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4 .?^,v/ riwvw THE JOURNAL LUOIAN SWIFT, j J. i. MoLAIN, MANAGER EDITOR. BUBSOBTPXION BATES BY KAXZ.. O n month 90 Three month* . . - - * Saturday Bre. edition, 20 to 26 pages.... 1.80 ' Is * - V Delivered by Canter. OM week 8 *- One month .8.5 "* AM paper* are continued until an expltelt order fa received for diaeontlnuance. and until all ar toaragoe are paid. THE JOURNAL la published every evening, except Sunday, at 4749 Fourth Street South, Journal Building, Minneapolis. Minn. - Servia and Kentucky. In Servia, the army, having numbered itself with the guild of assassins and regicides, has placed the country under its heels and dictates what the publio hall do and think, assuming greater breadths of tyrannical action as it be comes manifest that the registration of the massacre by the national assembly is increasingly regarded as a roaring farce. 'Colonels Maschin and Mltschitch, in their brilliant uniforms, control the situation .and the aspect of affairs Is that the grand jeon of old Black George, the "Deliverer," (many have reason to curse the day on which, thru blood and violence, his par tizans held the glittering crown before his {eyes and dictated his election to the as sembly. Peter Karageorgevitch would consult his own safety by remaining in Geneva. Bullets are very handy in Bel grade just now. Turning from assassin-ridden Servia to assassin-ridden Kentucky, It is gratify ing to note that in the "dark and bloody ground," the military are operating, not ,to suppress liberty, but to promote the orderly process of administering justice thru the courts which, time and again, has been prevented or obstructed by what appears to be hereditary lawlessness on the part of the people In some of the eas tern counties In Breathitt county,the mili tary have to protect newspaper men at tending court and citizens in the transac tion of ordinary business, and the county seat threatened by the activities of in transigent firebugs. In Mason county, the military are guarding the courthouse at Maysville, and the jail, with small arms and gatling guns to keep the citi zens from getting at three negroes to lynch them by burning, a process with which they have some acquaintance from previous experience of a most awful char acter. In Kentucky thousands of people have made a code of law for themselves which they deem has far greater authority than have* the federal or the state statutes. The moonshiner under this code thinks he has a clear right to shoot a federal deputy marshal, if he finds one within gunshot of his still. Under this code, a Kentucklan, allied with either side in a bloody family feud, considers that it* is very pernicious lawlessness for the author_ lties to interfere with his amusement of shooting down members of the opposing family at sight. He regards such gunning as one of his inalienable and natural rights He denies the right of the state to Insist that an impartial grand jury shall be selected to draw up indictments He believes it is another of his inalien able and natural rights to superintend the construction of all juries, grand and petit, in his own and his family's interest He is ready to defend his assassin's code with his own life if necessary, and, un- * fortunately, this home-made code has} cow*"*8 still a formidable degree of vitality and I continues to defy the state and federal I government at Intervals. The Kentucky colonels, while a considerable number of them believe in the home-made code, are generally loyal to the constituted author ity. Some of them have been charged with the assassination of the late Gover nor Ooebel, and with attempting to estab lish a military dictatorship after the man ner of those doughty Servian colonels, Maschin and Mltschitch. It has not been very long since a number of Kentucky colonels, finding that all their efforts to seat a defeated candidate for governor were failing, deliberately converted the legislative branch of the state govern ment Into a mob with the avowed purpose of subverting the law and defying the constitution and stirring up insurrection. These Kentucky colonels were not a whit more law-abiding than are the Servian colonels, Mltschitch and Maschin. The fact is, that when we look with horror upon Servian or Russian lawless ness, it is well to recall the existence of a very ugly and dangerous tendency to lawlessness in our own country which is inevitably working toward the same ex cesses Which have startled the civilized world, in Servia and Russia. No Caesariwn in It. Some of the democratic Journals show* symptoms of tremulousness peculiar to the ailment known as the ague, over the announcement of the organisation of the general army staff. When the bill was discussed in the last congress, the charge was made that it was an unpatriotic at tempt to Germanize our army and con cert it into a machine for the promotion of Hohenzollern despotism to destroy our ^liberties, The argument that our mili tary establishment had become too largo ! and important to be properly managed by u the secretary of war, was met by the re- * tort that there is no use keeping up such y a large military establishment and that the country ought to depend on its mill tia. It is to be feared that some of these opposing statesmen would like to have the country go back to the defenseless condi tions which obtained in 1860. The general staff from a patriotic and business standpoint is precisely what the nation needs. It is