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VOLUME XXIXNO.
LUCIAN SWIFT,
MAMAOBR.
PUBLISHED
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THE JOURNAL
14.
J. 8. MoLAIN,
1 BDITOR.
EVBBY DAY.
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Passes for Legislators.
It is reported that nearly all the Min
nesota railroads will follow their usual
custom with the legislature, and on the
j- first of the year will send to each newly
elected member an annual paBS They
will differ from former pass issues only
in the fact that the passes will be good
only in Minnesota, thus guarding
against violation of the new interstate
commerce law.
The Mankato Commercial club has
requested the representatives from Blue
P}Earteo
county to refuse passes. It ought
not be necessary for constituents to
mak such a request. No member of
the new legislature should accept free
transportation. Excuses that had some
weight in the past are no longer valid.
Both parties are on record for the abo
lition of passes in the state, following
the federal law. Newly elected mem
bers filed for nominations and got their
election with full knowledge of the fact.
The great majority of them are pledged
to vote for the law, and it will un
doubtedly pass. Members who accept
favors that they are about to declare
illegal will be guilty of an inconsis
tency, to say the least.
The railroads themselves are said to
be resigned to the passage of an anti
pass law, but they want it limited to
that one subject. There is a popular
demand to have the measure coupled
with another, fixing 2 cents a mile as a
maximum passenger fare within the
state. The real contest will come over
this portion of the bill. The railroads
are carrying the bulk of their passen
ger traffic now for 2 cents a mile, or
even less, and while no one can abso
lutely say what is a remunerative rate
PUM pa*ea 2 cents attitude or their activity. The prob
Up to 64 pages nu
ought to be settled with sole regard for
justice and in the interest of the public.
Members with passes in their pockets
Would not be qualified to VOte With Un.
ibiased minds
Better send the passes* back
j^^
a ^A
"Ingomar" has reached Detroit
"Black-Eyed Susan" is underlined.
'The Jewish Problem in Russia.
cif Qn
irnihiTmir ~t on +v r.
^fficulties than that which concerns
|his Jewish subjects. On one side is the
financial boycott which the powerful
Jewish banking houses of Europe have
declared againBt Eussia. On the other
side is the bitter anti-Semitism which
{permeates not onlv the higher classes,
jwho make up the reactionary party, but
the peasantry as well.
The Jewish financial interests are so
fthoroly entrenched that they are able
jto talk convincingly. The cooling of
JFrench friendship for Eussia has made
impracticable to float further loans
prom Paris, and matters have now
freached the pass where it is necessary
for the czar's minister of finance to
make peace with the Jewish money
lenders. These have pointed out that
|the Eussian government, by its refusal
to remedy the grievances of its Jewish
subjects, may reasonably be held re
sponsible for the Jewish riots and mas
sacres. It thus becomes essential for
the czar to take his relief measures be
fore the election of the new douma.
On the other hand, the promulgation
Jf the measure, which gives all Eussian
|*ews who have completed their term of
nilitary service equal rights with Chris
tians, except in the one matter of ac
quiring land outside the pale of set
ilement, would be followed by outbursts
?f opposition in many quarters, with
riots and massacres in prospect. The
gravest aspect of the matter from the
trown's standpoint ft that the sanc
tion of such a bill would seriously
make the respect and love tho peas
antry have for the little father. Stu
dents of Eussian affairs believe that in
he end the peasant will determine the
lornj of government in Eussia. Eevo
.utio,naries and reactionaries are com
seting for the peasant's favor. The
firmy is largely peasant, and on its loy
jilty depends ~fche czar's authority. The
|*liof measure will permit the J6*r tr
seem unjust and unfair. His anti
Semitism would break out afresh.
KWMUW wom a orea out tu-reau
shaking the authority of the czar to
its foundations.. In th
cities,, too,,
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um
in
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th
become All papers are continuea until an explicit order ofm theu many problems besetting the
Is received for discontinuance and until all or- .,,_e_
rearugea are paid. czar and his auvisers.
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O'XABA 0EM.3BEE, BESBfcSENTATIVES.
on
to the railroads, there seems no good vision. This would prolong the neces'- weigueu not a straw in me scale. Jom
reason why the roads should not carry sary business disturbance and inflict. mercialized tho our modern civilization
the occasional traveler at as cheap a damage if not serious disaster upon the is,
tor
tarif
thre no
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Or, better still, the railroads should
nott send them out.
no
se
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all the problems that beset the j.
taiaf
mnnappy czar of all the Eussias. none X.
iseems fraught just now with greater ^1^
0
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Section
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the
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Dauj and auurtay, per month 40c irruption of hundreds of thousands of _,-
aw
th
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cupations that have hitherto been de r -4. i x.
