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THE LEGITIMATE DRAMA.
Sanford Dodge and Company Gave a
Fine Presentation at Opera
House Saturday.

There was little reason for disappoint-
meut in the engagement of Sanford
Dodge and his company ut the opera
house Saturday evening when they
presented the Merchant OF Venice" )"
The audience which greeted the com
pany was one of the best which has
graced the opera house in some time,
and the general opinion is that the
company gave very fair presentation
OF the drama for western players. 1t
was the first production of the legiti-
mate drama that has been given in
Mitchell in a long time and it was
most thoroughly enjoyed by the
majority of the audience. Mr., Dodge
is asplendid exponent OF Shakesperean
roles and his work as Shylock gave him
the opportunity to display the crafty
characte. of the money lender in q
characteristic manner. 1t certainly
was very good. The company support
is much better than one would
naturally look for. Miss McCallum as
Portia made distinct hit with the
audience and in the court scene her
work was heartily applauded. William
Lloyd made fine Gratiano and Mr..
jay, rs Launcelot, Mr.. Fisher, as
Bassnio, and Mr.. Shakespeare ae
Lorenzo, did their parts in clever
manner. The costumes worn by the
company were handsome and in stric,
accordance with the date of the play.
During the evening Rathbu orches.
ira furnished the music between the
acts. The orchestrs is becoming q
necessary adjunct to the house and the
people appreciate Manager Gale.
efforts to make everything entertain
ing in his house.
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mense works at Homestead, Pa, and
the man that was nearly killed during
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mense works at Homestead, Pa, and
the man that was nearly killed during
the strike of 1892, is the founder of
Connellsville, and has the largest coke
ing plant there. A short ruu brings
us to Pittsburg, where flames of fire
leaping high in air, and smoke perpet-
ual, if not eternal, greets the eye. The
immense iron industry of this noted
city is common knowledge, but the
evidence thai prosperity has struck it.,
and hit hard, is evidenced by the greal
increase in the volume of business, as
compared with year ago, and every
furnace, every wheel and every chin
ney proclaims the advent of better
times. AT this point night had cur
tained us completely in, and we were
compelled to give the eye a rest, ana
shortly the porter prepared our couch
and natures sweet restorer, balmy
sleep" excluded the world from US, and
Morpheus ruled supreme. Sunday a,
eleven, 8. N. We reached the windy
city, that young untutored giant of the
west, and amidst its dirt and 'steen
story buildings the day was spent
Chicago: the second city of this mig ghty
empire: How loug will it be until i,
becomes the first: first in CONNER
cial, financial and aesthetical power.
Metnl. ks the day ia not far distant,
and that supremacy is surely destiny
Even now it has taken the bit, and
uothing is too great for it to undertake,
and to undertake is to accomplish. |
saw the new drainage canal; saw the
beautiful blus waters of Lake Michigan
transforming the waters of that once
nasty river into it's own inviting color,
and the transformation ia complete
Millions OF gallons daily flow out of the
AXE toward ST. Louis, and the gulf, q
almost akin to making wafer run up
hill, and the thirty three-millions OF
dollars appropriated by Chicago, mol
only gives outlet for the city's sewage,
but makes possible the transporting in
bulk, of cargoes of merchandise from
the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of ST.
Lawrence, without transferring. A
gigantic scheme, successfully complet.
ed; and still st. Louis is not happy
From Chicago it is only eighty miles
to the place that gave US birth, and
three days delightfully."- spent there and
the return to Mitchell closed the ex
periences of delightful trip to the
Capital. A. T. O'KAD,
Mitchell, Jan. 27.
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pullet and lst pen, o. A. Bates. Mitch

