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The St Paul Globe ■ ; THE GLOBE CO., PUBLISHERS Paper »t. r aui* Entered at Pottofflce at ,St Paul. Minn., -a*: Second-Clam Matter.; *.: > » - - '==l TELEPHONE CALLS ■ Northwestern— 1«65 Main. Editorial. 78 Main. ■£ ,_. ■■-' ;■■'■:\.-__, Twin Business. 1066; Editorial. 7*. 7 "city subscriptions " "By Carriar. - 11 mo. m<». 113 mos. fcaliy only ......... 1 '■'".« J5.25 I 14.T0 Dally and Sunday ..; .60 2.76 6.00 Sunday .) -20 j 1.10 2-00 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS * By MalL 11 rao. |«»nog.Jl2jnoai. fcally only ......v..j .25 I $1.50 *3.0 d EX and Sunday.. .86 • 2.00 4.06 Sunday -............1 20 I l-»] 2-00 EASTERN REPRESENTATIVE W. J. MORTON. _ , _ §150.NaBsau St. New York City. 87 Washington St.. Chicago. THE ST.PAUL DAILY GLOBE'S circulation now exceed* that of any other morning newspaper In the Twin CKles except only the Minneapolis Tribune. THE St. Paul Sunday Globe Is now acknowledged to be the best Sunday Paper In the North west and has the largest circu lation. ADVERTISERS get 100 per ctfht more In results for the money they spend on advertising In The Globe than from any other paper. THE Globe circulation Is ex clusive, because It is the only Democratic Newspaper of gen eral circulation In the Northwest. ADVERTISERS In The Globe reach this great and daily Increasing constituency, and it cannot be reached in any other way. RESULTS COUNT— THE GLOBE GIVES THEM. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1904. A DECADENT GENIUS The country saw and heard much of Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, some years ago. His work, though often coarse and brutal, was always powerful and original, and he had no slight part in fashioning the results of more than one campaign. After a re tirement from active newspaper work for some time, due to a misunder standing between himself and his for mer employer, the New York Journal, lie appears again, enlisted this time on the other side under the auspices of the New York Mail and Express. We do not know how his work will pro gress as the campaign warms up, but the earliest specimens are in great contrast with that which gave him 11\ me. We say this entirely apart from the fact, which would naturally influ ence our judgment, that he has , changed sides. It is, we confess, not as easy for a Democrat to see the point of a cartoon aimed at another Democrat as if it cast a side flight of ridicule upon a Republican. Making clue allowance for this, however, we Relieve that nobody who examines the recent Davenport cartoon can escape. the conclusion that either his change of environment or some other influ ence has stolen away the genius of the man. His work is characterless find sloppy, and there are at least a thousand cartoonists at work In newspaper offices in the United States today, Republicans and Democrats, *vho could beat him. We have before us a recent effort, representing Uncle Sam looking with one face at an incoming procession of Democratic leaders and turning a pleasanter aspect to President Roose velt seated at his desk. The typical "Uncle Sam has a scroll in his hand, on |which is inscribed the record of Roose velt. It reads as follows: "Panama Canal," "Coal Strike Settlement," "'Open Door in China," "Reciprocity With Cuba," "Curbing of Trusts," "Department of Commerce and La bor," "Alaskan Boundary Decision," '•Pacific Cable Completed." Now this might do for the political editor, but Jt is absurd in the cartoonist. The point that we make is not that the facts are not well taken, though they are not, but that it is a poor job lor a cartoon. It is the sort of stuff that a campaign pamphleteer might jget out for a literary bureau, but it lacks point, it is not snappy, it is des titute of all originality, and it has not c grain of that delicious sense of fun or a touch of that humor which are the only excuse that the cartoonist's art has to,offer for being. It was always doubtful whether the peculiar genius of Davenport would last, or i n what direction it would develop. His latest efforts indicate that it has progressed steadily toward the commonplace, and that it rests at present in the very ftpotheosis of dullness. Carre Nation is in the hospital. That Is why nobody knows what she thinks ©f Gotham's new saloon. ?THE COMMUTER AND THE TROL LEY The trolley is beginning to realize Jts possibilities; in Chicago it has tome, or is about to come, to the res jcue of the commuter. For a long while the transit corporations have regarded Jhe commuter as an individual, who )iK(j no rights they were bound to re- spect; but every *>g has his day and it looks very much as if the commuter was about to enjoy his. A Chicago street railroad company has announced that it intends to attach a dining car to its regular -suburban car so that. it will be possible, henceforth, for the commuter to enjoy an after theater supper on the electric train that car ries him to his remote dwelling. And this, of course, is just the be ginning; for once the commuter's eyes are opened to the possibilities of trol ley development, it is not probable he will consent to accept the meager pro visions that have heretofore been made for his comfort. Instead of a foot of space and a strap, he may de- tnand a reclining chair; once accus tomed to the