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-if! 1 -*f THE JOURNAC VOLUME XXVIIINO. 198. LUCIAN SWIFT, MANAGEtU SUBSCRIPTION BATES BY MAIL. Daily and Sunday, per month .401 Daily only, per month 25 Sunday onlyt per month 15 BY CARRIER OUTSIDE THE CITY. Daily and Sunday, one month .50 BY CARRIER IN MINNEAPOLIS AND SUBURBS. Daily and Sunday, one month 45 POSTAGE RATES OP SINGLE COPIES. Up tc 18 pages 1 cent Up to 36 pages 2 cents Up to 54 pages 3 cents Suggestions for the Duluth Platform. HE republican state platform adopted two years ago dealt almost exclusively with national affairs. The one exception was the plank relating to good roads. This is a good proposition to stand by and should be a feature of the statement of principles issued at Duluth next week. But a state platform should deal extensively in state interests. A matter which should receive consideration there is the proposition to abolish free railroad passes in Minnesota. A bill to that effect came very near pass ing the last legislature. It will probably meet with better success at the coming session, particularly if the republicans of the state declare themselves in favor of it. The last legislature came very near requiring that every institution calling itself a bank be brought under state supervision. There were, however, enough interested votes in opposition in the senate to defeat it. It is still a live issue and deseives consideration at the hands of this convention. It has been suggested to Journal that the declaration of the Hennepin county convention in favor of the removal of the tariff on lumber ought to be emphasized, because, if a community like Minne apolis, which is a great lumber center, can so rise above selfish considerations as to declare in favor of abolishing the duty on lumber that fact ought to be of service in influencing other communities similarly situated with respect to other tariff-protected indus tries. When the republicans of Minnesota get to the tariff plank, let them be specific and definite enough with regard to tariff revision to say that a local in dustry has had all the protection it ought to have. Another matter of state interest upon which the convention should declare itself is that of a new mineral lease lawone which will secure competition in the disposal of the state's property and insure for it prices commensurate with the great values involved. The last legislature has submitted an amendment to the constitution under which our tax laws may be revised and brought into harmony with the most in telligent and progressive legislation on that subject. The convention should emphasize the importance of this amendment and urge upon the people its adoption. Minnesota is suffering today in population and in development from lack of intelligent and adequate means for promoting settlement and internal improve ments. Our immigration effort provided by the last legislature soon spent itself for lack of adequate funds. The census has since demonstrated the need of aggressn immigration effort. Along the same line should be taken up different projects for state im piovement, which should include good roads, drainage of state lands, reforestation, etc. Minnesota has ap pioximately 3,000,000 acres of state land, a large part of which is what is known as cut-over land. Much of this is unsuitable for agricultural purposes and affords a splendid oppoitumtv for a practical and intelligent scheme of reforestation. Our state convention will, of couise, place the party in line with the* national party on general issues, but those and other state interests which might be suggested deserve particular pttentiou the construction of the platfoim upon which the republican ticket will before the people of this state in the coming campaign. The contest will not be an easy one. It is fortunate that the strife for place up to this point, at least, has been chaiacterizad by an unusual degree of good feeling and harmony. Very significant of this situation is the invitation of Senator Stephens to all the other candi dates foi governor to a dinner in Duluth after the nomination is made, the successful candidate to preside. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, author of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and other popular hymns, denies that he is dead. There are a large number of Baring Goulds in the world and when one of the obscure members of the family betakes himself to the beyond the cable, which is eager for copy, writes down the uecease of a Baring-Gould who has done something. This is complimentary, but it is embarrassing at times to a live Baring-Gould to be worked off into the tomb to satiate the appetite of a string fiend. A Jolt for the Gamblers. HE business of running public gambling houses received a severe jolt yesterday in the decision of the supreme court in the case of Fred Hoyle. Last January the police, in making a general raid on gamblers, broke