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The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13
The Masquerade.

The masquerade ball given by Mrs.
C.E. Gregory February 5, for the bene-
fit Of St. Johns church, was a brilliant
affair. The costumes were exception
ally good and the number of maskers
exceptionally large. Lookers-on were
also very much in evidence and they
enjoyed studying out who represented
the characters as much as did the mask
ers concealing their identity.
The judges, Mesdames Gillespie and
Simpson and c. E. Gregory. had a hard
time to award the prizes among so many
deserving ones. But they did their work
we'll.
For ladies' handsomest costumes, Mrs.
Fred Roquette, a French bisque doll,
won first; Miss kim, Joan Of Arc, sec
ond; and Mrs. Alfred White, Queen
Elizabeth, third. The prizes for the
gentleman we're awarded: first to NJ. l..
Mcbride, Earl of Leicester; second to
F. W. Hevener. King Macbeth; and
third to Will Christianson, Napoleon.
For the most comical costumes, Miss
Cole, a belle of 1890, and Alden Eaton,
"Weafy Willie the tramp, captured the
prizes. Miss Deffebach and J. A. Currie,
a Dutch couple, we're decided the best
walters. Will Dickinson, Pete Lish and
Vaughn Dickinson as the Katzenjammer
family were without doubt the best re-
presentation in the hall and so the ]udg-
es decided and awarded them a prize.
Other especially fine costumes were
worn by Mesdames Leask, GruSchus.
Belden, Bishop, Gaunt; Misses Ray,
Scofeld, Bird; and Messrs Benzie,
Phelan, Snyder and Harding.
The Episcopal ladies served light
refreshments during the evening.
Mrs. Gregory was able after paying
all expenses to turn over almost one
hundred dollars which finished paving
the rectory debt.
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13
Man Is Left Out of Her Reckoning.

The Boston Girl no longer believes
that men are made to take care of her.
She takes care of herself. She enjoys
c%omradeship, but not the loss of personal
identity. She is ready for a good time
but not for intimacy. She prefers to live
on a parental allowance, even to be self
supporting, than to except marriage
with a lack of personal freedom. When
she marries it is often because she fan
cies she car do more good in the world
than if she remains single. 1t is herself
and humanity she considers: man, the
intervening link, is omitted in her philan-
thropic rcckonings.-From THE Boston
Girl" by Kate Cannot Wells, in Febru-
airy National Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13
Special Church Services.

Rev. A. A. Graves will preach in lhe
Congregational church Sunday morning
and in the afternoon at the same place
at 3 o'clock a "men's meeting" will be
held. In the evening at 7:3o; the rogu-
lar union special service will be in the
M. f.. church.
DO not forget the meeting for men in
the afternoon and do not forget the big
meeting at night.
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13

Mrs. Dan Manning, wife Of Dickin-
sons popular mayor. entertained a large
number Of her lady friends Thursday
afternoon. Six.hand euchre and pit
we're the games played and the CON-
pany was a merry one from start to
finish, the pit" having rather the best of
it in point of noise. Soon after five an
elaborate supper was served from small
tables and with the ice. each lady was
presented with a beautiful carnation-
the same fragrant flowers being disposed
throughout the various rooms.
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13

The Royal Insurance Co. is one of
three companies that will have a million
dollars to pay on account of the Balti
more confagration. The Royals losses
are being adjusted, the same as those of
all the solid old line companies, and will
be paid Immediately. Many of the local
companies are wrecked bv this great
fire and if people will read the papers
they will learn that the best Insurance is
the cheapest.
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13

