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Richards, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania system E Johnson, president of the Norfolk & Western railroad, and others almost as prominent in manufacturing and trans portation, gives a new significance to he gathering. I means that the men who denude the forests have been awakened to the necessity of their re production, and this is hopeful of a practical amount of work in that direc tion. The chief engineer of the Penn sylvania, discussing tho problem of sup plying railroad ties, said that this de mand alone requires the product of 200,000 acres of woodland annually. I the face of the utter abandon with which industries have heretofore stripped the lands and done nothing toward, reforesting, these figures are significant ofa wood famine the not distant future unless the policy of the great industries is radically changed. President Elliott spoke on the de pendence of business interests on the forests, in which he showed the impor tance of the railroads co-operating cor dially with the government in the pres ervation of timber lands. Mr. Weyer haeuser, from the standpoint of a prac tical lumberman, cordially indorsed the policy of the government on forest preservation and reforesting. Th French ambassador, M. Jusseraud, was called upon and told the delegates that the difference between France and America is that in France nothing is thrown awaynot a rag, a bone or a piece of wood. The French, he said, are an example that a people may love their laugh and their song and yet be truly economical of their resources. I the French had been only singers, he aid, they would have long ago disap peared. President Roosevelt was also among the speakeis, and his address was full of information, of interest in the sub ject and contained some of the presi dent's characteristically frank opinions. scored the "land skinners" and de clared himself and his administration o be against them and with the man Who develops the country. Great good should come out of this meeting, which brought together men who were there, not as altruists, but as business men, whose necessities have suddenly' brought them into harmony and co-operation with the dreamers and the forest lovers. Of course W. P. Roberts objected, always does. He Free Seed Wheat. This demand of the northwestern wheat farmer that he be allowed to import Canadian wheat for seed free of duty suggests an interesting view of he question which the farmer may be found urging with emphasis before the matter is disposed of. The miller asks for the privilege of importing Canadian whe at free of duty for the purpose of manufacturing it and exporting the flour. Th privilege of drawback or free importation is granted in other industries and it is no perversion of the law as a morning contemporary would ."have it to grant to the miller the "concession he asks for. p^ Bu suppose the farmer presents his ys.eas in this fashion: I do not H^want Canadian wheat to sell I shall ffe'not put it into domestic consumption in competition with American wheat. ^Witti it I shall produce other wheat by ^planting it in the ground or put it thru a process which may be likened in some particulars to that of the mill er by sowing it I will produce more wheat and will oblige myself to export it to the extent at least in bushels of ihe amount imported for seed. Why may not I then enjoy the same privilege of free importation for the preservation of my industry of wheat Raising that the miller demands for he preservation of his industry of manufacturing flour for export?" 1 W do not say that we offer this view as our own, but shall not be surprised at its appearance. Whether the free importation of seed wheat is justified on such ground or on any grounds comparing the claims of one industry with the other, we should be glad to see the northwestern farmers granted the privilege of importing seed wheat free of duty, even if it.requires special legislation to secure the privi lege. The wheat imported does not come in competition with American wheat. I is not desired to import it on account of the price, but because wheat suitable for seed of the kind adapted to the northwest can not be found in sufficient quantities, it is claimed, on the American side. Cer tainly our tariff laws, in their rigid ad herence to the protective principle, will not destroy or seriously damage one of our most important industries, when it is face to face with a situation like this. Let us have peace. But the Colorado legislature is in session! Architects and Reporters. The Minnesota legislature shows a dis position to hold aloof from reporters. The architect's ideas of how to keep re porters from finding out about it are indorsed in the rules and nothing seems to stand in the way of a perpetual ex ecutive session. The architect's ideas seem to have been drawn from Washing ton conditions, which are not analogous to the local conditions. While it is true that congress does not permit correspon dents on the floor, it is also true that the Associated Press, which carries all of the routine report of congressional do ings, is admitted