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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS CFFICWL PJPEJ <^H^> CITY OF ST. Mil Entered at Postoffl:s at St. P.rj\ Mini.*, ai Sscsni-Cim Mates:. T TELEPHONE CALLS. Ncrthwestern— Business. 1065 Main. EdltsrUl. 78 Main. Tvl» City—Business. 1065. Editorial. 73. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. '' By Carrier | 1 mo I 6 mos I 12 moi Dally only 40 $2.25 $4.00 Esily and Sunday 50 2.75 5.00 Sunday 15 .75 1.03 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ,- .:" ' m Ey Mall | 1 mo | 6 mos I 1 2 moi Daily I .25 $1.50 ,' $3.00 Dtlly and Sunday | .35 2.00 4.00 Sunday , .75 I 1.00 ERANCH OFFiCH3. Ns-n,- York. 10 Struce Street. Cha?. H. Eddy in Charge. Chicago. No. 87 Washington St., Tha F. S. Webb Company in Charge. FRIDAY, APRIL io, 1903. THE MERGER DECISION. On another page in this issue of TlicG I ob c will be found the full text of the decision of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, third division, in the case of the United States versus the Northern Securities company. The decision is in favor of the government and was unanimous, the four judges concurring. ! he effect of the decision on the future of the merger— ■What further steps will be taken by Mr. Hill, Mr. Mor gan and others instrumental in organizing the Northern Securities company—perhaps cannot be definitely known for some days. Tremendous interests are involved and those controlling the company will, of course, move slowly and cautiously. Our news columns contain all the information available at this time, either in local circles or 111 New York, where the effect on the stock market is felt most keenly. As the decision enunciates the law applicable to many other large corporations commonly known as trusts and mergers it is well worth studying. Without doubt the trusts will be one of the dominant issues of the next presidential campaign, and the present decision will be cited often as showing what could be done if the Re publican administration were as zealous in prosecuting other mergers as in the case of the Northern Securities co.m,any. and every voter should he familiar with the text of the decision handed down yesterday. TheGiobc urges all it-, readers to carefully study the decision. St. Paul is not unique by reason of the fact that in temperance, illiteracy and irreligion are the three prime factors in the filling of the workhouse. Nobody ever heard of a workhouse that was filled by the wise, the religious or the temperate. SAY, MR. TIGHE: Have you examined that bill conferring authority on the city to regulate fares on street railways? If so. why don't you urge action? It is not a vicious bill, at all. It merely confers the power upon the council of the city to order a 3-cent fare on the street railway during the hours working people go t<> their places of employment in the morning and return in the evening. Are you in favor of the bill, Mr. Tighe? If you are, will you help push it along and use every effort to have it become a law during the few days re maining of the present session? Are you opposed to the bill, Mr. Tighe? If so, why not come out and say so and let the voters know where you stand with reference to the street rail way company? It is a matter of common report, Mr. Tighe, that you have declared that "Minnesota needed a good man in the United States senate." and that you were standing in front of a looking glass when you said it. One of the surest ways to miss the United States sen rue. Mr. Tighe, would be to prevent the people of St. Paul from having an opportunity to get the 3-cent fare for working people at certain hours of the day. Voters can be fooled often, Mr. Tighe, but not all of them all the time, and a good many of them have long memories. The kind faced old cow is more than a contribution t" the scenery in Minnesota. She yielded $14,000,000 . worth of milk last year and did not even require a spe cial tariff law to help her. THE PLACATING OF NELSON. Senator Knute Nelson appears t<> have compelled the executive to meet him halt" way in reaching a better un derstanding. The offer of the post of civil service com missioner to W. W. Heffelfinger,'of Minneapolis, is proof of tlie fact. The attitude of the senior .senator from Minnesota toward the president has given the Republican leaders in this state some concern. It practically shut them out from participating in the distribution of official fa vors. Senator Nelson has held the position of a man who knew he was right and intended to maintain his latitude without regard to the feelings of the men who wanted a chance at the offices. That he should have the courage to keep his position until he won is not to be wondered at. for if there is anything that Sena tor Nelson possesses in larger measure than most men it is the quality of stubbornness. The president him self has more than his share of the same quality and it looked ominous for the seekers of place in this state. That an understanding was reached after the senator and the president got out of Washington is now clear. They forgot their differences under the healing influ ence.