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The batter\ of presses consists of thiee four flock Goss Pi esses, with a total capacity of 144.000 eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded and counted. The best time to call is from a.15 to 4 ."JO m. Inquire at the busi ness office and 1 directed to the vlsltois' gal lery. EAST SIDE OFFICE i CENTRAL AV AND 2d ST. TelephoneBoth lines, "No. 9." News Items.Social Items and Want Ads ceived before noon printed in same day's Journal. Botaquiets for The Journal's Flower Show TIMES. Yesterday Minnetonka had a day all to itself at the Mid-Summer Flower Show. And the flowers exhibited Keally, they were so wonderfully perfect that no wonder a woman exclaimed: I wonder if the air blowing from off the lake makes the atmos phere out there have a peculiar quality whi ch would cause the blos soms to be so large and so brilliant ly colored?" Yesterday was especially given over to displays from the lake gar dens, and the result was unusually successful. I seemed impossible to believe that the flowers shown had traveled a number of miles to be present, for they had all the freshness and fragrance of having been just gathered. TBIBUNE. Today will conclude the flower show at the Armory hall on Eighth street. The show has been well at tended and the visitors during the past two clays grew enthusiastic over the display of blossoms and foliage plant s. Said a Visitor to the Show Last Night''The Journal deserves a great deal of credit for planning such an educational and interesting entertainment and for carrying out the idea so well." Admiral Schley's Story. Admiral Winfield Scott Schley has at last told the story of the naval bat tle of Santiago in his own words. The Saturday Evening Post publishes the admiral's personal account of the great battle which so thrilled the na tion at the time and yet brought with it sue a wake of bitter controversy and ill feeling. Perhaps, now that Sampson is dead, it ould have been in better taste for Admiral Schley to have withheld his account of the battle for his own pos thi mous memoirs. The Sampson fac tion will say that it would have been more becoming the admiral to main tain silence, sin ce the leader of the other side can make no reply. But however that may be Admiral Schley has well told the story of the great sea fight as he saw it. His own per sonal part in the battle is told mod estly enough, but he firmly maintains thot he was in command of the squad ron. states his ca se most con vincingly on this point. Friends of Admiral Schley have always said that if the battle of Santiago had resulted in a defeat for the Americans, there would have been no dispute as to who was in command. There would have been no argument to the effect that Sampson, tho absent, was yet pres ent, or that the battle was simply a captain's battle. Everybody would have agreed that Schley was in com mand, and the brave admiral would not have sought to escape responsi bility by maintaining that he was without authority. Regarding the famous "loop," Ad miral Schley makes it clear that on recount of the position the Brooklyn occupied when the Spanish fleet began to issue, the turn to starboard instead of to port was the one thing for the Brooklyn to do With the New York away she was the one ship in the American squadron supposed to be fast enough to race with the Spanish cruisers. She had to be maneuvered so to get into the race. quote Admiral Schley: ltt The Brooklyn was steering a course diametrically opposite to that steered by the Spanish fleet, and it was apparent that the original plan, to rush in upon the enemy as his squadron was emerging from the channel, and sink it, had failed. Th Spanish squadron had practically broken thru and passed the battleship line, there in", by creating a new situation in the fight and one that had to be met at once to ky i prevent its escape. A new disposition, &<- therefore, had to be made instantly in or W de to meet the new .condition after the l^f failui of the first plan. Cook, under his jC general Instructions, had perceived the situation, and gave the order, "Hard a-port!" anticipating by a few seconds a .i similar order by the commander of the f% second squadron. Flag Lieutenant Sears Sh was ordered to hoist signal, "Follow the Jy^ flag," which Clark saw, obeyed and re peated. i I Perhaps Admiral Schley might have said less about the end of the fight and the arrival of Sampson than he doe s, but he evidently thinks he has suffered enough abuse to justi fy a ulain statement. I is evident that A in mini nin [mi! FrldayifEvening, Admiral Sampson was so dlsappolntol at missing' the great fight and thus losing the laurels of victory that (ould not deal with Admiral Schley generously. -"-Altho the battle had been fought and won in his absence, he had not a sing le word of appre ciation or congratulation to ut*o Had Sampson been as generous as Si John Jervis after the battle of St. Vincent, there would have been no aftermath of bmerness and quarrelling to dim the luster pf the ylctory of Santiago. How great the contrast betwo Sampson ignoring Schley and Jervis congratulating Nelson is well brought out by Admiral Schley when he sny-r The incident of the visit made to the flagship on that 3d of July, after our signal victory, recalls another made after the great battle of St. Vincent, more