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SARISJournal on file at Eagle bureau, 53 Rue Cambon DENMARKJournal on file at U. S. Legation. ST. PAUL OFFICE420 Endlcott building. Tele phone, N W Main 230. IJSAST BIDE OFFICECentral avenue and Sec ond street. Telephone. Main No 9. SrBLEJPSOlfEJournal baa private switchboard fof both lines. Call No. 0 on either nne and call for department you wish to speak to. tMiimeapolis Ought to Have a New Union Depot. This is an era of railroad terminal Improvement in a large way, and during the coming year millions will be spent |tpon enlarged facilities for handling (passenger traffic in tho cities. First, ithe Pennsylvania system began the stu pendous undertaking of tunneling the Hudson river and entering tho heart of iNew York citv, a plan involving pre liminary expenditure of almost $60,000,- OOO. The New York Central later went to work upon a plan, recently made public, for the enlargement of its Fortv 'second" street station in New York, at great expense. Following close upon this ame the announcement of a great union .depot for Buffalo, to cover acies, and Lost millions. Last of all, the Pennsyl vania proposes to expend $30,000,000 in {providing new terminals in Chicago. St. 'Louis has at present tho finest union (passenger station in America, but it will probably be surpassed before long. Kan sas City has another great depot, in some respects even superior to St. Louis. There is probably no city in the United States of'equal size and com mercial importance that makes the poor showing Minneapolis does in this re spect. Small stations, ranging from fairly presentable down to positively 'bad, widely scattered and in no way in keeping with the size of the traffic han dled or the accommodations due to the public, mark the city in no favorable way. If the trend of terminal improvement could be made to sweep this way, it would be a splendid thing for the city. The Colorado Spectacle. The supreme court of Colorado has Very properly ordered a sweeping inves tigation of the election methods in that state during the recent cam paign, notably in the Denver district. This appears to be neces sary in order to substitute for the confusion o partizan claims and the criminations and recriminations of par tizan investigators, who have succeeded in plowing up fraudulent returns in dicating the existence of that most damnable form of criminality in a frightful degree, in order to substitute for this a judicial inquiry, in whose processes the creatures of master poli ticians and adepts in all corrupt and corrupting political action cannot in termeddle. The attorneys of the re publican and democratic parties have re jquested that the order of the court as to its investigation may be made to in clude the widest field of inquiry, so that jnothing can escape the most rigid ex amination in connection with the elec tion. Such an inquiry, under such auspices, ought to be conducted without a sus ipicion of any taint and end with the 'presentation to the Colorado voters of (unerring proof of the extent of the false ^registration, the measure of the bal ot-box stuffing and related frauds, which have dishonored the state, and ehow where the gubernatorial candi dates and other postulants for office in the state stand, when stripped of the fraudulent votes cast for them. Gov ernor Peabody, who claims re election over Adams, the democratic guberna torial candidate, expresses himself as pleased with the action of the supremo court, as the investigation will take the matter out of politics and bring it with in the scrutiny, cold and merciless, of the judiciary. Peabody would have the investigation and scrutiny of the "ballot-boxes not only applied to the city and county of Denver, but to the whole state. Denver was the favorite field of the fraudulent operations, and it is claimed, by the republicans that over twenty thousand fraudulent democratic votes were cast there for Adams, while countercharges by the democrats are strenuously made, and the storm rages over the legislative elections also. The multiplicity of registration frauds developing in Colorado suggests that, in spite of all the provisions made to maintain the purity of elections, the knaves, dupes and tools of political knaves, utilize the very safeguards themselves, to corrupt the suffrage. Fraud is perpetrated nust so far as it cannot be successfully hindered, and the reflection is not calculated to ap peal to civic pride. On the other hand, the Colorado spectacle is depressing. m. f. 