late supper, he may call for an early breakfast; he may refuse to puff his cigar or pipe on the rear platform, and insist on a smoking car; he may object .to the promiscuous herding now so pronounced a feature of suburban transit and decline to step aboard anything but a parlor car. Once given the inches he will be con tent only with the proverbial ell; and it will be long, indeed, before the transit corporations see the end to his demands. But the commuter has suffered long in the interests of the trolley and It Is only fair that his comfort should be considered now. By hanging heroical- ! ly to a strap he has made it possible : for corporations to declare dividends; I by "moving up" in obedience to the gruffly expressed commands of cor- I poration minions, he has largely ln j creased the sum of the gross earnings; I by accepting meekly insult and abuse I and even mutilation and death he has j insured a continuous shower of nickels ; into corporation coffers. He has earned his reward, and if he demands that it shall be something more sub stantial than a dining car, who shall blame him? The lowa man who escaped jail and tken successfully "touched" the sheriff for a dollar was clever; but Mr. Hobbs, from the same state, who was recently locked up in a Minneapolis jail and, while there, worked a confidence game on a prisoner in the next cell, securing $35, appears to be just a little more alive to his opportunities. ONE WAY OF REFORM We. have received from a subscriber a letter which we regret our inability to print, because it ia accompanied with the condition that the name of the writer must not be used. The G lob c prints no letters except those with which the real name of the author is furnished for publication. This let ter expresses what we have no doubt is the opinion of thousands of sincere people in remonstrating against the opening in New York city of a saloon intended to furnish a respectable place where all kinds of drinkables may be procured, and to strip the saloon of those surroundings that have made the name more or less opprobrious. Of course the people who believe as our correspondent does that the traf- fie in intoxicants is wholly evil and il legitimate, are against the undertak ing. They are sincere in this view and are entitled to respectful consid eration. For our part, we hold to the view already expressed, that the sa loon is the product of a human ap petite and will exist just as long as the appetite remains. That appetite is not in itself a crime or an evidence of degeneracy. Like other appetites it is subject to abuse, and out of the abuse of it grows a long list of crimes and horrors. To that abuse also the conduct of some saloons in every city panders. All reform must begin here, as everywhere else, in a change of char acter of the individual. If all men were so disposed that none of them wished to enter a saloon, then all sa loons would vanish instantly. If all men observed strictly the use of mod eration ia the use of intoxicants, then intoxication would cease and the pro priety of the moderate use of stimu lants would not be questioned by any one. The best we can do is to further these ends by such means as lie with in our power in cur time. On the one hand, there is going forward a great education on the question, which is promoting temperance ideas and tem perance habits among the people. On the other hand, the same ends, it seems to us, will be furthered by the establishment of institutions like this in New York city, which will tend to correct the abuses now clustering about the traffic in intoxicants. Temperance reform is not a prob lem of a day or an hour. It .has en gaged the attention of different societies through many centuries, and other centuries will elapse be fore its final solution. All that we can hope to do is to contribute help fully to that event. This we believe is being done by the experiment re ferred to in salffonkeeplng, as well as by the education of moral sentiment and public opinion along temperance lines. A Washington correspondent (Re publican) writes that the administra tion is seriously considering the ad visability of ignoring the wine list in its entertainment of the members of the- peace congress who are to visit this THE ST. PAUL GLOBE,* MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1904 country. But doesn't Mr, Roosevelt know that the ' Prohibition , votes are already pledged to Dr. Swallow? '.: T»+E INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM Americans are '. disposed to Relieve that it is only ; their- own: -.■'■ ambitious . young folk ? who refuse /to :' remain in the country and, wrest ■: a living: -from the soil as:did their fathers and grand-:: fathers, before - them. • But • according to the British' traveler "'.; who passed through St. Paul - this week, both Eng land and Scotland are wrestling ,:with the same problem. His .words: destroy i the picture •: most of : us .; have in our ; mind's eye fof a :simple,:. hearty and; contented old world agricultural [ class that clings 'to 1 the.; soil and . that : knows no happiness away: from .it.- There, as here, it seems, the .. farmer's daughter ;strives foi - a clerkship in the city, and the farmer's son - discontentedly con trasts 1 opportunities on; the farm with' those he fancies» the city factory pre sents- and chooses to avail himself o.t the latter. _: "-'" '" ■"- -;\.'