than a hundred years before, when the immor Nelson went on board the flagship Vic tory to present to his commander-ln^ chief, Sir John Jervis, the sword of the, Spanish admiral. Nelson, in that battle, "wore ship," turning away from the Span ish fleet, and thus increased his distance from it by the tactical diameter of his vessel, instead of "tacking" and turning in toward the enemy. Grand old Jervis took Nelson fin his arms, saying he could not thank hirn enough, but insisted that Nelson should retain the sword he had so valiantly won. Th sequel is a matter of history, also, that Captain Calder, of the Victory, chief of staff, suggested to Ad miral Jervis that night, in the cabin of the flagship, that Nelson had rendered himself liable to a court-martial for dis the "order of battle." Th valiant old admiral is reported to have replied, "If you ever disobey orders in the same way I will forgive you. reobeying Several contemporaries are jumping at conclusions in regard to "Wisconsin's po litical lawsuit. I is not decided, and neither faction has wo any advantage. The supreme court has merely given the stalwarts permission to file their com plairt. N one expected the court to do otherwise, and the counsel for the a Follette faction did not even go to the courtroom to oppose the motion. Both sides have wanted a hearing on the merits of the ease, and there is little doubt that they will get it. Congress and Hawaii. The condition of the Hawaiian islands under American rule is not what it ought to be and it is strange that congress cannot be made to see the pressing need for such legislation as will draw the islanders closer to us in sympathy and habits of thought and at the same time pave the way to a return of commercial and industrial prosperity. Governor Carter, recent ly landed from Honolulu, draws a wo ful picture of conditions there, the direct effect of the failure of congress to take a proper interest in the islands. Annexation has not been a commercial success, the governor says, because the laws enacted for the islands are not adapted to their needs. These laws have cut off all internal revenues. The land laws of the United States, which have been ex tended to Hawaii, prevent the leasing of public land for longer periods than five years, and as land cannot be taken there for so short a period, ow ing to the time required for raising staple crops, agriculture is languish ing. With no revenues, with agricul ture at a standstill, and with hard times in consequence pressing hard, it is not strange that the Hawaiians do not regard American control as entirely beneficent. Just a little of the time and attention that is being given the Philippines would make the Hawaiians the happiest and most loy al people in all our island possession s, and congress should be made to un derstand that it has no more impor tant duty than to give these people as good industrial and commercial op portunities as all people living under the flag should have. I is a small duty as compared with some of the others that congress is called upon to discharge, and that may be why it is overlooked year after year. But it is important and pressing. Several scientists are placing the proper duration of human life at from 105 to 140 years. With proper conduct, the savants say, the average man should live over a century, and to shuffle off at the immature age of 80 is an evidence of carelessness. Yet some very ignorant persons have been calling Henry Gassaway Davis an man. Good as Far as It Goes. -n ____ S^,,..r. r*..^, ...-*M... .f of twenty and thirty, justifies vast ex penditures of money to stamp it out A scientific campaign carried on per sistently ought to reduce it to a mini mum in a few years. Meanwhile, the ordinary precau tions must not be omitted, and it is on ly common sense to require thoro fumigation of the apartments used by a tuberculous patient, before they are used by others. Dan E Richter, the hero of Devils Lake, who admits fearlessly that he held first place in the filing line at, the point of a gunand then filed sec ondwires h^s paper that crime is rampart in Devils Lake. W move that the frank and fearless Dan be appointed chief of police with authority to unmask his gun wherever and whenever stern duty calls. Le Dan but frown and crime will skulk abashed to its darksome lairs, Opium in the Philippines. N outcry has been raised in this country against the report of the com mittee appointed to make recommen dations regarding the opium traffic in the Philippines, ands it is fair to presume that it meets with approval. The committee appointed a year ago to perform a similar service recom mended that the traffic be made a gov ernment monopoly and sold to the highest bidder, but public criticism was so strong that the administration was constrained to drop the matter. The second committee was composed of Bishop Brent, Dr. Albert and Major Carter, president of the insulat board of health. Its members p^pent much time in investigating the opium ques tion, traveling thru China, Burmah, Siam and Japan, and their recom mendations are therefore entitled to the profoundest respect. They follow the first committee in recommending that the traffic be made a government monopoly, but the other features of their report are new. They think that at the end of three years the importa tion of opium, except for