pullet and lst pen, o. A. Bates. Mitch
ell.
r. G. White Leghorn-lst and I'd
pullet and lst pen, o. a. Bates, Mitch
ell, I'd cockerel and I'd pen, M. P.
Bates, Mitchell.
r. G. Brown Legborn-lst cock
erel, Day Bros, Mitchell.
Black Leg horn-1st cockerel 1st,
ID, Sd on pullet, Sam F. Crabbe, Fargo.
N. D.
Silver Hamburgs-lst, hen D.
Glenn, Parker.
Games-lst I'd, Sd cockerel; lst,
I'd, Sd pultet, lst pen, Grace &
Moad, Struole, iowa.
B. B. r G. Bsntam-lst cockerel,
]. j. Schumacher, Sioux Falls.
Among the local exhibitors Mrs. J.
N. Grow had the highest scoring
barred Plymouth Rock pullet on ex-
hibition and also the highest scoring
trio on same birds. Mrs. Crow took
second prize on cockerel. Bert Wal
rath had the highest scoring bird in
the show room of any breed, black
Minorca pullet The other local exhibit-
ors did quite we'll at the show and
succeeded in carrying off some of the
prizes. Mitchell fanclers have taken .
great interest in the poultry show and
their birds show the care that are
given them, which has much to do
with their prize winning qualities.
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AN EVENING OF oRAToRY.
An Orator Will be Selected to Repre-
sent Dakota University at
State Contest.

Again it devolves upon Dakota UNI
versity to send defender to the ora
torical state contest of colleges to up
hold her former championships and
victories gained by her representatives.
For the past three years has the home
university sent away victor to the
contest and old Dakota has won the
contest with much ease. The prelim-
mary contest for selecting an orator to
represent the University at the state
gathering will be held at the chapel
on Friday evening and it is expected
that every loyal citizen will crowd the
chapel to it's utmost capacity and We
doubt not that the students will gladly
yield their space in the room for the
citizens who go over from town.
Seven young men will enter the pre-,
liminary contest to secure the honor to
represent the University in the meet
ing. The names and the subjects Of
the young gentlemen are as follows:
Gustavus Loevinger-"The Master
Idea in Government"
Mcclellan Devers-"The Moral and
the State.' .,
Charles M. Corroll- Sum-
ner"
Harley J. Bushfeld- -'Lincoln's
Wards; Their Present and Future Pro,
gress."
Lloyd G. ght-"Little Eggs and
Big Snakes"
Robert r. -"The Spirit of
Rebellion"
Arthur J. Carpenter-"The Revolu-
tion OF American IDEALS"
| One of these seven young men will
be the winner who will do his level
best to retain the local university's
standing in the state as the college
which produces, among other intellect-
ual giants, the best orators in the state.
The University is making grand strides
in the way of building up It's reputation
in the state and the home endorsement
it receives makes it that much easier
for the representatives of the college to
draw support to the institution. Let
the citizens do their share toward
building up the college and we are
quite sure that the officials will make
the most of it in their work.
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FOR L|NCoLN's BIRTHDAY.
Suggestions Offered That the Births
day of the Great American
Citizen be Recognized.

We notice that in other parts of the
state that arrangements are being
made to celebrate the birthday Of
Abraham Lincoln, which occurs Feb.
IL. It has bsen suggested that the re.
publicans in this county also take steps
to honor the memory of the men who
stands highest in the estimation of the
people aud whose principles represent
the ideas of the republican party today
as strong as they ever did. Let meet.
preliminary arrangements for a meet
ing that will call out the people in
large numbers.
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THE DEAD HAVE ARRIVED,
The Bodies of the Soldier Boys Who
Died In the Philippines are
Home

