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THE JOURNAL
LUCIAN SWIFT,
MANAGER.
Mi
Th Papal Succession.
Judging from the intense activity of the
cardinals In the business of electioneering,
it is certain that they regard the death
of the pope and the immuring of the col
lege in conclave as imminent. It is sel
dom that the election of a pope has not
been attended with all the skilful m t
oeuvering and Intriguing which ma \ -
witnessed in secular politics. Thru ilu
centuries, the pontifical elections ha\ e
developed the strife of parties within the
conclave, as the French party, the Span
ish party, the Jesuit party, etc At the
present time, as heretofore, Italy has the
largest number of cardinals In the college
Of the long line of popes, 253 in number,
Italy has furnished 195 and, as the pope
for the time being selects the new card
inals there Is small probability that the
preponderance of Italians in the college
will be modified The theory of the
papacy is that none but an Italian should
be elected to the papal throne It is
probable that there will be no departuie
from that theory and practice this time,
and foreign cardinals apparently have no
more chance of elections than heretofore.
The extreme ultramontanes fear them
because they think most of them are
tainted with liberalism At the Vatican
council of 1870, when the doctrine of
papal infallbility was proclaimed, the op
position was chiefly on the part of the
foreign bishops, among them American
prelates who voted "non placet "
Pope Leo XIII for some years has ex
pressed his deep interest in the great
progress of the American branch of the
Latin church He has witnessed with
pride and thankfulness Its strong vitality,
its rapid expansion, its material and spir
itual growth under a lepublican govern
ment There is no country In Europe
which can show the progress, in all es
sential forces of the Roman church, such
as is shown in the "United States In
France the church is under the heels of
the secular power and the Napoleonic
concordat is ignored In Spain, the church
Is antagonized by millions of people who
were nursed In Its cradle In Austria there
Is a distinct re\olt against it by the Ger
man population In Italy, with a popula
tion almost entirely adhering to the
church. United Italv is more dear to them
than the temporal sovereignty of the pon
tiff, and thpy ignore his claim to secular
power. In the most promising field of the
Roman church, the United States, church
and state are irrevocably separated Had
Count Cavour's advice, in his noble speech
before the Italian parliament In 1861, been
followed, there would be a very different
outlook for the church In Italy to-day.
"The Independence and dignity of the su
preme pontiff," said he, "as well as the
Independence of the church will be se
cured by the separation of the two pow
ers, and by the large application of the
principle of liberty to the relations be
tween civil and religious society." Upon
this declaration as his text, Cavour made
one of tho most patriotic and brilliant
speeches of his life, embodying in It a sol
emn warning and prediction as to what
the Italian government could and would
do when It entered Rome as the capital of
United Italy. The warning was carried
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out.
Alabama boasts that the lynching spirit
Is on the decline in that state and that
sheriffs and other officers of the law are
prepared to do their duty when confronted
by mobs. A Birmingham newspaper an -
nounces that six murderers are now await
ing the gallows in that city. Possibly there
is some connection beween rigid adminis
tration of the laws In Alabama and the
decline of the mob spirit.
Something New in Railways.
The struggle going on at Ottawa for
government assistance in building trans
continental railways took a curious turn
the other day when the government an
nounced what It intended to do, or at least
permitted the news to get out. There
have been in the field three competitors
for government aidthe Canadian
Northern, the Trans-Canada and the
Grand Trunk Pacific. The Trans-Canada
is nothing but a paper road, and the union
of the Canadian Northern and the Grand
Trunk Pacific has been expected for
some time. Probably the announcement
of the government's course foreshadows
the absorption of the Canadian Northern
by the Grand Trunk Pacific.
According to the reports, the govern
ment has decided to build a railway from
Moncton, N. B., to Winnipeg, which Is
to be leased to the Grand Trunk Pacific
tor fifty years, the railway to pay noth
ing for the first five years, the net sur
plus of earnings over expenses for the
next five years, and for the remaining
forty 3 per cent on the cost of construc
tion, estimated at $45,000,000. From Win
nipeg west the company is to build Its
o wn line. For the 600 miles of prairie
line the government will guarantee the
company's bonds at three-fourths of the
coat of construction, the bonding per mile
not to exceed $13,000.- For 500 miles of
mountain line the government will guar-
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The Minneapolis Journal from January 1st to June 1st,
1903, carried 73 per cent more advertising than the
daily Tribune.
The Minneapolis Journal from January 1st to June 1st,
1903, carried 74 per cent more want advertising than
the daily Tribune.
The Minneapolis Journal from January 1st to June 1st,
1903, carried 9 per cent more advertising than the
Sunday and Daily Tribune combined.
The Minneapolis Journal out of 6,052 residences can
vassed, had 4,924 subscribersthe Evening Tribune
1,251the Morning Tribune 771.