into gambling rooms kept by Fred Hoyle, arrested the proprietor and seized the gambling paraphernalia. They first asked for admittance and, being refused, broke down the door. While the door* breaking was going on, the gamblers inside sought to conceal devices, but without success. When the police entered there was no gambling going on, of course, but the room was in confusion, poker chips were seat* tered about the floor and in a compartment arranged for the purpose were found other devices used in gambling. The case was prepared by Mr. Finney, assistant city attorney, and brought before Judge Waite. It was contended, first, that it is not necessary to have direct evidence to convict of running a gambling house circumstantial evidence might be sufficient. It was claimed to be sufficient in this case. In the second place, it was argued that evidence of the general reputation of the place and of the frequenters thereof was admissible and third, that gambling devices taken from gambling houses when properly identiflea are admissible as evidence whether taken with or without a warrant. These claims were sustained by the court and Judge Waite decided that the accused was guilty. An appeal was taken to the1 a itoo- 1, ft' *ffr-, 1SJ J. 8. McLAIN, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY THE supreme court and that body has handed down a decision supporting the lower court in all particulars. No more effective blow was ever struck at public gambling in this state than this one. It means that hereafter it will not be necessary anywhere in the state of Minnesota to furnish evidence that proprietors of gambling houses or their patrons are at any par ticular time actually engaged in gambling. Circum stantial evidence will be received and if it consists of tho character of the evidence produced in this case it will convict. This decision is of inestimable value to the police in any effort they may make to eradicate the vice of gambling. Having satisfactory evidence of the ex istence of a gambling house, they need not hesitate to enter it by force, if necessary, relying upon the fact that if they find evidence in the form of gambling devices and are able to produce evidence as to the reputation of the place, they will be perfectly safe in making the raid and incur no risks for forcible entry and seizure. The gamblers in this city are understood to regard who this common sense view of the maiter, altho a view not heretofore generally taken by the courts, are entitled to the commendation of all good people for the great service they have rendered toward eradication of the evil of gambling in this community. A. D. 1924 The exploring party sent out by the e, ^Burlington advertising department has just reached f^v La Crosse, Wis. This is the most northerly point a Burlington representative has reached since 1906, when P. S. Eustis, general passenger agent of the road, claimed to have penetrated Minneapolis. OK* "-"'-r iiT-TnrrrfTn-T"^trri^'^air this aB a practical destruction of their business here *^ment to see that children attend school, and that they' xl- The Douma Is Firm. HE Russian situation has changed little or none since the douma made its demand that tho ministry give way to one responsible to the parliament. The government still maintains that the douma is mis taken in its attitude, that it has nothing to do with the ministry. The explanation of Premier Goremykin is that when a' private commission went abroad last winter to study the various elected chambers of Europe it came to tho conclusion that the model which was best suited to Russia was the Prussian diet. The diet was permitted to interfere with neither the foreign nor military policy of the empire. Premier Goremykin, in his explanation, has perhaps overlooked the fact that there is a very-good reason why the Prussian diet should not interfere with tho policy of the empire which does not apply to the douma and that is that tho diet is not an imperial parliament but the local parliament of one of the constituent states of the German empire. Besides there is an imperial parliament, the Reichstag, which does inter fere with the foreign and military policy of the empire. But paper analogies are worthless in this case. Tho douma is what it is able to make itself whatever bounds the czar may have privately set to its jurisdic tion. The practical question in Russia now is whether the douma shall grow on the classic model of the English parliament, which has absorbed the power of the nation by absorbing the middle class into its con stituency, or upon the model of the French revolution. The douma has shown patience and shrewd grasp of its opportunities. It has given evidence of more talent for ruling than the ministers of the "czar's ap pointing. They have been mainly concerned with sav ing their jobs and sparring for wind, while the douma has gone to the heart of the trouble with* Russia and proposed a remedy. In the