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THE BAL PouDRE IN CHICAGO.

That delectable center of form and
wearied by the laxity Of the manners
of the men who have been rufled with
al in the pig business, is to have a re-
vival of the gracious costumes and Gus
toms of the day Of the knee breeches
and the powdered wig. A number of
the danes of the very highest tone
have arranged for a ball, the feature
of which viii be a quadrille danced by
men arrayed in the court costume of
the eighteenth century, having for
partners women whose garb will be Of
the same period.
Since Chicago came to a knowledge
Of the modern evening dress for men
there has been dissatisfaction over the
sombreness of the costume. 1t is not
easy for man whose natural DISPOSE
ton runs to checks, in reds and blues
to accommodate himself to the idea
that AC 4OOhAO NGA1 III OldSh ana White.
Your Chicago man, when he tears
himself away from the pursuit of the
other fellows dollar and the seductive
highball, wants something of the pic
turesque in his habiliments. He would
be satisfied with purple waistcoat
and pink-striped shirt, joys that
have been denied him by the dictum of
the woman for whom he hustles the
live long day. 1t has now been pro-
posed to him that he may put on the
court costume in which he may pro
claim his individuality and exhibit the
graceful lines of legs that have become
supple through being wrapped about
lanch-counter stools Except in the
case of few very young men, who
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BUzzARD SENIORS COUP.

From out Of Kansas comes a warn
ing to the young man who, in the pride
Of his strength and few years, intro
duces his girl to his father and takes
a chance on losing both. John Buz
zard, Of Wamego. Kan, met and loved
Ada Simpson, of Drakesville, Iowa. His
love did not hinder his conversation.
for he SO filed Miss Simpson with hot
air from the plains OF his native state
that she committed herself to a matri-
monial partnership before she quite
got her bearings. John wrote home.
His enthusiasm overcame his natural
discretion or he took a wrong meas
ure of old man Buzzard, for the conse-
auenee of his letter was the Immediate
transference of the aged one to the
scene Of his sons wooing. He came to
inspect and remained to conquer. John
put his parent in charge of his fancee
while he went OF to perform some bus
mess that had to be adjusted before
his marriage.
Old man Buzzard had lived many
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and get out of them nothing but a
temporary Utilization Of incident or
plot. They read on the emotional side
altogether, and carry away nothing ex-
cept the reaction from temporary ex-
citement. No matter how excellent
the book that may be read in this
fashion. its product win be NIL The
reader who has acquired this habit
ought actually to follow the example
of the drunkard, and take a pledge
against reading altogether until he can
do SO with temperance and attention.
We hear that the enormous increase
in the volumes of fiction and romance
read by the people indicates a per-
verted taste. 1t is not the preponder-
ance of fiction so much as the volume
a standard novel, as many have done,
and read it with such devotion, such
care and such awakened intelligence
that it would become to him not only
the means of intellectual discipline, but
a source of actual practical power in
the affairs of future life. But the best
and wisest book ever written, if read
in the modern habit and at the modern
rushing pace, acts upon the mind as
opium and alcohol act upon the body.
It is neither food nor medicine, but
alternated stimulant and narcotic, un-
til it saps all true strength.
That man may best serve the rising
generation who breaches earnestly
against indiscriminate reading; and
who prescribes not so much a given
course for intellectual development as
leisureliness and concentration and
determined power to master the full
meaning of every word and line. He
who helps restore the habit of careful
and thorough reading to a generation
that has practically lost 1t will have
accomplished one of the greatest of all
POSSIBLE intellectual reforms.
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have been inabibing perverted ideas in
foreign schools, the suggestion has
found favor and there is going to be a
beautiful show on the occasion of the.
bal poudre, announced for next week,
to be held in the heart of the fashion
able South side and within smelling
distance of the fertilizer factories Of
South Chicago.
This bal poudre ought to furnish a
sight to rejoice the soul of the observ-
er. The Chicago dame in powder.
and patches would be worth the while
of the moving picture man herself, but
when she is accompanied by the part
ner of her joys in wig and breeches
the sight will be quite the limit. Con-
temporary gayety is to be prompted in
such fashion as to demand that the ma
tions stand still and laugh.
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What the Editors Say