to the floor. There is no association reporting the proceedings of the state legislature, but a number of daily newspapers have their representa tives present, making individual and independent reports for their respective papers. Each report is supposed to be complete in itself. Then again, the congress of the United States furnishes a complete stenographic report of its proceedings in the Congres sional Record, which is in addition to the official "journal of the house and sen ate. The legislature of Minnesota does not furnish a report of its proceedings and it is assuming a position in its Tules which will make it impossible for the newspapers to furnish it. Hence the as sumption that the house and senate are going into perpetual executive session. The theory on which the reporters are excluded from the floor does not rec ognize them as public servants. They are classed with lobbyists and idlers whose presence obstructs and distracts the working of the members. This is so incorrect a view that it seems unnec essary to state any arguments on its fallacy. Reporting the proceedings of the leg islature is hard work, requiring close ap plication, acquaintance with legislative methods and intimacy with the contents of intricate and often weigh ty docu ments. The facts in regard to any pro posed legislation cannot be obtained from a gallery inspection of it. I it be argued that the Washington correspon dents get their information from the gallery it is sufficient to reply that the routine of bills is obtained for every newspaper by the Associated Press, and An "impregnable" fortress is a good deal like a "fireproof" building. What Is Naval Efficiency? mored cruisers and four protected cruis ers, fully comparable with the best naval construction in the world. The prepon derance of the battleship in tho new con struction is' noticeable, and the results of twenty years of revived interest in he navy are meeting the needs of the country. The war of naval types, which began, it may be Said, with the battle of the Monitor and Merrimac off Fortress Monroe, which sealed the doom of wooden walls,'' cannot be said to have ended even with the conclusion of the British admiralty and the United States naval board that the battleship is the leading maker of seapower. So far, ac cepted tvpcs have about five year s' dura tion before a new type comes from some active brain and displaces to a greater or lesser degree the preceding type. The obsequies of Tom Piatt have been indefinitely postponed owing to the per sistent objections of the corpse. Judge Dickinson on the Grand Jury. the Associated Press has access to the that grand jury final Reports have "done clerk's desk. I it were not so, the A sociated Press would be as impotent to correctly report the proceedings of con gress as the reporters are today to make a proper and accurate digest of the pro ceedings of the Minnesota legislature. Some one blundered in the arrange ment of the rooms of the house and sen ate when the press was entirely over looked. The easiest way for any sena tor or representative to satisf3' himself on this question would be for him to put in a day in the reportorial coop and then tell us what he learned about the proceedings. I would not take him long. The United States naval board, Ad miral Dewey presiding, after reviewing the operations of the navies of the com batants in the orient last year, concludes with much positiveness that the com mand of the sea must be measured by the number of battleships owned by a nation and the efficiency of the naval personnel, quoting the leading British authority in naval affairs, Lord Sel borne, first lord of the admiralty, that "without battleships no power can hold or win command of the sea." It is undoubtedly true that Japan's chief naval strength lay in her half doz en battleships, the loss of the Hatsuse, which was sunk by a Bussian mine, be ing in the nature of a national calamity, but the heaviest naval losses of the Kussians were entailed by the good Jap anese gunnery directed from 203-Meter hill, while three Eussian ships were put out of action by the Ja battleships on the occasion of the sortie of Aug. 10 from the harbor of Port Arthur. Th superior handling of the Ja battleships off Port Arthur kept the Eussian squad ron in Port Arthur in large measure par alyzed, and made it useless for offensive purposes, especially after the terrible tragedy of the Petropavlovsk. The naval board regards as insignifi cant the results of torpedo practice dur ing the war, as the hits were compara tively few in number, and the Ja night attacks with torpedo craft nearly all failed. Ye the report of the board concedes that it was the disabling of three Eussian battleships by., the Jap torpedoboat flotilla, at the commence ment of the war, which gave Japan the mastery of the sea and an unobstructed path for her transports to carry troops to the Manchurian coast, avoiding the long march thru Korea. This success, however, does not shake the faith of the board in the supremacy of the battleship, which was indeed, the chief strength of the blockade of Port Arthur. The floating mine played an im