}\ •■-."..";• It's really an international problem, this one of keeping the young people on the farm. It would be solved, of coarse, if the stir of city life could be transported to the agricultural dis tricts; if life could be made to pass before the farmer as it passes before the city dweller, in a series of kaleido scopic views; if he could be made to believe _that every sod he turned up uncovered an opportunity. And the solution could be helped along if the story of the life of every great man began in the city and ended on the farm. If Dick Whittington had begun his career as lord mayor of London, and by dint of hard labor succeeded to the position of farmer of a ten acre tract, fewer English farmers' sons would turn their eyes longingly in this modern time toward the lights "a* London Town." Here in this country our agricultural schools are helping us to solve the "farm problem," but we do not expect that it will be quickly solved and we know that for some ambitious young folk the city will always prove the stronger attraction. All that the schools can do is to emphasize the dig nity, the importance and the content ment of the farmer's life and also the opportunities it presents to those equipped to grasp them. Their value lies in fitting the farmer's children to make a wise choice. But the agricul tural schools have just begun their work, so It cannot be said that even one/country has satisfactorily solved tlxis international problem. BACK TO THE LAW What they need most out in "Colo rado is to get back to the fundamental idea of law and its observance. When ever and wherever in this country you run upon any authority that claims or receives an obedience su perior to that which the American citizen owes to his government you have touched an unmitigated curse. Wherever any such adjustment pre vails or is recognized there is disor der and decay of patriotism. It is a pathetic thing that men who have been forcibly deported from the state under authority of political pow er should be trying today to devise some means of safe return to their homes and some method of saving the little property from which they have been exiled. It was also a horrible thing that either these men or their associates should have been mixed up in any way with the deeds of bloody violence that threw the community into a state of such commotion as led to the possibility of sending unoffend ing men outside the commonwealth under military escort. The fault in the case is that which we have mentioned. The members of the Western Federation of Miners re garded their order as a supreme au thority, and obedience to it as taking the place of allegiance to the state, the nation, the dictates of humanity and the law of God. When they had carried that fantastic notion to its logical extreme, in stepped the other side with another organization made up of mine owners and their political allies, to whom individual rights and human liberty were equally indifferent. They have cared just as little about observance of the law, and about the rights of the people under it, as did the men whom they were bent upon punishing. Wherever we get away from ac knowledgment of the supremacy of the "law we dip into the realm of crime. It is what has made Mormon isnv accursed wherever it is men tioned or thought of, and will always make the Mormon power anathema to the average American until obedience to tlje hierarchy is publicly accepted as less binding than obedience to the state. It applies to every other or ganization, open or secret, which binds its members to first and supreme obedience. That obligation is due first to a man's private conscience, and second to the law under which he lives. Nothing else can come between them. Whenever another authority in terposes we have a disarrangement of perspective, public disorder and the deterioration of the individual. Let us all, as true Americans, got back first of all to the idea of the supreme authority of the law and the supreme duty of absolute obedi ence to it on the part of every citi zen. If the law is bad we can change it. To assert against it any form of authority as having superior obli gation is laterally to commit treason to the republic. c ; mi—;— .;'.:,..;''".';.'.'■"?.• %■■ Contemporary Comment » iT r ■ -» :; -.■ Chance ifor ; a War Expert s;;*: The • first war expert-^ to get out' a concise account of what lias really hap pened In jar T2ast will meet a long felt want. > Neyer- since newspapers : be-: san I:to i: re it wars in ■ detail ■ has \ there, been ;so uiSatisfaetory a state ]of af fairs ■ for general reader as i now exists/and average person declares that Ihe has % -stopped t- trying to ;pazzle out !: the news of the day for 1; fear of : learning so ; many things that are not so. If any of .