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lima of murder, where they have the
slightest defense or provocation."
The correspondent implies that in
the South Carolina mind there is
provocation in this case because
Gonzales was politically opposed to
Tillman. The duel is practically unknown
in this country, even in the south, to-day;
but it is a question If it did not represent
a higher standard Of civilization than one
which permits without indignant disap-
prevail such crime as Tillman has COM
mitted. Is it not more civilized, if you
have made up your mind to kill q man, to
give him a fair chance to return the
compliment, than to shoot him down in
the street? 49, -. 80
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Copyright, 1908, by T. c. Mcclure.

The people of Brandy county not only
liked Joe Bailey as a man among them,
but everybody said he was sheriff to be
proud Of. He showed no favoritism and
was all for duty, and when a warrant was
placed in his hands it was sure to be
served if the within named" had not left
the state or turned UP his toes. Brandy
county was comparatively new, and there
We're all sorts of critters to be met with
were all sorts of critters to be met with
thus happened that Joe Bailey one day
found himself riding over the prairie to-
wards Plum creek to bring in one James
Ferguson, charged with the crime of steal
ing COW. The only thing he knew about
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u The passing Of M. de Blowitz takes away
a journalist whose like will probably not
be seen again. Greater journalists than
de Blowitz there may be, but the circun-
stances will probably never again make
possible the spectacle of newspaper cor
respondent whose intimacy was sought by
the rulers Of Europe quite as much as he
sought their confidence. M. de Blowitz
was not only a, recorder and reporter Of
events, but through that function became
in large measure a maker of events. He
actually played a positive part in Euro
pean politics. He. was not only the spec
tator, but part, of the passing show.
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me discussion Of whether university
or any any other institution of public service
IS justified in accepting money not made
~ an approved manner still RACES. The
trouble In taking such money is not with
the money itself, butwith the relations tn
the giver that the acceptance of tie gift
are likely oatnp6ses ofs Thescc beneficiary
There is no. doubt, for. instance. that the
acceptance by3ttlls U1rixersitNjof Chicago
OF Rockefeller's millions has put that in
stitution in a, very embarrassing position III,
the study of modern economic problems.,
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The Brown1ow Good Roads Bill.

In Walter P. Brownlow, a representa-
tive from Tennessee, the good roads
movement has an energetic and push
that in order to have good rural roads in
the United States it is necessary for the
federal government to cooperate with the
states or local political subdivisions in
sharing the cost Of road building, and to
assume the entire authority and respon-
sibility for the building Of such Jointly
authorized roads. Mr.. Brownlow has
introduced into congress a bill creating.
a. bureau of public roads in the depart
ment of agriculture and providing a plan
Of cooperation between this bureau and
the proper state or local authorities The
central idea Of it is that whenever the
bureau shall approve of. any road i'm
provement, the consequent work of con-
struction shall be paid for equally by the
United States on the one hand, and the
state local government or benefited prop
erty owners on the other. =
Mr.. Brownlow is carrying on a vigor-
Gus and intelligent campaign Of education
in furtherance of his bill: He has an
instructive article on the subject in the
January Cosmopolitan, is bombarding the
editors Of the country with copies of the
bill and letters of explanation, and is pre-
pairing to establish a weekly syndicate
article on the good roads movement. He
announces that at the next session Of
congress he purposes to push the bill to
final passage. ss5. 7. Y. .'5ss =sa>..a.
The basis Of Mr.. Brown1ow's argument
for such liberal federal aid is that under
the present method of road building we
shall never have many good roads; be-
cause the burden is entirely upon I the
farmers, and they cannot or will not tax
themselves to build costly roads, though
they will be the chief beneflciaries Of
them. The state governments, too, have
become SO Indifferent to road building that
they need stimulation as well as the farm
ers. 1t seems to Mr.. Brownlow that with
the federal government ready to pay half
the cost of every road that ought to be
built, both state and local authorities
would become enthusiastic road builders.
They undoubtedly would.
It is sagaciousy suggested that it is
only by such a measure that small towns
and the country districts can get some
such access to the federal treasury feed
ing trough as the large cities, usually on
lakes, rivers or the sea coast, now enjoy
from the river and harbor pork
The trouble would be, If the Brownlow
bill becomes law, that there would be such
a rush of road building that before long
the appropriations for the federal share
| OF their cost would be enormous. Il
might easily rise to $40, 0Go. 600 or $50, 600,
600 year. We favor the creation OF a
good roads bureau and its cooperation
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The Tillman- Gonzales tragedy in South
Carolina is giving that morally backward
state some advertising that may spur it's
better citizens on to regeneration Of the
state. though its depravity in some re-
spects is such that it will take years to
work much Improvement. A New York
Herald correspondent says that Tilln1an
win not be punished. This is not because
public opinion does not condemn the kill
ing Of an unarned man, but that ..un-
pleasant as it may appear white men of
standing are not convicted in South Caro-
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Literary Notes.

