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4 . ~ * * ' - STHE LUCIAN SWIFT, w MANAGER, W. pnjy 2-CENT Dally In Minneapolis. K REMEMBER, all thjs circulation Is the 5 o'clock edition, which is deliv ered directly to the homes. All the members of the family have time to read it. 4 WASHINGTON BUREAU. W. Jermane, Chief of Washington Bureau, 801-8U8 Colorado Building, North, western vuitora to Washington Invited to make use of reoeption room, library, sta tionery, telephone and telegraph i acuities. Central location, Fourteenth and * streets NW. Et TRAVELERS ABROAD ft- Will find The Journal on file as follows: LONDONU. S. Express Co.. 98 Strand. American Express Co., 8 Waterloo Place. DENMARKU. 6. Legation. " PARISEagle Bureau, 53 rue Cambon. liesldeuts visiting Paris can have their mail or telegrams sent.care of this Bureau and the same wii] be for warded to them or held for tuelr arrival. * AN INVITATION is extended to all to visit the Press Boom, wbicb in the nneat in the west. The battery of presses consists of three four-deck Ooss Presses, with a total capacity of 144,000 eight-page Journals ari hour, printed, folded end counted. The best time to call is from 8:15 to 4:30 p m. Inquire at the business office and be directed to the visitors' gallery of the Press Room. The Great Daily The Week in Business. To-day marks the close of naviga tion on the Gre at Lakes and bring the end of an active seaso n. Statistics will short ly be compiled showing the movement of freight, with comparisons, and we already know that of the three great commodities, grain, coal and iron ore, that make (up so large a portion of the lakes' ,tonnage, the two former have exceed e d in volume the totals of the preced ing year, while the latter will show a falling off. There has again been witnessed the annual rush of merchandise to the lakes just prior to their close, and th is year an enormous season's-end volume p f busine ss was handled at lake ter minals with le ss complaint of delay than usual. The railroads co-operated with local shippers desirous of taking advantage of the half-water routes while still the lake and rail tariffs maintained, jand the promptness with which facil ities -were afforded for moving out a ibig freight tonnage was in contrast ito conditions a year ago, when at times freight cars were at a premium. I n ithe city's leadi ng indust ry production (was forced to fullest capacity. Heavy Joading out of flour had foreshad owed a big production, yet a week's output of 454,150 barrelsan excess of 10,320 barrels over the former high recordwas even better than expect ed. The new record not on ly adver I itised aga in to the world the command ing position of Minneapolis as a flour .producer, but, coming at this time, when more quiet trade and moderate (business is the report from the coun try at large, and leadi ng industries (except those in eastern shoe-manu facturing centers) are producing less, it sto od out conspicuously. I t drew the attenti on of the commercial world, and fathered the comment that at least one industry is unaffected by any general tendency towards recession. Locally there has been good business in other lines. Jobbers in seasonable goods are doing a satisfactory trade, and, tho It is still early, Christmas buying is being felt by the retail trade. Bank clearings of $21,886,232 are sea sonab ly large, attesting a general trade a little heavier than in the correspond ing week last year. I n this respect Minneapolis shows up well among Amei'ican cities. , I n the country at large, and espe cially in the east central part and the New England states, the interest of the day is principally centered in the matter of wage reductions. B y Ja n. 1 it is expected the wages of ap proximately 500,000 employes will have been cut in some degree. Last week it was the subje ct for favorab le comment that these wage-scale revi sions have been accepted without de mur, and with the further spread of the movement the situation in th is respect remains unchanged. Some months ago the disturbing factor was the labor situation. To-day th is is secondary, and with referen ce to the maintenance of activity in general, the ,. important considerations are the pros pective demand for finished goods and the probable effect of higher raw ma terial upon some Important manufac turing lines. A wave of strength is sweeping the speculative markets with effects very surprising. Wheat has been on the * rise, and stocks were up. Coffee, a i neglected commodity, speculative ly dead for two years, experienced a re vival of interest' and made sharp ad- i./ *- V, ttP s vances, while in cott on the enormous ^ gamins in prices were sensational fea tures of the week. The cott on rise ]Q showed its bad effect in an immediate resumption of the cry of ruinous raw material prices, for which there has long been much justification in fact. I n " ^ JOURNAL Daliwod by Oairler. _ On* week 8 eente One month 36 cent's All paper* are continued until an explicit order to leceived tor discontinuance, and \}r JXT Iji - Great Northwest Average Daily Circulation, of. THE JOURNAL For the month of November, 61,475 SATURDAY EVENING, meet new conditio ns the textile in dust ry has been greatly disturbed, and in the midst of such readjustment the further advances have operated to make buyers more cautious than ever even tho this last bull movement is not so manipulative, but Js based in good pa rt upon a government estimate of a cr op of on ly 9,962,000 bales. It is notab le that during