a body of officers dis tinct from the administrative staff of ad jutants, commissaries, etc., having the special duty of devising plans in time of peace, for use in time of war, so that the government will not be found again* In such an unprepared condition, for war as it was in April, 1898, when war was declared against Spain. The chief of staff will act as advisor to the president, who is commander-in-chief, and to the - 5** WEDNESDAY EVENING, secretary of war, and ' the! 88 ,0 ( New York Office, Tribune Building. Chicago Office, Tribune Building. W. W. JtilWANB. i Waahtogton Office. BepreeentaUTe. I *S Pt Building. u, AN INVITATION Is extended to aU to visit the Press Room, which Is the finest in the west. The battery of presses consists of three "- Gwss Presses, wth a total capacity of l**.wO eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded and counted. The best time to call is from 8.15 to e 80 p. m. Inquire at the business office and be directed to the visitors' gallery, of the Press Room. f chiefs - of bureaus of the war department. The general staff is subject only to, the secre tary Npf wan ana the*presldent. Under the.^jM systern^there^was. cflnstsjot, attri tion between*the bureaus of the^epitr^ ment. There have been also" notable di stances of sharp discord' between the commanding general of the army and the secretary of war. General Sherman, for instance, moved his headquarters to S|. Louis to get out of unpleasant relations with the secretary of war. General Miles has had a frost-bitten time with Secre tary Root and his predecessor. Secretary Alger. The office of commanding general of the army no longer exists under the new arrangement, while the lieutenant general may be appointed chief of staff if the president sees fit or assigned to the command of a segment of the army. The members of the general staff are not to have permanent location at Washington, They have to go back to active service in the line after four years, and are only put on the general staff on the ground of ability and no favoritism Is to" be tol erated. The new arrangement will as semble in the general staff all the best and latest developments of military sci ence and praotice of war. If war breaks out all the details of transportation and oommissary service will be prepared. It is a measure of economy and it brings orde rout of chaos preparedness out of unpreparedness. The chief of staff in whom some of our statesmen perceive the foreshadowing of Caesar, is subject to the president and secretary of war and to play Caesar he would have to hypnotize these gentlemen, all the bureau officials and army generals and inferior officers and men. The orUsing ganisation of the general staff means a more complete Americanizing of pur army, not its Germanlzation. The University of Chicago has received another money gift. Guess who gave it. Jew-baiting in Minneapolis. The superintendent of police exhibits commendable zeal in his efforts to sup press Jew-baiting in the southern portion of the city. Essentially there is no differ ence between worrying and tormenting Hebrew peddlers in Minneapolis and tor turing and killing Jews in Kishinef. In both cases the trouble proceeds from prejudice against the contemptuously styled "sheenies " In Kishinef there may possibly be some economic ground for hatred of the He brews, because of the business superi ority and greater industry of that people. In Minneapolis there Is no such ground for Interfering with the useful activities of the poor peddlers who always attend scrupulously to their own affairs and never provoke or seek trouble. It is hard to conceive of more inoffensive, harmless persons than the Jewish peddlers of this city. They are the last persons in the world, to be Suspected of incurring the righteous wrath of anyone The truth is, they are too quiet and unobtrusive. They are so timid and so lacking in self assertion that they become easily the ob jects of the activity of neighborhood bul lies and gangs. They,aImost literally obey the scriptural injunction to turn the other cheek. ,,, It is a disgrace to the city and especial ly to certain sections of it that these poor people* cannot pursue their peaceful and useful callings without being subjected to insult, annoyance and physical violence. Heretofore police superintendents have not thought it worth their while to give special attention to these "petty" com plaints. They are not petty, but, on the contrary, very grave. It is no petty mat ter when a peaceful citizen, minding his own affairs, Is kept by unlawful violence or Interference of other kinds from at tending to his business. It is to be hoped thad t the e police will be able to appre hen a f w o f tn will make suoh examples of them tha t *l "ai D At the meeting of the charter commis sion last night some opposition developed to special elections, but on the whole most of thos who offered suggestions to the commission favored such elections. The only way in which municipal politics- can be separted from general politics to the extent it should be is by means of separate elections. It may not be possible then to keep the local republican and democratic organizations out of municipal politics but the voter who recognises that there is a vast difference between voting the state or national ticket labeled with his party name and the munclpal ticket simil arly labeled will not be under such pres sure as at general elections to vote for a name instead of men and principles. The