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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL'S pjigh Water Mark The Journal's record for ad vertising for March, 1902, was larger than any other month in its history. March, 1901, was* sur passed by 254 colgratificatioen -So, umns o f advertising. Other Minneapolis papers distanced. Some Figures From the Record- Columns. JOURNAL 1 3 6 7 Tribune-fflay-sdflvebl g 1 3 0 2 Sworn daily average circulation of The Journal for March, 53,005. THE PRESIDENT AT CHARLESTON Piesident Roosevelt, in his brusk and breezy speech at Charleston last night, showed himself to be an apostle of peace and prosperity rather than the ' man on horseback," who, as Watterson says, is ' slyly peeping out of the stable yard of the White House in the peison of Theo dore Roosevelt " Vain are Watterson's agonizing shrieks of alarm and his very flamboyant warnings to the southern peo ple against the president as a thinly dis guised military despot, who is preparing to Mexicanize the countiy aftei the man ner of Diaz as soon as the general army staff bill is passed by congress, when he will begin to touch buttons and order the army to break up public meetings and throttle and defile the goddess of liberty in her temple , The southern people evidently do not ' scare worth a c e n t " Down in South Carolina they deliberately invited this dangerous conspirator against the repub lic to come and see them and partake of genuine southern hospitality They have something to show him in demonstration of their great material progress in these latter years The president congratulated them, indeed, on the fact that old South Carolina has "definitely entered upon the path of steady progress in things mate rial, a s well as in other things " The great industrial exposition in Charleston symbolizes the forward movement of the new south It represents the spirit of enterprise and progress which is pervad ing -ill parts of that portion of the coun try and which is developing the long-un developed resources and reahcing out in every direction for trade The president aptly spoke of the in clusion of th e West Indies in the scope of the exposition as signifying the faith of Its projectors in closer relations with those islands in the future ' Closer re - lations," said the president, "for our ad vantage can only be secured by making it for their advantage also " In those few" words he embodied the fundamental principle of all permanent and successful trading There must be reciprocal ad vantage, for a continuously one-sided trading Is an impossibility It cannot go on forever Dr Wendlandt's caustic article in the April North American Re - view shows unerringly how Europe feels about the one-sided business, and what Europe will surely do unless we lower our tariff barrier to some extent South Carolina has gone extensively into cotton manufacturing, as have some other of the cotton states and her man ufacturers have, from time to time, ear nestly petitioned the government to main tain its open door policy and demand as to the Chinese ports that their trade rights might not be Impaired by the rapacity of Russia, especially a t Nieu Chwang, the port in Manchuria where large quantities of our cotton goods enter the country The success of Secretary Hay's insistence upon parity of trade rights in China is gratifying to American manufacturers everywhere, and those of the south have a fresh accession of the national spirit through the advantages ac - cruing A PROSPEROUS STREET RAILWAY. The Twin City Rapid Transit company is in a very prosperous condition At a meeting of the directors in New York yes terday a quarterly dividend of 1*4 per cent on the common stock was declared payable May 15 It is gratifying to know that this com pany is so prosperous The size of the dividend, however, and the degree of pros perity indicated by it ar e calculated to direct particular attention to the charac ter of the service furnished by this com pany to its patrons, and here the oppor tunity foi congratulation is not so ap parent T h e J o u r n a l has indicated the in sufficiency of that service at different times during the past winter and has shown by comparison with the street car service of other cities how comparatively inferior it is The street railway com pany has confessed its inability, to ren der the service which ought to be pro vided by it, and has promised satisfactory service as soon as its additional powei producing plants can be completed The public, with commendable patience, has accepted these promises of improvement, but will certainly hold the company to fair and complete fulfilment of them The time was when we used to say that Minneapolis had as good stieet oar serv ice as could be found anywhere in the country Statements of that kind are not now in order Minneapolis people are great travelers and they know well enough that the street car service here does not compare at all favorably with that in most other cities having over 100,000 population whil they read with interest and the reports of the prosperity of the company and the declaration of large dividends on large capitalization, thej are getting ready to insist and will most certainly require very radical re - forms and improvements in tbe service afforded They will not be satisfied, for instance, with cars a t intervals of fif teen minutes where1 they have a right o expect a seven-minute service It will make less difference to them whether the cars are big or little They will spend less of theii valuable time standing on the street corners waiting for the com pany to get ready to send a car along The probabilities are that the company has made a mistake in the construction of these large cars They are very hand some and comfortable, but the question is whether the company can profitably ni n them as often as the public has a right to expect cars to be run and as frequently as they will, no doubt, insist on having