medicinal purposes, should be strictly prohibited, that smokers' licens es should be issued only to persons over twenty-one, and habitual users of the drug, that a cam paign of education should be started oldthe Health Commissioner Hall is pro posing nothing drastic or unreason able in the ordinance he has submit ted for the regulation of tuberculosis. The "white plague" is nows well un derstood by medical scientists that there is ample reason for enforcing certain quarantine regulations. The interests of the public health certainly demand as much care as the proposed ordinance requires. Public sentiment is hardly ready to submit to rigid quarantine for cases of consumption, but the day is coming when the au either. thority of law must back health officers in a determined and con certed effort to stamp out the con tagion. Contagion it is, beyond a doubt, and the means of its communication are well known. The germ of tuber culosis is scattered in the sputum of affected persons, and so is blown about the streets with the dus t, enter ing the lungs of every passer-by. Under favorable conditions it finds lodgment, and develops another case and another desperate fight for life. Once put a stop to this reckless sowing of germs, and the disease will be very little communicated. When our state governments awake fully to the danger, and learn how practicable it is to suppress it, .tuberculosis will not only be quarantined, but mild cases will receive scientific treat ment. Outdoor life under proper conditions will work cures in all cases except those in the last stages, and the Minnesota sanitarium being installed a Leech Lake is a step to ward providing a cure for those who cannot cure themselves. The patient who has means can make it his busi ess to get well. The one dependent on daily toil now works on and wastes away. The state should make it the business of every patient to got well, and at least to stop spreading the contagion. The plague responsi ble for one death in every ten and for one in every three between the ages away, a i vided for all opium victims, and that all Chinese who violate the law should be promptly deported. Thru some such poli cy as this, the committee believes, will come the be ginning of the end of the opium curse. N question connected with American occupation of the Philip pines has been more difficult of solu tion than this one and none has re ceived from American officials more careful and thoro treatment. The opium habit among Orientals is a more terrible thing than the drink habit among Occidentals, and it is clear that something besides high moraliz ing and finely spun theories must be brought to bear upon it if permanent ly good results are to be secured. I is the idea of the committee that the only way properly to control the traf fic and rob it at once of some' of. its worst features, is to make it a gov ernment monopoly. Before the end of the three-year period they think #ie monopoly will be generally indorsed, and the traffic be made responsive to the regulations meanwhile to be put into effect. I theopium habit among the Filipinos can be eradicated as the result of American occupation, the, blood and treasure have poured out in the islands will not have been poured out in vain. I is probable that steps will be promptly taken by the government to carry out the rec ommendations of the committee. The latest British bluebook contains the report of Sir William Garstin, under sec retary of public works in Egypt, upon the basins of the Upper Nile, and a dispatch from Lord Cromer, the British minister and consul general in Egypt, which says the irrigation and railroad schemes sug gested by Sir William Garstin represent an estimated expenditure of about $107,- 000,000, of Which $65,000,000 will be used in the development of the Soudan, and about $40,000,000 in the development of Egypt. Th whole irrigation plan is based broadly on utilizing the Whi te Nile for the benefit of Egypt and the Blue Nile for benefit of Soudan. With results such as this flowing from It, we see that Gor don did not die in vain at Khartoum. Great interest has been aroused in Lon don by the declaration of Captain Thomas Allnut Brassey, editor of the Naval An nual, that within ten years the command of the seas will pass from Great Britain to the United States. Th United States is now building more battleships th an Great Britain and our resources are great er. W cannot be stepped on. Quite a few "spots" of good wheat are being found after all. Everybody will get his white bread this year as usual and without its costing him so much more The czar's new heir has been born in a 'time of great stress for Russia. If he had been given his choice he might have taken a lowlier cradle. Harper's Weekly claims to have dis covered that Roosevelt swore once when he was a cowboy. Has Harper's Weekly ever been a cowboy? The "per capita" -is now $31.06. Old pei cap. is not being worked as hard as he was in the 1896 campaign. Dr. Hall proposes numerous bathing pools for the poor. rich wouldn't ob ject to a few either. Perhaps things are beginning to come Nicholas' way at last. GIANT PETREL'S ODD FLIGHT THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. THE NONPAREIL MAN Memoirs of M. de Blowitz, a Newspaper Man Wh Secured Several "Scoops" that Were Heard Around the World Some Very High Class Newspaper