friends of improved municipal government must insist on separate municipal elec tions. Some of the local republican pol iticians oppose spring elections on the ground that the democrats have a habit of carrying spring elections. If they do, it is because they turn out, while many republicans stay at home. We are of the opinion that the peoplte who go to the polls on election day are the ones who should control the city, not those who lack enough interest in municipal busi ness to express an opinion. ,. _ There is really about as much weight In the arguments against separate elections as there is sense in the Tribune's state ment that it was feared to submit the charter at a special election- because "it was probable that only those vitally in terested in the charter would turn out to the polls at all, and the charter might be lost thru not securing the necessary four sevenths of the votes of the city/* T"oD content with the requirements of a law that demands for the adoption of a char ter four-sevenths of all the votes, cast at the election, the Tribune would have it four-seventha of the votes of the city. Ae, a matter of fact the claim that only those vitally interested In the charter would turn out at a special election, if sustained by the event, would insure its adoption, if It had any chance at all. , ~ The meeting last night seemed to show to have the trouble over with at once. THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUENAE. a strong disinclination to change greatly the present city charter In getting on a home rule basis. Many, of our, citizens ^hink $iai the present charter could be Im proved t radical changes at once, and ithey may, benight, but aftfcr |Uf it"J* jfrore lij accordance with the natural order,^of things gradually ^to amend and Improve the present charter under home rule au thority. A piecemeal change Insures more intelligent and more general public con sideration of the city's organic law. An American quick lunch restaurant was opened in London yesterday, and the Lancet's warning wasn't in it with the rush for buckwheat cakes with maple syrup, If the Lancet had had any Amer ican experience It would not have wasted space protesting. People will eat what they like and take the chances. If the late Mr. Haugan** reputation has been unjustly 'aspersed thru the publi cation of what the city controller's books show, it is the bookkeeping that is primarily to blame. The books certainly appear to say that Mr. Haugan's short age was increased $61,000 on one day. In the light of the explanations made it seems certain that Mr. Haugan's deficit was not really increased by $61,000 on the last day he was in office. That being the case the records of the city of Minne apolis libel him. But it must be remem bered that books of account are not neces sarily fiscal histories. Mr. Lagerqulst, a North Side high school senior, passed the Annapolis ex aminations the other day without any pri vate tutoring or any special preparation. the same kind of argument that the enemies of the publio schools use whenever a high-school boy fails in his naval or military academy examinations and basing it on Mr. Lagerquist's success, we must conclude that the high schools of Minnesota are doing their work per fectly. At any rate, after allowing for Mr. Lagerquist's native ability, there must remain some credit for the North high school, With so many revelations of corruption in public life and so much scandalous gos sip about corruption that may or may not exist It is not surprising that a banker at Corning, N. Y., should uhwarily offer the assistant secretary of the treasury a bribe of $1,000. If there are not many people in the country who are so tactless as this banker there are many who are just as confident as he that every public man has his price, and that -the "way to get from the government what you want is to purchase it. Speaking of indorsements, Mr. Tulloch seems to have received one from the civil service commission. Postmaster General Payne cannot now be very proud of thehe contemptuous way in which he treated Mr. Tulloch when the latter preferred his charges as to the management of the Washington city postofflce. The public is,of the impression that this whole in vestigation goes against the grain with Mr. Payne. The normal schools clamor for more manual instruction and the state super intendent of instruction can't get enough of it for the public schools St. Paul is* going In for more manual training and Minneapolis has just decided to r-einetatte that portion of it that it abandoned a few years ago. The progress of the fight oh the co-called fads reminds us of the old problem of the cat climbing out of the well at the rate of one foot for every slip of two feet. The flood disaster at Heppner, Oregon, tho confined to a narrow valley, has de1866, stroyed more lives than all the floods of the Mississippi and Missouri and their tributaries this year The Heppner cataclysm, too, was one that could not be foreseen and its like may never be seen again. The skies appear suddenly to have dropped a lake down into the valley just above the village. It was a genuine cloudburst and the cloud was an immense reservoir. e hoodlums and that the e many a day before any goo d citizen, whatever his race or how- ever humble his calling shall be sub jected, to insult and assault in Minneapo lis for no other reason than that he is humble and of another race and engaged /in attending to his little business in his own lawful