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Park Rapids Enterprise,
The Minneapolis Journal was the only
twin city paper that wasn't tongue-tied on
the gross earnings bill. It deserves the
cordial cash support of the people for stand
ing up for public interests. It is refresh-
Ing to see one paper of acknowledged
weight and business ability have the cour
age of its convictions, and be willing to
speak right out in meeting.
The Hague Court
The permanent Court of Arbitration pro
vided by the terms of the convention
signed at The Hague by the representa
tives of twenty nations on July 29, 1899,
has now been declared open and ready for
business.
• This business, is the consideration, and
•ettlement of all international disputes
■w-hich may be brought before it. The
tribunal, from which great results in the
interest of peace are expected, is the only
tangible piece of work accomplished by the
peace conference which assembled at The
Hague in 1899. The Czar of Russia pro
posed limited disarmament of national ar
mies and navies, but did not succeed in
Impressing upon the other powers the ne
cessity of such limitation and, in fact, was
not very desirous himself to disarm even
in a limited manner. The substantial re
eult of the conference, however —a court
of arbitration to which disputing nations
may appeal—is a matter for congratula
tion even if it is optional with the ap
pealing powers to accept or reject the
findings of the court. There is no doubt
that the moral effect of this tribunal will
be to bring about the uplifting of arbitra
tion as the determinant of disputes and
that the nations will gradually yield to its
supremacy and accept its determinations
es final.
The influence of this tribunal, which Is
the highest in the world, will tend to the
•xaltation of the principle of arbitration
as the solvent of differences between cap
ital and labor. If It is found that the ma
jority of international disputes may be ad-
Justed peacefully by The Hague tribunal,
a decided stimulus will be given to the
employment of arbitration as the solvent
9t local disputes. Labor, no less than
capital, is deeply interested in the aban
donment of the strike and lockout. The
trouble is that strikes and lockouts do not
•olve anything. They are wasteful and
disastrous alike to labor and capital.
They affect disastrously many ottier in
terests than those immediately concerned.
At the beginning of the new century it
Is encouraging to note a stronger teadency
toward industrial co-oj>eration and arbi
tration and conciliatory conference. The
Hague. tribunal stands as a great beacon
pointing the way of the civilized world to
the peaceful adjustment of differences in
ternational or industrial. It is fervently
to be desired that it may work strongly
to the effective poularization of the saving
principles of conciliation and arbitration.
Strikes for Recognition
When the agreement of the anthracite
coal operators with the miners of the
United Miners' association as to wages
terminated in April and was renewed, the
union discussed the propriety of striking
for recognition as a labor combination.
Although it was at first reported that
Pterpont Morgan, head center of the pro
prietary element, agreed to recognize the
union, he had not done so, and, after dis
cussing the subject further, the union
came to the conclusion that if they en
tailed the miseries of a strike on the an
thracite region for the purpose of secur
ing recognition of their organization, they
would not have the sympathy of the pub
lic, and so no break occurred.
It is perfectly true that the public has
a right to say that industry shall be so
conducted that it shall not inconvenience
the public or cause it to suffer loss. The
public would greatly prefer that the other
parties interested, labor and capital, keep
the peace through their own efforts. The
strike threatened by the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers
against the big United States Steel cor
poration is based, not upon a difference
touching wages or hours, for the wages
of the men have been raised two or three
times within the last six or eight months,
and there is no complaint about hours.
The motive of the proposed strike is to
secure recognition of the union as a labor
combination. The Amalgamated would
take advantage of the unprecedented con
ditions of prosperity in the iron and steel
trade, when consumptive demand is ahead
of the supply. This is not a strong and
rational basis for a strike movement. It
is a sentimental rather than a practical
motive. It will receive public sympathy
only to a limited extent, except. among
people who rejoice when they think there
will be some check to the prosperity of a
consolidated business enterprise. It is
possible, indeed, that the Amalgamated
may not be able to call out their full
strength on the basis of a sentiment,
while the United States Steel corporation
is in a condition to weather the storm
if it comes.
Recognition of labor combinations would
not be difficult to obtain if they were reg
ularly incorporated and had legal stand
ing before the courts a» corporations.
Under such conditions recognition by em
ployers could not be refused. Moreover,
as corporations, agreement could be made
with employing corporations to carry all
Questions in dispute into the courts, and,
pending decisions, there would need to be
no cessation of work. This system would
insure peace and the strike and lock
out would be eliminated as remedial
agencies. It would also add to the dignity
of labor's position.
Arbor Day
In this state Arbor Day will be ob
eerved on April 24. In Pennsylvania two
dates have been assigned to the observ
ance, on the prudential ground that' if
it rains on one of the days and interferes
with the ceremonies, the other day may
prove propitious, which is certainly a
very good arrangement. The observance
of Arbor Day is extending through the
country and it has had the effect of en
hancing public interest in the larger sub
ject of forestry. Therefore, the observ
ance of Arbor Day cannot be too earnestly
encouraged among the young. The ques
tion comes to the youngest mind: "Why
do we plant trees in the spring and make
so much of the work?" From tree plant
ing for shade purposes to tree conserva
tion for commercial, agricultural and san
itary purposes there is a distinct line of
connection.
