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Watch It Grow.
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They have handled an immense amouip
of money, and, from their point of view
as well as the public's, the examination
was necessary. It proved, what we all
supposed to be true, that the commis
sioners were mortal men and not infal
lible, but were-honest in handling the
state's money. If the governor and the
people of the state aTe satisfied, the
commissioners ought not to complain.
They should not ask to be given halos.
Everybody brightens up a little when
the wind is from the south.
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3 cents
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TELEPHONEJcnrnal has a private switchboard
for both lines. Call No 9 on either line and
fill for de^atlment you wish to sneak to.
Fhe Capitol Commission's Reply.
Members of the state capitol commis
sion confess that thev feel aggrieved
ve their treatment in the report of
'he public examiner. They consider
that before the exapiiner sent his re
port to the, governor he should have
tailed on the commissioners to explain
the transactions that seemed to call
tar eriticism.
The same fault was found by a for
ner state auditor when his administra
tion was reviewed by Public Examiner
Kerst's predecessor, S. T. Johnson. It
is likely to be found by any official or
business man whose methods are crit
icized by the officer who checks him
ip. It is necessary, however, for an
Examiner to make his report from the
record he finds. If he admits verbal
ixplanation, the report will cease to be
i presentment of facts and will be
lome an argument.
The function of a public examiner
jnust not be misunderstood. He is the
principal check provided by law for
jmblic officers. In the public interest
le must act without fear dr favor to*
Kard other men in public office. It is
tor him to search the records, as a trav
eling auditor scans the books of an
tgent or a bank examiner inspects the
ook and securities of a bank, and'to
feport to his chief anything that seems
|o call for criticism. It is not for him
(o act as judge and jury, to acquit or
londemn men. It is for him to report
ihe facts, and for his chief to draw
tonclusions. If necessary, it is for
those whose acts are in question to
Explain them.
The examiner found that the capitol
lommission had not complied with the
law in all cases, and so reported. Some
these violations might lfeve been
ferious, while others were trivial. The
governor found as his conclusion that
there had been no "graft," tho in
handling the vast sums of money, some
precautions had been overlooked. He
tame to this conclusion without calling
the commissioners to explain, and
iheir explanation adds little to the facts
,t hand. Tlieir reply is largely a com
plaint about the treatment received.
With this complaint the general public
tan have little sympathy. The exami
lation was necessary, since in ten
rears' work no accounting has been
nade to the state of mgney^s spent1.
The work could not be too thoro. In
tis zeal.the examiner hurt the commis'
uoners' feelings, but we have the sat
sfaction of knowing that he went to
(he bottom of things, and even ran
lown silly rumors of graft that would
|therwise have lived and spread to the
lurt of the commissioners. The com
oissioners complain that private letters
Fere read, but the letters quoted are
ibout public business, between public
iffieials, and tho written in a personal
rein, they can hardly be termed pri
vate correspondence. fi
The commissioners have, completed a
p-eat work and could not ask for a
core magnificent monument to their
ifforts than the building for which the
axpayers of Minnesota paid $4,500,000.
The Subsidy
in the senate by a strictly partizan
vote, all in the affirmative being repub
lican and all in the negative but five
being democrats, does not make the sub
sidy a party question. It does not
necessarily make it a question at all.
The speaker of the house may never al
low it to come to a vote in his baili
wick. Whatever agreement the presi
dent and the speaker may have had
with regard to the statehood bill there
is no reason to suppose that it extends
to general legislation or in particular to
theTshipping bill
The president's recommen
this measure in his annual message %as"
based largely on what he thought it
would do to reinforce the navy. The
president must have believed that it
would do something for our trade also,
but he has been careful to say so only
in very general terms. The bill as
passed provides for subventions for
thirteen contract mail lines. Three
leave Atlantic ports bound two for
South America, one for South Africa
six leave ports on the Gulf of Mexico
and three from Pacific ports. This sub
division the senate believed would pre
vent one company from hogging all the
subventions. A feature of the bill is
the creation of a naval reserve force of
10,000 officers and men who are to re
ceive retainers according to the British
plan. In order to get steady employ
ment for these naval reserve men the
ships receiving subventions are obliged
to employ a certain proportion of them I
The passage of the ship subsidy biMI bJS*'not ^\7 thoroly familiar with the
among their crews. The naval reserve
seems like a very fine and patriotic
idea, but is difficult to see what good
the reserves would be on a battleship
which is run by machinists and fought
by machinists and electricians. The
man behind the gun is no loj^eiri|||ffu!n*
sailor of the "Yo-ho" type, but a~lool,
mathematical professor, who can in
stantly calculate the distance of an ene
my and drop a ton of iron on him be
fore he can shift position.
