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THE JOURNAL LUCIAN SWIFT, MANAGER. Leading Them All In May The Journal Set Another Hot Pace for All Other Minneapolis Papers. In May, 1904, The Journal Carried 10 Per Cent More Advertising Than It Carried in May, 1903. IN MAY The Journal carried 63 per cent more advertising (CLEAN) than TRAVELERS ABROAD Will And The Journal on file as follows LONDONL S Expiess Co 90 Strand, Ameri can Express Co 8 Waterloo place DENMARKU S Legation PARISEagle Bureau 53 Rue Cambon Rest 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 Official Record Under Scrutiny. The second report of the public examiner on the auditor's office is a clear and concise document The facts are set out a good deal as if piesented in a lawyer's brief Reduced to still lower terms and stated in plain Eng lish, the proposition is simply this A any other Minneapolis daily paper, also more advertising than any other Minneapolis paper, dally and Sunday issues combined. I IN MAY The Journal carried 72 per cent more foreign advertising than any other Minneapolis daily paper, and 36 per cent more than any other Minneapolis paper, daily and Sunday issues combined. IN MAY The Journal carried over 44 per cent more local advertising than any other Minneapolis daily paper, also more advertising than any other Minneapolis paper, daily and Sunday issues combined. IN MAY The Journal carried over 82 per cent more cblumns of classified advertising than any other Minneapolis daily paper. IN MAY The Journal's daily Home Circulation (the kind that means most to advertisers) averaged 64,727 Copies The Journal is the Progressive Enterprising Home Paper of Minneapolis! S. McLAIN, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION BATES BY MAIL. One mouth *0 35 Three months 1 99 Saturday Eve edition 28 to 36 pages 150 Delivered by* Carrier One week 8 cents One month 35 cents AH papers are continued until an explicit order Is received for discontinuance and until all ar rearage* are paid THE JOURNAL is published every evening ex cept Sunday at 47 49 Fourth Street South, Jour nal Building Minneapolis, Minn. New York Office, LEB STARKE, Tribune building Mgr General Advg Chicago Office, Tiibuno building. WASHINGTON BUREAU W W Jermane Chief of Washington Bureau 001 902 Colorado Building North western vis'tors to Washington invited to make use of reception room library sta tlonerj telephone and telegraph facilities Central legation, Fourteenth and streets I NW 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 Preoses with a total capacity of A44 000 eight page Journals an hour, printed, a great many Mlnneapoly people be- aded and counted 1 he best time to call Is from 8 15 to 4 30 Inquire at the busl-' ies office and be directed to the visitors gal ery The state of Minnesota had timber to sell I provided by law a system of permits under which timber upon certain specified tracts might be cut at a specified rate per 1,000 feet. A general estimate was made as to the amount of timber but such estimates are not to be relied upon to protect the state's interest and the state pro vided, in addition, that there should be registered within each permit a log mark by which the ttnber cut from the particular piece of land cov ered by the permit might be identified Wherever found, scaled and charged for at the price per 1,000 feet agreed upon This is supposed to be the most effective scheme yet devised for protecting the timber of the state and securing payment therefor I is re garded by the state as important and is set out extensively and in detail in the law The directions as" to the en forcement of these regulations are very specific, leave no room for doubt and provide no excuse or failure to comply I appears however, by the records in the auditor's office, that out of 313 of such permits issued by Dunn 286 were not recorded until after the first logging season following their is suance had passed eight were never recorded at all 143 contained no log mark for the first year, 175 contained no log mark or the second year, and 129 contained no log mark or either year I 69 cases a member of the ftpm or corporation cutting the timber was taken as surety on his own bondall 'of which was contrary to the law. I is the business of the surveyor general to receive from the auditor official notice of these permits with the registered log marks and to scale the logs as a basis of settlement for them I appears that there is no way by which the surveyor general can officially know, and probably no way in which he can find out in many \instancps, what timber is cut, or how wmuch, except upon the information supposed to be furnished by these log marks When no such log marks are required or registered he has no means of knowing what timber is taken from state lands Now the probabilities are that it will bo quite necessary for Mr. Dunn to say something more about this mat i ter than simply to denounce the pub i lication of the facts as a mass of 1 lies," because the state of Minnesota -is placed in a position somewhat sim ilar to that which a private concern would occupy if it had acquired a considerable body of timber, had ap pointed an agent to sell it, had provid some such device as the log mark to make sure of getting paid for what it timber was cut, and the agent had fail ed in a great majority of cases to follow the system provided by the the rights, privileges and immunities .