-, of a Minnesota April day and the immediate re sult of their getting together was the filling of some breaches in the presidential fences in this state. Three fat places are said to be the first peace offer ing made by the president. Really it was not a bad day's work for Senafor Nelson, that he did last Satur day. And the president did a pretty good stroke of business for himself.. A man who wants the delegation from tfiis state to the Republican national convention might do much worse than to keep the Hon. Knute Nel fcon in good humor. At least Master Willie Hearst should be required to Rive a bond not to paint the White house yellow before he is elected to the presidency. A GOOD BILL. The senate will consider in a day or two the Wilson bill for the re-establishment of the state board of cor rections and charities. The Globe believes the bill should become law. As proposed, the board would consist of six members. Hot more than three of one political party, who should receive no pay for their services, and whose total al lowance for clerk hire, expenses of all kinds, would be $5,000 a year. This board would visit state institutions where the vicious and unfortunate are confined, investi gate conditions and report to the legislature, adding Buch recommendations and information as the re searches of the m«nbers might provide. .The greatest security for the inmates of penal institu- tions and state hospitals is publicity. Publicity has even been urged as the one sovereign remedy for the evils in the present economic condition. Society owes some thing to the vicious and the unfortunate, and it owes itself much in the way of reforming the vicious and heal ing the afflicted. This work must in ttte nature of things be carried on by men and women with hearts as well as heads. An instance of brutality in a prison may con firm a convict in a career of crime, while evidences of kindness of heart and helpfulness may make of him a worthy citizen the rest of his life. In an asylum a brutal attendant may ruin the work of physicians and nurses in a twinkling. And while wardens and superintendents may be men of the highest character, their duties are largely admin istrative, giving them limited time to study sociological problems in the abstract and apply the theories to their particular cases. In every community there are men and women who have gone deep into the study of the criminal and dependent classes, and with such persons on an advisory board no harm could and much good very probably would result. In past years, when such a board was in existence in Minnesota, many of the present laws of the state were presented and urged by it. More than half the states have such boards, especially the Eastern states, which have large populations and a corresponding proportion of convicts and unfortunates. Minnesota should not take a step backward in the care of these classes. Before Gov. Taft gets too busy running for the presi dency he ought to bethink him that it is a far cry from Manila to Columbus, where they work up the Ohio presidential timber. THE DEFEAT OF THE GREGORY BILL. The house of representatives did a simple duty when it killed the Gregory bill The measure was inspired by local Republican poli ticians who sought only to oust the incumbents of cer tain cily offices. This was to be done by making the offices elective instead of appointive. The measure had no merit in itself. It was aimed at offices that are purely administrative and the function performed by the officers concerned in the bill is to carry out the plans of the legislative branch of the city gov ernment. It is proper that these officers should be nam ed by 'the representatives of the people. The corporation attorney is the counsel of the coun cil. It is much better that he should be a man in sym pathy with the legislative branch, for if, in private life, it is necessary that a man's lawyer be in sympathy with his client it is quite as needful that the adviser of the city should stand in the same relation to his em ployers. If the office were made elective it might be rilled by a man having views opposed to those of the council and the administration—in which event it could hardly be expected that the city would gain anything. The same thing is true of the office of city engineer. He is the employe of the cily. Under the existing law it is not to be supposed that an incompetent man would be selected for the place. If the office were elective it would be quite possible that it would be filled by a politician with a capacity for vote getting altogether out of proportion to his knowledge of engineering. The people do queer things when they elect their servants. There are already too many elective offices in this city— as well as throughout the country generally. The public would be much better served if there were more appointive offices. When an office is filled by appoint ment the responsibility for its proper administration