end the party that has an affirmative program must win in Russia as it does elsewhere. The Goremykins will have their fling and draw their stipend for obstructing the natural flow of power toward the people but they cannot last. The class book of the Yale seniors revealing the fact that the best scholars are those who have the least money to* spend, Harper's Weekly is moved to remark that to be somewhat straitened in means in college and constrained to work hard is to be in a position of considerable advantage, but that it is a position that a youth must be born to. The Weekly does not believe that if the old man can raise the maximum amount needed for a college course the scion of wealth can be inspired to work like a horse by merely withholding it. There must be a financial alibi or the old man might as well deliver the goods. The Lid in Kansas City. lid has been on longer in Kansas City than it has in Minneapolis. Governor Folk/thru author ity which he exercises under the laws of that state as head of the metropolitan police system, closed the saloons on Sunday in that city when he came into office. The Kansas City Star, commenting on tho results, notes that there have been during the past year, in spite of the growth of the city, 3,468, or 24 per cent, fewer cases in the police record than in th^ year just preceding. Commenting on this fact and on the general condi tion of things in that city, the Star points out the fact that "mere criminal statistics cannot convey the full measure of good that has followed from the enforce ment of the Sunday closing law. Weekly wages that Lave been squandered in Sunday saloons have been saved for household needs, while healthful Sunday amusements have been stimulated and, perhaps most important of all, the habit of a good social order has been formed and the enforcement of all laws and moral regulations made easier." The benefits of Sunday closing in Minneapolis as indicated by the decrease in the number of criminal cases are not so apparent as in Kansas City. That is to say, the Sunday closing has not reduced the number of cases in such a large proportion. During the first five months of 1905 there were 2,717 criminal cases in this city during the same period in 1906 there weie 2,637a decrease of eighty. It is apparent from these figures that Minneapolis did not have prior to the adoption of the Sunday closing policy anything like as many criminal cases as Kansas City and cannot show the same ratio of improvement that regard, but in other respects what is true of Kansas City is true of Minneapolis. The weekly wages that were formerly squandered in Sunday saloons have been saved in Minneapolis for household needs as well s Kansas City and "the habit of good social order has contributed to the more successful enforcement of all laws and moral regulations" here as well as there. It is anticipated, of course, that the Sunday closing proposition will be an issue in the coming campaign and that it will be bitterly antagonized by those inter ests which seem to think that they should have larger license than the law allows to carry on a business which is of such a harmful character that public opinion has sought to place it under close restrictions but in conducting their campaign against Sunday closing they will have to show that the squandering of weekly wages for intoxicating drinks on the first day of the week is promotive of sobriety, industry, thrift and the general welfare. The Sweat Shops of London. HE impotence of fiscal policies to affect the con ditions of labor in the great centers has been illustrated in an exhibition of the sweated trades re cently held in London. The exhibit was opened by Princess Henry of Battenberg and showed twenty-two homes or sweating dens transplanted from the slums of the city. Men, women and children were seen making clothes, match boxes, brushes, artificial flowers and folding bibles and prayer books. The wages earned in these trades were exposed publicly and showed that even in the pious trade of folding leaves in the Holy Bible the workwomen received an illustration of the words of holy writ: "To him that hath shall be given." The mother toiling over this occupation ac cumulates during six months of the year from nine to ten shillings a week, about a shilling and a half over the Tent she is obliged to pay for the hovel in which she and her children are housed. One penny per hundred sheets is tho price paid by the Oxforjl Bible press. A woman making artificial flowers, work ing fourteen hours a day makes ten shillings a week, out of which she has to pay something for material"*. Another woman* engaged in tailor work earns six shillings a week, but eight pence is deducted for thread. Another, carding hooks and eyes with the assistance of her children, earns six shillings by eternally sticking at it. and setting it up in a palace alongside of wealth has made the sorrow and misery of the poor class of