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-$- i^ 16 ^f^ THE JOURNAL iLUCIAN SWIFT, MANAGER. J. Sw MisLAIN, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION BATHS BY MAIL. |Qnt month fO-8 itCatee months X.00 Saturday Eve. edition, 28 to 86 page*,..... .1.50 Delivered by Carrier. One week On* month All papers are continued rntll an explicit order is received for discontinuance, and until all arrearages are paid. THE JOURNAL ia published every evening nt Sunday, at 47-49 Fourth Street South, Jour nal B'lllding, Minneapolis, Minn. 8 cents .86 cents New York Office, Tribune building. Chicago Office, Tribune building. WASHINGTON BTTBEAtJ. W. W. Jarmane, Chief of Washington Bureau, 001-902 Colorado Building. North western visitors to Washington invited to make use of reoeption room, library, sta tionery, telephone and telegraph facilities. Central location, Fourteenth and streets NW. & TBAVELEItS ABBOAS Will find The Journal on file as follows: LONDONII. S. Express Co., 89 Strand Ameri can Express Co., 8 Waterloo place. DENMABKU. S. Legation. PARISEagle Bureau. A3 Rue Cambon. Resi dents visiting Paris can have their mall or telegrams sent care of this Bureau and the same will be forwarded to them or held for their arrival. AN INVITATION Is extended to all to visit the Press Room, which Is the finest in the west. The battery of presses consists of three four deck Goss Presses, with a total capacity of 144.000 eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded and counted. The best time to call is from 8:16 to 4:80 p. m. Inquire at the business office and be directed to the visitors' gallery. Quantity During January and February Thethat Journal carried 58 oer cent more for eign advertising in 51 days (no Sun days) than its near est daily and Sun day competitor car ried in 6 days (including 9 Sundays.) bi Ttye Convention. The republican state convention was a very harmonious body. It was in session scarcely more than an hour and disposed of the business before it with remarkable expedition. The choice of delegates-at-large was prac tically settled in advance, so that the action of the convention was little more than a ratification of preferences heretofore generally conceded. The platform.will be fairly satisfac tory to the republicans of the state, except those who desired that the re publican convention should express it self specifically with regard to Cana dian reciprocity. The resolution on reciprocity is so general in terms as to be of little force. So much pains is taken to disavow any intention to favor reciprocal trade arrangements WWch may modify in the least exist ing tariff benefits that the deliverance of the convention on this subject is unimportant. Reciprocity which does not touch aiy schedules does not amount to. any thing. It is a question of adjusting the schedules to the greatest good to the greatest number and the general welfare, and such adjustment is., not at all inconsistent with reasonable and legitimate discrimination in favor of home industry. It is dnly the illegiti mate and unreasonable discrimination "Which reciprocity would do away with. Governor "Van Sant's speech came nearer expressing the sentiment of the people of this state on tariff and reciprocity .than the platform does. The lnoident, however, furnishes an Illustration of how readily business men, who have practical and vital in terest in questions of this kind, aban don the treatment of them in political platforms and public legislation to men who are guided more by political considerations than by business inter ests. Take a federal officeholder as the formulator of the sentiment of the business men of Minnesota oh the question of Canadian reciprocity and you have the right viewpoint of the wayCiniwhlch a great deal of political platform building is done. Those pliable politicians and subservient newspapers that have shown violent symp toms of mergpritls during the past two years are exhibiting some signs of recov ery. The disease is no longer fashionable. Another Abuse Correoted. The timber and stone act under which tins- of thousands of acres' Of valuable timber lands belonging to the government have been gobbled up at nominal pricesfor ther benefit of large holders, of timber stumpage-bas be^'n repealed by the senate and with con current action by the house one of the greatest abuses of the liberality of the government will be stopped. The Journal has devoted con siderable, attention to the merits of this, question, wjthin the past year and Is gratified at this indorsement of its protest against farther continuance of the corrupt practice made possible and BO largely resorted to under the stone ,and timber'act. The bill reported by 'Senator Hansbrough and effectively suR#o.5ted by Senator yfel$on/provides for the sale, by auction, or otherwise, 'as directed by the-kSecrjatary=Hof_theln- .jtfy FRIDAY EVENING, terior, of the right to cut timber on government land and devotes- the.pro- ceeds of such sales in/arid or'semi-1' arid states to the fund for reolaiming arid Jands by irrigation. Two im portant results are accomplished by this bill. It secures to the govern ment, a fair price for valuable timber On the public lands and it turns a large a/nount of*money into .the:na- tional irrigation fund. \The public is no longer to be deprived of what be longs to it without. a fair compensa tion while the work of opening arid and semiarid 'lands to'settlement thru irrigation will go forward with great er rapidly and on a much larger scale than would otherwise be possible. The cultivable area will be greatly en larged and the opportunities Ttor ob taining cheap homes for actual settlers will be multipliled