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tions across the Atlantic were popu-
lated. The destruction of slavery and
the slave trade over most of the civil
lied world has limited, but not destroy
ed the traffic. Slavery itself prevails
among these savage tribes, and they
are still able to find some restricted
market for human merchandise, as well
as for the ivory and gold which the
slaves are employed to bring in.
Now all this, as having any connec-
ton with the Congo Free State, is a
horrible travesty on civilization. That
territory is supposed to be in a special
manner the care of the rest of the civ
ilized world. 1t was established by
international agreement, and the ad-
ministration of it was committed to the
king of Belgium as the power least
open to the hostile jealousy of Europe.
Leopold is not a monarch to whom
humanitarian arguments appeal. He
10 d QeNOtee OF vice. ana the congo Free
State is a long distance off. It's gov
ernment has been administered as
others are under like circumstances,
and has become a disgrace and a
shame to civilization.
This result was practically inevitable.
In some degree the same thing has
happened almost everywhere that an
attempt has been made to raise an in
ferior race as whole by political
maneuvering. In defense of it's own
honor the world that joined in per-
mitting the creation of the Congro Free
State ought to interfere. In defense of
its own honor and good name it would
be we'll for every other country, and
particularly for this, to take warning
of what happens when the lust of pow
er and of wealth are set free under the
hishonored name of humanity to
Wreak their will upon the helpless peo-
pie of an inferior development.
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stirs Un suffraue question.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 14.-Rep-
resentative Dick, of Ohio, has introduced a
suffrage resolution which, after re-
citing the law affecting suffrage and al
luding to the curtailment Of the suffrage
privilege in certain states" says:
Resolved, That the matter be referred
TO the committee on elections of the pres
ident, vice president and representatives
in congress, whose duty 1t shall be and
who shall have full and ample power TO
inquire into the validity of the election
laws of the several states and the man
ner of their enforcement. and whether
the right to vote at any election for the
choice of electors for president and vice
president of the United States. represen-
tatiyes in congress or the members OF the
legislature Of any state is denied to the
male inhabitants of any of the states
being twenty lone years of age, and
citizen Of the United States except for
participation in the rebellion or other
crime
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Chance for a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut
and Delaware, as well as Maryland, are
normally Democratic -states-but they
are not free -silver-at- sixteen to- one
or-bust states. Nor are they rough
rider states. 1t is entirely reasonable
to expect them to cast their electoral
votes for a conservative Democrat. And
with these states in the Democratic
column only two more, together with
the solid South, are needed to elect a
Democratic Observation-Disclosures Chron-
icfe.
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ONE SOLUTION OF THE HIGH
SCHOOL PROBLEM.

There is one way out of the difficult
ties raised by the increasing pressure
upon our high schools for facilities
that does not seem to have suggested
itself to anybody. 1t appears to us,
nevertheless, the most practical, the
most helpful and perhaps the most val
liable. It is asserted that the limit Of
attendance has been reached in all Of
the high schools, and that the school
board cannot longer defer some action.
A tentative proposition has been made
for the construction Of fine new
building for high school purposes at a
cost of something like half million
dollars. In lieu of this nothing can be
done, it is said, except to enlarge
greatly the present building.
One way to make high school facili-
ties equal to attendance is to enlarge
buildings, and another way is to de-
crease attendance. Is it not quite pos
sible that the latter could be done, not
only without injury or injustice to
any of the citizens of st. Paul or their
children, but to the real and lasting
advantage of the pupils themselves? A
schools so as to make entrance upon
the high school course more difficult
than it is at present would possess the
advantages of at once making the high
school mean more, adding to the value
of the instruction given in the graded
schools, tending to make our whole
educational system a unit in itself,
rather than a mere preparatory school
and feeder for the universities, and re-
lieving for some time to come the over
crowding of the high schools.
We do not mean that anything new
should be added to the course of in
struction followed in the grade schools.
Heaven forbid that we should suggest
such a wrong and such calamity as
the extension of an already crowded
curriculum. We do know and every
business man knows that what is need
ed in our public educational system is
greater thoroughness. 1t is the crying
educational lack of the hour, and it is
making its evil influence felt upon
scholarship from the lower grades
clear through to the recipients of uni.
versity degrees. A smattering of many
things little polish, some superb
cial and showy knowledge of facts and
principles, great deal of veneer and
a minimum of hardwood underneath
it sum up the benefits and blessings of
most of the so-called higher education
today.
The parent Drilled under the old sys-
tenn is delighted when he finds that
his child has certain voluble ac-
quaintance with facts of literature,
history and natural science denied to
his own boyhood and obtained only by
courses of reading and study in his
maturer years. He concludes that the
change is loss instead of gain when he
finds that in the rudiments of educa-
tion, in the old-fashioned studies that
must form the basis of mental disci-
pline, the same child has never been
taught to be accurate and an independ-
ent thinker. He has obtained some in
formation with very little knowledge.
He has acquired fuency without
power.
1t is in no spirit whatever of CEN
sure upon the courses and methods at
present followed in any of our schools
that we make these suggestions. We
do believe that all over the country a
providing system has been put into
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Among the Merrymakers
WHERE SHE SHED.