them That, however, is a problem for the company itself to solve one of the most profound philosophers of the world and an intellectual colossus The Rhodesian dream of a world feder ation under the hegemony of America and Great Britain is strikingly like the visions of Plato and Sir Thomas More and others, so far as impracticability is concerned. The notion of a secret Jesuitical process to control the wealth of the world is somewhat original, but sixteenth century methods of propagandist Would not work at all in the twentieth century It would be exposed by the newspaper press in every direction, notably among the na tions who might object to such aggres sive action on the part of the United States and Great Britain It would appear from the language of Mr Rhodes that his chief solicitude is for the salvation of Great Britain That is the lecuiring note in his overture The United States is on top, according to his admissions, and you Englishmen can only get on a level with her by holding on to the hem of Uncle Sam's garment and fed erating with him for a war for world supremacy " Mr Rhodes was a m a n ' of bnlliant imagination which soared far cloudward in this federation speculation The failure of his prophecy touching a walkover for the British army into Pre toria, as if they were going to a little picnic, made everybody a little suspicious of his power of vaticination The Nonpareil Man General Henderson is to have a clear field for re-election to congress after all Senator Courtright knew when he was put out But perhaps the .crusty old gen eral has learned something \ * Casually Observed. * The able brings the startling Intelligence that the Emperor Joseph of AujHria likes a glass of beer now and then with'his meals There is something very human^&qput Joseph The democrats seem to make.Secretary Hay the point of attack as if* ne werS the whole party And it must be confessed- that Hay is the fodjdei of his countn v , N \ ! ^ t Mrs Van BlankOh. we do so enjoy the spring, little Reginald haS such a lovely time shooting the sonz birds Mrs Vanderbilt has had her visiting card copyrighted Such insolence' Oui hired girl has had instructions to refuse Mrs V s pasteboaid at ,the door The Prince of Wales may do the neivous prostration act, for which Prince Henry now holds the record Santos-Dumont flying over St' Louis now would find the fair plans all up in the air. I - . Cecil Rhodes willed $50,000 to a janitor, and the fire iu the flat went out St Paul's whisky is not 11 prussie. acid diluted with rain water But much of it is open to suspicion Cecil Rhodes' idea of a world unity is to be brought about, in his expressive language, by the r'eiarture from the man of such coun tiies as Portugal, Persia and Spain, who aie tound wanting Possibly they might object to departure and might hand out 100-year guerrilla wais that would keep civilization busj wiping them out at the expense of a bil lion dollars each And that Is unpleasant Of course we do not mind the misery and blood shed, but the expense is frightful. We see no references In the dispatches to the doings of the Tillmans at Charles ton Neithei the pugilistic senatorial boor nor the deceiving lieutenant govei nor seem to be in sight And yet the program is being carried out The moral is that South Carolina can dispense with the Tillmans Will i t ' SUNDAY LABOR. Labor Commissioner O'Donnell is con ducting a series of very interesting in vestigations, which aie throwing much light on many interesting subjects per taining to labor in Minnesota The facts he has brought out regarding long houis of employment tend to show that it is the store clerk rather than the skilled or unskilled laborer who has most to com plain of on the score of long hours of work Take the drug clerks The great majoiity of them work more than ten hours a day and some of them put in seventeen Moreover the conditions with them as to Sunday labor are bad Out of 289 reported only forty one are free on Sundays altogether and 161 work every Sunday In seveial other classes of em ployes it has been found that the amount of Sunday woik is very laige The modern world has got pretty well away from the distorted Puritan concep tion of the Sabbath, both in theory and practice It is recognized everywhere that a certain amount of Sunday labor as necessary But the tendency is now more tow aid too much Sunday work than too little The general rule regarding Sunday work should be that as little be done as is consistent with public comfort and welfare and that persons who must work on that day be relieved from work on some othei day in the week This is not always possible, but emplojers should keep it in mind as something to be striven tor conscientiously With Mi Wanamakei s indorsement, the Empeior of Geimanj feels that he can take up his buiden with new spiiit T h e J o u r n a l came so near the grain jield on its estimate last jear that a horrible suspicion is giowms up in ceitain envious breasts that its biamy voung market giant counted the wheat heads, multiplied them bj the number of kernels in a head, and ieduced the same to bushels ft MINNESOTA POLITICSx Two of the hardest days' work Joel P Heat wole ever did were put in Monday and Tues day, trying to bring out a candidate for gov ernor against Van Sant, and squelching his own boom The Northfleld congressman went back to,Washiri(&m lastaiight wjthout a woid "to explain his vftit, except to say that he was looking after third district matteis Some of hbj henchmen darkly hinted. Monday after nodif that something would drop next day Again Tuesday morning they promised de velopments to come, and in the afternoon it was whispered that an announcement ot some kind was pretty sure to come before night A candidate for governoi would be found At 3 o clock, however the crowd scattered with long faces There was noth ing doing and Mi Heatwole took the tiaiu for Washington^ with the silence yet un broken ~ ~~ "I believe Jim Hill