The Jewish reds are believed to be
thorniest
Governor-elect Hughes finds it a much
more difficult task to defeat Tim Wood
ruff than to defeat Hearst, and much
more Importan to the success of his*
Contradictions of the Primary.
Mankato's vote on congressman is
being cited in South Dakota as an in
stance of the queer workings of our pri
mary election law. Mr. McCleary car
ried the city in the primaries by a large
majority, getting 1,340 votes. He lost
it the general election, receiving 922
votes in Mankato to 930 for Mr. Ham
mond. Over 400 voters of the city sup
ported the congressman in the primaries
and then went back on him at the polls.
Eepubhcans who voted for him in the
party primaries would certainly sup
port him as against a democrat, so the
400 were no doubt democrats, nearly all
of them. In other words, that many
people helped nominate, McCleary who
were really not for him, or supporters
of the principles he stands for. In this
case they were more than enough to
change the result of the primary elec
tion in the district.
Many instances of the same kind
might be quoted. They make the
"popular choice" feature of the pri
mary a farce. It is no wonder that
some of the newly elected legislature
are sharpening knives to operate on
the primary law, while others want to
kill it outright with a club.
It will take Harvard a long time to
develop another professor like "Bill"
Reid.
Who Can Promise?
to stand six months' actual test with
out arousing a demand for another re
Probably the strongest argument
made in favor of postponing tariff re
vision till the spring of 1909 is that
offered by President James W. Van
Cleve of the National Manufacturers'
company, publishers of American In
dustries, a paper representing the man
ufacturers of the country and spokes
man for them in their controversies
with organized labor.
Mr. "Van Cleve opposed revision of
the tariff by the next congress because
a revision made at that time with a
presidential contest just ahead would
be sure to be influenced by political
considerations. The needs of business
and labor would get no intelligent hear
ing. Party leaders, he says, would
have their eyes on the big prize of the
presidency and party advantage in
maneuvering for the presidential con
test would be the consideration which
would shape the schedules.
A tariff act, he thinks, framed under wholly due to the appeal they made to
such conditions, could not be expected the imagination of Christendom. Their
4
rate as the man who rides often and business of the country. Following this our imaginationo eventointhe matters tha
carries a mileage book. This question argument,n he says: "Do we want the
when conditions demand it,
the unbounded ocean." In the bril
liant white marble dining room of the
hotel and in the mad rush of the speed
ing trains, he saw people "not talka
tive, not gay, not expansive as the
American is usually supposed to be,"
but silent, absorbed and sad.
This, of course, is an impressionistic
picture with no more resemblance to
the reality than the impressionistic
painting has to real life. Americans
in London get an impression of stolid
ity and impassivity among the people
that is far from being a truthful one.
Mr. O'Connor should have seen the
American at a baseball game for in
stance, or at the theater or at a social
gathering. Yet the noise of our large
cities is undoubtedly a most depressing
agency. It is an evil to whose abate
ment we have given little attention,
tho its effect in the causation of nerv
ous ills must be very great. The Eng
lish have given it no more attention
than we have, but the pulse of their
civic life is so much slower that noise
production as a concomitant of urban
existence has not reached the pitch it
has with us. The noise problem must
one day be attacked with vigor and
common sense. It would be so easy to
abate a large proportion of city noises
that the wonder is so little attention
has been paid to the matter.
Mrs. Parsons shouldn't hesitate to give
a quit claim deed to that other New
York woman who claims she thought of
the trial marriage scheme first.
The Pan-American Railroad.
The power of an appeal to human
imagination is very greatoftentimes,
indeed, far greater than any appeal to
human reason could possibly be. The
mighty crusades and all the tremendous
results that flowed from them were
utter folly, so far as attainment of
their one great object was concerned,
weighed not a straw in the scale Com
WQ ar
Ut
etp
tiu
flnnrnvsl of t.\\a (mmtTv nnrloT i A- J. A
^fite'.
onemen is
time foT the republicat^ partyl a
when the work of revision will
begin, and he would have that date
fixed in March, 1909. That would be a
time when the work could be done
freest from influence by the approach
of a presidential election. Mr. Van
Cleve's argument against a special ses
sion for the next congress, beginning
with the work of revision in March
next, is the best we have heard.