The Minneapolis Journal in 81 apartment and flat build
ings canvassed, had 1,250 subscribersthe Evening
Tribune 185, and the Morning Tribune 178.
antee bonds for 75 per cent of the actual
cost up to a maximum of $30,000 a mile.
Almost any one could undertake to build
a railway under such conditions The
Canadian government has certainly pre-1
sented the Grand Trunk Pacific with a
rich gift on a silver platter. The line
starts from Moncton, because, we pre
sume that is the nearest point on the
Intercolonial for a short line fiom Cana
dian tidewater to the Canadian west, but
e\en this line will have to make some
thing of a loop to get around the north
ern extremity of Maine, for it would never
do to have a single foot of the railway
in American territory In the Interco
lonial the government already has a state
railway running from Montreal to Monc
ton, 837 miles, with various branches, but
to use it as part of the transcontinental
would be to follow an unnecessarily cir
cuitous route
Canadian \iews of this remarkable rail
way proposition vary according to party
The liberals applaud it as a strong and
fearless policy, while the conservatives re
gard it as a tremendous mistake, and sug
gest that, as Canada is on the eve of gen
neral elections, the expenditure by the
government of $45,000,000 will not be in
convenient
The Grand Trunk Pacific already has
sixty sur\ ey ing parties in the field. East
of Winnipeg the line is to swing thru
the Ontario clay belt, north of Lake Su
perior, where, unlike the Canadian Pa
cific's western Ontario country, there is
said to be good agricultural land with im
mense pulpwood forests We st of Winni
peg the line will be north of the Cana
dian Pacific and not nearer than thirty
miles. The chances are that it will be
the Canadian Northern route, Messrs
McKenzie & Mann, who are the Canadian
Northern, probably having been "fixed "
The outside railroad world will wonder
whether the Canadian government is jus
tified in extending so much aid to a second
transcontinental railway at this stage of
development in Canada If there is a
demand foi such a road it is only a ques
tion of a little time until private capital
will undertake it If there is no demand
for it the government cannot possibly be
justified in building one part and guaran
teeing the bonds of another.
Stimulated by the improvement of
rural roads leading to Minneapolis, the St
Paul people are now going to build a piece
of good road within the city limits that
will simultaneously make a bid for the
trade of F t Snelling, and also of an ex
tensive farming country in Scott, Dakota
and Hennepin counties. At a cost of
$70,000 Seventh street is to be macadam
ized with limestone and granite from
the end of the papvement to the Ft. Snell
ing bridge. Now if Minneapolis can find
some way to build a good road from Min
nehaha to F t Snelling, and to improve
Minnehaha avenue, there will be not only
a good road to the fort, but also a good
road clear thru to St. Paul St. Paul's
activity should stir our citizens up to
renewed efforts to establish those close
relations with F t Snelling which have
been planned and talked about for some
time.
Tiring Paper Bullets.
It Is reported that the Anglo-Japanese
treaty is to be made effective as against
Russia, which has been notified that her
doings in Manchuria are regarded as un
friendly by the parties to the treaty. The
treaty is, in fact, an alliance, defensive
and offensive, between England and
Japan, and according to its terms, these
two, in view of the aggressive acts of
Russia in Manchuria In 1901 and 1902,
ought to have interposed a stronger and
more menacing obstruction against Rus
sia than a bit of paper. Japan has been
in a fighting mood, but the British gov
ernment has held her back until now,
after Russia has placed Manchuria un -
der her heel, distributed her troops along
her railways, according to concessions
granted by China herself, and diligently
prosecuted her arrangements for admin
istration and financing the country, she
is notified by England and Japan to get
out. Our own government has notified
China that her private concessions to
Russia which practically bestow the three
provinces of Manchuria upon that ag -
gressive power, which has already taken
a vast amount of Chinese territory, are
regarded with distinct disfavor and con
demnation, inasmuch as China cannot
lawfully disregard her solemn engage
ments with the United States for the
maintenance of trade privileges at Man
churlan ports, by tamely yielding to Rus
sian bullying
Again, there is the Anglo-German
treaty which obliges England and" Ger
many to defend the territorial integrity
of China with a provision that each of
them may compensate themselves for the
felonious aggression of any other power.
This arrangement Is no guaranty of the
territorial integrity of China. Russia has
swept into Manchuria, but this Anglo
German compact has not been drawn
upon her. Is there any reason why it
should be, sinoe Russia has only given
them occasion for seising Chinese terri
tory themselves as compensation for Rus
sia's daring burglary? D o the British,
German, Japan governments really ex -
pect to make Russia scuttle out of Man
churia by shaking diplomatic flsts In her
face? Great Britain has tried that for
sixty years on her Indian frontier to keep
Russia out of the khanates north of In
dia, yet Russia controls the khanates up
to the base of the Himalayas, and Rus
sia has also practical control of Persia
and is pushing a railway line down to the
head of the Persian gulf.