gained IN st. Paul.
Go to Linsley's for stationery, every.
thing new, tablets Of all sizes and
quality, dainty box paper, invitation
cards, tally cards, playing cards, calling
cards. A new lot Of paper bound books
fifteen and twenty-five cents. Books
exchanged if in good condition. Always
a good frst-class stock of delicious fresh
candies. 2-I3-2t
Next Friday afternoon Mrs. Richards,
assisted by Misses Benedict. scoield
and .Messersmith, will have public
school exercises commemorative of
Washington's birthday. A fine program
is being prepared and some Of the exer-
cises are to be in German and Hungar.
ian.
The N. P. round house stalls and the
car repair shop were a sight this week
on the arrival of. a train from Mandan--
"a hours or the way-containing refrig-
orator cars Of beer, wine and cheese for
the Philippines. The cars had to be
housed on account of the severity Of the
weather. 1t crowded things up SO that
it was very difficult to do anything and
there was not room enough left to house
all the engines. ~
New scenery, new costumes, new mu,
sic, new specialties. new dances
and the prettisst girls in the world are
what the advance man for "Happ,
Hooliyan" says his show has this season
There is no denying the fact that the
farce comedy is a very clever conceit
and if it has alt that it is claimed tt
have, as seems probable, the result mus
be a most pleasing entertainment. Herr
February q.
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13
WEATHER REPORT,
VCNI1ICN Mt UNI.
For Week Ending Wed, Feb. lOht.

Mean minimum was 1878 degrees
below zero.
Mean maximum was about one-half
above above zero.
r. l.. DAVIDSON,
Voluntary Observer
The Dickinson press., 1904-02-13
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.

One was pale and sallow and the other
fresh and rosy. Whence the difference!
She who is blushing with health uses
DR.. Kings New Life Pills to maintain it.
BY gently rousing the lazy organs they
compel good digestion and head off
constipation. Try them. Only 25c.
at T. J. Greene & Co.'S Dickinson, and
!. A. Ferris Medora, Druggists.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
PERSONAL MENTION.

Merchants. c.. Bennett and wife,
Saltwater; c. A. Bird, Ellsworth; N. H.
wife. La Crosse: Sam J. Williams, Hay
ward, Wis; H. u. Boyd, Alexandria; A. d.
Stewart, Redwood Falls A. B. Gottschalk.
Seattle; l.. H. Bailey, Bemidji; G. w
DANES and wife, Tacoma; A. R. Pau Jr.,
Mankato; Howard Latimer, Sumner, Iowa !;
Dan Hyland, Beaudette.
Ryan, Weber, Houghton, Mich. !;
r. l.. Lamolds land wife, Porto Rico; w.
"A. Straight, Sioux1Falls; w. A. Baumanfl.
Winona; George II. Mueller, Albert Lea;
Joseph Caldwell, St Louis; FL. A. Beau
deau and wife Fargo: John T. Brady ard
wife, Peoria; F.S AZ Barton and wife, Fort
Yellowstone, Mont; Ben E. Lapeyre,
Great Falls, Mont.,t
Windsor. O'Donnell, Superior; C. P.
Shepard, Marshall; II. T. Comstock, Ken
yon; L. L. Ober, Chatfield; Filing Opsal,
Canton, s. D.2sp. E. Carpenter, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.. Az J. Anderson. Morton; w.
E. Polieys La Crosse: c. A, Young,
Tracy; A r. RKesne, Oshkosh. Wis; F.
w. Henry and wife, Winnipeg.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
tE-l1
UNWORTHY oETHE NATION


