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The st. Paul Carnival.

For the elaborate Summer Carnival
in process of preparation in st. Paul,
$15,OOO.OO is being expended by the
committee on substantial booths and
buildings alone. A brilliantly IL
Illuminated arch and Court of Honor
mark the approach to the Carnival,
thence will follow several hundred
elaborate mercantile and manufacture
ing displays. The location is central
and beautiful, just fronting the new
state, capitol. About midway, the
street opens into ST. Paul's new base
ball park, where the delectable ia
Lour shows and special attractions
imported from various parts of the
world will hold entranced the inter-
ested spectator. Fireworks on a mag
nificent scale will illumine the entire
street every evening. Excursion rates
will be granted by all the railroads on
July % and 80, Aug. 3 and 5.
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extensive business department Of the
government. 1t is the irony Of fate that
the man under whose auspices this is
being done should meet with wide
spread criticism because he doesn't hap
pen to be doing it in exactly the way
some of the critics might like. To read
some of it one would imagine that the
postmaster general were the principal
culprit instead of the prosecuting Off
Ger. Henry G. Payne is one of the best
liked men personally who is prominent
in republican politics. He is regarded
by all his associates as one of the very
shrewdest and brightest political man
ayers in the United States. Mark
Hanna says he is the very best-and
Mark Hanna is pretty good authority
on that question. He calls Payne
Harry" and Payne calls him Mark"
and the two, are as fond of each other as
if they were brothers.
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Stabbed.

James Mackie, proprietor of the
MaclSie barber shop, was probably IA
tally stabbed in the right breast by
one of the proprietors of skin game
which was operated at Luverne during
the celebration of the Fourth.
Maclxie had watched the game for
some time, and after seeing farmer
drop about $40 he asked the man run
ming it why he did not give the man a
chance for his money. Hot words fol-
lowed, and one of the men on the out
side, who was Gaping for the concern,
pushed through the crowd to Macllie
and, drawing a dagger, deliberately
plunged it into his breast.
He than attempted to escape in the
crowd, but was grabbed by bystand-
ers and arrested by officer Bert Ben
ton. The knife entered the right
breast, penetrating the lung and in
fiicting a serious wound.
Owing to the serious condition of the
injured man, his assailant will not be
given hearing until there is decided
change in his condition.
The prisoner gave his name as G.
Wright, and stated that he lived in
Minneapolis. Further than this he re-
fused to talk. When he was searched,
something over $4,000 in bills were
found upon him.
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the adjutant general. A few months
ago he was promoted to be brisadier
general, and now he is to be one of the
master minds of the general staff which
is due in SC large measure to his inl-
tiative.
AS colonel and assistant adjutant
Gen. Carter made himself indispensable
to Secretary Root. Whenever Root
wanted to do anything Carter was the
fellow who told him just how it could
be done. That sort>of assistant always
endears himself to his superior When
the idea of a general staff came up-no-
body knows exactly whether Root had
the idea first or Carter-the assistant
adjutant general worked out all the de-
tails with vast industry and splendid
Skill. He was sent to the capitol by the
secretary to explain the bill to senators
and representatives, and it is due large
ly to his clear, cold intelligence that
the measure finally became law.
Carter is not by any means an ''office
soldier" He had years of the hardest
kind of service against the Indians on
the frontier, and he is booked to go to
the Philippines very soon. OF course,
he is not altogether popular among his
military associates. Men of his char
acteristics who have been noticeably
successful seldom meet with the entire
approval of former equals whom they
have passed in the race And there
are insignificant majors of the line who
cryso I,,o I'D
class with Brig. Gen. Carter.
Troubles of the Postmaster General.
Just at the present moment Postmas-
ter General Payne is the object of more
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Signs of Hydrophobia.