The power of the educative process as
to scientific forestry is seen in the Btrong
growth of public approval of th« process
of setting apart national forest reserves
since Cleveland proclaimed a forest re
serve in Oregon in September, 1893, under
a law authorizing the setting apart of
forest reserves enacted during the pre
ceding Harrison administration. Since
then, under successive administrations,
there have been set apart fifty forestry
reserves -embodying 46,000,000 acres of for
ested land. This large body of reserves
is under the care and management of the
government and the time will doubtless
come when the whole area will be treated
with the scientific exactness and benefit
which characterizes the European forestry
conservation processes under the several
governments. The growth of public inter
est is seen in the legislation of several
of the states establishing departments of
forestry and schools of forestry, notably
in New York and in Massachusetts. In this
state, while public opinion has not reached
the zenith of interest in the subject of
forest conservation, yet very decided prog
ress has been made in legislation and in
public appreciation of the great practical
importance of scientific forestry.
Teaching the The time of year recalls
-, . . the dear, dead days beyond
Valf to Drink reca n WD en the farmer's
boy taught the calf to drink
from a pail. The Biitt, lowa, Tribune refers
feelingly to these strenuous moments in the
life of our agricultural youth—moments that
teach patience and kindly dealing with the
dumb animals. For the weaned calf is full
of the infinite and eternal energy. Jt desires
its sustenance mightily but it desires it in
the way nature has taught it to obtain sus
tenance. The eight of the pail seems to nil
the calf's mind with forebodings. The calf
desires to look up when it drinks. The farm
er's son desires it to look downward into the
pail. The farmer's child must hold the pail
between his feet with his hands, using two
other hands to hold firmly the cow's child
to its milk. When the calf humps its back
and tries to jump it is necessary to hold
it down with two more hands. When it
breathes hard into the pail and blows the
milk all out you must twist its tail with,
two more hands. Just before a calf bunts,
it wiggles its tail. At the premonitory wig
gle the tail must be held also, meantime
keeping the calf's head directed iuto the
pail. The Brltt Tribune says:
Don't ge-t excited; stand perfectly still, in
spiring <tihe calf to confidence by your cool
ness and sang froid. There is nothing equal
to sang froid in the Initial lesson, and with
out this attribute the pedagogue is sadly
hampered. There are other requisites, one of
the chief ones being that the teacher must
know more to begin wi-fh than the calf. By
following these directions closely a calf can
be induced to fill itself with invigorating,
life-prolonging milk in a very few lessons so
that it will run Its nose clear to the bottom
of the pail the first bunt..
When you feed a calf it is belter to be
alone. Especially is it necessary not to allow
the ladies of the homestead to be present.
The proceeding sometimes looks like cruelty,
and they have other methods of calf feeding
that seem more feasible to them and they Oo
not hesitate to voice them at critical mo
ments, thus shaking your confidence in your
self and Incidentally shaking the calf's al
ready small stock of confidence in you. It is
an art—that of calf feeding—that has not been
sufficiently treated in the bulletins of the
agricultural department
The Amboy Herald man sat in the gallery
of the state senate last week and was not
impressed with the personal appearance or
dignity of that body. He says:
Five of the members sat with their feet
cocked up on their desks, eight were reading
newspapers, six were smoking, three chewing
gum, seven were bald-headed, nine had gray
hair, and but two or three wore full beards.
You cannot tell from an external view
what was going on. Some of them might
have been thinking.
The Nebraska legislature made it unlawful
for a person to sell any kind of brick in
Nebraska unless they are eight and one
quarter inches long, four Inches wide and
two and one-half inches thick. Violation of
the act is made punishable by a fine of not
less than $100 nor more than $500. Any per
son hit by an Bx3 brick in a row should sue
the yard at once.
On Sunday morning the pastor of Grace
church in New York made a few remarks
about the financial needs of the church for
its benevolent work, and then ordered a col
lection. When the returns were counted it
was found that the congregation had given
$107,000. Brethren, did you ever give your
beloved pastor heart failure in that way?
Concord, Xeb., elected a set of pale-gTay
town officers, who have signed a pledge to
have Mrs. Nation as their sole adviser in
their official duties, and to take no official
action unless authorized by her. There is
certainly something bughouse about the des
ert air.
The Foley Independent has a "scoop" on
the elopement of two persons of tender years
near that town. The parental blessing was
extended, however, and they are now house
keeping at the old place and all is well.
California has imported some tachina flies
from South Australia. The taohina fly eats
holes in the gTasahbpper—in fact, extermi
nates that cheerful pest—but after the hopper
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
has gone the fly may look around for other
prey at whose destruction the farmer may not
be so well pleased. Still, it is worth the
trial.
A local paper is telling how to "escape
scorchers. The only sure way is to get off,
put your bicycle in a basement and climb the
nearest fire escape. Even then you may fall
off, from the air suction caused by the
scorcher's passage.
A musical genius at the corner of NUollet
aud Fifth street is causing parcels among the
tenants of the Andrus block. Hi - orgau«-tte
emits a sound half way between the filing of
a cross-cut saw and a small boy scraping a
rusty tin with his finger nail.
The Gainsborough hat is coming in again.
The Gainsborough is a beautiful creation, but
in a theater it has the effect of a barn door
with feathers on it held up in front of you.
When Marconi was asked about Tesla's
statements, he replied that they were "ex
tremely interesting." The exact meaning of
ihe phrase depends on whether he winked.
Lillian Russell received a proposal of mar
riage by telephone last week. Some foolisii
man wasted a good nickel at a pay station.
Lillian's reply was an abrupt 'aber nit."
Japan says officially that she has no thought
of fighting anybody. The London news agen
cies can see a. World-wide war when there
isn't even a cat fight on the horizon.
