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News Items, Social Items and Want Ads re elved before noon printed In same day's Journal. THIS THRILLING DETECTIVE STOEY jWill appear only in The Journal, commencing next Saturday, Oct. 22. Don't fail to read it! The Journal is delivered to your home in Minneapolis for only 8 cents a weekonly 35 cents a month by mail. Just telephone "Main Nine Either Line" and com mence your subscription for opening installment. The Fine Arts Society. The Minneapolis Socie ty of Fine Arts Wants a.membership of 1,000. Th is ambition is ot a selfish one aimed at its own aggrandizement, but part of a far-reaching plan for putting the society on a sound and permanent basis that will enable it to undertake effectively sever al important plans for advancing the art interests of the city. The plans suggested for this year in clude a series of chamber music con certs of exceptional interest, a course of lectures by a distinguished French man, and at least two exhibitions. O the basis of 1,000 members with a two dollar annual fee, this is\.quite feasible and Will do away with the present ne cessity of securing a guaranty fund for the annual exhibitions from a few gen erous individuals. Every person joining the fine arts so ciety will get the full value of his money and in addition he will be giv ing aid to an organization that has been for twenty years the chief agency in creating and maintaining a local in terest in art. The work of the society has been so quiet that it is too little known and appreciated. Its most im portant work is the maintenance of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts es tablished soon after the organization of the society. This school has held from the beginning an honored place among American art schools and has extended its influence helpfully thru several states. I has grown from a dozen pupils to 200 last year. A present it is much handicapped by lack of room and other needed facilities for en larging the work and widening its scope.- The society in co-operation with the director, Eobert Koehler, desires to provide for the school more room and p/fj Increased its instruction, in handicrafts, '""^including, bookbinding, woodcarving, ^ceramics and others. $$t The* sohool is fortunate in its faculty ^,'-and the public derives much benefit front the existence of the school. I addition to his school and studio work, both of which are very influential, Mr. Koehler lends his support and active as- siatahCe in all worthy art movements. is president of the State Art so ciety, an important educational organi *ation subjects. His experience in managing exhibitions, his wide acquaintance among artists and his high reputation have made possible the superior exhibi tions held by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. The coming exhibition, Nov. 5-27, was arranged by Mr. Koehler and promises to exceed in interest and importance all preceding ones. I wi ll be a selected exhibition in which eleven of the leading American artists will be represented by'adequate-collections of their best work. Nobody else will lure on the Japanese for a long time to come. Timber Trespass and the Law. Ex-Attorney General Childs made a speech in St. Paul Saturday night in defense of Mr. Dunn in which he made some statements with regard to the tim ber trespass law which are remarkable, to say the least, coming from a man who has hold the office which he once occupied. The Pioneer Press reports him as follows between quotation marks: It is easy to see how trespasses arise. Some firm having the right to cut the timber on certain tracts of state lands and having lands of their own in that vi cinity send their men out to cut the logs. They do not go up there themselves, ut send their agents up to look after the work, and It would be a remarkable thing if the men did not. at times step over the boundaries the. land from which they had a right to cut the timber. Sometimes the trespass is willful,- for there are rob bers with axes. as .welLaa wUh keys and jimmies. Under the law," in case of a willful trespass, the trespasser is liable for treble the value of the timber taken, while if the trespass Is innocent, they are only liable for the fair value of the timber. The state auditor is authorized by law to settle cases of innocent trespass, and has the power and it is his duty to deter mine wheth er the case is one of willful or innocent trespass. The auditor does not go onto the land himself, ut sends his agents to investigate and each case must be determined in the light of the circumstances surrounding it. The cruiser makes an investigation and reports to the auditor, who then calls the trespasser in and, if it 13 a case of innocent trespass, colelcts the fair value of the timber taken, and, if willful, three times that value. Chapter 163 of the General Laws of 1895 has been referred to a good many times recently, but we shall have to cite the ex-attorney general of the state just once more to Secti on 38, which states that the land commissioner is author ized to compromise and settle any case of trespass upon the timber lands of the state whenever in his judgment it is for the best interests of the state to make such settlement, "provided, however, that in no event shall he settle any case of trespass on such lands until he has had the timber taken under such trespass sealed-feand a%r .by the state estimator ?and a written report thereon made and filed in the office of the said commissioner, as herein pro vided, and provided further that he shall not make any such settlement for any amount less than double the value of such timber as shown by such scale and appraisal." Section 38, however,-is not the only one which refers to this matter of tres pass. Secti on 7 covers the same point and .