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Our Stricken Chief
The country has spent an anxious day.
The whole nation has been, as it were,
watching by the bedside of the stricken
president. The hopes that had been
raised, so high by the favorable prospects
of recovery, continuing until yesterday,
"were cruelly shattered by the appearance
CUE alarming symptoms in the president's
condition Boon after midnight last night.
Pot several hours during the morning the
president's heart action was bo feeble
the ' attendants feared that he would
pass away at any time. Powerful heart
stimulants and the masterful will
of the distinguished sufferer have de
veloped a slightly improved condition of
things at this writing, but the physioians
in attendance, while not without hope,
can give little encouragement to an
anxious public. Every hour seems to im
prove the chances for life, and all will
join with Secretary Hitchcock, who said
about midday: "I refuse to surrender.
'While there is life there is hope.' " -...'
In this attitude the people of this great
country, and millions of sympathizers
throughout the world, pause at frequent
Intervals in the actiivties of life
to, inquire about the condition of the
president and to express their deep con
cern -with regard to him who is of the
beat product of the American nation. Mr.
McKinley has come closer to the hearts
at the people during the past week than
ever before. - His stricken condition, his
manly fortitude and the Christian spirit
•with which ha had.borne the calamity
■which has overtaken him has lifted him to
greater heights in the esteem and affec
tions of the people. With all partisan
animosities and prejudices removed and
the great heart of the nation stirred to
deepest sympathy for him in his sad
■tate, the nobility of his character,
the worth of his manhood, and the beauty
of his private life have made for him a
larger and warmer place in the affections
of the American people than he ever held
before, while the near approach of death
ha 3 caused the nation to realize more
deeply than at the first shock of fear and
grief how serious would be the conse
quences of his death, and how great the
loss to the nation and to the world.
And thus it awaits the issue, each anxious
hour that sees no relapse strengthen
ing the hope, that in . spite of the des
perate situation which really obtains, our
great president may yet emerge to life
and health.
"Municipal Trading"
"What iwo know In this country as munic
ipal ownership, which appears in Eng
land under the title of municipal trading
is being much discussed 'a England now,
and there Is nothing like the unanimity of
opinion in favor of it that would be in
ferred from the glowing reports of Its
achievements that have heretofore been
brought to America. "Engineering," a
well-known. English periodical, has opened
its columns to this discussion; recently
Mr. Donald, editor of the "Municipal Jour
nal" and the leader of the municipal
ownership movement in England stated
his side of the case in Engineering and
now Robert P. Porter, drawing his conclu
sions from the experience of American
municipalities, replies to Mr. Donald.
Mr. Porter's argument is that the munic
ipality gets as much revenue out of pri
vately managed public utilities as it would
from their actual ownership; that private
management gives "better service than
public management, and that public owner
ship does the community a positive In
| Jury: by encroaching upon the field of
, private endeavor. "If the state or city,"
says Mr. Porter, "takes away one after
another of the opportunities for profitable
employment of private capital and brains
the "logical result is that other occupa
tions become overcrowded, the struggle
for existence gets harder, and an increas
ing number of citizens must come upon
the state or city for support. The state's
function is to give every man an oppor
tunity to do business under a stable gov
ernment." . - .
Mr. Porter attributes the slow develop
. ment of street railway and telephone serv
ice .in -the United Kingdom to the med
dling of government. - While 1 England te
v still using antiquated telephones and still
:_.* building cable roads, private companies
in the United States are continually re
placing old telephone systems in order to
be up-to-date and cable railroads are be
ing thrown into scrap heaps. Mr. Porter
is sure, from a comparison of England and
America, that private administration of
the public utilitieß gives better service
and improves it much more rapidly than
public management would dare to.
While in these days of a widening con
ception of what the state and municipality
may and should do it is hardly possible to
accept Mr. Porter's definition of the sole
function of government, It is certain that
he has thrust his lance through the flaw
in the armor of municipal ownership.
There are some things that the municipal
ity can and should do. Very few citizens
of Minneapolis, for instance, would care
to see the waterworks owned toy a private
company. But In view of the tendency of
the times the danger is that the govern
ment will do what the private citizen
should do rather than that he will do what
properly 'belongs to the government. It
may be that notwithstanding our fascina
tion by the stories that have been told us
about the wonderful things accomplished
in Glasgow and other British cities we
Americans have been, without any con
scious plan, working out a better solution
of the iwoblem than our British cousins.
Perhaps a system of well-paid-for fran
chises, rigid taxation and the abiding pow
er to correct abuses toy municipal or state
legislation, that leaves the ownership,
management and profits of public utilities
in private hands is best for all; best for
the state, 'best for the individual and best
for the service.
It is an old) saying that bad news travels
faster than good. The rapidity and the
persistence with which reports that the
president was dead traveled over town
kept the newspaper offices 'busy all morn
ing answering telephone inquiries and de
nying the false rumors.
