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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

An Informal party was given Saturday even
Ing by the Misses Johnson OF Tenth street S.
in honor Of Mrs. c. O. Paquin and Miss Pa
qutn, who leave this week for the Big Forks
country. Various guessing contests and q
verse making contest furnished amusement
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

The high school dancing club that has been
meeting Saturday nights in the hall on
TWenty-fourth street and Fifth avenue S, the
Jolly Students, had it's closing party Saturday
evening. 1t was di1nity affair and many
dainty and beautiful gowns were worn A
ribbon german was danced, the souvenirs be-
ing hand painted ribbon banners Mr. and
Mrs W. Fl. Malcolm, who have directed the
parties. were presented with handsomely
illustrated book, of poems, Shadows Of the
Trees" by Robert Burns Wilson. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Mrs. MacCall and daughter, Mrs. Bowen,
entertained Thursday afternoon at her home
713 Huron street Sc, for Mrs. Altman, who
leaves shortly to make her home in Seattle.
Covers were laid for ten aud the guests were
Mines. Altman, Vonvig, Hanson, Sheffield,
Fearow. Weaver, Smith, Johnson and Miss
Anderson. '" -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Mr.: and Mrs. James j. Hill have issued
invitations for the marriage OF their daugh-
ter, Miss Ruth Hill, and Arson McCook
Beard, of New York, which will take place
Wednesday. April 2, at high noon, at the
Hill residence in st. Paul p.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. remnant have an
nounced the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Grace Tenant, and Charles Edward
Adams OF Duluth. The wedding will take
place in May Miss Clough will give a tea
for Miss Tenant Saturday afternoon
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Frank Petit
entertained forty guests at cards at their
apartments in the West Hotel
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Miss Jessie Davidson of the Cordova gave
an informal luncheon this afternoon for
Misses Blossom and Vera White. This even
ing Mrs. Dwight Holcomb will entertain at
cards at the Wheeler for the Misses White
who have come from Mankato, to be her
guests for short time
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

E NJ. Mortimer, master mechanic of the
Great Northern road, has been in the hospital
at st. Cloud for several months as the re-
suit OF an accident. He has fully recovered
and returned to his home, 2104 Western ave-
nue., last week. On Friday night he was
pleasantly surprised by about fifty Of his
neighbors who came in to celebrate his birth
day and his return at the same time
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Seth H. Baker have issued
invitations for the marriage of their daugh-
Ter Miss Myrtle Baker, and Loren Charles
Stevenson, which will take place Wednes-
day evening April 2, in the First Methodist
church of Red Wing. Mr.. Stevenson is a
Minneapolis man who represented the forty
first district in the legislature. He will bring
his bride to Minneapolis to live and they
will reside at 1909 Stevens avenue
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

The engagement has been announced of
Miss Sylvia Bunker, daughter Of MI and
Mrs. Stephen Bu1lier, and William Hammer
lohr, and the wedding will take place in
April. Friday evening a theater party was
given at the Metropolitan for Miss. Bunker
and Mr.. Kammerlohr Supper was served
after the play. The guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Fleck, Misses Bunker Void, Whalen, Hen
derson and Youngren, and Messrs. Frank and
VIII kammerlohr. Aurum, Holden and Moore.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-17

Miss Matilda Johnson and George D.
White Of Bemidji, Mimi, were married
Wednesday evening at the home of the brides
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Sjostrand,
101 Nineteenth avenue s. The service was
read by Rev. F.. E. Higgins Of Bemidji and
was witnessed by twenty-five relatives and
friends. Miss Gertrude Anderson was maid
Of honor and ]. E. Johnson best man. The
rooms were bright with smilax and flowers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
Alabama Should Exhibit.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald.
Allow me to commend your article on
Alabama az st. Louis. in your editorial
columns Of November &C.
This is matter of vast import. 1t
could not appeal too strongly to our peo-
pie.
At st. Louis, Alabama should have a
separate building. so that there could
be gathered in one comprehensive dis
play some of all the products of the great
empire which our state lines embrace.
feature of the Alabama exhibit should
be samples from every mandatory in
this state of all its products, with prices
+. o. b. furnished the exhibit once or
twice week. This would establish a
commercial exchange and mart for Ala
bama's products in the heart of the storm
center of the worlds attraction.
Every town. city and industry in the
s.ate should also have plenty of litera.
ture fully setting forth all the advant-
ages they possess, ready for the exposi-
ton when II opens.
A title effort, continuously made from
now until the time will put Alabama at
the front at St. Louis, even as it did at
Buffalo
The people of Alabama should remem-
Der that possibly 100000 people will in
spect their display
ROSCOE w. GORMAN.
Opelika, November p.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
Prohibition In Vermont.

