The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-06
What the Editors Say

Mrs. Frank NJ. Eddy, the commander
In chief of the Eddytorial force, drop
ped in on us Saturday. She complf-
mented us on the neatness of our Office
ana on our own natty appearance. She
ulont know, and we hope she will
never find out that we knocked off the
Mhols force the day before and set
lnem 10 cleaning up the accumulation
OF the winters debris; that we got up
before daylight and got shaved; that
We spent the 10 cents we had been
saving to buy smoking tobacco to get
our shoes shined. There are times
when one must make a showing. This
was one of them.-Frank NJ. Eddy in
his Sauk Center Herald.
The other day a boy Is years old
was arrested in Minnesota town and
gwen nve days for smoking a ciga-
rette. Or course the benign purpose of
the law and the beneficent object for
Illuminating that boy and making
jan bird" OF him is to cure him of
smoking cigarettes and make a man
or him.. And of course he's cured.
Never again will the aromatic fumes
permeate the sensitive cellular tissue
OF ms youthful lights. The fireside has
delegated TO the state its most sacred
duties and prerogatives, and prisons
are equipped to affix the brand of fell
ony Tor imaginary offenses.-Warroad
Plaindealer.
Senator Clapp has taken a position
In favor of electing United States SEN
aIors Dy direct vote of the people,
Ihat IS good. Now let him keen at
that proposition day in and day out
untli something comes from it. Before
IL can be accomplished there has to be
an amendment to the national conSti-
lutioii' and that is a difficult task. 1t
VIII take much work, and every man
VINO believes in the people and their
Iisnt 10 eject their own representatives
shouid put his shoulder to the wheel
and add his effort to the cause 1t will
take all the forces that can be rallied.
-Owatonna Journal.
Z. NJ. Hanson, a frenzied Minnea polis
evangelist, was fined $25 by a Fergus
rams justice of the peace last week.
aansons rawlings had caused a Miss
Olga Nelson to become insane. and the
father Of the girl made complaint. and
aIIer nearing the evidence the Justice
very properly imposed a stiff fine
Ihere IS a state institution at Fergus
rails where such fellows as Hanson
should be confined.-Princeton Union.
rev politicians are making any no.
ntlcal capital out of this session of the
legislatura-unless it is earning un-
popularity, community that seems very
easy to secure, but the man who will
stand Tor what he knows must be right
VIII De loved for the enemies he will
make, and hated by those whom the
masses OF the people look upon with
suspiclon.-Albert Lea Tribune.
A Doom has already been started for
presidential candidates for 1908. Why
cannot the country be allowed a little
rest from this everlasting scramble for
ofhce? When 1908 rolls around none
or us may be here. and it does seem
senseless TO have newspapers announc-
ing thls one and that one for this and
0tner office years ahead of the event
Roseau Region.
An account of how an EyeIeth
preacher laid trespassing cow low
with shotgun has been making all
the range country look yellow. But
now IL turns out that the story is vel
low. The Eveleth Star declares that
there has not been a preacher in Eve
leth since the year one that knew the
dinerence between a shotgun and a
rihe-Crookston Journal.
Atherton Jim" sends US a poem
headed Signs of Spring." but we hard
iy dare spring 1t, lest 1t bring us a bliz-
zard- Spring poems are far more dam
gerous and certain than a ground hogs
shadow-Breckenrid Telegram.