She was shy of germs in the water,
She boiled and killed them by steam;
She was shy of germs in the butter,
And microbes that flourish in cream.
She was shy of germs in the sirloin,
OF germs in the marrowfat bone
She was shy of germs in her money,
And germs that you meet at the phone.
She was shy of germs at the playhouse,
Of germs on the tramcar slips;
But she wasn't a bit shy of the microbes
If there were any on ArchibaId's lips.
-Tit-Bits.
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What the Editors Say

Gov. Van SAINT is very popular with
the incorruptible state board of con-
troll, the state dairy and food commits
sloners and his vigilant band of sub
alterns, the state labor commissioners
and his hard-worked subordinates, the
public examiner and his critical scouts.
with the little army of fat-fed farmers
90 of the state grain and weighing
department, the gallant surveyor gen.
eral, the state oil inspector and his
subordinates. Every one of these
orave fellows who are working for the
GEAR public are out campaigning for
the denomination of our merger bust
ing governor-Faribault Pilot.
Our friends in Canada have appar-
emily recovered from the first shock
that they received as the result of the
Alaskan boundary decision. In the
place of the wild remarks that followed
Immediately after the public announce
ment of the decision, the Canadians
have evidently decided to make the
most of the matter, and take what lit
tie consolation that they can derive
from the old saying about the fultility
OF crying over split milk.-Grand Forks
Plaindealer.
The lumber barons have made their
pile, why not now give the people a
chance? If it will improve the present
situation any, then cut out the 81
tariff. The country is paying over
five million dollars annually for our
forestry interests and the restocking
or the denuded lands, and at the same
time gives the lumber barons a pre-
mum or 81 for cutting down our for
ests. 1t is something of a farce-AIex-
andria Post News
careful reading of the governors
recent interview leaves no doubt in
the mind of the intelligent and impair
tial reader that according to his ex-
cellency's best judgment the man who
is best qualified by natural endowment
and varied experiences to guide the
ship of state through the shoals and
qulcksands of the next two years of
political storms is one Samuel r. Van
Sant.-Crookston Times.
The announcement of Judge Collins
candidacy is made after many years."
Upon the eve of almost every cam
palgn for the past fifteen years Judge
Collins has been on the verge Of de-
claring himself or has declared him.
self and afterward fallen back on his
sure thing" judgeship until he has
become kind of standing joke in
state politics.-Delano Eagle.
The long winter evenings will soon
be here and it would be a good idea
II the employees who must do busi-
ness together next season would get
together and have few peace con-
ferences While building operations are
in the hands of owners of land and
architects. In time of peace prepare
for War.-Princeton Union.
= The Inter-Lake Tribune wants to
know if the governors military staff is
not sort of an unnecessary appendix"
We do not know about that. 1t doesn't
cost anything except an occasional dip
into the governors contingent fund.
A few tin soldiers do not harm any
body.-Northfield News.
We congratulate Brother Eastman.
He now has candidate for governor.
Heretofore he was in the dark-some-
times for Van SAINT, then for Eddy.
then for the somber- -colored horse.
Well, well, Alvah's head is as long as
that OF the equine.-St. Cloud Daily
Times
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Contemporary Comment
Make a Clean Job of 1t.

