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The war in the east beais heavily upon Fiance, and at a tune like this, when all the world is waiting and watching for a great naval battle, the question naturally arises as to what the effect upon Paris will be in the event of a crushing de feat iov the .Russian commander. The Fiench people aie the most won derful of savers. Despite the cata clysm of the Franco-Prussian war, inch left France with an enormous mclem mty pa3 ment to be made up from .weakened resources, and a debt that was staggering, she pulled out of it within a decade. Despite great losses in foreign investments, as in the Panama canal collapse, the French people have gone on savi ng and send ing, monev abroad for investment, for there are not opportunities enough at home to provide for all the surplus. Every government has some French monev under it, and cve-iy countrv has its industries or its railroads represent ing in some part the investme nt of French savings. "Remote Oceanica has $11,132,000, 1'entral America $55,970,- 000, North America $204,194,000 and "."Asia $216,353,000. South Ameri ca has diawn $506,432,000 from France, and *^in Africa, as is natura l, French colonial and othei investmen ts run to $712,749,- 000. But it is in Europe that the big figures appeal, aggregating $4,053,000,- TJ00. Fiance is not a heavy investor in Geimany, and her holdings of Eng lish, Spanish, Italian and other securi ties aie not especially heavy in the case of any particular, country. M. Neymaick has not given details, but everyone knows that the heavy end of the enormous European total lies in Eussia. France is carrying a mountain of Muscovite debt. With war lisks increasing, insurance rates on ships engaged in the oriental trade going up rapidly, and all the 1 woild on the ragged edge for first noise of the battle, it is natural that French financiers should begin to feel that the crucial test is soon to come. Months ago. when the new French premier, M. "Rouvier, took office, one of his first acts was to send out semi offi cial notification to all the agents de change of the Pans bourse, to the ef fect that the governmental attitude was one of opposition to speculation, and J^.the co-operation of the bar/kers and brokers was solicited for the work of discouraging it in the interest of gen- r* cral financial stability. This has work ed out splendidly, and, altho "Rus sia has had some frightfully hard knocks, and the owners of Eussian se curities have not been free from nerv ousness, reassurance has always been' forthcoming from highest sources, and ."thru it all Paris has been free from *,'even the whisper of panic. This has been the situation to dat e, but whether in the event that Togo should fall upon Eo.iestvenoky and inflict a crushing de feat, confidence could still be main tained is doubtful. The only thing _ likely to preve nt a panic would be im- JJ media te inauguration of peaee negotia tions, and this is one reason why many Z: (jfT"&elievc that once the Eussian fleet is ^'beaten, peace will come. The Fren'eh financial situation meanwhile is one of I o-great uncertainty. X* America stands to suffer little by any financial disturbance that mig ht come over P?ris. I is New York and Lon- j, don tjiat aie hooked up in instantan eous tovuh, with securities markets one ^-reflecting the other. Should the unex pected happen, and the Japanese fleet 1 *-go down to defeat, it cannot be doubted that London would feel the effect ad Aversely, and New York would suffer \r* sympathy. This would not necessarilv be great declin'e, nor would it in any jKfirtlikelihood be permanent, at least on our I'Inside, where everything in our icports of ,r.*Grops, internal commerce, and finance, C%ttis so favorable. But it is the thing to be watch ed for now, and while the 2^. fight is pending hesitation will rule the, lb. markets for securities, ir'"" Rev. W. E McLennan, pastor of Bel- K,4*?*'den Avenue Presbyterian church. Chicago, advocates a corps of competent mstruc W tors in every theological schooln, t/'a^oorP3a I post-graduate course 11 .and all give to$ ministers ayoung eve Christiant Workers that will give 1S 5 I them an^ into practical -affairs. &fi^J? 5Insight .