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In January and February, 1904, The Journal issued 1,010 pages in 51 week days, while the largest one-cent paper only issued 1,054 pages in 51 week days and nine big Sunday issues. BUT NOTE THIS The Journal is delivered at your home for 35 cents per month, while the Daily and Sunday one-cent paper is 45 cents per month, which is about 30 per cent higher sub scription price than The Journal's, with less than 5 per cent more pages. The Journal Goes Home! American Interest in British Pol itics. The narrow escape the Balfour min istry had in the British house of com mons on Monday is but one more sign of the approaching turnover in Brit ish politics. The people are evidently getting tired of the conservative par ty, and the liberals, who but a short time ago seemed to be on the verge of dissolution, are now almost cer tain to carry the country at the next election. This reaction Is partly due to a widespread feeling that the govern ment is not a strong one and to the dissatisfaction of the majority of the electors with the Chamberlain fiscal {CK6me, which has the sympathy, if not the support, of the government. The first flush of enthusiasm for the rieW cause has passed, and the reac tion has set in favorable to the policy in which almost all Englishmen have, -believed,for nearly half a century.' Neither at home nor in the colonies has the Chamberla in idea prospered as Mr. Chamberla in hoped it woul d. A first glance it would seem as if the colonies would be emphatically in fa vor of it, but a little examination into the question shows that there is really not much in it to arouse the interest Qf the colonies. Take Canada for example: The proposed tariff on breadstuffs and oth^r foods would, it has been figured, not add more than $6,000,000 a year to Canadian profits. I return for. this premium the Canadians would be expected to make sweeping reduc tions in the tariffs on English goods. The. preferential of one-third which those goods now enjoy In the Can a dian market has helped them only a very little. But the Canadians think they have gone to the limit already. Indeed, the Canadian proposition of those who wish to co-operate with Chamberla in is that the whole Canadian tariff be advanced first, and then give British goods a big preferential. But the ac tual duty on those goods might be higher under such an arrangement than it is at present.. There would be mighty little assistance to the British manufacturer in such a de vice, tho there would be much for the Canadian manufacturer. It would be a lop-sided trade. The British consumer would merely ha ve taxed himself" to benefit the Canadian -pro ducer of goods and would have re ceived nothing in return except,.per haps, a loss of a part of his Canadian trade. With the defeat of the conservative party in Erigland and the continuation of the. Laurier government* in .power in Canada,-there will likely come a time in the ne xt three or four years when the negotiation of a reciprocity treaty with Canada will be quite po s sible. Will our government have the disposition and the foresight to seize the opportunity when it arises? Governor Dockery of Missouri, head of the democratic machine in that state, claims credit for the state administra tion for the indictment and' prosecution ,of the boodlers, rather than concede any thing to Prosecuting Attorney Folk of'St*. Louis. This claim, of the governor' iho Kansas City Star very frankly concedes on the theory that but for thegovernor and. his machine there would have been no boodlers to indict. It is only fair to give the devil'his due, and the .Star' insists on doing it. Canal Commission's Duties. The president's letter of instruc tions to the Isthmian canal commis sion, issued yesterday, is the letter of a man who appreciat es the magnitude and difficulty of the work of inter oceanic canai construction by the United States government, and the necessity of making a record of public works construction, unstained or sul lied by jobbery of any kind, and com pleted fully within the lines of abso lute economy, consistent with the best quality of the work required. The calamitous failure of the Lesseps organization has left its mark between Colon and Panama in ruined structures and rusted machinery. The history of the Lesseps canalization is the history of monumental en-, gineering incompetency, grotesque ex travagance, misappropriation of funds, and a wide swath of stealing. Lesseps himself was not bred to engineering" he had cut a level canal thru the level neck of land between the Red sea and the Mediterranean, where were no difficult engineeri ng problems to solve. The Walker com missi on is charged with the -prosecu tion of ope of the most difficult en gineering feats of our age. I tropi cal regions, the ability of the engineer Is severely tested in the construction of works with a view of making them proof against the effects of the rainy season. A flood of a night may de molish costly works, and tropical fevers may fight against both laborers and engineers.. The president counse ls the commis sion to make the canal strip, thru the application of scientific sanitation and hygiene, as near a health resort as science an make it. urges the necessity of such supervision of ex penditures as is the habit of a private corporation dependent for its profits oh the returns, and, in accordance