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*w ^!ft ***&?$ 3TBHWL T EVENING,* THE JOURNAL LUC1AK SWIFT, J J. * McLAltf, MANAGER. | BDITOB. | t BUBBORIPXION BASES BY HAIL. One month **J5 Three months - - - J 5S Saturday By. edition. 20 to 26 page*.... 1.00 Oho U If the senate could be induced to take the broad view of the millers, it would take a look at the pigeon-holed Kasson reciprocity treaties and surejy take up the French treaty moldering there, as it concedes to us an average reduction from the French maximum rate amounting to i 48 per cent, including oils, and 26 per cent, excluding them, and on many arti t cles the reduction from the maximum rate v is 50 or 60 per cent, while our govern ment has conceded an average of less than * 7 per cent from our tariff schedules * * St Paul includes most of Ramsey .county, but according to the application for wolf bounties there are more wolves in Ramsey than In frontier Mille Lacs Negroes as Soldiers. I President Roosevelt's complimentary ^reference to the negro soldiers in his speech at Springfield, vesterday, gives timely interest to an article by Oswald Garrison ViUard in the June Atlantic on "The Negro in the Regular Army " Mr Vlllard shows that the records of the four negro regiments, the Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twen ty-fifth infantry, have been surprisingly good Everybody knows that the martial courage of the negro was demonstrated at Fort Wagner and Fort Hudson forty f years ago but it is interesting to note ., some other of his soldierly qualities * The Ninth cavalry, for example, is the only regiment in the service that has ever t gone thru a whole year without a single desertion The inspector general of the army declared in 1902 that the Twenty fifth infantry was the best regiment he r saw in the Philippines One colored com- h - pany in the Philippines made a record of reporting a full roster of 106 men fit for duty every day in twelve successive months, not a single day being lost on ac f count of sickness Such a record strong ly suggests the advisability of using many f more colored soldiders than heretofore in i any tropical wars the future may have In store for the United States It is to the , credit of the colored regiments that only one member of them was ever in any Tvay associated with the-water torture- In the- Philippines. Two colored soldiers, nave risen from the ranks to shoulder straps by examination, and three officers have been graduated from West Point. Captain, Young of the Ninth cavalry is the only negro West Pointer now In service, and Mr. Vlllard says that race prejudice has never Interfered with discipline in his oommands, even where he has been placed over white officers. Former Congress man Lynch of Mississippi ia a captain, being appointed from civil life, and there are four colored chaplains in the service Mr. ViUard says that in some respects the negroes are better soldiers than the whites, and in others worse, but under the command of officers who understand them they are certain always to give a good account of themselves. It is surpris ing to learn that they are soberer than white troops and far less Inclined to de sertion. They are also prouder of the army and more deslrious of having a appearance. DellT * redbTCa ."?"-..... 8 c,t. * v:::::/:.v.v"..... s All papers are continued until n pllclt order U received for discontinuance, and until aU ar Maracee are paid THH JOURNAL la published owy going, except Sunday at 4749 Fourth Street South, 'Journal Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 22* { New York Office. Tribune Building. Chicago Office, Tribune Building. W. W JlQRMANtD. Washington Office. Representative. } *5 Post Building. AN INVITATION la extended to all.to vWt the Press Room, which la the finest In *"*- The batterv of presses consists of three four (aecK b*a Presses, wth a total capacity of 144 uwsmart eight page Journals an hour, printed, fiaaefl and counted The best time to call Is from 8 16 to 4 80 p m Inquire at the business office and be directed to the visitors' gaUery. of the Press Room * Hanna vs. the Millers. Bya fortuitous concourse of events yes terday, the Ohio republican state con vention and the Millers' National federa tion weie In session at the same time, the first at Columbus and the second at Detroit The Ohio republicans paid a fine tribute to the policy of protection and reaffirmed their fidelity to it, concluding that plank thus "Changing conditions and the possible benefits of reciprocity may call for timely readjustment of schedules, but protection as a principle and as a policy must be administered by the friends of American prosperity and must not be sacrificed." Senator Hanna, m his speech before the convention, virt ually condemned any tendency toward reciprocity as imperiling the principle of protection and held that there was no call for any reduction of duties. With "him no shading of duties would be en- " couraged About the same time that the repub licans of Ohio were making the deliver ance upon the tariff and reciprocity, the Important commercial and industrial or ganization known as the Millers' National federation, were declaring that the exten sion of our foreign markets is the solution of the difficulties confronting their busi ness, due to the exclusion of American flour from important foreign markets by Import duties, and they demanded with inuch force the adoption by our govern ment of "a broad, liberal and comprehen sive policy of genuine reciprocity" to equalize those