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I Esteemed contemporaries along the
line are shaking the big stick at the
Hepburn bill. The Boston Transcript,
vhie inclines toward moderation in
all thiugs, views it as a 'compromise."
The New York Press, with a gift for
explosive language, entitles it "Hep
burn's bill to perpetuate railroad ex
tortiou It declares that the bill is
loaded with opportunities for hair-split
ting, and alludes to "the Satanic cun
ning which plans to wear down the
complaining shipper bv delays until he
in driven out of business or dies of
old age." This is, of course, hvperbole,
5 for the shipper, without any law at
mil, has done neither the one nor the
other.
The .Journal has heretofore said
that the section which abolishes the
interstate commission and immediately
re establishes it, has a queer look, and
that the absence ot anv provision for
the control of private-car lines was a
mistake, unless it was intended to cover
the subject by the Stevens bill or in
lome other way.
It is difficult to believe that Mr.
Hepburn, after numerous White-House
conferences, has brought in a plan
which purposely breaks the word of
promise to the president's hopes. The
bill probably is a compromise, but not
necessarily a sell-out, as the Press in
fers. It course in the house will cer
tainly develop its true character. If
it does not meet the real demands of
the country it will most likely be
dropped and the president will present
the subject to a new congress, better
educated on the needs of business.
Bather a year's delay than a compro
mise on a law that does not clearly
and unequivocally declare the govern
ment's right and determination to make
reasonable rates where the common car
rier will not.
While congress is likely to provide for
the free importation of seed wheat, some
of the real farmers are quite sure that
rusted wheat will grow just as well as
anv. The Jewell Nursery company at
Lake City tells The Journal today
about an interesting experiment. This is
doubtless a safe rule, that no wheat is of
too high quality for seed purposes.
Lawson Becoming Tedious.
1 Interest in the Lawson disclosures is
no longer so intense, as is shown by
tho fact that the magazine in which
'c the Frenzied Finance'' articles ap
pear has suffered a loss in circulation,
compared with the former high mark.
In and about the financial district of
A'ow York, the newsdealers ordered
rt.92jj copies of 1 he .iamiarv issue and
returned onlv 895 copies unsold. Of
Hie Februarv number 4,335 copies were
ordered and 2,.'140 were unsold to Mon
fla\ of this week. Possiblv the finan
cial district is not the best place to go
for evidence of interest, yet outside
rpports ha\ been somewhat less favor
able to high circulation as well, and it
'i clear that the publishers will find it
hard to maintaiu the totals at anywhere
*near the figure for .January, when about
700.000 copies were printed.
The reason for waning interest is
that Lawson has strung out his story
'a! too great length. Some of his arti
cles have been mtenselv interesting,
and no one, whether he agrees entirely
with Lawson or not, can deny him
^original st.yle, great strength, and abil
bity to hold the reader. Bu long sus
pense results in time in flattened in
terest. Lawson has made some start
ling disclosures, but always, at the end,
fthere was the promise of the big thing
yet to come. Everything that was said
^was understood to be but preparation
'for what was to be said, and all the
January, and the January number had
5 it dated for February, and the Feb
ruary number, introducing the fore
part, fails to make the tremendous hit
expected, for the reason that the great
I performance has been billed to death.
I All this is entirely aside from the
good that Lawson may have done by
i-his articles, and is consideration only
of the dramatic makeup of the man
and its expression in his stories. I
jslJawsou made any mistake, it was that
the planned to cover too great a time
space with his disclosures. must
|be a great writer indeed, who can hold
Ithe public for a long time, to one
I strain, in these days.. Time was when
*"the villain still pursued her," and,
|"to be continued in our next" was the
tbottom line of the great serial stories.
|Today the public is fickle and tires
jeasilv, and it is" a little dangerous to
world was told to wait for the big I quired vote on a home rule charter to a
ijehow. The world bought the December majority of those voting on the ques-
2 number and found the show billed for tion.
Friday Evening,
ing that naturally arises, that, if the
writer has anything startling to say,
he would cut it down to say it and
have done with it.
Another unpleasant Japanese war exer
cise is called ken-jitsu. It is two-handed
sword play, and a man who doesn't know
the game lasts in front of it about as
long as a snowball in a certain warm
climate we do not care to mention here.
Toe-Marking Time.
Mr. Williams of Mississippi, who a
few days ago, was ready to resign,
seems to have recovered the use of his
army. led them up to the skirmish
line yesterday and had them throw a
few barrels of shrapnel among the rail
road republicans. Discussing the rate
making problem, Mr. Williams declared
that the democrats in the house were
ready to toe-mark the tracks of the
president" on that question, and he
called upon the republicans to do the
same.
What the president asked congress
to do was to "confer upon the inter
state commerce commission the power
to revise rates and regulations, the
revised rate to go into effect at once
and to stay in effect unless and until
the court of review reverses it."