with his instinctive love of honest public service and efficiency in every department, he dwel ls upon their re sponsibility and places the commis sioners'on their mettle, as the agents for "the construction of one of the greatest of the world's public works, which will reflect high honor upon the nation. "You represent the whole country," says the president. "You represent neither section nor party. I have not sought to find out the politics of a single one of you, and, indeed, I have not the slightest idea what your politi cal affiliations are." Western civilization has, blossomed in Japin into a legislative scandal. Members of the diet are accused of having sup ported increased compensation to. manu facturers for government supplies under a private arrangement by which they Were to get a share of the' increase. An Irish Cato. John Redmond has the rugged- pW^.' sistence of Cato, the censor, who, in his octogenarian days, thundered his "Delenda est Carthago in the ears of. the Roman senators, urging them to anoth er War with Cartha ge to an nihilate that troublesome oversea en emy. This Irish... Cato made one of his most vigorous appeals* Sunday, a meeting of Irish nationalists.at Maiii-, Chester, to.gird themselves.for:a morS strenuous struggle for home rule in. Ireland and the destruction of the a ct of union of 1801. The first business of the Irish party, he declared, is to strike down the Balfour government and see that no government is put in power which refuses to grant home .rule to the Irish. The present conservative govern ment believed that chronio Irish dis content and unrest would be perma nent ly removed, if a measure to meet the land hunger of the Irish people we re passed. Last August a new Irish land bill was passed, nearly unan i mously, by the house of commons and by the lords, who had killed the Glad-, stone home rule bill in 1893. This measure provides for government aid. to the peasants who desire to buy their holdings and become proprietors, and covers about 400,000 .holdings by ten ants, British credit being pledged to the-extent of $500,000',000 in order to finance the transaction. Three com missioners are provided to arrange the terms between landlords and tenants, the latter to rep ay the money ad vanced over a term of sixty-two years, whi le the government makes the land lords a present of $60,000,000 for agreeing to sell out. Mr. Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland, introduced the "measure and commented upon.it as if he believed it would absolutely pacify Irish unrest and bring about permanent harmony^ William Q'Brien,* chief of the Irish land league, declared when the bill was passed: "Now, for the first time, 1 can say, 'God save the king." At first even John Redmond said it might be regarded as a concession to home .rule, and-was apparent ly a fair measure, as far as it went. Later he declared in his speeches that no one ne ed expect the champidns of home rule to dissolve their fighting organi zation. The land bill, manifestly/ removes one of the chief caus es of Irish mis ery and discontentlandlordism, and absentee landlordism andv brutal agents of landlords. This', .measure embodies more far-reachi ng relief for Ireland than any measure put thru by a liberal party ministry. But men like Redmond receive such conces sions as ttieir right, and the sentiment of gratitude does not enter into their view of the matter. *They want re peal of the act of union of 1801 and an Irish parliame nt at Dublin for Irish they" wapt legislation, with no more connecti on with the British govr ernrtient than has the Australian com monwealth. rA-large element of the Irish party Want ari Irish republic. The surren der of Ireland by Englahd, the With-I drawal of British garrisons arid royal constabulary from authority in Ire land, ^he dissolution of the union, wouid ve ry surely bring about serious antagonism between the yet, consid erable elerrieht in Ireland which de sires to continue the imperial connec tion and the would-be founders of an Irish republic, who seem anxious to show their ability to construct a hew nation and develop Irisfh 'resources. If the nationalist leader* expe ct to draw to the Emerald Isle the millions of Irishmen now located in this coun try, and thruout the world, they are probably mistaken/ If such a rush ttf Ireland took place, the respiting over population Would.asphyxiate htfiftanity there. On the whol e, it will be best for Mr. Redmond and is -fellow agitators for Irish nationalism to reflect that, if an actual strategic movementwere made by them to actualize thesir program,, the result would be 'a physical Strug gle with the imperial government which they could not maintai n. Irish gains politically and industrially and socially have been many! 