lt begins to look as though Peter II.
Hanson would meet with opposition in
MS denomination as secretary of state.
Gus Wldell, of Mankato, is being urged
Dy ms friends to enter the race Dur
ing the two terms Mr.. Hanson has held
the office as secretary of state he has
proved to be a most excellent official,
and there is no good reason why he
should not be nominated for third
time. Mr.. WideIl or any other man
would have to hustle pretty hard to de-
feat Secretary Hanson.-Wykoff News.
Widell can hustle, as was evidenced
by the part he played in the Mankato
postoffice fight a couple of years ago.
Gus will give Pete race for his money.
Depend upon it.-Le Sueur County
Democrat.
In Capt. M. L. Fay the Democrats
have a possible candidate for governor.
Mr.. Fay is most favorably mentioned
by many newspapers throughout the
state and should he decide to accept
the nomination would undoubtedly
make strong run. Virginia would be
highly honored should the captain be
the choice of the Democratic conYen-
tion.-The Virginian.
We were threatened with a libel suit
one day last week. We politely inform
L
and got anything we'd go halves with
MIN. He was so confident he would
get something we are almost tempted
to sue ourselves. What was that YOU
said about getting blood out Of a ruta-
baga stephen Leader.
The Mortified News announces that
it will give Frank Eddy it's moral sup
port" That is very good and kind and
exactly what Mr.. Eddy stands most in
need of The political support Of the
Northfeld News, however, will be Civ
en- TO Mr.. Dunn.-Herman Enterprise.
Yesterday closed the open season in
Minnesota for big game and the haunt
ed quarry can pause now for a deep,
full breath and the innocent Woodsman
and his family can come forth from the
cellar and resume the dull routine OF
their ives.-Crookston Times.
Van SAINT ran for governor twice.
He wants to run again twice as badly
as he did the first time when he had
sought it three times longer than the
ordinary persistent politician. Isn't he
old enough to know better? How old is
Nan?-Blue Earth Post.
Our old standby. the barnyard hen,
is fast falling into evil ways. She is
AOI Ouly dCCuSeu Ol trying TO form an
egg trust, but the certificate of much
Of her product we can no longer trust.
Belle Plaine Herald.
Anoka INDUCED in a mad dog scare
last week. Times would certainly be
slow and solemn if that town could not
get up some excitement every week,
although they always have Pease. =
Crookston Times.
Sam Fullerton, the state game ward
en-, overreaches his official duty when
he seizes hides and heads in possession
of a taXidermist, who has them for
tanning or mounting.-Le Sueur Coun-
ty Leader.
The prosperity prices" that are pre-
vailing for pork nowadays do not give
the average hog raiser that millionaire
feeling the high tariff organs keep on
telling US we all have.-Jordan Inde-
pendent.
The isthmian canal treaty has been
signed at Panama. This is quick work,
but the canal itself will not go through
SO swiftly.-Duluth Evening Herald.
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FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

AS the Minnesota state capitol nears
completion, it's beauty impresses itself
more and more on those who have fol-
lowed the progress Of the work and
who have watched with their own eyes
the slow rise of the fair, white pile.
It's strength, it's dignity and it's SYM
metry are visual delights. 1t is but
natural, therefore, that those who ap-
preciate its harmonious proportions
should feel some anxiety lest any false
note be introduced that would occasion
discord. But the announcement Of the
names Of the artists who will have
charge Of the mural decorations is an
assurance in itself that the completed
work will satisfy expectations for not
only do the men who have been select
ed stand at the head Of their profession
in this country but they are sufficiently
American in spirit to appreciate the
value Of the states rich history and to
1SA0N~e 1AASC4Le7cItI4ys slLdl WHICH Is InOSC
significant in it for use in their decora-
tive schemes.
1t is fitting that some idea of Mime
sota's picturesque. past shall be con-
veyed to those who will in future years
visit the capitol. A conventional scheme
of decoration, however great it's art
value might be, could never mean so
much as will those pictures or, rather,
those suggestions of pictures, out of the
states history book with which it is
proposed to decorate certain portions Of
the new state building. The Indians,
the voyageurs, the types of those diff
ferent nationalities that have been fac
tors in the states deveiopment-th
introduced as themes into the mural
decorations will possess a significance
for the most untutored among the fu-
ture visitors to the state capitol.
With the inspiration of a stirring
history and a fine edifice, the result of
the artists work may be awaited with
confidence. That Mr.. Gilbert, the arch
itect, will be as closely identified with
the scheme of decoration and Of furnish
ing as he has been with the construc-
ton is proof in itself that the interior
of the building will be quite as satis-
flying as the exterior. A state building
will never, perhaps, represent an archi-
tect's ideal for limitations are imposed
that restrict and often hamper. but it
may approach nearly enough to that
ideal to be tolerably fair monument
to the designers genius. This, un-
doubtedly, is what the Minnesota state
capitol viii represent to those who
have the understanding to appreciate
what Mr. Gilbert has ereatad
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A TIMELY REVOLT.