way. The Servian style of argument resem bles that in use in Kentucky. In both countries the man who doesn't change his views conformably to those in power Is likely to lose his life. * Charter Questions. And now President Mellen of the North ern Pacific says he never said itregard ing Mr. Morgan, President Roosevelt and Wall street. Has Mr. Mellen, too, adopt ed the war department method of apologizing for indiscreet views? AT THE THEATERS The Ferris Stock company at the Lythe ceum presented their clever production of A. C. Gunter's great play, "Mr. Barnes of New York," to two large audiences yesterday. Another matinee will be given to-morrow. For the coming week the company will present George B MacFar lane's best play, "The Fatal Card " HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED GETTING AT THE FACTS In the days of Louis XIV. the Marechal de Grammont had taken a fortress by siege. "I will tell you a secret," said its military governor, after surrendering. "The reason of ray capitulation was that I had no more powder." "And secret for secret," returned the marechal, su avely, "the reason of my accepting it on sUrfi easy terms was that I had no more balls." ' I - NO GOOD ALIBI ON HAND $ DEMOCRATIZING LITERATURE 1 The London Academy and Literature expresses the belief that the "decline of literature" is due ohlflfly to "the demo cratizing of modern llteraturfe the small, but educated audience of previous ages is replaced by a great scarce-educated audi- ence." There Is no evidence that literature is in a process of decline. The term ''lit- erature" covers a large area Of literary output. There has befen aonie falling off in the value and vitality of the fiction product and It has been some" time since a poet to the manner born has beguiled the world with the witchery of song, but the "democratizing" of literature has been no detriment. The smalj- aristocratic coterie of writers and. readers ^ can no longer monopolize letters any more than a small coterie can monopolize the largest and most liberal educative processes. The demos is entering every field of lit erature, art, science, philosophy. The bars are down and the select coterie is no more, but the new comers are taking to themselves all the advantages opened to them and, out of the great mass of writ ers, there is a constantly growing ele ment of genius and this element is gen erally refining the mass. It is well that this democratizing process is active, if slow. It is developing very many more individuals truly inspired in literature in the broadest sense of that term, and pro ducing more of that which the reading and studying world wants than was deemed possible even at the beginning of the nineteenth century when the civilized world took a forward leap in real prog ress, * "Neal was left alone with Eleanor. No word was spoken, but they drew together, Neal looking at her with the boyish smile and the radiant eyes she in shy reluct ance till the last, when she came fling ing out her arms'And you have never yet said you love me'' she murmured, as held her in his arms. *I shall be try ing to express it all my life,' he answered." The reason he had loved without ex pression was because the girl had an other lover and he thought her preference went to that rival There is nothing in sipid about the book, nothing impossible In the career of the bad men nothing, im possible In the strenuous righteousness of the herp and the^ .heroine. BECIPROCITY. By Professors J Laurence Laughlin f Chicago UniveEaity* &&& H ker Willis of Washington and Lee University. New Yorti Balt6H?a$J[ 3s"3T East Seventeenth^st. r Octav&^cloth^ pet $& This is a'tioo^^'the hout-whic fills a want felt by every one at alfc interested in the question of reciprocity.* It is the first and, ijnly history of reciprocity that has eyer been published. It reviews the origin and nature of the reciprocity idea, speaks of its application in Europe* an$ reviews the various phases of reciprocity which the United States has passed, in* eluding reciprocity with Canada, 1854r and reciprocity with Hawaii, 1876- 1890, and gives a complete account of the various other reciprocity relations enjoyed by this country in the past, together with a full political and economic history, not only of them but all attempts that have been made to secure reciprocity at vari ous times. In fact, the book Is a com plete tariff history of the United States so far as it relates to the reciprocity policy. The book is written from a free trade standpoint, and is, therefore, not at all times so favorable to reciprocity as it might be if it were from the pens of men who believe in reciprocity as an adjunct to a protective tariff policy. Foyer Chat. % Aberdeen (S. D.) News. Lands in southeastern Nebraska which were selling twenty years ago for $20 an acre are now worth $80 to $100 an acre and even higher. There is no reason why South Dakota farms should pot experi ence a similar advance in price. The man who invests in South Dakota land now and holds on to it will have a competency in a very few years, and is sure of a com fortable livelihood all the time. For Oegeneral man with but a small amount of money there is no better investment anywhere than a South Dakota farm. SMOOTH AND EASY Rochester Herald. Oil and philanthropy mix beautifully, be cause oil-makes philathrdpy possibleat the *expe*s of the public. _ ^ * " " THE ACHELESS TOOTH *t Memphis Commercial-Appeal. C Now comes the wireless telephone. What we want next is