November, and to date, not a single industrial corporati on large enough to be ma terially important has been formed. This is confirmation of the predictio ns ventured some months ajfo that the era of exploitation and promotion had not only passed, but that no resump tion of activity along the line of the launching of b ig new ventures was likely to be seen for some time. Con servatism is the order the day. Yesterday brought a report from the southwest somewhat disquieting to the grain trade. Observers of winter wheat conditio ns are inclined to take a little less favorable view of the win ter wheat outlook, based on a change in a number of important states, where there has been scarcely enough mois ture to keep the plant in the prime condition so much to be desired before it goes under the snow for the win ter. The prospect is very good and all the preliminary indications of a fine crop are presen t, yet such is the nervousness in wheat due to the strong supply situation and the possibility of a spring wheat scarcity next spring, that even the suspicion of any lower i ng of the condition of the next cr op to come was enough to disturb the market. The government, in the of ficial repo rt for November, notes a deficiency of precipitation in a num ber of important districts, but no where are conditions very serious and a good rain or snowfall would restore the former good promise in full. A t th is moment, however, the dom estic wheat situati on is strong, and sentiment is growing more bullish. A J. S. McLAlN, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION SAXES BY MAIL. One month , 90.88 Tore month* 1.00 Saturday UTS. edition, SS to SO page*...... 1.60 unt ravages are paid. THH JOUBNAL is published evry evening, except Sunday, at 4740 Fourth Street Booth, Journal Building, Minneapolis. Ulna. fe M. LEE STARKB. Ugr. General Advg. U * U w i New York 1 & TribunOffice, e Building . Chicago office-Building . 1 Tribun e powerful bull interest is at work in the Chicago market and the Minne apolis bulls are active. There is little doubt that an advance would quickly follow should any legitimate bull news come along, either from the domestic field or from abroad. W e won't take San Domingo as a pres ent. W e may be a land-grabbing nation, but if so we use discrimination in our grabbing. ^-^V||^^^ THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. The Ore Roads Merger. The Wadena Tribu ne is trying to help the Northfield News out in its effort to shield the Gre at Northern and the Northern Pacific merger by cen tering attention upon the ore roads' merger, and In the course of a long editorial makes the charge that the independent mine owners are placed at a great disadvantage and are practic al ly prohibited from operating their mines because the owners of the rail roads are ore producers themselves and put up the rat es on ore to a pro hibitive point. They are abje to pay these rates 'themselves because it is simply taking money out of one pocket and putting it into another, both pockets belonging to the same people. But, of course, the Tribu ne does not show that the merger has anything to do with that, nor does it note the fact that that was done long before there was any merger of these roads. The question of rat es is one which it has been found difficult to regulate because th is ore is counted as inter state commerce and the independent mine owners were sacrificed to the in terests of the ore-producing railroad companies long before there was any merger. Possibly the dissolution of that combination might aid in reduc ing ore rates, but quite as likely it would not, because the United States Steel company dominates the whole situati on anyway, mines, railroads and shipping. Still, we have no objection to the dissolution of this merger if Mr. Douglas can find a way to do it. Mr. Douglas is the man who is having the difficulty about that question and we have not heard any accusations against h is honesty In the matter either. The concluding paragraph of the Tribune's editorial is suggestiv e. I t is this: "But the Van Sant crowd will never have the courage to tackle the Rocke feller (o re road) merger. It is under too deep Obligations." And yet it is understood that St. Louis county, dominated by the Rocke feller merger, Is for Bob Dunn for governor! The labor organizations of Minneapolis are considering a proposition to incorpor ate several strong socialistic sections in the constitution of the state federation, The activity and apparent ascendency of the socialistic element in local labor circles is a surprise, we have no doubt, to the general public. Gas $1.20 a Thousand. A n annoying mistake was made in these columns yesterday In saying that the price of gas In Minneapolis is $1.30 a thousand feet. I t is, of course, as every consumer knows, $1.40, 'with a discount of 20 cents a thousand if bills are paid before the 10th of the month, thus making the actual price $1.20 a thousand. The demand for Jobs at the office of the Associated Charities is a significant sign of the times. For several years it has been almost impossible to get a competent man when what is called an "odd job" was to be done. Men were' so generally em ployed at regular work that they were not looking for the odd job. Now the Asso ciated Charities finds it has more appli cations for work than it has jobs. The fact is one which is of importance in the settlement etf controversies between em ployers and employes. The time was when the employes had everything their