^provides that such -trespasser "shall be liable to the state in treble damages if such trespass is adiudged to have been wilful, but double damages when any case of trespass is adjudged to have been casual and-involuntary.'/ W have observed one peculiarity with regard to all these defenses of the former auditor, that they fail to come fully up to the facts and face the charges of dereliction of duty squarely. But it is a little surprising to find a former judicial officer of the state so seriously at fault as to what the law requires of the auditor. I plain Eng lish, a man occupying the place Gener al Childs occupies and enjoying the public confidence which he enjoys has no right to misstate the law either thru ignor ance or carelessness, no matter how much Mr. Dunn's conduct under that law may need apology. The "situation" in Montana is so mixed that it resembles a riot. The democrats have a choice between a democratic ticket and an antitrust democratic ticket. The republican voter must decide between the republican ticket and the antitrust re publican ticket. The antitrust democrats are supporting the Parker electors,: and the antitrust republicans will vote for Roosevelt. The two democratic factions agree in supporting the democratic state ticket, and then disagree on everything else. The supreme court has temporarily restrained the secretary of state from put ting the antitrusters on the, ballot, and the Heinze democrats have just been knocked out by the supreme court in Silver Bow county. Compared with this terrible mix up, the Wisconsin affair seems quite simple. The Tribune has been a little slow about coming out against the proposition to adopt the present charter, with a feW changes, but it has arrived at last, as was expected. The charter to be adopted differs from the present charter in no important particular except that it pro vides for some first steps toward a well regulated civil service system, and es tablishes new regulations with regard to granting franchises to corporations using the public streets. Whenever you touch the public service corporations you hear from the corner of the alley and Fourth street.-.'. The archbishop of Canterbury spoke in Fan&uil hall, Boston, the other day in a state of which the governor Is a Metho dist and in a city of which the mr.yor is a Catholic. .The proceeding began with an'address by the president of Harvard college, an eminent Unitarian. Religious toleration seems to be fairly secure In this country. About the same time, an eccle-. siastical procession in the streets of. Liv erpool was hooted at by a mob gathered to denounce the "popish practices" of bishops and clergy of the Anglican church. ation. and is a frequent lecturer on art 1 ins war on quack doctors.'^A familiar The report of the government statisti cians makes the sum of the internal trade of the United States about twice as large as the totitl international commerce of all of the nations of the world. Twenty-two billions of dollars a year is the sum of our internal business, as it is figured out by the treasury department. No wonder ,we hav so-little time to go excited ove polltics-e ':^-*V V^B-t a^fe'--'r The New York Medical society is wag- form of fraud Is the man. ho assumes the name of a licensed physician who has recently died or moved from the com munity. The mo st pitiable cases arise from the consumption-cure fakirs, while quacks whose medicines make their vic tims confirmed users of morphine are al mo st innumerable. The meane st form of fraud is that of preying on the sick. It is not generally understood, so far as we haye heard the matter discussed, whether the 'prime object of the Tribune's peouliar line, of policy as to.stale and local politics is pursued with hope of aid ing Dunn or wheth er It la designed chiefly to help Haynes.as against Jones. W had assumed the former, but the only place in which It seems to have met with any de cided expression of approval is at the Haynes headquarters. A debating society Is at work on the problem "What Becomes of the Light When It Is Blown Out?" The settlement of this question is of such great impor tance that some political party ought to take it up as an issue. Judge Parker stated that the Philippines had cost us $600,000,000. Secretary of War Taft corrected this figure to $200,000,- 000. Just the difference between a man who knows what he Is talking about and one who doesn't. The country will be Interested in seeing where Senator W Murray Crane of Mas sachusetts lines up. Odds carii be had on the. .proposition that ,rhe w41L not,, be for reciprocity. What glorious slaughter on the plains and mountains of Manchuria! And what sound of weeping accompanies it in two far-distant quarters of the globe I W are missing something in this cam paign. Can it be Tom Johnson? AT THE THEATERS BIJou"A Son of Rest." The re is a return to the old order of: things in the graudation of Nat,. M. Wills. from vaudeville to the estate of starhoodJ In