thru this well con sidered action. Those who are very much afraid that we cannot dig the Panama canal without great sacrifice of life to the ravages of fever and other malignant tropical dis eases should remember what has been done for Havana. Havana was the breed ing place of yellow fever up to six years ago it is now more free from it than some of the cities along our gulf coast. National Eights and State Rights. Torrents of good red blood were poured out during the great, conflict known as the war for the union, 1861- 1865, out of which our battle-scarred country came out with the doctrine of nationalism, established and ce mented with the blood- of one of the greatest conflicts known to history. Sinoe then, the growth of the tional spirit has been steady and per sistent, leading up thru judicial deter minations as to the powers of the fed eral government to the recent decisive merger deliverance. It is now settled that a corporation can go into inter state commerce on the terms pre scribed by congress and no other. The merger decision in taking the ground the right of congress to regulate interstate commerce is.as absolute as if the United States were a single state, disposes of every plea of a par ticularistic nature and leaves no doubt where the court stands on the "Na- tion" question. Whether the particularistic element in this country likes it or -not! it is evi dent that the influence of Alexander Hamilton is seen in our progress to nationalism rather than the influence of Jeffarson. Hamilton's influence mergers, he at once proceeded against controlled the convention, of the com monwealths called by Virginia in 1786 to meet in Annapolis to regulate commercial relations between .all the commonwealths. It was Hamilton who then proposed the assembling of a constitutional convention, as he said, "to take into consideration the situ ation in the United States to devise such further provisions as shall ap pear necessary to render the consti tution of the. federal government ade quate to the? exigencies of the union," This appeal- led to the constitutional convention of 1787, in Which all the commonwealths but Rhode Island were represented, Looked at by some commentators, this proceeding, and its, results are regarded as a coup d'etat or a revolution but the masterful mind of Hamilton pushed the proceed ings, and the weak confederate gov ernment was shouldered out of the way by a well-ordered plebiscite in nine of the commonwealths, Hamilton's program was not fully incorporated in the federal constitu tion. His opponents read Into it the particularistic views of Jefferson as far as they were able %ut, in attempt ing to actualize the Jeffersonian prow gram as to the powers of the state, the democratic party was stricken a deadly blow by its armed assault upon the union. Since then the United States of Amerioa has progressively insisted upon the intelligent govern mental view of Alexander .Hamilton* who took the initiative in insisting upon a government strong enough to assert itself and enforce Its own laws, and actively promote every real na tional interest. na- The merger decision of the federal supreme court marks the progress of the American people toward a homo geneous federation of states under federal laws in what pertains to the whole nation, yet autonomous as to local interests. The state convention wouldn't indorse the idea that the merger is out of poli tics, altho one of Mr. Dunn's supporters tried to secure such an expression from it. Perhaps -this claim will be put out from Dunn headquarters with less fre quency hereafter. A Good Suggestion. Detroit has about decided not to accept $750,000 from Mr.' Carnegie '1or the purpose of library extension. As is ^customary,. Mr. Carnegie provided in this case that the beneficiaries must do something for themselves before they could realize upon his offer. But apparently it is not so much the ne cessity of putting up some more money to supplement Mr. Carnegie's gift, as the sentimental consideration which led to the rejection of the gift. So much was said in denunciation of the way in which the money was ac cumulated by Mr. Carnegie that this affected the acjti^n of the city more than anything else. In this connection the remark of Senator Dolliver is suggestive. Lunch ing with Chaplain McCabe in the sen ate restaurant the other day, the sen ator, said to this skilful operator ujion the generosity of the people, the man who has raised more money and paid off more_,churph debts than any other man who ever lived: "What would you do if Mr. Rockefeller should offer you a million dollars for the big Meth odist university at Washington?" The bishop hesitated a moment, smiled and said that it would be a*great rtemptU tion. 'Certaliily," sai Mr. Dolliver, "and one which ought to be yielded to. Don't ou' ning in the channels of public benefi- jBehOfe, like running water, purifies'It self before it has gone very far from the ource of contamination^" know that mphefy, Run- bishop seemed delighted with the sug gestion, and possibly it might have been valuable in Detrbit if it had been made there at the right time. 'j Our friends of the merger who are pronef* to make much of the fact that the supreme' court decided against the merger by a mar Jority of only one should not forget thief other four- judges who are pretty good lawyers, too. The merger question has really been argued before thirteen (just think of It) United States judges and nine of'them have declared against it'to four for it. That's good enough for us. Democrats and Trusts. In the house, yesterday, the demo crats amused themselves by starting an interesting interlocution on the] subject of trusts, questioning repub-f lican sincerity in their antitrust cam paigning and accusing them of ing-) gling with the question and playing^for' position in this 'presidential year. That was a mistake. 