A Chicago genius patented slot machines
for retailing peanuts. Then he bought $250,
--000 worth of peanuts to put in them aud
found he had cornered the market.
So many local statesmen are devoting their
intellectual energies to the Chinese question
that they fail to rake the front yard. Let's
get down to real business.
Coal is threatening to drop 10c a hundred
tons. When the cold weather eoines on it
rises 100 cents. A single toil by jumps.
Bright boys, the barons.
The Emperor William and his august
brother, the czar, are seeing things, and that,
too, without eating armor plate pie crust at
the restaurants.
One of the enjoyments of Sunday is to see
tie organist just unjoint himself and throw
the agony into the big organ just before he
lets go.
South Dakota farmers are joyous. They
just got in their seed when five inches of wet
snow fell. The weather is made to order
this year.
Spring bargain days are opening bright
and joyous. "You may give us a spool of
thread and have it sent up, right away,
please."
Mr. Carnegie said he always wanted to be
a newspaper man. Funny! We have always
desired a monopoly in the steel business.
When one walks out with his best girl,
the annoying frequency of the candy stores
is an object of remark—on her part.
If the weather man can extract any kudos
out of the present climate, he is welcome
to it.
H. G. Wells, the novelist, has written a
tail with a mermaid for heroine.
Don't forget to play tag with your wheel
or to fceep off the bicycle paths.
The strawberry shortcake has all the ele
ments of a dream.
MINNESOTA POLITICS
This early in the season the Baumbach
boom has attained considerable proportions in
the sixth district. The Wadena Pioneer-
Journal first proposed the candidacy of its
well known townsman. The St. Cloud Journal-
Press heartily indorsed the suggestion, and
the Park Rapids Enterprise, Long Prairie
Argus and Vcrndale Sun have followed suit.
W. R. Baumbach is a successful business
man and has served term in the state senate,
though for some years retired from politics.
He was mentioned two years ago as the only
Juan and has served a term in the state senate,
from Page Morris, and it is predicted that
he will have tfolid backing from Wadena.Hub
bard, Tod.(J, Cass and Douglas counties, while
under the new primary election law he will
get quite a following in Btearns, unless a
strong man comes out in Steams county.
Judge Searle of St. Cloud Is being mentioned.
The Moorhead Independent has announced
S. G. Comstock as a candidate for the con
gressional nomination in the ninth district,
and declares that he will accept the nomina
tion. This means a three-cornered fight, for
Grindeland and Valentine are quite sure to be
candidates.
The favorite for the democratic nomination
is Mayor Campbell of Crookston, whose suc
cess in the city election the other day has
made him an available man. Campbell re
fused to go after the nomination two years
ago, and supported Daly on the ground that
the populißts should have the nomination.
At the rate the Red River valley populists
are fading away, however, Bentiment is grow
ing for the nomination of a democrat. The
Crookston Journal predicts that Campbell will
be the unanimous choice of the populist,
democratic and social democratic conventions.
The Journal, however, overlooks the fact that
nominations for congress will be made by
popular vote in the primaries, but in the
ninth the different opposition elements will
probably get together and select candidates
in conventions, in order to give each wing a
proper share o! the ticket.
It is claimed in Duluth that the object of
the Hawkins bill giving the range three coun
ty commissioners to four from Duluth is to
block any further increase In the valuation
of the mining properties of the county. An
effort is being made to carve out one of the
rural districts from the southern or agricul
tural part of the county. —c. B. C.
AMUSEMENTS
Foyer Chat.
The final performance of "Rupert of Hent
zau" will be given at the Metropolitan to
night by Howard Gould and his excellent
company.
To-morrow night the Al G. Field Greater
Minstrels will begin an engagement of three
nights and Saturday matinee at the Metro
politan. Among the novel features introduced
the acrobatic act of the tribe of Mamelukes
is said to be the best of the kind ever pre
sented in this country.
To-morrow morning the sale of seats opens
at the Metropolitan for the big vaudeville
combination, headed by Delia Fox, which is
booked for four nights and three matinees
the first half of next week. In addition to
Delia Fox there are seven big vaudeville
acts, including Baby Lund, the petite marvel
with the wonderful voice, and Professor Fred
Macart's company of dog and monkey
comedians.
In spite of the bad weather a large audi
ence gathered at the Bijou last evening to
see the Royal Lilliputians in "The Merry
Tramps." This clever company of midgets
and giants is furnishing one of the most in
teresting entertainments of the season. The
well known German comedians, Franz Ebert
and Louis l?erkel, as the two tramps, fur
nish no end of fun.
The attraction at the Bijou the coming
week will be Al H. Wilson, the celebrated
German dialect comedian and golden-voiced
singer, in his new romantic comedy, "The
Watch on the Rhine," written by Sidney R.
Ellis. Mr. Wilson was seen here last season
In "The Evil Eye," on which occasion he
scored an emphatic hit with his songs.
Next Political Move.
George Qunton.
To have nominations for public offices made
directly by the people, under the protection
of the secret ballot, is the next important step
in political progress. The death of the dic
tator is essential to the life of democracy.
The Rapid Driver.
Kansas City Star.
The fellow who runs hie horseless carriage
through the public streets at the rate of
twenty miles an hour without paying any at
tention to the children, dogs and other small
things is somewhat of an autocrat himself.
Minneapolis Journal's Current Topics Series.
Papers By Experts and Specialists of National Reputation.