these days of the ascendehrcyiof vaude-^ vllle the progression is usually the other way, and the actor who has made a hit In the "legitimate" or in any of its the' atric congeners is likely to be sought for with high salary bait to do a vaudeville stunt. Mr. Wills, however, won his first success as a tramp in a turn that con vulsed everyone who saw it. Comedians have been "doing" tramps ever since the never-to-be-forgotten Hoey perpetrated the great original in A Parlor Match." But about all of them were palpable imi tations of the Hoey tramps until Mr. Wills happened along with an original variation of his own. And now it has come to pass that a play, "A Son of Kest," has been written around the Wills tramp.. One might guess with both eyes shut that it wouldn't be much of a playthose that are written around an actor or a char acter seldom are. But theri it is a musical comedy and that begs the question. The evanescent plot. appears on the surface now and then, like a drowning man who has come up to call for help. But no one pays any attention. Mr. Wills is the whole thing from the moment of his unconven tional and decidedly funny appearance. His facial expression appearing thru the murk of his makeup is not the least of his laugh-maki ng paraphernalia, in which his jokes and repartee and funny songs have a large share. There are others in the company, top. Forinstance.,... the sjtunnmg^Sytrte^S*** whose songs with the company please Charles Udell, as an altogether absurd vil lage marshalHaye and Wayne in a dancing turn that gets the enthusiasm started, and Aline Colin, who sings one of those demure little songs in su,ch a winning way that.one wishes the re were more of the same. The chorus Is good to look upon and co-operates in the music excellently well. Lyceum"The Danltes." A melodrama of the olden time, when the builders of such plays knew how to produce thrills and plenty of them with out resorting to expedients so far re moved from the probable, to say nothing of the possible, that their uevis dou%ful such is "The Danltes." Inspired by Joaquin Miller's poem devoted to the do ings of those bloody Mormon avengers, Bret Harte devised the play. It shows everywhere the workmanship of a man who knew the value of his material and the best methods of making it effective. There is a grateful literary finish, too, abo ut this story of western plains, laid in the days when the gold-seekers and the Mormons ran afoul of one another. The play is thus admirably adapted to the purposes of the Ferris playei'3, who give it with an appreciation and an adap tiveness characteristic of their perfor mances. The role of the girl, last of her family, and special object- of the. ful search of the MormOrt aveis'ge^s" f&ils to Miss Hay ward, and her interpretation is a stirring one. The life of the girl, disguised for safety as a man, and tak ing part in the life of a rough mining camp, and yet holding aloof, holds many elements of romance, to which the su preme one of a lovestory is added, and in these environments, where pathos reigns, Miss Hayward bears herself well. Ben Johnson, Lawrence Barbour, Charles Burnham and Lewis. Stone are all seen in characterizations that well befit them, and they carry off the honors among them. Claudia Lucas, Lelia Shaw and Lauret te Allen make the mo st of their opportunities. The play is well staged and the scenic accessories are ex cellent. -fenge- 4: Foyer Chat De Wolf Hopper and his company opened an engagement of half a week at the Metropolitan last night before the usual large Sunday night house, and the "Wang" evoked the same enthusiasm that it. did upon its first presentation here a dozen years ago. A review of the per formance will be given in this column to morrow. The sale of seats for "The Runaways" began with a rush at the Metropolitan this morning. The diminutive, comedian, Arthur Dunn, heads the list of seventy five players.. "Who's Brown?v' the farcical play to be seen at the Metropolitan the first half of next week, Is said to surpa ss in fun making such other imported successes as "Charley's Aunt" and "Jane." The lead ing role is In the capable.keeping of Wil liam Morris. Minneapolis and St. Paul will be the only large cities of the west to see Blanche Ring in "Vivian's Papas," as Miss Ring retires from the oast after the Minneapolis engagement "the latter part of next week, to prepare for her forthcoming tour in the new musical pro duction, "The Enchanted Isle." "Across the Pacific," JIarry Clay Bla ney's ever-popular melodramatic venture, will be the attraction at the Bijou next week. The London Bellesi with -'fjogia Sydell. opened a week's engagement at the Dewey theater yesterday, presenting an entertainment with more high-class acts and scenic effects than are seen with the usual un of'shows at this theater. Pro- fessbr.Kelyea,' in a lecture on physical .cul ture, is brie of the features. rj^'J^JSJ^ Tamarisk timber 4,000 years old has been found in perfectly sound condi tion in ancient Esvntian temnlea. Monday Eveningv -^IA v- i' TH MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. \'-''V*'''"**'-' October 'i7,"' 1964. .'