A dispatch from San Francisco states
that the Transport Pekin has arrived
from Manila with the bodies of l59
dead soldiers aboard, and among them
are sixteen boys of the South Dakota
regiment. Among this list appears
the name OF Jay A Smith, of this city,
wLo died at Manila Nov. IA, 1898.
The bodies are to be held there await
ing orders from the government. 1t is
presumed that the body of Jay Smith
will be brought to this city for inter
ment, as his parents are now living
here. Arrangements should be made
at once 70 do honor to the me mory OF
the dead soldier boy in a public man
ner.
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was that he. was not being hanged SO
much for the crime he had committed
as for those which he might commit If
he were allowed to live.
To the intelligent but conscientious
mind the contention of the Lombroso
school of science Is little short Of alb
surd. If abnormalities of cranial and IA
eial development are to be accepted as a
test of anything, 1T Is merely as test
of moral and intellectual development.
No more can all moral responsibility be
totally absent from the ordinary human
being in the ordinary possession of his
faculties than can all intellectual force
Until we are willing to do away COM
pletely with the belief in the freedom
of the will, the Lombroso theory in
criminology should never receive general
acceptance.
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THE SWEAT SHOP CRIME.

There are those who are inclined to re-
gard the movement among charitably
disposed persons in the direction of re-
Iieving tenement life of certain of it's hor-
rors as a fad Indeed every movement
which has gone to the social amelioration
Of the poorer classes has been at one time
or another regarded as involving an I'M
warranted interference with individual af-
fairs. And at the outset Of all such
movements experience has shown that
they have been misrepresented and
thwarted at every turn by really we'll
meaning people.
The most general survival of the de-
grading conditions of social life which
were almost universal in every European
country up to the middle of the present
century is represented by the crowded
and unsanitary condition Of the modern
tenement house. The movement which
will result in displacing those conditions
will involve substantial gain to hu-
manity. In recent years the dangers sur
cur large cities have been augmented in a
really terrible degree by the introduction
Of what is known as the sweat-shop sys-
tenn. Men, women and children work,
eat, sleep and live their lives within the
four walls of single room in more than
one of our large cities. They breed phys
ical as we'll as moral, infection.
Recently a visiting physician from the
New York infirmary gave in his report
the following cases typifying the condi-
tons which attend the lives of those who
are immediate victims of the sweat-shop
system:
East Twelfth street Austrian. Dis
ease, pulmonary. tuberculosis; finishing
coats four rooms, two light; rent, $14.
Two families, seven persons, In apart
ment.
Italians. Disease. measles. died; finishing
trousers; two rooms, one light; rent. $3.50.
One family with two dodgers.
Elizabeth street. Italians. Disease,
measles; trousers: three rooms, one light,
two on airshaft; rent, So. Two families
Elizabeth street. Italians. Four cases
# Tw ~f families pen s2 three rooms s'
Elizabeth street Disease, pneumonia;
trousers; four rooms, two light. Three
families; rent, Sl3.
Not one of these families could show a
factory inspectors license, and in each
case men, women and children were at
work
What more humane undertaking can be
conceived than the protection Of these
unfortunate people from themselves and
their brutal environments? 1t is almost
needless to say that these people consta-
tute In themselves and through their un-
willingness to rise above their surround
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MERIrEp CONGRATULATIONS.

