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Weaver and the People.
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia has
declared his intention of disenthralling
the council and enfranchising the peo
jple. This is a large contract in Penn
sylvania, but he has done pretty well
thus far. He has hurled the leaders of
the gang out of lucrative offices and
When the machine threatened to throw
clown his new appointees he went to the
council chamber with his attorney and
gat in the ante-room until the aldermen
brought him word that the opposition
ihad been called off. Then he went home
nd wrote requests for the resignations
of five more gang leaders. These have
been forthcoming and today the mayor
is master of the situation.
The deeper he goes into the fight the
more the mayor learns that the people
of Philadelphia are heart whole and
fancy free. They are not "corrupted
and contented," but alert and respons
ive to the call of action. They appear
to have been discouraged by lack of
leadership, but neither corrupt nor con
tent. They have responded to the voice
of leadership like a cloud of cowboys
joining a sheriff's posse.
The people can generally be depended
upon to meet the issue when the man
and the hour arrive.
The test of the governor's appeal
"board pudding will be in the eating.
The War and Trade.
First consideration of the day, in the
larger commercial sense, is that of the
ignificance of Togo's great victory in
its relation to the trade of our country.
That Japan will control in Korea and
Manchuria is now clear, and that this
will mean great things for our country
is equally certain. The victory fore
shadows an increase in trade, that, over
the next decade, should grow into great
importance. The immediate effect, how
ever, will probably be something of tem
porary decline in our business with the
orient.
New records have been made in the
Pacific coast trade within the year.
Sales of cotton goods to North China
since Feb. 1 exceeded by almost 100,000
bales the business ordinarily done in
a full season, and houses on both coasts
report a general export business with
the far east fully 50 per cent larger
than in any previous period of corres
ponding length. Only within a week,
Japan, following up large orders already
placed, bought another lot of 100 loco
motives and 2,000 freight cars from an
American firm. The enormous sales of
foodstuffs to Japan, and the extent to
which America has contributed to the
sustenance of the large armies in the
field, has been the main factor in swell
ing the total volume. We have sold
Japan a little of everything she could
use, not excepting Minneapolis flour,
and of this business, traceable directly
to the war operations, the bulk has
gone out from the Pacific coast, demand
in most cases being too urgent to per
mit of shipment by the longer Atlantic
coast route.
Should Japan and Russia come to
peace terms soon the first effect will
be a falling off in this highly profitable
trade. Japan will not have such large
armed forces to maintain men will re
turn to their former civil occupation^,
and internal improvements, which, by
governmental order have almost entire
ly ceased since Japan began to tax her
self for the war, will probably be re
sumed. Hence the first period following
the termination of the war will prob
ably be marked by internal rehabilita
tion, during which our trade with Ja
pan may fall off materially. Then, after
a breathing spell, there will come an
increase greater by far than ever
known, and it should continue year af
ter year.
It has been prophesied that the day
will come when our commerce on the
Pacific will far surpass that of the At
lantic.
The victory of Togo may live in his
tory, not only as an achievement at
arms, but as an event of first importance
in turning the trade channels of the
world.
The world's financial markets have
not responded to the victory with that
^buoyancy expected. This hesitancy in
the face of new conditions making peace
almost certain is due largely to the fear
that the indemnity demand of Japan
will be so large as to temporarily dis
turb international financial affairs, This
may be borrowing trouble, but.it has its
effect. Eventually, the financial mar
kets should benefit by the victory.^
It is in straight commerce that "our
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benefit is to come. Japan will find her
self loosened up, and her crowded
islands will send millions of people into
the lands newly acquired. Development
upon a large scale is certain. Japan is
not a country to stand still. Where
she goes she will build railroads and
telephone lines, and improvements of
every kind, and the quantity of struc
tural material and equipment that she
will have to buy in a single year will'
figure into millions of dollars.
It must be expected that England will
profit largely by this, but our country
stands high with Japan the Japanese
like us, and that they will buy great
quantities of material of all kinds from
America cannot be doubted.
Two Important Points Cleared Up.