portant part in the operations, as the Eussians lost their costliest battleship by such means, and the only battleship the Japs lost was the victim of a Eus sian mine. The preponderance of American naval opinion favors the battleship, in spite of possible mortality thru accurate torpedo hits ana the impact of floating mines, which may in an instant send to the bot om a $10,000,000 battleship. Our gov ernment is constructing eight battle When Judge Dickinson swung with his left on the grand jury "final re port" a palladium of our liberties' sighed for Blucher or the three-minute gong. Judge Dickinson has studied the subject and he has made a mental picture of a grand jury holding a trembling public official by the scruff of the collar and saying "We, the grand jury, cannot find that has done anything for which we can indict him, but we hereby solemnly warn him not to do it again." Grand juries, if Judge Dickinson prevails, will hereafter confine themselves to formally accusing the wicked and cease from anathema tizing the whole community. But it is a question whether the grand juries will see it as the judge sees it. law they are charged with the duty of inspecting conditions at workhouses, prisons and poorhouses. The duty to inspect certainly implies the duty to report, for of what use would their information be if it did not reach the couvrt in a formal way! The impression carried by Judge Dickinson's charge is that the grand juries are common scolds whose formal reports menace the reputation of public officials without accusing them of any specific offense. This is surely a nar row view of the grand jury report. I seldom deals with individuals but al most always with conditions. Public officials who are doing their duty are always glad to see the grand jury and to get the benefit of its indorsement, because it is non-partjzan. "x much more good than harm. Perhaps the grand juries do sometimes go off on a tangent, but so do the courts. Th records of Hennepin county will show some intemperate charges from th bench as well as some intemperate re ports from grand, juries. The people by their vote3 have au thorized the legislature to abolish the grand jury system, if it seems to that body to be best to do so. I such action is taken, the administration of criminal justice will revert to the old plan of di rect presentment to the trial court on an individual complaint. T^hfe. counjy at torneys will naturally have a! of responsibility placed upon them in determining whether or not a warrant shall issue in any particular case. A timid county attorney, acting alone, would be very slow to start proceedings against a corrupt administration. Th Joseph W. Folks are not elected every year. We believe the grand jury ought to be retained in some form and we believe that a large part of its usefulness will always be found in its "final reports." shins of the first class, seven biir ar-l'or the statute prescribes favorable action ^1$t t^H^ Major George H. Williams of Portland, Ore., who has been indicted by the grand jury for failure to enforce the laws against gambling, has had a long and varied ca reer in politics. A far back as 1871 hepersons," was a memoer of the joint high commis sion which arranged the Alabama claims treaty. President Grant made him at torney general in his second cabinet and in 1873 nominated him to a vacancy in the United States supreme bench, but the sen ate did not think so well of him as did the president, and he was not confirmed. He had the nickname in Washington of "Landaulet" Williams, because of the smart turnout he drove. After his term as attorney general he practiced law in Washington for a time and eventually re turned to Oregon. He is now 83 years of age. When you read the message of Govern or Johnson, concluding with that splendid exhortation and pledge to a high stand ard of official service, and when you en joyed the admirable style in which it was expressed, did you recall the fact that the man who wrote it was once the little chap who quit school in St. Peter at the age of 11 years to help his mother sup port the family of younger brothers and sisters? When you are looking for a good example of a self-made man, where the job has been well done, you need not go any further than the statehouse in St.THEY PaulX It still affords some who are distinctly out of sympathy with the antimerger movement, a good deal of satisfaction to belittle as far as possible the official ca reer of Governor Van Sant, but the his torian of the future will find a lot in that period of four years, for whicli the gov ernor was responsible, out of which to make history. The Boston common council by a prac tically unanimous vote has passed an or der authorizing the city "to make and sell gas and electricity for lighting, heating and power purposes. By" a tjwa to one vote the aldermen have concurred in this action. But there will be no undue hurry, Friday Evening fff^^Tf4t?1^^^|:^^^lTH E MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. January 6, -1905." Why should not those who are la xi the administration of their offices be braced up by a grand jury visitation? Some of the