^a re a of competent instructors" cannot teach. One of them is "an insight into practical affairs." The graduate to get it must -go out and work,side by side with men if he expects to- know what men are think ing and feeling. Not a Code of Honor. The interstate commerce commission has been holding hearings in Chicago and tho public has been learni ng some thing more about the methods of tho piivate car lino companies.' Accord ing to the testimony of a'stenographer foimerW in the employ of the Ar mours, a secret code existed by whi ch rebat es wero regulatedj '^Laugh- some" in this code meant "pay a re- bate""lava' meant pay the re bate out of cash in liana*no tell-tale checks. The names of the interstate commecc commission were in the 'code and the members of the commission were amused to learn what words stood for their names. "Imprison" it appears' meant Mr. Proiity, while "woodprint" signified that somebody was to avoid service of summons from the interstate commerce commission. This word flashed over the wire gave somebody an extra vacation. Eebates on fruit shipments it ap pears were paid to certain large ship pers whom the witness named. The lailroads have alwavs claimed that they had nothing to do with the chta ges made or repayments allowed by the private car lines. They were helpless, but it is a curious fact that no receiver of fruit had anything to i with the private car line company. His dealings are with the railroad and to the railroad he pa ys his bill. There was the ease of Mr. Davies of hicago, who testified before the com mission that he had refused to pay an exorbitant charge for icing cars be tween Decker, Ind., and Chicago. said that the railroad people insisted that he bhould' ay it and when he de murred on the ground that the bill was unreasonable they told him they h.id nothing to do with that. When he asked them to refer him to the man who had to do with making the bill thev still insisted that he pay it or they would shut off hig credit and re fuse to haul shipments to him unless the charges were prepaid. The rail road 111 this case showed a violent anxiety to collect the icing charge for the car line company, tho disclaiming any interest in it. Mr. Davies found that tho he was doing business with an interstate corporation his bills wero being made out by a company having no common carrier duties and which did not appear in the transaction. Tho railroads may be able to satisfy the public that they have no interest in these charges or no guilt in these discriminations, but they will pardon the public if it does not see it at once. On the use of private cais the ruling of the interstate commerce commission has been, "when a carrier accepts and uses cais for transportation, owned by shippers or others, in legal contempla I tion it adopts them as its own for pur poses of rates or carriage, and neither the manner of acquiring the cars nor inability to furnish its general patrons the use of cars similar to those fur nished by some shippers for their own traffic, can excuse or justify a earner for a disci imination in rates that may give one shipper an advantage over another nor can any device such as the payment of unreasonable rent for the use ot cars furnished bv shippers, be practiced to evade the duty of equal charges tor equal service." The railroads, either .are or are not able to protect their patrons from ex tortionate charges by private-car lines. If they are not, then the government must. If the railroads are able, but will not do it, then the government must take a hand in the general busi ness of making rates where complaint is-filed ind a showing of- unreasonable, rates made. Tt does seem as tho the logical way to reach the private-car line is thin the railroad, because, while the shipper knows the railroad and pays his bill to it, and the government knows the raihoad and has given it its right of eminent domain, without which there could be no railroad, neither the shipper nor the government knows the private-car line. Why, then, should the railroad be able to fob off congress by saying, "Don't attack us we are pow erless go after the private-car lines. Tllby are the fellows who are doing the mischief." Will the governmen t, with a responsible agent in sight, go off into the woods looking for a hidd en agent Pension Commissioner Warn er has ^dis covered that the famous "Order No. 78" has been made retroactive in some cases and that the government has been done to the, tune of $750,000. In the case of a private business this would be a real loss, but in the case of the government it is merely keeping money in circulation. Gov. Hanly's Reform Movement. The governor of Indiana is applying to tho public service in that state the same principle in operation on some of the railroads and in a number of other great industrial institutions he is* re fusing to appoint to office any man who drinks liquor or to appoint any one who will appoi nt a subordinate who drinks. His rule is arousing no little opposition, but that does not seem to worry him any. contends that the state is entitled to the best service its 'servants are capable of giving, and the experience of business men is that em plovees who drink are below grade if