wants Van Sant nomi nated so he can defeat him at the polls ' grumbled one of the insurgents I am on the inside i s much as anybody, and I can t see any indication that Hill wants the repub hcans to beat Van Sant for the nomination He wants to humiliate Van, and he thinks ir would be worse to beat him aftei he is nomi nated " Whoever the insurgents were depending on to help them out failed^them at the ciisis, and thej are bitterly disappointed The plot was to bring out for governor some strong republican, \ ho would combine with the Heatwole forces to defeat Van Sant, and to elect a state senate favorable to Heatwole for the senate, as a successor of Clapp Bob Dunn was the first choice At the tim? of Heatwole t, visit home foi the holidays ne started the Bob Dunn boom foi governor, and supposing that It met with Dunn s sanc tion a good many of his friends took it up Dunn did not give them long to shout, but put the boom to sleep in his characteristic straightforward mannei Repeated efforts failed to dislodge him from his position of loyalty to Van Sant THE DUKE'S, VICTORY BY LOUISE ROBINSON RHODES. 'i The Canadians are to send four more regiments to South Africa The British mmistiy would better turn the whole job over to the Canadians They can fight' THE BEGINNINGS OF SELF-GOVERN- MENT. The house and th e senate have not yet been able to agree upon a Philippines government bill The senate is wary of erecting a complete civil government structure, whereas the house declaies for complete civil government with a popu lar assembly constituting the lower house of the legislature Of the two measures the house bill is th e better It puts a premium on peace, for it assures the Fili pinos that when complete pacification has been obtained a general election will be ordered and the new system of govern ment, involving partial self-government, will go into eftect The Filipinos seem to be devoted t o home lule, most of them in the extreme form of complete independence They don t like colonial rule a t any rate The change from the temporary absolutism of the commission t o partial self-govern ment will please them Now is as good a time as any to begin that self-government which we have been promising the Filipinos If they have the ability to govern themselves in any de gree the sooner we find i t out th e better. On the other hand, it behooves the leading men among the Filipinos to do their best to win our good opinion by making a suc cess of the first step in popular govern ment Success in that means farther step toward! autonomy With the creat ing of a popular assembly, and the arena it will give for political activity and po litical programs, the restless activity of the Filipino leaders Is likely to be turned from the field to the platform, from the bullet to the ballot The way will be open for peaceful leadership The Filipino who wishes to acomplish something politically will not have t o take to the woods SAND AND POLITICS. The evaporation of all substantial op position to the renomination of Van Sant within about two months of the probable date of the republican state convention is a suggestive indication of how well it pays in politics to do the courageous thing, especially when the courageous thing is the right thing A little over six months ago Governor Van Sant's renomination could not have been successfully predicted He had been unfortunate in many of his appointments and had arrayed against himself a great deal of hostility within his own party His chances of succeeding himself were by no means promising Then arose an emer gency An adroit attempt was made to accomplish a great scheme of railroad consolidation which had been tried before and failed, and which was sure to suc ceed this time if the governor lacked the courage to oppose it It took courage to oppose it Opposition to it meant a bat tle with giants The governor rose to the emergency and his renomination cannot be prevented Efforts have been made to undermine him but they have failed, and they have failed simply because the people of Minnesota have forgiven the blunders he made last year in their hearty approval of a man who had the courage to defend the dignity and honor of the state when to do so meant to invite the bitter enmity of men of great power and influence * Rk m i n i s c e n c c s of " A l m a TVIa.rtyr." A circular letter To the alumni and friends ' of t)he college where the writei tiled to dissipate a slight fraction of that igno lance tnat weighs ao heavily on the spirit? of our youth, recalls some of the glorious da of the highei education when the boys used to lie armed (half a day witih a pail of water waiting foi a friend to stick his head out of a window below The top rooms in the dormitories had other advantages than financial ones They offered a fine point of vantage foi water throwing The thought less college authorities had caused a walk to be built running the length of the hall, and freshmen sometimes made use of It The exact science of throwing watei in papei bags is also one of the advantages acquired by the undergraduate in the upper stories When the class dude came along the walk one lucky Sunday undei a new plug hat, -a friend of hi in the upper story became so excited that he forgot to reach for the water and grabbed the first missile in sight, which happened to be a loaf of baker s bread It ruined the hat and caused unsubdued and expressive language that even at this late day is painful to lecall Why tlhe art of putting six or eight large screws into a friends dooi during the silent hours of night thus uniting it to the frame and pi eventing the egress of the occupant in time foi morning piayers at clhapelwh this Is. a pleasure to the childish mind, still re mains a mysteiy Eveiy college has its Rah 'iRah boys who get togethei for \oeal exercise Then there are the Turn Turn boys who play the stnnged instruments usually banjos or something equally as bad 1 hese, toy the law of