^ai^*# W wfcmm WEDNESDAY' EVENING, company and had allowed the timber to be cut and removed from the land without providing any means of iden tification or collection of the exact amount due. If the private corporation owning this timber had been satisfied that it could not afford to rely upon a set tlement on the basis of cruisers' esti mates made prior to the cutting, and had provided a complete and reason ably accurate method similar to that adopted by the state, the probabilities are that it would regard the action of its agent as little short of a breach of trust. The probabilities are, too, that if that agent, with that kind of a business record, should ask for pro motion and a higher position on the strength of his performance in the previous capacity, he would not get it If Tascott is all in, somebody ought to capture Pat Crowe again. The Late Dr. Hatch. The death of Dr. Hatch in California was noted in The Jour nal the other day Dr. Hatch was or many years a resident of Minne apolis and will be remembered by many friends and acquaintances here. was state ornithologist and pre pared a very interesting volume on the "Birds of Minnesota," published by the state Thru the increase in the interest in bird study that has been noticeable in the last few years, acquainted with Dr. Hatch's work on the birds and came to ad mire and respect the old man for the kindly nature his writings on the birds seemed to reveal. Even those wb.o are not especially interested in bird study will get an interesting glimpse of the wild Min nesota of thiity or forty years ago in glancing thru the pages of Dr. Hatch's book. The frequent refer ences to game birds that are now unknown where they were very com mon in his time, is a striking re minder of how rapidly the frontier has given place in Minnesota to the conditions of civilized life and tamed and subdued nature that exist in all long-settled communities "The merg er issue is dead," says Du nn This is important if true. Constitutional Rights. Before adjourning for the summer the federal supreme court yesterday handed down some decisions involving the question of the right of trial by jury of an accused person demanding it in a criminal case in the Philip pines, The decisions are only an echo of the court's determinations in the group of insular cases which excited voluminous public comment in 1900 and 1901. The principle is held that the constitution does not carry rights such as trial by jury without legisla tion conferring the right by the con gress of the United States. Under the existing law or the Philippines, the right of trial by jury in criminal cases does not appertain to the Filipinos. Justice Harlan, in his dissenting opinion, reiterated much that he op posed to the majority view of the court in the Porto Rico case. Harlan predicted then that the majority opin ion meant a radical and mischievous change in our system of government, and that such change would mean the passage from the era of constitutional liberty, guarded and protected by a written constitution, into an era of legislati ve absolutism in respect of "many rights that are dear to all peo ples who love freedom." Yesterday he declared that the opinion of the court, reiterating the former view of the po tentiality of congress was, in effect, an amendment to the federal constitution. In the decisions bearing upon the status of the Philippines and the Filipinos, the supreme court clearly decided that the insular acquisitions are subject to congress, and that their citize ns do not necessarily become citizens of the United States, and do not become entitled to the immuni ties and privileges of citizens of the United States until congress chooses to enact or them such immunities and privileges. Thus, trial by jury is not permitted in the Philippines, and may not be until congress, act ing on the terms of the treaty of Paris of 1898, determines the civil rights and political status of the na tive inhabitants. I the cases of Louisiana and Florida, the treaties of transfer stip ulated that the inhabitants should be incorporated into the union of the United States and admitted, as soon as possibl e, to the enjoyment of all ypWh ^V^-fleyj *v of citizens of the United States, by congress. Congress, in most of the cases of incorporated territory, was in no hurry to admit the inhabitants to citizenship. Alaska, New Mexico and Arizona are among the notable cases of long-delayed extension of the constitution. Congress has legislated as it pleased or them. A the same time, the people, under the jurisdic tion of the United States, and under the principles of the constitution, are entitled to the protection of life, lib erty and property. Our government has strictly followed its announced policy of governing the Filipinos as their needs require, instead of apply ing to the vanegated natives of the Philippines some civilized, some semicivilized, some savages to the manner and {Instinct belongingthe rights, privileges and immunities of the citizens of the states. Under this manifestly rational pol icy of gradually progressive legisla tion, the Philippines will continue to be governed as the needs of the in habitants and our own interests re quire. A tariff policy or a shipping policy which proves hostile to the local insular needs and real interests, and to the national needs and inter ests, will