'The demo cratic record as to antitrust legislation! is bad, and Mr. Tawney very $rpmpt^ "ly called attention to it. The Sherman antitrust law,, against which the, democrats strenuously voted, and whose constitutionality hap been again very robustly and absolute^ ly affirmed by the' United' States SU-. preme court? was the basis of, Presi dent Roosevelt's recommendation, in! his first message to congress, that its provisions to protect the public from monopolistic proceedings of, business combinations, should be applied vigor ously by the department of justice, and that congress should further strengthen the Sherman? act by ade^ quate legislation. That act.is a re publican measure' passed in spite of democratic opposition. Those who had taken the true measure of President Roosevelt's character knew that he came to the: front as an antagonist of the monopqp, lies, not as a political trickster agitaf-* ing questions of public importance for! his own, political advantage. It was1 predicted, however, that antitrust proceedings Would never be allowed) to go to any serious length, and that the president would take no serious steps against monopolistic combina-j tions. Some journals declared' thati the whole talk of enforcing, the law ojrl putting*thru, any further, .antitrust legislation was a subject of amuse ment. When, in 1902i Attorney General Knox came Into possession of im portant facts touching trusts and the railroad discriminations thrjj secret, and preferential rates, traffic pooling, combinations of corporations to put up the price of meat, ar|a against the formation of corporatiolfs into one holding company, merging Into itself the,-control of/parallel an competing lines of railroad for the purpose Of eliminating competition to the injury of the kublifc. Congress, ih spite of adverse: influences from mo polistic sources, enacted tlie Elki: airtirebate bill and the, .department commerce and labor law, includi the power of regulating trusts, and tbgi ptea of the trust adv^ates that suc|i legislation was uncon*titutlohal hjJMJ been, completely disposed ^pf by\tl|e last decision "of the "supreme court on the question, of monopolies., The position of the government is firmly based upon the common Tawva which proclaims the indefeasible right of the public to protect itself from in jury from -monopoly or any ..Other malevolent process'^ ''''"'t. The Hearst Yellows are trying to put the president in the hole by urging him to do things following ,the.. merger de cision which his judgment will adviseffiim not to be in a hurry about. ]Por in -stance, the New York Journal wants. Hill and Morgan proceeded against as .crimi nals. The suggestion" of Justice Holmes is cited in justification. The president not more likely to be crowded by such pressure Into a trust-smashing campaign, regardless of consequences, than he-jtsv-to refuse to follow UP: the result to the nierger case'Tjy' a^propHSte actidn when he is sure what it is his duty to do, andhave that'. is saying a good-dealprobably all that is necessary./ The high protectionist ''standpatters?- of Iowa seem to have Governor Cummins down just now. But we are very much mistaken in the character of the man if they have got him licked. Governor Cum mins has fought a hard fight for the^'ibwa idea," He has had to contend with the senators and congressmen,, with the pow erful railroad influence in Iojyal politics, and personal jealousy of his^rlslng Influ ence. He has suffered a defeat. But for all that he. is right, and in the end he will win. There are points of resemblance be tween him and Roosevelt. The Louisville Times makes, a? sensible observation with regard to the-Hears eah ,didacy when it says that it is not, after all, so much a. matter of Mr Hearst's pri vate character -as ,-hls public ^political methods which must be considered by^ the party. The .plane upon which, he has pitched his effort to secure the democratic nomination 4s so low that no party can afford- to descend to it, and'Mr. Hearst's persistence in an undisguised effort" to purchase jthe presidential nomination places not so much the man as the party ori trial. 7* i'If: he shotold. be given?the nomination," the Times' says "the" frarty from that moment would cease.to exist as a determining factor in the life-of tlie nation." The Times is eminently correct, and this fact is bound to be so thoroly recognized by the convention at, St. Louis that however'much progress Mr. Hearst may maJse. before, that, convention meets, it is not, conceivable that the leaders 6f the party and the members of the' con vention Would be willing to commit the partyvto such suicidal action as his nom ination would involve. 7 TO BE THE "CANADIAN SEA" Hudsen bay is the third largest Inclosed marine sea in the world, being next iuwsize tp the Mediterranean sea and the Carib bean sea, and a bill is now before the Ot tawdi^arUament to change its nameitotthe Ca^afian sea) "for: good, political and-na tional reasons^ and to assert Canadian su premacy oyer the waters ofl the-bay and the adjoining territory." American whalers from New Bedford, MassE re praticany the only people who have frequented the SChelbay-iotthe last4hirtyryears^ THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. -?rf* NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD More vNew~ England Coast Characters In FictionEntertaining Yarn of "Cap'n Erl*?