most important reforms that have come about in Hennepin county have come as the result of grand jury reports. Reference need be made only to improved sanitary conditions at the poorhouse and workhouse, to the move ment for the collection of delinquent personal taxes and to the passage of the wineroom ordinance, all of which came about as the direct result of grand jury probing, to justify the conclusion by two successive city ^councils, together with approval by the^tftayor, and then a reference of the question" to"a vote of the people. This seems like a long way around, but It is a matter on which snap judgment ought not to be taken. The legislature trieflito make amends for failure to fly the -iflag on the new statehouse when the new governor was in augurated- by ordering- up two flags. That's the way Mark Twain made up for his dereliction in the matter of lightning rodshe put them everywhere"one on the cow and two on the cook." Nine Johnsons stood in the doorway of the mayor's office yesterday casting sheep's eyes toward an appointment. The Johnsons have obtained the governorship and the Joneses the mayoralty. Isn't it a good time to bring forward X, T, and Izzard, comparatively ^sparsely populated patrons of the directory* The Japanese find that they have cap tured more Russians lhap. they expected at Port Arthur. The total is nearly 48,000, including 16,000 in hospitals. General Stoessel, who had his, grave picked out and tombstone clipped, is eating three Squares a day at Nogi' headquarters. Judge Orr of St. Baul has decided that soldiers at Fort Snelling are citizens of Minnesota, for the purposes of taxation anyhow. W cannot do too much to in duce the soldier to brood over the fact that the military is subordinate to theunder civil powerexcept in time of riot. A member of New York's "600" recent ly offered $250 for enough strawberries for five people that evening. It took sev en hours to find them, but they were final ly produced. At this time of year straw berries may wither, but the dried prune of commerce is always young. William Randolph Hearst announces that he will never again be a candidate for a public office, and will retire at the close of his coming term as a congress man. Willie has matured with encourag ing rapidity since last summer. If you want to hear some language not in the goo-goo books, interview one o. those citizens in Minneapolis who made an honest return of his personal property and then had it raised 60 per cent by the state "equalizers." The Associated Press Is able to an nounce positively that Admiral Roiest vensky will be immediately recalled. All of the Hull fishing boats have been haulec# on shore. Jj Pasadena is holding a rose fete. Pas adena may be all right on roses, but Min nesota's cow is producing a brand of but ter that California cannot touch. The Union Pacific is preparing to use gasolene motor cars on its branch lines. These cars can make sixty miles an hour if necessary, and smell accordin*. A few days ago the Indianapolis News said that Admiral Rojestvensky had no place to go but back. This is a mistake He might go down or up. Front the Port Arthur RampartDon't overlook Stoessel's great sale of damaged fortifications., r^. ^e^ge^sale. Nothing reserved A local cont'ernfjdrafy reports a fine opening for a barbershop at Robbinsdale Whiskers are growing all over the place. Mayor Jones has recommended the early closing to Sodinl and "The Syndicate. There is no money in gambling anyhow. "THE WILD LOON OF THE SEA" Memphis Commercial-Appeal. It has paid the Japanese evidently to husband their naval resources and com bine caution with valor. They have lost only one battleship, which accidentally struck a floating mine some distance out at sea, two protected cruisers, two gun boats, a dispatch boat and several tor pedp' boats and destroyers. Their splen did navy is practically intact, while the Russian Pacific fleet has been utterly de stroyed. Judging then by results, the Japanese have conducted one of the most wonderful naval campaigns the world has ever seen. Admiral Togo can now de vote a couple of months to the necessary repairs on his ships, and if that wild loon of the sea, Rojestvensky, ever reaches the far eastern waters, and the Japanese can get a whack at him, it will be about the easiest pickings they have ever had. TO THE WORKHOUSE Kansas City Times. The latest suggestion for the treatment of prisoners in workhouses comes from Alderman Johuson of Chicago. "Nothirg but flower beds, downy lawns and scented ways should be given these unfortunate said the alderman to a commit tee of the council. "Let all the prisoners get out into the pure air. Give them tender memories of the fields. Let it beFifty 'Three months^ in the park,' and not 'Ninety days in the jug.'" The alderman's feelings and his originality alike do him credit. BUT HE IS NO ONE'S HERO New York Press. Charles Midas Schwab was a poor, bare footed boy in the mountains of Pennsyl vania. Today he is able to drop $10,000,- 000 in a deal and look pleasant wear shoes costing $50 a pair live in an apartment for which he pays $50,000 a year build a $3,000,000 palace and pay $5 fpr a 1-cent newspaper. That is the very essence of material success. BIG CRACK NEEDED St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A crack in the moon eighty miles long has been discovered. A crack about that size across the isthmus of Panama would help some. HAD A STORY TO TELL Denver Post. The oldest man In Missouri has just died at Joplin. He held on tenaciously un til he had lived to see the state go repub lican, and was then content to go. ARE DOING WEtL WITHOUT IT Memphis Commercial-Appeal. No corporation will make a mistake by taking the people into its confidence. NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS The season now will soon arrive When mortal man will nobly strive To kill the weeds, at one stout blow, Which in his moral garden grow. A day or two, a week, and then The weeds have sprang to life again He learns that with'-His single blow He stimulates the weeds to grow. This knowledge causes him to shun The work he has so .well begun And, White his soaring spirits drop. He .vows he'll get jfe%Jx year's crop. kut'onjy to* a^. last, succeeds In ridding any ground of weeds ^h. Who follows up thj^wiwk begun" And grubs them all-out-one by one. A. W. Speur. NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD THE UNEASY CHAIR A Treasure^Book of Hebraic Humor and of Food for Sociological ThoughtHumor and sociology may seem incongruous com panions, but they stand hand in hand on almost every page of that quite remark able book, Little Citizens the Humors of School Life, by Myra Kelly. No one would accuse the author of hav ing sought to titillate sociological lessons or suggestions into the minds of those who might make philanthropic use of them. Nevertheless in her Hebralcally humorous and Anglo-Saxonly simple sketches she has impressed some lessons, which, from having them with us always, we are prone to forget. For instance, there is that very primary matter of the importance of the public school for such a district as the ghetto of New York city. What a very paradise the school must be to the He brew children of such a quarter, if diaction rected by sympathetic teachers! And what angels of light the teachers! Can any reader of "A Christmas Present for a Lady" doubt the truth underlying these exclamations? Here Is a roomful of Jew ish children of the poorest type bringing to their beloved teacher such Christmas gifts as were possible for them to get, and what do they bring? "Nathan Horowitz presented a small cup and saucer Isidore Applebaum be stowed a large calendar for the year be fore last Sadie Gonorowsky brought a basket containing a bottle of perfume, a thimble and a bright silk handkerchief Sarah Schrodsky offered a penwiper and a yellow celluloid collarbutton, and Eva Kidansky gave an elaborate nasal douche, the pleasant delusion that it was an atomizer." And soap! There was enough of it to wash the school, which, doubtless, is say ing much. MYRA KELLY, "Little Citizens the Humors of School Life.*' Author of 4 r 4 Likewise there is that other primary matterthe value of parks right in thefeelings hearts of cities. Read Miss Kelly's "The Land of Heart's Desire" and get into your mind new light on this subject and into your heart an antidote for complainings against extra park taxes. See this little pilgrimage of ghetto children from their tenement homes to what was for some of them the first sight of green grass and flowers in Central parkj New York. Be hold one of them: "Eva lay face downward (on the grass) and peered wonderingly deep into the root of thinss. 'Don't it Smells nice'' she gloated. 'Don't it looks nice! Mj ain't we bavin' the party-time!' And that iust for common grass. If you want the humor of the book you will find much of it in this same pilgrim age. It took the members of the little party weeks to get together just enough money for the carfare to and from the park. Every penny was precious, and to be guarded against loss with extreme care. How extreme that care, is shown the precautions of Becky Zalmonowsky, who when the conductor appeared had to marshal her pennies. "One penny was in her shoe, another in her stocking, two in the lining of her hat, and one in the large and dilapidated chat elaine bag which dangled at her knees." Then there was Patrick, whose name would indicate that he was in the wrong flock, and the following discussion on styles in male attire: '"Darkly Patrick scowled upon this un conscious rival, and guilefully he remarked to Eva: 'Red neckties Is nice, don't you think?' 