THE WOMEN'S CLUB
MOVEMENT.
IX—TUB CLIB HABIT—ITS ADVAX
TAGEOIS EFFECTS OS WOMEN
By May Wright Sewall, President of the
International Council of Women.
(Copyright, 1901, by Victor F. Lawson.) •
On March 18 last Soroeis celebrated its
thirty-first anniversary. Called the "mother
of clubs, " Sorosis has not yet attained an
age which makes a woman venerable. At 31,
indeed, a. woman is still only at the hither
verge of hfr later youth. Perhaps less than
a third of the century hardly affords data
and perspective for an ample discussion of
this subject. In lees than a generation, as
generations are eouuted, many generations of
women, as we count generations iv the de
velopment of individual lift, have gone into
clubs.
At the present time there are within the
general federation of women's ciubs about
2,000 clubs. A large majority of clubs, how
ever, are still outside of the general fed
eration. It is probable, therefore, that a mod
erate estimate of this form of organization
permits us to say that in the Inited States
there are between S.OOO and 12,000 women's
ciubs, including a membership of about 300,
--000 women.
Before the Era of "Women's f'lubtt.
How the club has reacted upon Its mem
bers and upon genera! society is an inter
esting inquiry. I shall give my Mist attention
to the favorable effects of clut life. There
is hardly a better method than the one pur
sued by the venders of patent medicines,
who show the contrast of "before and after
taking." Before and after? Thirty years ago
the average woman of the class from wlich
clubs draw the majority of their members
recognized only three proper avenues for the
movement of her life. Domestic duty, social
pleasure, the church and the charities and
philanthropies clustering about the church
and entering in it, measured the accepted
boundaries of the activities of the average
woman. Such women, for the most part, met
as equals only the members of their own
church or their own social set. Outside c.f
these circles women associated habitually
with their inferiors in age or in position—
namely, with their children or their servants.
The shrewd observers of America prior to
the club era unite in their recognition of the
limited and the local intelligence of the
average American woman. Harriet Martin
eau, Frederika Brenaer, Mrs. Trollope and
Frances Wright are the four women who,
after having enjoyed abundant opportunities
for studying American life, publicly and
frankly expressed their opinions of it. These
four women, only two of the same nationality
and no two of them of the same temperament
and mental habits, were of one accord In de
ploring the degree to which the attention of
American women was monopolized by petty
cares and petty pleasures. Mrs. Trollope
found them restricted and vulgarized by the
personal nature of all of their interests.
Frederika Bremer gently regretted the little
attention given by them to art or to the
amenities of general social life. Frances
Wright found that the minds of women who
had themselves personally contended with
pioneer conditions had been opened and
broadened by this contact with facts and with
conditions which constituted an unending
series of emergencies and made upon the
"wits of all women a draft to which even the
dullest made some response. Harriet Mar
tlneau found American society so void of
subjects of common interest that women at
tended religious exercises and Indulged in
religious excitement as their sole means of
entertainment.
Early Anxiety to Avoid Friction.
The majority of women's clubs have been
formed along lines excluding from considera
tion religion, politics and, as If it consti
tuted an important third question by itself,
woman suffrage. This exclusion, like most
Bluffed; or the Tale of a Faked Message. By £.lias Lisle.
Copyright by Elias Lisle.
Weariness bad overtaken the Junior part
ner. It had been a hard day. Gold and
bonds, in three separate and vast consign
ments, had come In late —too late for deposit.
For the night nearly a million dolllars must
remain in the office safe. The unexpected in
flux had kept the junior partner later than
usual, for he was a master of the detail of
his office. For a time he debated establish
ing an extra guard at the office, but gave
over that idea. Special precautions would
arouse talk, and there were business reasons
for keeping the matter quiet. Anyway, the
burglar alarm system and the special watch
man were sufficient guarantee of safety. So
the junior partner leaned back- in his easy
office chair and closed his eyes for a moment.
"Anything more, Mr. Franklin?" asked the
senior bookkeeper from the inner office, where
the big safe was kept.
"No. Ha 3 every one gone?"
"Every one but you and me, sir," replied
the other with the exact particularity of lan
guage which is the result of long years spent
over ledgers.
"Good night, then. I shall be coming along
in a few moments."
It seemed a very few moments after the
door had closed on the head bookkeeper when
Franklin opened his eyes again. He swung
forward in his chair, dazed, for darkness
was about him. Consciousness, dragging it
self slowly from the cloying sands of sleep,
struggled with vague uncertainties. The
nicker of an electric light from Wall street,
seen through a distant window, helped the
junior partner to recall himself to realities.
He half turned, and in that instant was wide
awake, for a harsh, startled "voice outside
said:
'What's that?"
"Shut your head," piped another voice in a
high, piercing tone, instinct with savageness.
"You didn't hear anything."
"Maybe 'twas sdmethin' outside. Where's
the glim?"
"Don't open up too wide, you fool," warned
the high note, as a band of light appeared
and broadened through the darkness.
Sitting motionless as stone, J-tenklin heard
the men moving along the outside partition,
until they reached a point opposite him.
There was a fumbling at the door, which was
fastened by a spring lock.
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BUREAU OF THB JOURNAL, '
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The .Mayoralty War. .>_ .-,'.;;■■-':
April 17.—A: municipal campaign in this city
is by no means a child's affair and the cam
paign this year will give ample proof of this.