The separation of the isthmus from
the rule of Colombia is ''fait accompIi,"
and as the little state is too poor and
too weak to maintain itself alone, the
sooner we annex it and boldly assume
responsibility for the future manage
ment of affairs on the isthmus the bet
ter. 1t might be bad taste after this.
however, to quarrel with Russia over
little land grabbing in the far East with
such a neat bit of business of our own
at Panama-New Orleans Picayune.
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A Controversy Well Ended.

The important fact in connection
with the Alaskan adjustment is that
controversy which has had a disturb
ing effect on the relations between Can
ada and the United States for five or
six years has been forever shelved and
nothing is in sight which can again
menace the maintenance of amity be-
tween the two countries.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
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His Fate.

''You are me prisoner" announced the
officer in plain clothes, grasping the pick
pocket by the collar
What right have You got to arrest
me?" angrily exclaimed the other.
'I'm a p'leeceman.'
you'll have to show me-
The officer simply pointed to his shoes.
"Thirteensn' gasped the pickpocket,
submitting to be led away. What can
a man do against a hoodoo like thatr'-
Chicago Chronicle.
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Restraining the Trusts.

In trusts of the shipbuilding sort
there is, at any rate, nothing natural"
and inevitable" These can be curbed
and restrained without much injury to
honest industry, We fancy. But they
must be checked not merely by legisla-
ton, but by public prudence and vigi-
lance. Bankruptcy, humiliation, dis
grace are the wages of sin in industrial
wildcat financiering.-P Portland Orego-
MAN
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HYphenated.

The young man was very supercilious.
II guess you don't know who am he
remarked with confident little sniff.
ing Member.
I'm one of the Smith Jones family"
he proudly replied.
Member. Say, I'll bet you a dollar that
you're the hyphen." New York Sun.
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A PUBLIC MENACE.

All the world no longer loves lover,
at least not a rejected lover Time
was when, as an embodiment of melan-
choly, he aroused the interest of the
sentimental world. Today he arouses,
instead, it's apprehension. For he has
fallen into the habit of questioning
with a gun or a knife or any other
effective weapon his fancy may alight
upon the lady's right to reject. He
may go down on his knees in the good
fashioned way to propose, but if
his pleadings falls on deaf ears the
newspapers are called upon to record
his lady loves most untimely taking
off. Sometimes, as happened in ST.
Paul recently, his aim is poor, and he
is the only one who shuff1es off, in a
violent way, this mortal coil. But gen
orally it is excellent and two deaths
follow the rejection.
OF course, this custom of a suitor's
carrying concealed weapons when he
calls to make a proposal has not been
universally adopted, but it's vogue ap-
pears to be spreading. Perhaps in the
near future, instead Of spending an
extra half hour on his toilet, every
man who intends to propose will thrust
a pistol in his pocket and stride off,
convinced that he has the most potent
argument in favor of his suit that
could be adduced. "Your heart or your
life" will then be the succinct form in
which all proposals will be presented.
The thought is most disquieting. For
difficult as it is for Cupid to make an
inning in this Bachelor Age, such
custom adopted in the future would
surely put him out of the game alto
gether. He will be avoided as the
plague.
Yet how to deal with the rejected
lover who has murderous intentions is
a puzzle that has so far defied the po-
lice. 1t is impossible to make an ex-
ample of him, for after his murderous
intentions have been carried out, he is
the property of the coroner. If all
proposals were not sudden" it would
be possible, of course, for a girl who
avpaotad ono to bavo q polioapooo cop
cealed somewhere on the premises. AS
it is, however, this course is out of the
question. No girl worthy the name
would admit that she expects declara-
ton. She would prefer to run the risk
of the concealed weapon. And the man
who carries the concealed weapon
would, naturally, do everything in his
power to keep it a secret.
The very fact that there is no means
of preventing this special crime must
add to the unpopularity of the lover
A public menace can never be poets
or a novelist's inspiration. And espe-
cially will the novelist be handicapped
if such crimes become more numerous.
He will be cut off in the first chapter.
Indeed if he belongs in the ultra mod
ern class of writers whose plots are
based on post nuptial history, his oc-
cupation is gone. So that instead Of
loving the modern lover he will have
cause to curse him. 1t is to be hoped,
therefore, that some means will be
found and found quickly of suppressing
the rejected suitor with the gun.
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That distinguished Hoosier and let
ter writer, Gov. Durbin, will dine with
the president this evening. The invita-
ton to Booker T. Washington seems
to have been delayed in transmission.
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carthane,s Escape.