The railroad "campaign of educa
tion" in opposition to the president's
program of railroad regulation has been
doing its utmost to spread the idea
everywVre that if the interstate com
merce commission is given the power to
fix a new rate after having found the
old one unreasonable, it must do so on
the distance-tariff basis. This state
ment, if true, would unquestionably con
stitute a very potent argument against
the administration plan, and, like the
wonderful discovery by the railroad at
torneys of that constitutional provision
against discrimination between ports,
will be effective while it lasts.
We have not believed, however, at
any time that the conclusion that gov
ernment regulation meant a distance
tariff but in order to get a clearer
statement of the proposition' from the
best authority The Journal asked
its Washington correspondent to devel
op the facts bearing upon this matter.
He has taken the question up with the
interstate commerce commission itself
and furnishes an interview today, which
shows by precedent as well as by state
ment of future policy, that the govern
ment is not restricted in its regulation
of rates to consideration of the mere
matter of distance. All the considera
tions which now legitimately enter into
the question of fixing rates may be
made operative under government regu
lation just as well as under private con
trol. That there was nothing in the
constitutional limitation as to discrimi
nation between ports, was shown by At
torney General Moody, and Commission
er Prouty demonstrates that there is
nothing in the distance tariff argument.
The propaganda of the railroads will
have to hu"nt up something else, now
that both of these have been rendered
useless by investigation.
It -will also be remembered that when
Mr. Hill of the Great Northern was be
fore the interstate commerce committee
of the senate he repeated his oft-told
storv about the interference of the gov
ernment having destroyed his export
cotton trade. Mr. Prouty states just
exactly what the commission did with
regard to that matter. He shows an ex
actly contrary state of facts and the is
sue of veracity between the commission
er and Mr. Hill is squarely made. Un
til that issue is settled Mr. Hill's state
ment will at least be subject to suspi
cion.
There seems to have been an auto
mobile mixed up in that sea fight some
how. At any rate, we read that the
Jemtchug has shown up at Manila.
King- Alfonso.
King Alfonso is a sensible young fel
low who refuses to have his holiday in
France spoiled by the scare that stalks
with kings. The morning after the at
tempt upon his life he was up bright
and early, whistling "My Love Is Like
a Eed, Eed Eose" while he shaved the
royal chin, afrd after taking off a cock
tail like a grown-up, sent an orderly
around to headquarters with a bunch of
medals for the officers who nailed the
anarchists.
King Alfonso is not the only brio-ht
pebble on the royal beach. The fact
is that Europe is enjoying a pretty good
line of kings at the present writing.
Aside from Peter of Servia, and one or
two more who are scarcely more than
jacks, the kings of the continent are a
fine lot. There is Edward VII. of Eng
land, a master of kingcraft, who kh'ows
the age of a horse and dresses to beat
the band. Some who have met him
say that he is mild-man'n'ered and peace
able in his disposition. During his
reign the Tower of London is not half
full, while the beefeaters are full all
the time.
Then there is Wilhelm, the rapidest of
Germany. He sometimes makes you
wish his term would expire and Bill
Bryan could get a go at him on a plat
form of his own making, but on the
whole Wilhelm does very well. He
shoots, rides, plays golf, sings, acts and
eats ham aWd eggs. What more can
you ask of a man who has never been in
San Francisco?
Leopold of Belgium, too, is a mon
arch who passes a pretty good exami
nation in mental arithmetic. While
one of the oldest he is also one of the
most up-to-date monarchs on tap. While
his whiskers seem to have been left over
from the crusades, there is nothing rusty
about Leopold. He is a business man,
a money maker and a believer in the
gold standard. He rules the Belgians
for exercise, but his real trade is devel
oping the Congo Free State for Leopold.
He will be wearing diamonds when the
czar is in jail for debt. Leopold d&es
not make war he makes dividends.
Alfonso is among ^i bunch of mon
archs who will show him how to do it if
he will listen. ~"S T-
A contemporary remarks, "If Togo
were an American citizen, there would
be little question regarding the suc
cession to the presidency." And yet
Dewey was an American citizen after
Manila.