the Shoreless steep, the acheless tooth and the cussless ox-driver. Augusta,' Ga., Chronicle. Former Mayor Ames should have fol lowed the elder "tfreller^ advice, A good, sound alibi in hand. ie wortbj se,veral lnsanv lties out in the shrubbery. * %Jl ' - w * "SHORT AND EASY METHOD^ relate and his treasury of facts has small educative valtie. $ &L - * vpL*x LITERARY NOTES ..rh 9 P . a * e & THE MAGAZINES Ainslee's completed novel is "The Rib boned Way," a summer romance of the woods, with two women from town, the most interesting figures and giving a heap of trouble to two or three men. Mr. For mat's story, "A Recruit in Diplomacy," in which a football expert figures, is an attractive feature and there are many Other ehorter beguiling tales, making a most attractive number. New York: 166 Fifth avenue. The Smart Set's completed novel is "The Metempsychosis of the Ogdens." which tells how a quarrel between a daughter and her rich father over the girl's de mand for a thousand dollars, was inter rupted by a ghostly figure who declared that father must become the daughter and the daughter the father. The trans position led to most amusing incidents and an interesting love incident enhances the story. The whole number is rich In good stories. New York: 452 Fifth ave* nue. NEW BOOKS THE TRIUMPH. By Arthur Stamvood Pier. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. Minne apolis: N. McCarthy. Price, $1 50. This is a purely American story, characters, atmosphere and all. The two principal characters, Neal Robeson and Eleanor Craig, draw the reader's interest from their very introduction. Robeson, a young doctor, comes to his home in a small Pennsylvania town to practice medicine. He begins his career by pre venting a bad man of the town, Ike Brad dish, from running off with a young girl, with evil intent Later he saves the girl again from Braddish and the latter be oomes his deadly and harassing enemy thru the whole story. Miss Craig, a brave, splendid girl, wins his love and admiration. The irian Braddtsh enters upon a vigorous campaign to exterminate Robeson. Unfortunately Miss Craig em ploys Braddish to drill on her grounds for oil and a splendid flow is developed. Then the driller and his company of roughs seize the well and a fierce battle is fought with them by Robeson and oth ers, and Braddish is killed The evil spirit had departed, having done his worst. After the tragedy at the oil well and when things were quieting down, this little scene occurs: WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK A Brave Motorman. To the Editor of The Journal. When we .after the first feelings of horror and astonishment have subsided, think over the disaster of last week at the Hennepin avenue bridge, it seems marvelous that the passengers in the train below should'escape without anyone re ceiving scarcely US much as a bruise but even more so that an electric car* thronged with passengers, should luckily get over the swaying bridge the very instant before it caved in. A number at persons thus almost miraculously, It would seem, jescaped immediate death or possibly injuries that might have dis abled them for life. The motorman in charge of the car says that from his post he noticed that the structure swayed, and, without a second's deliberation, he threw the current wide open and dashed over. The saving of these lives was therefore due to no miracle but entirely to the cool and brave act of the man in charge. Now, those acquainted with the service say that per haps in nine cases out of ten the action of the motorman might have been the very opposite,bee and,i x In view of the special interest now talcen in reci procity with Canada, it may be truly said that it is precisely Jthe book that is now demanded. A most interesting portion of the volume is its detailed and impartial account of reciprocity, or attempted reci procity, with Cuba. The history of the Cuban negotiations- and the complex struggle in congress over the ratification of the treaty Is brought down almost to present moment. "Reciprocity" is al most indispensable to any one who desires thoroly to study and understand the poli tics of the United States for the last twenty years, or since reciprocity in some form or other came to be one of the tariff policies constantly held before the nation The appendices of the book are especially valuable on account of the bibliography which thoroly covers the whole subject of reciprocity, including books, maga zines, newspapers and original documents. The appendices also give a chronology of all reciprocity treaties, twenty-four in number, that the United States has ever ratified, and also give the full text of all of those treaties. They contain valuable compilations of statistics covering our ex ports and imports to countries with which the United States has had, or now has,of reciprocity treaties. While as a whole the book is rather against reciprocity as a policy unless it can be carried much further than now seems possible and to the extent of making It amount to general revision of the tariff, it is notable that the authors are satisfied that the reciprocity treaty with Canada of 1854- 1866 was a mutually beneficial one. THE NATUEE STUDYIDEA. By Professor L, H. Bttilej. New lork Doubledacy, Page A Co Minnenapolia: N. McCarthy. Price fl net. The author has very rational and cor rect views on the subject of nature study. He properly characterizes it as "a revolt from the teaching of mere science in the elementary