is fixed and the appointive power is not so likely to go wrong as are the electors who feel no personal respon sibility. The result would be an improvement in the public service if all offices requiring special learning or skill were filled by appointment. W re can't have a president or an admiral in town every day, but Capt. Gallick we always have with us. THE DREYFUS AFFAIR. While the world was fairly sickened by the details of the Dreyfus case the announcement that it will be re opened and that there is a probability that the disgraced officer will be rehabilitated wrill be received generally with applause. It has been demonstrated, though not officially, that the unfortunate officer was tlie victim of an anti-Semitic cabal. It is certain that forgery was committed in or der to bring about his conviction. The fact appears to have been shown in the statement of M. Juares, made in the chamber of deputies. If M. Juares can substan tiate his statement there is hope that the affair will be gone into judicially and that France will redeem itself from the disgrace that attached to everybody connected with the prosecution of Dreyfus. There is no doubt in the minds of people who have watched the procedings in the Dreyfus affair dispassion ately that the officer was the victim of a plot. All France, with the exception of some few anti-Semites who are blinded by their prejudices, admits that a crime was committed in sending Dreyfus to Devil's island and quite as iniquitous an offense was perpetrated when the court declined to restore, judicially, the reputation of the accused man. What France admits privately should be established legally. To allow the affair to stand as it is is a reproach to the republic. OMIT OCCULTISM. The death of a woman at Monmouth, 111., resulting from insanity induced by hypnotism, should serve as a warning to the fooltsh ones who, from mere curiosity, dabble with forces of which they have no conception. Leave the occult to the learned —at least do not experi ment on your friends. The unfortunate victim of her own curiosity who has just died an awful death, attempted to learn the science of hypnotism by mail—through one of the concerns which teach hypnotism, civil engineering, journalism or any of the professions in ten lessons at $i a lesson. She bought a book and practiced on and with her husband. Being, as many people are, an excellent subject herself, she readily submitted to hypnotic influence exerted by the husband, but when he had had secured control of her subjective mind and made her irresponsible and ir rational he could find nothing in the book that told him how to withdraw the influence he had exerted. The woman went mad and died, the husband is grief-stricken and a warning has been given to the world. There are forces within us that are not to be under stood of the average man or woman, certainly they are not to be made known through lessons taught by mail agent professors of the occult. The great minds of the age, of all ages, have recognized the existence of these unknown elements, but they have dealt with them deli cately and there are few learned who claim to be able to control these forces. How then is the ignorant per son, who has never peered into the world of science, even from the threshold, to grasp these forces and direct them? Let the student grope through the darkness of that dim world lying just out of range of our vision. It is well for man to study himself, but it is much more profit able and safe for him to study those tangible mental and physical attributes that go to make the best sort of man or woman. Also it is well to think of this fact: If you haven't sense enough to know that hypnotism cannot be taught by mail, you certainly have not sense enough to acquire a knowledge of hypnotism in 400 years. THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, FRIDAY APRIL 10, 1903. The Castle Square Opera company sang "Aida" last night and pleased an other large audience at the Metropol itan opera house,,; This opera will be repeated tomorrow night, which will be the farewell f ßerformance of the four weeks' engagement of the Castle Square Opera company in the Twin Cities. Tonight and at the matinee to morrow the company will present "Tannhauser." The Dilettanti Mandolin orchestra will give an Easter concert at the Met ropolitan opera house Sunday after noon at 3:30 pj m. The director, Signor T. Di Giorgio, has selected a pro gramme appropriate for the occasion. Seats for this concert can now be se cured at the box office of the Metro politan. Next Sunday night Frank L. Perley's big operatic company of comedians will begin an engagement of five per formances in the big success, "The Chaperons." Seats are now on sale for this engagement at the Metropoli tan box office. "York State Folks" is booked to fol low "The Chaperons" at the Metropoli tan for an engagement of three nights and Saturday matinee. "York State Folks" Is a comedy drama equally as strong as " 'Way Down East," or "The Old Homestead." The sale of seats for thte