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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
In a NUTSHEIL....
Successful Career Of DR.. Andrew Dickson White.

The announcement that Dr. Andrew Dickson White,
United States ambassador to Germany has rendered his
resignation to take place Nov Z his seventeen birth
day. calls public attention to notable career
White of that lustrious line OF Ameri-
of the gentleman have SO hap
PLY represented country abroad and have by their
rreproachable lives social fitness and Intellectual achieve
added much to the user Of their countrys name
Dr. White Of versatile and has led busy
and varied life. N EE
Born at Homer, N. Y, in 1882 he educated at
Hobart college and Yale university After graduation he
spent two abroad in the prosecution of historical
studies and for six months attache of the Amer
legation at St. Petersburg In 1857 he elected
professor of history English literature in the Univer
sy of Michigan After FIVE years he resigned and
turned to Syracuse N " where he had formerly resided
twice. elected the state from that place.
1867 he Cornell Univer
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. A GREAT Loss.

Captain H. A. Castle, sixth auditor Of
the treasury, attributes the failure of the
senate foreign affairs committee to re-
port the Kasson reciprocity treaties at
the last session of congress to the death
of Senator Cushman K. Davis. Captain
Castle made this statement in a. political
address a few nights since, in order4to
explain why the senate had not acted.
He says that Senator Cullon, who sue
ceeded Senator Davis as chairman Of that
committee, told him that the people Of
Minnesota did not realize what a states-
man they lost in Davis. q: Continuing,
Senator Cullom said that Davis was the
only member Of the committee that had
the necessary equipment to. be able to
tell the probable effect of the different
treaties ON American industries involved.
The treaties could not be reported be-
cause no one could tell authorita lively
whether they should be recommended or
disapproved. They must, therefore, be
held up until some one had informed him
self as Senator Davis had. "a
We are accustomed nowadays, when so
large portion of the population iss SO
much better educated than formerly, and
SO much dormant energy has been stirred
up, to feel that one individual man is Of
| very little consequence, and that his zre-
moval will have no serious effect on pub
lie affairs. Yet here is Testimony thai
one man, because he knew his business
was SO important to the government O.
the United States that his. death hai
necessarily caused important treaties Il
wait two years. ... - --..-- -
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Books and. Authors
= A. BETTER WAY

. People are getting tired of the novels which
open with bit of verbal sparring or chap
ter, of feminine gossip, full; of illusions to
persons not present, or the condolences OF
j. young girls, and: then. devote two or three
chapters to the wearying task of telling who
the people are and their relations to one
another. There is something horribly stupid
in all this. especially If the book is an oc-
tavo and the leads. are sparingly used.
The growing prejudice against the writing
Of minute details of family genealogies at the
beginning of novels is driving such from
the field and the fiction reading world is all
the better for the expulsion. Sir Conan Doyle
in his .Hound of the Baskervilles," recog-
nizess that the public is impatient over such
"details, and he starts Sherlock Holmes and
DR.. Watson directly into business and lets
their detective activity pull UP family his
tory incidentally in the drag-net. Sienkie-
wicz is notably slow in settling down to his
story. There is too much tiresome expiana-
ton A practiced hand at short story writing
can give long story writer some capital
hints He or she of the long story should
take space for the development of the thrill
ing, successive surprises of the story, giving
false scents as to the denouement, but there
should be at the beginning a sudden, abrupt
plunge into a mystery so startling that the
reader has no other thought but to pursue
it very closely to the final crisis and clearing
up It should be borne in mind, however
that interest can only be, kept up after the
| first sensation by introducing series OF
minor shocks which stimulate expectation
Under such treatment the majority of read
ers will not complain if the last fifty pages OF
the book are little tame and hardly UP te
the promise OF the opening. Thus, in DR.
| Doyle's Hound, few people are mad be.
cause that legendary quadruped, mystica
terror for ages, turns out to be decidedly
| mongrel cur daubed over with paste in which
| leading constituent is phosphorus
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
NEW BOOKS

Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Twentieth Annual Coal Report for l90l, and
Report on Illinois Free Employment OhceS,
1901 Springfield, Ill. David Ross, secre-
tary.
There are some very interesting features
in this report, as the portion relating to the
free employment Offices and the text OF the
agreement of the Illinois Coal Operators as
sociation and United Mine Workers OF Him
ois as to mining prices and conditions for
the scale year ending March 81 1903 In the
competitive coal fields Cbituminous) of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the
operators and United Mine Workers OF
America last February continued the scale
Of prices as per agreement made In 1900 until
March 81 1903, and those are the contracts
which the bituminous miners refused TO re-
pudiate when the question of general sym
pathetic strike came up at the recent con-
vention OF the order in Indianapolis: ine
contract enters into specific minute detalls
of mutual obligation, voluntarily assumed,
and it may not be set aside by any rules OF
tho United Mine Workers now in force or
which may hereafter be adopted, nor be set
aside by any provision of the national, state
or local constitutions of the order The con-
tract, settles positively the status of mutual
| ohligation until March 81, 1908. 1t preciudes
strikes and lockouts and any interruption OF
work It presents a sure provision LOT peace
and amity and uninterrupted work
The free employment Office system mas
heen in operation since 1888 in Chicago and
peoria. In the four Offices last year 1,6oS
annlications we're filed, male and female, the
former securing 13,625 positions and the
females 1o,s71 or 23.96s positions in all, being
81 per cent Of those applying. The law re-
ouires private firms and individuals operat-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
The GROWING OF EDWARD

The second attempt to crown King Ed
ward VII. will be made on Saturday. 1t
is problematical as to whether the king,
who can hardly be called a convalescent
as yet, will be able to go through the
coronation ceremony, even If it is great
ly abbreviated, as proposed. The ritual
of the coronation requires many move
ments on the part of the king, who has to
kneel and stand up frequently and bear
heavy sword and indulge in other ec-
clesiastical athletics which will severely
try his strength. The bulletins of the
royal surgeons and physicians are neces-
sarily hopeful because it is their duty to
make it appear that the king is on his
way to complete and robust recovery.
There are many physicians who have no
scruples whatever about lying "for the
good OF the Profession The king, how
ever, is barely able to stand up and it is
by sheer force Of will that he has been
able to keep up with a view to passing the
coronation ordeal. 1t is announced that
there will be three court physicians in
attendance on the king during his pas
sagesto the Abbey, and during the func-
tion within the Abbey, where he will,
according to the new program, be seated
except when he changes his yes tments
and kneeis during the Holy Eucharist.
The king showed remarkable power of
| will when he went to Cowes.
The interest in the coronation has
greatly weakened and 1t is now chiefly
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sity and held that place until 1885, poor health
PEELED him to retire During that time among other hon
that to him were membership United States
San Domingo commission and minister Germany from
1879 to 1851 Dr. White from his the
university 100000 in equipment historical library
containing 40 900 titles and worth less than 100000
From 1892 to 1894 he United States
sia and in 1867 OF the Venezuelan
mission He was appointed ambassador to Germany in
ana OF the American delegation TO- the
International conference at The Hague Among
other honors are those OF regent of the In
stttute and officer OF the Legion of Honor of France
magazines. and his books include "A History of the War
fare of Science With Theology Lectures Medieval
Modern History THE New Germany; ); Studies in Gen
eral History; History OF the Doctrine Comets,' Eu-
Schools Of History Paper Money Imitation in
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pressed will of the republicans Of Wis
consin from becoming law. u. :.
The CUBAN QUESTION AGAIN /

For some reason, which we have never
been able to understand, the opponents OF
reciprocity with Cuba have urged it as
cogent reason for their course that J, a
large part of the sugar plantations of
Cuba are owned by Americans and that a
reduction in our tariff would benefit these
Americans. Then it may be remarked, In
passing, they tell us in the next breath,
that the planter will get no benefit from
reciprocity, anyway; that it will be the
sugar trust that will get all or practically
all. = - - ~ MI.
We would like to inquire since when 1t
has been considered good policy for the
United States to discourage Investments
abroad? .. '~1 -, -:
Investments abroad are the economic
strength of England to-day. She can
laugh at adverse trade balances when she
knows that the so-called adverse balance
is nothing but the interest and dividends
on English Investments coming to her in
the form Of produce inst cad of cash. ....
Again, supposing it Is bad policy to al
low American money to go abroad for in
vestment, should. the fact that some
Americans already own great plantations
in Cuba be just argument for keeping
them from operating? Who are the work.
ers on these plant ations? Cubans. Who
are thrown out of work when these PLAN
tations shut down? Cubans. What busi-
are idle? Cubans. .,.s:-~
In an admirable article in the current
Review Of Reviews Mr.. Albert G. Robin
son, who is one of the best authorities on
Cuban conditions, says that $80,000,0 900 of
American capital is now Invested in Cuba,
the amount haying increased 100000, ,oO(
since the war. OF the total investment
about half is In sugar plantations. We
have done our best to encourage this CAPT
tai to go in. If we do not mean to en-
courage further investments abroad let us
at least not ruin the investments already
made. Is not the sso,O0o,OoO American
money in Cuba worthy of some considera-
tion when everybody comedies that 1t Is
we'll TO- do something for domestic beef
sugar? .-t~.-...... .-.
r. Mr.. Robinson makes the good point thai
the trouble with Cuba has always beer
chiefly an economic. problem. that is te
say, a sugar problem. We intervened il
Cuba to put an end to hoary disturbance!
which were "a menace to American in
terests" and "intolerable" to the Ameri
can people. We have not accomplished
these purposes, and we never can accom-
| nj 1icb hop ,,,,f; 10 =,
difflculty-to the economic question.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
The eANARCHIsTIc ELEMENT