~UnMy Chair Ii) a.Fidget"Hapi plness," What Men Say of the Subject Gathered^ into a Booklet." The quality of character developed along the New England coast seems to be un usually high, if the chair may }udge from the good souls ~and'jolly souls, too who, according to the records fiction, dwell there. .Joseph C. Lincoln in Cap'n Erl has added several vfery'delightfu characters to the New England-.coast elect Chief among Mr,' Lincoln's additions are three old vessels masters who keep bach elor's hall at rOrham.- The keeping of bachelor's hali has. not been altogether to their taste. They have studied the prqb lem of getting, a housekeeper, but it has not seemed, easy to. solve. One day a copy of the. Nuptial Chime falls Into the. hands of. Captain, Bsrez. .He .suggests that the three draw lots! to. see .who shall get .mar-r, riedj. that an, advertisement then -.be in serted in the Chime for a wife, and .that the one on whom the lot falls get.married and keep house for himself and wife and the other wp. .The lot falls on vCaptain Jerry, and Cap'n Eri composes the "ad." The ,']ad" fcrlhgs results., After...mjjch correspondence the would-be bride, a Mrs. Snow, -informft the -advertisers .that she will come tp$|)rham to. talk' the, .matter over in a- business-like way.' That seems reasonable, and the three captains are at the station to meet her. The train comes in. Mr. Ltncohy-may. tell the rest: "Two or three got out, but these were men. Then eaJme.ayn,apparition that caused Captain Jerry to gasp and clutch at Perez for support. "Down the steps'of the car came a tall, coal-black negresg,. and.ln her hand was a canvas extension case, on the side of which was blazoned ,in two-inch .letters the .fateful letters, .'M. B, Snow. Nan tucket/, "Captain Erijgazed at this astquriding spectacle for full.thirty seconds. ,'Then he woke up. "'Godfrey ,aminbT he "ejaculated. 'Black! Blackn-Iiun!, Run for your lives 'fore she-sees/u&'.' "This order was superfluous." This may seem a bit extravagant. Per haps_it,is. But ft is worked out in a very matter-of-fact Way, after all, thpin the working out -Captain' Jerry 'almost 'loses his reason and'.threatens to drown the supposed Mrs. Snow. But this incident is only a kind of pro logue to the /deWldpment of the story, which Is'one'bf^deep human~ interest, showing characters simple but sincere and admirable. It is not a story of thrills, but ft is not the less entertaining on that account. S ."The Uneasy Chair"' found ground for uneasiness "the very first jump" into t^is column Its "stuffily for yesterotay' ipras in the papier for the' day*v and*he" 1 tKjngsL" The picture What is .happiness, land. ho^r*can' get it? The answers of many men whotemper been conspicuously successful in their quests "are to. Be,,found in Happiness, Un attractively. prlatSafiaaid. artistically pa^er- bOttnd boofciet^M Ri Sill's directions for finding happiness are' summed up in this: ma*de'a! C^?'^vS%$A-^^y you Forenoon?arid afternoon and night Forenoon, And afternoon, and nightForenoon andwhat. The empty song"repeats Itself. No more? Yea, that Is Wfe make this.'forenoon sublime, This afternoorif ftiipsaim, thisnight a prayer, And Time- isconquereaand thy crliwn"'is"iron. y- If any..people create a sjdrinth world or In any qphsi^ejable"e portioh -of. it, the? public becomes all about them.: ^Turkey.-has-been, in the: limelight much-of late, and the volume of literature.,relating-to the sultan's, do-! minion h%s ^gjfased: very materially in: answer to the ^public's demand to know all about the.land that can stir up suoh a fuss. _.*.*. Turkish Life 1h Town^^'and Country, by Lucy M. J^Qfi^tt, Is the latest, contribu tion to thlsj.liierature. It.desHs :very in strucjfciyely ^itih tow life, ,counti^ ':5ife, harem. llfaT religious thought,. Monastic: life, thev^mehian-' cominuntties, the Hebrew coronfejS.'^and-lastV'but not least interesting, brigatfd life. It would ap-1 pear from -the ehapter that. wpmen: make quite as good brigands: as-do the and some Of ihe*women are"'celebrated in TdrklSh song arid story. Sometimes brige andage/is5 rat onc keen ''-''t knoW i family affair and th Wflfe,bears(lawless arms,beside.ther hus ba.nd. The'Uneasy". Cha!|r. ^&ri REGEIVED JP" By Joseph l & lancdia.' Illustrated by Charlotte'Weber. New YorJrio-A S -Barnes & Oo. Price $1.60. HAPPINESjSj Compiled and published by: PSul Elder, San Francisco. ixramsH IJFE ANi coTmxaT. By Lucy M. ,T. Garnett. Illustrated. New York G. P. Putnam's Sons. Minneapolis: N. Mo-way Cartbyw i r,r *,il.' POLITICAL OF MERGER DE- ''?.01J I'I nf iii i i i CISION u}i New' York World.. Politically, the effect of tbredecision can hardly be exaggerated: It #411 greatly strengthen RopseyiJt JBSZ .-a: candidata: .People will love him for^^ the: enemies herhas made Mr... Cleveland lost pbpularity among the democratic masses nolt law.-. 5tr.J :forcingvlt:^*Yi't-f. cannot n^w enforcing thi Roosevelty wil gain bjr^ens t'-. It cannot now be said that the repub lican party is owned byMfi.'Roosevelt 1&e'trusts. It be said that is controlled by them. His prospects of re ejejjtit&i iWfrej 58} smaU before^ they are brighter J.or4&y, and, barrlng^some act of impe*uo^^nwisdom^oh ^his-'own part before November, brighter they will re- HRIES0TA POLITICS State Convention Yesterday Showed va Marked, Preponderance of Collins Sen-, tlment,-and Caused a Slump In, Dunn StockThe Robblns Resolution arid Its EffectFred Schlffman Says the "Kids" Cannot Carry Ramsey for CollinsVol stead Will Control Seventh District ConventionDefeat of Pease- Causes Trouble In the Eighth. .