It is not a new idea that tariff re
vision in 1907 might be made with ref
erence to the election of 1908, and we
have not regarded that as an altogether
unfortunate condition of things. When
the tariff revisers are obliged to take
nctice of the fact that their work will
be voted upon by the people at an early
date, they are very likely to consult
what they believe to be the popular
wish but, upon the chance that they
may not please the public and get its
approval for their scheme and that the
control of the government may be
turned over to those hostile to the pro
tective principle and another revision
undertaken immediately, there is force
in the argument for postponement to a
definite time no longer away than two
years from next March.
tdate
os
If the country can have a definite
pledge that tariff revision will bo
undertaken at that time and assurance
that it will be done, not only might
it be inclined to wait, but business
could better adjust itself to the situa
tion, having due notice of the proba
bility of reductions in many important
staples. The only difficulty with this
plausible plea is, who is authorized to
make the promise of revision in 1909
The president can't do it. Congress
can't do it. Nobody can do it author
itatively except a national convention,
and there will be no national conven
tion befpre the summer of 1908.
This being the situation, we will have
'p^^jsUbaw-ffill^^^
pe
up twice within two or railroad building, for example, such
ar
revise the tariff in 1907 so as to Pan-American line and the chimerical
mee the approval of the country under scheme to connect America annd Asia
the test otfo experienceoduring the by bridging Bering straits, fire thee
present the
fo
countrnext
compete with the peasant on theoreti- to pass the matter back ta President adopt a general plan of railroad devel-lting in position a reinforced concrete
cally equal terms, but the capacity of Van Cleve and ask him where the as- opment that is harmonious and prac- telephone pole at a cost of *6. No patent
the Jew would give him under such surance is to come from that the tar- ticable. Eailroads will not be built, on'the pole is possible, and lt may
conditions such an advantage that to 'ff will be revised in 1909 if the next as they have been in the United States, made anywhere. Four twisted steel rods
the peasant the state of affairs would congress is to be excused from takin without much regard to harmonious de- are used to form the skeleton work and
seem unjust and unfair Hi anti action along thate line. velomnentB. Thie vut
cannot
a
th
0l T..J.es
irruptio of hundreds of thousands of _* the railroads which "wil be likel to
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T.
O'Connor.
after
i i i__ self-resneftt.in vioitnT t-n skn.a
the brains and backbone of the revolu
tionary movement. It is impossible
thact thee relief measure can affect thei
renei measure can anecs ineiir
ervc
to***l
creaitabl
TM M-
a
tha
Citi
self-respectin visitor to our shores
from the other side ever omits. But
dinary visitor, because he has ideas and on the ground who plays the president's
knows how to express them. own game.
His impressions of New Yorkand
he intimates that it is the keynote of The Course of True Love.
the people and the life of America Anxious dramatists who are ever on
is one "of deafening noise, overwhelm- the verge of tremens for want of an
ing and bewildering speed, and in con- idea have only to look about them and
trast with this, of universal and brood- pick up from real life plots which make
ing sadness." In the subway there was our wildest imaginings tame by com-
deafening tumult and appalling parison.
speed," where conversation was impos- It might have been supposed that the
sible and human beings sat "silent, comic opera situations involving mar-
self-absorbed, isolated and sad." riage had run their gamut, but comes
There was a "gigantic energy outside Prince Joachim, a subject of the Qer-
and independent of man," and thru all man kaiser, and throws together a
its manifestations the Americans were scenario for which Belasco or Fitch
poroeeding as quietly and soberly as if would give their ears and does it free
the "horror, tumult and chaos" were of charge.
the normal conditions of life. "To com- Prince Joachim fell a prey to the
pare the tide of life as it runs in Lon- wiles of an actress, a class of persons
don with the tide of life as it runs in for whom he haB a right royal pen-
New York," declares Mr. O'Connor, chant. He was in love with Marie
is to compare the swirl of some moun- Sulzer and wanted to marry her. But
tain stream with the roar and fury of the laws of Germany* which the kaiser
appeal tot
strictly practical. In the matter of
years?" If the republicans can- projects as the Cape-to-Cairo line, the
a plation of the tremendous canals th
3-eai,t iet would certainly be very unsafe imagination of man more than contem-
of schedules destinedpromise to b- Martians have built on their planet
superseded by further changes by
party hostile to the principle of pro
tection, within the next two years.