The current number Of Harper's
Magazine contains a story by Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman that unconsciously
breaches an exceedingly practical
Christmas sermon. 1t is the story Of
an old woman's revolt against the
practice Of giving without thought, and
it burlesques in such inimitabIe fashion
this lack Of fitness in the bestowing of
Christmas gifts that its lesson is very
general. Sophia Lane, the strong
minded old heroine, who for the love
she bears her niece -bravely returns the
costly and useless gifts that have been
showered upon the latter, personifies
the mental attitude of many people
when they survey on Christmas day the
gifts their friends have bestowed upon
them.
For it is fact sincerely to be regret
ted that as the custom Of Christmas
giving spreads, the Christmas spirit be-
comes less felt. People. give because IL
is duty, not because it is a pleasure:
and naturally this mechanical giving
evidences a total lack Of that sense of
the eternal fitness of things which sees
to it that the gift is both timely and
appropriate. Sophia Lane had received
a pair Of bedroom slippers three
Christmases in succession from one
friend. When in desperation she took
the last pair back, she said, I'VE don't
pair every Christmas for three years,
and 1 told you we never wear bed
shoes; and even if we did wear 'em, we
couldn't have worn out the others to
save our lives. When we go to bed, we
go to sleep. We don't travel around to
wear out shoes. We've got two pairs
laid away, and I think you'd better give
'em to somebody that wants 'em" And
abrupt though it sounds, this advice of
Sophia Lanes to give bedroom slippers
to people who really want bedroom
slippers is excellent Christmas advice.
Already the shops are thronged with
Christmas shoppers. Already the ques-
ton, what shall 1 give?'' is on many
lips. When it is merely matter of
giving to those who have much, it is not
so necessary, perhaps, that a satisfac-
tory answer should be found for the
question. But frequently the gifts are
for those who are in need, as was So
phia Lanes niece; and If the articles
selected prove inappropriate, as so
frequently they do, they become ironi-
cal reminders of the dying out of the
Christmas spirit-that spirit which en-
ables one to enter into the lives of
others and to realize their needs. Like
Sophia Lanes slippers, the gifts arouse
anger ana rebellion instead Of graft
itude.
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wears in Kansas, hence he had missed
many of-the comforts of life. But his
sensibilities We're by no means dulled.
He looked on his future daughter and
she was fair in his sight. If she had
to come into the family she might bet
ter locate as his wife rather than as
his daughter -in-law. He put the prop
osition to Ada. If she married John
the old man would live forever, he de-
clared. Besides he loved her as no
mere boy could and John was only
twenty-eight. Ada saw it in the proper
light and married the old man. When
John came back she promised to be
mother to him.
John is sore. He is restrained by the
moral law from licking the old man
and the same code prevents him suing
his stepmother. His faith in woman
is shattered and the old home can new
er be the same to him. His reverence
for the ancestor is dissipated and he
has no choice but to become a mis-
anthrope.
The fate of John should not be lost
on the rising generation. That youth
who believes all he hears about this
being the day Of the young man will
get along just as well if he refrains
from introducing his father to his girl
until he has the young woman tied up
with a written contract.
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TODAY'S WEATHER

