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Superannuated Professors.
Andrew Carnegie's offer to set aside
$10,000,000 for the assistance of super
annuated college professors has a ring
of true -goodness in it. Ten million
dollars in 5 per cent bonds would pro
duce $500,000 annually, which would
give 1.000 men $500 a year each. The"
bum is not enough to keep a man in
luxury, but it is sufficient -to place him
beyond the dread of becoming a help
less burden.
I There are thousands of college pro
fessors in this country and Canada
Working for salaries which prohibit
their laying up anything for old age.
These men, who spend their lives in
preparing others for-usefulness and pos
sibly for fame and fortune, are often
forgotten. Bequests to colleges nearly
always take the form of some valuable
token to the college itself or of cash
for buildings in which to carry on its
Work for the future. Seldom are the
men who serve on the faculties men
tioned. Some institutions, it is true,
make provisions for the old age of their
teachers, but these are few. The main
body of the faculties of the American
colleges may be said to be without any
assurance for their declining years.
It may be asked why the old age
of a college professor should be taken
care of any more than that of a lawyer
or a doctor. Because the lawyer or the
doctor works for himself. has the
opportunity of doing two things which
the professor cannot do. may make
fy large income,, if he has the ability,
While the professor, lio matter how
iible, is tied to the limit of the prevail
i ng wage for the average teacher. The
practitioner may -also run his expenses
to suit himself,-while the professor is
obliged to keep up a certain appear
ance, one seldom ."justified by his salary.
Taking these two advantages of him,
the state owes some compensation. The
state seldom gives it. Mr. Carnegie
does well by his donation to call at
tention to the subject, which is ono
well worth public attention.
Just as the world has adapted itself to
the doctors' injunction to drink copiously
of water, now comes the latest Medical
Record with the alarming statement that
water Increases the supply of nitrogen,
and this, in turn, causes too much stimu
lation of "proteid catabolism." "Without
being in a position to feel cocksure about
this, it might be well to have your pro
teid catabolism cut out before it gives
you trouble.
Law Enforcement.
The teamsters' strike in Chicago has
brought out the fact that while the
teamsters who have been hired by
Montgomery Ward & Co. to take tho
place.of the strikers are daily mobbed,
beaten and maimed, tho drivers of the
United' States mail wagons calling at
the same store are never molested. The
difference in treatment is due not to
a different estimate by the strikers of
the attitude of the government wag on
drivers toward their cause, but a whole
some fear of the law enforced by the
federal government. I has become an
axiom that Uncle Sam, being some
what removed from local influence, en
forces his laws with severe penalties,
while, the local police force very seldom
sits down heavily on riotous individ
uals.
The contrast is not very creditable
to the local administration of law. Chi
cago has a large police force and Wash
ington only a handful of deputy mar
shals. But behind the marshals is a
great and mysterious entity, namely,
the national government, which has
never been known to err on the side
of sympathy with lawlessness.
Why is municipal administration so
slack in its regard for law? I is in
some measure because municipal offi
cers are elected for short terms, and
they do not like to take the chance of
defeat at the polls by enforcing a law
which a few people want enforced and
a large number of people would like to
see set aside. There is ve ry little popu
larity to. be gained from rigid law en
foreeihent, while there may be consid
erable 'political gain in showing sym
pathy with the. struggling mass.
The sentiment of sympathy is all
wrong, of course, when, it-goes to the
extent of winking, at infractions of law.
But
a political eareer. is based like a
successful speculationon* a study of
conditions and a shrewd guess at when
to take hold and* wlien to' let go.
There may conie a time when munic
ipal administration will be less of a
scandal than it ikat present, but it will
_) when the police force has been re
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moved from (direct dependence upon .the
issue of a campaign. So long as the'
police force is charged to the city ex
ecutive he will endeavor 4 ma^e it
an asset rather than a liability.'f^?
A Denver man claims that his ampu
tated leg is growing out. lie must- be a
lobster.-
*5
Capitol Walls Peeling
The new capitol is not coming to
pieces. -The public must not take un
necessary alarm from, the reports of
disintegration. The foundations of
the building are still solid, so far as
known, and the most serious results of
the ravages of time are to the ginger
bread and gilt decorations in the gov
ernor's apartments. They were only
put on last January, but already some
of the veneered panels on the walls
and doors have warped themselves
loose and have disclosed some ugly bare
spots.
It is no use to accuse the governor
and his democratic henchmen of trying
their jackknives on the walls in retalia
tion for the Horton bill. Hardwood
veneer is poor whittling material, and
tho the frills that surround him must
offend the governor's Jeffersonian
ideas, he would hardly want to see his
own apartments disfigured. N doubt
tho capitol commission has ordered the
contractor to make good and replace
the spoiled work with seasoned wood
that will stand the test of more than
three months' exposure. If the com
mission has not some hold On the con
tractor, then it has been "stuck."
