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THE JOURNAL
VOLTTME XXVIIINO. 126.
IIUCIAM SWIFT,
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J. S. McL-AIN,
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Examining City Finances.
The city council, at an expense of
$600 for the examination, has learned
that there is nothing radically wrong
with the city finances. This verdict
is given by the public examiner, who
has spent three months diagnosing our
case. Nevertheless, the state exam
ination of city finances is a useful
thinff. I tends to bring things to light
which might otherwise slip along in
the dull routine and gradually grow
into abuses. For example, overdrafts
in a number of departments. This is
not exactly a secret. It is known and
has been known so long that it has
grown to be not merely tolerated, but
approved. The city comptroller is re
quired by an order of the city council
to m^ke quarterly reports of the amount
spent and the amount remaining to
the order ^f each department, but
these reports ore merely advisory. They
do not bind the departments. They
may spend all their income in one
day if the choose. The only thing
they must not do is to draw more in
the year than was appropriated. But
even this provision of the law is
-evaded. Several of the departments
which find themselves overrunning
towar.l the end of the vear hold up
their bills foi the last month and re
turn a so-called balance on Dec. 31,
when, as a matter of fact, thev are
several thousand dollars in debt and
are depending on the boaid of tax
levy to help them make it good out of
the next yeai 's appiopnation. The
practice is obiectionable from every
standpoint, and it is a good thing to
have the public examiner call attention
to it.
Another thing that the examiner has
taken up is the payment of rebates on
taxes the matter of the building of
sewers and watermams. He thinks the
taxpayers who have volnutarily over
paid on these impiovements, cannot re
cover and that the city is foolish to
part with its money voluntarily in re
bates. Others who have been over the
matter consider that the city is clearly
held by the Pillsbury decision to the
refundment of the overcharges The
examiner's argument that the sewer
system as a whole has cost more per
foot than the assessments levied prob
ably does not affect the case, since the
taxpayer does not participate the
building of a general sewer system. He
is taxed for the piece of sewer in front
of his property and is not concerned
with the average cost of the whole
system.
LONDONJournal on file at American Express +0 submit in support of your views any
office, 3 Waterloo place, and U. S. Express
Every time a prominent man calls
'Andy Hamilton a liar, Andy produces
the missing papers. Documentary evi
dence is his long suit.
Injustice in Tax Dodging.
K. T. Dalv of Renville, a member of
the state board of equalization, has con
tributed an interesting paper to the
Buffalo Lake News on the sublet of
taxation. Mr. Dalv shows the fallacy
of the attempt to keep down local as
sessments in order to escape state taxes.
Eenville countv last year paid $36,086
in direct taxes to the state, including
the school tax. All but $4,000 of this
was returned direct to the county, to be
exaet, $32,053, of which $20,413 was
distributed to the common schools and
$10,779 to the graded schools, small
^amounts going to the image fund, the
[^agricultural societv, and the local fire
I departments.
_ The county therefore contributed but
a trifling sum to support of the state
'$ government, in comparison to its valua
tion. Every other county, as Mr. Daly
^points out, is following suit in the effort
i*to keep values down, but the state
Jboard equalizes assessments each
^class, and where a county falls below it
promptly raised again, so all such
jockeying of totals is wasted effort.
iTnere is great injustice in it, also, from
ithe fact that real estate cannot be hid
den, and is made to pay more than its
share of the tax burden. Banks also
pay on a level 50 per cent assessment,
jwhich is much higher than the ratio on
'other personal property.
The pending taxation amendment to
jthe constitution, if adopted, will make
it possible to adopt more effective laws
jfbr reaching personal property, so
mortgages and other forms of invest
ment can be taxed without wiping out
their income. An income tax may re-
Saturday Ivenlrt(
suit, and the farce of equalization may
be ended by putting all taxation on a
local option basis. But as Mr. Daly
well says ia. the paper referred to, new
tax laws will do little good unless peo
ple generally decide to obey the laws
when passed. We are greatly in need
of a higher moral standard on the tax
question.
The local option method ought to
work improvement on this line. When
the question of paying taxes becomes a
sort of neighborhood matter, and the
fiction of dodging a state tax is done
away with, every taxpayer will be per
sonally interested to know what the rest
are paying,' and in time it may become
a point of honor as it is to a large ex
tent in England, for each man to make
a full return and bear his honest share
of the burden.