When it comes >to the election of ,a - mayor
of ■ Greater New York, occurring every four
years according to the present charter, there
is an incident on hand that does not take a
back seat . for ' any : gubernatorial ' affair, * for
it is a national matter. Now the Tammany
organization - Is pulling itself together: and
mixing, up its war paint for the ' fall . cam
paign and it will not be many weeks before
the mud will begin to fly. There is no lack
of indications of a decidedly lively cam
paign, with, as strong an opposition -to the
Tammany candidate as has been presented
in many a long year. In the first place Sen
ator Platt and the .republican .organization
leaders, having learned their lesson in 1897,
when there were two republican < candidates
in the ; field to '■ divide the : interests opposing
Tammany,, are. determined no similar differ
ence shall divide their people this year ■ and
there are - f our • chances to one ' in ":'■ favor *of • a
united . republican front, taking in the: Citi
zens' union. ! This does much to concentrate
the fight but does not of itself jeopardize the
Tammany." organization, for normally Tam
many controls' 60 ' per ' cent [of the * local .vote,
with about 37 per cent to the republican party
and - the rest [ scattering. However, there ■is
this year a widespread demand on the s part
of many, of the old line democrats [ for a : re
vival 'of the old' county democracy which was
such a potent *anti-Tammany factor "in:, the
governor's ' chair at Albany. and later ' from
the White House. Former ; Congressman
Perry: Belmont '. is one of the leading spirits
for such *an . anti-Tammany organization I and
days . when : Grover Cleveland was ,so :, bitterly
fighting ;j that organization, , first v from l the
former Mayor * Thomas F. . Gilroy 1s ' not far
behind him in the same desire. ■ This tends
kto -' bring the ■. two : sides: close together '<- and
human contrivances, has been accompanied
by both advantages and disadvantages. In
this article only the advantages will be noted.
The fact that the exclusion was made a seri
ous condition by the clubs earliest organized,
intimates the timidity with which women en
tered into the club relation. They sought
harmonious relations with a larger and more
varied circle than they had hitherto known.
To secure harmony they felt they must banish
subjects upon which opinions naturally would
differ, because to their minds to differ was
to clash; to clash was to experience a sense
of discourtesy, of wrong, of resentment. The
mere fact that women instinctively felt it
necessary to limit their discussions to sub
jects upon which they coii'd not widely dis
agree that they might maintain peace, is the
best possible proof of the degree to which
custom had limited their horizon, narrowed
iheir prejudice and reduced their vision. The
origin of many clubs is an interesting story.
The chronicles of women's clubs, even the
meager records of club secretaries and his
torians, yet even these chronicles will be less
valuable than they might have been, because
the same timidity which feared the introduc
tion of questions that might occasion differ
ence of opinion and consequent dispute, also
voted it discourteous to retain-on the records
any discussions which distinctly reveal a
troubled mood.
How Women Found One Another
Oat. \
-.The immediate occasion of the birth of
Sorosis was the decision of r the New York
Press club to exclude its one or two women
members from the < banquet with which
Charles Dickens was to be welcomed on the
occasion of his first visit to this country.
Not, every club can. quote so interesting an
ante-natal incident, but every club will find
at the very; root of its origin a multitude of
half-confessed or entirely concealed local
causes, and every club includes at least-one
member with some sense of humor who is
ready to transmit the. traditions of divers in
cidents showing a tendency toward touchiness,
which is only an expression of the pettiness
that was a marked characteristic of the ante
club woman. •
The club discovered to women . that other
women not f belonging to their church and
whose husbands belonged to "< the opposing
political party were not less agreeable and
not less trustworthy than themselves. In
this initial discovery,may be found the first
stupendous good effect of the club upon club
women. The habit of meeting with women
outside of their own particular set who could
not be, interested in the discussion of the
same social incidents, forced them to pre
pare themselves by - study to discuss ques
tions that were other than peronal and local
and sectarian. As there must be a common
basis . for all happy social intercourse, and
as some common knowledge and some com
mon interest' must constitute such a basis,
the club: set women to studying the same
books that they might talk about them. It
is generally supposed that the most innocuous
of- books : are of the purely remote historical
type. Club programs show that a large.ma
jority of women's clubs began their careers
by laborious papers and conversations upon
subjects . drawn from the - history of Egypt
or Asia Minor or Greece or else that they
studied pure': belles-lettres. While no club
exactly duplicates the experience of any other,
I think that club women all over the country
would discover relatively the same evolu
tionary stages in the clubs to which they
belong in. regard to the subjects that have
been considered by them., '•"
Timid Beginning of Club Associa
tions. , .
I have Just- looked over a register contain
ing club programs from 1875 to date. The
very first subject put down for the meeting
of this' club is: "In Order to Be -a Good
Housekeeper Is It Necessary to Devote One's
Entire Time to It?"/ r ; ': •". "';.'.'S: '\ "" ;
■ The next meeting of the same club shows
that its members were occupied- in '.studying
the condition, of Hebrew women.*.- On March
15 of the present year the same club was
"Hold on," said the gruff voice. "Let's
climb over the partition."
"Climb over hell!" retorted the other voice
angrily. "Going out to look for a ladder, I
suppose! D'you think we got all night to
waste?"
"You said the watchman was doped for
two hours."
"What's two hours to a bungling fool lik«
you, up against a good safe?"
"You gimme an hour at this safe an" I'll
make a wide-open Noo York of it," said the
gruff voice, confidently.
"Open up that door first, then," piped the
other. .