Senator Foraker went up to the
White House on Monday to talk with
the president about certain postoffices
in Ohio. He complained afterwards
that he could-hot
hold Mr. "Roosevelt's
attention, the president was so absorb
ed in the naval battle. How strange
this is! A man letting his mind wander
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Nebogatoff looks to us just now like I ideas were usually in advance of his
crooked alderman and the graad jury fellows, he was often abused and mis
understood.
due to meet on Monday.
to world-moving events to the exclu
sion of postoffices in Ohio. Senator
Foraker cannot understand such a man.
It will not be so when Foraker is presi
dent.
A Great Commoner.
A. E. Hall, who closed a long and
useful life yesterday at Knapp, Wis.,
was one of the great commoners of two
states, Minnesota and Wisconsin. His
name will live in history as the father
of Wisconsin's antipass law, but his
whole career was marked by a devo
tion to the public service which seemed
to set aside personal ambition. He
seemed to be laboring not for himself,
but always for the state, and as his
In his latter years, however, there
was no man in Wisconsin more honored
and respected, even by political oppo
nents. During the decade following
the civil war, in which he served with
honor, he was prominent in Minneapolis
affairs, and represented one of the city
districts in seven sessions of the Min
nesota legislature, serving three times
as speaker.
He then moved to Dunn county, Wis
consin, and after a time re-entered pub
lic life.
During four sessions he fought in the
Wisconsin legislature for the antipass
legislation, blazing the way for La Fol
lette's recent triumphs, and sinking his
personality to become a lieutenant of
the present governor. His long and
finally successful struggle for antipass
legislation was almost paralleled by J.
F. Jacobson's fight for the 4 per cent
gross earnings law in Minnesota. When,
in 1897, the public sentiment Hall had
aroused finally forced the passage of
the antipass law and constitutional
amendment, he retired to his business at
Knapp, and asked no office or prefer
ment as a reward for his long campaign.
The state and nation need more men
like A. E. Hall.
Count Cassini is still putting up a
pretty stiff fight. He has ordered a
high-geared ball-bearing typewriter and
will whip Japan yet if the ribbon holds
out.
This Explains.
Admiral "Bob" Evans tells a story
which throws some light upon the re
cent wonderful success of the Japanese
in sea-fighting. Evans says that some
years ago he had a Japanese servant,
with whom he was especially pleased.
The Jap was faithful, prompt, remark
ably quick to learn and seemed to take
particular interest in everything about
the ship. Just to amuse himself, Evans
says, he sometimes took particular pains
to explain things which the Jap ap
peared not to understand.
One day the Jap disappeared without
any apparent reason, and the admiral
was unable to get any trace of him.
He regretted his departure because he
valued his services.
Some time later, when lying in the
harbor of Marseilles, he made a call on
a Japanese battleship in the same har
bor. The captain of the ship met him
at the gangway and very courteously
escorted him to his cabin. After they
were seated the captain suddenly took
off his hat, threw a napkin over his
arm, bowed and said, "Would the cap
tain drink!" Evans remembered the
tone in an instant and, jumping to his
feet he cried "Kato!" "The same,"
said the captain, bowing again, "Cap
tain Kato of the mikado's navy."
Captain Kato had sought service with
the admiral of the American navy that
he might learn the art of seamanship.
He was willing to take a menial posi
tion in order to have the best possible
opportunity of observing and acquiring
information which would be of service
to his country. Captain Kato is not a
rare specimen. Admiral Uriu, who fig
ured in the recent great battle in the
Korean strait, was anAmerican student,
and doubtless many others of that su
perb fighting navy learned their busi
ness in much the same way that Kato
did, and doubtless numerous other
"Captain Katos" for whose splendid
service the Japanese naval minister
praises the virtue of the emperor have
contributed to the elevation of Jap
anese prestige during the past week.
The contest between the Jap and the
Bussian is the most striking that has
ever been presented. The Russian,
self-confident and blustering, but un-'
prepared and almost always u'n'der the
influence of bad liquor, has met and
been routed on sea and land by men
whose preparedness and forethought,
and whose temperate habits have bee'n1
matched only by their unexampled
modesty. The Jap has won because he
deserved to win, and he has taught the
world a lesson about deserving to win
which it can't afford to aeglect.
The virtues of that man the mikado
must be abnormal, judging, from the
effects they produce. Wonder if Mrs.