Torrance Wins
Judge Torrance has been honored by the
memibers of the G. A. R. with unanimous
election to the office of commander-in
chief. Tho Journal wishes to con
gratulate the organization upon having so
wisely determined the question of Its
chief executive officer and to felicitate our
fellow-townsman upon the honor which
has been conferred upon him. There is
probably no honor that could be conferred
upon an old soldier which he would appre
ciate more highly than that of command
er-in-chief of the Grand Army. Judge
Torrance will bring to this office every re
quirement it calls for. He was a brave
soldier, serving his country -with distinc
tion on the field of battle, while in the
walks of peace he has been a good citizen
discharging the duties of citizenship with
rare fidelity. He is held in high esteem
•by his fellow-townsmen who will rejoice
with him in the great honor which has
been conferred upon him to-day.
The election is fortunate for the organi
zation, too, in that it disposes of all tho
possibilites of an unfortunate strife over
issues in which there was grave danger
that the reverence and esteem which the
public should entertain for the old soldier
might be seriously impaired.
There seems to have been nobody
around physically big enough to knock out
Senator George L. Wellington when he
declared, in substance, that he did not
care whether McKinley had been shot or
not. But it is to be hoped that the
United States senate will have sufficient
regard for its own reputation to kick him
out as soon as it meets in December. If
it can't do that it can at least freeze him
to death.
Bishop Edsall on Divorce
Bishop S. C. Edsall, coadjutor bishop
elect of the diocese of Minnesota, in an
address before the Woman's Auxiliary of
the diocese on Tuesday, discussed the pro
posed canons of marriage and divorce
which a committee appointed at the trien
nial convention of the Episcopal church in
1898 will report at the approaching con
vention in San Francisco. He referred to
the present canon which permits the cler
gy to solemnize c marriage of the innocent
party in a divorce after they have satisfied
themselves of the fitness of the party.
The canon makes the clergyman the sole
Judge of lnnocency and Bishop Edsall
would relieve him of such responsibility
by having the divorced person produce a
copy of tho decree of the court and an offi
cial assurance from the Judge Issuing It
that the party was innocent in the suit.
The bishop did not express an opinion on
the propsed canon to be reported by the
committee. It prohibits the solemniza
tion of a maTriage between any two per
sons until, by inquiry, the clergyman has
satisfied himself that neither person has
been, or is, the husband or the wife of
any other person then living, unless the
former marriage was annulled by a de
cree of a court of competent Jurisdic
tion for cause existing before such mar
riage.
It remains to be seen whether the Epis
copal general convention will record its
approvalof such heroic treatment of a rec
ognized evil as involves absolute and un
varying prohibition of divorce, or, conoed
ing the right of divorce, denies the right
of either party to remarry during the life
time of the other. That Is the law laid
down by Christ to maintain scanctity
of marriage and perpetuate the primitive
principle of monogamy—one husband and
one wife, the bond only dissoluble at
death. Such strictness appalls the present
age, for the sanctity of marriage is paling
before the vision of society, which more
and more lightly regards a. bond which
may, in some states, be broken hi ten
minutes to a few hours by a Judge who
means business. The purely secular view
of marriage as a dissoluble contract has
become so liberal that In some quarters
the contract is regarded as terminable for
the frivolous reason that one of the pan
ties has become tired of the other, or both
are weary of the bond, or "incompatibility
of temper" exists; reasons which, mani
festly, are destructive of social 'order.
Ordinary business contracts are not dis
soluble for such reasons.
Our diverse state divorce laws axe work
ing confusion and injustice, and, while
there is not a very encouraging prospect
for securing a national law on divorce and
marriage, congress is at liberty under
the constitution to pass a law declaring
that every judgment of divorce rendered
by a state court of competent Jurisdiction,
and valid under the laws of the state, shall
be of full force and effect and unques
tioned', except for actual fraud practised
on the court granting the Judgment, in
every other state. In this way the ab
surdity of a divorce granted in one state
being Invalid in another would be removed
and the status of the children would be
unaffected and the stigma of illegitimacy
would be removed. If the public insist
upon divorce and remarriage, whether
both parties to the divorce are living or
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUBNAL.
not. legislation should be directed* to the
minimization of - the Incidental . evils.
The church, is expected to take a higher
ground on this subject than the state and
it should do so in the Interest of the
higher social morality. Bishop Doane, of
Albany, who has long made a fight, and
a vigorous one, for the heroic treatment
of this question, has always urged that
the standard of the church should be set
higher, so as to draw up the civil standard
to its position^/ But the views of Christian
people on the subject or divorce are no
ticeably variant and church people figure
in some of the most objectionable phases
of divorce court proceedings.
The agitation for,' reform is strengthen
ing, however, and. the movement is or
ganized intelligently and will no doubt
bring about very desirable changes in
public sentiment upon the subject of
divorce.