This makes the president's position
quite clear. wants the shippers to
have the benefit of a revised rate pend
ing an examination of its reasonable
ness, and he counts upon the interstate
commerce commission being made up
of such a body of experts that it will
in very few cases grant a rate which
will not be upheld by the reviewing
court. I the few cases it seems to
him better policy to let the railroads
stand the loss than to allow the whole
shipping public to stand the loss in
the large majority of cases. This is
the kind of toe-marking the president's
plan calls for. Js Mr. Hepburn's stride
equal to the effort?
Secretary Hay might give the czar ad
vice that would be simply invaluable.
Governor vs. Senator La Follette.
Governor a Follette of Wisconsin is
foeing severely criticized for taki ng the
senatorship and deserting his post as
governor of Wisconsin, and at first
glance it would seem as tho he had made
a blunder. A governor of Wisconsin
he stood in line for the presidency. A
least he was a presidential possibility
and a favorite son of a very important
state. A a senator he rather side
tracks himself. A governor he was su
preme. A a senator he is one of nine
and a member of a body that does
not recognize talent until it has been
reinforced by experience.
Perhaps Governor a Follette yielded
to that very natural desire of public
men to maintain themselves in position
where their influence may be felt.
could not expect to be governor of Wis
consin again, and at the end of two
years he would find himself a private
citizen with all the disadvantages that
privacy confer upon the man ambitious
to be a power for good in the communi
ty. A a senator his personal import
ance is assured for six years.
A the same time, one cannot help a
note of regret that the governorship of
a great state was not considered as
high a position as a senatorship. Per
haps the two-year term works against
the value of a governorship. If a
Follette had been re-elected for four
years we believe he would have found
less difficulty in deciding against Wash
ington and in favor of his work at
Madison.
If Gorky and Gopon can keep then
heads in this crisis they are in luck!
The Insurance Department.
The Cole bill placing the state in
surance department on a salary basis,
has several good points. I the first
place, the importance of this branch
of the state government has not been
properlv appreciated in the past. Even
under the present law, with a large
share of the fees going into the com
missioner's pocket, it has turned into
the state treasury ten times the money
expended. A the same time, the in
surance companies doing business in
the state need the closest regulation.
The general public docs not under
stand the ius and out of the insurance
business, and must rely on the state's
expert to furnish protection against
fraudulent or shaky concerns. So a
salary of $3,000 is none too large for
a competent commissioner. The Oole
bill creates an actuary at a salary of
$2,000 a year, and provides for turn
ing all fees into the treasury. This
one provision will save the state from
$14,000 to $15,000 a year, and will pro
tect insurance companies from unnec
essary examinations.
The mayor of Bridgeport. Conn is ask
ing to have the mayor's salary cut $1,000
a year. He must be nearing the end of
his term.
Home Rule, How to Get It.
The Pioneer Press, in opposing the
Smith bill to take away the constitu
tional prohibition against special legis
lation so far as Minneapolis is con
cerned, takes the ground that Minne
apolis should be helped but not in the
way the Smith bill suggests. I be
lieves it would be safe to reduce the re-
K..4 %r
This might make it easier to adopt a
home rule charter, but Minneapolis does
not ask it. I does ask that the legis
lature shall make decent provision for
the submission of a charter upon a sepa
rate ballot or at a special election and
believes that under this condition the
people of this city will approve home
rule. A the last electioh, when the
charter had merely a line upon the city
ballot, it secured two for one of the
votes that were cast upon the proposf
tion. This undoubtedly means that
the people wa nt home rule and if they
had a chance to vote upon it when the
charter was the dominant or only ques
tion up it would have a large majority] fro St. Petersburg,
of all the votes cast.
The Smith bill is a clumsy proposal
to throw" this city back on to the legis
lature and leaye it in ,th hands of rep
resentatives from St. Paul and Roseau
*^ry to make it follow, against the feel- and Lac .qui Parle, who neitker know about ten days ago,
nor should be expected to know what is
good for Minneapolis.
The losses in life in the Japanese navy"
since the war began arj3 surprisingly
small, considering the results achieved.
According to the recent investigations of
the navy's medical department, the total
number of killed or wounded up to the
end of September amounted to 2,321 per
sons. Six hundred and fifty-five of these
weie slightly wounded, 556 severely
wounded, 1,022 killed and 88 missing.
Some of the missing have since been
found in Port Arthur.
Japan's Prosperity.
Becent reports of conditions in the
far east have made the outlook so fa
vorable for the success of the Japanese
arms, as almost to favor the conclusion,
already held by many good people, that
Providence is on the side of little Nip
pon. What the Japanese have done in
the field everv one knows. How val
iantly they have fought and how skill
fully their campaigns have been planned
and executed are matters of very re
cent report. Few are familiar, however,
with internal conditions in the islands,
and as it is the staying quality of a
country that tells in the long run, the
recent figures just issued by the state
department, from a communication re
ceived froni Lloyd Griscom, our minister
to Tokio, are timely and interesting.