The dispatches from the Shenandoah
district in Pennsylvania Indicate that the
most active spirit of lawlessness there is
found in the desperate group of anar-
chists among the strikers. With the
prolongation OF the strike these men, who
are foreigners, are showing their devilish
purpose to defy in every way all au-
thority, for they: have turned upon the
strike leaders. who were making some
efforts to prevent the strikers from per-
petrating acts of violence, and have com
PEELED them to take fight to save their
lives. /. ~ - !:
Every labor disturbance in Pennsyl-
vania has suffered more or less from the
-immanence of tumultuary anarchism
against which: this country seems help
less, even for the defense of the president
from assassination. Our immigration
laws are insufficient to exclude anarchists,
and, in consequence, thousands of work
men from Austro- Hungary and Italy,
many of whom have been under police
surveillance or have committed actual
crime in their own countries, come to this
country surcharged with lawlessness, and
taking advantage of the larger liberty of
action in their new environage, proceed
to raise their peculiar description of hell.
One Of the most regrettable features OF
the situation is the lack of unity of SEN
timent among the forces Of organized
labor as to shutting out the element
of anarchy. At the present time those
two great organizations, the Knights OF
Labor and the American Federation OF
Labor are at daggers' points. Within the
Federation there are other antagonisms.
Gompers Is charged with q design to
destroy trade autonomy" and even his
CO. operation with Senator Hanna to
bring about composition Of the local
strike, has been resented by some of the
federated organizations. Mr.. Gompers
has often expressed conservative views Sas
Ito strike methods and the avoidance 20,
tdisorders.s He has insisted upon exhaust.
Ling every effort to settle labor disputes by
conference or arbitration before strike
| Is ordered, 1t; is evident that the power
for good which such an organization al
1.-The Federation can exercise is enormous
That is the case with the United Min.
Workers OF America. These organiza
Etions should fbe able to show that in tim,
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and magistrates OF many towns have been
invited to take their places in the Abbey,
the spite of the Irish nationalist func-
tionaries being shown in their prompt
refusal to honor the king by their pres
ence. Their action will not cause sus-
pension OF the ceremony, however.
The postponement of the coronation has
entailed additional. expense on the Brit
;ish treasury, which has increased the
original grant: of $500 coo to $s25, 900.
Rarely has there been so much Of gloom
overshadowing the coronation of q king
as In this case. 1t is matter Of con-
graduation for Englishmen, however, that
the death OF a king makes not a particle
of difference as to the safe navigation Of
the ship Of state, whose compass is ade-
quately corrected against induced mag
netism, and points. true whether kings
and queens live or die.ss :, ~ ::22' :
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ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

4 The remarkable success of the Percy Has
we'll company is becoming the talkSof the
town, and the Metropolitan is crowded at each
performance to witness this company's excel
lent presentation Of Because She Loved Him
So" lat the matinee to-day the house was
completely sold out, and the advance for the
remainder of the week indicates cord-break-
ing business Next week the Haswell COM
pany will be seen in two separate bills,
moths on Sunday and Saturday evenings
and at the Saturday matinee, and Romeo and
Juliet Monday night and the remainder OF
the week. Fz
Next Monday night being the first time that
Shakspere's immortal ragedy, Romeo and
juliet" has ever been Sgiven presentation in
this city by a stock company, the, occasion
willSbe made memorable by the gift to each
woman in the audience of a handsome and
useful souvenir. These souvenirs are dainty
sngered boxes. containing a quarter of a
pound OF delicious bonbons. with an excellent
likeness of Miss Haswell on the cover, and
when emptied will be found quite pretty
enough to be retained as an accessory OF
milady's boudoir. 5s
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06

Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin is
certainly man Of many troubles Now,
after his great victory in hesitate con-
vention, the spooner men refuse to be
bound by the salient declarations OF the
platform and are hard at work to elect
spooper to the senate again and to pre-
vent the enactment of the primary cleo
tion plank into law. Many of the dele
gates who voted for the platform are now
hustling for. spooner. 1t begins to look
as If it were bad politics for the governor
to interfere with the Spooner buzz-saw.
However that may be the action OF the
convention was erninently consistent. It
sought to prevent what has actually come
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06