The regularznews report from the st.
ing significant sentence descriptive of
the scene on the second days session:
Without pausing in their enthusiasm,
the great -throng Of men and women
shouting the name of Bryan switched
to Parker, as if their only ambition was
to cheer and make a great noise.' Of
course it was. That was what they
were there for. They sought the mo-
mentary sensation of helping to raise
pandemonium, and enjoyed the excite
ment that comes from being one of a
great bowling mob. At the moment
they. had probably lost sight of the
claims of Parker and Bryan and every
other candidate. They were simply in
ating noise, and were no longer in any
sense responsible beings.
These are the conditions which our
present system of holding national con-
Eentions invites. The Globe has
denounced them over and over again.
and will continue to do so until we get
back ito sanity and deliberation AS
long as ten thousand or twenty thou.
sand people are admitted to a great
auditorium as spectators of national
convention, this bedlam will continue
to exist There is no genuine enthusi-
packed by those who have control of
admission privileges. Sometimes friends
of one candidate get the seats and
sometimes those of another, but usually
they are divided. Instructions to ticket
holders, as a condition of admission,
are to yell at the proper signal for all
they are worth. 1t is all forced and
mechanical. After while in the cleo
trio atmosphere of excited humanity,
all the spectators yell all the time for
anybody and everybody.
The time has gone by when this prac-
tANC Soat0 tidNS Lie SltS ntCSI
effect. You can stampede one or two
conventions, but you cannot keep it up.
Political managers soon learn their
lesson, which Is to send to conventions
delegates SO old and wary in the bust
ness that they are sure to keep their
heads, or so tightly tied up by instruc-
lions that they cannot vary an inch
from the line. Thus all this racket is
pointless. 1t cannot carry the eonven-
tion off its feet, for it is expected, un-
derstood and discounted. 1t is merely
WEAKNESS to those who actually want
to get through With the business and a
disgrace to reasoning people.
We hope to see the day soon come
when national conventions WI be held
as they ought to be, in halls capable OF
seating net more than 500 persons in
excess of the Delegates, these extra
seats being assigned solely to repre-
senratives OF the press The exclusion
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
DOLLAR WHEAT: A THREAT

There is some little cause for alarm
sold for a dollar bushel in Minneapo-
lis yesterday. The sharp advance in
price to the dollar mark was brought
about by actual untoward conditions in
the wheat fields-the bulls not being at
all responsible for the state of the
market.
Since the situation was discussed
in these columns few weeks ago
decided change in the crop prospect
has taken place. 1t is not that dis,
aster impends, but the weatherly con-
ditions have been extremely bad over
large area of country during the past
two weeks. During zen days the fields
in some sections of Minnesota have
been awash. In the southern part of
the state the fields are drenched today.
There has been altogether too much
moisture and not nearly enough warm
growing weather all over the North
Test. Reports from the Southwest in
dictate that the winter wheat crop is in
a bad state. These causes have con-
spired to make buyers willing to pay
higher price for actual grain, and
there is general and marked tenden-
cy upward in the price for future de-
livery.
So far as the spring wheat of the
Northwest is concerned, the situation
is certainly serious, but by no means
hopeless. A week of such weather as
to prevent any growth at this juncture
is serious matter, and that is. what
the crop of the Northwest is suffering
from. There has been actually no
growth during the past ten days. If
the same state Of affairs should obtain
for ten days more there would be
ground for apprehension.
But much may happen in ten days.
A week of good July weather will
bring on a banner crop in the North
west, even though it be a bit delayed
1t will take more than the sale of a
few cars of wheat in Minneapolis at
the high price of dollar a bushel to
inspire the Northwest farmer or bust
ness man with sense of impending
disaster.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
ELWESS MUST PAY
HIS PRINTING BILL
Agent for Printers Had Mo Right to
Accept Sewing Machine as Payment


That an agent who makes a sale for
his principal has no power, in the alb
sence of specific authorization, to make
an agreement with the customer Off
setting the debt to the principal was
decided yesterday by Judge Finehout
in the civil branch of the municipal
court. The case was that of Brown,
Treacy & Sperry, printers, against w.
F. Elwess, sewing machine agent.
When l.. P. Cudworth, agent for the
printers, secured from Elwess, in May,
1903, an order for printing, Cudworth
ordered sewing machine, which was
sent to his house. The machine was
afterwards returned as unsatisfactory.
When later the printers bill of $21 was
presented to Elwess he refused to pay
it, and sent as an offset bill for the
machine he had sold to the printers
agent.
Judge Finehout gave judgment for
the plaintiffs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
MAsHr1GrrioN. D. G. July 81