While Japan has been .lining up
against her big adversary, her people
have been active in agriculture, com
merce and industry, and as a result of
faithful work and favorable conditions
onl
oLi' ,u,. A*.a
of al agriculturai products. Th item
of greatest importance is that of rice,
which shows an unprecedented yield of
248,145,000 bushels. This is 17,494,223
bushels more than the production of
1903, and as the Japanese live largely
on rice, and a bushel of the product
means much in food value measurement,
there is little danger that the people
will find themselves in want. Mr. Gris
com figures, as a rough approximation,
that at the present market value of
rice, this increased yield means $22,-
000,000 more than last year, and it is an
important item to put against the 'ex-
penses incurred upon Japan by the war
with Eussia.
So far, war taxes have been levied
against land, incomes, business transac
tions, sugar, mines, saki, the bourses,
customs, consumption of woolen textiles,
kerosene and stamps. The principal re
maining sources of revenue are tobacco
monopoly and the government rail
roads, which represent about $95,000,000,
and bring an annual revenue of $4,750,-
000.
On the whole, Japan makes a splen
did economic showing. Not only has
she important sources of revenue as
yet ui^pledged for loans, but the alacrity
with ifthich her people, poor individual
ly, have responded to former calls, and
the cheerfulness with which the sacri
fices have been made, are important con
siderations. The people are like a unit
for the country, and if past showings
are any guide, will cheerfully endure
a ny hardships for the success of their
arms. The contrast between the con
ditions in Japan and those in Eussia
are exceedingly interesting.
are learning a little arithmetic and a very
little spelling and a whole fot of Tam
many.
Alderman Petterson in taking one of his
constituents by the collar into court es
tablished a precedent. Wh should not
an alderman know what is good for his
people and give it to them? When it is
an office he is expected to do it, and
why not if it is sixty days?
Mr. Burrows (dem.) of Texas asked
the house the other day, "Are you with
Roosevelt or are you with the railroads?"
The house, of course, would like to be
with both. They are both such good
friends at times.
A strong sentiment has grown in Ne
York in favor of municipal ownership.
The flame has been fanned by the extor
tions of the lighting and telephone com
panies. "Killing the goose," as usual.
The czar has been tried by the "Boy
evaya" and condemned to death. There
was no appearance on the part of the czar
and the verdict seems to ha\e been, like
a Dakota divorce, by default.
Mr. Smoot says he cannot see why
modern prophets are not just as reliable
as prophets who have been dead a long
time. The prophets of old never tackled
the weather.
Indianapolis is working on the grade
crossing question, too. Let us see to it
here that she does not solve it more
promptly or more wisely than we do.
Make it Senator Neidringhaus. That is
the square thing.St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Why, yes he paid for it, didn't he?
Kuropatkin were a European Russian,
COURT NEWS
Several nihilists approached the czar
in humble fashion: "We realize thaf you
or,* Mfl
fish, Vesuvius steak, Siberian crabs, giant
seem to care, to dynamite,.
and turned wearily away,
o said
BT
she has produced unusually large yields, Charles K. French, the impossible squire,
0
th C2a
King Peter Karageorgevitch
rea-d*
all he woul say fo publication.
London, Jan. 27.Edward 7 is practic
ing with a new outmobile. It is as near ff^H?
as he can come to the dangers of reign
ing.
Our Berlin correspondent wires that
Wfihelm has ordered six pounds of
moustache wax and stands pat.
By Mail from ConstantinopleThe sul
tan is not specially depressed by news
AN AFFLICTED SHERIFF
Wmfield (Kan.) Courier.
Sheriff Day left Wedfaesday morning
with Henry Holssbeirlein for Osawatomie
He was adjudged i.isane
r-r.hate- court
AT THE-THEATERS
Metropolitan,JA
*6lri from Dixie."
In the "girl" series of musical comedies,
the one from Dixie, now making a re
turn visit to Minneapolis, is far from be
ing the least attractive. Harry B. Smith,
artificer of musical trifles, good, bad and
indifferent, has in this case turned out
an inconsequential conceit that is really
entertaining. It has a little story of na
tive American flavor, it is besprinkled
with pretty music, shamelessly borrowed
from many sources, and without being in
the least pretentious it is both merry and
wholesome. Moreover, It Js played by a
lot of merry folk, mostly young, whose
spirits are irresistible. The first act
in a country school is the most refreshing,
because so far from the beaten path of the
musical comedy makers. Of course,
things happen that were never heard of
in any quiet Maryland school, but the
burlesque is not so broad nor tho comedy
so uproarious that the illusion is dispelled.
The promise of the first act is not well
kept in the two scenes that follow, but the
story eventually is brought to its fore
shadowed conclusion with much incidental
frolic and song.