import duties on wheat and flour. They very strongly favored the fullest possible measure of reciprocity with Canada, which in her purchases In this country stands next to England, and made a strong deliverance against the discriminating duties Imposed by foreign oountrles in favor of wheat and against flour It would appear from this, that Ohio statesmen are not able to reflect the busi ness sentiment of the country The mill- ., ers of the great federation, representing a vast industrial interest and producing half a billion dollars in flour, declare \ery emphatically that they want the national government to adopt, not at some in definite future time but as soon as pos sible ' a broad liberal and comprehensive } policy of genuine reciprocity," notably ~ " with Canada Vt hat is meant by "genuine reciproc ity' ' As defined by the gentlemen who are afraid reciprocity in some way will trans form this country into a free trade pre serve for British, German and French manufacturers, it means that we should offer concessions only upon such products of other countries as are not produced in the United States, and, consequently, do not enter into competition with any of our home industries Such a limitation upon reciprocity practically makes Jts application valueless There are very few products of importance and value which are not produced in our own country On the other hand, genuine reciprocity is quite another thing It is reciprocity that means something and promises real ad vantages for our commerce, thru actual giving and taking of concessions which will open wider for us the markets of the world, and very deoidedly broaden the distribution of our products The miller* have decided to give wide publicity to Professor Harry Snyder's in vestigations of the food value of wheat flour. Professor Snyder's work exploded the all too prevalent idea that the eater of white bread Is sacrificing his health to his palate. The public has been served with so muoh ex parte testimony against white wheat flour that it really behooves the millers to take up a campaign of education in behalf of their much abused commodity. Br. FolwelTs Timely Suggestion. Thanks to the sound good sense of Professor W W. Folwell. the University of Minnesota has made an innovation that will be received sympathetically thruout the country, and, doubtless, widely cop ied. Superficially it seems superfluous that the faculty and the board of regents should adopt the following resolution, pro posed by Dr Folwell: Resolved, that from and after 1904 every person admitted to this university shall be examined in reading, writing, spelling and composing the English language that all who fail to obtain a credit of 75 per cent shall be required to take instruction as provided, and that no person shall ever receive any diploma or other certificate of merit oi proficiency until he shall have passed such examination and obtained the specified credit. The prevalence of erroneous spelling, ungrammatical composition and inability to use the English language as a real me dium of communication, long endured at the university, as well as In other insti tutions of learning, reached the limit when a candidate for a master's degree handed in a thesis that was returned to him "because its construction and spelling were so poor as to destroy all interest in it" How, it may be asked, did it hap pen that such a man ever got a bachelor's degree? The answer is to be found in the note of rejection of the thesis, wherein it was conceded that the candidate was un doubtedly well acquainted with his sub ject. Thru the four years of the under graduate course his poor spelling and de ficiency in English were pardoned because he mastered his special subjects but when it came to giving a master's degree to such an incompletely trained man, the limit of toleration was reached Is this not a remarkable commentary on the ten dency of the present day in regard to specialization In the academic course? Ignorance of spelling and grammar has been pardoned to this man because he was able to master other and later sub jects It is apparent from the complaints of college professors all over the country that the University of Minnesota is not the only institution in which there has ap peared among the students an amazing lack of proficiency in the simplest ele ments of culture Possibly the appear ance of a part of these ill-trained students in the universities is due to the growing practice of admitting the graduates of certain preparatory schools without ex amination, but while examination, In pla^e of certification, might keep out these un fitted ones, the fact remains that the pre paratory schools are the ones that are at fault when candidates for admission to the university do not know how to spell, cannot effectively speak and write the English language and know nothing of correct composition The University of Minnesota now purposes to "brace up" such elementary instruction in the schools that feed it by examining all candidates for admission, regardless of their diplomas from, preparatory schools of good reputa tion in "reading, writing, spelling and composing the English language " The new departure at the university, to gether with Congressman Tawney's de termination to investigate the causes of the failure of four of his Minnesota high school appointees to pass the examination for West Point, make it probable that ere long we shall have more attention paid in the high schools to some of those fun damentals of education whicli are now