j. A. Coram recently gave 100000 to
complete the $4,000 fund for the new
Bates college library building, which has
been named after him. President Chase,
in his speech at the dedication OF the
structure last week, said:
do we not permanently weaken our
minds by reading so little that calls for
the use of power, so few books that de-
mand severe and concentrated thoughtf
The age loves above all things to be
pleased. It takes its reading as a pas
time. The book that does not easily
yield up its secret is easily rejected, But
the only way to grow Intellectually Is to
keep ones mind in living touch with an
other mind that compels attention and
requires hard thinking"
Gilbert's operas were written with a
miniature copy of the Savoy stage be-
fore him, showing every entrance and
exit, and small blocks Of wood, painted
different colors. represented different
voices. The sight Of a, big japanese
sword suggested to him "The Mikado.''
In London, the publishers of the Eng
fish edition of 1.-THE Confessions Of
Wife," advertise it on big placards car
ried on the backs of hired men.
The Bowen-MerriI company of Indian
apolis announce new romance by F. 8.
Isham entitled Under the Rose illus
trated by Howard Christy.
Rand Mentally & Co., Chicago, have is
sued 1.-THE Twentieth Century Manual Of
Railway and Commercial Telegraphy," by
Fred l.. Meyer Illustrated.
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The .LIIliputians "In PosterIand'' at the

- f BiJou. - .,|a' .s
'The Royal Lilliputians'' have a fitting
domicile I'm Posterland.'' The skit, which
is combination of vaudeville and bur
lesque, fits the diminutive players to a
nicely; and the entertainment they pro-
vide this season is the best they have ever
offered in Minneapolis. In James E.
Rosen the company has found a fitting
successor to Franz Ebert. His llumor IS
infectious, his fun ebullient, his antics "a
source of inndcent merriment." The Lii
liputians opened at the Bijou yesterday
and thoroughly delighted the houseful that
greeted them at each performance.
''In Posterland" is not altogether new.
In it have been retained number of
features which proved successful last sea-
son and which still serve to amuse. The
element Of novelty, however, is not lack
ing, entire new scenes having been written
into the piece. What is more" much OF
the music Is of this seasons output.
The personnel of the company has
changed slightly since last year. The old
favorites remain, but others have come
to share honors with them The. new
corners are Howard Knowles, Miss Martha
Weis and Miss Inez Lewis. Knowles is
about as big Is a minute and a half and
funnier than laughing gas. Miss Weis is
a vest pocket edition de luxe, and Miss
Lewis is as pretty as a Kussner miniature.
Z" Or the old timers James r.. ROSen,y Ma jOr
James D. Doyle, Louis Melikle. Major A.
J.. Criqui and Miss Annie Nelson, are still!
on hand, and their fun has lost none OF
it's exuberance. Fortunately these little
people have not been content to emulate
the old-time burlesquer and stravel on
their shapes Rosen is natural come
dian. He would be funny if full sized
! and he is ably assisted by the others.
| OF the specialties Major DoyIe's singing
of TN Unlucky' richly merited the APP
plause bestowed upon it yesterday, after
noon; and "a conversational song and
dance, in imitation of the Rogers brothers
| by Rosen and Merkle and the Misses Bea-
trice Cooper and Carrie Larsen, was de-
servedly encored. Al Rice, one Of the
| Brobdnagian members of the company
contributed a laughing song that is. like
himself, immense; and the work of the
| hfe-size chorus was good throughout.
| The Royal Lilliputians are better than
any brand Of sarsaparlla on the market
for combating that tired feeling"
| 4aa4 j. S. Lawrence.
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That the problem Of how to utilize the
arid public lands is no easy one to settle
is indicated by the protest of western
Nebraska stockmen against the lease bill
introduced In the senate by Senator Diet
rich, The small grazers think this bill is
favorable to the big ones. They want a.
lease law they say but not this one.
Yet 1t must be entirely possible to work
out some sort Of scheme which, while not
interfering with the privilege of the
homesteader. will make it possible to
utilize the public lands for grazing in a.
more advantageous manner. than at pres
ent, both to the public and the. cattlemen.
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back from it's orig
5inal site to a place
on the lot of a dem
fist, DR.. Chaunet,
who has had a tab
let affixed to it indi-
eating that it is
Edgar Allan Poe's
Cottage" which he
occupied from 1874
to 1S49. Had not
.Chauvet moved the
cottage back on his
lot the city no doubt
would have made
;kindling wood of it,
in order to pin tho
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An Apology in Order.