Gertrude Millington plays the Dixie girl
with youthful spit its and dainty apprecia
tion of the comedy. Her songs are lather
well done, tho lacking in delicate shad
ing, and she is forgetful about her south
ern accent. Julia Brink does a good bit
as the stuttering schoolgirl and later on
shows herself the possessor of a strong
voice in an obligato solo. Her stutter is
delicious. Olga May as the proud beauty
of the school, with a dash of malice in hei
make-up, is at her bejt in the first act.
The "hit of the piece" is that quaint lit
tle Teutonic
comedian4J
D. L. Don,
it by Thomas Burton and the black "mam-
The New York World figures out that
the socalled fads take up about one-third Florence IrtonTand'"greatly "'augmented
of the school time every day. The ob
jectors say "back to first principles" and
the progressives say forward to more ad-
my" by Charles H. Sheffer, to serve as
other character types. Charles Bowers
plays the young lawyer's clerk gracefully
male voices, contributes a large share to ff
Foyer Chat.
extremely successful' musicaM play will be
interpreted by an excellent cast of sev
enty-five, r.,'
The unusual spectacle of an Orpheum
audience in tears is not infrequent this
week at the finale of Williams and Tuck
er's artistic slang classic, "Skinny's Fin-
ish." Miss Williams seems able to move
her audiences at will.
Next week should be a great one for the
children in the Orpheum audiences, as
Captain Webb's trained seals are a source
of unending delight to the youngsters.
Mrs. Malaprop never did violence to the
English language so effectively as Kate
Elinore in her unique impersonation of
"Mrs. Delaney of Newport" at the Bijou
this week.
One of the most conspicuous successes
now upon the stage is David Belasco's
"The Heart of Maryland," which is to
be presented at the Bijou next weeK.
Six-year-old Clark Marshall, who is
playing Rip "A Poor Relation" at the
Lyceum this week, greatly enjoys play
ing a poor boy. His objection to "L.ittle
Lord Fauntleroy" was that his costumes-,
were too handsome and his circumstances
too luxuriant.
Richard Harding Travis* be&t story,
"Soldiers of Fortune," will be presented at
the Lyceum next week, with Dick Ferris
cast.
This is amateur rtight at the Unique/^ A
rehearsal was held this, afternoon. This
vanced ground. Meanwhile the children weekly feature has proved very pomi'ar nt &
the Unique and the second performanca
tonight will be given practically by volun
teer entertainers.
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THJNK
Rusted Wheat for Seed.
To the Editor of The Journal.
There has been a great deal of discus
sion regarding the advisability of sowing
rusted wheat. The following may be of
interest to your readers:
W have a farm in the Red River val
ley. Like others in that locality, it was
badly hit with rust. Wheat graded re
jected kernels badly shrunken. Fearing
we could not secure better seed, we
saved 400 bushels. Dec. 26 we planted in
a box 100 kernels. In four days it was
coming up in eight days it was an inch
high, and every kernel came. The wheat
is now ten inches highlooking very
healthy. At the same time we planted
100 kernels of nice, plump-looking wheat,
secured at the flour mill here, the wheat
being shipped in. It looked superior in
every "way to the Red River valley wheat.
Strange to say, about half of it came, and
that which is up is not as strong or
healthy looking as the other. The boxes
in which these samples were planted were
placed in our greenhouse, side by side.
They had an equal chance. W shall
sow our rusted wheat.
Not fully satisfied with the experiment,
we sent samples to Professor Bolley of
the experimental station at Fargo, N. D.
His experiment coincided with our own.
Every farmer should test his wheat. Get
some good soil, put in a pan or box, sow
the wheat about one-half an inch be
low the surface, and keep it in a mod
erate and fairly even temperature.
The Jewell Nursery Company.
Lake City, Jan. 26.
Who Was the E. Z. Mark?
To the Editor of The Journal.
I wish to thank you for the editorial
and other treatment you gave the "L. Z.
Eischman inteiview." I would have sug
gested to the Tribune that
ar
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. January 27,^1905.
musi.
cian to the fingertips and funny in his
great delight in the audience. Clifford
Leigh does rather well with the hackneyed
English lord on matrimony bent. Then
there are the village school teacher by
they name
Kuropatkin says his European Russians hie "E. Z.sMark"einstead. I suspect you thunderstormsr.p He was dressed simply in olivee
are reluctant to fight. It looks as tho
so he might easily have been chiistened
ment of such matters. L. T,
hunger for sympathy," they said. "Here T th Editor of The Journal
is our bill of fare." The czar took it' I have noticed quite a littlae of Jate in
i r.tf.wv.,,,,,^^ th*
naa
a
bu
crackers and limburger cheese" "I don't nah N. and know something of the
r, situation on both sides of the line,e I woulidh
of eood sLd whLt ^T\o^
the
state to S5we71f jSlLJ n
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bum shooting, was Manitoba. The
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WEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
THE UNEASY CHAIR
"Graft" and Grins In Opera Bouffe Re
publics.The republics of Central Amer
ica have been waiting for some one to do
them literary justice. They need wait
no longer the man has been found. His
name is Sydney Porter. He is better
known, however, as O. Henry. Perhaps it
will be asserted that he is unjust to the
helpless little ten-cent-size republics
which are a prey to northern grafters.