Work In Europe. W have just been reading the memoirs of M. Blowitz, for many years the fa mo us correspondent of the London Times at Paris. M. de Blowitz scored several "scoops" that were heard around the world and he is not at all ehy about men tioning them and telling what world beat ers they were generally conceded to be M. de Blo-nitz's "beats" were strictly high class. Fo instance, he got the first inter view with King Alfonso XII. when that gentleman, by a sudden uprising in Spain, became king. A whole lot of other re porters were lying in wait around the doors and de Blowitz tells of the neat de vice by which they were all thrown down while de Blowitz got "right next." was also the first to print the treaty which was the result of the Berlin con gress, and a most notable scoop on news papers, chancellors and crowned heads. As we are something of several liars ourselves, and as de Blowitz is dead, we do not wish to intimate that he has at times drawn thp long bow a trifle in his memoirs, but we could not resist har boring that unworthy suspicion as we read his posthumous book. W trust we are wrong. M. Blowitz does not chronicle any of the famous "scoops" in which he came out second best if there were any leaves you with the feeling that if any mighty nation, prime minister or crowned head did anything or was about to do something M. Blowitz was strictly "on the inside," and had his facts "from re liable sources very close to the crown." Well, perhaps he did. The Granville, N D. Herald has a ro mantic story of love, estrangement and reunion that is aUiacting some attention in North Dakota. In the year 1878 in Berlin, Wis., there met by chance two young people named B. Corey and Miss Mary McKinnon. They were mutually attracted ard in April, 1879, were married, went west and settled at Hunter, N A few years later discontent cropped out, and in June, 1884, the couple separated. Years passed by and each thought the other dead. Th former Mrs Cor^y married a Mr. Edge comb and settled at Kensal where they lived until 1902 when he died. Mr. Corey married- again but this lady died seven years ago. By chance Mr. Corey heard this spring that his first wife was still alive and where she resided. wrote her a letter which she received on the twenty-fifth an in the schools against opium, that free government hospitals should be pro- her a great start A short correspondence ensued and Mr. Corey found that his home was somewhat lonesome. So hitching up his span he made a bee line for Velva and thence to Kensal. where the happy re union followed. Th next day the re united pair drove to Minot, where Judge Murray again made them one. They are now living as happy as kittens at Mr. Corey's home near Deepriver. Mr. Corey is a veiy prosperous farmer and quite popular in the northern part of the country, where he has a host of friends, including the lady in the case. Two teams of oxen couldn't separate them now and everybody says "Amen." niversar No need to conjure up any bogie men to! working up his movement and called on ,-^r make the newest little Romanoff good. Japanese, Finn and nihilist will spell ter- others declared themselves as entirely sat ror all too soon forth heir to Russia's throne. mn of her first marriage. I gave A prescription clerk In a Cando, N D.,conflict drugstore is a great lover of a jokewhen it is on the other fellow. A he hafl played various jokes on several parties in town with more or less success, some of the boys concluded to "give him a dose of his own medicine." Being aware of the fact that he was not very proficient in Latin a prominent lawyer and doctor conceived the ideaf of taking in a fake prescription to be filled. I Tead as follows: "Si semper tyrannis, 5 grs Vide supra, 5 grs Sine mora. 5 grs AngUis in herba, 3 Grs Ab un disce omnes,-ft. S. to make four ounces. Use as, a liniment, rub in well." The prescription wa presented to the joker and after hunting from one end of the store to the otheV he said that he couldn't find anything^but the snake weed but that he would spejfk to the boss about it later, Th boys rubbed it into him so hard that he has left town. It has often been said that newspapers have no hearts. That may be true, anyway I shan't deny it But I know that the newspaper bojs the real woikershave, and many of them are the salts of the earth.Anoka Union. Thjs^a iggfi^t^dose. C. Odquist and S. G. Anderson, Jr., of Hutchinson, two very astute lawyers,, went fishing the othejday. Th boat waa. a bit uneven on the keel, and when they attempt ed to change seats it threw a shoe and in a second the water was coruscat ing with legal lights. When Sa came to the surface he moaned like the surf over the loss of 520 worth of fishing tackle and a Spanish knife. "Tackle, hades," replied Odquist, bitter ly. "Look!" S. G. looked down into the clear depths of the lake and there, reposing in the mel lowed sunlight, in about twelve or fifteen feet of water, were seven bottles of amber Milwaukee bait. Sadly they bailed the boat and made for the shore. A. K. ffllSHESOTA POLITICS Bennett Tries to Rally Hearst Men Against John A. Johnson, With S. M. Owen for Rallying PointJohnson's Friends Anx ious for a Declaration of His Candi dacy. James Bennett/tfr., of St. Cloud, who led the Hearst campaign in Minnesota, has undertaken to organize an opposition to the nomination of