'MA yj mail 5ff J. 8. MoLAIN, HDITOB. DELIVERED BY OAHRIEK. Saturday Evening, element in the suffrage. The corrupti ble element is a minority, but fright fully audacious and aggressive. I re gards the ballot, not as of moral, but as of commercial and partizan value, and with the corrupt use of the ballot comes the lapse of fealty for the prin ciples of republican form of govern ment, and waning of faith in the bal lot as its safeguard and support. Cor ruption of elections is robbery and law lessness of the most abominable kind and mordant of public virtue. A full disclosure of the Colorado frauds, under unimpeachable judicial investigation, no matter who is hit and wounded by the process, would vastly renew the courage and aggressiveness of the protagonists of righteous citi zenship and untainted politics and elections. One of the latest things In decoration is to have the walls covered with a coarse, dead black canvas. It sounds uncomfor table enough to be all right. The Business Outlook Locally and in General. The year closing today started in de pression, and business forged ahead thru the first quarter with many diffi culties in the way. The second quarter saw greater im provement. The last half of the year has been a period of upward trend in business in general, and as the new year comes into view there is a prospect better by far than was to be expected earlier. There is everything to indicate that 1905 will be a record-breaker many lines that Minneapolis will make a showing in building, financial progress, and the starting of new ventures that will pass anything in its history. Al ready there is enough improvement work in sight to warrant the expecta tion. The recent exhibit of the agricultural resources of the.country in the annual report of. the department of agriculture is a broad basis on which "to build sub stantial hope. The farmers have pro duced immense wealth, only a part of which las et found its way to market. Activity is assured for the railroads for months to come. A favorable sign is the tendency to wards improvement and betterment on the part of the railroads. Millions will be spent upon extensions, new rolling stock and improvement of terminals. Nothing could speak louder than this o the general belief in prosperity to come. Early in the year conditions twere the reverse, and reports were mainly of lay ing off employees and lighter traffic. Today the roads in some parts of the country are hard put to it to handle the business offered. Financially the country is sound. Not a cloud appears in the financial sky. There is some danger of a speculative wave in January that may carry prices high enough to bring dis astrous reaction in the speculative mar ket, but even in that field there is a stronger tone of conservatism than ruled a year ago. The first anniversary of the Iroquois theater horror yesterday ought to be a re minder to city councils and building in spectors that there is still -work to do. Meantime, there are the grade crossings. Bevealing the.adhesive power of the corruptible element in the suffrage, it suggests that election laws of the most Btringent kind will not automatically operate, as a clock will number and strike the hours if it is regulated and wound up. Such laws require the ceaseless guardianship of the honest I their conclusions, and that the stress An Educational Campaign. The educating influence of a senato rial contest is wonderful. This obser vation is prompted by the letter writ ten to Representative Hammergren of St. Paul by Senator Moses E. Clapp. It contains the senator's first explicit indorsement of the Quarles-Cooper bill, increasing the powers of the interstate commerce commission. This bill has been sleeping for over a year in the senate committee of which Senator Clapp is a member, and this is the first time the Minnesota member has made an unqualified declaration on the meas ure. It was not for lack of opportunity that the senator kept silent. He was repeatedly solicited for a statement, and the replies given disclose the pro gressive working of the problem in the senatorial mind. It is interesting to review its development. Aug. 27 of this year the editor of the Cannon .Palis Beacon wrote to learn Senator Clapp's attitude. He replied on Oct. 10, saying: "While I cannot anticipate legisla tion, nor say what additional legisla tion may be necessary in the matter of discriminating rates, you may be as sured that it will receive, like all other subjects, the most careful considera- tion." This did not satisfy the advocates of the legislation, and the senator was repeatedly quizzed toy the newspapers, Without avail. Dec. 3, just before start ing to Washington, The Journal asked him for a statement of his posi tion, which he declined to give, saying he "didn't care to go on record." Dec. 6 President Roosevelt went on record most emphatically in his message, speci fying the measures of the pending bill as the proper ones to adopt. The next day, Dec. 7, Senator Clapp gave The Journal an interview, saying he was "in hearty accord with the policy and purposes of the