neglected, unless the younger generations in this country are inferior to their par ents in natural lnteddigence. Hereafter nobody will get a diploma at the University of Minnesota unless he can spell The faculty would make the requirement a little easier if it would adopt The Journal's spelling re form Millers for Reciprocity. The millers' national convention at De troit yesterday declared for reciprocity in general and Canadian reciprocity In par ticular, thus adopting precisely the plat form of the Minnesota Branch of the Na4- tional Reciprocity League The Canadian reciprocity resolution was as follows Present conditions are favorable to and make highly desirable the fullest measure of reciprocal trade arrangements with the Dominion of Canada, the. nearest and next to the largest market for American pro ducts both of farm and factory, and in view of the early assembling of the United States and Canada joint high commission, we most earnestly urge the exercise of your strongest influence toward the suc cessful accomplishment of this object. For some fifteen years now, the millers as a whole have been advocates of the reciprocity policy, because they saw in it, under the existing conditions in the United States, the only method by which it is pos sible to liberalize our trade relations with other nations without undergoing a 'polit ical revolution. But the present depres sion in their industry will make them more Insistent than ever upon a modification of our tariff policy if^-Wl-1** The most promista'gHispect of the devel opment of the reciprocity movement in the United States at the present time is that it is getting into h*p*. te fight special ia^ THE MINNEAPOLIS ^JOTTRNAIi. erests with special Interests. A special interest that has a product worth $600.- 000,000 a year ought to count for some thing in oongress. Its registration of its firm belief in the benefits of reciprocity with Canada will give that movement a great impetus. It is to be hoped that the members of the federation will take to heart the advice of the resolution that "each individual member irrespective of party affiliations shall bring such constant pressure to bear upon his local congres sional representative and the United States senators from his state and all future candidates for national office as will commit them unequivocally to the further ance of these measures by word and vote." That is the way in which members of congress can be put betwen the devil of special interests and the deep sea of special interests. That is the way to get results The standpat manufacturers are forever bringing pressure to bear on con gressmen. They can only be beaten by pressure of the same kind on the other side. Walter Wellman is right when he de clares that Chamberlain's scheme for rec iprocity within the British Empire "is acting as an Impetus to those republicans in the Northwest who have been ardently advocating recipiocity with Canada " It is not only that the Chamberlain Idea re minds the Americans that if reciprocity between Canada and England is good for the English, a similar relation between the United States and Canada ought to be good, but there is the additional spur that if Chamberlain is not forstalled by the United States in the near future, It will be many a long day before reciprocity with Canada will be possible Chamber lain's policy would confine reciprocity in which British governments have a part to reciprocity within the empire. If Canada should take it up there would be little hope of improving our trade relations with that country. As Mr Roberts, director of the mint, puts it, "We should Jump in and complete a reciprocity treaty with Canada as soon as possible While the British are talking about it we should act." The university regents seem to have shaken things up at the big institution in a bewildering way. They have abolished the art department and likewise experi mental psychology, to cut down expenses, it is said. As the saving will not be a great one, the public is entitled to guess that the departments named were abol ished for other reasons The regents censor very rigidly press reports of their transactions. This, we think, is a mis taken policy We can understand why it would not be well for the regents to hold public meetings, but they ought to give their conclusions to the public without reserve It is a bad thing for a state in stitution when the impression gets abroad that Its management is unwilling to take responsibility for its acts The crowding ot Englishmen into cities is having a marked effect in the physical deterioration of the common people In 1845 only 105 recruits per thousand were below 5 feet 6 inches in height, now the number Is 565 The average height of English soTdiers now is less than 5 feet 5 inches and the average weight less than 125 pounds While the English are ret rograding in physique the French, Ger mans and Austnans are improving, and the improvement is attributed to the physical exercise enforced by compulsory military service "Politically unripe population' is a phrase used by the St Petersburg Novoc Vremya in speaking of the United States This is good coming from a coantry where the people do not exist at all po litically The Novoe Vremva is wrong in supposing that there is deep seated prejudice in this country against Russia On the contrary, there has ever since the civil war been a bias in her favor, but it is not strong enough to cause us to overlook such a horrid atrocity as the Kishinef massacre "I think it is a mistake