Lon don sink deep into the minds and hearts of the upper ten. What to do about it is something which statesmen alone cannot answer. The labor problem is not political but social. Nor is the interest of the nation entirely in these poor ghosts of humanity who are wearing themselves to bone for a mere existence. They are propogating the race as well, bringing' forth chil dren to be starved by the same process and when the empire calls for volunteers to defend it there step out not the hearty Englishmen fed on the traditional roast beef, but weazened clerks and round-shouldered mechanics who cannot by any stretch of military dis cretion to be called fit recruits for an army. The future of the empire is much more in the hands ,10" admit, bu the recent determinations of the govern- **.that leisure,There and the attorney who prepared the case and the judge ?have at least one proper meal during the day, is taken an'indictable offense. There are not even any of toward socialism to see if the deterioration of tho race cannot be arrested, Young Herr Kallembaeh, who is to marry Misa Krupp, has no money, but his line of ancestors strings back farther than any of her guns can shoot. THE THE E Walter Wellman hopes to leave Paris for Norway tended trip in Europe, had an interview with the presi- on his way to the pole by June 10. Wellman and dent the other day in which he gave Mr. Eoosevelt his companions might emulate the example of Fitz James and Eoderick Dhu when "Each looked to sun and stream and plain As what he ne'er might see again." -_, .L Ex-Senator Vilas, also a member of Cleveland's The^ransplantmg^of Jhis J^^f^J 1 "j,^ slums cabinet, ,,-j.* n _ it. i.*- iously waits to hear from Mr. Cleveland. ME.the 1 of the slums of the cities than the government likes it is a pleaBing employment for a man of means,, ato an earnest that the cabinet view the problem rapi&y increasing army governmentf inspector- seriously, and is willing to go a short way at least*^ nosing about to inquire whether the said boom is free from tuberculosis. The boom is the exclusive personal property of the boomee. He can fly it like a kite, spread ,it like a pair of wings or fold it up ana" sit on it, and there is nobody to cut in and demand an explanation. fuse "tto jell,.'" Mrss Roosevelt should urgo somebody $ and thenyon strike pa* Defective Page Editorial Section. THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. Sunday, June io, 1906. Nature, it is said, makes few mistakes, but one cannot, help feeling that the isthmus of Panama could have been dispensed with. Lincoln's Birthplace. Courier-Journal has begun the publication of affidavits that Abraham Lincoln was not born in, Hardin county, Kentucky^ but in Washington county, in the same state, and that consequently the cabin on the Lincoln farm in Hardin, now Larue county, is not the birthplace of the emancipator. The affidavits are those of William and John Hardesty, father and son. The former was made in 1888, when William Hardesty was 90 years old. It recites that he was present at the wedding of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks in Washington county that they resided there until after two of their children were born. The first child, a girl, died^ in infancy. The second was a boy named by his parents Abraham. Shortly after the birth of this child, the affidavit continues, Thomas Lincoln, feeling the need of a new location, engaged William Hardesty to stay with his wife and infant son while he went to seek one. He found a place in Hardin.county and, returning, removed with his family there when little Abe was six weeks old. President Lincoln was of the opinion that he was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, and that his parents were married in that county. These facts are stated in the Hay-Nicolay biography on Mr. Lincoln's own authority. At this late day the discussion has only sentimental interest. Mr. 'Lincoln was born, whether in one pan of the country or another is not important. The practical question is as? to what effect the affidavits will have upon the establishment of a sort of national shrine on the site of the old Lincoln farm in Larue county, Kentucky. Whether Lincoln was born there or not, it is unquestionably true that he lived there with his,father and mother, and the Larue county place is more associated with his early life than the Wash ington county home from which, according to the Hardesty affidavits, he was removed when but six weeks old. Truth is so much stranger than fiction that the packers are turning to "The Jungle" for a crumb of comfort. Mr. Foss on the Tariff. UGENE N. FOSS, the Massachusetts reciprocity advocate, who has just returned from an ex- the results of his personal investigations abroad with regard to our tariff. He says that the tariff ought to be revised if for no other reason than for the sake of the influence of the English-speaking people. Great Britain takes 37 per