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The Bean The fact that the bean
/* %r *t crop of the east ** short
on JtSJkatlUe 400000 or 500,000 bushels
Heath \ has been seized upon by the
press of that section to hold
up the wretched people of Boston as in dan
ger of acute suffering during the coming win
ter. The Philadelphia Record goes so far as
to suggest relief committees in the various
centers to pick up what beans, there are on
the market and to ship them at once, before
the reason of Boston totters on its throne.
Dispatches from Boston state, however, that
there is no immediate cause, for. alarm, and
the belief is freely expressed that the city is
in fairly good shape to stand a famine until
the next crop comes on. The Herald of that
city wires that the leading merchants are
"well stocked with leguminosae," and the
mayor, in answer to - a telegram from the
mayor of Galveston, says, "No acute danger
now and none apprehended before spring."
The bean as an edible obtained its highest
social status on Massachusetts bay. The
recipe for its transformation into human food
comes down from Governor Winthrop'stime
and has been traced even beyond the early
Saltonstall or Mather families. The plain
white bean of commerce is first boiled until,
when lifted from the water and blown upon,
the outer integument of the berry cracks. It
is than put into the bean pot with a piece of
carefully selected pork with a streak of lean
in it. To each quart of beans Is added two
tablespoonfuls of molasses and one table
spoonful of mustard. Some water is added,
and the pot is then placed in a slow oven to
bake for four or five hours. Water is to be
added from time to time. In some families
butter takes the place of pork, but this is
considered rather an innovation ■ and is . not i
practiced in the best families.
When the bean comes upon the table after
this treatment, the result is a gastronomic
dream, a poem, a story, a romance, a strain
of music, a passion. Saturday evening from
5 to 7:30 o'clock, all business stops In Boston
pending the dinner hour.; The. Common, the
public gardens and the library are deserted,
Washington and Tremont streets run dry,
the Old Corner Bookstore 'closes its shutters,
and a solemn silence settles down over the
city. The discussion of the bean in Boston
is an act of worship. It is not to' be won
dered at that certain disquieting rumors as to
the crop have been received with something
like dismay. ... ; . .. , ..'
At the Indian Institute at Lawrence, Kan.,
Mr. Bob Tail Bull arrived on the same train
with Mr. John / Little ■ Byes, Mr. • Benedict
Shoulder Blade, Miss Emma. Beaver Claw,
Miss Minnie Squint Eyes, Miss Laura Nice
Talker and Miss Minnie Stands Up. There
they found Mr. Edward Woman's Legglns,
Mr. Hinton Big Leg, Miss Anna Wounded
Eye, Miss Bessie Little Sail, Mr. Elmer Long
Jaw,' Mr. Jerome Bear' Tusk, Mr. Joseph
Crazy Mule, Mr. John Stands-in-Tlmber, Mr.
John Pretty Bull, Mr. Hall Red Nose, Miss
Clara Rolling Bull, Mr. Beans Young Bird
and Miss Little White Man. ,
. —— '■ — .. ....;
The Chatfield, Minn.; News claims that
Freeman Brown'brought to its office "a beau
tiful peach raised in his garden in North
Chatfield. It is a freestone and weighs Just
one-quarter of a pound and measures eight
inches in circumference. The tree was plant
ed three years ago, and this spring had six
; peaches upon it, three of which blew off and
the. others matured. Mr. Brown also had
some lemon and orange trees growing in his
yard." The News'neglects to mention how
Mr. Brown's pineapples stood the drought or
whether -he has yet stacked his cabbage
palms. ■ ■ '■■■;-■
_ — ■■■■■■ ;'".
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,. has sold his auto
mobile, "The White Ghost," to a New York
broker, and is riding a new German machine
called "The Red Devil." '; . .■
The character of the cartoons in some of
the yellow Journals changed so suddenly that
it is suspected that the cartoonists must have
sprained themselves by their quick changes
of front. >;' ■ '
The old-fashioned $1,000,000 rain does not
wait for somebody to expel chemical gases
into the upper air or to shoot off mortars.
The idea of an island for anarchists is not
a bad one. Why not buy Iceland and let the
king-killers till the soil there? .
Czolgosz is said to have been tortured. Pos
sibly some policeman pushed & cake of soap
under the door of his cell. .
'. —J" ■ ;
Somebody has been threatening "to expos©"
M. J. -Dowling. Did M. J. write poems in his
youth?
MINNESOTA POLITICS
The impression has gone abroad. that M. J.
Dowllng committed a blunder in filing his
affidavit as a candidate for congress prior
to Sept. 1. It would seem so from a cursory
reading of the primary law, the last section
of which expressly provides that it shall not
take effect until Sept. 1, 1901. \
| The affidavit is dated Aug. 23. It was sworn
to in the secretary of state's office before J.