"That's all right; but every time I tackle
a door I think of that burglar alarm we run
against in Steyn's joolry store."
"We ain't goin' to run against any alarni
here. Didn't I tell you I squared the jani
tor's assistant and fixed the wires in the cel
lar?"
"Well, there might be —"
"Well, there ain't," broke In the other fu
riously. "Cut it out! D'you think you can
teach me anything about any kind of wires,
alarm or telegraph, or anything else?
Haven't 1 been everything from lineman to
operator, and didn't I run the wire-tapping
outfit that bilked the poolrooms last year?"
"Hold the light here, then," growled tvs
confederate. "The lock's dead easy."
During this conversation Franklin sat par
alyzed at his desk. Any resistance that he
rould put up against the robbers would be
almost useless. He had never kept a revolver
in his desk, and was accustomed to deride
■mildly the more cautious men of his acquaint
ance who always kept a loaded weapon at
hand. Now, he cursed himself for neglect
ing this precaution, recalling a saying of a.
western friend:
"You don't want a gun very often, but
when you do want it, you want it bad."
The entrance of the robbers meant ruin to
him and to his firm. How easy the safe
would be for them he knew better than they,
fcr the heavy door had been left open at his
orders, that he might put some papers in
before closing. On any other night the safe
would have been closed. But this night, of
all others, the junior partner had fallen
asleep at his post, and not only he himself,
but a thousand innocent people whose inter-
equalizes the contest, so that at this time,
unless one or the other of the parties makes
a serious tactical blunder, it looks as though
the fall campaign would be almost an even
break. The whole county vote this fall will
run about 325,000, and the fight should be a
far more bitter one even than that of four
years ago.
How Gold Is Shipped.
When it was learned in this rity that two
gold bars, forming a part of the last shipment
of the National City bank, had been lost
or stolen from the strong room of the Kaiser
Wllhelm d«r Grosse, there was general won
derment and even doubts of such a thing
being possible, so great are the safeguards
placed about the shipping of the precious
metal. The process is an interesting and
Intricate one. The repository for bullion is
the assay office, where the government keeps
many millions in bullion in the vaults, ex
changing it for gold coin or certificates on
application. Bars for export such as those
sent by the National City bank are eight
inches in length, four inches in width and two
inches thick, and are accurately weighed and
stamped before leaving the assay office. Great
care is used in packing the gold, which is
done outside of the assay office and run
through a narrow lane between the assay
office and the subtreasury to the street. This
passage Is blocked by a solid wall at one
end and by iron gates at the other, there
being a little railroad along this alley and
it is safe to say there is not another railroad
in the world carrying so much wealth in pro
portion to its mileage. The gold bars for
shipment are taken down this tramway to the
street and there loaded on waiting trucks
which coavey them to the steamers. The
gold bars are packed in the courtyard by
two mea from the official cooper and two or
three representatives of the banking firm
making the Shipment, the metal being placed
in a keg about a foot and a half high and a
foot in- diameter, sawdust being plentifully
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1 17, 1901 L
considering John Ruskin. My inference that. I
the' majority of clubs at the outset have found
refuge in antiquity and have gradually de
veloped themselves into becoming contem
porary with themselves is drawn from the
perusal of several hundreds of club pro
grams, which I anticipate will one day be ;
considered the : treasure of some historical
library. These programs indicate not only
the timidity with which women began, intel- ;
lectual association with one another, but they
are a simple confession that the average
woman joining the club felt that, she had
no resources, no accumulated information out
of which a paper might be written or with !
which an impersonal conversation might :be
garnished and sustained. One good result of
the club is that it' has sent women to the
world's literature and has given .them, a pur
pose in serious: reading. It has also given
them opportunities for expression. It was a
rare woman who iv ' the early club days ex
pressed . her. own ideas; not because it was
so. rare that a. woman had ideas, but in the'
ordinary, relations of life such ideas as she
had upon any but domestic subjects were
carefully concealed, It was an unwritten law
that domestic harmony and social courtesy
demanded this. . -'•-\V"" ' " ' ' '"'
Benefits of a Broader View.
One of the greatest advantages" of the club
is that, it has given women a new oppor- >
tunity to study human nature, the opportu
nity growing larger and more varied as ex-:
perience in club life has led women to be
more natural and more spontaneous . in their
i discussions. The' serious /reading and study
I induced by, club membership in no small
j measure has supplemented early education.
I Club programs have become the butt of the
| "smart" journalist's ridicule, which has made
j it an old story that a women's club will dis
patch in one afternoon j several j subjects, any
one of which would be considered a matter
for investigation of months by a learned
It'must be borne in mind that. no club woman
has ever claimed that club membership made
her "learned," and in emphasizing as one
of the club's advantages the freer play and
the larger field of contemplation which the
club has opened to woman's intelligence we
make no claim that the club Is the equivalent
of the university.
The experience of associating with others
not their . inferiors, not related •to them by
ties of consanguinity or of the church, and
I therefore not bound to flatter and to coddle
them, has had upon women an effect the ex
tent of which can hardly be magnified.•:-; It is
probable that the good effects already pre
sented measure about all that the first decade
of club life did for the women who shared
it. At the beginning of the second decade,
when, by .their innocent pursuits, they had;
silenced the light mockery with; which they '■
were: at . first , greeted, the club i began yield
ing its members another advantage:. It gave
them some-experience into which pleasure
enters in a much larger degree than it enters
into the rivalries of ordinary society. .-..■■
Courtesy and Intellectual Inter
* 1 'change.