The Yaquis are making their annual
inspection of the men who make annual
inspections of mines, necessitating the
appointment of a new set of inspectors.
A Case Without a Precedent.
.After District .Attorney Jerome had
made his argument in the Perkins case,
Justice Greenbaum of the supreme court
Have you any authorities
authorities relating to any similar act
or gifts to other than political organi
zations?"
I have not," replied the district
attorney. "We have searched diligent
ly but this appears to be the first in
stance of such an issue having arisen.
It would appear that your honor will
have to pass upon the question whether
there was a felonious attempt without
the assistance of such authorities."
At first blush this state of affairs
must prove discouraging to the learned
-judge, because decisions are so much
a matter of comparing cases past with
the case in hand that authorities be
come the very lifeblood of an opinion.
Without authorities the average judge
is all at sea. Yet there must have been
a first authority in each case and Jus
tice Greenbaum has the opportunity to
establish a first precedent in this case.
He is not bound or hedged by anything
another judge has said, but he has the
responsibility of knowing that the next
iudge to consider a similar matter will
toe a measure at least bound by what
he savs in this case. The absence of
precedents is not an insurmountable ob
stacle, since it is as much the duty of
the courts to make precedents as to
study those already made. In this way
only can the law have every possible
relation of life covered by a case.
Hennepin Republicanism.
Charley Mitchell has celebrated his
ascension to the tripod in Duluth by
promptly attacking Minneapolis repub
licanism. He does it in the interest of
harmony. He says, among other things,
th at all the republican party ever
hears from Minneapolis is the Mace
donian cry for help before conventions
and the sulks after conventions." He
must be thinking about the treatment
the Hennepin delegation received at the
last state convention, where the dom
inant faction lost no opportunity to
humiliate the republicans of this dis
trict, and about the enthusiasm with
which they went into the campaign
when the convention was over.
He says further: "Proper deference,
it (T al) feels, is not shown
the 'strongest republican county of the
state.' But it forgets that Hennepin's
vote is only nominally republican.'' I
is no doubt true that Hennepin's vote
is not safely republican under all con
ditions. It has been the policy of ma
chine politics for so long to disregard
any claims that Hennepin might have
upon the party that it is not surprising
that the voters of the county cannot
be relied upon to follow ring dictation
at all times. I is just this fact which
The Journal was calling attention
to before the News-Tribune got up, and
it seems to us a perfectly reasonable
and natural conclusion that if the re
publican party of the state -wants the
votes of Hennepin county, it should
begin to treat the county with fair
consideration.
The probabilities are, however, that
so long as such policies as that advo
cated in the News-Tribune are per
sisted in by the party and the prece
dent established in the last convention
is made the rule, the vote of Hennepin
county will be nominally but not cer
tainly republican. I isn't reasonable
to expect anything else, and the News
Tribune knows it, if it knows anything
about polities. I knows St. Louis
county couldn't be treated in this fash
ion and hold its voters in line for the
party ticket.
The point The Journal had in
mind was simply that if the republicans
of the state want votes where there are
more of them to the square mile than
there are anywhere else in Minnesota,
it might be worth while to quit wiping
their feet on that particular section of
the state and treat its claims to con
sideration with common decency and
fairness. The way the NewS'Tribune
would do that would be to insist on
basing representation in the next con
vention on the last vote for governor,
notwithstanding the fact that Minne
apolis republicans supported the bal
ance of the state ticket and the head
of the national ticket as loyally as any
section of the state.
Denaturized alcohol will poison you right
off. The other kind is more polite about
it, but it is largely a distinction without
a difference.
No Circulation Lie Here.
According to the report of the post
office department for the fiscal year
1905, there are 9,708 postoffiees in the
United States from, which second-class
matteT is mailed, and of this amount
82 per cent was furnished by forty-five
cities. In that list Minneapolis stands
eighth, with a total of 13,852,813
pounds. St. Paul comes tenth, with
8,861,612 pounds. Lower down in the
scale are Milwaukee, Detroit, San Fran
cisco, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Baltimore
and Buffalo.