attrac tion, get to meeting for practice in one another*, rooms, and this takes time and anxious thought on the part of tlhe people looming in the vievhity, Who endeavoi to discourage the practice by tin-ho conceits and nbald remarks, and advice freely mad* from the windows in the vicinity The art of learning to smoke a bulldog pipe on the street is a difficult one to aequihe but our youth are self sacrificing, and usu ally put it through We see examples of this OL Nicollet avenue The .sight of ithe Youth practicing his Pipe in public gives One qualmo But we all remembei the suffering it caused us in the past and have a wide chanty for him In fact, the Whole Art Of Learning to be a Man of the World has to be acquired, so that it can be practiced in that easy and in souciant manner that shows us to have been accustomed to Vice from oui earliest child hood Possibly It i a good thing to acquire Vice in the spectacular way We get sick of it quickei In an article on ' Slumming In Hongkong' Kipling says that it is called seeing life Then he adds If this is life, give me death Your college boy usually hunts vice in couples He and his friends take in the town It is often hard for him to repress his disgust at this kind of ' life, ' but he makos a manly effort to do so The iboy who goes to the devil' in this whole sale way usually comes back on a return ticket There isn t very much in vice, anyhow It has been overdone Still, you know, of course a fellow must see foi himself Then besides the Rah 'Rah boys, the Turn Turn bojs and the Bum Bum boys there are the Yum "i%um boys, who devote themselves to the ladies Of tihem it is needless to speak further They are known by their clothes O, there are all kinds of alma martyr ' Still no word from Congressman Eddy. The report of the annual meeting of the Twin City Rapid Transit company has much to say about a surplus of cash, but we don't notice anything being said about a surplus of seats The appeal of theThlrty-fifth Missis sippi for the return of its flag captured by the Fourth Minnesota at the battle of Altoona is worthy of respectful con sideration by the veterans of the latter regiment. It is certainly couched in the kindest language and breathes a senti ment that will be sympathetically re - sponded to by the veterans of the Fourth, even if they elect to keep the flag The remission of the Philippines export tariff on hemp and other ra w material consigned to th e United States raises the question whether we are keeping the door of trade in the Philippines as wide open as we have promised to So far as th e imports into the Philippines are concerned the United States is on the same fo&ting with other nations, but the remission of export duties to the United States only discriminates ,in favor of the American market and besides tending to give an THE DREAM OF RHODES. Kipling, in the poem he wrote in mem ory of his friend Cecil Rhodes calls him^ a "Dreamer devout by visions led," and, judging by the account Mr Stead (who is a dreamer himself) gives of Rhodes' most imposing dream, the characterization of Kipling is no doubt correct The outline of the Rhodesian philosophy, a s cabled from London, embodies the forming of an Anglo-American federation, with a secret order gradually and covertly absorbing all the wealth of the world, the order to be organized on the Ignatius Loyola basis, and placing England and America ulti mately over a federation of all the na - tions with Tennyson's "parliament of man" in control and free trade on top and enjoying its millenlum There is not much difference between Mr Rhodes' dream and that of Mr Stead as set forth in Mr Stead's recent exploit ation "The Americanization of the World " It ts very Hkely that Mr Stead absorbed many of Rhodes' ideas, for he1 was former- ly very intimate with him, until Mr Rhodes concluded that the Boer ought to be eliminated as an independent or even semi-independent power from South Africa, so that he might carry out his dream of a South African segment to the British empire. Mr. Stead and AMUSEMENTS F o y e r C h a t . Amelia Bingham's exceptionally clever com pany will give the last performance of Clyde Fitch s interesting play, ' The Climbers, at th Metropolitan to-night At the Metropolitan to-morrow night end the rest of the week with Saturday matinee, ' The Pride of Jennico, one of the most suc cessful of the recent romantic productions, is to be piyen with an excellent cast and all the elaborate settings that marked the long run in New York Difkson & Mustard s big company, which is to appeal at the Metropolitan the first half of next week in an elaborate spectacular pro duction of "Humptj Dumpty," has lecently been strengthened by the addition of a nuan ber of chorus people and several specialty art ists of renoWn Among the latter are Blanche Frayne and Eddie McDonald Manager Scott announces the return of the original companj that presented "The Explor ers" here a few weeks ago in two elaborate productions On Thursday and Friday eve mngs of next week, at the Metropolitan, "The Explorers ' will again be given and on Satur day afternoon and evening this same all star aggregation will present ' The Burgomaster La Favre s cats, dogs and monkeys now playing with the high class -vaudeville at the BLou, have made a great hit with the ladies and children They do eVerj thing but talk There are eight other novel acts "Fiddle-Dee-Dee," which will come to the Bilou next week is the best laugh-provoking production on the road this season The com pany comprises fiftv pecole Rice and Cady, the two Germans, -are very funny, both in dia lect and inake-ui) Bobr North as the Jew, John Alden in the part originated by De Wolf Hoppei, and John G Sparks in the Irish part, make a bunch of comedians hard to equal Truly Shattuck as Mrs Meadowbrook, the character made famous by Lillian Russell, and Dorothy Drew, who sings "Rosy Posy," aro beautiful and accomplished young women Blxhy th e I n