president,'' but had waited to speak out of deference to the president. However, he could not say what form the legislation would take, as some amendments would be proposed. He was still unwilling to indorse the Quarles-Cooper bill. Meanwhile it de veloped that there was a genuine fight on hand for the senatorial succession. Dec. 23 the senator arrived home and gave out another interview, in which he repeated substantially the presi dent's language, but still avoided a di rect indorsement of the Quarles-Cooper bill. These indefinite statements had caused a direct bolt by a member from Senator Clapp's own county, and as a final move to bring him hue, the senator wrote Mr. Hammergren yester day, declaring in plain language for the Quarles-Cooper bill and for its early passage. Some will criticize Mr. Clapp because he did not make this statement in the first instance. They overlook the fact that senatorial minds move slowly to J* 4$$l?i-%&+ of^ a campaign for re-election always accelerates the motion. Vf f' The progress and success of the "ed- ucational campaign'' for the senator ship is a matter for public congratula tion. Senatorial contests may be a little disturbing, but they have their good points. Happy New Year bloody one. -and may It be a less In the Interest of Clearness and Accuracy. A Minneapolis morning paper, which has indulged in some criticism of its contemporaries in their treatment of the much-discussed- drawback privilege has a story from Washington today in which this statement appears: I is well understood that the Pills bury-Washburn company has bonded two of its mills and is turning out something like 5,000 barrels of flour daily under the drawback plan. Nothing further is necessary for those who understand what this draw back privilege is, to demonstrate how little this writer knows of what he is talking about. A mill need not be bonded in order to grind flour under the drawback plan. Bonding and grinding under the drawback plan are two very different things, altho our contempor ary's correspondent does not seem to be aware of the fact. The American miller may grind Can adian wheat by putting his mill under bond. In that case he does not have to pay the duty, but his mill is under gov ernment supervision and regulation, and all the flour and all the by-products made from Canadian wheat must be exported. None of them can be sold in the United States. The minute an attempt is made to sell these products, or any part of them, in the United States, the whole amount of wheat im ported becomes dutiable. Under the drawback privilege the miller need not bond his mill, but he may bring in Canadian wheat, paying the duty at 25 cents a bushel, and upon the exportation of the flour made from this imported wheat, the government will allow him a drawback correspond ing substantially with the duty paid on the imported wheat. But this is not all that the miller de sires to do, and neither of these are questions under consideration. Up to this point there is no dispute. What the millers want beyond this is to be allowed to mix the Canadian wheat with the American and get a drawback on the exported flour corresponding to the amount of Canadian wheat con tained in that flour. This is done in other lines of manu facture. Imported dutiable articles are mixed with domestic articles manu facture, and the manufactured article is exported, the manufacturer being al lowed a drawback corresponding to the amount of imported raw material used. This is all the millers ask in the man ufacture of flour. They are asking sim ply that to the miller be applied the same principle that is in operation in other industries. Secretary Shaw thinks they ought to have that privi lege, but inasmuch as there appears to be some legal question involved, he has referred the legal phase of it to the attorney general. The morning paper referred to has already represented the attorney gen eral as having settled this question in favor of the millers. The attorney gen eral, however, is not aware of the fact. It appears this matter was discussed at the cabinet meeting yesterday, and a aeeision favor of the millers is ex pected, but it has not yet been given. This much is offered to untangle the confusion -which may exist the mmds of some people thru the inaccurate statements of our uninformed contem porary. Off again, On again, Gone again, Hammergren. Standards of Self-Government. William J. Bryan is still finding diversion in an academic discussion of the Philippine problem. In a recent ar ticle he takes the'ground that the "en- lightening influence of self-govern ment" would do more to uplift the people of the islands than our present policy of gradual education in self government. No doubt immediate self-government would be "enlightening" to the Fili pinos. The child left