morris said "no" when the Cubans asked for a chance to make a living, but offered them alms. By the way, those alms were to be given to the Cuban government, not to the Cu- ban planters. They might by this time be in the hands of former Cuban soldiers, in- stead of in the purses of planters or in the pockets ot their laborers. ' The Cuban government needs all the money it can get for the ordinary ex- penditures of-goVenmaent without making disbursements for the benefit pf agricul- ture, but Mr. Morris, Mr. Fletcher and other insurgents have reduced it to- the extremity of drawing on Its slender treas- ury to give artificial aid to those who with fair legislation on our part, solemnly promised legislation, too, would have been independent and self supporting. t ^ Yosemlte Valley, Aug. 29.We were considerably annoyed by bears in, ofcr camp last night but the pastor wept out and spoke to them with "the bishop's voice," and in five minutes there wasn't & bear in the valley. We were all up at 6 a. m. to Bee the sun rise and the pastor did the Gladstone act with his ax on some dead and down timber, and so we had breakfast ready by 6 a. vm. -During this meal there was con siderable sparring between the wit of Vfe party and Dr. Morrill as to the latter's prowess with the ax. The eighth warfd pastor had claimed the night before that he could fell,any tree in the valley and much polite doubt had been expressed by those who did not know him. It seems that the joker who lost the headlight the day before had been spending half the night preparing the little contretemps which brought the pastor to grass and took the temper out of his edge for sev eral days thereafter. The Joker had found a petrified tree standing* by itself near the mineral spring and had -worked hard and long during the night to cover it with fresh bark ripped from a living tree near by. Against this cold^and stony proposi tion the scoundrel with a smile on his front but guile in his breast, steered our confiding and trustful eighth ward pastor shortly after breakfast. The good man) took the bait like a pickerel. Running his thumb along his ax he smiled at the rest of us as he tossed off his coat, ex pectorated on his hands and dealt the stone tree a ponderous blow, that shiv ered the ax handle Jike glass and caused a tingle to run up his arms and several constellations to drop out of place and ex plode by daylight. The tree threw off sparks like a grindstone and about eight yards of bark loosened and fell down. I have sometimes feared that at this trying moment the pastor's language would have been too severely biblical, for he showed every symptom of Internal agitation and the beclouding of fthe mind witti anger, had he not recollected himself and re marked simply: "Holy Moke!" A cuss word at which the most fastid ious could not take exception. The pastor's ax was found to have been ripped up the back* a suspender button gone and the blade badly frayed around the bottom of the trousers. The tree was uninjured. "I guess the growth here is hard wood." said the pastor as he sorrowfully made his way back to the tent where he^sat In the shade for several hours meditating on the vanity of human wishes, TOMHTOES0TA TOHTHOS While the Rosing meeting to-night is really the opening of the democratic state Campaign, there will be very little done In the way of speech making for the state ticket for three weeks yet. To be sure, the democrats do not have much to do with thfe_ primary election except in the twin cities and half a dozen democratic counties, but republicans are everywhere interested, and it is a well known fact that the only hope the democracy has is in republican votes. Republicans will not give any attention to the state ticket un til after the primaries. Governor ^an Stint speaks at Osseo to morrow evening, but this will dhiy be a neighborhood rally. His formal opening speech Will not be delivered until after the primary campaign. Meanwhile the state committeee will confine Itself to the work of organization. , Old Comb-. I trees Still Serve. At republican state headquarters a com plete list is being compiled of all the coun ty committees in the state, both old and new It is found that in over half the counties the old committee is stin serv ing, and, that the candidates will name the new one after the primary election. Through the chairmen of the county committees the state central committee will be in touch with the local committee men in every votlrg precinct In the state. Llnd's Underground Campaign. '. Talk about "gtfm shoe" campaigns! Has any one heard the noise of John Lind's congressional canvass? He has two com petitors for the nomination, but he has not a single picture on the telephone poles, and so far as known has not asked a voter to support him. If he should be nomi nated without any effort_it would be rath er bard on the other democratic candi dates. Rice County Amenities. The Northfleld News says: "Those republicans in Northfleld who voted for Lind and Schaller in 1900 will not be permitted to vote at the republi can primaries according to the decision of the attorney general. Sorry, but it cannot be helped." To which the Faribault Republican re plies: "And those prominent republicans who were Very gracious to John Lind on his visit to Northfleld during the campaign, and who the very next day gave Mr. van Sant the cold shoulder, or who were con spicuous by their absence, thus making votes for Lind and sentiment against Van Sant, should also be disfranchised in the same way, but they will not be. 