Cato was demanding that Carthage
should be destroyed.
"Then why not send it to the laundry?"
asked an irate senator
. Appalled, at the total annihilation i'm
Piled, they voted to order out the ships
instead-New York Sum-
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EyentfuI Day.

"How old are you?, the school teacher
asked the new student.
"Six years old Iisped the little one.
when were you six?" asked the
teacher.
1.-The day our hired girl came" said
the little one, nclusively.-Pfttsburg
Dispatch.
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Doesn't Require as Much Arnica.

Mr.. Tom Johnson is sometimes
tempted to think that the millionaire
who lets politics alone and devotes
himself to founding libraries has the
right idea after all.-Washingt Post.
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1t Is Also Liable to Run Out.

Ohio is pledged to Roosevelt, but if
the president ever had occasion to do
business with paWnbrOkers he must
know that pledges must be renewed
every year.-Washington Times.
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Safety In Numbers.

"WhyN do so many of you go around
playing together?' asked the citizen of
the leader of the German band.
''It vas safer was the thoughtful re-
ply of the Teuton.-Y onkers Statesman
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It is all right for the preachers to
join the labor unions, but let them try
to spring an eight-hour sermon and
there will be work for Parry in these
parts.
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HOW BUSINESS is HANDICAPPED.

By this time the most ardent Re-
check has been administered to busi-
ness In this country. The closing
down of large establishments or the
laying off of considerable share of
their working force is matter of rec
ord. Still more convincing is the in
stant disappearance Of the treasury
surplus, as if a great gulf had sum-
marily swallowed up all those mil
lions. Every merchant has run against
the change of practical conditions in
his own business. Everywhere there is
lessened trade, a falling off of demand
and an excess of caution in purchase
and investment.
Aside from all other reasons, there
is one which should convince the most
unthinlzing that business must adapt
itself to new circumstances. The iron
and steel industry has always been
considered, rightly, the foundation and
regulator of the manufacturing and
trading business of the country. A
great share of our late prosperity was
due to the enormous expansion in this
branch, and the tremendous capitaliza-
tion of working companies and their
ability to pay profits thereon were due
to the new and immense demand that
had to be satisfied. The chief factor in
this demand was the railroads.
lively the whole railroad plant of the
country, practically, has been renewed.
ances have been substituted for old
ones in the interest of economy. Where
engines weighing twenty-five to thirty
five tons were the old rule, the great
modern locomotive shows weight of
nearly 100000 pounds on the drivers.
The new steel freight car bears the
same relation to the comparatively
tiny vehicle of the earlier railroad. To
carry these immensely enlarged trains
heavy steel rails have been substituted
! for light ones. A modern railroad
| train would crush an old-fashioned
truck out of shape in no time.
| Now the provision of all these new
facilities has drawn upon the mines,
| the factories and the forges of the
country. These rails and this rolling
stock had to be manufactured. It de-
manded an immense amount of raw
| material and a still greater applica-
| tion of skilled labor. 1t was respon-
! sible for most of the activity in the
| steel and iron trade, and for a large
| share of the prosperity exhibited by
such activity is temporarily closed. The
railroad demand, which is perhaps half
the entire demand Of the country. has
| been cut down to almost nothing.
| Roads have been rebuilt and their
| equipment has been made adequate to
the enormous business of the past few
years. Thus thoroughly furnished,
they need nothing more and are order
! ing from the rail mills, the locomotive
works and the car shops only those
triffing additions necessary to keep up
to par an equipment new, modern and
needing little for either substitution or
repair.
Something of the same is true in the
| line of structural steel supplies. IN
stead of the wooden beams and pillars
of old-time construction, we have had
of late years vast frameworks of struc-
tural steel erected, upon which was
placed mere surfacing of brick or
stone. Building operations have been
vastly contracted. Labor troubles have
put an end to them in many of the
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The Transaction Was Too Rapid.