Second-class mail matter is chiefly
publications, such as newspapers and
periodicals, exclusively in print, which
are issued regularly at stated intervals
as often as four times a year and sent
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to actual subscribers or news agents.
In view of this fact, the location of
Minneapolis as eighth in the list is
proof of the large circulation of Min
neapolis periodicals, including the daily
papers. Among the publications in
cluded in this total, aside from the
daily papers, the largest circulation
probably is enjoyed by the House
keeper. Altogether, these facts argue
strongly for the extent of circulation
of Minneapolis publications.
America was discovered by foreigners,
says Immigration Commissioner Sargent.
Important, also true.
A Reversible Argument.
One point made by the railroads in
their protest against the proposed re
duction in merchandise rates for Min
nesota was that the lower basis would
make local rates lower per mile than
the present interstate rates in this terri
tory. Mr. R, I. Farriugton of the
Great Northern testified that the rail
road commission's schedule would make
the rate from Minneapolis to East
Grand Forks lower, according to the
distance, than the rate is from Minne
apolis to points in Montana.
This was adduced as an argument to
show that the proposed schedule is too
low. Doesn't it indicate, rather, that
the rates to Montana points are too
high? The rates in question are on
business that does not need any foster
ing. The merchandise that is shipped
to Montana has to go, no matter what
the rate is. The rate is anything the
railroads conclude to ask, since there is
no competition for the business any
where along the line west of the Soo.
It is quite likely, therefore, that the
present rate, being subject to no regu
lation, contains plenty of "velvet" for
the company. If for such a long haul
the rate is higher per mile than the
Minnesota schedule, isn't it as fair to
conclude that one is too high, as to say
that the other is too low? I is a poor
comparison that won't work both ways.
Duluth's real estate board Is preparing
to go into court to attack the system of
gross earnings taxes. The system by
which all railroad taxes go direct to the
state hits Duluth particularly hard, as
about one-third of the city's property is
devoted to raiiroaa purposes, and the gross
earnings ol the roads in St. Louis county
form a large proportion of the state's
total. The Duluth claim is that the tax
should have been apportioned in the first
place to localities, instead of turning it
all into the state treasury. That would
have been more equitable to the cities,
certainly, and would have saved Minne
apolis many thousands of dollars in local
taxes.
Dr. McArthur says thru his tears that
a heartless press has made, the world a
veritable hell for Mr. Rockefeller. Wrong
again, doctor. Before the press had taken
any notice of Mr. Rockefeller he had
matured plans to make this earth a hell
for those who got in his way and he has
done it. In those early days lie even ar
ranged for sycophantic preachers to de
fend him by sniveling in the amen corner
and giving tithes ot all he had, which he
note carefully in an account book.
Henry H. Rogers has been reappoint
ed superintendent of streets of Fair
haven, Mass. Alfred Marshall, with an
income of $4,000 a week, is running for
trustee of Mamaroneck Mrs. Mackay,
worth $3,000,000 or $4,000,000, is school
director of Roslin, Long Island, and two
farmers worth a million apiece are tied
for mayor of Ida Grove, Iowa. I is
getting so a poor man has no chance for
an office in this country.
Stanley Washburn, according to the
Tribune, had surveyed a news route from
Teheran to Calcutta, planted copy paper
and made every arrangement for a war
between Russia and England in Persia
when his attention was fortunately di
rected toward the development of Russian
trade. Any man who allows himself ta
be interviewed in the Tribune must be
prepared for a nt of the dizzies after
wards.
We have been accustomed to hear a
good deal from time to time about su
perior law enforcement in Canada. It
has been the boast Of our neighbors
across the border that they are not as
lawless as the people of the states. In
view of yesterday's events in the city of
Winnipeg, however, we shall expect to
.hear less of this boasting: for a little
while, at least
The recommendation of the ways and
means committee of the house that the
bill for free alcohol pass Is a piece of
"progressive republicanism" which we
venture to suggest to the Des Moines
Capital will be just as popular in Iowa
as in Minnesota.
A lawyer for the. Standard Oil has in
troduced a new and valuable word,
"grandstanding." It is the art of "play
ing to the grandstand" and will be widely
appreciated, no matter what its source.