Our government does not propose to
pull other nations' chestnuts out of the
Manchurlan Are. It has some chestnuts
of its own to look after. *
1 Tribun e Building.
W. W. JBRMANB,
Representative.
I Washington Office.
i 45 Post Building.
AN INVITATION ia extended to all to visit
the Press Room, which is the finest in the west.
The battery of presses consists of three four dect
GOBS Presses, with a total capacity of 144,000
eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded
and counted The best time to call is from S 15
to 4 80 p. m. Inquire at the business office aud
be directed to the visitors* gallery, of the Press
Room
The park commissioners have decided
to tear down the signs which forbid
wagons with less than six-Inch tires to use
the boulevards. Nobody ever has obeyed
the ordinance, which was not sustained
by the courts, and it is sound reasoning
that demands that signs which make a
Jest of the law be removed. Likewise laws
that are not enforced ought to be repealed,
but It is easier to pull down a sign board
that Is a lie than to erase a law that is
a lie.
At Last an Example.
At Evansville, Ind , last night, a wild
mob, swayed merely by a desire for
bloodshed and aroused by pure race preju
dice, got a taste of something that all
mobs need. After more than a day of
forebearance by the authorities, amazing
and disgusting In its extent, the crisis
was at last reached at 10 30 last night,
and deputy sheriffs armed with shotguns
and national guardsmen armed with rifles
fired on the howling, blaspheming and in
sulting mob Immediately the rabble
took to its heels with cries of pain and
fear, leaving behind It a large number of
dead and wounded.
A mob is usually cowardly. There may
be a handful of courageous men at its
head, possibly not so many. These, killed
or wounded, or convinced of the futility
of their law-breaking efforts, there is noth
ing more to be feared. Never was there
a better demonstration than in Evans
ville last night of how quickly a mob can
be dispersed when the authorities adopt
stern measures which are required for
handling mobs. Just a momentary clash
and an exchange of shots and the mob
was gone.
Evansville did well in the end, but It is
a disgrace to the city and to American
public order that the mob was allowed
to rule the two for more than twenty
four hours Sterner measures earlier in
the disorder would have repressed it
without such loss of life. But at any rate,
Evansville has given the country the
needed example. To the mob it is fine
sport to rush a jail and lynch defenseless
prisoners, but when the authorities do
the killing, and when the victims are
rioters Instead of jail inmates, the affair
assumes a different aspect It ma j be
pleasant to lynch, but It is not pleasant
to be shot down with buckshot and rifle
balls No w that one mob has been
whipped and beaten with lead, we may
expect the authorities elsewhere to fol
low an example they might never have
given themselves The highest duty of
every officer of the law defending a pris
oner against a mob is to shoot and to
shoot to kill When it comes to a ques
tion of whether the mob is to rule or be
ruled, a few lives are of no consequence.
Referring to a paragraph which ap -
peared in The Journal, the Mont
gomery Advertiser says that It knows of
no city or village In the south which is
making an effort to drive its negro popu
lation out, either to the north or else
where It then goes on to say that "one
of the just causes of complaint which the
industrious and orderly negroes here have
is that they have to suffer both in treat
ment and in public estfmation because of
the acts and conduct of the vicious mem
bers of their race " This is a very candid
statement and does the Advertiser credit.
From our distant point of view we have
picked out this particular point as one of
the most unpleasant in the race prob
lem It is only fair to the Advertiser,
however, to say that it thinks that the
negroes themselves are largely to blame
for this condition because of their dis
position to shield and protect the vicious
and criminal members of their race.
Not a Selfish Movement.
Congressman J. Adam Bede never loses
an opportunity to put in a good word for
reciprocity with Canada. A t least one Min
nesota district is now represented in con
gress by a republican who is in sympathy
with his people Minneapolis Journal
Not in sympathy with his people, but
rather in sympathy with the Minneapolis
millers, which, of course, (pleases The
Journal. W e venture the prediction that
if the people of the sixth district were
given a vote on this question of admitting
Canadian wheat and other produce free
into the United States, they would declare
themselves most emphatically against the
proposition Brown's Valley Interlake
Tribune.
Nevertheless, the people of the sixth dis
trict, knowing how liberal Mr. Bede's tariff
views were and how much he believed in
reciprocity, deliberately went ahead and
elected him to congress. Possibly, at this
stage of education of the public on the ad
vantages of reciprocity with Canada, the
people of the sixth district might vote
against it, but we would not advise the
Brown's Valley Interlake Tribune, or any
one, to invest much money on the possi
bility. Some of the leading business men
and politicians of the sixth district are
cooperating with the Minnesota branch of
the National Reciprocity League in its
work for better trade relations with Can
ada.