Well perhaps. At any rate he is equal to
the humor that their histories afford and
the poky lives of their people abound in.
His book, Cabbages and Kings, a series
of magazine articles deftly joined, proveB
it.
At the very outset almost one comes
upon a morsel the humor of which is likely
to stick in his memory. A friend in the in
terior of Anchuria wished to wire "Don"
Frank Goodwin, an American at Coralio
that President Miraflores of the country
was secretly leaving, taking with him in
a handbag the government's treasurv sur
plus. If he told the facts in English or
Spanish others would "catch on" there
was no conventional code convenient:
what should he do? This:
His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jackrabblt
line, with all the coin in the kitty and the
bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle
is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape,
but e need the spondulicks. You collar it
The main guy and Jhe dry goods are headed
for the briny. You know what to do.
When Goodwin got that, he knew what
to do. He was on the lookout for "His
Nibs" and the
"dr.y
elderI
every motion. His monolog, winding up enter a hotel one night, and, with a ehar-
with an assault on the piano, caused
acten
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as above. boots were good. Hisesword hung in his left
san
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8ee
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here. Itb ia all good nlumn s^. but
goods."
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"A Chinese Honeymoon" will be seen
at the Metropolitan for four nights and honesty, was saved from a $50,000 tempta-
matinee, opening Sunday evening. This tion by "Home, Sweet Home," sung by
He saw a
gentleman and a young woman
stic
directness,Goodwisn
went single-handed
recapture thtMeh boodle. The re- rmissing
h?'haf.at
sult yon
youn
Henry' mystery, be
married the
a
S womanafter certain obsequies
Mr.
He
nr y'
description of Coralio,, putth into the
ut
Detective O'Day in south
a
lookin &
northern insurance corn
fo
an y'
and exhibits a melodious, well-controlled Dinky little mud houses, grass over jour
voice. The chorus, better balanced than
president and certain valuables:
shoe tPs
usual in such productions, and rich in !hort-fleeires
the entertainment. The ensembles go the back yards and theseaUcklng the paint
go
with precision and spirit and the stage
effects, while simple, are frequently novel.
W. B. Chamberlain.
in the streets^ ladies in km-neck'and
walking aiound smoking cigars
r g"n0Untealna8
S ^1 in
off In front.
Among the funniest things In the book
is the story of "The Phonograph and thf
Gratt," which is the story of how Homer
P. Melllnger, private secretary to the
president of Anchuria, whose 'graft" was
somebody for the Phonograph
company of New York and London." In
this story, by the way, the phonograph s
referred to variously as "canned music,"
the "galvanized prima donna," the "mu-
sical cornsheller." etc.
Mr. Henry's book is decidedly worth
reading by those seeking to forget their
troubles or to add to their pleasures.
McClure, Phillips &. Co., New Yoik.
Poems from South Dakota.Happy
Days, is the name C. E. Holmes of Sioux
Falls, S. D., gives to a little book of
verses of his own composition. They are
such as can add to the happiness of the
days of the reader hence are well named,
as well as because they sing of happy
days and things. Mr. Holmes in many of
his verses shows himself possessed of
considerable poetic skill and feeling. In
other places he shows a lack of willing
ness to take pains. One of his most ambi
tious efforts is "The Hymn of the Prai-
ries," which ends thus:
Love is the musical master that thillls the
deep heart of the west
Lore In the sunbeam,
Love the starglcam.
Waking the birds from their rest.
Lore in the lilt of the rivers that run to the
sea,
Love in the wild winds thrumming their
threnody.
Love for humanity.
The Trials of a Stage-Struck Country
Youth.The youth who gets the stage
microbe might do well to read Eighteen
Miles from Home, by William T. Hodge.
It is the tale of a country youth who
thought he could "do" Romeo after the
mannear of th great Shakspereans. He is
ive
chancee when a hypotist and pain
less dentist combination comes to town,
His reward is a tomato at ten paces,
thrown with unerring aim. However, he
becomes the "angel" of the company to
the extent of $283 savings, and goes on the
road. He gets eighteen miles away, is
given "knock-out diops," and left sans
company and sans savings. The story
would be a sure cure for the stage fever
were it not for the fact that the lad's
experiences were so extravagantly ludl*
crous.
Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.
THE MAGAZINES
What Did Washington Look Like?
