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years younger than he is, and combin-
ing honeymoon with the first serious
battle in life. The mules please him
as much as if he had never ridden be-
hind the handsomest teams and in the
most luxuriouscarriage in the capitol.
The house, pretty as it Is, compares
to his Washington palace about as
a penny compares to a 500 dollar
gold piece, and yet he is immensely
pleased with it.
When you see him laughing, bolster
GUS and boyish, taking the keenest
pleasure In all his poor possessions,
and seemingly never giving a thought
to those he had lost in his old age,
you have to rub your eyes and say to
yourself:
Can this really be Senator William
M. Stewart who has had the world at
his feet time and again, the man who,
as leading counsel for the Fair-Flood-
Mackay syndicate on the famous Com
stock Lode, received in one fee
$250,000. then the largest sum ever
received by any lawyer In the world
in a single fee; the man who was in
his prime when President Lincoln was
assassinated, and who is the only liv-
ing person that saw the oath admins
tered to Andrew johnson in the Kirk
wood House; the man who will al
ways be remembered in New York
cafes as "the gayest old Santa Claus
that ever liked;'' the man whose
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
goth Century Empire Building.

Great as is the power of war in the
building of an empire-and the Jap
anese- Russian war will probably make
a great nation of Japan-there is an
even greater force at work in the
world that will in the end decide the
fates of peoples. This is the power of
one nation to absorb the individuals
rather than to wipe out or swallow
another government The Twentieth
Century will probably witness the
greatest Capitalization of peoples
under vast empires, that the world
has seen since the days of
Roman greatness. When the CEN
fury ends, the outlook is that there
will be a half dozen first nations,
created by assimilation instead of war.
Japan will be one, with its influence
felt throughout Eastern Asia, Russia
will, of course, advance, Germany will
probably have absorbed Austria. The
Latin races of Southern Europe may
have combined for self-protection.
England win go on empire building,
and the United States will have
spread over the continent, and maybe
two continents, besides having abb
sorbed vast numbers of peoples from
all countries of the earth.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
CLIMATE IN MANCHURLA.
1t Plays a Prominent Part in the
Fortunes of War.

The climate of Manchuria plays an
important role in the war between
Russia and Japan. Up to the present
we have had but little precise informa-
ton upon this point. NJ. j. Ross has
lately given the Scientific American in
dications as to the climate of that re-
gion and the character of the different
seasons. He states that in the months
of March and April there are strong
southwest winds which bring with
them heat and moisture. At the end
of March the winter season ends. The
undersoil is still frozen at this time,
but the ground can be worked for agri-
culture. April appears to be the only
month of spring. At the end of this
month the sowing of wheat commences.
Summer begins in May, and at the end
of June or the beginning of July the
wheat is cut. Up to the end of June
rain is rare and the sky is generally
clear, while cloudy weather is an ex-
ception. The heat reaches maximum
at the end of July and first part of
August. Afterward come heavy rains
or storms. 1t often rains for several
days and nights without stopping. The
SOAA 10 bAIuA0tCo oAt0 AAuA-
dations are frequent.
September is the harvest month,
while October gives some of the finest
weather of the year. At this time the
climate is agreeable during the day and
the sky is clear, with bracing air, while
vegetation is at it's height. At the end
of the month the first night frosts be-
gin to appear, and in November the
cold weather commences and keeps up
until March. At Mukden the temper
allure sometimes reaches a very low de-
gree. During the day, however, the
cold is not excessive, and sometimes in
the middle of the winter the suns rays
become very warm, on account of the
southerly position of that locality. The
maximum temperature of summer is
1904 deg. +. About ten months of the
year are dry for the most part, and the
wet season only occurs dur
ing month or SO. At Niuchwang, on
the north shore of the gulf of Lao
tung, the mean winter temperature is
16 deg. f., and the mean 70. the sum-
mer, 74.8 deg. The mean annual tenn
perature is At. 1 deg. II. The Russian
maritime provinces have a very low
mean annual temperature. At Vladiv-
1stock the average for the winter is
I0.2 deg. F., and for the summer it is
Dnly 1913 deg. +.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