-^a/ Yesterday's gathering' of Minnesota re publicans marked a turning point in the campaign for governor. It was distinctly a Collins convention, and If "a vote had Jbeen taken by the delegates, the count iwould have been against Dunn about two ito one. The Collins managers claimed an :eyen largerproportion, while/even the Dunn supporters, those who were .not bluffing,, admitted that -they were in *the Iminority. The .contention, demonstrated that Col lins is now in the lead, and that from now on Dunn's organization will have to make a desperate struggle to regain the advant age they once held. They failed to make thS showing, thenyn claim from any section of the state first and second distrlct were overwhelmingly lZr Predominated in 3The rL0.delegatlons- 1.3'' Whil S chair had settled back^lnto a state" of^seini- easlneSs, when "|v^pl|fc6rer on "Th!e a 1 appeared with a paper in hand and broke -the news gently that theipic ture labeled iu SSfiis column "Rose\ ll. Young"i had appeared"elsewhere oyefe-the name'Baroness ''$w'Huttens: The' "Erheasy Chair: .cast "one. gl^ace- at 'the* picture' and Immediately fe'llMwo" a 'tremendous fidget and almost "sald" herewith is that of Rose' E^oYoung,''the author, of Henderson.' That ofuJBairpiiess1 voh Hutten hafebeeix prepared for ruse' with^ review dfthat author's book, -Vlb-i let, to appear SOOHT- and wa& used by^ mistake. .'j-..'"^-.-''-'-'-^'^-'-. W 3 the third, the Collins men down there were keeping quiet, and there was a good sprinkling of them. Both the Hennepin and Ramsey delegations had a big ma jority of Collins men i and if the four north ern districts, of the sta^e had been polled, Dunn would not have had a majority. There were a good many Eddy support ers in the seventh and'ninth district dele gations, and Collins men turned up from everywhere," including several counties in Dunn own district, the eighth. The sentiment was sb evident* thai the Dunn boomers were busy all afternoon, explaining how it was. They said that the delegate convention made'no difference. Wanting to pass the honors around, they let the Collins men come this time. The Dunn men would come to the next convention, 'The*ColMns men rejoined that they had done the same thing in many counties, giving Dunn men places on the delegation because there was no issue in volved. This was notably true "In Henne pin and Ramsey counties, where the gov ernorship contest did not enter into the selection of delegates at all. There were three or four countries, like Cass and Wa dena, where the Collins men ran things just to show thatkthey could do it, but as a rule the counties sent representative republicans, and the drift of the conven tion against Dunn was very significant. The Hennepin delegation did not have much to say on the governorship, having tacitly agreed to keep it out. but they joined the rest of the convention in jump ing hard on the resolution of A. B. Bob bins. The Robbins incident might have been put up by the Collins men, for it was the one thing needed to show the temper of the convention beyond a mistake. In fact, the Dunn managers repudiated it at once, and were busy all'afternoon roasting Mr. Robbins and explaining that they did not know about it beforehand. Incidentally, they were scolding each other for permitting such a thing to hap pen, and they compelled, Mr^ Robbins to make a statement for publication, saying that he alone was responsible. They "tried to convince him that in his efforts to do something for Dunn, he had injured his candidate's cause seriously. However,, if the resolution^ had passed, it would have been a certificate, from the convention, expressing confidence in Dunn and his attitude toward the. merger cor porations: If the Dunn men had controlled the convention., and ..passed the. resolution, it would have been a big thing for their cause. The trouble was that.Mr. Robbins presented his resolution tp the'^wrong peo- ple:- -The massWtbe'tfelegates kne.V maAtx thft "Mtr tmvf''' An Tn_-_ Frank Eddy-says -he is feeling pretty good, as a result of the week's conven tions. He was a delegate from Pope ceun ty. yesterday, and many,delegates triad to get him out for a speech,, but he said he did. not care to'try It, knowing congressman's gtandv oh were? formerly aglirilt-J President? wfap*./We're Volstead rf thattthe of the convention was1 4 *v tKat merger influences were al*" work' within the party, and did not propose to deny it, officially or otherwise. They were in ao eord with Governor Van Sanf, who says: ?The-fight is not over until they give tip the attempt to merge the rostds and'dom inate politics." Ramsey,county's '^young fellowtf* made the liveliest demonstration for Collins. They opened the eyes of delegates who supposed Raiiusey. was?all Dqnn,. and' they A__ a little nervous by their frisky demeanor. Fred Schlffman thought, it necessary to -call :them" down In av morning paiper, say ing that ''Ramsey county will iri.th end .depjare" for Dunn. The kids who are ru'n- jQing the campaign for Collins: ain't next to the game a little bit. When they: wake UP to the real situation they will find that butting:, in', and being r/successful are two .different things. Bob Dunn is the-next governor.'"