Minnesota-Fair, warmer Sunday; Mon
day fair; fresh southerly winds.
Upper Michigan-Partly cloudy Sunday;
Monday fair; fresh southwest to southerly
winds.
Montana-Fair Sunday; warmer in
western and southern portions; Monday
fair.
Wisconsin-Fair Sunday, warmer in
western portion; Monday fair; fresh
Southerly winds.
Iowa-Fair, warmer Sunday; Monday
fair, warmer in eastern portion.
North and Southern Dakota-Fair.
warmer Sunday; Monday fair
st. Yesterdays observations
taken by tFe United States weather bu-
Te2u. st. Paul, w. E. Oliver observer for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night--Ba~ ~ometer corrected for tenn
perature and e'evation. Highest tempera-
ture. Il; lowest temperature, IL; average
temperature, y; daily range, 1; barom-
eter 30.3 81; humidity, S4; precipitation,
.01; D. m. temperature, IL; p. NJ. wind,
southwest; weather, cloudy.
Yesterdays temperatures:
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Not a se.ooo.o 600 State House.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
Dear Sir: I notice in the article on
the decoration of the capitol, in your
issue Of this morning. that the reporter
refers to 1.-The embelliShment of the
$6 ,O0O, 600 state house" This is apparent
Iy a misprint. The total cost of the
building. grounds, furniture, equipment,
and all other expenses connected with the
work. including the cost of the land it
self, will not exceed the amount Of the
present appropriation of $500, 000 and
will probably be somewhat within that
sum, so that it is now hoped that the
board will be able to turn back into the
treasury some balance out of the appro-
priation. Respectfully,
st. Paul. Dec. 5, 1903.
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Sentenced for Naturalization Frauds.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Dec. 5-Thomas E.
Barrett, former marshal Of the st.
Louis circuit court of appeals, was to-
day sentenced by Judge Adams, in the
United States district court, to five
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary
and to pay fine of $1,000. Barrett
was convicted of having aided and
abetted others in having fraudulent
naturalization papers in their posses
sion. Pending his appeal Barrett was
released in bonds of $4,000.
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HOW TO READ.

HOW 10 READ.
The most suggestive and valuable
advice, it seems to US, in some sug-
gestions given recently on what and
how to read is contained in the rec
ommendation to read but a few books,
selecting them carefully and then mas
tering them thoroughly. The fault and
the folly of the reading public of our
time is it's omniverous appetite. We
Gull the statistics of publishers sand
public libraries showing vast increase
in circulation and in number of read
ers, as if this indicated an advance
of public intelligence. 1t means moth
ing of the kind necessarily. 1t may be
instead, and it generally is, an index
to a state of mind which bears the
same relation to the mental power
produced by reading and study that
the weakness and violence of the
drunkard does to the sanity and power
of sobriety.
There is, indeed, very close analogy
between intemperance in other respects
and intemperance in reading. 1t is an
age Of intellectual inebriates The habit
of reading has come to be pursued en-
tirely for the pleasure it may afford,
the amusement and dissipation Of an
hour, rather than for the benefit it
may confer or the strength that it may
develop. We are turning from the use
the vast product of inferior matter
with which the book market is flooded
comes in response to the demand for
quantity regardless of quality.
1t is an old and true adage Of the
legal profession that you should ''be-
ware the one book man." BY this is
meant that no one is so to be feared
as an adversary who knows whatever
he does know through and through, to
the ultimate particle and principle. 1t
means that if a young man has taken
but single law book and made it the
study of his days and nights, until he
is absolutely acquainted with every
word, with every principle and every
bearing of every principle that it con-
tains, he is more to be feared in an
ordinary legal battle than one who has
had a more complete general instruc-
tion that is furnished him more gem
teelly, but left him without the con-
victions and the power that spring
from intense effort concentrated within
narrow limits.
1t is "the one book man" who "a
TO be feared everywhere. In every
profession and every occupation he
who knows something. be it much or
little, more thoroughly than anvbodv
else, will go to the front. Just as we
said the other day of our system of
education, it is not the subject matter
so much that counts as the wav in
which it has been applied to the de-
Velopment of human intelligence and
mental power. So everywhere else. if
which man may master that are Of
such inestimable value, but the fact
that in mastering it, without distract
Ing and dispensing his mental facuI-
ties over a wide field. he has acquired
the ability to seize upon the subject.
TO tear it to pieces and to acquire over
1t an intellectual mastery hopeless
without such preparation.
The habit of indiscriminate and rapid
reading affects the minds of those who
engage in it as their stomachs womb
be affected by the daily drinking of
gallons Of weak tea They lose the
true habit Of reading altogether. They
run over scores or hundreds of pages
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CIeveIandys Destination.