'Awful nice,' Eva agreed "but they ain't so stylish like high-stiffs. High stiffs und derbies is awful stylish.' Miss Kelly's evident adherence to facts, or at least to fiction in strict harmony wlth facts, coupled with her perfectly limpid method and style, make her ven ture into a new field of literary material an event of more than u,sual note in the book world. McClnre, Phillips & Co., New York. Life Story of Tom Keenan, Who Has Been "Railroading" for Fifty Years. years takes one back to the days of single tracks, telegraphless roads, "arm strong" brakes, lengthwise ties, and all the rest that went with primitive railroading that is fifty years from the time Tom Keenan was placed on thediences, "scrap heap," as the retired list is called among railroad men. In view of his service when railroads were a new thing, the story of Tom Keenan, Locomotive En gineer, has a special interest, both for the general reader and for the railroad man. It has another interest also, and that is for the railroad' and non-railroad Y. M. C. A, worker, for "Tom" came to be known as Rev. Tom Keenan, D.D., at least he once received a letter so ad new dressed. The author who tells Keenan's story is Neason Jones, and he tells it well. Fleming H. Revell company, New York. $1 net. THE MAGAZINES Japan's Sacred Mission.In the Jan uary number of the North American Re view, Paul S. Reinsch, professor of po litical science In the University of Wis consin, points out, convincingly, the nat ural connection which there is between the position and ambition *of Japan and Asiatic leadership. The broader and more representative minds among the Asiatic races have begun to realize the unity of Asiatic civilization. In its essence. Ori ental life is totally different from western life, and frequently expresses itself on the surface in customs and institutions which seem to us bizarre and even bar barous. Of the vast and ancient civiliza tion of Asia, Japanese life is the flower and concentrated essence, and within the last decade there has dawned upon the Japanese mind the realization of a sacred mission, by which the island nation is called to summon the peoples of Asia to a realization of their unity, and to defend the ideals and treasures of Asiatic life against ruthless destruction thru foreign invasion. Th spectre of the "yellow peril" which has been evoked in conse quence Is an absolute chimera. Japan's ambition is perfectly natural and honor able, and her attitude before and since the war broke out has been unequivocal. As represented by the nations which are its true exponents, the first characteristic of Asiatic civilization is peacefulness I SS S 3efi? neither China, India, nor Japan, has ever engaged in offensive warfare of conquest. In the same magazine "Mark Twain" suggests that the protection of copyright shall be continued beyond the forty-two years to any book whose owner publishes, in the forty-second year, a cheap edi tion, and that the protection shall re main so long as the cheap edition is kept on sale. The article is in the shape of an open letter to the register of copy rights. AT THE THEATERS MetropolitanRobert Edeson in "Strong, heart." William C. De Mille has written a race problem play in "Strongheart," with American foojtball for a background. This singular combination of themes, justified perhaps by the important position Car lisle Indian players have taken in the football world, is nevertheless incongru ous and the play, in spite of its rapid and its ingenious construction, cannot in the nature of things be a pleas ant one to see. Race prejudice is deep rooted. The soul of the white man re volts at the thought that any of his wom ankind should wed a man of another hue. Prejudice Is stronger than logic and stronger than any human emotion except love. The author recognizes these facts and bows to them in the denouement. Starting with the hypothesis that his ed-, ucated Indian is the equal in every re spect of his matesas strong and fleet and heady on the gridiron, as intelligent and cultured in the classroom, as well man nered in society and as high-minded and honorable in the affairs of lifeMr. Mille is nevertheless compelled in the end to forbid the banns. The return of the chief to his people alone is not only an artistic denouementit is the- only one possible. So that while the race problem has been handled strongly and artistical ly, it remains an unpleasant theme for an American drama. The football in the play Is quite another matter. Here the playwright stands on solid ground and his pictures of the great American game are drawn with a sure and graphic touch. It is probable that for its football alone, "Strongheart" will be a success. Certainly a more stirring act than that in the team's training quaiters between the halves, one could not wish to see iAv possible in real life. But these may be covered with the ample mantle of dra matic license. Mr. Edeson undertakes the always seri ous role of Strongheart and plays it with earnestness and fidelity. His reproduction of the Indian physiognomy, voIceT speech' and manner is irreproachable? while the S?