* the' correspondents iat ? the front really ■■ knows the facts he \ could ■ hardly do fcetter ? than to give up \ his \ place, •, escape :' from the censors, -: and hurry home to give the world "a;: really full and unbiased account. Last month's news is better than tomorrow's fake, and the East got itself a bad name for fabricated, news .as j long ago as the Boxer riots. The ; very strictness of the |military censorship on both '.sides gives -: the- unscrupulous a wider field. — Springfield (Mass.) Republican. !J - Banks-a Convenience to Community We do not realize what an Immense convenience banks are to the communi ty. It would be fair to say that every check drawn represents a saving of ten minutes of valuable time. In ad dition bank Credits are out principal currency and save all risk of carrying on the person or in some hiding place money for current expenses. Our American way. of doing business through hanks gives usi a great advan tage over the countries which adhere to the old-fashioned method of making «ach man his own bank. And yet fcanks, though simply labor-saving in stitutions, are the objects of especial hatred of a certain type of Socialists who apparently do not want to have other people's money taken care of. — Hartford Courant. Where Taggart Is Known Mr. Taggart has many friends in Indiana, and some enemies. But the indications are that all will loyally accept and follow his leadership. If they dv we shall have lively times in Indi ana. The new chairman is, as we all know, a regular of regulars. He is a Democrat, whether his party is for gold or silver. He is not bothered by ideals. He. plays politics as a game, and no matter .what the stakes he plays the game to- win. And now he has his chance. We trust that he may so con duct himself as to reflect credit both on himself and the state. —Indianapolis News. Tit for Tat The robbery of world's fair passen gers twenty miles out of Chicago indi cates the determination of Chicagoans not to let any money get to St. Louis is they can help it. —St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Note the glaring injustice of this. The passengers were mainly Chicago people on their way to the fair to spend money, while the robbers, so far as anybody knows to the contrary, may have been despairing concessionnaires from St. Louis.—Chicago Tribune. ~2 Splendid Object Lesson Republicans in Pennsylvania, Massa chusetts, Ohio and Minnesota, where political corruption, has prevailed for i years, have had a great deal of fun about "moßsback Democrats" in Mis souri. But the Missouri "mossbacks" i have just given the Republicans of the aforementioned states a splendid ob ject lesson in political purification, and they should heed it without delay.-*— The Commoner (Bryan). Hunch Needed Has President Nord, of Haiti, no discreet friend' who will hand him a tip that if anything like the massacre of 1804 should" occur in these days there wouldn't be any Haiti in a few. moments? —Indianapolis News. That Was Snap Judgment Judge Parker must be of the opinion : that he is asked to be the president : of a nation of camera fiends. —Chicago | News. Another Dynasty Doomed They are calling him Theodore 1., but the Hire of succession will be broken in November. —Birmingham News. G. O. P. Helpless There is no Mark Hanna this year to settle strikes for the benefit of the grand old party. But All the Ducks Are for Htm Judge Parker has slowly but surely alienated tdie bathless vote.—Memphis Commercial-Aiypeal. PERSONAL MENTION Ryan—P.* fe. Hoyt, Wyoming; Dan Tracy, Great Falls. Mont.; P. H. Boll man. Winonfc; G. Borkowsky, Kobe; K. Yoshida, J. Murotani, Koke; Robert Griebling, Milwaukee; Jamea H. Yours, Glasgow. "*;t T Merchants —P. J. McCumber, North Dakota; Theo Westman, Dayton. N. D.; J. H. Kenny, Glencoe; E. H. Sherman, wife and child. Sioux FaHs; John R. Pax ton Jr., Glendive; J. U. Laursen, Vancou ver, B. C. ■'.!-. Windsor—E. C. Payne. Spokane; George W. SaWyer, Mantorville; A. G. Bernard. Cass Lake; A. P. Benletson and wife, j Elkton, S. D.; Solomon Erickson, . North Branch; Thomas Feysen, Du buque. i :T TODAY'S WEATHER | & r- B .WASHINGTON,"D. C", Aug. .7.—Fore -Cast:.:'.-i,. ■ '■ ■' :; - ; ■'.''■■ -'■ -M - •'":. «.: :_ Minnesota—Fair Monday ana. Tuesday,; ■warmer- Tuesday, winds shifting:to fresh southeast. ' .'■- : --•■ , „7 ' ■ Upper Michigan' and 'Wisconsin—Fairi Monday and Tuesday; warmer..Tuesday-,; variable winds, shifting to southeast Mon day night. •■•■. r.-. ■>■, : -.-» •^"- r , .-.'- \IT-Y . lowa—Fair Monday and Tuesday. ;'. Montana— Monday, with warm er in east portion. Tuesday fair. - ■ North and South Dakota—Fair in east; showers in -west-portion Monday. .Tues day : fair and' warmer. , ,^- : *- St. Paul—Yesterday's observations taken by , the United : States" weather bureau, •. St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, ■ observer, for the twenty-four hour! ended at 7 J o'clock j last night— Earometer : corrected for tempera- ture and elevation.--." Highest temperature, 89; lowest I temperature, 53; average tem perature, 61; daily range. 16; : barometer, 30.10; ', humidity, 62; precipitation, 0.1; 7 r p. m. temperature, 68 r ~> !>• m. wind, north; weather, clear.: .•'^.■■"-•-■. ..« : ', w Yesterday's Temperatures— , - ' - . ? ?>c- ~ •„•;!.,•SpmHighj -■■: ■'-■■•■ *BpmHigli Alpena /...;:. .5£,.: s€!Los.- Angeles;. .74:. 86 Bismarck ....68 -i72|Marquette _.: -54 56 Buffalo ... .~72.-74|RIemphfs ■.•"..82 Sti Boston -'.. r.7.*. 76 -;S4SMedicine" Hat..72 -80 Chicago •;.% .'.BO >i 74 Milwaukee ■ ;..758 .. 68 Cincinnati " ....80 1 84 Minnedosa..... 68 -. 70 Cleveland 7//..-. 76 ;7S Montreal.v -~- r.6U- 74 Denver .".V.68 70|Moorhead t. .68 72 Dcs " Moiues 68 :72 New ■ Orleans.-78 :80 Detroit, :v. .-;;,7a^;Bo:New '. York :; 78 r. 86 Dubuque .... 166 76 Norfolk V-*.. T~. .'