engagement will open Monday morning. Although the offerings in the line ot melodrama have been particularly nu merous the current season and have exhibited a wide variety of dramatic construction, it is doubtful if any has pleased in so great a measure as has "At Cripple Creek," which Is holding forth at the Grand this week. The final matinee performance will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, and the reception to be held on the stage by Baby Virena after the matinee prom ises to be a drawing card. engagement at the Grand next Satur day night, appearing in a new romantic, comedy entitled "A Prince of Tatters." The play depicts scenes and events in and about old New York in the year 1700. WHAT THE EDITORS SAY "The president waved his old hat," says a report from North Dakota. Now wh;tt had become of the slick tile he was wearing when Winona citizens craned their necks to see the mighty man.—Winona Independent. Just as we &re about to enter into negotiations with the ice man the price of coal drops 50 cents per ton. For this much consideration on the part of the barons we are thankful-i<Mankato Free Press. ; The agricultural department at Washington is distributing seeds to the people through the senators and con gressmen. Do you know, this is quite an idea when you stop to think about it? While some of the seeds grow and some do not, at the same time there is an air of generosity about it, even if the people do have to pay for them. — Lake Crystal Union. As a man. Torn Johnson is known to be sturdy, firm, unswerving, brave to the point of recklessness, serving his party in an utterly uncompromising manner. As he now is so it may rea sonably be -expected -he will be if he were nominated for president. The fierceness should be no scare word to a nation that has seen a Jackson at its head.—Winona Independent. The farmer ts told that a tariff Is placed on hfs wheat in order to prevent competition and keep up the price. Then he is told that a tariff is put on manufactured articles £n order to stim ulate competition and reduce prices. The strange part of all this is the fact that so many farmers believe it all— Broadaxe. Congressman Tawney does not ap prove the poor records shown by those sent to West Point from his district and will drop the examination heretofore conducted for recommendation.and use his own judgment in selecting young men for the places. Many of the civil service examinations are as bad, and fail to secure the men best qualified for the duties.—Taylors Falls Journal. Tom L. Johnson still has the whip hand over Senator Hanna.—La Crosse Chronicle. It is rather mean to hint that the special session of the United States senate was cut short because of th^ abolition of the sale of liquor in the national capitol.—St. Peter Tribune The worst of it is, the president's plea for big families will be generally followed by those who don't need that sort of advice.—Belle Plaine Herald. WASHINGTON. D. C. April 9.—The new Chinese minister settled the spelling and pronouncing of his name. "The first part of my name, which cor responds to your John," he said "is spelled Chentung—all one word—Chen tung. The middle part is my family name—Liang—pronounced as if it were spelled Leeang. The latter is plain Cheng. My full name, therefore, is Chentung Liang Cheng." Minnesota—Showers Friday; Saturday fair with colder in east portion; fresh to brisk east to south winds, shifting to west. Upper Michigan— Fair; warmer Friday; Saturday showers; fresh to brisk east winds. Wisconsin—Fair in east, showers in west portion Friday; Saturday fair in west and showers in east portion; fresh to brisk south winds. North Dakota—Rain Friday; colder In west portion; Saturday fair. South Dakota—Rain and colder Friday Saturday probably fair. Montana—Rain or snow Friday; colder except in northeast portion; Saturday fair. lowa —Showers and colder in extreme west portion; Saturday cloudy; colder, with showers in east portion. St. Paul — Yesterday's temperatures, taken by the United States weather bu reau, St. Paul. W. E. Oliver, observer for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. Highest tempera ture, 61; lowest temperature, 41; average temperature, 51; daily range, 20; barom eter, 30.04; humidity. G3; precipitation 0; 7 p. m. temperature. 58; 7 p. m. wind southeast; weather, clear. Yesterday's Temperatures— *BpmHigh! *BpmHigh Alpena 46 52 Kansas City ..70 80 Battleford 40 44jMarquette 42 5° Bismarck 62 66|Milwaukee 46 6-' Buffalo 42 56Minnedosa ....48 50 Boston 68 62 Montgomery .. 72 78 Calgary 42 44IMontreal 48 64 Cheyenne 5A - 66; Nashville 72 80 Chicago 44 64 New Orleans .78 84 Cincinnati 6*r 24 New York 50 62 Cleveland 48 SS! Norfolk 64 70 Davenport . ..6»5 74 North Platte ..68 76 Dcs Moines .. 6X 7 4 Omaha 72 80 Detroit 54 64 Philadelphia ..58 60 Duluth Sl'.6o'Pittsburgr 62 6t> Edmonton 84 3SiQU'Appelle ....40 50 Galveston 70 : "72jSah Francisco.4B 54 Grand Haven .42 sflSt. Louis 72 78 Green Bay ..50 T>6!Salt Lake 66 70 Helena 44 SOjSte. Marie ...36 4» Huron 64 701 Washington ..68 74 Jacksonville ..64 74|Winnipeg 40 56 •Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). River Bulletin— Danger Gauge Change in St. Paul 14 7.1 —0.1 LaCrosse 10 7.6 —0.1 Davenport ....15' 9". 