d i s c r e t e . Doc Bixby of Lincoln has been traversing Nebraska and South Dakota with a troupe consisting of himself and two ladies, one of whom files a violin while the other reads ' Curfew As for Doc, he tears off a few yards of his poetry and so far has been able to escape unhurt Last week the aggregation showed in White wood, In t!he Black Hills and Doc wrote back a roast on the town to his home paper This weeks "Whitewood Plalndealer, * "Bob Carr's laper," deals very sternly with Doc and re fcrs to him as ' The Oornifed Mistake from Lincoln" and as ' A Fat Freak ' The Plain dealer does fiot mince matters It puts a two column, scare head On the doctor's show and deliberately states that the Lincoln poet sat m our upholstered chair, used up all our stationary and atmosphere of respectahility, expectorated all over the onyx floor of our business office, and blamed Whitewood for the blawsted weather ' To say the least the doctor was indiscreet m his comments on Whitewood He said that "the church languished and fihat drink ing and gambling went on steadi ly day and right," etc., etc Of course, no local paper with any kick to it could stand for it and this is why *he Whitewood Plalndealer is on his hind legs pawing the ozone Tl en 3om of the insurgents declared them selves for Heatwole himself This was not exaetlv what he wanted but it sounded well, and in older to beat Van Sant he was willing to get into the game himself He wanted a sure thing 1 cwevei h e realized that the man who opposed Van Sant would take his political life in his hands and that he wouid be popularly known as the Hill candidate He knew that failure was the greatest crime a politician could commit, and that to be beaten either for the nomination or for elec tion would mean political harikan l o make sure a canvass was made This showed so mUch Van Sant sentiment right m the third distuct that Heatwole decided to keep out Even the persistent mention of his name was bad for his prestige He preferred to occupy the role of insurgent in chief, but not to take the risk of a standard bearer * So he came back to St Paul to head off his own boom, and to bring out a good healthy on* in place of it so that the boss would at least have something else to talk about Even before Heatwole's return, Bixby was settled on, and the astute man from Red Wing was prevailed on to meet Heatwole in St Paul and talk with him They went all over the ground Monday but it all ended in talk Bixb is not an enthusiastic Van Sant man, but his judgment is that Van Sant s nomination is the logical one His old chief, Senator Knute Nelson, has declaied himself foi Van Sant s lenomination So Bixby re fused to heed the siren voices, and departed jesterday morning to join his Choctaw sub jects Collins was the talk jesterday and the in surgents had hopes that the judge could be prevailed on to announce himself Mr Heat wole kept the long distance telephone busy a good share of the day, and It is a good guess that Judge Collins was at the other end of the line part of the time Thej did not come any closei togethei, and the judge evi dently gave his boomers small encourage ment He, too Is a wise politician, and sees the breakers ahead of an anti-Van Sant can didate Collins was the last resort There was some talk of S G Comstock, but he is already em barked in the congressional fight in the ninth district, and the insurgents iave small hopes of him They are brought face to face with the prospect of Van Sant's nomination by acclamation s i t t The conference was a'fizzle, and whatever plans had been made for a public pionuncia mento fell through There was nothing they could have told the public, except that they had met, plotted and failed It was not even an opportune time for Heatwole to announce his candidacy for congress, and that was postponed till a later date The confident air was all gone yesteiday afteinoon, and the "boys" j u t in their time predicting Van Sants defeat Each one said I am a good republican and I will vote for Van Sant if he is nominated, tout he can t be elected " With all (the "knocking," theie were no legitimate reasons given why Van Sant should not ibe re elected The insurgents all had some personal grudge, magnified into a publie wrong and calamity, and looked through glasses in which Van Sant appeared a mon ster of deceit and lmquity. The real reason foi predicting Van Sants defeat was not given It is an open secret, however The belief is ithat tlhe railroads, which have al ways made campaign contributions heretofore, usually to both sides, will not give a cent lo a Van Sant compaign fund this yeai, and that, under such a handicap, it will be impos sible to carry on a successful campaign es pecialljr with the opposition well furnished This point of view assumes that money will be essential, and does not give the voters of the state credit for forming intelligent opin ions and standing by iflbelr friends If such a view Is correct, the Insurgents have reaoon for making their doleful prediction ^ The fact is, however, judging from the news as it comes wafted Into the twin cities by promi nent country politicians, that mot only repub licans, tout democrats and populists, are back ing up the governor for his vigorous stand against the railroad merger, and that outside the state institution towns, where tfie board of control measure is unpopular, the governo" is 60 per cent stronger than when he took of fice There are some localities where this 13 not true, but the average county is strong for Van 6ant Copyright 1902 by the S S McClure Co ' Who is she' asked Harrv Mathews as a woman came down the steps of the Echo building and passed them, with a bright nod at Toa- Tom watched the diminutive figure 'out of sight and bestowed an envious glance upon the joung man who was doing escort duty befort. he replied The Duke, with her arms full of flowefs, as usual ' The Duke' * repeated Harry "Is. she^ah nice' See heie, my young