own way. There w as nobody to take their places and In some instances under those circumstances they became unreasonable in their demands. That w as human na ture. It is not confined, either, t6 mem bers of labor unions. But the stubborn fact that there is a demand for work in Min neapolis to-day is one that worklngmen already employed cannot afford to over look in any requests they may have to make at this time for better pay or short hours or the closed shop. A t the same X time, the condition where there are no men for the odd jobs Is the condition we all want. It means prosperity and that it Is generally distributed. A Voters' League Formed . A week ago The Journal advo cat ed the organization of a league to improve the tone of municipal politics and help get and maintain good mu nicipal government. To-day it takes pleasure in announcing that such an organization has been formed. It is to be known as the Minneapolis Mu nicipal Voters' League, and it will fol low the policy of the Chicago Voter s' League, so far as it is adapted to local conditions. The project of forming such an or ganization has been under considera tion for some time, and it is assert ed that the league will have ample finan cial backing. A s we have said before, it is a waste of typewriting and time to form such an organization unless it can afford -to pay a secreta ry well for h is whole time and be ready to back him up. A good secreta ry is the key stone of such an organization. - Its chief activities will be in the di rection of improving the personnel and efficiency of the council, which is the main part of our municipal gov ernment organization. The league will be norpartizan. It will in variab ly consid er personal fitness rather than political affiliation. The good alderman or aldermanic candi date will receive its support regardless of party, and the objectionable will incur its opposition. I t will closely follow municipal legislation and ad ministration, and will always know of its own knowledge what is going on in. the city hall. The Joufnal cordially wel comes the advent of the new organiz a tion- Inasmuch as its policy is al most identical with h tnf n9 ment and political decency. The Grand Rapids boodlers are now confessing. A term in prison is just as hard to bear for boodling as for plain stealing, even if the latter is more re spectable. any manufacturing industry, parts of the country that have long been backward agriculturally are com ing to the front. Farming has taken new life in the south and the rural east is rehabilitating itself the Rocky mountains and the Pacific coa st states are advancing with bounds, and the north central states,' long the strong hold of agriculture in the United States, are more than holding their ow n. A Civic Hero. I n New York last night a frightfully injured man lay pinion ed under a trolley car which threatened to shift Its position at any moment. H e was shrieking with pain. Then came the surgeo n. Tho warned that he might be crushed the surgeon Crawled under the car and administered a hypoder mic injection that put the sufferer out of pain. Next, he called for his i n struments and a lantern. Under an oscillating car that might at any mo ment reduce him to the condition of the man he was trying to help, the fearless surgeon dressed the wounds and stayed with the sufferer till the wrecking apparatus arrived and lifted the car. Then, off with the ambu lance to the hospital at full spee d. The crowd, recognizing the heroism of the action, loud ly cheered the young doctor. ' ' - Two hours later the injured man wajs dead. But who will say that the doctor's heroism and pains were wasted? A man like that ought to offset a score of boodlers in an estimate of American life. The Minnesota horticulturists have held their 1903 convention and adjourned, but still the $1,000 prize for the perfect Min nesota apple has not been taken down. It is thought that next year, however, will see the prize won. In the meantime not a few Minnesota horticulturists are gathering in other thousand-dollar prizes by sellings apples that fall short of the ideal. The Parmer's Advantage. The farmer has one great advantage over the manufacture r. The latter must, either by himself or in asso ciation with h is fellows, master all his own problems and overcome all h is own obstacles. But allied with the farmer is the federal government. Uncle Sam spends millions of dollars every year to help the farmer meet the difficulties of h is occupation. Nothing is too small or too great for the agricultural department to undertake in behalf of the farmer. It fights the boll weevil in Texas and the chinch bug in Minnesota, the cabbage wilt in Florida and the flax wilt in North Dakota it tells the farmer of irrigated lands how to use h is water to the best advantage it discovers plants that will grow in the arid regions it stamps out the foot and mouth disease in New England fights the Texas fever in cattle in the south west Introduces Improved varieties of wheat for the north, of cotton for the southpreache s forestry and shows the farmer how to administer h is woodlot and the millionaire corpor a tion how to manage its forests. The department's large corps of trained specialists Is forever at work protec t i ng and advancing agriculture. There is scarcely a problem that comes be fore the ordinary farmer that has not been solved for him by the depart ment and the method, of solution pre served where he can readily refer to it. All the farmer in trouble has to