On all accounts, therefore, he is to be
commended for his strong common
sense, and we may add not only that
his letter is well expressed, but that
the delay in the announcement was
evidently caused by the delicacy of
his position and a decent respect for
the wishes of his friends.-Chicag
Record Herald
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One Must Go.

Whatever the final result may be,
whether Maj. Runcie's statements are
disproved or substantiated, after the
testimony given by him about Gen.
Wood, it must be clear to every one,
and most Of all to those concerned
with the discipline of our military es-
tabllshment, that no army can hold
both Gen. Wood and Mai. Runcie. One
or the other must go.-Philadelphia
Press.
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Gov.-elect Herrick, Of Ohio, has been
mentioned for second place on the Re-
publican ticket. The mention is super
fuous. 1t has long been understood
that all Ohio men are entered in the
presidential stakes. from the moment of
their birth.
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Why They Are shv.

second place on the Roosevelt ticket
are a little "shy." The mutations Of
politics are swift and remorseless, and
nobody wants to shoulder himself up
with the chance of being a tail trying
to wag without head.-Cincinnat En-
Quirer
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-06
Contemporary Comment
Tho Pope and Politics.

A religion which obtains a strong
hold upon the faith and affections of
multitudes. will influence governments
by its own natural weight and power.
A religion which has lost vital touch
with humanity and has become large
ly perfunctionary, will fail to do so,
however much political intrigue be en-
ployed. If Pope Plus x. can increase
the spiritual vitality of his church he
viii not weaken, but augment, it's in
ffuence in other directions-London
Daily Times.
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Just Like Hunting.

Mr.. J. Whitlecomb Jobking-Had a de-
lIghtful auto spin in the country to-
day.
Jilson-How was the sport?
Jobkins-Oh. fair; we killed three chick
ems, one turkey gobbler, one goat, two
dogs, a sheep and a couple Of calves
Cleveland Leader.
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A Safe Promise.

Mrs. Goodhart-If 1 give you a nickel
will you promise me not to buy whisky
with it?
Hobo Hank-Sure I will ma am. I amt
sunk so low as ter drink scent whisky
Philadelphia Press.
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Among the Merrymakers
The Menu.

"Chef," asked Wow Wow, king of the
Cannibal Isles, what have you in the
larder?'
your majesty" replied the chef. Eve
have Hungarian, Mexican, a China
man and a German"
Good said the king "Then for din
ner we will have the gOulash, Chill con-
carni, chop suey and noodle soup Chi
cago Tribune.
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Full Of 1t.

You're lively today" said the William
Goat
AS he watched his helpmate hustle
She said: Il have eaten some won, us
wear,
And I'm just full OF hustle"
Houston Post.
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Likes the Bird in the Hand.

Speaker Cannon intimates plainly
enough that he is too well satisfied
with his present job to take the bait
of nomination for vice president on
a ticket with the Panama war lord
PHILADELPHIA Record
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Proof Of Diplomacy.

The new English ambassador told the
New York reporters that his appoint
ment to Washington filed the cup
Of his ambition to the brim. There is
no doubt that he is diplomatic
Philadelphia Record
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It Would Indeed Be BuIIv.

Roosevelt would undoubtedly be de-
lighted with public statement from
Mark Hanna, similar to that from
Mr.. Cleveland, and in language as en-
phatic and comprehensive Nashville
American.
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InsurnentIeman-

Mr.. Plane-You don't hear much now
adays about the Filipino insurgents
Mrs. Plane (nee Kulcher. Of Boston,
Gracious! William, will you never learn
to avoid that barbarous word 'sgents?''
You mean gentlemen" of course.-PhiI-
adelphia Press
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Here's a Chance to = II.

Senator Platt says Senator Hanna is
as much in favor of the nomination of
President Roosevelt as I am" And
Post.
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Natural Fitness.

There's one thing about my boy, JOSH"
said Farmer Corntassel. "Once get him
started an there's no obstacle kin stop
him.
Yes answered his wife Il reckon
Joshll be runnin' an automobile or a troll
ey car yet. t."-Washington Star
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Now that Grosvenor. OF Ohio, is at
the head Of the marine committee he
ought to be able to get the marines to
stand for some of those statistical
yarns of his.
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One notable thing about Mr.. Cleve-
lands refusal to be a presidential can
date is the confidence of all kinds of
people that it meaps what is says
Philadelphia Press.