for American railways to haul wheat any cheaper than they do flour," says Paul Morton, second vice president of the Santa Fe Now if the millers will just fill all the railway management offices in the country with men like Mr. Morton their troubles will be over AT THE THEATERS Large audiences continue to greet the excellent presentation of David Belasco s new play, Du Barry," by Mrs Lesli* Carter and her talented associates at the Metropolitan Performances to-night and to-morrow afternoon and evening will close Mrs Carter s season the company going direct from here to New York After to morrow night s performance the Metro politan will be closed foi several month", during which extensive repairs will be made Lovers of melodrama find much to their liking at the Bijou this week, where ' Over the Niagara Falls is the attraction The scenic equipment is elaborate, the main feature being the sensational representa tion of Niagara Falls Russian nobles soldiers, serfs members of the secret police and taskmasters fr the Russian mines and political convicts will throng the stage of the Bijou next week when the now Russo-Siberian play ' For Her Sake " win be the attraction closing the season at this plav house SHREWSBURY'S CELEBRATION The a*ncient English town of Shrews bury will devote a week in July to a cele bration of the 500th anniversary of its great battle, which occurred on July 21, 1403 The celebration will begin on Sun day, the 19th, with a ppropiiate services in the old Abbey church The next few days there will be performances of "Rich ard II ' ' Henry IV , * "Henry V " and "The Merry Wives of Windsor," by Ben son's Shaksperean company The central figure of the whole celebration will be the fat knight who was never in Shrewsbury, if, Indeed, he ever existed Hotspur, the two Henrys and Douglas will take second place to the immortal Falstaff / MODERN CONVENIENCES IN *ALPS The monks of St Bernard have taken advantage of modern inventions in their work of saving lives Ten days ago two Swiss alpenists started out to go to the hospice Half way up they Were over taken by a snow storm and lost their way After wandering around the summit for several hours they came across one of the new shelters built by the monks. In it they found bread, cheese, wine, a spirit lamp and a telephone With the latter they called up the hospice and asked for help By the time they had finished a good meal a monk and a dog arrived to show them the way. The telephone at these shelters has saved many lives during the past winter. wW *-% WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK j Booth Burled in the PotomacJH To the Editor of The Journal. Under date of June 2 you publish In The Journal of same date a press telegram from Enid, Okla., under the cap tion of "Strange Story This," which gives a circumstantial aooount of the identifica tion of one George, a suicide, as Junius Brutus Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. It is an absurdity as old as the death of Booth by the rifle of the soldier who shot him in a moment of misguided zeal. At the time of the assassination of President Lincoln I was in the service of the United States sanitary commission and stationed at City Point, Va. My duties took me often to Washington, our principal depot of supplies At the time of the capture of Booth I was in the city. Complete mystery attached to the dispo sition made of the body of the assassin, the authorities rightfully wishing to avoid all sensational announcements or any pub licity that would add to the excitement or lead to unpleasant demonstrations. The story was then started that it was not Booth, after all, that had been shot. If it were, why not expose the remains? An old friend of mine. Dr. Henry A. Smith, long since dead, was then on duty as assistant surgeon upon a gunboat at this time lying in the stream off the United States arsenal below the city I met Dr Smith one day upon the street while the excitement was running high over the matter, and, of course, spoke of it to him, knowing that his boat was on patrol service on the lower river He smiled and said "Don't let that worry you I was on the medical boat that made the autopsy and had my own finger in the bullet hole that caused Booth's death All the particulars of the examination, he added, "were made up in due form for the department of Justice and duly attested The body was then wrapped in a blanket, a shot placed at its feet, and it was slid overboard into the Potomac, beyond the reach of friend or foe " It was the silence and mystery attend ing this appropriate disposition of the un happy monomaniac's remains that gave rise to the curious story of mistaken iden tity. Strangest of all is the resurrection of the idle conjecture after an oblivion of thirty-eight years, to make the sensation of a day The unsoldierly conduct of the man Boston in shooting Booth without orders when his capture alive was as sured, has rendered it forever impossible to get at the true story of that great con spiracy of murder of which Mr. Lincoln was the only victim But all that men could do to get at the bottom facts was done in the great trial of the conspirators, and there is no doubt to-day but that substantial justice was done in the find ings of the court. There the matter ought to rest. A M. Sperry. Wasioja, Minn, June 4. 