do is to appeal to Uncle Sam and help will be forthcoming. There Is nothing in the manu facturing field corresponding to the aid the department of agriculture gives to the farmer. There is no such systematic and persevering experimen tation and orderly study of problem s. Every proposition that is* put up to the farmer is scientifically and diligently attacked by the department. It is always looking for something ne w, something better, and it is always ready to discard a rejected theo ry or a discredited method. With such an Industrious and intel lige nt head the farming industry ought to be advancing in the United States very rapidly. And it is. The Ameri can farmer is already 'the best all around farmer in the world, and he Is developing^ ^specialists who cah*t be surpassed anywhere. Farming in the United States is fast becoming a pur- suit that calls igr as much brai ns as os MINNESOTA POLITICS Governor Van Sant Not a Candidate for AnythingThird Term Bogey Laid to RestAdministration Favors Collins Gossip on the Collins Succession Newspaper Comment oh the Situation Is Young Flirting with the Dunn Forces? Governor Van Sant will only discuss one political proposition at a time. In the fall he confined himself to denying the re ports that he was a candidate for the sen ate, and declaring himself for Nelson and CJapp. On his return from the east he would only say one thingthat he was under no circumstances a candidate for governor. The governor gives his statements plenty of time to soak ih. "It,will now be gin to percolate thru the brains of the anti-administration "knockers" that the governor is not a candidate for anything, and that ammunition discharged at him is just so much powder wasted. They are already shifting to a new tack, and roast ing the governor for attempting to dictate his successor. The signs certainly indicate that the governonr' favors Collins. He is opposed fc that followed b-y The Journal in municipal poli tics, th irs paper will gladly co-operate W a e " c y * r sood govern wit The governor has naturally refused to discuss the succession to Judge Collins, as that is not up to him until the resigna tion is handed in. There is no clue to his preferences in the matter. The pressure from Hennepin county Is strong, and the appointment is likely to come r-ere unless the friendc of Judges Elliott and Simpson get into such a jangle that both have to be dropped. In that case Attorney General Douglas is thought to be a likely selec tion. The Moorhead News speaks a good word for its distinguished townsman. Wallace B. Douglas, and urges his elevation to the supreme bench In support of the propo sition the News says: "General Douglas possesses, in a marked degree, the judicial temperament. He is of the tenacious, delving, careful and con servative sort that would insure a proper and wise consideration of legal points, and at the same time possesses such men 'tal or intellectual breadth as would secure to every interest a jug and fair consider ation In legal attainment, in ripe experi ence, in- temperaTnefttf hi character above reproach. he.Js_fltted_fox.* seat upon the supreme bench, ^uEaieSrnore/ If faithful and efficient service t\o the state counts for anything'his appointment would Cer tainly be a popular oriefor this service has madeliim s&oncvvMhjthe,. people. He would succeed a man of high abilities*, and he would aid in maintaining the tradi tions of the court. Governor Van.Sant would vhonor himselfas he would honor the peopleby the appointment of Attor ney General Wallace B Douglas to a seat upon the supreme bench." W. E. Talboys of the Chisholm Herald, One 'of the ii on range papers, takes the following view of the Dunn candidacy: "Mr. Dunn is an able man, altho not a brilliant one, and he made one of the very best auditors the state has ever had. He is a man after the people's own heart, a hearty, bluff, outspoken man, one of the honest, rugged sort. But we are afraid that he is badly handicapped because it is believed that he is hand in glove with Hill and the railroad interests of the state, and that he has not at any time been with the governor and a vast ma jority of the people of the state on the merger question. But for this, and if he were on the other side of the fence with the people, there would be no doubt of his nomination and triumphant election. He may win the race in spite of this handicap, for personally he is very popu lar, but we doubt It very much. The farmers of the state, tho they may have a warm feeling for him, can not and will not trust him with this question unde cided, and with other railroad matters constantly coming up before him for de cision," The Glenwood Gopher is putting up a "scrappy" argument for Frank Eddy, and dogs not seem dismayed by its lonesome ness. Editor Wollan gives the following reason for the faith that is in him: "To all appearances the corporate in terests and Dunn's interests are identi cal the officeholders' interests and Col lins' interests are. identical the people's interests and Eddy's interests are identi cal. That's the 'situation' in a nutshell. That's why the Gopher is for Eddy." Recent utterances of the Appleton Tribune have given rise to a suspicion that E. T. Young is looking for a place on the Dunn slate. His home paper seems more friendly of late to Dunn than to Collins or any other candidate. Judge Jaggard's boom for the supreme bench has not been indorsed as yet by W. J. Donahower or Oscar Hallam. C. G. Rapp of St. Hilaire, a member of the house in 