cent of our exports, and her colonies included, 50 per cent. Notwithstanding the result of the recent election in Great Britain, Mr. Foss thinks the Cham berlain idea is making great progress. In Germany he found the best industrial organiza tion in the world, with full preparation for putting intd effect their preferential tariffs next March. Mr. Foss very sure that these conditions presage a heavy decline in our export trade. Mr. Foss' reasons may be good ones from his stand point as a manufacturer, but they are not the ones which are going to change the tariff. The tariff is not going to be -changed for the promotion of a larger influence of the English-speaking people. There is nothing sentimental about the tariff. Nor is it likely to be changed to promote foreign trade so long as the chief beneficiaries who are themselves engaged in foreign trade do not favor such reduction. The tariff, however, ought to Ire revised and it will be, but the influence which will lead to revision has not been mentioned by Mr. Foss. The revision of the tariff is going to come from the dissatisfaction of the domestic consumer with the price. He is going to get tired pay ing an exorbitant price made possible thru the ex clusion of foreign-made goods in competition with trust-controlled, home-made goods. That 'a where tariff revision is going to como from, and it is coming, too. has come out for Bryan. The country anx- Self-Supported Booms. ELMER DOVER, a stoker of some sort on payroll of the republican national commit tee, is giving it as his judgment that if the repub lican national convention should meet this month its choice would lie between Shaw and Fairbanks. For some reason or other no arrangements have been made for holding the republican national convention this month, hence we &te not going to be able to verify the Dover prediction by votes. We can only wonder at the way booms are worked up in the off months when nobody is looking and how rapidly those booms begin to disintegrate when the sun of critical ob servation is-turned upon them. ambition and nerve tf run himsel presi dent is nothing illegal about it. Iforis not The Case in a Nutshell. Electing Senators in Oregon, i president Btates the case well in the last seu-^ qpHE New York Press, in throwing a bouquet tence of his letter to Chairman Wadsworth, A the Oregon system of electing United Stat' transmitting further evidence with regard to the do plorable conditions in the Chicago packing-houses, when he says: "The only way permanently to pro tect and benefit these ^innocent atockgrowersthe farmers and ranchmenis to secure by law a thoro and adequate inspection, for which I have asked." We do not see how that statement can be success fully controverted. Unfortunately, as the president says, the misdeeds of those who are responsible for the abuses discovered in the packing-houses will not only bring discredit and damage upon the packers, but upon tho stockgrowersthe ranchmen and the farmers of the country. There is genuine alarm among live stock producers, but there were only two' things to do. One was to allow conditions to remain as they have been or compel packers to clean up. The packers foolishly and stupidly resisted the demand for correc tion of the abuses complained of and there was no alternative but to compel them to comply. We have yet to hear from anyone not engaged in the packing business who will say that in view of the facts Bhown to exist in the packing-houses the conditions revealed ought to have been allowed To continue. If they cannot continue, then the interests of the stockgrowers are necessarily on the side of thoro government inspection and permanent safeguards against a lapse into the conditions which have pre vailed heretofore. For that reason the influence of tne livestock producers ought to be clearly and emphati cally on the side of the president. The meat-producing industry of the country is not going to recover from the effect of these exposures, official and otherwise, until the public is satisfied that these abuses have been corrected and no man who has cattle or hogs or sheep to sell in the market can afford to throw his influence as an obstruction in tho way of complete and effectual carrying out of the wisest and most efficient measures to insure the preparation of meats under the most sanitary conditions and with the utmost regard to freedom from infection or adulteration. It is evident that this industry, concentrated as it is in large estab lishments, employing the class of labor which it uses end conducted under conditions w"here the personal ele ment of responsibility for the character of the product is so far removed from those who are actually engaged in the work, cannot be allowed to proceed without careful and honest official supervision. Even if tho conditions had not been found to be so serious as they appear to be, the circumstances require inspection 38 a guarantee against future