grades. * * * It is not science it is not knowledge it is not facts. It is spirit. It is eoncerned with the child's outlook on the world." The author would encourage the teaching of nature-love, or nature-study in the schools as a justifiable and rational way to bring children to maturer years, liv ing closer to nature and in (Sympathetic contact with the things of the external World, awakening a real personal inter est in all natural objects and phenomena. Nature must be studied not a book, While the teacher's personality should stand out strongly as one who has gath ered inspiration from personal study of nature and who has, withal,^ a large knowledge of science. In successive chap ters Professor Bailey adequately illus trates his conceptions of nature-study. He would use it to carry a vital educa tional impulse to the farming communi ties, to bring them in sympathy with their environment. The chapters on the interpretation of nature, the "New Hunt- ing-" and "The Integument Man" are -full of Interesting suggestions The professor stands for the man with a point of view as against a man with a fund of mere facts. The latter has no power to cor- Buffalo NeWs. v Colonel Bryan is making a "sorry specta cle of himself, but it may be just as well CarnegieNo. 5 West Fifty-first street, New York VanderblltNo. 660 Fifth avenue, New York. Gould195 Broadway, New York. (Residence, Lakewood, N J.) Professors Wrong. To the Editor of The Journal. Under the heading, "Sunday School Faults," in your paper of Saturday, at tention Is drawn to the faults of Sunday school workers. This article is dated Chicago, June 13, and is taken from a book lately issued by Professors Burton and Mathews of the Chicago university. From this article it is evident that these eminent theorists give as the reason for boys and girls of older years dropping out the Sunday schools, that it is a want of pedagogical application of the princi ples of the Bible to human minds I would like to ask these worthy gentle men why last year, over the entire United StateS, only & per cent of the boys enter ing the common schools, passed thru the high school? Why last year 55 per cent of Chicago children passed out of the common school without even entering the grammar grade? Is it want of Sunday school pedagogy there? Are the Sunday school voluntary workers to blame for this? Ir day schools cannot hold the boys, with all their present equipment of up-to -date pedagogics, with all the money spent for their continuance, how can teachers not trained, with but thirty minutes a week, be expected to do what the day schools cannot do? No, no, Mr, Professors There is Some thing else than the application of peda gogics needed to hold the boys. We want better teaching we want better methods for our Sunday schools but this is not the reason of the boys dropping out. The real reason, in both day and Sunday school, IS in the degeneraey of home life, in the insatiate greed for wealth, in the desecration of the Sabbath. Try again, Mr. Professor, for you ate wide of the mark -John Orchard. Field Worker N. Dakota and Minnesota. * "7 - 61MPUE * Louisville Courier-Journal, Ai\ esteemed, contemporary isks us why we refer to the smart set as oscillating "between hell and the iron works " Be cause it gets its inspiration from the one, its money from the other. -- * Barred Even From Absolom Class. Des Moipes Capital "Is Cleveland the, democratic Moses"'* anxiously Inquired an humble seeker after knowledge. It is difficult at this writing to, teH, J|fr. Bryan, talks as thp he were not even eligible to the Absolom class, -^i^^^^^^^^^^m^^^^l^^^mimim^^^mm 7tr3ff2 1T/1908. Co " -Boston, announce^v The Mystery of Murray Davenport," by Robert Nellson Stephens, author of "Philip Winwood," "An Enemy to the King," etc. The Lamp for June contains an inter esting sketch of the late litterateur, Rich ard Henry Stoddard and a full-page pic ture of the family groupMr. StOddard, Mrs. Stoddard and their son. A facsimile of a copy by Mr. Stoddard, In 1885, of his Well-known "The Flight of Youth," writ ten in 1854, is given. The largest book store in the world, ac cording to The Lamp, is in Melbourne, Australia, the proprietor of which, Mr. Cole, keeps about a million volumes Jn stock Who can say the Australians are not literary? W H. Henley made many of Robert Louis Stevenson's admirers mad thru his harsh criticism of Stevenson's idiosyn crasies, notably his vanity, and he re cently stirred up the peqple addicted to the Wordsworth cult by declaring that "four-fifths of his time Wordsworth was but a piddling poetaster," The Lamp for June publishes a fine, full-page photo of Edith Wharton, hith erto in private hands. In one of her letters, Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle says: "If I have to lead another life in any other planet, I shall take pre cious good care not to hang myself round any man's neck, either as a locket or a millstone." In Mars, however, even Mrs. Carlyle might marry a Marsian. 1 , ,. . Casually Observed. ^ If Mrs. Carlyle's "dearest friend" has broken loose and tasted the joys of print we may expect a long,series of revelations as to how Tammaa conducted himself the brute! * " f " * *" ^ * g S 3 3 What to Ea t brings out that moldy old aphorism about laughter being good for digestion. W e prefer food. i*| a J 5 ! $* Noah was 600 years old when "he went into the ark It seems to take about 600 years' experience before a man or a city learns not to build habitations on flood swept flats. ^ rt S $? $ $ Doc Bixby claims thai the Nonpareil column ought to correspond with some' man who has hair for sale. This column has never tried to put up a bluff as the Eighth Sutherland Sister. 