.J// THE NONPAREIL MAN Flirting In Church Defended by Rev. M. B. Williams of the Rock River Methodist ConferenceIt Brings Out the Young Folks and Swells Churoh Attendance A Milder Form of Dissipation than Flirting In the Park. Rev. M. B. Williams, chairman of the committee on Sabbath observance of the Rock River conference of the Meth'ddlst church, says that flirting in church should be encouraged. Mr. Williams* idea is that anything that is a pretext for the young 'folks to go to church is a good thing. "Flirting is as good a lure as anything," sa ys Mr. Williams. "That, is how I first become interested in the church." I Frivolity duping religious service.was, [he said,, to be expected of Americans. '.'The expectation of 'seeing a young woman home' has brought many a boy to church," Mr. Williams continued. "Amid the love-making there is a chance for the religious influence to steal in." Flirting in church is a much milder af fair th an flirting in the park. The New York Press gives an account of a conversation on a bench in a park that attracted the attention of a number of people oh a seat on the other side of a leafy bush. It went something like this: "Stop! If you ktes me 111 never speak to you again."- i. (An eloquent pause.) "Don't you ever dare .'to do that again." "I couldn't help it," "Yes you could. Now, behave." "All right I will." (Another eloquent pause.) "If you kiss me again, I'll tell mother." "No, ,you won't." "Yes, I will."" (Another pause.) "Oh! Now, you stop." "Why?" "Because I want, you to,", "Why do you want me to?"' "Because." (Silence for a few minutes.) "I wish you would keep your arm to yourself." "Why?" "Because I don't want it around my waist." "Why not?" "Because it isn't proper." "Why isn't it?" "Suppose some one should see?**: "But no one can." *The .omight." Si ir And-sd it went on, drawing the absorb?.! attention of two women and three en on the other bench. It.: was not exactly an intellectual treat, but there was a lot of humanity in it. The a Moure county, N. p., Chronicle tells how the town's famous artesian well suddenly gave up the ghost the other night. Thursday it was--throwing water arid sand around like a non-union plas terer, but Friday morning it was found as dry as a political orator. People came rushing from all sides with blanched faces. G. A. Giibourne,. who secured the contract for suppling a Moure with a contract for supplying La,- Moure with a well and system of waterworks, arrived On'-the. scene.frorii Aberdeen Friday. "This condition, doesn't'^stagger me at all," said he. 'The same thing has oc cured several times In our experience. Of course thefwell hasn't 'gone dry.' Some thing has got' into the" pipe and stopped the flow of water. W can easily re move' this obstruction arid bring on the flow, but in view of the fact that so much sand was bein'g thrown up with the water, we may decide to ahaiidon this well alto gether and dig another.. "But you can tell the!,'people this: W have agreed .to supply a Moure with a well and waterworks,,and we are going to do it." "j-^* a Moure feltKbett'er"^ftr this assur ance and the gay'^ife of the restaurants, the boulevards and the Bois de Boulogne went on as usualr-- The gentle art of rubbing it in is illus trated in.the. .case a Fargo man who, according tovflife Foruiri^ has a wife-who has-been -practicing ifUfor years. has never forgotten,"' sdjys the man, "the time when I made a mistake in paying a bill, and as a result was $2,35 short in my cash at the end of the day, "She reminds me constantly of what luxuries we might have enjoyed if I had not been so careless on that memorable occasion. "Last week our daughter, while Visiting in the oountry, lost a valuable diamond ring, a birthday present from me. &. 'Don't say a word to the po*or::glrl about it, said my wife, after sh /ha informed? m,e? ,l our She Jz"^, Poor Klrl feels bad enough about it as 1 A story is told of a shock received by a Duluth pastor after the services the other evening. makes it a point to welcome any strangers cordially and, that evening, after the completion of the ser vice, he hurried down the aisle to station himself at the door. A Swedish girl was one of the strangers in the congregation. She is employed as a domestic in one of the fashionable East End homes, and the minister, noting that she Was a stranger, stretched out his hand. welcomed her to the church, and expressed the hope that she would be a regular attendant. Finally he said that if she would be at home some evening during the week, he would call. "T'ank you," she murmured, bashfully, "but a have a fella." Three, of the members of the congre gation heard the conversation, and in spite of .the fact that their pastor swore them to secrecy, one of them "leaked." A. J. R. UTILIZING THE NAVY YARDS Brooklyn Times. The .successful building of the Con necticut, the greatest vessel in size yet produced by the government, is a strong and Unanswerable argument in favor of utilizing the larger of the various navy yards of the country in the building of war vessels. The struggle between the government people and a private ship building concern, which obtained a con tract for and commenced work on a sis ter ship to the Connecticut, at practi cally the same period of time, was also a source of satisfaction to the govern ment, as, altho the Louisiana was launched almost a month earlier, the per centage of real work .accomplished on both vessels is about the same. From now on to bring the warships to a state of completion, the struggle will be neck and neck, with a good chance of the government people coming out ahead. MUZZLED WAR CORRESPONDENTS Japan