The ship subsidy bill is defended on
the ground that it is such/ a very little
one. But like the infant industry it
will grow and if it once gets its feet in
the treasury it will take a revolution to
get them out again.
The republican organization In this
state will have to "show* 'the Tribune.
Importance^
S
?has
thJl jfedma!
Industry. HP lNj*~
One great and increasing source of
wealth in our country is in farm ani
mals, and indeed, few appreciate how
great it is or how rapidly the totals
covering the livestock industry have
been running up, both as to number
of animals and value. There was an
increase in the past year, according to
a bulletin of the department of agri
culture, of 18,040,183 head, and of ani
mals of all kinds there is now the great
total of 191,719,436 in the United
States. Put into money they stand for
$3,675,30^2, -oV an' in^^^lo^a
year of $668,808,705. SufelyTthis is a
great industry, the value of it is
half that of the entire production of
farm crops in a good year.
Familiarity of the public with the
immensity of the packing business and
the, cattle-raising that supplies it
might lead those not closely informed
to suppose that cattle would head the
list, but it is not so. Horses and mules
make up the big items. The horses
and mules of the United States repre
sent a total value of $1,510,889,906, an
increase of $310,579,886 forva year. I
been'argued'from time to time that
the extended use of electricity, the
many suburban and cross-country elec
tric railway lines, and, more recently,
the prominence of the automobile,
were all working against the horse
raising industry, but certainly nothing
in these official figures would indicate
that the horse is losing in importance
as an auxiliary laborer in our work of
progression. Possibly the breeding of
fancy horses has suffered in some de
gree, but the sturdy old farm mare,
whose place is not likely to be taken
by /n raiiidmobile or other electrical
eonmvance, ii increasing in numbers
and value.
Catfle represent a total valuation of
$1,328,960,301, and last year there was
an increase of 5,461,196 in $ae number
of sheep, which brings the total" np to
50,631,619, and,,with higher wool prices,
makes the 'valuation -$1793056,144, ^^^m^MllSSL
gain of $51,724,294 for jear^ fo* 1&*'J?f? TfM?i
These figures show clearly-the stead
ily increasing value of the livestock'
industry and are interesting he'fe, fori
While, Minneapolis is not t!he center of
any comparatively important' livestock
business, there is little doubt that the
gain in the wealth of the northwest,
upon which Minneapolis very largely
depends, will be along these lines. As
the big farms are broken up, and as the
farmers nearer the cities go in more for
dairying, so the value goes up and
every new animal in the state adds just
so much to the wealth and prosperity
of'the country and all dependent upon
it.
Late church edifices show that the spire
is passing out of vogue. This will leave
nothing for the lightning exdep| the tall
chimneys and the trees.
his resignation tonthe president yester
day. John Brady was appointed gov
ernor of Alaska in 1897. He has been
a thoroly upright and honest official
and in many ways has promoted the
interests of that district. He is, how-
..Gver.va man of advanced years and
'whije he commands the respect of the
fi
0 the district for his high char
acter and unquestioned integrity, not
withstanding the unfortunate attitude
in T^hich he placed himself, unwitting
ly, no doubt, in connection with a min
ing company a few months ago, they
will welcome to the office a younger
man more active and better equipped to
promote the interests of the district po
litically and commercially.
It is said the president has in mind
the appointment of Lieutenant D. H.
Jarvis. This selection would undoubt
edly meet with general approval, be
52 ctt5se the people of Alaska know him to
interests of the district and capable
of promoting its welfare, but absolutely
on thfe square.'' Furthermore, Lieu
tenant Jarvis is regarded with a great
deal of favor by the people of Alaska
because he has shown himself to be a
man equal to desperate emergencies.
The most thrilling chapter in the
whole history of Alaska is the story of
Jarvis' relief expedition to Point Bar
row in 1897, when this modest, unassum
ing man was selected by the United
States government to lead an expedi-
__ from San Francisco to Point Bar
sow^ on the Arctic shore of Alaska, in
midwinter, for the relief of whalers im
prisoned in'the ice at that point. The
lives of about 200 men depended upon
the success of that expedition. Fresh
meat and a sufficient quantity of it to
supply tneir needs until the break-up of
the ice the next year must be taken to
them and Captain Jarvis was the first
man selected for that expedition. The
relief afforded- consisted of a drove of
domesticated reindeer taken from the
Seward peninsula after Jarvis and his
companions had reached the north
chores of Bearing Sea over the ice. This
supply- of fresh meat, driven on foot
over the snows of northern Alaska, and
the organization and discipline which
Jarvis enforced in the ice-bound camp
of the whalers, accomplished the result
aimed at, and all but a very few of
them were brought out the next year in
safety.