It seems to be a plain case of botched
work. Some of the interior wall fill
ing disclosed by the fallen panels does
not look like work built to llast a hun
dred years. Neither does the wax
which fills some of the great cracks in
the, stone columns.
The capitol commission has a sincere
pride in the building, of course, and
wants to see it remain a creditable
monument for future generations. In
that case it will compel contractors to
complete every detail up to the high
est standard. These little makeshifts
and shoddy pieces of work must be
replaced by genuine workmanship. The
little frills, garish tho some of them
may be, are essential to the scheme of
the apartments, and they should be as
permanent as the foundation stones.
The new capitol is no place for shoddy.
Seems if a national bank could be
robbed with astonishing ease when those
in control feel that way.
A Good-Seed Argument.
The first item of the season from
the wheat fields of the northwest hav
ing reference to the condition of the
seeded crop is at hand. It covers an
investigation necessarily superficial. It
shows one thing, however, of interest
the superior condition of the heavy
seed. Much light-weight rusted seed
has been sown. This is coming along
all right, and with fairly good weather
will yield well but the best results
will no doubt be found in localities
where hea vy seed was used. A little
the wheat is above ground yet even
that sown early in the southern coun
ties, and considerable more wheat will
probably go in before the work ceases
for the season, no reports of present
conditions can be at all conclusive
but the fact that, in digging under for
investigation, the good heavy seed .is
found in a state of germination more
advanced than the other, is interest
ing as confirmatory of doctrine
preached so extensively over the north
west earlier in the season by the good
seed advocates.
The gist of the argument of the
university men who delivered the lee
not the power to draw subsistence from
the soil, but lives off the starchy mat
ter or food substance stored up around
it. A this is" plentiful or scarce, so
will the food supply of the young plant,
during the preparatory period, be suf
ficient or insufficient. I other words,
a plump, full kernel carries the neces
sary food supply for the period, and
a small, shrunken berry does not.
Investigation shows this to be the
case today with the present crop.
Prom, this it is not to be supposed
that the smaller kernels will npt pro
duce well. Given a good start and
favorable conditions, yields from fields
sown with light-weight seed will be
satisfactory. But the object of the
good-seed agitation was to impress tho
farmer with the fact that the better
the seed the better the opportunity .for
a good start, and the better the chance
for the plant to stand against adver
sity later.
Light-weight seed may be used with
success, and in times like the present
season it is necessary to use it in many
counties. But the principle has been
pretty well established that it is to the
advantage of the farmer to use the
heaviest seed obtainable, not this year
particularly, but every year- for as a
farmer increases the weight of seed
used, so does he in that proportion
lessen the risk of failure and add to
his insurance of a good crop.
The Journal alluded yesterday to
the prevailing type of wedding, humor in
this country and suggested some amend
ments of the program. The suggestion,
it seems, was unnecessary, as steps had
already been taken locally to show that
there is a wideness-ln our-joking like the
wideness of the sea. At another recent
wedding, after playing Lohengrin on
washboilers, the serenaders invaded the
house where the guests were assembled
and piled the hallway and front stoop with
scrapiron until one couldn't see out. The
perpetration of this joke so exhilarated
the crowd that they would have gone ,on
and murdered all the wedding party in a
pure spirit of fun, if the police had not
arrived and read the riot act. It takes two
kinds to run a world, those who can make
and those who can take a joke.
We can Imagine that the opponents of
the measures before the legislature for
the purpose of abolishing private banking
in Minnesota may take_a peculiar satis
faction in the Bigelow, defalcation in Mil
waukee. Bigelow was a national bank
president and there is a
system of examination but no one^wiU,
Insist on more effective examination with
as much earnestness as the national bank
ers themselves. No one realizes better
than they the importance of having a ''sys-
tem of examination which will make Fari
bault failures and Milwaukee lootings im
posisble.
It seems that^.Mr. .^Jjt^J^j,,!^!' .WJm
gether satisfied with some of the light and
airy persiflage indulged "in witl^i$speo$
to .his verdict, by some of the rfewSpajjerai
C. A. must be hard to please'. Me cer
tainly got the best of the bargain, teven
If he didn't get very much of Kilchli's
money., Presumably it wasn't the monoj^
he .was after, and ,if he "were:
Mr. Carnegie has put up $10,000,00tf for
a fund for superannuated college pro
fessors. Professors, in spite of earnest
efforts, do g-=t out of date, and it does
not seem right for the college to chloro
form them.
The worst road in Hennepin county is
said to be the main one leading from-the
city to Excelsior. Charity is said to be
gin at home, but in road-making always
begins in the next county.
A dead horse for twenty four hours on
the corner of Summit and Fremort ave
nues, r'ght In the nose of the Lowry Hill
district, and the health department
twenty miles away!
Senator Proctor of Vermont, says that
maple syrup no longer has the good, taste
it had when he was a boy. The syrup
probably has the taste but the senator has
lost his smaCk.
That capable army surgeon, Colcmel
W. C. Gorgas, is cleaning up the isthmus
of Panama so thoroly that the mosquito
can find no unoiled swamp for the* sole of
her foot.