As for the idea that The Journal
would support something that the Min
neapolis millers selfishly demanded, noth
ing could be more absurd. Minneapolis
might get along without its great flour
mills, but it would last a minute if its
back country were ruined, and it can not
afford to favor anything that would hurt
that country. A s a matter of fact, the
Minnesota farmer is probably injured by
the tariff on Canadian wheat. At any
rate, the tariff does him no good, directly
or indirectly W e think that it can be
maintained that It does injure him direct
ly, and there can be no question that it
hurts him indirectly. The Minnesota far
mer is becoming more and more a diversi
fied farmer, and the nearer he is to larger
markets, or the larger the near markets,
the better for him. Free trade with Can
ada will make Minneapolis,, S t Paul and
Duluth and other centers larger cities than
they could be without It, and freer trade
will be better for them than present con-
dltions.
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The Society of American Authors has
again taken up the work of persuading
congress to be as fair to American
authors as It is to those residing in for
eign countries. Authors, newspaper cor
respondents and ministers In the United
States pay 2 cents an ounce for mailing
their manuscripts, but the same manu
scripts can be sent from points In the
United States to the most remote parts
of the world at a rate of 1 cent for every
two ounces. Moreover, writers living
anywhere in the world outside the United
States can send their manuscripts to
American publishers fou-gLtixnes as cheap
as the American author can. Then,
again, when the publisher sends manu
script back for proof reading, he has to
pay only 1 cent for two ounces, provided
it be accompanied by the proof sheets.
Writers are not often, very wealthy, and it
Is rarely that a manuscript is accepted
after it has made several journeys. There
is not a single valid objection to giving
American authors a cheaper postage rate,
but congress always moves slowly In such
matters. The authors hope, however, to
get a law thru the next congress, and we
hope that they will find some vigorous and
influential congressman who will make It
his particular business to look after the
undertaking.
The Sweet Pea Show.
Professor Samuel B Green, horticul
turist of the Minnesota experiment sta
tion and professor of horticulture and
forestry in the University of Minnesota,
has commented on the sweet pea show
being arranged under the auspices of
The Journal as an Indication of the grat
ifying aesthetic development of our peo
ple. The interest In and love of flowers
Is certainly becoming wider and stronger
every year. Some find their inclinations
most suited to the study of wild flowers,
while others delight in the cultivation
of flowers and take great pleasure in
well ordered gardens. In every garden
of a flower lover the sweet pea is sure to
be found, and its admirers are many.
Only those who are themselves intei
csted in floriculture can have any idea
of how numerous are the cultivators of
sweet peas. To raise them is a hobby
with many persons N o garden is com
plete without sweet peas, and an exhibi
tion of the flowers in the first part of
August when they are at their best can
not fail to be beneficial to all flower
lovers and cultivators.
The Birmingham News is another of the
progressive southern papers that are ex -
erting themselves to their utmost to build
up their cities The News has just issued
a highly creditable special number in cel
ebration of its fifteenth anniversary. The
facts this edition sets forth about Birm
ingham will amaze many into whose hands
it will fall Thirty years ago Birmingham
did not exist The census of 1900 made it
the 200th city in the United States, with
a population of 38,415. These figures, how
ever, take no account of suburbs which
are commercially part of the city and
should be included within its limits Tak
ing these In, it is- estimpttcdt that Birming
ham has td-day about fl.OfyQOO people. It is
a busy mining, manufacturing and jobbing
center and is full of that awakened Indus
trial spirit which is doing so much to
solve the south's economic problems and,
therefore, many of its other problems.
The Manitoba Free Press is one of the
able Canadian papers that would welcome
reciprocity with the United States It
holds that the United States has prospered
rather on account of free trade between
forty-five slates and territories besides
than because of protection against the rest
of the world, and it nolds that it would be
for the benefit of Canada to get some of
that American free trade, N o doubt it
would be, and some day as Goldwin Smith
says, nature will find a way, but in the
meantime the friends of freer trades on
both sides of the line must put up with
no end of narrowness and prejudice.
Peace has her battles as well as war
to take liberties with a thread-bare quo
tation In the Fourth of July battle fought
all over the country, not less than 10,000
persons, it is estimated, were more or
less seriously injured About 150 people
were killed, and 1 600 were maimed or
lost the sight of one or both eyes Thanks
to Mayor Havnes' precautions, Minneapo
lis' contribution to this casualty list was
not a large one.
PIRATE OR NATURE'S NOBLEMAN?
Nebraska State Journal
Once upon a time, a good many years
ago, there was a thundering row in a
Nebraska town. Two factions were
cussing each other by day and night, and
one of them was getting the worst of it,
because the newspaper which repre
sented it was poorly edited. So an
eminent jurist, who was profoundly inter
ested in the success of that faction, went
to Lincoln to hunt up a newspaper man
who knew how to write with vitriol. Such
a man was easily found H e was dis
covered in a saloon, with a good cargo on
board, but his friends united in saying
that, drunk or sober, he was a holy terror
in a newspaper row. So he was shipped
out to that town, and turned loose in the
editorial sanctum. The first issue he got
out was a corker, speaking conservative
ly, and the loathsome opposition was dis
mayed In the next issue there was con
sternation in the camp represented by
that newspaper, the editor had "jumped
on" a distinguished citizen who was the
chief owner of the paper, but had kept
the faot quiet for business reasons. The
editor had referred to him as a wall-eyed
shark, a black-hearted pirate, a sway
backed leper, and so on. In the next issue
the editor retracted all that, and boomed
the citizen in question as one of nature's
noblemert The apology was rather
adroitly made, but the usefulness of the
imported editor was ended.
