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Again, Delay.

The state department at Washington
finds the government of the United States
Of Colombia as slippery as an eel In the
canal franchise negotiations. Delay Is
Colombia's policy on the ground that she
can get more out Of us by such policy. 1t
is reported from Washington that Secre-
tary Hay, having declined firmly some OF
Colombia's exorbitant propositions, an
other reference to the Colombian congress
is necessary and that body, it is reported,
will not meet until January, when the
state of Panama will persistently demand
that, as the canal will be constructed
through her territory, she must have a
considerable percentage Of the money paid
by the United States for the franchise.
AS it Is most probable that, when the
Colombian congress assemblies, there will
begin a debate on the canal treaty, whose
end no man can foresee, there is no GER
tainty that our government will have an
opportunity to order the continuance OF
canal construction at an early date as was
expected a few months ago. Indeed, COL
ombia may fool over the matter for
months.
To turn to the Nicaragua route as a
last resort, would, in the light, Of the
strong evidence Of volcanic and seismic
menace to that territory, be precarious
move, for costly canal work, locks and
cuttings may be destroyed in few hours
by a voluminous flow of lava, or seismic
upheaval or ingulfment
The old question, discussed back in the
seventies, as to the capacity of the
Chagres river to supply water to the
canal on the high levels Of the Cordil-
leras, when needed, is up again. If such
capacity is found wanting, a sea-level
tidewater canal may be constructed, but
at a larger cost Uncle SAM having UNI
dertaken to construct an interoceanic
canal will get through natural obstacles,
if it requires a much more liberal eunreef-
ing of his purse strings * 49,
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Not a Practical Question.

The archbishop Of Toronto, evidently
replying to Archbishop Ireland, says that
none of the Canadians have any desire for
any closer political relations with the
United States than exist at present. In
Winnipeg yesterday Congressman Eddy Of
Minnesota while "iollying' the Canadians
over the great resources and great pros :
poets pooh poohed annexation talk.
= AS practical question for these times
no one in either Canada or the United
States thinks or talks annexation. We
have no illusions, whatever, on the sub
ject in this country. We know that an
nexation is without friends in Canada eX-
cept among the new settlers from the
United States, whose numbers are still
50 small that they have no political in
fluence. On the other hand, a large part
Of the Americans know nothing and care
nothing about Canada. 1t is a matter of
supreme Indifference to them whether
Canada continues to be British de-
tendency or becomes a fullfledged nation
or is united with the republic. The peo-
pie Of both countries are too busy taking
care Of the pressing national affairs in
hand, too busy turning their energy and
natural resources into wealth to be much
Interested I'm a question Of change in polit-
acal relations between the two countries.
Annexation or union will some day be-
home live question again, but there IS
no use stirring up friction concerning it
now. The thing for the two countries to
do Is to better their people by improving
trade relations. Some Of the short
sighted on both sides Of the line can not
see it, but it Is certain that both Canada
and the United States would profit from
absolute free trade across the. frontier.
Free trade is not a practical question
now, but freer trade is. It Is for us to
take tho initiative. We can blame our
selves for the present commercial
estrangement Of Canada. 1t is for us to
make the first advances towards a better
state of international relations.
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American news. Mr.. Arnold frequently
expresses his detestation of our news
papers, but he read them all the same.
Arnold's enormous conceit crops out
everywhere in his letters. In a letter to
DR.. Norton OF Harvard. he said: Il am
doubtful about your petty academies. just
as am more doubtful about your pullulat-
ing colleges and universities and he
sneeringly spoke of the many educational
institutions in this country as those
(which their promoters deIude, themselves
by taking seriously. but which no serious
person can so take" This, when Oxford
and Cambridge have only i'll. recent years
seen fit to abandon their old-time, limited
facilities and adopt progressive and en-
larged curricula, following the stride of
the United States, which has universities
better endowed and more resourceful in
educational facilities than Oxford and
Cambridge.
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for any one wishing to attain absolute
self-control, the first step being. bodily
passivity to enable the will to concentrate
upon a single object, as the vascular sys-
tenn. the heart, bowels, lungs and other or
gans of the body. Practice in such con-
centration the author believes will give
the mind therapeutic control over every
organ. Those who are interested in
psychological phenomena and the theory
that doctors and physic should be thrown
to the dogs as useless encumbrances, will
find this book to their liking.
THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN. BY James
Whitcomb Riley. illustrated by J. ". vawter.
New York Charles scribner's Sons, 153-157
Fifth avenue. Minneapolis: n. Mccarthy.
This latest book of poems by Indiana's
distinguished poet, is of most charm
ing quality. MIR. Riley has made the
children rhyme In their own peculiar
child-language, and he sings of children in
his sweet pathetic way, which always en-
dears him more and more to the little ones
and their mothers. There are compare
lively few writer's who really get at the
very heart of childhood Is he does; under
stands its joys and sorrows and aspira-
lions and crosses. Is not this reprimand
Of parent by a child natural?
sometimes think at Parunts does
Things. list about as bad as us
Wife fore our vurry eyes at that!
Fer one time Pa he scold my Ma
Cause he can't find his hat
An she ist cried. she did! An
Says. Eff you scOld my Ma -
Ever again an make her cry, -.-5 e.
Wy. you shan't be my Pa
An men he laugh an find his hat
Ist wife where Ma she said it's at
1.-The Songs After Master Singers "A
Session with Uncle Sidney The Noble
n HI,,,' No ~ he
very attractive features and there is q
gem entitled, The Little Lady:
o The Little Lady's dainty -
AS the picture in a book, ....
And her hands are creamy winter
Than the water lilies look:
Her laughs the undrown'd music
OF the maddest meadow brook
Yet all in vain I praise The Little Lady.
Her eyes are blue and dewy
AS the glimmering summer down.
Her face is like the Byzantine
Before the dew is gone:
And were that honied mouth Of hers
A bees to feast upon,
He'd be a bee beWildered, Little Lady!
Her brow makes light look sallow;
And the sunshine. declare, p
Is but yellow jealousy
Awakened by her hair
For O! the dazzling CLINT OF It
Nor sight nor soul can bear,
So love goes cropping for the Little Lady,
And vet she's neither nymph nor fay,
Nor yet of angel kind
She's but racing school girl, WITH
Her hair blown out behind
And tremblingly unbraided by
The fingers of the wind,
Az II wildly swoops upon the Little Laoy'
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The Lilly White" republicans Of Ala
bama and North Carolina resent the ap-
pointment of colored men to office by the
president and announce that they propose
to defeat Mr.. Roosevelt for denomination
for 1904. If Mr.. Roosevelt had nothing
more to disturb him than opposition of the
Lilly Whites" he need lose no sleep ovei
the outcome of the republican convention
of that year. Apparently an important
function of the southern delegates to the
republican national convention is to make
trouble and create scandal: Postmaster
Payne's proposition that national con-
ventions should be made up on the basis
of the republican vote, and not on the
basis of congressional representation, is
one of those dead right propositions which
is sure to prevail in time. - .-@.'.
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The Madison men seem not to have dis