WASHINGTON, D. G., July s.-Fore-
cast:
For Minnesota Showers Saturday,
cooler. in west portion; Sunday fair; light
to fresh south winds
Upper Michigan and Wisconsin Show
ers Saturday and Sunday; light variable
wind.
Iowa-Fair in west, showers in east por-
tion Saturday; Sunday fair.
North and South Dakota-ShowerS.
cooler Saturday; Sunday fair.
Montana-Fafr Saturday, except show
ers and cooler in the, south portion; Sun
day fair and warmer
st. Paul = Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w. E. Oliver, observer. for
the twenty -four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation Highest tempera-
ture, ST; lowest temperature. SO; average
temperature 81; daily range, s.; barom-
eter. %. 95; humidity, 80; precipitation,
l-95; 7 p. m. temperature, 81; p m.
wind. north; weather, cloudy.
Yesterdays Tempera lures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
NEWS OF THE CITY
LIMIT TO DAMAGES
CAUSED BY CATTLE
Supreme Court Says They Are
Suchas Were Committed at
Time of Trespass

The state supreme court yesterday
passed on the question of whether or
not, under the law in this state cover
ing damages by trespass by cattle
damages can be collected for trespass
at Tune prior to the one at which
the animals are taken up as estrays
Inc point came up in the case of
John w Fleetham VS.. Dennis There's.
Hennepln county farmers, and the
judgment from which the appeal was
taken was for S1.40 in favor of There's.
The supreme court, by Justice Brown.
sustalns the lower court in the sylIa-
bus, which says:
John w. Fleetham, appellant VS. Dennis
iheffeS, respondent.
l. The damages to which land owner
Is entitled in proceedings under chapter
~, General Statutes 1894 for animals
taken up by him as estrays, are limited
70 sucn as We're committed by the ami
mas at the time of and Immediately pre-,
ceeding the trespass for which they were
distrained
2 At the time the cows in question
We're distrained by plaintiff. defendant
rendered him the sum of SO to cover the
damages; sustained Plaintiff refused to
accept the tender and thereafter retained
the COWS In his possession for two DAYS
1t is held that his retention of the cows
after the tender was wrongful and plain
tlif was, under. legal duty to exercise rea-
sonabie effort, not only to take proper
care of the COWS. but to dispose of. the
milk received from them and account for
the proceeds to defendant.
3. Whether the distrainor in such case
would be required to make such eff
fort, if his retention Of the cows was not
wrongful quaere.
Judgment affirmed.
Other cases in which decisions were
handed down yesterday We're:
In the matter of the--estate of Maria
Ryan, deceased, Michael T. Ryan adj
mln1strator of said estate, appellant, VS..
Catherine E. Williams, as guardian of
Agnes and Maria Ryan, respondent
Order affirmed. Douglas. J.
William J. McKenna. appellant. VS.. Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
Company. respondent
Order affirmed Brown T.
Katherine Eggensperger, respondent, VS..
John G. Lanpher, appellant.
Order affirmed Brown, J.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
GIVE US TIE PROOF

The exposure by h e G1ob of the
hypocrisy of the Republican platform
with reference to the eight-hour day
has attracted wide and favorable at
tention We are in receipt of many let
ters of congratulation on this matter,
and a large number of individuals have
personally expressed their satisfaction
at having the mask of insincerity torn
off. That the Republicans themselves
are not a little alarmed at their plight
in this matter is manifest from an ut
terance of a morning contemporary,
which calls this eight hour resolution
"a bit of mistaken demagogy," and
says: 1T is needless to say that the
Republicans of Minnesota are very few
of them in favor of such an extension
of the eight-hour principle"
This is all very we'll, but circum-
stances lend weight to the suspicion
that the contemporary in question
would not be accepted by Republicans
everywhere as an authoritative inter
prefer of the platform. Indeed, it is
already in opposition to the expressed
view of Congressman Bede, and we
have not heard of any recantation on
his part. The question is, what does
the eight hour plank in the Repub-
lican platform mean? Does it mean
that the eight-hour day should be es-
tablished in works controlled by the
national or state government, such as
the public departments, navy yards
and establishments of the kind or does
it mean, as the bin before congress
provides, that the eight-hour day must
be forced upon private employers of
labor in private establishments as
condition of their doing work for the
government at all?
h e Gil 10 b calls for further light
on the subject. At least half the Re-
publican party is in the same attitude
1t wants to know, when it votes for the
state canulQateS on the state platform,
whether it is voting for one mterpreta-
ton of this eight hour plank or the
other. The employer demands an ex-
PLANTATION, and SO does the working
man. Since the convention that framed
and deliberately chose this disgraceful
straddle as a way out of its dilemma
has disbanded, and since no individual
and no newspaper would probably be
accepted as final authority on the
question, let us hear from all the can
didates for office what they, have-to say
about it.
What does Senator C1app understand
this plank in the Republican platform
to mean, and how do the gentlemen who
are running for congress ! in the sew
eral districts interpret it? We call for
an expression of opinion giving more
light on the subject. If the Republican
party does not wish the worst con-
struction placed upon its action. unless
If would be branded as cheat and a
hypocrite, the answer to this demand
will be forthcoming.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
WOMAN GETS ALIMONY
BUT MAY LOSE SON
Father Will Secure Child if Court Is
Satisfied With Boys Surroundings