..76 . 84: Duluth ;.V....'6.2,-66 North >Platte. .6« 70 El i Paso ..;v::.86 SOiOmaha .";...... 70 72 Edmonton ..... 72 76jPittsburg v::..76-.82 Escanaba 56 g2!Qu"Apr>eile —"0 72 Galveston <';.'.. 76 rSO-San « Francisco. 54: 58 Grand! Rapids6o H 72151: • Louis t .. •'. 76 ', 78 Green Bay v .. r 6O ;64j3alt ■ Lake '..';7. .90: ; 92 Havre '...;.-.68 :80 Ban Antonio... 84 S8 Huron c . TV.: 72 * 745. : Ste. Marie: .52 60 ; Jacksonville 80 . -88i Washington ...80 -V 86 -.. * Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).. ■■■ ■ River Bulletin— -. ' '..--, . ...... - Danger Gauge .. ; Change in : < :"' '■■"■-• :"''i:iut>T- Reading. ■•;: 24 Hours. St. : Paul '/:...14 3.1 1 —0.1 .La Crosse.. 10 ...3.2. :, _ . —0.1 - —Fall. -..-■ ■ _--.■;/'--"./ \ • I'"-' :'~::" ■ —•••/•• ' -•-•; - ••/••y:.s What the Editors Say ,_C-.'-.-.: ■'-■':■■ ■■■-'■■• '.'..'/-,^.'- -:•■•'.". : - While the gates iof ; the world's fair : at St. Louis are closed against ordinary, ■ people Yon 3 Sunday,-;> special \ i permits ; were issued to the sons ;of President > Roosevelt :to j view the fair on 1, Sunday . last. ~-;a What ; t3-; saucev for the :J goose . ought s to«. be '? sauce / for the >: gander. Closing I of >' the ; world's • fair; on i Sunday j "was \a/i- piece; of national hypocrisy and and an injustice ?to thousands of ". peo- ; ple :in St. Louis and vicinity who can not I find time vto visit the :: exposition 7, on • any. other * day. .: If I the ..' fair is an evil: thing, \it ; ought '". to \be closed' every day. ; If it is a good and moral exhibi tion it j ought to be ■ open- every day.— Duluth Herald. - ;^ IJust received; the -opportunity to ] keep : two {2) editorial : admissions to ; the mound builders' show at St. Louis i in exchange for printing a. six column ; write up \of the •.- show. ' The failure -is :i the fault of - the management and; the i sam? \ methods of j passes vf or \ notices !is still used by the State-Agricultural society. No pay no - space; ought \to• be i the motto" of every newspaper in Mm- j nesota. - Complimentary ~ tickets - are i unnecessary, except for the person who I writes up the fair; but cash on Satur- f ■ day night -is pre-eminently a neces- : I —Dakota County. Tribune. . The latest "bitt. of political, gossip credits J. T. McCleary with having de signs on Senator KnUte Nelson's seat in the United States senate and that he : has practically announced [ that jhe would/dispute the title with . Senator Nelson when he came up for re-elec tion. ; McCleary has ; the distinction of having delivered. a speech in one min ute that you cannot read in less I than three hours and a man who can do that is a corker; whether he is of senatorial size gor not. It is -stated \ that she has picked Gilbert Gutterson as his own successor.—St Peter Herald. t? " What rot to talk about the money power being - against Roosevelt when everybody who knows anything knows that the high tariff grafters are all on the side of the - Republican party /and: every Democrat : worthy of the name is a iariff reductionist. And the tariff, mind you, is the mother, of the trusts. —Fairmont Sentinel. The government • has . caught, the "largest on I earth" fever. Secretary Morton is preparing . plans for the largest navy in" the world. If .we do not have a change of administration soon it will not be long before we can boast of having the .largest debt on earth.—Swift County Monitor. -^i-Sr£ The Chicago Chronicle has just late ly discovered what all sensible men acquainted with it I have known ; all the time, namely, that it was a Republican paper in disguise. When it found' out that it was not fooling anybody it threw the disguise aside. That's all. —Nobles County Democrat. One of the leading politicians of Minnesota, who has a fairly good repu tation for devious ways and question able methods, once told the writer that it was much easier to control a nomi nation under the primary system than under, the old convention system.— Northfield Independent Ex-Secretary Root is being groomed by Roosevelt as his heir to presiden tial honors four years j hence. Teddy proposes and also disposes, —the voter sometimes deposes.—Winona In dependent. The Democratic party of Minnesota lias plenty material • for governor. It will be wise if it selects a man who is the antithesis of the Republican' can didate, and place him on a platform that means J something.— Falls Herald. •■■••:-■.-;.•.:; . , .." j Among the Merrymakers I * The Scotch Invalid's Outing ,!-: At a funeral in Glasgow a stranger who nad taken his seat in one of the mourn ing coaches excited the curiosity of the other three occupants, one of ' whom at last asked him: , j "Tell be a brither o' the corp?" .: "No, I'm no a brither the corp." "Weel. then, ye'l! be his cousin?" - "No, I'm no that." "Then ye'U be at least a frien' 6" the corp? - . . "No that either. To tell. the truth, I've no been wee! mysel'. and as my doctor has ordered me some carriage exercise, I thoct this wad'be the cheapest way to tak' It.''—Sir Archibald Geikie's Remin iscences. ■, -'. Modern ; Lite ray Business s "Yes, gentlemen," says the first promo ter; "1 will come in on the deal, with you and *i«ip you to promote th« combination on '.one: condition." • . . '■-'*• "And that is?" asked the i other?. | "That I have the privilege of writing the magazine expose of our dealings with the public." ■;.