The. Daily Drift man of the Nebraska
State Journal who is evidently just com
ing out of it says it Is worth while to
have a fit of indigestion just for the
pleasure of getting over It
The sun is moving up in this direction
after having left a record in Australia for
the hottest summer known for years.
-About six months Of summer wouldn't go
so bad just now.
Messrs. Shaw and Payne agree that It
is highly dangerous to touch the tariff at
this time. As regards the tariff they are
strictly in the manana party.
The number of men determined not to
resign under fire Is decreasing, as a di
rect result of keeping up the fire.
The Ohio is about due Ttor another of
those ambitious attempts to pose/ as a
real rtver.
SEED GRAFT DEFINED
Chicago News.
William Kent describes the free-seed
graft as "giving away the property of all
of us to a few of us for the sake of get
ting a job." The definition seems to be
accurate in all essential particulars.
SHAKSPERE ON THE SENA TE
Shakspere in Henry VI,
Belays have dangerous ends.
Minnesota Politics
Governorship Oandlt acjes Gathering
Strength Slowly, and Half a Dozen
Axe Still in Range of Possibilities
First District Likely to Get Together
Advice Offered to Jacobson Men.
the convention nuty be held inside of
years ago, when he faile. to land the
nomination for auditor*
Block's movement is beginning to
come to the surface in a good ma ny
directions. He will have a great deal
of strength among the German republi
cans of the southern half of the state,
and has friends looking after his inter
ests in nearly every county. It is a
peculiar fact that while R. C. Dunn him
self is hammering Block at every op
portunity, many of the strongest Dunn
men the contest two years ago are
active in the Block organization. One
of the most strenuous Block supporters
is Thomas H. Shevlin, who stotfd by
Dunn last time thru thick and thin.
Block is counting on gathering the
support of the elements hostile to Jacob
son. There are other forces at work
in that direction, however. Advices
from various parts of the state indi
cate a strong Somerville sentiment.
Altho the man from Sleepy Eye has
done very little to date except'to ex
press a willingness to take the nomina
tion, he appears to be a very strong
dark horse, and some of the closest ob
servers are beginning to pick him as a
likely winner.
Another candidacy that \a growing
formidable is that of A. L. Cole. A
Minneapolis man who has .been in the
northern counties says sentiment is
strong for Cole in the northern part of
the sixth and eighth districts. Cole
formerly hved in Otter Tail and has
some strength in that and adjoining
counties of the ninth, In opposi't to
the claim of a solid'sixth distri for
Jacobson, both Block and Cole have
elarms
there,probablyCole's
and
i
The Duluth News-Tribune hands some
advice out to the supporters of Jacob
Son. They are urged not to campaign
with the assumption that he is the only
honest man among the candidates,
which would place the party in a falsq
position if he should fail'to get the
nomination.
Incidentally, the News-Tribune makes
an interesting admission, coming from
a former supporter of Dunn. Two years
ago the Dunn men claimed that the bolt
of the Collins men was not .-justified,
and that if Collins had won they would
have supported him. The News-Trib
une says:
Most of the ammunition for the slaughter
of Robert C. Dunn was furnishef before
the convention by the supporters of Judge
Collins.
Had Judge Collins been so unfortunate
as to have received the nomination, the
bullets and the. canister, the powder and
the dynamite to shoot him to death, had
been piled ready at hand by the followers
of Mr. Dunn.
"We have been kicked out as post
master at Long' Prairie,'' says A. W.
Sheets in his Long Prairie Argus, "and
w. T. Callahan has been recommended
by Congressman Buckman. It is not
entirely a surprise to us and we have
no complaint to make. Those who are
in politics must expect just such things.
We took all this into account four years
ago, "when we chose to take up the
cause of the people instead of surren
dering to the demands of certain men."
E. J. Herrlnger of Ada, former
county auditor of Norman county, is
reported to be a candidate for the
state senate in the s^xty-first district.
He was presented by Norman county
two years ago as a candidate for rail
road commipsioner, and is popular in
that section. The sixty-first is an over
grown district containing the four
counties of Beltrami, Clearwater, Red
Lake and Norman, and needs to be
divided. Representative L. C. Simons\
of Red Lake Falls is another probable
candidate for the senate.