Mikado shares the generally expressed
belief that he is without flaw?
The Peace Settlement.
With the end of the war in sight,
war in
altho Eussia is slow to admit it, terms
of peace are now matters of live inter
est. Japan is expected to ask and to
insist upon a money indemnity in addi
tion to the retiremen't of Russia from
Manchuria, the cession of the Saghalin
island and possibly some of the Amur
province. Manchuria will probably go
back to China where it belongs, except
the Liaotung peninsula and Port Ar
thur, which Japan now will hold and
Korea will, of course, remain1
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there to see that justice is done and
that there is a "square deal." There
will be no more jug-hattdled affairs like
the Berlin treaty of 1878, or the treaty
concluded after Japan's war with China
in which the Japanese were robbed by
European nations of practically all the
fruits of victory.
Bussia can hardly .expect to escape
without paying a money indemnity.
Japan has been placed at great ex
pe!nse by this war and while a billion
dollars, which has been mentioned in
the press dispatches, as the amount
Japan will be likely to demand, seems
extravagant, it is no more than Bis
marck demanded of France in 1871,
after he had taken away Alsace and
Lorraine. Even little Greece in 1897
paid Turkey a heavy indemnity in
money and suffered Thessaly to be occu
pied by the Turkish troops until the
claim had been satisfied. Undoubtedlv
it is the expectation that the terms will
be hard which, as much as anything
elseeven the preservation of national
honordeters Russ ia from negotiating
for peace at th is time. Under present
conditions Eussia is in no position to
resist any reasonable demand. The
threat and the great possibility that the
Japanese might send their victorious
Togo into the Baltic sea would seem to
leave the Eussians no choice in the end,
but that of submission to any reasona
ble demands Japan may see fit to make.
The New Voice, sfceaklng of the cele
bration of the country's natal day, would
cut out the climbing of a greased pole and
the scramble for possession of a greased
pig. No one can be hurt by swarming
up the greased pole, but it might be well
to consider the feelings of the pig, as he
does not understand the game and suf
fers from severe fright.
The retirement of Secretary Morton Is
said to be hastened by the fear that the
fascinations of Washington will be too
much for him. If he does not quit now
he fears he will get the habit. The Wash
ington habit is one to be fought with all
the powers one possesses.
Tartars in the southern part of the
Transcaucasus, Russian territory, are now
reported to be slaughtering the Armen
ians who fled from Turkish massacres.
What is there about the Armenians that
everyone seems to massacre them?
William Rockefeller's neighbors in the
Adirondacks threaten to perforate him
wi th a bullet if he shows up on his vast
and beautiful estate. There is something
wrong about you when the neighbors are
out to "get ytu.
Dennis Tapley of Savannah, Ga., has
developed, without the use of chemicals,
a coal-black rose, which he has named
the mourning rose. A black rose would
naturally do well In Georgia.
Mr. Schwab, the steel magnate, is said
to have in his safe an order from Russia
for a new navy or two. Mr. Schwab
will have to hurry or he cannot get his
navy sunk in the next war.
Henry Clews gives the names of twen
ty-two men in this country whose for
tunes range from $15,000,000 to $500,000,-
000. Henry did not get these figures from
the assessor.
The American Anti-Saloon league has
come out strongly against Intoxication on
the Fourth of July. It might be well to
strike at the cause by revising some of
the day's oratory.
Tho the season Is young a baseball
manager In Ohio has been fined $150 for.
offensive language. There are times when
the manager feels that $150 spent on lan
guage is economy.
According to the London Times John
Paul Jones was nothing but a pirate.
Wonder if he nipped a galley from the
Times office in those golden days of long
ago.
A barrel that can be folded up when
empty has been invented, we know by
whom, but possibly T. Taggart can shed
some light upon its origin.
The Chicago police raided a matrimon
ial agency and seized 45,000 love letters.
This will be a sad blow to trusting hearts.
A Chilean cruiser has foundered at sea.
It was one of the ships Russia tried to
buy. Possibly this was the hoodoo.
Every time the "system" does not sue,
Cook Lawson rubs his hands and puts
more fire under the broth.