AS to hydrophobia: Beware of the
dog when it becomes dull and hides
away; appears restless; always on the
move and prowling; whose counte.
nance is somber and sullen walks with
head down like bear. Beware of the
one that scratches necessarily and
tears up things. Look out for the dog
that has become too fond of you and
is continually trying to lick your hand
and face. Beware, above all, of the dog
which has difficulty in swallowing,
which appears to have bone in its
throat, and one that has wandered
from home and returns covered with
dirt, exhausted and misera ble.-Chica-
go Post.
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PITH AND POINT.

There are several ways to pay debts,
but most of them are paid with reluc-
Chicago Daily News.
When a man can tell the difference
in WHISTLES by taste, he is close to the
danger line-Atchison Globe.
81 don't like that fellow Jones. He's
always running somebody down"
Tongue or automobile ?"-Town Top
les.
"Of course" said Mr.. Staylate,
'there are some things that always go
without saying" "Yes, and worse
STILL" interrupted Miss Patience
Come, yawning at the clock, there
are some other that do just the oppo-
site" -Philadelphia Press.
Unpopular Observation-Disclosures
"Why is it that women always dislike
a prominent man who is an old bache-
lor?" Binkers-"Because they can't
say that he would never have amount
ed to anything if it had not been for
his wife" IN. Y. Weekly.
Especially Poor Circumstances
"Only a silver watch" said the pawn
broker. "The last time I advanced
you money on your watch it had a
solid gold case" "Yes," replied Hard
uppe, "but-er-circumstan alter
eases, you know" = Philadelphia
Ledger.
Meager Recompense.-Poetaster-
eff you couldn't print my poem, why
didn't you return it? 1 inclosed o
stamp for that purpose" Editor
"Oh, that is what the stamp was for!
supposed it was sent as part payment
for the Dor of reading your POEM
POStop Tropcorint
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1T WORKED ALL RIGHT.
A Simple Experiment That illustrated
How Easily Some People
Are Led.

Over in the corner of the club room
they were discussing that sheepish
tendency of most of us to follow the
leader" relates the Philadelphia Press.
"Now, it is astonishing" said the
young man with a bald spot.
During one of those miserable foggy
nights three young men in evening
dress were slowly making their course
down Chestnut street. 1t was easy to
see that they were accompanied by
solemn, dignified "jags." Their clean
shaven, Gibson-like faces were entire
~ devoid of any expression of emo
ton, grave or gay. Straight ahead
they gazed with stony stare. When
they reached one of the theaters they
paused in their solemn stroll and stood
on the curb, facing the entrance to the
theater. And all this done without a
word from any of them. Despite the
penetrating dampness, their overcoats
hung open, revealing snowy shirts bos-
oms. Their trousers were turned up
at least four inches at the bottoms.
Each chap carried neatly folded UNI
brella.
It lacked but a few minutes of the
close of the performance. The fog
was growing denser every moment
and the lights in the streets grew dim.
mer and DINNER. The party of four
stood motionless and silent until the
ushers-came out of the theater and
opened the swinging doors. At this in.
slant each of the men opened and
hoisted his umbrella. The people com.
ing out of the theater perceived the
fog and then the party with raised
umbrellas.
ooh, Jack!" cried daintily dressed
little woman, isn't this hard luck2
Ny gown will be ruined How stupid
of us not to bring an umbrella" And
she peered out of the door for mo.
ment, shivering and retreated to the
lobby. Jack turned up his coat collar
and dashed out for a cab.
Then there was some dreadful
grumbling on the part of the unfor.
Inmates who had carriages, but could
not get to them because there was ne
awning from the theater to the curb.
Many men hoisted their umbrellas and
led women under their protection to
the carriage doors. One fellow es.
corted a number of ladies, one at
time, in order the better to protect
them from the rain. Lots of men In
dress suits, but lacking umbrellas,
muffled up completely, turned up their
trousers and galloped for the street
cars at breakneck speed
Through all this the chaps on the
curb maintained their solemn, digni.
fed demeanor.
1t hadn't rained a drop.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
All Records Broken.