'and'.benefi- cent during the last half century of agitation, and, with the continuous growth of' autonomous llocltl govern ment the land question det at rest by the recent legislation,, and the pres ent industrial development- continued and strengthened, the people profita bly employed, and the island self-con tained arid prosperous, ijt wbuld seem, folly to risk bringing the whole island and its people into a welter of blood thru the agitation of a predestined failure. \iV'- They are talking about nominating Mr. Cleveland for governor of New Jersey. It is said he would accept that office, but Would not take the democratic nomina tion for president. Mr. Cleveland knows what is going to happen in November just as well as anybody, and is in no self sacrificing mood. One-Sided Educational Effort. This is commencement ay at the School of Agriculture at St. Anthony Park. Ninety more farmer girls and boys, after completing a three years' course, return to their rural homes to put in practice the new ideas they have learned at the farm school. Ag riculture is getting more out of in dustrial training in this state than any other branch of manual industry. There are the professional and sci entific schools,, of course, but ma,nual industry of no other branch-is en joying a tithe of the benefits derived by agriculture from practical train ing of workers by experts. Thi train i ng is conceded to be a splendid thing for agriculture in Minnesota. The same amount of money and time and skill spent in training young men and women .for other industrial pursuits! would no doubt produ ce equally b6ne| ficial results. If it is a proper thing lor.th state of Minneso ta to spend public money to make good farmers -^r-ahd! we think it is-r-^wfty wouldn't it be^equally legitimate and profitable to spend money to make good artisans"' and train men for the shops and fac^ tories as well as for the farm? ,*vThey think it is in ,sqjhe countries, but if the manufacturers of Minnesota should ask the state to do for. them what the state does for the farmers what would the legislature, which pours out money liberally for agri cultural education* "think about it?-. W e, do not want, any thi ng less done for agricultural education than iS'd'eme niyvv* It's worth What -it costs. !-But this matter of industrial* straining is treated by the state in a' veryf-he- sided fashion as yet.'.' :-^l. Germany is neutral, of course, but it is noticed that Emperor William, has-just re fused three cruisers built for Germany, at Kiel and Settin on the ground that they did not conform to the terms of the con tract, and that'Russia is negotiating for their purchase. It is possible that these cruisers would have been, satisfactory if Russia had not heeded them. p\ Who Shall Hold the Reins? The plain statement of- James J. If ill, president of the Northern Securities com- pany," that the decision' of the supreme court would be obeyed and that .the Northern. Securities company, would .---be dissolved, when compared with the ihier i view. of Judge Collins upon this decision, who, being something of a lawyer, krtbws that the-matter .is finally determined is somewhat interesting and shows to what politicians will resort to mislead the peo ple. Mr. Sill comes out plainly and says that the law will be obeyed. Mr. Collins says that it is now the duty of the peo ple to see that men are chosen to office who will enforce the laws against such illegal combinations, carrying,the idea, of course, that he is the only man Who" can be trusted to .do this work. If every fair minded citiKeh in the state will .read these two interviews in an impartial manner the result will probably be entirely differ ent from that which was Intended by -Mr. Collins' demagogic remarks,NortKfleld News,-". v- W will not question that the editor,of the News, Mr. Heatwole, is quite conversant with Mr. Hill's plants His relations with Mr. Hill are- sup* pbSed' to have been sufficiently inti mate to qualify him to speak author i tatively on this subject. A the same time the information that comes not only to The Journal but to the press generally as to .the plaAs of ike promoters of the Northern Securities company does not fully,coincide with' what iS quoted from the News W do not undertake to say that Mr. Hill will not obey the orders, of the court. ItMiB,6ne~ thing, however, to obey the orders of the court to the letter, and quite, another thing to re move entirely from the range, of posy sib.ilities a course of action, which, left entirely to itself, would make the,tfe* cision of the court of little practical effect. The proprietor of the*" Nprthfiei^ NeWs may b|^uitesatis4ea tS6|--dismiss the merger rdm any^ further "consiaer- ation. It does not see*& to have' been regarded by him as a matter of much importance* at. any timean if lie be comes axontrolling force in state poli tics, as lie aspires'to/be, the merger matter may be regarded as he says "Anally determin ed in Minnesota." The natu re of that "final determina tion" it would p'e^a pV bf quite un necessary to analyze or Ascribe. If the people of. tJie atate teeiitHat they can be satisfied wiih. the "final deter mination", which S|r. Heatwole would be Ukely to Jaccept'and approve, they Will be 'justified to/giving him the political reins* \$$?'-:: It^iif'l Criticism of the supervisor of the Watfcr department by the cou&JiH does hot ex cuse tbat body from r^pbnsibiUfy for the pollution Of the cityy water supply. The supervisor has been an insubordinate! un ruly arid dominating boss dii the-water department for' years.. The numbers of the council knew fa^Thej^'&kve' been warned by the hewspa$er/smore/thanbhee of his disregard o .-^^^%0^ by fum ing on tfye"lower.