^o1 simple grandeur of the Indian's nature- it onstrated in "Ranson's Folly"has a gift for natural, unstrained comedv and the fact that this gets no opportunity in 1 the role of the Indian, is a oss and a dls appointment. But there is no lack of comedy in the plav, and it is of the fresh I free sort to be expected in this college P atmosphere. The various types of college ^rt life are cleverly illustratedBilly thej freshman but made of the right stuff (Richard Sterling) Reade, the grind op pressively learned and amusingly awk ward (Taylor Holmes) the head coach fi?wi to fill the picture Sydneey Ainsworth does the traitor on the teah with discretion, and Francis Bonnr as raptam of the team T\ we 0 i..3jj)j'^.ujJiinij thu th an wlc SiPt1S' a plot turns, but which would be utterly im- are, it is tips th cafr is clamped to the track, I breakage the coal, true, some inconsistenciessuch ahs the The tipping of the car sends the coal long interva1lJ betweene the halvesh and the into a pan, which also tips correspond- ^SJ ha th las A 1 9 ^""n* Brcese), and other ha!fbacs ea a S lke fu ry Orally, the bestowed iSnroles important to th SmSK ldln feminine roles aret of* minornot importance Louise Mollie, in with fX Comptocnc eplaysfot ab nffh ar i but convTnc Possiblelove to con a S Perha vince such a role Dallas Tyler sup plies some refreshingly ingenuous comedy in her scenes with Billy, while Percita West makes the best of a small role The teamw .looks fi andt no donhtr SaS P*kt them win afte ou, looking them over carefully. This means that the players on the stage have S selected to look as If they might rlallv^ Players off the stage. Wheri th* !J tlon is put on in New YoS In tK" 0 future it certainly oTght to "go^' Tut there's no telling what Gotham i i ik W. B. Chamberlain. Foyer Chat. Nankeville's Consolidated Minstrels will furnish the entertainment at thebe Metropolitan for the ha'f-week opening Sunday evening. The company is headed by the eminent jester, Billy Van. A hearty welcome awaits Charles Hawtrey, who will present his world famous success, "A Message from Mars," at the Metropolitan for three nights and matinee, commencing next Thursday night. "A Tip on the Derby," Filson and Er rors laugh-provoking playlet, continues to give great enjoyment to Orpheum au sharing honors with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy, "Mike," the dog with the human mind, and other good vaude ville features on the bill. The charming little Florence Bindley is appearing in "The Street Singer" at the Bijou this week. A strong lesson is said to be embodied in the story of "After Midnight," the melodramatic production which will be seen at the Bijou the coming week. Three more performances of "Under Two Flags" will be given by the Ferris Stork company at the Lyceum. Next week the company will play "When W Were Twenty-one," with Dick Ferris and Florence Stone both in the cast. Tonight is amateur night again at the Unique, and it is promised that the big gest amateur program of the season will be given, with an amateur carolist to sing the illustrated song. THEY HAVE CAUSE TO FEAR Philadelphia American. No one need fear the. "square deal" ex cept crooked corporations and grafting railroad officials. WHEN? Kansas City Star. The people, and not the trusts, going to-rule this country. MODERN TANTALUS He may eat from gold and silver plate While liveried flunkeys round him wait He may drink from goblets of crystal and gold And the wines in his cellar are rare and old. Tet this envied mortal is ill at ease, Perhaps you think he is hard to please, But you wouldn't like it much, I think, If your doctor would scarce let you eat or drink. Chicago Record-Herald. ESSES "*&*$ THEY JUGGLE WITH COALIp BIG MACHINES HANDLE THEM LTKE MATCHBOXES. One That Dumps Thirty Oars of Coal an HourLatest Type of Industrial Giants Which I Loading Vessels for the United States Steel Corporation But Little Breakage of the CoaL Philadelphia, Jan. 6.Of all the time-saving and labor-saving appli ances which are enabling the twentieth century American to do his work more quickly and more cheaply than it was ever done before, none perhaps are more remarkable than the ingenious "car dumpers" or car dumping machines, the function of which is to quickly transfer the contents of railroad cars to the cargo holds of freight-carrying ships. There are in use in this country half a dozen different styles of these machines, each excellent in its way but representing a step in the evolu tion of this class of machines, for the development of the car dumper, during the comparatively few years it has been in progress, has been a very rapid one. The fundamental principle of all car dumpers is the same. Each different t^^e of machine serves to overturn a loaded coal car completely, or at least sufficiently to allow its contents to either fall directly into the open hold of a vessel or into a huge metal pan sus pended from the machine and from which the fuel slides thru a chute into the vessel. The latter method is em ployed in the machines of most recent design because of the fact that it re duces to a minimum the breakage of the coal. Handles Thirty Cars an Hour. _ Probably the character of the car The crafty "coach, "goading Yis~men dumping machine and the scope of its on to deeds of might by every device he worr be best outlined by giving can commandcajolery, insults, impreca- a i tions, threats and pleadingsmakes a successful of the machines recently scene that will appeal to every man who erectedapparently installed by the knows football, and will strongly grip the United States Steel corporation, corn- interest of everyone who doesn't. It is monly known as the steel trust. This a glimpse of real footballthe strenuous machine is guaranteed to transfer fif- absorbing game that leaves room for