have to be abandoned. W have started out on the policy of gov erning the Philippines for their best interests, and it is extremely prob able that the people of the United States will not tolerate the introduc tion of any other policy. Fashionable women in Washingt on have gone in for Japanese wrestling By the time the summer resorts are open they will be able to work a back-breaking jiu jitsu on father bank account. A Case oftReal Distress. To the Editor of The Journal. I wish to make a protest thru your columns which it seems to me, has be come almost a necessity to people in moderate circumstances In my morning mail have come eight invitations to "shower s" and weddings Others will follow, and with at least twenty June graduates it is scarcely pos sible for me to meet this demand on my finances Is this a right custom? The increase has certainly become alarming. In ad dition jto a simple wedding giftwhich as not even considered a necessity in former yearseach prospective bride is now given "showers" of every sort, to which not only friends of the bride are expected to respond, but friends of the bride friend Then come anniversary presents and now the graded school grad uates must be remembered Where is it all to end' Many people share my own sentiments in regard to this matter, and I appeal to r a 1 to bring it before the public and help to abolish this pernicious habit of polite begging S A A the eminent risk of being de clared "just too mean for anything," The Journal must respond to this appeal. I comes from the heart and represents a case of real distress The writer of the above communication has only put on paper what it seems to us must be the sentiment of a great many people of moderate means to whom the bur den of gift giving has become un bearable and from which a ll the joy of spontaneity and voluntary tribute bearing of love, and esteem and grati tude and good will have been eliminated. Birthday gifts and Christmas gifts and wedding pres ents and tokens of one kind or another on Easter and St "Valen tine's Day, wedding anniversary pres ents, graduating presents, going-away remembrances and greetings on the home-coming and then these "show ers" or brides which are no doubt so very helpful in setting up housekeep ingall these things and many more like them were doubtless conceived originally in a spirit of generosity and good will and are oft en altogether ad mirable, but when they cease to be the voluntary offering of the giver they are worse than a nuisance and oft en prove a severe strain on the af fections Eight invitations to "showers" In one morning's mail' N wonder there is a storm of protest. Perhaps it ought to be said that the under standing is that the "shower" is some thing for which the showered is se l dom to blame. I is almost invariably the kindly thought of some good friend who wishes to do a favor and who gets up the affair on her own re sponsibility and invites, lassoos would be a better word, a number of her friend's acquaintances into the scheme, which is of course tt complete surprise and so perfectly lovely rif you" *&V&j But.the situation is not utterly without hope of relief. Some people appreciate it and are taking pains to let it be known that all their friends and acquaintances are not obliged, in fact are not expected or desired, to im poverish themselves that they may keep up with a custom beautiful in its proper application, but oppressive and ugly in its senseless abuse The voluntary gift of friend to frien d, in spired by love or esteem or gratitude, is always a blessing to giver and to re cipient, and these tokens on occasion and without occasion will always sweeten the course of life, but a social custom which lays tribute on UrtwU ling subjects and takes toll of their prosperity or their poverty in*- the name of affection and good will is cer tainly destined to become exceedingly bad form. I fact, has already be come so, as we are informed by a competent authority. The St Paul morning papers failed sig nally to get at the meat of Public Ex aminer Johnson's latest report They could only discover in it a "rehash" of fbrmer disclosures Was it an intentional blindness that failed to see the 286 illegal ly executed permits out of 313 issued by Mr Dunn, and the boundless opportuni ties for loot given by this official negli gence? A correspondent of Collier's says of the New York platform, believed to have been drawn to represent Judge Parker's views, that it is as easy to understand this platform as it would be to photograph a room full of smoke Clear as mud is an equivalent and more common expres sion The St Petersburg war press bureau sees to it that a Japanese force is "wiped ou t" every day or two. The Japs do not seem to find it out until they see the St. Petersbu rg dispatches. Wonderful wire- THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUENAL. less work those St Petersburg corre spondents are pitting, upt The Japanese methods a*e Interesting Before the *captuw$%$| &hVchau -the islanders would advance'"scouting parties until they had drawn |hots from ail the Russian gu ns Then they woulS pick up Ihd fragments of shW and dig out the shot and carry them back to the lines Expert examination of these would estab lish the character of the gue, and so, before the final attack was made every officer knew exactly what he had to face at each point of defense. Pretty