^m^'s-^vii^ut ..notice, and he shdiip^v^^e^^eitg^d for in- subordihation^bnj^gp^'i'lj^M' all rigftt to kick the supeWisor-4ie deserves it. no doubtbut the people an indignant and outraged public is disposed to kick are the supervisors of the supervisor. "Billy" Edwards,, the "bi mit" man, Who exposed the police graft in Minneap olis, has just received in Duluth an inde terminate sentence to-the penitentiary for playing his "big mit" game upon an in nocent farmer in St. Louis county.' While "Billy" was very useful in" Minneapolis, he never won the entire confidence and esteem of this community. The rural route mail carriers are deliv ering mail in Minnesota at 80,000 homes. There, are now 800 routes in Minnesota, averaging 100 families to the route, and it is expected that Within the' year 400 more will be added, ilu^ajfr^e delivery is doing more than anything^ else to make rural life attractive. The Globe seems to be laboring under the delusion that somebody is paying at tention to its agitation over the prison shoe contract. Webster Davis saysbut then, it long ago ceased to make any difference what Webster Davis says.- WHAT 0THEB PEOPLE THJNK People who have things to say to the public that ought to be said are Invited to use this column. But the space Is limited, and all communications must be "boiled down" as much as possible. Three hundred words Is a safe limit. A Plea for Sympathy. To the Editor of The Journal. There is so much exhortation, nowa days, by would-be reformers, both from the. pulpit and the press, to those who have strayed from the paths of rectitude, to, return to the straight and narrow way, and such a weary lack of the helping hand in .lifting up the fallen, and assisting them to walk. When ..we read the story of the treatment of tne good Samaritan toward the poor traveler, and of the priest and Levite who passed by oh the other'Side* we are Strongly reminded ,of its application to-day... Like,,the preach ing at'pebple to-day, was the conduct of these two who "pasSeds'by.^-!Doubtless, they thought of the popr'^yicftfm' With ee8nmisesrat4offiand vile an outcast. Butwhe the Samari tan came'along, what did he do? F^rst, he raised him up, put -his-arms around him, dirt and all, and lifted him' out of the mire. And then, to judge from actions, to-day, he said: to him, "Now I have helped you out of this hole you are in, you'd better go somewhere where you can get cleaned up respect ably. The road is very rough, and as you have once fallen' and are so weak, be careful how you walk, and don't get into any more pitfalls. Of course,, being so.sore and bruised, and lame, you can't go Very fast, but don't get discouraged or lonely! No doubt you'd like a cafre to help you walk, or ahvarm to lean on till you are stronger, and someone to show a little Sympathy when you become dis couraged, for it's a hard, trying way to the strongest, bUt as you are not in my legitimate circle of ministry, you can't expect me to do more for-you, in fact any such desire is foolish weakness on your part. Just 'set your face -like .a flint' toward home,- and. keep going.that way no matter how. hard it is. I have other things more .important to attend to, so good day, arid pleasant journey!" And, then went his way, leaving the poor soul, wounded in body and spirit, so weak and discouraged that he'".: cared little whether he lived or died. Would we not all Condemn this as unchristian heart lessness! But no, this is not.the picture. See what followed when he got him -out of the mire. First, he took means for healing the deadly wounds, and bound them Up, bathing them -With oil and wine, expensive articles in that day, symbolizing joy and spiritual suc cor, and then placed him tenderly on his Own horse, thus providing physical support to the needy one, and that by sacrificing his own comfort, and, placing him arm around him walked^ beside hini over the rough way, doubly dangerous to the weak, discouraged soul, giving, him the sympathy he so much needed. And he walked beside him, that he .might lean on him when he lieeded support, and that he might cheer him all the hard journey to its end. 'Vshe&f source. located: he were not so And this is the part that seems to be so universally forgotten. Those just rescued from the quicksands of life, all bruised and weakened from the unequal struggle, and longing for human sympathy, are thrown stones, instead of bread to strengthen them. They do not satisfy the soul-hunger for "sympathy. "Vox." THE SPIRIT HE HEARD NEWS OF THE BOOK WORlD ^'Jd.., i 1 -'5*'* v.-.-. The Jewish- Encyclopedia "Now Half Com- pletedSljtth Volume Has Just :,Been IssuedAn Admirable Little Book Giv ing the ftt^ry of Parsifal and an Analy sis *,of the Opera for Those Not Trained lii Mifjslcr i'i- Captain Charles sTJotter, United States engineer in Duluth, has been reading up on spiritualism of iate. The other after noon, being at leisure in his office, he was absorbed in a book which treats of his favorite topic, wheri he hejard a hollow nroice in the rooni/ The captain wel comed the manifestation, which was much more convlnCirig than anything he had seen or heard ixi' seances.' The voice seemed to come "from behind his desk and seemed to come from behind his desk ah Holmei. who writes of the suWecl -be the captain proceeded to,.hunt for its gjris thusr the general direction from -which the voice was coming and kept crowding his left ear that way. He listened intently, and the hallow, distant, tomblike voice was' heard to say: ''Please hang up your receiver." Thin the mys tery was cleared up, Captain "Pptter hung up' the receiver of the desk telephone, which he had accidentally left Off the hook, arid he read no more thhe] spirit ualist book that-day. SQUAW MEN IN PUBLlG^IFE New Yoik Telegrarii^ Governor Van Sant of Minnesota," wfib precipitated the, merger case, la described in the house' bf representatives, as. "a blanket Indian republican. He'.is a re piibiicari who aetually meant what, ybu fellows Were, .pretending to mean, when yd'u Were applauding a. moment ago." Wow! That's great. Ifoo "riiariy squaw men in public life. i iCi A BUSINESS OPENING 0 1 Wktmb- rfiauk Genter Herald. y-' rf If every man who has been promised an appointment in this gubernatorial cam paign receives one, we are going to sell the Herald and start ja hotel near the new capitol. vp"i.