The appointment of Jarvis to the
office of governor will give satisfaction
in Alaska and will give satisfaction in
Washington whe he has had an oppor
tunity to demonstrate his fitness for the
place.
Japan is moving eastward and Russia
'westward in their evacuation of Man
churia, like the senate approaching a
vote on the pure food bill.
Hereditary Politicians.
A Now York newspaper calls atten
tion to the fact that no New York
political leader of recent years has a
son who has taken to politics. When
one considers the character of the po
litical leadership of the empire state
during that period, one can express
neither surprise nor regret that this is
the fact. What sort of political ideals
could a son learn from such a father
as Thomas C, Piatt? Where would the
sons of Croker have landed had they
gone into politics on the basis of their
father?
As a matter of fact there is less
hereditary politics in this country than
in Great Britain. Dozens of great fam
ilies in England have their politician
picked from1
generation to generation.
In America the Adams family is per
haps the only one which generation
after generation produced capable pub
lic men. Few of our presidents have
had sons who* made any independent
mark in politics. Abraham Lincoln's
^On'sat in two cabinets, but he never
was a politician in a public sense. He
owed his elevation to the fact that his
father's name was an attractive one
and his personality was respectable.
President Grant's son, the one who is
now a general in the army, essayed a
political role in New York once and
achieved the distinction of being de
feated for the little office of secretary
of state. President Hayes' son Webb
was not a brilliant success as a poli
tician nor as anything else so far as
known. He became a volunteer officer
in the Spanish war, as did Russell B.
Harrison, another small son of a great
sire. The Garfield boy appears to have
more individuality than the average
presidential scion, but he is on trial
yet. His connection with the present
administration is quite likely to solve
the question whether he has a future in
public life.
In this country the adoption of a
political career is largely a matter of
personal taste or environment. A
young man of a great family cannot
be put up.by family influence for a
sure district in a -distant part of the
country and thus jump into public life,
tfe must live in the district he would
represent. He must show symptoms of
leadership there before he will be men
tioned for congress. He often finds
^^iM^miis(f6^NM?
that he possession of a great name is
a detriment to him'in his apolitical am
bitions. People suspect that lie is run-
re-
1
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But there need be no regret at the
absence of the sons of presidents and
senators from public life. We are not
in need of a hereditary governing
class. In fact,' our national safety is
rather bound up in the succession to
offices of president and legislators of
men who come from the people without
any provincial, social or family preju
dices.
There was nothing the. matter with Mrs.
Bfoomfield-Zeisler but that she didn't
want to praotice her lesson. Lots of the
little girls in Minneapolis know just how
she felt.
Mr. Bryanon the Goalie Question.
Mr. Bryan waB right on the Chinese I
question, even if he is not president.
The reports that'edme from the west
to the effect that Mr. Bryan has stirred
A Hero fof a Governor. P the Chinese imbroglio just as the
Governor John Brady of Alaska sent' government was getting it quieted do
Governo Jon
Brya
a
Mr. H. Q. Hays, secretary of the. Min
nesota Drainage league, sends The
Journal a communication, which is
printed in another column, defending the
officers of the league from the criticism
of the Crookston Times, reproduced re
cently in The Journal newa columns.
The proper expenditure of the drainage
league funds is a subject for the league
and the contributors to determine. Mr.
Hays says that the twin city commercial
organizations were ^solicited, and it is un
derstood that several of our business men
contributed. They may be interested to
know whether the lobby at Washington
is confining its, or rather his efforts, to
promoting the drainage bill. President
Bernard has been a persistent lobbyist in
the past against the government forest
reserve policy, and is still devoting some
of his energies at Washington to that
cause, it is reported, altho spending funds
contributed by twin city organizations
that are earnestly committed to forestry
extension.
orn
A black cloud has moved across the
heaven of the country's prosperity. The
Hon. Charles ^Hem^^rl-fsiVeno^ "haS" been
or is about to be, denied a renomination
for prophet paigns, the mathematical genius of the
republican party, the protector of pro
tection, his fall is not merely the demise
of a congressman, It is the passing of an
era. When the news is flashed from Ohip
that* Uncle Charley has been retired the
Congressional Record should have re
versed column rules and the remaining
members should adjourn the house for
the day. Space_ for eulogies should be
arranged for six months in advance.
congress, tf f3}?
houee, the
phe of a aolen^'pSresideritial cam-
Count Okuma is one of the last of
Japan's "elder statesmen" who met on
Jan. 3, 1868, and declared in favor of
nationality against feudalism. Count
Okuma writes:
"Japan has entered the circle of com
petitive nations. If she Imagines that
the sources of a nation's advance do not
lie in civilization, but are to be sought In
the remnants of feudal ideas, and if she
relies on armed victories, which encour
age militarism and vitiate popular senti
ment, she will be injuring her own prog
ress and sowing the seeds of national
decay."