1901, died last Saturday. Mr. Rapp was ill during nearly all of the* 1901 session, and never recovered his strength. He served during the extra session of 1902, and won the respect of his colleagues. The Wanda Pioneer Press has been merged with the Sanborn Sentinel. This cuts off a strong Bob Dunn paper, which has been sounding the praises of the Princeton man ever since Joel Heatwole took a speolal trip to Redwood county and interviewed its editor. Charles^ R. Cheney. THE CHAMPION WOMAN CLIMBER Mrs..Fanny Bullock Workman, news of whose sensational climb in the Himalayas to an altitude to 22,568 feet has come to hand, is an American, and by far the most expert lady mountaineer in tho world. Of medium height, and not more robust looking than the average woman, there is absolutely nothing in her appear ance to suggest abnormal strength yet the feats of endurance of which she is capable are quite phenomenal. When en gaged on climbs involving days and days of hard and continuous work, she is ac customed to be on her feet for eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, and no amount of discomfort causes her the least vexation. To be caught in a severe snow storm at a great height and to take her meals* anyhow only adds to the pleasure she experiences in overcoming difficulties. Mrs. Bullock Workman believes that women who possess the qualities of cour age, endurance and patience and are will ing to rough it make quite as good climb ers as men, and her own exploits more than justify her contention NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD Does the Disappearance of the Frontier Mean Loss of Sturdy Character In Americans?Holiday Edition of John Hay's "Castlllan Days"Some Classic Myths, The west made the United States. In the old sense of the wild west, it is gone forever. What will be the effect on Amer ican character and history? This is the question raised and discussed by Emer son Hough, the author of "The Missis sippi Bubble," in his new book, The Way to the West. It is not a work of fiction but a, col lection of interesting bits of western his tory and studies of western character, bound together by the author's comments and interpretations. The central idea is that what is strong and most character istic in American life is the result of 200 years of strenuous pioneering. Mr. Hough thinks that this twentieth decade battle with nature has developed the strongest type of manhood in the world. The ques tion is now whether, with the frontier gone, and, therefore, strenuous life, we shall continue to produce m America the superior type of map that carried on the fur trade, subdued the Indians, took wagon trains over the Oregon and Santa Fe trails, threw railways across the con tinent and has built up a solid civilization west of the Mississippi in less than forty years. e ha s "ever allied himself to , i ? u ^ n d h with the Eddy movement. H e did not an nounce his retirement from the list of pos sibilities till it was a sure thing that Judge Collins would be a candidate. The leading supporters of the administration, and a large number of the governor's appointees, have come out for Collins. While the governor himself has not said a word, it seems probable that he will exercise his rights as a citizen of the state, and declare his choice for the next nomination. That choice is likely to be Collins, The governor's refusal to stand for a third term has disappointed many, but it has brought relief to a large number of his staunch friends, Who were opposed to Dunn, but did not take to the third term idea, and hated to make a fight on that issue. Sometimes Mr. Hough is optimistic and sometimes pessimistic as to the questions he raises himself. In one of his pessi mistic moments he declares that because Canada still has a frontier she is now drawing off the very cream of the Amer ican populationthe samfe people that for merly were alwa "moving west." In other moments, however, he thinks we shall find new "rests" in Alaska, in the Philippines and Asia. He then thinks that heredity has so strongly molded the American character that we shall con tinue to have the man of the western type, tho the "west" is no more. He says: Yet vie shall do best to dismiss forebodings and to cling, as &till we may, to the faith and hope that was part of the American birthright. * * We go on appaiently still without a plan apparently still borne forward in a throng resistless as of yoie. Perhaps iu the forefront of our ranks we carry the trump of Jericho for other lands, if not in the bugle note of our armies at least in the humming of our com merce. Let us hope that we do not invite a trumpet call at our own walls * * * What ever the pioduct of that change after the revo lutions that are yet to be, no man of the future will ever again behold a land like that American west which is now no more * * * Now we have seen our old ridei going far, our flap hatted man, the fearless one, he has strange company to day at home and abroad. In all reverence let us hope that God may prosper him, in all reverence let us hope that there may never arise from the great and understanding soul of any leader of this country that sad and bitter cry: "Give me back my Americans." The new holiday edition of John Hay's Castlllan Days is specially illustrated from drawings made by Joseph Pennell during a recent visit to Castile for the special purpose of illustrating this handsome vol ume. These drawings have a charm about them which direct photography cannot impart. The very