It has taken the people of Vermont
fully thirty years to ascertain that
prohibition does not prohibit when
public sentiment is at all averse. The
battle between prohibition and non.
prohibition was fought out at the re-
cent state election in Vermont, and
the opponents of prohibition carried
both branches of the legislature.
Prohibition is to be repealed, but
the doctors of laws disagree over the
substitute. All sorts of plans are be-
fore the legislature. ranging from the
Tillman dispensary plan to straight
high license to all corners. The indi-
cations are, however, that a local OPP
ton bill Of the Massachusetts sort
will be adopted. Under such a bill
every city and every rural township
would be left free to enact its own
liquor regulations. In the south the
county is the political unit, but in
New England the township is the
basis of political power, and Vermont
will probably adopt local option on
township basis, instead or a county
basis.
The dispensary system has never
taken root in New England, although
it involves no more moral questions
or civic responsibility than license
plan does, but it seems to be distase-
full, and Vermont will not adopt it,
although it numbers some friends in
her legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24

was surprised to find total absence of
what one would naturally expect to find
most in evidence at a Decent hotel-an
odor. The proprietor told me that they
changed their linen on the beds quite as
often as at first-class hotels. and while
they did not pretend to enforce compul-
sorry baths, yet they made it uncomfor-
table for those guests who think that
water has no other utility than that of all
laying the dusts in the streets. Altogeth-
er the Mills hotel is not bad place for a
man who happens to find himself sud-
denly his uppers Blocker street.
where the house is located. was once the
mall of fashion. An old-time New York.
er who accompanied me to the hotel said
he remembered the time when such beaux
as Jim Fiske and Ed Stokes were great
figures In the afternoon parade. Now the
street is given over to dingy commission
houses and villainous grog shops. There
is an italian restaurant across the way
from the hotel which still attracts GER
tain semi-fashionable element of Bohe-
mia. 1t was in this place that Steve
Crane first met the girl who later figured
as heroine in Maggie, the Girl of the
Streets Crane, 1t will be remembered,
went to the Jefferson Market police court
and made a plea for this girl when she
was taken in on one of the periodical
raids. He is remembered by the keeper
of the Italian restaurant, and spoken of
with great affection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
HEARST FOR SENATOR.
le. washington Times.

From the Washington Times.
Plainly, the Hon. William Randolph
Hearst has entered the political game
"for keeps He is now a candidate for
the democratic senatorial nomination at
Albany this winter. and it seems not un-
likely that he will win that empty honor.
1t is understood that Mr.. Hill does not
want the nomination and the Hon. Bird
s. Coler probably has had enough nomin-
atoms to last him for a while. Stin it is
considered improbable that Mr.. Hill will
sit idly by and permit Mr.. Hearst to or
ry off all the democratic honors in sight
in New York
If Mr.. Hearst Is made the nominee for
senator this year 1t is predicted that he
will demand the gupernatorial nominal
ton in 1904 and this would not suit Mr..
Hill at all unless, of course, he has form
ed political partnership with the states
mani Journalist If sucn partnership has
been struck it will be made manifest by
the editors attitude toward Mr.. Hills
Presidential aspirations for 1904 There are
those who believe that Mr.. Hearst Is
looking wistfully at the mantle worn by
William Jennings Bryan for six years,
and il this Is so, 1t means that Mr.. Hill
will have a hard time from now until
the democratic national leadership is set
tied Mr. Hearst received about 1000 more
votes than were ever cast for a congress
candidate in his district, and it is said
that he regards this as evidence that he
is held in pubic esteem as real tribune
of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
At the Short Session.

The Presidents message will no
doubt clear the air not little, permit
ting all to see what the administra-
ton programme at least is. The ses-
sion consists of only about sixty full
working days, for very little business
is transacted before the Christmas
recess, and after Christmas nearly all
the time OF the session is needed in
which to pass the appropriation bills.
But the republicans have large
working majorities in both houses,
and they can, If they so desire, grant
some relief to Cuba, or at least the
senate can ratify the Kasson treaties
under one of which relief would be
carried to Cuba. The Kasson treaties
have hung fire long time. and they
should be either ratified or rejected.
The republicans should line up.
Then, too. there is the isthmian
canal, about which considerable legis-
lation will be needed If the work of
building a canal is to be begun in fact
and in earnest. The title to the
Panama Company's possessions is to
be secured, a treaty with Colombia
ratified, commissioners confirmed, and
the work actually inaugurated. True,
the President is authorized to do
much in that direction, but doubtless
There is also the tariff and trusts,
several hundred in number. If the
republicans really desire to revise the
the tariff, they will have an abun-
dance of time in which to pass re-
lief measure. 1t is those who want no
revision who say there is no time for
such work at the short session. If
the business were left to them there
would never come sufficient time for
a revision But 1904 is approaching,
and this alone may induce the republi-
cans to find some time that they can
devote to the tariff and trusts. 1t is
the republican party now that must
make good. 1t is the republican party
that is on trial.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
THE LAST OF THE PoPuLIsTs.