Senator B. E. Sundberg of Kennedy
has filed as a candidate for renomina
tion from the sixty-third district. He
made an excellent record during his
first term, and probably will have no
opposition. Olaf Holdahl of Roseau
has filed for the house from the same
district and it is probable that O. B.
Ekman will not be a candidate again.
Charles B. Cheney.
HE MINNEAI^JiIS JOURNAL March 31, 1906.
The governorship situation develops' exhaustive studies of Professor Haeckel
very slo-wly^ considering he fact that 0 b00
six weeks. There is a general disposi- coupled with the confident assurance
tion to suspend judgment and not bind th which he states his conclusions,
one's self to the support of any given have led many to attach greater im-
man. portance to his purely materialistic so-
The lead in actual strength at this I lution of the world's riddle than it de-
time is disputed between Jacobson and serves. Years ago his position was
Block, Jacobson seems the favorite in abandoned by thinkers equally prom-
discussion thru the rural counties, but. inent who had come to find it intenable,
it is hard to tell how far this senti- .and now comes forward one of the
ment will develop into delegates. Jacob-J world's leading scientists, Sir Oliver
son's weakness has always been among i Lodge, with a little book called Life
the men who are in the habit of attend- i and Matter, showing some of the points
COnventiotaS, and tho he Seems very at which Professor Haeckei -was -wrong,
strong at thia time, many shrewd ob- both in his premises and MB conclu-
servers look for a repetition^ol four sions. To use Professor Lodge's own
_,...., ._ words:
friendrs
now than for any other one man.
-s
THIS BATE IN HISTORY
MARCH 31
1474William Caxton finished a
printed bdok on "The Game and Playe
of the Chesse."
1605Expedition started from the
Downs to discover a northwest pas
sage to India.
1654Cockflghtlng prohibited In
England. I
1713^Peace of Utrecht concluded,
placing England at the head of Eu
ropean states.
1732Francis Joseph Haydn, cele
brated composer, born. Died May 26,
1809. 1
1807Slave trade abolished by the
British government. I
1850John C. Calhoun died. Born
March 18, 1782.
1852Trement Tempfe, Boston, de
stroyed by fire. i
1861Italian kingdom recognized.
1880Egyptian obelisk for Central
Park, New York*., successfully em
barked at Alexandria. I
1899Eiffel ToWer, helgM 1,17ff feet,
opened In Paris,
Defective Page
AEOKEL'S SOLUTION O THE
RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE
NO SOLUTION AT ALL.The
Jena, so clearly displayed his
"The Riddle of the'Universe
At present the scheme formulated by
Professor Haeckel must to philosophers
appear rudimentary and antiquated,
while to men of science it appears gratu
itous, hypothetical, in some places erron
eous, and altogether unconvincing.
Professor Lodge gives the keystone
of Professor Haeckel's structure in
part thus:
The central scientific doctrines upon
which Professor Haeckel's philosophy is
founded appear to be twoone physical,
&/WW9MtflRW3KWy&W0!fWty*!tltoV^
ar
expectinlg to round up the northern
halD of the district at least. Sentiment
i
ut
1
S stronger fo Colee
The Peter E. Hanson boom will bear
watching at all times, and A. D. Steph
ens is another dangerous dark horse.
A, They are trying to get together in
the first district, and if present efforts
succeed, there will be a first district
caucus to decide between Lord and
Diment. I is felt'that with both in
the field, neither one can win. Lord's
friends are pointing out the fact that
Block men were 'active in bringing
Diment out as a candidate, and they
intimate that this was done with
methods and intent to spilt Lord's
strength and remove him from the con
test. The Preston Times predicts that
Diment will be found in the LOrd ranks
yet. It is known that the Owatonna
man has been disappointed in the east
ern end of ike first'* -district. Winona
is committed to-L*daand expected to
give him a solid deXeVation, "With Wa
basha probably following suit. Hous
ton is for Lord, and he also seems to
lead in Olmsted, which, with Fillmore
and Dodge, would give him the maiority
of the district.
WINSTON CHUHCHILL,
5 The American Author.
the other biological. The physical doc
trine is what he calls "the law of sub
stance"a kind of combination of the
conservation of matter and the conserva
tion of energy. The experi
mental facts of biogenesis he discards in
favor of a hypothetical and at present
undiscovered kind of spontaneous genera
tion.