3 —0."3 St. Louis 30 2i.8 —0.4 The Mississippi river'will probably fall slightly in this vicinity during the next 24 hours. —Fall. ' . : AT ST. PAUL THEATRES Al H. Wilson will commence a week's How His Name Is Pronounced. TODAY'S WEATHER. Men, Women and Things Mr. Dooley, or Mr. Dunne, in his proper name, is now editor of Collier's v\ eekly, and writes very serious edi torials each week about current events, which must be a great relief to him from his humoristic (as the Germans say) labors. It is not often a writer is so pleasantly fixed; to be able to work off his humorous ideas in one medium and to write solemnly in an other about the weighty matters of the day, is quite an ideal position. Among other serious remarks which Mr. Dooley has made recently are some that relate to the delightful frankness of the diplomats that arranged the Venezuelan difficulties. He thinks it was because no mystery was made of the affair and all those connected spoke right out, that things were ad justed satisfactorily all round. He says that frankness is a world power; that the emperor of Germany has al lowed hIS personality and his policy to be a matter of public debate, likewise other crowned heads, and even in the United States publicity has been en couraged in regard to commerce. We must admit that in his serious moments Mr. Dooley is a little harder to follow than in his jovial outbursts. He wonders if this policy of publicity and frankness in nations will continue. His mind ought to be at rest upon that subject as far as this nation is con cerned, for if there ever was a people that seemed to be in danger of run ning frankness in the ground it is those of this country. A laudable ex ample of frankness is seen in the di vorce courts of the land; there are told the intimate details of family life, every time a woman has thrown a plate at her loving spouse it is told out before everybody, and this candor, like In the Venezuelan case, helps to wards the ultimate adjustment. Can dor and publicity are the order of the day, and Mr. Dooley must not imag ine that the European powers have any corner in frankness. We are noth ing if not candid, and if frankness is a world power, we have the center of the stage and are likely to keep it for some time to come. Burdette Jollies Spinsters. Bob Burdette. who used to be funny, has been making some supposedly hu morous remarks about spinsters. Mr. Burdette is probably like a great many great and good men, and imagines that he saved his wife from a horrible fate when he married her. His re marks are intended to be a refutation of Miss Van Vorst's statement in her book, that Joan of Arc was the only unmarried woman of history who ever accomplished anything worth while. Mr. Burdette says truly that while one cannot expect President Roosevelt, with his pronounced ideas on race sui cide, to have much to say to spinsters it should be remembered that many large families are brought up by the spinster aunt. Also Mr. Burdette for gets—as does Miss Van Vorst—that, the most prominent and influential members of the mothers' clubs are spinsters. They read excellent papers on how to bring up children. But Miss> Van Vorst also overlooks a good deal of current history when she states that Joan of Arc is the only spinster who ever amounted to .anything. Min nesota proudly offers Bee Taylor to her consideration. Whole Problem Solved. There is one woman in St. Paul who had a bright idea the other day. She is a woman of means, well placed in life, and after a Rood deal of thought announced lately that she believed a law should be passed preventing the poor from marrying. It is women who originate the real reforms in this world. She says that it is not right for a clerk getting perhaps, $75 or $100 a month to marry and have a family. It fills the street with uncultured chil dren, creates slums and makes condi tions which those better placed do not care to contemplate or think of. More over, it is a source of thought and considerable worry to sociologists who have to think out plans to better the condition of the worthy poor. The un worthy poor can go hang. It might be well to attract the attention of the leg* islature to this scheme, and if Mr. Tighe is not too busy he might see what he could do about it. If Minne sota could be the first to inaugurate such a radical reform it would go fai to give us a standing in the scientific world and would reflect credit od the benevolent and charitable persons who make a study of sociology in order to assist the submerged tenth. The wom an who thought this out is very mod est and does not care to take any cred it for her idea. Wives for Earls. A nobleman of England has recently come out of the workhouse, and there by hangs an interesting tale. He is Sir William Gordon MacGregor, and the pathos of his misfortunes brought him many