brainy work' On Stone's ranch, near Aurora, Col, experiments are being ma de in irri gation by the use of a gasolene engine The- underflow water is being raised to the surface and pumped over the ranch A little headwork will prevent Brother Hicks from pulling oft* his drought as per almanac There was no agreement amo ng the coal barons of Pennsylvania, but by a singular coincidence they issued circulars fixing the price of coal at the same price and on the same day It was not an agreement, but a kind of inspiration. W ar 1Mng a won(}erfu time MINNESOTA POLITICS Senator Nelson Is the Minnesota Choice for Member of the Resolutions Committee at ChicagoTraveling Agents In South western Minnesota Organizing Farmers for DunnClapp Men In Becker County Resent Attack on Senator, Senator Nelson's recent interview in favor of tariff revision is of especial im portance at this time, since it seems to be conceded that he will^be the representa tive ofc Minnesota, oft f^e resolutions com mittee of the national* convention Several members of the Minnesota dele gation who have been seen have expressed themselves in favor of Senator Nelson for this place They consider^him the ideal se lection because of his familiarity with all the issues involved and his influence in party councils Since he so clearly de clared himself opposed to the "stanapat" idea, this feeling has been intensified I is felt very important that Minnesota should have on the committee a represent ative who is outspokenly in favor of re \ision, and hence a true representative of the sentiment of the state,. :n st A new st\le of campaign is being con ducted by the Du nn managers in south western Minnesota, who have sent out "missionaries' in buggies to tour the farming districts and -work up sentiment for Dunn The program is to organize Dunn Clubs in every "school district lard try to earry the outside townships for Dunn Confirmation of this is found in a com munication to the Farmers' Leaaer, a populist paper of Pipestone signed by an anonymous republican committee," and announcing that the people of Rock, Pipestone and Noble counties are for Du nn in spite of the assertions of "con niving political traders and barterers So, this committee, says "we have re solved that secretly and in a straight forward honest, upright manner we shall proceed to see to it properly that Dunn clubs shall be (formed at -cmoe in every schoolhouse in the ,4three counties above named In this way, says the commit tee, these conventions will ibe run by "a majority of t&e common 1 .people l'ather than by a coterie of poltticalbleeches 1 nnu The Detroit Raarafd touches -up its rival for the recent attack j*n 'Senator Clapp, previously refined* [to fr^jthfo column, say ing Simultaneously- with, the- annonntfement of Joel Heatwole that hfriftill be Rjeandtdater-for the United States senate contesting the re election Of Senator Moses Bv.Clapp tbe youthful editoi of the Detroit Standard announces that Mr Clapp is no good anyway 'tBttt he Is an \itter failure and, that he is the tooKbf the coiporatlohs and the railroadsa veritable bogov mafti In fact When thi* newspaper venture was launched in Detroit it was rumored from vnrious quarters that ib prime object was in Heatwole inteiest as op posed to the re election, (*f General Clapp, but this was Indignantlj denied Now however at the first Indication 0? opposition to Senator Clapp this youthful editor attempts to throw a bomb into the camp of the supposed enemy but failing in Beelei county where* eveiv republican Is the friend of the senator.it proves to be a squib and may perhaps prove to be a boomerang There Is no county in Minnesota where Moses fi Clapp has more warm personal friends and "admirers than he has in Becker and if his re election is to be contested we believe the republicans of this county will demand and In no uncertain terms the pledge of our next representative to his support first last and all the time The Granite Falls Tribune says As was expected Heatwole deniued The 3 a l's faked interview about him coming out for United States senator to succeed Moses E Clapp Mr Heatwole did not deny the inter view, because he couldn could only say that it as "all rot Charles Cheney. AT THE THEATERS Foyer Chat. The musical comedy success, "A Girl from Dixie," will close its engagement to night at the Metropolitan "Camille" will be the offering at the Metropolitan beginning to-morrow even ing, by Miss Percy Haswell and the1 George Fawcett company For the first half of next week Miss Haswell and com pany will appear In "Moth s" and "Othello Those funny comedians, Gus and Max Rogers, will be at the Metiopolitan for the half week commencing June 9, In "T he Rogers Brothers in London The melodrama, "A Little Outcast," is playing to good business at the Bfcjou I is seldom that so many notables are represented in a play as in Remember the Maine," to be produced at the Bijou next week General Fitzhugh Lee, Cap tain Sigsbee, General Weyler and Count Rujaero figure in the play A packed house last night greeted the Ferris Stock company' in their production of "East Lynne." at the Lyceum Joseph Totten's play* "The Factory Foundling," will hold the boards next week The piece is said to be full of^heart interest, bright comedy and thrilling clinTaxes The Trocaderos are "making good' at the Dewev this week with a bright show. The usual ladies' matinee will be