4 j* - $ e e $ $ Rev. John Gauffman of Indiana preaches while asleep. As the dispatch says hie sermons are three hours long there might be some excuse for his people listening while asleep. *T*niitMinnmtmmiiMii. $ - Many hitherto damp spots in Texas are going prohibition. With booze cut out, the record for sudden gun death for which Texas has been famous, is likely to fall to the danger line. The Royal Neighbors of St. Cloud gave Mrs Adam Yeager a baby shower, bringing in to her all kinds of wearing apparel for the triplets, with which Mrs. Yeager answered the president's strenuous appeal to the country. The Royal Neigh- bors are living up to their name. - $ - 5 - The Alden Advance tells of a good Alden man who died and went to heaven. Before long he noticed a number of persons dragging each a ball and chain as they walked. "How Is this?" he asked the guide. 'Isn't this heaven, and why are there so many bad men here?" The angel smiled and replied: "Why those are not bad men they are all good men, but they came from Minnesota and we have to chain them down or they would go back." And then the other angels rang the belL - 3 3 S **- , The Waconla roller mill is haunted. For some weeks loud shrieks and wails have been heard from its gloomy depths, and many people have declared that they could detect a rattling of chains and the sound of demoniacal laughter. People who have traveled that way have crossed themselves and hurried by with one eye cast over their shoulders, fearing lest some headless horseman should dash out and hurl his head at them. Last week, however, it all came out when the Waconia Patriot came out. The Patriot investigated the mill and then commented on "the remarkable dally performances upon the cornet of Professors Lahr and Scharmer, who execute difficult selections from operas i duetto as they go about their re- spective duties of pitching wood and grinding wheat in different parts of the mill. Everybody heaved a sigh or relief. * - $ f S & There is a boy in the graduating class at Fergus Falls who is going to end up . in the state legislature pretty soon. The Breckenridge Telegram says that this Na- poleon of Finance hired a number of small boys to go in and buy up all the tickets which had been placed on sale for commencement exercises. He then placed them on sale at another store for three times what they cost him. The superintendent gave him his choice of returning the tickets or being dropped from the graduating class. The tickets went back. Genius like this will run J. Plerpont Morgan out of Wall street before many years. * BOWSER'S BIOGRAPHY. Only $25 to Go Down to Fame Along With Washington. f Copyright, 1903, by C B. Lewis. "By the way," began Mr Bowser, as he looked up from hjs paper, "Weren't you saying something the other day about your watch being out of order?" "Yes, it was out of order," replied Mrs. Bowser, "but I had it fixed A man c*m$ along yesterday morning and I gave it to him, and he had it back before 2 o'clock." "Do you mean that a stranger came along?" "Yes, he said he was from a jewelry store." "And you handed him your watch without knowing who he was?" "Yes " r *'Well, if you don't deserve to be robbed of your shoes! By thunder, but I wouldn't believe it." "Why, what's wrong9" had it been, that car 1 would have n n the crash as surely as it escaped. Had there been at the motor a man less acquainted with his position, an extra man, or one of excitable disposition, the first thing to suggest on finding himself on a swaying structure with a number of human lives in charge, would have been hesitation, and he might either have stopped the car entirely or slackened the speed so as to relieve the strain. It seems strange, especially as the car is said to have been, crowded, mostly by business and well-to-do people, that no one has So far thought of showing his appreciation of the motorman who by one stroke saved the situation. Persons have been liberally rewarded for deeds not more daring and productive of less good. In one way it is not really so strange that this has not suggested itself to any body as at first sight the escape indeed seems so marvelous as to be the work of fortune but as the first impressions wear away and It is realized that it was no miracle, but the act of a cool brain, ac companied by a stroke of the arm that saved many persons from life-long suffer ing, many homes from Sudden sorrow, and Minneapolis from what might have been one of the worst disasters in her annals, would It not be fitting for those nearest concerned to show their appreciation of the workman. ParItself innocently asked Mrs. Bowser. "Wrong? Wrong? You have a watch worth $160. You hand it out to a stran- ger without one chance in a hundred that you will ever see him again. If any one had told me that you were as big an idiot as that I couldn't have believed it." "But the man brought it back " "Are you sure It is the same watch?" "Yes." , J "And he didn't steal half the wheels?" ' H "No" 5l "Wey you have had Citizen. Their Addresses. To the Editor of The Journal. Will you tell me thru the columns of your paper how a letter ought to be ad dressed to reach these three men: An drew Carnegie, W. J. Vanderbllt, George Gould? Subscriber. a narrow escape, and I hope it will be a great moral