Mre.PValnie Cleve's idea is that whereas
bee
Pa
ty
ha
ub
a
S from time to time to revise the
lt
The far more practicable project of a
railroad consolidation that will put un
der one management 'ines reaching
from the Atlantic to the Pacific is said
to be the inspiration of two such emi
nently practical men as Hill and Har
riman. And while the amount of ocean
to ocean traffic such a system would churches and syndicating much of the
carry would be a very small proportion material, without affecting the formal
of its total traffic, the idea has an ap- existence of present incorporations or
pellant attraction for our puissant rail- interfering with educational institu-
road dictators. tions. Another proposes a plan of pol-
The an-American railroad, alliter- ity whereby the communicants shall be
atively described as the "Bostcm-to- organized in district associations, an-
Buenos Aires" line, has been indorsed nual conferences and a national council
and boosted by each of the three Pan- to meet quadrennially. In this way
American conferences and some prog- it is expected that complete fusion will
ress has been made toward practicable in the end be attained,
plans. Its imaginative appeal is such The tendency of the religious denom
that it will one day be completed. But inations to "get together" is one of
no one can suppose that its thru traffic the most hopeful signs of the times,
from the urban centers of one continent Competition is desirable in business,
to the urban centers of the other will but in religion co-operation is better,
ever amount to much. Its ample sup
port will come from the traffic that is Denver has started another little
more or less local and between neigh- crossfire by barring some Filipinos from
boring countries. her public schools. Twenty years ago
A writer in the Outlook describes In we were wild to get everybody into our
this connection a proposed change in schools so as to make good citizens of
the plans which makes the project seem them. Why this change?
nearer of realization. The original _,.
The Allen, a notorious poolroom
plans called for a line following more .T
i A xi gambler in Ne York, is claiming sym-
or less closelJy th,e Ande.s range,, an.d thus pathy because he gave $50,00 0 to Thur-
connectmg nearly all the South Amen- ,'o -cxr^*
-Ei -J 1.1
can countries. Evidently, however, such ,,w1/1
pampas of Paraguay and Argentina to dentlaL
Buenos Airies. The "Panama-to-Par-
aguay line," as alliteratists would style ^f?"
it, would of course be fostered by Brazil
and would open up so much new and
fertile country that North American
*w*^^
rtf
*u out the u2. SIX
the railroadB, which "will be likely to
returning to London Thus, in the course of time, the
his third visit to America, is writ- American railroad will be built a
& his impressionsa duty which no ideal will be achieved.
J-~
promised to enforce impartially, debar
a prince who marrieB a commoner^as
if an actress like Marie could be that!
This sacrifice Joachim was not prepared
to make. No more was Marie. Joachim
minus the court did not look so good to
her.
In this predicament his highness
thought out a plan. A contract with a
consideration was entered into between
Marie and a bankrupt Austrian baron
to marry Marie and leave her at the
altar. Marie would then get a divorce,
marry the prince and, being a baroness
at the time of her second marriage, be
eligible to the inner circle. The Aus
trian marriage was duly solemnized, the
baron kept his word about taking the
agreed upon header. Just at this junc
ture the kaiser butted in.with an order
to the prince to join his regiment in
South Africa.
Here is where the comic opera man
may come in take up the plot and bring
about that happy ending without which
a comic opera is less than three dimes.
Marie is in London. The prince is on
shipboard. The baron is in Paris. The
kaiser is at the northeast corner of the
plot in Berlin. The kaiser has banished
the prince. The baron has threatened
unless he is paid to divorce Marie on
the square, which would make her Miss
Sulzer again and ineligible at court.
Who will pull her out of her troubles,
restore the prince to the kaiser's favor
and conclude%he last act with Marie
sweeping down to. the throne in a
trained dress amid the gapings of the
German nobility? Her predicament is
such that it must be immediatelyxhan
satirist. individual must be kept fz
out
tonightt.
Consolidation in Religion.
social tendency of the times. Even the Z?UJ
Wee for Lincoln's campaign fund,
mo
i_ ix Thurlo was not a puppett of the new
a line would be immensely difficult and
righteousness
expensive of construction. The cold up
lands of this route, too, are' unattraot- David Starr Jordan was sorry he mixed
ive and unremunerative. The new plan up with the reform spelling until he saw
is to strike off southward from Colom- how much worse Benjamin Ide Wheeler
bia thru the fertile Amazonian plains had done mixing up with the Japanese
of Brazil and across the great pasture mess. Then he felt as tho it
wah
n0 ha
knoc
capitalists are already considering it Jeff Davis, after taking a look at Al
with favor. It would also afford Peru drlch, decided^not to have immediate
opportunity to develop fts wonderful trouble with the trnlted states senate.
Atlantic slope and become as great a
factor in east coast commerce as it now
is pn the west coast. W
The chief value, after all, of the Pan
American railroad idea is that it will
enable the nations of the Americas to
%-HE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL WW% Sunday, D^ember^fxooo:'^'
Aatniintt the concretA i* nnitrfl hn.,+ velopment Th vaB amount of detaile' th concrete is "poured about these
information gathered in the surveys Somethin that will ruin the appearance
miormauon gathered the surveylsh somethingan thatresidencen will rui the appearance
carried on by the variouisncountrieusi almost neighborhoo is
thofl
wh
lwil uoaf turne
AflVWia^ A-M Vt* 1.1. 1 *11 x# MII-HAM*. Mm ut a
Pan*
and an
^as a fool thing for Great Britain
lay Pay impressions are rather to send over here as ambassador a ~uu uu.sa not maae such a
more interesting than those of the or- cricket player when Germany had a man
trlflln
rull nM
no
cQs
$
A trone precedent* has been established by
the state railroad and warehouse commission
in the case of O'Keefe and hie attorney. James
Manahan. The commission haB ruled that a
client cannot be represented by his attorney In
mattow to be lnTestlgated before that august
body.Wabash Herald.