thev do not want men of that kind, why, asks the governor of Indiana, should the state be compelled to take the eastoffs and- bums? And why should it? The no-drink rule in business has been a powerful agent for temperance reform, but nothing like what Gover nor Hanly's requireme nt would be if it weie made general. When the po litical worker has to give up the sa loon in order to avoid disqualifying himself for a- public job, to which he is always- aspiring, the vender of the fruit of the Kentucky vine will have to go out of business. Indiana is said to have taken a great moral brace under the influence- of the new governor's sBoU-ey** and,. a Indianapolis rdispate% reports that in all cities where they have a metropolitan police force there is a strict enforcement of the saloon laws and the hews* against gambling. BUI Devery, New York city'a states man, would give all automobilists that exced the speed limit a jail Bentencp. "If they was put against the prison chuck for a few meals," says Mr. Devery, "they would put drags on their a chines." 1 Treatment of Consumption. The first annual meeting of the na tional association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis will be held in, Washington the 18th and 19th of th is month. This will be an important con ference of the eminent medical special ists vrpori' a mos absorbing subject. Minnesota' will be represented by Dr. Bracken, the secretary of the -state board of health, who will address the meeting on infection in transportation, and by Dr. C. Green of Jit. Paul, who will discuss the relation of tho disease to life insurance. This meeting will probably eventuate in some action looking toward the suppression of th is disease both b.y direct treatment and by public education as to its nature. The old theory as to the hereditary character of tuberculosis, while not en tire ly discarded, has fallen from its bad eminence as the sole cause of the dis ease. So long as it occupied that posi tion the theory assisjted materially to propagate the disease. Now that the theory of the communicable nature of consumption has assumed its due im portance in the discussion,' scientific progress in its abatement -is possible. I is hardly the provin ce of a news paper to discuss minutely the steps to be taken, but the fa ct that a large por tion of the time of the Washington conference will be devoted to a sym posium on the sanatorium treatment of consumption perhaps indicat es as well as anything could the trend of medi cal opinion.' Consumption carries off more people than any other known disease. There has never been a medical or surgical cure for it. There is a nature cure which has worked wonders, and that is the fresh-air cure. Medic al opinion has progressed far when physicians are" ready to recomme nd detention institu tions for ignorant or vicious consump tives. The segregation of the victims of this disease from the healthy portions of the community is an essential feature of the modern treatment. A soon as the disease was recognized as infectious the duty of the medical profession plain ly pointed to the state as the proper resort for authority to stop its spread. This is necessary in only a minority of cases. Public aid may still be necessary in sanatori um and industrial opportuni ties for indige nt consumptives. The confeience will issue an educa tional leaflet for distribution among the people which should be of immense value. Yesterday was as good as any we had last November. Stickney's Bomb. President A. Stickn ey of the Chi cago Great Western vhas made*'' trouble for the railroad men before. His latest exhibition of independence of view and frankness of statement is his declara tion to the senate committee on interstate commerce in favor of givi ng the interstate- commerce commission the power t,o fix rates. The railroad men have been niling up testimony with the Senate com mittee to the effect that such power, if exercised, would throw the business of the country into confusion and have called to their aid shippers concerning whose testimony they seem to have been advised beforehand and have drawn upon the so-called "ex- pert knowledge" of a university professor in support of the theorv that the interstate commerce commission, if it had the power, would soon "play hob" with the whole rate situation. I contradiction of their claims, r. Stickne y, who' is a successful railroad man himself, but who has never hesi tated to declare his views when they have been in disagreement with other railroad men, informs the committee that the interstate commerce commission would be the most satisfactory arbiter possible." r. Stickney's testimony is going to make trouble, for he not only advocates givi ng the power