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Of mind to mind. and of mind to the.
world it works in. that we must build
high and strong the wall between edu-
cational systems and methods. with
only open roadways through which
those that seek the more limited area
may pass at will. The methods en-
ployed must be kept distinct. Higher
education is impaired by the adoption
of the practical standard, and elemen-
tary education is impaired by trying to
graft upon it some of the ideas and
processes that belong only to a later.
stage. Failure to recognize and live up
to this distinction is the cause of in
Vulnerable troubles and of infinite
damage to the generation now passing
through the educational stage. We
welcome as the brightest sign of hope
any general recognition of this divid-
ing line, which nothing can wipe out or
break down. but whose ignoring has al
ready brought confusion and loss.
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THE GOOD THAT MEN DO

We are credibly informed that J..
Pierpont Morgan built and endowed
ten great charitable institutions in
New York, although his name has
never been publicly connected with
any of them. The fact. Of which there
seems to be no doubt, calls attention to
a condition which only those persons
who are engaged in sociological and
charitable work professionally are fa-
miliar with. An enormous amount Of
money is given away absolutely and
anonymously by the rich men and
women of this country. The donors are
not of that large and growing class OF
which Andrew Carnegie is a notable
member which has time and inclina-
ton to administer in some sort the
charity it bestows. Our rich men are
essentially busy men who select agents
to conduct their charitable work. It Is
not that they desire to caVy out the
injunction not to let the left hand know
what the right hand is doing, but that
the one hand is too busy taking in the
money to get it mixed with the work
Of the other.
The rich women Of the country, on
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HOLIDAYS AND THE swlNDLER

The gold brick people either cele-
brate Christmas in the same manner
as the law abiding brethren, that is
with good will to men in their hearts,
or else their standard of propriety
forces them to leave undesecrated the
holiday season. Certainly, considering
the opportunities presented, the holiday
swindles that are unearthed are sur
prisingly few. The news that local
merchants this year We're Induced by
female swindler to contribute some
thing like one hundred dollars to a
mythical Christmas fund excites at
tention because holiday swindling is
not an old story.
1t may be that the business man i'm
bued with the Christmas spirit is not
the easy victim that one would fancy
him to be on first thoughts. During all
the rest of the year, charity is cut
and dried business proposition to the
average man. He gives according to
his income and generally his offering
goes to the representative of some es-
tablished charity. Frequently it has
turned out that the representative has
been a bogus, one and then the contri-
button is entered under loss, But
there is something in the very atmos-
phere of the holidays that compels the
prosperous to seek out for himself the
deserving poor. Mere giving does not
satisfy him. He elects to play the role
of Lord Bountiful, not through vanity,
but because at this season of the year
it gives him keen pleasure.
Perhaps it is this disposition to go
out into the highways and byways and
seek the poor in their novels, rather
than any holiday consideration on the
part Of the swindlers that saves the
charitably disposed. But whatever is
the cause of it, it is comforting to re-
fleet that few of the deserving poor are
defrauded during the holiday season
by the powers that prey. Christmas
has some crimes of its own to answer
for. People who have lived honestly
all the rest of their lives sometimes fall
victims to temptation represented by
the display in the shops. There is
great deal Of holiday grating of mild
sort. But there are surprisingly few
swindling crimes; not many people
have reason to repent the charitable
vent they give to the Christmas spirit.
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WHEN A MAN MARRiEs

If every man and every woman's
theory in regard to the qualifications
Tor matrimony was put in practice,
licenses would go a-begging and no
minister would include wedding fees in
estimating his probable income. A gem
tleman from Michigan who ran for
governor this fall and lost the race has
recently added his quota to the fund
the world possesses. Like Punch's fa-
nous advice, it begins with don't" but
unlike Puneh,s, it does not end there.
Don't he said recently to an assem-
blage of young women, don't marry
until you can support a husband
OF course the Michigan man does not
expect that every male suitor shall, in
the future; demand from the young
woman whom he woos proof that she
can maintain him in the style to which
he has been accustomed. Nothing was
further from his thoughts, apparently
for he went on to explain that her abil-
ity in the wage earning line was to be
considered a reserve fund to be drawn
upon only in case the husband became
disabled. In other words, he would
substitute visible asset for the trust
in Providence which has inspired so
many couples to launch their bark on
matrimonial seas.
But it is not probable that his adj
vice will be considered. Doubtless he
didn't expect when he gave it that it
would be considered. Except in "'igh
society,"" there is little disposition
evinced by the average man and wom-
an to regard the present from the
standpoint of the future when mar
riage is contemplated. Prosy practi-
calities are eliminated from pre-nup-
tial discussions. And perhaps it is just
as well for the worlds sake that this
is so. If lovers stood more in fear Of
the future there would be fewer mar
riages. Moreover, when it is consid-
cred that as many if not more matri-
monial barks come to grief in those
circles where the future is carefully
considered, more humble Romeos and
Juliets would seem to have the right
to ask, Whats the use?'' when precau-
tions are urged upon them.
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A PNEUMATIC MAIL SERVICE

We are glad to see the Commercial
club and the postoffice authorities take
up the subject of pneumatic tube
mail service between the Twin Cities,
which T h e Globe has earnestly ad-
vocated for some time past This serv-
ice has been maintained in New York
and other large cities to the great sat
isfaction Of the public and the expedi-
ton of mail deliveries. A committee
has been appointed here to act in con-
junction with a similar body appointed
by the Minneapolis Commercial club,
and it will endeavor to secure from
congress the necessary authority and
appropriation.
There is no point in the United
States, outside it's two or three largest
cities, where the use. of the pneumatic
tube for conveying mails is so suitable
and so necessary as here. We have
within the metropolitan area popula-
tion of some half million people, dis
concentrated about two central points.
All these people will be served best and
accommodated most thoroughly by the
speediest possible transfer of mail mat
ter between these two centers. No
possible accident of growth can affect
the situation. Always, although the
metropolitan district of the two cities
should grow until it included several
million people, we should have the
main body of postal matter gathering
into these two central points and pass
ing between them. This is the ideal
condition that calls for pneumatic
tube service. Speed in handling mail
matter can be secured in no other way.
and expedition works to the benefit of
every one of the mass of total popula-
ton.
We have but to glance at the method
now in use to realize that it has been
already outgrown. The transfer of mail
between the two cities, though car
ried on with as much efficiency as condi-
tions will permit, is slow and unsatis-
factory. In weather conditions such
as those recently prevailing it is sub
ject to serious Interruption and delay.
The pneumatic tube would avoid all
this 1t would give us constant, am
pie and continuous service. with mail
deliveries from half an hour to twelve
hours earlier than can now be secured.
The benefits of this improvement to the
people are out Of all proportion to its
cost The pneumatic tube has demon
strated its efficiency elsewhere. The
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argument is complete, and we hope
that the committees efforts viii be
successful. as they ought to be.
KNleHTHoop our OF FLowER

An eccentric New York leader of CO.
tiilons recently made plans to go
abroad. His house was closed, his
passage booked, his apartments on the
other side engaged. Then a great lady
decided to give ball. She sent an
imperative summons to the gentleman
about to travel which he hastened to
obey. She explained that she had.
done him the honor Of naming him
leader of her cotillon. He thanked her,
but said it was impossible. why
impossible? demanded the great dame
in high dudgeon. Madame, sail for
England that very day." he answered
humbly. you silly man, thought. it
was something important" the lady is
reported to have said "of course I
can count on you then.'' He led the
cotillon, but, We are indebted to the
historian of the incident for the infor-
nation, he led it sulkily.
We have money. but have we So
ciety?" somebody questioned with pa
thetic insistence recently. Perhaps he
was thinking of the cotillon incident.
Certainly 1t shows that even in the
best we have to offer in this country
there is lacking that passion for self
lmmolation on the altar of feminine
Whims and pendants which character
lied society of an earlier, a more pol
lshed period. A social leader of an
earlier generation might, if it did not
happen that he was French, have in
sisted on his right to forego the CO.
tillon, but had he consented to lead at
all, he would never have led sulkily.
But it seems to be no longer the
fashion in the society of this country
or of any other for man to well
come inconvenience as so many op-
portunities to show his devotion and
turn neat compliments. The social.
bon mots, evidencing galfantry, which
are handed round today all have the
flavor of age. A great opportunity was
presented to the New York leader of
cotillons to show that the best we have
to offer in the way of American society
could boast knighthood. He let it slip,
and it is probable that the rest of his
kind in this country and in other coun-
tries are doing the same. Knighthood
is out of flower.
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genius win not long be burIed in the.

genius win not long be buried in the
Windy city.
Mr.. Johansen at is dificult to avoid
the suspicion that this patronynic is
evolved from Johnson) expressed him-
self tersely but emphatically and ade-
Quately. MY picture was not worth a
medal" he confessed modestly. IT
simply sent it there for exhibition, and
had no thought of getting medal for
it. The fact is (here, of course, was
the rub) they gave too many medals.
Every exhibitor, or nearly everyone,
had medal just like mine. They
meant nothing. did not want it and
SO sent it back
Let this be a warning to the art
judges of future worlds fairs If they
will award medals to all and sundry,
they must see to it that these are diff
ferent in design. It is easy to imagine
the experience of Mr.. Johansen. Un-
doubtedly when he first received the
medal he was filled with elation. It
convinced him that he had arrived.
The useless little trinket was proof of
this. And naturally he sailed forth
with it to make the rounds of the Chi
cago studios. But, o bitter disappoint-
ment. He found that many other ar
lists had achieved medals. or rather
had had them thrust upon them. And
these were all like Mr.. Johansen's.
But if the art judges of the expo
sition were too generous, the young
Chicago artist was, we think, too Inn
pulsive. 1t is undoubtedly true that
we lack discrimination in matters Of
art, but we could have accepted with
better grace the censure of better
artist-that is, better known one BY.
his own acknowledgement, Mr.. Johan-
sen is not yet great. Why, then,
should he set himself up as a critic of
the exposition's art judges?
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Contemporary Comment
Reforns-Russia

Prince Krapotkin has maintained
that real reform in Russia must begin
with local administration, and it Is
easy to see how by simplifying the
various traditional forms of town and
district government and by giving
them full responsibility promising
machinery for political education will
be set in motion. 1t is a sign
tnat the revolutionary leaven is work
ing hopefully, as the czars concession
is evidence that the appeal comes with
irresistible force as the sober word of
the best of his subjects.-New York
Evening Post.
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SUNDAY, JAN. i, 1905
1905

For the least imaginative today
these figures have a personal signifi-
canoe. On all the other special days
of the year families and friends re-
joice or mourn together, but on the
first day each individual takes counsel
with himself and not his closest in
innate shares these self-communings
Platitudes would never be platitudes
did they not express great truths. All
that has ever been written about the
personal Importance Of the new year
has expressed this one simple fact; it is
commencement day for the individu-
al. And he cannot get away from it.
A new years resolution may represent
an exquisite joke to him; he may hold
forth in humorous strain on the oft
referred to white page; he may utter
a reckless or defiant toast to the visi-
tor. But he cannot forget the personal
significance of the new calendar.
How natural" says Carlyle, "is
symbolic representation to all kinds of
men," And how necessary! If there
were nothing in life to symbolize a
beginning it is probable that for many
there would be nothing but dreary
continuance. But one of the beautiful
manifestations of God in nature and
of God in man is the many symbols of
beginnings that everywhere abound in
nature and in its highest product civ.
ilization. Every year nature begins
again. Every year man knows in his
heart that he has a chance to make a
fresh beginning.
There is much to encourage the in
dividual today. There never was a
time in the worlds history when he
was freer to work out his own saliva
tion. There are pessimists who are de-
claring that he has proved himself
unworthy of this freedom, that he
should be forced back into the sham-
bles. But each Individual has it in
him to disprove this, and the cheerful
thought all the world has in common
today is that men and women are real
izing more and more the far reaching
effect of individual effort. AS the peo-
pies of the earth are drawn more
closely together. the individuality Of
each human being counts for more.
Out of all the adjectives at their dis
posal, the Anglo-Saxons chose "happy'
for prefix to the New Year. A Happy
New Year! Today it is on every Eng
lish speaking tongue. It's very ex-
travagance makes it an auspicious
salutation for a beginning" For
happiness, or the earthly experience
that most closely resembles it, is the
fruit of best endeavor and today in
augurates fresh effort. A Happy New
Year to all!
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DECLINED WITH THANks

That was stinging rebuke admin
sistered 10 the officials of the ST. Louis
exposition for their generosity in the
matter of medals. Coming from Chi
eago. which possesses an art institute,
It has special significance Young Mr.
Johansen, who did the rebuking, is not,
we believe. generally known outside
his native town, but he has proved that
he has the courage of his convictions,
and If he expresses himself as well
on canvas as he does IN print, his
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Gov. Johnson has disclosed a knowl-


Gov. Johnson has disclosed knowl-
edge of the value of the sword in the
solution of political problems. He rec-
ognized and cut the Gordian knot in
the argument about the surveyor gem
eralship of logs for the Minneapolis
district, by the use of means to which
none Of the contending parties can take
any possible exception. The appoint
ment of Mr.. Fendall G. Winston will
be gratifying not to the Democrats of
Minneapolis alone, but to the party
throughout the state. 1t is just rec
ognition of those qualities which
helped Mr.. Winston to make the mag
nificent run that stands to his credit
in the statistics of the late campaign.
An estimable citizen and a man of
popularity and substance. Mr.. Winston
combines in himself all the virtues de-
sirable in the incumbent of an i'm
portant political place. We congratu-
late both the governor and the ap-
pointee.
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international Arbitration

The many and vital questions that
the war has but accentuated-espe-
cially those involving the obligations
of neutrals, the coaling of belligerent
fleets, contraband, etc.-cannot- safely
be permitted to remain unsettled
Chicago Record Herald
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Bothersome Venezuela

Minister Bowen has gone back to
Caracas for the purpose of doing
what he can to bring Castro to more
reasonable frame of mind, and it is
possible that he may succeed, but in
the contrary event it will be up to
President Roosevelt to decide what
other and more heroic treatment the
case requires.@Philadelph Inquirer.
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Hands OF American soiI

The United States cannot undertake
to say to the countries of Europe that
they must not enforce their rights
against the South American republics.
But We say that in enforcing those
rights they must desist when it comes
to the point of taking possession of
American soil.-Baltimore Sun.
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Morocco to Be Like Eaxpt

What is likely to follow this de-
cision of the Moorish sultan is the
speedy Intervention of France and the
reduction of the only truly indepen-
dent country in Africa, except Abys-=
sinia, to some such position of help
lessness and virtual foreign rule as
that which Egypt has long occupied
Cleveland Leader.
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Among the Merrymakers
Looking Backward

Maude (sweet sixteen)-Oh, Ferdy, I
hear you are writing a book.
Ferdy eighteen and blase)-Ycs, I'm
writing a book.
Maude (delightedly-Oh how nice, And
what sort of book is it to be Ferdy?
Ferdy (grand and gloomily)-Its to be a
book of personal reminiscences.-Houst
Chronicle.
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Postoffice Removals

The dismissal from the rural de-
livery service of certain men who had
been active in trying to coerce candi-
dates for congress into agreeing to
vote for higher pay for members of
that service should not be looked upon
as an infringement upon the right of
those men as citizens. The good Of
the service should be taken into con-
sideration.-Denver Republican.
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It Pays to Get the Best

If Senator Stewards bill to increase
the presidents salary to 100000 passes
it will enable some good man to accept
the Office who can't afford it now be-
cause he has a family to support
Sun
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AS to M'jigger

"McJigger," rema rked the man IN the
mackintosh, ''is the most corrupt politi-
clan ever knew. I don't believe he has
ever had an honest conviction
.tOf course not observed the man who
had his feet on the table. If he had he
would be serving ten-year term in the
penitentiary. Chicago Tribune.
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Absurd Peace Conferences

Are not peace conferences pending
hostilities that will not yield to oleag-
inous treatment much in the nature
of burlesque? Armed Intervention,
not peace palaver, seems to be the
most practical thing in sight.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
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Evens it Up

ping into the free lunch. "that a fellow
usually drinks pretty hard for four or five
hours as q preliminary to swearing Off"
YES" agreed the man behind the bar;
"but he makes it all right, doesn't he. by
not drinking anything for four or five
hours before he swears on again"-
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Isn't a Time Saver

Why does not Gov. Peabody, of Col
orado, simply deport the Democratic
majority and be done with it? 1t would
be a far less tedious method of getting
rid of it than the one he is now en-
ploying.-Charleston News.
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An Optimistic View

First Debutante-Tm always so happy
after Mr. Chumpleigh's Wednesday even
ing call
First Debutante-Yes, because, you see,
realize that he'll not bore me again fer
six whole days.-Detroit Free Press.
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Railways and Battles

The fact that every year in the big
American cities alone more people die
from purely preventable causes than
have been killed or wounded in the
war between Russia and Japan has
cast no gloom upon the American peo-
ple.-Kansas City Star
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Simply Can't Be Beaten

From Lexington comes the boast
that Kentucky holly Is the finest in the
world. Harmonizes with it's women,
its whisky and Its f,orses.-New York
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Seem to Be Preiudiced Now

After those Filipino scouts catch
sight Of Gen. Corbins gold laced ac-
couterments 1t is probable they will
beco--le more reconciled to the Amer
lean army attire.-Detroit Free Press.
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Takina No Chances

Secretary Hay announces, in effect,
that this nation will not press its call
for an international peace conference
until we launch few more battleships.
Washington Post.
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"uncle Joe'su cinch

fUnele Joe" Cannon finds two cir
cumstances in which 1t is unwise to re-
wise the tariff-when crops are good
and when they are not.-Elkins CIV.
Va.) Times.
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Won't Be So Exciting, Though

Since Gov. Vardaman has declined
to attend the inaugural ceremonies,
public attention at that function will
be concentrated on Roosevelt and
Fairbanks.-Philadelp Inquirer
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Should Appoint More Ohio Men

Tesla says he is working on a scheme
to convert the world into one huge
if he can only distribute a little more
at ashington.-Denver Republican.
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Now the Deed

Free binding twine for wheat for the
Western farmer and taxed cotton ties
for the Southern farmers. We have
the square deal" word, Mr.. President;
where is the deed Houston Chroni-
nlo
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viii Still Be at the Old Stand

Stoessel wishes TO notify his friends
who think of sending him valentines
Herald.
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James Could Hand II Out Himself

j. Hamilton Lewis would not be
surprised if Senator Depew were re-
tired, on the theory that it is hard
for really entertaining .talker to re-
main in the Washington Star.
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Railroad Ereiaht Rates

Uniformity of rates, under the pro-
posed plan, does not mean uniformity
as among different railroads, but uni
formity as among shippers on the same
railroad.-Philadelph North Amer
icarl.