"Napoleon's cynical definition of history
as 'a lie agreed upon' has a direct appli
cation to the genetal acceptance of a most
inaccurate portrait of Washington. What
ever the Father of his Country may have
looked like, he certainly did not resemble
the popular 'Stuart.'
This rather startling assertion is made
by William Curtis Tavlor the text of an
interesting study in the Fsbruary num
ber of The Book lovers Magazine. His
method of proof is "to secure a scientific
confiimation of the agreements and
comparative effacement of the disagree
ments of the original artists" for whom
Washington actually sat. After a careful
study of o\er 4,000 engravings and a
number of original paintings and various
coins at the mint, a final reference was
made to composite photography. The re
sulting Washington is remarkable in its
definiteness of outline and lifelike ap
pearance.
Word Picture of General Oku.John
Fox, Jr., in the February Scribner's gives
the following description of the general
in command of the Japanese left army on
the Shak-he river, fronting Kuropatkin:
I watched Oku keenly. Though I had geen
him comlug for twenty yards, I recalled sud
denly that I saw nothing but his face until
he got quite near. It was sad with something
of Lincoln's sadness. In profile It was kindly,
especially when he smiled full-faced there
weie proofs that he could be Iron and relent
less. But his eyes. Big, black, glittering, fa
natical, ever moving they were, and you caught
them never but for a moment,s but when jou
did they made youPethink of lightning and
8
right a to th place of his birth and green serge,t with one star on his cap and thre
an
8tar
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whe
news from St Petersburg with disgust in is fully as groodlas the wheat Canada tine system that us fairly, well
his
manner.d "Whatr whea*%*
nlHhe moTS
here was not
hUt fro
plump seed,
1 positiveld know
that the wheat in Canada is no better
than our own. So why not use our own
wheat?
-O.JLCountryman.
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THE INCREASE OF SUICIDE
Minnetonka Record
tragedi'
th gene
Life being so short, what unusual de
spondency can cause a man to strike
himself down and thus at one blow
shatter both a natural and a divine law'
Surely this must be a distorted world,
that so many men should find it untenable
Have we dohe all that we can to render
conditions toleraWer^f not. it may
found that we*r to JSme extent respon that its'control is merciless and oppres
sible* for -the ,inc*5%Pof the.'* deplorable siv* are facts known to all men.'" Th,e
on hi sleeve Hi
trJ
treat his tight foot-only th sole of his left ever
We feel eratpfni r.e +v f.v,or, 4.v.* handunclenched.did Hiseotherthand lookedt nerve-
decencv h-iifhV
I*"8-
^^^?tt?SSS?^i!:'SS ^JT^YL^^^t^^ years the San Jose scale has spread all erty must be woA three times the
y
wh
at Han
Not once shif his weigh from
touching the stone flagging. He is the most
remarkable looking man I've seen thus far
among the Japanese, and I think we shall hear
from him.
0Ve lh C0U This
ere
WO
legislationbtogether,rse
mor
than all the
othetha
at sects combined. W now have a quaran- 15 per cent is accumulated.
fumigationprotects an
of nursery stock but
eases, and also provides for the investiga-
tio
Ut
Import atIon of insects and dis-
situation far more serious
noew tharna ever beforeis After spending
more than a millionV dollars to fight the
San*Jo^scale!
&e
New England is rather gloomy, at least
so far as state aid is concerned.
CA8E AGAINST THE MEAT TRUST
New York Herald. i
Attorney General Moody says: "That
there is a conspiracy to control the mar
kets of the nation for fresh meats and
siv are facts known to all men.
^x case for the people is in
Defective
HOUSE MEASURE MAKE FREE
TEXTBOOKS COMPULSORY.
Press of Work in Attorney General's
Office Urged as Reason for Employing
J. D. Shearer as Special Legal Adviser
to Draw Bills for the House Members.
George E Perley of Moorhead offered
the first compulsory free textbook meas
ure in the^ house this morning. Hi
bill provides that common and independ
ent school districts must inaugurate the
free textbook system by Jan. 1, 1906,
or lose their respective share of the
state school fund. The measure is sup
ported by the state federation of labor.
To Regulate Land Sales.
A bill providing that no public lands
be sold for less than $6 an acre was pre
sented by Asher Murray of Wadena.
The land commissioner after appraise
ment shall hold frequent sales, givi ng
notice as long as possible in advance.
Land and timber may be sold separately
or the value of the timber may be added
to the first payment on the land. Such
tracts as require drainage must be with
drawn from the market.
Owing to numerous Qpmplaints from
Earents
humor is found in
against the promiscuous distri
ution of patent medicine samples, a
bill restricting samples to adults is of
fered by W. C. Fraser of Rochester.
Attorney General Too Busy.
A breeze was created when A. L.