Th commission ha not made such a
Neither the Shippers' association
CVVMfa
TOa
nor Mr. O'Keefe were parties to the com
,modity rate case, which was Instituted
by (the commission itself. Neither Man
ahan nor his clients had any right to par
ticipate In the hearing, except on invi
tation of the commission on one side or
the railroads on the other. The O'Keefe
case is not up fer hearing yet, and will
not be taken up till the commodity rate
case is cjosed. When lt is heard, it Is
quite certain that Mr. O'Keefe will be
granted the right, to appear by attorney.
Indiana is entitled to another bust
in Statuary hall, and the state is all
torn up over the question who shall be
represented alongside of her war gov
ernor, Oliver P. Morton. The Author's
club, which includes a quorum of the
qualified voters of the state, has held
several fruitless sessions over the mat
ter. It is divided between Benjamin
Harrison, Lew Wallace and George Ade.
Booth Tarkington also ran.
Emperor Wilhelm has appointed Herr
Paul, the cartoonist of Simplicissimua,
head of the royal Industrial art school,
and the amazed Berliners can't make it
out. The fact Is a man like William has
to stand In with the Cartoonists' union
or they hand him out hisand on the
front page.
Christmas is coming. But on some
other planet there may be a double
Christmas just as there are two moons
for Mars. Be glad you are on earth.
The agricultural department at
Washington grafted two orange trees
together and the fruit was a lemon.
That's what 'comes of grafting.
The prune crop of the Paciflo coast
reaches the modest trifle of 180,0&e,00
bushels. No wonder some of our friends
on the coast are so full of them.
Secretary Shaw and Pittsburg are light
ing mad over a postoffice site. The
postoffice site, like the tariff, is frequent
iy a local issue.
In the matter of thanks the president
of the Mormon church is grateful that
his forty-third' child eost him onlv a
$400 fine.
Ruef thinks that he Is more entitled
to the role of innocent bystander than
Schrnitz.
Speaking of rare coins, what Is the
matter with the $20 gold piece?
MR. DOOLEY ON CHRISTMAS
American Magazine.
UI*hiy
a A1
The spirit of consolidation is in the keep me frinds an' save mpe'a money
air. It is the supreme economic and
churches have been attacked by it and 11' hlldTwed^no Vows^^t^wS
certainly there is much to be said for Hogan1 calls th'osthruggie f'r existence,
the movements now in
thdenominationr
making fo fn
the consolidation of
whose beliefs are practically identical.tor
One of the latest projects in this"
direction is that which committees of
the Congregational, United Brethren
and Methodist Protestant churches are
striving to work out. The last named
church, by the way, should not be con
fused with the much larger and quite
distinct denomination, the Methodist
Episcopal church. Committees appoint
ed to formulate conditions of union
have recently reported. One commit
tee has perfected a plan for consolidat
ing the publishing work of all three
provl-
ha
a
dIdn
tha
ar
tha
defense flr
an
kn
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tha
h^m mlel*
W ar N
Maybe Pete w^lngart will get himself
counted out fir sheriff In time to be
counted In for chief of police.
The Richmond, Ind.. Home Tefepl^ne'
company has been constructing and put-
days,aall
"Christmas comes but wanst a
^v."*s
wmo' an
died by the comic opera man or it will an' they times like'altl i Al
be
handleThilater
a oui wanst year
*ain'at'yann%',other
th year fish day an feas
days,
an of affairs^ ifIit is possible/. ZZTi^lVotTi^ fornix
mi.!. !.J-.-x ^r
thtl
unhol
ys l by the problem play
th
rls
h01^
ay
3
rasslm'
wwj.xiDi.' iv th*
civylized wurruld. We're all In a tangle
Don' neglect to punctuate the furnace SghtinV quarrelm', robbln', plundhrm' or
murdhrin', accordin' to our tastes' I
trust no man. No, I won't go that far.