Sec. e. w. Randall, of the Mime
sofa State Fair, has announced the
official entry list for the State Fair of
1908, and is again able to say that all
records have been broken, as the list
surpasses that of last year by more
than 80 horses.
Over 260 horses have been entered
for the fair of 1903 as against $50 in
1902. When last years entry list was
announced, it was regarded as about
the biggest thing that could ever be
expected at the state fair meet, but it
is now shown that the popularity of
the Minnesota State Fair is such that
an even greater list is forthcoming
upon the announcement of the race
program for 1908. Horsemen know
that the management of the Mime
sofa race meet is absolutely fair in
every particular, that purses are paid
promptly and that the horses will be
exhibited before enormous crowus of
people. They also know that the
track is a splendid one on which
many records have been broken.
In detail the race entry list which
appears below, is a remarkable one.
Not race in all the list of thousand
dollar purses has less than ten en-
tries, while the numbers range up to
twenty-eight. The great 2:21 class
trotting race for purse of $4,000
has twenty-eight entries, while the
2:13 class pacing $4,000 race has the
astounding number of forty-one en-
tries. 1t is believed that no race in
the West has ever had this many en-
tries, and this will be the greatest
event ever seen on a Western race
track. Horses are entered for this
contest from Manitoba to Texas, and
from California to Georgia.
The completion of this entry list
assures great racing meet at the
next Minnesota State Fair, and as the
races are the center and chief at
traction or the grand stand enter
tainment, 1T may now be said that
there is no doubt of a most success
full amusement program at the fair
of 1908. The fair opens Aug. 81 and
closes Sept. Is.
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News Notes.

At South Saltwater lightning
struck the William Kaiser box fac
tory, but the flames were subdued by
the village fire department and the
crew at the Tozer & Nolan mill be-
fore much damage was done.
Minnesota will receive 1916 Krag-
Jorgensen rifles from the United
States government, one for every en-
listed man in the twenty-seven COM
panies of infantry and the company
of engineers. The number has been
ascertained from the reports of the
regular army officers who inspected
the Minnesota guard this spring.
Counting the artillery, they founu 135
officers and 1876 men in the state
guard.
Red wing can boast of counting
among it's manufactured products an
automobile or motor car. 1t is a
beauty, and of mechanical workman
ship and finish that will stand COM
parison with any factory in exist
ence.
The bureau of forestry has sent
eight men to study white pine of
northern Minnesota, and they will
devote three months to the work in
the neighborhood of the Cloquet riv.
er. The main idea to be arrived at
is whether second growth of the
trees can be successful.
The dairy and food commission
nrocoo,,tad tbroo orOcarS in Ninpa
apolis for selling adulterated food.
One was tinc& SO and costs for sell.
ing spurious pepper, another $40 for
selling jam mixed with glucose, and
the third $25 for disposing of vinegar
diluted with water.
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concentrated at
tention than al
most any other
man in the United
States. Mr.. Payne
is conducting one
of the most search
ing and effective
Investigations that
has ever been con-
Quoted by a public
officer, and the re-
suit of which will
be to purify and
establish on a
more businesslike
fOOtinp the most
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SWEET BUT UNPROFITABLE.
Telegraph Girl Talks in PhilosOphi-
cal Strain of the Uncertainties
of Love and Life.