Cole announced that he was not the au
thor of the resolution appointing James
D. Shearer special attornev general to
assist members in preparing bills.
had been requested by the attorney
general to present it and considered it
his duty to comply. The attorney gen
eral was so busy that the business of
his office was already two weeks be
hind.
W. Roberts and A. J. Rockne ex
plained that the clerks of the iudiciary
and appropriations committee were at
torneys and fully competent to draw
bills. Mr. Roberts was called to order
by W. A. Nolan for saying "tinker's
dam." The resolution was side
tracked leaving it with the commit
tee on rules.
Not Enough Codes'.
Another little gust arose over J. H.
Dorsey's bill for 500 more copies of the
revised statutes. Several members had
carried off copies by the armful, while
others failed to obtain anv, and the
latter were angiy. The bill was passed
on with the understanding that care
be exercised in distribution.
A resolution urging Minnesota's rep
resentatives in congress to support the
request of the Upper Mississippi River
Improvement association now before
congress, was adopted on motion of
W. H. Putnam of Red Wing.
LOCAL MAN NAMED
FOB ST. PAUL JOB
RAMSEY CO. SENATOR HOLDS
EDMUNDS' CONFIRMATION.
He Charges that the New State Boiler
Inspector for Ramsey Is a Resident
of MinneapolisEdmunds Was Ap
pointed on Recommendation of the
Entire Ramsey County Committee.
St. Paul engineers object to having
a Minneapolis man appointed boiler in
spector for Bams ey county.
When the senate was asked in a
communication from Governor J. A.
Johnson this morning to confirm cer
tain appointments, the name of A.
Edmunds as boiler inspector for Eam
sey county, was excepted on request of
Senator McNamee or St. Paul, a dem
ocrat.
I made the exception on request of
the St. Paul engineers' organization,*"
the senator explained.
Edmund s' appointment they, began to
look him up, as he was a stranger to
all of them. They found that altho
he had the indorsement of all the dem
ocratic county committeemen, as a res
ident of the eleventh ward, yet his
residence could not be found nor is his
name in the St. Paul directory. The
Minneapolis directory shows his name
and gives his residence as 2218 Fifth
avenue S. Naturally,, the St. Paul men
object to a Minneapolis man holding a
Ramsey county job."
Frank A. Day private secretary to
Governor Johnson, says the appoint
ment was made on the recommendation
of the entire county committee, which
was relied on to name an acceptable
man for the place.
CREEPS INTO CITIES
New Code Exten ds Operations of Street
Railways in Condemning Property.
The eminent domain'' section of the
revised code, found in chapter 60, sec
tion 4j defines public service corpora
tions, including railroads, street rail
roads, telegraph and telephone lines,
and they are limited in use of public
highways, but in section 5 the revised
statutes say:
Every such corporation may accquire by
right of eminent domain, such private
property as may be necessary or conven
ient for the transaction of the public
business for which it was formed.
v, A Nationantry. Peril.Within last five'that wheloaned mortgageeso are held the prop- Objectiontheia?s made tofothe provisioln
America. Certainly it has resulted set aside one per cent of their deposits
insecthes
i consid- amounts thern." Th present
v 1, **-T% "SiT
THE LEGISLA TURE
LABOR MEN BACK
TEXT BOOK BILL
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS
TODAY,
SENATE.
Bill Introduced permitting Munici
pallties to own telephone systems.
Peddlers' license bill Introduced,
Bill Introduced to abolish office of
senate fireman.
Code is referred to the regular com
mlttees of the senate.
Two stenographers added to the
force of the senate.
Adjourned to Tuesday, 11 a.m.
rin haarintr nf separately, and then compare notes. In
VLw^iF *r. this way it is believed that a more ef
fectiv chec wil
This has the effect of permitting alR- Hickey yesterday
street railway company to condemn pri- taxation of telephone companies on*
vate property, which it is not now al- property valuation instead of a gross
lowed to Jo. The 1899 law gave them earnings basis, was strongly urged.
tho righr outside of cities, which is The revision calls for a 3 per cent gross
necessary in securing right of way, but. earnings tax.
it remained for the new code to make E. G. Rogers, clerk of the Ramsey
the privilege general. I county district court, said the revision
The savings bank officials have found repealed a special law which meant
wo important changes in the new law that fees for entering judgments for
which give them considerable concern, delinquent taxes, were increased from
The provision regarding assets requires 12 to 15 eents.
pe
pesCountrny- law onlyr requiresthdouble value. An- protection to depositorss. It ar-d
in each yea toward surplus fund until
the others put says other new clause requires the banks to SSd savings bankinterestdwa coul not
DOWXJNO MAKES GOOD
No Minneapolis Man Need Apply for
Expert**- Accountant'sgWork.
a
prc
I
HOUSE
Bill introduced reforming method
of selling state land.
Compulsory free text book bill In
troduced.
Resolution providing for special as*
slstant attorney general is side
tracked.