1903. A STUDY IN ADAPTABILITY. Chicago Journal The faculty of being able to adjust one's self to circumstances is excellently illus trated in the career of Herbert S Mills, a business man of Chicago, who has Just completed a year's confinement in the county jail Mr Mills was unfortunate enough in the transaction of his business, to send matter thru the malls that was deemed improper by the federal authorities He accepted his fate" philosophlcolly, was driven to the jail by his coachman, and, instead of idling away the time in fret ting and chafing, began the study of so ciology and penology, not from books, but as he saw them day by day within his prison Duung the whole year Mr Mills worked in the midst of tragedies and trouble such as the great public gets glimpses of thru the newspapers ^He learned the inner histories of hundred bf seamy lives, he became acquainted With tearful, broken hearted wives, children and sweethearts as they visited the Jail, he gained a mental rasp on the under world such as comes to few in his station But that was not all he did From the first day of his confinement Mr Mills became a practical philanthropist Dozens of families that might have gone hungry and neglected were provided for out of his purse A number of cases that he thought deserving were carlred to the higher courts Lawyers were retained for penniless prisoners Mr Mills financed the Improvement Journal, and in all, ac cording to Jailer Whitman, spent nearly $7 000 for the betterment of mankind dur ing the year in jail Mr Mills is an interesting lesson in versatility He saw an opportunity and seized it Perhaps his original motive was to save himself from ennui, but,he speedily found his studies absorbing Granted much libertv within the Jail, he became as indefatigable a worker as Mr Whitman himself Now Mr Mills has emerged, and in stead of bearing the stain of disgrace, he is greeted as a hero is banqueted in state, and received back into society with open arms When he went to Jail Mr Mills was known merely as a local business man He comes out with a reputation that extends over the country There are many stepping stones to fame even the county jail THOMAS CARLYLE AND HIS WIFE * London Outlook As a married couple they were Indeed to be pitied If the world had known it They were childless, and therefore half the world was dark to them No man can be a "sage" who has no children A barren woman is like half a story Let her be ever so clever, so literary, so witty when it comes to the essentials of life she is open to the retort, How do you know? And so it was with the Carlyles in thir unsatisfying world of literary eminence Pity them, gentle reader' When they shut the doors of their sev eral bed rooms at night a mouse might no squeak or a fly buzz but they must start full awake in the blessed dark and moralize, the one on eternity and the other on Thomas Foyer Chat. THE GHOST THAT FAILED Chicago Journal Brown is a very good fellow, but alas' he has one bad habit It is that of never reaching home until the small hours of the morning But one day last week Mrs B hit upon a plan If she could not persuade him out of the habit perhaps she could frighten him out of it And consequently, when he reached home that night he was con fronted by a tall white-shrouded figure, which glided toward him 'Wh-wh-w-what s that' gasped poor Brown I am the family ghost'" replied a se pulchral voice Brown heaved a sight of relief "Great Scott'" he said "How you frightened me! I thought it was the missus'" HUXLEY ON THE BISHOPS Among the recently published "Essays of John Fiske" (the Macmillans) are some delightful reminiscences of Huxley, at whose house Mr Flske was a frequent visitor duiing his stay in London Here is one of these chaiming and illuminative stories' "In an examination on anatomy a very callow lad got the valves of the heart wrong putting the mitral on the right side, but Huxley took compassion on him with the remark, 'Poor little beggar' I never got them correctly myself until I reflected that a bishop was never in the right/A ^ , TO MISSOURI, FOR ALL,WE CARE St. Louis, Star a Books and Authors 18 IT "DECEITFUL AND DI8H0NE6T?' A writer in The Contributors' Club of The Atlantic ridicules the present fad of writers hiring out as housemaids, factory workers, saleswomen in department stores' living and bunking with tramps, steve dores and so on, adjudging such quests for knowledge as impertinent, fruitless and mischievous, unjustifiable, deceitful and dishonest This is a severe arraignment of the motives *of the searchers for social truth "No man," says this contributor, "or woman, has a right to force a way into the affairs of others, or by deceitful pretense of social equality to obtain in formation not otherwise to be acquired It Is an infringement of personal rights." This is a pretty serious accusation. It is very certain that investigations into and exposures of the frightful conditions under which work is frequently performed during the past few decades have led to great betterments for the people em ployed The ameliorative factory legisla tion has resulted from what the Con tributor calls "an Infringement of per sonal rights " The question may well be asked whether anybody has the rignt to deliberately work under semi-barbarous and unsanitary conditions, bringing dis ease and death upon the community The bread baking business in large cities has been, by careful investigation of the filthy conditions often revealed, been reformed very radically to the advantage of com munities The charge of "deceitful pre tense of social equality" on the part of investigators, as if they commit crime by personally finding out the conditions of work and writing about them, is absurd If the