Speaking of the juke of Manchester,
who knows of anything he has given
away? Tou say himself? "Well,' that's
nothing.
Grover Cleveland, in spite of a gouty
leg, seems to have taken a long lath and
poked the hornets' nest under the barn
eaves.
The trial of Mrs. Begin is on, be gun.
AT THE TlfEATEJBS
MetropolitanN? C. Goodwin in "The
Usurper." s.
tures to "farmers, was that a seed is English castle, also leased the noble
i T, I family that owned itis rather violent,
really a young plant surrounded by
Among the undoubted gifts with -which
nature has endowed Nat Goodwin a tal
ent for impersonation is not numbered.
He has played many parts upon the stage,
in his long career, but they have all been
Nat Goodwins. No matter how deftly
the playwright varied the environment,
changed the scene or altered the story,' it
was.always our good old friend, Nat Good
win, walking carelessly thru the play,
scattering laughter as he went, with once
and anon a touch of brief pathos. Once
we had dreams that he would succeed
to the name and fame of rare old Joe Jef
ferson, but as the year^l, have gone on,
his lack of versatility,has ptoveS fatal to
that hope." And yet Mr. Goodwin is an en
tertaining actor, or 'better, perhaps, an
acting entertainer. His comedy is natural,
spontaneous and unaffected.' Laughter
springs up unbidden in his wake. A word,
a look or a gesture suffices to induce a
flow of merriment in his audience. And
it is all so easyfor he has only to^e
himselfthat his ambition to supply by
hard work what nature has denied him
long since evaporated.
"The Usurper" is a rather ingenious
comedy by I. N. Morris on" the Anglo
American theme. Its chif .premisp^-tbat
the wealthy American in leasing the old
an thi Ives
food that, for the first fifteen days I from theg outseth. Bu oncaei the premise
after being put into the ground it has is conceded, thmethods
MIi111TiMaiain
going %fy
measure the value of his reputation in dol
lars he should have. demanded a great
many more than he did. A verdict for
$5,000 would have been a much more se
rious thing for Kilehli, but it wouldn't
have proved anything more of advantage
to Quist.'
my & clca
story flows on
enough. Th employednaturally by ,th
lessee (Mr. Goodwin) to prevent his un
worthy rival from winning the noble Eng
lish girl's hand and to secure it eventu
ally for himself, -are such as would repel
most women. But this one is different
she has a sense of humor and she doesn't
take the domineering ways of the Amer
ican very seriously. Ruth Mackay plays
the part with no little discretion, con
triving to invest it with a good humor
and a veneer of English indifference that
go far toward making it seem possible.
The adventure of the haunted tower, with
which the climax of the second act and
the whole of the third act are taken up,
is certainly an ingenious and original in
vention. It auite saves the, play from
banality, besides giving Mr. Goodwin op
portunity for some of his best work.
Of the other characters of the play, two
are perhaps worthy of special note. Geor
gie Mendum draws a humorously lifelike
picture of the typewriter girl in a few
bold, sure strokes and Florence Parker
plays the American's ingenious little sister
with engaging girlishness. Then there are
Norman Tharp, who plays the young earl
with bland stupidity Ellie Norwood, who
is sufficiently smqoth as the unworthy
rival Felix Edwardes, who is convention
ally melodramatic as the escaped convict
Neil O'Brien as the inevitable English
butler, and W. H. Butler as the Scotland
Yards man. Ina Goldsmith is the earl's
mother and Ethel Beale the wronged
maid. W. B. Chamberlain.
Foyer Chat.
"Everyman," the morality, play which
has made such a deep Impression on those
who have attended the Auditorium this
week, will be given for the last times this
evening and tomorrow afternoon. The
matinee will begin at 3 o'clock. Tomor
row night "The Merchant of Venice" will
be put on.
The coming to the Metropolitan for the
first part of next week of Creston Clarke
in the successful "Monsieur Beaucalre"
will command the best consideration of
discriminating play patrons.
A whole melodrama in fifteen minutes,
with no other accessories than a wee bit
of "bum" scenery and no other costumes
than a large repertory of hata, is, being
played at the Orpheum this week by John
Birch. ,-.f '*^i
But three more opportunltlessenfefn^tb
see "Me, Him and I" at the Bijblii.
Delightfully picturesque is "The- Wa
of the Transgressor," the new sensation
which wih be the attraction it the" Bijou
next week. The production wiU be sup
plemented by a corps of specialty, ^artlsfs
who give a series of.,, .vau.dejlile^act
unique and striking. ".'f
There will be three more performances
at the Lyceum of the bright and intense
society drama, "A iuel of Hearts.**-' Next
week a big scenic production of "In" the
Palace of the King" will be given.
Bingham, the wonderful cornet player
at the Unique this week,. Is very clever.