Then, in discussing Professor Haeck
el's central doctrine of the law of sub
stance, he shows very clearly that the
laW of conservation of energy as now
stated may in some cases be strictly
untrue. What, then, becomes ot his
sweeping generalization that "the uni
verse, or the cosmos, is eternal, infinite
and illimitable its substance, with its
two attributes (matter and energy),
fills infinite space and is in eternal
motion. Even the law- of conservation
of matter, Professor Lodge shows, is
not to be considered
mental fact." Professor Ostwald, the I
German physicist, who delivered the! *om?
Ingersoll lecture on "Individuality andP
Immortality," at Harvard last year,
points to the possibility
McOLURB PHUaapS* SPRING
IISTA full list of the McClure-Phil
Iips' spring publications is as follows:
"Lady Betty Across the Water," an
Anglo-American, story by C. N and
A. M. Williamson, authors of "My
Friend the Chauffeur,' etc. "In Our
Town," sketches from the editorial
sanctum of a small western community,
by William Allen White: "Red Saun
der's Pets and Other Critters," hu
morous animal tales
bRy
PA!!
1
8
Wallace
author of eHenry Saunders"
"The Four Million," stories of New
York, humorous and otherwise, by O.
Henry, author of "Cabbages artd
Kings""Mor Stories of Married
Life," by Mary Stewart Cutting
^^^^^^^^^p^^5
*J? ..ir*
Facts and Fancies from Book Land
By W. P. KIRKWOOD
"Pigs Is Pigs," a farcical novelette
by Ellis Parker Butler "The Far
(^^17/' a book of poems, by Flor
ence Wilkinson "The Life of a Star,"
stawe reminiscences by Clara Morris
"Enemies of the Republic," investiga
tions' in state-government corruption,
by Lincoln Steffens "Wayside Talks,"
by Charles Wagner "The Cost of Com
petition," by Sidney A. Reeve "Fos
ter's Complete Bridge," by R. F. Fos
ter and "The Meaning of Good," by
G. Lowes Dickinson, author of "Let
ters from a Chinese Official."'
THOSE CONFUSING WINSTON
CHURCHTLLS.Winston Churchill, the
American author, was born at St Louis,
Nov. 10, 1871, and graduated in 1894
from the United States Naval acad
emy. For a year he was editor of the
Army and Navy Journal, and later
managing editor of the Cosmopolitan.
His first book, "The Celebrity," es
tablished for him an eneviable position
among American writers of fiction but
it was his second book, "Richa rd Car
vel which gave him a place very
near the top among novelists of the
present day. He was elected to the
New Hampshire legislature in 1903,
and served with distinction during two
terms. Herewith is a new and hitherto
unpublished portrait of him.
The Hon. Winston Spencer Churchill,
M.P., who has just accepted the post
of undersecretary for the colonies in
the new liberal government of Eng
land, was born Nov. 30, 1874, and is
thus three years the 3umor of his
American namesake. He entered the
British army in 1895, served with dis
tinction in Cuba, the Punjab, Egypt,
and South Africa, taking part in many
hard-fought battles. In 1900 he was
elected to parliament to represent Old
ham. His first book showed him a
writer of considerable power and clever
ness in describing military operations
extending over a long period. The
English Winston Churchill, who is of
course half an American himself, has
just published the biography two
volumes of his father, the late Lord
Randolph Churchill, which is esteemed
in England one of the two or three
most exciting political biographies in
the language.
LOVE.
Lore is a pleasing pastime
Matter of rose and ring,
Love is a Jest for frolic hearts,
List to the songs they sing.
Lore is a draught of aloes,
Lore ia a lesson deep
(How we may guard the treasure
Giren to all to keep).
Lore is a cruel sorrow.
Lore is the heart of rest
Lore is a fearful madness
Lore is onr worstand best.
Lore Is the isle of visions
(Let ns, O Lore, set sail.)
Love is the test of heroes
Lore Is Life's Holy Grael.
Jennie Peet in American Magazine.
A STUDY I N THE FINE ART OF
REVENGE.Eden Phillpotts' story,
The Portreeve, is a study in the fine
art of revenge. I is another Dart
moor tale, set in all the splendor that
Devon can wear, as Mr. Phillpotts is
so well able to paint it, but in the
center as dark and fearsome as the
shadow of an eclipse. The setting sug
gests peace and joy such aB the birds
know. The reader's attention is called
to this setting first.