Mail. "_ i The Japanese are doing themselves a great injury. They are making history, ut they are not making historians. Are the splendid achievements of our soldiers and sailors to be read only in the dry-as dust Official records? The authorities ought to think of this seriously. They are sensible of the value of the world|s sym pathy, and have spoken of It In the high est terms In their official utterances. But now they appear to have been overtaken by a complete indifference. STAGE IRISHMEN. London Globe. No race, probably, has ^ver been so maligned on the stage as the Irish. Their characteristics .lend themselves, of course, to caricature. But there never was on sea or land such'a main as.Ke stage Irish man, with his scatiett-hAis*!njd~3niUelagh and his "Bedad" and "Begorrah." The real Irishman ,is,,& man to JftUgh with, ot to laugh a feV.'SfJ\.,'* HEWS OF THE BOOR WORLD Where Does the Sky Begin 1 What Is the Limit of the Individual's Horizon 1 Questions, Answers to Which Are.Sug gested by Dr. Washington Gladden In a Book of AddressesAnother "Lieut Bil6e" BookA New lopsy-Turvy Book. Where Does the Sky Begin? There is a question that has puzzled the minds#of children, doubtless since the first child began to wonder at the wonderful things which surround human life. With a wider application, efforts to answ er the same question have produced philosophies and religions. Washington Gladden, in a book of addresses, bearing the question as a title, does not answer the question, ut suggests a way in which everyone may at least make an approach at an answer for himself. reminds his readers that eaoh man's horizon depends largely upon himself, and that it widens according to the altitudes he reaches mentally and spiritually. But he goes beyond that and offers a suggestion in keeping with what ay fairly be called a tendency in modern thoughtthat, if the environment which one sees from the higher altitudes is there to be seen under proper conditions, "there must be great faculties in us lying dor- mant," whose cultivation and training will make the wider vision man's permanent possession, pushing back the circle where the sky begins. The thought is not a new one, but what is being pressed with new force, is the view that the spiritual faculties "can be trained widening the human horizon per manent ly and not giving man me re glimpses beyond the customary sky-line by "visitations fleet." Another address is on the "Spiritual Law in the Natural World." Dr. Gladden says: "In truth, the law of the spiritual life is unlike the aw of physical life in this, that it increases by what It imparts and livesby what it loses." Applying this to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, he adds: "We can see clearly that this law rules in the realm of the spirit but we are perplexed by the suggestion that it can also be made to rule in the material realm. I do not know what will happen when the day comes that the whole creation is waiting and longing for the day when it shall be manifest that men are the sons of God. I sur mise that some things which we now call miracles will then be me re common places." Dr. Gladden's book is full of suggestive thought. LIFE'S PILGRIMAGE. The stress of life will lead thee far afield. Beyond the sloping hills that hemmed thy youth, Perchance when thou wouldst tarry in the booth Of pa*ms or tent of feasting, lo! revealed In flame of fire, the Voice shall bid thee wield Thy sword for holy cause perchance nor ruth Nor healing balm await thee but the truth Is all thou seekest. On! Nor faint, nor yield! When shadows flecy my vision, heed thy heart When anguish frets thy soul, and all seems drear, Lift up thy face a glorious company, Who fared wide-browed along the waste and mere, And triumphed, stand with welcome do thy part, And share the peace that comes with victory. By Charles Augustus Schumacher, In The Criterion for October. I Is reported that ex-Lieutenant Bllse, the author of "In a Small Garrison Town," has written another novel on similar lines. The title of the new anti-military romance will be "Dear Fatherland." It will be printed in Vienna and Zurich. It is an nounced that the book will contain reve lations far more sensational than those of his previous novel. Fantasma Land, by Charles Raymond Macauley, with many illustrations by the author, is a pleasing and amusing juve nile. It is a book that has interest for the 10-year-old and the more-than-10- year-old. "More is meant than meets the ear," and the "more" will be a delight to grown-ups. Small Dickey, the hero of the tale, escapes one day out of this land of realities into the land of fantasms, where the dwell that huan artists use canvas, on paper and in stone. Here aideas strange adventurems hoen daughter's"hvTs"-e. 