of making rates to the commission, but he shatters that beautiful theory that the givi ng of rebates and the granting of favors and discriminations has been abolished by the Elkins law. says the directors have stopped paying rebates on gra in shipments, but in lieu thereof have paid elevator fees, which is anoth er .way of givi ng rebates. The railroad men have been having things so much their own way with the senate committee and everything has been running so smoothly in their di rection that they had persuad ed them selves and almost convinced some other people that the whole question of rat e making was disposed of, the president headed off and the danger of effective railroad legislation averte d. But with men like r. Stickney coming to the front, the president again on deck de claring for rate regulation anjl the pub lic in possession of a clearer and more accurate idea of what rate regulation really means, it appears the campaign is only fairly open. I bas been the play of the railroad men and their friends, the "railroad senators," to scare everybody with the idea that the possession of the rat e making power by the commission meant a general overhauling of the rate sys tems of the country. A "Chicago uni versi ty professor has been brought to the front to describe conditions in Ger many and show how rate-making by the governme nt oh governme nt railroads has been disastrous. Of course, it was never, contemplated that the interstate commerce commis sion should go into the business of mak ing rates on a broad scale, any more than our state commission does, but should interfere with" existing rates only in specific cases wdiere it was shown conclusively that tfie -existing THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL rate was not reasonable. The-president has clearly stated that that is his idea of rate regulation and -our gov ernment is certainly not without the* power and ought not1, to be without tho power to correct unreasonable rates made by railroads exercising power delegated by the state for1 the benefit of the public. W do not anticipate that it will be necessary for the interstate commerce commission to exercise its power except in very rare instances, but it is manifest that the possession of that power is sure to exercise an exceedingly 'whole some influence upon all rate-making by the railroads themselves, Maybe Taft will be glad|to get qff the lid and stretch his legU Loeb, Wood, Omaha. The president's special train which was to have reached Omaha at 10:20, on the night of May 9, ftid not arrive on that date nor on anyvother. I did not arrive at Omaha at all, but was sent around by anoth er route, tho the president was billed to appear in Oma ha, and thereby hangs a tale. Loeb was on the train. Mae Wood was at Omaha. Mae Wood wanted to meet Loe b, but Loeb did not reciprocate the wish for an interview. She had some legal papers she wanted to show him, and in fact leave with him as a memen to of his visit to Omaha. These papers were a summons and complaint in a suit instigated by Mae Wood against Loeb and others, charging that they took, purloined, abstracted, removed, concealed and otherwise monkeyed with certain tangible property then and there belonging to the said Mae Wood, to-wit, a bundle of letters written to Miss Mae Wood byHhe easy boss,'' T. C. Piatt. Warm letters. Maybe these letters were valuable and maybe they were not, but indepen dent ly of their value the incident sug gests to presidents that hereafter they choose the tenants of their special trains with a view to their freedom to visit any pait of the country. I would be mortifying to a president to arrange to vMt a towrn and make a keynote speech on the tariff and find at the last minute that his secretary is barred from th is town by legal Complications. Suppose the president starts out to vis it Council Bluffs and make a speech on the railroad question and learns when too late that some member of the cab inet who is on the train is accused of having committed arson in that town when a small boy, or that the solicitor of the treasur y, who is an honored guest, is charged wi th having forged a check for $8 in Sedalia, or that the at torney general has three wives laying for him in Shreveport, how is the "presi dent to arrange his itinerary? I the Mae Wood case the president probably felt und er some obligations to Loeb for asking him to skip Omaha. W can imagine that a'presideilt or even a less er person would set np the drinks to a man who would show him how to get around OmahaV *Billr sitppose the presi dent were coming 'to "Minneapolis? WelJ, that would bfi~dift'm'aai*. Eugene W^feV "thef*Kans'as'*^r6 who used tO'4fiiagine he was commissioner of