alone with edged tools soon finds enlightenment as to their uses and dangers^ Free rein to warring tribes of the islands for five years would bring them to a state of enlightenment fit to make civilization shudder. England's course in India, chargeable as it is with many crimes that never have and never will sully America's conduct in the Philippines, has made infinitely for peace, comfort and enlightenment of the people. Tho higher in the intellectual Bcale than the Filipinos, the Hindoos admit that they have been benefited by English rule. The anti-imperialist tune, which Mr. Bryan ljas been left almost alone to sing, lends itself to some beautiful platitudes. For instance, the Commoner says: The moment we assert that some peo ple are capable of self-government and some people incapable, that moment we not only destroy the foundation upon which free government rests, but we question the wisdom and benevolence of the Creator. I is not necessary to criticise the divine plan in order to say that some countries are peopled with child-like races, to whom liberty means only license and a"relapse to barbarism. If Mr. Bryan's reasoning is applied to the fullest extent, he must admit that the American Indians, who were busily ex terminating each other when pur fore fathers settled on the Atlantic shores, were at that time capable of self-gov ernment. Government they had, of a certain kind. So have the herds of the field and the fowls of the air. The civ ilized standard of self-government, however, requires that it be stable and efficient as a protector of the individ ual. Bloodshed, disorder and rapine, which flourish in the Moro provinces whenever Uncle Sam's back is turned, are not guarantees of a people fit to govern themselves. Without supervi sion the Philippines would be split into a hundred warring states, with no con ception of federal or international re* :%-1% THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. us- v* lations. They would Ae free and inde pendent, but miserably Unhappy. There is a point to be taken for Mr. Bryan's benefit from the oft-quoted constitution. Tho the declaration pro nounces all persons to be born free and equal, Article 14 of the national con stitution excludes from the number of citizens "Indians not taxed." Ac cording to the Bryan theory, this dis crimination is a base violation of the rights of man. Prom the wiser appli cation of the principles of liberty, it is a just and necessary setting aside of people not capable or entitled to a sharo in the affairs of the nation. The Philadelphia Public Ledger is man fully exposing the city grafters. The graft ers are so well organized and en trenched In power there, that tho Ledger's sturdy work only causes them to smile. Philadelphia is beyond redemption. Jones' Chance. The Journal devotes a good deal of space today to a discussion of what is described at '-Jones' Chance to Be a Roosevelt." We are inclined to think that the readers of The Journal who are interested in muni cipal affairs and good government will be interested in this discussion of the office of mayor, and what Mr. Jones is expected to make of it. For our selves, we expect great things of Mr. Jones. We are not disposed to bind burdens and lay upon his back tasks which are impossible, but it seems to us that he has an opportunity, in view of his experience, his capabilities and the preparedness of this community for a new deal, to conduct an administra tion which shall be notable. Some comparison in this discussion of the mayor's functions and opportuni ties is made between the incoming mayor and the president, with due rec ognition, however, of the comparative limitations imposed upon the mayor's power and authority. At the same time the fact is pointed out that President Roosevelt's success has depended more upon his personality than upon his large constitutional powers, and results of a notable kind are hoped for and ex pected under the incoming city admin istration becanse the incoming mayor possesses a good many of the charac teristics which distinguish our presi dent. He is independent, vigorous, a man of high ideals and admirably equipped by natural endowment and valuable personal experience. He knows what and he knows how. The case of "William Rockefeller of the Standard Oil company, against Oliver La mora, an old soldier, who has been striv ing to maintain legal lights to fish in public waters in the Adirondacks, has just been 'tried again in the county couit at Mal^ne, and decided technically against Lamora, for thf sum of 18 cents. 