- The next county convention will show whether" Schiffman is strongest in Ramsey county- or '.'the kids." no for speechmaking. He received many assur ances of support. Joel P. Heatwole and W. E. Verity Were conspicuously absent from tho haunts of the crowd yesterday., Tom Girling was busy with his duties as secretary, and the work of mixing with the delegates fell to James A. Petefson Tom Salmon and a few other lieutenants. They kept head quarters pperi all afternepn, but not many visited them. F. A. Gunders worked ac tively in* th. ehlobby for Dunni Candidates for speaker of the next hbyse were in- evidence arid-were very active. Frank Clague of Redwood was shaking hands and meeting prospective members. N. F. Hugo of Duluth shone in the re flected glory of his brother the mayor"j*whp gave, excellent satisfaction as/chairman of the convention. W. A. Nolan of Mower also go around-among Ms friends. Dar Reese, who started the Joke which developed Into a plot against the senators. had considerable fun at, the expense of the "Colliris men,'* who were accused" of the heinous conspiracy. Julius Block mixed effectively among the delegates. His two rivals for the state treasurershlp, P. J. Schwarg of Dodge Center, and Ipuis Q. sVogel pf New Ulm, both on- hand and-hard at work. men,,Were Seventh, district men. say that .their con vention'at Ortoriville next week will be a very tame affair. Congressman Volstead will be in* control and the resolutions will give him. as strong an..indorsement as he wants, sft thQbnly:coht^si Wiirbe a friend ly one ove places, on the.Chicago delega tion. Th& VOlstead men had a great scare before the county conventions for fear they would be captured by Dowllng and his reciprocity lieutenants. They were spoiling for fight, but could not get, one, and had everything their own &f course they-saw to^ it that'the ^delegates 'to the' district convention "were ^olstead men, and, the opposition is too ander the [Great,"' will 'be given for the :w6e tOTSprihg a fi^ht at Ortoriville. The Friday night and Saturday matinee per *ormhces reciprocity.^lias gained some men whowill Changed the alignment, somewhat in ,the ^distrlcty He chas him, vb'ut others ?meh are_ strong, .for reefprbcity and have been .driven lrito the opposition An effort, is being made to get DOwling to make the run, bjat he will not give a definite a.nswer until he knows the situation bmw.^: $ j^:^X: Grant county republicans will present the name OfiTdSten E.-'Dybdal "of:Elbow Lake for one of the,.seventh district dele gates., at the Ofciohville. convention., ,It was supposed that'B. J. Jones of Morris wpuld be selected ^for.vthe nprthern end of the district^ibuit Grant countyrepribllcans understand that Stevens county-will hot present the name of the former senator. ^Jthex-have-jCondt^ted^ogQ-iti "'^f^*^^^ f,* 4'4 sS* X', MAROH 18, 1004. place themselves with Dybdal as their choice. The second district republicans paid a ,splendid tribute to Gus Widell- of Man /kato when they picked him up out of a field1 a4 of lour candidates and-elected'hiin delegate, by Acclamation^ leaving "the other three to fight it out for the second place. C. H. March of Litchfield, who was brought out $t the eleventh hour .and elected one of the sixth district delegates, is ,a- well-i-known busmess- man- and*was colonel of the Fourth Minnesota regiment, raised -Jo ^take '-tneiplap'e of-:one threefold regiments In case it should-ber .recalled- from, active-service .in the Span ish war. He is an active republican- and a firm believer in tariff revision and reci procity. of- the S. O. Morse of Slayton, who was one of the Murray county delegates, an nounped that he would be a candidate for the house,' to succeed George W. Wilson of Worthington,- who will not seek a re election. J. M.' Dicksdn of Fulda has already filed for the nomination, but. Mr". Morse thinks he is entitled to it, having made the run two years ago as the Mur ray county candidate. He says that in the event of his election he will be a candidate, for. speaker.. .Jrtr. Morse was postmaster of the house in 1887 and 1889 and private secretary to Senator Wash burn during his six. years' -service. 6.'N Thundale of Harmony, who wasthanks. a delegate,, is a candidate, for the .house nomination from the east end of Fillmore county, opposing S. A. Nelson of Lanes' boro who will seek a renomihation. Bur dett Thayer and E. K. Mitchener of Spring Valley are probable candidates from the west half of the county^ V. L. Ellis, editor of the Mallard Call, was the only delegate present from the new county of Clearwater. He says Dunn seems to lead in. that county, but that sentiment Is. divided. Charles B. Cheney. AT THE THEATERS Metropolitan^Whitewashing Julia."1. Quite the cleverest comedy.of .the Season and certainly the best acted is Henry Ar thur Jones' "Whitewashing Julia." Agairr has the English playwright demonstrated not only how well he understands human nature and English human nature at that, but how thoro a master he is of play con struction. Choosing for his field of action a little English village and for his char acters the small coterie of society folk therein, he develops in this microcosm a story that is satirical without being cyni cal, a story that lays bare the pettiness of the social hypocrisy which lies at the root of much social persecution. The play is. a modem "School for Scandal," in which the' characters, without resort to caricature, are made to reveal their true salyes. in a manner worthy of Sheridan himself. Merciless as these revelations are, thero is no bitterness in them. This clair voyant playwright sees the truth clearly enough' and tells it" with an apt humor that its always sane and wholesome. A triumph of artistry is the way in which. Mr Jones, keeps us ever on the threshold of the Mystery of Julia without In the end throwing open the door. In the light of its blaze his true Englishman finally stands revealed, the stoic mask he is wont to wear'rtnru life having been torn away at last. The Mystery has thus served its artistic purpose and any solution of it, however clever, would strike a false note. It is noteworthy that the humor of -ux ^Whitewashing Julia", lies.. not so much in the dialoguewhich is bright enough but-iii-the* unexpQcted situations and" mostI of all In the character-drawing. The -por traits are all from life and drawn with that