This is the advice Japan is getting from
her wisest men, and she is wise enough
to take it.
The editors of the state are with us.
This should not be confounded with a
convention of journalists. While an edi
tor and a newspaper man are generally
recogrflzed as one and the same thing,
some one has very clearly differentiated
between the journalist and the newspa
per man by explaining that the news
paper man or the editor is a man who
wears two shirts in one week, while the
journalist is a man who wears one shirt
two weeks.
A bill is before the Iowa legislature
and the house committee on railroads
has recommended its passagerequiring
the railroad companies to give free passes
to all state and county officials in Iowa.
Why shouldn't the railroads be compelled
to furnish the officials their groceries?
Nat Goodwin has managed to get into a
row with the London critics and threat
ens to withdraw his play, "A Gilded
Fool." He should take it right over to
Paris. Boni would illustrate the piece
beautifully, and Goodwin Isn't so bad
himself.
The second district of Kansas is to
nominate a candidate for conress by pop
ular vote on March 24. This is the sec
ond congressional district in that state to
adopt the direct primary^ The idea is
spreading.
Some temperance workers have ap
peared before a congressional committee
to urge the remoVal of the tax from- alco-
hol used for industrial purposes. This is
doubtless the best way to use up alcohol.
THE FREE COUNTRY
Kansas City Star.
Great Britain tolerates a hereditary
nobility and all its accompanying fool
ishness. But it has enacted laws govern
ing corporations that secure the greatest
possible security and publicity The
United States prides itself on its liberty,
and yet it allows a little clique of corpor
ation managers to dictate a good share
of legislation*
Minnesota Politics
Somervllle the Lateat "Nelson Candi
date" for GovernorQutterson Confers
with Bert Miller at Luverne-P. E.
Hanson Has Had No Deputation, from
the Dunn Conference.
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ar
injusticet, sinc"butted
they leave
it to be inferred tha he in"
and overthrew some official plans by
voluntary action. Of course, Mr. Bryan
could not do this if he wished, as he
is only a private citizen with author
ity to speak for no one but himself.
It was for himself he spoke, and then
only when he was asked a question in
regard to the admission of coolie labor
into the American oriental possessions.
Mr. Bryan merely told his interlocutors
what everybody in this country knows,
that the' labor element among the voters
in this country would strongly object
to such a letting down of the bars. If
anybody else officially or unofficially
has been telling the Chinese anything
different he has been making a mistake.
Incidentally, the Bryan incident
shows pretty clearly that the fight is
being made by China not for the so
called student tourists, but for the
coolie.
who can point to a record of achieve
ment, citing especially the foreign corpor
ations law and the inheritance tax
measure.
Senator Somervllle is taking things
quietly. He mixed considerably when in
Minneapolis, and is apparently willing to
let the. governorship talk go on. He haB
not given up the idea of running for the
district bench entirely, however. Judge
Webber is from his own county, and is
to be a candidate again, which would
mean a hard pull for Somervllle if Sew
ard of Marshall should also enter, but
such a contest is not improbable.
Second district gossip says that Gilbert
Gutterson, when in Luverne a few days
ago, called on H. J. Miller and talked
over the congressional situation. Gut
terson still thinks seriously of being a
candidate, and second district papers
that scoffed at he a 1 for print
ing the original story are beginning to
take notice* It is understood that if he
Anally decides to run, and resigns from
his federal position, he will be the candi
date of the anti-McCleary element. Mil
ler will not enter, but will put in his
best licks for Gutterson.
The opposition to McCleary realizes the
congressman's strength among the farm
ers, and that is where Gutterson is also
strong His years of travel over the dis
trict as McCleary's field manager, and in
his service as inspector, have given him
a closer personal acquaintance with the
farmers of the district than any other
man, even McCleary himself. With this
element of strength, added to the anti-
McCleary vote in the cities and villages,
Gutterson would make a dangerous can
didate to meet.