friend, if you don't want all Newspaper Row on your cervix, don't put any question mark after nice when vou speak of the Duke, replied Tom, his eyes flashing angrllj, as if he were inclined to begin hostilities without waiting for the rest of the low -Harry put the Times bulletin between them before he stammered "I didn t m e n any thing disagreeable, Tom I don t know her, but I wish I did Groups of men came straggling out of the offices of the Times. Heiald and Echo just then and joining forces made their wav to a restauiant around the corner When hunger had been satisfied and cigars lighted, Tom motioned toward Harry saying Boys, there s a fellow who doesn t know the Duke and never woiked on the Echo " Just then Billy Hclliday came in, and some one shouted, Say, Billy, there s a fellow who doe^n t know the Duke Tell him Billj," called another, and everj man settled into his customary attitude for listening to a favorite storj Billy sank into a chair with everv appeararce of extreme ex haustion Appiopnatins whatever delicacies the others had not appi eciated he consumed them while waiting for his own order to be served When the clamor for the story became up roarious, Billy began 'Once a society editor surprised the low by getting married Then Bessie Wellington appeared on the Echo She wis such ia little slip of a thing and had such a ipathetica'iy frightened look In the ejes that the boys began to call her the Iron Duke and the Duke she s been ever since It was her first job, and she was eager for wolk Land knows she got enough of it The typewriter bothered her and punctuation was a ipitfall S'^e did her work over and over again trying to~ -nlease Knap, who wouidn t h?ve been satisfied with an angel from heaven It used to seem to me he rang hei bell eve,iy ten minutes She would come flying down the h-"ll to the local room, her dimples turned inside out and hei mouth shut hard so it wouidn t quiver Then she d go *|3 T H E RETORT COURTEOUS At a dinner party recently a dude found himself seated between two young men whodistinguished had just started a merchant tailoring estab lishment "Iawhave been placed between twoaw tailors, it seems," said his dudelets "Yes," replied one of the young men, "you Rhodes split friendship just on this point, s e e , we are beginners, and at present can advantage t o American manufacturers 1 although Mr. Stead regards Rhodes as 1 only afford one goose between us." A P l e a for P a r e m i l k . Benton Harbor, Mich ? has struck a new idea in the way of municipal ownership The socialists In this little MlChiga Chicago are running a candidate for imayor who has proposed a public milk plant by wlhleh Benton Harbor and S t Joseph will be supplied The farmers are to sell their milk to the city, which is to have a bottling plaint The or iginator of the plan eays it could be made to pay the city $20,000 a year Slides guaran teeing pure anilk He sayS it could be man aged an, connection with thftjCity water works plant * One reads along approvingly until he comes to this last sentence from which the mind seems to recoil involuntarily The trouble witfi too much of our milk supply in the past has been KJhat ' it has been run in con nection with the city watenwoika plant" Personally we believe that a milk supply from the plain cow who has been well sup plied with hay, hot bran mash, fresh grass and pure water comes as near to filling the reeds of the community as any new tangled combination between the cow and the water works would do A J Russell The Roseau Times, from Albert Berg's coun ty, voices the feeling of the far north as fol lows Why all this attempt to create a doubt as to the reno nlnatlon of Governor Van Sant' Common couitesy and decency demand that he be given a second term The governo'1 has encountered no sand bars of moment during his administration and has steered tha ship of state like a veteran pilot. There is no question about his renomination and election The remarkable tide of emigra tion has brought thousands of republican votes into the state The so-called reform forces can never again be solidly united and the democratic party as well as the people s party are practically without organization in counties where populists have heretofore pre dominated Tihe Dawson Sentinel says that Young will carry iLac qui Parle county by a good margin, and tflifcit Volstead's strength is mainly con fined to th east end. Young will get the west an'd north /(practically solid The Senti nel observes that "It is a significant fact that the Eddy men try to boost Volstead's candi dacy at every opportunity " Editor Dean of the Owatonna Journal ac cuses T h e J o u r n a l of misquoting his editorials Then it is his printers who (garble ihis language, fo itihe quoting that ia done front ihis or any other paper is done with Hho shears. The Hills Crescent wants the name of P O Skyberg of Luverne, county treasurer of Rock county, presented to the state convention for state treasurer This is not iwitBi an idea of defeating Julius Block for renoamnation, but of getting Mr Skyberg's name before the state and putting him in line for 1904 v^ Charles B Cheney. WE CLUNG TO THE WALL AND CREPT ALONG LIKE FLIES bacK pink to the ears, and the boys would pound thear typewriters fit to break We used to sneak bits of col to her all readj to go up I fell into the habit of collecting person als and club notes and even a wedding now and then, and Lan^, there, was taken for a soaetj reporter for quite i while " Larry shied a crust of bread at Billy, who deftly caught it 'and returned the compll ment befi-re he continued ' One Fridaj night, when she was getting up her Sundaj page, I passed the door just as Knap bounded into her room His beard looked as dt he had been clawing out hand ful = 3 See here he yelled didn t I tell jou to get in the Tubvllle social before midnight' It s almost ready, said the Duke, and bent over her typewriter in a HtMe heap ' \fter the Tubville