uniqueness of outline in many of thema sort of dreamy indis tinctnessis suggestive of the Spanish at mosphere, and the architectural illustra tions of interiors reproduce the misty veil ing of high-vaulted naves and transepts. The book embodies the thought and ob servations of one who is able to enrich a book of this kind with his fine knowl edge of Spanish life, art, literature, his tory, tradition and people. In the chap ter entitled "An Hour with the Painters," Mr. Hay, in a very delightful way, de scribes the great picture gallery of Madrid, which he affirms is the finest in the world. And in the chapter on Cervantes no one can forget the exquisite poem by Marcela de San Felix, quoted by Mr. Hay, beginning: Let them say to my lover That here I lie! The thing of his" pleasure, - His slave am I. Say that I seek him Only for love, And welcome are tortures My passion to prove. That "passion was the passion of a soul betrothed to Christ," and, while full of what Mr. Hay calls "refined and spiritual voluptuousness," is the outburst of a "young and arduous human soul, under the stimulus of the solemn act of consecra tion to God within the gloom of conventual life. In her Classic Myths, Mrs. Judd has in cluded her versions of some of the best of Greek, German, Norse, Roman. Fin nish and Russian myths. The collection makes some very entertaining reading. The supernatural in the Bible is distinctly pur poseful and beneficial wherever revealed. The introduction of the supernatural in the classical stories is frequently frivolous and immoral. The lack of human knowl edge of many of the laws of the universe i does not make the revealed working of such laws beyond human explanation, impos sible. Telepathy, for instance, is show ing men to-day that the touch of mind upon mind is the working of law they cannot explain very clearly, but which, nevertheless, exists. - - There are touching and beautiful stories in Miss Thurman's Sketches In Ebony and people, and they protest against"the"tone Gold, which have the southern flavoring of levity in which newspaper paragraphers of the old black "mammy" of the southern discuss the game. There was a time when families of the ante-bellum days. The golf was taken seriously enough, as this old "mammy" is still found occasionally, [excerpt from an ancient law document at- The author of this book shows her at her J tests: "On Sept. 9, 1637, Francis Broune, best in "Mammy 'Liza" in the little story, sone to John Broune, wabstet In Banff, which is ohe of mingled joy and tears, and finely pathetic. T^fe^* 3rHE MAGAZINES sJfcC^/ How Peary Will Find the Pole-^He tells In the December number of Tne National Geographic Magazine. H e is going to use a powerful steamer this time, instead 1 domme." of a sailing vessel, with auxiliary engines. How he is going to use it, he tells in the article. It looks easy on paper, but things up around the pole are not so smooth as paper. Still, as Peary says, it would be a fine thing to know that an American had actually captured the flagpole of the earth and nailed the stars and stripes thereto. The magazine contains interest ing Information and half-tones of Panama and other timely articles. What Russia Is Doing for LibertyShe thinks she has done much by her treat ment of Finland to destroy civil liberty, perhaps, but according to Eric Ehrstroem, the representative in France of the Fin nish patriots, and an able lawyer, writing in The Independent for Dec, 3, she has done just the opposite. Finland had "ever appeared the enemy of the present re gime in Russia. But now * * * the czar has succeeded in turning a stanch friend into a bitter foe." The Finns hereafter will aid those who are seeking greater liberties in other parts of Russia. Re becca H. Davis in the same magazine says a woman's word about the education of children. Literary Menu for DyspepticsUnder the head of "Humor at the Table as a Preventive of Dyspepsia," Henry Edward Warner, in the "chock full" Christmas number of What to Eat, as a diet for the chronic dyspeptic, prescribes this: Oyster on Bill Nye Half-shell. Scalloped Mart Twain. Cervantes Dressing. Artemus Ward Sandwiches. , Roast of Bob Burdette. Potatoes a la Dean Swift Salad of Juvenal, i " " Dickens Trout. Munchausen Sauce. Biete Harte Cigars. Aleck Sweet Cheese. Wine of Wit. This could be followed three times a day. Christmas What to Eat is full of other Christmas suggestions. A Beaux-Arts SkyscraperIt is the Blair building in New York city. How it has met or avoided the problem of "find ing a suitable clothing for the still skele ton system Of construction" is told by H. W, Desmond in The Agricultural Record for December. "The Architecture of West Point," -which is just now a matter of much Interest, is discussed by Montgom ery Schuyler. The Best Things to ReadThe Lamp for December tells in a most comprehen sive manner. To the fore, however, is a bright little Christmas yarn of a .married couple who for once were going to have a quiet Christmas alone together. They didn't and how it came that they didn't is the story. Who Owns the United States?We thought it was "We, the people," but Sereno S. Pratt in one of the many inter esting and instructive things in the Christ mas World's Work says: "One-twelfth of the estimated wealth of the United States is represented at the meeting of the board of directors of the United States Steel cor poration when they are all present. * * * They control corpora tions whose capitalizations aggregate more than $9,000,000,000." Despite