-"•.:- ■ .. : After forcing him to agree that all the. rest shall have . time to publish their ar ticles 'on - "How to - Succeed" before he writes his article, the papers are signed.— Judge. - The Lay of ~ the *-Rorcester In the quaint old : city of Worcester There dwelt a young Cochin rorcester, All the long day through '■••: :..- He lustily crough, , Until in the course of time •he grough Tough a caliber soughted tough roccs - ter stough, . -. . .. -[ .=-■-. .. . •. ■And tben |he was croughley' slain. Bough! ■ Hough! ' —Chicago Record -Herald. v Took It as Personal " 'Better is a dinner of. herbs/ "read the preacher, " 'where: love is than a ; stalled ox and hatred therewith.' . - : _:' Whereat an • indignant . packer got up and went out. - . ■■-■'..•. -. ■j "I'm in no mood to listen. to a vegeta riau * sermon: this morning," he muttered, —Chicago Tribune. ...;. Peace to His Ashes ;" Mrs. De —You seem toY be a great lover of the weed, Mr. Puffington. ■ i Does your father smoke as much as you do? ■ ■ Puffington—Well, I should-hope• not. " ; ." Mrs.. De —What ■do you mean? ' - '. .Pufflngton— has been dead ten years. —Chicago News. ' A Gentle Hint '■'i "The "word 'low* means 'vulgar,' doesn't it?" asked the man. ;/: - '.. . ;•'; "Of course, „ sometimes." replied his wife. "What are.you driving at?" ". • . "Oh! I just •- noticed that, that bathing suit iof yours •is [ cvt v rather low."— delphia Press. \ ." . ■ :: ; . *-~ Strenuous Times Sinee 4.' '7.-; ~:" Pa—Now, don't ask me any more ques tions. I don't ; see why your history les sons should bother you so. ,They' didn't bother when* I .was a -boy. -z-'v- _ Willie—Well, there wasn't so much his tory made wtien you » was a boy.—Phila delphia :Ledger. -.yj_^-. : :*--i-^^- >^a .-'" -What Did She Mean.-V^;"'t '^ "If. you - feet chilly." said: he. ■ as - they strolled, "remember I have your shawl here on my arm." - - ;: j : "You might put it around me," she said/ ; demurely.—Philadelphia" Press. , \ ;f '; . On the Beach " , ;1T Geraldine —What . are .' the wild waves . saying:?— .- '..- :'■-■ . : - ', ; v I" Geraldl; can't hear, a thing while you have - that loud bathing .-■ suit on.—Town Topics.;-. .': :""•■"•-■■•.■■■"-"-■.■■"-•'■"."•.'.■.'-' . ■■ Logical -\. . / :. o . —Why are you so anxious to have "Jack propose? .- .j - *''-:^-y-:~.^r--:-;^:_-^ % z Laura—l :-want > plenty of time . to: think it : over ; before I- accept him.-—Chicago; News. ■%['*■'.-■•' .';. ■-■[, ■■■",.' A Long Girl [.'/. .■ -'.'Then; you do not ; love .me - any longer, George?'/ 1 •■;:'."•'■•"■' ;- -■ -'..:,;• -I't^-^^Z. ■"'■'■■ y-' .T; .''How; could. I? You're four inches taller than:il ' am now."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. I .-...; ''■ -, -'- — -~. ■"-..■',"-—i"-.-,-^' ■.'/■'-j^'^m , .-;■.....-'.—.,-» At St. Paul Theaters To enact Shakespeare's "Othello" is a gigantic underiakingi The company of players essaying tails intense trag edy must needs possess special equip ment to do it justice, and that equip ment is not scenic, but histrionic. For this masterful drama deals only wtth the heart and its passions. The scen ery matters little, for if there, it would be obscured- by the green-eyed mon ster who rages through the play. In presenting this immortal story of love and jealousy at the Grand last evening, the Fawcett company waded in beyond its depth. "Othello" is not to be convincingly pictured by an or ganization of players qualified to ex ploit a round of farces, comedies and emotional dramas. That last night's performance of this masterpiece was as good as it was, is to the credit of the company. That it left much to be desired cannot be denied. That it contained virtues is equally true. But tbe task is monumental and that the heights were not scaled is in no way a reflection upon the proficiency of the organization. George Fawcett was the Moor. The tremendous vitality essential to em body the terrific passion of this cre ation and give it expression through Shakespeare's tropical language, Mr. Fawcett displayed in a fitful manner. In the last act he was most convincing. His reading of Othello's final speech, "A word or two before you go," was the most effective. His avoidance of the frequent temptations to rant, which beset the interpreter of this role, was commendable. An intelligent con ception of every word marked his de livery of every speech. But on the oth er hand his subdued tones and whisp ers occasionally rendered a vital word inaudible save to one equally familiar with the lines. Mr. Fawcett sacrificed the beautiful cadence of the Shake spearean blank verse almost as ruth lessly as Mansfield does in Brutus and Shylock. in his desire to be direct and natural and to avoid stilted or artificial delivery. It is only fair to say that Mr. Faw cett's acting surpassed his delivery. His greeting of Desdemona at the opening of the second act, when Othello ar rives at Cyprus, was truly that of a bridegroom whose wonder was as great as his content to see His bride thero before him. He fairly rushed to her and gathered her in his arms instead of adopting a majestic stride and de claiming his joyful surprise to the gallery, with orotund tones. Mr. Fawcett also excelled in the scene in which Othello stops the mid night brawl In which Cassio is dis graced. One could