sympathizers and not a few offers of marriage. It is a most sad thing to see a nobleman shut up in a workhouse, particularly if he can't work. Some woman who felt tha greatest interest in his hard cwse agreed to find him a wife among the many who had offered. This was a very trying thing for her to do, as she was secretly enamored of the noble earl herself. She guaranteed his ex penses and took him out to see the fu ture Lady Gormon Mac Gregor, but for some reason the earl did not seem to come up to the specifications, and all negotiations were off. All that the no bleman had was his title, but he need not have been discouraged, even so. He should have come to this country and he could have his choice of the four hundred. Instead of that he lost heart and married the deputy who tried to get him a wife. We have wives over here for any number of noble earls if they will only come. Fine Yale Specimen. The manifesto recently issued by one of the Yale classes relating to the late Mr. Pennell is an interesting docu ment. It says that he was one of the best men that ever lived, as pure a» an angel, and a fine example of a Yale man. Perhaps, in view of the revela tions concerning the gentleman in question it would be well to follow the manifesto with a letter of explanation or a key. If Brigham Young is to have a place In the Hall of Fame, what is the mat ter with Dr. Ames? His is the same kind of fame. The Roosevelt club is going to get some new uniforms. Hold on to your hearts, girls. During the past week so many of the citizens of this place have become accustomed to riding about behind a platoon of police and a band that they will find it difficult to get down to a street car. Mayor Ames was interviewed the other day, and said he had just taken the air. It was hoped the atmosphere would escape. —Mab St. Paul, April 9. 1903. MISS THE MARK IN TRYING TO BE TOO NICE "Spit," Not "Expectorate." Is the Proper Word to Use. NEW YORK, April 9.—Dr. Ernest J. Lederle, president of the department of health, has received recently so many letters objecting to the word •'spit" in the ordinance requiring that rules of com mon decency be observed in certain pub lic places that he has resurrected the fol lowing letter from the department files •Hon. Charles G. Wilson, President Health Board —Dear President Wilson: Can't you have our form of notice changed so as to read 'spit' instead of 'expectorate?' Expectorate is a vile word and the health board ought to use good English. Sincerely yours, —"Theodore Roosevelt. "Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street, New York, 21, 1895." Dr. Lederle announces that the anti spitting regulations will be much more drastic under the provisions of a revised and extended sanitary code which Is 1 almost completed. j INDORSE CIVIL SERVICE Continued From First Page. Aug. l of each year these men are to se lect not less than 2,500 or more than 3 000 names of citizens for petit jury service. The commissioners are to receive $G each per day for their work. ADOPTS CLOTURE RULE. Lieut. Gov. Jones Declares Embargo on Long Debates. Confronted with a vast amount of work anl with the end of the session drawing near. Lieut. Gov. Jones has taken the whip in hand, and from now on the law mill will grind without unnecessary in terruption. The lieutenant governor surprised sev eral of the senators yesterday by an nouncing that in the future long argu ments made under the guise of explaining votes would be ruled out of order. He declared that members who feel called upon to explain their votes must really make an explanation, and called attention to the fact that explanations were unnecessary unless the member had voted differently on some previous roll call. The lieutenant governor also no tified the senate that the live minute rule would be observed in the future. REJECT COMMISSION IDEA. House Defeats Peterson's State Highway Board Bill. The house yesterday killed Representa tive Ole Peterson's bill providing for a state highway commission. The bill was lost by a vote of 54 to 50. Representative Peterson made a gallant light for his measure. But the well known legislative prejudice against tht commis sion idea, an applied to the roads question, was too much for even as t;ood "a legislative general as Mr. L'<i srgon has proved himself. That he got within votes of passing bis bill was a surprise to the veterans who have witnessed the defeat of similar measur s at former ses sions. DOG TAX OPTIONAL. Ruliffson's Bill Is Again for Test cf Final Vote. Ruliffson's bill, re-enacting a dog tax law and creating local funds for the in demnity of persons losing don»esti< irr.als from the depredations of dogs, \\;,s yesterday again sent to the calendar. The bill, as recommended t'> pass, i^ radically different from the law repealed by Nyquist, which it is d- signed ti> re place, in that by an amendment adopted yesterday, application of the law Is option al with the people of towns and villages and the proposition must !