lapse into methods which furnish no guarantee of cleanliness or purity of product. When the contention comes along the self-sup- tomb of her martyred husband and places flowers ported Jboo.m may not materialize^ but what if it there. So far as can be observed she is just about During the 'putting up season when things re- does not? It has paid fcpf itself in good advertising the same as when she Kved in Washington. Very According to this veteran officer, "good habits, clear "oiellMr. Roosevelt should urtre snmpVin/lv 0$ and tluvnvou niivftf rtfen t.pllItorlittii-ng fnf.r'kt* far nAAnle aaa har "Ww xr.TT{.i- s_ ....t..ii^ eonsciencfi and hard work1" This merely illustrates that primary laws may propose, but they do not bind the legislature. In the short cut to the popular election of senators there are some dangers of being gored by resident bulls on the way, Oregon was gored once. Other states may be again. But the chance had to be taken because the way round by constitutional amendment is alto gether too long and too slow. The southern states appear to have so far overawed their legislatures as to compel them to select the popular nominee. Per haps the northern states will discipline their solons in the near or far future. All is quiet at Cananea tonight except here and there a stray Greaser is shot in the neck by Bill Greene just to Show that law and order must prevail. Lawyers' Fees and Other Fee. HE decision of the jury in regard to Mr. Dela hunty's fees for collecting "debts of honor" from Mr. Richard Canfield's clients and keeping the notorious gambler out of jail has raised a question about the value of services. As usual, the legal pro fession disagrees about them. Mr. Augustus Van Wyck, a former justice of the supreme court of New York, estimated that Mr. Delahunty earned $35,000. Mr. Van Wyck, son-in-law of Mr. James W. Osborn, who was assistant district attorney at the time and interested in getting Mr. Canfield into jail, swore that Mr. Canfield would have been better off without Mr. Delahunty's assistance, which may mean that he thinks Mr. Canfield would have been better off in jail or that his own efforts to land Mr. Canfield were so ineffectual that he needed no attorney to counteract them. The jury agreed to give Mr. Delahunty $50,000 for doing work which was scarcely less degrading than Mr. Canfield's own. Other fee bills which have been recently passed upon show that lawyers are usually paid more for shady work than for distinguished services in the cause of law and order. Mr. Hughes got somewhere around $20,000 for reforming the whole code of insurance law and bringing back to the treas uries of three insurance companies more than a million dollars. Mr. Depew took as much every year from one of the companies for doing nothing and David B. Hill accepted $5,000 for services which he has been able to describe to the state bar association as "ample to justify the retainer." As lawyers and retainers go, Mr. Delahunty was not badly paid, but he was badly treated inasmuch as he was compelled to come into court and testify what he did to earn his money. The trial showed that it was his duty to put the clamps on besotted scions of the American nobility and "get the money." He lost standing as a lawyer by telling about it and Canfield lost caste as gambling prince by compelling his attor ney to collect his fees by suit. Dr. Ames has filed for mayor on the democratic ticket. Ames, Ames? We have heard the name somewhere. One of the most pathetic things in baseball is Min neapolis' hand-to-hand combat with the 500 mark. ExtraThe devil has just sent up word to take his name off that brand of crooked ham. While the investigation is on we may look for veal loaf. Nothing else for the cow's child to do. They are forcing the nomination on the Datto of Nebraska. Bob Dunn and Jim Peterson unable to form a winning combination? You surprise us. D. E. FOEGAN'S BUSINESS IDEAL A letter written by David R. Forgan, vicepresi dent of the First National bank of Chicago, to ^a member of a banking firm in Pine street, describing his ideal of the business man, is being spread thru New York's business section by the firm and is At tracting attention among men in all classes of busi ness. The letter suggests these rules for the business man who may hope to devote his life to' making money without being sordid: Be honest, making money honestly or not at all. Be fair, refusing to injure a competitor. Be kind, regarding employees as something more than an investment. Be charitable, giving liberally for the uplifting of humanity. Be healthy, exercising as a duty. Be sociable, having a side to friends not known to all. Be sympathetic, fearing littleness of soul more than littleness of fortune. Be broad, accumulating resources higher than material. Above all, be true to self, condoning nothing in self which is to be condemned in others. KNOCKING SOUND HEAED EN" OHIO Kansas City Star. The defense