'Sor ry, but it cannot be helped.' " It is hardly necessary to say that any of them who call themselves republicans to-day can vote at the primaries if they attend, so long as they voted for a ma jority of the republican ticket. Accord ing to the attorney general the voter is his own judge as to which ticket he "gen erally supported" at the last election. However, the side lights on Rice county politics contained in the foregoing para graphs make interesting reading for out siders Forms Counter Combination. There is an interesting legislative con test in the forty-fifth district, which in cludes the four counties of Anoka, Isanti, Sherburne and Mille Lacs. It has a sen ator and three representatives, and early in the season a supposed combination ticket was put out. Senator H. F. Barker is a candidate for re-election, and repre sents Isanti county. Emmet Mark filed for the house again from Mille Lacs. The ticket was, completed by the addition, of T. G. McLean of Anoka and H. G. Craig of Orrock, Sherburne -county j Later on Frank White of 121k Rvver en tered as a candidate for the senate. This dl not disturb the house candidates, as long as there were only three of them, but it was uphill work for White, because Isanti was standing for its home candi date, and would not be deprived of rep resentation. So at the last minute Louis Peterson came out as an Isanti county candidate for the house. This makes a split in both Isanti and Sherburne counties, each having a can didate for the senate and one for the house, and they are of course in a cross combination.* Anoka and Mille Lacs coun ties will settle it. The latter is for the Barker ticket to a large extent, but there is the usual split in*Anoka. DECLINEIMri THANKS ?% By E.-J. BURKE Copyright, 1902, by McClure's Newspaper Syndicate. "Miss Cecil TraversMr. Philip Saun- ders." Some benevolent individual introduced them at the Pen and Pencil club. Saun ders afterward spoke of him as "the hand Of fate." But then he -was under the sway of the blind god and so unrespon sible for either his remarks or his eye sight. It was certainly a case of love at first sighton'the part of Saunders. When he looked down Into the dark eyes raised so frankly to his own, he gave up his heart unconditionally. In all his 36 years noth ing had sent' the blood rushing so riot ously through his veins as the firm, warm clasp of her hand. But he -was a quiet. self-controUed fel low, with a composure born of years of struggle up the uncertain literary ladder. So he did not hold the little hand a sec ond longer than politeness demanded. There was no trace of eagerness in his i of the officers of the league to abstain from giving advice to the natives as to the policy to be pursued by them. From the first it has been my opinion that the anti-imperialists should not be- from slavery, turning then* out to seek [ come responsible, by advice ot otherwise, The island of Jamaica is having some edifying experiences with the subsidy idea in practice under modern conditions. It united with the imperial government to subsidise a line% freight steamers from Jamaica to London, the chief purpose of which line was to encourage the exporta- tion of fruit to England and thus relieve \ WASTED OPPORTUNITIES^ Detroit 'News-Tri'fc'une. It would be an ideal community where every one shduld be engaged in the best end highest "kind ot -work of -wlilcli Jbe is capable. But conditions aaust develop greatly before such a state can be reached. Meanwhile there are a hJe of (people fitted only for what is termed "unskilled labor," and it should be tbe opportunity of the more fortunate ones to train .these to higher planes. Nevertheless, the wife of a ^certain profes sional man. herself a woman of culture and refinement,'after struggling for several years with the problem of domestic service, solved it by dismissing her help and attempting to do all her rwork fierself, Including the care of her three, small children. JJer theory was that by this method she found peace, and the fam ily returned Nto a more simple method of liv ing. The question arises, Was she right? Is, jit a waste ot force and gifts for an educated mother to spend her time washing dishes and Ironing clothes, when she could be- training the minds and hearts of Tier childrenthat is, assuming that she could not iflnd time for bothleaving tbe children to teachers'and to chance? It is a question worth the while of a mother's" thought before doing away with home help and Undertaking everything with her own hands. Is she missing her opportunl- By the way, who would ever have thought it? I. A. Caswell and G. S. Pease are hoth supoprtlng 33dson for congress It's, not exactly team work they are doing, but both are pulling he same way. Stranger things have happened in politics, but not often. A Very Common Substitute. The Blue .Earth Post observes: "A democratic paper says that though an issue is lacking this year the party will vote 'by instinct.' Isn't that a poor substitute for reason ^in shaping public affairs?" % N Dale Against Fosnes. O. J. Dale of Madison, Lac qui Parle county, is a republican candidate for the, state senate, and will be supported by those republicans In Lac qui Parle and Chippewa counties who are not disposed to recognize C. A. Fosnes' republicanism. They" ha\e been figuring for some time on a candidate, and brought Mr. Dale out at the last* minute. Charles B. Cheney. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MINUTES. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN HOURS. THAT H E SAT THEEE STARING AT THE SCRAPS OF PAPER. AMUSEMENTS "Sapho" by the Fawcett Company. "Let me see," remarked a woman in last night's "audienc at the Metropolitan, "Sappho was a Greek goddess, wasn't she, and this -woman was called Sapho because she was so beautiful?" The re mark passed unchallenged, although Sappho was not a Greek goddess, but a Greek poetess who flourished about 600 yeasr before Christ, and of whose writings only fragments survive. Daudet's Sapho, however, is quite a different per son. Reared In Paris, in a quarter" where morality was considered ridiculous, her friends, women in whom love was noth ing more than a source of livelihood, she differed only from the common cocotte in that she was usually successful in what ever she attempted. Around such a woman Alphonse Dau det contrived to write an interesting story and from the novel there has been constructed a play that retains the hopeless vulgarity of Its prototype without the charm of its literary excellence. The play has been termed suggestive. It is not. It is simply and brutally vulgar. Much of its dialogue is indecent and its wit finds p'nngenpy only at the expense of virtue. It -teaches no lesson, and -serves no pur pose, beyond the questionable end of swelling** box office receipts. Yet, good people go to see the play and applaud it into the bargain. It is a peculiarity of human nature that the woman who is not herself, pure, de llgrhts most inxthe integrity of a perse cuted heroine of melodrama while her more fortunate sister is content to greet, from across the footlights, a wanton from whom .she Would shrink in disgust Were -toe conditions changed. The mod ern woman, like the Athenian of old, is always on the lookout for some new thing. Her own experience, no matter what its character, appears to her uneventful, while the antithesis possesses all the charm of novelty. And that is the rea son for "Sapho's" success. I am quite well aware that to condemn the immorality of this play is only to increase its drawing powers, yet there is no other way out of it. There are twen Nty-slx characters in the piece, as pre sented at the'Metropolitan, among them a chjld, a. young girl, fresh from the con vent, and one good Woman. Of the^ others, all are unclean, with a moral un cleanllness to be compared only to the physical condition of a leper. From a technical view point the produc tion is a good one. It has been \ Well staged and, in the main, is well casV The manner as he sat down on the divan beside her and began to talk as few men and fewer women had heard him talkbrilliantly, with flashes of wit and sarcasm relieving the underlying earnest ness pf thought. Cecil Travers was quite unconscious of the metamorphosis she was producing. She only thought that this big, blond* man was not nearly as unapproachable as he looked. He was really charming. And, what was the more remarkable, he did not talk about -himself. The girl found this an unusual ex perience. As reader at one of the maga zines and writer of short stories, she had met many men of many minds. "Yet." as she said pathetically to herself, "the minds always seem to turn inward. How can they write about the world around them when they are so absorbed in self?" Her wonder grew when she discovered that he, too, was an author. She remem bered now seeing his name signed to several clever sketches. He had never tried any with the Symposium. As he talked the desire to read some of his stories became overmastering. "Why don't you send something to me at the Symposium?" she asked at length frankly. He flushed up to the roots of his hair as he said hesitatingly. "I have been busy about something else, but I willsome time." It was his first trace of awkwardness Cecil could not know that the "some thing else" was the novel which was the work of many months and which was even then seeking a publisher. Not even to her dared he trust himself to speak of this child of his hopes. If the world gave it a welcome, ah, then! His thoughts were busy weaving fa. beautiful day dream, and Its central figure was this dark eyed girl who was almost a stranger to him. He awoke to realities with a start. Miss Travers, puziled at his silence, had risen and was holding out her hand in goodby. "You will come to see me -some time, will you not, Mr. Saunders?" she asked -with the frank smile that -was her es pecial charm. "I have enjoyed my talk with you so very much