pensions, refuses to furnish his portrait to be hung in the pension office. He says' if he has to- 4e- hung he would rather be hung in Kansas. Ten years ago today, in an interviw, Silver Dollar Bland of Missouri declared that silver would be the only issue in 1896. It was. Think where the country would have been today if we had adopted the double standard' Secretary Shaw makes light of the $30,- 000 000 deficiency in the treasury. Mr. Shaw's cheery disposition may at times be overdone, but then there are always apostles of gloom about to hold him down. Thomas Smith, waiter in a New York restaurant, has fallen heir to $35,000, but has decided to retain his place. Thomas has learned to labor and to wait and that is worth a fortune in itself. Ohio is having a little quiet Judge Taft boom fits own. Nineteen hundred and eight is a long way o'ff, but it is a good practice to keep favorite sons pretty well in the foreground. The Japanese admiral may soon receive from the mikado a message something lfke this: Dear SirIt Is time for To go. Not strictly grammatical, but he will un derstand. Some talk of William Randolph Hearst for mayor of New York on an ownership platform. It opens up a splendid oppor tunity to dispose of both McClellan and Hearst. The railroads are as mad at Taft as tho he had gotten to first on four balls, stolen second and scored on a wild throw in from the south gaiden. Kansas City is talking of putting up a fourteen-story pffice building. The Times of that city fears that it will shade the billboards The Chicago Tribune suggests that the next lull in the strike will be on Me morial day. But it will make even on the Fourth of July. A' horse named Death ian'in some races at Kansas City. The taste of the own ers of the horse is open to question unless it is. a pale horse. The celebrated Brooks of Sheffield had ears, but General Childs inclines to the opinion that Brooks of New Ulm lacks perception. An educated inventor has patented a device to engraft the hourglass on tho flrkin and produce the bulgeless barrel. Nan Patterson is said to have refused an offer to go on the stage at $1,500 a week. This almost beats plumbing. The poet laureate1 is at work on a War poem. The horrors of Part Arthur will soon fade from the public mind. "\VhiskVrs are saUI to be coming THE UNEASY CHAIR TALES OF MEN WHO JOKE WITH TERRORS If death is the "king of ter- rors," fire is at least his chief ol staff. Few things can so surely carry panic to the heart as a cry of "Fire HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS, jj Author of "The Smoke Laters." that few people have read, as. it was Is sued by a small publishing house. Gen eral Wallace thought this title detracted from its interest, as people might imagine it a life of a socialist leader, or a treatise on socialism. General Wallace himself had in mind an American novel. He once said that It was his intention to write this story after he had completed his memoirs. His theme was the striving ofAmericans to accomplish wonderful things in an in credibly short time His hero was to be a lestless American who lived for a few years in Europe, then in Australia, in Africa, and in South America, and who, finally, after years of wandering, returned to his owh country only to start again upon his journey, never satisfied, never happy, the spirit of an Ind'an within him, and the childlike desire to see new scenes. In each of these countries his hero was to accomplish worthy deeds, and when he returned to his own coun try it was to be with the intention of leading the life of a son of the soil, but he was to find he could not do so. The story would have been suggestive of "The Wandering Jew," with the element of re ligious controveisy eliminated. In again with the hodpskirt. Twin relics, :tcr SIMPLICITY THE OUTCOME OF CUL TURE."Why should it be necessary to' cultivate simplicity? asked a member of the last Minnesota legislature of The Un easy Chair a few days ago as he picked up Malcolm McLeod's The Culture of Simplicity. The Chair has forgotten what its snap-shot answer was. Now, it would say something like this. Simplicity, as the term is used here, is an attitude of mind toward life. It is natural, but with most of us is soon lost in the complexity of artificial desires created by the modern environment The mind becomes confused, and a course of cultivation is needed to get back to the natural attitude. Hence. Lowell savs the "highest outcome of culture is simplicity." Mr. McLeod believes the voice being raised for simplicity is a spuitual note. "Simplicity is spirituality, simplicity is power the spiritual is the solution of everything," is the way he puts what ho calls "the gospel for an age of unrest." Mr. McLeod