'He probably will appeal. The case has been in the courts for yeais. In the forest Rockefeller owns about 52,000 acres of woodland, around which he posted warnings not to trespass. Thru these woods flows the SI. Regis river and well-defined trails lead to the river The law provides that trails in use with out protest for more than twenty years shall be public highways, to all purposes .Lamora, disiegardinf the posted notices warning him off thectralls, was arrested, I arraigned before a Justice and acquitted But that decigum ma.de no duteience, for the case was carried from one couit to another until a decision was rendered in ravor of Mr. Rockefeller. The point affects pll who hunt or fish, as the sti earns are stocKed by the state at public expense, and the wild deer be longing to the state roam thru the woods, while every year $75,000 is paid out to protect fisn and game. This attempt to get control of the earth and its fruits is only a little more obvious than some of the indirect attempts. Delaware is having it annual gaseous time, for Addicks the gas man, is out for Senator Bell's term, which will expire in March. The present session of the legis lature is an extraordinary session, which will soon merge into the regular session, and immediately thereafter the caucus will take up the question of the senator ship. Addicks is understood to be five votes short of the number necessary to elect, and if his opponents on the republi can side hold out as firmly as heretofore, he will fail But some legislators today, like some other people, need the money, and you can never be sure of the result until after the vote. If the country has trouble in stomaching Smoot, what would be its fix with Addicks? Mr. Bryan says in his Commoner: The gain in the socialist vote, taken in connection with the democratic loss, shows that those who oppose the republi can party demand more radical legislation rather than tiie conservative policy pro posed last summer by the eastern demo crats. William, stop your flirtir.g. The Charleston (S News and Cour ier, speaking of Dr Dowie, thinks that a man cannot get holoUof $4,000,000 and still be a Christian. While there is so much need, he would certainly Joosen up on some of it at once, if he were a real d's- ciple. The "Detroit Athletic club" sounds quite high-class and gentlemanly, but it celebrated Christmas, the time when "peace on earth" Is in order, if ever, by holding a prize fight between "two of the hardest-hitting bruisers in the profession." DAY OF POLITICAL JUDGMENT New York Post. The enemies, then, which our great financial institutions, our railways, our Insurance companies, and our banks have chiefly to fear are, so to speak, of their own households. When the Huns and Vandals threaten a descent upon our "vested interests" their most terrible weapons will be drawn from the armories of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The men who have promoted the vast and bottomless undertakings into which a credulous public has poured its dollars are the real begetters of the popuJistic and socialistic parties. From the victims of their rapine, when the day of political judgment dawns, they may expect no quarter. THE BIRD IN THE HAND Bedder you look a leedle bit oud Mlt your monish, success unt your health Maokindt you vUl find TOS a very bad crowd To monkey mlt Oder folks' wealth. Der circus of life vas most all in her bills, Und der blctures,[nd vagons und bandt. But a bird In dec, brush rasn't half so much ort A a gouple you got in your handt. WUhelm Strauss. Jmm REWS0F THE BOOK WORLD THE UNEASY CHAIR A Man's Search for Truth, as Seen by Himself His Association with Other Searchers the Autobiography of Moncure D. Conway.From youthful doubt to the Methodist ministry, from Methodism to Unltarianlsm, and from Unitarianism to free-thinking and free-doubtingthere is the chart that shows the life, course of Moncure Conway, whose rarely inter esting and highly valuable Autobiography, Memories and Experiences nas just been published. The chart is drawn on the smallest possible scale, however, it shows nothing of the long way th searcher after truth has traveled, of the great and small he has approached In his quest, of the /many works he has done to help his fellowmen as he has journeyed toward the ever-receding goal, or of the state of his belief or unbelief now that the quest approaches its end, or else (who knows?) is about to be renewed with unsealed eyes, from a new hilltop, thiu a clearei air, to broader horizons. Tracing the short and devious line of this chart thru the larger picture of Mr. Conway's bock, one finds a wealth of ab sorbingly interesting material, such an outlook as is seldom come upon in a book. Mr. Conway has lived in stirring times and has been a part of great events, hav ing been born March 17, 1832, and having participated in an important religious movement as well as in that series of events wnich resulted in the freeing of the slaves. He is of unorthodox fore bears and slave-holding "Virginians, tho his father saw earlv that "slavery