1t is not certain that Colombia could
pronounce quickly and glibly the name
Jack Robinson" but she was not al
lowed chance to try.-Omaha World
Herald
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Delight ed of Course.

The solid South has come back. After
Jan. l, 1904, there will not be Re-
publican governor from Gormanland to
the gulf.-New York World.
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successfuI of course.

yes said all the hospital doctors in
chorus to the inquiring friends as the
wagon backed up, ''it was a beautiful
operation, but-but-he wasn't strong
enough to withstand the shock. k.'-Cleve-
land Leader.
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Waiting for the Report.

Speaker Cannon will now have the
opportunity for show whether or not
he is a big gun.-Knoxville Sentinel.
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Couldn't Even Make a Bluff.

Stand pat" "ante up" who's shy?"
shouted Mr.. Hanna, and Tom Johnson
simply threw his hand in the discard,
muttering: That's good" Washing
ton Post.
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A Poor Liar.

Teacher-Tommy, next time you are late
bring an excuse from your father
Tommy-Who? Father? Why, he amt
no good at excuses. Ma always finds him
out.-Truth Seeker.
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Following a Notable Example.

Being recognized as an independent
republic, Panama is now free to go
ahead and have postoffice scandal
Kansas City Times.
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If He Cares to Hear Him.

Just as he becomes Speaker" Mr..
Cannon is put where he must listen to
the other fellow.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15

Col. Roosevelt seems to have over
looked the fact that fashion has de-
clared the Panama hat to be out of
date.
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Profitable.

GLOW did he ever get money enough
to ride around in an automobile?"
HE was a walking delegate for two
years. Chicago Record-Herald.
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Are Liable to Get 1t Themselves.

We fail to hear of any Spanish
American republics that are receiving
the cause Of the United States at Pan
anna with joyful indorsement.-Pitt
burg Post.
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We congratulate Brother Eastman.
He now has a candidate for governor
Heretofore he was in the dark-some-
times for Van SAINT, then for Eddy.
then for the somber- -colored horse.
Wen, well, Alvah's head is as long as
that of the equine.-St. Cloud Daily
Times.
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The Inter-Lake Tribune wants to
know If the governors military staff is
not sort of an unnecessary appendix"
We do not know about that. 1t doesn't
cost anything except an occasional dip
into the governors contingent fund.
A few tin soldiers do not harm any
body.-Northfield News.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-27
Under'"' the Rose
By FREDERIC S. ISHAM,
Author of"The .StroUers.''
Copyright. 1905. by Bowen Merrill Company.

tongue had been unsparing enough,
even to him, the day before? Certes,
here stood now only a rosy maid,
robbed of her spirit; or a folie, struck
witless, and Charles face softened,
but Immediately grew stern, as his
mind abruptly passed from wander
ing jestress and fleeing fool to mat
tiers of more moment.
Under vow to the Virgin, the en-
peror had announced he would not
draw sword himself that day, but,
seated beneath a canopy Of velvet,
overlook the valley, he so far COM
promised with conscience as personal
~ to direct the preparations for the
Conflict. On his sable throne. sur
rounded by funereal hangings, how
white and furrowed, how harrassed
with many cares, he appeared in the
glare of the morn to the young girl!
Was this he who held nearly all Eu-
rope in his palm? who between mar
tial commands talked of Holy Orders,
the Apostolic See and the Seven Sac
raments to his priestly confessor?
And from aloof she studied him,
with new doubts and misgiving, her
thoughts running fast; and anon bent
her eyes to the hill on the other side
Of the valley, In her condition OF
mind, confused as before a crisis, It
was a distinct relief when toward
noon word was brought that the free
baron was approaching. Soon, not
far distant, the cortege of Louis OF
Hochfe1s was seen; at the front, flash
ing helmets and breastp1ates; behind,
a scava1cade Of ladies on horseback
and litters, above which hoated many
flags and banners.