convincingly pleads for sim plicity in all of the ways of life. He asks whether we are losing the art of medita tion he adds a clause to a "clause of the Lord's piayer" 'Give^ us this day our daily bread,' and make us content with that" he stands for tranquillity of mind, the tranquillity of relaxation rather than of repression, of being, not of appearance he wants to see more of "making life" than of "making a living Mr. McLeod is pointing out the path to the truest happiness ahd highest ends of an enduring life W recommend both the book and the gospel to a restless age Fleming H. Kevell company, New York. $1 net AT THE THEATERS Metropolitan"Minna von Barnhelm," Last evening's offering of the Milwau ke German Theater company, Lessing's charming comedy, "Minna von Barn- helm," was a double revelation First came the recognition of the fact that the comedies of the last century in Germany as elsewhere have lost none of their power to entertain. The second was that in the company presenting the comedy, Milwaukee has a theatrical combination that deserves to take rank with the best of similar organizations the country over. A large audience was present despite the weather and there was a constant ripple of laughter thruout the evening*as the play progiessed So genuine was the ap preciation of the audience that there was a curtain recall after each of the five acts, and in some cases more than onet The costuming was thati of the last cen tury and was very bright and pretty. The honors of the evening, if there could be said to be honors where the characters were impersonated with Buch uniform excellence, fell to Gertrude Mueller, who portrayed Franzjska, the maid, and Frederich Gros as Just. Miss Mueller was as dainty and piquant as a Dreden doll. Her coquetry and feminine cajolery were simply delicious and her Jove-making of the artlessly artful sort that is full of humor. Mr. Gros gave a finished portrait of the servant, faith ful to his master in poverty and distress as in position and. ppwer. was de lightfully droll. I'iJM' Camilla Mar bach'Intne title role was 'a-blt slow~in tfee.openins scenes, but did May 13, 1905. 1 -A And when the crv is followed by the real presence of the fiend, paralysis seizes one, unless he be of stout nerve. Stories of men who enlist in the army of fire-fighters, there fore, always command attention, especi ally if they are good ones, and that is the kind to be found in Harvey J. O'Higgms* The Smoke-Eaters, a series of stories of battles of New York firemen with the fire fiend. They are stories that take your breath and make you laugh in the same or contiguous moments. A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.CAAAAAAA4 A f:o3 !3 Facing death near the top of a seven story building, a group of firemen are about to try to make their escape to an adioming building by way of a three-inch ledge, and some of them are law recruits at the business. Nerves are strung to the highest pitch when the man in com mand orders boots off. "I got holes in my stockings," says a vetran coyly The tension is relieved, and men who have saved others go about saving their aw comrades and themselves with steadier heads and hands. Mr O'Higgms knows his material, and, what is quite as im portant, how to tell a good story. The Century company, New York. $1 5J EW WALLACE'S CHOICE FOR "THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL." The great American novel, according to the late Lew Wallace, was "Mmvale Bart- man," by Tourgeea book of fifteen years ago, savs Success Magazine. It has a &ub- -n, TJ4. _i.ix.ii i -,,i title, "Chiistian Socialist," and is a story .y either Bu P^^0^f With the Long Bow. ""Eyenature'* walks, shoot tatty as MtBe*.' If the baby sometimes seems to occupy all time and fill all space, re- member that the hen has thirteen. And this occurred in the automobile with the wind back of it. Mrs. H.-Is that your cigar we detect, William, or is it the gasolene? A Indiana clergyman, the Kev. Brooks, wants the church to "move out the cook stove, the dining hal l, the fai r, the festival and the theatricals from its sacred walls, and let holiness come in, with its beauty and glory." also denounces as spurious, "preacherettes, sermonettes, signcard- ettes, and revivalettes, that produce only convertettes." I people are not aroused by a great idea they can hardly be held by a chicken sandwich. MP I has been Joseph Chamberlain's boast that he has never taken any exercise. Mr. Chamberlain is now 70 years of age and he is getting a bit wobbly on his pins, but his life is a valuable example to the world, showing vha can be done by a man who has never per&pired. The last week or two has been a revelation to many of the fact that the organist (male) plays the big windjammer with his extremities as well as with his hands. The Auditorium organ gives the public a chance to see the organist (male) kick goal. S many people have watched what might be called the "lower limb work" of the organ trouncer that they have lost the beauty of the music in the wonderful dexterity of the organist's southern extremities. Personally we are convinced that the organist ought to play behind a screen. It's the music you want to hear, isn't it? Of course, if it is a contortionist you desire, why, there's vaudeville going on somewhere about all the time. I can be set down as a truth, however, that the princi- ple of harmony taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The amusement of ancestry chasing is being carried on more than ever in the east, especially among those people who have achieved a genteel com- petence of a few millions. the way, did you ever know a family that wasn't descended from some mighty linekings, jacks, ninespots and the like? There are family trees enough in the United States, now standing useless, which, if sawed into lumber, would house the entire population of the nation and leave a few boards over for stable s. Golf is the best all-around game for middle a ge that has been invented. For a man with a bay window who wants a smallish bit of exercise combined with natural scenery, bird song and pure air, golf offers something easy and gentle without the rigors of baseball and without that fierre strenuousness that lawn tennis soon attains when you try to play it for all there is in it. These are the observations of a young business man who has been try- ing to work off an incipient bay window 7 by ehasing a pill across the greensward. Yet, if you take his word for it, golf is not so easy of attainment as it reads. The story of his first round on the links gave the material for this slight sketch. The first step in golf \b to build up a little earthen tee and plaee the pill on the top. The caddie then goes off on the horiz on and stands around while the player swings the driver, which is a baseball bat with a horseshoe on it, and attempts to smite the pill and to lift it towards the zenith. A the first smite, the chances are against touching it. This is not where you say "hoot mon," but after you have swung the driver once or twice and fanned the pal e, cold atmosphere you sometimes mention that locality or state of mind in which Rev. Dr. Shutter has no confidence as a permanent abode. Thi3 remark is not compulsry and is better omitted. Sometimes you hit the pill on the top a nfd it rolls about twenty feet. This is not a desirable result uo ab and strike the pill fairly in the face at the proper angle, it sails up into the air gloriously and you are started properly along the golfy way. Golf is an interesting state of mind and it offers rather more variety than lawn mowing, but lawn mowing has this advantage, that you get som e- thing done. I golf it is not right to reach your driver so far that you'slap the other players in the eye with it. With these simple instructions in mind, almost anyone with practice can become a go od golfer. A. R. iiiuimu, imnrn............ creditable work later, especially in her scenes with Telheim, where she tries to exert her woman's wiles to overcome his scruples to accenting her love, while he is in temporary disgrace. The Telheim of Sigismund Elfeld was a trifle stilted at times, perhaps as befitted his condi tion, but was adequate. The combination, unusual to an Ameri can audience, of a brogue formed by grafting the German tongue as an ac quired language on the French mother tongue, was admirably handled by Emil Marx. Paul W*4-ner. formerly sergeant major under Telheim. was well done by Curt Stark. Julius Schmidt as the inn keeper was a littje too rapid in his enunciation at times for the large num ber of German-American students in the audience. The other parts were well taken J and to loosen up a rheumatic leg ut a thousand pounds' pressure into the swing wfw THE SONG BIRDS' PETITION To the Editor of The Journal I enclose herewith a copj of the "Bird Petition." which was prepared by the late Senator Hoar and presented to the Masachusetts legislature a number of years ago. Will you not have the kindness to print it in full.' I have s-ent this petition to some of the schools in the city, where it has ben.read in all of the rooms of that hobool This Is the season of the year when the song birds are leturning to the state, and I thought possibU the publication of this beautiful appeal might act as a restraint upon those boys who are accustomed to hunt and kin song birds. Minneapolis, Minn MH 11 1!M)J. John Day Smith. This petition, which was Instrumental