these facts Mr. Pratt concludes on the showing of other facts that there is a wide diffusion of wealth in this country, attended by an extraordinary concentration of capital. This looks paradoxical, but the skeptic will have to read Mr. Pratt for further particulars. Vast System of Race CultureProfessor Edgar L. Larkin, director of Mt. Lowe observatory, near Los Angeles, in an ar ticle, "The Illimitable Power of Mind," in December Suggestion, favors a "vast sys tem of race culture" based upon sugges tion. Every other system of education thruout the United States, he says, should be upset. "Education of all children should begin five months before they are born," by surrounding mothers with healthful, ennobling and strengthening sug gestions. B y such a process Professor Larkin believes artists, writers, scientists and all the rest "can and will be developed tq.a degree beside" which those now exist ing will be as midgets." The professor is not talking about life in Mars and is writ ing in all seriousness. BOOKS RECEIVED THE WAY TO THE WEST, and the Loss of Three Early AmericansBoone, Crockett and CarsoB. By 'Smerson Hough Illustrated by Frederic Remington. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. CASTH.IAN DAYS. By John Hay. With illus trations by Joseph Pennell. Boston: Hough ton, Mifflin & Co. Minneapolis. N. Mc Carthy Price $3. CLASSIC MYTHS. By Mary Catherine Judd. Chicago Rand, McNally & Co. Price $1.25. Illustrated. SKETCHES IN EBONY AND GOLD. By Mary Cochran Thurman. New York: Broadway Publishing company. FOR A "ROUGH RIDER COLLEGE" A number of New York gentlemen are in terested in a plan that is on foot for the purchase of Buffalo Bill's "Wyoming prop erty. Colonel Cody has decided to dispose of a large share of his interests in Cody and thereabouts, consisting of ranches, gold and coal mines, hotels, a newspaper, etc., and the probability is that the New York men who are interested will buy up a considerable part of it. It is Colonel Cody's desire to dispose of some of his interests in order that he may promote a pet scheme of his that he has been endeavor ing for a number of years to get around to, and that is the building of a military col lege for the teaching of "rough rider" military life to young men. In the event of the college getting started, Colonel Cody says that General Nelson A. Miles might possibly take charge of it. Colonel Cody has a long list of young Americans and several young Englishmen who would be delighted to patronize the "rough rider" college. A HARD-WORKING ACTRESS Stage-struck girls with visions of mid night suppers, boxes of candy and roman tic novels will probably be shocked to know that Miss Rose Shay, the Cincinnati girl who manages her own opera company and sings the leading roles, spends her leisure hourswhich are not manyin the study of history. History has been her great hobby ever since she was a child, and now every moment when not occupied with her duties as manager or prima don na finds her poring over her histories. She says: "I find it more fascinating than novels or fancywork or societytho I love my friends. I believe that any one who is unfamiliar with history is only half educated, and I believe that a thoro knowledge of history is a liberal education in itself." BRINGS PIECE OF HISTORIC ROCK Miss Susan Grant of St. Andrew's, Scot land, a daughter of Sir Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, has arrived in New York city on her way to Washington. She is the custodian of a peculiar gift from the bishop of Argyll and the Isles to Bishop Satterlee at the capital. When it was decided to build a magnificent cathedral in Washington, Bishop Satterlee an nounced that he desired stones from ruins and other places of ecclesiastical interest to embody in the walls of the edifice. Miss Grant brings a good-sized piece of rock on which the famous Irish missionary, St. Columba, stood when he preached the first gospel to the harvesters of the Island of Iona in the year 568. WHEN -GOLF WAS TAKEN SERIOUSLY Golf players complain that their favorite game is not taken seriously enough by the v- was convicted by the borrow or Justice court of the burgh of breaking into the buithe of Patrick Shand, and stealing therefrom 'sume golff ballis,' and the judges ordainit the said rancis to be pre sentile tacken and careit to the gallowshill of this burghe, and hangit on the gallows thereof to the death, whereof William Wat dempster 'of the said assyls, gaive i' i v G. B, Moses of the Progressive Eighth Ward Speaks Interestingly of HlsU Great DiscoveryA Fuel Saving Scheme That Gives Ashes Burning" Cards and Spades and Wins Out with One Hand Tied Behind itNo Ex pense or Dust Attendant en the New Fuel's Use. G. B. Moses writes from the eighth ward that he has a fuel-saving proposition that makes the ashes-burning scheme look like 30 cents in change with a plugged quarter in it. Mr. Moses was an early, convert to the ashes-burning proposition* and kept it up until the furnace w as as.