victims of poor ventilation and other dangerous conditions do not get out of the fire somebody ought to pull them out. THE SINS OF A SAINT By J R Aitkin, au thor of "Love in Its Tenderness " New York D Applcton & Co This is a romance of the tenth century, when as yet the kingdom won by Alfred the Great was still the dominant power in England It details the career of Osbae, a prince of the blood royal, who had be begun to make a hideous record of im morality and who was sent by Dunstan, the primate to a monastery to be re formed The sequel shows that Osbae, instead of being led into a pure and holy life, became a very fiend in carnal lust and came to grief Incidentally the effort of Dunstan to bring the English church un der the complete authority of the bishop of Rome is interestingly detailed GOLDEN FLEECE THE AMERICAN ADVEN- TURES OF A FORTUNE HUNTING EARL By David Graham Phillips New York Mc dure, Phillips & Co Minneapolis N Mc Carthy Price $1 50 There are some very recognizable and amusing portrayals in this book of the fortune-hunting titled foreigner in this case an Englishman, and of the American who has made himself or thinks he has made himself, into an Englishman, "to the manner born," in dress, speech and manners Mr Langview and Charles Sidney are interesting tvpes of the latter in this story The duke in this case had made a toboggan slide down to his last seventy pounds and, under such condi tions, he went after the Golden Fleece in New York and Chicago and found it in Miss Dome who had the millions In sight, made "In trade," as the English say The duke did not mind the way those millions were made Duke Georgle then helped his younger brother, who was famishing for money, to a fortune and the whole business of buving and selling titles is displayed panoramlcally with some exaggerations and a large amount of generalization wrongly substituted for specialization The amount of fashion able English slang is intolerable and the profanity of the men in the presence of ladies in the ancestral halls is, as the English say, "beastly" The Earl of Frothingham was in a chronic state of surprise over the things he saw and heard in this country He was made much of. altho poor and monotonous but, as Wal lingford said "If he were a plain, poor incapable, rather dull American, is there one of us that would waste five minutes with him'" fH*. LITERARY NOTES. The Macmlllan company have published twenty-two volumes of the Dent edition of the prose works of Thackeray, under the editorship of Walter Jerrold The full set will be completed by Jan 1, 1904 The Macmlllan company announce three volumes of the works of W B Yeats, the well known Irish poet and essayist"The Celtic Twilight," "Ideas of Good and Evil," and a play entitled, "Where There Is Nothing " The Macmlllan company announce a new novel by Miss Gwendolen Overton, entitled "Annie Carmel " D Appleton & Co have issued a large paper edition of Frank R Stockton's post humous novel "The Captain s Toll Gate " limited to 160 copies, of which only 150 are to be sold The Bobbs-Merrill company of Indian apolis have issued four out of the six most popular novels issued this spring Mere dith Nicholson, who wrote "The Main Chance, " one of their recent publications, is talked of as a possible candidate for the Indianapolis mayoralty A recent interesting combination of periodicals is that of the Ledger Monthly, founded by Robert Bonner in 1843, The Household founded in 1868 and Ev'ry Month, issued first In 1895 The combina tion has gone into business under the title The Household-Ledger, which is issued from 97 Liberty street. New York Miss Murfree's latest story is "A Spectre of Power," dealing with the early strug gles of the French and English and their Indian allies in this country Little Brown & Co, Boston, state that over 2,000,000 copies of Miss Louisa Al cott's stories have been sold. f ^ t The Minneapolis Journal says* " * 'Bryan will bolt" In heaven's name, where to? W K **- FOLK'S TROPHIES Buffalo Express Another six-year sentence for bribery in St Louis' Joseph W Folk's string of iscalps is becomin^-a^ng one. ^ ^ if? & Jg-PJiS *. i SUITE 5, 1908. M The Nonpareil Man . '# Mr. Edgar of the Northwestern Miller, is the writer of a book published by Ap- V pleton,, called "Story of a Grain of Wheat." There Is no breakfast food game about ^ it, an the book is as interesting as a noveL ' ^ %- ^ ^ ^ ^ 4 The democratic campaign committee is cheerfully looking over the postofflce , scandal. - The "Short Grass League of Red-Headed Men" has elected its candidate for congress in the seventh Kansas district. The red-headed men decided that they had not been fairly treated in politics, and they organized. The result was a prairie? fire that swept the district like a ripe tomato ^ $ S $ * The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes that no colored man has ever had ap- pendicitis. The negro cannot discover anything In it for him. $ S 8 The Chicago board of education has prohibited the usee of amongtoas pupils and has arranged for lectu*s many pedagogical efforts, Johnn?!*% ould much prefer losing two fingers via the cracker route than listening to thenT-and he's right. 