In getting the Massachusetts law prohibiting* the wearing of song and insectivorous^birds on women's hats, Is said to have been written by Senator Hoar. The petition reads as follows: TO THE GREAT GENERAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSA- CHUSETTS: We, the song birds of Massachusetts and their playfellows, make this, our humble petition. We know more about you than you think we do We know how good you are. We have hopped about the roofs and looked in at the win- dows of the houses you have built for poor and sick and hungry people, and lit- tle lame and deaf and blind children. We have built our nests in the trees anti sung many a song as we flew about the gardens and parks you have made so beautiful for your children, especially your poor children, to play In. Every year we fly a great way over the country, keeping all the time where the sun Is bright and warm. And we know that whenever you do anything the other peo- ple all over this great land, between the seas and the Great Lakes, find it outi and pretty soon will try to do the same. We know. We know. W are Americans, just the same as you are. Some of us, like some of you, came across the great sea. But most of the birds like us have Jived here for a long while and the birds like us welcomed your fathers when they came here many, many years ago. Our fathers and mothers have always done their best to please your fathers and mothers. Now we have a sad story to tell you. Thoughtless or bad people are trying to destroy us. They kill us because our feathers are beautiful. Even pretty and sweet girls, who we should think would be our best friends, kill our brothers and children so they may wear our plumage on their hats. Sometimes people kill us for mere wantonness. Cruel boys destroy our nests and steal our eggs and our young ones. People with snares and guns lie In wait to kill us as if the place for the bird were not, alive, in the sky, but in a shop window or in a glass case. If this goes on much longer all our song birds will be gone. Already, we are fold, in some other countries that used to be full of birds, they are now almost gone. Even the nightingales are being killed in Italy. Now we humbly pray that you will stop all this and save us from this sad fate. You have already made a law that no one shall kill harmless song birds or destroy our nests or eggs. Will you please make another one that no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one shall kill us to get them? We want them I ourselves. Your pretty girls are pretty enough without them. W are told that it Is as easy for you to do it as for a blackbird to whistle. If you will, we know how to pay you a hundred times over. We will teach your children to keep themselves neat and clean. W will show them how to live together In peace and love to agree as we do in our nests. We will build pretty houses which you will like to see. We will play about your gar- dens and flower bedsourselves like flowers on wings, without any cost to you. W will destroy the wicked insects and worms that spoil your cherries, currants, plums and apples and roses. We will give you the best songs, and make the spring more beautiful and the summer sweeter to you. Every June mornlngi when you go out into the field, oriole and bluebird and blackbird and bobolink will fly after you and make the day mpre delightful to you. And when you go home tired after sundown, vesper sparrow will tell you how grateful we are. When you sit down on ypur porch after dark, fifeblrd and hermit thrush and wood thrush will sing to you and even the poor whip-poor-will will cheer you up a little. We know where we are safe. In a little while all the birds will come to live in Massachusetts again, and everybody that likes music will like to make a summer home with you. Signers: Linnett, Robin Red Breast, Cedar Bird, Pe Wee, Water Wag-tall, Cow Bird, Phoebe, Summer Red Bird, Veery, Yoke Bird, Scarlet Tanager, Martin, Lark, Blue Heron, Indigo Bird, Sandpiper, Humming Bird, Wilson's Thrush, Chewlnk, Yellow Bird, Oriole, Brown Thrasher, Whip-poor-will, Vlere, Robert O'Llncoln, Yellow Throat, Black Bird, Hermit Thrush, King Bird, Fife Bird, Vesper Sparrow, Swallow, Wren, Song Sparrow, Chickadee. Wren, Pidgeon Woodpecker, imtmnmiminm imiiiiiiirf STERNGTHENING THE EMPIRE Indianapolis News. Ha' Militarism again! The new bayonet for the army is to be six inches longef than the old one. SYSTEM OION'T WORK Milwaukee Sentinel. Colonel Watterson has been to MonU. Carlo and the things he is saying about gambling seem to indicate that his sys tem didn't work. INSURANCE JOKE -New York Sun. A wit says that some lead the simple life, some th? strenuous life and ^ihe equitable Ui. a*, --a J*~