that I would like to repeat it. I am always at home on Tuesdays and Thursdays." \ c _, M Her tone was so cordial that he blushed and stammered over his thanks. He called himself a fool a mihnte afterward - a whe he found himself standing stupidly t s t a r i n g a t t h e door-way t h r o u g h -which s h e h a d d i s a p p e a r e d . B u t t h a t d i d n o t p r e - , v e n t h i s g o i n g h o m e i n a s t r a n g e l y e x - c i t e d a n d e x h i l a r a t e d m o o d . T h e g l a m o r of h i s d a y d r e a m s e e m e d still a r o u n d h i m . : A n d s h e , t h e l a d y o f h i s d r e a m h e l o v e d her. - " , H e w h i s p e r e d t o h i m s e l f a s h e s t r o d e - % a c r o s s t h e park, half fearful t h a t t h e ^ - J flickering l a m p s a h d t h e s w a y i n g b r a n c h e s / "- ' m i g h t g u e s s h i s s e c r e t , b u t i n t h e s i l e n c e ^ .* A * of h i s r o o m h e s a i d i t boldly a n d t h e ^ _ c o n f i d e n t r i n g o f t h e w o r d s s e e m e d t o ^ ^ ^ e c h o t h e road toeating o f h i s h e a r t . "^c~ I t w a s i n e v i t a b l e t h a t t h e n e x t T h u r s - ^ I ^ day night should And him in the parlor of Miss Travers' flat. It was equally In- * evltable that be should bend all his ener gies to hide his love from the smiling eyes of this girl, who treated him with an air of bon commarderie fatal to sen timent. It Is doubtful whether even encourage ment would have wrung the secret from his lips. The first joy of loving was past and in its place had come a flood of self distrust, of self depreciation. To his tor tured mind an unbridgeable gulf of train ing and traditions seemed to sweep be tween them. She had been the petted child of rich parents, on whom had been lavished the gifts of a college education and years of foreign travel. This at tempt at independence and self respect had been treated as her latest whim and humored accordingly. He had scrambled from a common school education into the -pitfalls that beset the path of a news paper reporter. Every upward step had been bought at the price of hard work. It was but a short time since the problem of meeting his board bill had been an all Important one. / That was the first of many calls, but the succeeding visits, while they strength ened his love, gave no courage for its declaration. At last In his desperation a plan dawned upon him by which he might learn his fate and yet spare her the pain of refusal. She had asked him to submit a story to the Symposium. He would send her one embodying his love and its hopelessness and offering two sequels for the choice of the reader. In the one the lover should boldly set aside the barriers of position and woo and win his lady love. In the other he should patiently bow to .the Inevitable and devote his life to tho uncertain happiness of literary success. He bent himself feverishly to the task. For several weeks be had not dared to trust himself to call upon. her. She would understand the reason why when she rea the story he addressed with a. tremblings hand. A day went by, another1, a week. Saund- ers could not work he could not sleep. He haunted the park and the streets where he had sometimes met her, hope ful yet fearful of meeting her again and reading in her face his answer. At length, when ten days had passed and suspense had become almost unen durable, the postman left a bulky envelope in his letter box- It was his story, and as he unfolded It a typewritten slip fluttered to the floor. He picked it up mechanically. It was the usual rejection slip, curt and businesslike, -without an. added line to soften the blow It might have been minutes, it might have been hours, that he sat there staring at the scrap of paper. Then, with a groan, he buried his face in his arms, as if to shut out the wor^Ls. His castle in Spain had fallen down about his ears, and he sat among the ruins. The sun was setting when he aroso brusquely and went out into the air to walk and walk in the hope that physical weariness might stifle his suffering. The coolness of night brought a dogged cour age to blot out the past, with its day dreams, and turn to the future. But it was veary work. The end of the week found him so worn and haggard his friends declared he was overworked and advised rest and change. "Your novel is making such a success you can afford to do it," they urged. He only smiled bit terly and shook his head It seemed such cruel mockery to think that the success Of his cherished /iovel should bring hint no happiness. He was listlessly sorting him mall one morning when his eye fell upon a tiny blue envelope which had been hidden by the others. His heart seemed to leap into his throat, for he recognized the hand: Dear Mr. SaHndershe readit is so long since I Have seen1 yon that I am pining for oae of our chats. To be wire, I bare just come ack from my three weeks' vacation, bat then you had not beeit to see for ever so long before that Is there anvtblug the matter? Come up to-night and perhaps I can explain. Yours sin cerely, - v Cecil Travers. - Again Mr. Saunders sat staring at a piece of paper, but theis time it was tho shock of sudden joy. She