No character prominent in the eye of
the world has the faculty of doing extra
ordinary and unexpected things in any
thing like the same degree developed by
the ruler of the German people. Among
the latest of his unexpected and extra
ordinary doings may be mentioned the
congratulations extended by him to Leo
XIII, on the occasion of the nfnetieth an
niversary of the birth of that gentle and
distinguished character.
The congratulations of Emperor William
represent a very marked divergence In
the policy Of the German empire toward
the Holy See. 1t is another illustration
of the completeness of the reversal eff
fected by the young emperor in the rec
ognized policies of the iron chancellor.
The May laws of Bismarck are not yet
forgotten. The prediction that I'VE shall
never go to Canossa" is now revealed as
the mere boast of military and civil
autocrat and the spirit from which 1t
sprung represents the very antithesis of
CALCULATIONS had their birth.
Divested of all temporal sway, Leo XIII.
is today one of the most heroic, as well
as one of the most pathetic, pictures pre-
scented on the worlds canvas. He is the
prince and potentate OF peace; he rules
over domain in which force Is unknown,
and in which, were his influence to DOM
mate, universal love would be the car
dinal principle Of conduct. An old man
trembling upon the brink of eternity, the
world pays to him the homage which it
cannot deny to a sanctified life and a
godlike intellect.
The testimonial which is involved In
Emperor Williams congratulations is
we'll merited. 1t will receive the approval
of all peace-loving men and nations, with
out regard to religious differences, just
as the ignoble action of King Humbert's
government received universal condemna-
ton, when that prince interviewed to
prevent the Vatican from participating
directly in the deliberations of The
Hague peace conference. Bismarck went
to Canossa, despite his vain prediction.
1t will be we'll for the Italian people when
Humbert decides upon the same journey.
Whatever differences of opinion may
prevail as to the wisdom or good taste Of
most of the unexpected and extraordinary
things which the German ruler does, no
one will gainsay the grace or wisdom of
the congratulations which he extended
to Leo XIII
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ism and devotion to American liberty OF
the Oldest and the best section of the
land. We must give the fullest attesta-
ton of this truth in the hospitality which
we extend to the hero of the Maine. We
have not participated in the welcome OF
any of the great men whom the Spanish
American war has brought into notice.
We must show on this occasion that our
opportunities have been totally incommen-
surate with our will and ability, and that
here, beneath the North Star, this SPLEEN
did exemplar of military renewn viii find
those of his countrymen who value him at
his full worth.
We have more than once shown cur
ability to receive men of distinction and
to enable them to carry away with them
a true understanding of the depth OF
elevated public sentiment and the
breadth of human hospitality which pre-
vail among us. We must not fall now.
So far as the state and the municipality,
great and prosperous and free as they
are, can compass the undertaking, we
must show in our welcome of Capt Sigs-
bee that we are in complete touch with
the patriotic spirit of our day, and nave
the way as well as the will to prove the
hospitabIe instincts of our people.
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ings the greatest difficulty which lies in
the path of those who seek remedy for
their degradation. But there are those
above them who employ them and who
place on the market the products of their
labor, whom the law can, If 1t will, deal
with. heirrespensibility morally is well
defined; their responsibility legally should
be made equally certain.
In a recent visit made to an Italian col
ony in BrooklynR Cor the purpose OF .'tag-
gtng" goods which had been made with
out license, pitiful state of things
was revealed. In one house six adults
and seven children were found living and
working III two rooms. In another house
was child Ill, with diphtherfa, it is
stated, and on the childs crib lay large
pile of unfinished garments. In third
dwelling was a boy who appeared to be
down with asnaalipox. while his mother
went on finishing garments.
While public authority is getting ready
for these conditions the most hopeful
feature of the situation lies in the fact
that the good men and women who have
engaged in the work in the large cities of
redeeming these poor people still keep
on their way. Their work will tell in
time; indeed, 1t is telling daily. But hand
in hand with their labors there ought to
be public cooperation with the principle
which is involved in the union labor
movement, viz: that the consumer shall
be assured in some tangible and unnis-
taxable way that the goods he purchases
are made under healthful conditions. This
feature Of the movement ought to be
made it's most prominent feature, since
1t must inevitably lead to the destruction
Of the sweat-shop system and to & gen.
eral improvement In the conditions at
tending the laboring classes in their daily
toll.
1t will not be surprising if within the
next ten years an Improvement, amount
ing, in fact, to a revolution, shall be made
in the surroundings and in the conditions
attending the lives of the Faboring masses
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SUNDAY. APRIL l, 1900.
sJCsBEE,s RECEPTION.