The coal barons seem to have "control"
of radium. The price has been run up to
$8,000,000 an ounce.
The outrage In Philadelphia indicates
that some of the statesmen may yet have
to go to work.
The Elkins committee is in favor of
peace, but is firm against paying an in
demnity.
WHAT CITIES ARE DOING
City Engineer Erlckson of Chicago re
ports to the commissioner of public works
that the present waterworks system can
be made to take care of the city for four
years more, but then $6,000,000 will be
needed toh
tunnels.
under
Japanese suzerainty.
These are radical changes ,in the map
of the orient, but they mean the in
tegrity of China, the dominance of Jap
anese influence on the Asiatic coast
from the tnd of our Aleutian chain on
the north to the northern extremity of
our Philippine archipelago on the south.
Reference to the map will reveal an in
teresting factthat we are very near
neighbors to the Japs in the orient. "Ik/
When the terms of peace are arranged*
between Russia and Japan, four great
nations are likely to be represented at
the conference/'stablethe United
States, Great Britain, Germany and
France. One. of them, at least, will be
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL f%^| f?^^s^^^ June 3,' igofc
build new pumps, mains and
Henry Clay Sulzer, the famous tarrler
statesman of the New York East Side, is
spoken of for mayor of New York on an
ov iership platform. The ownership peo.
ple could fix on no one with a more stri
dent voice or more reckless courage on
the subject of "ownership" than Henry
Clay.
Robert Crawford, another Glasgow ex
pert who was invited to visit Chicago, de
clined on account of the stress of engage
ments, but sent Mayor Dunne a letter In
which he said that Chicago could win
"with an honest council.'
EPIC OF 'i HE OFFICE BOY
Chicago Tribune.
CHAPTER I.
I work.
CHAPTER II.
I'm tired.
CHAPTER III.
I shirk.
CHAPTER IV.
I'm fired.
ALL RUN DOWN
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She nad an hourglass flgurek
The first one in the town, Wm
And so it la no wonder
That she ia all run down.
Chicago Chroniclt. S
THE UNEASY CHAIR
THE WASP ONE OF THE CLEVER*
EST OF INSECTS.To cultivate the ac
quaintance of wasps always seemed to us
a matter of considerable temerity. There
is a warning in their buzz that strikes
terror to one's heart as does the "honk!
honk!" of an automobile coming around
a corner with the throttle wide open.
Yet one feels some interest in the busi
ness-like little creatures. Consequently
the timid will welcome an' opportunity to
study their habits at second hand, es
pecially when the instructors are such
ardent students and capable teachers
of the ways of the wasp as George
W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham of Wiscon
sin have proved themselves in Wasps
Social and Solitary.
The book is indeed a rare find for the
nature student. is filled with wonder
at the things Mr. and Mrs. Peckham have
discovered wasps up to. They seem to
have proved quite conclusively that wasps
are not automatons, but have individual
habits and tastes which are very marked.
These vary as widely as do those of men
of the same trade, for example, in the
way they go at the making of a home for
their young. Some show ingenuity of a
surprising sort. For instance, here is a
case which will illustrate both the clever
ness of wasps and the highly interesting
way in which the authors of the little
book In hand write about them:
Just here must be told the story of one
little wasp whose individuality stands out in
our minds more distinctly than that of any of
the others. We remember her as the most
fastidious and perfect little worker of the whole
season, so nice was she in her adaptation of
means to ends, so busy and contented in her
labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over
the completed woik. In filling up her nest
she put her head down into it and bit away
the loose earth fiom the hides, letting it fall
to the bottom of the burrow, and then, after a
quantity had accumulated, jammed it down with
her head. Earth was then brought from the
outsldo and pressed in, and then more was bit
ten fiom the sides. When, at last, the filling
was level with the ground, she brought a quan
tity of fine grains of dirt to the spot and,
picking up a small pebble in her mandibles,
used it as a hammer in pounding them down
with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as
hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Be
fore we could recover from our astonishment at
this perfoimance she had dropped her stone
and was bringing more earth. We then threw
ouiselves down on the ground that not a mo
tion might be lost, and in a moment we saw
her pick up the pebble and again pound the
earth into place with it, hammering now heie
and now there until all was level. Once more
the whole process was repeated, and then the
little creature all unconscious of the commo
tion that she had aroused in our mindsuncon
scious, indeed, of our very existence and intent
only on doing her work, and doing it well
gave one final, comprehensive glance around and
flew a^vay.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, $1.50 net.