>,• submitted and ratified by the voters before put into effect. PASS HATCHERY BILL. State Will Purchase Fish Farm at Glen wood. Representative Ofsthun's bill to locate a second fish hatchery at Glenwood was passed in the senate yesterday afternoon. Glenwood already has a well equipped fish_ hatchery, and this plant is to be pur chased and improved by the state. Sena tor Ward guided the bill through the sen ate. Pay Other States in Kind. The Horton retaliatory Insurance bill as amended by the house committee on insurance will come to the house today without recommendation. The amend - ment Injected by the house committee Is the same that was rejected by the senate when the bill was originally con sidered. The purpo.se of the bill is to re taliate by shutting out Insurance com panies organized in those states which have barred reserve companies organized In Minnesota from operation within their borders. As amended the Horton bill will not apply In cases where Minnesota com panies have been ruled out for lncompe tency. Hold Up Street Car Bill. Representative Armstrong vest, i day had Yoerg*s street car bill ta"ksn fiom the calendar and returned to genera] orders. The bill provides that any incorporated interurban passenger railway company may use the tracks of any street railroad company in any town or city. The osten sible purpose of the bill is to provide an entrance to St. Paul and Minneapolis for cross-country trolley lines whfch may be built in the future. Night Schools for Cities. The house yesterday passed the Kossoen bill, authorizing- boards of education to operate and maintain night schools. Mr. Fosseen also secured the passag-3 of his bill designed to prevent the: desecration of Decoration day by closing saloons ;'n<l preventing the performance of sport pro grammes during the hours usually given over to memorial exercises. Favor Sanitarium Bill. The house committee "n appropriations yesterday recommended Senator Ferris' bill for a state sanitarium for consump tives. The appropriation :lau»e Is strict-, en from the bill, and it is so amended that the expenditures may not exceed the provisions which will be mad.- in the omnibus bill. Give Way to Young Debaters. Representative Jones, Otter Tail, yes terday secured the adoption of a i tion extending- the use of the hall for th< house to the High School Dcbatli - ciety Friday evening, April IV. when the St. Paul and Fergus Falls bigli school debaters will meet to decide the stale championship. Open Home to Women. The house yesterday r< tved a dozen petitions and resolutions from citizens and Grand Army posts throughout the state recommending the appropriation for a married quarters and widows' cottage at the soldiers' home. Pay for Decorations. The senate and house yesterday passed a resolution appropriating $-<><> to pay the bills incurred by the legislative com mittee appointed to prepare the recep tions for President Roosevelt and Ad miral Schley. Every Little Helps- The house yesterday passed th • Greg ory bill, which in effect makes all mem bers of the legislature notaries public. SENTENCED FOR CHARGING A MERE MATTER OF 236 PER CENT Wealthy Berlin Money Lender Gets Two Years' Imprisonment. BERLIN. April 9.—Heinrich Pariser, a wealthy money lender, was sentenced to day to two years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $25,000 for usury. Sixty specifications were brought. Including the complaints of several noblemen and offi cers of the army. In one instance Pariser charged a baron. "Yon E" (the court did not permit his full name to be known). L' 36 per cent, which the baron paid, though he had an unmortgaged income from a landed estate amounting to $25, --000 yearly. Another exceptional case was that" of a millionaire manufacturer who paid interest at the rate of 100 per cent for a short term loan of (5,000. Pariser admitted having charged the rates mentioned, but he affirmed that the enormous risks reduced his profits to 10 per cent on the capital invested, and said his "gambling on human nature" en abled him to make only 5 per cent more than in regular business. Part of his re turn for so hazardous an occupation was the pleasure which his "daily battle with unscrupulous noblemen and social hum bugs" gave him. NIX GOT AWAY FROM HER, BUT COULDN'T STAY AWAY Texas Woman Follows Man to Kansas City and Shoots Him Fatally. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. April 9.—Mrs. Manila Williams, who came here recently from Texas, shot and fatally wounded Carroll Nix, of Fayetteville. Ark., while the latter was asleep in his room hero early today. Mrs. Williams and Nix were former sweethearts. The woman was de serted by her husband some time an.