have wished for more tenderness in those words, "I love thee, Cassio, but never more be officer of mine!" But Mr. Fawcett merits praise for accentuating the ce lestial quality of Othello rather than emphasizing his brutality. His read ing of the speech, "Had it pleased heaven to try me with affliction," the surest denotement of the character of the man, breathed the real spirit. De Witt C. Jennings, who is by all odds the most facile and versatile actor in the supporting company,* contribut ed an effective and graceful imperson ation of the incomparable lago. That Mr. Jennings realized the infinite pos sibilities of this subtle role cannot be said. That the general outline of his portrayal was distinct and therefore effective was in evidence at all times. He spoke the lines trippingly on the tongue and with telling emphasis, de livering the passages charged with grim, sardonic humor so effectively as to invariably provoke an appreciative smile or laugh. Nevertheless Mr. Jen nings would more completely embody Shakespeare's conception of lago. if his make-up, facial expression and general demeanor were a trifle less sinister, not quite "so uncomfortable, a little more like the soldier and less like the scholar. Miss Percy Hasweli made a sweet and confiding Desdemona. This much abused woman has only one spirited speech allotted to her, but her oppor tunities for picturing the depths of misery are infinite-when they arrive. Miss Hasweli was entirely adequate. The role of Emilia, entrusted to Miss Alice Butler, was satisfactorily por trayed, though its intensity in the two last acts is worthy the powers of a tragedienne. George Schraeder furnished a con vincing portrayal of Brabantio. Mr Schraeder reads Shakespeare's lines in a lucid fashion that too few of "thes our actors" have acquired. Regan Hughston, a sincere and ear nest actor, did not give us Shake speare's Cassio. He spoke the lines intelligently, and displayed feeling in the scene with lago, but the charac terization lacked color. Charles A. Gay invested the role of Roderigo with an amusing personality, quite in keeping with that "poor trash of Venice." —F. G. H, ficht~meaTtrust rs Enlist Aid of New York Retailers NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Homer D. Call, the secretary of the national crganiza tion "of Amalgamated M<*a«. Cutters and Butchers' Workmen c* Worth America, ar rived in this city today. He visited the office ot the organization and there met Henry L.. Eichelberger. one of the general organizers, and several of the business agents of the local unions. After a short talk they went away together and had not returned at a late hour tonight. A meeting of the advisory board will be held tomorrow night when the situation will be gone over with the secretary, and if he so directs a strike will be ordered by Wednesday. A canvass has been made of over 4QQ of the retail butchers In the effort to induce them to stop buy ing the trust meat and deal with the in dependent slaughterers. It is alleged that all but one of the retail men promised to change their slaughterers. It is planned to call out every union man who is em ployed as a beef cutter in the retail trade if the employers do not change from the trust to the independents. MILWAUKEE BINDER PLANT WILL RESUME Two Hundred Men Will Start Work Today and Force WHI Be Increased MILWAUKEE. Wis., Aug. 7.—After having been idle for a period of two weeks, during which an inventory of the stock was taken, tbe Milwaukee division plant of the International Harvesting company will resume tomorrow. Two hundred men. who are skilled workers, will be given employment immediately. Eight hundred others who were among those temporarily discharged two nrr rlf ago. will be re-employed as soon as work is furnished for them by the two depart ments which have begun operations. Soldiers' Back From Alaska SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 7.—The T'nited States transport Buford has arrived from Nome and Skagway. Alaska, with companies of infantry aboard. Companies A, B. C and D, of the Eighth Unite'] States infantry, go to Fort Slocum. N. V.. and Companies I and M, of the same regiment, to Fort Niagara. N. Y. These troops have just completed two years' service at Alaskan army posts. i. An intelligent con- British rue is i BLEAK NORTH COAST Steamer Returns From Hudson Bay Cruise and Reports Occupancy of Country ST. JOHN'S, N. F.. Aug. 7.—The seal ing steamer Erik, which was chartered by the government and conveyed an auxiliary expedition to the steamer Neptune, which has been in Hudson bay for the pant year with the Canadian official expedition sent for the purpose of annexing territory there, returned here today, bringing Maj. Moodie, of the Northwest mounted police governor of Hudson bay. The Erik met the Neptune at Port Bur well, Lngava bay, on Monday. July 25. and spent a week transferring coal and supplies. The Erik started on the return journey last Tuesday, while the Neptiuu cruised north to Lancaster souaO. hoisting the British flag and proclaiming British sovereignty over that region. Cr*w Builds Fort Maj. Moodie reports that tlio Neptune went into winter quarters in Fullertou In let last October and found the .American whaler Era. the only one known to be in Hudson bay during the psst season, win tering in the same