given Friday CONSIDERATION FOR THE PRISONER HENDERSON RETURNS TO DUBUQUE Defective Page THE NONPAREIL IAN The Glorious and Soul-Stlrrlng Time When Brother Bill MoWed Into the Yellow Jackets' Nest-1Sudden Dissipation Of the Ennui and Fatigue of the Hayfleld. The summer air is blistering hot aft(t heavy and rich with the scent of the hay and of the thousands of "whiteweed" that cover the field like a white carpet "Haying" is on in the country and there is no time for fooling or fishing. All the boys, dad and the hired man are out in the hayfleld It is before the time of mowing machines and every man jack has a scythe in his fist and from sunup to sundown nothing is heard but the regular and steady swish, swish, swish of the sevthe in the neavy stand of grass and the quick metallic whet of the handstones against the blades after they have become dulled by the brittle stems of the grass how long the afternoon is for us boys' Will that sun ever move Two thousand Mormon missionaries are in the field The inevitable conflict is ap pioaching This nation cannot long re main half bigamy and half monogamy A wise editor Ohio is getting rich turning out obituary poetry has a fine selected stock on hand which he sup plies the country in time of bereavement, or you can have a piece specially written for you for 50 cents advertises by circular and is doing so well that he has put up a fine old ancestral mansion and is the magnate of the town. Watch out for the coming in your consciousness of the Bright Idea There's money in it The Japanese do not have consumption Even the children are taug ht how to breathe. Prince Uktomsky is suffering from nervous strain not from hanging as re ported Bad time to have nervous strain when there's a big war on. According to a southern medical journal a blush is a temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the physiognomy, eatiologized by perceptlveness of the sen sorium when in a predicament of unequil lbrity from a sense of shame, anger or other cause eventuating in a paresis of the vasomotor filaments of the facial capillaries The beef trust will not be interested to hear that beef commands fabulous prices in Port Arthur It does that in the United States London Tid-Bits declares that pockets of visiting cards bearing the most dis tinguished names, and each printed in a different fashion, can be purchased for a mere trifle These cards are for the most partas one of the vendors assured the writerused by persons of social preten sions who wish to Impress people of their own circle In the hall or on one of the dining-room tables' elaborate salvers are left carelessly about, each one piled with cards bearing most distinguished names, and of course the waiting visitor exam ining these cards to pass the time, is pre sumed to be deeply impressed bv the weight of the social circle in which the owner of the drawing-room mixes Senator Dolliver of Iowa tells this story on himself "I reached a certain small town during a campaign said he, 'and found that the proprietor of the hotel where I usually stopped was in jail j-foTthaT purpose" h'not ^ufffctenTto" en- had gone there of his own accord rather than pay a judgment which he considered unjust asked the sheriff please to let him out for two hours to hear his old friend Dolliver speak The sheriff agreed and sent an order for the release of the prisoner for two hours for that purpose Then he considerately added at the end of the order The rest of your punish* meht is remitted They are telling a story in the West of a- bachelor who thought he as safe in going to one of those ice cream socials because there were so many people there Fatal dalliance' A genial old maid served him not so very old either and then took a seat at the table facing him By and by politely solicitous for his comfort, she asked "Is there anything else you wish' "I wish said the* old bachelor with a smirk and a bow here's where he fell down, "that I might never sit down at a table without seeing your charming face opposite me "Oh my'" said the spinster "do you mean it'" "Mean i t' Mean it'" said the bachelor "how can you think me guilty of trifling'" The next day the spinster told all her friends and some others that she had ac cepted the bachelor The bachelor vowed by all the gods that he as but bandying words with a woman who seemed a bit flirtatious Then the maiden melted into tears and told how her heart as being lacerated And thereupon the bachelor surrendered and the pair were married and lived happily forever morte Not such a bad idea, eh' Johnsosn 9 If it is 94 on the cool piazza with vines and honeysuckle on it back at the house, what must it be here? You dare not think Now and then the hired man stops, spits, and drinks a quart of water Grandma sends up from the house a big jug full of "sweetened water" with ginger in it. It's great' Just as you are on the point of drop ping dead from fatigue and ennui, Brother Bill does something It's always Bill' As a youth, he as the first boy that fell into the millpond in spring as the first kid to get lioked* by teacher during the winter session So Bill does some thing mows into a yellow jackets' nest' Whoopee" Bill drops his scythe, slaps and runs like a deer The hired man jumps sideways and runs laughing in the direction of the sweetened water jug Father waves his hat once or twice, but mows on You stop and holler and laugh and