J. Lomen, notary public, and chief clerk in
the office. The record shows that the affi
davit was filed and the fee paid the same
day.: -i , ■ ' .:; . "
. Mr. Lomen declares that the proceeding was
entirely regular, and that Bowling's name
will go on the' ballot without any further
formality, though it will not head the ticket
any oftener than other candidates who may
file later. In explanation of his position he
■ays:
The law did not go into effect until Sept. 1,
and no primary election could ■ have been
held before that time. The only restriction,
however, on filing affidavits is . that they
must be filed "at least twenty days before
the primary election." The act was ap
proved April 10, and was a law after that
time. Any filing after April 10 would have
been legal, and Dowllng's affidavit was ac
cepted by this office Aug. 23. The early
filing will not be any particular advantage,
as the names of the candidates will rotate
on the ballots. ; U.'
The * Fairmont Independent is brandishing
the hammer, and declares that "our present
governor to date has made a very poor execu
tive." In the same issue the editor goes
after "some of our biliously inclined wanted
to-be-postmaster publishers" who are "find
ing fault with Congressman. McCleary."
Finding fault with the governor must be a
symptom of indigestion.
The Independent man gives the governor
credit for two things, the appointment of S.
T. Johnson as public examiner, and "the
ignoring of the conceited Doc Ames."
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A. N. Dare, in the Elk River Star-News,
commenting on Henry Lee's candidacy for
auditor, says: "Henry is a good fellow, but
he'll have. to ; hurry." Dare predicts Dunn's
renomination. . ■:•.,!
Some politicians are mean enough to ascribe
Lee's candidacy to a desire to worry Dunn,
in retaliation for the hand he has taken in the
Anoka asylum row.
Uncle Pease, instead of roasting the other
fellows, :Is preaching : harmony. .He says:
The Union can see trouble in store for the
republican party in Anoka. ; There: are: two
factions * here - which are .- becoming as - veil
President and Mrs. McKinley
At the White House
—Copyright 1901 by tlinedf u*st, \Vu4llineton, JL>. C.
defined as the Benson-Jones factions, away
back in the sixties. The party suffered se
riously then, and it will suffer now unless
the differences existing can be healed.
The Appleton Tribune suggests the name
of H. W. Stone of Benson, a former member
of the house, as E. T. Young's successor in
tbe state senate. Senator Young's neighbors
evidently have seen and heard the congres
sional bee buzzing round his head.
The Preston Times says:
The Kenyon Leader wants J. F. Jacobson
for state auditor, and the Midway News in
sists that J. J. McCardy, the present control
ler of St. Paul, is the proper man. Both are
good men, but the entries are evidently yet
far from being filled.
If McCardy is a candidate for auditor, what
shall we do with Dar Reese?
—C. B. C.
AMUSEMENTS .-
Foyer Chat.
Next week at the Bijou, a new comedy by
Guy P. Steeley, entitled ."Hunting for Haw
kins," will be presented for the first time.
When first produced last spring the piece
was well received and this season Messrs.
Gray and Gillingwater have provided an ex
cellent producing company and an elaborate
scenic equipment for the play which prom
ises to be one of the comedy hits for' the
season.
"In Old Kentucky" is holding forth to
rp-Rord breaking tudiences at the Bijou this
week. Theater-goers find much enjoyment in
its many scenes and exciting interest, its
comedy, its pathos and the pickaninnies con
tribute in no small way to the entertainment.
The producing comrany is an excellent one,
Miss Alice Treat Hunt being one of the best
Madges ever seen here.
There will be three more performances by
Chauncey Olcott and company in ''Garrett
O'Magh" at the Metropolitan. Seats for the
matinee to-morrow have been selling very
rapidly, but there are still some good seats
in the front of the second balcony.
Jess Dandy, the impersonator of Hebrew
characters, who is booked to appear with the
vaudeville company at the Metropolitan the
first half of next week, is making the great
est hit of the vaudeville bill at the Masonic
Temple in Chicago this week.
OTHER PEOPLE'S XOTIONS
Socialism -vs. Anarchietni.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Inasmuch as the papers, since the attempted
assassination of President McKtn'ey, have
contained a great amount of nonsense and
misconception regarding the questions of
anarchy and socialism, the two words fre
quently being confounded in a ridiculous
manner, will you kindly give space to a
socialist for a brief statement of our posi
tion.
While it is true that the red flag is the
international flag of socialism, its color,
standing for the fact that all nations are of
one blood—a jymbol of the brotherhood of
man—the principles of anarchism and social
ism are diametrically opposed to each other.
Socialists advocate the collective, or public,
ownership of the means of production and dis
tribution, a change of the base of industry
from competition and private monopoly, to
co-operation and public monopoly.
The postofflce is an imperfect example of
socialism, so 3re the public schools and high
ways. The city library and fire departments,
etc., are other examples, but none of them
perfect, becausa the base of society is capi
talism and all public utilities under capital
ism become corrupted to a greater or less
degree. From the above do not conclude that
government ownership is the aim of the
true socialist. Government ownership will be
the logical result of tte present capitalistic
system of industry, and can properly be called
state socialism, but with the capitalist class
coatroling the government it will result in a
worse condition than the present. The true
socialism is democratic in the right mean
ing of the term. Government ownership and
public ownership are entirely different terms.