was in and woik slacked up a bit I carried In ia sandwich and made her eat it while I ground cut some rewrite foi her "While I was working the Are gong sounded an alarm but the presses were going. and I never tried to count it \nyhow, ~*1%3 Bobby always dud fires alone unless they were **^p very-big ones ' Atter a while Knap bounded into the room H1& faco w\s whi*e aa chalk His mouth opened once or twice, but he couldn t speak At last he gasped We re cut off' The fire s up to tho third story I jumped to the win dow, and there the street was filled with en glues and trucks, and we had never heard a thing Miss Wellington turned pretty white, but v her voice was steadj as she asked, 'Are there many of us up here'' ' 'Three in the telegraph-room and four or five in the local,' said Knap, moistening his lips 'We didn t think it was serious, and I " forgot vour beins Iwre ' We all went down the hall to the local room Tne fire wa3 belching from the fourth storv windows now, and the smoke was get ting thick One of the telegraph men kept his desk and was ictually sending an account of the fire over the Associated Press wire We wnnCared from window to window for hours, it seemed to me but it could not leally have been for many minutes The smoke was coming in clouds, and we could hear the fire now * 'At last the cowd in the street saw us I hope I 11 never hear that sound again My God' I wake up sometimes now wltn that moan in my ears, and it neaily drives mo mad It seemed the essence of human miserj and made us lealize what was before us We had been stunned before but then bedlam bioke loose Some moaned and cried Som sihneked and svore And still the man at the key cluked out his message giving our names we found afterward He had a pistol ljing beside his hand Knap rushed from one part of the building to the other, shrieking foi help, but even we could not hear him in the increasing roar ot the fire The sfxth story was a anass of flames and we were on the e'ghth All at once the little Duke began, drag ging at our sleeves At last we understood that she wanted us to follow her She thougat she bad a chance We followed her, all but the telegraph man, who shook his head hope lesslj and held up the revolver 'The Duke nan to her room and threw open the window Beyond and extending to the end of the building was the ait room, whi h had no window but was above a corner of the building not yet reached bj the Are I ointmg to an ornamental stone cornice which I an some six feet below the window the Duko motioned along it toward the corner farthest from the fire "We caught the idea but it seemed a slim chance and no one moved Finally the little Duke shrieked \ on cowards follow me' She swung herself care fully over tlhe sill and hanging bj her hands, just touched the cornice with her toes Get ting as firm a foothold as possible on the nar- IOW ledge, she steadied herself and moved to one Side, waiting We let Knap out next When he was finally on the-cormce, he clung to the wall and lefused to move At last the Duke seized his hand and began feeling her wav along the wall, gentlv pulling him after ber Knap followed somehow and the revt of us swnng out aftei him In a hSrry, foi the floois were quivering and the smoke was rolling in volumes from the window^ below us Just as I swung out I heard a pistol shot and knew the telegraph man had taken the way he thought best 'A\ e clung to the wall and crept along like flies A ve were fairly steady except Knap, and imy heart was in my mouth for fear he would lurch off and carry the Duke with him But his knees stiffened at last, and he dil better, though he neve: for a moment let go the girl s hand The bricks were getting hot ter and hotter to the touch, and the flames seemed to be sweeping toward one end of the building At last the crowd saw us through a rift in the smoko, and a shout went up that seemed almost to tear us from our perilous hold The firemen worked fast, I suppose, but It seen^ed ages to us, waiting a t the coi ner of the building The fireman first up tue ladder was sobbing like a child, but he hadn t lost his nerve for all that He saw, Kna_p's condition and knew he would fall if forced to loose his hold on the Duke, so Ihe seized them both The reat of us -were eoon. on tha ladder, though some were pretty helpless, for the bricks were fearfully hot toward the end ' Billy s hauds were cooked through," lmtei polated Lanj It was a good many weeks before some of us were back on The Echo, although the pa per was printed next day with borrowed re porters and presses Knap was the first one back but you wouldn't have known him for the fellow who had bullvragged us so Hia hair was white and his face, too He was so mild he couldn t manage the new men and had to betaken off the desk and put on edi torials Well it all happened Aire years ago but the Duke is stil1 commander m chief on The Echo,' concluded Billy ' But I have a notion she'll some day con fine her orders to Billy ' whispered Tom as he rose, stein In hand, to propose the usual tcast Boys, the Duke"' Every maif was on his feet in an instant, "The Duke, God bless her' ' ' Daily New York Letter v A POPE IN PICCADILLY Leo XIII is the only pope who has strolled along Piccadilly and oceupted a seat in the strangers gallery at the house of commons. Where he had the pleasure of hearing a speech by Daniel O'Oonnell. the Irish leader of the period The pope has al ways been fond of recalling this ewperience when receiving Irish pilgrims "and visitors As ArchBlshop Pecct, he spent the whole of February, IWfi. dn London. ,*- - f K T H E STARS i * M % When I heard the leam'd astronomer, - When tihe proofs, the figures, were ranged iu columns before me, When I was shown the chart and diagrams, to add, divide and measure them, When I, sitting, heard the astronomer wheie he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room. How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, In the* mystical moist