Some of the anti-McCleary men in the
district would prefer to support a man
from outside of Blue Earth county, but
they see the reasons of^olltlcal expedi
ency that make Gutterson available, and
their main desire, after all, is to beat
"your congressman."
Peter E. Hanson declares that as far
as he Is concerned he knows nothing at
all about the Dunn conference in St Paul
last week While it is stated on good
authority that his candidacy was favor
ably discussed, Mr. Hanson says that no
one has delivered him any message from
the meeting, and no one has'asked him
to reconsider his statement declining to
be a candidate. It is very evident that
the secretary of state himself is entirely
innocent of any knowledge of the cabal,
and he must be acquitted of any sus
picions of helping to "frame up" a secret
pre-conventlon deal.
^ebruar^iS/ 1906.
,Lyr*7
George W. Bomerville of Sleepy Eye is
looming strong again as a governorship
possibility. There was considerable Som
ervllle talk during the gathering here the
first of the week, and it left its impress
on twin city politicians The latest re
port i is that Somervllle is Senator Nel
son's choice. Senator Nelson has been
accused of backing Lord, Brower, Jacob
son and Block, at different times, and it
does no* particular harm to add another
one to his list. It is true that some
prominent federal officers are doing mis
sionary work for Somervllle, but it does
not follow that they have had instruc
tionsrecommending
Since the defeat of the republican can
didate for mayor in Duluth, eighth dis
trict politicians are poking considerable
fun at "Little Tammany," the Duluth or
ganization which brought Thomas Tre
villlon out and undertook to elect him.
One report has it that J. Adam Bede had
promised to let them aamw -the receiver
of the land office if they won. It
isssafe
to say, tho, that the1
organizatio ha not
lost all prestige yet, and that Bede will
consult Its wishes before making the
pending appointment.
Four legislative candidates have al
ready filed their affidavits with the sec
retary of state. Senator Dan Shell was
the first to file, applying for his 6l post
as senator from the Nobles-Murray dis
trict. George R. Laybourn filed again for
the senate, and N. F. Hpgo for the house,
in the fifty-first district, which irtfcludes
Lake and Cook counties, besides a part
of St. Louis Frank Clague of Lamberton
filed for the senate Monday in the Brown
Redwood district.
W. M. Fuller, editor of the Little Falls
Transcript, and spokesman for Congress1
man Buckman, has been reappointed?
postmaster, in spite of the efforts of some
political opponents to beat him out of the
place. He will lead the newspaper forces
of Buckman in the coming contest with
Brower of St. Cloud.
Bemidjl people are giving notice that
in some future year, not far distant, they
will present the name of Judge Marshall
A. Spooner as a candidate for governor.
He has refused to allow discussion of his
name this time. Charles B. Cheney.
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Drainage Lobby Defended.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Your article, "At Outs over Drainage,"
In Monday's edition is so misleading as
to Justify a correction, which you will
be glad to make. No one connected with
the drainage work in the north, who has
contributed to the cause or" given a day's
time to fhe work, has criticised either
Mr. Bernard or Mr. Hays, president and
secretary of the Minnesota Drainage
league no one*in the north who has been
asked for financial aid to promote the
work has declined to do so. Mr. Hays
has not been in Washington. *The execu
tive committee of the league most em
phatically indorsed the "lobby proposi
tion And outside of the railways, the
commercial, clubs, the Jobbers* union, the
Chamber of Commerce, no one else in
either St. Paul or Minneapolis has been
solicited for funds for either the Wash
ington lobby or the educational campaign
in the state. Not one penny has been
contributed to the Minnesota Drainage
league except the whys and wherefores
were clearly stated and as clearly under
stood, and every dollar received has been
devoted to the purpose for which it was
contributed.
The officers of the league, know that
there has been malice behind*some of the
criticisms leveled at them, but prefer at
this time to submit uncomplainingly to
it lest the main issue be lost sight of in
the war of personality.
Now as to that "lobby This consists
of one man, A. G. Bernard, president
of the league, who was sent to Washing
ton with specially prepared maps of
northern Minnesota counties, showing
swamp lands, government holdings, .or
held by the general government in its
capacity as a trustee of the Chippewa
Indians, with soil samples taken from the
swamps sought to be re^ialmed. with data
showing rainfall, etc., with testimonials
from settlers, business men, cruisers,
surveyors and estimators as to the fer
tility, location, desirability, accessibility
and possibilities of these government
swamp lanfis.