2 S g 3 One of the most sympathetic touches that has been noted of late was recorded by the Brown County Journal. It seems that Herman Krings of New Ulm had been suffering from nervousness, and a magnetic healer who had been running a hot come-on advertisement In the papers in that vicinity, said he could cure him as easy as lying. This human magnet discovered that Krings had $260, and he told him that with this amount on his person he ought to be cured quickly. He got him to place the money In an envelop next to his heart for three days The "cure" not having appeared in this period of time, the Magnetic Marvel soon had it figured out that the fund of wealth was shy on "vibrations," and he per suaded Krings to let him have the money to sleep on for a night so that he might thoroly magnetize it Krings gave up his wealth like a child, and in the possession of the strong armed man the money became so active that it skipped out of town over night, dragging the magnetic doctor with it. The magnet's trunk was checked to Minneapolis Sheriff Lins of Winona county has been seen visit ing friends in this vicinity, and should he happen to detect anybody on the streets giv ing out sparks or drawing nails out of the billboards as he walks by, he will be slapped into jail and his power will be drawn off and used to run automobiles. ^ 8 ^ 3 Peewee Jackson had the narrowest escape in his career when the left end of the horse reached for him and just missed He had just run over the garden and Peewee's father said he wished the horse had come a little closer. The garden has had a very unfortunate career this year The rich, mellow earth was turned over, broken up, carefully raked and planted Everything was in fine shape and was growing so fast that they had to place a stone on each cu- cumber to hold it down, when the big, black dog in the next block came in and stepped on the garden. The dog's little foot was about as big over as the head of a barrel, and wherever he stepped, and he stepped about everywhere, the garden was pushed into the ground about four inches Then Peewee walked on it oncj or twice, because he was too tired to go around, and the place looked like a base- ball diamond near a public school This gardening in the city has its drawbacks. 3 ^ ^ $ 3 A few weeks ago the Mankato Free Press in its haste said: Philip Lease, whose hunting dog was bitten by S B Richard's * dog yesterday, was shot by Officer Lunberg this afternoon, at Mr. Lease's request. And the St James Journal and the Fairmont News are making a great outcry about it The former asks. If Mr Lease was not crazy why should he ask a policeman to shoot him, simply because his dog had been bitten by another dog' When a man's dog gets bitten like that he doesn't care to live N EW BOOKS HIS DAUGHTER FIRST. By Arthur Sherburne Hardy, author of "But Y tea Woman " "Passe Rose" etc Boston Houghton, Mifflin & Co Minneapolis N McCarthy. Price, $150. The author of this fine story has achieved a fair literary reputation by his former books He has been transferred from his post as minister to Switzerland to Bellamy Storer s position at Madrid as minister to Spam where he will, no doubt, produce his masterpiece In "His Daughter First" Mr Hardy shows himself a most able portrayer of certain phases of American society, conspicuous among the people being a gambler in stocks, who has two charming women in love with him, one of them the daughter of Jack Temple, the conspicuous man of action in the story We have for a heroine Mrs Kensett, one of those lovely, gentle women, who always want something to lean upon and generally find it She was a widow and hei investment of a consid erable portion of her fortune in Argonaut mining stock on the advice of Mr Heald, the speculator and promoter, influences largely the trend of events in the story Jack Temple extricates Mrs Kensett out of a perilous situation induced by her thoughtless mining stock investment and "Argonaut" figures thereafter interest ingly Mr Hardy has gracefully and elab orately developed strong lnterset around the incident of Temple's love for Mrs Kensett, her reciprocated feeling, his pro posal of marriage, and her refusal on the ground that Temple's daughter did not like the prospect of her father's marriage, and so the marriage was suspended in the air until the trouble was overcome Tem ple had determined that between anger ing his daughter and persisting in his pursuit of Mrs Kensett he would recog nize his daughter s claim first, but this determination weakened when he found his daughter passionately in love with Heald, the speculator, and he himself somewhat dependent on Heald for suc cessful manipulation of Argonaut stock There are other characters who figure subordinately, and, as a study of character and temperaments the book is certainly a brilliant success Paul Graham and Margaret Frazer and Miss Gaunt are in teresting studies by themselves ? 3 * a s substitutes If thes talkfirecrackers s are as dry o STOEY OF HIS FIRST "EDITORIAL" Walt Mason In Nebraska State Journal. "The first paper that I ever worked on," said a newspaper man, whose gray hairs showed that he was no longer young "is still running in a town on the Mis- souri river, not very far from here. I was quite young, and I got a job as reporter at $8 a week The force consisted of the managing editor, who ground out all the editorial and went thru the exchanges, a telegraph editor citv editor and two re- porters to say nothing of a fussy old lady who got up some society slush for the Sunday morning issue, and made everybody miserable when she was in the office. The managing editor was a man of grave and reverend appearance, who was known as the Judge, because he had once served as justice of the peace He was very quiet and reserved, and had considerable dignity This man became my hero I looked upon him as one who had scaled the