The Madison men seem not to have dis
badly beaten on the gridiron last Satur-
day until after they had returned home.
While they were here Immediately after
the game, and while the incidents Of the
game were fresh in their minds, they
thought they were beaten, because they
were outplayed, and said so. Since
they have returned home, they have dis
covered it was because Of rough play on
the part of the Minnesota team. They
now make all sorts of charges and they
are said to have about decided that they
will play no more games with Minnesota.
The badgers should not feel so sore; 1t
may be their turn to crow next time.
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Copyright, 1902, by T. c. Mcclure.

Margaret Kelton folded the Times me-
chanically and laid it on the table beside
her. For some time she sat in deep
thought. Then she reopened the payer
and studied the paragraph more closely,
with vague hope that she had made
some mistake. But hardly. She read:
"Mr. Richard Kent Kelton, formerly
popular in this city in business and social
circles, now resident Of Philadelphia,
Is spending the cold months in Florida for
the benefit Of his wife's health
The problem Of her life confronted her,
or, rather, the scruple. She had never
been greatly in love with the man, nor yet
especially antipathetic toward him.
Hence 1t was no easy thing to do what
she was forced to contemplate. But there
was the other woman. Palpably the
finger of duty pointed out one way.
Two days were required to put her af-
fairs into shape and to prepare for the
journey south.
There was no difficulty about the exact
location. She had often been there in the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20
DAILY DIVERSION

What "Rcssarch" Is-Nicholas Murray
Rutler aud Professor Brander Matthews
of Columbia university were having
conversation. and Professor Matthews
was giving his ideas as to plagiarism,
frora an article of his own on that sub
jecr.
I'm The case of the first man to use an
anecdote.' he said. there is originality;
in the case of the second, there is pla-
gia-isnl. with the third, it is lack of
originality. anu with the fourth it is
drawing from e. common stock. "
Yes h:oke in President Butler, .and
Ia the case of the fifth. it is research.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