The socialists aro revolutionists in the sense
that they would change the base of industry
from competition to co-operation, but their
method is peaceable. They call on the people
to go to the ballot box and cast their votes
for the co-operative commonwealth. They
are optimists, not pessimists. They are edu-
; AT THE CHURCH GATE
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! William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811. He received
1 an education at Trinity -College,; Cambridge. He lectured In the United States in |
! 1852-1853, and was editor of the Cornhill Magazine, 1860-63. He died at London, Dec. |
• .24, 1863. He is more famous as a novelist than as a jjoet.- '£■'
! I. HI. ;
I Although I enter not, ' J ; My lady comes at last, \
1 Yet round about the spot . '. Timid and stepping fast |
1 Ofttlmes I hover; -- • '"■■ >■ - iltf^^Sll ' And hastening hither, '
i And near the sacred gate, . - Jflßp-'^^&i ' With modest eyes downcast; . i
With longing eyes I wait, ■ jHr J% <-^J&' **na comes—she's here—she's past! \
' Expectant of her. v" 4B^3r^9 May Heaven go with her! ":'\\
! The minster bell tolls out . . jsff^ss^|}|& Kn&el undißturbed> fair saint: '
| Above the city's rout PoUr °Ut your praiso or plaint '
[ And noise and humming; Meekly and duly; |
! They've hushed "the minster bell; ' l*> l wUI not enter .there J
[The organ 'gins to swell; • -V To sully your pure prayer ; .;!
[ She's coming, coming! ' ' With.thoughts unruly. ]
I V. !
! f» But suffer me to pace i
' • Round the forbidden place,
I " Lingering a minute, •
I Like outcast spirits who wait <
And see, through Heaven's gate, i
• Angels within it.
cators, not suppressors of .the truth. They
are constructioniets, not distraetionists. They
challenge the closest investigation of their
principles and meet criticism with argument
All of their meetings are free to the public,
for they have no secrets. They do not believe
in war, but in the power of principles. The
socialist party has more writers, speakers,
artists and poets than any other party on
earth. A movement that is connected with
such names as Victor Hugo, John Ruskin,
Alfred Russel Wallace and Wm. Morris is
not to be degraded to the level of anarchism
with its straggling following of cut throats
and pessimists. Socialism ia to anarchy what
day is to night or good is to evil.
In conclusion let me say that the socialists
regret the violence done to President McKin
ley; it is the act. of a. madman. Proper meas
ures should be taken to rid this country of
such characters. The best way to do this is
to establish the co-operative commonwealth.
Anarchism is a logical product of capitalism;
its real cause is found in an unjust sys
tem of exploitation. Change the system and
you will get rid of its effects. "A tree is
known by its fruit." —G. H. Lockwood,
Organizer Socialistic Party.
125 Nicollet Avenue.
Defective School Training.
To the Editor of The Journal:
As the season for the opening of schools lufe
arrived, it seems to me that a neglected sub
ject should be taken up. That education is
best, and the only one entitled to the name,
which fits the pupils for the duties of life.
No matter how well they may be informed
regarding history and the sciences, poetry and
the fine arts, they will not be successful with
out a thorough knowledge of domestic and
business economy. They may know all about
everybody's business in this and every other
land, but what they need to know most Is
how to look after their own business.
Bob Ingersoll stated a fact which, everybody
knows when he said that there Is wealth
enough in the country for every one to be
well-to-do. The reason property is not more
evenly distributed is because so many have
not learned to use properly the means that
come to them. There are many people who
are intelligent and well educated, as we usu
ally understand that term, who are no better
than children in the management of money
matters. Many are "successful in earning
money, but cannot take care of it. Too fre
quently they want to spend $2 when they earn
$1. Oftentimes they imagine they are the
most careful people on earth. Many are
pennywise and pound foolish. It ib this defec
tive education that leads to poverty, embez
zlements, defalcations and robberies, and de
velops "dead beats."
Those who are successful financially owe it
to training outeide of the schools, and is ac
quired in eariy life. Should not the schools
try to do for the pupils that which will not
be clone for them in the home? It might ne
cessitate a change of teachers in many cases.
1 believe the college professor who protested
against employing a3 teachers "the economic
failures of society" had given the question a
thorough study. Many of the teachers in our
public schools take to teaching as a last re
sort for making a living. Although they get
a better salary than the laboring man who
supports a family, they cannot make that
salary meet their expenses. Such teachers
will unconsciously Influence their pupils In a
way that will be a detriment to them for life.
I have read with considerable interest of
what Mr. Peavey has done for the newsboys.
But it is not only the newsboys and the chil
dren of poor people that need such training,
it should be for everybody. Can't the schools
do what is necessary?
—A Patron of the Schools.
MRS. McKIJiLKY'S FAVOMTE POEM
God gives us love. Something to love
He gives us- but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throva
Falls off. and love is left alone.
■Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace!
Sleep, holy spirit; blessed soul.
While the stars burn, the moons increase
And the great ages onward roll.
Sleeptill the end, true soul and sweet!
Nothing comes to the© new or strange.
Sleep full of rest from head to feet;
Sit still, dry dust, secure cf change.
—Tennyson.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901.
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I m \i4> Leslie Jimei
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Copyright, 15t.)1, by A. S. Kichardso:).
It was the big doctor who' found her, mis
shapen and suffering, in her father's gloomy
shop. la spite of its noise and dust, Jinny
preferred the shop to the tiny backroom, be
cause the customers spoke kindly to her and
made her forget the ache in her bark. When
they gave her candy enough to start a make
believe shop on the narrow window ledge,
she sold it for pins to the children in the
dingy court, just because she loved to watch
these straight-limbed, bright-eyed children
caper about as she knew she never could.
When the big doctor brought her to the
hospital, he said to Nurse Powell:
"I'll leave Jinny under your special fare.
Miss Powell. I am greatly interested in- her
case. The expense is being met by one per
fectly able to do it, and she is to want for
nothing."
And thus -were the gates of an earthly
paradise opened to Jinny of Bordeu's court.
First there was the cunning little room, all
her own, with pictures on the wall, and the
whitest of iron beds with shiny knobs on
each corner, and c. bright red wrapper, wooly
and soft, with knit slippers to match. Then
came the pretty young ladies of the flower
mission with their nodding blossoms and oc
casional glasses of quivering jelly.- Some
times the big doctor's nieces brought their
dolls, and spent an hour at Jinny's bedside,
and happy Jinny was permitted to hold as
long as she liked the marvelous Florette who
could walk and talk like Hi real baby and
whose, dresses really and truly came from
Paris.
But in Jinny's mind all these things faded
into insignificance when compared with the
big doctor and Nurse Powell. These two
formed a Joint divinity before which Jinny
burned the sweet incense of childish devo
tion. Nurso Powell had obeyed the phy
sician's generous instructions to the letter—
at first from a sense of duty, and later be
cause she learned to love the patient little
sufferer.
And the big doctor? Even Nurse Powell,
who knew his deep interest in his work,
wondered at the attention he lavished on this
denizen of the slums. Often when his rounds
in the hospital were over, and he had time
to spare, he would come back to Jinny's
room for a chat. And Jinny, her great black
eyes set in a face of ivory whiteness, would
smile happily from one to the other, the big
doctor who ordered medicine that eased the
pain in-her back, and tha nurse whose gentle
hand could sooth away wrinkles in her fore
head when the pain was at its worst.
Sometimes when they sat thus, Jinny was
vaguely conscious that the big doctor -was
talking to her, but looking at Nurse Powell.
But Jinny did not know how, years before
when the big doctor, fresh from the medical
school, had been house physician in the city
hospital, he had met a sweet-faoed "probe,"
doing her first night duty in his ward. The
head nurse had looked scornfully at the slen
der figure and the trembling hands, but
the young house physician had said: "Give
her time. She'll get ter bearings after a
bit."
Nurse Powell had been grateful for his
cheerful encouragement and the many kind
nesses which lightened her burden during
that first awful year in the big wards, but
when he asked for something more than
gratitude, she could not give it Now, head
of the unrses' staff at a sanatorium, she
sometimes grew a-weary and wished she had
learned to love the big doctor whose brown
eyes seemed still to follow her at her duties.
Then her heart would say: "No, no! His
work would always come first and I would
be second. Besides I wonder If he has a
heart! When I see him undertaking those
horrible operations without the quiver of an
eye-lash, I think he has no feeling."
And so this nurse who could unflinchingly
assist at the same operations, waited, in
consistently, for love to come into her life,
a love that would be all tenderness, and
thoughtfulness, a thing apart from the scenes
of suffering in which she moved.
It was ono afternoon when Jinny had been
almost a year at the hospital. In the morn
ing, the big doctor had said: '"I've changed
the medicine again, Miss Powell. I don't like
that rise ta temperature. If you note a tend
ency toward coma during the afternoon, send
for me at once."
Daily New York Letter
BUREAU OP THE JOURNAL.
No. 21 Park Row, New York.
The Prohibition Question.
Sept. 13. —There was a sharp debate on the
prohibition question at this week's meeting
of the Methodist preachers. Rev. Dr. J. M.
Buckley took a much more liberal view of
the question than did Rev. J. A. Hensey of
Paterson. The later opened the discussion
with a paper on "The Progress of a Great
Reform," in which he said that he did not
think It too much to say that twenty years
from now it will be impossible to elect any
man as chief magistrate who is not a Chris
tian and a total abstainer. In his remarks
Dr. Buckley said: "The method of discip
lining first the republican party then the
democratic party has been followed for many
years, and the result is that both parties are
rum parties to-day. The republican party Is
a rum party. I voted for it and voted for
McKinley, but I did not vote for the rum ele
ment in the party. Prohibition will not come
about in this country until after the whole
American people are educated up to the point
of not using stimulants. To-day whisky is
being injected into the bady of the president
of the United States with hot water and raw
eggs. There are, you see, people who still
think that stimulants are valuable." Mr.