Mr. Bernard, as opportunity presents,
is bringing this data to the attention of
members of committees to whom have
been referred the bills having to do with
drainage or surveys of these lands, and
is urgihg that an appropriation may be
made for a topographical surves' by the
federal fcoyernment of government land
Ajs^tp authority: The first resolution
passed at the drainage convention at Be
midji last June wa one-asking our odn*
gressional delegation to use its best ef
forts t'*ecure a
tooo^ra,phicaln
and the1
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from Washington to so. They
Somervlllo as a man
survey
drainage of reservatio land*
The reason for the resolution being that
the reservation lands hold the key tor
the drainage situation, therefore 4fte*
must be taken Into account.
The organization of the 'Minnesota
Drainage league followed the convention,
and the very first object mentioned in the
constitution was, "To secure federal ap
propriations for a topographical survey
and the systematic drainage of reserva
tion lands." The very first meeting of
the executive committee of the league
took up the matter of sending a represen
tative to Washington, and to a committee
on ways and means, selected from the
executive committee and comprising a
majority of that committee, was delegated
the express task of devising a method of
proceeding in order to maintain a "lobby"
at Washington a* before stated. Senator
F. *Calhoun is the committeeman from
Minneapolis, and he will, I think, indorse
and verify every statement I have made
regarding the "authority" under which
Mr. Bernard and myself are working.
The Minnesota Drainage league- has as
its work and mission three very impor
tant matters: First, the correction of the
common belief that northern Minnesota
has no agricultural future second, the
promotion of the drainage idea as to
Minnesota's wet lands third, the devel
opment of an area larger than the state
of Massachusetts or Maryland, which will
be added to the productive area of this
state when successful scientifie and sys
deretands the situation, who knows what
the Minnesota- Drainage league is doing,
or Who really d*Sires the development of
the great work "are at outs over drain-
age." The work is going along grandly
at Washington and will be carried over
the state with an enthusiasm and vigor
that will eventually make all Minnesotans
anxious for the improvement desired.
Very truly yours, H. G. Hays,
Secretary Minnesota Drainage League.
St. Paul, Feb. 15, 1906.
AMUSEMENTS
Te Colonial Septette, regarded by the
expert as the most finished and artistic
of the high-class musical acts in vaude
ville, will be one of the principal features
of the great Orpheum road show, which
will make its' second annual appearance
at the Orpheum theater the week of
Feb. 25.
The Lyceum will resound with screams
of Japghter next week when "All the
iCofflfe|ts Home,"
Williasplendid lgrdg|Pffl.rceof
Gillette's
will be given a pre
sentaiion by the Ralph Stuart company.
The play will afford Mr Stuart's player*
their first opportunity to take a week off
in a rollicking comedy, and every actor
and actress In the cast is elated over the
prospect of an all funny bill.
The Unique has an excellent comedy
bill this week in the bicycle act of the
three Armstrongs. The act includes
some fast and furious riding, beautiful
feats of balancing and what might be
termed "great literary stunts" with "the
silent steed," for the Armstrongs do lots
of things to their wheels and still contrive
to keep on them.
While, on tour her company- Is her fam
ily to Mrrrfe. Sarah Bernhardt^ whose com
ing engagement at the Auditorium in-'
eludes evening performances Feb. 22, 23
and 24, and a matinee on the last day.
As she has a company of seventy-five
artists, she does not lack for domesticity.
Mme. Bernhardt invariably eats break
fast with several members of her com
pany, pate de foie gras being one of her
favorite dishes, and bacon and steak al
ways going with her breakfast egg. But
in spite of the homely way in which the
Bernhardt company mingle with the
star, she is always at the theater two
hours before the performance to see that
the others are on time.
A TOAST TO THE LADIES
^Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout,
i5 not l^generally associated with the
Wine-QUD- or the drinking of toasts in the
minds of his friends. On one occasion,
however, he did propose a toast and
drink it, too. It was in Boston at a ban
quet, when one of the young ladies passed
a glass of wine across the table to him,
with the request that he "drink a toast
to the ladles." The poet scout's hand
and voice trembled as he took the wine
from the jeweled hand, and looking into
the laughing blue eyes of the girl, said:
"Miss, this is a difficult task you have
given me, but a soldier's djity is first to
obey ordersand I shall try to drink a
toast to womannot in that, however,
which may bring her husband reeling
home to aouse where he should love and
cherishsend her sons to drunkard's
graves, and perhaps, her daughters to
lives of shame. No, not in that, but
ratherJn God's life-giving water, pure as
her chastity, clear as her intuitions, bright
as her smile, sparkling as the laughter of
her eyes, strong and sustaining as her
love. In the crystal water I will drink to
her, that she may remain queen regnant
in the empire she has already won,
grounded as the universe in love, built up
and enthroned in the homes and hearts of
the world. I will drink to her, the full
blown flower of creation's morning, of
which man is but the bud and blossom to
her, who in childhood clasps our little
hands and teaches us the first prayer to
the great All-Father who comes to us
in youth with good counsel and advice,
and who, when our feet go down into the
dark shadows, smooths the pillow of
death as none other can to her who is
the flower of flowers, the pearl of pearls,
God's last but God's best gift to man
woman, peerless, pute, sweet, royal
woman I drink your health in God's own
beverage cold, sparkling water."