'ThP *h with the Ol Witch, Little Nell, a Gargoyle, the Pi ng pon wing Do Qxote Poe's Raven, Captaiuni CuttlePhinease and th Ghos of Hamlet's Father. makes the ac quaintance also of such remarkable ani mals as the Glubwub, the Summatopop phi (spell backwards) and the Flighty wight. But the queerest episode of all is his search for the wonderful Gilgoyle. Fogg,t THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER Britons Fear the Kateer'a Intentions. Several magazine articles in recent months have shown very clearly that there is a deep-seated apprehension on the part of Englishmen that Emperor William is a false frlerd of Great Britain. One of the latest of such articles appears in The National Review for October. "UP tor," writing in that magazine, says in conclusion, referring to the prospective visit of the kaiser in England: To ut it plainly, a ruler whom there is good reason to regard as s. false friend of Eng land can only expect to be received as an unwelcome visitor." First Public Entertainment by Japanese Women for Charity.The first public en tertainment ever given by Japanese wo en for charity was a recent garden party, with tableaux, given at the Naval club, Tokio, by graduates of the Peer esses' school. An authority on Japan says that it is impossible for the western mind to conceive how great a revolution is marked by this event. The voluntary re nouncement by the Japanese nobles of their fiefs in 1868 was hardly more re markable. It means a tremendous change in the life of Japanese women. The No vember Century will have reproductions from photographs of these interesting and unique tableaux, which pictured famous female characters in the history of a n cient, medieval and eighteenth-century Japan. BOOKS RECEIVED WHEEE DOES THE SKY BEQINt By Wash ington Gladden. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Minneapolis: Nathaniel McCarthy. Price $1.25 net. EANTASMA LAND. By Charles Raymond Macauley. With Illustrations by the author. Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrlll company. BILLY WHISKEES, JB,. By Frances Trego Montomery. A story of the thrilling &&- ventures of a black goat, which goes west in search of excitement and gets it. Illus trated In colors and In black and white. Akron, 'Ohio: The Saalfleld Publishing com pany. BABY'S EBIENDS. One of Saalfield's Muslin Books. Akron, Ohio: The Saalfleld Publish ing company. Price 50 cents. AN. OLD YOUNG MAN William H. Baldwin has finished his thirty-sevent h. year as president of .the Young Men's Christian Association of Boston. Mr. Baldwin is now well along in years, but his unflagging enthusiasm keeps him in the appearance of perennial youth. IN THE DANGER ZONE Utlca Observer. It Is stated that an Albany man ho has gone into the north woods for a vacation carries a cowbell as a preventa tive from being shot for a deer. will not th en be safe pnless he keeps the bell clanging all the time. MINNESOTA POLITICS As to the Campaign FundSenator Clapp Answer Question as to His Attitude on Railway LegislationLlnd Will Tackle Dunn's Record. The Buffalo Journal says: Jim Hill's instructions to help Bob were only good ab to the nomination. It is understood that the Great Northern is no longer Interested, and will not contribute a cent to the campaign fund. This was true up to within two or three weeks, and the Northneld News claims that W. E. Verity had just ?375 to un the committee with from the date of the convention to his retirement. However, there is plenty of money on hand now, and the plans being made for the closing weeks of the campaign indicate that Ihe committee is not embarrassed for funds. There are all sorts of rumors as to the source from which these funds come, and some of them come with every earma rk Of accuracy. Of course, none of them should be believed. It is not "good poli tics" to ask too many questions about campaign funds. The Cannon Falls Beacon has received an answer from Senator Clapp to the question propounded Aug. 27, asking him for a definite statement of his position on the proposed amendment to the inter State commerce law. Under date of Oct. 10 the senator wrote to J. C. Applegate, editor of the Beacon, as follows: Happening to meet Senator Nelson on his way home as I was returning from Indiana, be told me you were disappointed in not bavlng yet re ceived a reply to your letter of recent date. .".While I cannot anticipate legislation, nor say what additional legislation may be necessary in the matter of discrimination in rates, you may be assured that it will receive, like all other subjects, the most careful consideration, and my record upon that subject ought to be evidence of my interest la It. Yours very truly, Moses E. Clapp. For some reason Mr. Applegate is not satisfied with this answer. claims it is not sufficiently definite, and says: What we want, what this community wants, and what the people of the state of Minnesota will demand when they come to realize its im portance, Is a plain yes or no to the plain question: Will Senator Clapp vote and work to have recommended for passage the bill embody ing the relief asked, now. in the hands of the senate committee on Interstate commerce? Superstitious Anoka republicans have been commenting oh the recent meeting held there. I was not only held on the 13th of the month, but the musical pro gram rendered by the ba nd was very sug gestive to the audience. People looked at each other when the instruments tuned up with the first "piece" dolefully, "Just Before the Battle, Mother," and begged mother not to forget, "tho I'm numbered with the slain."