NO WORK IN EITHER CASE
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N ew York Times.
District Attorney Jerome was rather
amused by the manner in which a tramp
who strolled up to the kitchen door of his
Lakeville home last Sunday morning sized
up the labor situation. While the wan
derer was devouring the food set before
him he bitterly complained about the hard
times
"But I imagined that work was plenti
ful now," ventured Mr. J*rom
"O, yes," was the reply, "there is plenty
of work all right but if you belong to a
union you have to be on a strike most of
the time, and If you don't belong to a
union they won't let you work anyhow "
ONE OF SALISBURY'S FADS
Lord Salisbury has an old-fashioned
weakness for huge fires of wood, and at
Hatfield House there is a species of trolley
for the conveyance of the logs to the gi
gantic grates in the drawing-room, long
gallery and library.
AT THE THEATERS
Lyceum"A Baohelor's Honeymoon."
Jolly midsummer entertainment, is pur
veyed this week by the Ferris Stock
company. The audience has no need to
think or feel. It may simply look and
laugh.
The invitation to the smile is John
Stapleton's farcical comedy about a wid
ower, whoo, tho dependent upon the good
will and purse of his gray, ascetic sis
ter, secretly marries some curves and
dimples from a music hall, and tries to
entertain his angel at home so that she
may never guess that the pretty twins
are his children, and so that she herself
may appear to be a governess. To sim
plify this task a detective appears, who
wishes to compel the actress to return
and fill her contract at the music hall. A
German physician arrives, who has been
loved by the actress, and who himself
loves one of the dapghters. A business
like lover of the second daughter desires
to get married while he waits. And the
"clues" to all the mysteries are sought
for by a maid servant, whose mind is
turned by reading tales of police, plots
and counterplots
Much of the playj is too unnatural even
for a farce, many of the expedients are
too obvious It's a very funny doll, never
theless, all of its joints are so visible.
The weakness of the play is magnified
by the needless emphasis of the perform
ance. In their ambition for "go" and
"ginger" the actors frequently destroy all
kinship with reality This is specially
true of Carl Smith Searle, the married,
wifeless brother Yet whenever he gets
tired and natural Mr. Smith is excellent.
Best of the men is Lou M. Beasjey, the
sentimental Teuton. He restrains him
self, and he utilises well the broken Eng
lish and the manner of a German gen
tleman. A s the histronic Helen at the
bottom of the mischief, Miss Grace Hay -
ward is a physical excuse for much
"backsliding." She is not, however, a
comedienne Much more spontaneous is
the drollery of Miss Maisie Cecil, she of
curls and clues, who submits to an un
called-for sacrifice of her good looks.
Miss Laurette Allen showed agreeable
self-control in the part of the acidulous
sister - H B Curry.
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Irrigation and Floods.
To the Editor of Th Journal.T
I am very mucthe interested in your edi
torial of the 26th mst. entitled "Capture of
Books and Authors
THE "WORK" OF AUTHORSHIP
The Critic's Lounger, noting that a
friend of the late Frank R, Stockton
charged him with laziness when Stockton
told him his day's allowance of writing
was done in two hours, says "He could
not see that two hours of mental strain
was equal to eight hours of another sort
of work It is only when his pen Is not
in his hand that an author is working "
Mrs. Stockton says that her husband re
clined in a hammock in seasonable
weather and dictated to a stenographer.
Either way, however,two hours of dicta
tion or two hdurs of writing by longhand,
represent several hours of preceding
mental toll thinking out the trend of the
story So the painting of a landscape or
a fine portrait, stroke by stroke, repre
sents the laborious application during the
years spent in finding out and learning
"how to do it." The writer of a first
class story has, by previous thought and
study, found out how to do it Thomas
Dixon, Jr., wrote one book, "The Leop
ard's Spots," the first he ever wrote, and
it brought him wealth, a beautiful home
and a fine yacht. To write that book
doubtless cost him two or three years of
work to find out how to do it. A tinner
presented a bill of $3 for mending an arti
cle, to a customer, who wanted an ex
planation, thinking it exorbitant. The
tinner wrote on the bill: "Fifty cents for
mending and $2 50 for knowing how to
mend it!"
i ices by the leading scientific bodies in the
JULY 7, .1803.
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THE NONPAREIL MAN
A Thoughtless Aunt.