The worst feature Of football, considered
purely as game and not as to it's Incl
dence, is the bad feeling that character
ICES so many games. The intense deter
look upon their opponents as bitter enc
mics. 1t results that even when the play
is fair, men hurt in the game are apt to
attribute their injury to an Intention to
put them cut of the game Wisconsin
is now complaining that Minnesota played
dirty ball. last Saturday, and Is threat
ening not to play with Minnesota any
more. There is probably no ground for
the charge beyond the natural chagrin of
the: defeated. - 49, -. d. - >.-.'.. -
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- President Roosevelt has seldom met
with a mere, enthusiastic reception or
more cordial welcome from any commun-
ity than he received from the people OF
Memphis yesterday. If the people of the
south are indulging any feeling Of hos
tility because of the Booker r. Washing
ton incident they have it carefully con-
ceaied. AS a matter Of fact Roosevelt
seems to have conquered all opposition
on that score, as he has conquered it sc
many times before when his conduct
though perhaps unconventional, was
right, by making no apologies, but quietly
assuming that his critics would in time
see that he was right and generously give
him credit for it.
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Dr.. Lorenz, the Austrian surgeon, has
gone to New York, to do some more OF the
good work that he did in Chicago. The
collecting of children for him to operate
on has revealed the fact that there are
probably thirty or forty thousands OF
crippled children in New York, who could
be benefited by treatment. Most OF them
however, are the children of the very poor
and are doomed never to get the required
treatment. The public does not appreciate
the Importance Of the work the state Of
Minnesota is doing along this line. It
has for several years been spending $1,000
"a year to maintain a hospital ward in st.
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IN A NUTSF1FLL.....
of

few ago it generally believed that the time
would when vessels using wind instead
of steam would disappear the But the evol
ton OF the American schooner is making 1t probable
that wind will be used much extensively than
at present Attention has been particularly called to this
subject by the steel schooner Thomas
W. lawson built at the Fore River yards at Quincy Mass
This great freight carrier, intended for the American
coastise has length of 40 feet beam OF 50 feet
and 58- foot topmasts and sail
$4,000 feet The Lawson's tonnage
521s she carry of about 5000 tons Of
rigging steam it requires only
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lie 1OliSeu !Or Teliel
from seeing the
American n e " S =
papers" and char
acterized them as the
worst feature in the
life Of the United
States" but: admitted
that he got all the
European news from
them. This he GER
tsinly did and while
our newspapers give
all the English and
European news worth
printing, English
journals print the
1@-1r% 90
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sixteen to sail the whereas would take forty
handle squarergged boat
in the old way AS with steamers, it is found
that it would take from hirtyt to to
steamer of the wsons size and she requires coal for
propellng The speed freghter
twelve knots and the Lawson, fair wind,
easily exceed that speed Her will prob
ably that of the than would be
supposed economics of the big schooner
freighter the feighter well indicated by the
Of per cent the investment is
moderate IS and 40 looked
somewhat better +=Z
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

The Pioneer Press has another long ar
ticfe to demonstrate the value of control
of the Burlington by Mr.. Hill. Nobody
hereabouts has any objection to the con-
troll of the Burlington by Mr.. Till, so far
as we have heard. But what has
that to do with destroying competition in
rates and facilities between the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific? That's
where the trouble is. and there is no use
trying to cover it up. . =" -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

The enthusiastic reception given. to
President Roosevelt at Memphis shows
that the president is just as popular in
regions where his own political party is in
a minority as elsewhere. The colored
folks may have remembered the Booker
Washington incident; but the whites seem
to have forgotten all about it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20
MINNESOTA POLITICS

The Babcock forces have sprung a
canard to weaken the johnson candidacy
for speaker. They say that johnson Is
in the interests Of Thomas Lowry as a
candidate for the United States senate
to succeed Moses E. Clapp. This is ridfc-
ulous on its face. Mr.. Johnson was a
stanch Evans man two years ago, and is
man of great independence of char
acter. Those on the inside know well
that whatever influence was exerted this
fall on the Hennepin delegation by Mr..
Lowry and his friends was against bring
ing out local candidate for speaker.
Giving this honor to Hennepin could not
help local candidate for the senate, and
might hurt him.
In the last analysis, what leads any one
to think that Mr. Lowry intends to be a
candidate for the senate in 1905?
And further, what can the present
house have to do with the election of a
senator?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

A Calling gun experts has been killed by
a trolley car. 1t takes experience with
something more murderous than a Cat
ling to equip a man t. meet a trolley car
on equal te rms. .3i.~~ .,s.-,;, -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

In the end the University Of Michigan
will ignore Detroit just as Wisconsin
always ignores Milwaukee, and the game
for the western football championship win
be played in Ann Arbor.
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minstrel stars Of renown, an olio of high
class acts, and singing features of the best.