-''y^.' The'sixth volume of The Jewish Ency clopedia is put, thus completing half of this monumental work. The volume ranges from "GOd" to "Istria," Within that range covering, 1,813 topics, requiring the wofc of 194 collatorators and editors. In articles relating to Tahhudlc lore "and modern biography this volume will be found particularly jrjch, while the Biblical, theological,- historical, arid philosophical contributions are especially noteworthy not only on account of the nature of the topics treated, but also because of. the proriiinehc in'sthe authors. schoiariy v, world of their An especially noteworthy feature of this voluriie is its wealth in Bible topics. Many of the articles contributed are from the pens of recognized authorities in Biblical lore f6r Dr. Hirseh,. the editor of the de partment, has succeeded in securing for his department the collaboration of such eminent authorities as Dr. Adolph Buch ler professbr In the Jewish Theological seminary of Vienna, Austrian Professor Victor Ryssel of the University of Zurich, Switzerland Dr Immanuel Benzinger of the University of Berlin Professor Wil- helfcT Nowack of the University of Stras burg, Germany Dr. A. H. Sayce of Ox ford university, Oxford, England and Professor T. K. Cheyne, D. D., Litt.D., canon of Rochester cathedral, Rochester, England, editor of the recently completed "Encyclopedia Biblica" Dr. J. P. Peters of New. York Professor J, F. McCurdy of the! University college, Toronto, Canada Dr.lHv Hyvernat of the Catholic Univer sity of America, Washington, D. etc. Dr, Hirsch himself under the rubric "God" (pp, .1-14) contributes an elaborate essay wjaich will be perused with interest by all ^students of theology, and above*:all by the. Christian theologian, who will here for the. first time get the history of the idea- of God as written by a liberal Jewish theologian A subject!of curious interest in this de partment, is- "Hair" (pp. 157-158), an ar ticle contributed by Dr. Immanuel Ben zinger. Here the writer describes the fashion of wearing the hair by men and women,.. also the religious customs fol lowed. The rabbinical section of this sub ject, written under'the direction of Dr. Solomon Sehechter, president of the fac ulty, of the Jewish theological Semmary in America, is supplied by Dr. I. Broyde, who tells, us that in rabbinical times "a man who curled his hair was regarded as a vain person. At the age of 17 Joseph was still termed 'na'ar,' or lad, because he-wa s. childish enough to curl his hair. Elijah "had, naturally curly hair his ene mies however, mocked him, declaring tha'ivhe curled it. While Samson was titled by the Holy Spirit, his hair," we are told "made a noise like bells,, arid the sound was heard from Zorah to Esh tadi To Jew' and Christian alike the life story of Jewish activity told in the articles on the various states and cities of the union, and much of which has never been told before, cdnieW as a revelation. The history of the. state of Iowa (pp. 613-614), dating from the year 1847, when Jews'are known to' have settled thereV is contrib uted by Rabbi William H. Firieschreiber of Davenport, Iowa. Under the editorship of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, one of the foremost exponents of Jewish learning ort the American con tinent, the Encyclopedia has made a sys tematic attempt toward presenting a scir entific compendium of Jewish theology. The work in this department is thoro and comprehensive, as it is in all departments. The.volume is freely illustrated, as the other ^volumes have been,: The entifte $brk will be completed Dec. 31, 1905. RUTH JJoENE&Y STTTART. The author of "George Washington Jones," published by the Hettry Altemus Co., Phila delphia. far. the most satisfactory thing in explanation of "Parsifal", that has, come to The Uneasy. Chair's notice is Parsifal, the story and an analysis of Wagner's great opera by H. R. Haweis, published in the Mnk & Wagnalls company's "libur ^Glass Stories," from the author's :Musical Memories." It opens with a -brief statement of the legend' of the Holy "(Srail. Then follows the analysis of the play by acts.t with brief remarks about the na ture of the music accompanying the vari ous scenes. These remarks are in no sense technical a child could understand them,, and yet .they give a clear idea of what the' great coriiposer was'aiming at in the music of the opera. "No words," as the author says, "can give any idea of the splendor and coiriplexity of that sound.ocean upon which the drama floats from beginning to end." The layman who is planning to hear the approaching "Par- ""-1" rt concert under the direction of Wal sifal' ter Damrosch would find a reading of the book Would, add greatly, to. his apprecia tion of the concert. The Uneasy Chair. MAGAZINE WONDERS Boxing Horses*One- of the new things in the world is told of in Pearson's for April..tr It is^ bpxhig by horses.,. lTb w3ec* tt ..p f'- J'W school, pf equestrian, training has achieved many triumphs during the past, decade or two, but it is questionable whether anything more..remarkable has ,happehed than the success which attended the efforts of A. B. Powell ?the well-known English veteran tutor of the noblest of our four-footed friends. He has actually taught a pair-of beautiful horses the noble art of self-defense, an art in which the intelligent ani mals Appear to take the greatest pleasure. Among other features. of the magazine is Cyrus Townsend Brady's Story of a fight of 22 whites against 3,00.0 'Indiariss^Cap tain Powell and his men against Red Cloud, Aug. .3rf 18JS7^". v^f:iv::t?, Immigration Problems.~Roland P. Falkner, chief of rthe division of docu ments, library of corigress, in an article in the Political Science Quarterly forMarclv says, he doe.s. not think any serious .new prbbleftis have developed'in connection With .American .immigration. Hisconclu siori from an extended investigation is inr part-a* follows: v-- r,- The evidence of a declining' average ol intelli gence ahd capacity which has been alleged' to characterize recent immigration Is Just as conclu sive as that brought forward to sbow- an increas ing volume. However serious the problems-of immigration, they are not new problems, nor are they more urgent to-day- than before. Other articles in the "number are "Ger many, Great Britain and the ^United StatesV' by 3. Wv BiirgesSj "Our Mbham Ihedan Subjects,", by,E. Aa0odg6 "The International Me&afttlleV$fe*Hne. Com- Pthy/'. by E. S.^Mettde: ''The Mfrimum Sacrifice Theory of, ^xatfen,": by'T. it. Carver" "New England Colonial Finance," by H. L. Osgood and others. Wfl off Reform.The twentieth Cen tury Quarterly, the organ -6f Interna tional Reform Bureau,' Vlotr double NO. 8, IS out. With encouraging reports of progress. The headquarters of the bii:, Teair are at 103 Maryland avenue NE, Washington. Industrial Corporations Reports.The Manual .of Statistics Supplement for March is largely given up to them. BOOKS RECEIVED THE JEWISH EHOYCLOffEDIA. k- Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Isidore Singer, Ph. .p., projector and managing editor. Vol. VI. iGod to. foitria. view York! Funk & Wagnalls company? Price in advance of publication, $6. PABSIFAL, Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera By H. R. Haweis. New York: Funk & Wagnalls company. Price 40 cents. MINNESOTA POLITICS Suggestion of Judge Thayer for Roose velt's Opponent Being Considered by Western Democrats Ramsey County "Kids" Running the City' Campaign Sixth District Coming In Line for Col lins Indications of a Link Between Judge Jaggard and E. T. Young. Former members of the legislature are working for the nomination of E. T. Young for attorney general. Nearly all Young's old colleagues are doing what they can for him.' On the other hand, W. J. Dpnahower Is strong among county officers, with whom he has worked in an official capacity for the last five years, and counts a great deal on their support. It would be interesting to see the lines drawn and se which crowd has the most influence in the convention, legislators or county officers. Judge, Collins' friends-in the sixth dis trict laugh- at the claims made by the Dunn managers in that territory. Instead of a majority of the delegates going to Dunn, they concede the Princeton man less than a third. The only- counties he has a good prospect of carrying are Crow Wing and Morrison. From the talk of delegates to the state convention, it is apparent that there will be hard fighting all thru the district, but there is a strong tide setting in away from Dunn, and Collins' chances.look the best in Wright, Sherburne, Todd, Wadena, Hubbard %and Cass. He is certain to carry Stearns and Benton. In Meeker county Peter E. Han son and A. T. Koerrier are both for Dunn, and.Until lately it has looked like Dunn territory, but there is a change there and the outcome is uncertain. Douglas is like ly to cast Its vote for Eddy, and with the Glenwood man out of the race will be divided The campaign forjudge Jaggard. of St. Paul is.progressing vigorously, and there are strong indications that his interests will become linked with those of E. T. Young, candidate for attorney general. Jaggard's friends .claim that his candidacy is not antagonistic to W. J. Donahowe'r. Nevertheless, the Donahower men do not look, with favor on the Jaggard movement. This is not due entirely to the fact that both come from the same county. W. B. Douglas and Donahower 'are being pro moted^tqgether, and are friends from long association in the. office. This makes their interests in large measure Identical. The Lovely, Lewis and Brown combina tion is holding together well and is work ing to bring Douglas and.Jaggard into a lone contest for fourth place. This nat urally causes a "community of Interest" between Jaggard. and Young on one side and Douglas .and Donahower on the other. The St. Cloud Journal-Press has been a persistent, supporter of Congressman Buchman, but his declaration for Dunn has strained Editor Eastman's friendship, as the following paragraph indicates: "There is no question but the sentiment against Buckman is growing, and it large ly comes from his interviews on the