John A. Johnson as th democratic candidate for governor. is not pleased with the action of the St. Paul conference in failing to invite Hearst adherents to talk It over with them. Mr Bennett was in the twin cities yesterday several leaders of the -late Hearst move men Some agreed to'Work with him, but AZ I 8 in The giant petrel of the Arctic regions will feed on offal until it is so absolutely gorged as to be unable to rise off the ice decision from Mr. Johnson in flight. Then it ru ns along the ice, if, There may be a pilgrimage to St. Peter,, chased, spreading its wings out as sails. Before being captured, however, the petrel will suddenly stop and disgorge a qua n tity of semi-digested food, and then go off onani" again. If overtaken a second time it will repeat the, performance, and when once it has got rid of its dinner flies .t +v,o+ n^^.+* v,i,coif wm,!* business. Th suggestej that Bennet himself would not make a bad candidate. ign o lta ?sd S ect confidence into the democracy to have an active bidder in the field for the' nomination. I would also tend to hold Lf0 the dissatisfied element of republicans, which is relied on to help elect the nom inee, from drifting back into the party corral. For these reasons an effort will be made in a few days*to get a definite nC Tb 3 like those that used to set out for Ne Ulm to labor with John Lind. Charles Cheney. In values of live stock in the United States there was a decrease for the year 190?. of $18.982,400,-the-total valuation being $301,902,000. WpwiffBPH SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISERS MR. JOHN S. McCARRENS, Advertising Manager of Th Bailey Com pany of Cleveland. John S. McCarrens is advertising manager of one of the largest depart ment stores I the countryThe Bailey company, Cleveland, Ohio. About five years ago "The Bailey company" succeeded to the business of A Bailey. A small store, a small stock and a small trade were the be ginning of their present business. March 29, 1904 they opened to the public their new store, with a front age of 185 feet on Ontario street and 135 feet on Prospect street. Their old building was entirely remodeled, thoroughly modernized and so joined to the new one that the floors made one .stretch from wall to wall. The new building is much larger than the old, so the space is considerably more than doubled. This has all been brought about in less than five years and newspaper advertising did the work. Until about three years ago this concern did very little advertisingand the poor kind at that. About that time Mr. McCar rens was employed as advertising manager and undertook to organize an advertising department. How well he succeeded the business shows. Newspaper advertising pulled this business from a $200,000 mark to over a million inside of four years. When Mr. McCarrens* opinion was asked relative to the value of the evening and morning newspaper, his reply was: "Evening by all means. Eighty per cent of the department store customers are women and they read the evening paper." JAP GENERALS ARE OLDMEN isfied with Johnson as a candidate The choice of th Johnson opposition, as far as it has gone, is S. M. Owen of Minneapolis, but that gentleman is under stood to have given a positive refusal some time ago td such proposals, and is not considered as available. Th Ben ._ at $2,000,000. Nearly all the investments nett following is likely to pick out some I other Minneapolis if it fails to prevail ^L^ f^ fv^l^ no^nnf on Mr. Owen. Some of his friends have The Cleveland Leader has made an in teresting compilation, from Japanese sources, of the ages of the foremost Jap anese generals in the pre&ent war A a rule, they are considerably older th an either the Union or Confederate generals were when engaged in the civil war. If the present Japanese genetals win in the with Russia, their triumph will be that of old men Every war breeds its own heroes. Possibly some Japanese commander at present holding a subor dinate position may make himself famous and eclipse the generals whose names are now mentioned in war dispatches. Mar quis Oyama, Field Marshal, is 62 years old Count Nodzu, 63 Baron Kuroki, 60 Baron Oku, 58 Baron Nogi, 55 Baron Nishi, 58 Baron Kodama, 52 Prince Fushimi, 46. Th ages of some of the Union commanders in our civil war inr 1861 were: Grant, 39 Sherman, 41 Sher idan 30 McClellan, 35 Rosecrans, 42 Thomas, 45 Buell, 43 Hancock, 37 Meade, 46 McDowell, 43 Pope, 38. Among the Confederates Lee was 55 Bragg, 4C Jackson, 37 Hood, 30 Early, 43 Long street, 40 Beauregard, 45 Stuart, 28 Hill, 36, Buckner, 37. I is noted that the Franco-Prussian war was fought largely by old generals. Von Moltke was 70 and "Von Steinmetz was 74. Napoleon was famous at SI Ney, 31 Murat, 29 Keller man, 30. A the beginning of the war the armies may be led by generals who have wo their spurs in former conflicts. If the war be prolonged younger leaders gradually appear on the scene. I the American civil war much military ability, latent a the beginning, was developed. GOT HIS HISTORY WRONG When Senator Bacon some time ago in the United States senate assailed the character of Frederick the Great in dis cussing the acceptance from Emperor Wil liam of his great ancestor's statue, Sen ator Stewart of Nevada replied with warmth. told of personally visiting the place in Holland where Frederick had labored as a shipwright, fitting himself to command by learning to obev. grew really eloquent and neatly demolished Mr. Bacon. Bu later in the day he was wild ly rushing round to make it right with the. reporters. had discovered that he had been making a speech about Peter the Great instead of Frederick the Great.