From the New York World.
Senator Harris of Kansas, who will be
succeeded by a republican in the next
congress, has asked to be classified as a
democrat instead of a populist for the
remainder of his term
This removes the last populist from the
senate list, which In the Fifty-fifth con-
gress contained seven. There will be no
Populist In the next house, which in 1897
had twelve. There is no populist COVER
nor, while In 1897 there were three.
Thus ends one of the most notable and
effective of the third party movements
in this country. In 1892 General Weaver
the populist candidate for President, poll
ed 1,041,O00 votes or nearly three times
nlr. Cleveland's plurality. In 1896 the pop
ulist party, with its next of kin the free
silver republicans. dictated the demo-
cratic national platform and the nominal
ton Of that party for President. And In
me election Of that year these two ele.
ments fused with the democrats, carried
ten of the states west of the Mississippi.
Now all of these states save the rotten
borough of Nevada have gone back or
over to the republicans and the populist
movement has passed on"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24

value must Of necessity raise prices
throughout the world
IN the hands Of the English people
the mines on the Wetwatersrand will
certainly be worked to their utmost
capacity. and they will be worked to
the point of exhaustion. The mind
can scarcely grasp all the possibilities
OF such immense additions to the
wealth OF the world, especially when
it is remembered that the United
States is annually producing ssO,OOO.-
900 in gold, and Australia is doing
almost as we'll The maximum of gold
production five years from now is put
at s4OO. 100000 a year-a sum that
must appreciate in a short time al
most every acre of ground and almost
every other piece of property in the
world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
A Musical Artist.

az. Steinert, the clarinet soloist who
came to Birmingham a few weeks ago,
has decided to make this his home and
musical art here will be the gamer" said
a musician last night.
Mr.. Stenert is a graduate of the
Royal Academy of Berlin. He has been
soloist in Innis' band, the Chicago Marine
band, the Castle Square Opera company
and Liberatis band. He filled an en-
gagement of twenty-one weeks with Lib
erati during the summer season of this
year. Mr.. Steinert has a fine tone and
ample technique. and is what artists call
a musician, that is to say one who has
not only experience but a broad knowl-
edge of theory as we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
MRS. PAIRS QUICK MAKEUP

From the New York Press
The originality of Mrs Patrick Camp
bell is shown in the wonderful celebrity
of her making up for the stage. She
arrives at the theatre only a few MIN
utes before curtain time and enters her
dressing room like whiriwind. Into
corner she throws her coat of broad
tail Her squirrel hat is thrown uneer-
moniously on a nail. In flash she has
stripped her neck of the favoriS> emer-
aid chain, and in two minutes she has
anointed her face and dabbed the rogue
on her cheeks. The penciling of her eyes
is almost as brief In the doing. Without
the assistance of a maid she losses her
street bodice into corner and falls into
an evening gown that fastens readily.
The arranging of her hair In that indefi-
mite knot is done with three twists of her
deft fingers and a general Embedding of
hairpins. She arranges her jewels on her
corsage as she crosses to the stage. Be-
tween every act she changes with the
rapidity of a magician. II is her nature
to work feverishly, and her friends say
she lives In a continual rush, even while
crossing the ocean.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
oDElL TO SUCCEED PLATT.

From the Washington Times.
From a high source of authority The
Times has received the interesting state
ment that the Hon. Thomas Collier Plat
will be succeeded in the senate within
the next three years by the Hon. B. B.
Oder. Mr.. Plat. as the story. goes. will
be reelected by the legislature at Albany
in January. with the understanding that
he will resign about the time Governor
Odelrs term expires in 1904, and the gov
ernor is then to be elected by the legis-
lature as senator. This arrangement will
enable Mr.. Odell to retain control of the
organization In New York, and in other
respects to succeed to the political estate
of Mr.. Plat. OF course, II by any I'M
foreseen reversal the democrats should
elect the next legislature. Mr.. Platt would
not resign, but as under the new consti-
tuition of New York the chances are all
against the democrats carrying the legis-
lature, little apprehension is felt by the
republican managers on this point.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
ACCIDENTS WHICH HAVE
CAUSED STAGE TRAGEDIES