WrXLA SIBEHT OATHER,
Author of "The Troll Garden" (McOlure,
Phillips & Cq., New York), Noticed in
This Column Recently.
HIGH CHURCH FANCIES.Miss Isa
bella Howe Fiske contributes a dainty lit
tle bit of verse to the June number of The
Booklovers' Magazine, entitled "High
Church Fancies:"
In golden &ong the oriole
Unto the oiiole sings
A little Chrysostom of spring,
He hath a broad and golden stole
Or is he verger, strangely clad,
As thru the belfried elm he rings
His little clear-toned bell and glad?
Or is he surpliced acolyte,
Or just a swinging censer bright?
A MILLIONAIRE TEMPTATION.Two
old ladies of the French nobility, accord
ing to Frances Aymar Mathews in The
Marquise's Millions, finding themselves
immensely rich and being ardent support
ers of the Bourbons, proposed to give
their wealth to Louis XIX upon his return
to aid him In restoring his line upon the
throne of France. A grandneice from
America, in love with a descendant of the
house of Napoleon, finding the affection of
her lover growing cold, conceives a plot
for obtaining the millions intended for
Louis XIX. The plot works out beauti
fully. Millions seem about to fall into the
hands of the lover and his love flames up
wonderfully. Then the girl's conscience
awakes and
The author has before shown skill in
story-telling, and in this story is not dis
appointing. The tale is clever and is told
in a style admirably suited to a situation
of the kind, except for the author's in
difference as to her tenses.
Funk & Wagnalls company, New York, SI.
A CALIFORNIA WRITER'S EFFORT
TO "SAVE HIS FACE."A man from
some obscure town in California whose
effusions had been repea+edly rejected, in
vented this delightfully ingenious scheme
for making his friends believe that at
last he had found his way into the maga
zines, says the June Bookman. In for
warding his manuscript, he wrote to the
editor thus:
Dear SirThis is a small place where I live,
and whenever a story of mine comes back the
whole village knows it. Now, I know you
don't want the enclosed MS., but I'm sending
it along just the same, together with a post
card, which I beg you to remail to me. The
postmistress will read it. of course, and I
need not tell you that within three hours the
news of what is on it will be all over town.
I will know when it comes that my MS. is
rejected, and you need never return it to me.
But please mail the card to me, and win my
everlasting gratitude.
The post-card had been carefully type
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If all is darkness* silence, yet 'tis rest.
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IIHHES0TA POLITICS
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With the Long Bow.
"Eyenature'n wa&M. aboot folly aa ttfR**'
PATTHEY, the pansy doctor and verbena specialist, has edited"
some patches of vegetation this year in a way that makes the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon look like old William Johnson's cabbage patch.
In the stilly night we sometimes dream of that Memorial afternoon
baseball game in which the saints had it handed out to them in a mourning
envelope. It was a time when even a quiet man with side-whiskers felt that
he must holler like a professional vocalist with an attack of the piano
twitters.
Alfred Stead, strongly pro-Japanese, writes:
"Already civilization is appearing behind the mikado's armies and
current history is sweeping on, while the proud czar vainly tries to grasp
the effect and meaning of this year's supreme events."
The czar cannot seem to take advice. We warned him over a year ago
in this very column. Look up the files.
Girls, if you put on picture hats and sit ftround rather wistfullike on
the shores o Minnetonka, you take your own chances and nobody is to blame
but yourselves. There is a bunch of bachelors at Tonka this year that acts
as tho it had been deprived of the sweet influences of female society for
some years. We have warned you in time.
The Order of Raspberries held its national convention at Buffalo the
other day, 117 Patches being represented. The annual statement of the
Grand Red Top-of-the-Box Raspberry was a flattering one, 78 new Patches
having been installed during the year. The Grand Red Raspberry treasurer
reported' a good bunch of berry money in the bank. Three new Pickers
were appointed, and the Patches were assessed a per capita tax of 18
cents for the insurance deficit.