> in a Texas town and until recently had been in Fayetteville. Nix said that he had come to Kansas City a few days ago to get away from the woman, and said that he did not know she was in the city. Mrs. Williams is thirty years old and Nix is twenty-nine. Mrs. Williams admitted frankly tha-t the shooting was prompted by jealousy. MARION IVELL HAS A CAREER Promising Contralto of Castle Square Company Is a Minnesota Girl. A clever French cynic once Said no regarded that woman the most clever who could v.in and retain the of those of her own sex. He was some thing of a philosopher And was no! thinking of a certain American tralto, for she was then a wee tiny MISS MARION IVELL, fit : w QStefe:u ff: ■ ■ W One of the Principal Contraltos of the Castle Square Opera Company. bit of a girl, but if what he opined was true, then Marion Ivell, of the t'astle Square forces, is a most clever woman. Miss Ivell has won a host of women friends during this, her first grand opera season in her home cities, for she lived both in St. Paul and Minneap olis before she "became wedded to her art." .Miss Ivell is a stately and beautiful woman of the decided brunette type. At first glance she would appear a tiiile too tall and stately to appeal to tha girlish opera-goer, who generally dotes on petite and dainty prima donnas. But that rule dues not hold good in the case of Miss IvelL Do you ask why? Perhaps the secret Uea In the fact that she is absolutely f on <j o t young girls. She "dotes on them." She likes them in her audience; she is so grateful to any recognition from them —a letter, a flower, a picture sent by any one of them, which she is al ways glad and willing to exchange lor one of her own. Miss Ivell is really a Minneapolis girl, but she made a host of friends here when she came across the river for church choir singing, and her ca reer has been carefully watched by music lovers who learned to know her at that time. Her voice is one of the deep, rich contraltos that nature gives to but few women. A peculiar thing about her ca reer is that in the start sne longed to. become an actress ;m<l not a singer. When only fourteen years old she was playing parts in Shakespearean pro ductions with Sauford Dodge, having appeared in an amateur way with him in "The Merchant of Venice," "Damon an<l Pythias" and "Macbeth." She was regarded as having distinct dra matic talent and it is that instinct that has helped her wonderfully in her op eratic roles. Before she left the Twin cities Miss ivell was the contralto soloist at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Minneapolis, and later at the Peo ples' church, in St. Paul. Her first vo cal master was Mr. A. I>. Maderia. It was In; who discovered th" possibili ties of her voice. With him Miss Ivell studied for two years. <>n his advice she first went Bast, studying for a time in New York, where she after wards joined the Castle Square com pany tor its engagemeni at ih>- Metro politan opera house. Prom New York Miss [veil went to Paris and there studied under the great teacher, M. Sbriglia, the master of Jean de Reszke. Returning to this country two years ago she was quickly en : by Henry W. Savage. Miss [veil .sinns many roles and does them all well. Perhaps her favorite is that of Carmen, her portrayal being tti" dramatic and fiery heroine of blood and impulse thai Merrimee wrote about. Aside from "Carmen," Miss Iv<-ll is singing this season In Nancy from "Martha," Amneris In "Alda.l Azucena In "II Trovatore;" and the queen of the gypsies in the "Bohemian Girl." Resides these, her repertory also Includes Siebel In "Faust." Venus in "Tannhauser," and Ortrude in "Lohen grin." CONDITION OF WHEAT IN FOREIGN LANDS Drought and Frost Have Done Serious Damage in Many Countries. Conditions of th<- new wheat crop In Europe are hardly up to the average, according t<» advices received by J. C jrhty & Co., of this city. That firm has the following report: United Kingdom—Crop prospects continue generally favorable. France —Reports art' contradictory, but are bad from the Important wheat glowing regions In th*- north, where more seeding has been fr/jml : sary than was expected. Welcome rains have fallen in localities where moisture was wanted, but the temper ature is too low for the plant to make satisfactory growth. Russia—Crop conditions in the southwest are favorable, but the dry weather in the southeast continues. Complaints of frost have been received from the central districts. Roumanla —The drought reported last week still prevails. Austria-Hungary —■ Needed rains have fallen, causing an improvement in crop prospects. Spain—Dry weather has again been experienced since last report, and gen eral rains are much needed. Italy—Reports most satisfactory. Germany—The weather during the past week has been colder, but good rains have occurred. North Africa —Drought is reported from Algeria, the chief wheat growing colony. Australia —The weather has been good for plowing; beneficial rains have fallen. Argentine—Weather conditions have again turned unfavorable. Will Meet Commander Mahan. Acker post and the women of the Re lief corps will give a reception to Ca.pL I. N. Mahan. newly elected state com mander of the G. A. R.. Saturday even ing at Central hall. All veterans have been Invited to attend this reception. Members of all the posts In the city and veterans who are not members of any post will be present to extend a formal greeting to the new state c<mi mander. *