"A Texas Steer as presented by the
Ferris Stock company at the Lyceum this
week is proving record breaker. Starting
next Sunday evening the Offering by the
Ferris company will be a play that is new
to local theatergoers, entitled Coon Hol-
low" 1t is a comedy drama of more than
usual merit, requiring the full strength of
the organization we'll as troupe Of
plantation singers and dancers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

General Pope, the big Boston bicycle
maker, attributes the decline in the bicy-
Gle business to the bicycle combines pol
icy of eliminating advertising in the inter-
est of economy. Certain it is that wher
bicycle advertising stopped the business
began to Wane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

Apparently marriage is more of sue
cess in good times than in hard times.
Prosperity is assigned as the reason for
the falling off in the attendance at the
normal schools. In good times, more young
men are disposed to risk a voyage on the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

1t has always been supposed that money
won at gambling went easily. The men
behind the guns demonstrated that to
be fact at Columbia Heights last night.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

The coal strike arbitration commission
Is through with Mitchell at last. He was
as good a witness as he was known to be
an excellent leader.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

E. H. sothern is to appear at the Metro
politan for three nights and Saturday
matinee commencing this evening. in
Justin Huntly McCarthy's four-act play,
IF l Were King" The plot revolyes
around a romantic incident in the career
of Francois Villon, a vagabond French
poet Of the fifteenth century. The play
has been mounted with unusual splendor
and the role of Francois Villon is said to
furnish Mr.. Sothern with an excellent op-
portunity for the ,dislay of his abilities in
a romantic role. The curtain rises to-
night at s %. m.
K1aw & Erlanger's Troubadours with
Harry Gilfoil will appear at the Metropoli.
tan for half a week, opening next Sunday
evening In Harry B. Smiths successful
musical comedy, 'The Liberty Bellies
This is the original organization that has
appeared in all the large cities of the coun-
try and had such a phenomenal run In
New York, last season.
j. H. Stoddart will appear at the Met
ropolitan the latter half of next week be-
ginning with matinee Thursday in 1.-THE
Bonnie Briar Bush" the play in which he
pleased local theatergoers last season.
"On the Suwanee River is entertaining
large audiences at the Bijou. Stella May.
hew Is still playing Aunt Indy, the ole
colored NANNY. For those who have seer
this actress portrayal of the old southern
negress the announcement is sure tc
arouse desire to see the play again.
The leading minstrel show to make its
appearance here this season will be the
William H. West Minstrel Jubilee, which
comes to the Bijou commencing with a
matinee Sunday afternoon. 1t will also
give a special holiday matinee on Thanks
giving Daysat 3 p. m. This is said to be s
gilt edge organization, including severa
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Books and Authors
AN ENGLISH CRITIC.

The late Matthew Arnold had con-
stltutional dislike for us Americans, which
Is constantly seen in his published let
ters. He abused our climate and declared
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

matrimonial sea and more girls are in
vited to take charge Of homes of their
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Paul where such children are treated at
public expense. Already scores of little
sufferers have been restored to health and
prepared for useful and active instead of
burdensome and dependent lives. -
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The young gentleman who Marty lost a
lung by toting a black-eyed girl up nine
teen flights 81 stairs in Chicago will have
a chance to show what he, is really made
Of when he marries the girl and has to
carry a tub full of wet clothes up stairs
from the laundry.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

The Railway Age complains Of fear that
J.. J. Hill is going to make too low railroad
rates. No kicks from the shippers on
this score have been received yet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

A morning paper quotes a Californian
as claiming 1.-The most fertile climate in
the world and yet the papers printed
in foreign languages say that the English
language is coming into such general use
that they must soon adopt it themselves.
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Where VIII the PopuIists Cor
Salt for His Wounds,

Salt Tor HIS Wounds.
Joel P. Heatwole "rubs it in" on hi
friend Congressman Babcock mot DR.
Babcock) In the last issue Of the North
field News. He says:
Had Congressman Babcock Of Wiscon
sin shot as he talked on tariff revision
he would now be the logical candidate O
the west for the speakership.:'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20

If Peter Power pays $4,000 costs on his
suit he will have to sell that 100 shares of
N. P. stock.
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Emmy Lou, Her Book and Heart"
Emmy LOU about the dearest little
girl ever called on us yesterday and left
her new book entitled Emmy Lou, Her
Book and Heart" AS the New England
Primer says: