The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-07-02
The National Capital.

Especial Correspondence to the HERALD,
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 2!
1t is said that Congressman Eddy
is not inclined to place much faitf
in Governor Van SAINTS retirement
from politics, and veiws with su
spicion the Governors fondness fol
making speeches about four times &
week at farmers picnics. A Mime
sotan in Washington laughingly de
clares that Eddy's opposition speech
making tour was called off by the
farmers who object to having their
children unnecessarily scared
Representative J. Adam Bede is
starting his career in way to make
him very popular in Washington.
He has come out strongly in favor
of making Washington the model
city for the world, and of course
that strikes a responsive chord here.
Bede was interviewed last week and
among other things declared '|The
people of Minnesota are more inter-
ested in Canadian reciprocity than
ever before. This new awakening
is in large measure due to the agri
cultural evolution of the Northwest,
A generation ago Minnesota was
exclusively wheat producer, out
side of the numbering interests, and
it was then presumed would always
remain so. The introduction of di-
versified farming has wrought
great change, and in twenty-five
years from now l predict that
Minnesota will not produce bushel
of wheat for export because other
crops are more profitable and in
one half that time the great export
ing FIGURING mills of Minneapolis
and Duluth will shut down unless
they can grind the Canadian crop.
''The people living in Washing
ton," said Mr.. Bede, edo not at all
understand the popularity of the
President beyond the Alleghanies.
When one gets as far as Minnesota
the enthusiasm equals any ever &C
corded plumed knight in his palm
lest days, and in arid regions he is
regarded as an oasis in the political
desert. There are few in the eastwho
think the President should assume a
sort of stained glass attitude and be
as wise and silent as the memorial
window, but we of the West are not
so formal in our manners, and quite
generally approve of speaking for
chile English. Mr.. Roosevelt's last
public uttterances before the death
of President Mckinley were on the
Minnesota state fair grounds, and
with his lofty sentiments still ring
ing in their ears our people turned
to him with sympathy and hopeful
ness in the hourIof the Nations grief
nor have they seen cause to falter
since.
Chimes are SO prosperous out our
way that it is difficult to find capa-
BILE men who are willing to come to
congress, and l was sent here mere
ly to avoid an entire vacancy in the
Duluth district. The work, how
ever, is very agreeable to me, and
l have concluded to remain several
terms"
In order to determine whether
the sand dunes on government laud
in central Minnesota are of sufficient
extent to render the land unfit for
agriculture and adaqted for forest
reserve, the Bureau of Forestry will
send out party this summer under
H. B. Kempton to study the matter.
Mr.. Kempton will also try to devise
methods by which the farmer in the
sand dune regions will be able to
protect his land. A similar study
will be made under MI. Kempton in
Michigan, along the shores of Lake
Michigan. This sort of work was
begun last year by the Bureau of
Forestry on the Atlantic coast and
in the Columbia River country of
the Northwest, and resulted in the
discovery of valuable methods in
restraining drifting sands.
The Bureau OF. Pension Appeals
receive some very humorous and or
iginal letters. 1 append one of
these. The applicant was evident
Iy troubled with symptoms of asth-
ma.
''He got diseased in his pipes-and
when his pipes wasent wet with spit
he whistled. He didn't whistle no
song, but just plain strnge whistle.
There waset no hooking bird bust
ness about it, for it showed sorrer,
and another thing-he didn't whistle
beeos he was happy, becos the sicker
he got the better he whistle"
N. N. B.