night air, and from time to tftne, Look'd -uj), in.,perfect silence .t tihe stars. i *~ t. ' "War o n t h e W h e a t T i u s t . April 9 Tamimany declared against the beef trust yesterday At a laigely attended met ing of the executive committee, Chief Lewis Nixon offered resolutions protesting against the lawless rapacity of this gigantic mo nopoly and called upon cong-ess, the attor ney gene-al of the United States and the at torney general of this state to take measures toward suppressing it It was lesolved 'That iwe denounce tlhe conspiracy in trade Inown as the beef trust demand the repeal of those provisions of tlhe tariff placing an import duty on foreign meats, and in the name of the laws this conspiracy violates and the people whom it oppresses* request the attorney general at Washington and the at torney general a t Albany to forthwith pro ceed against it." A Claimant for Rice's Millions. Carl J iCarrolson of Muncie, Ind , claims he is the grandson and heir of William MarsE Rice, the Texas millionaire, for whose mur der Lawyer Albert T (Patrick is under sen tence of death at Sing Sing, and to prove his claim, has come to this city \ romantic story is told by the young man, and, strangest of all Is the fact that his mother, who came here during the lifetime of William "Marsh Rice to establish hei claim as a daughter-in-law, met Iher death in a mysterious manner Young Carrolson is con fident that her death was encompassed by those who were in the conspiracy to get away with old mian Rice's millions Carrolson's case has been taken by a promi nent legal firm, who will supply the money for his entry into the stupendous litigation that remains to toe fought over the murdered man s millions That Copper Dividend. The meeting of *he directors of the Amalga mated Copper companj, at which the quar terly dividend will be considered will be held on April 17 The last quarterly dividend was 1 per cent, but Wall street would not be sur prised if a out was made to half of 1 per cent, or the discount WHS to one-half of 1 per ceut, or the dividend was passed entirely So far as could be learned to-day, the only basis for rumors in the past few days that a set tlement was possible between the controlling Interests in the Calumet & Hecla Mining company and the Amalgamated interests lies in the circumstances that Alexander Agassiz, president of the Calumet & Heola company, and Colonel T Ir^iLivermore, its ^pe-pres.i- dent, have returned or are about to Teturn to Boston, the former from abroad and the lat- ' ter from the south *** * f~, Not There for Their Health. Jt " Commissioner of Accounts Russell startled the board of estimate by stating that he had discovered proof of dishonesty In a city de partment, but was not ready to submit the proof as yet District Attorney Jerome, it is announced, has unearthed a blackmailing sys tem in the board of health N e w T o r k In "Clrens CrHMy. New York, all of a sudden, has gone crazy over the circus The Maidison Square Garden i t observed the schoolmate "I don't think you WH Whitman, lis a large place,,but every seat ia taken andl encounter the slightest competition." everybody who can will crowd into it as long as the circus season lasts The general idea is that tnis interest is the result of the new sensation, the running -oif the loop the loop" by a man on a bicjele a startling feat, for the first time performed in public But the reason why the people are crazy for the circus lies deeper than that The reason is that they like that form of amusement the old as well as the joune It Is probable that a permanent Circus would pay in \ w York It has been several times pronosed to erect a building here for that purpose, but for some reason or other it has never been carried into effect. The only criticism that can be made of the present colossal circus is that it is too big. There are too many things doing at one time, and one's head and eyes ore apt to ache in trying to keep track of everything that is going on The old-time one-ring circus would, as a steady thing, fill the bill. Going t o th e People. District Attorney Jerome has moved into his Rutgers street residence He will main tain his family In a more congenial neighbor hood, but he himself will sleep m the Rutgers street house part of the time, and Will main tain an office there all of the time The office will be open from 6 a m to midnight, so that the tenement-house peoole will find it easy to get at him and his deputies with their wants and complaints In other words, Mr. Jerome is introducing the university settle ment idea Into the conduct of official busi ness. Instead of waiting for the people to come to him, he goes to the people. EXPECTANCY REWARDED Out on Irving avenue, not far from Douglas avenue, there lives the junior member of a prosperous job printing firm, who has been in a state of eager expectancy for rf week or more The cause of his condition has been an open secret for some time, for on various occasions he has called ia his men friends to view a large and interesting assortment of fine needlework and dainty confections of lawn, lace and fancy flannel Monday night a physician s carriage stood for Several hours before the Irving avenue home and yesterday morning on their way to their down town car the nghbors were made acquainted, with the leason The shades of the large front vindows on the lower floor were drawn down to the sill and on the background thus pro vided appeared large placards, bearing in the biggest poster type in the printing man's shop the single word GIRL Congratulations are now being received. &* UNOCCUPIED FIELD 'vt- An old schoolmate of Senator Mason met him on the street in Washington one day last week and asked him what he was doing. "Why, I am in congress now," replied Mr. Mason "Yes, I know, but What are you doing'" "Oh, I am trying to make a living in air honest way," said Senator Mason. 'Well, you shouldn't "have much trouble," Defective Page