The state institutions report difficulty
in getting good help. The superintend-
ents think the trouble is due to the fact
that the wants Of the institutions are
not advertised and that their choice is
thus restricted to the local community
which may not be able to supply per-
sons Of the required capacity. and quail
fieations. That is probably true to a
considerable, extent, but the = abundant
prosperity of the present time makes
private employment preferables to public.
The state does not pay as we'll for minor
? positions as private employers do for
work.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
LITERARY NOTES

3 Henry Haynie,s ..Pariss Past and Present"
is to he issued in the autumn. Haynie was
the regular Paris correspondent of several
American newspapers for twenty years ana
was president of the association OF ioreign
correspondents in that city, and was the first
American journalist whom the French gov
ernment decorated with the cross OF the LIE
gion of Honor.
Theodosia Garrison, in poem on "a Nor
Ming" in the Bookman, sings: IL
"The glad, mad wind went singing BY.
T The white clouds drove athwart the blue'
Bold beauty of the morning sky
+ And ali the world was sun and dew,
And sweet, cold air with sudden glints o.
gold, -.zz-. =
Like spilled stars glowing in the cedars'
hold
This is all very well except "spilled stars,
which is an affecting degree OF bafhos-
Spilled is not poetic at all, and Jars the
poetic instinct One thinks OF spilled milk.
An American autograph collector recently
bought an indenture on vellum signed by Guy
Fawkes, at sale in London, paying $50o for
it. At the same sale manuscript poem by
Charles Lamb, one page, quarto, was sofa
to the same party for $3.50.
Z Lord Salisbury has devoted his leisure ume
to scientific study. His three Immediate pred
ecessors in the premiership, Dtsraell, Glad
stone and Rosebery, wrotes while prem1ers,
novels. theological and critical essays and bis
tory, respectively. Premier Balfour has writ
ten philosophical treatise
Paul du Chaillu is in st. Petersburg prepar-
ing to write a book on Russia after he has
personally tramped over the cars big empire.
5Du Chaiflu is a Louisiana product
The Chicago Post says: I'm comparing the
best selling books. as advertised last week
by our friends, the Gongregationalists and
the Bapt.sts at their book stores last week,
we find that Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, while
very popular with the Congregationalists, was
Ignored by the Baptists. This is most credit
atle to the dnmersionists, for. while Mrs.
Atherton is personally most charming wo-
man, with a wealth OF sunny hair and agree
able conversation, her books are not devoid
Of that raciness which. Is subversive OF the
spiritual life. Why Mrs. Atherton should ,ap-
peal to the Congregationaiists we are unable
to say BY the same token we are at h4loss
to understand why Baptists should affect Miss
Rives. Truly. the ways of sectarianism are
beyond comprehension"
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
Archbishop Ireland's Catholic

Archbishop Irelands Catholic friends
are rallying to the support Of his patri-
otic position anent the general question
of relations Of church and state in the
Philippines. The archbishop's opponents
in the church have rallied to the attack.
But the archbishop will win: He will win
because he is right and because the vati-
can has come to understand that his
counsels are the wisest for the church to
follow in America. u ~
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The old saying has It that no news
Is good news. ~ But an inspection of
yesterdays J our n a lsshows that, plenty
Of news may be good news. There were
columns and columns in that paper sing
ing. the song of good crops, good cheer
and renewed prosperity. Minnesota and
the Dakotas are coming down to harvest
with bountiful crops, and the local cor
respondent has MO intention Of letting the
world overlook the fact. SIX +:
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The millennium must have arrived in
South Dakota. The Aberdeen News as
serts that the republican party .organiza-
tion in that state entertains no thought
aside from the good of republicanism in
the state and nation. .<,-.
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WOULD BE IN DEMAND
Naw york Mail and Eynress

- New YORK Mail ana EXPRESS. a.
81 1Sheehan, whose face Is to ibe smashed, ac-
scording to announcement from Vantage, Gays
heswin meet Croker at the dock The pity
of 1T is that the; days Of Shss Horton biH
four-ounce gloves and knockouts are past
In New York. Reserved seats for that meet
ing would sell high.
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AN INSULT TO GOOD SOLDIERS
indianapolis Journal.

Those veterans who object to having de-
serters made. comrades by an act 81 congress
should thank President Roosevelt for veto
ing all such bills which have Come to him
on the ground that it is an exercise of the
pardoning power Of the executive by con-
gress. Those members Of congress who have
proposed to test the matter by passing pardon
bills over the presidents veto should find q
more laudable occupation.
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manfully, he faltered and drew back until
in very shame the, widow was forced to fout
him. " . " ..-..s- - - @.s.- -.
So he stayed at home and began gropingly
to cast about as to whom he might marry.
A wife he must have. Now that the mother
was gone no decent, stirring single woman
would be justified in living in his house and
attending to his concerns He could not
bear to think of taking a married couple.
He did not want to- feel himself an alien
outsider in the place where he was born