ganization was never so strong and
carefully nurtured as at present party
discipline was never so rigid; party
leadership was never so placidly recog-
nized and implicitly obeyed by party
workers. The change has come about
in comparatively recent years. In
fact, the present generation of voters
have witnessed it's coming. Samuel j.
Tilden showed the way. AS a result of
his teaching, not party principle, but
party organization, won for the Demo-
cratic party sweeping victories in Re-
publican strongholds and was started
fairly on the road to a long lease Of
national control. Then appeared the
late Marcus A. Hanna from his business
cloister and gave impulse within his
party to a movement similar to that
which, under the tutelage of Tifden,
had brought surprising victories to the
Democrats.
The spirit Of organization which now
animates both of the great parties is
not indolent or lukewarm between
campaigns. In an important sense, it
is as active now as it was when, the
lines of battle were drawn after the
national conventions of last summer
had done their work. The difference
between them is made conspicuous by
reason of the fact that the Republican
party is in power and its central or
ganization-the National Committee
is necessarily more in evidence than it's
counterpart in the opposition Organiza-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

of western mines; at another time he
has been down on his uppers: again he
has been engaged in big dairying pro-
ject in Virginia; at other times he has
dabbled again in Western mines and
has run an Eastern mule farm.
Retiring from the Senate last spring,
he was again once more a poor man,
and with his advanced years 1t was
presumed by the unknowning ones he
would sink into obscurity but like
some others, "Blll Stewart has never
known when he was down and out,
and he Immediately started forth a.
gain in the battle Of life with the
purpose to again rebuild his fortunes.
The chances are more than even that
he will although he is nearly four
score years.
The Senator expects TO reap q pro-
fitable harvest from the various legal
matters arising out of the vast new
gold fields which have been discovered
In Nevada. He Is an expert on min
ming law and has at least the preced-
ent established Of having received in
former years fortune as single fee.
Not Crushed by Failure.
Whatever may be said about the
Senator politically, his bitterest
enemies will not deny that the physi-
cal makeup of the man is marvellous
to the last degree and that his courage
is splendid. He IL OF the type that
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
Back Among the Boys.

The new Nevada home is a one
story abode, ornamented with red and
white stone. 1t has ten rooms, the
bathroom dazzels with tiles and trap
pinngs and has a genuine shower
bath.
81 want to make It as comfortable
as can for my wife nd daughter"
said the old Senator, They're not as
used to roughing it as l am"
A wide veranda stretches around
the entire house, and the grounds are
being graded, fenced and sodded.
There is a pretty stable and a
quaint little chicken house. The Sem
ator has purchased two hundred fowls
and In his stable, instead of thorough
bred horses he has a large, sleek pair
of mules, which he considers more
to the country.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

cannot conceive defeat but goes on
fighting.
'This air makes me feel like four
year-old." he said as he landed In
Nevada with his daughter and his
newly-married young wife. There's
no place like Nevada. tell you and
I figure that I'll be doing a big law
business here before long. Better to
wear out than to rust out you know"
The Senator's new house was built
from what he had saved out Of his
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

they may enjoy religious liberty.
On September 80 is the Jewish New
Year, this year Number 5666, one of
the most sacred holidays to the Jew,
when all petty quarrels are forgotten,
and every man is at peace with his
neighbour.
The Jewish New Year is observed
in accordance with the injunction:
"And In the seventh month on the
first day of the month shall We have
a holy convocation; no servile work
shall We do; day of blowing the cor
net shall it be unto you."-Numbcrs
1ix,i.
But 1t is observed quite differently
by the orthodox and the reform Jews.
The cornet mentioned in the bible
is made from rams horn, and is
known as the ''shofar," and is used in
all Jewish synagogues on this New
Years day.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
TO BUILD A NEW FORTUNE.
NEARLY EIGHTY YEARS OLD,
FORMER SENATOR STEWART
BEGINS LIFE ANEW.

axes his Young Bride to Gold Camps
OtNevada and Rears Comfortable
HOme-StiIlfe feels the Wine of Youth
At the age of seventy-eight, after
having seen two generations rise and
pass away; former Governor of Ne
yada, a mine owner of great wealth,
a United States Senator for eighteen
years, William M. Stewart for long
known as the Santa Claus" of the
Senate, is starting life anew amid the
gold fields of Nevada.
With the vlrility OF youth this robust
and hearty old-timer, says a dispatch
from Rhyolite, New, has, with his
young bride started In to make another
million.
Fortune has played prankes with
Senator Stewart; at one time he had
been one of the rich men of that mil
li0naires' club the Senate, owning one
of the most magnificent private houses
in Washington. In the earlier days he
extracted huge fees from the law suits
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
- THE RIGHTS OF MAN.
They Should Include an Opportunity
to Make Home on Piece of Land.

The right to work, to employ ones
self, comes from Nature, and not from
legislative action. If that is true,
says the Detroit News Tribune, it fol-
lows that legislatures have no right
to make regulations which will permits
the cornering of opportunities for self
employment. The United States laws
governing our national domain of land
were originally designed to conform to
the rights of man. Our homestead
acts were designed to place the land in
the hands of those who would actually
use it productivity, and much of the
land was so parcelled out to the
great advantage of society. But cum
ming lawyers and INSCRIPTIONS men
who want to reap where they have not
sown, who seek to avoid productive la
Dor themselves by controlling the OPP
portunities of self-employment, have
in cornering large sec
tons of the United States. The
revelations of the land frauds in
the West are worthy of great at
tention, but they excite less inter-
est than do our troubles with
President Castro of Venezuela The
fact is learned that one
man has acquired nearly $1,000 square
miles of public land He does not want
TO use it himself, and his only object is
to make others pay him for the privi-
lege of using it. He therefore makes
It more difficult for men to employ
and the rights of man are
to that extent denied.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
POLITICAL MACHINERY,
WAS MEYER so PERFECT, FAR.
REACHING AND EFFECTIVE
as TO-DAY.
At the Same Time the Voter Has
Never Been So MISREPRESENTATION
cational Campaigns a Feature Of
Practical Politics.
]. ]. Dickinson.

Only one aphorism is known to have
been publicly uttered and reiterated by
the late 0rville II. Plat. a Senator in
Congress from Connecticut for a quar-
ter of a century and one of the really
great statesmen of our time and coun-
try. 1t was this:
"Ours is a government of parties by
parties for the people,"
1t was by this rule that the fine old
Yankee squared his vote at the polls
and in the Senate. 1t guided his
thought and action. 1t accounted for
his partisanship, which, though never
offensive, was always robust.
Insensibly the American people have
adopted the Plat aphorism. Party or
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

tion-the Democratic National Commit
tee. These central bodies of the two
great parties have lines of subsidiary
organizations reaching down through
the States, cities, Congressional dis
tricts and counties to the voting pre-
cincts.
Between campaigns, the National
Committees are neither idle nor I'M
watchful. The permanent headquarters
Of the Republican National Committee
are in Washington, and are under the
immediate supervision of Elmer Dover,
the committees secretary, and former
ly Senator Hanna's private and conf
Dental secretary. The committees
headquarters occupy rooms in one Of
the finest Office buildings in the Ma
tional Capital. The Hon. George b.
CortelyOu. who vacated a seat at Presi-
dent Rooseyelt's Cabinet board to sue
coed Mr.. Hanna as chairman OF the
National Committee In order that, at
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
ANCIENT IND MODERN IEM.
Peculiar Customs IN Blowing the
Rams on Jewish New Years.

The customs OF different religious
bodies have undergone many changes
since their Inauguration, and these
changes are as marked among the
Jews as they are other religious bodies
A few ancient customs, however, are
still followed out, as they were In the
days Of Moses, by the strictly orthO-
dox Jews, especially in certain parts
OF Europe, and among those orthodox
Jews who, owing to persecution at
home, have come to America to make
this land their future home, where
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

model dairy in Virginia which put the
last touches on a financial ruin that
was begun when he tried to force a
real estate boom in the direction of
Stewards Palace" the gorgeous
structures he had put up when he was
one of the wealthiest men there.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
OF Another Generation.

He is as interested in all these prep
as though he were sixty
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06
with His Favorite Punch.

From the Washington Post.
Colonel Wafterson said he would
nter the political arena again In the
fall, but declined to tell just how, says
the New York Sun.
It's safe wager that he will entec
it as usual, prodding the elephant
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-06

In the strictly orthodox church the
man who has the duty of blowing the
shofar must be an exceedingly strict
Jew. He must not have shaved his
beard; indeed the ancient Jew never
shaved. He must not have committed
any offence which would bar him from
this sacred office. When he is ready
to blow the shofar he dons the "tal-
llth," silken cloth, and takes his
stand the altar, beside the rabbi,
and at certain places in the service
blows the solemn sounds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
JAPS OPEN DOORS
OF CHINA WIDER
New Jap Chinese Treaty Opens 16
Cities to Commerce, In
Guiding Hardin.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Important de-
tails of the treaty between China and
Japan, signed in Peking today, have
reached the state department. by cable.
Most important of all the provis-
ions of the treaty is an article whereby
China agrees to open to the world s
commerce and trade sixteen principal
ports and cities in Manchuria, includ-
ing Hardin, the modern Russian capt.
tai of the province, and its most i'm
portant railroad center, thus marking,
in the opinion of the state department
officials, the final success of the long
struggle by the United States for the
open door.
Japs Lease Liao-Tung.
China consents further to lease to
Japan the Liao-Tung peninsula, at the
southern extremity of which is Port
Arthur and Dalny. This territory was
formerly held by Russia under leave
from China, China comedies to Japan
the control of the railway on the PENN.
sula northward as far as Chang Chin.
This is one of the spurs which connects
with the Russian Siberian railway sys
tenn, and the point named probably will
mark the division between Russian and
Japanese control. ~
China also comedies to Japan the
right to build a railway from Antung
on the Yalu river to Mukden, the an
cient capital of Manchuria,' probably
along the lines Of the famous old mill.
tary or caravan road. It is provided
however, that at the end Of a certain
period the road may be purchased by
China.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
AMERICANS ENTER
CANADIAN FIELDS
Northwestern Capitalists Close
Important Lumber Deal at
z Prince Albert.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. o2.-Alyin
Robertson of Grand Forks, president
Of the Robertson Lumber company; D.
y. Winton. Of Thief River Falls, MINI. /;
Charles Winton of Warsaw, Wis; John
Rose Of Chicago, and John Telford of
Prince Albert, Sask., have incorporated
the Prince Albert Lumber company.
with capital Of $25O,OOO.
The new company has bought saw
mill at Prince Albert with capacity
of 35,000,000 feet of lumber a year and
has acquired timber rights on 100000
acres of government land, north of
Prince Albert, on the Shoal and Little
Red rivers. Running at its full capac,
ity, there is enough timber on the land
to keep the mill going for twenty
years. :,
Work in getting out logs for next
years cutting will begin at once. The
land on which the timber rights have
been secured is heavily wooded with
fine spruce timber and the company
will do a wholesale business exclu.
sively. The field is a large one and
these are the first Americans who have
ever attempted SO large an undertak.
ing in the lumber business in Canada
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
WALSH WILL L. /. QUIT
BANK FOR ROADS
Chicago Nationals Affairs to Be
Closed Walsh's Plans
Revealed. $3.50

Chicago, Dee. 22.-Since the suspen-
sion of the Chicago National bank,
John R. Walsh has refused to make
any statement regarding his future
business plans, declaring that he had
not vet ben able to formulate them.
Today Charles II. Bosworth, national
bank examiner and acting president OF
official statement regarding the plans
Of Mr.. Walsh: t--. .....- =.
"Mr. Walsh will tomorrow move his
Offices from the National bank build
ing to the Grand Central station. He
expects in short time to connect the
Chicago Southern with the Chicago
Terminal railway, which will insure him
seventy-five clerks will be dismissed,
and the affairs of the institution will
be closed up as rapidly as possible. A
statement is being prepared for the
benefit of prospective bidders for the
bank building containing data, taxes,
insurance and similar matters. My re-
. port has been sent to Washington. There
charges. If anything in that direction
is projected it must be taken up by
the authorities in Washington -
No action has yet been taken by the
clearing house committee that is operat-
ing the affairs Of the Chicago National
bank regarding the payment of inter
est on the bond notes of the Chicago
Southern road, which was among the
properties owned by Mr.: Walsh. The
ON Jan. 1, and amounts to $105,00O. If
the interest is paid it will, according
to the opinion of Chicago bankers, en-:
able Mr.. Walsh to recover control of
the road, as well as that Of the Southern
Indiana. Mr.. Walsh and his friends
have claimed from the start of the
troubles Of the Chicago National bank
hat if allowed more time they. would
70 able to care for the bonds Of these
wo companies, =: ~ 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
CHILDREN CARESS
4 LIFELESS FORM
Girl Makes Startling Discovery in
Lonely New York Mills
Farm.
Special to The Journal.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, Dec. 22.-The
coroner was called to New York Mills
yesterday to investigate the sudden
death Of Mrs. David Johnson. He found
no suspicious: circumstances, i but the
case was an unusually sad one. -
The husband had gone to work in the
pineries for the winter, leaving his
wife and three little children alone on
the farm. in the widest portion of the
country. A neighbours daughter hap
pened to go to their home on an GRAND,
and found the three little children
standing around the corpse Of their
mother. They were thinly clad, and
as there was no fire in the house, they
were suffering severely from the cold.
They explained that their mama had
gone to sleep on the floor, and they
could not understand why she did not
awaken in response to their cries and
caresses. The visiting child realized
that the woman had been dead for
several hours, and fastened home for
assistance The children were taken
in charge by the neighbors, and the
fathn" OIL ne coroner notified. But
.' arrival Of the little girl
ould have starved Or have
20 DEATH
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
BIGAMIST A SUICIDE;
LOVED BOTH WIYSE

Norfolk, Va, Dec. 22.-B. j. Glib
bons, aged 81 years, after leaving let
ter in which he admitted he was big
amist, and expressed undying love. for
two wives, put a bullet thru his head
at his Norfolk home today, dying in a
short time. Mrs. Gibbons No. /, with
her two young children, are here, while
according to the letter left by Gibbons
wife No. 2, who mhe married in Wal.
dosti Ca, Jan. 4, is now at hotel at
Atlanta, Ga. N othing has been found
to Indicate who wife No. 2 was prior to
her marriage to Gibbons, except an af.
fectionate letter signed "Emma'1 and
written from some point in Florida tc
Gibbons before their marriage. a..s :,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
Complete Winter OUTFITS. So.
The Great Plymouth Clothing House.
RYAN SELLS GOTHAM :.s
TRACTION TO BELMONT

New York, Dec. ga consolidation
Of the subway, elevated and surface
traction lines Of Manhattan island I. is
believed to be probable as the result
of the sale of interests of Thomas
Ryan in the Metropolitan system to
August Belmont. The Metropolitan
system includes practically all of the
surface roads on the island, and Mr..
Belmont is president of the INTERIOR
ough Rapid. Transit company, which
operates the elevated roads and the
subway. The price paid for the Ryan
stock in the Metropolitan was not made
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
DEATH REVEALS
BIGAMY> SECRET
Lodges Find 7, Evidence that St.
Cloud Man Had Two
Wives.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
st. Cloud, Mimi, Dec. 22.-The death
Of J. M. Cove, well-known travelling
man Of; this city, at Bottineau this
week has disclosed the fact that he
was: a bigamist and the scandal has
caused a sensation here. Wife No. 2,
with whom he has been living at st.
Cloud, never knew she had been de-
ceived, until the news was broken to
her today. .~.
Cove was member of Nazarene
lodge, knights, Templar, Of St. Cloud,
and the officers here directed the mem:
bers of the lodge at Bottineau to. make
a search of the effects. When this was
done, it was found that Cove had a
wife at Rochelle, Ill. She was commu
nicated with and the lodge and the
first wife at Rochelle claimed the body
It then became necessary to notify
wife No. 2. She produced a marriage
certificate, but there appears to be nc
doubt that Cove had not been di
vorced from his first wife, tho he had
not lived with her for some time.