- full of dust as the Mojave desert in a windstorm. In addition to that trouble, the fire used to go out to see a man, and Mr. Moses stopped trying to burn ashea* except in warm weather, when he wanted to bank the fire. But the experience he had acquired! made him a close student of the political,, economy of the furnace kind, and resulted, finally in that successful scheme of fuel saving known in the eighth ward as "the G. B. Moses snow consuming plan." ' In a word, Mr. Moses* plan looks to the consumption of the snowbanks that cluster around his cottage door. Mr. Moses says: "I noted one day in throwing in some snow-covered coal that it burned with a fierce heat, and in this simple factas simple, yet as pregnant with meaning as the fall of Newton's appleI found the germ of my great discovery, namely, -the snow-burning furnace. The procedure is something like this: "I start the fire with a good layer, say eight inches, of black coal. Before this gets glowing, but as soon as the gas flames begin to shoot up thru the chinks of the coal, I throw on two or three hods of snow. The Are in connection with the snow forms a layer of steam and pre vents the moisture from trickling down Into the coal and so putting out the Are. This layer of steam becomes superheated, giving out a fierce heat and thus prevent ing the snow above it from melting. In this way heat is generated and fuel saved. "In looking into the ashbox I have never yet discovered the presence of snow, from -which fact I take It that the snow Is completely consumed." Much interest has been evinced by the neighbors in the experiment and the plan is likely to be quite generally adopted la the progressive eighth. To err is human not to jump on the man who errs is divine. John Queen, the Delmonico waiter who took a tip and made $100,000 in Brooklyn. Rapid Transit in 1899, is now at work again. He took another tipthis time on Steel. What a waiter with $100,000 should want of a tip is, indeed, mys terious. Another unmarried English duke of the kind that the American heiress cannot be sure whether he is proposing marriage or telling a dialect story has showed up. Eggs have been to 70c a dozen in New York. This ought to be a good opening for our new play. The Washington government announce* that it wouldn't take San Domingo as a gift. Any one who wants a race issue will find one ready made there, with bunchea of trouble hung all over it. Any movement built like that of Dow ie's, upon personality, Is bound to -find an icy spot in the sidewalk. The lady who makes music on the type writer had a cinder in her eye yesterday, ..and after some futile efforts to dislodge it. resumed her seat and her work, waiting for it to get good and ready to get out. There is nothing remarkable about that. It is simply a woman's way, but it recalls the actions of the average man under like circumstances. A sympathizing friend will sit by and make suggestions that har row the soul of the sufferer who, instead of waiting, is thinking hard and rubbing the painful eye, while he stamps around until everybody else is uncomfortable, too. This he keeps up until one of the manV remedies suggested proves effective. But while that cinder is in the eye, or the hurt lasts, he attends to nothing else. The typewriter girls are the stuff that the martyrs of the twentieth century are made of. Patriarch Miner, president of one of the quorums of the seventies of the Mormon church, says that there is but one negro in heaven. This statement was made at the funeral of Eugene Burns, colored, at Salt Lake City the other da^and the patriarch acknowledged thatlSvCene was not that fortunate negro. The negro who is in heaven, the patriarch said, Is Abel, the body servant of Joseph the prophet. The family of the colored man who was thus summarily turned to the spiritual wall by the patriarch's dictum was much aroused over the incident and the Rev. D. A. Brown, Baptist, who was present, arose and stated that there was no such teach ing in the Bible. In refutation of the as sertion of the patriarch, he read several selections from the Bible, citing instances where men with black skins had been saved. He attempted to calm the feelings that had been aroused by the remarks of the patriarch, and offered assurances of hope. The patriarch was about to reply to Mr. Brown, but the family preferred Rev. Mr. Brown's more cheerful picture of the departed's future and arose in wrath, threatening to carve the patriarch with razors. This ended the incident. Just what the Mormon teaching regarding the colored brother is may be interesting. This summary is given in the words of Patriarch Miner himself: We believe that there are three orders of spirits. In the first class are included the" spirits that have never been incarnated. Hav ing never been given a human body, they are doomed to grope in darkness thruout eternity. There is no redemption for them. The second class includes the spirits which have been incarnated. They have been given the privilege of coming into the world and being re deemed thru the plan of salvation. That class is the whites. The third and last class of spirits is the class that fell. Because of their fall they are com pelled to reside in bondage. They are given carnate bodies, but can never lift the yoke of bondage. * That class of spirits includes the negroes. With this teaching the Mormon church is not likely to be very popular with our colored friends It must oe rather hard on Abel, also, who managed to slip in by the intercession of the prophet, to be all by his spiritual lonesome among so many white people. ~-A J. R. THE MAIN CHANGE A STORY OF WESTERN LIFE , SPLENDIDLY TOLD WILL COMMENCE NEXT MONDAY. THIS IS ONE OF THE SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE YEAR. IT IS A WELL DRAWN PICTURE OF THINGS THAT ARE CLOSE TO US, YET THE PERSPECTIVE IS : ^ 5 CLEAR AND SATISFACTORY. -' ONE OF THE INCIDENTS IS THE: CUDflH Y KIDNAPPIN G SENSATIO N y v^-S"I J r : *" -.3*y*& !b5 A- : f mi*f*&i AT OMAHA , A NEW THEORY OF THE CRIME. | | {i i