BeneathmDartmoor's wing, ere "really an expen- "ooneax uartrnpor nortner wing
its
remov
vb
centralnorthern
a
a
error re
garding energy and mass as the immor
tals of the physical universe. A slight
undetected original error might vitiate
the conclusion as to their immortality,
and few are yet readv to sav that all
possibility of error has been eliminated.
As to the matter of spontaneous gen
eration, Professor Haeckel admittedly
builds upon a hypothesis, for, as quoted
by Professor Lodge, he says:
The hypothesis of spontaneous genera
tion and the allied carbon theory (viz,
that -carbon may he considered the chem
ical basis of life), are of great importance
in deciding the long-standing conflict be
tween the teleological (duallstic) and the
mechanical (monistic) interpretation of
phenomena.
On this Professor Lodge makes this
pointed comment:
"But it can hardly be maintained
that a 'hypothesis' is able to 'decide'
any dispute."
This would seem to be almost, if not
quite, enough to show that Professor
Haeckel's conclusions ought not to, and
cannot, be regarded as final. They are
mere speculations.
But suppose that Professor Haeckel's
law of substance holds good, and that
in the last analysis, the physical uni
verse may be reducible to ether "with
such states of motion or strain as it
eternally possesses," "are we to con
clude," asks Professor Lodge, "that
nothing else exists?" What about the
category of life? Suppose even that
spontaneous generation be granted,
"it would still be true," so Professor
Lodge thinks, "that the life was in
some sense pre-existent that it was not
realjy created de novo that it was
brought into actual practical everyday
existence doubtless, but that it had pre
existed in some sense too being called
out, as it were from some great reser
voir or storehouse of vitality, to which
when its earthly career is ended, it will
return."
I will be seen from all of this that
Professor Lodge makes it clear that
science has far to go before its devo
tees will accept the dogmatic conclu
sions of Professor Haeckel or others like
him.
But Professor Lodge goes farther
than a criticism of Professor Haeckel.
He seeks "to reformulate a certain doc
trine concerning the nature of man and
the interaction between mind and mat-
ter," showing that material energy, tho
constant in quantity, in its transforma
tions and transferences is susceptible of
guidance or directing control, and that
life is not one of the forms of material
energy, which, relinquishing i ts connec
tion with matter, is replaced with other
equivalent forms of energy.
Altogether Professor Lodge's book is
one to throw much light on the great
questions which science is seeking to
solve as well as to warn against any.
like Haeckel, who make the "superhu
man claim" of being "able to perceive
comprehensively and state fully not
only what is, but what is not."
6. P. Putnam's Sons, Ntw Tori.
WC
wilderness by
""V^of forest,thfallow and fertile
rare weather
unde
W church town sunned itself
aske
at Harvar last i i
of _-.i_.i..L Only corners unseen sorrow lurketd
3
and suffering hid its head conten
was at doors and windows the hollow
smiled and chimed with the music of
children.''
So the author lays his scene. Then
he draws his tragedy, gradually darken
ing like a storm to a climax and then
brightening only to disclose the after
chaos and wreckage.
"Not but what there's been trouble
here an' there," says one of the Deyon
folk, discussing the events of the year
in which the story falls.
A plenty without doubt," replies
another. "An' among friends, too.
There was an end of Dodd Wolferstan
cut off like a mad dogt poor soul!
Tho what set his wits roaming the very
day they made Portreeve of him, only
God knows."
The portreeve "stood for the com
munity, controlled transactions of sale
or barter, and represented power
Dodd Wolferstan as a young man held
the position at Brigetstowe. He was
a capable young man, making progress
in the world's wealth of money and
mind, and taking joy in his progress.
He loved, of course, and was loved,
unfortunately, not only by the woman
he loved but by another, and the wom
an he loved was also loved by another
man. The other man and the 6ther
woman plotted against the portreeve,
and so successfully that the other man
married the woman Dodd sought to
possess. But the other man was acci
dentally killed in time to save the
portreeve from marrying the other
woman. Then the other woman began
a revenge, conceived and executed with
devilish cunning, and extending from
defeating him a prize contest at a
country fair to robbing him of the
solace of his religious faith when he
needed it most. The office he had
held, and lost thru removal, had just
been restored to him when the end
came.