We read, Governor Van SAINTS message
in vain for a word in favor Of the drain
age OF northern Minnesota lands, the most
important question Cor this state to pass
on, so that the merger can put a mil
lion people in the northern counties to buv
goods OF our jobbers. That is what q
business statesman would be recommend
ing to his people. AS a result of non
drainage, immigration is going to North
Dakota and Washington Commercial
West.
Probably no more effective reply to that
statement could be made than to quote
just what the governor did say:
In accordance with the law enacted dur
ing the last session Of the legislature, APP
propriating $4,000 for drainage, the
board thereby constituted, consisting of
the auditor, the secretary of state and
the governor, met, organized and selected
an engineer, and provided for the prose
cution OF the work as contemplated by the
law After careful surveys, contracts
were entered into for nine bitches; sew
eral have been completed and others are
well under way. The work has been re-
tarded by the unusually wet season, high
prices of labor, and, in many cases, the
swampy nature Of roads leading to these
bitches. In all $3.50 miles of bitches have
been contracted for, and when these are
surveys, the $4,000 will have been ex-
pended These bitches have reclaimed
many thousands Of acres Of land and it is
certainly desirable that this work should
be continued, as the necessity for more
bitches is very great in some portions OF
the state. A suitable appropriation should
be made to carry this work on vigorously
The Commercial West can hardly re-
fuse an apology in its next issue for al
least this much of its very unpretty at
tack upon the chief executive OF the state
In his speech at Indianapolis yesterday
John Mitchell showed again those quail
\ ties of discretion and conservatism which
have made him such power, not onl,
with the mine workers, but with the
American people He is no pessi1nist
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-19

The Chicago health department has now
discovered that .bottledsgrape juice is quite
as effective against the typhoid bacillus
as lemon juice. ) In fact lime juice apple
juice grape fruit juice all have moro
OF. less discouraging effect on the house
hold germ, and it only remains for, some
Kentucky chemist to discover that corn
juice beats them all. ~ -
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Ex-M Mayor Hewitt at deaths door was
attended by two doctors named Keys.
And that Is door that it does not take
a bunch of Keys to unlock either.
If there is European Intervention in Mo-
rocco, France expects to jump in and
seize another slice of the Sahara desert.
Owning as much Of the desert as she al
ready does: no one can say that France
lacks sand.
The presidents secretary in the cab
inet-wouldn't that Cortelyou? Sc
Senator Aldrich was soaked SIS a ton
for some coal last week. Considering Mr.
Aldrich's views, he ought to be thankful
that his friends are doing4so well this
year. On second thought, perhaps he is.
Lillian Whiting tells Of a daintily
gowned young woman sitting in a club
parlor in Boston who was, asked If she
believed In thought transference "Oh,
I am far beyond that" sFJ replied airily;
II! am In the sphere of intense vibra-
TONS" Without knowing exactly what
or where that is. it would seem to be
somewhere in the vicinity of the small
boy who, after throwing the cat down the
WELL runs against his mothers slipper.
The sum of IS was freely offered with
no takers yesterday that the fencers LIE
Roux and Mallett could not be- brought
together.
The name of a Minnesota farmer ap-
pears on a recent land transfer as B..
wojciechowslzi. That is not name to
crawl through a barbed wire fence with.
General superintendent Van Wrinkle, Of
the Big Four, says there is no coal fam
inc. This indicates that Vans little coal
bin is bursting with plenty.
The Ida Grove. Iowa. high school has
adopted self government. The. boy who
puts the pepper on the stove may now
take himself out in the ante-roo1n, slap
his own hands and look cross at himself.
This column has felt called on a number
of times to regret the acerbity and bitter
times thought that perhaps this spirit of
slapping ones brother with an ak is
moderating as time goes on. At other
times doubt is felt !
This column has also opposed a firm
front to church rows. Attempts to throw
the pastor out into the street or to shoot
at him through the window, as in Ken
lucky a few weeks ago, have received
neither applause nor sanction.
The church choir row. sometimes treat
ed f1ippantly in the secular press. we have
never regarded in a humorous aspect but
rather with sorrow as showing forth an
unchastened spirit.
So the unpleasant controversy that
arose at Edgemort, S. D., last week is
received with deep regret. We are glad
the correspondent did not particularize in
his painful dispatch which we reproduce
here. It runs as follows:
Edgemont, S. D.. Jan. 1.-THE town has been
the scene of much excitement the past few days.
in an alteration between a Protestant and
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Abram Hewitt was what is known as a,
democrat from principle. Some time ago
he ceased to be democrat-also from
principle. <
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Books and Authors
PoE'S FoRDHAM HOME

According to Ida McCabe, who tells
in the Book Buyer of a pilgrimage she
made last autumn to Poe's cottage at
Fordham, the structure has been moved
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A local contemporary says we must
not NEEDLE with the trusts. The trusts
say the same thing. This must be case
of community Of sentiment. ..
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the original success Of Mrs. Leslie Carter,
for whom the play was written.