- A BURNS MMS. SOLD The original manuscript of "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which Burns himself thought his finest- poem, was sold at Sotheby's this week for $2,500. Curiously enough, this is just the sum with which Burns returned to Ayrshire from Edin burgh as the net proceeds of the first edi tion of his poems, after he had been lionized by all the men of light and learn ing in modern Athens, and now the manu script of only one of his effusions has fetched as much. Burns wrote a fine, bold handfull of character and forceand as big as Cromwell's or Bismarck'swhat is called in Scotland "half-text." HOW A FORTUNE MELTED That a man of great wealth, descended from a long line of shrewd, clever, suc cessful business men, himself reared in an environment of high-class financiering and investment and a memb er of a widely known and prosperous Wall street firm, may dissipate a large fortune, not*thru high living or reckless speculation, but by unprofitable investments. Is shown by the appraisement of the estate of the late Robert L. Cutting, just made public. Only $5,000 is left of a fortune once estimated rfi,l Meanwhile, no one has waited on John A. Johnson with the invitation of the democracy, and the St. Peter man is keep ing still. I is understood that he Is not by any means certain to agree to the proposal as he is not a man of large' ordinarey passenger en means, and would have to make a great personal sacrificte accept^ the nomination A ^V,.*-,f SvSS ^f L f, hiC *h 3ixle e0,_v,4.00_, to aeciare gin JohnsoHn eve August I2,pi904. jfis?"WWf utt & lcX $5,000b value left estate is represented household LIFE O A LOCOMOTIVE The life of an express locomotive in E fe tp1 estimated at twenty-five years W fre locomotiv a ,_,_*. ^^.hhZ switch enginse at I the L^JZ% Unite State the life of an express loco hi nomination believe he can be prevailed, _,.., ,._, on to run if the convention is harmonious,' S2? ^l^SSS *%T liut.thev want Tnhnson to declare but-they want Mr, twenty-six twenty-fivetwenty-seven. years, and that of a tJpntv:a(,V(,n rn years of a passenger engine nf nlnetee ears an 1 a S Jf i a SW *^L LL I i twenty-twy years. In eighteen years, how- *Bt hn American machinee run tc enginvee tra comotive nrtn'0 nrin _,, ^,.hi glis 0a 0 a Sr^oSJ.t S+u~a tr-o-roSi vra gha A MULTIMILLIONAIRE SCIENTIST In an atticroom of his costly Fifth ave nue palace, Colonel J&hn Jacob Astor, the l0 of between $75,000,000 and $100, w000,000, spends much of his time studying and experimenting in electrical science. A practical and watchful man of business, he neglects no part of his duty in the management of his vast properties, but his mu: has a scientific bent, and it is recreation for him to solve complex prob lems. WISCONSIN'S P. WILDING A GEM 3 l'l.l!f' PICTURESQUE .STATE HEAD- I QUARTERS A THE FAIR. Distinct Departure from the Prevail- ing Architecture on the Plateau English Cottage Sty le Which In- vitx the Weary to Its Cozy Re- treats. Special to The Journal. World's Fair, St. Louis, Aug. 12. One of the most picturesque struc tures on the exposition grounds is Wisconsin's official home. Not on ly is it the rallyingplace of the sons and daughters of the badger state, but the passing visitor from everywhere is impressed at a glance with its at t tractiveness, and turns his footsteps towards its Inviting doors. "If you want to rest up where it is comfortable and homelike, and where everybody is welcome, go to the Wisconsin building," said one weary sightseer to a trio who had just covered "eleven acres" of Jerusalem and this is a frequent comment. The house stands at the intersec tion of two thorofares, on the slo pe of a hill, among fine trees. I archi tecture it is a distin ct departure from the general semiclassic and historic buildings on the plateau of states. I is the English cottage style, with low-hanging, red roofs and large pa vilion porchesth windows across the front extend to the floor, and, like the doors, are composed of many panes of glass. The green lawns about it are bordered with flowering plants, and windowsills and balustrades are hung with vines and blossoms. Crossing the threshold, the eye isf delighted with the artistic color and arrangement of the interior. Hall and Galleries. The great reception hall, two sto ri es high, has a fine flying gallery extending around three sides, while on the fourth side, opposite the en c trance, a double stairway rises in handsome balustraded flights. The colors used here are brown and green, the walls are wainscoted in dark oak, bordered with a wide tapestry freize, representing forest scenes. O the left a huge fireplace gives a touch of yellow with its tiling. The floor is covered with monolith, a Milwaukee product, and several oriental rugs are laid over it. Rich rugs are also artistically hung on the balustrades and draped over doors and cozy corners. Two handsome tapestries, picturing seventeenth cen tury hunting scenes, hang on either side of a window-lighted alcove which opens on the landing of the stalr wa3 Over this