was a doomed institution." Brerk from Methodism. With Mr. Conway's growth in years came his break from Methodism, which he had embraced after his father, as a cir cuit preacher, and then his hostility to slavery, against which he contirued to wage war, as he could see his way most effectively to do so, until the institution waj abolished. It was thru both his re ligious development and his antislavery work that he came in contact with great numbers of eminent men and women, and it is in these associations, of which Mi. Conway writes in the most simple and direct and unprejudiced way, that tho reader finds his chief interest. Emerson's Influence. Emerson exercised a great influence over Mr. Conway as a young man. It was Emerson's influence, indeed, that sent the joung man into the Methodist ministry, tho it was in part the same influence that drew him out of that work after a time He had been having a spiritual struggle with himself He had studied law and was ready to be admitted to the bai, he had also obtained a good position in jour nalism in Richmond, yet he suddenly amazed his familv and friends by an nouncing his intention of entering the ministry He says "Why then this sud den resolution to become a Methodist min ister? It was long a mystery to myself, but Emerson was at the bottom of it For Emerson's later influence the other way, no doubt some will condemn the sage, differing from "Father Taylor' of the Seaman's Bethel of Boston, who said It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain, he will change the climate there, and emigiation will set the other way." ..O..O..O.. 'ft ft MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY, Whose "Autobiography, Memoires and Experiences," Has Just Been Pubhshed. r*? ..CO .O ...O But of all with whom Mr Conway has come in contact, and they are legion al most, none is more interestingly written of than Thomas Carlyle. And jus now when there is so much talk of the negr: ?S ^obi^S5 Svei terest Ha\lng spoken against emancipa tion and having been mildly reproved by Mrs. Carlyle, Carlyle said to Mr Conway: You will be patient with me All the worth you have put into your cause will be returned to \s\\ personally, but the America, for which you are hoping, you will nevei see, and jou will never see the whites and blacks iu the south dwelling together as equals in peace Carlyle's Story of Browning. At another time at the Carlyle home, Carlyle gave Mr Conway the circum stances of the'first meeting of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Brown ing had seen some of Miss Barrett's verses and had wished to meet her, but found ob stacles in the way, getting no reply from Miss 'Barrett's uncle, John Kenyon, to whom he wrote asking for an lntrodaction. Carlyle continues the story thus: Browning, hearing nothing from. Kenyon, de termined not to stop on ceiemony and went to Di Barrett's house The seivant man had been taking too much beer thought Biowning a doc toi and admitted him He went into the study where Miss Elizabeth was reclining They had a conversation, liked each other and she made arrangements for lilm to call again He diti so and the spinal disease passed away, the spell bound iirincess was reached by lvei knight, took up hei bed and walked, one day went all the way to Marjlebone church, where they were married. Then thev could not face the angn father, and went to Italy Kenron supplied the money, and when he died left them more She was never suffered by her father to see him againnot even when he was dying She caught sight of him thru an open door George Eliot's Love of "Tito." Likewise, Mr Conway gives us this first-hand story of George Eliot I had probably spoken to Sara Henneli of the possible bearing of "The Nemesis of Faith" wherein a wife, meeting one she loves, regaids her legitimate marriage as a sort of adulteryon George Eliot union with LeT\es 'ffe all re gaid this union as a calamitv,' said SaraU Hen neli. "Mr. Bray regarded it as due to her de fectlve self-esteem and self-reliance and her sufferings fiom loneliness. She continued to suf fer from loneUness, but came to love the chai acters in her books as if they were ber chil dien She loved them even when they were wicked. Once when I was at her house in Lon don, looking at some sketches from 'Romola.' we paused befoie 'Tito After a moment's silence George EJiot said softly as If to herself- 'The dear fellow I exclaimed 'He's not a dear fellow t all, but 8/ verv bad fellow/ 'Ah," she said, 'I was seeing him with the eyes of Romola __ Tennyson In a Ditch. Of a lighter vein is the incident in which Mr. Conway and Lord Tennvsor- -were act ors. They fell into a muddy ditch, sat down in it, in fact, In Tennyson's garden one dark evening after dinner. They pulled themselves out and groped for a pat Tennyson exclaiming December 31,^1904^ I "Thatfolk."s nothmention this to the temperance tj i 4-i r'^W **&*.'