of Swift Packing company, which con fessed in the circuit court of Kentucky that it had sold adulterated meat in that state, was that the meat was intended for Ohio. However, those packers who have impure meats and are willing to impose them on the public would naturally have a preference for markets not affected by pure food laws. But isn't this joke on Ohio, even if the bad meat is in Kentucky! PROTECTED THE PEOPLE Yasujiro Ishikawa, a Japanese journalist, described in New York a German capitalist of Yokohama. "They say of this man," declared Mr. Ishikawa, 'Hhat he reached Johannesburg in his youth quite des titute, save for a needle and a can of condensed milV, "Immediately on his arrival he announced that the smallpox was approaching and that he was a surgeon, and with his only two possessions he vaccinated all the good Johannesburgers at $5 a head." HOW LOVELY Chicago Record-Herald. How fine a world this world would be,, How happy and how fair, How free from heartaches and how free From hatred and despair, If all the women and all the men Would cease to need to bring Their company manners forwatd when They heard their doorbells ring. FARMER 18 PRACTISING Boston Globe. The farmers are all reading dialect novels, saying "By heck," and trying to learn to wear their trousers inside their boots, rehearsing so that the oncoming summer boarders will recognize them as the real thing. *$ MRS. MCKINLEY'S DAILY DEVOTION never em telllightnino migh few peopla see her. Mrs. McKinley- ia" constantly ft** fc*^i**v 'r^f^^ attended by nurse* Every morning Mrs. McKinley drives out to the at'? system of electing Unite State sen ators, overlooked a few facts in connection with the working of the system. While it is true that the Oregon law made provision for a plebiscite on the senatorship it made no provision and could make none for the election by the legislature of the man who\ received the plurality of the vote from the people. After the first election held under this law the state canvassing board certified according to law that one T. T. Geer, who was then governor of the state, had received a plurality of all the votes cast for senator and that his name should therefore lead all the rest. But when it came to voting the Abou Ben Adhem aspect of Mr. Geer quickly floated into a haze. He never led the voting for senator and the man who was finally chosen senator, Mr. Fulton, had not been men tioned by the plebiscite. 'I "The autopsy upon the assassin's body showed"01 that he had a normal brain. One of his ears, how ever, protruded and the other was flat and this cir-***3 cumstanee, taken with the fact that his noBe turned f* to the right, is claimed to show a tendency to crim inality."Madrid dispatch/ All this shows the importance of early habits. Some boys Bleep with one ear carelessly doubled over. This is most common in the kind of sleep known as "pounding the pillow." After beating the head rest for a number of years in this manner, a boy need not be surprised to come suddenly to manhood with one ear flat and the other sticking straight out in a manner unmistakably indicative of anarchistic thoughts. There is even less excuse for a man with a nose which turns to the right. Whether it is a sure sign of a criminal mind would depend somewhat on how the thing got started that way. In the small town where I once lived there was a man named Frost who had a nose which ran off at a tangent. He traveled east by south for a considerable dis tance and then turned a corner and went ot,t of town. Frost was a reformer, one of the biggest reformers you ever saw. Nothing that the mayor, council or town marshal did ever pleased him. He was a whole voters' league and a vigilance committee enrolled in one. Candidates were in terror of Frost. They never knew when he would stick his nose in and owing to the peculiarities of the nose they never could tell from what direction he would come. Everybody in town was suspicious of Frost. It seemed incredible that one person could be anywhere nearly as good as he appeared to be. Yet Frost was there and so immaculately correct in his life that candidates for office had nothing to do but submit. He compelled them to close the saloons at 11 o'clock, to enforce the Sunday laws, to mend the roads, clear the river bank and pass a curfew ordinance. B^t at last Frost could stand the pace of virtue no longer. One day he disappeaied and it was discovered that the young Jaiy clerk in the postoffice was gone also, while Frost's wife and four children were still in town. Putting two and two together the town's people de cided that they had never had any confidence in Frost. His nose pointed the wrong way. A crooked nose is not an evidence of criminal intent, but when the man with a nose on the bias goes wrong you may expect to hear that it was inevitable. At a dinner given recently in this city to some men from abroad one of the local guests said to an other: "I seems to me