Hensey, in reply, declared that Dr. Buck
ley's address was the most "venomous at
tack" upon temperance he had heard in many
years, and he pronounced his statements
"shameless." To this Dr. Buckley responded:
"It is a very bad state of mind when a man
regards a mere difference of opinion as some
thing to be called venomous, and it is a state
of mind which characterizes many of those
who take part in the agitation for prohibition,
and who insist that the churches have a right
to dictate how a man shall vote. For my
part, if the hcurch ever orders me to vote
for prohibition, I shall vote directly
against it."
Baroness Finds Solace on the Stasre.
New York has Just discovered that another
noble woman is appearing nightly at one of
the Broadway theaters. On the program she
is billed as Miss Maude Roosevelt. In reality
she is the Baroness yon Schwarzenstein,
whose husband was recently appointed Ger
man minister to China. The young woman
is also a cousin of Vice-President Roosevelt,
and before her marriage she was a society
leader of New York and Washington. She
was married to Baron yon Schwarzenstein
while the latter was connected with the Ger
man embassy in Washington. The couple
lived together for only eight months, although
they have never been divorced. Since their
separation the baroness has been preparing
for the stage and when the season opened
she joined James K. Hackett's company. She
is said to possess considerable talent.
Sells Ghost and Keeps Red Devil.
"The White Ghost," the automobile terror
which has filled many a heart with awe after
dark, has been disposed of by W. K. Van
derbllt, Jr., to R. Thomas, a New York bro
ker. Since Mr. Vanderbllt secured bis new
German machine, "the Red Devil," he has
had but lit#b use for the "Ghost," and it
has seldom been seen this season.
Uncle Russell's Nomination.
No man in New York has taken the assas
sination of the president more to heart than
has "Uncle" Russell Sage. The aged finan
cier, once himself the victim of a crank, has
bulletins sent him as often as they are is
sued from Buffalo on the president's condi
tion. The other day he said: "If God in
His goodness spares the life of our president
and restores him to health, he will be renom
inated in 1904 and re-elected for a third term.
I make this prediction as confidently as I did
that he would be president when he was gov
ernor of Ohio, and that he would be re
eleoted . for a second term. No power can
now stOD his renomlnatloo if he lives, for
But Nurse Powell did not have td send for
him. He came of his own accord, just as the
afternoon drew to a close. Jinny had be^n
sleeping restlessly, and when she opened her
eyes with an expression of weariness that
had not been there since she came to the
hospital, the big doctor arid Nurse Powell
were sitting cne either side of her Mttle bed.
At the foot, lay a gaily illustrated copy of
Mother Goose's rhymes, whl-h Nurse Powell
had been reading aloud before kindly slee»
came to the small sufferer. Now Jinny
pointed -to it with a van smile.
"I've had the funniest dream. I went to
Mother Goose'g land—way-way off, an' she
•was such a funny ol' woman, au' she wag
right glad to see me! An' ihe says. Little
girl, would you like to stay with me a while?'
An' I says, 'I'm obliged to you ma'am, but
I can't stay long.' Au' then she orings out
the purtiest dress, purtier than my red wrap
per, an' she says, "Little girl, would you like
to wear that?' An' when I see the Uttle stick
all tied with ribbons, I knew it were little
Bopeep's dress. An' I put It on, an' chased
them sheep all roun' the field, an' it never
hurt my back a bit. An' I tried on lots uv
clothes, Littlo Miss Muffet'H ruffled bonnet,
an' Mary, Mary Quite Contrary's big hat, an'
the Queen of Heart's long train, an' Mother
Goose, she says, 'Ain't you havia' a good
time, little girl?'
"An' I says, 'Yes, ma'am, thankee ma'am,
but I guess I'd better be a-goin'. You see
my big doctor'll be roun' pretty soon, an'
he'll miss me if I ain't in my cot. An' Nursa
Powell will bring my bread an' milk, an*
there won't be any little girl there to eat it.*
An' then Mother Goose, she says, 'All right,
little girl, jus' jump on my broom stick, an'
we'll be down there in a jiffy. An' here I am,
an' I'm glad, fur the bed feels so euinfy,
an' sure 'nough, my big doctor is here."
The great black eyes glowed wondrova
bright as they met the big doctor's gaze, and
he spoke very gently while he stroked her
hand, now thin and transparent
"Does your back ache after your long rida
on the broom stick. Jinny?"
"Oh, no! The ache's all gone. There ain't
been any ache all day."
The big doctor locked across the bed at
Nurse Powell, but she was gazing steadily
through the open window. And something
bright and clear, like diamonds, shone oa
her long lashes.