dizziest heights of fame and honor, to sit at a desk in a swivel chair, as he sat, and mould public opinion, was greater than to be a king. I often heard people say that his editorials were hopeless rot, and I felt Borry tSv them it was not the judge's fault if people had not the brains to understand or appreciate him One day I wrote an editorial upon a subject which was agitating the town, and carried it timidly to the judge, and asked him if he thought it was of any account At first he loked at me severely, as an archangel might look at some lesser seraph trying to break into the holy of holies, but after he looked the article o\er he smiled and said that it was very good indeed for a be- ginner. "I'll use it" said he, "try your hand again, but say nothing, for It is against tht ethics of the profession to permit a cub reporter to write editorials " Never shall I forget the great and sacred Joy that filled my bosom then, I felt like kissing the hem of the judge's garment My admiration for him changed to love. And when the paper appeared with my editorial almost unchanged, tears of joy rolled down my cheeks I'll bet I read that editorial five hundred times, I sat up all that night reading it, and I became familiar with every letter and punctuation mark in it After that I gave the judge about a bushel of editorials every day, and the editorial columns were practically filled with it, and I never ceased admiring the goodness of that great man who thus gave me such a chance I never dreamed then that the judge was quietly working me, he was as lazy as thunder, and he had struck a snap As long as he remained with the paper I had the same rev er- ent admiration for him Finally he surrendered to an enemy which had downed him before, he got on a high lonesome and was fired " "THE PEACH" A well known English lady novelist, whose enemies accuse her of taking herseli somewhat too seriously, was entertaining a partv of her friends and conversation ran largely upon her new book One voung man in the circle had not read the work. "Accordingly, on rising from the table, and by way of abstracting himself from the talkers who were still worrying their conversational bone, savs the London Out- look, "he fixed his eyes on the female portrait which adorned the drawing room wall Coming softly behind him. the lady novelist significantly said T think I know what you are thinkingthat that picture reminds ou of Fredericka ' 'Of Fredericka,' replied the young man blankly, 'what Fredericka9 returned the novelist, with surprise, for her latest heroine bore that name Then the unbeliever pulled himself together 'No ' said he with a judicial head shake, 'that is not my notion of your Fredericka ' And he plumed himself on having got- ten well out of the hobble But It was yet early for self gratulation 'Come here, then, returned the hostess, seductively, 'come and sit down here beside me, and you shall tell me what your notion of Fredericka is ' " TTATI ^*i ,?c-*-!aj Cwually Observed. ^s&%'^IW^S Mme. Toselli did not like a novel written by M Henri Caurln, and when she saw the author on the streets of Nice, France, the other day she took two shots at him. The cable says, "One bullet was deeply embedded in M. Cauvin's flesh " If ggt this method of discouraging literary endeavor becomes popular the Authors* CU^y|| will have to take out more accident insurance JF*^ BEEN GATHERED " Chicago Record-Herald "Say old man," said the traveling salesman, "what became of that peach of a stenographer you had the last time I was here' I don_t see why you ever let her get away I've been looking forward for six months to the Joy of getting another smile from her She was all right. If I'd been in your place I'd have had a piano in here for her and made ararngements to have our meals brought up You ought to have seen the sad look she gave me that morning I told you I didn't expect to get aiound this wiy again for a year I felt mad at myself for making her so un- happy Where is she''" "She's married " "The deuce' Confound it, I'm sorry to hear that. Got some badl-headed old chump with money, I supopse'" "WelL he's able to make ends meet" - Pshaw' When did it happen'" "About six weeks ago" "That's just my luck I intended to make this trip in March, but our Boston man got sick and I had to go down there Say, why did you let it come to that, anyway'" "I couldn't help it You see she gave me a few smiles like the one you refer to, and my heart was touched Won't you come out to the house and have dinner with us' I know she'd be glad to see you " "Thanks, no I've got to catch an early train for St Louis " SHE HAD HIM "LICKED." THE BOOKSELLER'S ANSWER TO KIPLING "* * ' There is a Vermont bookseller who never tires of repeating the retort that he made to Rudyard Kipling This bookseller lives in Montpelier and Mr Kipling dur- ing his residence in Vermont, visited his shop one day He is a thin, sharp man and the poe?, taking an interest in him, questioned him about his business ' How "many books do you sell a day here?" "What is the profit of bookselling in Mont- pelier'" "Do they read me hereabouts?" These and other questions Mr Kipling asked Finally he took up "Celibates " a work of George Moore s "Is this good' * he said "I don't know, sir " "You don't know' \Vh\. haven t you read it' No. sir." Kipling frowned at the littlejnan "A bookseller " he said "and o don't read your own books'" The other, very much enraged retorted hotly. "If I were r druggist would you expect me to take my own drugs?" A Mv Fredericka,*