The second decade of < club life is marked
by the study of parliamentary law. The en
deavor to conduct clubs according to parlia
mentary usage gave women a new sense of
order and decorum; taught them that the
primary object is not to differ in opinion but
to : express; differences in an inoffensive man
ner. This, study of parliamentary law often
induced an undue attention to "mint, anise
and cummin"- and a forgetfuiness of '.'weight
ier matters," but the observance of": parlia
mentary usage has had one good effect in that
it has trained women to self-control and to
moderation ; and has . compelled them to pay
outward to' opponents. I believe that
women thus schooled-d0,.0n the average.prac-
Uce higher courtesy in social life than women
not thus trained, since the indispensable ele
ment of fine courtesy is self-restraint.
The influence of the club'upon its mem
bers has reacted upon the homes and upoa
social life in. general, so that to a much
larger degree than formerly does social life
demand some intellectual interchange, some
manifestation of spiritual activity. Having
learned to enjoy ono another in their clubs,
ests were bound up in the house were to suf
fer the penalty. Well, he would at least do
what he could to save them, though it were
at the forfeit of his own life. A wild idea
of smashing his window and shouting for
help he put aside. To rend one's voice ring
ing up and down an empty air shaft, bordered
by vacant windows, would be a cheerless per
formance and prodigal of breath that he
might well need later on.
Then it came to his mind that his paper
cutter was a Malay kris, small, but keea and
strong. Armed with this ht- could creep over
to the door, and when it opened stab at least
one of the invaders. Undoubtedly the other
would shoot him, but that didn't much mat
ter, and possibly the second man might not
care to wait for loot under the circumstances.
Sliding his hand along in search of the
weapon, he touched With an exploring finger
the spring lock of his desk. It gave a little I
click. Lrtks a flash the thought of how he ]
had in idla moments, sat there, and with his
pencil shaft on the lock, ticked off Morso
code messages to nowhere, joined with the
memory of what the high voice had said
as to Its owner's telegraphic acquirements,
and the two Ideas coalesced In a well det-ned
hope. As an operator, the junior partner was
somewhat rusty; as an instrument the spring
lock was only a fair tonal imitation. But it'
was a chance—the best one iv sight, and
as such to be seized. Franklin seized it.
At the first accidental click the fumbling
at the door had ceased.
"There's somebody in there," growled the
harsh voice, quavering throatily. Evidently
its owner was in a tremulous state of mind.
There was nothing tremulous about his part
ner.
"In your mind," he snarled. "If there is,
I've got a bullet for him. And my knife for
you, you sniveling whelp, if you don't brace
up," ne added in a frenzied squeal.
"Don't," gasped the other. "11l go jpn.
I'll-"
"Tick-tick, ti-ick; tick-tick, ti-iek; tick
tick, ti-ick," sounded clear through the dark
ness.
"There!" hattered the man who was work
ing on the door. "Did you—did you—wha-at
was it?"
There was a period of silence, broken only
by the sharp clicking.
"It's a telegraph call; that's wot It is. I
don't have to be a operator to know that."
used in packing to prevent abrasion. Care
ful count is made in the packing and an en
try made for each bar, including Its num
ber. When the head is placed on the keg a
ribbon is placed over it and this is carefully
sealed with wax. Receipts are passed for
everything, the coopers and truckmen have
been doing the work for years arid then, too,
representatives of the banking firm accom
pany the bars from the time they are packed
at the assay office until they are delivered
to the strong room of the vessel.
War Over Athletic*.
President Seth Low of Columbia university
and the students of that institution are clash-
Ing at a most shocking rate over the ques
tion of athletics for the coming season. Presi
dent Low insists that each team of the uni
versity shall stand on its merits and on
its own finances, it must support itself or go
out of existence. And he has appointed a
controller to supervise the finances of the
teams and to see to it this rule is carried
out. As Columbia has had the usual deficits
common at all institutions of learning which
seek to make more or less high-flown records
in the athletic field, it is easily to see how
bitterly the students resent what they are
pleased to term an infringement on their
rights. It is generally acknowledged that
the new regulations will cause the abandon
ment of several branches of sport, but never
theless it is the application of strict business
principles to the university athletic manage
ment, something which in times gone by has
been woefully lacking. President Low said
it had simply come to a pass where the ath
letic organizations were running head over
heels into debt and that the bills were
being presented to the university, a thing
that it was intended to stop, and immediately,
too.
Moonalitnera in Mew York.
For the fourth time in less than two months
the internal revenue officers of this district
women have increased this pleasure by cre
ating opportunities for meeting this larger
and more varied circle of women outside
of their clubs. To a large extent the social
functions made by women for women only
are the fruit of. club association. A good ef
fect of exclusively feminine social life Is
that it has rendered it, as to manner, dress
and subjects of conversation, less servile to
preconceived demands of men. It has culti
vated within women a desire to please .on?
another and a capacity for deriving. pleasure
from social - relations into which coquetry
does not enter. BBSwBBB
Club Work of the Present Day,
The characteristic new feature of club : life
in its third decade has been breaking, away
from self-imposed limitations, that marked
the initial, efforts'* of women ; and the applica
tion of their garnered intelligence .and ex
perience to the solution of serious sociological
problems and the amelioration of social con
ditions.
A new interest in popular education, the
attempt to relate the home and the school,
to increase the sense of responsibility in th<*
former for the latter, the establishment oi
social relations between teachers and parents,
the intelligent stuay and public discussion 61
questions affecting- the public health, may bo
enumerated among the good effects -of-the
clubs as conducted at the present time.