Adjourned to Mcuiday, 2 p.m.
(t/
REVISION WORK
GIVEN TO ALL
SENATE COMMITTEES WILL WOR5S
O N RESPECTIVE SECTIONS.
Judiciary Committee Still Retains Di
rection of the Work, and Will Receive
Reports from the Other Committees
A Bill Introduced for the Municipal
Ownership of Telephones.
The entire senate is to take part in
the consideration of the statutes revi
sion report.
Senator Stephens this morning intro
duced a resolution providing that the
chairman of the judiciary committee
apportion to the regularly constituted
committees, the various chapters of the
revision according to the appropriate
subjects and character of the work. The
bill is officially still to remain in the
hands of the judiciary committee. The
respective committees are to report in
writing to the judiciarj' committee from
time to time, suggesting changes.
On recommendation of the legislative
expense committee, Miss Helen M. Tal
bot and William Bunde were employed
as general stenographers at $5 a day
each.
The senate aided in relieving the
trouble caused by the shortage in stat
ute revision reports, by passing the
house enicrgenc3* bill, calling for an
other edition of 500. These will be
reacry for distribution by next Monday.
A petition was read from residents
of Nicollet county asking for increase*
appropriation for county fairs.
Municipal Phone Bill.
Some interest is felt in a bill intro
duced by Senator Peterson, which in
brief terms enables any municipality to
construct or acquire ^ts own telephone
system, by a majority vote of the eleel*
ors.
Senator E Wood of Long Prairi*
introduced a bill to (abolish the time
honored office of senate fireman, which
is now prescribed by statute and elected
the same as the secretary and sergeant
at-arms. The original fireman had to
keep the fire going in the stoves that
warmed the senate chamber, but with
steam heating plants his usefulness has
departed. Senator Wood thinks the sen
ate will have no difficulty in keeping
warm without the traditional function
ary.
NOT READY TO REPORT
Code Will Not Be Sent Back to House
for Several Days.
According to the resolution adopted
last week, the subcommittees of the
house judiciary committee were called
on to report as to the sections of the re
vised code assigned them, at a meeting
of the full committee this afternoon.
Most of the subcommittees had been un
able to complete their work, so it will
be impossible to report back the code
with the amendments the first of next
week.
The senate subcommittees will prose
cute their work entirely independent of
the house lawyers, who have quite a
start. The plan is for the senate and
house to do the preliminan- work
i
i
place
accuracy of the code.e
nth
E. Dowlin announced
rma
has given up the struggle, and at the pres-. would be named as expert accountant
ent moment the outlook for saving the I iOr the committee on public accounts
century-old elms which are the glory of and expenditures. has been able
to make good his assertion as the com
mittee yesterday left the appointment
with the chairman, who will announce it
later on. Two Minneapolis men were
after the place-mohn Barry, who
achieved some fame in connection with
the examination of the books of the
state auditor by the public examiner,
and W G. Hayden. S. Spates, who
is given in the St. Paul directory as a
dealer in building material, and a Mr.
w^on days ago that no Minneapolis man
high rates of
Th Howe, are also seeking the pou^tion, resentatives Putnam, Smith, Hetland,
srhich will pay $10 a day* T. Iriewu and Johnson.
i
th
SUPT. OLSEN'S KICK PAID
His Department May Have Apartments
on First Floor of Capitol.
It is probable that John W. Olsen,
superintendent of public instruction.
will have offices on the first floor of
the capitol as a result of his strenuous
objection to his third floor apartments.
In company with Architect Cass Gil
bert and E. E. Corliss, capitol com
missioner, the rounds of the new capi
tol were made yesterday afternoon. It
was practically decided to give OISPII
the rooms in the north wing now oc
cupied by the adjutant general and
military 'storekeeper, and to transfer
the adiutant general to the apartmentH
on the third floor originally set aside
for Mr. Olsen, and the military store
keeper to an office on the ground floor.
This arrangement gives Mr. Olsen three
excellent apartments.
MORE OBJECTORS TO CODE.
Change of Telephone Oo.'s Tax Sug-
gestedSavings Banks Kick.
A semipublic hearing on the revision
of the tax laws was given in the St.
Paul offices of Representative James
cent of surplus additiona
req iring savings banks to deposit 1
hi an continue to pay depositors the
Named on Advisory Committee.
Representative W. Washburn, Jr.,
received word today of his selection aa
the Minnesota member of the advisory
committee to the committee on taxa
tion of the National Municipal league.
Members All Invited.
Every republican member of tha
legislature received a complimentary
invitation today to attend the Washing
ton Birthday banquet in Minneapolis
Feb. 22. The invitations were sent
the members of the Hennepin delega
tion.
Subcommittee Named.
The subcommittee of the house com
mittee on public buildings, which will
draw np a substitute for the Horton bill,
has been selected. It consists of Hep-
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