Give us the good, quiet, comfortable city. A friend named Moses went
out into the country the other day for change and rest, and put up at a town,
with a water tank, a few miles of scenery and a hotel. There were a few
lambs gamboling with the cows near by, and dinner occurred in the heat of
the day. The windows were screenless, and a big bug came in and stepped
on Mr. Moses at night. There were others. Mr. Moses' story recalled
Editor Pierce's visit to some place located "ona sag in the Northern Pacific
railroad." He says:
It was 1 o'clock when we reached Bill Gray's place on the
banks of Duck Egg Creek. Mr. Gray's specialty was children.
There were seven in the house and more hunting eggs in the barn,
and a gray mare under an oak tree couldn't turn around for fear
of stepping on one. We had a pleasant visit with him. He was an
old settler and had two mortgages on his farm. Lately he had a
mule killed by lightning. We sympathized with him and offered
him a cigar in his bereavement. We then had a three-course dinner,
the last course being the same as the first and second. While we
were eating, Mrs. Gray directed us to my friend's farm, which we
reached after an hour's walk and the accumulation of a saddle gall
on my right foot. The farm was a delightful place. The house had
been burned down by tramps at least three weeks before we reached
there. The barn had been operated on for fire wood by movers and
thrifty neighbors the well had caved in and the lawn was busy
raising tall, sorrowful-looking weeds.
The country is all right if you have money enough to hire the strong-
arm work done when you feel the need of rest.
Dr. Walls of Chicago makes a good suggestion to mothers whose infant
babies of uncertain age sound the loud timbrel incontinently.
"It is always a safe and sensible thing to strip the baby to the skin
when it is crying'and will not stop," says Dr. "Walls. I reeall a case
where the little one had been screaming in pain, and nearly every other
thing had been tried. I suggested that the baby be stripped. The child
wore an abdominal band firmly around it, and when this had been removed
a tree insect was found between the band and the child's back, and for
three inches along the skin this creature had crawled, biting, leaving a
broad red line where the tender skin had been cut to the quick."
Under the circumstances baby was at once excused for his "murmur."
Another and a fertile reason why baby whispers his woes into the
public ear until the paint peels off of the wainscoting and glass dishes in
the closet are cracked is collected under the name of "colic." Colic is due
to overfeeding. The baby is uneasy from being kept perhaps in an un-
natural position or because his unnatural bind him somewhere. To
take up his little attention mother brings out the too frequent bottle. You
set unlimited oats before the horsey and he eats until, as the senior Weller
elegantly remarked, he "almost busts hisself." The same is true of baby.
He will lap up sustenance about as fast as a strong-armed mother can
provide it. This means the free and unlimited coinage of colic, and baby
has an ecru tummy ache with fringe on it two yards long and a foot wide
that sounds like a trombone solo from Meyerbeer, accompanied by dog re-
monstrance.
Then there are millions of mothers who wrap up the offspring in dozens
of coverings until the perspiration stands out on his little forehead and
priciig*' rash seizes upon him like early dew.
And mother feeds him.
Suppose the cow had her calf wrapped in four buffalo robes and a
woolen blanket!
Little Hun will not give you much annoyance if you dpn't annoy him
first. But if you are not wise to the mother game you will hear from Little
One if you listen closely, and you will not hear anything elsenot even the
baseball game on the empty lot. A. J. R.
Announcement of Nelson's Candidacy
and Elements that Threaten Trouble
for SenatorAnalysis of Last Elec
tion Shows Where Most Cutting Was
DoneLangum Speaks for Lord.
No one questions the authority of
William H. Grimshaw to speak for' Sen
ator Nelson, a,nd his interview in he
Journal yesterday makes the inten
tions of the senior senator plain. Very
few had really any doubt about his in
tention to ask for a third term, and
his re-election is generally regarded as
a matter of course. It cannot be de
nied, however, that a hostile movement
is being organized.