The reception and welcome to Capt.
Sigsbee is not an affair merely Of local
importance. 1t is one in which the peo-
pie Of the state and their good name are
involved. Our hospitality should show
Itself in such manner as that the patriot
Ism Of the people of Minnesota's capital
city shall find an expression for which few
parallels can be found in it's history.
When the history of the remarkable
events of the past two years comes to be
written, Capt Sigsbee will be one of the
characters around whom will cluster the
most striking events of that remarkable
period. Since the day when his vessel dis
appeared in the waters of Havana harbor,
and so many of the devoted men Of his
command were hurled unprepared into
eternity, Capt. Sigsbee has had di ected to
him the attention Of the body Of his cour.-
trymen. In such a fateful crisis as that
which befell him he showed himself
worthy of the best traditions of the Amer
lean navy. With all the modesly and
lstic of the true sailor, Capt. Sigsbee has
throughout the entire interval, as far as
possible, withheld himself from public no
tice. He has sought none of the honors
that have been showered upon him. He
has done nothing, in his own estimation,
at least, which would warrant his coun-
trymen regarding him save as the ordi-
nary American sailor, who did only what
he could not have avoided doing, and who
doubtless regards the events in which lie
Was the most prominent actor as coming
merely within the ordinary scope and in
tent of his professional duties.
OF such material as this heroes ere
made Contemporary life is not always
just and rarely generous to the men who,
when they have been forced by transcend
ant events into universal notice, represent
attributes of the nation from which they
derive their citizenship. Capt. Sigsbee S
contemporaries have been both just and
appreclative. They have dealt with him
as history Will deal. They have shown
that the taunt as to the ingratitude of re-
publics has no meaning for this nation
in its treatment Of the man.
The Northwest which st. Paul OH Mon
day will stand to represent in its reccp-
ton OF Capt. sigsbee, has proven itself
fl its brief existence as a section Of this
union of states to be the peer in patriot
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CRtMINOLOGy Rim MAD.

There Is class of scientific men, at
whose head is Prof. Lombroso, who in
sist that a criminal may be invariably
known by certain peculiarities in cranial
formation According to them, the man
who possesses, for instance, Monaghan
face, abnormal features, ill-shaped cars,
and certain other peculialiies in the
structure of his head and face, not only
bears the stamp of his own criminality,
bus is the victim of such psychical and
moral malformation as to render crime
unavoidable on his part.
There is, no doubt, at least from
superficial examination, much to sus-
tain this view. Observa ion of the pc
of the inmates of our jails and peni-
tentiaries seems to sustain the view, just
as corresponding physical peculiar. ties
are visible in the cases of mental de-
fectives, but the conclusion which Is in
evitable from this theory seems on it's
face, to be an exceedingly dangerous
one. If men are born criminally pre-
disposed, and they bear the birth-mark
through life, if they are congenitally
criminal, as others are congenitally in
sane, imbecile or epileptic, what war
rant in morals can be found for punish
ing such persons for the crimes they
commit? What becomes of the doctrine
of free-will, if, beforehand, nature has
placed her indelible mark upon her
product, proclaiming it to be an abnor-
NAL production, and to be necessarily at
war with all the canons of accepted
Christian morality?
A doctrine of this character is, in its
acceptance, almost as dangerous as the
criminal class itself. 1t puts an end to
all sense of personal responsibility, and
its logical outcome would be that the
| man who committed a crime should be
saved from all punishment could he but
display these physical pecuiarities
which Prof Lombroso and his school de-
clare to unfailingly betray the congeni-
tai criminal. More than that, any we'll
ordered member OF society whose cranial
construction realized substantially the
conditions set forth by Prof. Lombroso
might, for the protection of society, be
deprived Of his liberty and thus pun
ished for crimes which he had no
thought of committing. 1t is related, in
the illustration of the severity of New
Jersey justice in the past, that, murder
having been committed in certain ham
let in that state and no trace of it's
perpetrator being found the authorities
| enumerated the members Of the various
crafts, and, finding one tailor in excess
of the number of tailors thought neces-
sary to the good of the community, avow-
ed their purpose to hang him for the
murder. He was hanged, and the only
response made by the authorities of New
Jersey to his protestations of innocence