* But a little later, when the band struck up: "We shall meet, but we shall miss him: There will be one vacant chair," the humorously inclined in the audience smiled audibly. In the Dunn campaign considerable use has been made of certain complimentary remarks applied to Mr. Dunn as auditor by John Lind When governor. Mr. Lind will make his first speech of the campaign this evening in St. Paul, and promises to devote some attention to Mr. Dunn's record. I will then be seen just what the former governor thinks of the admi n istration of the former auditor. Joseph McDonald of Otsego has en tered as an independent candidate for the legislature In Wright county. Messrs. Wood and Hanaford, the republican nomi nees, now have one democrat and one independent against them. Charles B. Cheney. WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK Just Temporary. To the Editor of The Journal. Speaking of the new skin disease said to be epidemic in St. Paul and Minneapolis this fall, the subjects need not despair most of them will probably be Dunn scratching Nov. 8. S. E. E. Railway Earnings In Minnesota. To the Editor of The Journal. Your excellent editorial in a recent issue relative to the dangers and abuses inci dent to or connected with the railways of the country may well be supplemented with figures showing some facts in con nection with the railways of our own state and the immediate northwest. According to the railwa,y and ware house commissioners' report for 1903, this state has 7,250 miles of road, with gross earnings of $68,061,500 for the year the operating expenses were $32,302,300, leav ing the net earnings $35,759,200. The roads paid taxes amounting to $1,922,200. On a gross earnings basis of 4 per cent the taxes would have amounted to $2,720,- 000. Wisconsin has 6,963 miles of road. Governor a Follette has been instrumen tal in increasing the tax In that state $659,000 a year, which makes the railways in that state now pay about $2,600,000 a n nually this is about the same basis that would prevail in Minnesota under a 4 per cent gross earnings tax. By referring to the Iowa railroad com missioner's report for 1903, we learn that with 9,496 miles of road, the gross earn ings were $57,159,100, and the operating expenses $40,752,850, giving a net profit of $16,406,200, instead of $35,759,200 as was the case in this state for the sa me period of time with 2,246 -fewer miles of road in operation. In other wdrds, on the Iowa basis of rates, which were established by the legislature before the railways nomi nated governors and a share of the legis lators, the people of Minnesota would have saved twenty-three and a quarter millions of dollars in freight charges for the year. The inquiry is pertinent: How long will it be before our legislature will discover wh at needs to be done in this state? Shipper. Slaughter Greater Th an In War. To the,Editor of The Journal. I Journal of the 7th I read that, according to an official bulletin of the interstate commerce commission, 9,984 people were killed in railroad wrecks and 78,247 injured during the last year, and that in England, where they haul more passengers "than we do, not one passenger Was killed during the sa me period. Again the same bulletin said that during the past ten years, 78,152 people were killed In the United States in railroad accidents. The number of in jured is not given, but if in proportion to this last year it will be seen that 782,470 would have been injured during this pe riod of ten years. This is surely some thing dreadful to contemplate. Of late we have heard a great deal of a peace league whose object has.been to consider means to stay the sacrifice of life in war, which to my mind is a fruitless task. Now, I would like to suggest to this as sociation that they take in hand the business of stopping this everlasting kill ing and maimi ng of men, women and children right here at their homes, and I submit that the. means to this end are very simple. Let. the federal govern ment enact a law that every railroad be double-tracked, and that no grade cross ings be allowed. That done and the pres ent mo st terrible disregard for human life will have had a consideration that will do away with, if not entirely, prob ably 99 per cent of this fearful slaughter of human beings. Nothing stands in the way of this double-tracking and the bridging of crossings but the cost, and if that is to stand in the way of the stay ing of this -fearful condition surely it must be that the money god reigns and that men, women and children are th""* to be continually sacrificed to this fear ful dem'on, Whose maw is ever growing more and more rapacious \v' V^"s V** CHIPPEWA CHIEFS ABE AT THE AE TWELVE TRIBESMEN PBOM THE- WHITE EARTH .RESERVE. Concede the Greatness of the Exposi- tion, but Pine for The ir Northern Haunts Many Awards for South Dakota in Agriculture and Educa* tion. *i & Speoial to The Journal. World's Fair, St. Louis, Oct. 17.-i Twelve members of the Chippewa tribe from the White Earth reservation, in cluding four of the princip al chiefs and the queen of the tribe, have been en camped on the world's fair grounds fo? several weeks. They' occupy a neat lodge of birchbark which they built ac cording to the ancient style of archi tecture, of their tribe. The head chief, Michikegeshig, who is with the band, has witnessed many changes in the course of his seventy five years. has also been a trav eler, having been to Washington five or six times, besides visiting the Chi cago and Buffalo expositions. Conse quently his views should be typical of those held by the mo re intelligent of the generation of Indians who have knownthe campfire and war. When asked what he thought of the exposition he replied: "It is something wonderful. W are being treated fine. Our only trouble has been with the ground