The society page artiste of a Ne w York
paper, under the caption line "Miss War
ren's Plans Upset," goes on as follows
"Every one sympathizes with little Miss
Charlotte Warren, whose brilliant sum
mer plans have been shattered on account
of the sudden death of Mrs J Wads
worth Ritchie, her aunt. A month ago
Miss Warren's uncle was reported en
gaged to Mrs Hollis H. Hunnewell He is
John Stanbury Tooker. Miss Charlotte
Warren is one of the younger set, and
her closest friends are Miss Roche, Miss
Rives and that little Newport coterie
Miss* Warren is a sweet-faced girl who
resembles, etc, etc."
No matter about poor auntie, but isn't
it awful that sweet-faced Miss Charlotte
Warren should have her summer plans so
inconsiderately upset by auntie's thought
lessness in dying at the very opening of
the Newport season? Oh, fie'
Casually Observed.
One of the latest decrees issued from
the temple of fashion is to the effect that
bric-a-brac must go Bric-a-brac has
long been a word of all kinds of meaning,
including things really valuable in them
selves, and old things that a magpie
wouldn't carry away Bum bric-a-brac In
the sign of a badly warped artistic
sense.
Those Kansas people who were using
the beds of the rivers to raise potatoes
are Just beginning to come down from the
tops of the nearest bluffs. Eight seasons
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the National Irrigation association believes
that 35,000,000 acres of the so-called desert
land can be reclaimed for profitable agri
culture by the construction of storage res
ervoirs far up on the Missouri and its
tributaries," but you add "Why construct
such reservoirs far up on the Missouri' A
reservoir should be low down, in order to
impound the flood waters so that it may
conveniently effect the largest agricultural
good."
The idea set forth in my interview was
that eventually the government should re
claim the entire arid area for which there
is sufficient water in the Missouri and its
tributaries Viewing it from the irrigation
standpoint, the flood prevention would be
incidental. The plan, as worked out by
the engineers of both the geological sur
vey, who have been investigating the hy
drographic resources of the arid region
for the past fifteen years, and those of the
engineering corps of the army, contemplate
the building of great storage reservoirs in
the mountains at and near the headwaters
of the Missouri and its tributaries, the
storage floods to be turned Into the natur
al channels of the rivers during the low
water period, and allowed to flow down
to be taken out onto the agricultural lands
far below and used for irrigation.
The especial point I tried to bring out
was that these headwater reservoirs, how
ever great, could not hold any such flood
as recently swept bv St Louis nor would
they be expected to Water stored in these
reservoirs would, as I have stated, be kept
for use during low water months, July,
August and September. Assuming then
that upward of 30,000,000 acres would be
irrigated during these months from tho
storage flood, supplemented by whatever
water naturallv flows In the rivers, the
irrigation of this acreage during the flood
period would be accomplished direct from
the river channel In other words, the
recent June flood which has caused such
havoc, would have been partially im
pounded in great reservoirs for use and
distribution iqurlng July, August and Sep
tember and partially spread out for the ir
rigation and soaking of perhaps 35 000,000
acres of thirsty land to a depth of eighteen
Inches or two feet This "secondary stor-
age," taken in connection with the thou
sands of miles of great canals, ditches and
farm laterals necessary to distribute this
water over such a vast acreage, would be
as important a factor as the reservoir
storage in natural basins thru the con
struction of great dams.
Yctuis \ery truly,
Guy E Mitchell,
Secretary National Irrigation Association.
Washington, D C , July 2.
out of ten a Kansas river is about as dry
as a Weary Walker 100 miles west of
Omaha, but when it does get busy the
Kansas waterway runs like a frightened
camel.
Milwaukee sent $1 000 of relief to the
Kansas flood sufferers During the hot
weather Milwaukee's brand of relief is
not so bad.
A comet discovered by Durrell at Mar
seilles has two tails Probably an ele
phant.
A discussion in the south of the prob
lem why negroes so rarely commit sui
cide, calls out the explanation from a
Missouri paper that when a negro sits
down to brood over his troubles, he
straightway goes to sleep and forgets
them.
William J. Bryan, Jr , age 17, has gone
fishing This palpable attempt to follow
in the footsteps of Grover Cleveland is a
sad blow to his father
When it makes up its mind to rain in
the northwest an umbrella is about as
useless as a palm leaf fan In Nebraska
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Lee of Missouri
has been badly hurt by charges that he
received a $1,000 bribe from the sugar
trust and another thousand from the to
bacco trust Mr Lee explains candidly
that the money was not a bribe but a gift
He did some work for the sugar trust
and Mr Havemeyer voluntarily sent him
a check for 000 H e accepted the check
from the tobacco trust simply as an act
of friendship because he had written the
world In Europe he was'received with
great honors by the scientific world The
professor tells many interesting things
about the scientific expedition with which
he was connected Several chapters re
late to his experience during the civil v,ar
He was then a professor in the college at
Columbia S C , and for some time chem
ist for a laboratory established by the con
federate government for the manufac
ture of medicines for the armv He suf
fered much loss when Sherman burned
Columbia and the college with it After
the war the professor was a member of
the faculty of the Univ ersity of California
He died in the Yosemite valley, a locality
greatly loved by him for its fine natural
scenery.