alcove is a portrait of Governor a Follette, Wisconsin's strenuous executive. The furniture is the popular Mis sion style, with rush or leather seats, and to relieve its severity, lux urious cushions are strewn about. Under the stairway, on the left, a baby grand piano invites the touch of the musically inclined. The entire effect of this great hall is one of quiet beauty and its atmos phere is restful and homelike. Smaller Rooms i Keeping. The smaller rooms about it are in keaping with the hall. Going down a few steps, one enters the writing oom, also called the "art gallery." The windows here are set high in the wall. Above, a light-colored wainscoting and large photographs of Wisconsin's wonderful scenery almost cover its sides. A special feature is the handsome writingdesk and its ac companying chair, made of Crawford county walnut, closely inla id with mother-of-pearl taken from the Mis sissippi rive r. The ladies' parlor, Louis XIV style, is in exquisite shades of lavender, ochre and* pinkgilt-frame mirrors extend from floor to ceiling. The long windows are draped with delicate lace over silk hangings, and several of Reinhardt's dainty watercolors blend in the beautiful effect. The restroom adjoins the parlor, and, with its comfortable chairs and luxurious couches, tempts one to fore go sightseeing for a time at least. Two rare pieces of furniture are found in these roomsan elaborately carved piano, which has its proper setting in the parlor, and a curiously designed table, made by hand, in which 3,019 piec es of wood in various shades were used. Waukesha water is on. tap in the reception hall, and the thirsty one may draw at will. Over 180 gallons of this water were supplied to Wis consin's visitors on the Fourth of July. Handsome Appointments. The building is perfectly equipped in every respect, and, while it ao erected at a cost much less than that of some of the other state building s, or for $16,500, it is handsomer in its appointments and fulfils in every way the purpose for which it is intended. The hospitality for which this cozy little house has become famed is due in a large measure to the gracious hostess, Mrs. Emma Walsh of Bar aboo, who acted in the same capacity at the Pan-American exposition, and tho popular secretary of the commis sion, Grant W Thomas of Madison. Mr s. Walsh and Mr. Thomas will be "at home" in the Wisconsin build ing during the entire fair season. $50Pacific Coast and Return$50. Here Is the best opportunity ever offered to visit the North Pacific coast country and California. Take the Northern Pacific and stop over at the Yellowstone National Park. Sale opens Monday, August 15th. Tickets good for sixty days. Call at the Northern Pacific city ticket office for full information. Low Round Trip Rates Via "The Milwaukee." Until September 30 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. wyi sell round trip tickets to certain points in the East at greatly reduced rates. These tickets provde lberal stopoer privileges and a ri ego oi until O cv 3 1 igoods.e th snr. ,.e0t,u1Tr.r,. Tf vm i aro nn *,v- for rtnI you are contemplating a trip east write us for iormatin regarding these rates. The Pioneer Limited, famous train of the worl d, daily between the Twin Cities and Chicago, continues unsur passed. C. Lewis, Ticket Agent, 32 Nicollet Ave. W Dixo n, N W A., St. Paul, Minn. tf Bnin ia Ho. Cheap Round Trip Rates Clorado from St Paul and Minneapolis via Chicago Great Western Railway. $26.40 to Denver, Colorado Springs, or Pueblo $38.40 to Glenwood prings $38.40 to Salt Lake City, Utah. Tickets on sale every day to Sept. 30'. Good to return until Oct 3 1. Two magnificently equipped trains each way every day, making connec tions in Union station, Omaha, with western lines. For further informa tion apply to C. Rains, General Agent, corner Nicollet a and 5th st Minneapolis. There "Tffre^ 'many formic of nervous debility in men that yield to the use of Carter's Iron Pills. Those who are troubled with nervous weakness, night sweats, etc., should ^try them. WEST ABANDONED BY DEMOCRAtSat Republicans See Indications That'll Entire Fight Will Be Made '*vt in the East. New York 8un Special Servioe. Washington, Aug. 12.As a result of the decision of the democratic ex ecutive committee in New York not to establish western headquarters, the belief is growing in Washington po litical circles that the Parker-Davis managers have practically abandoned the entire west to Roosevelt, and will concentrate their efforts upon the eastern states. I Indiana, Wisconsin and other states, it is said, the democratic man agers have little hopes of success, and hat would explain their decision to confine aggressive campaign work New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. The democratic attitude will not cause Chairmen Cortelyou and Bab cock to relax their vigilance in th 6 west, however, it is said, altho they may feel sure of states in that section on the national ticket. Southerners Start Friction. The extraordinary activity of south ern statesmen during and since tha democratic national convention ia proving to be less of an unmitigated blessi ng to Judge Parker and hi a friends than a source of satisfaction to the republican leaders of the coun tr y. Their insistence upon his stand ing in the limelight, upon exhibiting the trophies of battle which they wrested