The weak, piping voice raised again.
"No, I ain't achin' any place to-day, only
I'm dreadful tired. An' every once in a
while, you an' Nurse Powell go a-sltppin' an*
a-slippin' away from me, an' then I feel like
I was a-slippiu' too. I wisht I'd go to sleep
again."
Nurse Powell's quivering lips tried to form
the notes of the nursery song Jinny loved
best, but something lose in her throat and
choked the melody.
"I wisht —you'd sing—that—sleepy-soug."
The tired voice trailed off into silence, but
not before the heavy eyes were raised appeal
lngly to those of the white-capped nurse.
The big doctor seemed to rouse himself
as from a dream. He leaned over and clasped
Jinny's nerveless hand in his great warm
one, and then in a clear tenor voice began
to sing:
"Sweet and low, sweet and low.
Wind of the western sea."
The music floated over the cot, past Nursa
Powell, through the open door, and down
the corridor to the ward where other suffer
ers heard and marveled. And over the face
of Jinny, stele an expression of Infinite peace.
In that distant ward, men w,ho had been
battling with death, turned their faces to
ward the sinking sun and felt that even
amidst pain it was good just to live. And
in Jinny's little room, all was silent. Nurso
Powell was kneeling beside the bed, her face
hidden in the pillow. The little hand she still
held was strangely limp and pulseless. Thea
a strong arm raised her to her feet, and '-he
looked straight into the soft brown eyes th;.t
had followed her ali these years patiently,
steadfastly.
"Gertrude!"
"Henry!"
Later, when she raised her head, she turned
from him to the quiet figure on the cot,
"I almost wish, she knew—shy loved ua both,
so well."
And the big doctor whispered gently: 'I
think she did know, even before you did."
he is the most popular American living, aui
deservedly so. We can ask no greater bless
ing from the Almighty at the present time
than that the life of our beloved president
bo spared."
Mr. Dooley on the Stock Exchange.
Finley Peter Dunne, who is better known
as "Mr. Dooley," is in town, and be visteil
the Stock Exchange. After watching the
struggling mass of humanity on the floor for
some time, he delivered himself of the fol
lowing: "I can't help being impressed with
the warm-blooded emotionalism of the pro
fessionals on the exchange. They never take
their eyes from the sick-bed at Buffalo or
from the bulletin boards giving: the reports
of the attending surgeons on the temperature
of their distinguished patient. They go right
along, as before, selling on the rallies (in
temperature) and buying on the breaks. Ton
can't b«at 'em."
Beaumont Wants (horns Girls.
Chorus glrlß are wanted in Beaumont, Tex.
They must be good-looking and quiet ami
enter into an agreement that for a period of
one year they will remain with their em
ployer, not get married, nor encourage at
tentions. In return for all of this, they are
not only to be paid liberal salaries, but each
of them is to be given a certain amount of
stock in an oil oompany. Isaac O'Brien of
Beaumont is the man who is offering these
flattering Inducements. Some time ago ho
took a bevy of chorus girls from New York
to Beaumont, but in a short time they had
all captured oil men or cowboys and settled
down to married life. So he offers them stock
in an oil company if they refrain from this.
The girls are falling over themselves to take
advantage of the offer.
GOV. ODELL'S CHARACTERISTICS
New York Ledger Monthly.
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., works longer hours
as Governor of New York than any man who
has ever occupied that position. This U not
a mere Incident, It Is typical of the man's
whole life. It 1* but an expression of tb«
faithfulness, concentration, loyalty to duty,
and intense love of hard work that are re
vealed In everything that he doe*. It was
this characteristic that led Mm as a boy to
take a position on one of his father* ice
wagons and for years rise at 4 In the morning
and deliver Ice all day.
His early education was received in the
public schools of N'ewburgh, N. V., where ha
was born forty-eeven years ago. A course ftt
Bethany college, with a brlof stay a* Colum
bia college, completed his education, though
he received the university signet of learning
by the degree of Ll* D., bestowed upon him
a few months ago. He has been a political
leader since he was 19 years old, when he
left Columbia to help his father In a contest
in local politics, fought untiringly, woa the
fight, and thus practically determined the
direction of his ambition, Though he had
fondness and special ability for commercial
pursuits, his one aim soon became politics,
and he drove it and business side by side.
Prior to his election as governor he was pres
ident of ice and electric lighting companies
and handled other large business Interests.
For thirteen years he served as a member
of the republican state committee, and from
1895 to 1899 as a member of congress. He U
simple, unaffected, cool in a crisis, and al
ways ready. He is personally popular and
has passed safely tlie trying tests of wealtii
and success.
A Mußh-Seedfd Society.
Louisville Commercial-Journal.
Suffolk, Va:, has a "Society for the Sup
pression of Spurious Titles." The purpose of
the organisation is good, but it would b«
better if Indicated by the omission of the
word "spurious." A successful society for
the suppression of Titles would b« a bl«>«-