allotted to use for the erection of one hut. I is so low and damp that we have often been cold." However,-the chief sa id he thought home was best and that he would be glad to get back, as he was tired of sitting around to be looked at and wanted to be where he could hunt and fish. Aged Queen of Chippewas. One of the mo st interesting members I of the party is Manadawab, a sister of Michikegeshig. She is 92 and is known as queen of the Chippewas. She was the wife of the head chief and on his death succeeds him in position and influence. A large booth has been assigned her in the exhibit portion of the Indian school building and here she labors six days in seven displaying her skill in bead work, in which she is expert. A the world's fair the Americ an In dia ns has demonstrated in a remarkable way what he is ab le to do for himself and what the government has done for him. On one side of a lar ge room in the Indian school building the Indians of older gerati ot are aa S in heen en primiive Advance reports on some of the prizes awarded by the international jury at the fair indicate that Sou th Dakota has made a good showing in the departments of educati on and agri-' culture. At-total of eighty -three awards, In cluding four.gold and twenty-six silver, and fifty-three bronze medals was the state's quota in agriculture, and it is said still others will be added. The gold medals were awarded as follows: One to the exhibit as a whole one to A. C. Warner of Forestberg, who is in charge of the exhibit, for some fine specimens of rye from his own farma third to the South Dakota Millers' association, and a fourth to A. Fisher on flax. Clay and Sanborn counties received silver medals for their exhibits in corn and Davison for its display of pop corn, emmer, wheat and millet. The state commission to the world's fair was awarded a silver medal for the butter displayth Sanford Mill ing company received one on maca roni, wheat and the Bowdle Boiler Mill company one on wheat goods. A- silver medal' was awarded the South Dakota exhibit in general edu cation and the same honor came to the exhibits from the cities of Pierre, Mitchell and Flandreau individually. The displays of Pierre, Sioux Falls, Mitchell and Flandreau taken collect ive ly also received a silver medal, while bron ze medals Went to the colleges of Yankton and Eedfield. The Spearfiah norm al was given a silver medal. The world's fair grand prize for the greatest number of fine specimens of different varieties of wheat was given L. G. Clute, superintendent of the Jowa agricultural exhibit. The specimens were grown by Mr. Clute on his farm near Manchester, Iowa. Fruit is- i industriesseenoebot blanket-weaving, basket-making, bead work and canoe-building, while across the aisle are their sons and daughters working at many of the arts and crafts of modern civilization, including pat tern and forge work, mechanic al dra w ing, woodcarving, fine leather work, embroidery, decorative art work and up-to-date culinary methods. The display of bead work is admira ble, and in this the Chippew as excel all others. The work of the pupils in the Indian schools, as shown here, calls forth commendation, that of the Sioux and Chippewas in Minnesota, Wiscon sin and the Dakota* being of especial excellence. South Dakota's Good Showing. being judged daily as it is brought in and prizes in each variety will not be awarded unt il the close of the season for that kind of fruit. I has been announced, however, that the Minnetonka grapes shown in the Min nesota exhibit are awarded a silver medal, and O. Brand and sons of Faribault have received a bronze medal on prunes exhibited by them. "Iowa Week." For Iowa week at the fair different days were assigned to the principal cities and towjas. All of the cities united in a program of general exer cises for the whole state, which was presented in the Iowa building on Sat* urday. Senator Dolliver deliv ered the oration. Other addresses were made by former Governor Larrabee, president of the Iowa world's fair commission, and Albe rt W. Swam, United States consul at Southhampton. England. C. M. Keeder, former ly of Des Moines, was heard in several vocal selections. MILWAUKEE DAY A TFAIR. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 17.The celebra tion of Milwaukee day at the exposition was opened today with a military parade. The formal exercises for the day were held In the plaza St. Louis, W D. Hoard, president of the Wisconsin board of world's fair managers, presiding. Ad dresses were made by President D. R. Francis of the exposition and Mayor Rose of 'Milwaukee^ *pen house at the Wis consin building was in order during' tho day. Stationary Bicycle Races. The latest craze in Paris is for sta tionary bicycle races. The machine* stay still but the wheels run a little belt that operates an electric generator, which in turn runs a small motor on wheels. This motor spins around a miniature track and is the measure of the riders' speed. The whole thing seems a senseless arrangement, but has the advantage of perfect safety to the riders. Any man ho will take regu lar exercise which is safe and no t. too vigorous, and then follow it with a few'minutes perfe ct rest and a glass of golden grain belt beer, can live,to a healthy old age and enjoy every min ute of it. The beer alone will do a F. T. Russell. I lot for youjust try it., 1 ?i'.J^t4'. MjiaBak'