from the eastern representa tive of plutocracy a St. Louis, and, finally, their intermeddling in the af airs of the committee that has been chosen to conduct Judge Parker's campaign, are productive of endless friction and annoyance. They took up Thomas Taggart at St. Louis and named him for chairman of the national committee in defiance of party practices and tradition be ause, as they explained at the time, they had surrendered everything else to the east and wanted to control the party organization for their own pur poses four years hence. Now they are furious at Taggart because he has surrounded himself with men who are the embodiment of the eastern idea of modern politics, and also because the new chairman began his managerial career by com mitting a grave strategical blunder. Bailey Scores Taggart, Senator Bailey of Texas, who waa chiefly responsible for the Sunday aft ernoon meeting of the committee a which Taggart was indorsed, and who has remained in and about New York for three weeks past, scrutinizing every political movement of Judge Parker's eastern friends, has lost pa tience with Chairman Taggart and frankly told him so yesterday. O the other hand, the eastern men frankly regard Taggart as a misfit, who sig nalized his return to New York from Indiana when he promulgated his dictum that Illinois was a hopelessly republican state and that Indiana of fered the on ly fighting ground in the middle west. I conclusion Mr. Taggart said it was his purpose to loca te the western headquarters of the campaign at In dianapolis, but he reckoned without the executive committee. That body to a man dissented forcibly and em phatically from Taggart's announced purpose and said that if a western headquarters was established at all it would be located at Chicago. The committee on ly refrained from locat ing the headquarters at Chicago be cause it was pointed out by one of Taggart's friends that such action would be accepted as a reflection upon the chairman. "Win by Any Means." The southerners are moved by a single consideration in this campaign. They want to win. Their slogan is "Victory." They don't care how it is attained. They foresee in the electi on of President Roosevel t, with its ac companiment of another republican majority in congress, the beginning of a determined movement to enforce the spirit and letter of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution by re ducing the southern representation in the house. The republican party is committed to this policy thru the terms of a strong plank in its Chicago platform. The republican national committee and convention have al ready constituted it a party dictum by adopting a resolution which will hereafter limit representations from, southern states to republican conven tions to the number of votes cast a presidential elections. Senator Tillman, who at least po sesses the quality of frankness, re peatedly told the St. Louis convention that the only consideration which ught seriously to move the delegates was "how can we win?" Again when he found himself confronted by the opposition of men from his own sec tion, he cri ed out in a passion: "We have got to win this time." Tillman's Surrender. That sentiment accounted for Till man's unconditional surrender to what his friends spoke of as the forces of Wall street. Tillman hates Roosevelt because the president withdrew an invitation to the senator to attend a White House dinner to Prince Henry on the occa sion of the visit of that interesting young man to the capitol a year ago last winter. The withdrawal of the invitation was dictated by Tillman's physical assault on Senator McLaurin in the senate chamber. The press of the south almost unan imously denounced the attempts of the administration to break up peon age and characterized them as a de liberate purpose on the part of the president to reopen the racial issue in their sectio n. Homeseekers' Excursions. Aug. 9t and 23d, and Sept. ISth. and 27 The Rock Island System will ell round trip tickets to principal points in Texas, all points in Okla homa and Arkansas at rate of $27.75. Aug. 16th and Sept. 6th and 20 th one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip to Arizona, Idaho, Indian Territory Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. For particulars and literature apply a city ticket office, 322 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. A. Steece, City Pass. Agent. W Hathaway, Dist. Pass. Agent. Boston and Return, $22.00North- western Line. Special through trains from Minne apolis, August 11th, 7:00 p.m.Augus 13th. 9:00 a.m Standard and tourist sleeping cars through to Boston with out change. Get tickets at 600 Nic ollet avenue, Minneapolis. $13 to St. Ixmis and Return. Coach excursion tickets on sale every Monday via Minneapolis & St LOuis Railroad, the only line running direct to the gates of the World's Fair. For further information call at 424 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, G. Rlckel, City Ticket Agent. Woman's Catholic Order Foresters. Delegates to the convention will please reserve their berths for the Yellowstone Park and Great Lake steamer trips at the Northern Pacific city ticket office, No. 19 Nicollet House Block. You may never again get the opportunity^ to visit the Yellowsto'hal Park and the Pacific coast as cheaply as a the present time. I -4t i