clever differentiation which makes them real men and women. Obviously, the best of acting is essehjial to the success 6f such a play and ihis happfly is supplied by Mr::.Frohman's wonderfully .good com-: pahy. Miss Fay Davis invests the char acter, of Julia with a sweet .naturalness that enlists and holds the sympathies from 'the Outset. She is "ever the well-bred Eng lishwoman, endowed with the saving sense of Humor. It Is an even characterization, .never rising-to great heights of emotion but always genuine and always convinc ing. Miss Davis Is tall and spirituelle, sug gesting the Gibson girl in face and figure. She has an expressive face and a speak ing voice that is penetrating yet pleasant. Quite the most interesting impersona tion is that furnished by Guy Standing of.. "Billy," the debonair man of the-world, who has passed 40 without having "set tled down," and who becomes Julia's champion in the little world where she Js so cruelly persecuted. Mr. Standing, with his -odd mannerisms. -.gives. the character a distinct individuality, and contrives to conceal the real man-beneath a cynically good-humored,, but quite impenetrable, ex terior until the moment whe.n he defies the world's ppiriipn as personified in his hypocritical nephew. It Is open to ques tion whether the unpleasant impression Mr. Standing gives us of Billy's insincer ity a.nd lack of serious purpose is quite dissipated by. this undeniably strong cli max. Even when he proposes to Julia the note, of Insincerity is sounded. We do not know the true man under the, crust until the'denouement. But it is great acting. Wi H^: Cromptoh furnishes a keenly rel ishable characterization of the old family lawyer, who. bears the burden of many secrets and gives advice with a dry cyn icism that is- most effective. One of the best comedy bits Is furnished by F. New ton Llndo as the family black sheep, who stands in such frequent need of "human sympathy." It is a refreshingly funny and. thoroly unconscious degenerate of the noble English type that Mr. Lindo gives us. The younger brother, the hypocrite who comes to grief in the end and Is foroed to wield the whitewash brush, is well done by Herbert JMcKenzte, despite his distressing habit of dropping his "g's" and his unpleasant voiceboth of which are, no doubt, in character. The-Lady Pinkney of Ida Vernon is the well-bred dowager to the lifea woman who is am bitious for her family, who has a whole some fear of the socially impossible per son and who betrays-an" Inordinate: and thoroty feminine curiosity. Louise Drew Who, by the way, is the daughter of John Drewcontributes an excellent imper sonation of the impulsive young girl, who dpes wrong' things with great ardor and repents therd, quickly. The other char acters are all quite as well done In their way* as Chose that have been mentioned, eyen those of slight moment being care fully arid artistically executed. After passing thru endless and arid deserts of musical comedy, one finds pure pleasure In ''Whitewashing Julia.'* ~yr B. Chamberlain. Foyer Chat. P^Vl^GilmVe'iri the lead'lng rble-ef-'iThe Mummy^and the Humming Bird," .will be the^ offering at- the MetrbpoUtan for thethin half week, opening next-Sunday night, "Othello" will be the opening bill of the Louis James-Fsederick.Warde angagement at .the Metropolitan- tag.- The new spectacular drama, "Alex- next- Thursday even "HacBelth" wlirhe'theSatur day night offering, and the engagement close Sunday veiling, with a revival of "Julius Caesar." S'YoriYonsO^" with its Interesting story, it? dell*htfuf comedy, sensational log jam scene and other good^features, continues to play to capacity audiences at the Bijou. rr-,.. Commeiiaingv^Sunday- -aifternoon, the Bijou will present,to.Us.patrons the new est Sherlock Holmes- play, with Walter Edwards in the. title role. The play is a dramatl!,Uori:pf,:A..Conan,l)oyle's novel, *TheSign.o the-Four/y. ''d!hmimfe -Fad'Aen'1 wm-be presented by *WC!lMtStK^B0WiMBr- ttlthe, Lyewm but three more times.' Commencing Sun day evening* the company will appear in ^^"ThelmaV "^"F^t^M S^^^S^^'j?J Story of Mr. VanderbUt'* efora*ory Joke Played o(i a "Po fCy|ilte| Who Lived In a Little Cabin Near Blltmo^e A Rip Van Winkle .Incident Th|t {Re formed an Inveterate Fisherman. When Mr. Vanderbilt put up his palatial residence called Biltmore, near Aghijllle, N. a few years since, he was1- Aftearound he hadd much annoyed and a great deal of his time Svas taken up by the people in the neighbor hood who came to him with their troubles and who seemed think that he ,wge a kind of. King Solomon who could settle all their difficulties. Sometimes he did Jtake a hand when the thought he saw ant open ing to do good. One day a poor woman with le-^eral children called on Mr. Vanderbilt ana ohm plained bitterly thafe her husband *a| an idle vagabond who often spent da*it a time hunting and fishing and whoiwipuld not provide for her and the childreil SShe wanted Mr. Vanderbilt to try to frefbrm him. The millionaire listened to he story patiently and asked her where she lived. She explained that her little cabin was in- a neighboring field. "I remember it," replied the millionaire kindly. "Now you let me know the minute your "husband goes off on his next fishing trip or before, if possible, and I'll show you how it can be done." The' woman left Biltmore profuse In- her In a few days she reappeared and, said: /"Jim's going fishin' to-morrow. has been digging bait and has bought the two quart jug, full of Whisky." "All right, ma'am," said the millionaire rubbing his hands gleefully, "You leave it to me." The next day after Ji had gone, some workmen appeared with four yoke of oxen, put the cabin on heavy wheels and trans ported it out of sight of its former loca tion into a neighboring field. Then the Biltmore gardeners appeared, leveled off the grounds, sodded them and planted a good sized tree on the place where the cabin stood. Bushes, shrubs and scrub pine were planted in various parts of the yard, until the place had been completely restored to a state of nature. "Jim did hot return from his fishing trip until the afternoon of the second day. Mr. Vanderbilt heard that he was on his way home and was soon on the spot strolling thru the fields. A Jim reached the place where his cabin had stood, his jaw dropped and his eyes hung out over his cheeks. "How de do," said the millionaire. "How do!" "Been fishing?" "Say, stranger, what moight have be come of this-hyar cabin that was here night.afore last." "Cabin!"