gov ernorship contest. Foster is not'in favor, and the people opposed to Buckman are industriously looking for an acceptable man to lead the fight." Dr. G. C. Gilbert of Grand Rapids is a .notable accession ..to the ranks of the republican- party. He has been one of the fighting democrats of- northern "Min nesota, and is stilr the Vltasca county mfember of the democratic state commit tee. He.is out In *fl interview announcing his allegiance to- the republican. party, and saying that the only sensible course for the democratic party is to come out and support Roosevelt. Friends of C. A. Smith are indignant oyer recent statements in the St Paul Globe, Faribault vJournal and other Dunn organs reflecting on Mr. Smith's partv loyalty. Such reports have been whis" pered about among the curbstone "knock ers, but never came to Mv. Smith's at tention until published this week. He de nounces them as absolutely false, and his friends say thats they know he has never Set^ hi ,^i the.republica 8 uppor There is consternation* in'the Collins Cmp over the ^report itbatE.- H. Black burn has come out^for Dunn, s-s* i--..jj:--... The Morris Tribune observes M$^ ''T he state convention at Minneapolis must have been a jolly gathering, for they adopted resolutions favoring every phase of the present tariff discussion and in dorsing everybody from, president to con gressman/* Charles B. Cheney, .!& THE NONPABEJI, MAN Western democrats are taking some in terest in the suggestion made by the New York World, proposing Judge Amos M. Thayer of St. Louis as a candidate for the presidency. Judge Thayer was ap pointed by Grovcr Cleveland in 1894 as a member of the circuit court of appeals, and having been out of politics since that sure that he ..or she' is of a .susr time has not mixed himself up with either plclous or "foxy" nature. The "fox gf Wing of, the party. He has leaped into j-riaana Irn a choicAfterwardsnumbersJpetwe^nexplainnthehumbeewhetak.otthe*folikelyesi prominence by his opinion in the North ern Securities case, which was indorsed by the sripreme court as good law, after it had been approved by the public as good economic doctrine. The New York World's suggestion is attracting consid erable attention. The strong argument in favor of Judge Thayer is that his nomina tion would rob the republicans of a motir opoly of the antimerger issue, and give democracy a candidate with something more of a platform ,than "I aril a demo- crat." Judge Thayer is a nephew.-,. of former Senator Jay La Due of Luverne, one of the old war horses of the Minnesota de mocracy, a family connection which will recommen'd him in this part of the coun' try. The Rahtsey county "kids" may not b*e very wise in the game of politics, as Fred Sclrffiri&n maintains, but they are good enough to suit the candidates on the re publican city ticket at the spring elec tion. They are heeding the fatherly advice of .their frier, as of the big four, and will "get a little experience" working to elect Colonel Wright over Mayor "Bob" Smith. Fenton G. Warner has been chosen sec retary, of the campaign committee, and Frank Haskell, assistant secretary. Both are Colling men and leading spirits in the "kid" element, which dominated the re cent county and district conventions. waff the "kids" on the Ramsey dele gation who were responsible for making A. R. McGill an alternate at large instead of Dar Reese. Some member of the dele gation nominated Reese, but his voice was drowned in cries of "McGill," and Chairman Hugo could not hear anything else. ten 0n nine. tw in th this peculiarity. $ Description of MliWSReidma^Stunt./ijhat" Is Quite Simple When It Is Fully Ex- plainedHow to Shine 3S\ Society hy Posing 'ASla "Wlz." S ft you Tyaht to play'th* "s^ariy"-in little social.affairs .a godd gametfS to ask a man to pick out some numbers between 1 and 10 and to hold it in his min T*me times out of ten he wIIP take th# number seven. If you tell him this is file num ber, nine times out of ten he wul acCtiS:* you of "reading his mind," whateven that may mean. ^j l"' It is not difficult to understand why'tfte mind should run to the number seVfeh, Seven is the most prominent figure be'- tween one and ten. It is the most poptt?ar number in the line, and is associated' With more things than any other number,^m it is Quite reasonable that the mind Should light on seven. A person is more apt to thfek ot the number seven than he is to write it, a fact which seems to be due to the difference in time required by the two j)ree"esse:S. Seven flashes first in the mind, and the mind holds the impression where the proposition is to simply think of a number whereas, if the suggestion is to write a number the mind may desert the: pression seven, and go to some other num ber. Try the experiment on a roomful of peo ple and they'll think you are a "wiz."' It is quite as easy to guess a number between ten and twenty as bet-Green one and ten. A person will almost invariably select the number thirteen or if he "passes that by, his choice is likely to .fall on seventeen. One may property askfor,a least two guesses and the effect will be almost equally surprising if either of them is correct. If a person does, however, choose some number outside of -seven or thir teen or seventeen you may be first im- 8 your system to the crowd you can get laugh on the "foxy" party by showing Dentist Winter lingers around the sore tooth of spring. 