whoop with joy at Bill discomfiture. Gee, wasn't that great to see Bill run ning like a scared calf Bing' Then one of the'hornets reaches for you You quit at once and Join the hired man at the jug. Bill wanders up, top, and the hired man plasters a chew of tobacco against the hornet bites that are most in evidence *'Gol ding em, says Bill looking back viciously at his scythe, "there as eight billion of 'em ris up around me'" "Come on boys," says father, "we've got to get this hay lot mowed before sun down They're too thick up there, pop," says Bill 'Wal then, git your scythe and start down beyond and leave that till later. They'll settle down So we all take hold again, but it isn't as haid work as it as before Some thing ha happened There is something to think about. By and by father says drily: Bill made pretty good time acrost the lot" Then we all holler like good and Bill, h^e says "Well I guess you'd run if you mowed .into a. yeller jackets' nest, by gravy A Fargo restaura nt man complains of patrons who come in, call up their best girls and spoon so loud and long that other patrons at the tables become faint and leave their pie mangled and uneaten. A DIDN'T MAKE THEM SETTLE Luverne Herald In defense of Bob Dunn's settlements with the timber trespassers War ner df Aitkin in a long article to which the Pioneer Press gave great prominence, attempts to show that the appropriation Former Speaker David Henderson of the national house-of representatives has decided to return permanently to Du buque, Iowa For the past year he has been engaged in corporation law practice fact that the trespassers" after they had in New York city, but the Conclusion now been caught and virtually convicted were reached is that he and "New York do not permitted to settle for from one-half to harmonize The climate troubles him and one-third of what the law required the and the fast pace of the big city is not to I auditor to collect from them in lieu of his taste, ^TW?**. &* ta able the state auditor to detect all the trespasses on state lands But Mr War ner'g defense does not go to the merits of the case The repoit made by Mr Johnson finds no fault with Mr Dunn for hot catching the trespassers but shows that he did not make them settle accord ing to law after they had been caught No appropriation was needed to compel the trespassers to comply with the law after they had been detectedafter the amount of timber they had stolen had been ascertained and they had owned their guilt by showing their willingness to escape the penalty of the law by com promising on the price of the stolen tim ber What calls for explanation is the *(sw I criminal prosecution JUNE 1, 1904. & wi NEWS Of THE BOOK WORLD Schools and. School Books in the Days When the Uneasy Chair Was In School Vjahd BeforeSome Quaint and Curious ^vThings Gathered Into a Book by a Col ^fctof of School Books. i v$* H/ A book of quaint and curious things about old-time schools is Old-Time chool and School Books, by Clifton The author is a collector of the school books of other days and has written his book from a love of the sub ject has had, therefore, within reach of his hand much of the material that is embodied in this book, and has approached the subject with a sympathy which has been of great assistance in the selection of that material If, as the author says, with the fingering of ancient school books "the scenes in the schoolroom rise in the memory, one is young again, and has in gentle illusion the same feelings and the same juvenile companions as of old, then, in reading his book and examining its many curious illustrations, the same scenes and the same feelings will ri&e For example, the chapter on "Fly-leaf Scribblings" will remind you of the days when you used to write doggerel warnings to future borrowers of your books on the flyleaves. One runs thus. Steal not this book my honest friend for fear the gallos will be your end The gallos Is high, the rope is strong To steal this book you know Is wrong That is not the way The Uneasy Chair remembers a warning it saw in a certain schoolboy's books In the days when it as an uneasy school bench. W would haidly suffer ourselves to quote it here, were it not a matter of history and, therefore, a proper thing to be recorded So here is the record for future writers of such books as Mr Johnson Steal not. tbis book, my honest friend, For fear the gallows will be thine end, And God will say on judgment day "Where is that book you stole away?" And If you try to tell lie Down to the devil you will fly Now, If we are hot greatly mistaken, it w,s,jina preacher's son's book that we saw this Perhaps that accounts for the theological turn toward the last, and for therwell, what "teacher" might ha ve called the wickedness of its tone It as in one of the same boy's books, we remember, that we discovered this, prob ably written on a hot day. Oh breeee, breeze, gentle breeie, Blow so hard as to make me sneeze Now, we are rambling far from Mr Johnson's book, but that very fact goes to show that Mr Johnson spoke the truth when he said that old school books recall schoolroom scenes and things, also what we said above, that Mr Johnson's book recalls like things The book contains an abundance of in formation as well as amusing reading for instance, by way of information, this which we had forgotten if we ever knew it Originally a "primer" was a book of private