111 say I pretind ivry man is honest, an'
I believe none iv thim ar-re. In thatr way xi iv Lim ar-re Ji that wa
t^rusts
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frgotten
In th wurruld,o a or a ribbon
UnJn*
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swoman,
Wv
ivrything else but poundin' th' man un
dher us, or kneein' the man on top iv us
whin suddenly we hear a voice: 'Gintle
men, gintlemen, not before the childher'
An' we get up an' brush th' dust off our
clothes an' shake hands, pretmdin' it
was all fun. Th' kids have come In
"That's what Chris'mas if for, Hinnis
sy. But f'r that wan twinty-four hours
whin there's a white flag up, an' th*
worst inimy I have, or th' worst frind
cud come within stone's throw iv me
without fear, we'd die iv exhaustion."
MONEY WASTED ON A DUDE
Augusta Chronicle.
The Duchess of Marlborough is going to
pay the duke $100,000 a year, just for
not being her husband. It's really a
shame to think of the many sturdy
American men who might be earning the
money.
MUSEUM OR RESTAURANT?
Chicago Record-Herald.
Count Boni has been offered a job as
head waiter in a fashionable restaurant.
In case the count accepts, the caterer
might make another hit by getting the
lady who wants trial marriages to accept
a position as cashier.
EARNING THE MONEY
Washington Post.
All the satisfaction the Standard Oil
company can get out of it at present Is
furnished^ by the fact that Its array of
legal talent is earning its money.
A FAVORED CUSTOMER
Washington Post.
The public debt was reduced by $2,074,-
829 in October. Uncle Sam must be get
ting his groceries and household supplies
cheaper than the rest of us.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
DEC. 9
poet,
1608John Mlton, English
born. Died Nov. 8, 1674.
1668Samuel Vetch, first governor
of Nova Scotia, born. Died April 30, I
1732.
1797Congress of Rahstad opened.
1848Joel Chandler Harris, south- i
ern writer, born. i
1858Edward Everett of Massa
chusetts became secretary of state.
1861The Confederate congress I
passed a bill admitting Kentucky Into
the Confederacy.
1868Gladstone ministry assumed I
office.
1889Chicago Auditorium opened, I
President Harrison and Mme. Pattr
assisting.
1893An anarchf?t exploded' a
bomb In We French chamber *W
deputies.
1894-New treaty between United I
States and Japan proclaimed, i
"HOOT MON"
Some men have the faculty of arriving.
No matter where they start from or how
far distant their objective may be, they
come in under the wire. With others it
is quite the other way. Everything they
try seems to turn to ashes. I know two
men who illustrate the point. One is
continually doing daring things and get
ting away. The other has to make an
affidavit of ownership when he offers to
pay his taxes, and If he should ask t
man on the street for a light would
probably be handed over to the police.
Lac Stafford, looking out of his study
window ln Washington avenue, decided
that he would build a theater. He found
an aged man property laden and pictured
the thing to him so graphically that the
ground lease was secured in a week.
Then he built the theater, putting up
the celebrated girder twice. He leased
lt to Bill Sterling, and lo! the thing
didn't pay. Here was a contingency Lac
had not figured upon. So he had to
begin figuring again. He figured Jake
Litt into the deal, sold him half the
dead one, and by purchasing the Lyceum
and closing the "dear old Grand," turned
it into a live one. Now Lac goes to
Europe every summer.
Stafford has shown the same nerve In
everything he has undertaken, great or
small. When Harry Hayward had re
ceived his quietus legally and was only
awaiting the physical taking off I met
Stafford one day ln the courthouse. He
was doing jury duty and had time on
his hands. "Let's go and see Hayward,"
he said.
"Impossible I" said the Jailor. "Gover
nor has set the date of the execution.
Nobody can see him."
"Impossible!" said the chief deputy.
"The governor1
"Yes, I know that," said Lac "The
jailor told me. Where is the sheriff?"
"He is out. Back in half an hour."
"Impossible!" said the sheriff. "Why,
nobody can see him. The gov
"Yes, we've heard that twice. But we
haven't seen Hayward yet. We
want
"But it can't be done."
"Do you mean to tell me," said Lao,
"that you, the sheriff of the biggest
county in the state, can't do things?
Why, sir, you minimize your importance
in the community. You and Staf
ford went on and put the sheriff under
such a stream of hotalr that poor Holm
berg swelled until his clothing was ob
viously painful to him. He was bigger
than the judges, the clerks, the governors
and everybody ln the state. Lao contin
ued. Holmberg capitulated, wrote a pass
and we went in and had a long talk
with Hayward about his prospects in
this world.
"What did you want to see him for?"
I asked when we emerged.
"I didn't want to see him. I wanted
to see how far I could get with a sheriff."
I went down street with the other man
one day. He had never been in the
courthouse. He had never climbed the
tower nor seen the couples holding hands
on the roof. He would like to go up.
We went in and, tacking carefully, made
the elevator without accident. I broached
the subject of the tower confidently. The
operator looked at me with real sorrow
in his expression, and then -glanced crab
bedly at the other man "Tower closed
for the winter," he said.