He plays two cornets at once. The little
orphan) Irene Mason, is pleasing all with
the illustrated song, "Little Dolly Drift-
wood.$ Tonight is amateur night-
ITHE UNEASY CHAIR
.STORY OF AJM ELOPEMENT BY AN,
ELOPER.-M|esjwh ttte$tpje ought,'
from exrigrfenlbe* !fco _yilplej't6 tell an
elopement story well, if, of course, he
could tell .ray story well. Therefore
Princess Elopes, by Harold MacGrath,
who recently eloped (and successfully,
too, if a certain New York paper may
be {believed), should be a realistic and
Stirring tale. It is both, despite the fact
that the scene, is laid, in an imaginary
grand duchy after the manner of "The
Prisoner 6f Zenda." But the strange part
of the thing is that Mr. MacGrath wrote
the book first and eloped afterward with
the young woman to whom he had dedi
cated his book.
^tVVVVVVVVVVTVVVVfV'V'fVV'O'VVVVvVVVVQ
HAROLD MacGRATH,
Eloping Author of "Princess Elopes,"
Hi XvK'X
One hardly knowswwbat to think about
the matter. Wa^'lp:. JMacGrath so taken
with the joys of eloping from the expe
riences of the hero and heroine of his
story that he could not withstand the
temptation to try it himself? Did he
write the back, |M& dedicate it as he did
as a plea to*- llft^^foung woman, who he
hoped would become Mrs. MacGrath, to
elope with him?fJ
Or was his elopement
planned just followjng the publication of
the book as a clever means of advertising?
AH three theories seem plausible enough.
However, ^the book, as one of "The
Pocket-"Books of the" Bobbs- Merrill com
pany, is a bright and sprightly yarn of
a princess whose father was determined
to wed- her to a prince old enough to be.
her grandfather, rki order to put an end
to.her "escapades." The princess said
she wo,uldn.'t and she didn't. How she
foiled her papa is Mr. MacGrath's story,
arid., it i full of the' dash and go that
mar|te6l'rfls former book, "The Man on the
The'TJ&bbSFMCTrnT company, Indianapolis.
-re center-
T$"
My soul is like my fln^eri^ta^n^with ink
Of toil and plensure's yellow staoke,
I know there has bcon alt* too much 6f drink
And quick desire tiiat grippedthen'broke
To shame. Yet wotx is guilt's good cloak!
So, tei there be no madness of yonr love,
I woujd not havegjw close your eyes
To one gross fault. I can climb above
The 'ancient sin tnt in me lies.
No kind deceit wilfTielp me rise.
For truth is Tmtt&AJ-tfur love must learn it all.
Such ns I am, I come to you
And bring what vi'as'^iiot lost-thru fear or fall,
But kept close-hid from coarser view
Tho one sweet faith my soul holds true.
Paxton Hibbcn In the Reader Magazine for
May.
-"agg{_5_i_*t
A BOOK DEDICATED TO SORROW-
ING "iAls*-sfc?fP^arre Warflall In The
Kingdom of infancy, "dedicated to all
parents who have little children in heav-
en," Has undertaken much. It is no easy
thing to lead the sorrowing to see the
Silver, or the golden, lining of a dark
cloud of misery of the kind which death
brings. The author of this little book
has given rather free rein to her fancy,
but there is much that is helpful in -it.
It holds the helpfulness of a high faith
which not only refuses to regard death
as a catastrophe, but looks upon it as the
gateway to a life of superior activity, use
fulness and beauty.
The Nunc Licet Press, Philadelphia.
AN "ADE" TO DIGESTIONSuccess
Magazine for May tells the following:
Among the many attempts to play upon George
Ade's surname, the one here given is, perhaps,
one of the best. A man from northern Wisconsin,
who met the humoftst some time ago, told him
how his wrltlngsha^l made existence more toler
able for him in his lonely country home.
"I was a terrible sufferer fr.om dyspepsy,"
said he, "but I read that laughing was helpful
to the digestive organs, so when I went to the
city next time I stepped into a bookstore and
told them I wanted somethin' amoozin'. They
give me some of your books, and after meals I
Sad my ole woman read to me from 'em. And,
say, it don't make no difference how much they
orltlclse your books, you're an aid to digestion,
anyway."
THE MAGAZINES
"The Simple Life" Not Needed in Amer
ica.George V. Brett, president of the
Macmillan company, writing in The World
Today for May of the tendency to eulo
gize the "simple life," takes exception to
the preaching of this doctrine and says:
The conditions of life In America have been too
easy for us in the past. Our days begin in the
kindergarten with play and song and legend,
instead of honest toil, and real achievement, and
our later life Is given up too mucli to senseless
amusements and sensational pleasures, with the
result, that our moral fiber hasbecome flabby
and our public conscience has gone to sleep. Dis
honesty and malfeasance* In public life no longer
shock and horrify us as they should, and the
public press treats of the scandalous matters
above referred to merely from the standpoint of
sensationalism.* We no longer stand aghast that
such tllngs can be and have come to believe
that honesty is not even the best policy, in defi
ance of the early teachings of .our copybooks.