had never seea his story. It had been turned down by her deputy reader. He made most of the explanations that evening, but Miss Travers did not seem to mind. ^ are elaborate and picturesque. There are lines in "Sapho," allotted to the cabman, which are utterly foreign to the plot of the The National play and which are so glaringly indecent* ", w w as to be out of place even in a low grog- gery. It is only a kindness to omit any men tion of the individual players who go to make up the cast. J. S. Lawrence. T H E MAGAZINES. the lava. The guides could tell almost to the ^ costumes and accessories*df the first act J minute when these overflows would occur." ' Foyer Chat. Seats for the "Waj Down East" en gagement at the Metropolitan are selling rapidly and it looks as though the regular season opening at this house will be an auspicious one. The play, however, with its truthful depletion of New * England character and intense human sympathy, could hardly fall to draw at any season of the year, and its engagement during fair week Is a peculiarly appropriate booking, as the thousands of out of town visitors have never before had the opportunity of seeing this famous play. Much interest IB being awakened over the opening of the new Lyceum theater on Sunday nighj, by the Ferris Stock company In "My Jim," which will run all next week. The second week's bill will be a production of Hall Cable's "The Chris tian" on a splendid scale. This will be the first presentation of this great semi rellglous drama at popular prices. A special Labor Day matinee performance of "My Jim" will be given on Monday afternoon. /" " , TMEY X.IKE1 ERUPTIONS *- Washington Times "In Hawaii we pray for Mount Kibiea to become active, find the more eruptions there are the better we, like it," said Philip Peck, a banker of Hilo,t last night. "An eruption does no harny* he added naively. "Doesn't do any harm? Well, it appears that Mont Pelee did plenty of harm." "That was a different kind of activity from Kilanea. In Hawaii, where Mount Kilauea has not been disturbed for two years, the eruption IS of slight consequence* But it is a igreat sight to see,the great lake of lava boil over the sides of the crater and ipush its way down into the bowl-like valley, which has been formed by eruptions more violent In the ages past. "The sight is such an unusual one that it causes a great influx of visitors each year, and that naturally is a good thing for the island financially. That's why we like the volcano to b active. Kilauea's crater is the largest in the world. People used to go and it by its edges and watch for an overflow of 3" J I (Boston, 41 W First street W. W. Potter & Co.) contains a three-page condensation of the Philippine civil government law, with explanatory remarks by Senator Lodge, which should be read by all who have not felt like read ing the full text. Senator Paris Gibson, Of Montana, is one of the contributors to the "Phases of American Affairs" depart ment, writing on the question, "ShaH tho Public Domain Be Preserved for Homo Seekers?" Llppincott's for September is attractive to an unusual degree, with a completed novel by that always good story-teller, Ellen Olney Kirk. Josiah Flynt, the writer on tramps and trampdom contrib utes one of his good stories, entitled "Wo 'Won't Go Home,' " and A P. Zerhune, in "A Park Row Galahad," tells a little ro mance of a newspaper office. Philadel phia: The Lippincott Company, 227-231 South Sixth street. ' Ainslee's series of "Luxuries of the Millionaire" tells in this number -Of 'millionaires' yachts, with illustrations, among them, those of John Jacob Astof, J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Robert Goelet and N. O. Havemeyer, Jr. Mrs. Gerry gives an Illustrated account of "Tho Woman's Commonwealth" at Washington, D. C , a community of women founded by Mrs Martha McWhirter, who professes to have special divine revelations. Tho women profess to be "sanctified" and do all the domestic work and seem to torn remarkably submissive to their head, Mrs. McWhirter. Mr. Eliot's account of Mex ico's Tebauntepec rail-way from tlye A.* *"" lantlc to tile Pacific, 192 miles, i'of de- cided interest, as it is to be partly recon- structed and provided with terminal har- v * bore for large steamers and will be com- * j. pleted In a year or two. New York: IS*, William street. Street & Smith. _ Everybody's Magazine contains 4 fioo character study of the British premier, s Mr. A. J. Balfour, by T. P. O'Connor, wttJ* illustrations, and there are three sugges-"1 tive papers touching the labor question-, Bessie Van Vorst's "The Woman ThaC Tons:" Frank NorrVs "Life in tRe Mh* ing Region." and Booker Wastilhgtoa'sk "Work With the Hands." In ,the fitotj paper the reader will find a narrative oft* the experience of a working girl in Pitts-' burg pickle factories, revealing a phase 0 grinding toil which dispirits and "kills tf $ second showing the conditions of hum|ka^ life. In mining towns, and during *k strike, while the third shows the-moi and uplifting value of manual training, labor. A clever paper is Mary Manners"1 "The Unemployed Rich. * N?W York: ,tf B^tat h street ' - - - * f rfc'l