- M thi should have after dinner! In the samehappened vein runs Rossetti' lime lck on Whistler, written at a dinner just after the artist had told a story of a fistic battle of his on shipboard: There is a young artist named Whistler, Who in every respect Is a bristlei A tube of white lead Or a punch on the head Come equally handy to Whistler But in all of this contact with men Dro 1905Where will we all be in 1925. gIve 0 With the Long BowS mr The year seems to be going out like a gentleman. i^SoiT reall. doSiof he had $10,00is 0 suddenlout, left him-alays provided,t ohe course and things, the author is ever on his quest Yet -what he finds e^ceedlnglv meager so meager that one might almost say he has lost his way and round noth ing not likely to satisfy the hopeful spirit, nor need we assume that it satisfies him. Speaking of his point of view as pastor of South Place chapel, London, a position held by him for twenty-one years, he says: I looked on all of the camps as equally strug gling for error, and could weigh without bias the value of each for human happiness. For as the vision of heaven faded the Importance of happi -ness in this iorl became paramount 1 could idealize any idol not worshiped by human sac rifices And then he quotes from Omar Khav yam lines which end with this: Resign tnyself then, to make what little para dUe thou can^t here below, for, as for that jond, thou shalt arrive thereor thou Shalt not. Lack of Capacity for Faith. One is impressed by all of this with the feeling that Mr Conway is lacking in a capacity for faith, and that, coupled with this, there is a personal Inability to see in the discoveries of science any basis foi belief in a larger life than this we 11vo here One cannot doubt that he has been sincere In his quest. Yet he has aban doned the larger for the smaller hope, and except on absolutely sure ground that is failure. However, a failure in so impor tant a search to earnestly prosecuted has an Interest of its own, and that added to the interest Mr. Conway's book holds thru its wealth- of material, so lucidly and so kindly presented, relating to men who have a permanent place lr t*ie history of their time and the hearts of the lace, "Eye Baton's walla, shoot Jolly as files. If one could steer a course half way between Frenzied Finance and the Simple Life, getting a nice wad from the merely exhilarated finance and keeping Life Simple enough to enjoy it, lie would be somewhere near it. War on the insurance companies is being waged also in the Era maga- zine for January. The writer tells how the company started with $91,000 paid up stock. This was later increased to $2,000,000 profits out of the policy-holders and the stock divided pro-rata. Thus the insurance company, allowing themselves 10 per cent their stock, drew out $200,000 a year from the policy holders on $91,000 investment. Not satisfied with this they created a trust company, watered the stock up to $3,000,000 and sold it to the insurance company at $500 a share, taking, of course, the policy-holders' money to pay for it. Both trust and insurance companies are the same thing and the officials have it fixed that they have life jobs in thus robbing tho policy-holders. Compared with this "system," highway robbery becomes a Sunday school concert. WD There was considerable trouble of a minor character at a recent Kansas wedding, an account of which is brought to hand by the Oskaloosa (Kan.^ Independence. The Independence says: Al Mennifield and Mrs. Hodge Page were married last Monday night. Judge Davis performed the ceremony. Thru some misunderstanding Mennifield was kicked out of the home by Andy Hodge, son of the bride, earlier in the evening, and went to his own home town out of humor and out of the notion of marrying. The oth er boys, however, "went out and pacified him and gave him such assurances th at he came to town and went thru the ordeal. Andy exhibits new half-soles on his shoes and says the old ones were torn off when he kicked his future pa, and declares that the latter soared ton feet thru the air. Andy makes some dire threats yet, but it is ffoped he will be reconciled and peace will reign. Sir* Howard Vincent, Kt, Baronet, etc., has been making complaint of the third stanza of the patriotic song called the "Star Spangled Banner." Sir Howard says that instead of healing the former ill-feeling between the nations it tends to keep it alive. The third verse runs something like this: And where is the band that so Tauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a count ry should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution, No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Well, it is rather bombasticthe whole poemit must be