It seems to us that if wo lived "the
simple life" we wohld be in just the state
of mind thatJtfr. B^ett Is arguing for. It
is the life of excitement and Complicated
sensations that dulls the moral sense.
Fifty-two per Cent a Year from Catalpa.
Catalpa is as safe an investment as the
Bank of England and as fertile in divi
dends as Miller's get-rich-quick concern, if
a certain forest JW l*_fcisa is a standard
of success, 'says-Cotwfcry Life In America.
An average annual profit of 52 per cent,
maintained for twelve years on a 600-acre
patch ofS&8i0Ll. ffi fne 'showing of the
balance sheet Of"it^W. Yaggy*of Hutch
inson, Kan. Cataipa accounts for one-half
of the success, sleepless management was
the price of the father half of the triumph.
The May number i of Country Life in
America is rich in good things for him
Who loves or-live* *he. out-door life.
JS* !'j Xf*%l
The' Japanese.- farewell, "sayonara."^Mi_ns
something like "if 'it most be so," or "if we
mutt part thus, so- be ito"* .y
LABOR
MINISTER MEMBER
MAY BE CHAIRMAN
REV. W. O. WALLACE MAY PRE
SIDE AT. GOMPERS MEETING.
Twin City Committees Planning for
Reception of the Head of the Ameri
can FederationHe Will Appear
First in Minneapolis, Spending Three
Evenings in the Two Cities.
The special reception committee of
the Trades and Labor assembly which1
has in hand the making of arrange
ments for the reception and entertain
ment of Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, who
comes to Minneapolis on May 23, 24
and 25, met with a committee from the
St. Paul assembly at Alexander's hall
last Monday evening. It has been de
cided that Mr. Gompers shall be here
the night of the 23d and the day of the
24th. will go to St. Paul the latter
evening, where he' will be the guest of
the St. Paul unions. On the night of
the 25th he will be entertained by the
St. Paul and Minneapolis Elks at St.
Paul.
All the local unions are taking an
active interest in the visit of Mr. Gom
pers, and a large audience room is be
ing sought in order to accommodate
the expected crowds.
Because of the fact that the presi
dent of the Trades assembly is directly
concerned in the business responsible
for Mr. Gompers' contemplated trip,
it is thought that an outsider will be
chosen by the committee to preside at
the mass meeting. Among those who
are mentioned for this honor is Eev
W. O. Wallace, the representative in
the assembly of the Presbyterian Min
isters' association, who would undoubt
edly be acceptable to all.
WANT THE FREE BUREAU
Local Labor Interests Will Welcome
State Agency.
If quarters can, be secured free there
will' be a state free employment bureau
established in Minneapolis. On ac
count of the smallness of the .appro
priation made by the legislature for
the work, it is necessary, if there is to
be a branch in this city, that it be had
without cbst to the state labor depart
ment. Negotiations will be entered
into shortly to get room in the cityhall
building, and if these are successful
it is said Labor Commissioner Williams
will establish agencies in both cities,
the St. Paul branch to be maintained
at the capitol.
Minneapolis unionists are quite anx
ious to see the experiment of a free
employment bureau tried here, and the
matter 'will soon be taken up and an
effort made to induce "the city or county
authorities to grant the use of suitable
roomsfor the purpose. The work will
be performed by the employees of the
state bureau in both cities, and tho
appropriation will be used to meet ex
penses in connection with the main
tenance of the bureaus.
WORSE OFF THAN EVER
N Possibility of Reorganizing Build
i ng Trades on Present Plan.
Failure seems to have met the efforts
to reorganize the Building Trades coun
cil. Altho several weeks have passcl
since the. move was begun, the project
is no nearer realization than at first.
Some say the chances are not nearly
so bright now, as it is said some of
the organizations which participated in
the preliminary meetings of the dele
gates have withdrawn.
One of the officers of the council said
last night that the plan would fail, and
that only seven organizations were left
in the ranks of those which favored re
organization, while ten remained with
the present council. This man says
that the matter will have to be gone
about in an entirely different way than
that proposed if success is to crown
the efforts of those who really desire
to s,ec a council which will include
within its membership all the unions
of the building trades.
All .hope has not been abandoned by
the promoters of a reorganization, and
meetings will be held until develop
ments- show that there is really no
chance to get all together.
ST. PAUL PAINTERS
Expected that They Will Get the Same
Scale as Minneapolis.
A special meeting of the Painters'
District Council was held at Alexan
der's hall last Sunday morning. The
business considered was the conditions
in St. Paul, and the meeting was at
tended by a very large number of dele
gates.
A conference has been arranged be
tween the master pai'n'fcers of St. Paul,
and a committee of the union, which
will be held at St. Paul next Monday
evening, at which time occurs the reg
ular meeting of the bosses. There now
seems to be every likelihood that a set
tlement Will be reached: The men
have agreed to waive several things
which were objectionable to the em
ployers, and the only thing about which
there is any dispute is the question of
wages. I this the union will be satis
fied if a raise of 2^c is given, which
would make the St. Paul scale the same
as that prevailing in Minneapolis,
which is desired by some of the employ
ers. With a raise of 2^c the scale will,
be 3714c an hour.