Mr. Phillpotts' disclosure of the de
generation of the character of Dodd
Wolferstan, the real fruit of the cun
ning revenge of the other woman, is
masterfully done. I is a psychological
study of much more than usual power.
Hardly less satisfactory is the draw
ing of any of the other characters.
Mr. Phillpotts' has shown himself not
only a fine landscape artist but a por
trait painter as well, and at the same
time a good deal of a dramatist. He
has some mannerisms that grate on
the reader, but they are lost, sight of
in the general effect of the picture.
The Macmillan Co., New York.
STRANGE ADVENTURES OF SUE
BETTY.Hildega rd Brooks as put
some amusing tales into a little book
called The Larky Furnace." The story
of the Larky Furnace is the tale of a
furnace that went on a lark, and a
high old tin it had. I is only the
first of the series, however.
Henry Holt & "bo., New York. $1.25.
THE MAGAZINES.
The College of Today.If we do not
correct our taults these days It is not be
cause we are not told of them. The col
lege of today is having some of its faults
pointed out by W. G. Parsons in the April
Atlantic. One thing he says is this:
The typical coUege of today consists of a
shrewd financier, libraries and their librarians,
and laboratories and tbeir laboratories. Like
the rest of the age. they are made up" of money
and matter. Machine-made, we hare gone far
toward making education also a machine.
The writer would have more lecturers
with personality, with something of their
own to say, so intimate, so earnest, so
personal, that to'convey It all a book Is
insufficient. He says a good many other
things to set the reader thinking.
In the 'April Atlantic also George W.
Alger-has a notable article upon "Crim-
pW%jUH*\J
inal Law Reform," in which he points out
clearly the source of the trouble in crim
inal procedure from which lynchings
spring, and proposes a. remedy Charles
M. Harper has a picturesque paper on
"The Lodge," setting forth the place of
the lodge in the social and intellectual
life of the American people Dr. C. W.
Saleeby, the English scientist, has a paper
upon "The Testimony of Biology to Re
ligion." and there, are other articles at
equal note.
Stlckney Writes About Railroad Legis
lation.In the MarCh number of the Po
litical Science Quarterly, A. B. Stickney
gives the views of a railroad president on.
"The. Legislative Regulation of Railway
Rates." indicating- the necessity ot regu
lation, but pointing out that further in
vestigation is required to determine what
are just rates. P. L. Allen writes on
"Ballot Laws and Their Workings," and
demonstrates, by a careful analysis of
election statistics, the effect of different
forms of ballot upon independent voting.
Goodnow shows what matters real
ly belong to the city government and how
"Municipal Home Rule." in these matter*
may be secured. C. H. Hartshorne tak*s
Nottingham as an example of "The Man
agement of English Towns" and compares
its administration with that of two typi
cal American cities of the same size.
Other articles are "Sovereignty and Gov-
WlMSTOK SPENCER CHTTROHXLL,
The British Author.
eminent," by F. D. Giddings, "Land
System of the Connecticut Towns," by N.
P. Mead, and "A Socialist History of
France," by C. A. Beard.
The Needs of the Navy.The Engineer
ing Magazine for April gives the leading
position to twin articles on the deplorable
position of engineering in the navy, and
the vital danger to national sea power it
entails. The. first is by W. M. McFarland,
long chief assistant to Admiral Melville,
head of the bureau of steam engineering,
U. S N. the second is by a British
"naval contributor," who remains anony
mous,, but evidently is of high rank. Both
agree as to the grave danger of present
conditionsevidenced start!Ingly to th
world at large by the recent accident on
the U. S. S Bennington and JMr. ^tcFar*
land, seems to strike tlTe-^key to- the BOiu^
tion in urging the acceptance of new
ideals by naval officers of high rank.
When the engine room is given its tru
position in thear eyes, as coequal with th
deck importance and dignity of servic
and in honor of recognized achievement,
young officers will seek it as they do now
executive command, and the efficiency at
the whole naval establishment, now en
dangered, wUl be amply secured.
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