there's a misguided little girl
waiting for that fellow there-the
one with the wise look and the shiny
Clothes" said the pretty telegraph
girl in one of the downtown hotels,
to a Kansas City journal reporter.
Hes been sending her a message
that he is delayed. He's been send
ing another message trying to col
lect some wages he earned as a
school teacher last winter, too. The
girl is a school teacher and so is he.
They are going to get married. Then
the girl will have to keep on teach
ing school = or else make the wages
that have not been enough for him
do for them both. But that kind of
girls are fewer than they used to
be-"
''But, maybe, she loves him."
"Of course" retorter the girl, "she
loves him. She lives in a country
town, and is sweet and womanly and
has never learned that it don't pay.
But with sigh, she'll learn all
right, all right. 1t is one proposition
to be in love. 1t is another to be
married = to poor man. Why?
Because girl who is earning a liv-
ing, like she is or am, is as indie
pendent as it is possible to be with
out fixed income. There is no COM
pensation in love or in a family to
repay a woman for the self-sacrifce
it involves. Girls learn nowadays not
to love. 1t don't pay. Now, if he
had money-it might be an excuse
for her to marry him. But man
who works for a living-who earns
no more than he needs-it's foolish
and old-fashioned and will be cause
for regret"
"But you were never in love?"
: "Oh, 1 was talking about the other
GIRL replied the girl at the key.
ut isn't fair to bring me into the
matter. You are too old to be look
ing so lonesome and to have buttons
hanging by q thread, as yours are.
Don't you believe in race suicide,
either?" And the girl bent over her
instrument to receive message tell
ing of the sickness of little Willie
message that would make the man
over there with the cigar and the
well-rounded face hurry to train
and stay awake all night while on
bis war home
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Kansas republican state committee He
is a young man, hardly 40-without a
particle of camaraderie, bent merciless-
ly on the prosecution of his work.
Probably Bristow is personally the
least popular man in the government
service. Members of congress for years
have been complaining that they could
not "get things" out of his division In
the post Office department. But Bristow
hasn't minded bit He has courted
the distinction, If anything, and he takes
delight in hewing straight to the line in
everything official.
Bristow is born sleuth. He re-
joices in the scent of crime, and he will
pursue trail leading up to it with the
relentlessness of Javert. 1t is rath-
er curious thing that just at this time
there should be at the head of the corps
of inspectors so typical hunter-down
of wrong. 1t is quite probable that if
the present inquiry had not been started
Bristow would not have retained his
position in the department long, for he
had lost his political backing at home.
and there were scores of members of
congress who were demanding his re-
moval or transfer. But it would be
rash politician who would venture to
suggest to the president now that he
dispense with the services of his fourth
assistant postmaster general.
LOFTS A C0OT JnCE
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D q e u III Iuo
corps. Gen. Haywood has seen the ma
rine corps grow from small body lit
tie regarded by the other branches of
the service into body of nearly 10000
men, standing on a level in the public
regard with the army and the navy.
The greater part Of this growth has
come since he was promoted to the
head Of the corps, ten years ago.
The corps is three times as large as
it was then. His own rank was that
of colonel. 1t has been raised success
sively by congress to brigadier general
and major general. Gen. Haywood, in
person, has had more to do with the
advancement of the corps from its small
estate than any other man. He has
commanded the respect of congress and
successive administrations, and he has
been regarded as soldier not involved
in any schemes and plots for personal
advancement.
The marine corps takes pride in it's
fighting record. 1t has seen service In
every war entered into by the United
States, and in proportion to it's numbers
it has acquitted itself with extraordi-
nary credit It's enlisted men have the
reputation of being better drilled and
of preserving better discipline than the
enlisted men of any other service. In
Col. Waller the corps has one of the few
really distinguished fighting heroes of
the United States, and it is due to Gen.
Haywood and the esprit de corps which
he has cherished that much of the re-
cent laurels have been won.
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He Invited II.

he was an awful Johnnie" and Il
there was one thing more than an
other that he prided himself on it was
the fit of his clothes.
81 can never get dress coat really
to fit," he said to his partner, as he
glanced down at perfectly-made gar.
ment, with hope, of course, that shs
would at once disclaim the insinuation.
"Look at this thing"
swell, it is atrocious," she said, cool.
ly. But why not save your money
and buy one? 1t is SO much cheaper
in the long r9n than hiring. STRAY
Stories.
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Gunpowder and Gardening.