MEATCUTTERS' CHIEF
President Donnelly Will Visit
Unions in June.
April' 28, 1905.
Local
Word has been received by the offi
cials of the local of the Amalgamated
Meatcutters' union that President
Michael Donnelly will visit Minneapo
lis the first week in June. A mass
meeting is being arranged and Mr. Don
iielly will make the principal address.
According to an arrangement, the
Unit ed Union Label league will partici
pate in the gathering. Mr. Donnelly
will spend several days here an'd in St.
Paul, and will look over the field With
a view of strengthening the northwest
ern unions. The locals have been doing
considerable work of late in' the way of
securing new members, and the meeting
Monday night was well attended, and
a class of candidates was initiated.
A committee has been appoi'n'ted to
arrange' for the annual picnic, which
will be held thi j^ear at Jordan, Minn.
MUCH MONEY HANDLED
Cigarmakers' Reports for 1904 Make
...^Pine Showing.
In the current 'n'umber of the Cigar
makers Official Journal appears the an
nual financial report of the Interna
tional Cigarmakers' Union. I is a
most flattering one, and the figures pre
sented give a comprehensive resume of
the financial transactions of the organi
zation. The total amount handled by
local officers in 1904 reached the enor
mous total of $2,583,864.74.
The largest item of expense was
$163,226.18 for sick benefits, aa against
$147,054.56 in 1903, or an increase of
$16,171.62.
The second largest item of expense,
$151,752.93, was for^death benefits/
showing an increase of $13,127.02 over
that expended for a like purpose in?
i903y
The third largest expenditure for
benefits was $32,888.88, for strike bene
fits, as against $20,858.15 in 1903. The
largest part of the amount -was expend-'
ed the Chicago strike.
Total amount of benefits paid for all
purposes in 1904 was $436,469.20, while
$374,968.03 was expended for a similar
purpose in 1903, an increase over the
latter year of $61,501.17.
Organize Smaller Towns.
A. G. Bainbridge, organizer for the
International Brotherhood qf Painters
and Decorators for this district, has
been called to La Crosse, Wis., to as
sist in the adjustment of some serious
differences between the workmen and
employers of that city. On his way
home he will visit a number of places,
among them Winona, Ee Wing and
Eochester, where he will endeavor to
reorganize defunct unions of the craft.
Special attention will be given to Min
nesota unions by the painters this sum
mer, and it is said Mr. Bainbridge will
give up much of his time to the work
of thoroly organizing the smaller towns:
Lithographers* Ball.
Twin City Lithographers' union, No
10, will hold its seventh annual ball
at East Side Turner hall, this city,
tomorrow evening. The advertising
matter and programs are very artistic.
The arrangement committee is made up
of Messrs. P. F. Gerber^ R. Dahlstrom,
H. Matthews, H. McNaughton, F. Hes
sel and E. Niedenfuer, who will be
assisted by the following: Messrs. J.
Reif, E. Brown, A. Fisher, F. Luecke,
C. Mergen, E. Gruetzman. J. Cough
lin, J. Lucker, Fabel and Mack.
Albert Zabel will be master of cere
monies.
Union Lab el Entertainment.
A. O. U. W. hall, corner Third and
Central avenues NE, has been selected
as the place for holding the third of
the series of entertainments being given
by the United Union Label council.
The date is Tuesday evening, May 9.
A usual, the council has provided an
exceptionally meritorious program,
upon the conclusion there will be two
hours of dancing. The full program
will appear next week.
LABOR NOTES.
O. M. Wasslnir of the Retail Clerks' associa
tion has bey,\ installed as secretary of the
United Union Label Council.
The Minneapolis ideal of the International As
sociation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
has voted unanimously in favor of continued
affiliation with the Structural Building Trades
alliance. Returns of the vote being taken thru
out the country must be in the hands of the
convention, which meets on May 15, at Buffalo,
N. Y.
Edwin Milln-ard, a well-known member of the
Paperhangers' union, died .Wednesday morning at
his home at 3309 Longfellow avenue.
B. Strand has been 'elected temporary busi
ness agent of the Stonemasons' union. It is
thought the office will soon be made permanent.
.Officers of the Billposters* union were elected
Sunday, as follows: Recording secretary. Z. A
Luekensmeyer business asent, W. McDonaliJ
delegate to Trades Asse.-nplyT J. J. Whitehead.
E. B. Loberg of the Metal Polishers has been
elected a delegate to the Metal Trades council.
Cabinetmakers' union. No. -213, gave an enter
tainment at Alexander's hall Wednesday even
ing. A miscellaneous progrim was enjoyed by a
large audijnee.
A Boast for Nansen.