The Great Northern influence has been
hostile to Senator Nelson for several
years, the break dating even farther
back than the antimerger fight, in which
the senator took an unequivocal posi
tion. While the Great Northern road
appears to be taking less interest in
the game than formerly, the old ma
chine, which has always taken its cue
from that source, is undeniably hostile I
to Nelson. The only reason it has not I
been more demonstrative, is that the
men in that circle know the game, and
they know that at present they have no
popular backing. Unless some public
sentiment can oe worked up against
Nelson they are not likely to show their
hands. Alex McKenzie, the North Da
kota leader who has been giving con
siderable attention to Minnesota for
several years, has a personal grievance
against Nelson on account of the Alaska
troubles, and will do what he can to
break down the senator's fences.
Joel P. Heatwole, tho now "out of
politics," and most unmistakably out
with the railroad people, wants to beat
Nelson, and at present most of the open
opposition to the senator can be traced
to the Northfield influence. It is
claimed as the ground for Grimshaw's
interview that some of Heatwole's
friends were spreading a report that
Nelson would not be a candidate again.
This gossip and the Grimshaw inter
view have started the senatorial fight,
rather prematurely, it is true, but it
is placed before the people in such a
shape as to command attention from
now on.
Commenting on the proposition to
punjsh Hennepin county by basing the
representation in the next state con
vention on the Dunn vote, some of the
state press have erroneously said that
the head of the state ticket was cut
worst in Hennepin county and that
Hennepin, therefore, deserved the dis
franchisement.
The fact is that there were twenty
And If an endless sleep ha willsso bestn^f$} three counties out of the eighty-three
in the state where the Dunn vote was
proportionately as small as in Henne
pin, and in several the proportion of
scratched tickets was a great deal high
er. A fair way to arrive at this is to
compare the pluralities of Peter E. Han
son, whose 96,656 plurality very justly
represents the republican vote last year,
with the pluralities for or against
Dunn. In Hennepin countv, for in
stance, the total vote cast was 45,136,
and the difference between the plurali
ties for governor and secretary of state
was 19,456, or 43 per cent. In Pope
county the total vote was 2.110 and
Hanson's plurality was 1,308, while
Johnson for governor carried the coun
ty by 120. The difference between the
Hanson and Dunn vote was, therefore,
1,428, or 68 per cent of the total.
Other counties that showed as large
a proportion of difference as Hennepin,
or larger, were as follows:
Cottonwood, 49 per cent Bock, 46
Watonwan, 45 Nicollet, 76: Chisago,
67 Douglas, 44 Meeker, 4/ Chippe
wa, 44 Grant, 60: Kandiyohi, 49 Lac
qui Parle, 60- Renville, 43 Yellow
Medicine, 45 Isanti, 61 Kanabec, 52
Becker, 53 Clearwater, 52: Clay, 58
Kittson, 54 Marshall, 47 Norman, 43
Otter Tail, 46.
The seventh congressional district,
taken as a whole, showed almost as'
great a proportion of difference be
tween the pluralities for governor and
*ecretar of state. A comparison by
districts may be interesting:
Hanson
District Total Vote. Over Dunn. Per Cent.
First 88,185
Second 31.793
Third 82,720
Fourth 36,563
Fifth 45,136
Sixth 38,204
Seventh 34,389
Eighth 31,940
Xinth 33,762
8,663 22.5 32.4
2ftJ5
23.8 43.1 31.2 41.8 249 39.7
10,820
8,678
8,723
19,456 11,928 14,385
7,982
13,395
Totals 322,692 104,518 32.4
The foregoing figures do not seem
to show any particular reason why
Hennepin, of all counties in the state,
should be deprived of representation
next year.
S. Aj Langum, secretary of the state
senate and editor of the Preston Times,
who is one of the leading spokesmen
for Senator Lord, has come vigorously
to the defense of his favorite, who was
accused by the Belview Independent of
being not right on railroad questions.
He declares that Lord's vote nas been
"right and with the people on every
proposition that ever came up in the
legislature during the five terms that
he served as state senator.'' He then
serves notice as follows:
"His friends will court the closest
scrutiny of his legislative and personal
record, nor will they or he be a party
to a- repetition of the bitteT warfare
which disrupted the party a year ago.
The nomination must come to him bj'
the harmonious action of the republican
party or not at all."
Charles B. GhaacXfc