vicinity. The Nep tune built a fort there, established a gar rison of police, organized the place as a port of entry and stopped illicit trading with the natives. The Era paid duties on all goods intended for trading with the natives, thereby admitting Canadian au thority. On Dec. 12 Prank O'Connell. of Halifax a cabin boy. became deranged, wandered into a native village and was lost in a snow storm. His body was found later he had fallen through the tee and drowned On April L' 7 Dr. Faribault. an assistant surgeon who had been insane since Oc tober last, died of general debility. One of the crew of the Era. Charles Mames. of New Bedford. Mass.. died March 25 of scurvy. Another member of the crew. Henry Jakes, who i s sick of scurvy was brought home by the Erik. Maj. Moodie reports that the Neptune remained frozen in Fullerton inlet until July 18, when the ice allowed her t<> leave. The scientific exnloration party made no explorations during the winter."not leav ing the ship. Mi. Campbell, a photograph er with the expedition, made a trip to wager river. There was no exploring done during the spring owing to lack of coal. Maj. Moodie will go to Ottawa to con sult with the Canadian Rovprnment with reference to the future work of the expe dition and he hopes to join the steamer Gauss, recently purchased from the Ger man government by Canada, and renamed the Arctic, which will leave Quebec in about two weeks to relieve tlie Neptune. Maj. Moodie believes the Hudson Bay route to be perfectly feasible as a eom' mercial proposition. He also believes that the Canadian government should build several forts, station a number of police therein and commission two steam ers for Hudson bay, so as to adequately cover the needed sen ice there. CHICAGO UNIONS TO SUPPORT STRIKERS Continued From First' Page fore the strike began. These men have been brought to Chicago from all parts of the country, the majority of them having never seen a meat packing plant before coming here. With these men the packers have succeeded In accomplishing a great deal of work, but, according to the strikers, every animal that has been slaughtered since the strike -was called has been at a financial loss to the packers, as in the majority of cases a lack of skilled workmen has made it impossible to operate the by-product departments! and this source of revenue, which, under the normal conditions is a clear profit to the packer a, has been allowed to go to waste. Expected Break Fails Last week the packers were figuring on a break in the ranks of the strikers when work was resumed tomorrow morning, but there was nothing tonight that would Indicate that the men were even considering such a step or that they had any idea of surrendering to morrow or at any future time. Ac cording to Michael J. Donnelly, presi dent of the Butchers' union, the or ganization which precipitated the strike, the strikers are in a better po sition today than they were on July 12, the day on which the original strike was called. "During the four weeks that the strike has been In progress," said Mr. Donnelly tonight, "there have been less than 200 deserters from the or ganizations whose members have joined the struggle for living wages, and not one of these men who have, gone back to the packers is a skilled workman. To offset this desertion our members have secured at least twice that number of new recruits from the men the packers have brought to Chi cago to take the strikers' places. "From a dispute between the packers and butchers' workmen, the strike has spread into a struggle between organ ized capital and labor, but there are not enough men and women on this continent to break this strike, despite the assertions of the packers that they have nearly all the workmen they re quire and that their business is about back to its normal basis. I have re ceived assurances from the most powerful !abor organizations through out the United States that they are with us in this fight and are only wait ing to receive representatives from our unions to make the request when con tributions to our financial support will be freely made. Under these circum stances there is nothing for us to fear, as the victory will be with us in the end, no matter how long that may be." Predicts Desertion ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Aug. 7.—The local packing house managers tonight say that fully one-half the union men re maining out will go back to work to morrow morning. Applications by letter and in person, the manager says, have been made by the strikers. The men are compelled to turn Lnto the manager's office their union cards and buttons before being admitted to the plants. The police force at South St. Joseph in the vicini ty of the stock yards has been reduced. There was no disorder of any kind UW day. Fourth Vice President George MeMeaehan expect? benefit fundß from Chicago tomorrow to pay the striker's. Davis Spends Quiet Day ELKINS. W. Va.. Aug. 7.—ln keeping with his usual custom ex-Senator Henry G Davis attended Davi.s Memorial Ptm byterian church both morning and even ing today, the interim beiu« spent quietly about his homer After dinner he took a walk about the grounds, visiting his deer park in which are a do«en Weet Virginia mountain deer, and looking over other in teresting scenes about his beautiful farm.