Post och Inrikes Tidning, the -official
paper of Sweden, criticises Dr. Fridtjof
Nansen very sharply for his articles in
foreign papers on the Norwegian con
sular question. I says:
Professor Nansen from Christiania,
on his foreign tour, has served various
foreign papers with a highly distorted
presentation of the causes and the
status of the Swedish-Norwegian con
flict. His motive is fully as clear as it
is discreditable, for it cannot be as
sumed that he is as grossly ignorant as
his conduct might indicate."
One familiar with the conditions in
Scandinavia can imagine what the news
papers of Norw ay said to their Swedish
contemporary.
CaptaihnmEdlunthe
y m^ii^uu^jjk^
From St. Paul Unions. *r
A letter has been received by the# St.
Paul assembly asking that labor unions
make no further contributions to the
Western Federation of Miners, and askr
ing that the United Garment Workers
of America be given financial aid.
St. Paul ice-wagon drivers have se
cured the signatures of the Capital
City, People's, St. Paul and North
western Ice companies to a scale of
wages which is in many respects the
same as last year. I provides for the
payment of $75 a month six. months
of the year and $55 for the remainder.
Helpers and icehouse .men who have
been in service for a long time will
receive $70 a month in summer and $50
in winter^ while new men are to re
ceive $60 in summer and $50 in winter.
Thomas Gorman of Pressmen's union.
No. 29, has been elected delegate to
the San Francisco convention. The
union elected E. M. Eolfer president
E. Schoeneman, vice president, and
Henry G. Eollins, financial secretary.
Returns'.-
Christiania's Merchant Fleet.
Christiania is the home of no less
than 331 ocean-going vessels, of which
234 are steamships and 97 sailing ves
sels. Only steamers of more than
twenty-five tons and sailing vessels of
more than fifty tons are registered. The
gross tonnage is 300,017. The largest
vessel registered there is the steam-
shiD Ruth of 3,449 tons. Only seventv
eight of the vessels were built in
Christiania.
Finnish Youth Gets His Gun.
When Emil Lampinen. the young
sportsman from Borga, Finland, land
ed at Hango, with the handsome rifle
which he wo in the Northern games at
Stockholm, it was taken from him by
the Russian police, who informed him
NATIVE SONS TO DINE
Governor and Mayor Join in Gathering
Captain Edd of Swedish army,
who has been with the Russian army latter do not manufacture gun cotton,
Manchuria for a year, has returned from [altho Norw ay uses considerable quanti-
the far east and is the lion of the ties in mining operations. One mining
day. wore the new campaign uni-1 company alone used upwards of 200
form of the Swedish army and brought
the gratifying intelligence that it was
generally commended by the foreign at
taches and the Russian officers as neat
and serviceable.
that he had violated the laws of the Hansen, the new minister for the Danish
country. was not prosecuted, but navy, is 51 years old, being born at
the weapon was confiscated. Lampin- Haderslev, March 20, 1854. be-
en protested and bothered the authori-' came an officer in the navy in 1871, and
ties so much that they ordered the prize reached the grade of commander
returned to the owner.
Normannaheimen STUDENTS TO SAII4
FOR U. S. MAI .4
NORWEGIAN SINGERS ARRANGE
DATE OF DEPASTURE. If
Male Chorus of Forty-five Voices Wi ll
Accompanied by Two Opera Sing-
ers as Soloists, the Musical Director
and the Manager for the Party
Names of the Singers. "1
'Advice's from Norway announce that'
the Norwegian students who are to
visit America on a concert tour wi}l
sail from Christiania on May 4 on the
steamship United States of the Scandi
navian-American line. They will arrive
in New Yor% ten days later. O. A.
Groendahl, the musical director Rolf
Hammer and Johannes Berg-Hansea,
the opera singers who will sing the
solo parts, and Manager H. Li will
accompany the party. The other mem
bers are as follows:
First Tenors^Dr. C. Aal, R. Aaslund,
S. Blehr, E. Christensen, R. Hassel, Dr.
C. Kaas, M. Mork, M. Puntervold, Al
Staver, Dr. K. Syvertsen, Dr. ,W. Zag
baum and E. Gloersen.
Second TenorsEgeberg Traaen, J.
Halfstad, T. Halvorsen, H. Hansen,
Ivar Matheiesen, G. Myhre, A. Sehiotz,
Segelke Trip, Staff, Dr. R. Tschudy
and T. Wegge.
First BassosDr. H. Boersum, G.
Holm, O. Herolfsen, Huitfeldt, Dr.
E. Onsum, L. Saxe, K. Schoenning,
Steen, S. Svendsen and Dr. E. Solem.
Second Bassos^J. -Arbo, J. P. Bull,
W. Christie, J. Collett, Dr. H. Craw
ford, Dr. H. M. Gram, C. Lampe, G.
Magnus, E. Schibbyc Dr. H. Thompsen,
H. Tobiesen and C. Winter Hjelm.
BOOKS O N AMERICA
Two Works Published in Christiania
Recently.