confessed. But Mr. Key had some excuse for excitement at the time. The British were over here banging away at us with guns and committing arson on the na- tional capital at Washington, and we all felt badly hurt and desirous of slaying all the inhabitants of Great Britain then under arms. I the long run, if the school histories give us the correct version, the British were licked, not very thoroly, but rendered a bit groggy. But we were in a bad way too, and glad to quit when the time came. That was a long time ago and we feel no particular hostility to Eng- lishmefl now, tho their pronunciation and spelling are not all that could ba I desired. But they are not coming across any more to burn or destroy, be- cause the climate over here has become unhealthy to people looking for that variety of trouble. The stanza of which Sir Howard complains, will hardly keep alive our old national distaste for each other so long as we are doing such good busi- ness together. I has become more of an historic relic, a sort of crystaliza- i tion of the public feeling at that time. So let her wave. The discussion around the exchange table today took a turn to what the I conversationalists would do if they had unlimited money. There was a gen* eral agreement that ''unlimited money" meant about $10,000. With $10,000 the par ty of the first part would retire from actne pur- suits and secure about two or three acres of good land somewhere on tho 'I gulf of Mexico, perhaps near Biloxi, Miss, There he would build a little place, raise a few vegetables and chickens and just get rested for a few years before doing much of anything. The par ty of the second, part wa going to England and travel thru the lake country on foot, putting up at Dickinsy inns and buying a rare piece of old furniture heie and there, with which to sto ck some future modest home. The party of the thud part thought that Los Angeles or San Diego ^as about his size. He would have some easy business in town and a ranch about four miles out for himself and friends. Other parties had no definite plans. They would just resign their posi- tions and like Mr. Micawber, look about them a little. Emerson says th^t "what a man is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light winch all men may read but him- self" what a man comes if he wilwl tell you wha would, that he didn't drop dead. A famous modern authority says that "desire is prayer." What a man is really desiring in his heart is his actual prayer, no matter what he "gives tongue to in prayer meeting or e\en by himself. What are A\e really and truly desiring? Here is as good a,place as any to preach a sermon and if you have read thus far, we've got you down and you're obliged to listen whether or no. Are we hungering and thirsting after righteousness or after a soft snap and a chance to skin the world and our alleged enemies to a finish? Of course all this is nothing to us except to furnish copy to fill up a lit- tle space. W are all right. I is the other fellow's sins and shortcomings wnich. we wish to denounce. Consider yourself denounced. Dr. Dowie and others have denounced you for years and we here add our little squeaky denunciation. Now how do you feel? autobiographyma value such a worksthifs the kind sepdo hold Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. Vols. $6 net. Two FEMALE NAPOLEONS OF FINANCE Chicago Inter-Ocean. Ohio seems also to be the mother of a certain kind of bank presidents. ^0d^iMmMiii i 'J A. J. R. (f****- A SCIENTIFIC TARIFF Congregationalist Taxation is a mattei not for selfish in terests to determine bv a piocess at Washington, which makes for the survival of the strongest competitor with the deep est purse and most unprincipaled officials and lobbyists, but should be settled by ex perts in the art and science of revenue production, viewing the country' inter ests as a whole and the welfare of the largest number of citizens Hence, when tariff revision is undertaken it should be by congress untler the guidance of dlalti' terested, competent experts. DIVIDENDS AND DEATH Detroit News. What the statistics of railway fatu ities fail to show is the amount of dividends earned by the lavk of pre caution that killed over three thousand persons last year. IN THE KITTIE There once was a foolish young rat "Who shook his gray fist at a cat And now ev'ry day His relatives sa 'Where can little Willie be at?" Kansas City Timfi KNEW IT FIRST Chicago Record-Herald Pniiadelphia people are complafntef because Lne street cars are co ld tojr slow Pniiadelphia is' Chicago found ott rUrht at the beginning of white* thftt the cars were not heated WHERE THE MONEY is JgsssK i Kansas City Star. The epidemic of purse-snatchlny fci Kansas City suggests that the highway men have at last discoverfd who car ries the family funds. %n -v*hc