0*}'.J The Big Fork, Minn., Oompassr-'-seea signs. It sings: r^'_'' We've got a grist of chilblains, A favorite frozen thumb Our ears still FUOW the frostbites Our toes are strangely numb,^-. Eut the winter's growing feeble and the spring is coining on. If true, this is encouraging. Our upper forty still shows a Siberian appearance. The Bemidji Pioneer's hated rival hav ing quit the field, the Pioneer says: "The heavy editorial man, it is understood, has accepted a position bark marking logs for a new sawmill in the Big Fork country." At the Chatelet theater in Paris, says a dispatch from that town yesterday,, a determined demonstration was made against the piano on the ground thatit is not a musical instrument, and that it should be abolished from the orchestral concert stage. We have had our suspi cions about the piano for,the past twenty yearS^-.'It'iriay be a musical Instrument, but we dislike the company it often keeps. Miss Chariot ta Hart, daughter of Charles Hart, a wealthy manufacturer of Cleveland, Ohio, was married six weeks ago in Vienpa to Julius Takacs de Kis Kova, who was represented to be of noble birth, of high social position and of inde pendent fortune. Saturday she brought suit in Cleveland for divorce and filed a petition in bankruptcy. She says she was tricked into the marriage, and had to pav WfhOOG of hem husband's debts. She ays that he had not even- a. respectable poSi^" tion in society. Always investigate your baron first and. marry him afterwards- it absolutely necessary." Chicago is struggling with a grave ques tion. It is this: "Must a lawyer be a hypocrite and a liar?" Last Saturday, during argufriem#^ new trial for tfte uxbarn bandits. At torney George^I. Popham. counsel for Marx, frankly ^}d the court that he be lieved there? wew|b?iriaterial errors fn^he record, and that he could not conscien tiously make an argument for a new trial. He asked the? ourt, however, to grant Marx time enough to procure new counsel if he desired. TWQ well-known attorneys in the court room, listening to the proceedings, re marked to each other that no lawyer had the right to make such a speechthat a lawyer's duty was to fight to the end. Had Mr. Popham followed out "this theory of legal practice, he would have made an-argument. twisting the law and facts to suit his purpose, altho he knew that every word he uttered was a lie altho he knew that he was playing a hypocritical part. The question theri "is thus: Was it Mr. Popham's uty to argue for a new trial, when he knew that tf he did so he would be acting under false pretenses? What do you think? A. J. R. AT THE THEATERS rOYEE CHAT. the engagement of Paid Gilmore in' "The Mummy and the Humming JBird" at the Metro politan to-night. in "Alexander the Great," the historical drama in which Louis James and Frederick Warde will appear during their engagement the latter part of tola week.at the Metropolitan, a marvelous piece of stagecraft is disclosed when a vivid reproduc tion of a scone in the mountains above the clouds is shown with a violent electric storm, followed by BUOW, sleet and hail, followed by a beautiful mountain sunrise. Francis Wilson is a name to conjure with when It is mentioned in connection with "Erminie." In the cities where the revival of this famous comis opera classic has been seen this season the business has been enormous. Mr. Wilson and a start cast will present this opera at the Metro politan during the entire .week beginning next Alonday evening. Goodly bouses are seeing "The Sign, of ths Four," as presented by Walter Edwards and an admirable company at the Bijou this week. "For Her Children's Sake," a stirring melo drama by Theodore Kremer, wlU be the attrac tion at the Bijou next week. In the vaudeville contingent of the Rentz Santley company, now appearing at the Dewey, are such well-known artists as the Yamamoto Brothers, a Japanese novelty act, and Sabine & Vera in gymnastic feats. There wil be si spe cial ladies' matinee on Friday. WANTED NO FRILLS Lloyd Morgan, professor of mineralogy at the University of Oxford, England, tells a story of an English commercial mag nate which" equals those absurd but Ver acious tales that used to come, out of Chicago. He says that the great mer chant in question came to him to consult about .the instruction, of the hopeful son and heir who was Some day to run the vast business interests from which "the pater", had made his wealth. "But mind you," said he, "I don't want him to learn about strata, or dips, 01 faults, or up heavals, or denudations, and I don't want him to All his mind with fossils .or stuff about crystals. What I want him to learn is how to find gold and silver, and copper in" paying quantities, siri^ paying'quan tities." S- the. question of a w:.d ^'TRIGGfS' UNIVERSITY" '.'The Chicago papers .say, in' explaining the dismjssal of Professor. Trlggs ir\)m Chicago university, that Griggs may have beeirstne victitriof iire sensathmaircoitege reporter infesting Chicago university, or he may have honestly earned his fame, but at any rate he filled more space in' the newspapers, jear 'in and*jyear" President -Harper. The Chicago papers say that When Dr. Harper traveled-in Rus sia last year he was presented to the e&ir.zffi- On his explaining he was from Chicago university, the czar said: "Oh, yes, that's Triggs' university." The professor's fate was then sealed. -1' out, Vn&n. 4,\\