While Danish literature is fairly well
provided with books dealing with
America and American lifenotable
among which is Cavling's "Fra Amer
ika"Norwegian literature has been
comparatively poorly off. Only the last
year or two has produced any at all
readable works in this line, says the
New York Post. W refer to 'Oro Chi-
cago," by Peter Daae, and "Det
Norske Amerika," by Thoralf Klave
ness, both published by Cammermeyer
in Christiania. The author of the for
mer work has for a good many years
been a resident of Chicago, working on
the staff of a Norwegian paper pub
lished there, and is accordingly familiar
enough with the several phases of life
in the western metropolis, which he de
scribes as "America's most American
city, and the third largest Norwegian,
city in the world."
The other book mentioned is more
ambitious in its character. Mr. Klave
ness is the editor of a provincial paper,
who spent some months in the United
States at the expense of the Norwegian
government, with a so-called ."journal-
ist's scholarship. Hi 260 richly illus
trated pages (with no apparent connec
tion between illustrations and text,
however) purpose to give an account
of the life of Norwegian emigrants to
the United States, with casual refer
ence to American life in general. The
book naturally contains a good many
enlightening remarks, but also abounds
in errors and misstatements, and the
author evidently takers himself rather
more seriously than most of 4ijs~rea4eir8
will feel inclined to do. A introduc
tory autograph letter from Bjornson
praises the work highlv, particularly
the style. The latter may, in fact, bo
said to be a clumsy imitation of Bjorn
son's own.
SCARE UNFOUNDED
Gun Cotton Imports Are for Norwegian
Mines.
Stockholm's Dagblad created a sensa
tion early in April with a story of un
usual importations of guiy cotton by
Norway. According to a telegram
from Malmo there had been shipped
from a powder mill in Skaane, Sweden,
about three thousand kilograms of gun
cotton to Christiania, which quantity
was said to be excessive and caused
much speculation as to what Norway
as up to when the home powder mills
could not supply the demand.
Aftenposten of Christiania, in reply,
stated that there was nothing wrong
with Norw ay or her powder mills. The
kilbs annually and
were not unusual.
the importations
LOS ES POPULATION
Christiania Shows a Decrease of 1,276
in a Year.
Christiania, the capital and me
tropolis of Norway, shows a decrease
in population since last year. The
recent census gives 222,373 inhabitants,
as compared with -223,649 in 1904.
There is a loss of 1,276 people, which
is presumably explained by_ the fact
that the industrial depression in the
capital has driven the working classes
to seek employment in the smaller
towns, where the conditions have been
better, or to emigrate.
DENMARK'S NEW MINISTERS
Were Promoted from Bureau Chiefs to
High Places.
Commander Joachim Moltke Kfoed-
1900. A year later he entered the
marine department as director, succeed*
ing Admiral Zachariae.
Alfred Theophilus Seedorff, the new
-ir -r 1 _*. 1 minister of war, has the rank of lieu
nant
of Society Tonight. jborn in 1853 and received his commis-
-Sons and daughters of the pioneers of sten in the army in 1874 J^/W
the state will meet this evening at,^ he was placed in charge of the first
Donaldson's tea room for the annual department of the war muurtry, :an
supper and reunion of the Native Sons office which is now united with the war
of Minnesota. The supper will be ol
lowed by a program of music
and addresses. Among the speak
ers will be Governor John A. Johnson,
Mayor David Jones and E W. Ran
dall, all of whom are natives of the
state, Dr. W. -E. Leonard, president of
the association, will make a short talk
on the purpose and scope of the associa
tion and urge the desirability of extend
ing it to cover the entire state. Ed-Son a strike. The strike was caused
ward A. Bromley will show pioneer! a clash between one of the women an
Scenes with his stereopticon.
The supper tomorrow evening is open
not only to members and their wives,
but to all gentlemen who were born in
the state not less than thirty-five years
ago. The tickets cost one dollar.
The present officers are: Dr. Wil
liam E Leonard, president George An
drews, vice president Frank Gowen,
secretary W C. Johnson, treasurer.
The arrangements for the supper are
in charge of a committee consisting of
Dr. M. Holl, Frank W. Cook. Harlow
Gale. Hugh Scott, Burt Townsend
and H. H. S. RowelL
olonel in the army. wa
portfolio.
WOMEN STRIKE
Forty Employees of Royal Porcelain
Works Ar Out. ,i||
Forty of the female decorators at the
royal porcelain works at Copenhagen
laid down their work on April 9 and ar^
the director over an order, which the
woman refused to obey. She was disr
charged and the others, thereupon, lef|
the works. It is understood that the_
demand higher wages as one of the con*
dition for their return. The maximum
wages is 75 kroner per month, afte^
having had six years' experience. |&l
ffr Stockholm's Healthy Growth.^!
Stockholm continues to grow slowlyi
but evenly. The 1905 census, just com
pleted, gives a population of 318,398, at
acainst 309,496 for 1904, an increase in
a jear of 8,902.