When we reached the street the other
man remarked, "Let's go over and look
at block 40. They haven't bought it yet
and I guess this is my only chance."
Frederick Landis of the eleventh In
diana district will not be a member of
congress after the 4th of March, and will
be a candidate for doorkeeper, following
the Scripture opinion thai It is better
to be a doorkeeper than* to c&mpi out
in tents where the wicked make their
abode.
Landis is one of five brothers who are
regular Indlanians in politics. One is
in congress still, another is United States
judge, another a postmaster ln Porto
Rico.
The judge one seems to have been the
surest politician, for he landed a Job
which is good during life or good be
havior. He has no constituents to con
sult about his next movewhich is, per
haps, as well for him, for he is said to
have eccentricities. One of these is call
ing people by their given names on short
acquaintance. While he was practicing
law he was one day ln the chambers oi
Judge Kohlsaat, who was rallying him
on this habit. "They tell me you call
the judges by their first names, and
even shorten them. They say that you
call me Chris Kohlsaat."
"I don't know who told you that," re
joined .Landis, "but I'll bet lt was either
Jim Jenkins or Pete Grosscup."
The reminiscences of a famous French
detective tell us of a safebreaker who
in his time had opened 700 safes with
out tools or explosives. He did it by
means of his fingers and his ears. He
did not actually open the safes with the
latter, but by manipulating the combina
tion with his Angers and laying his ear
against the door he was enabled in time
to detect the click of the tumblers as
they fell under his experimenting with
the combination.
But to follow this delicate profession
with success he had to be in constant
training. He practiced fourteen hours a
day with three different makes of safes.
He was absteminous in his habits, neith
er smoking nor drinking. One cigaret,
he was wont to say, would knock him
out of his earnings for a month, while
a glass of whisky would throw him out
of work for an entire season.
We cannot all be top-notch safecrack
ers ljke this man. We have not the
patience, the delicacy of touch nor the
ear. But surely we can all emulate the
example which he set of keeping our
selves 'competent to do the business we
are competent to do by abjuring rum and
cigarets.
Speaking of drug stores, which we have
not been speaking of so far as I know,
there is a well-authenticated rumor that
the prescription counter is becoming more
or less of a reminiscence. The little con
ning tower to which the tired-looking
pharmacist used to retire and think
while you paced the store wondering
whether he would come out again before
the baby died has ceased to a great ex
tent to.be all three departments of the
government with an amendment to the
constitution thrown in. The reason is
that the physicians do not prescribe as
much as of yore. Then they give it
themselves. The doctors carry a good
deal of medicine with them and give it
at first hand. Maybe this is not just
what the druggists want, but It seems
to be the way of doing business nowa
days.
But the druggist Is not going out of
business, by any means. Other branches
of his trade have Increased enormously.
His sales of little odds and ends help
him out amazingly. One down-town
druggist admits with shame that he sells
about a wagonload of chewing gum every
week. James Gray.
GETTING A SQUARE DEAL
New York Post.
AH lovers of the square deal will re
joice at the certain prospect of seeing
those hitherto unrepresented constitu
enciesthe rubber trust and the smelter
trustrepresented in the United States
senate.
NO CHANCE FOR DISAGREEMENT
Philadelphia North American.
Out in Chicago they are going to try a
case before a jury of women. The orig
inal action was for $100, but the wise
plaintiff marked it down to $99.88,
What Other People Think
Argument for a New Union Station.
X tta Editor of The Journal.
It is taken for granted that the com
mittee of the Commercial club appointed
some time ago to consult with Mr. Hill
on union station matters is doing its
work. That committee is composed of
able men of large affairs who, no doubt,
will do all In their power to secure an
adequate building. No reflection is in
tended on the work of that committee.
It occurs to "me that Minneapolis is pe
culiarly situated for the construction of
a magnificent union passenger station.
In S Paul the entrance to the union
station for trains has often been com
pared to the neck of a bottle, in that it Is
narrower at a point where all the trains
must enter the station tracks. More
over, all the trains that enter the St.
Paul station, excepting those of the Mil
waukee, the Rock Island, the Great
Western and those of the Omaha bound
westward, must either back in or out of
the station, causing delay.
There is no streetcar service nearer
than a block, and that is by what
is known as the "depot loop," a
line on which a car Is run some
thing like every ten or fifteen min
utes, unless there has been recent
improvement. The station is at the foot
of Sibley street, a narrow thorofare
which the city has been trying for years
to widen to accommodate traffic.
The contrast between Minneapolis and
St. Paul so far as union station sites
goes Is almost as wide as the antipodes.