TOO PARTICULAR
Harper's Weekly.
All the friends of liberty of speech owe
gratitude to Professor Lounsbury of Tale
for his defense in Harper's Magazine of
the use of "none" as the subject of a
plural verb. What idiot precislonist it
was that started the movement to school
jnaster that use of "none" out of exist
ence we do not know, but his effort has
had a deplorable degree of success. An
example ought to be made of some of the
grammarians who try to make language
conform to rules instead of making rules
conform to language. It will take years
to untwist the tongues of worthy people
who have compelled themselves to say
"none is" when their congenital Impulse
was to say "none are."
HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
New Tork Herald.
Mr. Wallace says that Mr. Taft "all
but cussed him." Let him thank his
stars that the secretary did not sit upon
him
PLEASE DO NOT OVERLOOK "NICK"
Milwaukee Nevys
Besides the wedding presents that
Alice Roosevelt is going to get when she
is married it is understood that she will
also get a husband.
Defective Page
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Railroads
*JK JSTOQfc DROPS
la-
Dividends Bate Win Not Be
creased, ^My Wise Ones.%
Ticker- quotation* on Soo coauneai
are taken to indicate that the dm
dend rate will not be increased at
present. Stock was quoted at 165,
but since the directors' meeting last
week it has dropped to 156. No in
formation has been given out as tp
what action was taken at the divi
dend meeting, but the fluctuations of
the stock in the market is taken to
be silent testimony to a decision of
the directors to let common remain
at 4 and preferred at 7 per cent an
nually.
Owing to the large surplus of
$2,Q0Q,000 or more. Wall street had a
feeling' that the dividend rate might
be advanced. More betterments is oe
lieved to be the way in which .this
money will be used instead of in a
melon-cuttirfg. 4
CORN RATES UPPERMOST
Whether Grain Should Go South or East
to Be Discussed.
tematic drainage has been accomplished, but failed to come to an understanding
Permit me to add that no one who un-
Thru tariff rates on corn from Mis
souri river points to the Atlantic sea
board will DO considered again next
week by lines east and west of Chicago
at a meeting in Chicago. The lines
had decided to put in a rate Jan. 15,
a
Foyer Chat.
The "New Woman in Vaudeville" is
making hei dual first appearance at the
Orpjheum theater this week in the per
soncof Lillian Mills and Klida Morris,
two^pretty girls who don't mind going be
hind- burnt cork to get their comedy re
sults, and who play the tambourine and
bones, introduce some old-style two-part
singing and buck and wing dancing and
hand out some minstrel jokes which can
hold up their heads with the oldest of the
old school.
to proportionals. The Wabash put
in a rate Feb. 1, but as the movement
was light the rate was not met. Inas
much as corn is expected, to move at
a lively rate soon the northern lines
will try to get together to prevent the
gulf lines from monopolizing the
traffic.
TOUEIST TRAVEL BEGINS
Extra Cars Axe Attached to Morning
Coast Bound Trains.
Tourist travel westward on colonists'
rates began today. Both the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
roads had two extra tourist cars at
tached to the morning trains. The
movement began fifteen days earlier
this year. The Burlington has begun
a thru service in *onectio with the
Great Northern. C. E. Stone, general
passenger agent of the Great Northern
expects travel to Montana, Washing
ton, Oregon and British Columbia to be
the best the Great Northern road has
ever had.
TtATLBQAD VOTES.
The forty high commission* sent by Chin*
to study conditions in the fnited States sailed
from Yokohama Tuesday on the steamer Dakota
of the Great Northern Steamship company. Ther
are expected to spend two days In the twin cities
on their'way east.
The Great Northern railroad has beene awardedthrfo
the contracSta for the transportation of Troops
and M, Third cavalry, from Fort Aulaiboine.
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VOTES ABE LACKING
Question of Differentials Does Npt Ap
peal to Central Association.