Many of the principal clubs in the larger
cities from the beginning have been what ar3
called department clubs; in such clubs tha
work has been carried on under the 'direc
tion of committees, and members have been
able to be registered in one of another sec
tion according to thtir preferences. But
vthile there was from the beginning sonm
opportunity for choice in club work in the
larger clubs in small places, this subdivision
of. the club ! into. sections is relatively recent.
The study of the semi-public or wholly public
questions just enumerated has . compelled
women to investigate the conditions of their
own community in these respects. . Many
clubs now have their standing committees
on school visitation and on inspection of pub
lic institutions; . many clubs also appoint
special. committees to report from time to
time, as need arises, the conditions of the
odious quarters of a city. " ' "■
; Women* Larger View of Life.
■ Through this more practical study the club
■ in its third decade is relating woman to the
I common-life-and quickening woman's con-<
science as to her duty toward that life.: -This
is, perhaps, • the very best effect upon women
themselves' that the club has wrought. ,Jt;
implies all of the other preceding good effects
and is a promise of results in whose benefits
the entire commonwealth will share. All of
the good effects produced upon its members
by the individual club are induced in" a cor
respondingly larger degree by the General
Federation of Women's Clubs. It is only
very recently that many women have gone
from their homes save in pursuit of either
pleasure or health; a woman's journey from
: her home has almost always meant either a
visit to personal friends .or the temporary
surrender to dissipation more or less .mild
i in its character, at some pleasure resort, or
the search for health by change of climate
or by being domiciled in a sanatorium. .
The annual meetings of the state federation,
the | biennials of the general federation, with
■their intermediate gatherings of committees,
have all contributed their share in giving.to
women a larger sense of state and national
life and a keener perception of their.relation
to both. ... • ,
Thus briefly I have suggested the directions
in which the woman's club, by its good ef
fects upon its members, has proved .right
to a place among our social institutions.: 1
reserve to a later date a discussion .of what
to my mind are the distinctly bad effects upon
women . of club life. =t <! - .;*/. ■■[
i /
The quavering voice was answering its own
question.
"It couldn't be." There was not the fierce
assurance in the piping voice now that there
had been. "It don't sound like any instru
ment 1 ever heard. Oh, I know." Relief
was evident in the tcne, and a corresponding
ly sickening feeling rose in the junior part
ner's chest. "It's one of those stock tickers
working overtime. You ain't going to let a
thing like that—"
"You said you'd cut the wires," growled
the other voice. "You lied to me. I ain't
goin' to stay. Agrrh! Leggo my throat!" the
growl had suddenly been compressed to a
wheezing squeak.
"Open up that door or I'll strangle you."
The piping voice had a wild beast note iv it
now.
The fumbling at the door was resumed.
j Franklin could hear the lock sliding. Dog
j gedly he kept on with his pencil, spelling out.
his faked message.
"Tick-tick-tick, tick, ti-ick-tick. ti-ick,
tick-tick. Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick—"
"It is a message." The high voice was
shriller than ever. ' S-e-n-d h-e— send help!"
A high pitched, savage oath rang in the air.
"Cut it, Dutch. He's got v private wire
there."
The junior partner got to his feet, pressed
a button and leaped upon his desk. In the
flood of light that he had turned on he could
see over the partition, a tall, thick set fellow
ing leading a little, wiry, red headed man
in a race to the outer door. There the littK
man, half turning, saw him.
"Ah, you would:" he streamed furiously.
"Take that!"
His revolver spurted flame. There was a
crash of glass and Franklin jumped to the
floor unhurt. Across the office -he raced,
threw up a window, and sent his voice ring
ing out between the high buildings of the
street.
"Around in Broad street!" he called as
trampling feet answered his shouts, and the>
dark figures of two policemen appeared.
Then he went back, closed the safe, seated
himself at his desk and wrote busily: When
the detectives from the police station came
in, breathless, he handed a slip of paper to
'each.
"There's the best description I can give
of the m?n!" he said. "You can r^ad it as
you run."
have raided an illicit still running at full
swing iv a residence section of the town.
Business in this line seems to be running
about as freely in the heart of tin York
city as In the heart of the Tennessee moun
tains, about which the dime novelist delights
to write. The last invasion into a manufac
tory of "Jersey lightning" resulted In the
capture of one man and four good looking
women together with some $1,500 worth of
property. The women were working in their
bare feet when the officers called without the
preliminary of sending in their cards.
-N. Jt. A.
The "Reutoration."
Boston Globe.
It Is interesting to note that, in spite of
the, number, of new novels that are selling
up in the hundreds of thousands, one of Bos
ton's big book stores finds it profitable to
give up its show windows for a fortnigh;
exclusively <o the works of the late Charltc
lMckens.
Hint for Municipal Statesmen.
Kansas City Star.
Whenever certain great statesmen learn
that cleaning the streets of a city is a greater
municipal issue than all the national ques
tions rolled together, then they will be, per
haps, less diverting as orators but a good
deal more practical in achieving success.
A Great Army.
St. Louis Republic.
It is earnestly to be hoped that Adjutant
General Corbin spoke the truth when he de
clared he .was appointing better men than
Funston to lieutenancies e\ery day. That
means a cracker-Jack army.
The I nkindest Cut.
It is stated upon excellent authority that
some day New York expects to be able to do
away with the horse cars.