lessoa to yoxu You aj e what Is called an .easy mark." i *T don't see that I did anything very allly" protested Mrs. Bowser. "I have known of your being swindled fifty different times, and you can't point to one Single instance where I" "Whatwhat!" he shouted, as he sprang up. "Woman, be careful how you talk. When have I ever been swindled?" "On hair 4yes and tonics and fire escapes and patent fuels and such things."' i "Never in this world, and you know it. No human man has ever played rae for a fiat, and none ever will, while you would give up the dress off your back if asked for it." The door bell rang just then, and a stranger who had called to see Mr. Bowser was admitted. He was a sleek, slick man, and there was molasses m his mouth as he began: "Mr. Bowser, I am from the firm of Ink & Roller, the Chicago publishers. We are getting out a book of biographical sketches of 250 great men ot America, begin- ning -with Washington. I have been instructed to call on you. We feel that the book would not be complete without a sketch of your life " "H'm. I don't think I care for It," replied Mr Bowser, tho at the same time secretly pleased with the idea. "But you must sacrifice your modesty for the sake of future generations You are like all great menover modestbut I trust you will not carry it too far in this case Let me show you what I have written up from such facts as I could gather, and I want you to correct any mistakes and elaborate on the whole " The caller thereupon produced a type-written paper and read: "Benjamin Bowser, descendant of William Bowser, who commanded the patriot troops at Lexington Was a wheel-horse in politics for thirty years. Wrote many poems and essays, and delivered many speeches that attracted wide-spread at- tention Might have been vice president, but declined the honor. Had the respect love and esteem of all who came in contact with him In his unflinching integrity of character, he was often compared to Nero The world will know fewer men deserving of a niche in the temple of fame " That was all, but it was enough to melt Mr Bowser and send a warm glow all thro him "Understand," said the agent, "we make no charge for thisnone whatever If you feel that you would like several of the books, howe\er, they will cost you $5 a volume No one is obliged to buy The notices will go In just the same Have I got the facts right?" "Y-ess," was the hesitating reply. "And do you wish to elaborate on them?" "N-o." "Very well I will bid you good evening, and I thank ou for your courtesy '* "Hold on a minute," said Mr Bowser, as the agent arose to depart. "I think I think I will want about five of those books " "Yes' I will put you down for five Our rules are cash in advance. I will writ* you a receipt for the money, and I hope you will get a special photograph for us. J$ you desire to make any changes, please communicate with Chicago " Mr. Bowser returned to the sitting-room with a pleased smile on his face, and the receipt in his hand, and after strutting up and down for five minutes, he com- municated the affair to Mrs Bowser. "Yes, I thought so," she quietly replied. "You'd better go over and see our butcher" "What has our butcher got to do with it?" ^ "Well, when I was In there the other day this same agent was trying to In- duce him to have his biography published, but he only asked him a dollar a \o|- uroe for the books." Mr. Bowser looked at her for a minute, and then his face began to pale and his hair to curl Without a word he put on his overcoat and hat and left the house. The butcher was In his shop. There was a private and confidential confab lasting ten minutes, and then Mr Bowser disappeared A few minutes later the butcher himself appeared at the Bowser residence and smilingly said to Mrs. Bowser. "I am requested to tell you that your husband is on the trail of the fakir, and at last reports both were going for the country at a gait of eight miles an hour, t think that Mr. Bowser Intends to pursue him for at least 10,000 miles, if necessaryf and if he isn't home for a month ortwo, you needn't worry." And while Mrs. Bowser and the cat turned out the lights and went to bed, tlw villain was still pursued. _ ^ - BAEHIE'S JOKE ON HIMSELF J M Barrie, the writer, is perfectly well aware of his shyness, and is not abo*ef poking fun at himself. On one occasion there appearedattending ifi the Scotpublic s Observer brilliant lampoon in w.hle n Wr . Barrie was represented as a dinner,?tk keeping every one in roars of laughter with his unceasing stream of wit and epi- gram, an dfinally ending up by making the speech of the evening- When a cer* fain literary friend of Mr. Barrie's saw this wickedly clever piece of satire, his In- dignation knew no bounds, and he rushed into print demanding by all the outraged gods that the author of this infamous article should straightway disclose himself and be dealt with accordingly. But alas, forthis wp\\ meaning Mend, the author1 was none other than Mr. Barrie himself, i r " , ^*T -1 V^- ' - ^ ^ JfJf ! \ #f ECONOMY SLIGHTLY OVEBDOlfE *' m-% "A queer notice caught my eye in front of a bookseller's shop the other day,** - said Senator Hanna, "and for a long time I couldn't make it out. It was like this. See if you can understand it " The senator then copied thes follows: .^Skm&*V&& * - REDUCED, *v,*'*3&5 MILL ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. ^m^pa bookseller's notice on a leaf of his notebook *. 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