The Grand Trunk began a fight yes
terday at the Central Passenger associa
tion meeting in Chicago for a rearbitra
tion of the differential question. The
unanimous vote to restore eastern pas
senger fares to the basis existing before
the Michigan Central was granted a dif
ferential could not be drummed np. To
day the Grand Trunk is urging a rear
bitration of the whole differential prob
lem.
Francisco Cal. rout
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Philippines.
INSPECTION DATES
National Guard Organizations Notified
to Scour Buttons.
Annual inspection of Minnesota na
tional ffuard organizations will begin in
St. Paul March 12 and will end at
Worthington April 25. The inspection
will be conducted bv Colonel William
Gerlach, retired from the regular ser
vice, who is detailed by the war depart
ment for Minnesota. Inspection dates
are announced by the adjutant general
as follows:
St. PaulCompany C, First regiment, March
12 Company E, First. March 13, Company B,
Third. March 14 headquarters, Third Infantry,
March 14: Company D, First, March 15, head
quarters First artiUery, March 15 Battery A,
March 16 company of engineers. March 17
DuluthBand. Third Infantrv. March 19, Com
pany A, Third, March 19 Company C, Third*
March 19
CrookstonCompany I. Third. March 21.
OliTlaCompany H, Third, March 23.
AnokaCompany B, Third. March 23
PrincetonCompany O. Third, March 27.
StillwaterCompany K. First. March 29
New IjlmHeadquarters, First brigade. March
31, Sand. Second infantry, March 31 Company
A, Second. March '31.
MankntoCompany H. Second, April 2.
RochesterCompany F. Second. April 3.
ZumbrotaCompany D. Third. April 4.
Red WingCompany O, First, April 5. 53
WinonaCompany C, Second, April 6
FaribaultCompany B, Second, Apm
OwatonnaCompany I, Second. April 10.
XorthfieldCompany D, Second, April 11.
MinneapolisHeadquarters. First Infantry,
April 15 band, First, April 15: Company A,
First, April 16 Company B. First. April 17
Company I. First, April IS, Company F. First.
April 19 Battery B, First artillery. April 20.
AustinHeadquarters, Second infantry, April
23 Company a. Second, April 23.
FairmontCompany E, Second. April 24.
WortbingtonCompany F, Third, April 28.
"Cow and Supercow," is the second
of Martha S. Bensley's mildly satirical
series on the Settlement House ideas
as adopted by "the cows in the pas
ture, which will appear in The Jour
nal's Magazine Sunday. Miranda,
the benevolent bovine, who conceived
the idea of "The Settlement in the
Pasture," was completely overcome,
like many of her human prototypes,
with the new education idea. It was
a most exalting moment when Miranda
hit upon a kalbergarten modeled after
the human kindergarten, but old Whits
face, Miranda'8 sole sister, said that
she could not see that it would be any
advantage to her little son Norman to
become a supercow. Then the troublo
began, and after a series of ludicrous
happenings it dawned upon the pasture
that after all the onlv virtues valuable
to a cow were those baser ones of milk
and beef.
Chicago to fhe City of Mexico Without
Change of Cars Via the Wabash.
Commencing Feb. 12 the Wabash wfll
run through sleepers from Chicago &
the City of Mexico in connection with
the Iron Mountain Boute, leaving Chi
cago at 9:17 p.m. Mondays and Thurs
days. Write for illustrated booklets,
time cards, maps and full details. F.
H. Tristram, A. G. P. Agt., 97 Adams
street, Chicago^
"Appearances Are Deceitful." Ton
can't tell anything about the speed
of an auto by the noise it makes no
more can you tell the quality of a
whiskey by its label. The best of the
good ones'is Pickwick Eye. Try it.*.
The best 60 years ago, the same toda&
"old-fashioned honesty"glove rubbeis.
I
$8.00Chicago and Beturn$8.00
Via Wisconsin Central By.
On Feb. 17th and 18th the Wisconsin
Central By. will have on sale tickets to
Chicago and return at rate of $8.00 for
the round trip, with return limit of 10
days. Two very comfortable trains
daily, 8 a.m. and 7:05 p.m., with free
reclining chair cars and Pullman Palace
sleeping cars on evening train and cafe
parlor cars on morning train. For fur
ther information applv to Frank L.
Towne, G. P. & T. A., 230 Nicollet avt.
To get relief from indigestion, bil
iousness, constipation or torpid liver
without disturbing the stomach or
purging the bowels, take a few doses
of Carter's Little Liver Pills they will
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