I ha\e seen you before abroad, I presume your features seem quite familiar." The man addressed admitted immediately that he lived in Minneapolis, that he had lived here for sev eral years. It transpired also that this gentleman and the other American who claimed his acquaintance on the chance of having seen him in Italy or on the Alps, belonged to the same church in Minneapolis, that they had met frequently in the church aisle, but had failed, somehow, to make one another's ac quaintance. It was a sad case, but not anywhere nearly as sad as the case of a woman in this town who belongs to a big downtown church. For years she had almost touched elbows with the woman in the next pew. They had frequently bumped into each other in leaving the church. Gradually there had grown up a bowing and talking acquaintance. Once, after this had gone on for some years, th met on the street, each waiting for a car. The party of the first part, remembering that the party of the second part had frequently spoken to her in the sanctuary, somehow failed to see the impropriety of claiming acquaintance on the street. She approached and made up some little talk about the weather. No response. She reached out after some little recol lections of the last Sunday's discourse, as a reminder. Profound silence and evideirceB of a gathering storm. The p. of the f. p. felt* scared, but stood her ground and mentioned her name. The party of the second part swept her with a withering glance and remarked, I find it so difficult to remember people to whom I have not been introduced." What has become of the rural church with its pastor who stood at the door after the evening serv ice and "greeted" everybody as he went out. The frost is sometimes in our latter-day religion before its fodder is in the shock. Speaking of frosts, Professor McMillan tells of an occasion when he attended a reception at a swell place in London. The American ambassador, or, maybe it was Lord White, our chief secretary, was the host of the occasion. Professor McMillan spent sev eral hours getting ready for this function, perspiring freely and deliberately cussing his shirtbands and the whole British system of laundry. He finally reached the place of entertainment in fine styie, threw himself forward across the skirmish line of guests and met the host. Firmly extending his right hanj the professor advanced apon the ambassador. The latter met him about half way, or perhaps a little more. "So charmed to meet you," he purled as he took the professor's hand in his. "Must you be go- ing?" The pressure upon the professor's muscles was unmistakably pointed toward the exit and when, fol lowing the impulse he had received, Mr. McMillan found himself on the outside, he felt like the man who had fallen out of a balloon. It seemed an incredibly short time in which to come so far. The only counterpart of this experience was had by a gentleman who followed the sport of prize fighting with avidity in his youth and who confessed in his old age that he had never seen but one good fight and he did not see that. The procession moved out in the dark of an evening with the intention to hold the mill on the other side of the county at daybreak. The sheriff, however, had preceded the crowd to the rendezvous and shooed them off. There was nothing to do but take a boat and drift down to an island in the river where, at about noon, after eighteen hours of travel, the ring was pitched and the principals stripped for the fray. The gentleman sat him down on the grass and lighted a cigar as the bruisers shook hands. He turned aside to spit and throw down the match stump and in that bri moment of inattention one of the prize fighters was knocked out with a blow on the neck. He never went to another pri fight and never ceased to mourn over his ill luck at the only good fight he ever wit nessed. James Gray. A MORAL PRESCRIPTIOsr Ye who would have your features florid, Lithe limbs, bright eyes, unwrinkled forehead, From Age's devastation horrid, Adopt this plan 'Twill make in climate cold or torrid, A hale old man: Avoid in youth luxurious diet, Restrain the passions' lawless riot Devoted to domestic quiet, Be wisely gay So shall ye, spite of age's fiat, Resist decay. Seek not in Mammon's worship pleasure, But find your richest, dearest treasure In God, his word, his work, not leisure The mind, not sense, Is the sole scale by which to measure Your opulence. This is the solace, this the science, Life's pursuit, sweetest, best appliance, That disappoints not man's reliance,, Whate'er his state But challenges, with calm defiance, Time, fortune, fate. -Horace Smith. RECIPE FOB A LONG LIFE R. P. Peters, who soon will be 92 years old, is a park policeman in Sioux City, Iowa. Recently he, visited two daughters in Philadelphia, stopping in .____ Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he was born. to long life. ,_, tmm are the three Tjrereduisitaa**"*' 8 t, J, mSpPfS&L,