Starting next Sunday evening, the Fer
ris Stock company at the Lyceum will be
seen in Joseph Jefrerson's greatest sue
cess: RIP Van Winkle.' -
=, The Ferris Stock company began a week
of "The Three Muskateers''. at the Lyceum
last night. The performance will be re-
viewed in this column tomorrow. ..
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The largest electrical pumping plant In
the world is that at Utah lake. 1T raises
G5, 600, 900 gallons of water day for irri.
eating the Great Salt lake valley.
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Fover Chat.

Charles B. Hanford appears at the Met
ropolitan tonight as Benedick in Much
Ado About Nothing.
The sale of seats for the engagement of
Daniel Sul1y at the Metropolitan the last
half of the week began this morning.
Much interest is being taken in his ap-
pearance in his new play, 1.-The Old Mill
Stream. .
At the. Metropolitan next Monday night
H. c. Barnabee, w. H Macdonald,
Grace Van Studdiford and the other nj
hers Of the Bostonians will appear in
that most famous of all light operas,
Robin Hood. =
THE Heart of Maryland will be the
attraction at the Bijou next week, The
heroine, Mary Calvert, has an ideal rep
resentative in Miss Alma Kruger who was
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now passes in front of Chauvet's house
Chauvet probably thinking that he ought
TO get some compensation for his services.
has placed his own advertisement as a.
dentist beneath the name of Poe on the
same tablet! There is picture of a ra-
ven on the tablet. too, but Poe did not
write ''The Raven in that house al
though "Annabell Lee ''Ulalume" and
some other poems were there written,
There are few .pilgrimages made to the
Poe cottage now. Ghauvet rents it. but
will sell it to the city of New York for
$4,000 if they care to buy 1t. They stick
at $4,000. srs
Poe's cottage may crumble into dust or
be consumed in flames, but his literary
distinction is assured in the increasingly
large and elegant editions of his works;
and Enthusiastically growing public ap-
probation. 49,
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NEW BOOKS.
THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD. OR ADvEN
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This is a bachelors idyll Towering out
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Weaves romances out of people and scenes
in London streets and Kensington Gar
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these pages, and whose mother, known by
sight to the bachelor for years and anx-
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in the boy. is never made acquainted with
him nor does he court acquaintance until
the end of the story One is left almost
convinced that the bachelor was really
in love all the time with the little nursery
governess who married the artist and be-
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Mr.. Davis is evidently in his element in
this story of young American fighter
from way back; who, dismissed from West
Point for going to a hop out of bounds,
followed his 1nasterful military bent and
became a soldier of fortune, first plunging
recklessly into a Hondurian revolution
and gaining great distinction as a duel
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with only a pang or two, relinquished his
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Maclin's fierce fighting in Honduras and
his natchless pluck Is thrilling. It en-
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M. Du Chaillu has written many won
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The presidents secretary in the cab
inet-wouldn that Cortelyou?
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Senator Aldrich was soaked SIS a ton
for some coal last week. Considering Mr.
Aldrtch's views, he ought to be thankful
that his friends are doing so well this
year. On second thought, perhaps he is.
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CAPTAIN MACKLIN. HIS MEMOIRS. By
Richard Harding Davis. Illustrated. New
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The NonpareiI Man
CASUALLY Observed.

Ex-Mayor Hewitt at deaths door was
attended by two doctors named Keys
And that Is a door that it does not take
a bunch of Keys to unlock either.
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II There is European intervention in Mo
rocco, France expects to jump in an6
seize another slice of 2the Sahara desert
Owning as much Of the desert as she al
ready does, no one can say that France
lacks sand.
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KING .MoMBo. By Paul Du Challu. Author
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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-04-08

Last Friday evening Rev. Arthur
Marston delivered an address to the
members of the new Century Knights
commandry, and a number Of their
friends, at the Methodist church which
was Thoroughly enjoyed by all.
The purpose of this work is to encourage
the boys to make something of them
selves and to help prepare them for
useful citizenship. An outline of this
was given in the lecture as well as a
touching appeal to the parents and
friends to assist in the work. Certain
Y there il no work being
done by the churches of our town
which is Of more Importance than this
one and every person who has the fu-
ture welfare Of the community at heart
should do all in their power to help it
along.