JEW BAITING IK RUSSIA AND HER AL
LEGED FRIENDSHIP FOR THE UNITED
STATES Bv a Russian American Diplomat
Washington, D C Price 10c For sale at the
newstunds By Jl McKenzie
The author has a very decided opinion
about the value of Russian avowals of
honest dealing about anything, as her
recoid is a record of mendacity and
treachery he thinks that it is only the
protest of the United States which is
holding in abeyance temporarily the com
plete Russian absorption and assimila
tion of the province of Manchuria ir
China The author professes to be in
timately conversant with Russian diplo
matic events from 1850 to the present time
and he traces her progress to the Pacific
bv force of arms and diplomacy, includ
ing the trick by which she secured the
lower Amov valley and Maritime Man
churia about forty years ago and her
treacherous occupation of lower Man
churia to-day and shows that Russia re
sents the occupation of the Philippines by
the United States, as she had set her
heart upon monopolizing the lion's share
of the oriental trade to promote which
the Trans-Siberian railway has been
pushed to completion Russia's claims of
devoted friendship for us are heavily
minimized by the author who recalls the
Intercourse between the two countries
from the war of the revolution to the
present time and demonstrates that from
the time of Catherine II Russia has been
really hostile to American interests
obituaries of some of the magnates, had
boosted others and did all of them a good
turn when he could. These reckless and
unfounded charges against our public of
ficials should cease.
Complaint is made by envious parties
in the east that Mrs Reggie Vanderbllt
carries an understudy so that all her dia
monds can be displayed at once What
is the use of hav mg diamonds If other peo
ple can't see them' And as diamonds
cannot be hung out on the clothes line,
an understudy is distinctly a brighter idea
than a safety deposit vault. Mrs Reggie
is a good deal of a genius.
One of the most conservative of Min
neapolis' physicians, a man who never
adds the artistic touch to a story for the
sake of making it a little better, tells of
an interesting case that wandered into
his waiting room the other day. The
"case" was a man rather tall and stout
who claimed to be suffering from dizziness
and occasional falling spells After some
talk and discussion of symptoms, etc , the
doctor asked the man what he ate for
breakfast
"I start oft with a quart of oatmeal."
The dootor started perceptibly.
THE MAGAZINES
The New England Magazine for July
contains an interesting account, with
illustrations, of the old Phillips Exeter
academy at Exeter, N. H , founded by
John Phillips In 1783 It has kept in
touch with the world's progress since It
has done a wonderful educative work
There is a fine sketch of the work of the
National Educational Association, now in
session in Boston, and Helen Davenport
contributes a valuable nature study "The
Story of the Birches," with illustrations
"The First American Geography ' is a val
uable bit of reminiscence by Clifton John
son, illustrated Of deep interest Is Mr
Geare's Illustrated account of the petri
fied tree region in Arizona and the prob
able causes of the phenomenon The fos
sil wood Is used In Its polished state for
table tops, mantels and wall decoration
(Boston, N o 6 Park square).
NEW BOOKS
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH LE
CONTE. Edited by William D. Armes. New
lork D Appleton & Co
The story of the late distinguished Pro
fessor Le Conte is admirably and best told
in this his autobiography. H e stood
conspicuous in the world of science as a
champion of the reaction against the
school of evolutionists who proclaimed
that the theory of evolution had anni
hilated the theory of Biblical inspiration,
religious faith and a Divine, superintend
ing Providence, and that God had been
driven out of his own creation and that
men are under the reign of an inexorable,
all compelling fate. Professor Le Conte
took* the position that all apparent Irre
ligious and materialistic implications of
science are reversed by the doctrine of
evolution, the materialistic Implication be
ing wholly unwarranted, and that evolu
tion Is entirely consistent with a rational
theism and with other fundamental re
ligious beliefs. In 1872 Professor Le
Conte admits that he was a "reluctant
evolutionist " He clarified the science
of biology and advanced the science of ge
ology In several particulars and was rec
ognized by the distinguished Professor
Carpenter, the British scientist, who gave
him credit for strengthening the deflnite
ness of the doctrine of the correlation of
physical, chemical and vital force H a
was recognised for his distinguished serv-
The Open Court (Chicago The Open
Court Publishing company) devotes much
space to the lectures of Friedrich Delltzch
on the Babylonian and Hebrew religions
and ethics, the reply of Delltzch to his
critics and Kaiser Wilhelm's letter to Ad
miral Hollman, president of the Oriental
Society Delitzch's theory of original
polytheism and Inferior ethics Is not
strengthened by his Babel argument The
children of Eber certainly received their
higher ethics and theology from a supe
rior jsource and the source could be no
other than the God who called them out
of the pollutions of Ur and enjoined them
to go west An interesting feature is a
reprint of Jean Baptiste Fere's "The Non
Existence of Napoleon," written some
what on the glan of Whately's "Historic
Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte."
"What's the matter
9 " asked the suf
ferer, "Isn't oatmeal healthy "
"All I ever saw was, ' replied the phy
sician "What else do you have for
breakfast
The sick man went on to say that he
usually ate eight or ten boiled eggs eigh
teen flapjacks, and four cups of strong cof
fee
' Is that alP"
The patient sufferer acknowledged that
it was, unless there were berries on the
table The course of treatment insisted on
by the doctor was so severe that he lost
a promising patient The beginning of
the treatment was that the poor sufferer
should eat less He was unable to stand
for it.
If you have $20 000 to put up for one, it
is now possible to order built a Santos
Dumont airship that will go with or
against an ordinary wind and that can be
lowered oi elevated by a simplpe mechan
ism The Santos-Dumont is not an ideal
airship because it carries a gas bag to hold
it up but it has the merit which most
other airships lack, of arriving at a place
without makirg use of the freight train
traveling in that direction There Is no
reason now why a wealthy manufacturer,
who is protected in his business by the
United States government should not go
from Minneapolis to his lake palace in his
own airship
Possibly* it might be well for a few
years while he is learning to run the ma
chine to have his clothes padded in case
of fall because this is a hard world
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Arboriculture (International Society of
Arboriculture Indianapolis Ind ) opens
with a discussion of the effect of forests
on meterological conditions, showing that
hte remov al of forests destroys the regular
and systematic electric connections be
t-ween earth and sky and induces violent
electrical energv and cloudbursts The
preservation of forests equalizes electrical
diffusion bringing about more regular and
useful rains The subject of floods and
protection from them is largely discussed.
The World To-da-. (Chicago Currenc
l^ncvclopedia company) maintains its rep
utation as a faithful recorder of the
world s progress for thirty day s prev ious
to each issue Special attention is given
to the worlds colonies the Welsh Eis
teddfod the Emerson centenary, the Rus
sian Jews the social movement in Amei -
ica, and summer fishing The numbpr
is profuselv illustrated and the record of
world's events is admirablv done
The Outlook has manv strong features
as ex-Secretary of the Navy Longs illus
trated sketch of "The New American
Navy" embodying an account of the cat
tle of Santiago The St Louis fair re
ceives due attention, and there is an en
tertaining account of the life of New York
pilots, with illustrations A most attract
ive nature studv is the illustrated paper
on willows bv J. Horace McFarland.
(New York The Outlook company, No
287 Fourth avenue )
The Architectural Record (New York
The Architectural Record company) con
tains an interesting paper on the restora
tion of the Chateau de Champs in France
a structure built in the reign of Louis
X \ and a favorite abode of Mme de
Pompadour A notable illustrated paper
by Mr David is on private residences for
banking firms, showing the comforts of
having dining-room, kitchen, private
rooms, etc , for members of the firm and
their guests, while the building has the
dignity of a private habitation as well is
having every business convenience There
is a fine illustrated paper on the relation
of sculpture to architecture and several
photos are given of interior v lews in Mrs
Paul Leicester Ford's residence in New
York
The Critic's tenth paper on the literary
landmarks of New York includes very In
teresting: reminiscences of Audubon,
whose farm and residence, which he called
Minniesland, is now covered with build
ings at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth
street In this place Audubon In his later
days wrote and painted Anne Lynch
whose salon was famous in the fifties is
referred to Here Edgar Poe used to' be
one of her guests Richard Henry Stod
dard, Bayard Taylor, Lydia M Child and
others were also found at Miss Lynch's.
In Artist Life in Ne w York," Mr Shel
ter relates interesting things about Arthur
Quartley, Napoleownl Saronv,atHalh Bisp.
ham, A W Drakd e W M Chase and oth
ers, ands of the Stone Mug Club Th
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The Booklover's Magazine contains a
valuable illustrated pap# by George W
Warden on "The Sun Is It Heaven'" em
bodying a very plausible theory as to the
derivation of the world's heat Professor
Du Bols of Atlanta university contributes
a valuable paper, with portraits, on "Pos
sibilities of the Negro, the Advanca
Guard of the Race " The professor is a
mulatto himself, but his remarks abou!
both fullbloods and halfcastes and theli
future cannot be successfully contra
dicted There is an interesting sketch of
Bret Harte with portraits, and other at -
tractive matter Philadelphia* Th
Library Publishing company, 1323 Walnut
street.
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A NEW COLOR LINE
* Philadelphia North American. *
A negro and a Chinaman having WOE
the highest honors at Yale, It would ap
pear that the color line has been so strict
ly drawn that the white students c
not pass it.
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