Temporary alimony Of So a week was
awarded yesterday by Judge Jaggard
to Mrs. Carrie Gilbertson, who is suing
Andrew Gilbertson in the district court
for limited separation. She also OBJ
tanned $25 as counsel fees and the same
amount as suit money.
No decision was announced as to the
future custody of the couples child,
ten years old. While he was seated
yesterday in his fathers lap the boy
dfd not appear to welcome the caresses
of his mother. The court intimated
that the child would probably be in
trusted to his father; it would be nee
essay, however, that assurance be
given as to the nature of the boys flu
ture surroundings.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
COURT ORDERS SINKS
TO RESTRAIN HIMSELF
Man Must Not Interfere With Wife
While Waiting for Divorce Suit

An order restraining George w.
Sinks from interfering with his wife,
Elizabeth Sinks, their children or her
boarders, at her home, 80 Park place,
was issued yesterday by Judge Jag
gard, of the district court. The wife
is now suing for a divorce.
Affidavits signed by Mrs. Sinks and
others declared that her husband visit
ed her home June 30, tore bedclothes
from the beds, drove boarders out of
the house, struck her when she re-
fused to let him have purse, and
knocked down their young son when
he sought to protect his mother.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09

for such additional legislation as may
be necessary. And it promises to APP
ply Immediately the obvious remedy OF
excluding from interstate traffic such
commodities as are controlled by in
dustrial combinations in restraint of
trade. These declarations have no I'M
certain sound in the ears of a people
bowed down under burdens and wasted
with remorseless exactions.
Democracy protests against executive
usurpation. There is no more stirring
passage in the platform than that
which cites the president before the
bar of public opinion for his offenses.
He has disregarded law and placed
himself above it. He has broken trea-
ties, he has made laws by a stroke of
the pen, he has made himself the ar
bitter of a nations destiny. Were he
the wisest and best man who ever trod
the earth, he should suffer rebuke; for
this is the way of the republics down
fall. Democracy will not cease to rep
resent government by the law and the
constitution.
There will be much comment, as
there was much debate in committee,
upon the total omission of all reference
to the financial question. We think it
signally wise and satisfactory. Silence
here is more. eloquent than words. It
means that this issue has passed out
of the range of practical affairs. 1t
is infinitely more direct, more honest,
more admirable than some miserable
platitude which should attempt to sat
isfy all opinions 1t is far better than
any financial plank laid before the
committee. The platform deals with
none of the other issues that events
have settled and passed by; why should
it rake up old differences of opinion
about this? Most sincerely and utter
ly do we commend the wisdom of the
convention in this particular, and con-
graduate the united Democracy; where
no man or faction can raise the cry of
triumph, and none need face the stig-
ma of defeat.
On many minor issues the platform
touches, always surely, sensibly, wise
ly. There are no mistakes and no
equivocations in it. 1t is Democratic
from the first word to the last, and it
will be accepted by Democrats
throughout the country with the
unanimity and enthusiasm that greet
ed it in convention. To every article
of this splendid. creed every Democrat
may subscribe ;Mithshappy earnestness,
and with this pledge of eur belief and
our purpose we may appeal in conf
dence to the suffrages of a people who
will read in it a full expression of the
American spirit at its finest and it's
best. 4sss