From the London Chronicle
1t is a standing proof of the extreme
caution exercised at the theaters that ac-
cidents. liAe the bursting of mortar at
the Drury Lane theater the other even
ing, in which three men were injured, are
not of more frequent occurrence.
Not many years ago an actor named
Temple Crosier, while playing in a piece
at the old Novelty theater, now Penley's,
was mortally wounded in a typical strug-
gle by his antagonist in the fray. Mr..
Murray Carson. too, relates the story of
how some time ago he was appearing in
the part of zazzulic in 1.-The Red Lamp"
at Birmingham. with Mr.. Trees company.
In the last act Zazzulic attempts to stab
the hero, but by an unfortunate chance
the knife slipped from the actors grasp,
flew over the footlights and buried it.
self In the wooden partition separating
the orchestra from the stalls. Within a
berlain and had the knife not been ar
rested in its flight it would almost GER
tainly have buried itself in the body OF
the present colonial secretary.
Charles Warner boasts to this day a
stiff finger the result of a deep cut re-
ceived in a scrimmage with James Fer
nandez in the well remembered drama,
Michael Strogoff"; while the late George
Conquest used to declare there was not a
bone in his body that at one time or an
other had not been broken Conquest,
however, lived in the times when panto-
mine of an acrobatic kind was the order
of the day. Who that ever witnessed
them will forget his marvellous flights
through the air in those equally marvel
Gus productions with which at Christmas
he was wont to attract crowded houses
night after night at the Surrey or the old
Grecian? Here the performer took his
life in his own hands, or 1t would. per-
haps, be more correct to say confided It
to the care of those who undertook the
management of the traps. This his trust
was sometimes misplaced the long record
of his mishaps only too conclusively prov
ed. Happily, Conquest battered and bruis-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
corteIyou for the Cabinet.

ut seems to be pretty well understood
that President Roosevelt will appoint
George b. Cortelyou to the position of
secretary of commerce in the event that
congress creates the new cabinet office,
and few men could fill the place better
than the man who now fills so well the
position of secretary to the President"
said a Washington man at the Morris,
who is personally acquainted with Mr..
Cortelyou.
II was under the impression that some
man of prominence In the mercantile
world would be solicited to take charge
of the proposed department, but after
ALL man of Cortelyous training bust
ness-like habits and impartial mind
might fill the bill better than the aver
age business man. The Presidents secre-
tary started in the government service
as a department clerk, and has worked
his way up under the civil service rules.
When first knew him he was chief ex-
ecutive clerk, having been promoted to
that position by President Cleveland
President Mckinley promoted him to be
assistant secretary to the President, and
later secretary. Cortelyou is a graduate
of a law school. but never practiced He
is a model of courtesy and tact, and
makes one of the most popular and eff
cient secretaries that ever served a Presi-
dent
President Roosevelt is confident that
the department of commerce bill will be
passed this winter. The measure has
been pressed for years by commercial
bodies. but for some cause or other con-
gress has never taken much interest in
1t until now
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
Production OF the Rand.

The production of the mines in the
Rand is already rising, the September
report showing $500 stamps at work.
They turned out in September gold to
the value of sS,62s, 800, and 1t is be-
lieved the years output will reach
$4,000 900, as against $76,000,00O be-
fore the Boer war. 1t is now thought
that by June, 1904, the Rand will be
producing gold at the rate of $780,
100000 year.
John Hays Hammond and other en-
gineers who have studied the Rand
think such production can be main
tanned forty years, thus quadrupling
the stock of GOLD in the world. Such
an increase in the general measure Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-24
A CALIFORNIA POOR FARM
AMID ORANGE BLOSSOMS

shadows. even finding their way into
the orange orchard.
Leading from the railroad station to
the group of brick buildings that en-
sconce the last earthly resting place of
the county poor is a beautiful twelve
foot walk about quarter OF a mile In
length. It is lined on one side by a high
cypress hedge, while on the other side Is
low border Of lilies. Swallowed by row
OF picturesque palms. Overlapping all are
waving eucalyptus branches and just be-
yond the palms is the orange orchard,
loaded with golden fruit, and aromatic
#ltn the fragrance of its blossoms.
Hundreds Of tired souls have walked
slowly and painfully over this pathway.
the great grief in their hearts binding
their eyes to its beauties. Had their
purses been lined with gold and their
prospective haven some hospitable hotel
or mansion, their proud old heads would
have been lifted and the faded eyes IL
lumined with the joy of expectancy. The
pains from the aching backs would have
passed like feeting clouds and the feeble
limbs. have regained the agility of youth.
The number of inmates at the farm av.
erage 164 men and twenty-four women,
most of whom are decrepit with age,
though there are paralytic patients, epil-
eptics imbeciles and persons with many
other Affections. Almost all are helpless
and totally dependent on charity. but
few are able to do light labor, receiving
81 80 a month
A large reading room has been arrang-
ed for the men and several hundred
books are at their disposal, books of va
rious intent and character, ranging from
the Bible. Shakespeare and Dickens to
the frivolities of literature; and to those
who can read, the field of enjoyment Ia
vast. But best of all. they like to hobble
about the grounds, drinking In the pure
air, picking fruit and flowers, and gather
ing the warmth of nature into their tired
hearts.
Through winter and summer. without
cessation, like faithful friends the flow
ers bloom, the fruit ripens and the sun
shines.