devotllons Learning and even knowledge, how to read were confined to the very few But type printing reduced the cost of books so mate rially that they were possible in the homes of the people, and it at once became desirable that the rudiments of language should be put within teach of the many who now wished to learn to lead In consequence an alphabet was often included In the little devotional prlnvrs and this led presently to giving the name primer to all elementary books for the use of children So the book Mr Johnson has given us is not only one of entertainment, but of instruction as well, and valuable as a historical record of the schools of fast retreating years The Uneasy Chair WAKING Oh the long dawn, the weary endless dawn, When sleep oblivion Is torn away Irom love that died with dying yesterday, Sut stiU unburied in the heart lies on Oh, the sick gray the twitter in the trees. The sense of human waking er the earth The quivering memories of love fair birth Now gtrown as deathless flowers er it* decease Oh, the regret, and oh regretlessness, Striving for sovranty within the soul Oh fear that life shall nevermore be whole, And immortality but make it less Cale Young Rice in the June Century THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER "Journalism a Trade "We are glad to find out just what we are ata trad", a profession or an a rt Hereafter when begrimed with sweat and pencil dust, we will take pride in the fact as evidence of that honest toll of which the poets sing and we will dig away at our "trade" Our friends won't "cut" us because we are only working at a trade and about those who are not friends we need not worry W have found out that journalism is a trade from W Boyn ton That is, our suspicions have been confirmed by him in The Atlantic Monthly for June The journalist, however, has a high mission according to Mr Boynton who says "Upon the character of the dally press depends the character of our entire periodical product, and this means in large measure the character of the public taste To afford a vast miscellane ous population like ours its only chance of contact with literature entails a re sponsibility which may well appall even the ready and intrepid champions of the daily press" In a way then, the joUrr nalist Is a sort of tastesmlth Jo hn Denlson opens the June At lantic with a discussion of "T he Great De lusion of Our Time namely, the belief that the world Is organized upon the basis of pure physical force Against the dominance of this "tooth-and-nail" doc trine, Denlson enters a brilliant and witty pVotest Ray Morris editor of the Railroad Gazette, treats "Trolley Compe tition with Railroads analyzing the op portunities and problems of the Interur ban electric system In its competition with the steam railroads Training and Requirements of the Cos sack Service"Eve ry Cossack is re quired to serve the Little Father twenty four yearsthree years in the preparatory class, twelve years in the field class, five years in the reserve and four years in the Opoltchenie His training begins in his In fancv When forty davs old his mother takes him to the church for the prayer of purification When she returns the father mee ts her on the threshold takes the child buckles a sword about his waist, and han ds him back, congratulating the mother on having ghen birth to a Cos sack The cradle-songs by which the child is lulled to sleep are recitals of feats of arms of border warfare At the age of 3, he Is taug ht to Sit astride a horse, at 5, he appears on the street on horseback, and joins with his young comrades in the mounted games As he develops th tribal traditions are Ingrafted In his mind They form the chief part of his educa tionbeyond his plow, he knows of noth ing but service in the armv and war So writes Joseph A Baer in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for Ju ne An admirable summary of "What Stan lev Lived to See Accomplished in Africa" is furnished bv Cvrus Adams the geo graphical writer on the staff of the N ew York Sun, President Charles Thwing writes suggesthely on Sending a Son to College", Arthur Warren describes "T he Turbine A New Era' of Steam and A Kingm an writes on "The Automobile in Business", Librarian Elmendorf of Buffalo defines "The Work of a Modern Public Library Tariff a Permanent IssueQunton's Magazine foi Ju ne says that the tariff Is sue we ha\e ever with us It is a perma nent issue "Protection" It sas "is a Vital interest to the welfare of the na tion, and when attacked bv those who want free trade, it will necessarily become an issue which overshadows all others In a national campaign The headquarters of the magazine has bepn transferred to Washington, Besides the discussion of tariff as an issue, the current number contains articles on "Germany's Colonial Experiments" "Question of Policy for American Shipping" "T he Purchase of Louisiana" and English Naturalism Of Interest to the Scientific.The con- more stringent marriagejaw. tents of the June issue of the Popular-Sci ence Monthly include the following arti cles "T he Total Solar Eclipse of AugttSt 30, 1905," Professoi W* W CampbellFl Copernicus," Dr Edward S Holden, "On the Significance of Characteristic Curves of Composition," Dr Robert E Moritz "T he Physiographic Control of the Chat* tanooga Campaigns of the Civil War," Fredeiick Emerson, "The Value est the Teeth as a Means of