-. Mr. Vanderbilt's voice ex pressed tlie utmost surprise. "There hasn't been a cabin here for twenty years." Jim simply stared at the site of his former home. "Twenty years ago my father bought a cabin of a poor old woman who lived here:" "Re dam!" ."Yes, she's now living over in that field", but she's getting pretty old and Infirm. Her'husband was a worthless scoundrel and deserted her attd she's been supporting herself by doing work at Biltmore." ."Whar did you say her cabin mought ber^--' Mr. Vanderbilt pointed out the location and, Jim, certain that he had been made the~-victlm of witchcraft and frightened Hither'.by the shock, made his way over %he"hill: fully digesterdMr,eVaridererhejokthafte Went an asked bilt and acknowledged that It was all right. They had a gopd talk and Jim was given a ppsition as forester on the estate and made a proficient hand. We|ve just Heard that new song of child hood that is causing such a furore in the east: 'r j. "We thoughtless bored an auger hole' In father's wooden leg." President Smith, whose Utah harem has excited a civilized senate, has an an nual Income of $75,000. A pretty foxy old -papa! Arid so the cowslips are with us once again! Isn't it glorious! You will find them In the flower stores. One apostle, it seems from the Wash ington investigation, admitted that he had discovered that he had been "sealed for eternity" te his hpusekeeper. No use for a man to struggle much under conditions like that! '*y Thomas Langley, innkeeper, the heav iest man in England, died the other day. Langley was six feet tall and weighed 650 pounds. Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart, Phelps Ward made a strong plea against vivisection before a committee of the Massachusetts legislature the other day. She said in part: This is riot a question of scienceexcept in a secondary sense. It Is primarily a questiop of morals. When William Watson said that in ton don the other day, a sigh of gratitude from a thousand aching hearts echoed his bold and simple definition,. A man who boils, or bakes, or scalds," or freezes, or crusltes, or tears, or starves, or 4llnds, or. dissects a living, conscious dog is a far lower individual in the scale of existence than jthe animal he torments. I The dog who kisses his vlvisector's hand Is a nobler being than the vfvisector. One who has suffered more for this great put test of humanity Han any of us now consecrat ing our lives to it has nobly said: "It Is better for the world to be without physi ology than without pity." "I would rather die' a hundred times," said the bishop of Manchester, "than save my lif-ev by such Infernal experiments." Gentlemen, -you have not to deal with" po litical bill, or a corporation bill, or a raijrjftd bill. You have to do with "a moral bill ^You have, to deal with a plain question of right and ^tong. A school girl wrote to a St. Louis paper the other day that she was compelled to Stay in the repm and watch while .the professor In the high sohool placed three defenseless rats under a glass and ex hausted the air by means of a vacuum pump. She saw the little animals' terri ble struggles for air and their painful death. Since then, she declared, she had hated 'the instructor fiercely, and could riot seem to get over the feeling. And such a useless bit of cruelty, top! Representative Terrell of Massachu setts has introduced a bill in the national congress providing' for the extermination of dogfish along the Atlantic coast. A bounty is -to be paid by the government on the delivery.of the tail section of e^h dogfish deposited at such places as' may be designated by the government. There are two reasons why the do~gfl8h~~are"" to be exterminated... Their baritJs**at*riBfet keeps the other fish awake, and the re sult is that they pine away^fiil pecorse from lack of sleep. Then agaifc, they are likely to go madgajid bit^ftne other fish and so poison t|ft^ftirfn|H .the Atlantic, ocean. sl^WI It hardly seems the thing to kill the dogfish, butcthehbill mighIw^bJ^gg ,Je amendedbe to read that eac dogfls tween Cape'Hatteras aria' EastportTMe,, should be compelled to wear a collar and a numbered tag. In this" way they might be forced away from the food fishes' stamping ground. -"''~A 'j?-R,' .-d*}.~.'_ SUITED FINE TO PURSE ^'r .''.:..-i'4-&. ^y-i*Kmr.^"-:" The buzzards enjoy the same ness"' Iri the1 Virginia as they do in tropieal-eeuntries. A breaker, boy was brought before a sqttlre-. ih^av- Coal^-muKng town on the charge .pf._iiavjhg k|gFd one of the ,only scavengers, of .thajfe o^n^ry. After- se- verely. "sacred-Wes New' Rfv^r^'dTstrigPbf irepfimftndi^fl Jthe ^old squire, who was a|Stemasf rf&alqj '"f find ypu $10." '"I haM^'Wf^tSer^touch," re piieathe H'VeW,nWftimuch boyi: halri^ lot' |6.y haf'yO ./$fH^jlfaf you 45."-. "I get?" "Three dollars centsv" '"All-right dei^l^n4va*|3.7ft^Jxeseventy-fivdan