Nasmyth, landscape painter of
repute, helped to compose some of
the finest park and forest scenery
in Great Britain. The estate of the
duke of Athol was disfgured by an
unsightly crag, the rocks of which
were inaccessible to climbers.
Nasmyth determined to make bold
bid for success with cannon, which
was at hand. By his advice tin CAMS
tiers were prepared and loaded with
tree seeds. Fired from the lannon's
mouth, these novel shells burst
against the face of the crag and scat
tered their fruitful contents among
the rocky crevices. Nature carried
on the work, and in the course of
years those barren heights were
clothed with trees of luxurious
growth. Nasmyth's son James, the
Scottish astronomer, is. said to have
repeated the experiment with equal
success.
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Soihes vi. n. watson ot' the munlclpal gov
eminent are rubbing their eyes to find
whether they are awake.
A young man named Watson, just
barely of age, has been in charge of a
fund in the auditors Office which re-
suited from payments made by citizens
obliged to pay one-half the cost OF lay
ing sidewalks in front of their houses.
This sum is pretty large, but it seems
to have been shoveled into drawer
and into the bank and out again with
hardly any record except what young
Watson chose to keep.
A few days ago it was discovered
that he was supposed to have made
away with $4,000 dollars of the fund,
and now he is in Jail.
The disquieting feature Of the case,
however, is the fact that this young
man, when appointed to Office, is said
to have already had a criminal record.
1t is said that as boy of IL he was
convicted of forgery and sentenced to
two years in the reform school. This
seems to have been known to the Dis
trict officials, and yet he was intrusted
with the care of the funds, and no check
whatever was put on him. He had a
salary Of S1,400 year, and on this
salary he. supported wife, played the
races. and cut dash with red devil.
He was known as one of the liveliest
and most extravagant sporting charac-
tiers in Washington; and yet though
his superiors knew he was doing all
this on $1,400 year, and that he had
shady record to boot, they never sus-
pected anything wrong until the $780,
900 had disappeared.
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IerenC type from
P a y n e. That is
the fourth assist
a n t postmaster
general, who hap
pens to be at the
head of the corps
Of inspectors to
whom it has fallen
to carry on the in
quiries. There Is
nothing of the
politician a b gu t
Bristow, although
he was for awhile
cnarofo-xy 80 ~
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flcerS OF the new
general staff of the
army. That is fit
ting, if there is as
sumed to be any
merit in the gen.
eral staff, for, with
the exception of
Secretary r DOT ,
Carter is response
BILE for its creation
more than any
other one man.
Carter is not an
officer whose name
hos Hot,r1J1
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ficer whose COM
mission dates far
Their back than the
commission of any
other officer of
the military or
naval servi C e.
Maj. Gen. Hey
wood entered the
service before the
civil war, and has
served continu-
ously ever since
with a record for
gallantry not sur
n Sed in the
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W III uOI CCOfSl
for a long time.
Thieving b a S
been discovered in
the Offices of the
District of Column
bia, and the cir
cumstances are so
extraordinary that
the worthy citi-
zens w b o b a v e
been congratulate
ing themselves for
years on the i'm
maculateness OF
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in the newspapers. He never seems TO
have had the faculty of getting that par
ticular kind of fame, and yet he is re-
garded in the war department as in
many ways the most accomplished pro-
fessional soldier in the service. During
and after the war with Spain he was
Gen. Corbin's assistant in the Office of
Correspondence No. I. July &.
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of American Indians have given the whites
than Seminoes They originally
Creek but withdrew from them in 1850 They haassed the
both them and the British their warfare
They sbssted tropical fruits and the wild game
especially the wild turkeys whose call they
adopts initiating After which Chief Osceola carried
against whites had ended 842 the Senoes
removed to reservation in Indian territory
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The Post Office SIeuth.

There is another man in the post Of
flee investigation who is of quite diff
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BUSY DAYS In
WASHINGTON
Army and Post Office Changes Keep
Things on the Move.
DefaIcation by District of Columbia
Ohlcia1-Maj. Gen. Haywood to
Retire from Marine Corps
Postal Scandal Gossip.

Notwithstanding District of Co
Sumbia has had a shock from which it
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Gen. Haywood to Retire.
The United States marine corps is
about to lose as it's commandant an Of
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Gen. Carter ON the STAFF.

Brig Gen. William H. Carter has
been named one of the three general Of
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Troubles of the Postmaster General.
Just at the present moment Postmas-
ter General Payne is the object of more