Identification," Alton Howard Thompson, "Thorium, Carolinium and Beizelium", "Immigra- tion," Dr Allan McLaughlin, "The Royal Prussian Academj of Science and the Fine Arts," Edward Williams, "De- velopments in the Respiration Calori meter For Students of Political ScienceThe table of contents of th* Political Science Quarterly for Ju ne contains the following! "Legal Monopoly," Alton Adamsf "Trusts and Trade Unions Mabel Atkin son, "State Central Committees E Merrlam "American Municipal Councils John A Fairlle, The Repeal of the Stamp Act, Helen Hodge, The Monarchom achs William A Dunning A Big Magazine The Carriage Monthly, published in Philadelphia has issued a fortieth anniversary edition of 452 pages. The publishers announce that it is the "most voluminous volume ever published devoted exclusively to a specific trade is certainly a great trade magazine It BOOKS RECEIVED OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL BOOKS BT Clifton Johnson With many illustrations collected by the author New York The MacMlllan company Minneapolis N Mc Carthy Price ?2 net SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISERS SEYMOUR EATON, Founder of The feooklovers' Library tad Booklovers' Magazine Seymour Eaton was born in Cana a in 1859 and after a college course began writing on business subjects. A book entitled Business Forms" was one of his first productions and another volume on "How to Do Busi ness" has attained a national circula ti on Then he wrote a series of school text books and became a publisher in this field in Boston. Most of these text books are in use to-day The Booklovers' Library was the outgrowth of an idea that Eaton had carried about several years. When the plan was put into opera ti on in 1900 it ^vas liberally ad\er tised in advance, and \\hen the first libraries were opened in New York, Philadelphia and Boston there was a rush c-f patrons beyond vvhat had been provided for Eaton says-that he has been advertising twenty years and knows nothing about it I was suggested that if he would write an article upon what he should like to know about advertising it ought to be of value to business men has promised to do this One principle he has learned how ever, is expressed in his aphorism, "Good advertising is news The sheer interest of advertising must be strong enough to secure attention among the fires, murders, wars and rumors of wars in the dai lv papers Much of the advertising of to-day is put in front of us so that we may by chance stumble ovei it, he says. I is shoved at us as street hawkers shove gewgaws in front of passers by, or so muddled with pictures and type and fantastic desig ns as to give us eye-strain Fourteen sizes and styles of type are used to make an impression on people who all their lives are accustomed to reading fiom type of one size and style at a time 'Advertising is necessary not only to the merchant but to the consumer, and it deserves better treatment I should have ginge r, and dash, and spirit I shouldn have to be ped dl ed about to find readers Eaton testified that, though a magazine publisher himself, he has usually secured the largest and speed iest results from daily papers The newspapers are close to everybody, and a man with business news to pub lish can spread it in twenty-four hours [WHATOTHER PEOPLE THINK 'i\ Sunday at Excelsior. To the Editor of The Journal I heard Mr Morrill who spoke at the casino Sunday of 'the innocent amus e ments heie In Excelsior on Sundajs These innocent amusements in respect to the saltfons is to allow them to run openly on Sundays and to sell to whom soever they please As to the casino it runs its billiards, pool and bowling from early in the morning until 12 clock Sunday night Do the parents of voung boys who live here or who come here to spend the summers consider it innocent amusement for their boys to spend e\ery .dollar they can get and their time from early Sunday morning until 12 o'clockat night in billiard and poolrooms and bawl ing alleys' This ma be innocent amOse -ment for -some people, but is not so con sidered by ma ny parents of the TO.Ung boys If that article in Monday evenings Journal was written to scare the law abiding people of Excelsior it is a e cided failure W would much prefer the saloon question to go to the supreme court and we would say to the saloon element that there will be no letup on the enforcement of the Sunday law as to the sale of liquor in Excelsior, and if there is any more violation of the law by the Excelsior saloonkeepers there will be detectives put on their tracks This article is written by one who has had some experience in fighting saloon elements -I T*| A* Where Honor Is Due. -j To the Editor of The Journal. Theodore O Hara wrote the lines which appeared anonymously on the editorial page of Monday Journal under the caption "Whe re Valor Proudly Sleeps" He as too good a Kentuckian, too godd a soldier, too good an Irishman, too good an editor and too good a poet to be de prived of his honors J M. MARRIED MISERY IN CANADA i it, New Denver (B Ledge A green writer states that the moral tone of Canada is higher than any other Christian nation because the divorce statistics are lower It is th* law that makes it so as it is so expensive to ob-| tain a divorce and we venture to say that upon that account there is more married misery in Canada than in any other coun try W need a liberal divorce law *nd a