teen cars of coal an hour to vessels, naught else in the mind of the man in but experience has proven that nearly training. It is not the football the spec- double that number of cars can be tator in the grandstand goes crazy over, handled under favorable conditions, but the Inside of the game from Cars to be unloaded are first run the standpoint of the player. And then down an incline and, upon being cut later, when Strongheart, barred from the loose, run into a kick-up track. A the game, follows its course with tense inter- car passes under an overheadexcessiveethktanyan est and describes to his injured team mate coal is wetted, and then by a hauling what is happening, the scene has all the system the car is brought under the dramatic interest of Rebecca describing cradle of fhe machine. A this cradle the battle to Ivanhoe. Ther,elf efmay description of one of the most Preventing ln ^y the pan fills it is lowered back into a horizontal position, and thus the coal is transferred gradually to the ves sel. The cradle has also been mean80hvtn while lowered backu i Is impressively revealed in the love scene. But Mr. Edesonas he dem Co inth and hpositionn 1Y ch 11 a loadedr car pushess th.tee empty out.n IH? rw hlC hu tu automaticallone whe ch ?u 8 3s pa Th ,Vs op mee ThG th ttoSna th hn ke 1 S i chut th an a telescopic, an maa thusr an vessel.d Th ca tiP ad 8 th uste Pr is operated by an engine 8 inehes Tlli dum Pye an 1 6 th no 8t Another engine of 12 inchesn hauls the car into telescopi an cra erate aa apparatuth ie buy an of 6 by 8 inches, supplieengin.e wte from a 150-horsepow boiler On the occasion of a test recently made, the machine above described raised a loaded car, transferred its con tents and returned the empty car to the track all within the space of one minute. Another new type of car dumper very similar in design and mode of operation to the one just men tioned, is claimed to be capable of handling a car a minute continuously if operated at its highest speed but the maintenance of any such rapidity of operation for any prolonged inter val is impracticable from the fact that it would be a physical impossibility for the laborers in the hold of the ves sel to distribute the coal rapidly enough to keep the hatch clear for the almost continuous stream of fuel from the car dumper. Next to the scheme for reducing the breakage of the coal by arranging for the tipping of car and pan simulta neously, so that the movement of the coal is a gradual one, probably the most important of recent improvements in car-dumping machines is found in an arrangement whereby the backward movement of the loaded pan is so ad justed as to permit of the car from which it has just been loaded being turned completely bottom side up, so that every vestige of the contents mav discharged. The car is held to the track by heavy chains. I these latest approved styles of cardumpers, not onlv is every movement of the coal during its entire period of transference a slid ing one, but every movement of the mechanism is positive and every strain is in the direction of resistance. Even the passage of the coal thru the chute is a gradual one. To be sure, the chute is almost perpendicular, but it is kept so full of coal and the telescope end shortened so gradually that it is im possible for any of the coal to descend with a rush. Two Good Records. Some very remarkable records have been made by the car-dumping machines the loading' of vessels. On one oc casion upward of 3,000 tons of coal were placed aboard a steamer in seven and one-half hours. The Hocking Val ley railroad attained, with the aid of one of tnese machines, a coal-loading record of 403 tons an hour for eleven hours. In the interval mentioned there was dumped a total of 165 cars, or 4,432 tons. A still better record432 tons an hourhas recently been established. On this occasion a total of 175 carloads of 4,756 tons of coal were placed aboard a vessel in eleven hours' working time. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. A woman seems to be afraid of pretty nearly everything the world except the man she is married to. It's terribly tantalizing the way a girl holds her lips in a kissing position when a lot of people are in the room. One of the mysteries of life is how a woman could bait a six-foot man and then go upstairs and faint because she thinks there is a mouse in the closet. A man is pretty lucky if he can get a tie and a pair of gloves, which he would have to have anyway, out of all the money his family spends for Christmas. A good way for a woman to break her husband of the habit of smoking the house is to make it so unpleasant for him that he will do it in some other, wo man's house. IN BOSTON. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. *C. Puyster (to stableman from the west)Extricate this quadruped from the vehicle. Donate him an adequate supply of nutritious elements. And when the aurora of the morning illumines the east ern horizon I will award you an ample compensation for your amiable hospitalit Stableman (to hostler)The guy says to give the nag a mit full of oats. He'll chuck you two bits in the morning.- *&*