Could the present location of the not
quite union station be better if lt were
made to order? The present tracks are
far below the grade of the street, and
there Is room for as many tracks as are
needed, provided the city vacates High
street, that open space in front of the
building, and the union station company
acquires some of the lots facing High
street. It would be necessary to do some
excavation for additional tracks, but that
would form the only engineering diffi
culty.
Hennepin avenue would not be ln the
way. The station could be built over
the avenue, spanning it with a mighty
triumphal arch, that of Itself would form
a magnificent |p.teway to the city. Street
cars and other vehicles could pass free
and uninterrupted thru such an arch,
landing passengers at the waiting room
doors, under shelter. The building could
be built over the tracks, something like
the Illinois Central at Twelfth street
station ln Chicago. The main waiting
rooms, the restaurants, and all the con
veniences of'a modern railway station
could be located over the tracks, and
strangers waiting for trains would be
given fine views of the river and falls,
the mills, the university, on one side, and
of commercial Minneapolis on the other.
Leaving the station, they would obtain
the first view of the city looking up
Henrspln and Nicollet avenues, two
broad, clean, well-lighted and well-built
up avenues. Strangers outward bound
would Ipok down those avenues thru
block after block of fine buildings, to
the sparkling dome, tower, arch or
facade of that architecturally great gate
way to the northwest. j
College of Education.
To the Editor of The Journal.
At the last session the legislature di
rected the regents of the state univer
sity to establish a college of education
for the training of secondary teachers,
school principals, superintendents and
supervisors. It made, however, no ap
propriations for this purpose.
The board of regents nevertheless or
ganized immediately a college of edu
cation, setting aside such, funds as could
be spared.
The college opened this fall with an
enrollment in undergraduate and gradu
ate courses of many students who would
not otherwise have turned to the univer
sity. Aside from these, more than 250
students from the college of arts are reg
istered for courses In education.
No adequate accommodations exist for
the housing of this coUege. Even after
the completion of Folwell Hall only two
Or three classrooms will be available
The college needs, in addition to lec
ture rooms, classrboms and offices, quar
ters also for its own library and for a
pedagogical museum, which shall illus
trate the best equipment In texts, school
furnishings, etc., for all grades of Min
nesota schools.
The college aims also to train teachers
of manual training, domestic science ana
commercial branches, and for each of
these rooms and equipment are Immedi
ately needed.
Above all, a model school for observa
tion and practice work is essential to
the work of the college. The state nor
mal school board is asking this year of
the legislature a separate model school
building for each of the normal schools
of Minnesota which is not already sup
plied with one. The college of education
needs this no less than do the normal
schools Indeed, the need Is greater here,
because, while each normal school is
cramped ln its efficiency in this partic
ular, absolutely no opportunity of this
kind now exists at the university.
A strong movement has been instituted
by the teachers of the state to secure a
building and suitable appropriations from
the legislature for the college of edu
cation. Largely attended teachers* con
ventions at Winona and Crookston have
within a fortnight urged their members
to work for this end. A committee of
leading school men has been organized
to present the matter to the legislature.
The college of education, tho the latest
at the university, represents a long-felt
need in connection with the public edu
cation of Minnesota, and deserves, there
fore, Immediate consideration and favor
able action by the representatives of the
state.
An appropriation of $75,000 for a build
ing and an annual appropriation of $20,-
000 for current expenses will be asked.
A Friend of Education.
Plants from Pills.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Since the appearance in your issue of
Nov. 28, of "He Grows Plants from Little
Pills," several persons, disturbed there
by, have spoken to me concerning the
materialistic conclusions supposedly in
volved. For the benefit of any others
similarly disquieted I wish briefly to
state, dogmatically, for'space in a dally
is too valuable for criticism, that the
implications are those of spontaneous
generation, palingenesis, and the like
that they are implications ot a philosoph
ical doctrine which is, more than any
other, irritating to the scientist of the
materialistic cult, namely animism.
A too hasty consideration is prone to
confuse the appearance of forms of life
with the creation of life. A combination
of chemical substances is essential to the
physical manifestation of life, no one
cares to dispute that point/and the dis
covery of the formula, very likely dif
ferent for each type, ln which life takes
form, Is interesting and valuable, but
touches not in the slightest degree the
origin of life itself, save as it throws
more weight to the animistic doctrine.
Harry M. Wagner,
WHY BRYAN DISLIKES THE OCEAN
Chicago News?"
President Roosevelt does not have to
make speeches from the rear platform
while he Is at sea.
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ANCIENT GRAFT
Who can doubt the secret old
Under Cheep's pyramid
Was that the contractor did"
Cheops out of several militant
Or that Joseph's sudden rise
To controller of supplies
Was a fraud of monstrous sbfe!*^
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